However, it is said that the Beigong encirclement and suppression army surrounded the Jingjue City, and built a long low earth wall to cut off the Jingjue City from the outside world, and used trebuchets to harass the Jingjue City every day.

However, the counterweight trebuchet of the Beigong encirclement army itself is not invincible.

After all, just like other trebuchets, it is difficult to ensure the accuracy of stone projectiles fired through a parabola. In addition, as a large siege machine, the heavy counterweight trebuchet is also very expensive and the process is more complex, so it takes longer to build. Another more important issue is that although the counterweight trebuchet has a leap in power compared to other trebuchets, it is not absolute in terms of its ability to destroy walls. In the face of the thick walls of star-shaped oriental walls such as those built by Chun Yuyi, even heavy counterweight trebuchets often found it difficult to destroy the walls, so it was more likely to destroy the battlements or the top of the walls, so that the soldiers could not gain a foothold. Or simply use the parabolic attack method of the trebuchet to attack the city walls one after another.

This kind of inducing and unprovoked style of play is indeed very troublesome to the people in the city, and makes the spirit of the soldiers and civilians in the city highly nervous, like a taut string, as long as someone plays it gently at the right time, the string will suddenly make a loud sound or even break.

The use of this psychological tactic is completely in line with Sun Tzu's strategy of attacking: "The army of the people is not the battle, and the city of the people is not the attack".

Murong Ling is deeply rooted in the essence of his father Murong Ke's art of war, and he is indeed a young and excellent military commander.

According to the enemy's fighting style, Fan Xiang and Chun Yuyi, Chun Yu Tiying, Yin Yan, Yong Yisheng, Xin Ziqi and others designed advanced city defense equipment, that is, to add a slingshot turret on the city wall, that is, according to the principle of slingshot, the heavy bombardier is miniaturized, which can be placed on the city wall, and condescendingly shells the encirclement and suppression army behind the earthen wall.

At the same time, he also added fishing nets woven with thick rope to the outside of the city walls, and supported them on the walls with wood. This kind of fishing net has a stronger shock absorption of the pottery projectiles thrown by the stone thrower than wood, so although there are many cannons in the encirclement army, they are not a great threat to the walls of the Elite City.

In addition, they also invented weapons such as paddle wood, goose pear cannons, and three-bow ballistas to help defend the city.

The enemy bombarded artillery shells into the city, and the city also fired oil bombs or flame stone shells at the enemy troops behind the earthen walls.

On the third day of the siege, Fan Xiang and the generals stood on the wall of the north gate, watching the encirclement army cut down all the poplar forests on the bank of the river and Swan Lake, and the military camp was stationed along the bank of the Zdu River, and the company camped for more than ten miles.

Looking at the big boats densely distributed on Swan Lake by the encirclement and suppression army, Fan Xiang suddenly said to herself: "Sure enough, as I expected, the enemy army is like this, in addition to using water for soldiers, we also need to use ......." Quietly looking at the camp of the encirclement and suppression army, thoughtfully, he turned around and asked Chun Yuyi: "Chun Yu is the master, are most of the hundreds of fishermen in our beggar army caught by the encirclement army to fight fish for them." ”

Chun Yuyi replied: "Yes, since that evening, I arranged for them to camp in Swan Lake, and after the encirclement and suppression army came, I directly forcibly recruited them, and according to the information they passed back in the past few days, they were also secretly carrying out their respective tasks in the enemy camp according to the general's orders. ”

Fan Xiang pondered for a while, raised his head, looked at Chun Yuyi, and said: "Chun Yu is the master, you have to arrange for the people in the city to tie 20,000 straw men as soon as possible, I have a wonderful use." ”

After three days of siege by the Beigong Suppression Army, the social situation in the city began to develop in a subtle and unstable direction, and discordant voices began to appear among the people, and a small range of soldiers in the army began to show some negative emotions. The economic situation began to deteriorate, and some opposition, capitulators, and defectors began to appear among the people and the army, and even some people began to attack the military garrison troops in the city.

