When the ditch under the city wall is filled in, the antlers are removed, and the cranes are controlled. The siege vehicle is made of hardwood and fine iron, covered with several layers of raw cowhide, each layer of raw cowhide is coated with wet mud, and a thick layer of sponge soaked in water is sandwiched, hundreds of dead soldiers in the siege vehicle are desperately digging the city wall inside, the defenders of the wooden rolling stones and crossbow arrows fall like raindrops, smashing on the roof of the car and popping, the sound is as dense as the southern summer rainstorm poured on the lotus leaves, and the soldiers who have nothing to cover outside the siege vehicle are purely flesh and blood to share the blows and arrows of the cityMany sturdy Forbidden Army officers were shot like hedgehogs full of arrows all over their bodies, but behind them were officials supervising the battle, and they could not retreat, and they all gritted their teeth and commanded the sergeants to shoot arrows at the head of the city, or build ladders to climb the city. Rao is like this, it is not a short effort, and the dead and wounded forbidden soldiers under the city are still spread all over the ground, layer upon layer, accumulating higher and higher, and the screams are one after another, endlessly.

The Taiyuan soldiers in the city were also killed and wounded under the crossbow array of the Song army. Under the rain of arrows and stone bullets, there is almost no place to stand on the city wall, a command of the soldiers to supplement the city wall, the dead and wounded in an instant, some soldiers have just sent out two or three arrows, their own body to insert five or six arrows, the defenders of the city even transport the wounded and the corpses down the gap has no, had to push the wounded soldiers and corpses on the inner side of the city wall at will, the blood is flowing everywhere, the city wall is extremely slippery, the Northern Han Dynasty horse infantry army who supervised the battle commanded Guo Wanchao to immediately order the old and weak households to help the guard go to the city, move the corpses and wounded down, sprinkle lime on the city wall continuously, and divide the city guards into ten teams, most of them raise shields on the inside of the city wall to avoid arrows, a small number leaned out to throw stones and shoot arrows to reduce casualties.

Although the forbidden army set up a ladder with all its might, the dead soldiers of the crane army held a sharp blade and climbed up desperately, but under the dense rain of arrows at the head of the city, the sassal wood, the wolf's tooth slap, the rolling stone, and the boiling oil, the soldiers on the ladder kept falling down like dumplings in the soup, Rao is so, many heads and centurions are begging the governor Cao Han to suspend the siege of the city, and then attack with all their strength after the defenders on the city wall are exhausted, Cao Han said sharply: "The brave one wins when the two armies meet, and the official personally supervises the battle, which is really the time for us to work hard to serve the country." "Personally put on heavy armor, under the protection of his own soldiers, he got into the siege vehicle, and urged the soldiers to go to the city to dig the city.

After the number of archery defenders was reduced, the forbidden army's Yunti landing in spite of casualties immediately had results, and Jing Si, the captain of the Tianwu Military Academy, took the lead in landing the city. When he approached the head of the city, there happened to be a wolf tooth paddle that was put down and was being retracted upwards, Jing Si ignored the wolf tooth paddle covered with iron thorns, reached out and grabbed it, and jumped to the top of the city with his strength, and the soldiers guarding the city did not react, shouted loudly, and immediately beat the two Northern Han soldiers who were pulling the hemp rope to put away the wolf tooth slap to the ground, and the Han army next to him was also very strong, seeing this, he immediately abandoned the bow and crossbow, drew out a horizontal knife and a big sword to surround him, and Jing Si and the other three Song soldiers who then landed in the city fought together.

Under the city wall, Zhao Jiong saw the Song army ascending to the top of the city from afar, he was overjoyed, and pointed to Jing Si's figure and said: "I have this warrior, why worry about Taiyuan immortal, beat the drums, and urge the army to go up!" The generals looked there one after another, Pan Mei, Cui Han and other generals showed a relaxed look, Wu Yingying also showed a look of surprise, he knew the fierce and daring of the Taiyuan Han soldiers, but he did not expect that the Kaifeng Forbidden Army was so powerful, and it took less than half a day to attack the city with all its might, and it was already possible to climb the city. Only veterans such as Liu Yanrang and Zhang Mei are still old gods and have nothing to do with themselves.

