Chapter 171: The Two Opposing Armies and the Fourth

The Han general Xia Yuan saw the casualties of the soldiers, so he had to immediately order his deputy general to lead the soldiers to attack it as quickly as possible, and the archers, shield bearers, climbers and other soldiers of the Han army began to assemble, and the soldiers ran and pushed the siege vehicles such as arrow blocking vehicles and ladder trucks to attack the city.

For a time, the real attack and defense were formed, more than 1,000 Han troops with various vehicles to the Qishan Pass quickly marched, the distance was close in the blink of an eye, naturally to the range of the archers on both sides, one side is high on the city wall, there is the city wall rock mass for its protection, one side is low on the parallel line of the pass gate, there are arrow guards and shields as the foundation of protection.

The archers on both sides have been ordered, the rain of arrows is galloping up and down, although there are shelters, but there are still casualties for a while, but the proportion of casualties is different, one side is guarding, high and defending, there is an advantage, especially in the era of cold weapons, the archers on the Qishan city wall died one, and the Han army died eight or nine times out of ten.

The casualties of the soldiers on both sides were the dead and wounded, the footsteps of the Han army did not stop, the distance of two hundred meters was not far, the Han siege soldiers had stopped the arrow blocking car to fifty meters outside the city wall, the archers took the arrow blocking car as a support point, and began to shoot at each other with the archers on the Qishan city wall, the ladder car was pushed under the city wall, and under the cover of the archers shooting arrow rain, they began to build a cloud ladder to climb.

Lan Qi'er and General Lan on the city wall of Qishan have seen the performance of the archers of the country, and they are not afraid of life and death.

The upper and lower archers were shooting at each other, and the individual Han troops who climbed had already reached the city wall, and they had a short encounter with the defenders of Qishan.

The two generals of the Han Dynasty and Wang Guifei saw clearly from a safe distance, and saw that the soldiers had already attacked the city wall, and the car that hit the door was also hitting the gate of the pass, and the city gate began to tremble, and the bolt should have been loosened, so the drummer immediately beat the war drum louder, and the soldiers in the back continued to push forward.

General Lan saw the reality of the situation and knew that if this continued, the pressure on the city wall would be greater, and the archers would suffer heavy casualties at the same time, so he ordered the general Soha to carry out a surprise attack with the banner language, so as to kill the enemy at the forefront of the siege, and destroy or rob the Han army's door trucks, ladder cars, arrow blocking vehicles and other vehicles, so that the Han army did not have the necessary equipment to attack the city for a while, reduce the threat of the enemy army to the archers on the city wall, and protect the absolute supremacy of the army.

General Soha saw the banner of General Lan Da, and knew that it was time for him to lead his elite soldiers out of the city, so he gave the general order, and the gate of the pass was suddenly opened, and the Han army did not know the reason, and the Han army at the forefront was not on guard, and most of the soldiers in front were archers and shield bearers, and only half of the soldiers had cold weapons in their hands, and the two armies had a melee under the city wall.

The pressure of the archers on the city wall was small all of a sudden, and a small number of Han troops who attacked the city wall were wiped out by General Lan and others in one fell swoop, General Lan immediately ordered the archers to shoot a hundred meters away, and the arrow rain formed a rain of arrows in the area a hundred meters away for a while, forming a vacuum zone, which played a role in isolating the Han army in the rear and the Han army in front, and the Han army in the front did not have the conditions for retreating. Some vehicles were taken back inside the pass gates.

The first strong attack of the Han army, with the destruction of the siege vehicles, the sudden change of the situation of the war, had to make the Han general Xia Yuan give a military order to stop the strong attack on the Qishan Pass, collect the troops, and retreat to his barracks, naturally to discuss the next attack plan.

On the wall of Qishan, on the mountainside, on the top of the mountain, all the soldiers saw it and knew that the defense of the city was a victory.

General Soha sent the soldiers to open the city gate again, clean up the battlefield, the arrow feathers are precious, can be reused, so they are all collected, the dead soldiers no matter which side, whether they are ordered to invade, or for the country to defend, the starting point is they can not control, it is not wrong to carry out the orders of the superiors, it is courageous, the soldiers are worthy of respect, so they were all collected and buried in the mountains and forests of Qishan.

Lan Qi'er is also going to immediately hold a meeting with the Imperial Court to discuss and summarize the experience and shortcomings of the first insistence, and how to deal with the next attack of the Han army.

