In the camp outside the city, Dou Gui had red eyes, commanding the craftsmen to step up the manufacture of stone throwers, the craftsmen were exhausted, but they dared not speak out, although this Dou Gui urged tightly, in the end he did not kill easily, but if he annoyed the Xianbei people, it was a matter of life and death, all they could do was to use their last strength to let themselves live for an extra hour.

"Zhongxiang, it's not early, you can rest too." Huai Zong was wearing a tiger skin and walked over slowly with the support of his guards.

"Prince, are you arguing?" Dou Gui hurriedly changed his smiling face, bowed down and said, "I'm not tired, these people are born cheap, if you don't look at them, they will be lazy." ”

"Dog!" A few craftsmen who were closer scolded viciously in voices that only they could hear.

Dou Hu pressed the knife and twisted his head in other directions, seeing Dou Gui's low demeanor in front of Huai Zong, he felt very ashamed and very difficult to accept. When he was in the Han Dynasty, the Dou family was respected countless times, but he never thought that he would fall into this field now.

"It's windy outside, you come in with me to talk." Huai Zong cordially beckoned to Dou Gui and walked into Dou Gui's big tent in the baggage camp. Dou Gui was flattered and hurriedly followed in. Before entering the account, he didn't forget to turn his head and order to Dou Hu: "Watch tightly, don't let them be lazy, otherwise kill a few for them to see." ”

"Whoa." Dou Hu's voice was as low as a mosquito's call.

"Zhongxiang, how are you going to defend against their fire attack?" Huai Zong wrapped himself tightly and sat by the burning fire, his face was illuminated by the fire, but his eyes were a little gloomy, and he looked very melancholy. The wind and snow failed to save it, and the wind cracked, I thought that there was a stone thrower sacrificed by Dou Gui, and it could quickly capture Ningcheng, but I didn't expect Xia Yu to be very strained, and burned the stone thrower with fire, and now it can only be built overnight. He always felt a little uneasy when he saw the resentment of those craftsmen.

"Don't worry, prince, I already have a countermeasure." Dou Gui said confidently: "I will send a big shield to stop in front of the stone thrower, and apply mud on the big shield, so that their fire attack will not begin." As long as they don't get close to the stone thrower, how can they burn? He laughed: "Crossbow arrows can only shoot rockets, but they can't launch oil cans, and it's not easy to burn a catapult with just a few rockets." Besides, I will also apply mud and hide on the stone thrower, so that even if the rocket is fired, it will be difficult to burn. ”

Huai Zong thought about it for a while, and felt that Dou Gui was reasonable, some methods they had used before, but they didn't have the experience of using them on stone throwers. Because for them, the stone thrower only knew that there was such a thing, and how to make it, and it was the first time he had heard of it.

The Han people have a lot of good things, and in the future, we will have more dealings with those Han people who surrendered, so that we can shorten the technical gap between our Xianbei people and them as soon as possible. Huai Zong stretched out his hand and took a copper bowl full of wine and handed it to Dou Gui, "Take a sip of wine and warm your body." ”

"Thank you, Prince." Dou Gui hurriedly took it, and his tears were about to fall with gratitude. "I am willing to serve the prince as a dog and horse."

"Hehe, Zhongxiang, don't think too much, I just think I'm very compatible with you, and I don't mean anything else." Huai Zong smiled and said: "You also know that in our Xianbei, the eldest son of the king is not equal to the crown prince, and ...... What he likes is my brother and Lian. ”

"And even the prince in case." Dou Gui said without thinking: "Although the Yan clan likes him, the king doesn't like him, and generals like Murong Feng and Lord Feng Split don't like him either, he has no chance to become the king of Xianbei." ”

Huai Zong smiled silently, looking at the flames. It's not that he doesn't believe in Dou Gui, but he doesn't believe in Dou Gui completely, after all, the cunning of the Han people is famous, and this kind of family that can be inherited for a hundred years is unlikely to be an honest person.

Anyway, Dou Gui is willing to contribute to him now, it's always good, as long as he can take Ning Cheng and kill Xia Yu, all the shame in front of him can be washed away. When the time comes, I must rectify Liu Xiu's Han dog, he is the one who harmed me like this.

However, what if you can't capture Ningcheng? Huai Zong's eyebrows jumped, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore. If the Wind Crack father and daughter were not in the city, he didn't want to attack the city at all, and he could have gone away after the Wind Raid in the Shanggu Realm, but now it was otherwise, if he didn't break through Ning City, he would have plundered more Han people and robbed more property, but he would not be able to cover this scar, and the Wind Cracker would not agree to him.

