After the tentative attack was ruthlessly crushed, a desperate feeling was already spreading among the top and bottom of the Tongluo army, and more and more people were no longer hopeful of breaking through.

"The Han were guarded by the pass, and they were condescending, and two hundred and fifty paces from the city were within their range of attack, and we were at once galloping, with a range of seventy or eighty paces at most, and only forty or fifty paces close to galloping could we enter the best range. Now that there are these fortifications under the city, we can only be beaten passively, but we can not help it. This battle can't be fought. After Mingjin, Udir led his army to retreat to camp a thousand paces away, and in the tent of the Chinese army, a centurion spoke.

"Then are you going to sit here and wait to die, or are you going to send yourself to the door to cut off your head by those Han people, and then strip you naked, and then take a sharp stake to poke it in your fart smoke, and stand in the field to feed the crows?" Udir roared angrily, "Don't I know the Jedi predicament we are in now, but as long as we don't sit back and wait, then we still have to fight, fight for our lives." ”

At this time, another commander stepped forward and said softly, "If we don't sweep away the fortifications under the city, we can really only be beaten and not fight back." But if we force these fortifications to be leveled, we will run out of blood under the city. However, I don't think we are without a chance, hiding in the city with the army, condescending, relying on the longbow and crossbow far beyond our range, so we are suppressed from a distance. But if we can make a batch of large wooden shields, we can neutralize most of the threat of the Han longbows, and then we will wait until it gets dark, and then we will bulldoze the Han fortifications outside the city, and finally push all the way to the bottom of the ice wall. Then our cavalry will be able to counterattack with superb galloping, and then we will dig down their ice wall in one go. Without the protection of the ice castle, even if the Han people have longbowmen, can they fight in close combat, and the southern barbarians of the Central Plains can still beat our leopard cavalry in Mobei? ”

"That is, as long as they rush to the side, the longbow has a fart, and they dare to hide behind the city wall and release cold arrows." Someone else excitedly chimed in. It was as if he had seen the victory of the Great Ice Breaker.

Udir was also very happy when he heard this, there was nothing else in this river, but there were mountains on both sides. But there is no shortage of trees. It doesn't take much to make some big shields, or even some shield cars, ladders, or whatever.

He finally nodded. Make up your mind. "Okay, immediately go to cut down wooden shields and shield carts, ladders, and battering rams, this time, I want to see what the Han people have to break it!"

Nilan and more than 2,000 leopard cavalry of the regular army received military orders to temporarily recuperate and prepare for the attack. And thousands of auxiliaries such as Buck were arranged to cut down wood to make shields. Thousands of people worked together, and the speed was still very fast. During the day, the Tongluo people cut down trees to make instruments. At night, they carried the newly made shield and shield cart to the fortifications under the city in the dark. Began digging breasts, filling trenches, and cutting off antlers

Not to mention, this strategy is really good. At least at night, it was dark, and the eyesight of the Huai Huang Archers in the city was greatly reduced, and it was difficult to understand the movement under the city. Even if you put some rockets and light some torches, it won't do much. And with blind firing salvos, the effect is not great, those Tongluo people have long realized some ways to prevent arrow formations, that is, try not to be too dense, anyway, the Sui army in the city does not come out, and there is no need to form a formation to resist. At the same time, their shield car shield also played a great role, hearing the sound of arrows breaking the air in the air, the Tongluo people under the city immediately dodged under the big shield and shield car, no matter how powerful the long arrows were, they couldn't break through these rough shield car big shields, even if the longbowmen replaced the arrows with rockets, but those shield car shields made of wet wood can also be very good for fireproof.

In this case, the Huaihuang army seemed to have no countermeasures, and the Tongluo people were greatly excited and energetic for a while, and it took only three nights to fill in the three breastwork walls and the three trenches behind them, and even the horse traps, deer feet, sharp piles, horse rejections, and four-legged nails within a hundred and fifty steps away were also swept away by them.

There was only a hundred paces left, and in this distance, some powerful leopard riders were already able to shoot arrows into the city.

