When the morning sun poured all the time on the head of Linfen City, Cao Kite, who was wearing a helmet and armor, also climbed the stairs and climbed the city gate tower, looking at the Baibo army outside the city.

The sun dispelled the morning mist, and the smoke in the camp of the Baibo army outside the city had also dissipated, and the Baibo soldiers who had entered the morning meal, in the noisy horns and war drums, began to form a formation according to the formation of the march, under the command of the team leader and the general, and drove out of the camp one after another, facing Linfen, and completed the assembly in the open space outside the camp.

Cao Yuan's hand holding down the hilt of the sword tightened, the fifty or sixty thousand Baibo troops outside the city have besieged Linfen City for more than half a month, at first the Baibo army still wanted to fight a quick battle, but in front of the Linfen city defense that had been intensively repaired after a winter and the beginning of spring, it still hit its head and broke blood.

It is true that the siege of the city is not the director of the Baibo Army that hastily promoted the army, but Guo Tai and others also have their own set of ways to deal with Jiancheng, they changed the strong attack to attrition and siege, and frequently attacked and harassed the defenders of Linfen.

Last night, the soldiers of the Baibo Army harassed the defenders of Linfen City in the middle of the night, and this morning the army assembled out of the camp, it seems that they want to consume the morale of the Linfen defenders again.

Cao Yuan looked at the soldiers on the head of the city, the group of guards last night had been sent back to the barracks under the city to rest, and now the soldiers standing on the head of the city were all soldiers who had been repaired overnight, and their spirits were very good.

The brutal and long siege campaign was not only to hone the perseverance and combat skills of the Bai Bo soldiers who were attacking the city outside the city, but also to train the soldiers who defended the city.

Cao Yuan's department had more than 1,500 soldiers, and Yan Xing sent a new soldier and 200 Zhang soldiers from Jiangyi, plus 1,000 Bai Bo prisoners and 800 civilian servants, Cao Yuan's hands could be used to defend the city during the war, the number of more than 3,000, although in the past half a month, more than 300 people were also lost.

However, the current tactics for dealing with the harassment of the White Polish Army are more than enough.

Cao Yuan looked at the Baibo army outside the city again, but the Baibo army's offensive this time was different from the past, in the ranks of many soldiers and horses, slowly drove out of a richly decorated chariot, the chariot was erected with a war drum, in addition to the armor of the imperial car, there were two other armor soldiers standing on the car.

Among the two armorers, one of the armorers was wearing a dazzling gold armor shining in the sun, he seemed to be quite powerful in the white wave pawn, where the chariot passed, it was able to attract a large number of white pawns cheers, and when the chariot drove to the front of the team, the white warriors let out thunderous cheers, they desperately struck each other with their blades, and made a burst of gold and iron sound.

And the armor soldier in gold armor, the figure on the chariot stood still, enjoying the fanatical support of these white soldiers in front of him, he looked at the many soldiers and horses, in the thousands of shouts, slowly stretched out his hands and pressed down, and the wave of shouting frenzy was suspended one after another.

Next, the armor soldier in gold armor loudly announced the military oath in front of the formation of the white soldiers, affirming the rewards and punishments for the soldiers to attack the city, and promising that after the city was broken, the goods in the city would be looted and plundered by the soldiers.

Cao Yuan stood at the head of the city, looking into the distance, but he couldn't hear his words, he could only look at the silhouette of the golden-armored soldier and the shouts of the white soldiers who were coming to the city head with the sound of the wind.

After the oath of the gold-armored soldier, the horns and war drums of the Bai Bo army sounded in unison, and batch after batch of Bai Bo soldiers began to stride towards the Linfen city wall.

During the previous siege war, the moat of Linfen City had been filled in several sections by Bai Bo soldiers who braved the rain of arrows and carried earth and sandbags to fill in several sections, but now Bai Bo soldiers can directly reach the city wall of Linfen from those sections of the road surface filled with earth and stones and sandbags.

"Sima, the White Wave Thieves are going to attack the city again, the city tower is flowing back and forth, it is not a place to live for a long time, there are me waiting here, you should quickly retreat to the city to command!"

Seeing that Bai Bo's soldiers were striding close to the Linfen city wall, the city head soldiers who followed Cao Yuan's side hurriedly persuaded him, wanting Cao Yuan to retreat to a safe position under the city first, and give them the defense of the city head.

