Chapter 222: A Momentary Equal

The battle between the two sides is about to break out, the Qishan army is on the city and the high mountains on both sides, the archers on the city wall are already ready to fly, and the soldiers on the high mountain will be fully prepared for the rolling wood and stones, waiting for the Han army to attack.

Han Marshal Zhao Chongguo issued the final siege order, this siege order was much more than Lan Qier and others expected, the Han army changed the previous way of attacking, its vanguard soldiers did not ride horses under the urging of the war drums to advance quickly, but a group of engineers, to rebuild the pass passage, in order to drive piles, nail planks.

Of course, Lan Qi'er and the others were puzzled for a while, what is the situation, is this an army attacking the city? Is it?

The drums of the Han army were still wafting in the air, and the engineers were building a safe passage continuously, because the materials were fully prepared and appropriate, and the speed of advance was very fast.

With the advancement of the Han army's engineering troops to rebuild the channel, Lan Qi'er, General Lan, General Soha and others only saw something at this time, yes, saw the difference between the Han army's attack, although there was no soldier to meet each other for a while, but the Han army has already attacked, it is the invasion of non-soldiers, it is building a defense system first, preparing for the safe advance of the Han army, this is in the Ming plank road, to use the Ming plank road and attack clearly!

Because the Qishan Pass is not too long or too wide, the Han army engineers from time to time advanced the plank road to the defense range of the Qishan high mountain army, and it is immediately known whether the Han army's preparations have any effect.

At this time, the Qishan soldiers on the high mountain could get the general's order. For a while, the action began, what a rain of arrows, rolling wood and stones, and a beehive swarmed down, and the sound was huge.

The Han soldiers are fully prepared, the first time is not to dodge, it is the soldiers with torches in their hands who moved first, first lit most of the torches, this purpose is obvious, just to deal with poisonous bees, what other arrows, rolling wood and stones are not to deal with, the work is done in front, the plank road is the umbrella of the Han soldiers.

The Han soldiers really thought as designed, the rain of arrows and rolling wood and stones were blocked outside the plank road, and the moment the poisonous bee hive just landed, it was ignited by the torch in the hand of the Han army, and the poisonous bee did not fly out of the nest nine times out of ten, and died.

The high mountain defense line of Qishan City was dissolved by the Han army, and soon the Han army advanced to the moat, and the Han army had an understanding of the moat of Qishan Pass, and the formed bridge plate was paved through, and a large number of poisonous snakes along the river also lost their due role and lost their aggressiveness.

The Han army has advanced not far from the Qishan city wall without much casualties, and has reached the effective range of the archers, the range is on both sides, but one side of the archers is in the high place, and the other side of the archers is in the low place, and the high place occupies the initiative.

With the widening of the plank road, suddenly a large number of siege vehicles appeared behind the engineers, and with the deployment of the siege vehicles, followed by a large number of archers, shield players, and climbers.

Lan Qier and General Lan are no longer the commander-in-chief of the scene, the general Soha then waved the military order flag, this flag waved, but not in the command of the side, the archers on both sides can attack together, for a while there is nothing else, the air is full of flying arrows, the direction is the opposite, the arrow feather can be imagined, there is a landing, there is no landing is someone and something to pick up, the thing is fine, the person is either dead or injured.

Under the command of the general in charge, the archers of the Han army formed a solid bow and arrow array, the effect of the attack was out, and it was evenly matched for a while, and the Han army archery car could have an unexpected effect, and the power was greatly revealed, making up for the lack of low terrain of the Han army, and the casualties of the archers on both sides were increasing, and the number of archers was reduced over time.

Marshal Han got the front battle situation report, his heart was satisfied, and the established policy was recognized, so he issued the marshal's order again, the archers can be increased, in order to cooperate with the archers to kill and injure the Qishan archers in a short period of time, a small number of climbers were specially dispatched, the implication is obvious, that is, to use the climbers to climb the city wall, and lead the Qishan soldiers on the city wall to expose their bodies more, so as to achieve a great increase in casualties, what did the Han army climbers become for a while, this is the ancient war, and the climbing gestures can not go home, It's just a victim of fearlessness.

Lan Qi'er, General Lan, General Soha and others do not recognize this method of battle on the city wall of the pass, this kind of archer-to-archer tactics, because a few people know too well, the Han army is prepared this time, this is the army's good strategy, it is based on the strength of the counter-exchange, it is to drag down my Loulan army to the death!

Lan Qi'er and General Lan were going to study a strategy to deal with the Han army's siege of the city, Lan Qi'er immediately called the general Soha, and told him to study a strategy with other generals.

A number of generals and generals in Qishan City gathered between the main and auxiliary city walls for a while, discussing how to deal with the enemy, there is no level here for a while, and they all have unlimited right to speak, some generals think that the Han army has no strong offensive momentum, and the Loulan army can completely defend it according to the city wall, and the casualty ratio of both sides still has some advantages.

