As soon as the Great Food Army rushed to the city wall, the stone soldiers outside the city had already rushed to the foot of the city wall outside the city, and many stone soldiers were putting siege ladders on the city walls, and some stone soldiers were already holding waist knives in their mouths, and their hands and feet were climbing up along the siege ladders. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing this situation, the generals and officers of the Great Food Army quickly commanded: "Quick, release arrows, release arrows, shoot them!" ”

The big food army on the edge of the wall battlement took out their bows and arrows to shoot arrows at the stone soldiers on the siege ladder, and the stone soldiers who had climbed half of the city were either shot and fell, or they accidentally fell down because they were afraid, and the stone army under the city wall had to continue to climb up the ladder.

Seeing that the big food army appeared on the head of the city and released arrows to the stone army besieging the city, the bed crossbowmen and Fuyuan crossbowmen in front of the Tang army quickly shot crossbow arrows at the city head under the command of the generals, and the thick crossbow arrows shot through the space to the city head with a terrifying sound.

Some of the crossbow arrows shot the wall battlements into a cloud of gravel and earth with great force, and then shot into the city, and some of the crossbow arrows hit the soldiers of the Great Food Army who defended the city, knocking their bodies into the city.

Zhao Ziliang originally planned to use powerful crossbow arrows such as bed crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows to deal with the heavy armored cavalry of the Great Food Army, but considering that the lethality of these weapons was too powerful, he was afraid that he would not be able to capture many heavy cavalry horses of the Great Food Country after winning the battle, so he adopted the method of first exhausting the physical strength of the heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army and then encircling and annihilating them.

The Tang army's long-range strike ability is too powerful, and the soldiers of the big food army defending at the head of the city suffered heavy losses at the beginning, but fortunately, the stone army that is now besieging the city is not very good at attacking the city, they are clumsy and timid on the siege ladder one by one, and there are many people who are afraid of heights, and they have not climbed halfway through and fell down because they are afraid, which also gives the defending big food army time to adjust.

Said saw that the soldiers kept hiding behind the battlements and shooting arrows at the enemy troops below, and their arrows were not many, so he was afraid that the arrows would soon be consumed, so he had to organize some people to go to the city to carry stones and wood, even if the stone bullets fired into the city by the Tang army's trebuchets were also ordered to be moved to the city wall for defense.

The chaotic shouts of killing, screaming, shouting, and the whistling of arrows mingled under the city walls, and blood, mutilated limbs, and death were everywhere. The other side will not defend the city, indiscriminately commanding, indiscriminately deploying, both sides are half-hearted, no one can help the other, but both sides have suffered heavy losses.

This battle lasted for a whole morning, and the stone army responsible for the siege finally attacked the city at dusk in the afternoon, but it was driven down by the fearless Dashi army in less than a cup of tea, and the morale of the stone army fell and could not be lifted again, and it was organized by the generals to attack again but still did not capture the city.

Zhao Ziliang saw that it was getting late, so he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, with a sound of gongs, the stone army besieging the city quickly ran back under the leadership of the generals and officers, after an afternoon of siege battles, the casualties were too great, and they really couldn't hold on.

Zhao Ziliang looked at those stone soldiers who turned around and ran away regardless of the corpses of their fallen comrades after hearing the sound of gold, and couldn't help frowning, turned his head to Mo Hezhu and said: "King Shunyi, this weather is very hot, and the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle should not be exposed to the sun for a long time, otherwise it is easy to breed epidemics after a long time, you send someone to go over with a white flag to take back the corpses of the soldiers and bury them!" ”

Mo Hezhu Tutun stood up and said, "General, will the Great Cannibal allow us to approach the city wall to collect corpses?" What if we are attacked by them while collecting the body? ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "It shouldn't be, let the people sent tell them that you are going to collect the corpses, and they shouldn't attack!" Even if both sides are enemies, they should allow each other to collect the remains of their own soldiers, this is the rule of the battlefield, it is respect for the enemy, and it is also respect for oneself, otherwise it is not an army of a civilized country, but a barbarian, and we don't have to talk to them about morality when we treat barbarians. ”

Mo Heji Tutun was relieved and saluted: "Obey the order!" ”

The siege continued, and after Zhao Ziliang and others returned to the military tent, they immediately summarized and discussed today's siege battle.

