Several young generals of Datang heard the horn of the enemy's siege, so they naturally did not continue to stay in the tent to rest, they immediately ran to the city wall, observed the situation outside, and soon saw a large group of ordinary people carrying sand and soil to fill the moat.

Once the moat is all filled, it will become very unfavorable for the defenders of the city, and it is the ordinary people who are filling the river, and moreover, it is the people near Archeng, and many of the soldiers who participate in the defense of the city are strong laborers nearby, how can they attack their relatives.

This is a dilemma, shooting the people who fill the river is something that the soldiers can't bear to do, and if the people are not stopped from continuing to fill the river, the moat will be filled sooner or later, which is very bad.

After seeing this situation, several Datang generals began to think about how to deal with it, because their mission was to assist the soldiers and horses here to defend Ar City, and besides, after so many days of getting along, they already had feelings, and their determination to help them hold the city was even greater.

"General Tang, what do you think should be done in the current situation?"

The city defender will look at several Tang generals and ask for countermeasures.

"The enemy's tens of thousands of cavalry are outside the city, and you can't win if you rush out, and the soldiers defending the city are unwilling to attack the common people, so the situation has become extremely tricky and not easy to do!"

'It's very difficult to defend passively and see us in big trouble.

The two Datang generals said.

"Are we just going to have to wait here to die?"

The defender of the city will be helpless.

A leading Tang Dynasty general said: "At the beginning, because of the urgency of time, we only had time to dig the moat, but did not build the urn city, now it seems that we are really in trouble, if there is an urn city, we can completely open the city gate, even if the enemy army rushes into the city, it doesn't matter, we can completely annihilate the enemy army in the city." ”

"Wengcheng, yes, it should be too late to build now."

The lord of the city will feel that it is very reasonable, so he immediately ordered that all the strong laborers of the whole city be requisitioned, and many soldiers should also participate, and they should build the urn city in the shortest possible time.

If you need bricks and other materials, you can directly demolish the nearby houses, in short, you need to use local materials for everything, and you need to build the urn city as quickly as possible.

Of course, because it is used for emergencies, it doesn't need to be too high to go to the urn city, as long as it can block the soldiers who rush into the city.

The height of one person is enough, or a little higher, after all, if the enemy army attacks, it must use cavalry, and the height of cavalry is higher than that of infantry, so it should be built appropriately higher.

Tens of thousands of people work together, and they are very active and active, this efficiency is naturally very fast, the progress of building the city wall is very fast, and it is not difficult to build a simple version of the urn city in a few hours.

This newly built urn city is much taller than a man, but half as short as the real wall, but the width of the city wall is not bad, it is as wide as the real city wall, and there is a half-man high female wall inside.

After the simple urn city is built, the city defender will deploy a large number of soldiers and horses on this wall, so that even if the enemy cavalry breaks into the city, they will be killed by the collected soldiers.

"The urn city has been built, you can form a death squad, send dozens of soldiers out of the city, guide the people into the urn city, if the enemy army takes the opportunity to raid, you don't have to be polite, just shoot directly."

The Datang junior opened his mouth to suggest.

"What can I do if I accidentally hurt people?"

A pro-soldier said.

"Then let the soldiers shoot accurately, and it's normal to accidentally injure some people, there's only so much we can do."

The Tang junior general said.

"Just do it, immediately form a death squad and go out of the city to cover the entry of the people."

The thick-handed master spoke.

Soon, a death squad of fifty people was formed, armed with shields and short guns, and soldiers with bows and crossbows, ready to go out of the city at any time to cover the common people.

"Warriors, outside are your relatives, now the city gates will be opened soon, you go out of the city to cover the people into the city, if you encounter a surprise attack by the enemy cavalry, you will shoot the enemy cavalry at close range."

The Lord of the Castle will speak.

"Yes, General,"

Fifty soldiers were ordered.

Soon, the gates of the city were slowly opened, and the dispatch on the moat was slowly lowered, and fifty soldiers quickly rushed out.

"Hide in the city, quick."

Fifty soldiers shouted hoarsely.

