After taking General Pei City, Zhao Ziliang did not have time to rest at all, nor did he let his subordinates rest, he first ordered all the remaining Turks in the city to be driven out of the West City Gate, and let them fend for themselves outside the city, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the city, he had to do this.

Secondly, he organized his soldiers to carry all the materials and materials that could be used for city defense on the city wall overnight, and the large bed crossbows, catapults, and crossbow arrows in the treasury were carried away. He wasn't sure if the Fire-Spitting Immortal Khan in Shattered Leaf City would send troops to recapture General Pei after learning that General Pei's city had been taken, but he was prepared to meet the enemy in advance.

It wasn't until Yinshi, when everything that needed to be prepared was prepared, that Zhao Ziliang ordered two-thirds of the soldiers to rest, leaving one-third of the men to garrison on the city walls, and he himself slept in the city lord's mansion.

As soon as the sky dawned, Zhao Ziliang was awakened by the sound of a gong, it was an early warning! He immediately rolled over, opened the door and shouted, "What's going on outside?" ”

At this time, Chu Ge took Wang Can and walked quickly from outside, the blood stains on the armor of the two had long since dried up, and a thick layer of paste was on it, and Zhao Ziliang's own armor had more dried blood stains, and before going to sleep last night, he didn't wash up, and his body was full of the smell of blood.

"General, 10,000 horses have come out of Broken Leaf City, and they are rushing here, and the leader of the troops is Modo, the number one general under the Fire Fairy Khan!" Wang Can saw Zhao Ziliang coming over, and said as he walked without waiting to stand still.

Zhao Ziliang listened and asked, "How many cavalry and infantry are there among the 10,000 people?" Are there any siege engines? ”

Wang Can said: "Six thousand cavalry, four thousand infantry!" But I didn't see the siege equipment, but they must have craftsmen, although it is impossible to build complex siege equipment such as well fences, siege vehicles, and catapults in a short period of time, but it should be no problem to build siege ladders and rushing vehicles! ”

Zhao Ziliang said again: "How long will it take for them to reach the city?" ”

"It should be soon, not more than a moment!"

Several people were talking, and at this time they had already arrived at the gate of the city lord's mansion, and Zhao Ziliang turned over and got on his horse. Beat the horse and ran towards the west city gate, Wang Can and Chu Ge followed closely behind with their followers.

Zhao Ziliang asked while galloping on his horse: "Have the soldiers all had breakfast?" ”

Chu Ge said: "The first group of people stationed on the city wall have already eaten, and the second and third groups of people who are still resting in the city have not eaten yet!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and ordered: "The second and third batches have been resting for more than an hour, let them all go to the city wall, let the men send all the food to the city wall, and let the first batch come down to rest and sleep!" ”

Chu Ge said: "General, the Tuqi Shi people are coming soon, is it too early to let the first batch of people withdraw now?" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head: "No." We don't need so many people on the city wall, and we have some men and horses as reserves, once somewhere on the city wall is killed by enemy troops, we also have reserves to go to reinforcements, if we don't keep reserves, once there is a problem, there will not even be reinforcements! In addition, the first group of centaurs has not rested since yesterday, and their stay on the city wall is of little use! ”

"Got it! Subordinates will arrange it immediately! ”

If not no other way. Zhao Ziliang would never pull all his troops into the city, most of his hands were cavalry, and it was definitely a shameful waste to let the cavalry defend the city.

Zhao Ziliang had already observed that the outside of the West City Gate was too narrow. The cavalry did not have enough space to perform maneuvering and roundabout combat tactics, and the odds of winning a battle with Charizard's general Modo outside the city were unlikely, and the only way now was to send someone to Fumon Lingcha for help as quickly as possible, and then delay as long as possible. Do your best to resist the siege of Modo until the main force of the Southern Route Army arrives.

After the messenger for help was sent out, Zhao Ziliang climbed the city wall. The first group of soldiers who had been guarding the city wall last night began to remove the wall, and the second and third groups began to climb the city wall, carrying the loads of boxes of steamed buns, steamed buns, and barrels of broth.

"Eat, eat! Everyone who comes up takes two steamed buns, a bun, and a bowl of broth! The captain shouted as he stood by the battlement.

The soldiers who were climbing the city wall lined up, collected their food one by one, and rushed to their positions under the leadership of the commander to wait for the arrival of the enemy army while eating.

As soon as the soldiers had finished eating, they saw smoke and dust rise from the sky a few miles away, and everyone knew that the army of Turgish was coming, and there were quite a few of them.

The cavalry arrived first, and although the noise was very loud, all the Tang troops on the city wall were not afraid, after all, the cavalry could not attack the city, and even if they stepped on the ground under the city, they would not pose a threat to the city wall.

Thousands of cavalry stopped at a stone's throw in front of the city walls, then ran back and forth, and finally ran back, causing dust and smoke to rise in the air.

Zhao Ziliang observed with a monocular for a while, and said to Chu Ge: "Order, let the third group of men and horses go down to the city to rest, the enemy army doesn't even bring a cloud ladder, if you want to attack the city, you have to wait until at least tomorrow morning!" ”

"No!"

