Feng Minda's injury is indeed not serious, after taking out the arrow, he only bandaged it slightly, and the arrow of the party harrier under the city hit his left forearm directly, the flesh wound was not tight, but the tendon was cut, which was more serious, and under the medical conditions of this era, this arm was basically disabled. When he was carried down the city, the young man's face turned pale and he was silent, and the clumsy comfort and encouragement of Minda had little effect.

Ten of the twelve harriers who were the vanguard were killed by crossbow arrows, one was wounded, and even the leader was killed, and the remaining one and a half people could no longer pose a serious long-range threat to the defenders at the head of the city.

However, during the period when the two "Da" of Xifeng Minda and Tuoba Jida sniped each other, the deputy soldiers who carried the ladder behind and the regular soldiers holding swords and shields had already moved, and the six ladders were still erected high, and the regular soldiers in armor lit torches under the root of the city for lighting.

The level of the Tuoba family's regular soldiers was different from that of the Yeli family's miscellaneous soldiers, these soldiers held torches in their left hands and shields in their right hands, held their scimitars in their mouths, and began to climb the city wall quickly.

The nomadic life is relatively primitive, the strength of the teeth is relatively strong, and if the Central Plains soldiers are replaced, if they hold the scimitar in their mouths like this, they will never be able to hold it, and they may even be dragged out of a tooth and bleed or something.

The level of the Tuoba family's lieutenants is also extraordinary, and the six ladders are all erected at the battlements of the wall without exception, and the top end of the ladders is just level with the height of the battlements, and it is dark at night. I really don't know how they did it.

The battlements were limited by the walls on both sides, and the angle at which the wooden spears of the defending soldiers could pierce was limited, while the shields in the hands of the party soldiers could better protect the vital parts of the body.

It seems that the enemy army has indeed put a lot of effort into probing its own situation, not only to find out the equipment situation more clearly, but also to understand the basic tactics and make corresponding adjustments. Tuoba Guangyuan, who is known as the first warrior among the Tuoba family's Guangzi generation, is really not an ordinary person.

However, this time the arrangement on the city wall is a little different from the last time, there are no garrisons in the ravines on the city wall, all the soldiers defending the city are basically standing on the flat ground on the slope, and there are four soldiers standing with guns on the flat ground between every two battlements, two of them facing the outside of the city, and the other two soldiers standing back to back, facing the north and south respectively. And those ravines that were twelve horizontal and vertical were poured with water, and they were muddy inside. And the overseers standing behind the ditch had a bucket full of water at their feet.

Ever since it was discovered that the enemy's strategic intention was to prepare for a night battle, Li Wenge and other officers at all levels of the front battalion were actively making preparations, discussing how to improve tactics and adjusting the deployment and defense facilities on the city towers.

The scouts, who were responsible for striking the enemy with crossbow arrows, all wore expensive cowhide boots that only officers in the front battalion were qualified to wear.

The water in the pit, the buckets at the feet of the overseers, and the soldiers standing with guns back to back on the slope are not Li Wenge's inventions, but the ghost ideas that the officers came up with with every word.

After the last battle, the summary meeting was held for a full afternoon, and the experience summary meeting of each team was held for an even longer time, and the defense tactics invented and created by Li Wenge gradually began to become flawed and shapeless in the gossip of hundreds of people, and every fresh and valuable insight or suggestion was recorded by a few cultural soldiers who could write. Therefore, at today's meeting, in the face of the subject of night fighting, the officers imagined various possibilities one by one, and finally settled on a set of defense tactics that made Li Wenge himself stunned.

This time, the Tuoba family's attack on the city wall was much more tightly organized than the previous Yeli family, with one tent soldier as a basic attack unit, and six people each climbed up on six ladders. The left hand is shielded and the right hand is torched, and the knife is held in the mouth.

When Dai reached a step from the battlement, all the soldiers stopped, wrapped their shields around the ladder with their left hand, and then raised their right arms backwards, only to hear the shouts of the leading Akeni, and all six arms raised at the same time, and six blazing torches were thrown from the battlements onto the wall.

