At a certain distance, the archers at the head of the city began to shoot arrows, and the arrows rushed down with a sharp roar, and the first soldier was shot in the chest, and the leather robe on the outside, and the leather armor on the inside, so that the arrows were not enough to penetrate the protection at this distance.

Startled, he scolded and scolded, but he was extremely glad to continue to move forward.

Finally, someone fell to the ground screaming, blood flowed out, and the prelude to the tragic siege battle began.

The drums of war rumbled, and the soldiers who had already been prepared in front of the siege army began to surge forward without hurrying forward with a large wooden cover.

The cannon was also pushed out, and compared to the disposable products used in the Battle of Jiexiu, they were stronger and taller, and had a longer range.

In two rounds of test firing, most of the ten pieces smashed on the thick city wall of Kasaka, making a terrifying banging sound, and the city wall withstood the attack without caring in a slight tremble.

Artillery is one of the sharpest wars of the year, and can be used to attack and defend cities, as well as in field battles, and nothing can match it in terms of range and power.

But its shortcomings are also very obvious, although the power is great, but it has its limit, a city like Pusaka, not big or small, but if you want to use a cannon to smash its city wall, well, it will be almost the same if it lasts for ten days and a half months, let alone a strong city like Chang'an.

The range of the cannon is very long, roughly three arrows away, and it is indeed the most advanced long-range weapon at this time with a good use of the lever principle, not one of them, but its range is not enough to make it soar into the sky.

In particular, both the power and the range are very dependent on the technical manufacturing ability of the craftsmen, and the cannons made by good craftsmen will be infinitely close to the limit, while the shoddy products under the hands of the craftsmen who are not capable may fall apart by throwing a few stones.

Therefore, although the use of artillery is varied, and sometimes it can achieve miraculous results, strictly speaking, as a heavy weapon in the army, its deterrent effect is far greater than the destructive effect it actually produces.

When huge rocks fly in the sky and then slam down, the visual shock can often quickly destroy the will of soldiers in fierce battles.

Just like now, more than a dozen boulders finally rose into the air, some flew over the city wall and fell into the city, the huge noise and the slight tremor on the ground, even in the distance outside the city, can be clearly felt.

Two boulders smashed on the battlements one after another, and immediately fell apart, and the flying stones smashed the heads of the defenders of the city, and immediately there was a scream of crying father and mother.

A stone slashed against the city wall, and a soldier who couldn't dodge was immediately half gone, and the explosion of blood mist and body parts flew in all directions, the scene was terrifying and terrifying.

The siege army took the lead, and as the boulders rose, the guards on the city wall hid behind the battlements in fear, and the soldiers and men who carried the equipment to defend the city on the inner side of the city wall were also like frightened deer, scattered in the scream, looking for a place to hide.

The battle flag at the head of the city waved, and the artillery of the Tang army in the city began to return color.

Some of the stones flew into the sky, and then fell rapidly, most of them smashed into the clearing, and some rolled forward, and a pair of soldiers with wooden covers had no time to dodge before they were cut out of a flesh alley by the stones.

A large boulder hit a group of soldiers accurately, and the wooden shield was as fragile as paper and immediately fell apart, and the stone fell and smashed on the head of one of the soldiers, whose head bloomed like a watermelon, and blood burst out, and immediately stained the face of his comrade red.

This did not slow down the stone, but smashed directly between the chest and abdomen of a man, and he immediately fell apart like a scarecrow being slammed, and as the stone rolled out, dyeing the stone a strange red, leaving all bloody pieces of his body in his path.

The bloody war revealed his hideous face at this moment, as if it had left nothing but fear and pain on the people.

But people don't care about these at this time, the living need to fight desperately, and the dead people, well, you are too unlucky...... Okay, go to Lord Yama to register for me first, and then you can go to reincarnation quickly.

Laughter is not about life and death, but they are the strongest warriors created in the war-torn season, and a little flesh and blood is not enough for them to have the idea of retreating, whether it is the people in the city or under the city.

The game of shooting stones at each other was soon over, and most of the city's cannons suffered, and the craftsmen in the city were clearly inferior to their enemies.

And the artillery outside the city also stopped the attack, because the soldiers in front of them had already gone under the city wall, and if they attacked again, they would probably be injured by mistake.

Some of the carts moved slowly forward under the military order, and when the stones flew into the sky again, they were attacking the enemy on the inner side of the city walls, and there was no such thing as accidental injury, and at this time, if the city could be chaotic, let alone throw a few stones, if there was a chance, put a big fire.