These ordinary people were tired after working for a long time, and when they saw the city gate being opened, they were stunned for a long time before they thought of running to the city.

However, the width of the drawbridge over the moat is not very large, and there are 10,000 people in total, so it will take a long time to pass through the drawbridge and the city gate in an orderly manner.

The main general of the city guard, who was observing the situation on the city wall, saw the people who were pressed by the black, and asked: "General Tang, the city gate is so small, these ordinary people are afraid that it will be difficult to enter the city." ”

"This is natural, not only is the city gate narrow and difficult to pass through a large number of people in a short time, but at the same time, the enemy cavalry will not miss a good opportunity to raid, these people are only afraid that they will be knocked out and killed by the Khorasan cavalry."

The young general of Datang said.

"In this case, have we not done harm to this people."

The castle keeper said sadly.

The Tang junior general said: "Our task is to defend the city, in order to defend the city, we can't consider the interests of the people too much, besides, if these people are killed by the Khorasan cavalry, the soldiers defending the city will hate the enemy army even more, and the will to defend the city will be more resolute, which is much easier than letting the soldiers shoot the people!" ”

Obviously, although this is not a good idea, it is better than sitting back and waiting, and the soldiers defending the city are reluctant to kill the common people, but the soldiers on the besieging side have no such concerns, they will take the opportunity to attack the city gates, and it is inevitable that they will crash and kill the civilians on the way to attack.

Under the domination of the desire to survive, a large number of people began to run in the direction of the suspension bridge, the older one led the younger one, the woman held her child, and ran desperately, the suspension bridge was only very narrow in width, how could it withstand so many people rushing over at the same time, and soon it was crowded with people, and some of the people were squeezed down the moat without paying attention, and there were many who drowned.

"General, the city gate is open, what a chance!"

The pro-soldier said excitedly.

Of course, Qi Yad would not miss such a good opportunity, and excitedly ordered: "Cavalry assault, rush into Ar City, the first to attack the city, the bounty is 10,000 coins." ”

Soon, thousands of horsemen roared and rushed over, and the speed of the cavalry was very fast, and after catching up with the people, because the people were also running towards the city gates, which would stop them, so they slaughtered the people who were in the way, so as to increase the speed of the advance, and strive to rush into the city of Arr as soon as possible, and capture the city, as long as the first to attack the city gate, they will receive a great reward.

The impact of the thousands of cavalry was very rapid at first, but as they approached the position of the drawbridge, the impact became slower, because a large number of civilians were blocked here on the drawbridge, and it was difficult for them to rush through.

And in order to solve this problem, they can only choose to kill, all the people who stand in front of them, all without mercy, slaughter, only in this way can they break into Ar City faster.

Although too many civilians were slaughtered and some fell into the moat, some of them entered the city and were successfully rescued.

Since most of the civilians were very close to the moat, the heavy crossbows and catapults were perfectly open to attack, attacking the cavalry behind these civilians and striking at the enemy.

Soon, a battle began, and a large number of bows and crossbows dealt a heavy blow to the Khorasan cavalry rushing behind, but the cavalry rushing in front was already intertwined with the common people, and heavy weapons could not attack at all.

Some soldiers use hand-held bows and crossbows to attack, but because of the problem of accuracy, they will always accidentally injure ordinary people, further increasing the casualties of ordinary people.

The cavalry's surprise attack was very strong, and the people who were blocking the vicinity of the drawbridge were quickly rushed away, and after the cavalry continued to assault, they stepped on the drawbridge and slashed left and right, slashing the people on the drawbridge and kicking them into the moat.

The cavalry that had crossed the drawbridge was only a few steps away from the gates of Arr, but the fifty soldiers who had already been deployed here were not vegetarians, and they immediately attacked, shooting them off their horses.

However, the enemy cavalry was numerous, and they all launched a surprise attack like crazy, and soon many cavalry rushed into the city, and the subsequent cavalry continued to raid.

Ziyad was in a very good mood when he saw his soldiers and horses rushing into the city, and in order to take Ar City in one go, he immediately ordered the soldiers to attack in full force, carrying simple ladders and rushing over.

