Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the entire outside of Pingyi City was already shrouded in a murderous aura that rushed to the sky.

Tian Wei stood on his chariot, looking at the city wall of Pingyi City, which was already scarred, squinting his eyes slightly, the sharpness, but he couldn't hide it through the military formation in front of him, and went straight to the tower of the city wall. There, a large banner with the word "Han" was unfurled, showing off the glory it represented.

He knew that it was his old friend, Han Ju.

And Han Ju also stood on top of the city tower, looking at the dense Qi army below, calculating the number of the other party in his heart, and also looking at the other party's formation. His gaze also crossed the phalanx and looked at the middle, on the top of the chariot, it must be Tian Qi.

"Sure enough, it is worthy of Tian Wei, the neatness of governing the army, and the gist of the soldiers. The three armies are complete, the four corners are thick, and the middle part is flattened, it seems that the Qi State is deeply guided by Sun Bin, and it is still quite insightful on the way to the battle array. Pang Cong stood next to Han Ju, looking at the Qi army's chariot formation, full of praise.

"Hmph, carving insect skills. Chariot fighting, although the chariot formation is important, is nothing more than a phalanx circle formation, geese and fish beautiful, the key is to see the quality and courage of the soldiers on both sides. Han Ju said indifferently.

Pang Cong was praised and degraded by him for a while, and he didn't speak anymore. I had a falling out with Han Ju yesterday, and it doesn't make sense to save it this time. Anyway, I came to defend the city this time, so it's good to obediently guard the city without losing it.

After Han Ju saw that Pang Cong was praised and belittled by him, he stopped speaking, snorted coldly in his heart, and stopped saying anything, just put his hands behind his back and coldly watched how the other party made a move.

Tian Wei looked at the sun, thought about it for a while, and then calmly said to the herald next to the chariot, "Drum up, crossbowmen prepare." ”

The herald got the general Tian Wei and waved the herald flag in his hand. After a while, the crossbowmen hidden behind the entire cart array pressed into the small cart array, filling all the space. The crossbowmen wore simple light armor, raised the bow and crossbow in their hands, took out the crossbow arrows from their backs, pulled the crossbow with their feet, put the crossbow arrows into it along the smooth arrow path, and then hung on the "teeth" in the front of the crossbow machine, put their hands on the trigger "hanging knife", and then held the crossbow in one hand, held the hanging knife with the other, and looked through the Wangshan Mountain to aim at the city tower of Pingyi.

"The other party is going to start attacking, let everyone prepare." Han Ju said to the herald behind him, and with a wave of the herald's flag, the soldiers of Zhao State on the city wall hurriedly erected their big shields, and then bowed down at the lookout, making a defensive appearance while observing the enemy's movements.

"Launch!"

Tian Shu gave an order, and the crossbow arrows like locusts, with the terrifying scream of death, roared towards Pingyi City. Suddenly, the entire Pingyi City was plunged into a rain of arrows.

The bolts of the crossbow were bolted through the force of the machine, and when they broke away from the bowstring, they pierced through the objects they passed, some nailed to the city walls, some to the doors and windows of the gates, some to the shields, or through the body, and some to the ground.

Of course, there were also more crossbow arrows, which crossed the city walls, hit the thatched huts of the people in the city, and shot through the roofs into the houses. Fortunately, the people in the city have long been surprised, and they all hide in the cellar inside the house to avoid the enemy's arrow rain.

On the city wall, the soldiers of the Zhao army hiding at the lookout also felt the power of the Qi army's bows and crossbows, especially the sound of the shield and the pop on the city wall, one after another, as if it was a rapid raindrop. But the rain was not a raindrop, but a sign of death.

A soldier of Zhao State secretly removed his shield and wanted to see the movements of the Qi army, but before he could show half of his face, he was slashed by a six-edged crossbow arrow across his cheek, and the whole person was repelled a few steps by the huge power of the bow and crossbow, and fell to the ground fiercely, bleeding like a pour, and killed immediately! .

