The person who was called Jingxuan Shitai saw that he was wearing a gray and inconspicuous nun robe, and he was the current head of the Emei faction. Although he is now in his fifties, he still retains the youthful appearance of his thirties. Although she is a nun, she has a static character in her name. But in the rivers and lakes, it is a terrible star that makes all walks of life frightened, and people are jealous and hateful. Since her debut when she was less than twenty years old, until she was promoted to grandmaster at the age of thirty-three, she has now become Taishan Beidou in the martial arts. For more than 30 years, the rivers and lakes that died in her hands are no longer known. Even at her current age, she is extremely ruthless when she should make a move, for example, she was still extremely dissatisfied with this matter when she was ordered this time. But after hearing Yun Bingmeng's personal experience of the brutality of the Houjin barbarians, it provoked her murderous intentions.

Of the more than 1,400 Houjin scouts that were wiped out, more than 300 died at her hands alone. More than four hundred of them died in her solo squad. You know, this is divided into four roads and eight squads. It can be seen that he is ruthless and his means are fierce. Even if it was a team led by the head of the Demon Gate, the number of kills was far less than her.

But even this kind of murderous nun, when facing the entire 50,000 troops of the Houjin Kingdom, she was a little worried in her heart: "The elite level of the Houjin soldiers is far beyond my imagination. The army of our Great Zhao State is far worse than it. Although we have 170,000 troops, we are on the defensive. But it'......" Before she could finish speaking, she saw that the camp opposite, which had been silent, suddenly moved.

Groups of soldiers, who had begun to assemble from the camp, came out and began to line up a few miles outside the city walls. In addition, there are all kinds of shield carts, ladders, well rails, rushing carts and other various siege weapons pushed out in the same way. Flags of all kinds fluttered and trumpets sounded. The officers rode on their horses, galloping in front of the formation, constantly shouting something.

Jing Xuan's face changed slightly: "Could it be that they want to attack the city now?" "She has fought with many scouts in the Houjin Kingdom, although those scout teams have encountered her grandmaster-level masters, it is simply a sheep's mouth. But she was also surprised by the elite level of the scouts. Although the scouts sent by the Great Zhao State after screening are also the best among the armies and guards, it can be said unceremoniously that if they are sneak attacked, one of the enemy's scout squads will be lucky enough to be undamaged after they have killed their own team. Jing Xuan has seen this kind of thing many times. In this war, if it weren't for the coercion of these grandmaster-level masters under the emperor's coercion, or if there were really some concepts of national honor and disgrace, regardless of their identity, they would have put aside all their face and linings to kill the enemy's pawns. I am afraid that in the scout battle between the two sides, our side will suffer extremely heavy losses.

But Rao had so many grandmasters and others involved, and after eliminating more than 1,400 scouts from the other side, his own scout losses were even more than 1,000. From this, it can be inferred how weak the soldiers of the Great Zhao State are. After that, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom, even if it was a small soldier, were full of evil spirit, and they were not afraid of death. When more people gather, the sharpness and evil spirit seem to condense. Rao is Jingxuan, Yun Bingmeng and other grandmaster-level masters couldn't help but feel a little chilly, not to mention their own ordinary soldiers.

As soon as the other party moved, the supreme commander of the Tieling Guard also moved. Because there were two grandmasters who pressed the formation, the commander and the people from all walks of life took action, but they were not panicked, although the morale was not high, but there was no feeling of depression. The first batch of soldiers drawn from the guards began to take their places. The auxiliary soldiers, composed of young and strong people, also began to light firewood under the oil pots that were erected. Due to the thorough preparations, it was not chaotic in the face of the upcoming siege battle. It seems that the commander of Tielingwei is still a person with some ability. Because of the small number of people in the Houjin Kingdom, they only chose a city wall and prepared to attack, so early, the ten red-clothed cannons in the city were concentrated on this side of the city wall. In addition, there are dozens of bronze clay cannons made by Da Zhao himself, and after each cannon, there are several gunners, and all the preparations have been made.

After that, Jin Guo's speed was not slow, and it didn't take much time for the whole team to be completed. The hundreds of shield carts at the front, pushed by the soldiers, began to start slowly and pressed towards the city wall. Each shield car has a shield surface that is four or five meters wide and three or four meters high. On the left and right sides, three or four meters were also stretched inward to prevent attacks from the flanks. These shields are angled inwards to protect bows and arrows or crossbows fired from the walls. But the archers inside can shoot their bows and arrows through small round holes. Or stand behind the shield cart and shoot through the shield wall to the wall.

