Thirty Lang officials rushed to the city wall with brand-new crossbows, in groups of three, put the crossbows on the battlements, and aimed at the Xiongnu centurions and ten-masters who were charging under the city to shoot, and carried out point shooting.

These are entry-level crossbows, with a bow power of three stones, a range of one hundred and twenty paces, and a lookout for aiming. The biggest feature of the crossbow is that it is easy to learn and use, because when it is full, people are not forced, they can aim calmly, and the shooting accuracy is no worse than the mercenary archers around Liang Xiao, or even better.

"Whoosh!" A bolt flew out of the wall.

"Poof!" Sixty paces away, a Hun centurion who was brandishing a war knife and ordering his subordinates to charge was shot with an arrow in the chest. The powerful bolts not only pierced through his iron armor, but also pierced his body, and Yu Jin took him back two steps and fell on his back.

His herald, holding his horn, was waiting for his order, when he heard the sound suddenly interrupted, turned his head and saw that the centurion had fallen to the ground, and there was a feather of an arrow on his chest, and he screamed in fright. Before he could finish speaking, another bolt flew in and pierced his neck.

The herald clutched his neck and staggered to the ground. The centurion's guards panicked, raised their shields, and dragged the centurion away from the battlefield.

There was another muffled snort, the flag bearer was shot, and the battle flag fell to the ground with a bang.

As the crossbow arrows were fired, one after another the Xiongnu centurions, tenstraps, warriors and archers with high combat effectiveness were eliminated, and the Huns lost their command and the backbone of the battle, and the offensive suddenly stalled.

The biggest flaw of the crossbow is the slow rate of fire. In order to compensate for this shortcoming, Li Danghu had three crossbowmen take turns shooting. While winding and waiting, you can also look for a target. But. In order to pretend to be a mercenary archer beside Liang Xiao. He strictly forbade two crossbowmen in the same group to shoot at the same time. Be sure to be evenly spaced, just like shooting with a bow.

This, although to a certain extent affected the rate of fire, perfectly imitated ten sharpshooters with thirty crossbowmen. The Huns probably remembered the heads-up before the battle a few months ago, and remembered the archers led by Liang Xiao, and the army was suddenly in turmoil. Someone shouted, "Watch out for the archers! ”

At this shout, the Huns were even more uneasy, and they didn't care about attacking the city again, so they raised their shields to protect themselves.

Pity. They all use mounted shields, which are light and small, less than half the size of infantry shields, and have limited protection. In the face of the archers who had rested in the city and re-stepped forward to shoot, the weakness of the mounted shield was exposed, and the Huns were hit by arrows one after another.

The strings sounded urgently, the arrows rained down, and the Huns suffered heavy losses. Shot by an arrow on a ladder. fell down the city, and was shot crookedly under the ladder. The screams continued. They turned to escape, but were stopped by their companions, stumbling and crashing into each other.

At this moment, the gate of the fortress suddenly opened, and twenty knights in iron armor, including Xie Guanglong and Alexander, rushed out of the fortress with their spears and rushed towards the Huns in chaos.

Without orders, the crossbowmen and archers immediately extended their shots, not only to avoid accidentally injuring their own cavalry, but also to clear the way for the cavalry.

The Huns have been stunned, where are the opponents of these vigorous cavalry. They grew up on horseback since childhood, and the impact of war horses is the most clear, as soon as they saw these tall war horses rushing out in front of them, they had no fighting spirit at all, and turned around and fled.

For a while, the ghost in front of the city cried wolf howl.

The cavalry clashed back and forth, stabbing the Huns to the ground one by one and trampling them wantonly. Seeing that the Huns had no resistance, they simply put away their spears, drew their swords, and slashed with all their might.

The siege of the Huns completely collapsed, they could no longer care about the siege, Sacairo ran in circles, without any thoughts, just to stay away from the fortress.

The Right Xianwang and others who were watching the battle were surprised inexplicably. They were too far away to see the details of the battlefield clearly, and they didn't know why they had the upper hand, but suddenly they were completely defeated, and even cavalry rushed out of the fortress to counterattack.

The Right Sage King ordered the cavalry to come forward to respond.

Three hundred cavalry rushed out of the ranks and rushed to the walls.

The first thing they encountered was a rout fleeing for their lives. The routs were already in disarray, and when they saw that the cavalry from the other side was coming to meet them, they wanted to get out of the way, and the space in front of the fortress was limited, and they had nowhere to escape, which inevitably affected the speed of the cavalry. By the time they passed through the middle of the cavalry, Xie Guanglong and the others had already rushed in front of the Hun cavalry.

The speed of the Hun cavalry had not yet increased, and in the face of Xie Guanglong and the others who were rushing wildly, they had no power to fight back at all, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Xie Guanglong brandished his spear and swept past the Huns' side like a violent wind, bringing a murderous aura in his face. In order to prevent the spear from being bitten by the enemy's body, he specifically attacked the enemy's face and throat, and the spearhead made of Uzi iron easily pierced the Huns' face, slicing their necks, leaving behind one broken corpse after another.

Alexander Mountain and others followed, slashing their swords like windmills, mercilessly slashing the Huns.

They easily penetrated the formation of the Huns and saw the large formation of the Huns.

Xie Guanglong reined in the war horse, pointed his bloody spear at the Right Xian King, and laughed.

The Greek boys raised their swords and roared.

The Huns were depressed and demoralized.