This time he was riding on the back of a tiger, Huai Zong sighed, hoping that Dou Gui's method would work, otherwise he would have to fill it with human lives.

Dou Gui took two days to make fifty stone throwers, and began to attack the city again, he made careful arrangements, not to let Xia Yu have any chance to get close to the stone thrower within fifty steps, with human arm strength alone, it is impossible to throw a can of oil over fifty steps.

Dou Hui also attracted useful experience from Xia Yu's methods, and also collected some oil canisters as weapons, but he didn't have a strong ballista rocket, so he could only throw the lit oil canister out. In the face of the long Han army's position, although the oil tanks issued by the fifty catapults played a certain role, the density was far from enough, and the damage caused was very limited. After the initial panic, Xia Yu quickly organized the people to extinguish the fire, saw the flight trajectory of the oil tank, and as soon as it landed, he rushed to cover it with soil and put out the fire with a straw mat splashed with water, so as to extinguish the fire as quickly as possible.

The two sides came and went, and the fight was inseparable, Liu Xiu and the craftsmen worked day and night, and quickly built a few stone throwers, but Xia Yu didn't let them use them, just let them hurry up and build as many as possible. Liu Xiu was puzzled, but he knew that Xia Yu was not a good person, and he didn't let him use it, he must have wanted to show mercy to Dou Gui's subordinates, so he didn't say anything, but just hurried up to improve and make stone throwers with the craftsmen.

Five days later, they built thirty stone throwers, and their craftsmanship became more and more proficient, but the houses that could be demolished in the city were basically demolished, and even Xia Yu's school captain's mansion was demolished, and they could no longer find a single working girder, so they had to come to an end.

At this time, the war situation has entered a white-hot stage. Dou Gui had the upper hand in the battle for several days, and he believed in the power of the stone throwers even more, and on the one hand, he squeezed the last potential of the craftsmen, rushed to make the stone throwers in large numbers, and sent people out to clean up the oil tanks and people. There were mountains and forests around Ningcheng, and he had a sufficient source of timber, and under his coercion, he soon had more than two hundred stone throwers.

In order to increase the pressure and capture Ningcheng as soon as possible, Dou Gui ordered the stone thrower to be assigned to the east, west and south gates, and the three city gates launched an attack at the same time, so as not to let Xia Yu have a chance to breathe.

Zhang He and Xian Yuyin, who were originally relatively idle, ushered in a real battle.

Stones and flaming oil cans flew in the air, making a whirring sound, and the excited Xianbei people let out a loud "ho-ho" roar and launched wave after wave of attacks on the city walls. Zhang He led his halberd warriors, with the support of the bow and crossbow at the head of the city, braved the attack of the opponent's stone thrower, and rushed over the Xianbei people who crossed the deep ditch again and again, such as the long halberd of the forest harvested the lives of the Xianbei people, hooked, cut down, stabbed to death, and pushed down the deep ditch, the deep ditch with a width of one zhang was full of corpses pierced by sharp wooden stakes, there were Xianbei people, there were Han people, but most of them were Xianbei people with heads.

Wearing leather armor, holding wooden shields, war knives of the Xianbei people in front of the neat and orderly halberd warriors suffered a lot, although they are very brave, but the cooperation between each other and the halberd warriors are too far apart, often a person in the face of several halberd attack, their knives are too late to swing out, they are held by the halberd, they want to escape, but are hung by the halberd, and then a sharp halberd stabbing quickly pierced their leather armor, piercing their bodies, the snow bright halberd aid from their necks, arms, legs, Tear open the bloody wounds one after another.

Euphorbia showed the power of invincible, after three days of bloody battles, Euphorbia killed more than 1,000 enemies, but only 13 people suffered self-damage, Zhang He, who was usually taciturn and did not attract much attention, quickly became famous, and won the unanimous praise of the Captain of Wuhuan's Mansion, and even faintly overshadowed the elite led by Wang Chan. As their reserves, the Zhuojun soldiers led by Liu Xiu and Zhang Fei became the easiest reserves, and they spent most of their time standing in the city cheering for the halberds.

After this day's bloody battle, Xia Yu invited Lu Min, Liu Xiu and Zhang He to his command platform at the south gate.

"I'm going to transfer you to the south gate." Xia Yu said straight to the point: "Wang Chan's men have lost all their losses, and they can't afford to fight again. ”

"My lord, why don't you add some more people?" Lu Min asked in a deep voice, "There are still more than 1,700 elites in the mansion, why don't you send some people out." ”

"Those people, I'm going to keep it and fight back." Xia Yu said coldly.