At this time, Udir couldn't bear it anymore, and he decided to press on it with his whole army and storm the ice castle. First, Udir has plenty of shields, chariots, shields and other siege equipment, and secondly, they have been trapped in this valley for half a month, people are sleepy and tired, and if they stay any longer, they can still hold out for a while, but their war horses will be finished. Without horses, even if you break through, it will be difficult to run away. For many reasons, Udir decided to launch a full-scale siege ahead of schedule.

Ted's commander of the Thousand Cavalry soon passed down the order, and they were ordered to support the auxiliaries in the back to clear a passage and attack the city directly. The task of besieging the city was entrusted to the auxiliaries, and the leopard cavalry of the main army did not have to charge into battle, or it was not yet time for them to charge, all they had to do now was to release arrows at the back of the infantry and help suppress the crossbowmen in the city.

After the order was delivered, Ted swept away the pessimistic feelings he had been feeling for many days, patted his nephew on the shoulder excitedly and said, "It seems that we can finally kill back!" ”

Nilan is not as optimistic as his uncle, in the past three days, although they have swept away one hundred and fifty steps of the fortifications under the city, but there are still one hundred steps, this hundred steps is also the most difficult section, the Sui army in the city is very strong in suppressing this distance, and the competition here will definitely be the fiercest. A few days of calm were just a sign of the storm.

Nilan put on his armor and mounted his horse to join the ranks of his team, his longbow in hand, following behind, looking up from time to time at the ice castle that was getting closer and taller.

The trumpets sounded, and the cavalry began to gallop on their horses, but instead of running straight down the city, they galloped toward the wings, always keeping a distance of about a hundred paces from the castle. Taking advantage of the mobility of the cavalry, they fired arrows at the city as they galloped. After suffering the loss of the Sui army's longbow and arrow array, these Tongluo cavalry are now very clever to divide the team into a hundred cavalry teams, so that the losses when suffering from the arrow rain are greatly reduced.

And the more auxiliaries, to the beat of drums, pushed the shield carts, and carried the large shields, began to run forward in the same line, and began to clear a few passages on the last hundred paces of fortifications. They didn't clear all of them as before, but only a few lanes. In this way, the passage to the city can be opened up as soon as possible, so that the siege team behind can reach the city as soon as possible.

The Huaihuang army in the city remained calm, and no one shot at them.

Niranzema followed behind Tedhorse. Galloping not fast or slow, while controlling the horse galloping, while turning his head to look at the city tower, the galloping of the war horse, he could see that behind the crystal ice stacks, one after another wearing steel helmets, fluttering white, blue, green, red and various colors of helmets. Looking at the Han army without moving. Nilan felt a palpitation in his heart.

Ted shouted in front of him, and shot an arrow at the head of the city with his bow in front of him.

Nilan also hurriedly and skillfully picked up a Mingdi arrow, which was one of the most widely equipped equipment among the Turks. Almost every fighter has it. This kind of arrow has a hole in the middle, and there is a small iron ball in it that can slide, and when it is shot, the wind blows the iron ball and rolls. It will make a high-pitched sound. On the vast grassland. The sound of an arrow can travel for miles and is an excellent means of communication. But at the same time, this kind of sound arrow is also an extremely strong arrow, which is a heavy arrow that can break through iron armor.

Skillfully pick up the hammer and sound the arrow, the right thumb of the right hand wearing the antler wrench clasps the bowstring, and the index and middle fingers press against the thumb. The left hand is raised and the arrow is pointed diagonally into the air. The right hand continued to exert force and slowly pulled the bowstring, and the mulberry bow tire attached to the horns of the cow kept squeaking, and the bow was pulled more and more bent, and the bowstring was pulled until the corner of the mouth.

The leopard cavalry beside him loosened their strings one after another and shot their bows and arrows. In the countless bowstring vibrations, it was like a huge swarm of bees flying by, densely flying diagonally into the sky.

It was only at this time that Nilan released his thumb suddenly, and the bowstring was drawn along the flat antler wrench, and the power accumulated on the mulberry bow tire was instantly released, and the heavy arrow flew out, and the iron ball on the arrow rotated rapidly in the air, making a sharp whistling sound.

The arrows flew past the highest point, arced, and began to swoop down towards the defenders of the city.

