"There's something to say! It's better to do this, our army can stop fighting for ten days, and then compensate your army with some gold, silver and jewelry, what does General Wei think? "It is certainly impossible to want a truce, this is war, not child's play. Ma Teng could only throw out the gold, silver and jewelry to see if He Xian was a greedy man and whether he could impress him to redeem Pound.

Sure enough, as soon as He Xian heard that Ma Teng was willing to compensate for the gold, silver and jewelry, he immediately fell silent. Ma Teng saw that there was a play, and hurriedly added: "I am willing to use a box of gold and silver and a thousand war horses as a condition to exchange for Pang Lingming's order, what does the general think?" ”

He Xian touched his chin and said, "I want gold and silver, and I want war horses!" The two are mutually reinforcing, I choose the war horse! In this way, General Lao Fuguo will exchange all the gold and silver in that box for 10,000 Xiliang war horses, and if the gold and silver are not enough, I am willing to give some more subsidies. As soon as the 10,000 war horses arrived, I immediately released Pound! What do you think of this condition? “

"How? I'll smack you in the face! Ma Teng scolded angrily in his heart. Ma Teng commanded more than 50,000 people, and a total of more than 20,000 war horses. He Xian asked for 10,000 when he opened his mouth, did Ma Tengken give up half of his combat power to He Xian?

"Three thousand! It can only be 3,000 horses at most, and if you have more, you don't need to talk about it! Ma Teng gritted his teeth and replied.

"If you don't talk about it, you don't talk about it! In my opinion! Pang Lingming is strong in martial arts and loyal, if it is under my command, it is 10,000 war horses, and I will not change them! What Ma Teng didn't expect was that He Xian rejected Ma Teng's proposal of 3,000 war horses when he opened his mouth, and gave Pang De a very high evaluation with his backhand.

Pound felt that there was no hope of survival, and he was about to scold him to relieve the anger in his heart. Unexpectedly, He Xian's handful, and the dirty words that came to his mouth were swallowed by Pang Desheng. As a savior, Pound has done what he should do as a general. Failed and captured, that was Ma Chao's fault, strictly speaking, Pound was the biggest victim, there was really no need for him to die here for no reason. Thinking like this, Pound's desire for death immediately faded.

What He Xian wants, Ma Teng can't give; What Ma Teng can give, He Xian is not enough. At this point, there is no need to continue the conversation. Ma Teng turned to Pang De and said, "Rest assured! Your family will take care of it! ”

After speaking, Ma Teng took a hard bow with iron tires from the hands of his guards, and bent the bow and arrows in one go.

"Protect the lord!" Zhao Yun shouted loudly and blocked He Xian with a gun.

But Ma Teng's arrow did not shoot at He Xian, but the arrow roared towards Pound on the flagpole.

Pound was so tightly tied that he couldn't move at all, and could only watch as the iron arrow flew towards his chest. A nimble figure appeared in front of Pang De with an iron shield, only to hear the sound of "dang", and Ma Teng's killer arrow was successfully blocked by the iron shield.

"Father, what are you doing?" Ma Chao stepped forward with a scream.

Ma Teng secretly said "It's a pity", and then looked at Ma Chao expressionlessly: "Of course, it's to help Ling Ming get free!" Haven't you seen it yet? He Xian had no intention of letting people go at all, he just wanted to break the fighting spirit of my Xiliang Army!

After speaking, Ma Teng no longer paid attention to Ma Chao, and said to the guards beside him: "Pass the order down, advance the ladder, and prepare to attack the city!"

Above the city tower, Pang De looked at He Gan who was blocking the arrows for him in front of him with a complicated expression. Pang De knew that He Qian was one of He Xian's personal guards. The reason why he blocked the arrow must be due to He Xian's instructions. This is where Pound's contradiction lies, he would rather die simply.

"He Xian, if you want to kill, you will kill, don't embarrass my lord again!" Pound opened his mouth and yelled at He Xian.

"Want to die? No way! You have messed up the general's plan, if Ma Chao is here, Ma Teng will definitely not be so happy to make up his mind to attack the city! “

Pound was speechless, and He Xian was telling the truth. For Ma Teng, Pang De is just a brave and warlike general, but Ma Chao is the successor who can inherit his subordinates and will, and the two are not the same.

Pang De was taken down the city tower by He Qian and locked up in a small dark room for reflection. It is no longer safe to climb the towers, because what follows is a brutal siege.

After all, Ma Teng is a hero, and knowing that he can't do anything, he immediately made up his mind to use the big war to weaken the influence brought by Pound's capture. The first wave of 5,000 siege troops has been assembled, and their task is simple: carry sandbags to fill the moat outside the gates. This task is simple, but it is not easy to complete, and the probability of casualties is very high. How wide the moat is, and how many lives are basically needed to fill it.

In an ordinary battle, this first wave of death squads would basically be people kidnapped from villages near the city. They were organized into a team of fifty men, each with five Xiliang sergeants to supervise the battle, and the sole purpose was to keep attacking and fill the river with their lives. But this time, the Xiliang army could not recruit the people. He Xian had already advised Chang'an to inform all the villages near Chang'an City, and the people were either hiding in Chang'an City, or far away from Chang'an City, and hiding as far away as possible. Only by clearing the wilderness can the Xiliang Army be able to survive as soon as possible. This policy was agreed by Situ Wang Yun, Sikong Liu Biao, and Fenwu General Lu Bu, so the implementation was unusually smooth.

Dressed in leather armor, with a shield in one hand and a sandbag in the other, these Xiliang soldiers began to charge towards the moat of the Bacheng Gate. At the same time, the archers of the Western Liang Army began to shoot in formations on the top of the castle tower, providing cover for the death squads filling the river.

Above the city tower, Wei Yan, who was wearing armor, was directing the Nanyang infantry to launch a counterattack. Like Gao Shun's choice, Wei Yan did not sacrifice the trump card of crossbowmen at the beginning, he selected a group of people who knew how to shoot bows and arrows from the pikemen and Chang'an youth, and formed temporary archers, who did not need to shoot accurately, only needed to shoot arrows within a general range. Whether you can shoot the enemy or not depends purely on probability. Because there are a large number of arrows in Chang'an City, but these arrows cannot be directly used on the crossbows of the Nanyang Army. In line with the principle of using nothing for nothing, Wei Yan decided to make these arrows first.

Although the crosshairs of this group of temporary archers were not good, after more than 3,000 people shot arrows at the same time and covered a certain area, the lethality was naturally reflected. There are constantly Xiliang soldiers who fall on the way to fill the river, and the shouts of killing are shaking the sky.

This was the first day of the official siege of the city by the Ma Teng army, with more than 2,000 casualties and less than half of the moat filled. It may take another two days to fill in the moat in front of you and officially enter the more brutal battle of climbing.