Some generals and generals have different opinions, that is, the Han army did not attack for a while, it does not mean that it will not attack in the future, why the Han army did not attack, it must be reasonable, it must have learned the lessons of the last two defeats, this time it is obvious that the Han army deliberately did not attack, and chose a position to attack, the Han army has as many as 50,000 soldiers and horses, which is nearly ten times that of our army, and we cannot afford such an attack, and our army will be defeated at any time!

Many generals and generals have expressed their opinions, that is, the strategy of the Han army is obvious for a while, and the strong attack should not be on this day or two, and it may not be attacked by force, that is, the strategy of consuming military strength and bullying it with many people to achieve the final victory without gunpowder.

Lan Qi'er and General Lan Da got the same idea from several generals as in their hearts, and knew deeply that if they did not come up with a countermeasure immediately, the pass would slowly be lost, and by then most of the soldiers had been killed and wounded, and the people would have no protection, and the disaster would be devastating.

General Lan said: Qi'er, my father thinks that now we have to make a choice, Lan Qi'er is looking at his father with her eyes, and she naturally understands.

Many people studied for a while in the noise, that is, before the evening, the "hussar warriors" of the army were gathered to make a surprise charge to the forward positions of the Han army, to see if they could destroy the enemy's siege vehicles as much as possible, and the most important thing was the enemy's archers, so as to reduce the threat of enemy archers to the archers on our city wall.

But this time the Han army is a battalion step by step, prepared to come, I Qishan City should be difficult to hold this time, now we must make the worst plan, that is, when the last resort, we must abandon the city, to retain the vitality of the best policy.

At this time, the city is not really abandoned, there is no living materials in the abandoned city, and the Han army will move it, at least three or five days, and more than six or seven days, and then our army can completely recapture it, and the city is still my Qishan City, isn't it?

Lan Qi'er is the empress, is to take the last will, is the final decision-maker, she clearly knows that no matter whether the generals go out of the city in the evening can have great lethality and destruction of the enemy's bow and arrow array, Qishanbei is the time to make use of it, so he said: Cong will listen to the order, in the evening, gather the "hussar soldiers" and all the generals to go out of the city on time to give a sudden blow to the enemy, no matter what the success or failure, must be to protect their own safety, if there is any disadvantage, immediately turn back.

After General Lan Qi'er gave the order, he did not return to the pass wall, but went straight to the court hall accompanied by the eunuch Xue and Tulong, the commander of the Praetorian Guard.

Half an hour passed, and all the ministers of the ancient kingdom of Loulan had arrived at the court, and naturally in addition to the military generals, there were also Princess An Ran, the head of the harem eunuchs, and the foreign affairs officials of the two different races.

Lan Qi'er did not sit on the dragon chair as usual, but stood and spoke directly, giving a holy decree.

The six ministers first knelt down to receive the holy decree, the main content of the holy decree is to immigrate, all the people are not moved out of Qishan, is moved into the north of Qishan, the time is limited to one day, the officials of each ministry must perform their duties, coordinate with each other, all officials must not have privileges, if there is dereliction of duty must be beheaded, because the ministry is not conducive to the immigration of mutual cooperation must be beheaded, immigration is not only the safety of the people, but all the national belongings in Qishan must be followed, including food and household belongings.

Tulong, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, also received a holy decree, that is, from the time the Praetorian Guard under his jurisdiction received the order, all members entered the north of Qishan, and the main responsibility was to immediately build a simple collective shelter to shelter from the wind and sand.

The foreign affairs officials of the two different races received the holy decree that they should immediately return to the various tribes, coordinate the people, and prepare all the unified arrangements of the officials of the six tribes, and move to the north of Qishan together.

After the people enter the north of Qishan, if they find that the Han army has explored the primeval forest in the north of Qishan, they can put two snakes in the primeval forest at any time, so as to achieve the primitiveness and natural barrier of the primeval forest.

Lan Qi'er went straight to the pass gate after the temporary decree on the court, the officials of the six departments who received the decree must have a unified arrangement, and they did not leave the court for a while, they wanted to come up with a plan, but fortunately, the citizens of the ancient country of Loulan already had the experience of immigration, and the courtiers knew that the responsibility was heavy, but with experience, a consensus was quickly reached, and everyone began to organize and coordinate.

After Tulong, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, immediately gathered the troops, and the harem eunuchs naturally got busy, and issued tasks to the little eunuchs in the harem, and the palaces began to pack supplies.

After Lan Qi'er returned to the pass city wall, because she could not see that the Han soldiers had the intention of storming the city wall of Qishan Pass, she immediately ordered the left and right banner generals to lead four hundred soldiers to the southern primeval forest, and the holy decree was to let the two generals immediately clear out a national passage in the southern primeval forest, making the illusion that the Qishan people came out of Qishan from the south, and added some traps, leaving a number of heavy rut traces specially made, and the layout was quite careful, it can be said that everything is working hard for the safety of the people!