Soon after dark, all the corpses of the stone soldiers killed in the battle were dragged back, and Zhao Ziliang asked Mo Heji Tutun: "King Shunyi, how are the casualties?" ”

Mo Heji Tutun said: "General, our army has killed 622 people and wounded 536 people!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "More than a thousand people were killed and injured in one afternoon, and this casualty is indeed too great, but don't be too sad, the situation of the Great Food Army should not be much better than your Shi Army!" Even if they didn't suffer thousands of casualties, they suffered more than 800 casualties! In this way, tomorrow your Shi army will rest, and tomorrow morning Geshu? Que and Asekiel? The Mud Familiar Department took over the siege, the leader of Goshu Mountain and the leader of Asijielin, do you have any questions? ”

Ge Shushan and Ah Xi Jielin stood up and said, "General, we are ready to attack the city at any time!" ”

"Okay, in that case, after you have eaten and drunk enough, go back to rest, let the soldiers recuperate, cook early tomorrow morning, and launch an attack at the end of the morning!"

"Obey!"

After sending away the leaders, Hu Cong served food, and Zhao Ziliang was ready to eat, when Wang Can walked in and said, "General, the last general has a military report!" ”

"Come in!" Zhao Ziliang raised his head and beckoned and shouted, and said, "I haven't eaten yet, I said while eating, come on, go get some food!" ”

Wang Can smiled: "Then the general will not be polite!" ”

The food was quickly delivered, all flatbread and barbecue, Zhao Ziliang nibbled on the flatbread and asked, "What's the military situation?" Is there any news from Whitewater? ”

Wang Can hurriedly turned down the cake and said: "General, it's the news of Baishui City, the people sent by Chu Ge have arrived, but because of the long-distance raids and battles in the past few days, coupled with the rush to report the news, the body can't bear it, and the person passed out just after the report, and the last general has already sent someone to take care of it, it should be fine!" The messenger reported that Chu Ge launched a surprise attack on the Great Food Army of Baishui City in the early morning of the day before yesterday, and successfully routed them, killing most of them, only a few escaped, and at present they have rested in Baishui, and ran out of the scout cavalry to patrol the surroundings, and before the messenger came, Chu Ge had already led a thousand men and horses to the west, and then went northwest along the medicine killing water, so Baishui City is now very empty, and nearly two hundred people were killed in the raid on the Great Food Army, so there are only 1,800 people in Baishui City now! In case the land of Zhaowu Jiu and the garrison of the Great Food Army of Tocharo go north to reinforce them, with those 1,800 people I am afraid that they will not be able to stop it, and the Great Food Army in Hengluo City is only afraid that they will already know the news at this time, if they break through and retreat in the direction of Baishui City, wouldn't it be bad? ”

Zhao Ziliang was chewing food in his mouth, but his brain was running at high speed, he pondered for a moment and then said: "Come on, bring General Cheng Qianli and General Wei Meng!" ”

"No!" Outside the tent, there was the sound of departing footsteps as soon as he agreed.

Wang Can was chewing mutton, and when he heard that Zhao Ziliang was going to call Wei Meng over, he waited for the tent to call someone, and asked, "Is the general going to let Wei Meng lead 3,000 cavalry over for reinforcements?" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Not bad!" ”

Wang Can was quite worried when he heard this: "General, I am afraid that it will be inappropriate to send Wei Meng to lead my 3,000 cavalry, if Wei Meng takes 3,000 cavalry away, we will only have 1,000 infantry troops and 1,000 Modao troops left, and only these 2,000 men and horses are afraid that they will not be able to suppress this army of nearly 30,000 barbarians!" ”

Zhao Ziliang took a sip of wild vegetable soup and said: "Your worries have also been considered by General Ben, but don't worry, even if there are no two thousand infantry troops, General Ben will not dare to be presumptuous in front of General Ben, with General Ben sitting here, no one dares to disagree, hum!" ”

Wang Can heard Zhao Ziliang say this, and suddenly his unparalleled force sounded, if he really wanted to kill someone, even if he had thousands of troops to protect him, he would not be able to save his life, thinking of this, he suddenly relieved his heart.

