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Chapter 792: The Eve of the Siege

Wei Xin is good at defending the city, famous for his defense, but now the enemy is not the barbarians who are not good at attacking the city on the grassland, but the Central Plains army that has been immersed in the siege and defense of the city for many years. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zeng Yifan surrounded three and one, his goal was to take the fortress of Xiabaoping, not to annihilate Wei Xin's army, it was good-looking to be surrounded on all sides, but it also aroused the opponent's determination to fight to the death, it was best for the opponent to abandon the city after holding on for a period of time, and he also had to explain, there was no need to fight with the other party here. Zeng Yifan is familiar with the combat ability of the Dingzhou soldiers, and he has seen a lot.

Xu Siyu has already led his troops to arrive, which makes the strength of the southern army in Weizhou reach more than 40,000 people, Zeng Yifan already knows that Lan Yu will bypass the Xiabaoping they are attacking, and go straight to Yangquan or other targets, in this case, he will force the opponent to give up Xiabaoping, and he will be considered to have completed the task.

Wei Xin's direct subordinate troops were named Violent Bear by Li Qing, and obtaining it means that it is as stable as Mount Tai.

He Ping was not a nobody, as the vanguard of the attack on Xiabaoping, he led his troops to arrive, and after setting up the camp fence, he immediately sent troops to start digging trenches in the fortress of Xiabaoping, leaving a hole about ten meters wide every nearly 100 meters. This is, of course, to prevent the opponent from suddenly going out of the city to counterattack when his own side is attacking, and after digging these trenches, all he needs to guard against is these specially left openings.

A truly good defender of the city will never be trapped in the city without doing anything, but will see the opportunity to fight back, and the troops who go out of the city to counterattack will be like a sharp knife, cooperating with the city to disperse the siege soldiers.

After He Ping learned that he would take the lead in attacking Wei Xin's Xiabaoping, he collected information on Wei Xin's fame and several battles, and found that Wei Xin's counterattack in defense was extremely fierce, often hitting the opponent's vital point with a knife, so that the attacker would take a long time to recover his breath, and when you relieved himself, he ran back a long time ago, hiding in the corner and watching the opportunity to prepare to give you another cold breath next time.

For such a person, He Ping couldn't help but raise his caution to twelve points.

"Connoisseur!" Looking at He Ping's movements under the fortress, Wei Xin shook his head and sighed, the siege skills of the Central Plains generals have been tempered for thousands of years, and a complete set of systems has been formed, which is not comparable to the barbarians' half a bucket of water.

"Li Shengzhi!" Wei Xin shouted.

"The last general!" Li Shengzhi strode over, "What does the general command?" "What was a jerky young man has now grown into a calm general.

"See?" Wei Xin pointed down, "Expert, let's just watch him do this?" ”

"Of course not, General, shall I go and beat them?"

"Well, how can you seal us off completely in the city without taking a few hundred lives to fill it? Lead the attack. Wei Xin snorted.

"The last general obeys!" Li Shengzhi choked and pulled out his knife, pulled out his feet and walked towards the city.

He Ping's location for digging the trench was very appropriate, just at the end of the trebuchet's range, and there was really no other way in the city except to lead the army to attack.

Zeng Yifan was inspecting He Ping's camp at the moment, and praised He Ping's strategy, "General He, are you sure to take this city?" ”

He Ping smiled and said: "Young marshal, there is a full certainty in the war, this siege and defense of the city is the most difficult to fight, the will to fight of the soldiers on both sides, the desire for victory, the abundance of materials, and external influencing factors, every aspect will affect the final result, I can only say, do your best." ”

Although he was a little unhappy with He Ping's statement, Zeng Yifan also knew that this was Lao Cheng's heavy general, laying down the fortress, and making his troops no longer suffer too much loss, this was his goal, otherwise, he would have fought all the elite in his hands, and he would still have the qualifications to speak in the future? Just like Lu Fengchun now, he has fallen from a big man to a young general who obeys orders under the blue jade account, is it not because the Lu family has no strength?

"You don't have to worry about fighting here, I will guard the cavalry on Lu Dabing's side for you, and I won't let him storm your siege." Zeng Yifan said.

"In this case, I thank the young marshal. Lu Dabing's cavalry came and went without a trace, which was really a headache. He Ping hugged his fists.

There was a sudden sound of noise in front, and the two of them followed the sound to see that several city gates in Xiabaoping were opened at the same time, and several teams of men and horses galloped out. The Zeng soldiers, who were digging the trenches, shouted, threw away the hoes and shovels in their hands, turned their heads and fled back.

The whizzing sound of feathered arrows continued, and the defenders chasing behind them continued to fire arrows, knocking the slower soldiers to the ground one by one.

As soon as He Ping waved his hand, the troops who had already prepared here immediately greeted him. The two armies then fought in front of the trench. The shouts of killing were endless.

The main battlefield of the soldiers on both sides was the passage of more than ten meters left in the trench, and the soldiers who were crowded together had no room to maneuver at all except for wielding their swords and slashing or stretching out their spears to stab, and there was no way to retreat.

