The snow is not cold, the snow is cold.

The next day, the eastern sky was angry and rising, but the cold wind on the upper floor of Caozhou City was cold, and the cool air was pressing. At this time, in addition to the soldiers guarding the city, there were also Ji Qingchen and Cheng Qianfan on the city tower. Fang Wanqi, Xiang Ziyu, Xu Dachun, Meng Li and others, everyone's faces were very solemn, because everyone knew in their hearts that this time Beirong was prepared to attack the city, and there were catapults and ladders in their team, which would put a lot of pressure on the city guards and create a lot of trouble on the city tower.

"Your Highness, the cavalry battalion is already in formation!" Just when Ji Qingchen was standing silent on the city tower, Li Changzheng stepped forward and said. After experiencing the rout of the defenders when defending the city last time, Ji Qingchen, as the commander of the three armies, no longer dared to think that the defenders on Caozhou City would work hard with the Beirong people for the people behind them.

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen responded lightly. The rest of him was also disgusted by this practice, after all, he killed the same clan and compatriots. Keci is not in charge of the army, as a commander, he can't be soft-hearted, otherwise the consequences will be lost to Caozhou City, and it will affect the people in the city.

After Li Changzheng finished reporting, he stood beside Ji Qingchen like a gun.

This is Li Changzheng, a man who usually swaggers, dares to joke with Ji Qingchen, and dares to argue with Bai Xiangcheng. But at the critical moment, he is definitely the master who can use his body to block the knife for Ji Qingchen.

Because the weather was very cold and the atmosphere was gloomy, none of the generals on the city tower spoke.

In the middle of the sound, I saw tens of thousands of Beirong cavalry appear in the distance, and then a rumbling sound came into the ears of Ji Qingchen and everyone, and then I saw a black line appear on the horizon in front of me.

When the Beirong elite cavalry gradually approached Caozhou City, there were simple ladders and large catapults several feet high behind them, and the number of them made Ji Qingchen, who had already prepared in his heart, surprised, and he did not expect that Haksu would build hundreds of ladders and catapults in such a short time, which made him also clear to Hakesu and Meng Buge's eagerness to rush to capture Caozhou City.

When the cavalry was only 600 paces away from Caozhou City, the soldiers of Beirong with blue flags and red flags began to set up formations, calmly deployed the catapults in fixed positions, and the ladder was also pushed to the front of the army.

The Beirong cavalry was busy under Caozhou City, but Ji Qingchen and the generals just watched them, quietly waiting for the Beirong people to launch a new round of siege warfare. Because in the face of the large array set up by Hakesu, even Ji Qingchen has nothing to do, and if he wants the cavalry to attack and destroy the catapult, Beirong has 40,000 cavalry looking around the catapult, waiting for the cavalry of the Yan Kingdom.

A moment later, 40,000 foot soldiers inlaid with red and blue flags from Beirong appeared behind the ladder.

The siege of Beijon is about to begin.

At this time, Ha Kesu rode forward and stopped at a distance of three hundred steps under the city of Caozhou.

"Your Highness, Hakesu greets you on behalf of Brother Eleven, and Brother Eleven asks you to prepare wine and wait for him in Caozhou City." Haksu said loudly.

"Please also ask the general to tell General Meng Buge, and say that the king has packed up the room in Caozhou Prison, prepared wine and food, and waited for his arrival." Ji Qingchen shot back in the same way.

Haksu was silent, and the two sides had no more to say.

When Haksu returned to his position, he gave the order to attack.

Woo woo woo - the long horn sounds,

20,000 soldiers of the Beirong Blue Banner pushed the ladder to Caozhou City and killed it, of course, in addition to the catapult, there were also ladders and crashes that hit the city gate. And the catapult, which was placed behind the cavalry, also began to be filled with stones, and a round of test firing was carried out.

Bang!

The first round of test firing was not effective, and most of the stones fell under the city of Caozhou and did not fly up the city wall. After the first round of test firing, the Beijon soldiers began to slowly move the catapult forward, constantly adjusting the best projection position.

"Ready!" At this time, Ji Qingchen said lightly.

The generals of "Nuo" received the order, strode away, and returned to the position for which they were responsible.

All of a sudden, Ji Qingchen and Li Changzheng were left in the center of the city tower, as well as dozens of guards.

"Start - Siege!" Seeing that the position of the catapult was placed, the blue flags were all given the order to attack the city. The 20,000 Beirong soldiers who heard the order suddenly divided into ten teams of 2,000 people, and they quickly pushed the ladder and rushed towards Caozhou City. And the catapult behind the Beirong cavalry also began to exert its strength, throwing huge stones towards Caozhou City.

"Bump-" There was a dull sound, and a large stone smashed on the wall of Caozhou City, the city wall was quite strong, and it was not smashed by the boulder, but when the stone hit the city wall, the pennant on the city tower trembled. What followed was a continuous rumbling sound, and I saw countless big stones smashing towards Caozhou City.

"Concealment-" Fang Wanqi shouted loudly, and immediately waved the order flag, and the soldiers guarding the city received the order and immediately hid under the city wall.

