Pei Gai suspected that Jiao An and other Hu generals deliberately drove the Han people to take the lead to wear down the physical strength and sharpness of the defenders of the city, but Zhang Bin explained with a smile: "Hu cavalry is more expensive than charging and splitting the ears, and as for climbing the wall and attacking the city, it is not what they are good at. Exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses is also the key to the art of war. ”

Pei should understand that most of the Hu people in the army are cavalry, and it is impossible to ride a horse straight to the city wall - it is not a glorious game - if they are allowed to give up their horses, it is a waste of resources. Moreover, the Hu people are often good at riding and shooting, and the range of riding bows is relatively short, and they cannot be used to suppress the firepower of the city. It's not that Shi Le or Jiao'an didn't take the lives of the Han soldiers as their lives and threw them casually, but ...... Why is I so uncomfortable?

From time to time, besieging soldiers fell from arrows, and the originally neat queue was scattered. However, although the range of arrows from the city wall can reach a long distance, and the destructive power is enough to rely on the falling momentum of the arrows, it is almost equivalent to a blind shot, and the accuracy is very poor, so it cannot stop the charging of the besieging party at all. Pei Gai lowered his voice and said: "It's a pity that there are few arrows in the city, if ten thousand arrows are fired at once, you ...... Our army will suffer heavy losses. ”

Zhang Bin said with a smile: "If there are nearly 10,000 archers on one side of the city wall, why should you defend it by holding on, and you would have already gone out of the city to fight with me." It was only when he knew that there were few soldiers in the city that he dared to attack the city like this. ”

The sun was blazing, and Pei Gai was forced to put his hand on a canopy and cover his forehead in order to roughly distinguish the situation by the city wall. Seeing that many soldiers had already approached the moat, they used the wooden planks prepared in advance to build bridges and cross the moat, and rushed to the city wall. He said to himself, "I'm standing here, what's the risk?" It's so far away, even if there is a bed crossbow in the city that hasn't been popularized in these years, or a god arm bow in the future, it won't be able to shoot me here at all.

Look left and right, up and down the mountain, the inner and outer three layers are all Shile's cronies and guards, and some trees within a few hundred meters have all been cut down, and there is no place to hide people - that is to say, the secret assassins have arrived to carry out the beheading operation, and the chance of success is also zero.

Listening to Zhang Bin's continued explanation: "The Yangxia moat was originally very wide, leading to? Water is injected, and the city is guarded, but it has been silted up for a long time, and even cut off in many places - although since Wang Zan settled in, he has driven the military and civilians to repair, but the huge Yangxia, how can it be repaired in one or two months? There are many flaws everywhere. Pei Lang also saw that if he could build a sheep and horse wall on the inside of the moat, so that the archers could lie in ambush in it, and when our army crossed the trench, he would be able to greatly kill and injure our army. ”

Pei Gai narrowed his eyes and took a closer look: "I've also heard of Yangmayuan...... Isn't it a towering place in the trench? ”

Zhang Bin said with a smile: "It was built in the previous life, and it was damaged everywhere and almost unusable - perhaps Wang Zan thought that the so-called sheep and horse wall was really set up for the purpose of raising sheep and horses, and was not used as a city defense facility, so it was not repaired." However, the number of soldiers in the city is too small, and if they are outside the city, it will be difficult for them to retreat to the city wall in times of emergency......"

"Zhang Jun's meaning, Wang Zhengchang may not know, but he can't do anything? is only for the lack of soldiers, so 'it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice'. ”

Zhang Bin stroked his beard and smiled: "Pei Lang's metaphor is very interesting...... And it makes sense. That is, Wang Zheng is a clever woman, and there is only a handful of rice at home, but he waits for dozens of guests to eat, where can he entertain him? ”

After throwing down more than a dozen corpses, the besiegers crossed the moat smoothly and came to the city wall, where they immediately threw ropes or lifted the wooden ladders on their shoulders with great force, intending to attach the ants to the city. Pei Gai frowned and said: "The ant attachment will be injured and the damage will be great, why not build equipment to attack the city?" "Even if you can't build any ladders or rush cars, it's not difficult for you to chop a big log and hit the city gate, right?

