The crossbow that defended the city with one blow worked and succeeded in removing the threat of the enemy's ladder trucks and wells to the city wall.

The few wells that did not reach the city wall were destroyed after several rounds of bombardment by huge arrows, and the remaining two ladder carts, which were lucky enough to reach the city wall, were also dealt with by the defenders.

Under the throwing of many firewood, grass, grease and fireworks, the tops of the two ladder trucks were soon engulfed in flames, and the enemy soldiers who climbed up had to avoid the heat wave and hurriedly escaped from the ladder trucks.

Although there are siege equipment such as rushing cars and ladders in the siege army, the guards on the city wall are well defended, and in the fierce offensive and defensive battles, the use of city defense skills has become more and more skilled, and the army of Guo Yan on the besieging side has not made obvious progress for a long time.

At this point, the menacing first round of the offensive of Guo Yan's army has been disintegrated by the bows, arrows, flying stones, and crossbows of the defending side, and the morale of the original imposing siege array has slowly declined.

On the other hand, on the side of the defenders of Anyi, the morale of the defenders of the city gradually rose as they thwarted the enemy's offensive.

Guo Yan, who was supervising the battle outside the city, saw that his side's offensive was frustrated, and there was no breakthrough under the repeated attacks, and his mood gradually became irritable and annoyed.

Who would have thought that on those piers, there would be such a big crossbow guarding the city!

The crossbow is a weapon of military contention, and it is also a big killer weapon for foot cavalry, and it has been valued by the Central Plains Dynasty since the Qin and Han dynasties. In addition to individual crossbows such as crossbows and crossbows, large crossbows have also appeared in wars many times.

According to Ma Qian's pen of Taishi Company, there is a record of Qin Shi Huang "ordering those who enter the sea to catch huge fish gear, and waiting for the big fish to shoot with a repeater", and using a repeater to shoot a big fish.

As for the Han Dynasty, Li Guang of the previous dynasty had the courage to shoot the Xiongnu with the big yellow crossbow known as the power of ten stones, and when Chen Qiu, a famous minister of this dynasty, guarded Lingling County, he also had "a big wood with a string as a bow, a feather spear as an arrow, a trigger to send it, a long shot of more than 1,000 steps, and many kills", and used the crossbow to defend the city to repel the rebellious army.

Everyone does not know what the power and accuracy of this kind of city-defending crossbow is after shooting more than 1,000 steps from a distance, but it is used to defend the city wall at close range and destroy the large siege equipment such as ladder cars and wells, but it can really emit the great power of "all the fortresses in the city are destroyed, and the towers are also upside down".

However, the soldiers of the Xiliang Army are also battle-hardened after all, so it is naturally impossible to be frightened away by the huge power of the crossbow defending the city in a short period of time.

According to the battlefield situation, Wu Xi, Gao Shuo and others soon proposed that Guo Yan change the original tactics of quickly breaking through the city with large siege equipment, and change to the siege strategy of attacking the city gate with the main direction, supplemented by the use of light equipment such as ladders to attack the city wall.

Although the rush car and the ladder are not as efficient as the ladder car, the well and other large equipment when breaking the city, but the rush car is covered by a spire, and the ladder is light and fast, it is difficult to be bombarded and shot through by flying stones and big crossbows.

The only flaw is that the casualties are huge, and the time does not meet Guo Yan's siege order to go down the city immediately.

Looking at those wells and ladder trucks that had fallen and were shortened out of thin air, Guo Yan weighed for a while, gritted his teeth, and scolded and ordered to change his tactics and continue to attack the city.

On the battlefield, after experiencing the frustration of the initial round of attack, as the besieging side changed its military formation, mixed with the sound of marching drums, the siege infantry once again pushed the rushing carts, carried the ladders, and continued the attack one after another.

And the breakthrough point of breaking the city has also slowly shifted to the direction of the city gate.

A large rushing cart, which requires the impetus of nearly a hundred soldiers, is heavy and slow, but it is very powerful, and it is rarely threatened by flying stones and crossbows, and after the light pawns in front of it have leveled the road leading to the city gate, it can always successfully reach the city gate.

The guards at the head of the city constantly smashed the top of the chariot with heavy objects such as stones and rolling logs, supplemented by firewood, grass and grease to ignite the fire, but it undoubtedly took a lot of time to completely burn a chariot with a spire and covered with mud and sand.

In the same way, it takes a lot of time for such a bulky machine to use the ram on the ground floor to break through the blocked city gate.

Even if the offensive and defensive sides are tug-of-war back and forth, they are constantly consuming their own manpower and equipment in order to finally wear through the opponent's offensive and defensive facilities.

The battle between attack and defense is constantly being staged in this section of the city wall.

In the middle of the battle, the guards at the head of the city had destroyed two rushing cars and more than a dozen ladders, but Guo Yan's army, with the advantage of a large number of people, was still unwilling to give up, and continued to ignore the casualties, taking turns to attack and attack, and it was bound to break the city today!

Finally, under the repeated impact of the third rushing car, supplemented by the continuous chopping and chopping of the knife and axe hands, the city gate finally collapsed and shattered, revealing the dense accumulation of obstacles behind the city gate.

The besiegers who suffered many casualties were immediately greatly encouraged, and continued to push the cart, risking their lives to rush into the city gate, wanting to rush into the city gate with all their might, and crash through the dirt bags, wood and stone obstacles behind the city gate, and take advantage of the situation to attack the city.

The guards of the city also pushed the Saimen knife cart and other objects in the city, continuing to block the speed of the rushing car's forward impact, but under the impact of the fierce Xiliang soldiers, soon the Saimen knife car and other city defense equipment were also destroyed by the unstoppable rushing car, and some enemy siege infantry soldiers poured into the city gate along the rushing car.