At the same time, the bed crossbow set up in the dead corner of Caozhou City also began to wield, and the crossbowman shot a long arrow about two meters long at the cloud ladder that had already entered the firing range and the siege soldiers behind the cloud ladder. These bed crossbows are the weapons of the foot soldiers of the Long Xiang Army, which are used to defend the city of King's Landing, this time they came to Caozhou City, so they brought the bed crossbow over, and were placed in the dead corner of the city wall by Cheng Qianfan, becoming a great weapon for defending the city.

The accuracy of the bed crossbow was very high, and when a long arrow was fired, a terrible scream was heard in the distance, and three or four Beirong soldiers fell to the ground.

Ji Qingchen stood quietly on the city tower, but looking at the approaching ladder, his brows furrowed. Suddenly ordered Li Changzheng beside him, "You tell Fang Wanqi to aim the crossbow on the city tower at the cloud ladder, and shoot the people on the cloud ladder, or shoot the cloud ladder to this king." ”

"No" Li Changzheng received the order, and walked towards Fang Wanqi quickly.

Fang Wanqi received Ji Qingchen's order, nodded his head to show understanding, and immediately waved the order flag, and saw that the bed crossbowmen began to constantly adjust the angle and direction. After adjusting, they aimed at a ladder that rushed to the front.

The hissing sound of "whoosh-" pierced the air, only to see a flash of white light, a long arrow flew towards the ladder, only the Beirong soldiers on the ladder in Caozhou City did not pay attention, the long arrow made a roar and pierced his body, and the strength continued to break out, and shot through a companion, and the two fell down the ladder with an exclamation at the same time. Then, just as the bed crossbow had just fired an arrow, he continued to set up a second arrow, when he saw a large stone flying in the distance and smashed next to the bed crossbow, so frightened that the soldiers on the bed crossbow quickly shrank under the city wall. Obviously, the Beirong soldiers on the catapult also paid attention to the bed crossbow, so they would throw a large stone at the side of the bed crossbow.

However, even if the catapult was paired with the bed crossbow, the experienced Cheng Qianfan put the bed crossbow on the dead end of Caozhou City. Therefore, no matter how powerful the catapult is, the stones can only be smashed near the bed crossbow, and they cannot be smashed on the bed crossbow at all. After several verifications, the bed crossbowmen knew that the road was safe, so they continued to shoot accurately, and when the ladder moved to a distance of three hundred steps from Caozhou City, because of the power of the bed crossbow, the Beirong people had lost about ten ladders. But even so, compared to the huge number of hundreds of ladders, this loss is insignificant.

At this time, the Beirong soldiers had already made a quick sprint with the cover of catapults, and before the defenders of the city had time to bend their bows and arrows, they had already rushed to the city of Caozhou, and immediately began to set up ladders on the city wall, and were about to climb to the city. Hakesu, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw that someone rushed to Caozhou City, so he decisively ordered the distance of the catapult to be adjusted forward again, and sent the large stone to the top of the Liangzhou City Tower.

"Your Highness, be careful!" Suddenly, a flash of white light, Li Changzheng quickly took out his knife and slashed a large stone that flew towards Li Ke, and he himself was shocked back two steps and stood firm just now.

"Your Highness, let's go down to the city for a while, it's too dangerous here!" Li Changzheng's forehead oozed sweat, and he said with a relative.

The scene just now was too thrilling, if he hadn't made a timely move to injure the King of Northern Liao, not to mention that His Majesty the Emperor had disposed of himself, even the brothers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion could have scraped themselves alive.

"Seeing that you are nervous, do you think Beirong's catapult is so accurate? It's just their luck! Ji Qingchen said fearlessly. In fact, he himself is also very nervous, who is not afraid of death? But today's battle is related to the life and death of Caozhou City, and he standing here will at least give a comfort to the hearts of the soldiers defending the city, their Northern Liao King and their chief manager have not left them, and they are defending the city like them. If he leaves suddenly now, this will leave a reason for cowardice in the hearts of the soldiers defending the city, and it may lead to the collapse of the city defense, which is not what Ji Qingchen wants to see.

"No" Li Changzheng glanced at Ji Qingchen with determination, and did not speak again, but stood on Ji Qingchen's side again, concentrating on Ji Qingchen's direction, vigilantly focusing on the big stone in front of him towards Caozhou City.

At this time, some of the Beirong soldiers had already poured into Caozhou City, Fang Wanqi's order banner was raised, and the archers who had already prepared for Lu began to bend their bows and arrows, and shot arrows one after another at the Beirong soldiers under the city.

"Ahh

Shot by this sudden bow and arrow, the defenders on the city of Caozhou once again suppressed the siege arrogance of the Beirong soldiers, and the front part cleaned up the Beirong soldiers under the city, resolving the danger of being climbed to the top of the city by the Beirong soldiers.

The armies of both sides are once again on the same starting line!

And Haksu, who was watching the battle from a distance, didn't have any expression on his face when he saw this scene, but just gave the order to attack again.