The first round of the Han army's assault ended in failure, and the Han army of more than 5,000 elite soldiers died 1,800 people, which was not expected by the Han generals and Wang Guifei, who passed the first round of defeat, and the experience was to be summarized and analyzed, and preparations were made for the next strong attack.

The generals of the Han army and Wang Guifei discussed and summarized, and the final result came out, that is, the enemy soldiers on the mountainside and the top of the mountain on both sides of the Qishan Pass, the Han soldiers and the Han archers were difficult to deal with for a while, because the mountains on both sides of the Qishan Pass can be described as dangerous, too steep, and the possibility of climbing is more difficult than attacking the city.

For a while, it can only be based on attacking the pass, because the first siege is effective in the early stage, and there are already soldiers who have attacked the city wall, if there is no accident, the later army will keep up, and it will definitely be able to form a momentum of breaking the city, and the second strong attack, as long as all the soldiers are desperate, on the one hand, to prevent the Qishan archers, and on the other hand, to prevent the ground soldiers from fighting, the city is definitely possible.

The summary was summarized, so the task was assigned, the two generals each had a task, the two were no longer in the rear, each led the troops and horses, one led the archers to deal with the archers on the Qishan city wall, and the other led the ground troops to attack the city to deal with all the situations on the ground.

Wang Guifei's task is to backup, if she sees the hope of breaking the city, she will lead the whole army to press on it in order to break the city.

Lan Qi'er is above the court, and he also summarizes and studies the matter of defending the city, although the first time he defended it was successful, but the Han army is more than 5,000 elite soldiers, and he has a general understanding of the situation of defending the city, and the siege of the city must be more violent, which should not be underestimated, and several generals have personal views and opinions above the court.

General Lan and the generals of the left and right flags in the court are the most vocal, they are condescending, watched the whole process of the whole fortification, and began to say their own opinions and opinions in the court, and the city defense with the generals' talk, the deployment has been adjusted accordingly, that is, the next Han army will attack, will definitely concentrate the troops, will desperately attack the pass gate, the army will be dense and fast, and will definitely defend our ground soldiers.

If you want to crack it, there is no best way, first of all, the archers on the city wall have been adjusted, the archers on the city wall have been reduced by half, leaving a hundred archers, and the remaining one hundred archers have been assigned to the mountainside on both sides of the pass, so that the archers on the mountainside have reached as many as 200 people, and it is a two-way deployment, the task is to attack the Han army, half of the archers on both sides, and the main main shooting distance of the enemy army at a distance of 150 meters, forming a closed arrow rain at 150 meters outside the pass.

On both sides, half of the archers mainly shoot at a distance of 100 meters from the Han army, at a distance of 100 meters, again form a closed rain of arrows, in the first few moments of the archer shooting arrow rain, the soldiers on the mountainside, can use the rolling wood thunder stone to cooperate, because the rolling wood thunder stone first to the bottom of the mountain, the Han army attacking soldiers will definitely be stopped, the speed will be destroyed.

Then with the rolling of the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone, the formation of the Han army will definitely be disrupted, and the shield hand can block the rain of arrows, but it will not be able to block the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone, and it will definitely dodge, at this time, most of the attacking Han army will have nothing to block the arrows, and the arrow rain will achieve its effect, which will naturally increase the casualties of the Han army exponentially.

The enemy's prevention in front of the pass city wall is studied, and all that remains is the range within 50 meters of the city wall and the pass gate.

The court was quiet for a while, because now according to the situation of the first battle, it is difficult to change, the archers on the city wall have decreased, and the Han army will attack under the city wall.

Lan Qi'er and all the generals know, the ministers are also above the court, some of the ministers knelt down to speak, mentioning the Han army siege vehicles, because the first siege vehicles are prepared for sufficient time, not only strong but also the connections are iron, these vehicles have been destroyed by General Soha, the enemy army attacks again, its vehicles must be reset, and it will be mainly wooden, when the enemy ladder and other vehicles are erected, they can be burned with hump oil, so that they can not be erected and used normally.

Wenchen's proposal was of course approved by everyone in the court, because hump oil is a high concentration of fleasy fuel quality, and once burned, the flame is long-lasting, the smell is unbearable, as long as there is enough hump oil poured on the ladder car and the arrow guard car and other wooden vehicles, it will definitely damage the vehicle, the enemy siege vehicle is sent to the front, and the hump oil is a shower, it is not a problem.

The security problem on the city wall seems to have been solved, and the next thing to study is the pass gate, what should I do? The gates are unbreakable!