After a while, a few more soldiers were hit by the crossbow, because the bow and crossbow of the Qi army is a six-sided blood groove, as long as it hits, the blood will flow out immediately, not only is it difficult to heal, even if it is a non-critical part, it is easy to die due to excessive blood loss. For a time, blood flowed all over the entire Pingyi city wall. The other Zhao Jun watched her companions fall to the ground one after another, and there was some panic.

Tian Wei watched the first wave of crossbow arrows fired, and immediately ordered the second wave of crossbow arrays to prepare, and at the same time ordered the foot soldiers behind him to prepare for the siege. When the second wave of crossbow arrays began to be fired, the foot soldiers took advantage of the gap that Zhao Jun was observing behind the battlements, and rushed to the Pingyi city wall on the ladder.

Han Ju was under the cover of the shield just now, but he didn't stop observing the Qi army. At this moment, seeing the Qi army launching a charge, he quickly ordered Zhao's crossbowmen to start firing back, trying to suppress the enemy's attack.

The drums of the Qi army became more and more rapid, and the speed of the foot soldiers became faster and faster, and they rode the ladder and ran towards the city wall with all their strength. This is a competition of speed, but also a contest between generals, because at this time, the tacit understanding between soldiers is particularly important, for example, the team of fifteen people driving the ladder must be the most skilled fifteen people in ordinary cooperation, otherwise once the speed and stride of their march are wrong, it is easy to fall behind in this kind of rapid march, and the consequence of falling behind may be death!

Although the rain of crossbows of the Qi army had poured out, from the lookout, Zhao Jun still calmly shot at the running Qi army's foot soldiers. Speaking of crossbows, the most famous crossbow is still from South Korea, South Korea's famous crossbow bow, there are Xizi, Shaofu, Shili, and Yuanlai, which can be easily launched to 600 steps away, famous and Central Plains countries. Zhao and the Korean alliance naturally also obtained a lot of good crossbows from Korea, although they are not comparable to the above-mentioned crossbows, but compared to the Qi State, they are still very good.

I saw Zhao Jun erect his shield, pass through the lookout, look at the foot soldiers below, follow the Wangshan, and aim at the Qi army under the city to pull the hanging knife. In an instant, the crossbow arrow could penetrate a foot soldier driving a ladder, and the arrow hit the arrow, and the entire ladder team became dizzy and immediately unbalanced.

At this time, the ladder was not yet equipped with wheels, it was purely made of paulownia wood, poured with tung oil, and if it needed to be heightened, it needed to be spliced with hemp rope. So the whole ladder, although it is just a ladder, is actually very heavy. Once you lose your balance, you will mess up the pace and speed of the whole team.

The Zhao army on the city wall all saw this team, and they all shot crossbow arrows at this team, and after a while, fifteen people quickly became the souls of the arrows, leaving their bodies under the city of Pingyi. At the same time, many of the ladder teams were also wiped out, and for a while, the entire siege team fell into chaos, and the overall siege speed slowed down.

Subsequently, the Qi army strengthened the offensive against Pingyi City through the suppression of crossbow arrows and the charge of foot soldiers, and even once a cloud ladder team boarded the city gate, but due to being outnumbered, it was quickly suppressed again. Near the entire city wall, there were fallen corpses everywhere, and the ladder of the Qi army was also destroyed.

Tian Wei frowned, watching the casualties of the Qi army's infantry getting bigger and bigger, and began to think about countermeasures. As a besieging party, it lacks an advantage, especially for such an important stronghold, and the opposing party will generally arrange a large number of crossbowmen to suppress the besieging team. So this kind of short-term suppression will not make him mess up. But he had to think about how to quickly turn around that disadvantage.

However, today is just a temptation, because he did not build a siege tower at all, but only attacked with a ladder. In his opinion, a Pingyi city does not need a siege tower. However, it seems that he miscalculated, and through the supply of Gao Tang and Handan, the entire Pingyi has become a difficult bone to gnaw.