Torches were thrown. The six soldiers immediately put their swords in their hands, and then quickly climbed up to the battlement, and then ......

The six of them stared at the pitch-black city in a daze.

I didn't light the torch to light my ladder. But in order to illuminate the dark city, they are the siege party, the enemy is the defender of the city, and the unfamiliar terrain in the darkness will suffer a big loss.

Before reaching the city, he threw the torch in his hand, on the one hand, to be able to hold the knife in his hand, and on the other hand, to let the city be illuminated by the light emitted by the torches, so that the enemy soldiers hiding in the city would be exposed to the light, and the soldiers who climbed the city would not suffer because they could not see the situation on the city clearly.

When torches are thrown at the top of the city, either the enemy soldiers are turning back in a panic to extinguish the fire, or the soldiers whose clothes are lit are shouting and rolling, in short, the city should be a bright and chaotic scene.

It should never be the dark and eerie scene it is now......

What the soldiers didn't see was that the six torches were thrown into the wall from the battlements, but because they were still so accurate, the torches did not fall to the ground, but fell directly into the tunnel that was perpendicular to the battlement, and then extinguished in the muddy water, and the overseers did not have time to lift the bucket at hand.

Darkness has returned.

Therefore, when the warriors of the Tuoba clan rushed to the top of the city, they saw a scene that they could not understand in any way.

In fact, the situation set by the officers of the former battalion when drawing up the plan was much more complicated than this, and these progressive officers, who were quite difficult for Li Wenge to accept, believed that everything should be based on the worst. They set that if the enemy threw rockets at the head of the city, the soldiers who were hit by the arrows would be pushed into the ditch as soon as possible, regardless of whether they were able to move or not, and the Warlords would pick up wooden barrels and pour them on them to make sure that the city could not burn and maintain relative order.

The officers did not expect the enemy to throw torches at the top of the city in unison, but they did think that the enemy would definitely find a way to change the visibility on the top of the city, and that scuffle in the dark was something that enemy troops who were unfamiliar with the terrain should try to avoid. Their designs are designed for the most complex situations. However, the efficient and concerted movements of the party soldiers matched their design very well, and the torches were thrown directly into the trench from the battlements, and were basically quickly extinguished in the rolling. From the moment the party members threw the torches to the time they climbed the wall, they took two breaths, and the darkness on the city had been safely restored.

This result was not expected by everyone, and the vision of the soldiers of the front battalion guarding the city was temporarily affected, so they did not stab their wooden guns in the direction of the battlement in time. Instead, like the party soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city, they were stunned for a moment.

In this instant, the party soldiers with rich combat experience had already come to their senses.

So the next moment. They moved quickly, only to see a party soldier in armor jump up, step onto the battlement, and put the other leg on the battlement at the moment when the wooden guns in the hands of the two soldiers of the front battalion who were standing on the side facing the outside of the city had just pierced out, and then they jumped on the top of the city with both feet, causing the two wooden spears of the two soldiers guarding the battlements on both sides to pierce the air......

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And then...... He slammed into the muddy ravine, making a splash of dirty water.

Before the party soldier who had eaten a mouthful of muddy water could recover from his dizziness, the wooden spears in the hands of the two soldiers standing on both sides of the longitudinal ditch stabbed down at the same time......

The party soldier spat out the muddy water from his mouth with all his might, if only he could see it at the moment. He must have noticed that the muddy water that came out of his mouth was actually red......

Of the six party soldiers, five died on the top of the city, and one unlucky fellow had just stepped on the battlement when he was stabbed in the ribs by two soldiers standing on both sides of the battlement, one on the left and one on the right, and fell from the city with a scream.

The soldiers standing on the ladder and under the gate could not see the scene above the city. All they saw was the party soldier who had fallen.

