Countless boulders flew out of the catapult position of the Beichen Army and smashed into the walls of Xilong City. However, as one of the only five fortified cities in the country where the sun never sets, Xilong City has a wall of 22 meters high and 11 meters thick. The boulder fired by the catapult smashed on the city wall, and it could only lift up a little bit of rubble, which was not even worthy of tickling. However, the 1,500 catapults of the Beichen Army still did not give up, but kept throwing stones at the city wall. It doesn't matter if you smash down a few bricks on the city wall, or hit the defenders, or kill the people in the city. Anyway, as long as the stone is thrown, it will definitely be meritorious.

Pieces of boulders, under the delivery of catapults, flew into Xilong City. Not only did the city wall suffer a lot, but many of the unlucky soldiers of the defenders were stoned to death. Even the people who stayed in the city and closed the doors and windows of their houses were directly bombarded by the boulders, and the whole family was killed. Galahad, the general in charge of defending the city, did not care about this, war, no matter what, someone will die. These losses did not touch the heart of Galahad, who had been on the battlefield for a long time.

However, just looking at the catapult of the Beichen Army showing up outside the city, it was obvious that Galahad was also very unhappy. It wasn't long before Galahad's order for catapults in the city to counterattack the Beichen Army was sent to the various junior officers. Subsequently, the 1,000 catapults arranged in the city immediately began to counterattack the catapults of the Beichen Army.

Thousands of boulders suddenly flew out of the city, startling the Beichen army outside the city. When the boulder fell, the Beichen army was immediately hit hard. Nearly 100 catapults were blasted into slag by the enemy in the city, and even the infantry phalanx behind the catapults, ready to start the siege, was also unlucky. Many boulders deviated from the target of the defenders of the Sun Never Sets, and as a result, they landed in the infantry phalanx of the Beichen Army. The infantry of the Beichen Army were originally happily watching their catapults bully the enemy, even after the order to start the attack was given, they advanced not far behind the catapults. But they were still laxly watching the boulder fly, after all, at a distance of five hundred paces, they didn't have to worry about being attacked by the enemy.

This was also a mistake made by the infantry of the Beichen Army, and their catapults had bullied the defenders for most of the day, and they did not see the defenders counterattack. Therefore, the infantry of the Beichen Army thought that there were not many catapults in the city at all, or there were no catapults at all, so they could only be beaten passively. When countless boulders flew out of the city, many Beichen soldiers had not even reacted.

It wasn't until the boulder fell in the formation of his own army that he knew that the enemy had been a shrinking turtle for a long time, and finally wanted to open it. Then, he fell into bad luck. Countless boulders suddenly smashed the ten phalanxes of the Beichen army close to their catapults into chaos. The hundred-pound boulder flying from the sky is not at all something that the big shield and iron armor in the hands of the infantry can block. At most, it can withstand a small stone that shatters, or a lot of clods of earth raised by a boulder.

The unsuspecting Beichen military array was in chaos for a while, and many soldiers hurriedly dodged the flying boulders. The formation has long been dispersed, this boulder is not a low-grade boulder that can be low-grade, or can escape from the landing point of the boulder, just try to escape. Even so, the Beichen Army still suffered a lot of losses.

The boulder that suddenly flew out of the city also startled Xiao Chen, and hurriedly asked the attacking infantry to quickly retreat. Even if Xiao Chen hadn't tried the power of the boulder, he had seen a lot. And it was he who gave the order for the infantry to attack before, but now it is good, the infantry phalanx has not advanced a few steps, and it was suddenly bombarded by boulders. This made Xiao Chen's face very ugly, which made it clear that he didn't give himself face.

However, in the face of the pressure of the boulder, Xiao Chen still made the infantry retreat with interest. These are their own loyal soldiers, and it is not worth it to be stoned to death in vain. You must know that even after being bombarded by countless boulders, the military formation has been chaotic. However, there was still not a single soldier of the Beichen Army who took a step back. When dodging the boulders, the soldiers all went left, right, or forward, but no one was backward. Such an excellent soldier, how could Xiao Chen be willing to let them use their bodies to fight against the boulder.

