Xiao Tianzuo led the army to choose a dangerous camp and set up a large camp, crisscrossing the entire Dunhuang County from east to west, and then personally led more than 10,000 elite foot riders to the heavily guarded Dunhuang City.

Xiao Tianzuo stepped on the horse and crossed the knife, looked up at Dunhuang City, stretched out his right hand and gently stroked his chin, and said to the second general Yan Kanglong Bai beside him: "There are more than one million soldiers and civilians in Dunhuang City, there are many people, and it is difficult to distribute food and water. ”

"As far as the last general knows, the Dayong Empire is now embattled and precarious, the court is still a traitor, the monarch is faint and the officials are mediocre, the loyal ministers are far away, and the generals are unjustly killed, this is really God help me in the Western Regions, if I can break Tianyong City and kill Emperor Yong'an, I will be relieved of my hatred."

Long Bai is a middle-aged man in his forties, with a fierce face, dragon eyebrows and tiger eyes, and when he is angry, he is like a dragon swallowing a tiger, which is very scary.

"Hehe......"

Xiao Tianzuo laughed lightly, touched his chin again, squinted his eyes and said: "The Dayong Empire is rich in land and resources, and there are many talents, and now it is not easy to be able to attack Dunhuang City, and it is as difficult as climbing to the sky if you want to attack Tianyong City." ”

"Although Dayong is declining day by day, but the heritage of hundreds of years, it is indeed not something that we can shake, but the blood feud in the past year must be revenged, how to say, we must first break this Dunhuang City, and take these more than a million Tianliang people back to open up wasteland for us, and repay some debts for their ancestors."

Yan Kang looks much younger than Long Bai, and he looks heroic when he is young.

"Go back, Lin Song Lao'er is so confident that he wants to block my way with just a small Dunhuang city and wait for reinforcements, it's just wishful thinking!"

Xiao Tianzuo walked around the city for a long time, and when he saw that the guards stationed in the city did not move, he snorted lightly, and ordered the front team to be the rear team, and the back team to be the front team, and slowly withdrew.

On that day, Xiao Tianzuo divided 100,000 soldiers and horses, divided into 1,000 teams, each team of 100 people, out of the camp to cut wood, collect stones, etc., and craftsmen to make a large number of siege equipment.

A few days later, Xiao Tianyou and He Yunlong returned from leading the army, and set up left and right wing camps on the east and west sides, and at the same time, a lot of siege equipment such as ladders and chariots were also manufactured by craftsmen day and night.

Even if Xiao Tianzuo divides the army of more than 500,000 into four teams, each team is nearly 150,000 horses, just more than the total number of troops in Dunhuang City, the main attack on the east and south gates, the three armies, improve morale, attack day and night, and vow to capture Dunhuang City within ten days!

The south gate of Dunhuang City.

"Give me a ride to the city!! Whoever dares to retreat will not be forgiven!! ”

The majestic and burly Xiao Tianyou was holding a long-handled sledgehammer, and when he saw that the daredevils in front of him finally filled the moat with a rain of arrows, he couldn't help but open his throat and command the soldiers behind him to attack the city.

"Kill!! Blood for blood, tooth for tooth! The blood feud of the fathers, we will revenge! ”

No one retreated, because a small part of the more than 100,000 people even experienced the battle of Yongqi's Western Expedition, and most of them were also descendants of the Yongqi Western Expedition.

In my memory, the battle was dark, but it was the end of the Western Regions, millions of soldiers and civilians in the Western Regions died on the battlefield, and the blood flowed into the wasteland, staining the desert red, and for so many years, the land was still dark red.

That is the shame of the people of the Western Regions, and it is also the unyielding fighting spirit of the people of the Western Regions!

Behind the precision-made, steel-like storming car, more than 10,000 people pushed the ladder and braved the rain of arrows, and launched the offensive first.

Arrows are like flying locusts, rolling stones and sassholes are constant!

The car crashed into the city gate, and the ladder hung on the city wall.

In war, the poorest thing is human life, one by one, one by one, and one by one.

Unrecognizable, the body is in a different place.

The sound of shouting and killing and the sound of war drums are earth-shattering.

