The so-called defending the city is divided into two types: living and rigid.

Needless to say, the people in the city because they knew that they were weak, in order to hit the enemy to the maximum or block the enemy, they gave up the opportunity to escape, and turned the entire city into a huge nail, where to nail it, and the final result was only two, either wait until the situation reverses, their own side wins or their own army is destroyed, and the city is completely destroyed.

However, if you defend for a long time, you will lose, and if you really want to appear in this kind of stubborn defense, it will basically end up with the annihilation of the whole army, and there is very little chance of survival.

The other kind of living defense is different, it may be evenly matched with the attacking side in terms of troops, it may be slightly weak, but the difference is not big, and their combat power is still very strong, and when they can defend the city, they can also divide their troops outside the city, and form an interlinked relationship with the city, so as to offset the prestige of the attacking side in the situation and improve the defensive strength of the city wall.

And Huaiyin City is now at an absolute disadvantage, in the face of the 300,000 elite Tang army led by Li Xiaoli, not to mention the division of troops stationed outside the city, and Huaiyin City has formed a horn, can rely on the city wall, to hold Huaiyin City, the Xu army in the city is grateful to God.

"Shoot, shoot me hard, shoot these damn Tang Army."

When the shield hand phalanx that took the lead finally entered the attack range of Huaiyin City, the Xu army, who had long been unable to bear it, bent his bow and arrows under Wei Chao's order, and threw a rain of arrows into the city.

Don't look at most of the soldiers of the Xu army, they are young and strong without training, maybe in the eyes of the elite Tang army, they are a group of rabble, if you really fight them, just one charge can completely tear their front apart, but in this siege war, especially when they are still on the defensive side, this advantage and disadvantage is not so obvious.

Thanks to the advantages and disadvantages of the government military system, most of these soldiers of the Xu army have been trained, so they are still competent in basic bow and crossbow training, and for a while, countless arrows rained down from the head of Huaiyin City.

Looking at the dense rain of arrows, even though the shield bearers have experienced this kind of scene countless times, they still can't help but change their faces, nothing else, because they know that every time they are under this kind of arrow rain, whether they can survive or not depends on God's mood, once their familiar comrades, relatives or comrades-in-arms, because of one of God's displeasure, after falling to the ground, they never got up again, and left this world forever.

It is a pity that the army is the army, and the elite is the elite, and the main reason why it is different from ordinary people and rabble is that the army is disciplined and courageous.

Knowing that it was death to move forward, the shieldbearers still took firm steps and rushed forward, of course, they did not rush to death, but gathered the shields in their hands on their own tops, and curled up as much as possible, so as to reduce the size of the body and the chance of dodging the arrow.

Unfortunately, even so, under the dense rain of arrows, there are still many shieldmen who are hit by sharp arrows, and the high-speed sharp arrows, coupled with the reason for spinning, as long as the person who is hit by the arrow, will immediately fall to the ground, struggling in pain.

And the comrades-in-arms around them or around them can't help them, they can only surpass them and continue to rush forward, not because their comrades are indifferent and ruthless, but because they know that if they want to save them and avoid more comrades-in-arms from dying, the only way is to rush to the city as soon as possible and open the city gate, which is the root of the problem, otherwise, more comrades-in-arms will be dead and injured waiting for them.

After braving the wind and rain, after a difficult blockade, the shield hand phalanx lost almost a third of its soldiers, and it was so important that it was less than two hundred steps away from the Huaiyin city wall, and at this point, the shield player's goal was reached.

Because if the task of the shield hand is to clean up the traps and traps outside the city, and here, there are basically no traps and traps, so their task is basically completed, of course, on the battlefield, as long as the battle does not stop, it is impossible for all the soldiers to really complete the task, it can only be said that their first stage of the task is completed.

As mentioned earlier, shield bearers are not only cleaners, but also siege fists, and after clearing the traps and traps in their path, they also have a mission, which is to act as a combat defense against attacks on the city walls.

