The means of sowing discord were used, but the attack of the siege had to continue. Before noon, Gao Xianzhi returned to the camp with 10,000 troops of the night attack, according to their preliminary estimates, this night attack killed at least tens of thousands of elite strikers of Dashi, and the casualties on the side of the Anxi army were only hundreds. What's more, they didn't have the slightest strength to fight back, which seriously hit their confidence and morale.

After lunch, the crossbowmen and cavalry, who had been left behind for a long time, began to attack the city again. Before the siege of the city, the two Shiguo prisoners were put back again, and this time in the night attack, Gao Xianzhi specially took them to watch the battle, in order to let them tell the king of Shiguo, Teller, our Anxi army is very capable of fighting, and the big food reinforcements are vulnerable, don't expect the reinforcements to come to the rescue.

Sure enough, this night attack was very exciting, and a thousand Mo sword soldiers were like entering a no-man's land in the camp in front of the Great Food, killing the corpses and the sea of blood; The light cavalry of the rear battalion was stunned by the 3,000 cavalry of Anxi and was caught off guard. All this shocked the two Shi ** officers who were detained by ten Anxi scouts to fight outside the camp, and their confidence in the Great Food reinforcements dropped to the freezing point.

After seeing Teller, the two immediately began to narrate everything they saw, saying how the Anxi army was strict in military discipline and concealing its actions, how a thousand Mo knives smashed into the enemy camp like a wolf into a flock of sheep, how the big food reinforcements were embarrassed, how they collapsed, and how they did not have the slightest power to fight back.

The two talked wonderfully, but the more Teller listened, the more frightened he became. Originally, he had listened to the previous commander tell how the tens of thousands of troops of He Posilin and Qi Yad had been defeated in front of the 6,000 Anbian divisions, and even He Posilin was deflated many times, and he was a little unconvinced, thinking that the Anxi army was scaring them; Now that the two Shi ** officials have seen it with their own eyes, how can it be fake?

The 20,000 Anxi army is really powerful, not only is the combat effectiveness super strong, but also the courage, this determination, and the high morale are even more terrifying. Teller began to hesitate for a moment, if the Anxi army could really ensure the safety of Shiguo and the future rights and interests, it would not be unacceptable to give up Talas City and cut off contacts with the Huang surnamed Tuqi Shi and the Zhaowu Jiuguo Hu who were exiled here.

At least it's better than being buried with them.

This time their siege was also different from the previous ones, but they concentrated their forces to attack only one city wall, and all the catapults, eight-ox crossbows, and thousands of strong bows and crossbows took turns shooting at the city wall defended by the Huang Tuqi. There were suddenly heavy casualties on the head of the city, but whoever dared to show his head was immediately greeted by a few and a dozen crossbow arrows.

Even hiding behind the fortress was not necessarily safe, and the Anxi army used a new type of trebuchet, compared to the old trebuchet that required dozens of soldiers to pull the rope together. This new type of trebuchet uses a pulley to lift a heavy object at one end of the trebuchet, which not only requires fewer people to operate, but also fires stone projectiles more than twice as fast as the original. Yesterday these trebuchets were used separately, and they didn't feel anything, but now they are concentrated and launched at full speed, and suddenly it is like a rain of stones. A stone projectile the size of a human head smashed into the battlements of Talas, and there was a big gap, and the rubble was splashed; If you hit a person, you will be killed instantly, and your limbs will fly around.

The walls of the city of Talas were not very strong, they were rammed earth walls, without bricks, and many of the battlements of the women's walls had been destroyed, and people could no longer hide behind them, unless they bent down and squatted. In other places, even small gaps have been blasted, and these soldiers surnamed Huang even wonder if the Anxi army will collapse the entire city wall if it continues to bombard like this.

It was the soldiers of Anxi and Ning Yuanguo who pulled the trebuchet below and raised the weight at one end, but it was their own people who polished and carried the stone projectiles for them -- the soldiers surnamed Huang who were captured yesterday, and more than 200 Anxi crossbowmen with crossbow arrows in their hands watched over them.

