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"Roar!"

"Ho!"

In less than two days, a great wooden shield of 3,000 faces, nine feet high, and four feet wide was made.

The siege site was set at the east gate, on the morning of the second day when the big wooden shield was built, the war drums shook the sky, Cao Xingduan led four thousand archers to abandon their horses and walk, plus the good hands who can make strong bows in the black mountains, all hidden behind the big shield, and the formation slowly advanced.

"Roar!"

"Ho!"

With every step, the people behind the wooden shield shouted loudly, and they were in tune with each other.

The wooden shields were arranged in three long rows, each six feet apart, and advanced like waves. It's just that the giant shield is tall and heavy, and with every step, the black mountain thief who is in charge of holding the shield in the middle has to prop the shield on the dirt and stop for a moment to rest and return to strength. Each black mountain thief holding the shield hid an archer on the left and right sides, and slowly moved forward with the big shield.

One step at a time, in response to the shouting and shouting, the shield array slowly but firmly approached Jinyang City, and soon entered the range of the defenders' bows and arrows.

The army outside the city was all changed to the east gate, and the rest of the gates only had to be paraded by a hundred and ten scouts, and the early movement in the early morning caused everyone's attention, and all the people with identities in the city gathered on the east city tower. After telling the sergeants on the other three walls not to let their guard down, Guo Yuan Shang had already transferred all 5,000 archers in the city.

Yuan Shang waited for a while, and felt helpless about the giant shield like a turtle shell below, but he had to do something anyway, as an officer shouted, countless arrows screamed and rushed down, and after a "aggressive" sound, they were all nailed to the giant wooden shield and the ground, and the arrow feathers were still "buzzing" and trembling lightly.

The second wave of arrows was wrapped in an oilcloth and fired down. Unfortunately, it is still difficult to completely ignite the newly made giant wooden shield with green color.

In the rain of arrows, the shield array continued to advance steadily and step by step, until ten steps away from the moat, the horns of the rear team sounded. Just stopped.

After the horn, the three rows of wooden shield formations quietly stopped under the city, no longer advancing, no longer shouting trumpets, but just stopped there strangely, standing solemnly to meet the rain of arrows shot from the city.

"Stop! Stop! ”

Soon, Guo Yuan's face was so gloomy that he could drip water, and he didn't know what the thieves in the city wanted, and several rounds of arrow rain were in vain, consuming his own 20,000 or 30,000 arrows. Hastily ordered the archers to pause.

Bows and arrows are a weapon for defending cities. It is not easy to train a qualified archer. A suitable arrow also requires several processes such as making branches, tail feathers, viscose and iron tufts, etc., which is not inexhaustible, and if the thieves under the city use this clumsy plan to exhaust the arrows in the city. It's a joke.

Guo Yuan shouted to stop, the city was still quiet, and everyone in the city was surprised. Above and below the city, all the noise was suspended, as if this was not a battlefield, it was really eerily calm.

It's just that this calm didn't last long, and the rain of arrows on the city tower stopped for a while, and for some reason, two people in the wooden shield array shouted loudly: "Shoot!" ”

After the order, one person flashed out on the left and right of each large wooden oar. Swiftly took the arrow and bent the bow, and found the target on the city wall at a glance, and between breaths, a powerful arrow was already shooting upward.

"Ahh

The hundreds of soldiers on the city wall who were puzzled could not react, and they were immediately hit by arrows, and suddenly all kinds of screams and insults rang out.

Behind the giant shield, a cold arrow suddenly unleashed, which caught people off guard. Gao Gan Yuan Shang was conspicuously dressed, and he had been standing in the middle of the city tower to watch the battle, it can be seen that he was noble, and there were many arrows staring at them, and for a time there were more than a dozen angry arrows flying head-on.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

Fortunately, there are many agile and good hands among the guards, and they were busy pulling people behind the women's wall a few times, so that they could avoid it, which made the two cousins break out in a cold sweat.

