This traditional siege battle was carried out quite tragically, and the Later Zhou army under the city, with the support of flintlock pikemen and crossbowmen, used ladders, building carts and other siege equipment to attack the city head one after another. The defenders of the Northern Han Dynasty in the city rained down arrows, using ash bottle artillery arrows, rolling wooden stones, gold juice boiling soup and other means to counterattack, pouring all their strength into the city.

This kind of traditional city offensive and defensive battle, whether it is Zhang Zheng, Weng Zhong and other middle and low-level officers of the "Flying Dragon Army", or Xin Feiyu, a senior commander, is not very familiar with it, and basically it can't help much. The success or failure of the battle depends entirely on how Yang Ye, a general known for his good defense, gives full play to his strengths and fights the first battle of the Taiyuan Defense War.

Facts have proved that Yang Yeshan's defense is indeed not in vain, under his command and under the full resistance of the Northern Han defenders, the Hou Zhou army besieging the city was not able to bargain a little. Although a small number of brave soldiers who were not afraid of death also climbed the city, it was only a matter of time before they were driven down by the reserve echelon of the Northern Han defenders.

This time, the siege and defense of the city were fought for nearly two hours, from the beginning of the day to the end of noon, and the Later Zhou army still failed to achieve an effective breakthrough at the head of the city. Seeing that most of the time had passed, this group of besieging soldiers had been fighting from early morning to the present, and had held out for nearly four hours, not only had they lost their sharpness, but their stomachs had already begun to growl, and if they continued to attack, they would not gain anything except to increase meaningless casualties. Chai Rong was unwilling to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and let the soldiers return to the camp to recuperate, recuperate, and fight again tomorrow.

Looking at the Hou Zhou army, which had attacked most of the Heavenly City and finally slowly retreated, Xin Feiyu sighed lightly. Although Xin Feiyu had participated in the Battle of Youyun the year before, his main task at that time was to lead the "Flying Dragon Army" and the "Security Army" disguised as "townsmen" into Youzhou City, waiting for an opportunity to seize a city gate in the west of Youzhou City, and put the assault team in ambush outside the city into the city. In terms of its essence, Xin Feiyu's participation in commanding in Youzhou City was a sneak attack and offensive battle, and it was a battle in which he had absolute superiority in equipment, morale, intelligence, etc. In a sense, the outcome of the battle to conquer Youzhou City was already doomed when Xin Feiyu led his troops to capture Xianxi Gate and Zeng Zhilin led the main force to collapse the southern city wall of Youzhou City with artillery fire. Neither Xin Feiyu nor Zeng Zhilin needed to intervene and command too much, just sit back and wait for the inevitable result to appear in front of them.

Moreover, as the commander-in-chief of the people, Xin Feiyu, in addition to personally participating in the skirmish that was close to a massacre when he solved the so-called "liaison officers" sent by the dozens of Khitans, basically commanded the soldiers under his command to act according to the plan, and did not personally lead the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" to the front to directly participate in the front-line battle like the Yellow Sea that he received into Youzhou City. Therefore, the tragedy of the traditional city attack and defense battle that had just ended in this era still left a deep impression on Xin Feiyu, who had experienced the kind of life-fighting and savage bloody battle at close range for the first time, and it was difficult for him to calm down for a while - even if he had seen the whole process of the battle through the observation port in a solid observation post, and had not personally participated in this tragic battle.

From this point of view, Xin Feiyu is actually not the best candidate for the head of the "Beiping Army Military Advisory Group". However, because Xu Shao'an, who had commanded the defensive battle of Juyongguan and had some experience in the offensive and defensive battles of the city, was now the deputy envoy of the Beiping Army, and he was well known to the vast majority of the military generals of the Later Zhou Army, he was not suitable to come to Taiyuan. And the commanders of the Shanhaiguan defensive battle, Qian Yuanshan and Wang Feng, who had the most experience in the offensive and defensive battles of the city among the brothers, were on the front line of guarding against the Khitans, and they could not leave their stations for a while. As for other brothers such as Zeng Zhilin, Huang Hai, Tang Chao, Yang Xin, and Mutel who had more actual combat experience than Xin Feiyu, they were either unable to go south to Taiyuan at this time because they needed to sit on one side or were preparing for the direct dispatch of troops to the Northern Han Dynasty in case of emergency. Therefore, the post of head of the "Military Advisory Group of the Beiping Army" finally fell on Xin Feiyu, who was stationed at Juyong Pass, which was not very important at present, and at the same time did not participate in the preparations for military intervention. …,

Compared with Xin Feiyu, Yang Ye, who has been guarding the border for many years and for a long time, has seen much of this kind of fighting scene, and he doesn't take it seriously at all. He saw that the Zhou army was indeed retreating from the armistice, rather than setting up a suspicious formation, and wanted to take advantage of his lax thinking to kill a horse pistol, and the various firearms erected by his "Shenji Army" had also been reloaded, and went to the Zhou army camp one after another, so he ordered that in order to prevent the Hou Zhou army's foot soldiers from stopping the siege of the city, its "Shenji Army" bombarded the city head again and retreated to the main force of the Han army to send a part of the soldiers back to the city, while cleaning the battlefield, carrying the bodies of the dead, and treating the wounded comrades. On the one hand, he began to repair the battlements, roads and other places at the head of the city that were damaged by the firearms of the Zhou army, and summoned the young people in the city to carry soil bags to the city to fill the gaps in the earthen fortress due to the attack of the firearms of the Later Zhou Dynasty as soon as possible, so as to ensure that this protective umbrella related to the safety of Taiyuan City can continue to play its due role. In addition, Yang Ye also ordered those young men to hide as many sharp weapons as possible in the layers of soil bags when repairing the earth fortresses, such as iron thorns, iron thistles, short blades, and bamboo sticks, to stab or cut the enemy and prevent the enemy from using the earth bags to climb the city. Moreover, when Yang Ye gave this order, he also emphasized that all sharp weapons hidden in the earthen bag should be soaked in "golden juice", and these filths should be used to increase the lethal effect of these sharp weapons - with the medical level of this era, once the wound is infected, the chance of survival is quite low.

