Yang Zhan was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, standing in the back of the formation, his face was pale, there was actually a trench dug on the thin knife ridge, which was not expected, standing at the bottom of the ridge, because of the relationship between the line of sight, he couldn't see that there was such a deep ditch on the ridge near the city wall, and he had to climb up the mountain to appear, but it was too late at this time, and the soldiers who rushed up had nothing but knives and guns in their hands, and they couldn't dig the soil and fill the ditch under the crossbow bow, so they had to watch their strange barracks retreat back in ashes.

It would be good if someone was sent up to reconnoiter in advance, and it would not be unprepared to retreat in a battle, and lose morale in vain, at this moment, listening to the piercing laughter and scolding of the Kuizhou soldiers on the ridge, Yang Zhan's anger was nowhere to vent.

"Junmen, the trench on the mountain is wide, and I'm afraid I'm going to suffer a loss!" A thousand generals who led the siege of the city were helped down, and a white feather crossbow arrow fluttered in the wind on his shoulder, and the arrow penetrated the waist armor of his body and shot into the flesh, and he grinned and gasped as he spoke.

Yang Zhan looked at his arrow wound, suppressed his anger, gritted his teeth and said, "How wide is the trench on the mountain?" How many ditches are there? Are there any other obstacles? ”

Mr. Qian replied with a grin: "There are three ditches, the ditches are all wide, and there is a low wall on the side of the ditch, there are three walls and three ditches, and they are city walls in the past, and there are no other obstacles." ”

Yang Zhan listened to Mr. Qian's words, his face became even greener, and he asked someone to drag Mr. Qian down for treatment, looked up at the steep thin knife ridge with angry eyes, and said hatefully: "Traitor, this is to fill the ditch with the life of Lao Tzu Erlang!" ”

The generals who followed him on the left and right glanced at each other, they were all frightened, and the people who led the troops to fight knew as soon as they saw the terrain of Diaoyu City, this was a meat grinder, since ancient times, it took effort to attack the city, and it took life to attack the tenacious fortified city of the defenders. If you want to conquer this mountain city that Kublai Khan couldn't defeat back then, you don't know how many soldiers you have to lose, and you can't do it.

So a confidant general hurriedly approached Yang Zhan and said: "Junmen, our son Lang has lost a lot in Shunqing, at this time, if the capital is exhausted here, it will be difficult to regroup in the future, why don't you report to Lord Zeng, and say that the terrain on the mountain is dangerous, and we don't have enough equipment, so we have to spend some time building siege equipment, so let others go up first?" ”

Yang Zhan's heart moved, and then he understood again, slapped the general, and said angrily: "Fart! How can the errand that Lao Tzu just begged for in front of the military gate and the boasted Haikou be recovered? Today, this city can't be said, it will fall on Lao Tzu, you can't wait to shirk, immediately form a team, rush again, and fill in those trenches first! ”

Half of the face was swollen, and he didn't dare to make a sound with fear, Yang Zhan even called a few names, and the generals who were called were all bitter melon thoughts, looking at each other, they could see that Yang Zhan was all the miscellaneous soldiers in the strange barracks, and none of Yang Zhan's generals understood that this was going to be cannon fodder, but they had to pretend to be enthusiastic and take their subordinates down.

The soldiers of these generals totaled more than 1,000 people, gathered together and discussed, and ordered their subordinates to use clothes and cloth bags, each with a bag of soil on his back, and the shield hand to cover it, and climb up the mountain.

When they arrived at the city wall, they were surprised that there were no crossbow arrows from the city, and the Kuizhou soldiers stood quietly at the head of the city, watching the big drama and letting the officers and soldiers who carefully climbed up throw the dirt bags they were carrying into the trench, and there was no response.

Yang Zhan's soldiers were overjoyed, and a thousand people went back and forth, and the front of the first trench was filled, and the wide ditch became flat.

Yang Zhan could see clearly at the bottom of the mountain, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, Tie Qing's face sneered and said to the left and right: "Look, the stone pillar barbarians are not Er'er, as long as I wait to move forward, they will be afraid." ”

The left and right generals were amazed, and they didn't quite understand what was going on, but it was always a good thing to fill in the first ditch, and they were all happy.

The officers and men who filled the earth were in high spirits, and quickly took the soil and, under the cover of the players, walked cautiously towards the second trench. After the first ditch, there is an earthen wall behind the ditch, and the second ditch is more than a foot behind the earthen wall, which is also wide and must be filled again, but in order to fill the second ditch, you must climb over the earthen wall, which is half a human high, and when you crawl, you must get out of the cover of the players.