The defenders were somewhat ill-prepared, and the enemy's siege equipment was clearly beyond their expectations.

When the archers were urged by the officers to kick and shoot downward, the enemy was not far from the city wall, and soon came to the city wall.

Countless ladders were erected and put up on the city wall, some were overturned by the poles, and some successfully grabbed the battlements, and the soldiers immediately climbed up.

Behind them, the archers and hedgehogs gathered under a wooden cover, and opened fire on the enemy above the city, and the casualties on both sides immediately increased greatly, and in the continuous flow of blood, the shouts of killing finally resounded in the sky.

The cavalry formations on both sides of the siege army heard the restless neighing of the horses, and the knights kept patting the horses' necks to calm the restlessness of the horses.

In fact, they are just as eager to fight as their battle partners, but they have nothing to do now, their duty is only to guard the sides of the army, and once the defenders want to go out of the city to fight, then they will rush forward and deal a fatal blow to the enemy who has the courage to do it.

They are actually Li Po's personal guards of the Chinese army, and their combat power is naturally second to none among the cavalry armies of Daizhou...... But now, they can only watch from the side.

There were already scouts all around Pusaka, and as a smart man, Li Po would not allow himself to make such stupid mistakes as the Turks.

In the camp behind the army, there was also the most important weapon in the siege war, the city car, Li Po felt that this thing was too laborious to build, and it was also very cumbersome, and the first day of siege was not yet the time for it to appear.

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The merit of ascending to the battlefield is one of the heaviest merits of the war, almost second only to the merit of breaking the formation of the generals and capturing the flag.

The meritorious reward system, which has gradually become a system, has made the whole army have no worries, and are not afraid of anyone relying on the relationship between family background and generals to covet the merits of others.

This is an incomparable advantage of the Tang Army, which is full of children of the powerful people in Kansai.

Because in the Jindi military, most of the officers and colonels have official positions based on their real military exploits, and there will be no situation like Dugu Yanyun, who has just joined the army and has no decent military exploits, and only one Dugu surname can lead an army alone.

This gives endless hope to ordinary soldiers, and the doors of the Shu clan and the gate valve are wide open, as long as you have that ability, you can enter this threshold.

And the hope of changing one's own destiny brings cohesion and courage.

Countless figures, with round shields, climbed on top of the ladder, and from time to time someone screamed and planted the ladder, but they could not stop the determination of the soldiers of Jindi to dare to die.

They need to exchange the blood and lives of the enemy or their own for something, and at the same time, strict military discipline and the rules of the battlefield are also restricting their behavior, the former meritorious, the latter dead.

Soon the soldiers approached the wall, and they were faced with the stabbing of spears and the slashing of swords.

When the first man climbed to the top of the city with difficulty, although he died soon on the top of the city, the siege army still thundered with joy, boosting the morale of the comrades in front.

The first wave of the offensive ended, and the besieging forces retreated like a tidal wave.

Although some people climbed the city wall, the real merit of climbing the city did not fall on anyone, and it was unexpectedly fruitless, and the determination of the Tang army to defend the city was equally strong.

Dugu Yanyun takes the Pusaka defenders as the first and the Kansai Xiaoguo as the backing, and the people in the city have been besieged for a long time, and they have long been accustomed to the days of being trapped in the lonely city.

The battlefield has returned to a temporary calm, and the corpses are everywhere in the city and under the city, which looks very tragic, but for both sides, this is just the beginning.

It is estimated that the mutual temptation will continue for a while, and the first wave of the war is over, and the generals on both sides have a good idea of what is shown.

Next, the army under the city will try to find the weak points of the defenders, and the Tang army will also try to make up for the shortcomings, prevent the enemy from attacking, or even consume the enemy's forces under the city of Pusaka.

There are not many worries, Li Po is not in a hurry, there is no shortage of water in the city, and Dugu Yanyun is also patient.

The battle outside the northern city is generally similar, Wang Xingben's experience in defending the city is a little richer than Dugu Yanyun's, and his patience is also stronger than that of the other party, if Dugu Yanyun's patience is measured in days, then when it comes to him, it is calculated in months.

In the siege army, Li Po looked at the city at this time, waved his hand indifferently, and said, "Continue to ......"

As he had done many times before, he was always a qualified commander in the middle of the war, and only when the losses were calculated after the war did he count the pounds like a merchant......

At the sound of the trumpet, a second wave of the offensive followed.