Armor pacesetter and Wu Chuanyu, Zhang Jiayu's Fang family soldiers are mortal enemies, the two sides do not know how many times they have experienced, they can have their own advantages and disadvantages, Fang Jiabing to twenty-one people as a killer team, this kind of team is not easy to break up, a line and a team are familiar people, and the division of labor and cooperation, efficient operation, is an effective configuration, but the armor pacesetter is to fight the skills are good, the equipment is good, and generally equipped with ordinary cannon fodder and armor soldiers as the forward, Hu Quan is using this female direct tribe method, this method has also proved to be effective, especially against only some elite generals of the court, killed the opponent's family, and rushed up, which can drive many fish belly troops to fight a tailwind battle.

Luo Wuche looked at the bow on the ground, sat on the mossy ground, kicked it with his feet, hooked the string with both hands, and went back fiercely, gasped, and scolded: "This play is at least two hundred and fifty catties." "It is estimated that a person can shoot up to ten times, and if you are trained, it is not impossible to shoot fifteen times. If you wear special gloves and leather boots on your feet, you can drive more than 20 times, the range of this game is only afraid of being very far, because it is a heavy shooting head, after shooting into the sky, the potential energy of falling down is very large, the arrow weighing one or two is still thrown on the ground in front of Luo Wuche, Luo Wuche looked at the arrow, it is estimated that after falling from the sky, you can make a hole in the iron armor on the person, when did the officers and soldiers have this kind of play, the rate of fire of this game far exceeds that of the crossbow bed, the crossbow bed requires four or five people to turn the winch, and it takes a long time to shoot the second round after a shot out, Luo Wuche estimated it, and the ballista shot onceThis kind of foot crossbow can be shot more than ten times with the cooperation of two people, although the crossbow bed is far away in the range, but it is an arrow like a spear, much heavier, although this kind of arrow has one or two two, with a light arrow shaft, it floats farther.

Luo Wuche suddenly had a trace of fear in Tai'an City opposite, and he also knew that Geng Ruji was opposite. Zhang Congzhe is not Cui Guiyuan, the opposite Tai'an City is much united, although the team of officers and soldiers who fought with them just now is only twenty-one, but they are united in action, none of them turned around and fled backwards, when the sudden attack on Licheng, Luo Wuche saw that many officers and soldiers were very brave, but after those brave officers and soldiers died, the timid ones fled, and then the militia chased after them, chasing and killing the rout, and now he suddenly had a different method for seizing Tai'an City.

Luo Wuche looked at the crossbow on the ground, and finally dispelled the idea of reporting the news, although he is now promoted to be an armor pacesetter, but deep down he doesn't think he is a thief, he just wants to live in peace, get a good score in the exam, glorify his ancestors, and then marry a young lady from the official family, be a second ancestor, and be safe. Luo Wuche made up his mind in his heart, it seems that there are many such crossbow arrows in Tai'an City, he should be careful, it is necessary to change an iron shield, to be thicker, and it is enough to protect himself when attacking the city.

At the beginning of September, the thieves' brigade drove in the direction of Tai'an one after another, and this time the various departments gathered around Tai'an at different times, such as Zuo Guangxian, Shi Dayong and others arrived first, a wolf waited later, in early September in the vicinity of Tai'an broke out countless small encounters, each near hill was occupied by thieves with superior forces, and Zuo Guangxian also repeated the old trick several times, wanting to pretend to be a refugee to seize the city gate, but Wu Chuanyu and others set up an ambush at the city gate, but instead pit Zuo Guangxian once, his own elite soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, Zuo Guangxian never had any other ideas, honestly set up a formation, and approached the gate of Tai'an City.

Luo Wuche rode a black horse, followed a group of armor pacesetters to the north gate of Tai'an Tongji Gate, he and a group of armor pacesetters, they rode horses in a higher place, looking at the Tongji Gate at more than 500 steps, then saw that the city of Tai'an at this time was repaired like a beehive, in the eye can see the large and small forts, different heights, the crossbow machine is obviously set up above, and the lower part of the fort is full of barbs as thick as a child's arm, these barbs besiege the city, protect the base of these forts, obviously to prevent thieves from digging the root of the wall, not only that, but the foundation of the part above the barbs is still made of boulders, such stones, no matter how you dig, you can't dig it.

Tai'an is only a city of government, not the provincial capital, the city wall is not as high as the city, only two zhang eight, but it seems that the barbs below are more than the city wall, when the city was first hit, a lot of the elite of the siege fell from the ladder, it was pierced by these sharpened bamboo thorns, wooden thorns, the flow militia had thought of using knives and axes to flatten these barbs, but in the battle array, the weapons in the hands of each soldier are precious, if you jump a mouth will be troublesome, every soldier is unwilling to take the guy who eats in his hands to cut these wood and bamboo.