The infantry phalanx was quickly withdrawn, avoiding further losses. But the previous losses had already made Xiao Chen feel angry, especially the fact that the defenders did not give themselves face, which made Xiao Chen hate the defenders to death in his heart. So, a military order came to the catapult troops.

Smash me hard, don't smash the catapults of the defenders in the city, and everyone will attack the city tomorrow with knives!

This military order immediately startled the soldiers of the catapult unit of the Beichen Army! Damn, what are you kidding, we guys are going through the technical stream, how can we carry knives to attack the city. Therefore, in order not to carry knives to attack the city, more than 10,000 catapult soldiers immediately used their strength to attack the enemy troops in the city. Since its formation, the catapult unit has been similar to a logistics unit. Before the siege, after throwing tens of thousands of boulders casually, he directly withdrew his troops back to the camp. The battle loss rate of soldiers is simply as low as a few points, and in the past few years, there have been less than 20,000 soldiers killed in the catapult unit, what a concept!

Even the troops engaged in logistics have lost a large number of troops when the enemy has attacked logistics on many occasions. In comparison, those soldiers of the Beichen Army who participated in siege warfare and field battles, the catapult troops simply lived in a happy paradise. I don't know how many Beichen soldiers envy the brothers of the catapult troops, but they recruit technical soldiers...

The ruthlessness of the catapult troops immediately made the defenders in the city feel very difficult. In particular, the catapult unit of the Beichen Army has developed a good ability in the perennial battle. The accuracy of the catapult's attack has long since changed from the previous chance to the current technical flow. And the catapult troops in the city, where have they fought this kind of catapult against bombardment, they are still in the realm of fighting for character.

In addition, the Beichen army did not care about the losses at all, so they looked for catapults in the city to pinch each other. There are now more than 50,000 catapults in Beichen, and the army only carries 3,000 catapults all year round. This is also something that cannot be helped, and now the expansion of the Tianlong Fortress is about to be completed, as well as the hundreds of miles of defense line of Xiping Pass that has been expanded again, as well as the Tachi defense line and the northern and southern coastal defense lines. Plus the counties and counties, as well as the important passes, the capital. These places all need catapults and bed crossbows, and the demand is still very large, so that now the catapult produces one, and it is pulled to a certain place to be placed.

In particular, the Tianlong Fortress, the Xiping Pass Defense Line, and the Coastal Defense Line, these three places are the largest consumption of catapults. The current Tianlong Fortress alone, as far as Xiao Chen knew, had installed more than 10,000 catapults and more than 40,000 bed crossbows. Xiao Chen, who understands this for the first time, can stuff two eggs in his mouth, and with such a fortress, ten million military masters can also bombard them to death. The Xiping Pass defense line, which is 200 miles long and 70 miles wide, has now built 99 walls. In each wall, there are 18 cantonment platforms, 88 arrow towers, 100 catapults, 200 bed crossbows, and 1,000 soldiers. And between each wall, there are countless arrow towers and beacon towers. There are nearly 10,000 catapults, more than 20,000 bed crossbows, and 200,000 soldiers in the entire Xipingguan defense line.

The coastal defense line is not so ferocious, and now the northern sea is almost the inland sea of the Beichen Army's naval division. There are countless warships guarding the sea, and the safety of the eastern city can be guaranteed. Only in the east and north of the city, where Hao Zhao led his troops to block the landing of the combined navy, a defensive line was built. Among them, more than 8,000 catapults, tens of thousands of bed crossbows, and more than 100,000 soldiers were arranged. Now all the defense of the pass in China is handed over to Hao Zhao. Who makes the family a professional, and it is really possible that ordinary generals will not be able to do it.

After about two hours of confrontation, the Beichen Army lost more than 700 catapults, nearly half. Subsequently, Xiao Chen gave an order, and the 1,500 catapults that stayed in the camp were immediately pulled to the front line. Then he continued to bombard the catapults in the city, and he was not happy that the catapults in the city were not destroyed at all.

This situation immediately made Galahad dumbfounded, damn, how could the Beichen Army have so many catapults. Originally, the catapults in the city were destroyed in exchange for 700 catapults of the Beichen Army. Galahad thought that in a little while, he would be able to completely destroy the catapults of the Beichen Army. Who knows, in the blink of an eye, the Beichen Army actually pulled out another 1,500 catapults.