Lin Song held a blood-stained sword in his hand, with an incomparably sharp and cold face, and constantly ordered how to defend while helping to defend the city.

"Xiao Tianzuo really deserves to be the strongest person in the Western Regions in the past hundred years, and he can guess my thoughts......

Lin Song's eyes were like electricity, looking at the crazy offensive under the city from afar, and secretly said something bad in his heart.

On the side of the Western Xinjiang Army, they desperately defended Dunhuang City, because only by holding Dunhuang City and waiting for the arrival of imperial reinforcements could the people of the three counties of Tianliang West be spared this catastrophe.

On the side of the Western Regions Alliance, they desperately wanted to seize Dunhuang City, because only by seizing Dunhuang City could they take away more than one million people in Dayong and avenge their fathers.

The sound of drums was earth-shattering, the shouts of killing resounded in the sky, the east and south gates of Dunhuang City only took place for two hours of attack, and thousands of people under the city wall completely fell, their heads were in different places, and they were unrecognizable.

At a glance, the corpses were all over the field under the beacon smoke, and it was unbearable to see.

Xiao Tianyou personally supervised the battle in the back, and several famous generals in the Western Regions were ordered, each with a team of 100 people, abandoning the horse ladder, carrying a knife and a shield, leading the team to charge, and a resolute decision not to break the city gate and never return.

On Lin Song's side, Lin Song kept wandering on both sides of the city wall, inspiring the soldiers on the one hand, dancing with swords on the other, helping back and forth, and the commander of the first army, playing the role of the captain of the firefight.

Xiao Tianyou roared loudly behind him: "There are only fifty or sixty thousand defenders at the south gate of the Western Xinjiang Army, all of them are attacking me, and I am going to take the south gate before sunset!" ”

The soldiers of the Western Regions heard the voice, screamed, and climbed desperately, they may not be as good as the Western Frontier Army in the field, but when it comes to siege warfare where human lives are like mustard, they are not inferior to any team in the Heavenly Continent.

The soldiers of the Western Regions are not afraid of death, but since its establishment, the Western Xinjiang Army has been crisscrossing the Western Frontier for hundreds of years.

In the face of the attack of the soldiers of the Western Regions, they were calm and calm, avoiding the arrows, letting go of the rolling stones, throwing the sassal wood, pushing the ladder, and the attack and defense were in an orderly manner, until sunset, let alone breaking through the Dunhuang City, and even the soldiers of the Western Regions who climbed to the top of the city were only a handful.

The jingling sound of gold reverberated lightly throughout the battlefield, the sound was soft but powerful, and the dense soldiers and horses of the Western Regions retreated to the ladder of the chariot, moved to the well railing, and took the corpses of their companions with them, retreating like a tide.

Lin Song, who looked tired, put the sword behind him with his right hand, pressed the city head with his left hand, and looked at the city wall that had begun to be damaged, worried.

Although Dunhuang City is one of the largest cities in Tianliang Prefecture, but because there is no war, it is in disrepair for a long time, and it is not strong, if it is strong, with more than 100,000 elite soldiers in his hands in the western Xinjiang, it is more than enough to defend Dunhuang City.

If the city gate is broken and the city wall collapses, and more than 500,000 soldiers from the Western Regions rush up, how can more than 100,000 people in the Western Regions resist?

At this time, he remembered Yang Ye, the general of Western Xinjiang, and Yang Ye's family, if Yang Ye's family was still there, they could go out of the city and destroy the siege equipment, then Xiao Tianyou should not dare to attack the city gate so unscrupulously, and the well fence would not dare to be so close, and the soldiers of Western Xinjiang would not suffer heavy casualties.

