According to the arrangement, Huaxia was commanded by Shi Beak in the south to fight, and took Shuijin, Shanzhi, and Tuansheng to defend Jingzhou, Huhan and Kuimen. Qiu Shang led the naval army from Killer Whale City to defend the waters of the Yangtze River.

Wu Jackal and Peng Ying to the north defended the north of the Yellow River and withstood the attack of the Xirong people.

The eldest prince led the Chaolin and Ji Lin defenders to cooperate with the Zhu Monkey to defend the northeast line of Chaolin City. Prevent the Xirong people from crossing the mountains and attacking the hinterland of China.

After more than ten years of training on the tidal flats of the Yellow River, Lin Ping'an now has a lot of law. The fact that he is the heir to the throne has been generally accepted.

Let him stay in the center to cooperate with Zhu Hou, and everyone no longer thinks there is any problem.

According to the plan, as long as the defense lasted for more than a month and the cavalry of the steppe had enough time to return south, Huaxia would counterattack Xirong from three directions at the same time until the entire Xirong was wiped out.

After inspecting the forest trails, he went up to the city wall, looked at the deep trenches in front of him, and said to the black jackal: "There are still some problems in holding on for a month. Our line of defense is too long. If we can't defeat the Xijon here, they may abandon logistics and climb over the mountains, and our territory will be infinitely ruined. So, we should still crush the enemy here. ”

This is an important reason why Lin Ji came here in person. Because this is where the largest number of Sijon people gather, it is easiest to defeat them by giving them a severe blow here.

"I think every day about how I can keep the Xijon people if they come. ”

He stayed here for ten years. Thinking about how to fight every day, at this time, the Xijon people finally arrived in front of him, and he felt that it was best not to leave alone.

The fortifications outside the city seem to be unfinished, but in fact everything is being calculated.

These things, he has already reported to Lin Ji. There may be opposition to his proposal. But since Lin Ji is here, he has no intention of replacing him. He felt that he had received the greatest support from Lin Ji.

Lin Ji said: "But we don't have much ammunition, you have to calculate." ”

Although Huaxia, which developed from nothing, has made great progress so far, in Lin Ji's view, all technologies are still very backward. No matter what Huaxia produces now, it is basically knocked out little by little by half.

Because Lin Ji had enough references and perfect infrastructure after all, he directly skipped the smoothbore gun and came up with a rifled rifle and other firearms with rear loading. However, the production of both guns and ammunition is very limited, because most of the process can only be done by hand. In terms of ammunition. There is no fully automatic production line yet. All the bullets are polished and pressed by hand. Every bullet was stained with the sweat and even blood of the workers.

Although the number of people in Huaxia who joined the war, including the militia, did not exceed 100,000, in fact, the whole of China was mobilized. Many people's efforts are on top of those bullets.

In this case, the bullet naturally could not be shot out like a splash of water in the wars of later generations. It's that each one should be counted and hit.

Qian Mian pretended: "Chizhong wants to gamble now." The news that has just come back says that he has emptied all the villages in the north and gone to the Yellow River to set up defenses, apparently trying to stop our steppe cavalry on the Yellow River. ”

"I think according to my plan, it may only take a week to defeat these people in front of me. When the time comes, we will chase after them, but no matter how they are laid out, we will not have any resistance. There will be no problem with victory. In order to save ammunition in the early stage, in order to deal with the enemy's infestation, we can ask some militia to carry bows and arrows to the designated position to assist. ”

Almost everyone in the militia knew how to shoot arrows, which was one of the basic trainings retained in the kingdom. It was very difficult for them to ride and shoot, but there was nothing wrong with just shooting arrows.

The production of bows and arrows is relatively simple, and after the mechanization of some processes, the output is much higher than that of bullets. The feather arrow factory is located in Hangu Pass, and the feather arrows produced every day are piled up. It is just right to make up for the lack of ammunition.

Lin Ji said: "I came here to press the formation for you." You can come to your own ideas. ”

"Yes!" The black jackal is full of fighting spirit, and the whole person is like an unsheathed knife.

The forest trails came non-stop. The people of Sijon also apparently know that their time is precious. After they had built the camp in two or three days, they began to make steady progress.

Instead of filling in the deep and wide trenches, they brought logs from afar and built improvised bridges directly over them.

The Sijon people themselves had their own cities, so they also had some siege equipment and various construction equipment. It's not that hard to build such a simple bridge.

The farthest ditch was a kilometer away from the city, so Huaxia's side didn't react much to their movements.

The black jackal mobilized a lot of militiamen and went up to the city wall with bows and arrows. They were assigned a small area of defense. They watched the Xijon people build the bridge, and they could only be in a hurry.

