When the north city wall of Xichuan collapsed near the city gate, there were more than 100 soldiers and people who failed to withdraw in time, and collapsed together with the rammed earth of masonry, smoke and dust rose into the air, and the soldiers and soldiers who fell into the gap coughed endlessly, and the soldiers and soldiers who fell into the gap screamed again and again to fill their ears.

The collapsed city wall was fifty or sixty steps wide, and although there were more than 1,000 people guarding behind the city wall, and a large number of bricks and stones were also prepared to fill the gaps, as well as prefabricated wooden fence walls, the gaps that were smashed out this time were so big that people were desperate.

The thousands of Liang troops gathered on the slopes of the north of the city, like a tide at this time, raised their cards and arrows, roared and swarmed towards the gap.

The siege of Xichuan has lasted to this day, it is already the fifteenth day, during which the walls of the three cities in the north, south and east have also been smashed open many times, but the defenders fought bravely, repelled the attacks of the Liang army many times, and quickly blocked the gap with bricks and stones, and maintained the battle situation until now.

However, the gap in the collapse of the northern city this time was too large, and seeing that it was difficult to fill the gap in a short period of time, seeing that the situation was not right, Han Qian and Li Chong, who rushed to the northern city to supervise the battle, urgently ordered the people behind the city wall to withdraw first.

In the current situation, we can only draw the elite to the gap and form a formation, first resist the unstoppable offensive of the Liang army, and it must also be supported until dark, and only after the Liang army is tired and retreated, it is possible to fill such a big gap at night.

The Liang army smashed the gap from the northern city, but the offensive launched from the southern and eastern cities did not stop.

The trebuchet position continued to fire stone bullets in an orderly manner, in addition to suppressing the defenders at the head of the city in the barracks, and hoping to smash the gap in the south and east cities at the same time. The elite infantry of the Liang army on the east and south sides of Xichuan City also gathered to prepare for the charge, and the siege equipment such as ladders, climbing vehicles, and building vehicles were also pushed to the forefront, and they would forcibly attach the city to attack at any time.

Li Zhihe, Zheng Hui and others all knew Liang Jun's intention, which was to contain the two of them in Nancheng and Dongcheng, and at this time, they also tried to draw out some of the elite as much as possible to prevent accidents.

At this time, the only people who could really be deployed on a large scale to reinforce Beicheng and plug the gap were Guo Liang's subordinates, who were responsible for guarding Xicheng, and the Xuzhou battalion and guard battalion as the general reserve.

The guard battalion was still guarding the town general's mansion at this time, and before the last moment, they had to guard against the enemy army that would raid the town general's mansion where the three princes and Shen He, Shen Yang and others were located after entering the city.

Today, the Liang army's attack on the northern city wall is still fierce, and the Xuzhou battalion and the Zuo Si scouts, six hundred generals have gone to the north city to standby.

The ruins of the buildings in the circle of the city wall have also been cleared, just waiting for the Liang army to enter the city, so as to facilitate the counterattack of the defenders in the city - Han Qian also quickly retreated from the city wall, took Tian Cheng and others, and stood with the Xuzhou battalion generals, preparing to resist the Liang army that entered the city from the gap.

Guo Liang rushed over with more than 100 guards as soon as possible, and from the gap, he had already rushed to the Liang army, which was less than 200 steps away from the root of the city wall, densely packed like a black torrent.

Even if Guo Liang is a veteran who became famous when he was a teenager, his scalp is numb at this moment.

The trebuchets deployed by the Liang army outside the northern city, even if the auxiliary soldiers they operated were trained, were still very poor.

Although these trebuchets did not stop operating at this time, in order to avoid accidental injury, they still avoided the gap far away at this time, and threw scattered gravel bombs at the corners of the city walls on both wings, hoping to suppress some of the defenders from the walls on both sides and attack the Liang generals who entered the city from the gap.

In the past two days, the Liang army also deliberately took the north city wall as the focus of the breakthrough, and in the dozen or so building cars that advanced forward from the flanks, there were more than ten bed crossbows, and short clusters of arrows four feet long, like short spears, shot from three or four hundred steps away, bringing out a whistling sharp sound, and the bricks that rubbed the city head were a spark, and a volley of seven or eight defenders exposed to the city was directly shot through.

In front of this giant crossbow, the armor was as fragile as a piece of paper, and the thick skinned wooden shield could easily be pierced.

Thankfully, the bed crossbow was slow to fill.