Zhang Bin shook his head lightly: "It takes too long." I can't wait for a long time to stay under Yangxia City, one is afraid that Gou Xi will come to the rescue, and the other is afraid that Wang Mi will go north...... But he was not in a hurry for a day or two, and the first battle of the day was to taste the enemy, to find out whether his command was flexible, whether his soldiers were using their lives, and whether there were any loopholes in the city defense, and where the loopholes were......"

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The attack was launched at about five o'clock, and on the southern city alone, Jiao'an organized three fierce attacks, each time about three to five thousand people, but all of them were defeated.

Charging and crossing the moats in the siege were often not difficult, but when the first official climb to the city wall was first class, they were often thrown from the city and beaten to the point that they broke their arms and legs—they were more powerful than bows and arrows, and they were easy to get accurate. As a result, most of the ropes were cut, most of the ladders were smashed, and the besiegers had no choice but to shout and flee in embarrassment. Then it takes a long time to sort out the defeated troops and reassemble the array, almost two to three times as long as it is to storm a city......

The other two directions, although Pei Gai has not seen them, should be about the same. After the battle, he heard a report to Shile that one hundred and fifty soldiers had been killed and seriously wounded.

The more Pei looked at it, the more bored he felt. This is because he is just a bystander, neither on the besieging side, nor on the defensive side, and there is no tension at all, even if there are soldiers crippled or even killed in the city, after all, they are too far away to see clearly, and naturally they will not have any impact on the soul. What's more, he knew the outcome of this battle, and there was no suspense left, so he could only watch a group of people rush forward and then retreat, a hundred times slower than the offense and defense of various ball games - if the game was made like this, no one would definitely want to play it.

But Pei Gai had seen the tragic situation inside and outside Ningping City after all, he knew that this was not a game, and the people who fell one by one were all living people, whether Han or Hu, they also had flesh and blood, they would also feel pain, and they would also fall into the despair of dying...... If the commanders are all far away from the battlefield like him at this moment, for example, Wang Yan in the battle of Ningping City only receives battle reports in the Chinese army, maybe those who fell and died in battle are just some cold numbers.

For Pegai, that hellish situation is the beginning of his life, but for others, it is the end of life, and even if there is remorse, it is too late. Of course, there are also many people who do not realize until death, such as Wang Yan......

After the war, Zhang Bin asked him: "Pei Lang, how do you feel about watching the battle today?" Pei Gai couldn't help but sigh: "Therefore, the cloud 'soldiers are also murder weapons, and saints cannot use them'......" Zhang Bin asked with a smile: "Is our army still strong?" Pei Gaixin said that the army of the feudal era, especially the troops who relied on forcible pull and food lure in the troubled times, was just a group of armed mobs, and the word "army" was simply the biggest insult to this word!

Of course, Shi Le's elite Hu cavalry was different, and he was the leader of the armed mob......

Zhang Bin hesitated, but finally couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he cautiously asked Pei Gai: "I have never followed Ming Gong in person, and I don't know what Sima Yue's department looks like since Ningping City?" Pei Gai searched his mind for the memories of the previous body owner, and replied to him: "'Takeo Takeo, the dry city of the country'...... It's a pity that the ruler is not lawless, the generals have no fighting spirit, and when their morale is exhausted, they are just a group of pigs and dogs......"

"If you can train such an army, the food and salary are sufficient, the equipment is fine, and the generation is the country's elite soldiers, all of them are proud of their bravery, and they are ashamed to retreat, and then we will train them, so that they can know the etiquette and righteousness, and the Ming Gong will rule it, so that the ...... will be in all directions" Listening to Zhang Bin's tone, looking at his eyes, it seems to be full of dreams and longing, "The world is not enough, and we are not in vain in this life!" ”

Pei Cai quietly pursed his lips and said in his heart: "Dream! ”

"Tomorrow will attack the city, will Pei Lang still come to see?"

Pei Gai sighed softly: "But I don't die, I should look at it." ”

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Pei Gai had an empty stomach and a depressed mood at the same time, and rode back to the camp near the Langdang Canal alone. Along the way, there were Hu horses coming and going, passing information, guarding the passage, and he couldn't escape at all - and even if he wanted to escape, how would he pick up Pei's?

