On the fifteenth, the autumn equinox, the thunder closed, the insects began to dry.

"The Book of Rites" contains: "The Son of Heaven is the sun in spring, and the moon is in autumn." The morning of the sun, the evening of the setting moon. Zhao Guo is naturally inevitable for these custom names, not to mention that the Zhao people attach great importance to sacrifices, and several generations of Zhao kings before Zhao Yong have "responded to dreams", so that at this time, Zhao Yong has to go to worship in person. It's just that he has been on expeditions in the past few years, and many things have been handed over to the ministers to deal with, especially Zhao Bao, as Situ, this worship matter originally belonged to his management, and at this time, the task of attending on behalf of Zhao Yong fell on him. The people in Handan City also attach great importance to this matter, but now the social sacrifices are more frequent, so they don't follow the officials.

Zhao Yong couldn't take care of these things, because what he was facing now was the army he had been waiting for for many days.

Looking down from the city gate, although the annoying troops of Lou also have infantry and cavalry, it is obvious that there are many more infantry than cavalry. It's not that this situation is unreasonable, but rather unexpected. This at least shows that Lou Nuren put the cavalry in other places, not Cloud City, so Lou Yuan's mind does not seem to be all here in the clouds.

"I thought that he was the last hero in the building, and he could bet all his bets on Lonely, but I didn't expect that he was also greedy for life and afraid of death, but Erer." Zhao Yong looked at the annoying building with high morale, and couldn't help but sneer and said. In the final analysis, Lou Yuan was still afraid that Cloudsdale was a trap, and no country or monarch would dare to put himself in a desperate situation. Or that the Lin Hu people have already betrayed themselves, waiting for themselves to be under the city, and then they will join the rest of the Zhao army to besiege the building. So he didn't dare to use his main force in Jiuyuan.

But the fat that was delivered to his mouth really wanted to give up, and he was reluctant, so he arranged for a few generals from other tribes to bring their tribal soldiers to Cloudsdale. But Cloud City is really a complete desperate situation, Zhao Yong just seems to be calm and composed, which is equivalent to singing an empty city plan!

"Your Majesty, look...."

Zhao Yong thought for a while and said: "And let more than a dozen people stand on the city wall, holding my Honghu banner, armor, bow and arrows, and not leave me." The rest of the men were lying under the wall, and there was no order from Lone, and no one was allowed to rise up to meet the enemy, even if the enemy had already climbed the wall. Shut the gates of the city for Lonely, and no one except the guards will be allowed to enter. ”

Hearing Zhao Yong's order, Xi was stunned for a moment, and then carried out the order, but it didn't mean that he could understand Zhao Yong's thoughts, in his opinion, the silence of the flag was to show the enemy to be weak, but to let the opponent's morale win a big victory, take advantage of the situation to attack, I can't say what will go wrong at that time. "No matter what, you must ensure your safety." So soon, Lou Furen saw a very strange scene, Zhao Jun's city wall did not get nervous at all because of his arrival, but was very calm, which made them a little confused.

Sui Xi looked at the strange behavior of Zhao Jun on the city wall, and he was also puzzled. As the main general of this expedition, the generals of other tribes had to surround him and listen to his arrangements. Some said, "Zhao Ren, what are you doing?" Could it be a fraud? Someone said, "Regardless of whether he has a problem or not, let's attack first, doesn't it mean that there are only 2,000 people inside?" "It's better to be cautious?" A few people surrounded Sui Xi and made a lot of noise, so that Sui liked not to be bored.

"Anyway, let's attack first. There are more than 5,000 people on his side, and he can't beat the other party's 2,000 foot soldiers? Sui Xi made up his mind and passed down the order: prepare to attack. There was a burst of cheers in the noisy Lou Fu army, and the archers began to prepare, waiting for Sui Xi's order. Lou annoying people don't use crossbow arrows, they are best at bows and arrows, the recoil of crossbow arrows is too strong, and it is not easy to wind crossbow arrows on horses, so it is more appropriate to bow and arrow.

Sui Xi brought 3,500 foot soldiers and 1,500 cavalry this time, and made up his mind that he wanted to attack the city. Lou Yuan said very clearly, he handed over most of the foot soldiers to Sui Xi to attack the city, and he only kept a small number of foot soldiers to guard Jiuyuan City. And tell Sui Xi earnestly: Take it from you! Just at Lou Yuan's words, these talents gathered here and thought about this piece of fat.

