When Yan Xing discussed the military situation with the generals, he thought that under the frequent reports of good news from all walks of life, Fan Xian, Wei Gu and others in Anyi City were the turtles in the urn, and the army on his side was already in control.

But after the military discussion, Yan Xing was not carried away by the current victory and encouraging words, he knew very well that he must conquer Anyi as soon as possible before the end of the autumn, and put down the rebellion in the southern border set off by Wang Yi, Wei Gu, Fan Xian and others.

If it drags on to winter, the lethality of the cold and biting snowflakes to one's own men and horses is not inferior to the arrows and spears on the city wall, and Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, Zhu Jun and others, during this period of time, may also react and meddle in the war in Hedong, so that the war in Hedong, which was about to subside, is rekindled.

A quick solution is still what Yan Xing's side should strive for at the moment.

After dealing with the Hedong county soldiers who came to the rescue from Xie County, Yi Shi and other places, Yan Xing had already decided to change the siege strategy and send elite archers to go around the city in batches to shoot into the city the text of the Hedong Tai Guard, crusade against the rebellion, and explain the obedience, and break the morale of the defenders in the city for the last time.

After completing the final public opinion offensive, Wang Yi, Wei Gu and others were still unwilling to open the city and surrender, and there was no change in the city, Yan Xing no longer hesitated, and decisively ordered all the troops in the army to attack Anyi on all sides, and it was bound to take Anyi within one day!

For a while, the majestic and desolate horn outside the city sounded one after another. Groups of horsemen galloped out of their respective tents, and then converged on the city under the command of the military officials.

On all sides of the city wall, there are the flags and golden drums of the various departments of the Xiliang Army, and the flying horses of the Chinese army are galloping back and forth along the city, passing the orders, and the military officials who command the formation shout continuously, and the armor soldiers in the array form a phalanx like fish scales, connecting the front and back, covering the left and right.

After the infantry lined up, they brought out from the rear phalanx, such as ladders, rams, and earthen bags, which were improvised in the past two days, and piled them up in batches and lined up in front of the formation.

The roaring crowds of cavalry were assembled on both sides of the city gate and in the distant suburbs, ready to cover the siege of the city by the infantry and guard the movement in other directions outside the city.

After the siege of the four sides and the siege equipment were equipped, Yan Xing's Chinese army also immediately sent the flying cavalry of the order, in the sound of the horse's hooves ordering the horses to go back and forth, the war drums of the various departments also sounded one after another, and the order of "siege" was issued to the whole army, and a group of armor soldiers holding big hats took the lead in the battle, unswervingly advancing in the direction of the city wall in front of them, followed by a group of people carrying soil bags on their shoulders and going into battle lightly.

The defenders of Anyi on the city wall, at the beginning of the military camp outside the city made a huge momentum, they knew that the Xiliang army outside the city was going to storm Anyi, and now there are county soldiers and civilian servants running in the city and under the city, and the military officials shouted loudly and commanded the defense of the city wall, and the soldiers holding bows and arrows stood between the battlements of the walls under the leadership of the chief and the commander, and aimed at the Xiliang soldiers who had advanced to the near place outside the city, and the civilian servants were busy lighting firewood and adding firewood, boiling hot soup, and carrying the arrows, rolling wood, and quickly consuming arrows, rolling wood, and rolling wood on the city back and forth. Falling rocks and other things.

There was the Baibo Rebellion in front of Hedong, and there was the threat of Yan Xing's Xiliang soldiers in the back, most of the veterans in the county soldiers had seen the battle formation, and Wei Gu, Fan Xian and others, in order to resist the invasion of the Xiliang army, also successively strengthened the five soldiers and formation training of the county soldiers, and there were many strong and daring fighters in the Hedong county soldiers.

"Try to shoot!"

The county soldiers who commanded the defense of the city in the south stood on the city wall, estimating that the Xiliang soldiers in the front row had entered the range of bows and arrows in the city, and immediately let the archers led by them try to shoot arrows, and an arrow quickly flew down from the sky and shot to the rear of the armor soldiers of Xiliang holding a big sword.

Although he missed, the soldier who had been keeping an eye on him roared in good spirits, and then beat the drum to give the order, ordering the archers defending the city to shoot.

"Medium, Hairshot!"

As soon as the drums on the city tower sounded, the sound of the bowstring sounded one after another, and the arrows that had been gathering for a long time suddenly came down from the sky like black raindrops, and the muffled sound of hitting the big tree continued, and when it hit the unprotected people in the rear, it directly penetrated the limbs, setting off a rain of blood in the sky.

