"Bang", with a loud bang, a long arm of the Xifan throwing cart was lifted high, and the huge stones thrown hit the ridge of the watchtower at the west gate of Wuyuan, and then broke through the wall, and the smoke and debris of the wooden beams and masonry poured out.

"Is anyone hurt?" Wu You, the head of the West Gate Pavilion of Yanzhou City, who struggled to get up behind the horse's face wall, looked around at the tragic situation of the broken gatehouse of the city wall and shouted loudly.

The pavilion chief is the petty official who controls the access control and defense work at each city gate, and is the role of miscellaneous personnel.

"Xiao Qi and Wen Lang are dead, Ju Wu and Jiang Sheng are seriously injured, Wu Tingchang, come quickly." Between the beams of the collapsed watchtower, several black-clothed soldiers pulled out two bloody corpses, and dragged out two gray-faced wounded people who kept moaning, and said to Wu You.

Because Wu Yu knew some medical skills, he also served as a pharmacist in the army when guarding the city gates.

"Nuqiong!" Wu You turned around and shouted at this time.

A woman with a ruddy face and braided hair in the style of Xifan immediately climbed up the pedal path behind the city wall, carrying a medicine bag behind her back, and then knelt behind the battlement with Wu You, cut the linen cloth, smeared it with ointment, and bandaged the wounded soldiers Ju Wu and Jiang Sheng.

Her name is Nuqiong, ten years ago, when Xifan attacked Yanzhou, she was abandoned by the white pond after retreating, and was later taken in by the pavilion chief Wu You, became his woman, and gave birth to two sons for him.

At the moment of the fierce battle between the Fan soldiers under the city and the Tang soldiers at the head of the city, no one regarded Nu Qiong as an outsider or even an enemy, but only regarded her as the wife of Wu Tingchang - after she helped Ju Wu and Jiang Sheng to treat their wounds, she successively helped all the injured soldiers behind the entire horse wall to be medicated.

At this time, there was a strange and dense sound in the sky, and all the guards at the west gate of Yanzhou raised their eyes: the arrow feathers shot by the Xifan people under the city were like patches of locusts, blocking the sun, and the black pressure was overwhelming, across the entire sky, and pouring down with their heads and faces.

Then, arrows were shot everywhere, on the windows and roofs of the watchtowers, on the regimental badges raised by the soldiers, on the mutilated pheasants, countless arrows either fell, or bent and jumped, and the light of the tufts flickered everywhere, impregnated with the breath of death.

"More people are hurt, Nuqiong come, Nuqiong come!" Wu You's shouts rang out.

The air was tense as if it were frozen: the archery and stone throwing stopped at this moment, and the besieging soldiers were all wearing heavy armor, with only their eyes on their heads, holding bronze shields and skin shields embroidered with patterns in one hand, and anchor axes and broadswords in the other, and in the terrible sound of trumpets, stepping on the cloud beams at the head of the city, and gradually ascending.

The roof of this vehicle rises high like a donkey's head and tilts to the sides, and the torches thrown by the Tang army fall on it and slide down one after another, and the four wooden wheels that drive it are removed from the shed, and a huge iron-clad wood is hung inside, which is used to hit the city wall and collapse it.

In addition to the donkey cart, the soldiers also had the "goose cart" for the siege of the city, the vehicle was covered with camel skins offered by the party item, watered and moistened, the fire could not burn at all, and the head was like a goose raised a sharp shovel, which was used to reach the city and completely destroy the rammed earth wall.

"Fanzi has come up!"

The head of the West Gate of Yanzhou was full of angry shouts of killing - the Tang soldiers defending the city formed a decisive defensive line along the battlements, they either raised the stone rolling wood, or held the crossbow, smashed down, shot, and some bravely held the iron fork or the abduction gun, knocked down the ladder erected by Xifan, and stabbed and pulled the heavy armor soldiers on the ladder down......

Then the walls suddenly trembled, and one could feel the dull thumping of them.

"Fanzi used a donkey cart to destroy my city wall." Many shouted.

"It can't burn." The Tang soldiers, who threw down the torches but found that the donkey cart was ineffective, were shocked and inexplicable.

And the pavilion chief Wu You and his wife Nuqiong were unaware of the arrow feathers constantly flying sideways overhead, and they were still helping the injured who were lying everywhere.

In the city, more than 1,000 women and children, monks and nuns, and businessmen all knelt in front of the City God Temple, praying bitterly, hoping that Yanzhou City would escape this time.

"The envoy is here!" Such shouts were repeated one after another, and the armored Yanzhou Thorn Shi Du Xiquan, after braving the rain of arrows to climb the Ximen fortress, looked at the siege equipment and formation of Xifan under it, and then instructed the people next to him, "Quickly take the swallowtail torch stored in the armor tower and burn the donkey cart of Fanzi." ”

Soon after, the dovetail torch was carried to the head of the West Gate, and at the top of it was a huge iron cone, on which were coiled stacks of straw ropes, shaped like dovetails, and the grass ropes were soaked in flammable oil.

"Put!" Dushi shouted forcefully.

The simple orange tree on the battlement turned with a neat sound, and the lit dovetail torch fell straight down, "bang", sparks, and scattered under the city - the dovetail torch used a sharp iron cone to penetrate the roof of the donkey cart in Xifan, and could not be pulled out, and the donkey cart was smashed into a few points, and then the straw rope spread the flames rapidly in the "donkey cart", and the fan Zi who pushed the vehicle was mostly wearing sheepskin jackets, and was burned all over the body, some fell into the carriage and were burned into charcoal, and some crawled out from under the belly of the car and rolled all over the ground.

Several donkey carts and goose carts caught fire, and smoke rose higher and higher under the city, covering the sky of Yanzhou City.

At dusk, Du Xiquan still insisted on staying behind the Ximen fortress, urging the soldiers to do their best to repair the city defenses, and he asked all the men, even women and children in the city, to go to the city to help defend it.

"Chief Wu Ting, hard work!" When Pavilion Chief Wu You was covered in blood and walked towards the Assassin Shi Du Xiquan, Du held his hands gratefully, "There are many people alive in the Pavilion Chief. After the defeat of the Fan army this time, you will definitely play your exploits to the court and recommend you to the imperial doctor's office in the capital. ”

"Envoy, I have been in Yanzhou for half my life, and I only want to protect the people from being poisoned by Fanzi, and I don't want to enter the capital to become famous." Wu Yu hurriedly replied.

"It should be, it should be." Then Du Xi leaned on the railing of the watchtower with all his hands, condescendingly, and said to the soldiers and people guarding the battlement, "The imperial army is about to cross Qinggangling in the near future, and our Yanzhou City will be saved!" ”

"Hooray!" Happiness and hope welled up on everyone's faces.

At this time, Nu Qiong looked at the Xifan army outside the city, Ma Chongying's banner was clearly visible, and the red lantern tied to it was still shaking, looking at it in the rising night, there was a terrifying feeling, and her eyebrows were melancholy locked.

After nightfall, Du Xiquan asked that one-fifth of the soldiers continue to guard at the West Gate, and the rest should go back to the barracks to rest, because the energy of the Xifan people is also limited, and it is impossible to pull the artillery rope day and night.

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