It was at this time that a continuous shout rang out from the city: "Raise your shield!"

One shield after another was raised, and the arrows fired by the leopard cavalry below were blocked by the shields.

"Crossbowman, let's go!"

There was another shout, and the crossbowmen standing in the front row had already raised their crossbow machines and aimed them at the Tongluo people under the city. One after another, the black bolts flew out, a distance of a hundred paces, and for the crossbowmen, this was really within their strongest lethal range. The 4,000 crossbowmen were divided into three columns, and the three-stage shooting made up for the shortcomings of the long crossbow time on the crossbow machine.

All of a sudden, the bolts formed a storm of metal, exploding, churning, and destroying the city!

Before Nilan could see if his arrow had made a difference, he was already pale with surprise by the crossbow spikes that came back from the overwhelming counterattack.

When the same group of leopard cavalry next to him was galloping, he was suddenly shot by a crossbow spike, and with a loud bang, the crossbow iron nail directly penetrated the horned iron helmet on the head of the companion, and then only a short section of the crossbow tail was left, and the companion only had time to let out a scream, and he was already shot off the horse, and there was no sound again. Nilan hurriedly lowered his body, feeling the crossbow nail whistling in his ear, and the next moment, he saw his uncle Ted's body on the horse suddenly leaning back, and his uncle's northern part was hit by a crossbow, but the armor that could be worth two hundred horses was really not just good-looking, the powerful crossbow nail shot into the shoulder, and it was actually only shot into a short section, and it was blocked by the golden lacquer mountain armor. The arrow looked powerful, but he probably only shot through a bit of flesh.

There were also constant screams, and from time to time there were companions who fell to the ground, and there were also crossbows on their horses, and knights on their horses also fell off their horses. There were screams farther behind, and he hurriedly looked back to see the sound of arrows from the auxiliaries. Even if there are shield cars and big shields, under such a dense rain of crossbows, there are still many people who are hit by crossbows from time to time.

After a round of three stages of crossbowmen of the Huaihuang army, four thousand crossbowmen fired a salvo in three sections, and hundreds of people fell to the Luo army, although the hit was not high, but the results were still remarkable.

Such a large casualty made the Tongluo army, who thought that they would not be afraid after having a shield car and a big shield, was terrified, and the little morale that had recovered in the past three days disappeared in an instant. Even Udir and the others, who were watching the battle from behind, couldn't help but look pale.

The rain of arrows and crossbows had fallen again, and screams rang out again among the Tongluo people, and the losses were still great. And at this time, the leopard cavalry, who were pinned on by Udil and others, were under the dense crossbow arrows. It's not even close to the city within a hundred steps. They hid far away, symbolically figuratively throwing arrows into the city, but the arrows fell far below the city.

Several of the commanders looked at Udir. But Udil was unmoved, and said coldly: "Go on!" ”

The soldiers who were struggling to support themselves in front did not wait for the signal to sound gold, but waited for the sound of the horn to urge the attack.

Under the supervision of the Leopard cavalry, more auxiliaries and even some of the Leopard cavalry dismounted and pressed up with shields.

Under the banner of the White Tiger on the castle, Yi Feng has been calmly watching the situation on the entire battlefield. The battle was fought like this, and everything was expected by him and the General Staff. In fact, these three days. Deliberately letting the Tongluo people advance one hundred and fifty steps and clear the fortifications was just Yi Feng's intention. It's just to deliberately put them close to fight. Yi Feng didn't want to continue to spend time here with these fellow Luo. If you really want to consume them, if these guys die, they have tens of thousands of horses in their hands, and they can completely consume them. But Yi Feng didn't want to spend it like this. This is unacceptable to the Huaihuang Army.