This round of arrows has been gathering momentum for a long time, and the power is huge, and the shield armor soldiers in the front row bear the brunt of it, but they have the protection of large and heavy armor, and there are few casualties, and those people who carry dirt bags in the back, because of the cover of these shields and armor soldiers, although some people have been killed and injured, most of them still escaped the catastrophe in a thrilling way, and they have narrowed the distance with the moat outside the city.

"Strike again!"

The drums on the city sounded rapidly, and the archers on the city walls opened their bows and arrows again, this time the Xiliang soldiers and those people had completely entered their range, and they would get closer and closer, the bows and arrows no longer needed to accumulate the maximum potential energy and aim at the target tightly, what the archers in the city had to do was to quickly launch the arrows in their hands, and then pull the strings of the arrows again to shoot the next arrow.

With the rounds of rapid shooting on the top of the city, the rain of arrows that were accumulating and becoming more and more dense instantly changed everything under the city.

The shield of the shield armor is densely packed with arrows, and many arrows have been shot on the heavy armor, and the ground is like planting seedlings, and the arrows of different depths are inserted in an instant, and the people who are carrying the dirt bag on their shoulders are constantly being shot by the arrows in the city as the distance continues to approach, and the people who have been hit by arrows along the way slammed to the ground, and the blood on his body dyed the dirt bag he was carrying into bright red······

"Order, change the second batch of shield armor to go up!"

The arrows on the head of the city were fierce and intensive, and it was only a beginning to fill a section of the moat, and the lightly armed people were killed and wounded, and the casualties of the armor soldiers holding the big ones gradually increased.

In the gap between the rotation of the armor soldiers, some more people fell to the ground with arrows. Looking at the dirt bags scattered in front of them, as well as the people who fell to the ground and wailed, the people who were forcibly requisitioned were already trembling and trembling with their legs, but there were armor soldiers with swords and halberds in the rear watching, no one dared to turn around and retreat, but there were also people with clever ideas, in the process of advancing, deliberately slowing down the pace and delaying time.

It's a pity that this kind of little trick can hide from the law enforcement sergeants who are watching in the rear, they all crawl out of the pile of dead people on the battlefield, and they have the momentum of veterans of a hundred battles, and every move of the enemy and our sergeants on this battlefield is clearly in their eyes.

The three procrastinating and hesitant civilians were quickly caught by the law enforcement sergeants who rushed forward, pulled to the front of the formation and knelt down, waiting for the Chinese army to fall.

"General, why don't you send the archers in the army to come forward and shoot at the guards of the city."

Zhao Hong followed Yan Xing's side, he had no intention of interceding for the three people, but he just looked at the civilian servants who were suffering increasing casualties, and then looked at the archers who were on standby in the array, he rolled his eyes and whispered to Yan Xing.

"There's no hurry."

Yan Xing glanced at Zhao Hong and said with a smile.

According to the previous siege strategy, the besieging side would inevitably send archers to shoot at the defenders on the city, on the one hand, to suppress the enemy's archers and cover their own siege troops, and on the other hand, to try to kill and injure the enemy's living forces.

However, Yan Xing did not follow common sense and sent archers in the army, of course, this was not because Yan Xing was ignorant of battle formations and made a mistake in strategy, the reason why he adopted such unreasonable methods was actually based on the actual situation of Anyi at the moment.

The defense of Anyi was strong, the food and grass in the city were sufficient, and although the morale of the soldiers defending the city was not high, it did not reach the point of collapse. Therefore, if Yan Xing wanted to capture Anyi in one day, he had to avoid a tug-of-war with the defenders of Anyi during the siege.

Otherwise, once the defenders in the city survived the early days of the siege, the army's morale tended to be stable, and Anyi, which had no worries about food, grass and soldiers, would show its resilience in an unusual city, and uphold the tactics of holding and attrition, which was extremely unfavorable to the Xiliang army.

For this reason, Yan Xing would rather sacrifice some forcibly recruited and ineffective civilians in the early stage of the siege to ensure that in the next siege, the archers can continue to fire arrows steadily, maintain the fierceness of their own attack, and take Anyi City in one go.

Just imagine, when in the early stage of the attack and defense, the defenders of Anyi, who had already consumed a lot of arrows and physical strength, suddenly encountered the archers of the Xiliang Army who were waiting for work and waiting for the battle in the siege.

