From the Chinese army's tent back to his camp, Li Yanchao also summoned his generals to arrange tomorrow's siege mission, and after everything was agreed, all the troops dispersed, leaving only one person. This person is similar in age to Li Yanchao, and it is rare that the temperament between the eyebrows is somewhat similar, it is none other than Li Yanchao's own brother Fu Yanrao.

There was no one in the tent, Fu Yanrao sat down, relaxed, looked at Fu Yanchao and asked with a chuckle: "Tomorrow will attack the city, the north and south gates will be lifted at the same time, Lu Longjun and the Hundred Battles Army will not distinguish between priority and priority, Li Congjing arranged it like this, what does the eldest brother think?" ”

Li Yanchao didn't sit down, paced back and forth in the tent, his right fist unconsciously slapped his left palm, and pondered for a moment Fang said: "Before I saw the military marshal, I was really worried that he would treat the two armies of Baizhan and Lulong separately, after all, the Baizhan army is the foundation of the military marshal, at first it was only 3,000 people, and after more than a year, after several wars, there is today's appearance, how can the military marshal not believe him?" Lu Longjun is different, he has nothing to do with the marshal, he doesn't even have a coordinated operation, the marshal goes north to attack the Khitan, but in the event of a big war, will he have partiality, use Lu Longjun as a knife, work hard and work hard Lu Longjun to do, sweetness let the hundred battle army, how can you not worry? His father's health is deteriorating, and now Li Congjing is the defense envoy of Youyun, and it is already a matter of knowing that he will succeed his father in Youyun in the future, and what kind of status Lu Longjun will have in Youyun at that time is worrying. ”

Different from Li Yanchao's appearance of five big and three thick, Fu Yanrao has a good demeanor and appearance, and has the attitude of a handsome son, he smiled: "Because of this, I suggested you before entering Pingzhou, but if there is a war, you may want to be the first, but if there is a difficult matter, you may want to take shoulders, there are not many defenders in Pingzhou, the attack seems simple, but in fact it is not easy to take, and the responsibility of the first battle will cause a lot of casualties." However, Li Congjing's military order today undoubtedly erased the matter of the first battle, and evenly distributed the difficulties to the two armies of Baizhan and Lulong. That being the case, what does the eldest brother think of Li Congjing? ”

Li Yanchao groaned: "The military marshal's move is natural and fair. Not only that, the battle of Changli and Xiangping the day before yesterday, the order of the commander was not inappropriate. As far as the current situation is concerned, the military commander seems to treat the two armies of Baizhan and Lulong equally. ”

Fu Yanrao nodded, "If Li Congjing intends to focus on the Lu Long Army and light the Hundred Battle Army, I will suspect that he is uneasy and kind, but he has flat hands, and I have no doubts." ”

Fu Yanrao's words were very much in line with Li Yanchao's wishes, and he said: "The big war is coming, and we will see it." The attack on Pingzhou is a big battle, and there is no shortage of big battles after the capture of Pingzhou, so you and I should prepare for it early. ”

Fu Yanrao got up, said goodbye and left the account.

When Li Congjing woke up from his dream, it was still early, he got up and dressed in armor, lifted the tent and walked out of the big tent, looking up to see the night sky as deep as the sea, dotted with stars like fireflies, and a gust of night wind swept past him, a little cool. The camp was brightly lit, and the tents on the top of the camp were densely packed, and at a glance it looked like a huge picture scroll spread out, with a hazy and vague smoke rising in the middle of it. A group of patrol sergeants passed by Li Congjing, and the soldiers stopped and saluted, and when they saw that Li Congjing had no instructions, they walked away again.

Li Congjing saw that the head of Pingzhou City on the opposite side was also as bright as day, the torches tore out a piece of light in the darkness, the Pingzhou defenders were heavily guarded under the shadow of the fire, and the outlines of the wolf's tooth slapper, bed crossbow, fork rod and other instruments that were faintly visible on the city wall were cold. After standing in front of the tent for a moment, the camp became noisy, and the soldiers emerged from the tent and began to eat. All sorts of pre-war preparations were fought everywhere, and the veil of calm of the night was quietly slipping, which meant that the big war was about to begin.

