Night, no moon, full of stars, quite spectacular, at this time should be quiet at night, but at this time the hanging gourd, but it is still lively.

In the open space outside the city, the light of the fire is like the reflection of the stars on the ground, and the trebuchets standing under the dim light of the fire are constantly throwing stones and fire oil bombs into the city.

The imperial army had been attacking the Hanging Gourd day and night for many days, and the daytime attack ended with sunset, and as night fell, the soldiers stopped attacking the city due to poor sight, and the trebuchets continued to fight tirelessly.

The besieging side tried to destroy the walls as quickly and effectively as possible with a continuous offensive.

The hanging gourd city wall was unexpectedly strong, and during this time, even the parapet fortress withstood the attack of trebuchets, and the officers and troops had no effect on the strong attack for several days, so they had no choice but to use trebuchets to "grind".

Since the direct siege of the city, trebuchets have been throwing stones and fire oil bombs at the city in all directions every night, and many trebuchets cannot withstand the high intensity of use and are damaged, but soon a new trebuchet is put into use.

At night, it was difficult to see where the stones were throwing, so all the large stones were poured with fire oil and lit before being thrown so that the artillery could see where they landed.

The burning stones on the outside flew into the sky like meteors, crossed an arc and then fell into the Hanging Gourd City, looking like a meteor shower falling from a distance, and it looked spectacular from a distance.

Such extravagant siege tactics were all supported by a steady stream of timber, stone, fire oil and other materials from the upper reaches of the Rushui River, and the garrison of the Hanging Fortress was obviously not as wealthy as the army outside the city, and the sporadic counterattacks appeared to be weak.

Compared with the troops, compared with the materials, there are no reinforcements outside the city, even if the morale at the beginning is high, sooner or later it will gradually decline, and the imperial army is overwhelming, even if the strong attack in the past few days has caused a large number of casualties, but the morale is still high.

No one thought that the officers and soldiers would lose, and there were clear rewards and punishments, so both the soldiers who participated in the war and the civilians who were conscripted to accompany the army were doing their best to do their part.

For example, the siege of the city was piled up overnight.

Under the cover of night, in the dark wilderness, in the northeast of the Hanging Gourd City, hundreds of steps away, several tall black shadows were slowly moving.

It is the "moving hill" built by the official army, there are wooden wheels under it, there is an elevated wooden house shaped like a spire, wrapped in raw cowhide on the outside, and hollow inside, there are many soldiers pushing in it, taking advantage of the cover of night, several "moving hills" approached the hanging city side by side.

The sentries on the fort outside the city had poor vision, and it was not until these behemoths reached a distance of more than 200 paces that they realized that something was wrong, and the horn sounded, and the defenders hurriedly mobilized trebuchets and three-bow bed crossbows to attack these ill-intentioned war equipment.

The mounds stopped, and a large number of young people who followed the mounds lifted the earth in baskets on the carts, climbed to the top of the mound along the other side of the mound, and then dumped them on the opposite side.

The carts that had been prepared in advance were filled with a large amount of earth, and thousands of young men kept piling up the earth, and soon the wooden mounds were piled up on the enemy side of the mound into a slope, and then into mounds, and several mounds in a row were gradually connected into a large mound.

The height of the mound gradually reached the level of the fort, and as more and more earth piled up, the height increased, and a large number of archers climbed to the top of the mound and fired at the archers on the fort less than fifty paces away.

The night was hazy, and most of the people on both sides could not see each other's figures clearly, and the defenders shot fire arrows and nailed them to the mound, and began to fight back effectively with the figures reflected in the firelight.

However, the mounds were more young and strong, and they braved arrows to carry the dirt up the mound under the cover of the big shield, and then poured forward, seeing that the clods of earth that had rolled down from the top of the mound had been pressed halfway up to the top of the ram, and the speed of the mound increased sharply.

After a few days of strong attack, the officers and soldiers found that the enemy army at the head of the city had a dirt bag/sandbag base tent, and since the other party was so willing to use cloth, the officers and soldiers naturally did not let it go.

