In order to speed up the destruction of the city, Guo Yan was already impatient to drive the people who had been building camps and rushing to make equipment for several days, and instead sent the light soldiers in the army to move forward bravely and fill in the ravines.

Filling the ravines is the advance of the siege of the army, in the siege war, the slightest pothole and muddy road surface, there is a great possibility of stopping the large siege equipment that follows behind, so the light pawn who fills the gully also needs to carry in front of the siege equipment carried by the siege army, and level the road, so as to ensure that the behemoths that are besieging the city behind can reach the city smoothly.

But at the same time, the threat of the crossbowmen at the head of the city to these light soldiers who fill the ravines is also great.

Although there are follow-up archers to follow, set up a bamboo fence to cover, after opening the bow counterattack, the offensive of the crossbowmen at the head of the city is slightly suppressed and slowed down, but the arrows flying endlessly on the battlefield are still so dangerous and deadly.

The moat was only filled in for a short time, and many light soldiers had already fallen along the way, and the speed of filling the ravines was greatly delayed by the rain of arrows suppressed by the city, so that the large siege equipment that followed behind had to stop advancing, unwilling to wait for the light soldiers who filled the ravines in front of them to fill in the operations with heavy casualties.

In the siege battle, the hand-to-hand combat of hand-to-hand combat has not yet begun, and the battlefield has already entered a white-hot stage.

The bows and crossbows fired by the guards at the head of the city were beyond the imagination of the besieging enemy, but the ferocity of the Xiliang soldiers soon broke the idea of the guards at the head of the city using bows and crossbows to control the enemy.

Faced with the phenomenon of being suppressed by the rain of arrows at the head of the city and unable to fill the ravine, the army of Guo Yan's army soon rushed out of a group of armor soldiers wearing heavy armor and carrying swords and shields, and they drove the light pawns who slowed down and continued to charge forward.

The enemy's work to fill the ravines was greatly accelerated in an instant, at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The more arrows that flew down from the city's head, the more quickly the filled roads formed.

After a few more moments, under the accumulation of dirt bags and firewood mixed with the corpses of the light soldiers, three roads of more than two zhang were finally formed in the moat, and after the light soldiers were slightly leveled, a group of siege soldiers took the lead in pushing the heavy rushing carts, and unstoppably crushed forward.

They were followed by archers who pulled out the fence and advanced with bows and arrows, as well as behemoths such as ladder carts and wells, as well as other light equipment such as ladders, and after following the besieging army and stepping on a road filled with the bones of light soldiers, they were also about to reach the city one after another.

"Flying stones, put it!"

On the tower of the city gate, Yan Xing, who was paying close attention to the progress of the enemy's siege, was shocked in his heart that the Xiliang soldiers were not afraid of death and quickly filled the ravine with human lives, and at the same time, seeing that the enemy's large siege equipment had crossed the moat, he ordered the order flag to be shaken, so that the stone throwers under the inner city wall began to attack.

"One, two, three, pull!"

At the base of the inner city wall, the guards who were paying attention to the banner at the head of the city saw the banner on the city gate tower waving, and immediately shouted the trumpet according to the pre-adjusted angle, and ordered more than a dozen stone-throwing machines arranged under the city to send stones in unison.

Under the hard pull of hundreds of people, more than a dozen flying stones drew a concise arc in mid-air, and flew over the city wall one after another, heading for the direction outside the city.

"Whew-Whew-Whew"

The flying stones made a huge sound in the air outside the city, and the advancing besieging enemy troops were easily attracted by the sound in the sky, and when they saw that the black dots in their pupils were constantly getting bigger, many people couldn't help but let out exclamations, and some soldiers even stopped their progress because they were dumbfounded.

"Bang-bang-"

More than a dozen flying stones fell one after another around the enemy army formation crossing the river, and even in the middle, and the sound and deterrent power were obviously far beyond the deterrence of bows and arrows.

Although only two flying stones fell into the advancing military formation, the splashes and broken stones still made the orderly advancing team become crowded and chaotic for a while, and the soldiers dodged and retreated one after another, dodging and dodging the fatal flying stones.

Many leading military officials and veterans in the army know that armor and large armor can easily defend against long-distance arrows, but it is difficult to resist the attack of these flying stones.

And these flying stones weighing more than ten catties and twenty catties, although the degree of damage is not high for the rammed earth thick city wall, but it is also more than enough to deal with the ladder carts and wells used to defend against ordinary arrows.

