On a flagpole raised high outside the city of Yongzhou, a helmet-clasped head is rotting in the warm winter breeze of Guangxi.

Su Mian stopped on the city wall directly opposite, so that he could use his presbyopia eyes to look at the thing that had been deformed and blackened: "If Guizhou sends reinforcements there, it is best to be a brave and intelligent one." ”

Su Zi, the third son who followed Su Mian to inspect the city, sat down busily, leaned against the wall, and sorted out the armor on his body. The belt used to tie the inside of the armor is broken, and it has not been repaired yet, it is loose, and it will fall crooked when worn on the body after walking a few steps. I don't know if a few tinkerers from the Ordnance Bureau in Ludao Prefecture are available. Suzi was thinking. Among the rules set down by his father, the craftsmen were to first hold on to the defenders at the head of the city.

"Reinforcements won't come." Tang Zizheng said in a low voice. In fact, there is no need to lower your voice, now everyone in Yongzhou City knows that Guizhou's reinforcements will not come.

Under the flagpole, forty or fifty heads were piled together, and thirty or forty piles were piled up, and groups of flies were buzzing around, and crows were also circulating. Seven days ago, the 3,000 reinforcements sent by Guizhou, together with the commander Zhang Shoujie, were wiped out at Kunlun Pass, and only their heads were left in Yongzhou City, which can be regarded as coming. But all cheaper crows and flies.

"It's been a fat year. Three thousand! "Tang Zizheng's feet have been stomping painfully for the past few days. Even if it's all waste, it's all waste with knives, guns, bows, and crossbows. There was no shortage of people in the city now—Ding Zhuang in the city was divided into three shifts to go to the city, and in the houses under the base of the city wall behind him, all lay the defenders who had just left the city—and there was a lack of sufficient weapons.

"Up to 2,000 ......" Su Mian changed from civilian to military service, and was made a military general by Jinshi, and he knew very well what the situation of the Guangxi Army was. Just thinking of those ills in the army, my hands have to press my heart, and I don't want to say more. If the military state in Guangxi Road was full, the offensive of the thief army would not have been so smooth.

Tang Zizheng didn't care if there was a vacancy or not. "Liu Jingluo didn't send them out to prevent someone from checking their vacancies."

"Cochin people are dying more these days." Su Zizheng finally adjusted his armor and stepped forward, the thief army outside the city seemed to have some movement, he looked intently for a while, and found that there seemed to be something strange in the former camp a mile away, but it was a little far away, and he couldn't see clearly, "It's just that you can't go out of the city and behead their heads, it's a pity that there are so many credits." ”

Su Mian has no regrets about his son, the credit is calculated after the war, and he must first keep the city before he can talk about the credit, and it is not a good thing to be promoted to three or five levels, seven or eight levels, and ninety levels. "It's all the work of the Divine Arm Bow."

"After all, it's a divine weapon." Tang Zizheng admired Su Mian's precautions, "Thanks to the imperial city, it was sent down from the capital. ”

Su Mian only hated himself now for not being cheeky enough to ask for more, although this thing is good, but in the face of fierce battles, the loss is inevitably too great. 'Oh my god in the south', Su Mian couldn't help but sigh, steel knives, heavy crossbows, iron armor, no matter how good the weapons arrived in Guangxi, they couldn't be stored for long: "There are still six hundred and twenty-four divine arm bows left, and the number of arrows is not much, so we have to save some use." ”

"The wooden feather arrows used in the Divine Arm Bow don't need feathers, and they need to save a lot of materials?"

"Wooden feather arrows are cheap, and they use thin pieces of wood to make feathers, and they cost only a penny, which is much cheaper than white feather arrows. It's just that there are not so many craftsmen who make arrows in Yongzhou City, and they can't cast models. Tang Zizheng thought that after the end of this war, it would be enough for him to go to the ordnance prison, and he could report it with his mouth open his mouth for a few pennies, "Iron can also be used in the iron pot of the people's house, and there is no shortage of cowhide in the warehouse to make glue, but there is a shortage of craftsmen and charcoal." If you can't cast a model, you can't make arrows. ”

"There are more than 80,000 in the library, and there are more than 100 crossbows. I can only wait for the thieves to shoot in, and then pick it up on the ground and use it. "The thief army outside the city also has a divine arm bow, and at the same time as they erected the flagpole, they also took out more than two hundred, which is estimated to be the number of a command." I really don't know whose reinforcements it is. Although Zhang Shoujie, who led the reinforcements, had already reaped the consequences, Su Zizheng still couldn't help the anger in his heart.

"There are not many divine arms and bows in Guizhou City, at most one thousand and five, and that is still the seat of the Economic Strategy Division." Su Mian's friendship with Han Gang when he went to Beijing allowed the DPRK to distribute it to Yongzhou Divine Arm Bow without delay in the turnover, but Guizhou did not have such good luck.

"There are two or three thousand thieves who have been shot, and they will not last long. If the reinforcements are still there, maybe they will all have already returned to the division. Tang Zizheng looked back at Zhang Shoujie's head again, a crow jumped on the unkempt hair, and he didn't know what was in his mouth, and after a closer look, he suddenly found that his eyes were empty, "When I saw Zhang Shoujie last year, it looked like a masterpiece." I didn't expect it to be a timid character, and now he has ended up like this. ”

"This person is strong on the outside and capable on the inside." Su Mian didn't want to look at it anymore, turned around and walked forward. The sergeants defending the city saluted one after another, and saluted the old man with reverence from the heart. In the past few days of the siege, Su Mian's performance has been seen by the people of Yongzhou.

"If he hadn't stayed at Kunlun Pass and came to help as soon as possible, Li Changjie wouldn't have been able to spare his hand. As long as the city is set up nearby, the momentum of the horns will be achieved, and the Jiaozhi people will have already withdrawn. Su Zizheng looked back again.