The six soldiers of the second echelon did not have torches in their hands, as long as they had torches in the first echelon, it was enough, and now in their opinion, five people from the first echelon had successfully rushed to the top of the city, regardless of whether these five people could survive in the end, they were enough to disturb the enemy army for a while.

So the second echelon climbed to the top of the city as fast as they could.

Then, five of them were mercilessly stabbed by the wooden spearmen on the city walls......

The only one who hadn't been stabbed was because the soldier above his head had just been stabbed. Therefore, the enemy situation above his head was relatively severe, and because of this, he was more careful when he jumped to the top of the city, and used his shield in time to block the wooden spear stabbed from the left side of his body.

However, the wooden spear that stabbed him in the side from the right side made him break out in a cold sweat. Desperately twisting his waist, the party soldier made a gesture that was almost impossible for a human to make, narrowly allowing the shot from the right side to slash in front of his right abdomen, leaving only a hole in the armor.

However, at this moment, the weight of his whole body was pressed on the shield on the left side, and as the wooden spear of the soldier on the left side was withdrawn, the center of gravity of this "lucky" party soldier suddenly shifted outward, and in panic, he naturally took a step towards the city wall, in a vain attempt to stabilize his body.

If there was flat ground behind the battlement, he would undoubtedly be able to do that.

Unfortunately not.

So, like the five warriors who had climbed the city before, he fell down with the grace of a trapeze.

The weight of his body, combined with the weight of the wooden shield under him, broke three of the warrior's ribs in an instant.

Before he could exhale the pain, the wooden spears in the hands of the Han soldiers standing on both sides stabbed down......

The first wave of the attack on the city was over, and all twelve party soldiers in the two tents were killed.

There were still six tent soldiers under the city, and this time there were only a few people who followed the ladder troops and harriers, and they followed behind the ladder troops, and most of them were not attacked by crossbow arrows, and arrived at the city safely.

However, in the blink of an eye, six of the soldiers who had landed in the city fell down, and the other six who had climbed the city wall were not heard from, and there was still darkness and silence on the city.

A night breeze blew. In the eyes of those party soldiers who couldn't understand the battle mode at the head of the city, the ghosts and shadows on the pitch-black city gate were chilling......

"Cheng Mo" Tuoba Jixi, who was in charge of the landing operation, gathered the remaining six "Akni" to his side and discussed countermeasures in a low voice.

It's not impossible to try to get to the city again, but it's clear that you must first figure out the defensive deployment of the city's head. Otherwise, no matter how many people are sent up, it will only be sent to death.

To reconnoiter the deployment of the city, a scout must climb to the top of the city and return unharmed, but unfortunately under the crossbow bolt just now, there is only one harrier left under the city that can still move. Although ordinary soldiers can also carry out reconnaissance missions, they are not as professional as Harriers, and the observation time is very short, and they only have a breath to breathe

In a short period of time, it is another thing for an ordinary soldier to see clearly how many things are one, and then how many things can be remembered after being safe.

What's more, there are only six torches left, and if it really doesn't work this time, everyone will have to touch Heiden City.

Tuoba Jixi finally decided to send a herald to report the battle situation to the commander Tuoba Guangyuan, report the losses to him, and ask him to send a few more harriers to carry more torches.

The wind became louder, and the dust on the ground was blown up all over the sky, and the faces of the party soldiers were all over their heads.

Before the prostrate herald could pass through the trench, a few bolts of lightning swept through the sky, and soybean-sized raindrops fell one after another......

……

As the commander of the army, Tuoba Guangyuan, the envoy of the eight divisions of the Dingyan Army, did not enjoy the privilege of the umbrella, and he patiently listened to the herald's report in the roaring rain around him. There were no words for a long time. After a long time, he asked, "Have the crossbowmen at the head of the city been cleared?" ”

"I don't know!"

"When you arrived in the city, the enemy's crossbowmen didn't shoot arrows?"

"No—"

"What was the cause of death of the soldiers who fell to the ground?"

