When the generals of Yanmen stopped arranging, the ladders and siege cones closest to the city wall were less than 100 zhang. Due to the condescending position, the bow and arrow can easily shoot a distance of 100 zhang, and the generals of the Han army have ordered: "Siege cones ahead, shoot two rounds, release!" Thousands of Han army commanders shot the feather arrows in their hands at the same time, and the slender brown flying feathers screamed into the sky, and after ten breaths, the dense flying feathers fell from the sky and pierced into dozens of siege cones. The Hun slaves within dozens of paces around it were all covered with arrows, like hedgehogs.

However, the slaves did not retreat this time, but were driven by the sabers of the Hun iron cavalry, and continued to push the siege cone towards the city wall. As for the more than 100 ladders that were deliberately ignored by the soldiers of the Han army, they had already marched to less than 100 steps away from the city wall at this time.

The tiger guards dressed in dark combat uniforms were taking some soldiers to constantly estimate the direction and carry the incendiary bombs to the position where the ladder was about to be hooked. Seeing that the cloud ladder had been pasted to the city wall, the Hun iron cavalry finally stopped caring about the bow and crossbow of the Han army, shouted and rode forward, constantly bending the bow and throwing it, suppressing the Han soldiers at the head of the city.

"Leave the ladder alone, wind the crossbow and shoot the siege cone!" The generals of the Han army waved the sabers in their hands and kept yelling. Dozens of huge crossbows were pushed up from behind the battlements by the soldiers, and the thigh-thick crossbow arrows could not be aimed accurately, and could only be fired in the general direction, but Rao still destroyed a small half of the siege cones. The huge crossbow arrows shot from the city wall several zhang high are actually simple arrows with copper skin wrapped in arrows, and they are shot on the wooden siege cone, and the huge force can even break the siege cone in an instant. And many unlucky slaves were nailed to the ground. A few crossbow arrows with slightly different angles were unintentionally inserted into the willows, sticking to the ground and piercing several slaves one after another, plowing several terrifying blood grooves on the ground.

"Rush forward!" Seeing that the ladder had been hooked to the city wall, the Hun generals waved their sabers with excitement on their faces, and kept driving the slaves up the ladder.

"Quick, let the archers fire their arrows with all their might, and don't stop for a moment! Remember, just shoot the Hun cavalry, and don't bother with the equipment. Quick, Wei Ji, you lead the thieves Cao to personally supervise the battle! Seeing this, Zhi Du hurriedly instructed Wei Jidao beside him.

The thieves who received the order quickly went out from the Yanlou with their bodies down, and ran to both sides of the city by sticking to the battlements. Some sharp-eyed Hun iron horsemen under the city wall immediately noticed this abnormal movement, and hurriedly beckoned their companions to shoot at the people who were moving quickly on the head of the city, but unfortunately the number of arrows gathered was too small, and it was easy to shoot high from the back, and the first round of arrows did not hit any of the thieves in motion.

"Divide into two columns, get up and release arrows in turn! First quarter...... Put! ”

"Put!"

"Put!"

Hundreds of thieves and Cao, distributed behind the archers all over the city, followed Wei Ji's orders, and commanded the archers' arrow rhythm in a uniform manner. Like undulating waves, the archers stood up, their longbows instantly opened, and they released arrows, and then crouched down against the Huns' arrows against the battlements, alternating with another column of archers beside them. Arrows rained down almost without pause, covering all corners within hundreds of paces below the walls.

The Xiongnu cavalry under the city was in a panic, obviously not expecting that the Han army would be able to organize such a sharp counterattack in the rain of arrows, and hurriedly scrambled to escape from the range of the Han army's bow and crossbow. As the Hun iron cavalry retreated, the defenders of the city suddenly felt a light pressure, and they put down their shields one after another, lifted the rolling logs and boulders on the city wall, and smashed them down to the siege cone that had advanced to the city and was crashing into the city wall.

The soldiers who were close to the ladder hook reinforcement clenched the halberd in their hands, leaned out of the city wall, and stabbed at the Huns who were climbing up. The tiger guards led some soldiers to take out clay pots from the bamboo baskets beside them, ignited the linen cloth on the mouth of the jars, and then smashed straight to the bottom of the cloud ladder under the city.

Puff, with the sound of clay pots shattering, a large area of flames spread instantly, and more than 100 cloud chariots that had been attached to the city wall fell into the sea of fire one after another. A large amount of brown liquid with flames splashed everywhere, staining the fur and clothing of the Huns, and burned even more violently. In an instant, the city of Yanmen was like purgatory, countless Huns were burning with flames all over their bodies, and they couldn't help wailing, the terrible sound made people's scalps numb, and the stench of burnt skin and flesh, accompanied by thick black smoke, rose into the air, making the soldiers of the Han army at the head of the city all look shocked, and even weirdly gave birth to a trace of unbearable emotions.