For the same thing, Han Ju was also thinking about where to break the enemy. Now it seems that Zhao Jun is in a complete advantage. This time, he rushed from Gaotang to Pingyi, and he brought a large number of crossbow arrows, so he didn't worry about the opponent's crossbow attack at all. On the contrary, he especially hoped that Tian Wei would be able to fight with him, because once the Qi army ran out of ordnance, unless there was a steady stream of logistics teams sent from the Qi country, it would not last long. At that time, it was time to attack on your own.

"It seems that Tian Qi'er has no good way to deal with Pingyi." Seeing that there were more and more corpses under the city tower, Han Ju said with a slight meaning.

"Since ancient times, attacking the city is a situation where you die and I die, Tian Wei does not have a siege tower, and he wants to climb the gate of my Pingyi with the help of a cloud ladder, which is too whimsical." Zhao Shu also said in general.

"It can't be said that at least the opponent's chariots have not yet moved, and the other party can completely ask to go in order to fight later." Pang Cong is obviously not as optimistic as Han Ju.

"I'm not going to give him that chance." Han Ju smiled and said to the soldiers behind him, "Pass the order, once the other party retreats, all the chariot soldiers will go out with me, and I won't be able to rush the other party if I want to fight in one fell swoop." ”

Pang Cong silently watched Han Ju give the order, and did not try to dissuade him. He knew that if he tried to dissuade him now, it would only increase the confidence of the other party in pursuit, and it would not hurt the entire battle situation. Moreover, there are mostly plains near Pingyi, and the chariot soldiers have a great advantage, and the local rout, and the confidence is scattered, it may not be impossible to capture it in one fell swoop, and even take advantage of the victory to pursue and level the Qi army in Gaotang.

However, since he fell out with Han Ju, there is no need to praise his stinky feet. Since the other party looks down on the cavalry, he will stay here, wait for him to triumph, and then return to Handan, he will return to Gaotang, and from then on the well water will not interfere with the river water, that is.

Pang Cong thought so, and Han Ju thought too, but they forgot that they were not the only ones on this battlefield.

Tian Wei looked at the battle situation that was about to collapse, and knew that if he continued to fight now, he would have no chance of winning. In particular, the foot soldiers passed the charge just now, some were pierced by crossbow arrows, some were injured by the stones thrown by the soldiers defending the city, and some climbed the tower, but they were still outnumbered. Rather than this, it is better to go down and repair and fight again tomorrow.

After all, Tian Wei is a veteran of the battlefield, and he will not panic for this kind of tragic battle. He faintly ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and the rear team of the whole army changed to the front pair, and the front team became the rear guard, and slowly retreated.

"Haha, Tian Shu is about to withdraw, this is the best time for my army to attack. Come on, quickly prepare the carriages and horses, and go with me on the expedition. Han Ju watched Tian Qimingjin retreat, overjoyed, and impatient to go out of the city to pursue.

"Wait, General, please listen to me." Pang Cong hurriedly said, "I watched the Tian Qi army formation, although it was defeated, the formation did not show any panic, it can be seen that Tian Qi ruled the army, and it was by no means ordinary. The Qing general thought twice. ”

"General Pang's words are not right. The Qi army had just suffered a major defeat, and at this moment the army was disheartened, and it was the best time to pursue the enemy army. Although the army formation is neat, it is because the chariots did not participate in the battle, but the infantry crossbow army, very haggard, do not chase at this time, let alone when. As he spoke, he was going downstairs.

"General, don't be impulsive." Pang Cong grabbed Han Ju's sleeve and didn't let him leave.

"Don't talk about it again." Han Ju hurriedly pulled his sleeve from Pang Cong's hand, "Since General Pang is worried that something will happen to Ben, it is better to stay in Pingyi City honestly and wait for me to triumph." With that, he led Zhao Shu and hurriedly walked downstairs.

Pang Cong looked at Han Ju who hurriedly went downstairs, let out a long sigh, and turned around to deploy defenses.