On the fourth day of the siege, more than 100 soldiers and civilians attacked the garrison of the southern gate with weapons, trying to open the southern gate and escape.

The situation was then quickly quelled by the city's troops.

On the fifth day of the siege, the encirclement and suppression army used large iron cannons and heavy trebuchets from time to time to fire lethal artillery and bombs into the city, and many houses in the city were destroyed, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were seriously burned and injured to varying degrees, and the losses of each household were also quite heavy.

Almost every two hours, the encirclement army would drop huge oil-coated pottery bombs into the city and the city walls, and the pottery bombs would break into several pieces when they fell on the city head or the streets of the city, like broken red petals, beautiful and iron-blooded. The vibration of the giant bullet on the city wall was like a giant standing in front of this lonely city, and this lonely city was like a toy in the eyes of this giant. Every two hours, the giant struck the walls with a great hammer countless times, so thick and violent that the buildings of the city were hummed and puffed up with gusts of gray stone and dust falling from the top.

All of these earthenware projectiles hit the strongest city walls in the world, and they were the main reliance of the elite people against powerful enemies. Every wave of the day's pottery bombs would bring some damage to the walls of the star-shaped outer city, and the walls of the spilled calcareous glutinous rice walls were very strong, and occasionally peeled off a little, like breadcrumbs from a child's mouth. But as soon as the enemy stopped shelling, the soldiers and townspeople would rush up to the breach like a swarm of valiant ants, mending the broken places with all sorts of things and covering them with linen bags filled with sand, or Arabic tapestries, so that they could quickly condense,...... Every time after the bombardment of the encirclement army, the dust that had been scorched by the sun's rays in the canopy of the Taklamakan Desert would slowly drift in all directions of this lonely city, flying proudly like a blood-red banner over the land of this exquisite oasis.

During the days that the ancient city was under siege, the shock of the blow occurred six times a day, evenly spaced, like a giant clock striking the time—the howl of a bully from a strong world against another weak, and at the same time, a trumpet from a weak world against another powerful world.

Fan Xiang's sense of time is very accurate, every time after the enemy's artillery attack is suspended, the vibration subsides for a while, and he will go up to the east gate or the north gate city wall to watch the enemy's situation, the enemy still has no sign of sending ground troops to attack the city, thinking about it, Murong Ling is trying to exhaust the patience of the people in this lonely city to the maximum, intending to let the spirit of the city chaos on its own, so as to take advantage of the chaos.

After the fifth watch of this day, Fan Xiang went up to the east gate tower to check the enemy's movements as usual. Suddenly, in the enemy camp far to the east, the sound of drums and horns vibrated and the firelight flickered, and you could see the men and horses in the enemy camp behind the low earth wall, and you could clearly hear a shout of killing in the enemy camp.

Fan Xiang groaned slightly, and ordered the soldiers to immediately start the trebuchets arranged on the city tower, and concentrate on attacking the earthen wall near the sound of killing, and after a while, hundreds of burning stone bullets carrying the light of fire smashed the earthen wall in that area into powder. In the enemy camp, after the faint sound of fighting, then, in the twilight of the morning, hundreds of warriors waved long knives, fighting out, first a white-clothed warrior holding a spear, surrounded by the enemy, galloping, rushing left and right, unstoppable, in the light of the just white sky, very eye-catching.

Then I saw the banner rolling, there were twenty or thirty enemy soldiers with helmets and armor fierce horses from the gap in the earthen wall, and then thousands of soldiers followed the horses, appeared in the unobstructed grass under the east city, shouting, blocking the hundreds of people who rushed out, after a while, the phalanx of hundreds of people surrounded the group, and the rest of the enemy soldiers bravely galloped in front and behind, holding swords and dancing spears, showing off their might.

When Fan Xiang saw it, he said to the twenty-eight warriors and Yelujing behind him: "The warriors will attack with me, and the three thousand ironclad troops under Yelujing's command will follow up and go out of the city to kill the enemy!"

