"Great Xia! Great Xia! - Wan Sheng! Wansheng! ”

10,000 people lined up together, it gives people a feeling of boundlessness, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people, the Great Xia army array slowly advanced, and the pace of soldiers and war horses advancing, like drumsticks hitting the earth, the sound also overshadowed the rumbling war drums. At this time, the soldiers in the army formation shouted in unison, giving people a huge sense of oppression, and intuition that this army was invincible.

Of course, in the face of a fortress city like Fenlu City, it is not enough to rely on momentum, and simple manpower can only hit the head and break the bloodstream, and the other protagonist of the siege war is all kinds of siege equipment, catapults, wells, siege vehicles, opposite buildings, ladders, treadmills, siege towers, ballistas, trench trucks, chariots, etc.,

Needless to say, catapults throw heavy objects to attack places, have a long range and great power; The ladder is not a simple ladder, but a wooden cart, with some folding ladders on it, which can be stretched out so that soldiers can climb the city wall; The well is a tall arrow tower with wheels, the height is basically the same as the city wall, there are many crossbowmen standing on it, mainly used to suppress the crossbowmen on the enemy city wall, some of the well is also equipped with large crossbow arrows, fire dragon roar and other weapons; The siege wagon resembled a triangular roof house on wheels, with some wet cowhide and mud on top, in which the soldiers hid and pushed a log and installed a pointed metal ram to smash the walls or gates; The opposite building is basically a wooden six-story house, with a dozen or so wheels that look a little bulky below, which can accommodate many soldiers, the outer layer is covered with leather and other things, and the fire dragon roar and strong crossbow are also installed above; The trench cart was equipped with a large shield, so that people could hide behind it and fend off arrows; The cart is a wooden house with wheels installed and passable at both ends, which can resist the attack of rolling stones, hot oil, etc., and can also load a lot of sand and gravel.

Among all the siege equipment, except for the nest car that serves as the command tower in the rear, the siege tower and the treadmill are the highest, the siege tower is shaped like a wooden tower, and there is a suspension bridge structure at the top, and the long bridge deck can be put down on the city wall. The city tread is even more remarkable, it is a spiral ladder-like tower, the top floor is a platform, the main role of the city tread is for the cavalry to enter the city to fight.

All these siege equipment, all very huge, accompanied by the sound of loud trumpets, under the push of many soldiers and the hard work of cattle and horses, steadily advanced towards Fenlu City.

In the rear of the Great Xia army, there are also some other equipment, spray trains or something, among which there are also hideous beasts, mainly made of some wood and metal, it should be a machine beast, quite huge, each one is two or three people high. There was no one to operate, and it was still moving slowly, and it was estimated that the manipulator might be in the belly of the trap beast.

On the rear nest car of the Great Xia army array, all kinds of brightly colored order flags were waving, and the various military formations of Great Xia slowly adjusted, and several of them were surrounded by siege equipment, and soon arrived three hundred meters away from the city wall of Fenlu City.

Siege warfare is quite unfavorable for the besieging side, if you really want to do it brutely, it is just a joke with the lives of soldiers, siege warfare is a contest of force, but also a contest of wisdom.

The first to exert force is the catapult, in addition to some stone bullets, it is a burning flame bomb, dozens of pounds, with flames falling on the city, I don't know what materials are added, the burning flame is green. The flame bomb bursts, you can set a section of the city wall on fire, but the head is not so high, the top of the city wall has some inclined structures, soldiers can hide below, in addition to some wet straw, and a layer of leather on the top, which can greatly buffer the impact of stone bullets and flame bombs, and the catapults and ballistas on the Bei Liang side also exert their strength, throwing stones at the catapults, trying to smash them.

At the same time, the well was also close, and the crossbowmen of Beiliang at the head of the city and the crossbowmen of Daxia on the well shot at each other, and countless arrows flew around in the air at the same time, like a swarm of insects flying in the air. Some of these ballistae fire thick crossbow arrows, which are particularly powerful, often penetrating the bodies of several people at once, and even if there is a steel shield, they will be killed by the impact of the crossbow arrows.

