Under the city of Kunyang, the Nine Tigers of the Northern Army commanded the elite soldiers of the Northern Army to protect the emperor Wang Mang of the new dynasty.

Because of Wang Mang's personal expedition, the morale of the 800,000 New Dynasty army soared.

Wang Mang asked people to build catapults, battering rams, ladder trucks, and dig tunnels.

Contrary to Wang Yi and Wang Xun's underestimation of Kunyang City, Wang Mang is like a great enemy.

"If I lose this fight, I will lose everything I have, including my life."

Wang Mang's face was solemn.

He turned his head to Wang Yi and asked, "I have promised that the person who takes Liu Xiu's first rank can be crowned with 100,000 households and rewarded with 200,000 gold." Could it be that until now, no one is willing to kill Liu Xiu in exchange for a reward? ”

"Your Majesty, I haven't heard of anyone taking Liu Xiu's head yet. It seems that Liu Xiu is quite popular in the Green Forest Army. ”

"Since it can't be soft, then we can only send a large army to defeat Liu Xiu and kill him. I've made a lot of preparations for this day. As long as Liu Xiu is killed and the peasant army uprisings in various places are quelled, the world will be settled again. ”

Wang Mang's tone was full of uncertainty.

Yan You came to Wang Mang's side and said to Wang Mang: "Your Majesty, you have found out the whereabouts of the 20,000 cavalry who came out of Kunyang City. Please dispose of it to Your Majesty. ”

"Is Liu Xiu among the 20,000 cavalry?"

"I don't know ......"

"It seems that Liu Xiu is most likely outside the city, and he will not sit back obediently, otherwise he will not be Liu Xiu. Using Kunyang City as bait to attract Liu Xiu, I must kill him in order to secure the throne. ”

Wang Mang soon had an idea.

Although Yan You didn't understand why Wang Mang was angry with Liu Xiu, he still acted according to the order: "The last general will lead a team of cavalry to patrol in the direction of Yuncheng, and once Liu Xiu marches to Kunyang, he will immediately notify Your Majesty." ”

"Very good, Yan You, it seems that you are much more reliable than Wang Yi and Wang Xun, I will give you the Tiger Ben Army and 100,000 troops."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Wang Yi asked with a shy old face: "What does Your Majesty mean that we will besiege Kunyang City without attacking it?" ”

"No, we must storm Kunyang City and force Liu Xiu to return as soon as possible, but we will not allow Kunyang City to surrender, and we will not be able to really capture Kunyang City. I don't believe that an army of 800,000 will lose to Liu Xiu's tens of thousands. ”

Wang Mang is confident that he has elite soldiers and fierce generals, and he has summoned soldiers and horses from all states and counties in the world, and he will not be able to defeat Liu Xiu's tens of thousands of people.

If it was only 800,000 Yellow Turban Army, it might be defeated by 30,000 cavalry, but Wang Mang did not lack high-level troops, nor did he lack generals, what he might lack was one or two top commanders.

The army of the new dynasty was ordered by Wang Mang and began to storm Kunyang City!

The trebuchet roared, and the boulders fell with a roar!

Rumble!

Stones hit one of the battlements, and the rubble splattered, and several cracks appeared in the battlements.

The Green Forest Army on the city wall was frightened by the trebuchet and did not dare to raise their heads.

"The thieves are attacking the city!"

A Green Forest sergeant shouted in horror.

Liang Hongyu led a group of crossbowmen to the city, risking being killed by trebuchets, and looked at the enemy soldiers outside the city.

Rumble! There was another loud bang, and the boulder thrown by the trebuchet hit the tower, and the tiles cracked and fell, filling the sand and dust!

Liang Hongyu was unmoved, because her eyes had been attracted by the army that spread all over the mountains.

Wang Mang sent the first batch of troops to attack Kunyang City, there were 100,000!

For the small city of Kunyang, such a force is already a bit of a lift, and it cannot be fully deployed.

The dense new army flooded Kunyang City, and Kunyang City became a solid reef, allowing the waves of the new army to lap!

Monoliths have fallen, bed crossbows roar, massive siege towers have approached the walls, and 100,000 new troops have begun to storm the fortified city!

30,000 crossbowmen and 10,000 arrows fired in unison, covering the defenders on the city wall, and Liang Hongyu had to hide behind the city wall!

The thick crossbow arrows fired from the bed crossbow were so penetrating that they even sank into the city walls!

"How many arrows did Wang Mang prepare in advance?"

Liang Hongyu rarely saw such a large-scale enemy army, and directly used tens of thousands of archers to suppress the defenders, and the continuous shooting continued, and the archers on the city wall did not dare to raise their heads to fight back.

"This is the army of the new dynasty? This amount is simply a numbing ...... the scalp."

Huo Qing led the shooting battalion to the city, and he had to brave the rain of arrows from the other party to suppress the enemy army besieging the city.