Before the hour, the army had already set up a position outside the camp, and the siege equipment such as catapults, pointed donkey carts, nest carts, and ladders had all arrived at the designated positions, and were spread out everywhere according to the rules, although there was no sound of fighting, the atmosphere was extremely solemn. The color of the distant sky changed from black to gray to blue and then to hundred, and the sun had not yet appeared, and the morning light had poured down from the clouds, illuminating the well-organized military formation in front of the battalion clearly.

Leaving the camp, Li Congjing, followed by Du Qianshu, Ding Hei, Ye Lumin and others, stepped on the wooden ladder step by step to the towering watchtower. The watchtower is as high as several zhang, even higher than the Pingzhou city wall, and you can see the street and square behind the Pingzhou city wall by looking at the railing. As for the soldiers and civilians who were standing quietly or running on the road at the head of the city, they were all like ants and fell in Li Congjing's eyes.

On the building car next to the watchtower, the flag officer held the order flag tightly and faced the watchtower, quietly waiting for Li Congjing to give the order. Under the watchtower and the building car, a row of elevated snare drums is displayed, and a group of horn bearers stand with horns in their hands. At this time, the battlefield was still silent, and the soldiers held their weapons tightly, looked ahead, and waited for the moment when the military order arrived and the big battle began.

Chenshi.

"Siege!" Li Congjing was on the watchtower and gently spit out two words.

The flag officer held up the order flag, which was much higher than the human being, and waved it in the wind, making a rustling sound.

"Commander's Order: Siege!"

The whining of trumpets and the beating of drums sounded immediately, as heavy as a mountain.

The well-organized military formation marched forward in an orderly manner from front to rear. The cavalry galloped out first, running on both flanks.

The Great War has begun.

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The first wave approached Pingzhou City not with the army of climbers, but from the trench-filling soldiers and people covered by shield bearers and archers. The moat is shallow and deep, the ditch is wide when the city is large, and the ditch is directly pushed into it, and there are also sergeants who transport stones, wooden blocks, and mud to fill, the former is simple to construct, and the casualties are few, but the materials required are very huge, and once the defending sergeant shoots with rockets, the boxcar must be burned, which needs to be wrapped in buffalo hides outside the boxcar, which consumes more materials. The strength of the country and the military determine the victory or defeat of the war, and the strong country and rich army are not afraid of conquest, just because of these reasons.

This is true not only for siege, but also for defending cities. If the besieging side is equipped with a ladder car and a building car, or the defending side has a large bed crossbow ten steps at the head of the city, then the other side does not need to fight, and can surrender directly.

The clouds are poor, and there are no such favorable conditions, so the army adopts the latter method for filling the river.

The shield-bearer bent over the cat, hid himself behind the shield, and sprinted to the trench to stabilize his position. The sergeants and men who followed them rushed out and threw the stones, wood, and dirt they had carried into the trenches. The archers who followed followed drew their bows and arrows, and fired volleys at the head of the city to cover the ditch.

As early as when the shield-bearer entered the firing range, the iron arrows on the head of the city came out of the nest like a group of peaks, and shot down without a head and no brain, and the sergeants who were guarded by the shield were naturally lucky, but when the trench-filling sergeants and civilians leaned out and dumped the things that filled the ditch, many of them were shot by sharp arrows, some of them fell into the trenches, some fell in front of the shields, and some of them did not hurt their mobility even though they were hit by arrows, and they ran back with their legs covering their bleeding wounds. The archers and the defenders of the city head shot at each other, and there were casualties on each other, but because the defenders were protected by a female wall, the archers who attacked suffered greater casualties.