The purpose of the catapult and the well is mainly to suppress the Beiliang soldiers on the city, so that those rushing cars, trench trucks, and chariots under the city wall are close to the moat, and the moat carts and chariots are connected one by one, and there is a roof on it, and there are cowhides and mud, which are difficult to destroy, forming a relatively safe transportation channel, and the arrows, stones, hot oil, gold juice and something on the wall are basically useless, and many soldiers carry some sandbags along this passage and put them into the moat. Some boulders were thrown at the city wall to smash these siege vehicles, and as a result, these siege vehicles were unusually strong and cushioned, and even if they were broken, they could be quickly replaced. Therefore, although the soldiers who filled the moat in Great Xia were killed and wounded, the whole progress was very fast, and the rushing car also approached the city gate, and collided with the city gate and the city wall.

The Northern Liang army tried hard to stop the siege of Great Xia, some soldiers and horses from other gates, killed out of Fenlu City, trying to destroy the siege equipment, the Great Xia side also sent some soldiers to meet the battle, the two sides launched a fierce fight, some siege equipment was destroyed, however, Great Xia prepared a lot of siege equipment, lost some, and had little impact on the whole.

By the afternoon, several sections of the moat had been filled, it stands to reason that the siege is not a matter of one or two days, and it is already good to achieve such results in one day, both sides are very tired, and they can fight again the next day, however, the Great Xia army did not give up, the catapults threw a large number of flame bombs, and the well was approached regardless of their own safety, and then, the siege tower and the city treadmill were pushed up, and once these two siege equipment approached the city wall, a large number of Great Xia soldiers could be allowed to board the city wall, of course, by the Beiliang defenders of the city to focus on the careMany arrows and crossbows were aimed at these large machines.

At this moment, the wells approached with a rain of arrows, and at the same time some strangely dressed soldiers appeared on the top, all shirtless and showing bulging muscles, and they were not wearing armor, but these soldiers threw some orbs towards the city wall, and those orbs fell on the city wall, and then exploded, making a loud noise, bursting with flames and billowing smoke.

"Bombs? Grenadier? ”

Xiao Tianlei can see clearly, those black balls can be regarded as bombs, but the power is a little worse, the main way of killing is the flames and the loud sound of explosions, although some are thrown in the wrong place, and even hurt their own people, but, on the whole, it has caused a lot of killing and frightening to the Beiliang soldiers on the city wall, and several sections of the city wall are shrouded in thick smoke, among which the Beiliang soldiers were frightened and escaped from the range of smoke, and many fell down the city wall because of fright.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of Daxia will quickly push the siege tower and the city car closer, the generals of Beiliang on the city wall naturally saw it and wanted to stop it, but the flames, smoke, and explosions made the city head chaotic, when the siege tower and the city car were more than ten meters away from the city wall, I saw a team of cavalry, rushed to a city car, and a member of the military generals wore dragon horn helmets, carried the dragon golden gun, rushed to the top of the city car, jumped on the horse, jumped from the city car to the flames and smoke of the city head, the smoke was washed away, and I saw that the military general was covered in golden gas, urging the horses to gallop on the city walls.

Xiao Tianlei watched the remote visual observation of the cold shooter, and he could see it clearly, but he recognized this general, who was Xue Dingfang who had fought that day? I saw Xue Dingfang riding the green dragon horse, where he passed, the Beiliang soldiers were rushed out, those Beiliang generals at the head of the city did not have mounts at this time, they were not opponents at all, Xue Dingfang had no one to stop, rushed back and forth twice, and the Beiliang soldiers at the head of the wall were difficult to stop the approach of the city vehicle and the siege tower.

The city chariot got closer, only to see a war horse leaping, more generals and cavalry jumping up to the city, the suspension bridge of the siege tower was also set up at the head of the wall, and some elite soldiers below rushed up. At this time, Xue Dingfang jumped into the city, the green dragon horse fell to the top of a house, and then jumped again, falling on the streets of the city, and the other cavalry did the same, and then, Xue Dingfang led the cavalry to rush straight to the gate of Fenlu City.

On the tower of the city gate, the Beiliang soldiers and the Daxia soldiers were fighting fiercely, but those grenadiers were throwing bombs down, and the Beiliang soldiers blocking the door were also in chaos, and without much effort, Xue Dingfang opened the city gate.