Seeing Yang Ye methodically and confidently commanding his officers and men to do the aftermath work there, Xin Feiyu sighed to himself, and felt that he seemed to be very incompetent as the head of the "Military Advisory Group of the Beiping Army". In his opinion, he deployed for the defense of Taiyuan, except for giving the Northern Han court a master accident to protect the city with earthen ramparts, but there was no suggestion that was beneficial to defending Taiyuan City, and he really couldn't be a "consultant".

However, contrary to Xin Feiyu's evaluation, Yang Ye praised Xin Feiyu's work to defend Taiyuan City, and believed that Xin Feiyu and his assistants were the first merit and a prerequisite for being able to attack and retreat the Zhou army today and make Taiyuan City stand tall. If it weren't for the method of building an earthen fortress proposed by Xin Feiyu, and a series of very successful opinions put forward by those assistants in the process of defending the city, no matter how strong Taiyuan City was, it would have collapsed under the fierce bombardment of the "Shenji Army" of the Zhou State; No matter how much the soldiers of the Han army can fight, dare to fight, and fight to the death, they will not retreat, lack the protection of the strong city wall, and successfully see through the seduction plan of the Zhou army, the Han army, which is absolutely inferior in numbers, will not be able to keep the Zhou army out of the city, and it is impossible to make sure that the sun has not set today, and the city of Taiyuan has already fallen into the hands of the Zhou State -- after all, according to the actual experience of the Zhou army attacking the city in the past, especially the capture of several cities by the Han army this time, no city has yet been able to withstand the bombardment of the "Shenji Army", at least half a day, at most a day, Your own city will be destroyed.

Yang Ye's praise and admiration made Xin Feiyu very embarrassed, and repeatedly said that everything he and his subordinates did was a method negotiated by the brothers of the Beiping Army before coming to Taiyuan, and he was just an executor. Moreover, the Han army can have today's victory, in addition to the suggestions and arrangements of himself and his subordinates, the more important thing is to rely on Yang Ye's command, rely on the soldiers to use their lives, and rely on the Han Emperor Bixia Hongfu Qitian, and never dare to take all the credit to himself.

Of course, the politeness between Xin and Yang is polite, but no one really thinks that they can sit back and relax if they win the first battle. Both of them know very well that today's battle is just a clarion call for the defense of Taiyuan, and the tragic battle has just begun, and the real test is still to come. Therefore, after saying a few polite words, Xin and Yang no longer dwelled on the question of who was the first to take credit, but returned to Yang Ye's mansion, gathered their powerful generals and assistants together, carefully studied the process of today's battle, looked for the pros and cons, and prepared for the upcoming and more fierce battle. …,

Just when Xin and Yang and their generals and assistants were discussing military aircraft, the Huangmen attendants sent a decree from the palace, saying that the official family was happy to hear that the attack of the Zhou army on the first day was repulsed, and Xuan Xin and Liu (Yang) entered the palace to reward the two in person. Since Liu Jun summoned them, Xin and Yang didn't care about discussing with the generals anymore, and hurriedly followed the inner servants of the decree into the palace.

After today's war, the Zhou army returned with a loss of thousands of people, and the heart of the Later Han Emperor Liu Jun finally fell a little. Although today's battle is just the beginning of the defense of Taiyuan, Liu Jun, who is familiar with the art of the emperor, immediately sent someone to summon Xin Feiyu and his adopted son Liu Jiye (Yang Ye) into the palace after receiving the news. And repeatedly told Xin Feiyu that if he could defeat the Zhou army, he Liu Jun and the Han court would definitely be unforgettable for the help given to the Han by the Beiping Army, and he would definitely reward the monarchs of the Beiping Army.

In this regard, Xin Feiyu thanked him again and again, and emphasized that the Beiping Army's assistance to the Han State to resist the attack of the Zhou Army was completely out of moral and strategic considerations, both for the Han State and for himself. If this time he can repel the Zhou army, so that his conspiracy to annex the Han State and encircle the Beiping army fails, it will be the greatest reward for the Beiping army, how dare he accept the heavy gifts of the Han emperor and the imperial court. In addition, in order to reassure Liu Jun and strengthen his will to fight with the Zhou army to the end and finally defeat the Zhou army, Xin Feiyu and Yang Ye also showed absolute confidence in winning the defense of Taiyuan, so as to cheer Liu Jun up.

Although in the palace, Xin Feiyu and Yang Ye were elated, and they were full of confidence in the attack of the Zhou army after being repulsed. But after leaving the palace, the relaxed and indifferent expressions on the faces of the two slowly faded, and they returned to the serious expressions they had before entering the palace. Because both of them knew that today's battle was only a prelude, and the real test was yet to come.