This is the new tactics studied by the sword and shield pawns and the bow pawns in the Panshi army, which is most suitable for advancing the arrows when receiving the formation, and the bow pawns are protected by the sword and shield pawns themselves, which has been widely spread in the Sizhou army, and it is used by chance today, and it has a surprise effect.

Guo Yuan was a military general, and the cold arrows that shot up did not pose much threat to him, but when he hurriedly ordered to shoot back, the archers under the city had already avoided behind the wooden oar, and they were all slippery.

Then came the free time for the show, where the archers of both sides braved the rain of arrows to bend their bows to shoot at the enemy, and the sound of arrows in and out of the city was non-stop.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh! Sou! ”

The soldiers defending the city are on guard, and they will not suffer the same losses as before. The distance between the two is very close, the land on the city is advantageous, the bow under the city is hard, and the two sides have a bloody bow battle under the Jinyang city wall.

On the city wall, a burly archer leaned out half of his body in the battlements, and before he could bend the bow, he had been shot in the chest by an arrow, and the shaft of the arrow penetrated into the ** four inches, he could only cover the wound, screaming and collapsed.

When a brave soldier from behind the huge shield on the ground hurriedly dodged out, a stray arrow happened to arrive and nailed him to the eye, and the cluster of arrows pierced through the skull, killing him instantly.

One of the Yuan archers let go of his hand and shot the arrow in his hand with a "whoosh", but before he could turn back and hide behind the female wall, an arrow flew like a poisonous snake from the oblique stab and was nailed to his throat.

Arrows come and go, and the archers in and under the city look for gaps, bend their bows and arrows to find targets and aim and shoot, and then hide back in the big shield of the female wall, or get arrows on their bodies.

Such a ruthless shooting, fighting for skill, patience, bloody luck, after all, it is the archers selected by the Sizhou soldiers and the Black Mountain thieves who are superior in skill - after more than an hour, more than 800 people on the city tower died by arrows, the wounded are countless, and the defenders gradually dare not show their heads easily.

Only shooting this number of people is really because of the haste to dodge, and most of the soldiers can't aim well.

The archers under the city were all good hands, and the losses were only more than 400, and the sixty arrows each carried before half of them were shot before they had completely gained the upper hand.

Cao Xing Duan led the people in front of him to continue to show off his might for a while, and when the arrows shot down on the city wall became more and more sparse, Xu Huangfang said to Zhang Yan: "This is the right time!" ”

The 50,000 old and weak Montenegrins carrying the soil on their shoulders had already been prepared, and they were divided into fifty teams, each team of 1,000 people, each with a large and small Montenegrin leader to supervise the troops, and the task was to throw the soil under Jinyang City, first fill in the moat, and then pile up a soil slope connecting the head of the city; In addition, tens of thousands of people are still digging for use after the battle.

After Xu Huang spoke, Zhang Yan gave an order, and fifty teams of people immediately rushed to the moat.

Seeing the tens of thousands of people suddenly rushing out of the rear of the enemy army, looking at the dirt behind their shoulders. Looking at his own archers who cowered and hid behind the female wall and no longer dared to come out, Feng Ji, a strategist who was avoiding arrows at a higher level of the city tower, suddenly lost his voice and said: "Not good! ”

Immediately, Guo Yuan also understood, and hurriedly shouted: "Archer! Archers! ”

There are two armies of horses riding on Dangkou. Guo Yuan never thought of going out of the city and waiting for the field battle, and he waited outside the east gate of the garrison, regardless of it, maybe he wanted to go out of the city with his own military horses!

Even at such a critical juncture, the city did not dare to let its elite cavalry halberds go out to kill.

There are nearly 20,000 cavalry in Jinyang City, but the most elite halberd warriors are all brought back by Yuan Shang from Hedong, and they were killed by only Zhao Yun and Xu Sheng and other four schools, and now the remnants of more than 3,000 horsemen, how dare they go out of the city to face 20,000 Sizhou soldiers?