The army of the new dynasty is already under the cover of archers, the ants are attached to the siege city, dozens of ladders have hooked the city wall, and the siege tower is less than thirty meters away from the city wall!

"Use fire oil!"

The boiling oil poured down and flowed down the ladder, and the besieging soldiers were drenched in the oil, screamed, and then rolled down. The ladder burns because of the scorching heat!

Liang Hongyu's Jianyan crossbowman fired a volley of rockets, Liang Hongyu, as a hero, had an additional ignition bonus to the fire arrows, and the two siege towers were shot by too many rockets, and the besieging enemy army could not extinguish the raging fire in time, and the billowing smoke rose!

"Kill!"

There have been new army foot soldiers on the city, they and the green forest army on the city wall fighting, weapons collide, flesh and blood splashed, from time to time there are siege of the enemy army pushed down by the defenders, fell from the seven-meter city wall, broken bones!

One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, and there are more than ten thousand bones here!

"My brother is fighting in Central Asia, and Chutian is gathering troops and horses outside the city, I can't hold them back, no matter what, I have to defend this city."

Huo Qing has a fortification bonus, which can increase the defense of the defenders and provide a bonus to the morale of the defenders.

Because she and Liang Hongyu were commanding the crossbowmen, they killed and injured a large number of the new Korean army besieging the city, and tried their best to delay the progress of the new army's siege.

Yan You's 100,000 new army was unable to capture Kunyang City for a long time.

Another important reason is that Wang Mang does not plan to take Kunyang so quickly, but wants to use Kunyang to lure Liu Xiu, the son of destiny, to come.

Wang Mang's mind was not on Kunyang City, he was deploying the remaining more than 700,000 troops, waiting for Liu Xiu and Chutian to throw themselves into the net.

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On the other side, Liu Xiu personally led 3,000 dead soldiers to join forces with Chutian's 20,000 cavalry to save Kunyang, while Ma Wu and Wang Ba led 14,000 cavalry to take charge of the follow-up.

For Liu Xiu's courage, Chutian was shocked in his heart, how dare he?

Liu Xiu took 3,000 cavalry and wanted to save Kunyang.

Chutian didn't know whether to say that Liu Xiu was brave, or that he was really just giving it a go, planning things in people, and making things happen in the sky.

"Wang Mang came in person to stabilize the morale of the army, and he couldn't underestimate the 800,000 new army. Wang Mang, who established a new dynasty, was himself a strange person and could not be inferred according to common sense. I hope that with Liu Xiu, I can really turn evil into good fortune. Strategist, if your judgment is wrong, I will deduct your money when you go back. ”

Because Chu Tian listened to Sun Bin's suggestion and thought that Liu Xiu was an out-and-out son of luck, he chose to follow Liu Xiu on an adventure and did not make his own decisions.

When the battle is full, Chutian's 20,000 cavalry, plus the 17,000 Green Forest Army recruited by Liu Xiu, totals 37,000 people.

There are 29,000 people in Kunyang City, which is equivalent to an increase in the total number of troops to 66,000.

66,000 soldiers and horses, against 840,000 soldiers and horses, the proportion is still very large.

Wang Mang's army alone has more than 60,000 special troops, which can be imagined.

Here in Chutian, except for Zhao Yun, a fierce general, the other cavalry generals did not come, and if King Arthur, Tai Shici, Wanyan Chen Monk, Wei Chigong and others were present, they might not be so critical.

The bonuses received by Chutian's cavalry include Chutian's two cavalry characteristics, "Blue Wolf White Deer" and "Sealed Wolf Juxu", because it is not against alien troops, so the effect of "Sealing Wolf Juxu" is not complete.

In addition, there is also the aura of the whole army "Han Wu" (a bonus to the civilized troops of the Han Empire) and "Tian Khan" (a bonus to the cavalry of the alien race).

Sun Bin's Strategist support trait also has a bonus.

In the end, it is the unknown aura of the whole army of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

Several effects are superimposed, and the power of Chu Tian's cavalry is still quite explosive.

The problem was that the cavalry could not completely get caught up in an army of 800,000 men.

Once the speed of the cavalry slows down, the cavalry class will lose its own combat power and lose the advantage of cavalry.

Sun Bin was also a little worried about Liu Xiu's luck: "The minister's judgment should not deviate much. Chen has a hunch that as long as he follows Liu Xiu and doesn't mess around easily, he can win. ”

"It's as simple as that?"

This is still the time when Chu Tian rarely hugs his thighs.

In the past, when he encountered Tang Taizong in the first national war, it was Tang Taizong Li Shimin who overturned the Goryeo stick and the Goguryeo army, and Chutian followed to pick up the leaks.

And this time, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu seems to be also very powerful, none of these founding emperors are ordinary people.

But one thing to say, the feeling of hugging the thighs is not bad, Chu Tian has not felt this way for a long time.

Liu Xiu didn't know that Wang Mang had already set up a net in front of him, waiting for him to go back.