Due to the different parabolic angles of the two sides, the people on the city walls could not be projected to the people inside the shield cart. But the soldiers inside the shield chariot can be thrown at the city wall. In addition to the soldiers of the Later Jin Kingdom, almost everyone is good at bow shooting, and it is not uncommon for archers of this level to be able to shoot down birds. In this way, this type of chariot is extremely advantageous for them in siege warfare. The shield is covered with a layer of specially treated cowhide, and the cowhide is covered with a layer of clay. Not afraid of rockets and the like at all. Even a red-coated cannon, with one or two shots, can't defeat this kind of shield car.

The shield cart walked very slowly, for the land had been dug up in the nearest mile, within the reach of the cannons, and there was no flat land, and there were potholes everywhere. Or small dirt slopes that have been tamped. What's more, there are also a lot of traps set by mining. The other party walked outside, and the shield cart stopped there. From within each shield cart, dozens of Houjin soldiers with shovels in their hands were drilled out, and they began to clear the slopes and fill in the ravines. And the rest of the tens of thousands of soldiers, almost at this moment, also began to rush to the front line with bags of sand and soil on their war horses. Since millions of bags of sand had been prepared long ago, they were placed more than a thousand meters from the city wall. And tens of thousands of people worked together to transport and fill the pit, and each person just ran ten times or eight times.

But at this moment, the ten red-coated cannons on the city wall rang out in unison. The sound of cannons shook the sky, and iron balls roared towards the busy place of the Jin soldiers. Digging out this kind of terrain is to delay the advance speed of Houjin soldiers and let them fill the pit. And these areas are all within the range of the cardinal cannons.

Bang~ A cannonball hit a shield cart, and suddenly knocked a large hole in the shield surface, and the iron ball penetrated it, killing one person. The other nine guns were smashed in front or behind because the distance was too far and the hit rate was not high. But the iron cannonball fell in the crowd and killed one person, but it did not stop the momentum. Jumping forward, lucky enough to kill two or three people.

Yun Bingmeng, who had extremely strong eyesight, stood on the city wall and looked at it, and after calculating, ten shells smashed a total of thirteen people on the other side. The power is good, and the range is long enough. Unfortunately, the Redcoat Cannon is too slow to reload. It took almost two minutes or more, and the opponent advanced twenty meters before firing the second shot.

However, after staying for more than half an hour, the Houjin soldiers had advanced to about 200 meters, but the red-coated cannons that fired more than a dozen cannons, after killing hundreds of enemy troops and damaging two shield cars, most of them had fallen into the point where the barrels were hot and could no longer be loaded and fired. But now it was within range of dozens of earthen cannons, and a series of explosions rang out, and green smoke curled up on the city walls. The shells loaded with the earth cannon are only the size of a fist, and the lethality is naturally not as strong as that of the red-coated cannon. But the advantage is that the reload speed is fast and there are many of them. For a time, the lethality caused was stronger than that of the redcoat cannon.

With the sound of cannons, time is passing bit by bit. When the Houjin army reached this point, the speed of advance increased sharply, and the distance of one hundred and fifty meters was pushed to about fifty meters away from the city wall after ten minutes of desperate efforts. But it was only one hundred and fifty meters away, and the number of people lost by the Houjin soldiers far exceeded the previous red-coat artillery bombardment. In the earthen artillery, some soldiers with greater strength and strong bows with a long range were thrown at more than 1,000 people who were killed and wounded.

But Da Zhao's obstruction of the advance and the tactical advantage of giving full play to the power of long-range artillery also ended here. In fact, at a distance of seventy or eighty meters, the Houjin archers behind the shield cart began to counterattack by throwing them at the city wall. Most of the people of the Later Jin Kingdom were born as nomadic hunters, and their martial arts were extremely strong, and the training in the army was even more strict and ferocious. Therefore, even the most ordinary soldier has good combat effectiveness. Their archers, with their head and distance thrown outward through the shield cart, even surpassed the vast majority of the Great Zhao archers who stood on the city wall and shot arrows. And those clusters of arrows are made of barbs, which are extremely difficult to pull out as soon as they enter the flesh, and the lethality is huge. What's even more vicious is that the arrows are quenched with poison, so that the person who is hit by the arrow is more seriously injured and has a lower survival rate.

"Shield defense, shield defense." The huge shields were erected diagonally on the wall by the shield handler, but they blocked a lot of arrows. However, this makes it even more difficult for your own archers to attack. The red-coated cannons, as well as some cooled earthen cannons, exert extremely lethality at close range. In particular, some small earthen cannons loaded with iron sand, when fired diagonally downward, although the power is not strong, but the area spread is extremely wide, often able to envelop a dozen enemies in it. The iron sand penetrated the cheeks and other weak places, and even the brutal Houjin soldiers began to let out tearing screams.

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(To be continued)