With a shout of "the city is broken", the soldiers on the Beiliang side panicked all at once, and the morale of the Great Xia side was greatly shaken, and some machine beasts took the lead in entering the city, spitting flames from their mouths, and also shooting some arrows, and other Great Xia soldiers followed and poured into the Fenlu City.

"Haha, senior brother, this chess, junior brother is willing to bow to the wind, but in this battle, you lost!"

On the top of the hill, one of the scribes who was playing chess stood up and saluted, his attitude and posture still remaining respectful, but everyone could see his pride at this time.

The scribe who was playing against him was silent for a while, threw the chess pieces in his hand onto the chessboard, exhaled, and pretended to be free and easy: "This one is won by the junior brother!" ”

The words of the two broke the tranquility on the top of the mountain, and Xiao Tianlei naturally heard it, this game of chess was played by the two of them for almost a day, and each of them had to think about it for a long time, in fact, their attention was mainly on the battle below, and Xiao Tianlei had already guessed that they should be the strategists of the two sides of Great Xia and Beiliang. Strategists are a kind of profession of scribes, that is, to give advice to people, which is also ordinary, but there are some mysteries in this world, rumored, powerful strategists, that are all wise and almost demonic characters, a strategy can be a million male soldiers, strategists also have a special sect, known as "heaven and earth as a chess game, with sentient beings as chess pieces", so, the wise strategists are highly respected, but also a little fearful.

However, Xiao Tianlei felt that there was a lot of water in it, and many things were actually blown out, if you really got in touch with it, it was the same thing, the mystery of the strategists was probably because they had some knowledge that ordinary people didn't understand, and some strategists liked to play tricks. At this time, listening to the meaning of the conversation between these two strategists, as if the whole battle was completely a game between the two of them, Xiao Tianlei said in his heart, these two people feel really good about themselves, and they take themselves too seriously, of course, he just thinks about it, everyone's cognition and circle are different, and the things they see are different, so what kind of people in this world are there, Xiao Tianlei is not strange, and he doesn't care too much.

At this time, the siege of Fenlu City has no prospects, the Great Xia side has won, although there is still some resistance in the city, but it is very weak, most of the Northern Liang soldiers are retreating, for the sake of safety, or retreat to the rear.

Xiao Tianlei greeted several brothers, and when he turned around, he saw the winning strategist, blocking the way with a smile, saluting slightly, and saying: "In Lu Qian, Xiayingzhou, I don't know ...... this little brother."

If you are a person in the Great Xia court, when you hear the name Lu Qian, most of you will know that Lu Qian is a first-class strategist, and he is one of the important strategists in the Great Xia expedition to Northern Liang, and he participated in the formulation of a series of plans for the conquest of Northern Liang. At this time, Daxia captured Fenlu City and defeated the same senior brother, Lu Qianzheng was a little high-spirited, in a good mood, and had a feeling that the world was his own chess game, and he caught a glimpse of Xiao Tianlei and others watching the battle, and then looked at the vicious wild boar, and couldn't help but be interested. Before, he had been secretly observing, and when he saw the big wild boar, he remembered a young general in the Northern Liang Army in the Great Xia Army, but after careful observation, he judged that Xiao Tianlei and his party should not be from the Northern Liang Army, otherwise how could they watch the battle leisurely here? Fenlu Chengpo was not anxious at all, he hung up high and looked at the lively posture, so he wanted to find out the origin of Xiao Tianlei and his party, and said that he could not accept a fierce general for Daxia.

"Let's go."

Xiao Tianlei was about to leave, he didn't bother to listen to Lu Qian's self-introduction, he didn't care who Lu Qian was, and he didn't want to have anything to do with this kind of person, he just wanted the guy in front of him to get out of the way and leave by himself.

According to the general etiquette, Lu Qian saluted and introduced himself, Xiao Tianlei had to return the salute even if he was a martial artist, Xiao Tianlei was completely inappropriate, very rude.

"Uh......" Lu Qian, as a scribe, saluted a martial artist, which was already considered to give enough respect to the other party, Xiao Tianlei's ignorance and rudeness, he was slightly stunned at first, and he couldn't help frowning, and he was dissatisfied.

"Rude!" Lu Qian didn't have a seizure, but the guards of Great Xia couldn't stand it, seeing that Great Xia broke through Fenlu City, Mr. Lu Qian made great contributions, how could anyone be rude to Lu Qian! As he spoke, he drew his sword and faced each other.

