The Great Food Pioneer was blocked by Xi Junmai from the first line of defense, and it has been two days.

The trenches dug in the ground, and the musketeers in the trenches, the cavalry of the Great Food Vanguard failed to break through.

The width of those trenches exceeded the distance of the horse's jump, and even if the horse jumped high and wanted to jump over, before the horse could pass, the musketeers below had already stabbed the horse and the soldiers above with the stabbing on the musket.

The Vanguard of the Great Eclipse shot his bow and arrows into the air, attempting to rain down a rain of arrows to hit the musketeers in the trenches. However, the Tang Dynasty soldiers had already taken precautions, and the shieldmen in the trenches held their shields high, and put them together like a ceiling, just enough to cover the musketeers from the fire of bows and arrows, and did not prevent the musketeers from shooting the cavalry on the opposite side from the trenches.

Bows and arrows are fired differently from muskets. The bow and arrow should be fired from the back, and then fall from mid-air, like a rain of arrows, dealing a lot of damage. The musket, on the other hand, was fired horizontally, firing head-on, forming a barrage and causing a large area of casualties.

Therefore, the shield soldiers in the trenches raised their shields to block the bows and arrows, but the large cannibal cavalry rushing on the opposite side could not block the oncoming bullets.

However, this situation is not optimistic after the army of the Great Eclipse catches up.

The charge of the Great Eclipse was very fierce, and the Tang Army had no time to clean up the corpses of the Great Eclipse Army in the trenches in front, and now the Great Eclipse cavalry behind had begun to step on the previous corpses.

Moreover, as soon as the army arrived, the number of people was even larger, and no matter how fierce the shelling was, it would not be able to hold up too many people on the opposite side after all.

"Pass on my generals, withstand this wave of food army, and then retreat to the second line of defense at night!" Xi Junmai saw that it was no longer meaningful to continue the stalemate, and it was only a matter of time before the Great Food Army broke through the first line of defense, so he ordered.

That night, after the Great Food Army rested a little, they charged again, only to find that there was no trace of the Tang Army in the first line of defense.

Xi Junmai led the men and horses to gallop with the equipment and the starry night, and joined the Xue Rengui Society.

Xue Rengui had already dug countless ravines on the main road from the second line of defense to the middle of Tabuk City, and had already planted mines all over the place. The two immediately divided their troops into two divisions and led them separately, and hid on both sides of the main road.

The army dispersed, broken into pieces, and no longer confronted the Great Food Army, but out of nowhere, seizing every opportunity to sneak attack and disturb.

Or when the Great Food Army stepped on a mine and was blown up, he suddenly came out to kill a group, and disappeared again in the blink of an eye.

The journey of a hundred miles dragged on for more than ten days before reaching the vicinity of Tabuk City.

And the Great Food Army has been disturbed and suspicious, and is physically and mentally exhausted.

The so-called not afraid of thieves stealing, afraid of thieves. It is a clever summary of human psychology - it is stolen, anyway, it is like that, the matter is over, and the panic or panic left behind can be slowly digested with time to forget it. Fear of thieves means that you have an intuition in your heart that something is going to happen, but you don't know what it is. Like when to come? What's on your mind? What means will be used? Will I be harmed? To what extent will it be harmed? …… These questions are kept in mind, but they will always make people uneasy, panicked and even overwhelmed. This invisible mental torture is far greater than the harm caused by something being stolen.

That's why there is that sentence - waiting for death is more terrible than death itself!

Guerrilla nuisance is motivated by this mentality to achieve such a purpose.

However, in any case, the Great Food Army reached the city of Tabuk and surrounded it.

Xia Hongsheng had long expected that the Great Food Army would definitely encircle Tabuk City, and even more would have the intention of besieging but not attacking, and consuming the Tang army in the city.

Therefore, preparations have been made since the beginning of the capture of the city of Tabuk.

Not only did they strengthen the city walls, build defensive turrets and fortifications, prepare oil and rolling logs and other tools for defending the city, and even dug tunnels to the outside of the city for breaking out if necessary......

Because of the thorough preparation, as long as the people of Tabuk City did not disturb from within, they could still hold on for a while.

At this time, the men who were to be brought from Belus came in handy.

"After dark, you will go down from the city wall with a climbing rope, sneak into the Great Food Army, and find out the details of the Great Food Army." Xia Hongsheng said to the person in front of him: "How many troops will Da Shi send this time, where is the baggage hidden, where is the handsome tent located, when will it be handed over at night, and how many times a day...... These are to be observed secretly and written down. ”

Someone next to him translated Xia Hongsheng's words into Persian and told these people.

The people on the hot air balloon could only see how the army of big food was arranged and how the troops were distributed, but as for the details of the specific army, they could not see clearly. After dark, you can't see anything.

Therefore, only these Persian soldiers who were similar in appearance to the Great Cannibal were mixed into the Great Cannibal Army to investigate.

There was a shout of killing at the city wall, and Xia Hongsheng silently looked at the direction of the city wall. Siege without attacking is not always without attacking. Siege without siege is not to break through the city, but the siege in the middle can consume the personnel and materials of the defenders in the city, increase the pressure on the defenders trapped in the city, and make their living conditions more severe, which will lead to the final collapse of the defenders.

Today's wind direction is not right, it is not suitable for hot air balloons, only the artillery on the city wall makes an earth-shattering sound, bombarding the Great Food Army array in the distance, trying to delay them to get closer to the city wall.

There are also mines planted outside the city walls, which also take the lives of the big cannibals one by one.

Artillery and mines are powerful, but the number of the Great Eclipse Army is much larger.

Eventually, they reached the bottom of the walls of Tabuk.

"Sharpshooters use rockets, aim siege equipment, crossbowmen kill enemies, shoot!" Su Dingfang commanded calmly and ordered in a deep voice.

The crossbow arrows made a whizzing sound and burst through the air, rushing from the city wall like a curtain of rain towards the enemy troops below the city wall.

The crossbow arrows, which were soaked in oil and ignited with flames, instantly pierced the sky and nailed to the top of the stone thrower or ladder. The oil in the hollow body of the crossbow arrow is spilled out by inertia, and after passing through the flames on the arrow, it becomes a fire snake and spews out, winding around the stone thrower or ladder, igniting the stone thrower and ladder.

One wave retreats, and another wave comes.

The Great Food Army is ruthless, even if it takes people to consume, it will also exhaust the ammunition and food of the Tang garrison in the city, and they will be exhausted.

And in Sinai, the warships of Eastern Rome finally appeared in the field of vision of the Tang army on the coast.

In the south, the army of the Great Eclipse was also violently impacted.

The decisive battle has begun.