Jiang Feng restrained his breath, and the generals beside him were the same.

Speaking of a small heavenly master, there is still a slight difference in strength among the people.

In addition to Jiang Feng Kankan who has stepped into the middle stage of the Dandan, the strength of Qin and Han has only only touched the threshold of the middle stage of the Dan, and he has not even stepped into it, Hong Kui is considered to be a relatively stable early stage of the Dan, while Lang Kun has only just entered the early stage of the Dan, and he is even worse than Yang Kan, and the foundation is not yet stable.

can self-converge the qi machine and avoid external release, at least in the later stage of the Dan period, at least these few people can't do it, so they have to deliberately lock their breath to avoid leakage from being noticed.

The Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Knife has not licked human blood for a long time, maybe I want to taste it today, Jiang Feng and the others are all hiding behind the big shield without exception, observing the fierce battle at the head of the city.

"Boom!" a stone projectile hit the big shield next to it, and the shield cart shook for a while, but it still held on.

Jiang Feng glanced at this row of shield carts, the first few were still advancing unswervingly, covering groups of soldiers to avoid the attacks of crossbowmen and catapults on the city wall, this way of attacking seemed to be a little slower on the surface, but a little into the city wall a hundred paces away, then the soldiers would throw off the shield carts and charge.

More shield chariots continued to advance under the city walls, forming cover bodies according to their respective positions, providing a brief chance of cover for the soldiers waiting to attack.

After a few days of offensive and defensive battles, whether it is the east gate, the south gate, or the north gate, the outside of Qingzhou City has actually become a flat battlefield suitable for large-scale battles, and the distance between 80 and 100 steps has become the node for the soldiers to charge.

In order to prevent the attack of the catapults and ballistas, the shield carts would often line up in a horizontal row to cover the siege equipment and soldiers behind them to advance to this section, and then the equipment began to advance rapidly.

Of course, the soldiers will also wait for the equipment to arrive, and then start charging from this distance.

The shield carts will continue to move forward, and they will build cover between twenty and thirty paces below the city walls.

Soldiers who charge forward to this distance will use these cover bodies to wait for an opportunity, after all, the number of siege vehicles, hook carts, and ladder carts that rush under the city walls is not enough to satisfy the soldiers who rush up at once, and they need to attack in the prescribed order.

This has become a basic subject in the siege training of the Huaiyou Army.

Although the Wuning Right Army has been carrying out this kind of training for a short time, after all, there is still a basic training period of one or two months, and this kind of training is more reflected in the observance of discipline and the implementation of orders.

This kind of improvement in siege efficiency is imperceptible, and ordinary people may not be aware of it, but when it is really in the war, the gongcao can find that after the war, the battle loss ratio of the siege soldiers will have a significant decrease, and this is precious to these veterans of the Huaiyou Army.

Every group of veterans who can survive in the vicious war, bitter and bloody battles is wealth, and it cannot be made up for by simple training.

In the past few days, both sides, which were still a little rusty at the beginning, have begun to enter the state, and not only the speed of attack and defense has been greatly accelerated, but also targeted means and measures have emerged one after another.

For example, although the Huaiyou Army once had the upper hand in new equipment and new tactics, causing great losses and passivity to the Pinglu Army, after all, the Pinglu Army had the advantage of defending the city, and the losses could be made up by using a large number of people and urgently allocating materials.

For example, the ballista and stone-throwing carts on the city wall have been broken countless times, but after being lifted down, they can still be quickly restored with the help of the people of the whole city.

Similarly, the elite soldiers died a lot in battle, but they were filled by a large number of garrisons and gentry private soldiers, even if they were inexperienced garrisons and private soldiers, who could survive after two days of bloody battles, they could quickly transform into qualified soldiers.

Even if Jiang Feng is confident, he has to admit that Wang Shouzhong has done quite successfully in firmly holding the hearts of these gentry and people in Qingzhou City.

At this point, Huaiyou was still a little underestimated before, thinking that under heavy pressure, the situation would change drastically, maybe there would be some kind of half-heartedness, if Wang Shouzhong forced the gentry too much, there would be a rebellion, but now it seems that Wang Shouzhong has done a very good job at this point, or is very well prepared.

From the changes in the battle situation and the information sent back, it can be shown that there are constantly new recruits on the city wall every day, in addition to the combat effectiveness of the garrison in Qingzhou is not weak, it is obvious that the gentry and private troops in Qingzhou City have all been mobilized, which is not easy.

But all this will come to an end today, Jiang Feng doesn't have so much time to accompany Wang Shouzhong, today, he must break the city, and to take down Wang Shouzhong, for this, he has also made full preparations.

The first round of attacks didn't have much effect.

The Third Army of the Pinglu Ya Army, which guarded the north gate, was not weak, and they had also made various countermeasures before, and the number of battle sheds had been greatly increased, and they had also been reinforced, which reduced the lethal effect of the catapults and heavy ballistae on the side of the Huaiyou Army.

