At this time, Shibi Khan, who had retreated five miles back to the camp, asked Tuoba Shishu on the side and said: "The heavenly fire put by the Han people today is very sharp, I don't know if you have any way to deal with it?" ”

Tuoba Shishu looked around and saw that there were no other people in the entire camp, only himself and Shibi Khan. So he stepped forward and whispered to Shibi Khan: "The Great Wall of the Han people in front of us is very strong, and these Han people did not panic at all when facing our brave siege, they must be the elite who have been stationed on the front line of the Great Wall for a long time. In the face of such a strong defensive line, we either assisted the besieging troops in the attack with sharp siege equipment; Either with a large number of offensive troops, one after another with human lives, to tear a hole in their defensive line. But in the course of today's attack, our siege equipment was lost, and the dozen or so stone throwers that were burned down turned into smoke and dust. So judging from the current situation, we should only be left to use human lives to grind the defense line of the Han people on the other side. ”

"I am very familiar with this city wall, and I believe that every grassland person is also very familiar with it, and it is no exaggeration to say that every family in every tribe under our rule now has relatives who have fallen at the foot of that city wall, and they will never return to the grassland. Therefore, everyone should know how strong the Great Wall defense line is. At this time, if I fill it with human lives, I'm afraid it won't be enough to fill in the entire army I brought. Shibi Khan sat in the tent and looked at Tuoba Shishu in front of him and said.

"Khan, you think too much, when I say using human lives to tear a hole in the Great Wall defense line, I don't mean letting the army attack the Great Wall defense line so meaninglessly. Among the siege equipment brought by our trip to the south, there are not only more than a dozen stone throwers sent by the Goguryeo people, but also the siege cars and the rushing cars that break the city gates? At this time, we naturally didn't need it, so we did this to avoid being endangered by the cavalry pouring out of the Great Wall, so we chose this section of the Great Wall without a gate in front of us to attack. But we can't use the chariot, we can still use the chariot, the chariot has an extremely strong defense, maybe it can resist the kind of fire-breathing short stick used by the Han people on the city wall. ”

After a little thought, Tuoba Shi Shu decided to play a hole card to find out the reaction of the Han people opposite. At this time, he already vaguely felt that the defensive strength on the Great Wall seemed to be a little weak, different from what he had usually heard. Before, the Turks actually attacked the foot of the Great Wall directly with a charge, and also hung up a ladder, through which there were several Turkic soldiers on the ladder only a few steps away from the city. At this time, any defending force will have to bear far more casualties than before when the attacking side ascends the city, so any defending force must do everything possible to prevent the attacking force from ascending the city.

However, in today's siege battle, the Han people on the city walls always seem to lure the Turks to ascend the city through the ladder, intentionally or unintentionally. However, these are only Tuoba Shishu's own guesses, and at this time, it is still uncertain whether this guess is accurate or not. So Tuoba Shi Shu decided to use the siege carts in his hand to launch another offensive operation, if his guess was accurate, then these Han people may not have done anything to prevent these carts from approaching the Great Wall. Therefore, as long as the defense of the building cart is strengthened to ensure that it is not destroyed before reaching the city wall, the soldiers can be successfully sent to the top of the city.

Shibi Khan didn't know what to do at this time, and when he heard Tuoba Shishu's suggestion, he nodded and agreed after a little consideration, and directly asked Tuoba Shishu to organize the army for the next siege. But at this time, on the other side of the battlefield, Zhang Deqing rushed to the city wall that had been injured by the Turkic stone thrower, carefully surveyed the place where it was hit by the stone bullet, and secretly said in his heart that God blessed. The wall hit by the previous stone bullet only smashed part of the battlements, but did not hurt the fire dragon erected not far away.

The thought of the destruction of the fire dragon and the spread of the fire oil stored in it to the entire city wall, and the brazier placed on the city wall at this time to ignite the rocket, the slightest carelessness may cause great casualties to one's own side, it is a secret luck. At this time, the sentinel in charge of observing the enemy's situation sent a message that a new offensive of the Turks had been prepared and was now moving in the direction of the Great Wall.

To the north of the Great Wall, at this time, seven or eight building carts were slowly approaching the direction of the city wall under the traction of armored oxen. Behind the wagons were Turkic armies lined up with wooden shields. This time, Zhang Deqing personally commanded the head of the city, and the garrisons of the Great Wall defending the city once again fired countless arrows, shooting at the attacking Turkic army in front of them.

But this time, the Turkic army besieging the city was fully prepared, and the flying stones in the sky could not penetrate the armor worn by the oxen. Moreover, in the face of the Turkic army array, which was raised for defense, it did not have the anti-expected lethal effect. The entire Turkic army was still advancing slowly and unhurriedly, slowly approaching like a mountain.

"General, do you want the artillery battalion under the city to carry out several rounds of bombardment against the Turkic army? Try to damage all the buildings and cars on the road, and don't let them get close to the city walls? An officer asked Zhang Deqing for instructions.

"No need, we don't rely on the artillery camp this time, let's use this thing to surprise the Turks." Zhang Deqing patted the fire dragon beside him and said to the officer.

"But General, if we really let the Turks climb the city, we may have to suffer a lot of casualties." The officer said with some concern.

"No matter how heavy the casualties are, our fighting style this time is different from the past, not only the repulsion of the Turks is considered a victory. We should try our best to lure these Turks to invest all their vital strength in attacking the city wall, and the previous round of siege was only a little fur for the Turks, and it did not hurt the vitality. Now we have a lot of soldiers here, we have sharp equipment to defend the city, and we have the natural dangers of the Great Wall to rely on. If we can't inflict a large number of casualties on the Turks in front of us, once their attack is frustrated and retreats, and they move east to attack Wuwei County, it will not only be our soldiers who will be killed or wounded. More than half of the people of Wuwei County probably fell under the butcher's knife of the Turks. Zhang Deqing said, looked at the defenders in the city, and turned his voice to the defenders on the city wall:

"The taxes provided by the people of the Western Regions behind us have fed us as warriors who only know about military affairs and do not know how to farm. Now if the Turks want to hurt them, they must pass our pass. Are we really going to let them slaughter our people in the Western Regions without fearing the war? How did your instructors teach you when you were in the boot camp? As soldiers of the Western Regions Army, what is our military spirit? ”

"Although there are tens of millions of people, I will also go!"

(End of chapter)