Sieges were a nightmare for nomadic armies, who lacked skilled craftsmen to create elaborate and powerful siege equipment, so farming peoples generally built high walls to resist the attacks and harassments of the nomads, both in the east and in the west.

The third group of men and horses had just left the city, and a servant came over to report: "General, Captain Wei Meng arrived with his men and horses, and he was outside the east city gate, and the captain on duty did not have your military order, so he didn't dare to let people in without authorization, and sent someone to report to the city guard's mansion, but you were not in the city's guard's mansion, so the villain rushed over to report to you."

Zhao Ziliang turned around and said in surprise: "Oh? Is Wei Meng here? You go to pass on the general's order, let the captain on duty at the East City Gate let Wei Meng and his subordinate soldiers and horses enter the city, the speed of entering the city must be fast, do not delay, if you are discovered by the Tuqi Shi people, you will be in trouble! ”

I sent someone to Yezhicheng late last night to give Wei Meng an order, ordering him to lead his troops to come, but I didn't expect Wei Meng to come so quickly.

Hu Cong promised: "No! ”

This time, the general of the Turkey Cavalry Shi may not have taken into account that the west gate of General Pei's city is not wide, and it is impossible to fit more than 10,000 horses here, and the camping of more than 10,000 people has become a problem.

In order to set up camp, and in order to prevent Zhao Ziliang from leading his troops out of the city, Moduo had 10,000 troops camp in the mountains and forests on both sides of the city, vacating the open space outside the city for attack, and camped for a full morning, at the same time, the craftsmen of the Turgish began to cut down trees to build ladders and rush carts.

In the afternoon, just past the hottest hour, the Turgish army moved, and thousands of cavalry approached the city wall in a loose but tight formation, stopping at a stone's throw away.

The generals on the city wall were puzzled, Wei Meng was a straight intestine, and asked, "General, what do the Tuqi Shi people want to do?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "It's nothing, they just want to fill up the moat, Chu Ge, pass on the general order, everyone goes to the city wall, seventy percent of the troops are concentrated in this section of the city wall, and they must carry bows and arrows!" ”

"No!"

At this time, the soldiers were rested, and they were full of lunch and all of them were in good spirits, and after the military order was issued, the soldiers climbed the city wall under the leadership of the commander, the gang leader, and the team leader.

As Zhao Ziliang said, a large number of soldiers used baskets to carry the soil dug from the mountains and forests through the gaps between the cavalry and ran into the moat.

"I'm afraid there are only three or four thousand people, right? They're looking for death! The generals on the city wall couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the dense crowd of turks rushing towards the moat with the dirt on their backs.

In addition to leather armor, the whole body is close to the moat without other protection, isn't this looking for death? Only the Turkish, who did not know how to siege the city, would have no scruples to let a large number of people carry the soil on their backs to fill the moat.

Zhao Ziliang originally thought that Modo would send people to arrest the Turks who were driven out of the city by his order, and let these ordinary people fill the moat, but he didn't expect Moduo to directly use his own soldiers to fill the moat, what does this mean, it can only show that Modo doesn't understand the siege at all, this is purely taking the lives of his own soldiers as a child's play.

Zhao Ziliang immediately said loudly: "Chuan Ben ordered that all bows and arrows, crossbows guarding the city, Fuyuan crossbows, arm-open crossbows, and catapults should all be started, and no orders are allowed to stop!" ”

"No!"

The horn of the herald was blown, the pennant of the order was waved non-stop, and the soldiers on the city wall took out their bows and arrows and aimed at the Turgish soldiers who were running with dirt on their backs and kept their arrows.

There is a bed crossbow every twenty meters or so on the city wall, and the crossbow arrows with thick arms and a foot long are installed on the bed crossbow, and the noose is wound hard after more than ten seconds of the soldier's loud shout, and a soldier waves his arm and shouts: "Release!" ”

With a "buzz", thick and long crossbow arrows were fired, and five or six Turkish soldiers carrying earth shot through their bodies, and some crossbow arrows shot through several Turkish cavalry behind them.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Whoosh ・・・・・・・"

The running Thirsch soldiers under the city kept falling and could not get up again, and the corpses soon multiplied, and the number of people running gradually decreased, and the ground was full of dirt.

Now is the time to shoot the enemy's vital forces, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Release the arrows, don't stop without an order, aim and shoot again, don't waste the arrows!" ”

After the first filling was completed, more than 600 corpses fell by the moat under the city, and many people who fled back were shot, but they were not shot.

"Stop firing the arrows!" Zhao Ziliang gave an order, and everyone listened, including the catapult, which also stopped throwing stones.

In the formation of the Turkish army outside the city, a commander of a thousand soldiers persuaded Moduo: "My lord, you can't do this anymore, if you do it again, I'm afraid that we will die before we fill the moat, and more than 600 people died just now. ”

Hearing this, Modo's expression was gloomy, and he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, order all the shepherds who have been driven out to be arrested, let them fill the moat, and kill them if they don't comply!" ”

The commander breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly agreed: "Yes, I will send someone immediately!" (To be continued.) )