The boulder roared towards the city, and the soldiers fell down to dodge, and it was not easy for the boulder to hit the city head right away, most of them hit the city wall or swept the city.

'Boom! With a loud bang, a boulder struck the battlements, and the soldiers dodged, and one soldier could not dodge, and was hit in the face by a flying stone, and immediately the blood flowed, but the boulder bounced high, crossed the city, and fell into the city.

The city was ready, the Tang soldiers dug a long ditch along the city wall, and the boulders that fell across the city basically fell into the long ditch, and the mud and stones dug out in the long ditch served as the foundation of the Tang army's trebuchet, so that the height of the Tang army's trebuchet basically exceeded the city wall.

The King Kong giant beast of the Shatuo army shot out the first boulder, just hit the city tower, and suddenly the tiles were shattered, the girder was broken, and the city tower was smashed through a big hole, for a time the sawdust was splashed everywhere, the dust was flying, the city tower had no girder support, staggered, and finally collapsed inward, and the Tang soldiers hiding inside shouted, scrambling to escape.

Guo Song's face turned pale, and he shouted: "Heavy crossbow launch!" ”

The heavy crossbow soldiers had already aimed at the huge trebuchet, the commander gave an order, a thousand heavy crossbows were fired at the same time, and the big arrows as long as two feet and five inches were concentrated on the King Kong giant beast, and a thousand arrows roared, and the big arrows rained down from the sky, so fierce that more than 100 soldiers who pulled the ropes were caught off guard, and they were shot through the body by the big arrows, and fell down with a large number of screams.

The King Kong Behemoth was covered with long arrows, 'Smack! Syllable! Syllable! With a series of crisp cracking sounds, four of the five belts that bound the throwing rod were instantly broken, leaving only a little skin and flesh connected, but it couldn't support its own weight, and finally it broke, 'Boom! With a loud bang, the rod fell to the ground ten feet long,

The King Kong Giant Beast only sent out a boulder and collapsed in full view of everyone, but the target of the Tang Army's heavy crossbow soldiers was not just a giant trebuchet, after concentrating their firepower to destroy the King Kong Giant Beast, they immediately aimed at other trebuchets, a thousand heavy crossbows were fired again, and dozens of trebuchets more than three hundred steps away immediately fell into the chaos of heavy blows, hundreds of soldiers were shot, and several trebuchets collapsed.

The division was unfavorable, Zhu Xie Jinhai was furious, and with a wave of his sword, he ordered: "The army is attacking!" ”

He was already impatient, and he couldn't wait to slowly destroy the opponent with a trebuchet, so he gave the order to attack.

Two black-carpeted Shatuo soldiers suddenly launched, a total of 10,000 people, carrying more than a hundred siege ladders and rushing towards Zhangye City.

Facing the sam-like army of Shatuo, Guo Song calmly ordered: "The heavy crossbow army continues to shoot, be sure to destroy the enemy's trebuchet!" ”

Arrows were like flying locusts, and there were several rounds of concentrated shooting, twelve trebuchets collapsed one after another, a large number of soldiers were killed, and the trebuchets could not continue to operate.

The rushing crowd was getting closer and closer, and when they entered the line of two hundred and fifty steps, Guo Song immediately ordered: "The trebuchet attack, the crossbowmen follow!" ”

The forty trebuchets that had been gathering momentum for a long time finally attacked, a series of banging sounds, the long pole was thrown, and a piece of 100-pound boulder rose into the air, instantly turned into a small black dot, flew over the city, and smashed it above the head of the Shatuo soldiers who came like a tide outside the city, and the big stones smashed into the dense crowd, countless soldiers were smashed into the city meatloaf, and the boulder continued to roll forward and collide, where the boulder passed, people turned over on their backs, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the siege ladder was also broken.

But forty boulders were still too few for an army of 10,000, just like splashing waves, and they instantly returned to calm.

At this time, 10,000 soldiers stretched their bows and raised their crossbows, and in a crisp bang, 10,000 arrows were fired together, the sky suddenly turned black, and the dense arrows were overwhelmingly shot at the city, and there was no need to aim at the target, the dense crowd was their target, the leather armor on the Shatuo soldiers could not block the sharp armor-piercing arrows, and the soldiers fell down one by one, and the originally dense crowd appeared in large vacancies, compared to the trebuchet, the crossbow caused casualties were much more serious.

At this time, the soldiers of Shatuo under the city also fired arrows upward, but the effect was very unsatisfactory, and the soldiers of the Tang Army did not stand at the edge of the battlements of the city wall, but stood inside the city head and threw them.

If the Shatuo army shoots in a straight line, the arrows will be blocked by the city wall, if you shoot with a parabola, it is difficult to guarantee that the arrows will fall on the city, even if a few arrows fall on the city, because of the lack of descending potential energy, there is almost no lethality to the Tang army.

But the Tang army's bow and crossbow arrows have the potential energy to fall, the power is great, the crude armor of the Shatuo soldiers can not resist at all, a few soldiers have shields are also useless, two rounds of arrows have more than 3,000 casualties, plus the heavy impact of the boulder, the Shatuo army just attacked the moat, the casualties exceeded thirty percent, the morale has not lost the previous fierceness, many people's footsteps began to hesitate, many people have retreated, but can not retreat, was carried forward by the army.

