'Boom' a hundred-pound boulder hit the board wall, the strong impact force smashed a big gap above the board wall, four or five Xia soldiers standing on the board wall were smashed out, the flesh and blood were blurred, a bed crossbow was also smashed to pieces, exclamations, screams and screams rang out

The boulders were fired continuously, and the boulders roared and smashed against the slab wall, making a dull crashing sound and the breaking sound of the supporting wooden frame from time to time, and a gap was hit three times in a row, and finally collapsed

Dou Jiande had returned to the middle camp at this time, and the defensive battle was under the full command of the general Fan Yuan, who was so anxious that he shouted loudly, "Bed crossbow fire"

As early as the beginning of the first wave of the Sui army's attack, a thousand bed crossbows were fired in a concentrated manner, and in the dark, powerful iron arrows were fired intensively at sixty trebuchets

But the Sui army also had experience in defending bed crossbows, not only placing the winch in the back and adding defensive plates to protect the soldiers, but also wrapping the trebuchet with thick cooked cowhide, although the iron arrows could still penetrate the cowhide, but their destructive power was greatly reduced, just like ordinary arrows, nailed to the trebuchet

After three rounds of bed crossbows were shot out in a row, only four stone throws were destroyed, and the lethality was small, Fan Yuan's voice was hoarse, but he was helpless, watching one after another huge stones smash the slab wall, smashing out gaps one after another, and more than a dozen places have collapsed

But the weak defense remained, and that was to desperately repair the collapsed slab wall, and 3,000 fortifiers brought in huge logs and stones to clean up the damaged wall and rebuild the pillars

A boulder slammed into the gap that was being repaired, several wooden pillars that had just been erected broke at the root, and the boulder smashed several human heads to pieces, rolling and smashing towards the crowd, and dozens of fortifications turned around in fright and fled

Although the trebuchet was repeating itself mechanically, the excitement of the Sui soldiers did not subside, and every time they saw the wall fall down, a cheer erupted among the Sui soldiers

On the lookout, Yang Yuanqing was still paying attention to the siege battle in the distance, he was expressionless, staring intently at the Sui army's trebuchet attacks again and again, and Pei Qingsong, who sent him a letter next to him, wanted to say something several times, but he wanted to stop talking

Since Pei Qingsong was reprimanded by Yang Yuanqing last time, he didn't dare to speak casually, most of the time he remained silent, watching and thinking more without saying much

"What do you want to ask?" Yang Yuanqing didn't look back, he seemed to know the doubts in Pei Qingsong's heart

Pei Qingsong hesitated and said: "The humble post has also read some military books recently, and the books all mention that night battles should be avoided as much as possible, mainly because it is difficult to command with military flags and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me in night battles, and it is easy to be fled by the enemy chieftains, but in the attack on Taiyuan City, the battle of Li Shuliang, and the battle of Zhuoxian, the governor has adopted all the differences between night battles and military books, and the humble position does not understand very much."

Yang Yuanqing smiled, he could see Pei Qingsong's progress and his problem was not naïve, he could explain it to him

"I've used night warfare in all four wars, haven't you found something in common?"

Pei Qingsong thought about it and reacted a little, "The chief said that the four times were sieges or camps."

"That's right, everything has pros and cons, the biggest problem in night battles is to command and distinguish between friends and enemies, so I try not to use the way of night battles in the wilderness battles, but night battles are a favorable way to shake the hearts of the army and cause chaos among the enemy troops, attacking Dou Jiande, I don't want to kill many enemies, my purpose is to defeat the enemy army, let his soldiers escape, go home to farm, and restore peace in Hebei As for Dou Jiande, frankly, I don't plan to stop his escape"

Pei Qingsong was a little stunned, "Doesn't the chief don't want to catch Dou Jiande?" ”

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "Instead of facing a powerful Li Mi, it is better to leave a person who digs his corner"

Pei Qingsong somewhat understood, "Does the chief manager want to use Dou Jiande to deal with Li Mi?" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly, "It's not enough to deal with, but he can at least share a part of Li Mi's food"

Inside the big tent, Dou Jiande walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, like an ant on a hot pot, although he knew that this day would come sooner or later, but when it really came, his heart was full of fear, and he felt that his end was coming

"Uncle"

Niece Dou Xianniang hurriedly walked into his big tent, and said a little anxiously: "It is difficult for General Fan to command two-front operations alone, can Uncle send another general to command the southern front, so that General Fan can concentrate on the northern front"

Dou Jiande's original wife and children were killed by the government when he rebelled, and the Cao family who married later failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter, so he regarded Dou Xianniang as his daughter and loved her very much

Dou Xianniang was supposed to stay in Zhangnan County, but she ran to Qilipo to participate in the battle without authorization, which made Dou Jiande very annoyed and ordered her to be grounded, but after Zhangnan County was lost, Dou Jiande was secretly glad that she was not there

Dou Jiande's suggestion made Dou Jiande deeply convinced, he nodded, and immediately ordered: "Order Cao Dan to take over the defense of the southern front, and Fan Yuan is fully responsible for the defense of the northern front."

A personal soldier rushed away after receiving the order, and Dou Jiande said to Dou Xianniang again: "Xianniang, now that the situation is in crisis, you can retreat first, you don't have to wait for me."

"But where can I go?"