After arriving not far from the city wall, except for the soldiers in the front row who were still holding shields in their hands, most of the remaining shield bearers were divided into two, one person held a shield for protection, and the person next to him quickly put down the shield in his hand, took off the bow and arrow behind him from his body, and then quickly bent the bow and arrow, shooting towards the Xu army at the head of Huaiyin City.

"Ahh·········h

"Be careful, watch out for the enemy to fight back."

In the face of the Tang army's sudden counterattack, the Xu army at the head of the city was in chaos in an instant.

You must know that a military formation of the Tang army is about 2,000 people, and when it was advancing just now, it lost one-third, and now more than half of them are holding shields for protection, and the Tang army that can shoot arrows is less than 500 people, but it is these 500 people who almost collapsed the Xu army that was several times their head of the city, which shows the difference between this elite and the rabble.

Of course, in addition to the reason for the fighting quality, there is another reason why the Xu army is so chaotic, that is, the Tang army is some elite veterans, and every time they shoot an arrow, they will hit a Xu army, and hundreds of casualties will be killed and injured at once, no wonder it will make the Xu army at the head of the city almost collapse.

"Bastards, don't mess up, don't mess up, stick to your post and shoot them to death for me."

Under the shouts and even scolding of the generals of the Xu army, the soldiers of the Xu army slowly stabilized again, but they were not as unscrupulous as they were just now when they attacked again.

"Okay, great, continue to attack, and strive to take Huaiyin City within today."

Seeing that the shield hand successfully occupied a good position and began to attack Xu Jun at the head of the city, Li Xiaoyi in the back couldn't help but shout excitedly.

With Li Xiaoyi's order, the Tang troops of the two phalanxes were dispatched together.

These two phalanxes are different from other phalanxes, they look extremely large, and at the same time, they bring a lot of things, this is the siege phalanx, all the things used in the siege, whether it is siege vehicles, crash vehicles, or ladders and other basic siege tools, they have everything, people are dazzling, difficult to distinguish.

With a burst of "grunt" want to move, the first to go out is the siege vehicle, the so-called siege vehicle, is specially made for the siege of things, said that he is a car, in fact, a little reluctantly, except for the two wheels below, he and the car actually have nothing to do with the car.

Below are two wheels, the head is a thick roof reinforced with log planks, the besieging soldiers can hide under this, pushing the siege vehicle to rush to the city wall, with the protection of the thick roof of the head, the general bow and arrows and other means of attack, will not cause too much loss to the besieging soldiers, in addition to the fire oil or rolling wood thunder stone will pose a threat to him, but most of the time, there are not many fire oil or rolling wood thunder stones used for defense in the city, the most are bows and arrows and other items.

Pushing the siege vehicle, the Tang army quickly rushed to the city wall of Huaiyin City along the safe road that the shield bearers had paved for them.

According to the different division of labor, some Tang troops relied on the city wall and began to build ladders, while other special Tang troops pushed huge door-smashing cars to the gate of Huaiyin City.

Different from ordinary siege vehicles, the door crashing car is like a modern artillery car, a huge log, placed on the siege vehicle, under the impetus of the Tang army, slammed into the gate of Huaiyin City.

It's a pity that Wei Chao, a veteran, has already thought of this, he has already piled stones and gravel in the city gate cave in advance, blocking the city gate, not to mention the attack of the car that hit the door, even if it is explosives, it may not be able to blow up the city gate.

Although there was an accident at the city gate, it did not affect the overall situation, countless Tang troops rushed to the city wall of Huaiyin City, have set up a ladder, and are struggling climbers, although many people did not climb halfway, they were beaten down by the Xu army at the head of the city, but the endless stream of Tang troops, or climbers who struggled like ants, according to this situation, as long as Xu Jun is not careful, the probability of being broken into the city by the Tang army will be very large.

"General, what can I do, the Tang army has just begun to attack the city, we are about to be unable to resist, if the Tang army is attacking, I am afraid that the time to break the city is not far away, or ······· Otherwise, let's withdraw. ”

Standing at the head of the city, looking at the Tang army struggling to climb under the city, and the Xu army at the head of the city had blocked it, Wei Chao stood quietly as if he had nothing to do with the outsider, watching all this happen.