King Youxian was shocked and angry, and shouted at the guard battalion to attack. Without waiting for the guard battalion to start, Xie Guanglong and the others had already killed back, killed from the Huns again, and rushed back to the fortress. The gates of the fortress slammed shut again, leaving the terrified Huns and countless corpses and blood outside the city.

"Rush for me!" The Right Virtuous King jumped like thunder and roared manically.

The Huns looked at each other and felt that the Right Xian King was a little irrational. The last assault had just failed, and the three hundred knights were beaten by a counter-charge without even touching the city wall, and there were heavy casualties, so what was the use of rushing up at this time? Not even a road.

"Okay, don't rush, it's a death to rush." Dongfang Shuo, who had been staying out of the way, finally said: "I said a long time ago, you will definitely not be able to break through this fortress, Liang Xiao is waiting for you to hit your head and bleed." ”

"I'm going to break through the fortress." The Right Virtuous King roared.

"Then take it easy, I'm going back to rest. It's so boring, the battle on this side is really boring to watch. Dongfang Shuo said, yawning exaggeratedly, and turned the horse away. The sturdy steed carried him, a little faltering, and the Dongfang Shuo on the horse's back swayed, looking very leisurely.

King Youxian was so angry that his face turned purple. He looked at the immovable fortress, then at Dongfang Shuo, where the clouds were light and breezy, and finally at his subordinates with a begging look on their faces, and sighed: "Collect the troops!" ”

Suffered heavy losses, and it was not for nothing. After questioning the surviving soldiers, King Youxian confirmed that Liang Xiao and the archers beside him were still in the city. It was their sudden strike, and in a short period of time, the centurions and tens, who were commanding the battle on the front line, were shot, the warriors and sharpshooters were eliminated, and the combat effectiveness of the Huns was destroyed.

King Youxian finally recognized a problem, as a long-range cover force for the siege, the archers were too far behind the crossbowmen. In terms of attack and defense of the city, the Huns and the Han are not at the same level. If you want to capture the fortress of Shisaka, there is no better way than to besiege it.

The oasis countries can't do it, and neither can the Huns.

Although reason told him that it could only be like this, King Youxian was still very depressed. He drank in his tent every day, thinking about how he could take the fortress as quickly as possible. Do you really have to stay in front of the Daban fortress for a year and wait until Liang Xiao runs out of food? It stands to reason that he can leave his generals to carry out this task, but he very much wants to break through the fortress and capture Liang Xiao in person.

Because of Liang Xiao, the Xiongnu on the right have already suffered too many losses. He must solve this trouble with his own hands and restore the dignity of the Xiongnu on the right.

Just when he was hesitant and could only drink heavily in the tent, the chariot master Wang Mohe stumbled in, threw himself in front of the Right Xian King, and cried: "Right Xian Wang, the big thing is not good. ”

King Youxian was in a very bad mood and glared at Mo You. "What's wrong again?"

"Liang Xiao attacked Wutu Valley and is now heading towards Jiaohe City." Mo He threw himself to the side of the Right Xian King, hugged the leg of the Right Xian King, panicked and cried silently. "King Youxian, the Tu Valley is over, and there can be no more accidents in Jiaohe City. King Youxian, please save Jiaohe City. ”

Seeing that Mo He was serious and did not seem to be hypocritical, King Youxian was also a little uneasy. His previous suspicions resurfaced. Liang Xiao is really not in Daban and went to Wutu Valley? However, how is this possible, ice and snow, heavy snow covering the mountains, nearly two hundred miles of rugged mountain roads, how did he walk?

King Youxian inquired about Mo He carefully, and learned that the news was transmitted back by Mo You's sister Mo Ya, so he reluctantly believed it. However, when he heard that there were less than 100 people around Liang Xiao, he turned his anger into joy and laughed.

"You're in the city, I can't help it. Now that you're out, I can't catch you? ”

King Youxian immediately ordered to leave a few small kings such as the King of Plough and the King of Julin, and 10,000 horses to monitor Daban City, and personally led the army back to Jiaohe City.

He ordered Mo You. "Lure Liang Xiao into Jiaohe City, you can't let him run anymore."

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Liang Xiao crouched on the snow, raised his clairvoyance, and looked at Jiaohe City in the distance.

Jiaohe City is like a huge spearhead, pointing at Daze and Da Desert in the south, flanked by deep ravines with white ice and snow at the bottom of the ravines. If it were in the summer, these two ditches would have been filled with water, which not only provided the city with daily water, but also became a natural moat, and also watered the land on the east and west sides.

This is a unique terrain, both offensive and defensive, no wonder a thousand years later, the Tang Dynasty set up the Anxi Protectorate, Jiaohe City is still an important city. If you want to gain a foothold in the Western Regions, Jiaohe City must be in your own hands.

It's a pity that his strength is not enough at the moment, so he can only look at Jiaohe City and drool. Jiaohe City is about four miles long from north to south, and nearly one mile at the widest point from east to west, which is several times larger than Daban Fortress. In the case of sufficient food, grass and ordnance, a thousand people are enough to hold the fortress, but if you want to hand over the river city, a thousand people are not enough at all.

What's more, he doesn't even have a hundred people now.

"We were careless." Looking at the soldiers patrolling the city, Liang Xiao said softly: "We were deceived by Mo Ya, and Jiaohe City has already taken precautions. ”――

(To be continued.) )

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