In order to confuse the defenders at the head of the city, Yan Xing even did not hesitate to send the elite armor soldiers in the army to attract arrows from the head of the city, so as not to be seen by the defenders of Anyi what he was planning.

Of course, there is also a lot of risk in doing so. If there were too many casualties among the people who filled the moat because of the lack of archers' cover, and they were not able to fill those sections of the moat within the calculated time, not only would the morale of Yan Xing's side suffer, but even the offensive behind would be affected.

The casualties of the people depended on both the offensive and defensive sides, and it was not something that Yan Xing could decide unilaterally.

However, within the specified time, at the expense of casualties, filling in the moat was something that Yan Xing, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, could do.

Compassion is not in charge of soldiers, and righteousness is not in charge of wealth. Looking at the people who kept falling on the battlefield, as well as the dirt bags stained red with blood, Yan Xing's eyes never blinked, he took a deep breath, and calmly ordered:

"Behead the three who hesitated in front of the battle, and when the battle is imminent, if the sergeants and soldiers hesitate, the law enforcement army can be executed on the spot!"

After Yan Xing's order, in an instant, before the military formation, three more lives were lost.

The soil in front of the Xiliang army's military formation was stained red with the blood of the people, and the three heads whose faces were extremely distorted from fright were stabbed on the spears in this way, and stood in front of the battle dripping with blood, declaring to the soldiers the harshness and ruthlessness of military law.

At least in Zhao Hong's field of vision, those people who were carrying dirt bags felt that their original pace had increased a lot, lest they be regarded as hesitant people by those fierce and vicious soldiers, and they were directly pulled to the front of the battle to kill the public.

After watching the decapitation in front of the formation, the soldiers of the whole formation were silent, and the silent military formation could only hear the sound of the flags flying, the friction of the armor leaves, and the short breathing of the soldiers.

Zhao Hong's eyes flickered, and he stopped talking.

Under the strict punishment and strict law, although the people were attacked by arrows at the head of the city, the speed of filling the moat did not slow down, and they continued to fill the earth bags despite casualties.

Later, the military officials at the head of the city also seemed to have discovered that the Xiliang soldiers tried to use the people east of the river to consume their arrows, so although the arrows on the city head did not stop, they were no longer as dense as at the beginning, and the moat under the southern city wall was finally filled by the people one after another.

"Beat the drums, siege!"

Yan Xing didn't want to give the defenders at the head of the city a chance to rest and repair, so he immediately ordered the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time to take advantage of the situation to attack the city. So to the sound of rumbling war drums, a group of foot soldiers strode forward with rams and ladders, and rushed under the city wall along the road filled by the people.

"Arrow, Arrow!"

After the moat was filled in a few sections, the military officials defending the city knew that the Xiliang army was attacking the city, he hissed and shouted, and ordered the archers on the city head to hurriedly fire arrows to block the advance of the siege equipment of the Xiliang army, and then commanded the soldiers and civilian servants to pile up heavy objects such as rolling logs and falling stones to the city head, ready to attack and smash the soldiers and equipment of the Xiliang army.

The archers on the head of the city have already consumed a lot of physical strength in front, and under the order, although the arrows fired have been accelerated for a short time, they have quickly slowed down, and at the same time, the archers of the Xiliang army under the city have gathered in a group to press, and after entering the shooting range, they will not hesitate to throw arrows at the head of the city desperately.

"Ahh

After the thrown arrows rushed to the head of the city, the remaining momentum did not disappear, and they fiercely penetrated into the bodies of the soldiers defending the city, and suddenly the archers who were originally only concerned about firing arrows were hit one after another, and the speed of the sergeants and civilian servants who carried the rolling logs and falling rocks also slowed down a lot, and the soldiers commanding the city defense had to hold the shield on the one hand, and shout loudly at the archers to speed up the counterattack.

The shooting above and below the city is still continuing, although the archers on the city head are condescending, but they are the end of the strong crossbow, they are no match for the archers of the Xiliang army under the city, the arrows under the city are like a storm and rain flying up, and the soldiers running on the city wall have to learn from the old soldiers in the army, put the shield on their heads, and resist the dense rain of arrows.

Under the city wall, under the strong cover of their own archers, the ram and the ladder arrived one after another, and after the soldiers set up the ladder, they held a shield in one hand, held a ladder in the other, and held a ring knife in their mouths.