At this critical moment, I only heard the melodious and melodious sound of flutes in the air above the Yunmeng country's army, and then, groups of little guys who covered the sky and the sun were desperate, completely unafraid of the strafing of crossbow arrows, although they were constantly shot, the rest still flew towards the Changrong country's army. The sound of the flute was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers of Yunmeng Kingdom had received an order last night not to be surprised, so they were still just struggling to resist. The king of Nanping County looked up curiously, it turned out that countless poisonous bees flew from nowhere, they flew into the enemy's face, neck and hands, most of the iron weapons of Changrong Country were used to make bows, swords, halberds, especially crossbow arrows and other weapons, so, in addition to generals, ordinary soldiers did not have armor to defend themselves, let alone masks and gauntlets, so many people were stung in unbearable pain and itching, unable to fight anymore, so they had to abandon their weapons and flee for their lives, and the Yunmeng army took the opportunity to move forward.

At this time, I saw eighteen masters of the Southern Barbarian Clan, who took off from the wooden kite and landed on the bed crossbow, commanding the archers to continuously push the bed crossbow forward, and continue to fire at the enemy, and the bed crossbow was full of vitality again. The wooden kite is a flying means of transportation invented by Lu Ban, a skilled craftsman of the Southern Barbarian tribe in ancient times, and it is recorded that when the princes were fighting hundreds of years ago, Lu Ban once took the wooden kite at that time to peep into the city defense of the Beidi people.

The archers on Helian Bobo's side, seeing that the cavalry in front had somehow suddenly turned to the front and were fired at from the long-range precision of the bed crossbows, were in disarray, hesitated in preparing to attack and retreat, trampling each other with countless dead and wounded.

At this time, the cavalry commanded by Wang Zizhao rushed forward, and the sword and axe men led by General Li Chongli, who were originally ambushed on both sides, also rushed into the enemy's army, and the soldiers of Yunmeng Kingdom chased the fleeing soldiers of Changrong State to chop melons and vegetables.

After the enemy infantry in the back reacted and identified the situation, they knew that the poisonous bees were most afraid of fireworks, so they immediately ordered an evacuation, and at the same time used the grain and grass in the logistics to raise wolf smoke to block the attack of the poisonous bees.

Although this battle only defeated Helian Bobo's advance force of more than 30,000 or 40,000 people, it advanced the battle line by another three or four kilometers, which greatly boosted the morale of the Yunmeng country. Wang Zizhao ordered all his troops to rest on the spot, count the number of people, bandage the wounded, and at the same time dig deep trenches, set up barriers, and camp on the spot, ready for another battle.

At this time, it was past noon, the July sun was shining fiercely on the earth, and the soldiers were hungry and thirsty after a hard battle, because they did not have time to make a fire to cook, so Wang Zizhao asked the quartermaster officers and soldiers in charge of catering to be responsible for distributing the mung bean porridge that Shang had boiled last night to all the soldiers, one to quench their thirst, and the other to relieve the crossbow arrows.

Eighteen foreign masters of the Southern Barbarian Clan got down from the bed crossbow, and under the recommendation of Shang Chen, they met with Prince Zhao and the generals one by one, and it turned out that these were the brothers and sisters of the Southern Barbarian ethnic minorities of Yunmeng Country that Shang Zhi met when he was in Southern Xinjiang. In addition to being able to repel poisonous bees, poisonous snakes, and poisonous scorpions, they are also skilled in the use of poison, detoxification, and other techniques. When Shang Tan was invited by Wang Zizhao to start working as an actuary of the army, he had already repaired the book to them and asked them to come to help, so they had already come to the capital to make all kinds of preparations, just waiting for Shang Tan to summon. Because the poisonous snake is nocturnal and nocturnal, the poisonous bees and poisonous scorpions can only be summoned during the day for the time being, the poisonous bees like to lie dormant at night, and the eighteen masters began to drive hundreds of swarms of poisonous bees around in the early morning, which took a long time, although there were wooden kites, they could only be late.

