Yang Keshi's helmet didn't know where it fell, and stood in the northeast corner of the city wall, looking at the Pingzhou army that was rushing towards him in the distance. Although Yang Keshi likes excitement and likes things beyond the norm like Gao Yuan, Yang Keshi is still a little worried about how to resist the attack of 10,000 Pingzhou troops outside the city with a thousand black iron troops.

  Because Zhou Nan's habit is that after occupying a city, the defenders of the city will be completely cleaned up, first of all, those who are unwilling to be soldiers will be cleaned up, and then those soldiers, old and weak soldiers, will be eliminated from the defenders, and what will be left behind can be used to defend the city after training.

  The same is true for Zunhua City. After Gao Yuan selected the elite soldiers of the Xi tribe, he sent all the Xi people back for the New Year. Only some of the original soldiers defending Zunhua City, Gao Yuan also selected these local soldiers, and only selected about 500 people to be used to assist in guarding Zunhua and maintaining law and order in the city. Who knew that before the drill, this series of things happened.

  Now the 1,000 Black Iron Army and the 500 local defenders have all reached the city wall. Even the middle-aged people in the city were called to the streets of the city by Yang Keshi, and they were taken to the treasury by people and carried the arrows and crossbows in the treasury to the city wall. In addition, the rolling wood, firewood, and large iron pot for boiling water used to guard the city were also moved.

  Yang Keshi commanded the Black Iron Army to hold a bow and guard the edge of the city wall, surrounded by bundles of arrows, and when the Pingzhou army under the city entered the firing range, they would shoot arrows together to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. And the 500 defenders who have not yet been trained are responsible for shooting the Pingzhou army that is about to attack the city with crossbow arrows. At least these local defenders were more skilled with crossbows than the common people. These local defenders, like the Black Iron Army, were also leaning behind the battlements of the wall, with no one with three or four crossbows by their side. It didn't matter if he didn't have the time and stamina to wind the crossbow, Yang Keshi called more than 1,000 middle-aged men, and every two middle-aged men took turns to open the crossbow bowstring for a soldier, so that the soldiers in front only had to hide behind the battlements and aim and shoot arrows.

  Other men, according to Yang Keshi's instructions, had already begun to set up pots and fire on the side of the city wall near the inside. The cauldron was full of water, and under the burning of the firewood, the water in the pot began to bubble white. These men who boiled water were in charge of pouring boiling water, burning firewood, and rolling wood on those who had been climbing the city. Guarding the inner side of the city wall, there is no risk of being shot by the people under the city with arrows, although these ordinary people are afraid in their hearts, but they don't need them to fight directly against the Pingzhou army, but it can also make them feel a little more calm.

  The Pingzhou army in the north was closer to Zunhua City, and first rushed to a position 100 zhang away from the city wall, and after a short pause, a large group of infantry troops at the front approached Zunhua City under the command of a general, each holding a round shield for cavalry in their hands. This shield was less than three feet square, much smaller than the large shields used by the starting army that could be supported on the ground. Maybe it was because it was convenient to hold, or maybe it was because they didn't have that kind of big shield for the infantry army, so they had to use the round shield used by the cavalry, and these infantry soldiers had this round shield on their left arm, holding a bow in their left hand, holding an arrow in their right hand, and stretching their left arm straight, so that the round shield could make way for archery and shoot arrows.

  In this way, although there is both a shield to protect the body and a bow to shoot arrows, there is no shield protection in front of you when archery, and there is a fatal loophole.

  This brigade of Pingzhou Army infantry shot arrows at the head of Zunhua City, and at the same time, they were within the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders of the city. The two sides shot arrows together, and the defenders at the head of the city were protected by the battlements of the city wall, but they took advantage of it. After a few rounds of arrow rain down, the infantry of the Pingzhou army had been killed and wounded, and the black iron army at the head of the city was protected by bunkers and armor, and almost all of them were safe and sound, and even the unsheltered people and local defenders behind them were unscathed.

  After a tentative attack, the enemy army north of the city had already seen that the defenders of Zunhua City were well organized and well defended, so they withdrew these infantry troops some distance and readjusted. I saw soldiers pushing out two catapults from the ranks behind. The catapult is not very large, but it is enough to deal with the earthen city built in this version of Zunhua City.

  Two catapults stopped outside the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders of the city, and the two groups of soldiers methodically wrenched the winches, loaded the stones in the cloth pockets, and fired them, and a stone the size of a basin flew over, but it flew over its head and landed in the city, but fortunately there was no one under the walls.

  The Pingzhou army under the city suddenly cheered, and the soldiers pulled the catapult back a little, twisted the winch, and flattened the wooden pole and long arm, and then put in a stone of about the same size, and with the fierce release of the rope, the two stones flew straight towards the city wall, and smashed heavily on the city wall, and an iron pot that was boiling water happened to be hit, and the hot water in the pot splashed out, and the hot men scattered and fled.

  Yang Keshi shouted: "Don't move! Then he said to the herald beside him, "Get someone to bring some planks up." The herald flew down into the city.

  Yang Keshi looked at the catapult helplessly, the range of the bow and arrow was not enough, and he could only watch the other party attack his soldiers and city walls with stones under the city. Yang Keshi looked at the god car in mid-air, and Zuo Xiaosi in the god car had already passed the news just now, saying that the master of the village specially told him not to use explosive arrows.

  Yang Keshi didn't know why Zhou Nan still didn't let him use the explosive arrow, if there was an explosive arrow, let Zuo Xiaosi shoot an arrow on it, and the catapult would blow up, why would he make himself so embarrassed?

  Yang Keshi suddenly shouted excitedly! The soldier next to him was startled, only to see Yang Keshi say to the soldier next to him who was sending a message to Zuo Xiaosi: "Quickly send the order, let the fourth brother come down!" ”

  Zuo Xiaosi in the divine car has now let Wang Fu drive the divine car over Zunhua City and fly to the northeast corner of Zunhua City. The divine car above Guanzhuang Town had already begun to float towards Zunhua City just now, so there was no need to worry about not seeing the message sent by the other party in flag.

  Zuo Xiaosi stared at the Pingzhou army outside the city and the messenger soldiers in Zunhua City, and suddenly saw the messenger waving the flag to let himself fall, Zuo Xiaosi hurriedly asked Wang Fu to shake the fan blades, drifted the magic car slightly over the city, and then turned off the fire, and the magic car began to land slowly.

  When they got to the bottom, there was already a soldier leading a few middle-aged men waiting for Zuo Xiaosi, and there were still five or six stones piled up on the ground, each weighing forty or fifty pounds.

  Zuo Xiaosi asked strangely, "I don't know what General Yang wants me to come down for?" ”

  "Destroyed the enemy's catapults." The soldier replied.

  Zuo Xiaosi shook his head and said, "The lord of the village has instructed that you can't use explosive arrows." ”

  "General Yang didn't let you shoot the arrows," said the soldier, "General Yang already has an idea. "I like Song Chungui, please collect x Song Chungui.