Seeing that the city gate was lost and the troops invested could not recover the decline, Yan Xing did not dare to hesitate, and immediately ordered to set fire to the enemy in the ditch dug in advance.

The firewood and grease in the ravine successfully blocked the rushing car that had just been moving forward, and it was difficult to be smashed at the top, and the bottom of the burning rush was an empty shell with a heavy hammer suspended, and under the attack of the fire, the ropes tied up and the clothes of the soldiers were quickly ignited by the tongue of fire, and the behemoth was paralyzed on the edge of the ravine after a while, turning into a huge flame, and it was difficult to move a single bit.

However, the offensive of the besieging army, although it was stopped, was far from stopping.

Following the rush of the car, a large number of enemy foot soldiers who were preparing to enter the city rushed into the city through the city gates and corridors.

Although the fire in the ravine could burn the rushing car that was in the lead, it could only delay their progress slightly in the face of these fierce Xiliang soldiers.

At the behest of the officers, a new group of charging soldiers poured mud and sand to extinguish a section of the wall of fire, and then filled the ravines one after another, paving the way for the army to advance.

It's just that the siege soldiers who successfully rushed through the city gate and extinguished the fire wall, after being stunned for a while, found that they were in the urn city.

This meant that they had to break through one more gate in the face of high walls and enemies on all sides before they could actually enter the city.

Seeing this, the newly charged soldiers were quickly swallowed up by arrows from all directions, and they were lucky enough to rush to the rear, and when they saw this miserable situation, they hurriedly retreated, just as they collided with the soldiers from outside the city who were rushing into the city, and the city gate suddenly became extremely crowded and chaotic.

The abnormal reaction at the gate of the city soon aroused the idea of Guo Yan, who was supervising the destruction of the city by the Chinese army.

However, it took a lot of effort for the Lingqi sent to the gate of the city to report the situation in the city to the Chinese army.

When he learned that there was an urn city in the city gate of Anyi, and the foot soldiers who broke through the city gate were shot from all sides, Guo Yan's face was instantly difficult to see, from the beginning of the siege, after fighting for a long time, the guards in the city of Anyi all kinds of city defense methods appeared frequently, from flying stones, crossbows, to fire walls, urn cities, so that the offensive of the siege army was repeatedly frustrated, and the siege foot soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

If it weren't for the fact that he had been so strong all the way and witnessed the emptiness of Hedong's internal defense, Guo Yan would have deeply doubted whether he had fallen for Yan Yan's strategy to lure the enemy deeper and was led to the fortified city, and the soldiers and horses of Hedong wanted to thwart his troops.

After shaking off the cranky thoughts in his mind, the irascible Guo Yan spewed turbidity and measured the difficult progress of the battle situation in front of him.

Obviously, the city of Anyi in front of him is a hard bone to gnaw, although the teeth of the Xiliang army are good, but if you really want to gnaw this hard bone, I am afraid that you will really break one or two front teeth.

So, do you want to continue the assault, or do you choose to besiege?

Guo Yan's angry eyes glared at the Hedong banner on the city's head, and finally chose to continue the attack.

"Order the army, enter the city with the Gao Shuo Department, attack the city with the Wu Xi Department, attack the army again, and those who dare to retreat will be beheaded!"

After Guo Yan's irritable military order was issued, Gao Shuo, Wu Xi and other generals did not dare to question it, and hurriedly slapped their horses out of battle, commanding their own troops and horses to march in a whole team, replacing the other horses who had been attacking Anyi for a long time and the veterans of the division were tired, and threw themselves into a new round of strong attack.

The only remaining rushing car in the siege army was continuously pushed by Gao Shuo's commanding soldiers, braving the smashing of stones and rolling logs falling from the height of the city wall, and entered the city gate.

The burned wreckage of the rushing car was still blazing, and the siege infantry used hooks to pull the wreckage aside, and filled the ravine with some sand to clear the way for the rushing vehicles entering behind.

Then, with a creaking sound, the last rushing car staggered across the ravine and continued its advance towards the gates of the Urn City.

As the advance deepened, the rushing car was soon covered by a rain of arrows from high walls in all directions, and the top was densely packed with crooked arrows, and the foot soldiers who followed behind were all heavily armored soldiers, carrying large stacks to form a shield array, covering the archers to counterattack and advance, and advancing with difficulty in the urn city.

Outside the city, Wu Xi also commanded the soldiers of his headquarters, carrying the ladder to launch a new round of ant siege of the city.

Due to the double defense of the urn city in the city, it was difficult for the exhausted rushing cars to continuously devote themselves to attacking the urn city gate as they did at the beginning, until the second city gate was breached.

For this reason, the control of the city wall has once again become the key to the victory or defeat of the offensive and defensive sides.

If you can take the outer city wall, then condescendingly, the situation of your own soldiers is suddenly different, when your own soldiers attack along the city wall, even if they can't control the entire section of the city wall, they can still contain a large number of defenders, which is conducive to the attacking Wengcheng city gate The rushing team broke through the obstacle again and achieved the last step of breaking the city.

The Xiliang army, who realized this, and the soldiers who were attached to the siege of the city, climbed the rough and hurried ladders, and continued to climb to the city wall.

However, because Yan Xing had to divide his forces and arrange them on the wall of the urn city, he was unable to deploy all his troops on the outer section of the city wall as he had done at the beginning.

As a last resort, Yan Xing, who had moved to the gate tower of Wengcheng City to command the defense, had no choice but to shake the banner and order the sturdy and well-trained soldiers in the city to go to the city to replace the wavering Hanoi and Hongnong soldiers to defend the precarious outer city wall.