"See the dead and wounded brothers outside?" Pang Wanchun replied with some distress, but the whole person stared intently at the three big characters with golden hooks on the top of Chenglou, Pingjiang City.

Hearing his eldest brother's heavy words, he looked at the corpse lying in the open space in front of the south gate of Pingjiang City. Pang Qiuxia, who has always been rational, stood quietly beside Pang Wanchun, with a shocked face.

I thought that the battle would be nine out of ten, but I didn't expect that before it officially began, my side lost one-tenth. However, as the general who leads an army alone, Pang Wanchun still has a sense of the overall situation, and he can still afford to lose 2,000 men and horses, so he still thinks about how to attack the city at the current moment.

And Gao Shide on the city tower couldn't believe it, is this still a wolf-like thief? Why did you start fighting? Okay, what about the overall offense? A dozen question marks popped up on Gao Shide's brain. Even the experienced one-eyed dragon was a little dumbfounded. Even if they were besieged by bandits in the past, it was a big battle to decide the winner, and the 20,000 army that looked menacing in front of him was actually thundering loudly and rain quietly, could it be that there was still some conspiracy?

"General, are they waiting?" The one-eyed dragon immediately had an idea, and said his thoughts to Gao Shide.

I saw Gao Shide nodding and turning to look at the city: "Maybe we want to go together." ”

Unexpectedly, Pang Wanchun's performance outside was unexpected, but it made Gao Shide and others mistakenly think that there were people in the city. In fact, it is not to blame Gao Shide for thinking too much, after all, these days, Fang La has used similar methods to break through the major cities. So he had to guard against it, but fortunately, the four major families in the city were the same enemy as Gao Shide at this moment. This played a very important role in the stability of the city, but even so, Gao Shide was not very relieved. He found his own henchmen and guards, arranged for four or five hundred people to patrol the streets, and all the four major city gates were isolated and under martial law.

As long as the other party does not break into the city, Gao Shide has the confidence to stick to it.

In the afternoon of the same day, Pang Wanchun's troops did not continue to attack, but set up camp thousands of kilometers away from the city gate. There is a lot of preparation for a protracted war, after all, as long as Pingjiang City, where Gao Shide is located, can't transport grain and grass, this has already achieved a certain purpose. As for Guan Sheng's army, it was pinned down by Fang La's main force, Fang Qifo and others, and could not return to help. Now I don't worry about this moment, the only thing I am unwilling to do is that I have lost 2,000 brothers in vain, and if I don't do anything, one will not be able to mutiny in the army.

How to say that Pang Wanchun's department is not a regular army at all, it is all farmers who have just put down their hoes and carried big knives. Where can you expect good discipline, usually good at fighting a good fight, once frustrated, as the current military spirit is unstable.

Fortunately, Pang Wanchun and the others have a lot of prestige in this army, if it weren't for this, when they saw the scene of ten thousand arrows firing at once, they would have been heartbroken when they saw their companions around them die so miserably.

"Big brother, don't worry, isn't Pingjiang City just a lot of arrows? You see what good things the girl has brought you. Pang Qiuxia looked at her eldest brother Pang Wanchun's sad face, and hurriedly reported the good news.

"What kind of good thing, can it still break the city?" was all about studying how to break through the river city, and Pang Wanchun didn't have the heart to play with his little sister.

"Maybe it's a good way to break the city, you can come out and take a look!" Pang Qiuxia said coquettishly.

couldn't resist this little sister of his own, Pang Wanchun cheered up and walked out of the tent, but saw a ghost-faced giant shield placed on the clearing. I couldn't help but show surprise on my face, looked at my sister, and subconsciously smiled.

"Well, with these huge shields, our army is no longer afraid of the unavoidable bow and arrow." walked through the device, carried a ghost-faced giant shield, knocked on it, and said in surprise.

"That's right, the shield we seized from the state capital barracks warehouse that we breached last time is said to be left over from the Song Taizu's southern and northern wars in the past, and it is poured with ironwood and bronze due to the special material. So today, hundreds of years later, as long as it is re-polished and repaired, it can be put to use. Pang Qiuxia, who has always been ghostly, said happily.

You must know that in the past few days, Pang Wanchun has not made many moves, night attacks, secret passages, etc., none of them have been successful, but they have lost thousands of brothers. Now with this ghost-faced giant shield, even if he doesn't have to attack at night, he has the confidence to climb the city wall.

After all, due to the special geographical location, the city walls of Pingjiang City are not high, and the attack and defense are relatively simple. If it weren't for Gao Shide's ten thousand arrows that made Pang Wanchun's department unable to get close, it would only be a matter of time before he ascended the city with the help of the cloud ladder.

When the war began, Pang Wanchun was forgotten not because he did not have a practical shield to resist the bow and arrow, but because of the shoddy work that he originally brought, and the shield that was suspected of being in a hurry could not resist the large area of the whole body, but it was still difficult to move an inch in front of the incomparably dense arrows. Now that there are hundreds of ghost-faced giant shields, the shields and shields can form an iron-shell battle array, approaching the walls of Pingjiang City step by step. As always, thousands of arrows were fired, but in the face of these thick and sturdy huge shields, there was a sense of powerlessness.

"General, it looks like they've found a way to deal with our arrowheads." The one-eyed dragon said with some concern.

"What about finding it? I don't just have an ordinary arrow as a hole card, and I pass my military order to ballista. With Gao Shide's next order, the original archery team retreated, but a giant crossbow, or crossbow bed, was erected from above the castle tower. And this ballista is also very simple, it uses a special javelin with a powder bag like a detonator strapped to it. The gunpowder pack is divided into two layers, the inner layer is a large amount of black powder, and the outer layer is full of iron sand, and the two layers are separated by rice paper. The yin line of the gunpowder is on the outside, and after ignition, it is fired through the ballista. It can be said that it is ruthless and accurate.

However, even Gao Shide underestimated the strength of the ghost-faced giant shield, and as the arrows shot at the giant shield, the sudden huge force made the people under the shield fall down. This was followed by an explosion of gunpowder, emitting extremely thick black smoke. But no one was killed, only a few unlucky soldiers were injured by the iron sand. And the power of the explosion was mostly resisted by the giant shield, after all, the black powder of this era was still in the stage of primitive firecrackers. Although it scared Pang Wanchun's side a lot at first, after counting the damage, he showed a trace of disdain.

"Go on the offensive." Pang Wanchun can be described as high-spirited at this moment, happy and excited.