Thousands of young people struggled to pile up the soil, although many of them were "blindfolded" and could not see anything in the distance at night, but this did not prevent them from carrying dirt bags and following the footsteps of those in front of them to climb high.

They kept carrying bags of dirt up the mound and throwing it down, and the mound "grew" at a very fast rate, until it became a mountain of dirt.

The top of the earth mountain is already higher than the top of the hill in front of it, and the top fortress has been leaned up by the slope of the earth hill at this time, and the three-bow bed crossbow at the head of the city has a limited elevation angle, and it is no longer able to attack the top of the mountain, and the stones thrown by the trebuchet hit the earth mountain and fell into it.

Only the archers were able to suppress the enemy troops on the mountain, but as the mountain gradually increased and became larger, there were more and more enemy soldiers along the back of the mountain.

Pile up earth to siege the city, this kind of tactics is recorded in the book, but the Yin Shishi clearly remembers that the book says that if the besieging party wants to pile up earth outside the city to attack the city, because facing the resistance of the defenders, it will generally take more than a month to pile up into a mountain of earth at the earliest.

To build a mountain of earth that is level with the city wall, the amount of earthwork required is not small, and the Yin Master knows that there is still a flat land outside the city before sunset, even if the other party starts piling up the earth mountain as soon as it gets dark, how can there be a reason to succeed so quickly?

When he looked closer, he found that the earth mountain was made of dense bags of earth, and the Yin Master immediately understood: this was a well-planned and long-prepared battle method.

Preparing a large number of bags of earth in advance, or loading the earth in baskets, and then transporting it to the city by cart with abundant manpower, can quickly pile up a mountain of dirt, and the poor visibility at night served as a cover for the rapid success of this tactic.

The matter has come to this, the emotion is useless, the Yin Shishi stayed in the hanging gourd to help defend the city, not to sell fame, but to risk his life to fight, most of his subordinates are the original Yuzhou army, because the family went to Shannan, it is more reliable, so he did not hesitate to lead his subordinates to the city,

Since the enemy army has implemented the tactics of piling up earth to attack the city, then there must be a first to rush into the city through the earth mountain, and the Yin Shishi does not know how many of the opponent's first climbs, but this is not a reason to retreat.

However, to rush to the dirt mountain now is to find death.

There was a bunker at the head of the city, and the Yin Shi Shi and his subordinates hid behind the bunker, and did not participate in the archers' shooting, but quietly looked at the top of the Tushan Mountain, and sure enough, a moment later, more than ten thunderbolts were thrown from behind the mountain and exploded one by one at the head of the city.

After the thunder had passed, trumpets sounded on the hilltop, and countless heavily armored soldiers appeared on the top of the mountain, armed with all kinds of weapons, howling towards the sharp fortress and the head of the hanging fortress at the bottom of the hillside.

The Anzhou infantry, who rushed to hear the news, lined up in a spear formation with spears in hand, and aimed the tips of their spears at the enemy soldiers who rushed down the dirt slope.

Siege and defense of the city, what tactics the besieging side will adopt is a problem that the defenders need to consider, so once the enemy army resorts to the tactics of attacking the city, how should the defenders respond?

Set up a spear formation and wait for the rabbit.

The enemy soldiers who rushed down from the top of the hill rushed faster and faster, but they couldn't stop under their feet, so in the face of the rows of spears, many people couldn't dodge and crashed directly into them, like a fast rabbit, crashing into the big tree in the middle of the road.

There were more and more snorts, and more than a dozen pioneers rushed in front of them to die in front of the spear array, but the first arrivals who came after threw thunder again, blowing the spear array to pieces.

Many spearmen fell in the explosion, and the first climber who had thrown the thunderbolt howled and continued to rush forward, seeing that there were spearmen who followed up and stepped forward quickly to block the gap in the formation, someone in the first ascendant shouted, kicked violently in the run, jumped up in the air, and slammed the spear array forward with the weapon in his hand.

