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August 19, evening ......

"Boom~"

Outside Linyuan Pass, when the last rushing car was smashed by a falling boulder, the Shangguan troops who came to attack the city retreated to the rear like a tide, leaving corpses and instruments everywhere.

"Count, how many arrows, how many logs and rolling stones, and what about the casualties?"

After a whole day of fierce fighting, Wei Xian only felt that the bones in his body were about to fall apart, he leaned on the wall, and weakly asked his own soldiers to go to count the available materials and casualties.

About half an hour later, the sky was completely dark, and the soldiers returned to Wei Xian with a bitter face to report the casualties and the remaining counted materials.

"General Wei, at present, our army has killed more than 3,400 people and wounded more than 3,300...... It's less than half, and if there are no more reinforcements from the Governor's Palace, at most three days, we can only stare dryly, alas~"

Listening to the heavy wheezing sound of his own soldiers, Wei Xian's face was also very solemn, and he continued to defend for several days, not only was he emaciated, but also the soldiers under his command did not need to say much.

After a long time, Wei Xian said to his own soldiers: "Tell me to go down, the injured brother will take care of him, even if he goes, he will go to live in peace, and let the Huotou army roll out more white noodles and make a few more buns for the soldiers to eat, and the sweet potatoes and potatoes will be eaten every day......

"Thank you for your compassion ...... general" The soldier clenched his fists in a trembling voice and silently disappeared above the wall.

After the soldiers left, Wei Xian tried his best to get up and look out of the wall, but he saw that there were sparks in the camp of the Shangguan Army in the distance, and there was a faint noise in the faint sound, which couldn't help but make him frown.

"It seems that tomorrow, there will be an unprecedented fierce battle......" Wei Xianwang was distracted, and couldn't help but shake his head and mutter.

"Woo woo woo~"

Suddenly, there was a sharp and dull horn sound from the direction of Dingyang behind Linyuan Pass, which made these defenders who had been fighting all day and were about to rest for a while, and they all picked up their weapons and looked in the direction of the horn sound.

"Boom Boom Boom~"

The sound of heavy footsteps slowly reached everyone's ears under the night, and the cold aura of slaughter rose to the hearts of these soldiers, who stared hard into the darkness.

"That's ......"

After the sound of footsteps sounded under the wall, one of the officers defending the city could see the situation below with the help of the firelight, and couldn't help but swallow a few saliva.

"Woo~~"

The sharp horn sounded again under the wall, and this time it completely shook the eardrums of the defenders who were watching the situation on the wall.

"Hurry up and open the door! Reinforcements sent by the Governor's Mansion of Yuanzhou have arrived! When he saw the big "Song" tattooed on the cyan banner in the darkness, the face of the non-commissioned officer guarding the city suddenly showed a trace of unprecedented excitement.

"Kalala~"

With a screeching roar as the defenders pushed the winch inside the wall, the closed door was slowly opened......

The soldiers outside the Jingli Pass immediately divided into a column of five, and after the commander gave an order, they slowly marched towards the city.

When the five soldiers advancing in the first column were imprinted into the eyes of the defenders, the surrounding soldiers couldn't help but gasp.

Because what they see is ......

Archers!

Of course, if it was just the archers, these soldiers would not have to make such a fuss, the problem is that these archers entering the city have a longbow of nearly two meters hanging diagonally behind their backs!

Moreover, these archers had a calm face, ignored the gaze cast around them, and walked straight towards their combat posts under the guidance of the commander on their side.

These four thousand longbowmen are the ace troops of the Song family, and they have all been trained rigorously under the supervision of the Song family's generals since they were children, and they are accompanied by these longbows even when they sleep.

The two-meter-long longbow has an extremely long range, and the farthest projectile can even reach a distance of more than three hundred and sixty meters, and the sharp prismatic arrows can easily penetrate the chain mail and the protection of the piercing armor within one hundred and fifty steps, causing great damage to people.

But it was extremely difficult to control the longbows, requiring the archers to train with the bow for long hours and years until the body and mind became one with the longbow. Due to the difficulty of training, every longbowman is extremely precious to the Song family, and it can be said that they are the elite of the elite, and they will not be sent to the battlefield easily, even if the Hulan people have gone south, they are rarely seen.

But this time, Song Lian wanted to help Liu Ce calm the situation in Dingzhou at any cost, just because he took the initiative to tie himself to Liu Ce, obviously he was out of the way.

"General Song, are you here......"

Wei Xian, who was squeezed out of the crowd, immediately greeted Song Jinghao as soon as he saw Ce and the horse.

When Song Jinghao saw Wei Xian, he immediately dismounted and saluted him: "General Wei, it's been a long time since you ...... gone."

Wei Xian replied: "General Song, it's great that you can come, my heart is up and down, but as soon as I see you and me, my hanging heart will be put down, come, go to dinner with me first." ”

Song Jinghao glanced at the tired defenders around him, frowned, and then said to Wei Xian: "Don't worry, please take me to see the situation of the wall first, and then make corresponding arrangements after I am familiar with the situation." ”

Wei Xian nodded: "You are still like this, just come with me, the situation is really not optimistic now......"

As he spoke, he took Song Jinghao and several guards around him to familiarize themselves with the situation in the pass.

After a round of inspection, when Wei Xian and Song Jinghao stood on the wall and looked at the fire of the enemy camp in the distance, Wei Xian pointed to the official camp on the opposite side and sighed: "What I am most worried about at the moment is those siege towers, and the previous several cities were lost in those siege weapons." ”

Song Jinghaoqi said: "General Wei, can you tell me carefully about the wonders of this siege tower?" ”

Wei Xian said: "This siege tower is extremely huge, once it is close to the city wall, the heavy pontoon bridge will be fixed on the wall, and then the enemies below can continue to pour out from the tower and kill the city through the pontoon bridge, which is really a headache......

Song Jinghao pondered for a while and said: "In that case, why don't you dig a trench outside the city to block the advance of the siege tower, and you can also use fire to block it!" ”

Wei Xian smiled bitterly: "General Song, you don't know, I also thought about digging a few layers of trenches to block it, however, the march against the army was too fast, and before they could react, they had already come to the city, and secondly, the land within half a mile of the city was too hard to chisele,

As for the fire, it is difficult for the ash coated wood to burn, alas, I don't know what to do now. ”

Song Jinghao fell into contemplation again when he heard this, and after a while, a flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and he whispered to Wei Xian: "General Wei, you go to this and this quickly......"

After listening to Song Jinghao's description of the method of breaking the tower, Wei Xian's eyes suddenly lit up: "Wonderful, without further ado, I will order someone to arrange ......."

At this moment, on a hillside on the outskirts of Dingyang, Shangguan Yan looked up at the starry sky and listened to the report of a spy on the side.

"Back to the prince of Yan, Song Jinghao's army has been stationed in Linyuan Pass, and all the troops are elite defending the city."

"Hmm......" Shangguan Yan responded hoarsely, and then said to himself, "Song Jinghao, do you want to be famous in history?" ”

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