At the beginning of May, the Huainan army began to attack the city only after making sufficient preparations, and a hundred Suzhou guns lined up outside the city of Xuanzhou, aiming at the city to launch a fierce bombardment, and the boulders that broke through the sky roared and smashed the city wall to the ground. www.biquge.info In just one day, the once dense arrow towers on the city wall were bombarded beyond recognition and lost their original role.

Although Tian Yan had prepared well in advance and expected that when the Huainan army began to attack the city, he was still shocked by the roar of the overwhelming boulders.

He is also a veteran of the battlefield, but the siege routine he is familiar with is the use of ladders, rushing cars, digging tunnels, wooden curtains, etc., and the siege method of concentrating a large number of trebuchets to constantly bombard the city wall like the Huainan Army has heard of it, but it is the first time to see it with his own eyes.

Under this domineering attack, the morale boosted by his rich reward quickly became low again, and the soldiers' hearts were full of fear and panic, and they had little intention of resisting.

And those generals are now also getting by, because their families are still in the city, and Tian Yan has accumulated power for many years, so they don't dare to surrender; But it was difficult to expect them to defend the city aggressively. Only the new martial arts led by Xu Zaisi performed better.

Two days later, the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan Army still had no intention of stopping. At this time, there was actually no target to smash on the city wall, and it was very difficult to smash the city wall, so it stands to reason that the infantry should be invested at this time to start attacking the city, but Yang Wu did not give the order for the infantry to attack the city.

He made the Suzhou cannon move forward until it reached a distance of 300 paces below the city before stopping, and the stone projectiles thrown at this distance could bombard a wider range, but it was easier for the defenders of the city to destroy the trebuchets if they went out of the city.

Faced with this situation, the defenders put forward suggestions to go out of the city to destroy the trebuchet, but Tian Yan refused, he thought that since the Huainan army dared to shoot the Suzhou cannon at close range, then they would definitely expect that the defenders might attack out of the city, and if they listened to the advice of the generals, they were afraid that they would fall into Yang Wu's ambush.

A few days later, in mid-May, Yang Wu felt that there were basically no intact buildings in the city that could be smashed by Suzhou artillery, so he ordered the infantry to start attacking the city, and the first thing he had to do was to cut off the moat.

The moat of Xuanzhou is not wide, and it is not very difficult to cut it. Under the cover of the dense rain of arrows, thousands of Huainan soldiers raised their shields and carried sandbags and began to fill the moat, while Tian Yan did not go out of the city to fight, but only ordered the defenders to go up the city wall to stop their movements with bows and arrows, but the effect was not very obvious.

Five days later, the Huainan army successfully cut off the moat and built three passages thirty paces wide, enough to support the siege of the city.

Yang Wu also ordered the army to build two high platforms under the city, intending to wait for the high platforms to be built and let the archers condescend from above to suppress the defenders on the city wall and cover the infantry to attack the city.

At this point, Tian Yan finally couldn't wait any longer, if the high platform was built, it would not only be suppressed when defending the city, but more importantly, there would be no secrets in the city, and all his deployments would be clearly seen by the Huainan army on the high platform.

So even though the best time to raid had not yet arrived, Tian Yan still gave the order to prepare to go out of the city and counterattack.

On the first day of late May, the weather was hotter.

Tian Yan did not choose to launch a surprise attack at night, but chose the time of dawn.

He believed that the Huainan army would definitely be on guard against the surprise attack of the defenders at night, and that it would relax its vigilance at dawn, so Tian Yan ordered the troops to be assembled half an hour before dawn.

In a short period of time, the news that the various departments were ready reached Tian Yan.

"Drum ......" Tian Yan drew his sword and slashed forward, shouting wildly, "Raid ...... out of the city"

The "Knock Knock Knock ......" war drums sounded, the flag flew and the assault officially began.

Leading the way at the forefront is the newly formed Wu Yongdu, although there are many new recruits, but the fierce style of Wu Yongdu has not changed much.

The elite of the "...... Killing" team raised their shields and ran hard, roaring into the sky.

Outside the city, the two high platforms of the Huainan Army had just begun to take shape, and in order to prevent the defenders from going out of the city to destroy them, Yang Wu sent 3,000 infantry to camp directly next to the high platforms.

These 3,000 people have been filling in the moat and building high platforms for several days, and they are all a little tired at this time, and Tian Yan has been staying in the city in peace all along, and has not gone out of the city to fight them, so the officers below are a little lax, and they didn't react until the war drums beat in the city, but it was too late.

"Retreat, immediately retreat in the direction of the big battalion!" Chen Fan, who was in charge of the command, shouted loudly.

Chen Fan looked at the fierce posture of the guards and knew that he was still careless. At this time, the enemy army was less than a hundred paces away from them, and the soldiers under his command were far from ready, many of them had just woken up from their sleep, and it was really impossible to block the enemy's attack in this state.

Chen Fan retreated quickly with his subordinates, the formation was extremely chaotic, the soldiers lost two high platforms in a panic without any resistance, many soldiers were not fully awake, in the hurry, they ran in the wrong direction, and plunged into the group of soldiers of the raiding Wuyongdu, and died immediately.

Looking at the Huainan army fleeing for his life, Tian Yan was a little hard to believe his eyes at first, he didn't expect that the enemy army was unprepared at all, and was easily defeated by them.

Then he looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, ecstatic, even the Huainan army stationed under the city was directly responsible for guarding them, and the Huainan army in the rear camp must be even more unprepared. It seems that his forbearance these days has paid off, and now is the time to crush the enemy army in one go.

Tian Yan hurriedly ordered: "Tell Xu Zaisi that the enemy army is completely unprepared, let him lead Wu Yongdu to continue the assault and fight until the camp of the Huainan Army!" Ben Shuai will lead the rest of the army to meet in the back! ”

"Jie Shuai, these two high platforms directly threaten our soldiers defending the city, and now they are captured by us, do you want to leave some people here to destroy the high platforms?" On the side, Liu Ding, who went out of the city with Tian Yan, asked.

"No need, even if our army destroys the high platform, as long as the main force of the Huainan Army is not damaged, they can rebuild it in two days, it is meaningless. Therefore, the most important thing now is to concentrate forces to defeat the main force of the Huainan Army in one fell swoop! Any move that would weaken the assault forces of our army is unnecessary and very dangerous! Tian Yan shouted.

"Blow the trumpet! Launch a surprise attack with the whole army and crush the enemy with me! ”

The horn sounded for a long time, with Wu Yongdu as the vanguard, Tian Yan personally led the main force of the Xuanzhou Army and rushed towards the camp of the Huainan Army.