Shangguan Honglie gave some simple combat orders to everyone in the house, Shangguan Honglie personally climbed the city wall to check the defense deployment, because the north of the Cloud Flame Empire has been peaceful for too long, the defenders of Helin City can not only eat and sleep, but also flirt with the women of the good family, and the local Yihongyuan Baihualou basically depends on the soldiers to feed, 30,000 pigs can be killed and eaten for a few days, but more than 30,000 old soldiers can't think of any other role in addition to making 30,000 lumps of dung every day, Shangguan Honglie inspected, His face was so black that he looked as if he had just been fished out of the ink tank, and Zhang Chenghong's heart was in his throat, for fear that Shangguan Honglie would arrange him to be a martyr in the death squad.

Fortunately, although the 30,000 old soldiers are not as good as 30,000 pigs, they can do something that pigs can't do, although Zhang Chenghong is not a talent, but he is not a waste, before Shangguan Honglie arrived, he had already prepared a large number of wood, stones and bows and arrows needed to defend the city.

It is said that generals are not waste, and such waste soldiers should not be brought out, but in order to prevent the generals of the feudal town from operating in one place for too long, the imperial court covers the sky with one hand, and the country within the country appears, and the guards of each army are rotated every three years, and Zhang Chenghong was just transferred to Helin City two months ago.

At dusk, the scout came again to report, the enemy army was camped five miles away from Helin City, Shangguan Honglie frowned, it seems that the enemy is preparing to recuperate, the next day to attack the city, tonight, it is estimated that there will be many people who can't sleep.

Sure enough, as soon as the next day dawned, Youquan's 100,000 troops had been assembled under Helin City, the black armor glowed with cold metal brilliance in the morning light, dazzling people's eyes cold, and the huge heavy trebuchet made Shangguan Honglie feel a little afraid to see it, rushing the car, breaking the city hammer and other siege equipment are readily available, and a huge body has brought incomparable coercion to the defenders of the city, and it is difficult to even breathe.

Generally speaking, attacking an ordinary city, the attacking side needs to invest at least two to three times the strength of the defending side, if it is a strong city, it needs more, and the Youquan army dares to attack the 150,000-strong Helin City with 100,000 troops, if it is not for the commander's head problems, it must be a guard of honor, and if he can connect two cities with a slight loss within seven days, of course, the commander cannot be an idiot.

Aguli smiled coldly, in the Youquan Sanctuary, the terrain is mostly mountainous, so its troops are dominated by infantry, coupled with the abundance of iron ore in the country, the army's weapons and equipment can be said to be the best in the world, and with these advanced siege weapons in front of him, even in the face of twice as many defenders as he is, he is confident that he will overcome in a battle.

On the contrary, all the generals of Helin City were busy writing suicide notes, even if Shangguan Honglie, who was known as a frequent victory, was in charge, it did not alleviate everyone's fear of those sharp siege weapons.

"This bunch of shit...... After this battle, I must slaughter them all and improve the food for the army! ”

The defenders of Helin City could not be counted on, Shangguan Honglie simply let his people replace all the defenders on the city wall, and asked the original defenders to play the role of later soldiers, responsible for transporting city supplies and transporting the wounded on the city wall, rolling stones, wood, hot oil, etc. are all ready, and the infantry who came up to defend the city are all Yulin Army who defend the imperial city, although they cannot be said to be experienced in a hundred battles, but they are definitely well-trained, all of them are veterans who have seen blood, and they are not at all comparable to the pus bags in Helin City, which also makes the generals feel a little at ease. Put aside the unfinished suicide note for the time being.

Aguli glanced contemptuously at the not towering Helin City, and asked the vanguard officer Lin Kezi: "General Lin, you say, how long will it take us to capture Helin City this time?" Two, or three hours? ”

Lin Kezi pursed his lips and said: "Deputy Marshal, according to the report from the spies, there are a total of 150,000 defenders in Helin City at the moment, and the commander of the army is Shangguan Honglie, the first general of the Cloud Flame Empire, this battle, I'm afraid it won't be easy, in my opinion, don't rush to attack the city first, and wait for His Royal Highness the Holy Son to arrive before ......."

"Humph!"

Aguli interrupted Lin Kezi with a cold face: "Wouldn't it be better for us to directly give Helin City and that Shangguan Honglie's head to His Highness the Holy Son?" What is the first general, in front of this commander, is just a chicken and a dog, pass on my military order, and immediately attack the city! ”

The sound of a low horn sounded from the Youquan army formation, and the dull drum sound seemed to directly hit the hearts of everyone, making people tremble, and the attack finally began!

"Put!"

With the order of the starter, thirty heavy trebuchets threw huge stones at the same time towards the not very strong city wall of Helin City, and the stones smashed on the city wall with a sharp sound of breaking the sky, and at the same time smashed the city wall out of holes, and several pieces flew directly above the city wall.

This is war, and human life is less than a stone.

However, this first round of attacks was only tentative, and after the second round of trebuchets were calibrated, the killing accuracy was significantly improved, and after one round of attacks, at least hundreds of Helin defenders lost their combat power.

Shangguan Honglie's heart was dark, the general heavy trebuchet had a range of about 100 zhang, but at this time, the trebuchet array of the Youquan Army was located at least 130 zhang outside the city wall, although the accuracy was slightly discounted, but it ensured that it was not hit by the long-range weapons of the defending side, and the effective range of the heavy bed crossbow on the city wall was only about 150 zhang, if you wanted to cause damage to the equipment, it could only be within 100 zhang, that is to say, from the perspective of long-range weapons alone, Helin City had been suppressed by the Youquan army.

"Lord Wang, it's too dangerous on the city wall, you better change to a safer place to command the battle!"

Zhang Chenghong said to Shangguan Honglie with an anxious face. Yes, you are always the commander of the army, and you are the prince, you are standing on the city wall as a target for the Youquan Army, even if we are subordinates, we dare not throw you down and hide elsewhere even if we are afraid of death, if you don't leave, we have to wait here for death!

Shangguan Honglie didn't even have the interest to look back at them, and replied lightly: "Here you can observe the entire battlefield most clearly, the war is changing rapidly, and only by grasping the changes on the battlefield can we formulate the next countermeasures more accurately, do you still need me to teach you?" ”

Zhang Chenghong and the others felt bitter in their hearts when they heard this, and secretly said that this kind of person can live until now God is really blind, the whistling sound of the boulder in his ears and the wail of the life and death of the wounded soldiers made their scalps blow up, although they were scared to death, but no one dared to mention the matter of letting Shangguan Honglie hide from the city wall. And the defenders of the former Helin City, who had been withdrawn earlier, were also busy, either transporting the wounded or disposing of corpses.