It's like bullying people to death!

"Damn it!" Qu Si cursed loudly and walked down the city wall, the cavalry must attack, and the city could not be held without destroying these catapults.

"No way!" Teller objected loudly: "Have you forgotten yesterday's lesson? The Anxi army must have been prepared for a long time, and to attack is to send them to death! ”

"What then? Could it be that the Anxi army will be smashed all the time, and the morale will be lost if it continues like this. When the time comes, there will be no one on the city, and the Anxi army will be able to break through this city wall at once! Qu Si shouted loudly, and the green tendons on his neck bulged: "Otherwise, you let the soldiers of your Shiguo guard the western wall!" ”

"......" Teller was speechless for a while, of course he didn't want to let his Shiguo soldiers go up to die, he suddenly held his face red, and glared angrily.

Said bin Humed hurriedly came out to relieve the siege: "I think it is better to lead a wave of cavalry, my five hundred Khorasan cavalry to take the lead, and each of you to send a thousand cavalry, only one wave and then retreat." ”

Shi Guo, Da Shi, Huang surnamed Tuqi Shi this temporary military alliance, Shi Guo and Huang surnamed Tuqi Shi forces are almost strong, Da Shi is the largest, originally at the beginning of the Sayyid bin Humet under the command of 8,000 Khorasan religious cavalry, plus the black-clothed food in the invincible power of the river, before this, Said Ben Humet has always been the absolute leader of the posture.

Therefore, he completely ignored Teller's correct opinion that day, and forcibly sent troops to fight Gao Xianzhi by surprise, and then ignored the suggestion of Prince Na Che Bishi, and ordered 5,000 Khorasan cavalry to attack the bow and crossbow array of the Anxi army, but the 8,000 cavalry only came back more than 500 in the end.

After that battle, Sayyid bin Hummed's arrogance was gone, and with only 500 soldiers in his hands, he did not dare to claim to be a leader again before the reinforcements arrived. As a result, the coalition army now does not have a strong leader who can make up his mind, so that there is a quarrel like this just now, where no one can convince anyone.

Teller and Qu Si thought about it for a while, and because of the lesson of yesterday's attack, the three of them made detailed arrangements. More than ten minutes later, the catapult of the Anxi army stopped firing, and hundreds of Mo sword soldiers and jumping soldiers carried the ladder and pushed the rushing cart, and rushed up under the cover of the crossbowmen. At this time, the west gate of Talas creaked open, and two thousand five hundred light cavalry rushed out like a tide.

Five hundred Khorasan cavalry came out first, each with a shield in one hand, a short spear in the other, and a few more hanging from the saddle, and from the very beginning raised the speed of the horses, and rushed straight towards the Anxi army. Behind them, a thousand Shi cavalry and a thousand Huang Tu Shi cavalry, most of them armed with cavalry bows, followed closely behind; A small number of them carried a net bag with flammable grease in their hands, and finally dozens of people with torches, apparently trying to burn down the catapults of the Anxi army.

The Mo sword soldiers and jumping soldiers who were preparing to attack the city immediately gave up the siege equipment in their hands, and the Mo sword soldiers were in front and the jumping soldiers were behind, forming a tight military formation. Thousands of crossbowmen fired a rain of arrows and immediately retreated behind the Mo Sword Soldiers.

In the Anxi cavalry array of the sweeping array, seeing the opposing cavalry rushing out, Xi Yuanqing roared angrily: "Into the mother, I thought you didn't dare to come out!" ”

The horse lance pointed forward, and his legs slammed into the horse's belly, and Xi Yuanqing neighed at the foot of the healthy horse, and it flew out like an arrow. Behind him, a thousand Anxi cavalry and a thousand Gelulu and Ning Yuanguo cavalry also immediately kicked the horse's belly fiercely, and followed with a roar.