Instead, the elite cavalry of Xijon ran down the passage in the middle of the trench to the bottom of the wall, until they reached the nearest ditch to the wall.

The ditch was 200 meters from the city gate. It is still outside the range of bows and arrows, and should be within the range of Huaxia firearms. However, the soldiers on the tower did not shoot.

Perhaps for further temptation, the cavalry, after counseling, passed through the trench and galloped across the wall from the north and south in two groups, while shooting arrows at the wall.

These people were all masters of mounted archery, and their arrows shot at the city wall, and most of them shot at the mouth of the female wall.

The Huaxia officer on the city wall gave an order, and everyone shrank back and dodged the first wave of arrows.

Seeing that the last knight under the city tower had crossed the ditch, the officer on the city wall gave an order, and the herald immediately responded with the sound of the gun, and the knights under the city wall immediately fell to the ground.

The knights under the walls showed their amazing horsemanship. Some people were extremely brave, and took the opportunity to shoot arrows at the city wall with their bows, trying to shoot at the people on the city wall. Some people abandoned their bows and changed shields, and parried up and down, trying to block all the arrows they shot before their bodies, but they were knocked down by bullets. Seeing that the situation was not good, some immediately turned their horses' heads and advanced in the direction of the trench, trying to get out of the fire of their bows and arrows, but their men continued to fall to the ground.

In front of the trench was a hill wall covered with barbed wire and horse-repellent barriers, and the knights rode to the end and had no choice but to return the way they came. After such a turnaround, only a dozen or so of the team of several hundred people ran back to the passage in the middle of the trench and fled in confusion.

The militiamen on the tower noticed that when the cavalry ran up the passage, the officers with guns ordered to stop shooting. This caused the knights to stop on the other side of the trench, and after slowly probing, they thought that the farthest range of Huaxia's guns was only on this side of the trench, so they happily went back to report.

The Xirong people tried out the depth of the Chinese people, and they became more and more unscrupulous. They sent more men to build a bridge over the third trench outside the city, and they also continued to transport materials in front of the second trench.

In just one day, they were able to build an improvised bridge over the third trench.

In the evening, the jackal sent an envoy to tell the other party that if he did not bring weapons, he could come and collect the corpses and treat the wounded. But the animals must be left behind. This agreement is in effect until the last body is removed.

At this time, the weather is sweltering, and the corpse will stink after a day of exposure to the sun, and if there is an epidemic, it will be a scene of defeat for both sides.

Chizhong was born in China, and many people in Xirong have studied in China, and they still know these health knowledge.

So the agreement was quickly made.

Xijon sent slaves and took the opportunity to send militia to Lincheng. The Xijon people brought the corpses back to be disposed of, while the Huaxia people brought the fallen cattle and some weapons back to the city to serve as trophies.

By the time the last bodies were removed, it was already dark, and the suspension bridge at Hangu Pass was slowly pulled up.

The last of the slaves who cleaned up the corpses bowed their heads and pulled the cart, silent. After they crossed the third trench, they were inexplicably less than half in number.

The Xijon people who answered saw that something was wrong, but it was too late, and several improvised bridges on the third trench were blown into pieces and fell into the trench after a dozen fireworks burst into the night, and the materials piled up on the side of the second trench were also blown into the trench.

The Xijon people sent cavalry to chase after them, and the drawbridge at Hangu Pass was lowered again, and hundreds of people poured out to guard the middle passage. The people of Sijon stood at a distance and cursed without any recourse.

"We didn't break the agreement. Your corpses have taken away our hands. The Huaxia soldiers shouted like this, and retreated to the city under alternate cover.

Perhaps it was the practice of this day that completely angered the people of Sijon.

Early the next morning, the Xijon sent more men and materials to build bridges over the second and third trenches.

In just one day, a dozen simple bridges were built over each of the two trenches.

On this day, a large number of cavalry from Xijon stood in the middle of the first trench and did not approach at all. The Chinese people are "helpless" against them. As a result, there were no confrontations between the two sides during the day.

One of the heaviest battles since the outbreak of the war took place on this night. The Chinese sent out hundreds of commandos in an attempt to blow up the bridges.

But this time the Xijon people learned to be obedient. They built improvised forts at both ends of each bridge with large shields and mud and sand. Each fortress was defended.

Fierce fighting fought all night on both sides, and although the Sijon people paid more than 200 casualties, only one bridge was blown away and the fortress was nearly intact.

After daybreak, the Xijon people summed up the battle and found that some of the shields had not been pierced by bullets, and the firepower of the attacking assault team did not seem to be as strong as expected, and the gunpowder seemed to be quite large, and it had to be lit on the ground before it could explode.