Cao Yuan ignored the words of the soldiers at the head of the city beside him, and looked at the approaching Bai Bo soldiers outside the city with deep eyes, and after a while, he slowly shook his head and said:

"No, this time, I'm going to command it myself!"

"Sima, the stray arrow at the head of the city—"

"This time is different from the past, this time it seems that the white wave thieves outside the city are about to launch a general attack, the momentum is extremely huge, just now the golden armor soldier, in my opinion, most of it is Guo Tai himself, you wait to send people to the other city walls, warn the city guards, strictly guard, this time don't spare wood and stone arrows, you must guard the city wall!"

Cao Yuan gave a military order categorically, and the military officials at the head of the city could only act on orders, and as if to confirm Cao Yuan's guess, a large number of siege equipment were soon carried and pushed out of the military camp of the Baibo Army outside the city.

In addition to the siege equipment battering rams and ladders that are common in the past half a month, the White Polish Army also pushed two behemoths out of the camp after demolishing a section of fence.

Cao Yuan fixed his eyes, but it was two ladder cars close to the height of the city wall.

The ladder car is an upgraded version of the ladder, compared to the ladder spliced by several sections of bamboo ladders, the ladder car is a base, there is a baffle, although it advances slowly, it can not be attacked in any section of the city wall, but it is a behemoth that can be attacked and defended.

Once it is close to the city wall, the heavy base can ensure that the ladder car is not pushed down by the Linfen defenders, and the baffle can also resist the dense arrow rain on the city head for the siege soldiers, and the Bai Bo soldiers, who only need to hold the blades, can pass through the ladders and rush to the city head in large numbers, and start a white-knuckle battle with the defenders on the city wall.

Fortunately, this kind of ladder truck is difficult to make, time-consuming and labor-intensive, although the craftsmen in the generals of the Bai Bo Army gathered together and rushed to work for days, but in half a month, they were only able to temporarily produce two ladder trucks.

Although there were only two ladder cars, Cao Yuan did not dare to take anything lightly, he knew that the soldiers defending the city did not have the experience to deal with this kind of siege equipment, and once these ladder cars approached the city wall, it would have the consequences of shaking the battle situation, he thought about it, and hurriedly secretly sent people to gather some elite soldiers to deal with these two behemoths.

Cao Yuan stared at the two ladder cars, these two behemoths are not as flexible as other battering rams and ladders, and can only approach the city wall along the sections of the moat that have been filled, the path has been determined, and after calculating and estimating its advance speed, Cao Yuan turned his eyes back to the city, preparing to solve the ladders and battering rams that stood for the ladder cars before the cloud ladder city approached.

"Shoot arrows, throw stones, hurry!"

On the city wall, at the position of the city wall where the White Wave army attacked, there were special military officials commanding the city soldiers to attack the white wave thieves approaching the city wall, and the archers of the White Wave army under the city also arrived within the range one after another and began to fire arrows at the defenders on the city head.

For a time, arrows flew up and down the city wall, and from time to time soldiers on both sides fell with arrows.

In the direction of the city gate tower where Cao Kite is located, there are also many arrows flying to this side, and Cao Kite's personal guards are tightly guarding Cao Kite, holding a big kite to protect the front and side of Cao Kite tightly, Cao Kite can only continue to move the angle of sight through the footsteps, in order to observe the offensive outside the city and the defense on the city wall through the big kim.

At present, although the offensive of the Bai Bo soldiers is different from the past, it is extremely fierce, but Cao Yuan and the city defenders have already taken precautions, and the response is also in accordance with the rules, coupled with the condescending, the city guards do not spare wood and stones, arrows, and the Bai Bo army on the besieging side has suffered a lot of casualties in a short period of time.

"Bang bang—"

The falling rocks in the direction of the city gate have not stopped, and the battering ram carried by the Bai Bo soldiers can only be the city gate of Linfen, so the city guards who are waiting for the battle, when the Bai Bo soldiers are panting and carrying the heavy battering ram to approach the city gate, they immediately counterattack, and the stones of different sizes are smashed into the city under the joint force of the city guards.

The small stone can only knock over one or two white soldiers, but the huge rock, but it has a terrifying lethality to the white soldiers in a dense siege formation, two huge rocks in the use of the lever of the city gate tower to lift and push down, suddenly set off a wave of blood rain under the city, a big stone smashed the battering ram, and another big stone hit the side of the white soldiers, in an instant is the shield broken, the blade is broken, the smashed white soldiers are all turned into meat cakes, and the other white soldiers who are overwhelmed hands and feet, also wailed and couldn't move an inch.