The defenders in the city are numerous, but whether it is Guo Yuan or Yuan Shang, etc. All of them have suffered big losses at the hands of the Sizhou army. There is only one high-level cadre left. is a character who only seeks no fault and no merit, who would dare to go out of the city?

But if they were approached by those dense common people, a load of earth and stones would be piled up. How long will it take for the city to be broken?

Knowing the reason why the enemy army under the city was using the old and weak, the senior cadre Yuan Shang was also frightened, and the junior officers ran around like crazy and whipped the archers, so that they could come out again to shoot.

Still separated by the moat, the only one who can play a role in delaying at this time is the archers, but unfortunately they have just been hit hard, no matter how the officers whip them, more than half of them will still be passive and sabotage.

The archers who risked their lives to shoot were all focused on the old and weak Montenegro behind the shield array, and the archers under the city had no interference. The fatality rate is rising.

"I can't hold Jinyang like this! Abandon the city and retreat to Yanmen? There are Sizhou military horses, and I am afraid that none of the foot soldiers will be able to escape! Can't go? ”

Feng Ji frowned and walked around anxiously on the city tower, thinking for a long time, when his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said sharply: "If you can't keep it, you won't keep it!" If you can't go, you won't go! ”

This is what his father has to rely on, Yuan Shang just kept paying attention, and when he saw his crazy appearance, he asked urgently: "Mr. Yuantu has a plan?" ”

Feng Ji's eyes were already cold, and Yuan Shang was pulled to no one in the building, and whispered for a long time.

With the deterrence of the Sizhou army, the soldiers and horses in the city did not dare to go out of the city to fight, and the archers at the head of the city were completely suppressed.

It wasn't until the sky darkened, Zhang Yan was afraid that the defenders would sneak attack in the dark, and the Montenegrin organization would be chaotic, and the casualties would be heavy if they caused turmoil, so they ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

There was nothing to do in the night, but the next day, the scouts outside the north gate of the West Gate came to report, and a large group of people flocked out, it is said that the defenders forced the people to leave the city, and the third son of Yuan was going to defend the city.

If you still have to defend Jinyang, could it be that you are pinning your hopes on street fighting? Zhang Yan, Xu Huang and others were puzzled.

Sending fine men to inspect it repeatedly, it was indeed the common people who poured out of the city, not the sergeants pretending to be them. The defenders were also small wings, and the people drove out of the city in batches, not giving them the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to seize the gates.

By noon, at last no one had left the city, and the whole city had been driven out by the defenders.

For these people, Zhang Yan really regarded them as his own people, and he was not allowed to go to the army to plunder again, as long as he could not wait to storm the military camp.

The mound of earth outside the east gate was still accumulating a foot high, and the one-sided fire continued, and the defenders could not stop the decline at all. By the evening of the same day, a gentle slope more than two feet wide had finally been built, and the top was less than six feet from the battlement.

After resting for another night, early the next morning, every Sizhou soldier and the Black Mountain thieves had a full meal and lined up to prepare to enter the city.

The soldiers of the two armies of Dangkou Xiao dismounted and changed to foot combat, and according to the previous agreement, Xu Huang and Zhao Yun would lead the army to attack first.

A hundred steps before the gentle slope built, Che Huang Xu Sheng stood at the forefront of the soldiers, raised his weapons to attack each other, and shouted angrily in unison: "Guo Yi School, when the courage of the resolute and resolute, go to the difficulty, be mighty on the battlefield, and show the courage of the warrior!" ”

Behind the two of them, the Xiao Cavalry Army Guoyi School, which belongs to the Guoyi School of the Dangkou Army, responded in unison: "Guoyi School, the living are not fortunate, and the dead are not mourned!" Show the courage of the warrior! Kill! ”

(I don't have a face to explain anything, just ask you to see my update time and future performance in these chapters.) ）