On the north gate of Liucheng, Gai Yuan was transferred to the North Gate by Fuquan to guard today, yesterday's battle, the North Gate as the main attacker suffered a lot of losses, it was because he decided to use Gai Yuan's men and horses to guard the North Gate, after all, most of his subordinates were from the border army, and there were fewer casualties yesterday.

The gale rose suddenly, and the sword in Gai Yuan's hand was leisurely raised above the top, and under the scorching gaze of more than a thousand archers, it slashed down coldly, and a terrible long howl sounded instantly, "Release the arrow!" ”

At the head of the city, after listening to the order of Gai Yuan, the soldiers of the Han army stretched their bows, stretched the strings, pointed arrows into the sky, and tore their hands, and the whole set of actions was completed in one go. In an instant, more than a thousand sharp wolf tooth feather arrows broke through the air, and a piercing scream roared in the air, swept through the sky, and shot towards the city of Liucheng in an instant, pouring down like icy killing raindrops, and immediately heard the miserable screams of countless Xianbei Hu people.

This archer unit was composed of Gai Yuan's original foot soldiers and Liucheng Qingzhuang, all of whom held longbows and were mainly armed with swords and spears. In order to make up for the lack of troops, Fuquan summoned them into the army, the Han Dynasty inherited the legacy of the first Qin, and the martial spirit still exists, not to mention that the border county has been a place to produce elite soldiers since ancient times, and there are many people who are good at riding and shooting, and they are not counted. These willow city sturdy have been practicing equestrian archery since childhood, so with a little guidance, they should be no big problem to defend the city.

A round of arrow rain was followed by several consecutive rounds, which suddenly caused heavy losses to the Xianbei infantry who rushed forward, and there were many people lying on the ground wailing. For a while, there were bursts of miserable nonsense under the city, which made the face of the sandalwood acacia who was in the rear of Xianbei even more pale.

"Hmph", Tanshi Huai snorted coldly, and then ordered: "Let the archers shoot a few rounds, and then retreat, make Mi faster and tell him that Liucheng must be taken today." With that, the herald answered and rode back.

After a while, I saw the Xianbei rear formation, two ghostly "wooden towers" were slowly pushed by the soldiers, and Mijia was constantly shouting outside the range of the Han army's bows and arrows, and countless Xianbei people around the "wooden tower" struggled to advance. The "wooden tower" is extremely wide, the four walls are nailed with hard wooden planks, the surface is covered with cowhide, and ropes are pulled down from the wooden tower, each rope is connected with a string of Xianbei soldiers, and more Xianbei soldiers gather behind the siege vehicle to push forward. Every time these Xianbei soldiers took a step, they raised their heads and let out a nonsense that the Han people could not understand, and then the towering "wooden tower" moved forward several feet unstoppably, slowly advancing towards the north gate of Liucheng with the sound of heavy wooden gears.

"Siege Tower!" Gai Yuan was also attracted by the "wooden tower", but it was good at the ranks, and naturally knew what it was, and couldn't help but exclaim, causing Fuquan next to him to be surprised, and when he understood that it was a siege tower, his face was solemn, Xianbei people had such siege weapons, I am afraid that Liucheng would be difficult to defend this time.

Eighty steps outside the north city, thousands of Xianbei people took bows and threw them at the city, and in an instant, arrows fell like rain in the sky, piercing the bodies of one Han army after another, making people have a sense of inescapability.

"When! While! When ......"

Fuquan hid on the side of the tower, only to feel that his eyes were full of arrows, and before he could think of how to dodge, a black shadow suddenly covered his head.

"Mingfu, there are a lot of arrows in Xianbei, and the city is dangerous, please go down to the city to hide." Gai Yuan shouted in front of Fu Quan with a heavy shield, and after blocking a rain of arrows.

"Wen Yuan, the head of the city will be handed over to you, the city is in the people, the city is broken, and you will come to see me." Fu Quan shouted, of course he wouldn't say anything at this time to stay in the city, the arrow was so fierce, if he was shot by the loss, he would not be killed with an arrow.

"Don't worry about the Ming Mansion, if the city is broken, the aid will not be able to see the Ming Mansion." Gai Yuan's voice said resolutely.

"Don't mention that." Fu Quan was stunned for a moment, knowing that Gai Yuan's intention was that he was ready to leave his life in the city.

"Nuo, come here, escort the Ming Mansion down to the city tower." Gai Yuan shouted to the left and right, and in an instant, a soldier raised his shield and led Fuquan down the city gate.

"Woo! Woo! Woo......"

Time passed, and I didn't know how many rounds of arrows the Xianbei people fired, only to hear the sound of a low horn, and then there were no more arrows in the sky, and the thousands of Xianbei archers retreated together, and suddenly the city seemed to become much safer.

Gai Yuan put down the big shield at this time, raised his head leisurely, and at some point, the two towering "wooden towers" were already close in front of him. He exclaimed, "Siege Tower! The siege towers are coming! Come on, come on, come on......"

The height of the siege tower is more than a few zhang higher than the city wall of Liucheng, it is estimated that there are dozens of steps away, you can go straight to the head of the wall, and the Xianbei soldiers around the tower can take advantage of the situation to climb the wall and fight hand-to-hand with the Han army.

"Shoot, shoot! Shoot fast! Gai Yuan's eyes were torn apart, and a terrible roar resounded through the tower.

The surviving Han soldiers got up when they heard the order, and they didn't care about anything else, they took the longbow around them, took the arrows and shot them in the direction pointed by Gai Yuan, and took the lives of many Xianbei people gathered under the siege vehicles, but everything was in vain, and the sharp arrows could shoot through the Xianbei soldiers without shields and armor, but they couldn't stop the advance of the siege tower.

With an unusually loud horn sound, the siege vehicle slowly moving forward stopped abruptly, at this time it was only a few zhang away from the head of Liucheng City, and the Xianbei soldiers with all kinds of weapons had already crowded to the foot of the city wall, surrounding the entire city gate.

"Boom! Boom! Boom ......"

Without warning, the front edges of the two siege towers suddenly collapsed, and under the horrified eyes of all the Han soldiers, "Boom! Boom" two loud sounds, set up on the north gate of the city, in an instant formed two suspended suspension bridges, one end of the Liucheng city head, the other end of the towering and wide siege tower.

As soon as the front board fell, the Xianbei soldiers who had long been hidden in the siege tower shouted and surged out, they held all kinds of weapons, their eyes were red, like crazy, like locusts, rushed across the suspended suspension bridge, and rushed into the city head of the defenders, and the Han army was caught off guard, and a killing spread.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

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In the deafening shouts of fighting, there are Chinese and Hu languages, and the two thousand-year-old feuds of farming people and nomads have once again clashed in the land of Youyan. None of them dared to back down, because the Han army had to protect their families, their hometowns, and if the Xianbei army could not break through the city and loot enough goods and food, their tribe was destined to gradually die out in the bitter cold outside the fortress.

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Let's talk about the siege tower mentioned in the article, but I didn't find the name, so I didn't dare to scribble. In the pre-Qin period, an engineering chariot similar to the Linchong Lu bus produced in the Song Dynasty was used, which was equivalent to a siege tower, but the chariot was smaller. Here is the siege tower to sign, I hope you don't care.