Some people are pointed at the spear when they fall, and the spear passes through the body with a "poof", and some people avoid the spear and cut down the spearman in front of them with a knife when they land, and more people who climb first are backwards and sit on the slope and slide down.

They have to avoid the spears of the forest, so they have to take the "lower road", but there is also a special person waiting in the spear formation, that is, the "rat soldiers".

Many of the short Anzhou soldiers, kneeling with thick cloth tied to their knees, blocked in front of the spearmen to protect the lower road, because they were fighting with a bow under the spears of the forest, also known as "rat soldiers".

They collided with the enemy soldiers who slid down the dirt slope, grabbed the opponent's sharp knife with their left hand wearing iron gloves, and then pierced the dagger held in their right hand into the opponent's ribs and armpits.

The archers who had arrived along the city walls began to shoot arrows at the enemy on the dirt mountain, and seeing that the enemy's advance was blocked by the spear array, the Yin Shi Division led his men to rush out and cut into the battlefield from the flank.

The flank attack has always been an effective tactic to break the stalemate, and the first person who rushed down the dirt slope suffered heavy casualties, and was pushed back by the Anzhou spearmen, and after the Yin Shi Division shot down several people at close range one after another, he led his subordinates to protect the flank of the spear formation and advanced to the top of the mountain.

It was dawn, and the Yin Shi Division fought bloodily with the friendly forces, and finally succeeded in pushing upward, and just as he rushed to the top of the mountain, he first saw the morning light appear on the eastern horizon in the distance, and the sky gradually brightened.

Then I saw the scene in front of me clearly, and I couldn't help but shrink my pupils.

In front of him, there was a tide of enemy troops, covering the entire hillside in front of him, advancing upwards like ants, and when he looked up, there were also a large number of enemy soldiers on the ground, and only a few hundred people rushed up the hill on his side, and there were thousands of enemy soldiers in front of him.

The thought of fear flashed in the heart of the Yin Shishi, and was replaced by a boiling blood, and the words that Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen said when he raised his arms and shouted at the mobilization meeting that day echoed in his ears:

"The hanging gourd city wall is the first and last line of defense! There is no retreat for our army, there is only death! ”

"Kill the enemy!"

The Netherworld Master shouted like the other soldiers, and everyone threw down their long soldiers, drew their swords, and rushed towards the tide of enemy soldiers in front of them, like moths to a fire, without flinching.

Behind them was the head of the Hanging Fortress, and there was nowhere to retreat.

Even if you hold for a few more moments, you can buy time for the reinforcements!

A bloody battle broke out in an instant, and the outnumbered defenders of the Hanging Gourd took the lead in attacking, catching the enemy who was about to reach the top of the mountain by surprise, but the disparity in strength made the results of this feat seem to be short-lived.

The Yin Shishi, who had been stabbed several times and had his slash slashed in his pocket, was covered in blood, and when he saw the enemy soldiers surrounding him, he was about to pull a cushion on his back, but his comrades grabbed his collar and dragged him back. He was struggling desperately, but he saw a figure shaking behind him.

Through the faint morning light, he saw the reinforcements climbing the mountain, and then saw the pig demon among the reinforcements.

Dressed in a white robe, with sound limbs, leather boots on his feet and leather gloves on his hands, his head is a smooth leather bag, hairless, and his eyes are two transparent objects, and there is a pair of human eyes looking outward, and his mouth is a pig's mouth, which is very abrupt.

There are many such pig demons, dragging many large barrels to rush to the top of the mountain, and the Yin World Master who is in pain does not know why there are demons and monsters appearing, and they are pulled downhill and retreat to the city.

He watched as the pig demons dragged the vat up the hill, then pointed the opening of the vat at the other hillside, and then roared, only to see countless white powder spewing out of the vat.

The soldiers escorting these pig demons all wore masks, turned around and ran towards the city, and there seemed to be many fans fanning the wind in the vats, and in an instant, a large white smoke was created, enveloping the entire hill and the other side of the hill, and the screams immediately spread.

Inhaling a little white powder, the Yin Master felt a burning sensation in his nose, and immediately understood what this thing was: quicklime.

