During the years he spent in Anbei Yahu City, Du Shiyi did not only appease the Mobei tribes. With a large deal of tea, silk, cotton cloth, and horses, he spent money like water, and invited many skilled craftsmen from all over the world to innovate the existing siege equipment and various weapons, and at the same time did not forget to continue experimenting with gunpowder in the hidden valley.

Anbei Ya Tent City is lonely in the desert north, no more sneaky than when he was in Lingwu, and the progress of these things is naturally a thousand miles a day. However, until now, he had only made gunpowder into communication tools such as letterboxes, and those simple firearms, fire and thunder and other things continued to be hidden, and he had no intention of getting them in front of people.

And the winch crossbow is a conventional siege and defense tool, there is no problem with taking it out, not to mention that after Zhang Xing conquered Juyong Pass, Tong Guò as the rear of the Yanzhou Yanchuan County recruited more craftsmen, and temporarily rushed out, compared with those ballistas at the head of Youzhou City, the arrow road is also seven, and at most it can only shoot seven arrows, the only difference is that the range is as high as 800 steps. Therefore, when the ballistae and catapults at the head of the city were all together, although they saw the rain of arrows and stones under the city, there was an extremely embarrassing situation.

The head of the city was hit by large and small crossbow arrows, so that chickens and dogs jumped and people turned on their backs, but the army under the city did not move. This dilemma, which is only a hundred steps short of reach, is enough to make one party rejoice and the other side to be distracted.

"The order goes down, the winch crossbow is aimed at the ballista trebuchet, and after three more rounds, pause"

When the city was suspended, the city finally got a chance to breathe. However, just the rounds of bombardment of ten winch crossbows before and after, the head of Youzhou City and the city wall were already in shambles. In such a long section of the city wall, the corpses pierced by crossbow arrows were everywhere, and under this indiscriminate blow, every surviving soldier was in a state of trepidation. Moreover, the kind of wolf bèi that you can beat me, but I can't beat you, further amplifies the panic in the hearts of the soldiers defending the city. The worst thing is that even the trebuchets and ballistas and other tools at the head of the city have suffered heavy losses under this round of blows.

How should this battle be fought?

"Cui Qianyou, Tian Qianzhen, go up and shout"

Cui Qianyou, who was tightly engulfed by the two teams of tooth soldiers, smiled bitterly, knowing that this was the biggest role of himself and Tian Qianzhen, the two generals. Who made them not as lucky as Sun Xiaozhe, and was able to take Du Shiyi to find the place where those captured officials and the children of the eunuchs were held, and directly made a great achievement. However, seeing that Youzhou City, where he had stayed for many years, trembling under Wei's winch crossbow, he didn't have much reluctance anymore. When he was surrounded by people and went up to one of the two temporary high platforms, he couldn't help but glance at Tian Qianzhen's direction and saw the other party's helpless and bitter expression.

"Listen to the soldiers in Youzhou City, I am Cui Qianyou in order to recruit Marshal Du Xiangguo, instructing the soldiers and people of Youzhou City to rebel against the heavens, if you surrender to the city, only Shi Siming will be guilty, and the rest will be spared death, and the family members will not ask"

Tian Qianzhen shouted when he saw Cui Qianyou's luck in his breath, he also took a deep breath and shouted: "I am Tian Qianzhen, the righteous son of An Lushan, and I am ordered by Marshal Du Xiangguo to tell the soldiers and civilians of Youzhou City, if they are stubborn, when the city is broken, the rebel soldiers will be punished with death, and their families will be sent to Lingnan."

If there was no winch crossbow at the beginning, it was just a shout from the rebel generals who were the most familiar to the two Youzhou soldiers, although the soldiers were moved, they might not dare to do anything, but when the city was in a mess, the persuasion of Cui Qianyou and Tian Qianzhen, the two generals, undoubtedly made the vast majority of people really shaken. Shi Siming, who re-boarded the city wall, saw this scene, and his first reaction was to pull out his sword and slash at a soulless general, and the knife that rose up with all his strength almost cut off half of the opponent's body, and under the bloody shock, he glared at the white-faced generals, and ordered without looking back: "Where is the military law team?" ”

As the most trusted military team ascended to the top of the city, Shi Siming said word by word: "There are more than 100,000 people in Youzhou City, I don't believe that his crossbow arrows can kill all these more than 100,000 people, if anyone dares to take a step back, there will be no forgiveness."

Knowing that Shi Siming did what he said, and the general who had been slashed just now was lying in a pool of blood, some of the soldiers at the head of the city silently returned to their posts, some turned their eyes uneasily, but their eyes were full of resentment, and some of them gathered together in twos and threes, as if this would give them more confidence. Shi Siming knew that this was the main attack point of the Tang army, and the morale of the army had been shaken, if he was not there, then it was very likely that someone would behead the general and sacrifice the city, so he didn't dare to leave rashly, and immediately looked at a tooth general beside him with a fierce gaze and said: "What about Shi Chaoyi?" ”

Cao Neng immediately replied cautiously: "Didn't the eldest marshal order the eldest prince to repair the northern city wall before?" From the south city to the north city, even if you run from the city wall, it will be at least half an hour......"

