The first wave of attacks did not achieve the desired effect, more than 500 soldiers who rushed into the passage were hit by the concentrated blows of the city defense crossbows, and the long crossbow arrows broke through their armor and nailed them to the ground, and less than 20 soldiers came back alive in more than ten blood-colored passages. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In his opinion, dying on the battlefield is the glory of the soldiers, and more than 480 soldiers used their lives to test out the opponent's defensive trap and avoid casualties among the follow-up troops, then their deaths are valuable.

Slightly adjusted the order of the attack, and it was necessary to quickly organize the second attack.

A platoon of shield-armoured men strode forward, and soon advanced to the edge of the trench, where they held their shields diagonally to form a shield wall, and the archers behind them hurled under the cover of their shields, suppressing the archers on the opposite dirt slope. The rest of the soldiers, with their shields on their backs, burst out of the gaps in the shield walls.

This time it was the turn of the defenders on the dirt slope to feel uncomfortable, the enemy troops who went down to the trench did not form a formation, but directly launched a surprise attack with a skirmish formation, and the defending archers could not find the flaws of the other party, so they could not cause effective killing, coupled with the suppression of the opposite feather arrows, so that the pressure on the defense increased greatly, and many archers could only reluctantly launch an attack on the attacking enemy, but the result was that they did not cause effective damage, but they were accidentally hit by the falling feather arrows, and lost their combat ability.

"Mingjin! Let the soldiers stand back. Fan Liang observed for a long time, and suddenly said to the herald beside him.

"Bell, bell!"

Hearing the sound of gongs on the top of the city, the defenders on the dirt slope suddenly exerted their strength and pushed down the boulders used as shelters. The rolling stones brought up a cloud of smoke, as if a monster frantically pounced on the patriotic soldiers below, who screamed and dodged left and right, but there were always some who could not dodge being hit by the boulder.

"Bang dang!"

A guard desperately set up the shield in his hand, in a vain attempt to escape under the protection of the shield, but the reality is always cruel, the shield made of pure copper only slightly delayed the castration of the boulder, and the next second is directly the end of the shield shattering and flying, the boulder continued to roll down with blood, until it rushed to the bottom of the ditch, the castration slowed down, and then slowly stopped.

After a brief pause, the surviving soldiers continued to attack, but instead of rushing with their heads down, they slowed their pace, vigilantly watching the upside, and immediately dodging as soon as they saw signs of falling rocks. It's just that there is silence above the dirt slope now, and there is no other sound on the entire battlefield except for the rough wheezing around it.

The first soldier who climbed to the top of the dirt slope carefully poked his head out, wanting to see the situation behind the slope, who knew that as soon as his head was exposed, he heard a sudden swishing sound from the opposite side, the soldier reacted very quickly, shrunk his head and curled up under the shield at the same time, and then felt the shield tremble, and the arrows fell on the shield and crackled, and the top of the slope of the original dirt slope was already encircled in the attack range of the arrows at the head of the city.

It was just that hurried glance that he could see clearly what was going on behind the slope, all the defenders had withdrawn into the city, and he even saw a dozen people at the back dragging empty bags into the city gate.

The general's order was to take the dirt slope before noon, so the soldiers who climbed to the top of the slope did not continue to pursue, but withdrew from the shooting range of the crossbow at the head of the city, and at the same time the latest military order came from the rear, asking the soldiers to rest on the spot and wait for the next instructions.

"Good! Worthy of being my vanguard general! After taking the soil slope, Qingyun County was directly exposed in front of us. The vanguard army who wants to leave retreats to the rear to rest first, Fu Zan, you take your men up, take the soil on the dirt slope, fill in the trench a few roads, and then expand the location of the soil to be large enough for a building car to pass through! Besides, you kid don't be lazy! The original passages were not allowed to be used, and the crossbows of the city defense on the opposite side were aimed there. Although those things are powerful, but the rotation angle is small, and once fixed, they can't move, as long as they get out of the way, those crossbow arrows will greatly reduce the threat to our building car, I won't say anything superfluous, if you mess up the errand, I want your head, understand! ”

"Don't worry, general, it's just a road, it's not the first time I've done this work, before dark, I promise to build a few passages to come out, and it will not affect the next day's attack!"

Hearing Fu Zan's assurance, Le Yang nodded with satisfaction, it will take a day for the building car to be fully assembled, and tomorrow it will be possible to let the infantry go up to test the water and see the defensive strength of the city, if it can test the loopholes in the city defense, it would be better.

At the same time, in the county guard mansion of Qingyun County, Ying Guang convened the generals and was also discussing some details of tomorrow's defense, due to the full preparation in the early stage, the defensive equipment and grain and grass baggage in the city were readily available, and Luffy's baggage team went back and forth between Guiling County and Qingyun County every seven days, which greatly increased the continuous defense ability of Qingyun County, and with the advantage of continuous supply, Ying Guang and others were full of confidence in holding Qingyun County.

"Lao Ying, although the logistics are smooth now, we also have to take precautions, in case the grain road is cut off, we can really only be trapped in the county town." The army thinks more, although Shuyang, Qingyun, and Yanjun are connected as one, but Shuyang and Yanjun have guards facing each other, so that the other party can send a light cavalry to swagger through the defense area of these two counties, outflank to the rear of Qingyun County, and then cut off the grain route, if the opponent's troops are sufficient, they can even enter Guiling County, so that the pressure on their own side will inevitably increase greatly, and a careless will be the end of the city being ruined.

"Dian Jun is right, when Le Yang finds that he can't break us head-on, he will definitely go around our rear to cut off our grain routes, but he can definitely not send many troops, first of all, he will not transfer troops from Le Yi and Le Feng, because the troops he arranged there are barely maintaining a confrontation situation with Shuyang and Yanjun, if they are transferred, the two old brothers will definitely take the initiative to attack and eat his remaining soldiers and horses. Therefore, if he wants to outflank our rear route, he can only draw from his own people, but it is impossible for a large-scale transfer to hide from our eyes, so he can only secretly send a small number of men and horses to go around our rear in a circle. ”

Ying Guang paused, the corners of his mouth suddenly turned up slightly, turned his head and said to Dian Jun: "Old Dian, we have an old brother who is about to rush back, can you guess who he is?" (To be continued.) )