At the same time, the defenders also consciously strengthened the use of strong crossbows, and almost every thirty meters there were a small group of strong crossbowmen in ambush, which was very dense.

Once there is a breakthrough, it will concentrate on shooting, which has caused great difficulties for the breakthrough of the Huaiyou Army.

Although these crossbows are not magic crossbows, they are still extremely sharp, more than enough to deal with ordinary soldiers, and due to the limited breakthrough points in the siege, these crossbows can flexibly choose the ambush location.

It can be said that the Huaiyou Army has failed to break through several times before, and they were all planted in this hand.

Seeing a group of soldiers who pounced on the wall, "poof, poof!", they fell from the battlements or rolled down from the passage of the siege vehicle, and clusters of red blood stains continued to magnify on their bodies, and the Huaiyou sergeants who followed closely behind all gritted their teeth, raised their round shields, and continued to bow their waists.

And the more impatient officers, relying on their own martial arts standards, either jumped up, or rolled close to the ground, or flashed left and right, in order to avoid the ambush at the moment of landing in the city, or many people connected the city, combined contradictions, and quickly rushed forward in order to break through.

The generals watched nervously under the city walls, and once they found a breakthrough there, they would immediately order the follow-up forces to follow up immediately, and even take the lead in their own lives in order to expand the results and tear the gap.

The war has reached this point, it doesn't matter if it is lost, it has to fight, it has to die, even if it is a pile of people, it is difficult for yourself, and it is even more difficult for the other party.

Jiang Feng's eyes moved around the city wall, and he saw a soldier with a leather hat and helmet with a pair of obtuse horns appearing at the head of the city, and smiled slightly: "Wang Shouzhong is here." ”

Hong Kui, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe, nodded: "Jungong, I see, the horn-headed soldiers are here, about one of them, Wang Shouzhong, well, there are a few people with him, and one of them seems to be a magician." ”

"Oh, Wang Shouzhong still has a personal magician?" Jiang Feng was slightly surprised.

This is rare.

It stands to reason that a master like the Little Heaven no longer needs an ordinary magician to protect himself.

Of course, you said that it would be normal to carry one or two magic weapons just in case.

The mage's own protection is weak, and it takes time to activate the spell, which is easy to become a drag, unless someone else protects him and gives him time, but this is too much for the little heaven master.

"Jun Gong, the use of magic mages in this northern land is far less proficient than Jiangnan, they are more referring to their personal spell casting powers, and rarely consider their role in the production of magic instruments, spell combinations and spell weapons, so here, it is not uncommon for a single spell mage to be the lord's personal spell mage, Wang Shouzhong is still quite concerned about his own promotion and protection, if he is not mistaken, he is also followed by his third son Wang Guoxi, who is extremely talented in martial arts, and he is also a strong man who is close to the small heaven. ”

Qin Han knew the situation in Pinglu very well, he stayed in Pinglu for more than ten years, and only returned to Luzhou for two or three years, and even became more familiar with Pinglu than many people in the Pinglu army.

At the beginning, he was stuck in the deputy soldiers and horses of the Pinglu Left Army, which made it difficult to advance in this position, of course, for many reasons.

First, Wang Shouzhong did not trust non-Pinglu local officers.

The second is that Qin Han is also a little arrogant, he doesn't like to be inflammatory, and he does not belong to Wang Shouzhong's lineage, but has a good relationship with Wang Shouxin, which is even more of a taboo against Wang Shouzhong.

The third is that his identity and origin are indeed a little unclear, so he finally threw himself into idleness and prepared to let him serve as the deputy soldier and horse envoy of the Ziqing Left Army.

Although he had a good relationship with Liu Yansi, he was arranged from the deputy envoy of the Pinglu Left Army, who was second only to the Pinglu Ya Army, to the newly formed Ziqing Left Army as the deputy envoy of soldiers and horses, which was obviously a derogatory, so Qin Han simply resigned and returned to his hometown.

Although he resigned and returned to his hometown, after all, he still had a short time to return to his hometown, and he still knew a lot about the situation in Pinglu, and he still had a lot of contacts with some of the original old robes, so this time he also provided a lot of intelligence support for the Huaiyou Army's northern expedition to Pinglu.

He was also the biggest supporter of Jiang Feng's decision to go straight to Qingzhou.

Guy knew very well that Liu Yansi went south to Haizhou and Wang Shouxin sat in Mizhou, which actually made Qingzhou in the weakest state at present, once Wang Shouzhong reacted and shrank his forces back to Ziqing, then Huaiyou wanted to take Qingzhou and take Pinglu, I don't know how many times more the price would have to pay.

Huaiyou may even have lost the opportunity to capture Pinglu, especially if Jiang Feng asserted that the Khitans might move south within three to five years.