"Great. Do you send someone down to persuade you to surrender? The Khitans have already suffered another defeat, and it is estimated that the two armies of Bayegu and Servant Gu will come south at any time to reinforce the Tongluo people, and we have to deal with these Tongluo people as soon as possible. Wei Zheng, who consulted the military staff, took the urgent report he had just received, and Xiang Yi Feng was full of worry. The situation on the Khitan side is actually similar to that of the Xi people, although the Khitan has ten major tribes, and the ten tribes have more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, but they are more scattered. In addition, one of the tribes was defeated by the Goguryeo people a few years ago, and now it has not recovered. Previously, Bayegu suddenly went south and defeated the Khitan first. Later, Oga Dura went to the rescue, but he fell into an ambush and suffered a defeat. After that, Duluo began to retreat without a fight, wanting to wait for Sui reinforcements and Khitan troops to unite. When Yi Feng saw Chen Wan's request for help before, he also thought that he could pack up Tongluo first and then go north to Khitan, and Duluo should be able to hold on.

But the information just received is that Du Luo has contacted several Khitan departments, got a lot of reinforcements, and his strength has increased greatly, and then he began to set up ambushes under the great increase in confidence, first took the initiative to fight with Bayegu, and then lured the enemy into an ambush by deception, which was originally a classic and beautiful ambush battle to lure the enemy, but he calculated the Baye Guren, and the Baye Guren have been calculating him. As a result, he surrounded the Bayegu people, and was happy, but the army of the Servant Bone tribe appeared. Baye Gu had already contacted the servant bones and dealt with the Khitan together. This time they all fell into each other's schemes, and finally a big chaotic battle, the result was that the Tiele people were more fierce after all, they came to a center to blossom, and attacked inside and outside, and defeated several Khitan coalition forces.

The army of Oga Tara was defeated and retreated, and many soldiers were lost. However, the victorious Bayegu and the servant also lost a lot of men and horses, and the two sides retreated for a while, fearing each other.

However, Daga Duro will definitely not dare to fight the Tiele people in the short term, which makes it very likely that these two Tiele people will go south.

"I won't be able to pull out the wild and the servant bones for a while, we still have some time." Yi Feng groaned, the Tongluo people had already eaten the meat in their stomachs, and it was impossible to spit it out again.

After thinking about it, Yi Feng said, "Weaken the offensive, slowly lead the Tongluo people down the city wall, and wait for it to get dark, and let the cavalry go out of the city to kill them once." Then wait until tomorrow, and then send the infantry out of the city, and we will fight him. ”

Wei Zheng opened his mouth in surprise, "If we defend the castle, we will be invincible, why go out of the city to fight?" ”

"With these Tongluo people to train soldiers, we can't rely only on longbowmen and crossbowmen in the future. Cavalry and melee spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and heavy infantry cannot truly become elite divisions without training. It just so happens that we don't have time to continue with these Tongluo people, so let's deal with them in advance. ”

Hearing Yi Feng's method of actual combat training, Wei Zheng suddenly figured it out.

Now is indeed an opportunity to train troops in actual combat, the soldiers of the Huaihuang Army are not poorly trained, but they are soldiers who have not experienced real battles, even if they have been trained on the school field for a long time, they are still not elite soldiers. And right now, the Tongluo people are trapped in the valley, and the Huaihuang army has a strong fortress behind them, and even if the soldiers who have been tested in actual combat do not fight well, even if there is a problem for a while, there will be no major problems. In this way, we can not only train our troops in actual combat, but also do not have to worry about rashly pushing these soldiers onto the battlefield and incurring unbearable losses. Of course, by the way, solve these Tongluo people in advance.

With Yi Feng's decision, in the next battle, the Huaihuang army deliberately controlled the strength of the attack. The longbowmen were largely not put into battle, and even the crossbowmen were eventually cut in half.

This table of the Sui army, in the eyes of Udil, was a little puzzled at first, and later a centurion said that it may be that the Sui army did not have many bows and arrows. This statement was immediately accepted by Udiir, which made him feel good and ordered to strengthen the offensive momentum.

Although they still had to brave the crossbow arrows in the city to attack, people still kept falling, but the casualties were much smaller than before. In this way, they attacked until dark, and after paying almost 500 casualties, the Tongluo auxiliaries approached the ice castle. Between them and the ice castle, there was only a ditch two zhang wide and one zhang deep, and if they took a step further and bulldozed this ditch, they could dig a hole in the ice wall directly, or directly set up a ladder to climb up to the city! (To be continued......)