Speaking of the culprit who completely isolated Yongzhou City, Tang Zizheng and Su Zizheng had a common language: "It is indeed self-inflicted." At the beginning, which thief was willing to leave the rich Yongzhou to fight against the reinforcements, and lost the opportunity to enter the city first, I don't know how much loss will be. At that time, Li Changjie sent some people to watch Kunlun Pass at most. ”

But when it came time to attack repeatedly, Li Changjie wanted to use the 3,000 reinforcements to boost morale.

Since Yongzhou was besieged, Liu Yi sent Zhang Shoujie, the governor of Guangxi, to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to come to the rescue. But Zhang Shoujie was a timid and incompetent general, grinding on the road. Su Mian couldn't wait, so he sent someone to sneak out of the city overnight with a wax pill containing a distress letter, and went to find Song Qiu, the prison envoy in Guangxi, who was slightly Liu Yi, Su Mian couldn't believe it. And five days later, news of reinforcements came.

Calling from outside the city later, Su Mian and the others used a lot of effort to piece the whole thing together. Zhang Shoujie failed to advance, killing the soldiers who went to war with him, and also ruined Yongzhou's hope of waiting for foreign aid, so that people could not sympathize with him for a single star.

The horn of the bamboo ox was blown, accompanied by the war drums, carrying the long ladder, and thousands of Jiaozhi troops rushed up. The water of the moat was diverted. As long as you put the planks together, you can go straight to the bottom of the city. The crow pecking at the carrion flew up pressively, "Another batch of them came to die!" "Su Zi is looking forward to such an attack a few more times, and if he dies a lot, the thief will naturally retreat," After all, the Jiaozhi people are still not good at attacking cities. ”

This time the attack was aimed at the southeast corner. Gongs and drums sounded at the top of the city, and the defenders, who were resting at the bottom of the city, received the signal that they were attacked, and rushed to the top of the city. Su Mian's heart was a little more stable, "The military spirit is still there, and Yongzhou City should be able to defend it steadily." ”

"Imperial City, the lower official has gone over to command first." After Tang Zizheng confessed, he hurried over there. Walking fast, I can see that his left foot is a little lame, and he was shot to his left leg by a stray arrow a few days ago, and it has not completely healed until now.

"Thanks to him." These days, Su Mian's deputy has shown enough military talent, and he is even more courageous in battle, where is he still a civilian official, he is basically the best military general.

With Tang Zizheng's command, coupled with the soldiers who fought bravely, the offensive and defensive advantage in the southeast of Yongzhou City was obviously on the defender's side, and the two rounds of divine arm bow salvos made the offensive of the Jiaozhi people immediately suppressed.

Su Mian turned around and went down to the city with confidence, and the city could be safed today.

The sharp sound of the horn came from the other direction, and Su Mu and Su Zizheng's footsteps stopped. Su Zizheng stepped to the outer wall in two steps, only to see the Jiaozhi people pushing cars out of the front camp in the rear, slowly approaching Yongzhou City.

The vehicle pushed up by the Cochin Army had four wheels, and a long ladder was erected diagonally from the vehicle. Such a car, as long as it leans against the city wall, is a staircase to the city. It is a thousand times stronger than the long bamboo ladder leaning on the head of the city, and there are as many as fifteen such cars. Behind the ladder trucks are four-wheeled vehicles that look like mobile homes, with thick cowhide roofs. The soldiers of the cochins hid under the hides of the cows to avoid arrows.

"That's a ladder truck! There is also a hole in the attack! Su Zizheng always wanted to learn from his father's stability, but his reaction after seeing the siege equipment pushed out by the Jiaozhi people was still inferior to Su Mu. Punched the walls hard, "When will the thieves build siege engines?!" ”

"Bring the oil up." Su Mian hurriedly assigned, such an old age is not in vain, there are not many things in the world that can surprise him, "Among the reinforcements in Guizhou, I am afraid that someone will surrender to the thief." ”

When it comes to attacking and defending cities, only the Song people are the best. The Quartet Barbarians don't even have the qualifications to carry shoes. If it weren't for the help of the Song army captives, with only the skills of Jiaozhi, he would not know how to build a suitable siege equipment for Lu Dao.

Barrels of oil collected from the city were carried up to the top of the city and stacked in places where the ladder carts might have reached the city walls. Yongzhou City has been pouring boiling gold juice on the city these days, and Su Mian deliberately withheld the oil just to prevent the current situation.

The elite troops armed with the bow of the divine arm also went to the head of the city together.

There were a few muffled bangs, knocks, knocks, and as the ladder trucks approached the city wall one by one, the Jiaozhi soldiers rushed out of the attack hole behind. If you climb the ladder, you will rush to the top of the city.

"Pour oil!"

As soon as Su Mu gave the order, barrels of oil were immediately poured down, flowing down the ladder to the bottom. The black, thin and short Jiaozhi soldier had not yet reacted, and the next counterattack of the Song army arrived. There is no need for Su Mian to give another order, everyone knows what to do next.

One by one, the lit torches were dropped, and the torches, thousands of times larger, were raised. Leaning against the edge of the city wall, the flames of fifteen torches rose higher than the city wall, and the soldiers who had just jumped up the ladder rolled in the flames, and the crows flew away in fright with a terrible scream. The fire spread, and even the attack cave fell into a sea of fire.

The crossbowmen guarding the city did not give up this opportunity, and used the Divine Arm Bow or other bows and crossbows to kill the fleeing backs. Moved to the city wall, "The thief is a thief." Su Zizheng laughed, the thief's screams made him feel happy, there is no better music than this......

It's just that Su Mian's eyes narrowed, but he couldn't laugh.