Zhu Xie Jinhai's eyes were red, he saw that the army's attack had begun to slow down, and the murderous aura had subsided, so he immediately ordered: "The third army will keep up with the attack!" ”

There were six armies in total, with 5,000 people as an army, forming a black carpet, except for the Sixth Army, which was an assistant army and was responsible for controlling trebuchets, the other five armies were the main force.

The 3rd Army, 5,000 under the leadership of the commander Lieshan Aru, slaughtered Zhangye City.

Lieshan is a mountain in the north of Yiwu, the Shatuo tribe under the mountain takes Lieshan as the tribal name, the nobles in the tribe are surnamed Lieshan, these 5,000 people are the army of the Lieshan Department, and Lieshan Aru is the brother of the chief Lieshan Qingyuan.

One after another siege ladders climbed the city, and the brave Shatuo soldiers climbed the ladders, but they were greeted by rolling wooden stones, "Get out of the way!" A lieutenant shouted, only to see more than a dozen Tang Army soldiers carrying a boulder weighing 3,000 catties and resembling a fist towards the city.

There were more than 30 people climbing the siege ladder below, and the commander was almost close to the city, he suddenly found a boulder appearing above his head, and he was immediately frightened, screamed, turned over and jumped into the moat, which was his sharp reaction, but the soldiers below did not have such good luck, when the boulder fell head-on, they found that one by one let out desperate screams.

The boulder slid down the siege ladder, more than 30 Shatuo soldiers were wiped out one by one, the boulder fell to the ground, and rolled from the crowd and fell into the moat, more than 20 people were crushed into meat sauce on the spot, blood plasma splashed, miserable, the Tang soldiers took advantage of the situation to pull up the siege ladder and pulled up the city.

The same battle situation occurred near the various siege ladders, the Tang army was like a hail of rolling wood and stones, which made the casualties of the Shatuo army extremely heavy, and the boulders flying overhead rolled in the air, and the sharp crossbow arrows like dense rain kept shooting, Guo Song transferred 3,000 crossbowmen to supplement the crossbow soldiers at the head of the city, so that the strength of the north city reached 15,000 people, and the crossbowmen were 8,000 people.

In less than an hour, the casualties of the Shatuo army had exceeded 6,000, and still no one could capture the city, and the soldiers could not stand it anymore and began to retreat.

Several commanders persuaded Zhu Xie Jinhai bitterly, "Marshal, the casualties are too great, if this continues, the whole army will be wiped out, let the soldiers withdraw!" ”

Zhu Xie Jinhai hated it in his heart, but he was helpless, so he had to order: "Pass my order, and the whole army will retreat!" ”

'When! While! While! The retreat bell rang again.

The attacking soldiers were amnesty, desperate to flee back, for a time the defeat was like a mountain, the army slowly retreated, retreated to the camp, 15,000 soldiers casualties finally reached 7,000, plus yesterday's more than 1,000 casualties and trebuchets hundreds of casualties, in two days, the Shatuo army casualties amounted to 8,500, extremely heavy.

Hundreds of Tang soldiers climbed rope ladders down the city, they cleaned the battlefield, generally the lightly wounded fled back to the position, the soldiers who could not escape were seriously injured, not long after the end of the war was out of breath, the Tang soldiers searched for military cards, piled up corpses, put dry firewood on the rack, poured fire oil on the burner and buried them, the battlefield suddenly black smoke billowed out.

The city was also very busy, the militia quickly carried the wounded soldiers down the city on stretchers for treatment, and the exhausted soldiers sat against the wall, although they repelled the enemy's attack, the soldiers were too tired to celebrate, not to mention that there was a bigger war waiting for them later.

Groups of able-bodied women went up to the city in carts full of meatloaf and vegetable soup to distribute lunch to the soldiers.

Guo Song stood in front of the collapsed city tower, watching hundreds of soldiers clean up the wreckage of the city tower, and after a short time, the city tower was cleaned up by the wreckage, and it was hard to imagine that this was originally a city tower.

At this time, Yao Jin hurriedly came over to report, "Governor, the latest statistics are out, the enemy wounded soldiers are unknown, but there are a total of 5,344 corpses of enemy soldiers killed in the battle, plus the soldiers who fled back with minor injuries, the total number of casualties is 8,900. ”

"What about our casualties?" Guo Song asked again.

"So far, 380 people have been killed and nearly 500 wounded, and the total number of casualties is about 900."

Guo Song nodded, this casualty was quite satisfactory to him, and it was estimated that the final battle would be over, and the casualties would be about 2,000 people.

"Governor, will the enemy attack again?" Yao Jin asked worriedly.

Guo Song smiled and said: "Zhu Xie Jinhai is our old opponent, he has been persevering in encircling and suppressing us in the North Court, this person has a paranoid personality, once the decided things do not achieve the goal, he will never stop, and he can't suffer, so I believe he will never be reconciled." ”

After a pause, Guo Song smiled at Yao Jin again: "It can be said that this fish has been hooked!" ”

(End of chapter)