Ten miles away from the city, the drum sounded, the rumbling drum was mixed with the neighing of people and horses, and the sound of the impact and friction of the iron armor blades, stepping on the rhythm of the drum, and the black pressure approached the head of Xizhou City step by step.

The wild goose wing formation is arranged very neatly, this formation is mostly a defensive formation, when the army advances, the left and right flanks are more convex than the Chinese army, if the enemy takes advantage of their own foothold and launches a surprise attack, the left and right flanks will quickly approach and close at the fastest speed, and the enemy can only face the fate of being surrounded and completely annihilated.

Li Su was not very good at military affairs, but when he saw the enemy's tight formation, neat steps, and the oppressive atmosphere that invisibly pressed his chest, he felt that his heart had sunk into the abyss.

Just by looking at the formation, you can see that the main general of the enemy army is not simple.

The enemy army is not simple, it means that the defense of the city will have to pay greater sacrifices than imagined, and this offensive and defensive battle will be an unprecedented fierce battle.

As the enemy army got closer to the city gate, the appearance of the enemy's center and left and right flanks became clearer and clearer.

The Chinese army was too far away, and only a golden flag embroidered with an unknown totem could be vaguely seen swaggering in the wind, and under the banner, a chief general in dark red armor talked and laughed loudly with the generals on the left and right in the middle of the team, raised his whip from time to time and pointed at the city, and then laughed several times.

The enemy's uniforms are very mixed, there are red, yellow, and even shirtless, shirtless, and there are obviously great differences in appearance and skin color, there is no doubt that this army of 30,000 people is indeed a coalition of the small countries in the Western Regions.

The two wings have been pressing the formation, when the rhythm of the drums became more and more intensive, the cavalry on the two wings gradually shrank towards the Chinese army, and soon the enemy began to change the formation in the march, the array that originally looked like two wings stretched out was divided into three parts in the drum, and the left and right plus the Chinese army marched side by side. A siege ladder also quickly stepped forward from the rear of the Chinese army, the ladder was like a dividing line of the team, neatly divided the entire army into a dozen pieces, as the ladder was inserted in the center of the ranks, the enemy's array began to become a dozen square squares, and the first in line was the wooden shield. This was followed by bows and arrows, then ladders, and finally knives, axes and spears.

In just ten miles, the enemy changed three formations in the middle of the road, and the changes in each formation were very rigorous and neat, so that people could not find the slightest loophole.

The muscles on Li Su's cheeks twitched slightly, and he turned his head to look at the soldiers in the city, everyone's faces were as pale as earth, and their expressions were a little frightened and afraid. Li Su's heart sank deeper and deeper, and he was about to say something, but he heard a bang outside the city, the enemy army had stopped advancing, and the shields in the front row were neatly slammed to the ground, making an earth-shattering loud noise, and there were suddenly more than a dozen newly recruited villagers at the head of the city, their legs weakened, and they collapsed to the ground. After being slapped a few times by the fire chief, he stood up in panic. The horror on the faces of the soldiers at the head of the city grew stronger.

Before the battle, the enemy army only relied on a momentum, the morale of the defenders of the city was shattered, it is not difficult to imagine the ensuing attack and defense of the city, the enemy army will easily break through the city.

Li Su was even a little desperate at the moment, although he was very depressed. But the cruel reality told him that the city would be destroyed.

"King pile, beat the drum!" Li Su suddenly turned his head and yelled at Wang Zhuan.

Wang Zhu sighed, and pulled his left and right hands, revealing the strong tendon flesh all over his body. Strode to a huge drum at the east corner of the city, picked up the drumstick and beat it hard, for a while the sand on the road at the head of the city was vibrating slightly, the drum was inspiring, the faces of the soldiers at the head of the city finally recovered a little color, tightly clenched the bow and spear sword, and silently stared at the black and oppressive enemy army outside the city.

"Bow and arrow forward!" Jiang Quan drank vigorously.

Two rows of archers quickly lined up to draw their bows, and through the gap in the arrow battlements at the head of the city, one after another dark arrows coldly pointed at the open space below the city wall.

On the vast sandy ground outside the city, the front of the enemy army suddenly automatically separated a gap, a man who looked like a military general with a naked upper body and a long-handled scimitar rode out, patrolled back and forth in front of the formation, raised his knife and pointed at Li Su on the city wall and yelled a few words, and more than 20 men were quickly escorted out of the rear, the men were all wounded, their hands were tied behind their backs, and the enemy soldiers on the left and right pressed their heads hard, but they still kept struggling, and they blushed and shouted loudly.

More than 20 people were escorted to the front and back of the battle, and they were kicked hard in the crook of the knee and fell heavily into the dust. The military general led by the enemy army shouted a few more words, and then waved his hand vigorously, the sword flashed, more than 20 heads fell to the ground one after another, blood gushed out from the headless neck, and more than 20 bodies shook a few times, and threw down the dust facing the city wall, and the body was still twitching slightly.

The generals laughed loudly, and the enemy soldiers behind raised their swords and let out deafening cheers, and their morale was like a rainbow for a while.