The battering ram in the direction of the city gate has a fixed path, so the soldiers defending the city can still wait for the rabbit, and wait until they are after the city wall, then suddenly attack, push down the rock, and smash them all.

But the white soldiers who carried the ladder were much more flexible, they could approach while aiming at the defensive gaps on the head of the city, attacking a weak section of the city wall, the huge rock was not suitable for smashing the soldiers carrying the ladder, and the small stone could only threaten a small number of white soldiers, but could not break the ladder.

But Cao Kite also had a countermeasure to this, in addition to the archers on the head of the city constantly shooting the white Bo soldiers carrying the ladder, there are several groups of city defenders on the city wall carrying push rods, wandering around, once there is a white Bo soldier's ladder on the city wall, they have to rush over, using a strong push rod to push the ladder down, together with some white Bo soldiers who are attached to the ladder, will also be thrown to pieces.

The battle was raging, arrows came and went, and the attackers and defenders suffered casualties, but in fact, the most important attention of both sides was on the bodies of the two ladders.

This kind of ladder car, the rock can't hit, the push rod can't be pushed, once it reaches the city wall, put down the baffle as a bridge, so that a large number of white soldiers under the city can rush to the city head unimpeded, and the defensive line at the head of the city is in danger.

The defenders of the city fought bloodily, and the Bai Bo soldiers carrying the ladder and the battering ram could not attack the city, but the two ladder carts continued to advance slowly but firmly along the fixed path.

Finally, it took a long time for the two ladder carts to slowly approach the city wall under the push of a large number of white soldiers.

At this time, the Bai Bo soldiers also broke out with bursts of thunderous shouts, and Cao Yuan saw that the golden armor soldier on the chariot supervising the battle, after seeing that the two ladder cars had successfully approached the Linfen city wall, he also immediately took over the drumstick in the hands of another armor soldier who was beating the drum, and he threw his arms and hands, waved the drumstick, and beat the drum vigorously, shouting and cheering for the Bai Bo soldier who was besieging the city.

When the Bai Bo soldiers in the vicinity saw that their Daqu Shuai personally put on armor and went into battle, beating drums and cheering for the soldiers who were besieging the city, they were all enthusiastic and angry, shouting "break the city", and rushed to the direction of the ladder truck.

From near to far, the fanatical atmosphere of the white soldiers spread to the whole audience, and a black tide invariably surged in the direction of the ladder car, the momentum and the scene were extremely spectacular, and the shouts shook the heavens and the earth, and even the soldiers who were fighting fiercely at the head of the city could not help but be shocked by this situation, and suddenly changed color.

"Kill!"

After a large number of white soldiers climbed the steps of the ladder car, the white soldiers on the top floor began to untie the ropes gradually, and the heavy baffle descended one by one like a drawbridge, until it struck heavily on the battlements at the head of the city.

"Bang - launch!"

When the baffle slammed heavily on the battlements at the head of the city, a group of guards of the city who were holding large skulls and lying in ambush also appeared, took out a catapult rope from under them, and threw them out almost simultaneously with the sound of the order.

"Bang-click-click"

The sound of the stone smashing, the sound of the handguard breaking, and the sound of the clay pot breaking sounded one after another, and the white Bo soldiers holding shields on the ladder car had long been prevented from putting down the baffle, and suffered from the fierce arrow rain attack of the city guards. Engage in a face-to-face close-quarters battle with the defenders on the city walls.

However, the white boshi who shouted upwards soon noticed that something was wrong, these stone slings were not only tied with stones, but also some clay pots, and the clay pots were mixed with sulfur, saltpeter, grease and other fire-igniting things, and the pungent smell immediately entered the nose of the white boshi who first went up to the top floor.

"It's not good, it's a fire attack!"

There is a white boy soldier with a hoarse voice, shouting loudly to warn, but now, the arrow is on the string, where can I stop the momentum of the white wave soldier below, countless white wave soldiers, still below the continuous climb up, desperately rushing up.

"Whoosh-"

At the head of the city, rockets with strange flames crossed a short distance and landed on the ladder car, and then with a "bang", the flames instantly ignited the fire, turning the top floor of the ladder car into a sea of fire.