Fortunately, in the previous battle, although the defenders' more than 20 bed crossbows deployed in Dongcheng were destroyed, the Liang army only had more than 10 bed crossbows left in their hands, and they had not been able to mobilize more bed crossbows from other places for the time being, otherwise the city would not want to have a foothold for the defenders at all.

The defenders of Beicheng are mainly recruited from cottages, although this is the most unfavored and hidden danger before the war, but these days it is quite heroic.

At this time, under the command of Zhou Yi and other cottage generals, thousands of generals raised their shields from the city walls on both sides, risked arrows to force into the gap, shot them with bows and crossbows, and threw the ignition canisters to the black-pressed Liang army, so as to buy time for the Xuzhou battalion and Guo Liang's generals to prepare as many formations as possible behind the gap.

It can be seen that Xichuan City has not been able to take down in the past half a month, and Liang Jun has gradually lost patience.

This time successfully smashed such a big gap from the northern city wall, the Liang army would definitely not easily give up the good opportunity to capture Xichuan in one fell swoop.

At this time, not only the Liang army gathered in the north was mobilized, but a cavalry of the Liang army gathered outside the eastern city, surrounded by Han Yuanqi, the main general of the Liang army, and quickly moved along a shallow stream on the northeast side of Xichuan City to the main position in the north of the city.

In addition to the fact that his main general, Han Yuanqi, wanted to go to the north to supervise the battle, the part of the cavalry that surrounded him and transferred was more than 5,000 elites.

Even some people couldn't wait to move to the position north of the city with Han Yuanqi, so they dismounted one after another after the shallow stream, armed with shields, knives and guns, waded across the shallow stream, and swarmed towards the gap.

The Liang army in the east of Xichuan City, especially the northern part, led Han Yuan Qi to the north by the cavalry, and the other more than 2,000 infantry armor also mobilized at this time, clustering seventy or eighty simple nest cars, building cars and climbing cars, swarming towards the northeast corner of Xichuan City.

Liang's operational intentions were simple.

Although the gap smashed out of Xichuan City in the north was fifty or sixty steps wide, the collapsed city wall, the bricks and stones were piled up in a mess, and it was also seven or eight feet high, like a messy and rugged rocky slope, which could not allow their soldiers to enter the city very smoothly.

And even if they enter the city, the defenders' reserve troops and horses can organize a powerful counterattack on the inside of the gap.

Once the Liang army that entered the city was blocked in the gap and could no longer advance inward, the battle would be held in the direction of the Liang army.

In the previous stalemate, the Liang army also saw clearly that the defenders had dug trenches crisscrossing the city through the nest carts that were more than seven or eight feet high, and it was obvious that the defenders were ready to conduct fierce street battles based on the inner trenches and the low houses.

They must also seize a city wall, only to occupy a high point, whether it is to attack with fire, with bows and crossbows and arrows in a volley, only by suppressing the defenders in the city, can more soldiers and horses enter the city for the final bloody decisive battle, until the last bit of morale of the defenders is crushed, they will win the final victory!

The defenders collected a large amount of tung oil to make oil tanks, and the Liang army, which had more adequate materials, was naturally not inferior, and seventy or eighty nest cars, building cars, and climbing cars broke through to the city wall, and the arrows and stones and oil tanks were dozens of steps away, and the defenders in the northeast corner attacked fiercely.

One by one, the nest cars and building cars were ignited, and the barracks at the head of the city were also set on fire, and hundreds of soldiers of the two armies of Chu and Liang were soon ignited by the fire oil, screaming and falling from a height, and the battle was as tragic as a boiling oil pot at once.

The Liang army was really brave, holding the shield high, and seeing that the defenders at the head of the city were suppressed, they climbed the city wall in the northeast corner like an ant colony with the help of a cloud ladder, and slashed bravely, and then resisted Li Zhihe's command of the soldiers and horses from the south, while rushing to the east side, intending to fight the northeast wall all the way to the cottage at the gap.

Zhou Yi personally led more than 300 generals to guard the city wall on the northeast side, and fought very bravely, and saw that he was wearing Mingguang armor, and a pair of iron halberds were waving like dragons, knocking down the Liang generals who rushed to the front of him.

The Liang army's attack was too sharp, and there were many brave generals, Zhou Yi was cut off half of his armor, and his thigh was cut open, but fortunately, the guards around him were also extremely brave, desperately protecting him and withdrawing from the city wall.

Seeing the fall of the city wall on the northeast side, and hundreds of Liang troops pouring in through the gap, Li Chong was so desperate that he closed his eyes.