"It's a stab wound, probably a wound from the head of an iron spear."

"How many are there?"

"Five of them had two wounds, and only one had a wound on his body......"

"Where's the injury?"

"It's mostly between the chest and abdomen, or around the waist. Locations on both sides. ”

"All stabbing? No cuts? ”

"No—"

Tuoba Guangyuan straightened up, his eyes shining in the direction of the city, letting the rain flow down his iron helmet and face, his eyebrows and hairline were full of rain, and even his eyelashes were rolling with droplets.

Another lightning bolt rolled across the sky, and a loud rumbling sound came from far and near, and then disappeared into the sound of the rain.

Tuoba Guangyuan leaned down and said to the herald, "...... Go tell Ji Xi Cheng Mo. I said that it was my command, that he should withdraw with his troops, along with the lieutenants and the remaining harriers, and withdraw them all, and the ladder should not be needed. But not a single corpse of any of the soldiers can be left, you must bring them all back, tell your family Cheng Mo, and ask him to pay attention, so that there will be no more casualties......"

The herald was stunned for a moment, and immediately took the order: "Yes-"

A party officer with a feather on his helmet urged his mount to take two steps forward and shouted, "Uncle, why don't we continue fighting?" ”

"Heaven won't help me—" Tuoba Guangyuan pointed to the sky helplessly.

"Lightning is nothing remarkable, the enemy's crossbowmen may not be able to see clearly, the rain is so heavy that it affects the enemy's vision, and you may not be able to see clearly even if you are ten steps away......" The officer said very unconvinced.

Tuoba Guangyuan smiled bitterly: "Lightning will not hinder our land, but Ji Xi has considered it correctly, we can't act rashly until we figure out the enemy's arrangement at the head of the city, otherwise we will let the elite of the family go up to die in vain." ”

"Send a few more harriers over ......"

"We've already lost ten harriers......" Tuoba Guangyuan said through gritted teeth.

"It takes five years to raise a qualified harrier, and today I have lost ten ...... here alone"

The man was speechless.

After a long time, Tuoba Guangyuan said: "The opponent is a very interesting enemy, his tactics are completely new to us, his fighting style is different from the Zhi family, and even more different from the Gao family, we need to be vigilant against this person." Now that the rain is so heavy that there is no way to light the torches, we cannot find out the reality of the city, and nearly thirty people have died, and our losses are already great enough, and we are here to test the enemy's reality, and now we know that the enemy on the other side is not easy to deal with, and that is enough. The elite warriors of the Tuoba family are limited, we can't lose on this city pass in vain, this city pass can not be taken by our troops and weapons, retreat back. How to deal with this pass and this opponent is the matter of the head of the family......"

The officer opened his mouth, but said nothing more, and responded with a frustrated "yes."

Tuoba Guangyuan said: "You take the team back to the camp first, and tell them to prepare medicine and hot food, and leave me ten tent soldiers, and after receiving Jixi, we will also return to the camp immediately." ”

"Yes——!"

……

Heavy rain enveloped the mountains and the earth, washed away the lush trees and vegetation, and turned the soil on the cliffs into mud......

Two rattan sticks the thickness of half a fist shook violently in the wind and rain, and on the towering cliff wall, two small figures could not be smaller on the rattan swaying in the wind.

Under the cliff, Shen Chen wiped the rain on his face and counted the number of people.

"Forty-Three ......"

Shen Chen shook his head: "Be fast, take advantage of this rain, the enemy can't find us, ask the people above to speed up......"

Ling Pu smiled bitterly and said: "Joining the army, I can't hear the shouting above, I can't give an order, can't we climb up again?" ”

Shen Chen gritted his teeth and thought for a while, and said, "After gathering a team, Yang Li and I will leave first, and you wait here to contain and organize the others, the sooner the better." ”

"Fifty people fighting five hundred?" Ling Pu's mouth opened wide in surprise, and he immediately regretted it, the taste of the rain was so unpleasant......