Soon, Cheng Qianli and Wei Meng rushed over one after the other, Cheng Qianli was very dissatisfied with Zhao Ziliang sending someone to call him over, and shouted as soon as he entered the tent: "Zhao Ziliang, have you still taken me, the deputy envoy of the Beiting Festival, in your eyes, and have you still been humble?" If you want to discuss things, you go to the general's big tent to discuss the matter, not that the general was called here by someone you sent! ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a straight face: "General Cheng, Zhao wants to remind you that now I, Zhao Ziliang, am the chief general of this army, I am the commander of this battle, and you are just a supervisor!" The big tent of the Chinese army is set up in the big tent of this general, and the discussion of military information and combat deployment should also be carried out in the big tent of this general, instead of going to your big tent of supervising the army, understand? ”

Cheng Qianli was speechless for a while, and his momentum fell, so he had to retreat: "Okay, okay, I, Cheng Qianli, don't care about you, you say, what's the matter with sending someone to find General Ben?" ”

Zhao Ziliang glanced at him, looked at Wei Meng, and said to them, "Please sit down, two of you!" ”

After the two of them sat down, Hu Cong hung up the map, and Zhao Ziliang said: "I have one thing to tell you when I brought the two of you here, when our army was still in Kulan City, General Ben had already sent Chu Ge to lead two thousand cavalry and one thousand infantry to attack Baishui City for a long time, preparing to cut off the retreat of the Great Food Army in Henglus City, just now Chu Ge sent someone to report that they had successfully raided the three thousand Great Food Army in Baishui City, and he left 1,800 people and led 1,000 people to advance northwest along the medicine killing water, General Ben asked them to advance five hundred miles northwest along the medicine killing water, and set up an ambush there, I concluded that the Great Food Army in the city must not have the courage to fight to the death with our army, and they will definitely retreat to the desert to the west if they can't support it at some point, but we can't help but guard against the Great Food Army in the south coming north to reinforce it! Therefore, Wei Meng, I will send you to lead the three thousand cavalry under your command to reinforce Baishui City, prevent the Great Food Army from coming to reinforce from the direction of Baishui City, and at the same time deter the Great Food Army of Zhaowu Jiu and Tocharian Kingdom! ”

Cheng Qianli exploded on the spot and objected: "Zhao Ziliang, are you crazy?" If these 3,000 cavalry are transferred, we will only have 2,000 infantry, will those unruly barbarians obediently listen to us and attack the city? I think you're crazy, you're crazy! No, no, I can't let you make this kind of stupid move, I want to remove your official position as the chief general, and now I remove you from your official position as the deputy envoy of the Beiting Xingying Festival, and the army is now under my command! ”

Zhao Ziliang got up and smiled: "General Cheng, are you sure you want to do this?" I think you're dizzy, these Tang troops are all trained by me Zhao Ziliang, and the generals and officers are all promoted by me Zhao Ziliang, without me Zhao Ziliang nodding, are you sure you can command them? Which of those unruly tribal leaders with ten surnames didn't send troops out of sight of my Zhao Ziliang's face? Without me Zhao Ziliang here, do you think they will look at your face? ”

Cheng Qianli's face turned pale suddenly, he took a few steps back, and pointed at Zhao Ziliang with trembling fingers: "Hello, good, I'll let you toss, if those barbarians really rebel and make trouble, I'll see how you end, and I'll see how you explain to the court!" With that, he flicked his cloak and walked out.

Zhao Ziliang shook his head, didn't care, and said to Wei Meng: "You don't have to worry about him, even if something happens, General Ben will bear it alone, you just have to do it according to the general's orders, remember to bring enough food and grass, and set off for Baishui City overnight tonight!" After arriving there, the 1,800 cavalry there are also under your command, if the Great Food Army in the south really goes north to reinforce, you must find a way to drag them out, and it is best not to touch them! ”

Wei Meng clasped his fists and saluted: "Don't worry, the general will know!" (To be continued.) )