When I returned to the camp and saw Pei Shi - according to etiquette, when I went out and returned, I must first report to the elders - Pei Shi asked him about the siege of the city, and Pei should casually say a perfunctory word. Pei Shi asked again: "Wen Yue thinks that Wang Zhengchang may be able to keep Yangxia?" Pei Gai shook his head and said three words "difficult" in a row.

"However, if the city of Yang Xia is broken, Wang Zhengchang may be spared?"

Pei Cai raised his eyebrows to glance at Pei Shi, and asked suspiciously, "Is my aunt old with Wang Zhengchang?" Pei shook his head lightly, and said that I had never seen Wang Zan-" However, he was erudite and talented, and I once read one of his "Miscellaneous Poems", which is simple and timeless, and is a rare masterpiece. ”

Then the man chanted: "The wind moves the autumn grass, and the side horse has a home." Hu Ningjiu has analyzed and has been in the limelight until now. The king is separated from my ambition, and he is separated from the business ginseng. In the past, partridges chirped, and now crickets sing. People are nostalgic for their hometowns, and they miss their hometowns. If the teacher doesn't play for a long time, who can declare my heart? Finally, he said, "Isn't it a pity that such a person dies?" ”

Pei Gai couldn't help but pout: "Everyone has parents, or wives and children, in the eyes of his relatives, all the dead are a pity, why is Wang Zhengchang like this?" Although he has the talent of handsomeness and the ambition of Yiqun, he and Gou Dao will be good, the two of them join forces, and they are broken, 'the white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles', and I don't know how many people died under his knife! Isn't it a pity? ”

When Pei Shi heard this, his face couldn't help but change slightly, and then he lowered his voice and asked: "It is rumored outside that it was the ancestor who caused chaos and harmed the world, do you also see Wenyue like this?" Pei Cai wanted to scold the bastard of the Sima family on the spot, but he gritted his teeth, and finally held back, and asked Pei Shidao: "What does my aunt think?" Pei Shi hurriedly turned his face away: "The world is dominated by men, how can we and other women know about ......?"

There was an awkward silence in the tent for a moment. Pei was stunned for a while, and was about to say goodbye and quit, when he heard Pei Shi snort and said: "I hurt Wenyue, if it weren't for me, why would Wenyue be in such a dangerous situation......"

When Pei Gai heard this, he was slightly taken aback, and said in his heart, what do you mean by this? It can't be that you suddenly regret it and have a will to die, right?! Hurriedly turned his head to observe Pei's expression, but it was already dark, the lights and candles in the tent were dim, Pei deliberately hid his face in the shadows, and he couldn't see it clearly. After hesitating for a while, Pei Gai asked, "The tent is depressed, is my aunt willing to go out with my nephew?" "I have something to tell you, but it's too unsafe to keep the tent in the air. Although Pei Xiong has been sent by me to wash the horses, but the other goods are still there, who knows where their cats are?

Pei Shi turned his head and looked at Pei Gai, who hurriedly looked at him. Pei Shi hesitated for a moment, and then nodded: "It's good to go out and breathe." So he took a hat with a curtain and put it on his head, covering his face.

The two of them were not far away from the tent - Yun'er was originally waiting outside the tent, and wanted to follow, but was stopped by Pei Shi waving his hand - Pei should look left and right, under the moonlight, the light of the torch and the shadow are intertwined, just like a terrifying beast, but unless it can really be invisible, it is obvious that there is no third person within six or seven steps. Only then did he approach Pei's and said in a low voice: "If it weren't for my aunt to save me, my nephew would have died a long time ago, and now I am temporarily living in Hu Ying, but my nephew volunteered to rescue my aunt to repay his kindness." Let the aunt have no secrets, and the nephew will only die! I am afraid that the filth on my body will never be washed away......"

Pei Shi was silent for a while, and then sighed slightly: "Wen Yue doesn't need to persuade each other, I understand...... Now that I live and die with Wen Yue, it is difficult to separate, and I will not leave the Wen Yue and seek my own death. Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed Pei Gai's wrist: "Wen Yue, no matter what the outside world talks about the late husband, if he is still alive, I should live and die." It can be seen that stigma is not terrible, and it is not worth cleaning with life...... Don't be reckless, waste your life - like on the battle array, the sword has no eyes, and you should avoid it! ”

Pei Gai nodded and promised: "My nephew will be ......"