In addition to the rows of barbs under the city, you can see the officers and soldiers building a lot of horse noodles in the city, sticking out of the wall, and the crossbow machine or fire oil is placed on the horse surface, and the smell can be smelled five hundred steps away, and there is one of these horse faces almost a hundred steps, and this distance makes the city have no dead ends, and the two horse faces can easily support each other.

At the same time, a lot of corner towers were built on the head of the city, these corner towers were not built with wood, they were rebuilt at the back of the city wall, as high as four zhang five, the square circle reached three zhang, the height also exceeded the city wall two zhang three, there were torches inserted in the mouth of the trench above, and many arrow mouths were exposed on the side outside, and the openings were wider, so as to ensure that the crossbow arrows could be released to the militia members below.

The most exaggerated thing is that the officers and soldiers also stretched out a wooden watchtower on the top of these four zhang and five zhang, which is more than two zhang high, and together it is more than six zhang above the ground.

Luo Wuche put his eyes on the city again, because Tai'an is a city of the government, there is no moat, this once made many generals of the militia think that Tai'an is easy to fight, but now look at the past, the river is not, two hundred steps away from the city wall, full of horses, the officers and soldiers are very exaggerated to insert the lower part of these horses into the soil, but also with lime mud water paste, that is to say, want to move these heavy plays, it takes a lot of effort, and most of the horses are put three layers in a row, or even put four layers, it looks like a white wood, just like a jungle, Luo Wuche thought that he wanted to guard against the arrows shot down by the city, while moving this play, and shuddered.

The current city gate is not related, from time to time there is a whole team of cavalry riding in and out, they are about 200 people in a team, to respond to the city gates, do not think that these cavalry are also hiding in the urn city, turn out, at the same time on both sides of the city gate there are two small camps, are hiding soldiers, these camps face the thief side with a big wood, erected a two-person high wooden wall, there are five layers of horses in front of the wall, there are archers waiting on the wooden wall, there are two deep trenches in front of the wooden horse, I don't know how deep at present, the left and right sides open a wide door, the cavalry can rush out quickly, this wooden wall is not higher than the city wall, you can get the fire technical support on the city wall, such a camp has every city gate, I think it is the main place to place the cavalry, and the urn city is the place where the cavalry take turns to rest. The reason why the officers and soldiers did this was because the city gate could only produce about 200 cavalry at a time, and the wooden village did not have this limit, and it was also to place the ancestral and Zheng soldiers from Licheng.

This team took the lead in the surrender of the thief Zhang Chenglu, Zhang Chenglu made a great contribution, was appreciated by Hu Quan, and now it is Zhang Chenglu who takes these armor pacesetters, although Luo Wuche does not look down on Zhang Chenglu's character, but for Zhang Chenglu's vision of fighting is still admired, these days, it is Zhang Chenglu who took them to these armor soldiers near Tai'an and the officers and soldiers of Tai'an City to explore horses and sit on the mountain to play hunting. Originally, Shi Dayong and Zuo Guangxian suffered a lot in this regard, but after Zhang Chenglu came, he concentrated the armor pacesetters and used them, otherwise the brigade of the militia would not have arrived at the designated place so smoothly, Zhang Chenglu even found an ambush with a scale of 3,000 officers and soldiers, which thwarted the plan of the officers and soldiers to ambush, which made the people below even more convinced.

Zhang Chenglu had a gloomy face, looked at the place where his brother defected, not so much that the thieves were now fighting the city, but rather that they were sitting in the military camp with the city wall as the fortification, and now they can only see it, I don't know how much more they can't see, he rode his horse down the hill, and Yu Qiangben on the side stepped forward to flatteringly: "General Zhang, do you want to continue to search and kill officers and soldiers." Zhang Chenglu gave him a blank look, and didn't say much, the mountains and forests closest to Tai'an were cut down by the officers and soldiers guarding the city, and the wood became barbs under the city wall, and now the officers and soldiers will no longer send mountain soldiers in the mountains and forests, because it is a bare area, and the militia will have to run out of fifty miles if they want to cut down trees.

In the distance, the new banner of the militia came out again, it was the sweeping king's department to the city of Tongji Gate, and now it is being deployed, just under Zhang Chenglu's nose, the officers and soldiers of the Tongji Gate cavalry took advantage of the fact that the sweeping king had not yet been armed, and the city head whistled, and immediately killed the sweeping king's department that was camping, and under Zhang Chenglu's nose, the ordinary prisoners who were set up by the sweeping king to set up the camp were cut down.