A well that had just crossed the river happened to be hit by the last flying stone to hit the top, and the building turret used to resist the arrows and the fence to protect the archers were shattered in an instant, and the power brought by the flying stone swept away the dozens of archers who were waiting at the top in an instant, and the entire top collapsed all at once, pushing the foot soldiers of the well to retreat one after another, leaving behind this destroyed siege machine.

This huge noise also alarmed Guo Yan, who had already transformed into a military commander in the rear.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and the scar on his face trembled a little, but the movement on his face quickly died down, and the sneer on the corner of his mouth resurfaced.

"The soldiers and armor in the city are all invincible to me, and they defend the city with flying stones, small skills!"

He had already seen that after passing through the road across the river, the ladder carts and wells in the siege team gradually dispersed, and the once chaotic soldiers were also reunited to advance under the punches and kicks of the soldiers, and several siege army formations were restored to their original state.

The next round of flying stones flying out of the city almost all failed, only one flying stone, which accidentally hit and rushed into the tail of its own advancing team, knocking over a few advancing soldiers.

Wu Xi, Gao Shuo and others around Guo Yan will also tacitly see this scene, and they will speak out one after another, flattering Guo Yan's outstanding views.

Between their flattering words, a large number of siege soldiers surrounded the behemoths such as rushing cars, ladder trucks, and wells, and still pushed forward steadfastly.

Intimidated by the threat of the enemy's strong bow on the well gate tower, Yan Xing's personal guards were already shielding Yan Xing in front of him, and Yan Xing looked at the approaching well and ladder car, and his eyebrows slowly twisted together.

There are many people in the Xiliang army who practice shooting, and they have an absolute advantage in numbers, and the number of foot soldiers they can act as archers is far more than that of the guards in the city.

Although the number of archers who could stand on the well was limited, in terms of the consumption of counter-fire, in less than half an hour, the entire section of the city wall would be completely suppressed by the archers of the enemy army, and the guards at the head of the city would no longer have the initiative.

And the ladder car is a behemoth, not to mention the guards on the city wall can use push rods, wood and stone to knock down and destroy, even if you use fire attack, you need close combat to be able to throw the fire-starting thing and burn the ladder car as a whole.

But once the suspension bridge on the multiple ladder trucks is set up on the city wall, it will make the Xiliang warriors under the city can continue to climb up, and the guards on the city wall are bound to be exhausted, left and right, and finally unable to resist, spread from a section of the city wall to a city, and completely fall to the enemy.

Although Yan Xing really didn't dare to imagine or try, there was a large-scale hand-to-hand encounter on the city wall, and the consequences of a bloody battle with Guo Yan's army.

Therefore, he had to destroy as much of the siege armies as he could before they reached the walls.

"Order, crossbow platform!"

On the tower of the city gate, there are once again different colors of triangular horses waving, accompanied by a different rhythm of drums, this section of the city wall has a complete female wall, shooting ports and other offensive and defensive infrastructure on the crossbow platform, hundreds of soldiers began to busily operate the city defense crossbow placed on the platform.

When the wooden hammer struck the crossbow machine, the three special giant arrows held on the first city-defending crossbow shot out in an instant, and quickly flew towards the nearest ladder car that was aiming.

"Bang-boom-"

The sound of the thudding impact sounded unexpectedly from the enemy, and the special giant arrow with the spear body and sword feathers, as if piercing a thin window paper, easily saw the building and the big tree used to defend against arrows on the ladder car, and the moment the giant arrow rushed into the ladder car, it rushed violently like a heavy object bombarded the ladder car.

Although only one giant arrow was shot into the upper floor of the ladder car, the huge destructive power of the giant arrow still destroyed the top floor of the ladder car like a devastating state, although there was no exaggerated scene of completely overturning the ladder car with a heavy chassis to the ground, but this kind of close range of destruction, destroying the building and the devastating effect of the big tree, is still shocking enough.

More than half of the top floor of the entire ladder cart was cut off by the giant arrow, and the other half of the collapsed was also crumbling in the tilt, so frightened that the foot soldiers pushing the ladder cart scattered and retreated, lest they be hit by the wood on the top floor and suffer an unwarranted disaster.

The bombardment of the huge arrows that shocked the besieging enemy was still behind, and the other three defending crossbows fired one after another, and soon destroyed a well and two ladder vehicles.

Compared with the inefficient and difficult-to-aim stone throwing machine, this kind of city-defending crossbow can be called an arrow without a missile, and it is extremely powerful in the large-scale siege equipment such as the ladder car and the well at close range!