"Shoot the arrows!" Then he ordered with joy, only to see that the annoying arrows of the building broke away from the formation, like a black cloud, pressed towards the head of the city in the clouds, and fell on the city wall one after another. The Zhao army's curly armored soldiers, who were prostrate within the city walls, held up their shields to prevent themselves from being hit by arrows. The shields of the Roll Armor Battalion are all large shields made according to the standards of Wei Wushu, which are heavy to start with and cover a wide range, which is very different from the small shields used by cavalry. When encountering a rain of arrows, holding it up can be regarded as covering the sky and the sun. Pang Cong used to be the commander of the Juanjia Battalion, and the experience from Wei told him how to train this army, coupled with Zhao Shan, who had fought with Wei many times, to pick up and fill in the gaps, so that although this army was still quite far behind Wu Qi's Wei Wushu, it was really not far behind in the spirit of treating death as home.

Standing beside Zhao Yong respectfully, holding a sword and shield, lest a stream of arrows greet Zhao Yong. Zhao Yong looked calm, standing under the eaves of the city tower, watching the rain of arrows falling, without worrying at all. This kind of attack is equivalent to fire suppression during the siege, and the purpose is to cover the attack of the besieging troops. If you really want to say that it is to kill and injure the enemy army, it is very little.

At the same time, the annoying siege force of Lou also began to be launched, and several columns of soldiers carried ladders and rushed towards Cloud City. Under the cover of his own archers, he entered the city in the clouds smoothly, hurriedly hung the ladder on the city wall in the clouds, and then beckoned the foot soldiers behind him to climb to the city wall. Since then, Zhao Jun does not seem to have any intention of fighting back, and Lou's annoying attack has been very smooth.

Several generals were overjoyed, this was a smooth thing they hadn't encountered for a long time, but they didn't expect that Zhao Jun had no power to fight back, and could only wait to be attacked by himself, and all the silence before was just to be killed. In their opinion, Cloud City will soon become their bag, and when the time comes, it will become a fact, whether Lou Yuan agrees or not, he will not be able to change the fact that he has become the Lord of Cloud City.

However, Sui Xi was not happy, in his opinion, since Zhao Jun was the king staying in the city, how could he be captured? There must be a conspiracy here, but I haven't guessed it yet. But this is the case with war, if you are one step slower in strategy, you will often not be able to keep up with the other side's train of thought, and you will be beaten slowly by being fast, and the last to strike first, and finally be completely defeated.

"Your Majesty...."Seeing that the other party was about to attack the city wall, Xi looked at Zhao Yong with some anxiety. If you don't attack at this time, it will directly become a battle for the city, and when the time comes, the rhythm of the war will be controlled by the other party.

"Hold the go, attack."

Wei Wushu's weapons generally consisted of ge, crossbows and fifty crossbow arrows, bronze swords, and triple armor. This kind of weapon has appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, but the current Ge and the Spring and Autumn Period are very different. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Ge is also called Zhonghu Ge, which is pointed and leaf-shaped, and the Ge body is relatively reduced and coarse; During the Warring States period, Ge has made improvements, not only turning the reinforcement into an arc, which is easier to cause hook and kill efficiency, but Gone has also begun to upturn, and the effect of the attack is more obvious. However, Ge can be divided into three types in terms of length: infantry Ge, about one meter or so, mainly used by foot soldiers; Dual-purpose Ge of about two meters; There are also chariot soldiers who use chariots of about three meters.

What Zhao Wushu used was the infantry battle ge, which was more prominent in killing the enemy at close range because of the short distance. I saw that Zhao Jun got up one after another, holding his shield to block the rain of arrows, and then holding Ge, he stabbed down at the annoying building that had not yet climbed the city wall. This usage is very strange, in fact, Ge's usage is still based on "sweeping", but as I said before, the current Ge's Gone has made improvements, this method of use is to use the sharp edge of Ge to attack the building annoyingly, so that they can't catch the edge of the ladder. And as a cooperation, there will be another person who greets Lou's annoying other arm, which is really not to kill Lou's annoying, but purely disabled, not to let them continue to climb.

Although the building was full of annoying arrow rain, the shield of Zhao Guowu's soldiers was also extremely strong, and it withstood most of the arrow rain, and the Zhao army's city head was about to be shot into a hedgehog. However, this kind of thing is really piled up by the death of soldiers, and the strategy can receive very little effect. Therefore, the five thousand floors are annoying, and there are one thousand and five cavalry, even if they attack the clouds with all their might, in terms of the city defense in the clouds, there is hardly much pressure on the defense. The 5,000 people in Lou Yuan have a bit of a death squad in it.