My day, this sister still doesn't let people live, bullying people!

Galahad hurriedly told the catapults in the city to stop their attack and move the place. Seeing that the catapults in the city were not throwing stones outside, the catapult troops of the Beichen Army still did not stop. If people don't fight back, it is likely that the enemy is afraid. However, this still does not meet the requirements of the king of his own family, and the boss of his own family asks for all of them to be eliminated.

After that, under the blind shooting, it did not cause much damage to the catapults in the city. But the people in the city and the defenders on the city walls were unlucky, and there were only more than 1,000 catapults bombarded before, but now they immediately rose to more than 2,000, and the change in quantity will cause a change in quality.

After booming for a long time and nothing good, Xiao Chen nodded with great satisfaction. Just a little catapult, and dare to fight against the master, believe it or not, the master immediately dismantled five thousand from the Tianlong Fortress and pulled it over to continue playing. After feeling better, Xiao Chen immediately began to let the infantry launch an attack on Xilong City.

The army of 500,000 immediately divided into fifty phalanxes and attacked together on all sides. At the same time, the Beichen Army's formidable siege equipment completely showed its fangs. Tens of thousands of siege weapons, driven by an army of 500,000, moved towards Xilong City. Looking at the hundreds of wooden platforms as high as the city walls below, as well as thousands of siege ladders, there was no such contempt in my heart.

Three hours of fierce siege battles, assisted by tens of thousands of siege weapons, made 500,000 Beichen soldiers almost directly occupy the city wall in one go. If it weren't for the fact that Galahad had asked the catapult troops to cut off the follow-up siege force of the Beichen Army at a critical time, perhaps the walls would have changed hands. This short battle surprised Galahad very much. For the siege ability of the Beichen Army, I still underestimated a lot. In the battle just now, I almost didn't hold the city. However, now that the morale of the Beichen Army has been drained, the next defense may not be as difficult as it was just now.

Xiao Chen's face tensed, looking at the loss report in front of him. More than 750 catapults were destroyed, more than 200 nest cars were destroyed, 3,200 ladders were destroyed or burned, 40,000 soldiers were killed on the battlefield, and 30,000 soldiers are now lying in the camp of wounded soldiers. I didn't expect that just the first attack on Xilong City would cause such heavy losses, how can I fight in the future. Actually, Xiao Chen was wrong, precisely because it was the first siege. The morale of the Beichen army is high, and the battle is very fierce, and the subsequent siege of the city may not be so high. At that time, the battle will naturally not be as tragic as it is today, and the losses will be much smaller. Of course, at that time, the Beichen Army would definitely not be able to take Xilong City.

And Galahad, in Xilong City, also twitched the corners of his mouth while looking at the damage report. There are now less than five hundred of the 1,000 catapults, and nearly a tenth of the materials spent defending the city. More than 30,000 soldiers below were also killed and more than 10,000 wounded. This loss is really hard to let go, I already knew that I wouldn't fight with the Beichen Army on the dog day. Well, now there are more than 2,000 of them, and there are 500 of them on their own.

However, if it weren't for the catapults that hadn't struck at the critical moment today, maybe the city walls would have changed hands. Thinking about it, Galahad's heart finally felt a little better. As for the loss of materials and soldiers, Galahad could only reluctantly say that if there were five more battles like this, maybe Xilong City would be captured by the Beichen army.

The first siege of the Beichen army ended with the losses of both sides. In the days that followed, the Beichen Army launched several more attacks. However, it was not as tragic as the first siege before. The officers and men of the Beichen Army worked hard, lost a large number of siege equipment and troops, and still did not climb the city wall. The number of casualties to the defenders was greatly reduced.

In the past few days, the Beichen army has lost 100,000 horses under Xilong City, and 70,000 wounded people lie in the wounded barracks. In exchange for only 70,000 casualties of the defenders, and a section of the eastern city wall of more than 20 meters was smashed.

Xilong City could not be captured for a long time, and the morale of the army was reduced, so Xiao Chen could only give up the siege and wait for news from other armies.