With these realizations, they feel that they are taking advantage of them. So on this day they did not go to battle, nor did they advance further, but prepared in the camp behind.

The Chinese militia who went up to the city tower with bows and arrows saw that their fortifications outside the city had become the enemy's, and their morale was inevitably a little low. If it weren't for the black jackal's timidity, how could such a result occur.

Moreover, the militia also found out that the black jackals did not let the soldiers fight with all their might. The soldiers who went to war could only use those short guns. Some of the soldiers' spears could be used directly into the second trench, but they were strictly forbidden to be used.

At the same time, behind the bunkers of the city walls, there were more complex guns that had been idle, and the soldiers who used them were so idle that they could sleep behind the bunkers, except after maintenance.

All this made the militia extremely dissatisfied. If all these things are moved, maybe they can beat the Xijon people back, why are they being pressed layer by layer now?

It was only because they saw that the guards of the forest trails were also on top of the city tower that they maintained the organization and did not slacken.

They expected that, if nothing else, the Sijon would be besieged in a day's time. Huaxia could lose a lot.

Sure enough, after a quiet day, at the beginning of the day, several teams of people carrying new shields and carrying logs broke through two trenches at the same time, and appeared in front of the nearest one.

The Huaxia continued to shoot with short guns. But after a distance of 200 meters, the bullets fired from the short guns were completely unable to penetrate the thick wooden shields. This has allowed the Xijon people to speed up the pace of construction.

It took them less than half an hour to build the bridge. At the same time, a fortress was built to protect the bridge with a large shield on the side of the bridge.

After that, a large army of the Xijon people poured out of the camp, crossed the third trench directly, rested a little after the second trench, and assembled directly behind the first trench.

As soon as the people crossed the boundless, when tens of thousands of animals began to assemble more than 200 meters away, the Chinese soldiers and civilians on the city wall couldn't help but start to get nervous. At this time, there may be more militiamen who secretly curse black jackals in their hearts.

But there was not much time for everyone to be slandered, and the Xijon offensive soon began.

The first to rush through the first trench was a group of black, woolly rhinoceros. They were strapped to thick driftwood, and each rhinoceros had only a skinny slave knight with a shield on its back.

When the woolly rhinoceros crossed the ditch, he was driven mad and rushed towards the wall.

They didn't hit the walls directly. The main reason is that there is a moat more than ten meters wide and several meters deep under the Hangu Pass Castle. On the opposite side of the moat, barbed wire was also raised.

These barbed wire fences will be a nightmare for all besiegers.

The purpose of the woolly rhinoceros attack is these barbed wires.

If these giant rhinos were allowed to rush into the barbed wire, they could easily crash into the shelves that held the barbed wire, roll up the barbed wire and fall into the water, or drag it away.

If they get those driftwood into the moat, it will give the Xijon people the materials to build pontoon bridges in the moat to siege the city.

How could the Chinese let their purpose be achieved?

The soldiers' guns rang like fried beans, and after entering the range of their bows and arrows, the militiamen were also asked to draw their bows again and again to fire volleys.

It's just that the woolly rhinoceros does have thick skin and thick flesh, and many of them are covered in blood after being beaten, but their speed is still unabated. Some of them were covered with feathered arrows, and they were still ferocious, and they swooped down like barbed wire, curling the barbed wire into a ball.

Some militiamen realized that the situation was wrong, and turned their heads to look at the soldiers beside them, okay, it was still a short gun shooting, and the pikemen just looked at it coldly.

After the Rhino attracted most of the Chinese firepower, the Xijon people soon launched a second wave of offensive.

Tens of thousands of slaves rushed through the first trench and rushed towards the city wall with siege equipment such as ladders, pontoons, and other siege equipment.

These slaves didn't even have shields, they were used to send them to death or to fill the moat. But they couldn't help but rush forward, for there were archers behind them watching them. As long as they dare to stop, they will also die.

As these slaves pressed down, the militia on the city walls began to feel terrified. Quite a few people have started to shoot arrows blindly.

The soldiers on the city walls were estimated at only two thousand. Although there were 20,000 or 30,000 militia in the city, only 2,000 went up to the city walls. The number of people rushing under the walls was several times greater than theirs. This kind of pressure is hard to ignore without experiencing it.

But at this moment, the gunshots on the city wall were no longer chaotic, but rang out one after another with the password. The soldiers were divided into two rows, one squatting and one standing, just between the bumps of the battlements. When one row of people shoots, the other row lowers its head and plays, and thus staggered.

Even the pikemen were already in the fray.