Because there are a large number of ordinary people scattered and fleeing, the soldiers defending the city are somewhat of a mouse-thrower, and the strength of attacking the enemy army outside the city is not enough, which leads to a large number of enemy soldiers, rushing along the drawbridge, some rushing directly to the city gate, and some will put the ladder on the city wall, ready to attack from the city wall, a few more attack points, the probability of breaking the city will be greater.

Because the soldiers and horses defending the city had been prepared, a large number of soldiers and horses were deployed on the city wall and the wall of the urn city, so these cavalry who rushed into the urn city were soon dealt a devastating blow and suffered extremely heavy casualties, but these cavalry were unable to advance or retreat, and the situation was very passive.

This city originally did not have an urn city, in the first few attacks, the siege soldiers and horses from the watchtower have seen, there is no urn city in the city, but last night's fire burned all the heavy siege equipment, so that these siege soldiers and horses can not understand the situation in the city.

The siege soldiers and horses who rushed into the city were completely in a situation of being passively beaten, and it can be said that they had become turtles in the urn, and it was only a matter of time before they were completely annihilated.

More siege soldiers and horses, who don't know that there is still an urn city in Ar City, are all rushing to the city with all their might, and they still want to attack the city to get military industry?

There are at least 10,000 soldiers and horses used to attack the city, and there will be more soldiers and horses in the future, who can enter the city at any time.

Except for a small number of people who fled into the city, most of the people were either killed or scattered, and many of the wounded were lying on the ground wailing in pain.

The siege soldiers and horses soon gathered inside and outside the moat, some rushed into the city gates, some climbed ladders to attack upward, and some desperately squeezed across the moat to attack the city.

The battle was very fierce, and there were many casualties on both sides, but the loss of the besieging side was greater, after all, the besieging side did not occupy the advantage, while the defending side occupied the geographical advantage, and the weapons were more sophisticated, and the supply was extremely convenient.

If it weren't for the newly built urn city in Ar City, and the large siege equipment of the besieging side was burned by a fire, the city defender would never have dared to open the city gate, let alone put down the drawbridge over the moat.

Seeing that the soldiers and horses besieging the city were so fierce, they actually caused huge losses to the defenders who occupied the geographical advantage, and the defenders were afraid in their hearts, if it weren't for the strong city and the advanced weapons supported by the Tang Dynasty, they would not be the opponents of the Khorasan cavalry at all, and they were still far behind.

"Catapult attack, smashing the drawbridge."

Seeing that there were more and more soldiers and horses on the besieging side, the defender of the city was worried that the city would really be breached, and hurriedly issued an order to attack the drawbridge.

A large number of catapults suddenly aimed at the position of the suspension bridge and smashed it hard.

This time the losses to the besieging soldiers were even greater, because many of the besieging soldiers and horses were squeezed through the drawbridge, and the troops here were the most dense, and large rocks could hit a few soldiers without aiming.

It wasn't enough to attack with stones, it would take the help of a fire to destroy the bridge completely, and soon, flames flew towards the bridge, turning it into a sea of fire.

Attacking the drawbridge has many advantages, not only to prevent more siege soldiers from passing through the moat smoothly, but also to make it difficult for the siege soldiers who have already passed through the moat to retreat, so that they can be annihilated in large numbers.

Qi Yade, who was standing in the distance and watching the battle, saw that many of his soldiers and horses had already attacked the city, but why hadn't they attacked the city yet? This made him very puzzled, and the drawbridge fell into a sea of fire, which made him very nervous, it was the most convenient passage for his soldiers and horses to rush to the city, if the drawbridge was destroyed, the soldiers and horses behind him could not attack, and it was difficult for the soldiers and horses who had rushed past to withdraw.

"General, the bridge has been burned out, and it will be difficult for our soldiers and horses to cross."

Ziyad's pro-soldier said.

Qi Yad spoke: "Of course I know this, but the enemy's city gate is wide open, this is a good opportunity for us to have a golden opportunity, it would be a pity to miss it." ”

It was clear that success was on the horizon, and Ziyad felt that it only took a little more effort to achieve the results of the siege.