At the head of the city, the eyes of Li Su and the defenders were already bloodshot and red.

The more than 20 people who were beheaded were the scouts sent out by the cavalry battalion, a total of more than 40 people, and half of them were captured and beheaded by the enemy's forwards, and they deliberately attacked in front of the soldiers defending the city.

The king pile behind Li Su, who kept beating the drum, was already furious, and the drum stopped beating, his thick red neck and green tendons jumped violently, pointing at the city and roaring: "What a dog offal!" I have to chop you up today! ”

After speaking, Wang Zhu turned around and copied from a large basket on the road of the city wall, a small clay pot for preparation was copied into his hand, and approached the big stove on the city wall to burn fire oil, the lead of the clay pot suddenly began to smoke white, under the confused gaze of the enemy general, Wang Zhu rounded his arm, exhaled and shouted violently, and the small clay pot that was lit was thrown out by him.

At this time, the enemy's martial arts general is still more than 20 zhang away from the city gate, which happens to be the edge of the farthest range of the bow and arrow, this distance is very safe, unless he is born with divine power and a sharpshooter with accurate accuracy, it is impossible to shoot him, but Wang Zhu is different, he was born with great strength, and he has been a Mo knife hand for a while, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, this clay pot was thrown out by the angry Wang Zhu with white smoke, and it happened to be in front of the military general when it landed.

Until the clay pot landed, the military general looked down, only to see the appearance of the clay pot, saw that it was still snorting white smoke, although the military general did not know, but felt strong, subconsciously felt that this thing in front of him was not a good thing, although the shape is a bit like a longevity peach, but it is certain that the other party threw it down is by no means to worship his own life, so he quickly turned the horse's head and prepared to retreat, at this time only heard a loud "boom", the black clay pot suddenly exploded, the military general just turned half of his body, and then planted from the horseback with a scream, Half of the body is black, the arms, shoulders and abdomen are all inserted with dense triangular iron plates, but the most deadly is two in the chest, directly into the heart, the military general opened his eyes and twitched a few times, and finally died unwillingly, until the death of the face still maintained an extremely shocked expression, as if he still couldn't believe that he was killed by an inconspicuous small clay pot.

The life and death of the generals were small, but the front of the enemy army was confused by this unknown loud noise, and the sergeants in the front row with shields, bows, arrows and spears were frightened, and the neat queue immediately appeared chaotic, and kept retreating about twenty zhang before stopping, staring at the city in disbelief.

Not only the front formation, but even the enemy's central army and the left and right flanks were also frightened, the loud noise, and the small clay pot that easily took the life of their own generals, the entire enemy army with a fierce and murderous atmosphere was stunned, and the Chinese army and the left and right wings also began to show signs of instability.

Ruhong's morale seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water on her head, and she suddenly showed a decline. At the head of the city, the soldiers defending the city let out a cheer of joy.

After all, it is a novelty, although it has been used by the Tubo people under the city of Songzhou, but now the transportation is inconvenient, it is difficult to have information exchange, the countries of the Western Regions only know that Tubo was defeated in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, but how it was defeated, but there are too many bizarre sayings, whether it is a soldier or a common people, they do not understand themselves and are obviously very dangerous things are born with a high degree of vigilance and fear.

The rhythm of the drums of the Chinese army became more and more rapid, but the morale was finally declining, and if the city was attacked again at this time, the casualties would definitely not be small.

Soon there was a sound of gold in the rear of the Chinese army, and the soldiers in the front row retreated to the Chinese army without saying a word, and the black pressure ran clean like a low tide.

At the head of the city, Li Su also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Today's level is considered to be temporarily dealt with, and tomorrow is ......

Li Su smiled bitterly, perhaps, he and thousands of soldiers have no tomorrow......

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Deep in the desert.

Xu Mingzhu was riding on the back of a camel, holding a whip in her slender hand, she was whipping and urging the camel, the camel was in pain, and let out a complaining howl every few steps, but Xu Mingzhu kept whipping it without mercy.

Behind her, she was followed by a thousand veterans of Cheng Chumo and Cheng Jiazhuang, as well as three thousand elite soldiers and horses led by Tian Renhui, the general of Yumen Guanzhonglang.

Four thousand people have been on the road for two days and two nights, Xu Mingzhu is tired and unwilling to rest, and she doesn't know what kind of energy and belief is hidden in her small body, so she can support it all the way, but she can hold it, but the soldiers behind her can't hold it up.

There was a crisp sound, and there was another whip mark on the camel's buttocks, and behind Xu Mingzhu, Cheng Chu silently urged the camel to step forward, and said in a deep voice: "Brother and sister, it's time to let the brothers take a break, and if you go down like this, the soldiers will run out of physical strength, and even if they get to the city of Xizhou, they will be surrounded and annihilated." ”

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PS: Two more than 6,000 words, I can't stand it...... In fact, I just went home today, all the way to the dust, people are very tired, I really can't continue the third watch, let's still have the third watch tomorrow...... (To be continued.) )