The first wave of attacks was ineffective, and the beautiful dream in Lou's annoying heart was extinguished, and this round of attacking Lou Annoying suffered heavy losses, mostly disabled, and then fell off the city wall. On the other hand, Zhao Jun has been hiding well, quite a bit of a turtle with a shrunken head, but he doesn't make a bird. No matter how good Lou Annoy's archery skills are, in the face of Zhao Jun's big shield, he also loses his killing effect, and can only watch his soldiers attack the city wall and become a live target for Zhao Jun.

"Strengthen the offensive and set up more ladders, so that the Zhao army can't defend it." Sui Xi gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

As soon as the leaders of several tribes are combined, to this point, it can only be like this, hurry up and arrange it, let people build more ladders, and increase the number of siege troops. As soon as the second wave of siege began, Lou Annoying filled almost all the soldiers he could send, and he was sure to attack the city in the clouds. In the face of Lou's annoying all-out efforts, Zhao Jun also cheered up. Whether it is Wei Wushu or Zhao Wushu, the core of them are war veterans, and only war veterans can go through the bloody battles of actual combat and give full play to the fighting spirit of not chaotic in the face of danger. The soldiers worked in groups of three and entered the cooperative combat mode, waiting for each other at the erection of the ladder of the building. Two of them held shields to block the rain of arrows, while one in the middle was armed with a bow and arrows and shot at the growing number of annoying people. The crossbow is commonly used by the martial arts, but after the first few times of the arrow rain bow and arrow, Lou's annoying bow and arrow quickly became a weapon for the Zhao people to deal with them.

However, the disadvantage in numbers still objectively exists, although the building annoyance does not have siege equipment, only a simple ladder, Zhao Guoren also does not have rolling wood and stones, which can delay the rhythm of the opponent's attack, as the building annoyance more and more, finally some fish that slipped through the net attacked the city wall. However, in the face of Zhao Wushu's three-person group, there seems to be no advantage.

Zhao Wushu's three-person team arrangement is to use the four weapons of Ge, crossbow and sword and shield together, one person holds Ge and a shield, and one person holds a shield and a sword, as the front defense, and the back one is a crossbow arrow, presenting an inverted triangle position of the offensive formation. This formation was not created by Zhao Yong, but Pang Cong transplanted the cooperation of the three people on the chariot soldiers to the martial arts. The role of the three-person team's offensive style in this kind of melee is obvious, and the long and short are coordinated, and the distance and the near depend on each other. The group and the group also carried out interactive defense, which well divided the opponent's siege troops into small areas, effectively controlling the opponent's offensive rhythm.

However, the buildings at the head of the city are becoming more and more annoying, and the cooperation of one or two teams is obviously unable to meet the purpose of dividing the other party and attacking. Just when the Zhao soldiers were barely meeting the enemy, they only heard the military order behind them: form a formation! They immediately shrank their formation around the city tower, and the sword and shield warriors who were originally blocking the front changed into Ge one after another, and assembled into a defensive line in front to resist the annoying and crazy attack of the tower. The crossbowmen in the back were wound one after another, and before Lou could understand, the first wave of crossbows from the Zhao army beckoned to them. However, this is not a game, the Zhao warriors who finished shooting rushed forward one after another, confronting Lou Annoying, while the warriors just now retreated, wound their bows and crossbows, and waited to play.

Although the walls of Yunzhong City were not very spacious, they relied on Zhao Wushu's well-trained and unchaotic situation, and the defense and shooting in batches beat the stragglers back again and again, and they were able to resist the opponent's attack. Lou annoyed people wanted to go forward, there were Zhan Ge and shields in the way, although their copper head hammer was powerful, but the length was too short, and when they couldn't reach Zhao Jun, they were isolated from the attack range by the other party, and they didn't like to wear heavy armor, and they didn't have shields, so they could only be harvested by Zhao Wushu one by one like crops. For a while, the walls of Cloud City were full of blood, and the smell of blood spread.

Lou Annoying lost to Zhao Wushu, but the military formation, military discipline and military heart, these things, for Lou Furen, who is used to fighting in groups, it is still too difficult to learn. If you are backward, you will be beaten, and the disappearance of civilization is often a loss to one's own backwardness and lack of desire to forge ahead, rather than to others.

(End of chapter)