After Wang Zizhao heard this, he couldn't help but feel emotional, and thanked all the masters repeatedly, and then looked at the wooden kite they were riding, and he was even more breathtaking, this wooden kite was the lost stunt of the famous craftsman Lu Ban, but he didn't expect it to reappear in the world. However, since even the long-lost crossbow arrows can be reproduced in the world, then the wooden kite must also be a skill that someone has secretly preserved. After meeting the generals, Shang led them to disperse to various armies to detoxify their brother who had been poisoned by the arrow.

Helian Bobo heard of the defeat at the front, and was so angry that he immediately regrouped, this time with the fire bull array as the vanguard, catapults and repeating crossbow arrows as the central army, and the cavalry and infantry behind the palace, and Shen Shi launched an attack on Wang Zizhao and others. The fire ox formation is to tie the blade to the horns, tie the tail with reeds and other flammable materials, pour all kinds of grease, ignite it with fire, and rush the enemy.

When the fire bulls rushed to the front of the trench, suddenly there were rockets fired from the bed crossbow to the trench, and the trench was instantly ignited with a sky-high fire, the cows were naturally afraid of fire, not to mention that it was still such a blazing and raging fire, therefore, the fire bulls not only did not dare to move forward but turned around and rushed to the enemy, knocking the soldiers of the catapult behind into chaos, and the enemy was confused, and was defeated again. It turned out that the more than 1,000 soldiers called by Shang Chen last night had secretly prepared tens of thousands of barrels of fierce fire oil as instructed, and when the spies learned that the other party was taking the fire ox array as the vanguard, these soldiers and the men of the king of Nanping County put the fierce fire oil, planks and quilts in the trench, just waiting for the other party to drive the fire ox forward.

At this time, it was already three o'clock in the morning, two successive battle defeats, Helian Bobo's side had lost 50,000 or 60,000 horses, plus the original 50,000 or 60,000 horses sacrificed in the battle with Fei Zhong, now there are only 1560,000 horses left, at the same time, after fighting for days, even the crossbow arrows are not left, and most of the catapults and ladders need to be recuperated, while Wang Zizhao's side has only suffered a few thousand casualties, and more than 200,000 horses, therefore, Helian Bobo ordered the troops to retreat to Nanguan to facilitate attack and defense.

Wang Zizhao took advantage of the victory to catch up and led the team to a place more than ten kilometers away from Nanguan to garrison.

Nanguan was not very grand, the city wall was only more than eight meters high, and it could accommodate only more than 20,000 people, so many of Helian's more than 100,000 troops were stationed on the slopes near Nanguan that night. Because the northerners are accustomed to living in tents, there are white tents in the green of the mountains, like white stars blooming in the grass.

Now that offense and defense are easy to attack, what should we do next? Prince Zhao and Nanping Junwang, Li Chongli, and Liu Changlin each wrote a word in their hands, and everyone opened it to look at each other, looked at each other and smiled.

At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, when the enemy army was still asleep, there was a sudden burst of screams and killing sounds, only to see the flames on all sides, it turned out to be the bed crossbow led by Liu Changlin of the prince Zhaobu took advantage of the darkness of the night to tie the back of the ordinary bow and arrow soaked with flammable materials such as flammable materials soaked in grease to make rockets, in the place of more than 100 meters away from Nanguan City, after igniting the rocket, the bed crossbow was launched to the city wall and the slopes on both sides, due to the scorching heat in July, the moisture of the grass and trees was steamed very much for several days, and the tent and so on were flammable substances, so it caught fire on fire, plus the southeast wind helped the fireAll the enemy tents were set on fire, and for a while, there was a sea of fire everywhere, and the enemy soldiers were scurrying around with their heads in their hands, and they were killed countless by bows and arrows fired from bed crossbows.

When the guards at the head of the wall found the bed crossbow, it was not within the effective range of the bow and arrow, so they could only warn and prepare their bows at the same time, and they were killed by the bow and arrows fired by the bed crossbow.

Under the protection of the bed crossbow, the cavalry rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and then the infantry led by Li Chongli also came to the bottom of the wall and set up a ladder to begin the siege.