Ma Long at the head of the city held a mountain-destroying crossbow and waited quietly for this moment.

The Kuizhou soldiers who defended the city each carried ten boxes of crossbow arrows, which sounded like a lot, and shot quickly, and could be shot in less than a quarter of an hour under the high shot of the mountain-destroying crossbow.

When the officers and soldiers who were transporting the soil began to climb the earthen wall and briefly broke away from the cover of the players, the crossbow arrows that Ma Long had already prepared for were triggered, and with a "bang", the eight-inch white feather short arrows were driven by a strong hemp bowstring, and they shot out accurately on the legs of a soldier.

"Whew!" The man screamed, fell to the ground, rolled over, and fell into the trench.

The sound of the "whooshing" bow and crossbow breaking through the air continued, and the crossbow arrows were off the string and shot at the officers and soldiers who climbed the wall with dirt bags on their backs like clumsy bears, and the people who rode on the earthen wall did not go up and down, and there was nowhere to hide, and those who reacted quickly could jump back in a hurry, shrank behind the earthen wall, and the slow reaction was shot down by the crossbow arrows, and they did not know life and death.

The howls of the wounded resounded through the sky, and the locust-like crossbow arrows made the officers and soldiers frightened, and I don't know who took the lead in dropping the dirt bags and turning around and running, and the second impact of the strange barracks retreated like a tide.

However, Yang Zhan's personal army stood at the foot of the mountain, lined up in a wall, drew bows and arrows, and looked at the stragglers who fled with a blank face.

The pro-soldier Qian always stood behind and shouted loudly: "There is an order at the military gate, there is no advance or retreat in this battle, I have not heard the golden sound, and those who retreat without permission will be killed!" ”

A few soldiers who retreated angrily scolded: "****, we were drinking together a few days ago, did we care about our faces at this time?" The crossbow bolts on the top are so fierce, you go up and try it?! ”

The corners of Mr. Qian's mouth twitched, and he roared in a low voice: "Release!" ”

The rows of archers released the bowstrings in their hands, and a row of arrows flew towards the defeated soldiers, shooting accurately to the feet of the fastest runners.

The defeated soldier was like a dog that had been whipped, and immediately stopped and turned around, turning back in horror, Yang Zhan is really here!

Yang Zhan, who was at the foot of the mountain, looked back at the direction of the Chinese army with a cold face, licked his lips, spit out, and named a few more people, the horizontal flesh on his face trembled, and said in a rough voice: "When the people above are dead, you can go on!" ”

The generals who were pointed out had no faces, and they agreed weakly, praying to God and Buddha in their hearts, praying that the brothers in front of them would earn some energy, and that they would delay for a while if they could delay for a while, and they would not expect them to take down the city, as long as it was delayed until dark, and night battles could not be fought after dark, which was an example.

The miscellaneous soldiers who were shot back to the earthen wall by the overseer team were in a dilemma, huddled under the low wall and couldn't move, Yang Zhan saw it in his eyes, and ordered the overseer team: "Order the trench team to attack, the overseer team will go forward to the back of the earthen wall, and those who dare not rush forward and hesitate will shoot directly!" ”

The pro-soldier Qian Zong, who supervised the battle, showed a hideous look on his face, and agreed loudly, and with the sound of the drum of the three-way march, he pinched the drum and moved forward in the whole team, shooting another row of arrows at the miscellaneous soldiers hiding behind the low wall.

More than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers were afraid of their own soldiers, and they were forced to have no choice but to bite the bullet, shout and climb over the wall together, rush forward without dying, and quickly throw the cloth bag in their hands into the trench.

The Kuizhou soldiers on the head of the city immediately increased the frequency of shooting, and the crossbow arrows were splashed wave after wave at the miscellaneous soldiers who filled the ditch, and the sound of iron arrows entering the flesh was accompanied by painful screams one after another, and those who fell into the trench were not only cloth bags but also corpses, and in a short period of time, from the low wall behind the first trench to the second trench, there were all the dead with crossbow arrows, and the wounded were countless, and the blood flowed all over the ground.

But then the second trench was quickly filled, and the corpses and sacks were piled up in the ditch like a mass grave, and half of the more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers were killed, and the rest were already red-eyed, howling and charging at the third trench at the urging of the overseers.