"Go to Gaotang County, there are 20,000 elite soldiers led by your Second Uncle Liu and Song Jingang, Kong Deshao and some civil officials also left yesterday, if this side is unfavorable, I will come to meet you soon"

"No"

Dou Xianniang decisively rejected Dou Jiande's arrangement, "I'll go with my uncle"

After speaking, she turned around and walked out of the tent, Dou Jiande looked at her back and sighed, "Alas, this stupid child"

In fact, Dou Jiande also understood the real reason why she refused to go first was because Liu Heimin wanted her to marry her son Liu Zhi, and Dou Jiande was not very willing, Liu Zhi's personality was too violent, and the important thing was that Dou Xianniang resolutely refused to agree, and Dou Jiande didn't want to force her

At this time, the pro-soldier led a person into the big tent, "Lord Wang, everything is ready"

"Let me see"

Dou Jiande walked up to this person and looked at him, only to see that this person looked almost exactly like himself, and was wearing the same outfit, but his temperament was relatively timid and obscene, and this person had a big black mole on the wing of his nose, and there were a few short hairs on it, which was the biggest difference between him and Dou Jiande, but at night, it was difficult to notice the mole on the wing of this person's nose

This person's surname is Liu, he is an old farmer in Changhe County, Pingyuan County, and his accent is also very similar to Dou Jiande, he was discovered by the officer when he signed up for the army, and sent him to Dou Jiande

Dou Jiande nodded with satisfaction, and said to several pro-soldiers: "Take him to inspect the battlefield to boost morale, he doesn't need to open his mouth to give orders, you can directly pass on the word for him"

The "obedience" soldiers took the fake Dou Jiande out

Dou Jiande slowly walked to the tent with his hands behind his back, staring at the battlefield to the west, although he knew that the chances of victory in this battle were not very good, he still hoped to weaken the Sui army to the greatest extent

The trebuchet's attack had been going through nearly an hour, and the walls on the north and south sides had each smashed a gap hundreds of paces long, and at this moment, a huge drum sound came from the Sui army camp, "Knock knock-knock-"

This is the order, stop the attack of the trebuchet, launch a trap battle, dozens of trebuchets slowly stopped attacking, the battlefield became quiet for a moment, Li Jing pulled out his battle knife, turned back to the deputy general Yang Sien and ordered: "General Yang, here is your Modao heavy armor soldier to fight"

Yang Sien has already finished wearing, he is wearing heavy armor, holding a Mo knife about one zhang and seven feet long, only his eyes are exposed, and his eyes shoot a cold gaze, and behind him are six thousand heavily armored Mo Dao infantrymen standing in line

Six thousand Mo sword army hundred people in a row, a total of sixty rows, one zhang apart from each other, all have been replaced with heavy armor, six thousand people lined up neatly, like a copper wall, murderous awe-inspiring

Yang Sien raised the Mo sword high, and the six thousand heavy armored infantry burst out with an earth-shattering roar at the same time: "Kill-"

With a wave of Yang Sien's Mo sword, six thousand Mo sword heavy armor soldiers launched an offensive, advancing like a wall, with a dignified momentum like a mountain, and killing step by step towards the gap five hundred steps away

On the battlefield of the southern front, the main general Qin Qiong also gave the order to attack, and the five thousand heavy armored cavalry under the leadership of the general Xue Wanche also suddenly launched, with a row of 100 horsemen and a line of 50 rows, waving their horse lances, and galloping towards a gap as long as one mile wide

Qin Qiong led 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry to follow behind the heavy cavalry and cover the enemy camp

At the gap in the northern line, 10,000 crossbows and crossbows Chinese net, arrows like a storm, shot towards the heavily armored Mo sword soldiers who were approaching step by step

The heavily armored Mo knife soldiers held the Mo knife and the rattan shield, facing the rain of arrows, and rushed to the gap with solemn steps, the arrows had already penetrated the rattan shield, clanging on their iron armor, but they could not penetrate the armor, the reason why the Mo knife army and the heavy cavalry were also called trap soldiers was because their heavy armor was not afraid of arrows, and it was the sharpest type of troops that impacted the enemy formation

Seeing that the heavy armored infantry of the Sui army was getting closer and closer, the general Fan Yuan's eyes were red in a hurry, and he hissed and shouted, "Shoot with a bed crossbow"

The soldiers of the Xia army quickly brought 300 bed crossbows, Fan Yuan personally commanded, he ordered the bed crossbows to plug the gap, and arranged them on the board walls on both sides, the soldiers winch and put in the iron arrows, one by one thick iron arrows, aimed at the oncoming Mo knife heavy armor soldiers

Fan Yuan shouted: "Shoot"

Three hundred powerful iron arrows roared and shot at the heavily armored soldiers, and the powerful iron arrows finally penetrated the heavy armor, and the heavy armored soldiers in the first row let out a miserable scream, and more than half of the more than 100 people were shot down

Yang Sien was in the middle of the first row, two iron arrows shot at him at the same time, he swung his Mo knife to slash one of the arrows, but the other arrow hit his thigh, the iron arrow shot through half a foot, breaking his leg bone, he snorted and fell to his knees

More than a dozen heavily armored soldiers hurriedly dragged him down, Yang Sien could no longer support him, he shouted, "General Li Chongwei continues to command"

A sharp pain hit him, and he fainted instantly

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