Those guards Xiao Tianlei didn't care, but Lu Qian was still in the way, but he was a little impatient: "Get out of the way!" ”

"Arrogant, do you know who Mr. Lu Qian is, and he dares to be rude to Mr. One of the guards shouted angrily, looking like he was going to fight, but he didn't dare to do anything because of the presence of the steel mane.

"I don't care who you are, get out of the way!" Xiao Tianlei kicked out and kicked Lu Qian aside, and the other brothers also shot one after another, Wu Meng took the lead, and knocked those guards out with a few fists.

The other people on the top of the mountain were dumbfounded, they didn't expect such a situation at all, Xiao Tianlei and his party were completely rude and didn't say anything, and they started fighting directly if they didn't agree with each other, where did this come from?

"Alas, don't fight! Don't fight! ”

A shout came, Xiao Tianlei heard that it was Xiao Tianyou, but saw Xiao Tianyou bring some people up the mountain, shouting anxiously as he walked.

Xiao Tianlei thought about Xiao Tianyou's intention, Xiao Tianyou had already panted and ran to the front and dissuaded: "Brother, don't fight!" Don't fight! …… Hey, Mr. Yunhe! Xiao Tianyou said as he glanced and saw the scribe standing on the other side of the mountain, so he hurriedly greeted him and said respectfully: "Mr. Yunhe, you're fine, it's okay!" It's okay! Xiao Tianyou breathed a sigh of relief, he was ordered to pick up Jiang Yunhe, an important strategist on the Beiliang side, knowing that Jiang Yunhe and others had made an appointment here to watch the battle, halfway through the road, he suddenly remembered that Xiao Tianlei and others were also on this mountain, for fear that something would happen, so he hurried over, but as soon as he arrived, he saw that the top of the mountain had already fought, and he hurriedly dissuaded him, but it didn't seem to be Jiang Yunhe and others who were beaten, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Eh...... And what was beaten? ”

"My brother and his guards." Jiang Yunhe replied, he didn't know what to say, should he say that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky? Or is it a blessing or a curse? If it weren't for Lu Qian's high spirits just now, how could he run to provoke this group of people, and now he has a blue nose and swollen face.

Xiao Tianyou instantly understood, knowing that Jiang Yunhe's junior brother was the strategist on the side of Great Xia, this time the deer city was broken, and the plan of these strategists was indispensable, but even if he met, he couldn't do anything to the other party, although it was a war, both sides had to abide by certain rules, Xiao Tianyou saw the embarrassed appearance of Lu Qian and his subordinates, and he was a little gloating in his heart, and on the surface he still pretended to regret and regret, and sighed: "Alas...... How did you mess with my brother! ”

"It's your brother?! Why haven't you seen it before? Jiang Yunhe asked.

"Distant relatives, I only came to Beiliang recently, Mr. Yunhe, let's go quickly, Fenlu City is broken, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time...... Alas, brother, wait for us! ”

When Xiao Tianyou and Jiang Yunhe were talking, Xiao Tianlei and his party had already knocked Lu Qian's men to the ground, and they didn't stay long, they went down to the camp and packed their bags.

Xiao Tianyou came to pick up Jiang Yunhe, and there were not many people with him, so for the sake of safety, he led people to follow Xiao Tianlei and his party.

At this time, the battlefield is indeed chaotic enough, it seems that there are shouts of Great Xia soldiers in all directions, Bei Liang's generals are retreating, to be precise, it is a flight, the great army of Great Xia is chasing and killing, Xiao Tianlei does not want to stay, it is not good to fall into the encirclement of the Great Xia army, riding on the steel mane with a dry brother and his subordinates, and running to the rear, as for Xiao Tianyou and others in the back, he didn't care at all.

Coming down the mountain, avoiding the direction of some Daxia soldiers, running for a while, and arriving at a fork in the road, Xiao Tianlei was thinking about which road to take, only to see some Beiliang generals and soldiers coming up on a road, led by a veteran in his fifties, pointed at Xiao Tianlei and others with a horsewhip, and ordered sharply: "You few, don't hurry up to block the Xia army!" (To be continued.) )