Looking at the fighting in front of him, He Ping couldn't help but shake his head, talking about the combat ability of the soldiers, the Dingzhou soldiers are indeed much stronger, in such a narrow space, the personal courage of the Dingzhou soldiers, the sophistication of the armor, and the sharpness of the weapons are vividly reflected.

The defenders of the city even brought in several scorpion cannons, mounted them behind the foot soldiers, loaded them with stone chips, and there was a wild bombardment in this direction.

Unable to resist, the Zeng troops were killed and exited the passages, and behind them, the Dingzhou soldiers quickly knocked down the breastwork that had just been erected, and refilled the excavated earth back into the trenches.

The battle did not last long, but the fierceness and danger were not inferior to a big battle, when He Ping's troops retreated, the defenders led by Li Shengzhi did not chase after them, so they could lift the corpses of the dead soldiers in order to retreat all the way to the city.

"Half a day's hard work has been in vain." Zeng Yifan said a little frustratedly, "Dingzhou soldiers fuck!" ”

He Ping smiled, "This is just the beginning, don't worry, young marshal, in the future, they won't have such a good thing." ”

From the next day, Wei Xin did no longer easily send troops and horses out of the city, He Ping pushed a series of long-range weapons such as trebuchets, eight-bull crossbows, and scorpion cannons to the front of the battle, *** the way for the defenders in the city to attack, looking at these things, the generals of Dingzhou, including Wei Xin, were gritting their teeth, because most of the things He Ping pushed up were the weapons that Dingzhou had used to assist the Liao Shen Zeng clan against the Lu clan, and now they turned their guns and aimed at them.

"Grandma's, it seems that they can already imitate the scorpion cannon, so much?" Tian Xinyu's body was still wrapped like a zongzi, looking at the dense cockroach cannon, he snorted coldly.

"The scorpion cannon itself is not high-tech, and it is easy to imitate, but the trebuchet and the eight-bull crossbow are not good, the pressure spring, and the steel shaft have a service life, once damaged, with their current refining level, I am afraid it will be difficult to recover." Wei Xin said.

"But even now, it's going to make us uncomfortable for a while!" Li Shengzhi said.

Since it was impossible to go out of the city to fight, the city could only watch the moats outside the city approach the city walls day by day, and watch the layers of breastwork slowly advance forward.

"Damn, it's so depressing!" Zongzi Tian Xinyu said angrily that since he joined the Dingzhou Army, he has fought offensive wars, charging on horseback, slashing and killing, and he is extremely happy, and now he is forced to be in the city and unable to do anything, which makes him depressed.

Wei Xin couldn't help laughing, "General Tian, if you want to go out to do it, you have to take care of your body first, look at you now, can you afford to hold your Zhangba Snake Spear?" ”

The crowd burst out laughing.

"As for being trapped in the city, I have experienced much more than this, thinking that in Weiyuan, the son of the turtle, how many years have we been pressed and beaten by the barbarians? When we went out of the city to fight, there was no door, and the iron hooves of the other side rushed over, and we had no room for resistance at all. Wei Xin said with emotion. That's a world of difference compared to now! ”

"He Ping, who is besieging the city, is a veteran, I'm afraid that he will have to pile up siege passages next, and this battle is enough for a fight!"

"Don't worry, I've never been breached by someone else!" Wei Xin's goatee curled up and said a little proudly: "The barbarians didn't work back then, and the Zeng family can't do it now." ”

In front of him, a Zeng army was lying in front of him, blocking the way for him to attack the opponent's camp, and the other party turned a blind eye to Lu Dabing's teasing, showing weakness, and insults, anyway, he didn't go out of the camp to fight, just relying on the strong camp, quietly waiting for the other party to fight.

Lu Dabing wanted to bypass the other party, but no matter in which direction, there were people blocking the main road, unless they attacked strongly, they couldn't get around at all, and their cavalry couldn't cross the mountains and mountains.

"Hit once!" Lu Dabing summoned Tokhtar and Lalirata, "You two, which one dares to take the lead?" ”

"I'll go!" The two spoke in unison, the last time the two were indistinguishable from each other, and they held back enough energy to continue the competition.

"I heard you two are betting for a girl?" Lu Dabing suddenly laughed.

The two of them blushed and bowed their heads.

"Beauty with heroes, what's so embarrassing!" Lu Dabing laughed and said: "Now give the two of you a chance, each lead two hundred horsemen, respectively to attack the two wings of the opponent's camp, the one who broke the opponent's camp first, Lao Tzu is the master, marry the girl to him, the other one must not squeak crookedly, how about it?" ”

It's going to be a battle! Tokhtar and Lalirata glanced at each other, and said in unison: "By my uncle's orders!" ”

"Damn, call the general, don't call me Aunt Laozi!" Lu Dabing glared at the two of them, "Of course, if both of you break each other's stockades, then it depends on who has fewer casualties?" ”

The two nodded heavily, turned around and left, and after taking two steps, Lalirata suddenly stopped, called Toto, and stretched out his hand: "Totok, good luck." ”

After a moment's pause, he also stretched out his hand, and his two big hands clasped tightly together, "Larry, good luck for you." ”