The Liang division invested a lot of materials, funds and manpower in the defense line of the Great Wall and the defense line of Lingwu County, trying to build these two defense lines like iron barrels, so as not to give the Western Regions army any chance and possibility to attack. After all, if the troops under his command had the advantage of holding the city wall, they would still be able to cope for a while, and if they were really pulled into the field for a field battle, then I am afraid that even if the Western Regions army wanted to capture prisoners, they would not be able to capture these people.

Zhuang Fudi's march route this time can be said to be extremely strange, because since ancient times, the march from Wuwei County to Lingwu County has taken the official road between the two counties, bypassing the winding Great Wall defense line and attacking Lingwu County from the south. But this time, Zhuang Fudi took the unusual path and led the army to choose to cross the pass of the Great Wall directly, take the north side of the Great Wall and march towards Lingwu County by the shortest route. This inevitably determined that these three legions would have to conduct a siege operation under the Great Wall, and after breaking through the Great Wall, they would have to attack the wall defense line of Lingwu County again if they marched deeper. So if properly arranged, then these two lines of defense will be enough to withstand a million soldiers. Of course, the reason for this comparison is that of the ordinary army of this era.

As mentioned earlier, the three legions led by Zhuang Fudi this time are the main legions all equipped with new artillery, and the only difference from the previous legion is that this legion is empty of training, but it has not been baptized by blood and war. At best, he can only be regarded as a well-trained recruit, but he cannot be called an elite veteran of a hundred battles with strong combat effectiveness. However, this time the opponent is really weak, in the face of Liang Shidu's army, Zhuang Fudi carefully calculated, as long as the three legions under his command can give full play to the strength of the exercise, then it will not be difficult to defeat Liang Shidu at all, even if there are two tall and wide city walls in between.

The Liang division placed his most elite Turkic troops on the Great Wall defense line, and then a large number of strong bows and hard crossbows and even a few bed crossbows placed on the wall of Lingwu County were transported to the Great Wall defense line by Liang Shi as best they could. The best result is to be able to block the Western Regions Army advancing eastward this time on the defense line of the Great Wall. Even if they can't stop their advance, they must pay a lot of casualties at the foot of the Great Wall defense line, so as to reduce the pressure on the defending side of Lingwu County in the next urban attack and defense battle.

But to put it bluntly, these are all wishful thinking on the part of Liang Shidu, and what he estimated was the combat effectiveness of the Western Regions Army before this reorganization and expansion. At that time, when the Western Regions Army faced the Long March defense line, it also had a headache. But this time is different from the past, this time Zhuang Fudi led the Western Regions Army to the east, and he didn't come to reason with you at all. Under the continuous supervision of the Liang Division, the layout of the Great Wall defense line was finally set up before the arrival of the Western Regions Army, and it was officially put into use. Under the triple fire cover of the bed crossbows, the trebuchets on the city walls, and the crossbowmen arranged on the city walls, except for those heavily armored Mo sword soldiers, few people were able to cross that section of arrows and make it to the foot of the Great Wall alive. And even those heavily armored Mo sword soldiers have to weigh whether they can catch the power of this crossbow when facing the bed crossbow. After all, this kind of bed crossbow can directly shoot through the rammed earth city wall wrapped in bluestone within a certain range, and the power is also very amazing.

However, after Zhuang Fudi arrived, he did not rush to let the troops immediately start attacking the city with cloud ladders, but let the army camp on the spot. The army specially bought countless cattle and sheep from the nearby Turkic tribes, and the soldiers of the three legions ate a good meal for the slaughtered cattle and sheep that night. Then he slept soundly in the camp, and it was not until the next morning that he got up again for breakfast and prepared to attack the Great Wall. Compared with the leisurely and comfortable army of the Western Regions, which became the attacking party, the Liang Shidu army, which was responsible for defense on the city wall, was miserable. At night, they were afraid that this was a suspicious tactic used by Zhuang Fudi on the other side, so they stared at the camp outside the city all night without closing their eyes, so at this time, almost everyone who was defending on the city wall had heavy dark circles and bloodshot eyes.

At this time, these people saw the Spanish-speaking army preparing to attack in formation, and they were all in a strong fighting spirit, and they were ready to stop the siege of the Western Regions Army in their respective duties. Heavy arrows are hung on the crossbow strings on the bed crossbow, and the stone bullets have been put into the bullet nest on the stone thrower, and the correction is in place, everything is ready, just wait for the commander to give the order to fire, and these heavy arrow stone bullets can be sent to the head of the Western Regions army under the city.

However, the Western Regions army on the opposite side did not have the slightest intention of attacking the city, but after leaving the camp and lining up, they sat down in place and continued to rest. At this time, their assembly range happened to be outside the range of the garrison on the Great Wall, so they also rested very comfortably. Just as these people were resting, some people came out of the camp next to them, and behind these people they were dragging a cannon with a wheel, a total of more than 300 artillery pieces were lined up outside this section of the Great Wall defense line. The soldiers who were in charge of the artillery began to fill the chambers with gunpowder and stone shells, and aimed their muzzles at the Great Wall on the opposite side. After reloading one by one, the artillerymen signaled to their commanders that they were ready to fire. Then, under the wave of the flag of the artillery commander who was traveling with him, 300 guns fired stone shells at once. All of a sudden, smoke rose from the entire artillery position, and the smell of gunpowder made it difficult for people to breathe. However, they only had difficulty breathing, but they were not in danger of dying. But the defenders of Liang Shidu on the bombarded city wall on the opposite side were like falling into hell. The bluestone ancient bricks that I relied on before are now like paper paste in front of these stone bullets. In addition, over the years, the Liang division has not been able to repair and renovate the Great Wall every year, so under many complex reasons, this section of the Great Wall is extremely fragile, and a small section of the city wall collapsed when it was bombarded by stone bullets. The trebuchet and the bed crossbow that had been placed on it had fallen into the ruins along with the crumbling walls, and were no longer usable.

Just before the soldiers on the city wall could react to what had happened, the second round of shooting under the city came again. This time, the bombardment position of the stone bombs has been slightly adjusted, and the main bombardment is the place where the bed crossbow and catapult are arranged. A few more volleys followed, and after naming the exposed weapons of the city's defenses, Zhuang Fudi organized the accompanying death squads in the army to wear heavy armor and launch the first wave of attacks at the risk of death. Later, under the temptation of these death squads wearing heavy armor, there were no strong bows and crossbows fired from the city wall, and the arrows shot by those soldiers were not able to penetrate the heavy armor at all, so with a big wave of their hands, the soldiers of the three legions launched an attack on the Great Wall like wolves and tigers holding a cloud ladder and a round shield.

(End of chapter)