The retreating soldier took out his mask and put it on the Yin Shi Master, and told him to retreat quickly and not look back, so as not to burn his eyes from being stained with quicklime powder.

The Yin World Master couldn't understand what was going on inside those big wooden barrels, which could spray raw lime to form such a large lime mist, looking at those pig demons shrouded in the white mist, he only felt that his brain was a little messy.

In order to attack the city, the enemy army has resorted to all kinds of tricks, and the king of Xiyang has also resorted to all kinds of tricks in order to defend the city.

Among these tricks, he didn't say that he had seen some of them, he hadn't even heard of them, and he hadn't seen any records in the military books, so he really couldn't understand where King Xiyang learned these knowledge.

Withdrawing to the bunker at the head of the city, the Yin Shi Shi looked at the top of the earth mountain, where there was no other figure except the pig demon, until this time, the Yin Shi Shi relieved his heart, and then sat down by the bunker with a burst of strength.

A soldier came to help him bandage the wounds on his body, and the Yin Shi Shi gasped for breath, when he suddenly heard many voices, very noisy, and couldn't help but wonder, and then followed the reputation, and then was stunned.

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The sun rises in the east, the glow is shining, the autumn wind blows, blowing away the white fog on the dirt mountain, the hillside is full of rolling people, that is the siege of the officers and soldiers, in the soil mountain to prepare to attack the hanging gourd, for the pig demon practice, mouth, nose, eyes festering, painful.

The terrifying white fog has made many soldiers lose their combat effectiveness, but this does not mean that the officers and soldiers will stop fighting, under the bright and clear world, where can the pig demon be allowed to make trouble, the team will withdraw the soil and mountain and reorganize it from the new, and when the demon fog dissipates, a new round of attack is about to begin.

To the sound of war drums, a large number of soldiers rushed to the top of the mountain, and attacked the hanging gourd with all their might.

Another drum sounded, coming from the direction of the hanging gourd at the other end of the mountain, and a figure, a tall figure, appeared on the top of the mountain, which was originally empty.

It was a general dressed in strangely shaped armor, standing on the top of the mountain on a war horse, as if he was going to stop the officers and soldiers from climbing the mountain alone.

Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen, riding a horse to ascend the heights, standing on the top of the earth mountain, looking at the tide of enemy troops in front of him, smiled, and then put on a skeleton iron mask.

Fan blades driven by horsehair torsion springs can cause quicklime from the barrel to be sprayed out to form a lime mist, and a copycat gas mask made of bamboo charcoal filters, glass goggles, and pigskin masks allows his "biochemical soldiers" to release "demon mist" to retreat from enemies.

At this moment, Yu Wenwen stood on the top of the mountain alone, staring at the tide of enemy soldiers climbing the mountain, and after a few breaths, several more horses appeared beside him, and then more than ten horses, dozens of horses.

There were more cavalry behind the mountain, and they climbed to the top of the city from the wooden platform made of improvised planks in the Hanging Fortress, and then advanced along the dirt slope to the top of the mountain.

What to do if the enemy army is piling up earth to attack the city?

Build tall buildings to suppress the earth mountain!

This is Yuwenwen's original idea, and it is also a common battle method to restrain Tushan in this era, but Wang Jun, who joined the army, had a bold idea, and now, it is up to Yuwenwen to put it into practice himself.

He raised his horse lance, and the cavalry beside him blew the horn when he saw this, and Yu Wenwen immediately pointed the horse lance towards the bottom of the mountain, jumped on the horse, and rushed down first, and the cavalry around him then charged.

Like a raging flood, the Anju cavalry rushed towards the earth mountain and the enemy troops below the mountain.

Downhill, the speed is getting faster and faster, Yu Wenwen held the hand of the horse lance and trembled a little, that was the trembling caused by the extreme excitement of the big battle was imminent, looking at the black and oppressive enemy army in front of him, he was very happy.

Three thousand Anzhou elite cavalry, not only will sneak attack, even if the enemy army besieges the city like a thousand waves, I will split it in one fell swoop!!