"Withdraw, why withdraw, the battle has just begun, the show has not yet started, if we withdraw, what can we do next, okay, don't think too much, watch it well, and see how the Tang army failed."

Looking at the young lieutenant in front of him, Wei Chao did not blame him or punish him, but still said to him lightly.

"Ah·········· This ·······"

Hearing Wei Chao's words, the young lieutenant was completely stunned, he didn't know if he was crazy or Wei Chao was crazy, or if he was crazy in this world, the current situation was obviously that the Tang Army had the advantage, and Huaiyin City was broken through by the Tang Army Maybe it would be a matter of the next second, but why did Wei Chao still say such confident words.

It's just that soon this lieutenant didn't have time to think about this problem, when he saw that the ladder was successfully erected, and the Tang army also had a great advantage, Li Xiaoyi sent five more Tang troops to help, and strive to take Huaiyin City in one go, in an instant, Huaiyin City was full of Tang troops running around, and the Xu army, which had been suppressing the Tang army before, was suppressed by the Tang army at this time because of the increase in the Tang army, and became suppressed by the Tang army, fortunately, because there were many Tang army soldiers who attacked the city, the Tang army archers who suppressed the Xu army did not fire wantonly, Otherwise, I am afraid that the Xu army at the head of the city will suffer heavy casualties.

"General, what's going on at the head of the city, the last general heard that the fighting was loud, but the Tang army couldn't carry out a general attack."

Just when the battle on the top of the city was at its most critical, Wei Chao, the main general, quietly walked down the city wall, which made people feel quite weird.

Looking at the middle-aged general in front of him, Wei Chao shook his head helplessly and said, "General Wei Chi, how is the elite of the Tang Army, those people don't understand, don't you understand, with those rabble at the head of the city, how can it be worth them to launch a general attack, from just now, the Tang Army has only used less than 10,000 people, and now it is about to attack the city." ”

"What, how can it be so fast, it seems that we really underestimated that Li Xiaoyi this time, I originally thought that he was not a gentleman, but I didn't expect that he was a little handsome." The person who was called General Wei Chi by Wei Chao was none other than Wei Chao's deputy, Wei Chi Zhao, of course, this Wei Chi Zhao has nothing to do with Wei Chi Gong, the founding meritorious officer of the Tang Dynasty, although the surname Wei Chi is rare in later generations, it is a common surname in Datang, and Wei Chi's family is also a famous family, and it is also a big family in Datang.

"It doesn't matter what is handsome or not, the 300,000 elite army, or the border army and the sixteen guards have been elite, it can be said that all the elite troops in the whole world have been gathered, if there is no means of this, there is an accident, now it seems that the things we discussed before have also changed, otherwise, if we really wait for the Tang army to attack the city, even if we want to do it, I am afraid it will be too late." Wei Chao said.

"Have you decided, but you have to think about it, when you prepared this plan, you wanted to give the Tang army an unforgettable lesson, and it was also to let the Tang army suffer heavy losses, and then have to be afraid of it, and delay time for the Dadu Governor to attack Runzhou, but now there are only less than 10,000 losses, I am afraid it will be difficult for the Tang army to break the bones, and it may even anger the Tang army, if it is really that situation, we are afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses." Yu Chizhao said.

"Forget it, don't think about it, the battlefield is changing rapidly, the plan is the plan, the reality is the reality, the plan can never catch up with the reality, if we can't even hold Huaiyin City now, let alone some of the next plans, let's take action, if God is really doomed to failure, we can't escape even if we want to."

After thinking about it, Wei Chao gritted his teeth and said.

Seeing that Wei Chao had already made a decision, Wei Chizhao could only take orders.

Just when Wei Chao and Wei Chizhao were discussing, the Tang army camp outside the city was full of joy, of course, the happiest person was the chief manager Li Xiaoyi.

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