"Report, the enemy is attacking the city, two legions are in the vanguard, and the enemy has dispatched catapults."

On the twenty-sixth day of the siege, the sky had just brightened in the early morning, the cold wind mixed with the dead leaves whistling by, Nakajima Xuegan led five legions under his command to begin the siege, they took two legions as the vanguard, the protagonist in charge of the siege was a beauty in her forties, this person was cold and arrogant, beautiful and white-skinned, slim, with long black shawl hair, holding a jade-colored long sword, she had a poetic name called "Chu Mo", but unfortunately her surname was not very good, her surname was "Xiong". ”

Xiong Chumo led two legions, using catapults to open the way, behind the archers, shield soldiers covered, and the infantry carried a long ladder to follow behind, although Ling Xia destroyed a batch of catapults before, but in the later period, when Yoshio Yamamoto transferred three armies from the Dongcheng Army to supplement the northern city, he specially transported a hundred catapults.

Before, it was because Ling Xia lined up a group of captives from the city, and under the island country's rat thrower, although the catapult was transported, he didn't dare to use it, but now the captives were all transported away, so they had no scruples and pushed the catapult into the range area, and the island country frantically threw stone bullets towards the battle guards.

The island country throws stone bullets on this side, and the battle guards are not far behind, they also have catapults, although there are no stone bullets, but they have stones, and there are piles of stones behind the city wall, which are filled into the catapults with their hands, and the soldiers shoot them directly, the enemy's target is the arrow tower of the city wall, and the target of the battle guards is the enemy catapult phalanx.

The two sides started a catapult battle back and forth, because the firepower of both sides was too dense, resulting in the archers in the arrow tower and the siege soldiers under the city wall, all temporarily retreated, allowing the catapults on both sides to attack each other, for a while, the sky was full of all kinds of stones and stone bullets, and occasionally there was even a phenomenon of stone bullets and stones hitting each other.

The battle of the catapult lasted until noon, and the reason why the army island country stopped was because the stone bullets were exhausted, and the other was because the catapults were almost destroyed by the other side, and the reason why the war guards stopped attacking was because the bullets did not match, resulting in damage to the parts of the catapult and could not be used, after all, the stones were not stone bullets, and the model was not right.

After the catapult exchange between the two sides, both sides were damaged to varying degrees, the island side destroyed a hundred catapults, and thousands of people were killed by stones, but the city wall arrow tower on the side of the war guard was destroyed by one-third, and nearly a thousand archers also died in it when the arrow tower was smashed because of the untimely retreat, and this battle did not take advantage.

"Rush, kill the city wall!"

The two legions of the enemy army began to charge under the leadership of Xiong Chumo.

"Archers on the wall, shield soldiers cover, crossbowmen attack, wall-breaking crossbows assist!"

Nangong Xiu and Xiang Kunlun led their respective soldiers to defend against the enemy from the city walls.

"Legion Commander, has your letter been sent? Why haven't I received a reply yet? ”

Ling Xia stood in front of the legion command camp, looking into the distance with a solemn expression, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

"The letter has been sent, and General Gao has also replied, he is dispatching the First Army and the Second Army, because they are tightly tied by the two legions of the enemy, and they are afraid that they will start hand-to-hand combat after being discovered by the other side, so they dare not show their faces during the day, and can only march at night under the cover of night.

At that time, General Gao personally led them to support and cooperate, with their speed, it is estimated that they will be able to reach this side at noon tomorrow, what I am worried about now is not our reinforcements, but the other party's reinforcements, you don't know yet, just this morning, the main force of the enemy's Fourth Corps conquered the ninth province of Yuankun Xinjiang------ Boni Province.

So far, nine of the ten provinces in the territory of Yuankun Xinjiang have been broken and conquered, and the battle guards of the other provinces have all been martyred, leaving only our state and An, according to the line, although the enemy lost a group army during the siege, but their main force still has the strength of three group armies, at this moment, they are also on the way to support the enemy on the opposite side. Fu Qingyun said in a deep voice.

"Enemy reinforcements are coming, too? Hopefully, our reinforcements will be able to get ahead of each other. After whispering, Ling Xia's brows furrowed into the word "Chuan", and after a moment of silence, he said lightly: General Gao, they will only arrive tomorrow, then we must at least find a way to resist the enemy army for two days and one night, but the enemy's offensive is more and more fierce, how can we resist it? ”

"I'm afraid that Nangong Xiu and Xiang Kunlun's divisions can't withstand it for so long, and I know the strength of those two divisions, and they are not opponents of the enemy army at all." With a sigh, Fu Qingyun said helplessly: "Didn't you make some medicine jars before?" I've heard that those medicine jars can turn the tide of the war, do you want to take those medicine jars and use them now? ”

"It's not the time yet." Ling Xia shook his head: "The enemy army has only dispatched two legions, and there are three legions on standby from a distance, those jars are filled with hemp boiling powder, after humans inhale it, they will be anesthetized and comatose in an instant, but the way to restrain this drug is extremely simple, that is, to cover your nose with a towel soaked in water to prevent the drug from being inhaled."

That's why I said that these drugs can turn the tide of the battle, but they can only be used once, because the other party's commander can resolve the crisis as long as he does not let the soldiers inhale the drug foam, let's use hemp boiling powder at this time, even if the 200,000 enemy troops below are anesthetized and unconscious, but there are still 300,000 on the enemy side, and the enemy troops behind will not be fooled. ”

"Let's fight, then." Fu Qingyun sighed lightly, and then he rushed towards the city wall with his weapon, and in front of tens of thousands of soldiers, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, reinforcements are on the way, and when the reinforcements arrive, we should work together to deal a heavy blow to the enemy, in a word, even if I die, I will die on the battlefield." ”

Hearing Fu Qingyun's words, knowing that it was about to arrive, all the soldiers came to the spirit, and the morale that was originally a little low suddenly rose, originally thought that this time it was standing and waiting for death, but at this moment I knew that there was still hope, under the domination of the will to survive, everyone cheered up, and for a while, the defensive offensive on the side of the battle guards was strengthened several times.

The enemy's two legions attacked the city wall in six ways, but they were beaten back by the soldiers of the battle guards, seeing that there was no advantage in dividing the troops, the enemy changed its strategy and combined forces to attack the city wall all the way, so that the enemy's attack power increased exponentially, and the most ferocious one was to hit the city gate, and smashed the stones that Ling Xia had sent people to fill several meters before, and almost attacked it.

This siege battle lasted until the night, the troops on both sides were damaged to varying degrees, seeing that the city gate could not be attacked for a long time, Nakajima Snow Shore was a little angry, in a hurry, he sent the remaining three legions, and ordered the soldiers to break the city before the time, seeing that the enemy's five legions were dispatched at the same time, Ling Xia's heart suddenly tightened.