The trench filling lasted a long time and caused many casualties, but in contrast to the simple work, which could be done by ordinary people. Because in troubled times, whenever a large army goes to war, many of them take the people hostage before the siege of the city, and drive them to fill the ditch during the siege. After the battles of Baizhan and Lu Longjun attacking Changli and Xiangping, they captured enemy troops and held people hostage, and most of the people who filled the ditch at this time were these people. Once an enemy army, it is enough to fight on the battlefield, but what is the crime of the people to suffer this suffering? But the world is like this, when you don't have the strength to protect yourself, and your luck is not good enough, your life is no longer in your hands.

In the formation of the Hundred Battles Army, the catapults had begun to exert their might, and huge stones were thrown into the air, falling inside and outside the city walls, suppressing the defenders on the city walls and covering the trenches of their comrades.

Li Congjing was on the watchtower, looking at the battlefield with a calm gaze. Bodies had fallen on the front side of the trench, and the bright red blood was not unusually striking on the loess, but it was shocking enough. There have been many female walls at the head of Pingzhou City, and when the stones hit the defending soldiers, the bodies that exploded instantly were like citrus fruits that had been trampled, and blood and flesh were splashed. On the other hand, the trench is almost filled.

An hour or two later, the entrenched sergeants, prisoners, and men received orders and could not wait to retreat. They were outnumbered, the work was carried out quickly, the defenders at the head of the city were few men, and the number of bows and arrows fired was limited, and behind them, the ditch had been filled. But even so, nearly half of these people who filled the river remained in front of the trench forever, and those who could come back alive were the lucky ones in misfortune.

The sergeants pushed the carts, ladders, and boxcars, shouting and rushing forward, and a large number of soldiers formed a formation to follow the advance. They crossed the ditch, ignoring their fallen comrades and the arrows that fell from the city, and slammed the carts and ladders against the city walls.

Ant-attached.

The battle became more and more fierce, and the head of the city was poured down with sharp arrows, thunder stones, rolling logs, and molten iron, and the catapults of the besieging side had stopped working to avoid injuring their own people. At this point, the casualties of the besieging army surged.

Outside the city wall, around every building car, cloud ladder, around the city gate, is the bloodiest place in the fierce battle, there are constantly sergeants who are hit by arrows, are smashed and fall, there are also defenders fall from the city, whether they die or not after landing, they will be surrounded by the siege army and chopped into meat puree.

The offensive of the Hundred Battles Army was very urgent, and the defenders of Pingzhou were not many, so they had to defend the south and north gates at the same time, and the forces were scattered, and it was very difficult to deal with them.

The sun gradually rises until it reaches mid-heaven. fell again, and finally disappeared behind the West Mountain.

Siege for a day, do not fight.

On this day, the siege troops of the Hundred Battles Army changed one stubble after another, taking turns to storm fiercely, and every time a casualty reached a certain level, or insisted on attacking for a certain hour, Li Congjing would replace them and let the resting soldiers take their place. By the end of the day, most of the Hundred Battles Army had already been on the battlefield.

At night, Li Congjing convened a meeting of the generals.

The military agreed to continue the onslaught day and night.

Li Congjing did not go to sleep at night, he has been standing on the watchtower, commanding the army to attack the city. In the dark night, several huge torches illuminated his angular face red, and every soldier of the Hundred Battles Army outside Pingzhou City could easily see the upright posture under the torch when they looked back.

The moon is like a hook, and the light is like blue. The bright moon failed to cross a complete half-moon trail in the sky, and was obscured by the rising sun.

Guo Wei, who led Junzidu to monitor the band, reported that the enemy army with the side went out of the city in concealment last night, intending to rush to the aid of Pingzhou, but was killed by Junzidu in the middle of the road, and his casualties were heavy, and he retreated into the city in embarrassment, and there was no change.

At noon, Sun Erniu sent scouts to report, but the enemy forces of Lelang and Xuanwu did not move.

Before that, Li Congjing, who had been observing the battlefield for nearly two days and one night, saw that the situation was almost the same and the time was ripe, so he summoned Meng Ping and ordered him to select the dead soldiers and personally lead the elite to climb the city.

When Shen, Meng Ping attacked the head of the city.

At three o'clock, the Hundred Battles Army entered the city of Pingzhou.

The city of Pingzhou is broken.