Now the battlefield is in a state of stalemate, the defenders of Jiulian City have not all retreated into the city, and a large part of the defenders are still outside the city to fight with Zheng Yuan's troops in a roundabout way with the fortifications that have already been built. And Zheng Yuan is difficult to exert the corresponding combat power because of the cavalry in his hand, and he is more relying on the 20,000 new troops who surrendered to fight against the defenders of Jiulian City, and it will be difficult to distinguish it for a while.

Obviously, this time the other party has made a bloody investment, even if he can't block Zhao Fu's soldiers, he has to gnaw a piece of meat from Zhao Fu so that Zhao Fu's flesh hurts.

"It's not very good." Zhao Fu saw through the binoculars that several attacks launched by Zheng Yuan were defused by the opponent's orderly defense, and it was obvious that these defenders had been carefully trained. These defenders were too obvious compared to the combat strength of the 20,000 new troops that Zheng Yuan had just recruited.

But fortunately, Zheng Yuan has been with Zhao Fu for so long, and what he has learned is not only martial arts. Seeing that the strong attack could not work, Zheng Yuan quickly adjusted his playing style, and his troops were divided into three ways, one side was composed of his Hu cavalry, and constantly intruded around the fortifications of the defenders of Jiulian City, so as to reduce the rhythm of the opponent's attack; On the one hand, a slow but steady advance was made, focusing on uprooting and destroying the enemy's fortifications, and on the other hand, bypassing the frontal battlefield and trying to break through from the flank, while at the same time forcing the enemy to divide his forces.

Zheng Yuan's approach was very effective, because of the strong combat power of his headquarters behind his back, it was impossible for the defenders of Jiulian City to go out of the city to fight, and could only defend passively. After Zheng Yuan changed his offensive style, he could only watch the fortifications he had built with great difficulty being uprooted little by little.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zheng Yuan's soldiers and horses to successfully advance under the city wall, and at the same time entered the range of the enemy's crossbow arrows.

Because the mobility of the archery troops was far weaker than that of the cavalry troops, Jiulian City did not arrange too many archers outside the city, but only used a small number of archers to assist the pikemen to fight against Zheng Yuan with the help of fortifications.

Now Zheng Yuan has advanced his troops to the city, and the defenders of Jiulian City outside the city have all retreated to the city, so soon Zheng Yuan and they ushered in a rain of arrows.

Bows and arrows have been a weapon to defend the city since ancient times, condescending, protected by the city wall, and the archers can shoot unscrupulously.

The dense rain of arrows naturally brought a lot of trouble to Zheng Yuan, Jiulian City is different from Geyang City, the city wall of Jiulian City is the height of the big city of the Lanhe Empire, this is not the kind of cloud ladder in Geyang City, you can successfully climb the height of the city wall with a few steps and jumps.

There is a saying that the city wall is one foot high and one inch high, and there is no good way to face this kind of city wall even if Zheng Yuan comes in person - even if he can quickly climb the city wall, but once there is no one behind him to follow, it is tantamount to falling into the encirclement of the enemy. Even Zheng Yuanna may not be able to please the siege of the enemy army on the city wall, and it is very likely that he will still be forced to retreat.

Zhao Fu had already seen that Zheng Yuan was about to climb the city wall several times, but unfortunately there were no corresponding soldiers behind him, so he had no choice but to retreat. Although Zheng Yuan's current combat power is not weaker than Zhao Fu, even if he has reached their level, he will still bleed if he is injured, and he will still die if he bleeds too much.

In the face of this kind of city, if you can't outwit it, you can only choose to attack slowly.

As Zheng Yuan estimated, it would indeed take some time to capture this city...... At the same time and to a certain extent not a small number of casualties.

Zhao Fu did not allow this, there were only so many people he brought, even if he could get supplies along the way, but after all, he didn't have his own soldiers in the northwest to use them. For Zhao Fu, every time he lost a soldier from the northwest, it was a pain in the flesh.

"Inform the Iron Arm and prepare for battle." Zhao Fu put down the binoculars and ordered, and then he also took the armor from the guards and checked the clothes one by one.

In order to avoid casualties as much as possible, it is necessary to end the battle as soon as possible, and gnawing this kind of hard bone is the specialty of the Iron Arm Army. At the beginning of the establishment of this army, it was specially trained for various complex situations that might arise in the Lanhe Empire, and it can be said that it was the first special force in the Lanhe Empire except for the Night Wolf Force.

"Understood!" The guards in charge of the herald looked excited, it had been so long since they came out of the northwest, and the Iron Arm Army had not really fought a few battles, which made them all panic. Although he also knew that Zhao Fu did this to preserve his strength, the Iron Arm Army was the elite of the elite in the true sense, and it was impossible to take the lead in participating in every battle, after all, this was the hole card at the bottom of the box.

And now this hole card has been opened by Zhao Fu, and the siege battle is naturally in the regular training of the Iron Arm Army, and the city wall of Jiulian City may be very high for the Hu cavalry under Zheng Yuan, but it is also like that for the Iron Arm Army. You must know that the person who trained the Iron Arm Army was Lin Hanyu of the Night Wolf Army, and Lin Hanyu was even more desperate to use the standard of the imperial capital city wall as a template for the daily training of the Iron Arm Army.

Nine Links City? Whose walls can he compare with the imperial capital?

"Zhao Qian, what are you doing? Didn't you wait at the top of the mountain? Zhao Fu was about to join the battlefield with the Iron Arm Army, and saw Zhao Qian also dressed and sitting on a horse.

"I'm going to join you in the fight too!" Zhao Qian said.

"War is not child's play, it kills people." Zhao Fu said bluntly.

"I know, but I'm also strong! Teacher, you said that only the strong can survive on the battlefield, and I can! Zhao Qian's eyes were firm.

"You...... You follow me. Zhao Fu didn't have time to persuade, he knew that Zhao Qian had also practiced martial arts for a few years, since Zhao Qian wanted to go up, it would be good to go up and experience it.

"Great!" Zhao Qian rode his horse and followed behind Zhao Fu.

The actions of the Iron Arm Army are worthy of the name of the strongest army in the northwest, and their actions are uniform. Zhao Fu did not join the main battlefield, but planned to break through directly from the side, after all, there were enough people in the main battlefield. Although siege warfare requires the number of people to be piled up, but piling too many people at the same point cannot lead to qualitative change from quantitative change, that is, it gives the enemy a chance to be a man and a man and not open a thousand people.

Zhao Fucai would not be stupid enough to give away the enemy's head.

Soon, the Iron Arm Army, under the leadership of Zhao Fu, came to the west of Jiulian City, which was also the place where the enemy's defense was relatively weak in Zhao Fu's observation just now.

"The first team followed me, and the rest took cover." Zhao Fu ordered.

"Yes!" There was a uniform answer.

The previous commander of the Iron Arm Army was Lin Ji, and he must be the first soldier in every battle, rushing to the front line. Therefore, when Zhao Fu wanted to take the lead in the charge, there were no subordinates to stop him.

The long-term battle had already established that Zhao Fu was invincible in their hearts, and as if he were an invincible existence, they would not worry about any harm that Zhao Fu would suffer as a pioneer.

(End of chapter)