Although Guo Liang's subordinates, as well as the elites drawn by Li Zhihe and Zheng Hui from Nancheng and Dongcheng, were gathering behind them, the soldiers and horses they could draw were too limited, could they resist the elite of the Liang army who were like tigers and wolves and desperate to enter the city?

"Poof!"

A dozen screeching sounds piercing the air reverberated in my ears.

Li Chong saw that the generals of the Xuzhou battalion pushed more than a dozen bed crossbows with strange styles to the front and shot at the Liang army who rushed through the gap.

"You even have a bed crossbow that you don't use until now?" Li Chong glared at Han Qian and asked sharply.

What did they kill before, but I didn't expect that the Xuzhou battalion, which had never fought a tough battle, would secretly hide more than a dozen bed crossbows and did not take them out.

"It's just a temporary rush to fill up, and it's hard to be of great use." Han Qian said calmly.

More than 20 bed crossbows owned by the Dragon Bird Army before were destroyed in the previous war, and there was a lack of corresponding materials in Xichuan City, so there was no way to make bed crossbows in the traditional sense.

Han Qian used the wild silk from the depths of the Qinling Mountains, mixed with animal tendons and horsehair to weave tendons with extremely high toughness and can twist and charge tendons, as the power mechanism of bed crossbows, and made more than a dozen bed crossbows that were launched with torque.

It's just that the tendon rope made of wild silk and animal tendon is limited by the defects of the material, and the bed crossbow made is repeated many times, and the strength will be loosened, and it is difficult to use it on a large scale, and the range is also worse than the traditional bed crossbow, so Han Qian didn't have these dozen bed crossbows out before.

He hoped that at such a critical time, these dozen tendon bed crossbows could play some role and suppress the momentum and arrogance of the Liang army from the gap into the city.

The range of the newly-made tendon bed crossbow is one cut worse than that of the traditional bed crossbow, but it is also 200 steps away, and it is suddenly like harvesting crops, piercing the bodies of more than 20 Liang army generals, making them roll down from the gap like watermelons.

The winding time of the tendon bed crossbow is longer than that of the traditional three-bow bed crossbow, that is, the rhythm of shooting will be slower, and it is difficult to shoot the Liang army on a large scale, but this time, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, he shot more than 20 Liang troops, which still boosted the morale of the defenders who were about to collapse.

Before the big shield or even the light side van was transported up, the Liang army did not dare to spread its feet and kill in the depths of Xichuan City, but the Liang army only hesitated for half a cup of tea, and after they completely controlled the city wall on the northeast side and suppressed Li Zhihe's troops on the east city wall, more Liang troops raised their big shields and killed through the gap.

"How's the situation?"

Han Qian turned around and saw that it was a group of young generals from the guard camp led by the third prince himself.

Shen Yang and Zhang Ping followed in a panic, presumably to persuade the third prince to return to the town, but the third prince ignored it.

Although Yang Yuanpu was only fifteen years old, there was not much fear in his eyes at this moment, and the tiredness of the days made his eyes bloodshot, more like a young beast with blood in his pupils.

Several streams of arrows shot out, and Yao Xishui's Hidden Blade slashed out, like a streamer, cutting off the arrows.

The guards raised their shields in a hurry and protected Yang Yuanpu and Han Qian behind the shield array.

"Your Highness, the front battle is too dangerous, you have to make a little mistake, Xichuan is really not guaranteed, Your Highness, you go to the town general's mansion with Lord Shen and Lord Zhang to watch the battle, Han Qian will kill the Liang army for His Highness!" Han Qian shouted.

"Your Highness!" Shen Yang shouted sadly and persuaded the three princes to return to the town to avoid the general for the time being.

"Han Qian, I will hand over the guard battalion to you to command, you must defend Xichuan for me!" Yang Yuanpu saw that everyone was against him standing in the front, and the unwilling Chao Han Qian shouted.

"Your Highness, rest assured, Han Qian is here, and Xichuan City will never be lost!" Han Qian said loudly.

Shen Yang and Zhang Ping hugged the three princes Yang Yuanpu and retreated to the town general's mansion.

Li Chong struggled for a while, and when he saw a stray arrow shooting towards the back of the third prince, swinging his knife to block it, he followed closely and escorted the third prince to the town general's mansion.

Han Qian saw that the first wave of Liang troops that rushed into the gap was still nearly two hundred steps away from them, but there were scattered feather arrows shooting over, presumably there were extremely clever archery masters among the Liang troops in the front formation.

Han Qian didn't care about the suspicion of cowardice in calling Li Chong at this time, so he took a shield from the guard behind him, and focused more on the wind and grass on the battlefield......