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People shouted and horses neighed, chariots were sparkling, and the 100,000 Wei troops were getting closer and closer to Pinglu City.

"Stop!"

Pang Juan, who was fully armored, squinted his eyes on the chariot, and his black robe and cloak hunted in the wind, looking majestic and imposing, and his posture was very similar to that of a wizard in myths and legends.

As a great power second only to the five great powers, Wei still did not slow down the development of chariots, and so far it has 13,000 chariots, so it has become a country second only to Qi and Qin in the whole world.

As the most respected general of Weiss, Pang Juan loved chariots, and all he thought about was how to invent new chariots all day long, and he dreamed of using chariots to sweep away nearby enemy countries and then dominate the world.

"Since the enemy country has abandoned the chariot and turned to the development of cavalry, if we Dawei also follow the development of cavalry, it is difficult to predict who will be strong and who will be weak. And if we continue to develop chariots, our Great Wei's chariot soldiers will definitely be far superior to other countries. ”

Pang Juan used this sentence in the main hall of Yecheng to convince Wei Si and the civil and military forces of Wei, so that Wei adopted the strategy of using chariots as the main cavalry as the auxiliary, and continued to manufacture chariots on a large scale and train chariots.

Pang Juan has a lot of experience in the study of chariot soldiers, and even boasts that he is the strongest chariot general in the world: "I am not as good as Bai Qi in commanding a large corps of soldiers, and I am not as good as Meng Tian in terms of using troops in the mountains, but in terms of the command of chariots, if I Pang Juan is called second, no one in this world dares to call me first!" ”

"What about Sun Bin, the military general of the Qi State?" Someone asked Pang Juan.

Pang Juan smiled contemptuously: "I really don't understand, why does Duke Qi value a guy who can only talk about it so much?" Sun Bin is just a scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken, he was lucky enough to meet my master, and after learning the art of war for a few years, he came out to swagger and deceive, and sooner or later I will expose his liar face, so that Qi Gong can see that the military advisor he relies on is simply an idiot! ”

Under the auspices of Pang Juan, in addition to the ordinary two-wheeled and four-chariot chariots, Wei's chariots even invented an unprecedented six-chariot, and improved siege vehicles, grain trucks and other models, making Wei's chariots huge in scale and extraordinary.

Among the 100,000 troops dispatched by Wei this time, there were 3,000 chariots, including two chariots of 800 chariots, which were responsible for launching tentative attacks in the front. Four chariots of 1,800 times, responsible for crushing the enemy army in a head-on decisive battle, and finally there are 400 huge chariots of six chariots, specially used to restrain the enemy's chariots, to bully the small.

With Pang Juan's order, the 100,000 Wei army quickly stopped advancing, looking very well-trained and neat.

"Did the Tang army in Pinglu City escape?"

Pang Juan sat on the handsome car with his hands on his knees, and asked with squinted eyes. He likes to use this gesture to talk to his subordinates, thinking that it will make him appear imposing and mysterious.

The scout knelt down on one knee and replied: "Back to the general's words, the four gates of Pinglu City are closed, and the Tang army has gone to the city wall to defend, and there is no sign of abandoning the city and fleeing!" ”

Pang Juan slowly opened his eyes, stood up straight and looked at Pinglu City a few miles away: "Oh...... The officials of the Tang State have some backbone, and they thought that this newly established country was scattered! ”

The deputy general, Le Yang, rode his horse to Pang Juan's chariot, stroked his sword and said: "Brother Pang, it seems that the Tang people have been prepared, and the soldiers are fast, we must attack the city as soon as possible, and strive to take Pinglu before Zhou Yu returns to the rescue." ”

Pang Juan shook his head and glanced at the two generals on the left and right: "Zuo Si and Deng Lu, this general ordered you two to lead 10,000 mixed corps to launch a tentative attack on Pinglu, how about trying the combat strength of the Tang army in Pinglu City?" ”

"Whoa!"

The two Wei generals agreed, and each lit a mixed formation of shield pawns, bow pawns, and force pawns, and under the cheer of horns and war drums, the smoke and dust billowing from the trampling, launched an attack on Pinglu City.

The remaining 80,000 Wei troops lined up on the slopes of a hill five miles from Pinglu and divided into eight formations, with the chariot soldiers in the center, led by Pang Juan himself, and Le Yang in charge of the cavalry and archers.

"Kill, rush!"

"When the Great Wei Xiongshi arrived, he didn't open the door and surrender?"

Under the leadership of Zuo Si and Deng Lu, two Wei generals, 20,000 Wei troops launched an attack on the east and north gates of Pinglu.