"You can't lose it yet, you go in person, bring 100 tooth soldiers, bring that evil animal to me, I will behead him in this city, let Du Shiyi take a good look, he will stop thinking about what kind of conspiracy and tricks I use against Youzhou"

Shi Siming was clearly angry, Cao Nengden didn't dare to excuse Shi Chaoyi anymore, and rushed to the northern city wall with a group of tooth soldiers as soon as he agreed. However, just suddenly, Shi Siming heard a noise and shouts again, and the city wall under him seemed to have a heart-rending tremor, and when he saw that the enemy troops outside the city did not attack him in a big way, he woke up suddenly.

Du Shiyi didn't just attack Nancheng

On the north city wall of Youzhou, Shi Chaoyi almost firmly attached his entire back to the city wall next to the battlement, but the whole person couldn't help shaking. He is not a young man who has gone to the battlefield for the first time, and he has seen the bloody killing fields, but most of the battles he has experienced are field battles, and this rebellion has also followed the army to attack the city, but it was all overnight, where has he ever been trapped in the city and beaten passively? Just now, right next to him, a brigade commander was pierced through the chest by a two-meter-long crossbow gun, and he almost died without even having a chance to scream. Even now, he could feel the walls behind him trembling under the dense barrage of crossbow arrows.

Perhaps, with only such a siege weapon, Du Shiyi can conquer Youzhou

Shi Chaoyi thinks so, and Wu Chengen and Wu Chengjiao also think so. However, before they could negotiate a charter, when the ballistas under the city finally stopped temporarily, the law enforcement team that Shi Siming relied on to suppress the military and civilians in Youzhou had already been dispatched. Wu Chengjiao had just dodged this round of attack in the strongest tower, and when he came out first, he saw the soldiers of the military law team brandishing swords and ordering the soldiers to return to their posts, and his face turned black when he landed. However, these selected military teams were all fed by Shi Siming, and he could only look back at Wu Chengen.

"Gotta figure it out...... If our soldiers and horses are exhausted like this, the foundation of our Wu family for two generations will be over, at least now Shi Siming has not come over in person, and when he comes, it will be too late to do anything" Wu Chengen muttered to himself, and then said ruthlessly, "You go and mobilize all the soldiers who are loyal to the Wu family, and you must act quickly." If you can't get rid of those court-martials all at once, there's no second chance."

Wu Chengjiao knew that now was not the time to hesitate, so he just hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want to bring Shi Chaoyi with you?" He has a lot of prestige in the army, if he is willing to surrender with us, then Shi Siming will not be able to turn over the storm."

"It's better to transfer all our people first, and then force him to make a statement, otherwise I'm afraid of extraneous branches."

The Wu brothers all started to act in full swing, Wu Chengjiao went to transfer people, and Wu Chengen pretended to cooperate with those military law teams to start suppressing the panicked army at the head of the city. Although he and Hou Xiyi and Li Mingjun also have a very close relationship, after all, he has a deeper friendship with Shi Siming, plus the previous Youzhou City was not lost, and the great merits of his brothers, so Shi Siming was not too suspicious of the two of them, but like the rest of the armies everywhere, he sent a military law team to supervise it, and at the same time strictly controlled the grain and grass, just in case.

After Shi Chaoyi finished shooting several rounds of crossbow arrows, he immediately forced himself to bounce up and immediately went to count the personal soldiers he brought. His luck was really good, only one of the twelve personal soldiers died, and the ballistas and trebuchets at the head of the city suffered heavy losses, although the dead were only more than twenty, but the number of seriously wounded was several times that number, and the number of lightly wounded was almost none. Except for one sergeant who was so lucky that it was jaw-dropping, he was only nailed to his armpit by a crossbow that flew in the air, and after breaking free, he escaped death, and the other seriously injured were only a breath more than dead.

And Shi Chaoyi came back to his senses and estimated the range of the ballistas under the city and the number of crossbow arrows that had just been shot into the city, and now there were hundreds, and his face was as white as paper. There was only one thought in his heart, that is, the Tang army was extremely well prepared, that is to say, Du Sui hinted that he lied to Shi Siming after returning to the city to save his life, but in fact, it was just to make them careless and relax their vigilance

A thousand steps away from the northern city wall of Youzhou, Zhang Xing looked at the scene on the city head thoughtfully, but ignored Aguteng's request for battle. It wasn't until this general, who was born in Tongluo, couldn't help it anymore that he smiled at him: "Although the siege drill has been in Anbei Yatent City many times in the past, you yourself also know it, and if you fight like this, you, the lord of Tongluo, will undoubtedly take the lives of your own people to fill in." The marshal already had a plan, we failed to attack Youzhou City before, so we retreated to Juyong Pass, and prepared dozens of winch crossbows and catapults in Yanchuan County for several months, and you have seen the effect just now. ”

"But it's all filled out with money." Aguten didn't know the inside story, and suddenly muttered angrily.

"It was filled out with the money of corrupt officials and traitors." Zhang Xing added, and then said with a smile, "The marshal said when he sent me an order before, they all say that human life is as cheap as grass, but since we can take the money of the traitorous and corrupt officials in exchange for the lives of the soldiers under our command, why not?" Shi Siming is a person who lacks skills, he can't manage the north and south, and he only knows that he is blindly tyrannical, and there will soon be a chaos in the city. ”

Aguten smiled at this time, and was no longer convinced by Zhang Xing's initial slightest. The credit is earned by himself, and the responsibility will be borne by the master, so what is the dissatisfaction with such a boss?

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