The leading enemy army came to this place suddenly, and for several days he had not seen a real battle with real swords and guns, and his heart was already itching, and when he saw an enemy army rushing out of the city gate, he yelled at his comrades who were shouting and clamoring on all sides: "Brothers, you keep a close eye on these lambs, I will go and kill this guy first!" shouted the trumpet, rushed up to meet Fan Xiang, raised the mace in his hand, and smashed Fan Xiang on his head and face.

This fierce general is a bully among the five tiger generals under Murong Ling's account, and his martial arts skills are also very good.

When the sky was light, he heard the sound of fighting in other parts of the camp in the headquarters camp, but there was no horn to attack, so he did not dare to attack without an order, so he cleaned up the troops and horses of the headquarters by himself to complete the strategy. Later, I heard the neighing of military horses, the horns repeatedly, and the military trumpets calling for help sounded, so I led the military horses of the headquarters to kill.

At this time, I saw Fan Xiang holding a painted dragon and a halberd, a broken knife at his waist, wearing a green coat and a black armor, and he was handsome and handsome, but he didn't know who it was, so he didn't put Fanxiang in his eyes at all, and the mace in his hand was just handed out to Fan Xiang.

The two horses intersected, and before the three, Fan Xiang shouted, and the wrong horse turned around and stabbed Lingba under the horse with a halberd.

There were more than a dozen enemy generals watching the battle around and they were all taken aback when they saw it.

Among these more than ten fierce generals, there is also a tiger general, named Yan Meng, who is also a fierce general in Murong Ling's army, and has always been good friends with Ling Ba, at this time, he saw that his brother and the person who came did not make a few friends, and after a while, he was stabbed to death by a halberd from the person, and he hated it very much, and immediately slapped the horse out and shouted: "This thief, leave your name!"

Fan Xiang looked at Yan Meng, crossed the Heavenly Halberd, laughed, and said loudly: "Kill you and others, Fan Xiang is also." After that, he held the halberd in both hands, urged the earth mole divine horse under his crotch, and stabbed Yan Meng with a halberd in the chest.

"Thief, return my brother's life!"

Yan Meng did not show weakness, shouted loudly, dodged to avoid the halberd, when the two horses intersected, the spear stabbed Fan Xiang in the face, was shouted by Fan Xiang, freed his hand, avoided the gun, grabbed the gun, pulled the person with the gun away from the saddle, and waved a halberd with one hand, splitting Yan Meng and the person with the armor in half in the air.

The rest of the crowd was shocked.

When several generals watching the battle saw it, they shouted in unison, and each waved the weapon in their hands, surrounding Fanxiang in the heart, and turning around like a marquee.

Fan Xiang laughed for a long time, held the painted dragon Qingtian halberd in both hands, and urged the earth mole divine horse under his crotch, surrounded by more than a dozen enemy generals, and rushed to kill back and forth, as if no one was in a land.

Twenty-eight Rui Shi rode on the periphery and swept the formation. Ye Lujing also led his subordinate ironclad army to rush into the team of Tsing Yi warriors with only more than 300 people left, separating them from the swarming devil army.

Thousands of husband An Wulang waved two full moon scimitars, the wrong horse to split Fan Xiang, Fan Xiang took advantage of the situation to draw the dragon Qingtian halberd from the bottom up, swing away An Wulang's hand full moon scimitar, and stabbed it under the horse with a halberd. Another commander Hou Tianming waved a sawtooth knife in his hand, slashed at Fanxiang, Fanxiang killed up, a halberd swept away the sawtooth knife in Hou Tianming's hand, and a halberd echoed away, cutting off Hou Tianming's left arm with a sharp halberd branch, returning a halberd to Hou Tianming, provoking Hou Tianming, the halberd stabbed his body, standing in mid-air, facing the surrounding enemy generals, shouting, majestic and majestic, like a celestial man.