On both sides of the artillery position, there are several earthen hills extending from each, and behind the wooden fences erected on them, there are standing or half-kneeling crossbowmen of the Yining Army's infantry army. {with}{dream} щ{suimеng][lā}

In the rear position of the seven guns, there are two siege arrays, the front is full of Qiang cavalry volunteers, and the back is the foot soldiers of the Yining army, all holding knife cards, Pinglong long knives, and boring palladium.

In the north and south directions, there are siege troops and horses of Gao Chongwen, Wu Xianfu and Fan Xichao.

Soon Gao Yue walked out of the tent, watched the majestic siege team for a while, and then looked at the ruins of the old Great Wall looming north of the Fangqu for a while, and the desert and boundless loess and white grass, and asked Gao Gu, the commander of the soldiers and horses around him: "Are they all deployed?" ”

Gao Gu and the other generals stood solemnly and said that they had all been deployed.

Gao Yue thought about it and said one by one: "Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan led the first and second battalions of the cavalry of the Dingwu Army, guarding the Wulun Mountain Road and blocking the route to the north of Fangqu City;

Zhu Bo and Sha Tong led the third battalion of the Dingwu Cavalry Army, wandered around Quziyuan, and cooperated with Fan Xichao's 2,000 Suining soldiers to block the southern escape route of Fangqu City;

The five battalions of Feishan Supu Department, and the ten surnames of Qiang Qiyi from Yelong, a total of 2,500 people, dragged five seven-tip cannons, and attacked the tower and the city gate of Fangqu City from the east;

The Yicongqiang soldiers of the three tribes of Niu, Baima, and Shuyi were in front, and the Yining Army jumped and the five battalions and forty-five teams of the sword brand and the three thousand Qingzhou soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were behind, and they were beaten to Fangqu City first;

The teams and garrisons of the remaining five battalions of the Yining Army stood on the dirt hill and suppressed the Fangqu city wall with divine thunder rockets and crossbow arrows;

Wu Xianfu's 3,000 Ningning soldiers attacked from the south of the city, and Gao Chongwen's 3,000 Shence decisive soldiers attacked from the north of the city;

In addition, Xu Si's mule army left and right battalions, which were Ben Yin's Yu Qi team, did not move. ”

After dictating all these subordinates, Gao Yue turned around and asked Li Xian, the herald of the account, to repeat it.

Li Xian didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly reaffirmed Gao Yue's deployment in front of the generals and the chieftains of Yicong.

As for Xu Si bowing his head again, it turned out that the mule soldiers were still in charge of Yu Qi's team (the commander's general reserve) in this battle, and they were still not pioneers!

Before he could finish complaining, Gao Yue said again: "When attacking the city, first throw boulders, then shoot rockets, and finally the Qiang soldiers first attach the city wall to set up a ladder, and the Yining and Gyeongju soldiers will follow." Okay, let's go! ”

With this command, at the edge of Gaofu in front of the tent, a row of Dingwu army colonels, puffing out their cheeks, set up a huge horn, and whined and whined at Fangqu City under the sun and smoke.

At the head of Fangqu City, the sturdy people of the Yeli and Da Worm clans all sat behind the female wall, hanging the bow ears with strings, and some only grabbed a sharpened stone, their lips were all cracked, and their eyes were full of death-fighting and terrifying light.

The whole city is only six miles back, but nearly 40,000 men and women gathered, which makes Luocheng and under the sheep and horse walls, full of frightened people, before the official start of the war, there are groups of people, raising their hands, walking into the Tang military camp, they want to subdue and survive, they can no longer endure the torture of water and food and water and food and shortage.

"Drag!" With the shout of the set to let go, and the wave of the flag, under the tall and incomparable seven-tip cannon rack, there were as many as four or five hundred rope pullers, they raised their faces, and saw that the horizontal axis of the cannon was full of dazzling sunlight, and they could hardly open their eyes, countless ropes were tied to it at one end, and the other head was pulled in their hands, and every fifty people had a rope, and with the order of "dragging", they all shouted in unison, and the steps of everyone all moved collectively to the west, with a cloud of smoke, and pulled the thick rope fiercely- In the huge roar like a monster, ten such ropes pulled rapidly, violently pulling the turn of the horizontal axis of the artillery frame, and the high swinging arm was also pulled up, suddenly stretched out into the sky, and then the leather pocket the size of a bean grain at the top of it shook, and the heavy stone pill, under the action of centrifugal force, slid straight into the air, turning into a black dot that kept rotating.

At the same time, five "black dots" rose into the air together, and smashed into the towers and horse faces of Fangqu City under the arc trajectory of different levels.

The sound of explosion and thunder rushed up, and a huge pillar of smoke was smashed out at the east gate of the entire Fangqu City, and the tower was split into three pieces almost instantly, and the eaves, windows, and beams and pillars collapsed, shattered, and rolled. The rest of the people could only hide behind the female wall, crawling in vain

The swinging arm of the seven-tip cannon, after that, up and down, continued to shoot huge stone pills inside and outside Fangqu City, a stone pill rolled, obliquely slashed the female wall thirty steps away from the side of the tower, obliquely completely cut off three or four feet, together with the more than ten party members standing on it, all became flesh and blood, all pasted on the stone pill, jumped straight into the top of the party women and children who took refuge in the shed under the wall of the city, fell among the dense heads, rolled and crushed the grass shed more than ten steps long, broken limbs, brains and dirty blood were scattered everywhere.

Half an hour later, several gates of Fangqu City were opened, and people screamed and scrambled to escape, some were stabbed to death and shot in front of the long moat wooden fence, and some ran to the Maling River to throw water.

Countless flaming rockets broke away from the bowstring from the earthen hill of the besieged city, rose, and fell down with great brilliance, and the buildings, women's walls, and sheds on the east wall of Fangqu City began to burst into flames, and then joined together, blazing, but there was no water to fight the fire in the city, and many party members who were burning all over their bodies jumped from the wall with screams and fell to pieces.

Soon after, the seven cannons stopped firing and stood silently at the ruined walls of the canal.

But the hidden tiger cannon spewed out fireworks, and a few shells were shot out, which played more of a deterrent effect, and took this as a signal - the Qiang people of the two tribes of killing cattle and white horses, one after another, carrying a ladder made of a single big tree, holding bows and arrows, rushed towards Fangqu City like a tide, interspersed with the Dingwu Army gunners wearing three-layer cotton clothes and holding "fire pipes", they arrived at the antlers of the fence set up by the soldiers of Fangqu City, and inserted the fire pin into the long pipe to detonate the divine thunder gunpowder inside. The dazzling fireworks suddenly flew to the ground, burning all the moments in front of him.

One by one, the single-headed giant trees were erected, and then the Qiang soldiers pulled them backwards with ropes, and soon they smashed them on the battlements, and on both sides of them were staggered with branches that could be stepped on, and the shouts were to kill the cattle. The Qiang soldiers of the White Horse tribe wielded all kinds of weapons, braved the rain of arrows and stone-throwing to climb up, and went to fight with the Yeli and Big Zerg of the same species, rolling behind the city wall, fighting bloodily.

The Tang soldiers in the rear of the siege had a good time, lined up in a neat line, stepped through the filled trenches, stepped through the gaps in the burned wooden fences, and began to gather under the city, and also came with three huge siege vehicles with wells