The surviving Huns, seeing the tragic situation of the people around them, did not care about the saber in the Hun iron rider behind them, and turned around and fled frantically. The rout is terrible, especially the Xiongnu, a nomadic people with loose military discipline, who will only fight with the wind, and once they are frustrated, they will flee without the slightest psychological burden. In just a few breaths, the city wall was empty within hundreds of steps, only charred corpses were left all over the ground, more than 100 cloud chariots all became giant torches, and dozens of almost intact siege cones were discarded under the city, allowing the Han soldiers to lift the boulders and aim full, and all of them were smashed to pieces.

In front of the Xiongnu army in the distance, the military minister saw that the original good situation was reversed in an instant, his face was gloomy, and the war horse under his crotch kept snorting, like the irritability in his heart. The Bank of China was also speechless at this time, and he didn't know how to persuade him, so he pondered for a long time, so he had to turn over and dismount, kneeling down in front of the military minister's Shan Yuma: "This defeat is really the minister's carelessness, and please punish him." ”

The military minister raised his eyebrows at the sword, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said quietly: "The matter of punishment can be discussed later, and now we need to find a way to break the city as soon as possible!" ”

The Bank of China said that he was lying on the ground and risked his life and suggested: "Our army is newly defeated, and its morale is low, so it is not suitable to fight again." Please also allow the troops to be collected, and after reorganizing the army, boosting morale, and rebuilding the siege equipment, choose to attack the city again. The minister guaranteed that he would be able to regroup within three days, and he would take down Yanmen for Shan. ”

The military minister Shan Yu looked at the slanting sun in the sky, pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and didn't care whether the Bank of China saw it or not, and went straight back to the camp. After a long time, the Bank of China said that Fang Fang slowly got up with the support of the guards, sighed, and looked at the Yanmen Fortress in the distance, his eyes full of hatred.

That night, in the Xiongnu camp, hundreds of slaves who had escaped were beheaded. Ten strings of human heads were hung on the high flagpole, showing all the Huns the wrath of Shan Yu and the admonition of the national teacher to all the Huns. The military ministers summoned the generals to the big tent and discussed for most of the night, but there was no progress at all.

Just when the military minister Shan Yu's face became more and more pale, the tent keeper walked into the tent with a little panic and reported: "Da Shan Yu, the Han people are setting fire to the mountain!" ”

"What?!" Everyone in the big tent was stunned when they heard this, and the first to react to the Bank of China hurriedly ran out of the big tent, and when they looked up, they saw countless fireballs shooting out from the head of the city of Yanmen Stop, drawing a series of dazzling marks in the sky, all of which fell in the dense forest on the west side of Gouzhu Mountain, igniting a raging fire. In winter, the wind blows in the valley, but now it is the fire that gradually spreads.

The military minister Shan Yu and the Xiongnu generals also slowly walked out of the big tent, looking at the mountains and forests in the distance, their eyes were full of doubts. One of them, a bearded Qianchang, laughed and said, "What do the Han people want to do?" Do you want to attack with fire? Our army camp is not in the forest, isn't it stupid to be scared by my Hun army? ”

When the Bank of China heard this, he was quite helpless in his heart, the Huns said that they were defeated and returned today, who was scared stupid? Today's battle, the Han army guards calmly dealt with it, and easily resolved the offensive of the Hun army, thinking that it was not incompetent, and now setting fire to the forest, which must have a deep meaning.

"I think there must be something strange about the Han army's move, and we still need to be on guard!" The Bank of China couldn't think of a reason for a while, but it still cautiously suggested.

"Humph! I'm afraid that the national teacher was frightened by the Han army today, right? Now that our army camp is at the mountain pass, it is not connected to the mountains and forests, so why should we be on guard? The thoughts of the national teacher, in the words of your Han people, I am afraid that they want to increase the morale of the Han army and destroy the prestige of our Huns, right?! "The generals of the Huns were already dissatisfied with the Bank of China saying that they were pointing fingers at them with the treasure knife of the military minister Shan Yu, and now they are defeated again, so naturally some people want to jump out of the sarcasm.

"I'm no longer Han!" The Bank of China said coldly that his former Han identity has always been the focus of the attacks of the Xiongnu generals, and trying to destroy Shan Yu's trust in him is absolutely unacceptable to the Bank of China.

"That's it! Don't quarrel anymore, let's go back to camp! It was not the first time that the military minister Shan Yu had encountered this scene, but in the past, he would always punish the Xiongnu generals who provoked him for this purpose, in order to show his absolute trust in the Bank of China. But now he didn't have this thought, but waved his hand lightly and let them leave on their own.

The Bank of China sighed in his heart, but he didn't say anything, retreated, and slowly walked to his camp. And the Hun generals looked at his slightly lost back, and their faces were full of smug smiles, as if they had won a great victory.