For iron smelting, wood and charcoal are commonly used.

Wood is far inferior to charcoal in terms of the amount of material it uses and the fire it produces.

Carboniferous is naturally preferred due to its high temperature and the fact that it does not require cutting down trees to destroy forests.

Of course, charcoal is also divided into quality, and good charcoal burns more fully, can better meet the refining requirements, and can refine higher quality steel.

During the conversation, everyone went to the city, and more Hedong soldiers carried shields to protect them, covering Ding Ding, Ye Qing and others to walk to the nearest city gate tower!

When you enter the city gate, you can look down on the whole city, up and down, and outside the city.

You can use your eyes to dominate the entire offensive and defensive situation.

"Kill!"

Looking down from the city gate tower, countless northern barbarians launched an attack.

Siege ladders, one by one, are still on the city wall.

Countless Northern Barbarian soldiers climbed up frantically with knives.

There are also wrestlers carrying bumper logs under the city gates, and soldiers carrying large shields on the two wings.

Again and again, one after another, shouting, crazy and brave.

Although they knew that the city gate could not be opened at all, it had already been blocked by the Great Zhou soldiers with stones.

But they still tried their best to smash the gates, or to create a momentum to encourage the other besieging allies.

Under the cover of shield soldiers, the archers of the northern barbarians under the city kept shooting arrows at the city.

The Great Zhou soldiers who were defending the city were suppressed with the advantage of arrows, and the two wells that were moving forward were slowly being pushed towards Wenxi's outer wall.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty kept shooting arrows outside the city, throwing stones, smashing wood, and splashing gold juice and oil.

The generals of the county guard were not bad, pointing at the soldiers to fight back, and at the same time directing the people to transport supplies up.

Ye Qing glanced over and found that the casualties on both sides were about the same.

Although the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty occupied Linli, the soldiers obviously lacked some experience, and the counterattacks were not sharp and accurate enough.

Instead, the archers of the Northern Barbarians were targeted, and they were shot at the head of the city one after another.

After Commander Ding Ding rearranged and deployed the city defense, Ye Qing asked:

"Ding Fujun, I think there are mostly new soldiers in this city, and most of them don't even have armor, many of them are still wearing ordinary civilian clothes, how many troops are really capable of fighting in the county?"

"This ...... To hide it from His Royal Highness, the soldiers and horses in the county have lost a lot, and the old county soldiers who can still be used now are only 6,000 people;

The others are either private soldiers of each family, or recruits who have just been recruited and have been issued weapons for training, and there are also people who mainly defend the city. Ding Ding explained:

"In order to deal with the northern barbarians for a long time and make the city defense stable, only 1,000 old county soldiers were dispatched for the time being, and the rest were miscellaneous soldiers.

I don't know how long this battle will take, if all the soldiers and horses are thrown into it at once, I am afraid that the back will be able to hold Wenxi. ”

Ding Ding is also a veteran, and he has been guarding the city for so long, so he has adopted a more secure method of defending the city.

That's why the city is full of inexperienced soldiers.

This was deliberately arranged by him, just to train the recruits, and when he fought in the city once, he would be a veteran.

The soldiers who can survive the first battle are either lucky, have great ability, or are clever and know how to preserve themselves.

Such people are seeds that can be exercised.

Ding Ding is not stupid, the county soldiers have lost too much in the north, if this battle is over, he will still be too defensive in Hedong.

Then he can quickly strengthen the Hedong army and create an elite Hedong army.

Ye Qing didn't have time to care about Ding Ding's thoughts, but pointed to the well that was pushed and said:

"Today's battle, Beishi is with the mentality of breaking down, there is a strong attack, don't be lucky, transfer the main force up, and suppress the enemy's morale for me, so as to inspire our army, the first wave is the hardest, only if you carry it down, there is hope, if you don't carry it down, the city defense may be lost before the dark, and the elite you retain can only fight in the bloody streets in the city, or follow you to the city of Anyi."

Ding Ding hesitated.

Of course, he could see that the Northern Stone Army's offensive was ferocious, even stronger than the previous temptations.

Moreover, the weapon of Jingqi has been used, which shows the great investment of the Beishi Army.

Probably these are just to make these two wells, so the time is delayed.

The height of the well is beyond the city wall, and the Northern Stone Army occupies a high position on the left and the right, and then uses the advantage of the bow and arrow to shoot at the lower house.

It can suppress and restrict the activities of the Great Zhou soldiers in the city.

Create convenience for the siege of the Northern Stone Army.

However, there is only so little left of the veterans of the Hedong Army, and they are gone after the fight.

Although Ding Ding knew that Ye Qing's liking was good for money and food, as well as net talents, he couldn't look down on his own soldiers.

But this is also his Dingding's subordinates.

After the fight, he will be the commander of the light pole.

Seeing Ding Ding's hesitation, Ye Qing took three steps forward directly, stood up and walked out of the gate of the city tower, and when he arrived at the stairs, he stared at the big camp road of the Beishi Army outside the city:

"When I came to Hedong, Your Majesty sent me a sword, and Your Majesty repeatedly instructed me that I must do everything possible to stabilize the crisis in Hedong and not let the Northern Barbarians go further south."

At this point, Ye Qing turned his autumn to look at Ding Ding and the other Hedong generals and said, "You understand! ”

Shadowless Sword!

Shang Fang Sword.

Kill anyone!

Chop first, then play.

Ding Ding and the other Hedong generals all broke out in a cold sweat on their backs.

I felt the urge to scold my mother.

If anyone dares to go against Ye Qing, he really dares to kill Rao with the Shadowless Sword.

Coming to Hedong, Ye Qing killed many people in the Liu family with scriptures.

What about Lei Shoushan's Lu Wei and others, and how about the Liu family in Puban?

Destroy it, kill it, kill it.

Now the Liu family is not honestly talking to Ye Qing.

Pretend it's okay.

Ye Qing really dared to do it.

Ding Ding took a deep breath and said, "How is Your Highness?" The minister is willing to obey the command of His Royal Highness and shed the last drop of blood for the crisis in Hedong. ”

"I'm willing to obey His Highness's dispatch!" The generals of Hedong saw that the boss was softened, and they also paid homage one after another.

Ye Qing lifted up and held Ding Ding's hand and said: "Ding Fujun is serious, you are the Taishou in Hedong, you are more experienced in how to guard Hedong, and you are the same, your feelings for Hedong are deeper than mine."

Hedong Ankang I think you want to see the most, I hope to encourage you together, hand in hand to keep Wenxi, for the south to lay a rock-solid Wenxi,

In the end, it was able to counterattack and recover the northeast part of the river, so that everyone could have a happy New Year. ”

"What His Highness said is that we will do our best to fight the Northern Stone Barbarians to the end and drive them out of Hedong!" The generals replied with a bang.

Ye Qing nodded, no matter whether they were sincere or false, at least to deal with the attack of the Northern Stone Army, everyone had the same interests in this aspect of defense.

He didn't need these allegiances and faithfulness.

As long as you are willing to show your strength, you don't hide it and preserve your strength.

With this dynasty, Ding Ding immediately transferred all the old county soldiers to defend the city.

Ye Qing said again: "The private soldiers of various families have also been transferred, don't feel sorry for them, their strength is stronger than the strength of ordinary new forces, if they don't play a role at this time, when will they wait?" ”