Seeing the drums and urging of the imperial camp, the Song army shouted loudly and gathered at the place where Jing Si and others landed in the city. The sergeant of the Tianwu army took advantage of the Han soldiers at the head of the city to fight with the Song army in the city, and had no time to send arrows and stones down, without dodging the arrows on all sides, and climbed up with both hands and feet, each siege ladder was densely packed with forbidden soldiers, and the ladders were bent, and even Cao Han, who was in charge of the siege in the west, also got out of the siege car, standing in the open space not far from the city wall, and shouted loudly, he gathered thousands of elite tigers around him, just waiting for this Song army of hundreds of people once it reached a breakthrough, it would continue to attack it, and the thousand-year-old city of Jinyang, it seemed that as long as a little more blood was shed, it would be crushed。

Seeing this at the head of the city, the guard Guo Wanchao's heart sank, and immediately called the head of the tooth soldiers, and ordered him to immediately supervise the battle from the past, regardless of casualties, and must beat this Song army in the city, and the head of the tooth soldiers Shen Kai led the order, with more than 500 elites, along the way to collect the brave warriors behind the city wall to avoid arrows, gathered more than 1,000 people, but under the Song army's extremely high density of arrows and stone bullets, only a few hundred steps were marched, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded, and even Shen Kai, who had heavy armor, also inserted more than a dozen arrows in his body. At this time, the rain of arrows of the Song army suddenly became sparse, and the crossbow and arrow array composed of tens of thousands of people of the Song army consumed a large number of crossbow arrows, and it was difficult to replenish them for a while. Shen Kai was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "The Song army has run out of arrows, move forward quickly, and cut those Dengcheng Kaifengzi into meat sauce!"

The soldiers he brought were all the rest of his life, knowing that although the stone bullet was powerful, the probability of being hit was really small, and the most harmful to the soldiers defending the city was the dense rain of arrows, especially the Song army, which was almost at the expense of work, like a storm of crossbow arrows, at this moment saw that the Song army ran out of arrows for a while, and the morale was greatly boosted, and he moved forward hundreds of steps, besieging dozens of Song army regiments that landed in the city, and swords went down, and immediately stabbed several peripheral Song army dead soldiers to death.

"What's going on?" Seeing that the rain of arrows shooting at the head of the city actually stopped, Zhao Jiong was furious and shouted.

"Your Majesty, the millions of arrows have been exhausted, and the minister is trying his best to replenish it from the camp, but it will take a little time. "The governor of Haozhai in the west, the eight made Hao Shourong stumble up and explain that Rao is Hao Shourong has served as an errand to replenish military supplies in several wars, who would have expected that this time Zhao Jiong personally supervised the battle and arranged the crossbow array to control the crane, The Hujie army was afraid that the battle would not be effective, and the crossbow arrows were shot out like flowing water, and in less than two hours, the west city wall of Taiyuan was actually shot into a dense like a hedgehog, and the millions of arrows that were originally piled up in the crossbow array under the city were almost empty, Hao Shourong was in a hurry to fire his soldiers and quickly replenished the arrows to the crossbow array, who expected that he happened to step on the key moment of the forbidden army's landing battle and ran out of arrows, so he rushed over to ask for guilt in a hurry.

"What are you doing here, don't you hurry up and urge the replenishment of arrows, don't delay the big thing anymore!" Zhao Jiong calmed down the anger in his heart, although he was eager, but he did not expect to take the city on the first day of the siege, and saw from afar that the Taiyuan soldiers were rapidly surrounding the city from both sides of the city wall, and his heart almost rose to his throat.