The rapidly charging Wei army rushed to the front with a shield on his head and a long ge in his hand, followed by a strong pawn carrying a cloud ladder, and an archer holding a bow and arrow, quickly crossing the moat and rushing to the foot of the city wall.

In order to resist the attack of the Wei army, the 15,000 defenders in the city were divided into four groups, with 4,000 men on each wall, and the remaining 3,000 men were used as mobile troops to rush to the dangerous city walls at any time.

"Shoot me hard!"

Liao Hua, who was in charge of defending the eastern city wall of Pinglu, pulled his bow and shot down a Wei pawn and shouted.

With Liao Hua's order, 1,300 crossbowmen on the city wall fired arrows in unison, pouring down a rain of arrows like flying locusts.

Other soldiers smashed the equipment prepared in advance, such as rolling stones and hammering wood, down the city wall, aiming at the top of the Wei army's head, showing no mercy. For a while, the screams came one after another, and the Wei army that fell to the ground with arrows rose one after another.

Zuo Si held a shield in one hand to protect the vital point, and while waving his sword and commanding loudly: "The archers will push Lao Tzu forward ten zhang again, and they will all hide behind and watch the excitement?" ”

The 3,000 Wei archers could only advance further, and the front queue had even hung their toes in the air on the river, bending their bows and arrows and shooting at the city wall.

In an instant, the arrows rained down, and countless feathered arrows drew arcs and fell on the city wall of Pinglu with the sound of the howling wind.

The bows and arrows of the Wei army have been transformed by Pang Juan, and they are full of strength, and the number of archers is more than double that of the Tang army. Although the strength was weakened due to the upward firing, it still formed an effective suppression of the Tang army on the city wall, and many people took refuge in all directions, creating an opportunity for the Wei army shield guards who were besieging the city.

"Attack!"

Zuo Si crossed the moat with his shield and personally set up the first ladder on the wall of Pinglu.

Immediately after that, the sound of "duh, duh, duh" came and went, and one after another four-zhang high ladders leaned against the city wall, and the ant-colony-like Wei pawn began to climb up with his shield.

"Shoot fast, shoot hard!"

The Tang army was a little flustered, and the crossbowmen bent down one after another to blast at Wei on the cloud ladder. But with little effect, most of them were covered by shields, and few were hit by arrows.

"Stupid, shoot me the archers in the distance!"

Liao Hua dodged a stray arrow with his head sideways, raised a rolling stone and smashed it at the tallest Wei pawn who climbed, his brain burst when he landed, and he planted the ladder headlong, "Rolling stones, beating wood and smashing the enemy troops on the ladder, the crossbowmen shot at the Wei pawn on the side of the moat!" ”

With Liao Hua's order, the archers at the head of the city changed their targets and shot their bows and arrows aimed at the cloud ladder at the Wei archers phalanx on the edge of the moat.

Although the archers can shoot from a distance, their defensive ability is relatively weak, and at this moment, they were condescendingly shot by the archers of the Tang Army, and they suddenly became a mess, suffering heavy casualties, at least more than 200 people were killed and wounded, and the formation was in chaos.

"Prop up the ladder with a bamboo pole!"

Taking advantage of the suppression of the Wei army's archers, Liao Hua shouted, picked up a bamboo pole and pushed it towards the ladder, three or four people pry it hard at the same time, and the ladder fell down with a bang.

At this time, although the ladder was called a ladder, it was not the same as the ladder that was improved later, and the sturdiness and safety could not be compared, and it was better to call it a heightened bamboo ladder than a ladder.

Under the command of Liao Hua, the Tang army on the city wall worked together, and the archers shot the Wei archers below the city wall, while the other troops retreated to the cloud ladder with bamboo poles, and smashed the climbing Wei soldiers with boiling water and wood, successfully repelling the first wave of the Wei army's attack.

Just when Liao Hua repelled Zuo Si, Ji Ling also blocked the attack of Wei general Deng Lu on the northern city wall, so that 20,000 Wei troops returned with feathers, at least nearly 1,000 lives under the city wall, and the Tang army also paid the price of 200 casualties.

Pang Juan saw that the division was unfavorable on the city wall, his face was a little pale, and he slowly swept to Le Yang next to him, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the Tang Army still has some combat effectiveness, and then I can only trouble General Le to personally command the siege!" ”

Le Yang nodded, unsheathed his sword, raised 30,000 soldiers and horses to kill down the hillside, rendezvoused with Zuo Si and Deng Lu, made a comeback, and attacked the four gates of Pinglu at the same time, vowing to break through the gate of Pinglu.