Zhang Chenglu glanced at it, recognized it as the Yan soldiers under Zu Tingnian, remembered that Zu Tingnian and his father-in-law came to the aid together, and his father-in-law died at the hands of Cui Guiyuan, but this Zu Tingnian was much more sleek, mixed out from under Cui Guiyuan's hands, Zhang Chenglu estimated the armor pacesetters behind him, there were more than three hundred, this is the elite of several teams he concentrated, the other party only had more than two hundred, thinking of his father-in-law, Zhang Chenglu pointed his hand, and rushed out first, and the armor pacesetters at the bottom also rushed out, rushing towards the side of the Yan soldiers and cavalry who were chasing and killing the prisoners, but before they could rush to the front, the Yan soldiers on the opposite side turned their horses, and returned to the original and ran to the city gate to retreat, Zhang Chenglu has not fainted enough to catch up, the other party has retreated to the range of bow and crossbow support at the head of the city, if he catches up, thousands of arrows will be fired in the city, he is not enough for the officers and soldiers to stuff their teeth, and these soldiers are also Hu Quan's heart, Hu Quan must be reluctant to take them to risk.

Zhang Chenglu immediately looked at the camp that had not yet been arranged by the sweeping king in front of him, and now it was still a mess, and the blood of the dead on the ground was mixed with the fortifications that had not been arranged, these hundred babies were forcibly pulled from Licheng and used to make cannon fodder, and they were not sad when they died, and the soldiers of the militia on the ground were beating these prisoners, making them stand up and work again on the fortifications.

"Maybe it won't be able to beat this time. Zhang Chenglu glanced at the opposite city wall, the officers and soldiers on it made a laughing sound, Zhang Chenglu thought in his heart, there are enough people on the opposite side, it seems that there are still a lot of people, and these people are a group, obviously it is also the configuration of the killer team, more than 20 people are a group, these people in the township are much more united than ordinary officers and soldiers.

On the seventh day of the first month of September, the brigade of the militia has obviously all arrived, this time the king of Xiao Ming came in person, raised the flag of the king of Ming at the city gate, and at the same time all parts of the city occupied all parts of the city of Tai'an, the main roads of transportation, and the main roads for reinforcements. The armoured soldiers, prisoners, and elites of the various departments add up, and there have been more than 100,000 people, and now they are going to attack Tai'an City head-on, Hu Quan originally wanted to besiege the city and send reinforcements, but according to the report of the Tanma, Wu Yuanji, who was far away outside the province, sent the last batch of grain and grass over last time, and ignored Tai'an City, and even the post was burned, Hu Quan wanted to deliberately let the other party's Tanma for help go out, so that Wu Yuanji could come over, but the Tai'an Mansion on the other side no longer sent out the Tanma for help, and it was clear that he wanted to fight with the thieves.

The thieves can't afford to consume, hundreds of thousands of people don't have to produce, they have to rely on robbery, that is, the prisoners robbed in Licheng, they also have to open their mouths to eat, and Tai'an on the opposite side has received strong support from Wu Yuanji, Wei Husband, etc., they don't know how much grain and grass armor they sent to the city, except that they didn't send people, everything was sent over. Although the militia grabbed a lot of money and grain, they could only buy grain and grass by smuggling, and the price was extremely high. Wu Yuanji and these people saw that the thieves were coming to beat them, and immediately broke this dark line, and the most vicious thing was to impeach the emperor Yang Ge Lao and other orthodox factions for smuggling grain to the thieves, so that the people who originally wanted to make some money privately stopped selling grain to the rogue militia, stopped and looked at the direction of the wind, and sure enough, now the people of the two factions are pointing at each other and scolding each other, so no one sells grain to the rogue militia anymore.

The most hateful is Long Shizhong, when he was defending Licheng, he saw that Licheng was about to be lost, and sent his own soldiers to burn a lot of grain in the city, so that although the militia got a lot of military funds, they were not prepared for grain and grass.

At the same time, the city of Tai'an also burned all the grain and grass that did not grow in the field, or cut them all down to feed the horses, and did not leave any of them to the thieves who came to attack, and at the same time collected the peasants around the city in the city, and the color boy did not grab it alone.

Now that the color boy is looking at a large pile of gold and silver, but it can't be exchanged for food, the Qin bandits took the opportunity to put forward the human flesh plan again, not allowing the people captured from Licheng to eat enough, and forcing them to eat human flesh.

Now it's time to consume the population.

On the morning of the tenth day of the ninth month, after the militia had breakfast, King Xiao Ming set up his Ming Wang banner, and outside the Tongji Gate, the generals of all the departments arrived, and the work started.

All kinds of siege equipment have arrived, because the officers and soldiers have cut down trees, there are no ready-made trees to make chariots, lookouts, ladders and other things, only some of the simplest shield carts, as well as long hook ladders, many siege equipment behind have not been built, I am afraid that it will take more than ten days, Hu Quan even plans to transport siege equipment from Licheng, but it will not be transported until ten days later, and ten days, I don't know how much grain and grass will be consumed.