Xiao Tianyou returned to the camp and saw Xiao Tianzuo excitedly in the handsome tent: "Dunhuang City has been in disrepair for a long time, and the last general will be able to overcome the south gate within five days to pave the way for the army." ”

And at this time, He Yunlong also came, opened the door tent and entered, hugged his fist at Xiao Tianzuo and said: "Xiao Shuai, although the East City Gate seems to have been reinforced, but the last general found that a corner of the southwest of the East Gate has begun to be damaged, Lin Song Lao'er wants to repair it is too late, if there is no accident, the last general will break the East Gate within three days, and then I will wait for the vanguard of the army, and please prepare the army and enter the customs from the East Gate!" ”

Xiao Tianyou looked at He Yunlong very unpleasantly, and also said to Xiao Tianzuo: "Within three days, the last general can also break through its south gate!" ”

"Hahaha...... The two generals are worthy of being the pillars of my army in the Western Regions, and then I and the King of Loulan will go from the south gate, and the King of the West Night and the King of Shache will go to the east gate, and a battle will be decided! Don't leave Lin Song's old man then! ”

Xiao Tianzuo laughed, full of pride.

"I will live up to Xiao Shuai's trust!"

Xiao Tianyou and He Yunlong glared at each other, and saluted at the same time.

Dunhuang County Guard.

Lin Song sat on the main seat, on the left was led by Zhang Xiu, the general with the highest military rank, and on the right was more than ten generals in the Western Xinjiang, and on the right was Ji Wei, the Shou of Wuwei County, who came to help, and in turn there were more than a dozen people such as Cangci of Dunhuang County and the officers and staff officers of the Western Xinjiang Army.

"In the battle of the two city gates, our army lost a total of 2,000 people, 1,000 lightly wounded, and 500 seriously injured and unable to participate in the battle, and according to the corpses taken by the enemy army when they retreated, the enemy killed more than 8,000 people, of which more than 1,000 were casualties caused by removing the fence and filling the moat, that is, they attacked, we defended, and they only suffered more than 6,000 casualties in a day, while we had more than 3,000 casualties." Lin Song said in a deep voice.

As soon as Lin Song's words were finished, the atmosphere in the county guard mansion froze, and in this way, not to mention that the city wall was not strong, even if the city wall was strong, the casualties reached a terrible six to three, that is, two to one.

The Western Frontier Army relied on the city, and one soldier could only be exchanged for two soldiers from the Western Regions.

That is to say, with the defense of the city, the Western Xinjiang Army actually does not have a little advantage, this is still the situation that Lin Song and Zhang Xiu on both sides help to fight the fire back and forth, if there is no help from the two, the casualties may be higher, more than 3,000 casualties a day, this is still only one afternoon, if it is attacked day and night, I am afraid that there will be seven or eight thousand casualties a day, and in the end, I am afraid that it will not take ten days, and more than half of the soldiers and horses will be lost.

The imperial court reinforcements still have to assemble from Tianyong City, go to Ziyou Pass, and then advance west from Ziyou Pass, and it will take 20 days to rush to Dunhuang at the earliest.

The reason why there are so many damages, in fact, is because of the terrain is related, although the Dunhuang city is tall and majestic, but the city has no defense except for the guardrail and the moat, the moat is filled, and the ground is a flat river.

The soldiers and horses of the Western Regions set the well fence a little higher, a few meters apart, a few meters apart, the number of archers is not less than the Western Xinjiang army on the head of the city, although the Western Xinjiang army still has a female wall to dodge, but people walk on the river without wet shoes, a little careless, will be shot by the arrow.

Although they can go out of the city to destroy the enemy's siege equipment, one is that there is no brave general, and the other is that the Western Regions coalition army is powerful, and they dare not open the city gate in vain, even if they send troops from the west and north gates, they have to worry that the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions will sneak attack from the northwest two gates.

"What's going on with Ma Shoucheng?"

Lin Song said to a staff officer, this staff officer is responsible for the news channel of the Western Xinjiang Army.

The staff officer replied: "General Ma went to help the wind, saying that I Xiliang has changed, Xiliang men are all enthusiastic to join the army, a total of more than 10,000 warriors have been recruited, General Ma handed over to General Ma Shao after a little training to form a team, General Ma has sold his property, bought a lot of good horses and rice from the big merchants in the Western Regions, the three armies are full of food, and at present, General Ma has led the army to help, at most three days, you can arrive!" ”

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and their solemn mood was soothed a lot, they were not the more than 10,000 people who pinned their hopes on Ma Teng, but Ma Teng's eldest son.

General Shenwei Tian - Xiliang's Jin Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi!