The tug-of-war of filling the moat lasted for a whole morning, and the continuous waves of attacks were launched towards the four gates.

But soon the Pinglu army could find that the offensive of the Huai Right Army on the West Gate was obviously a feint, just constantly shouting, but except for the first and second rounds of shield carts to attract a blow, the follow-up offensive was much slower.

The offensive at the south and north gates, especially the east gate, was in full swing, and even at noon, the shield carts advanced to follow the stuffing of the people without delay.

The moat of Qingzhou City is obviously not enough in the face of this kind of stuffing offensive, especially the protection of the shield car greatly boosts the morale of the people, after all, in the past, the people are often quite simple leather shields and leather tents to cover the stuffing, like today's high-intensity blows, it is impossible to fill a gate like the east gate without leaving seven or eight hundred corpses.

But today, the shield car of the Huaiyou Army reversed the situation, and there were no more than 100 casualties in the entire filling process, a considerable part of which were still wounded, most of whom were rescued by their partners at the first time, and some people were estimated to survive.

Yu Mingzhen's eyes were a little more satisfied, and he had to admit that the Huaiyou Army was indeed very different from other armies, at least in the preparation stage for this war, the Huaiyou Army had fully demonstrated their extraordinary side.

The powerful shield chariot and equipment troops are still a bit new to Yu Mingzhen, although he has long known that the county prince is quite willing to invest in the Daozang Material Official, but judging from the performance of this morning, it is definitely worth it.

This kind of intuitive feeling on the battlefield is far stronger than the usual inspection demonstration, whether it is good or not, effective and ineffective, and can only be felt in the duel of real swords and guns on the battlefield.

This new type of shield car alone is enough to make people stunned, the good anti-strike ability, and the fire prevention effect are far beyond any kind of protective shield car that Yu Mingzhen has seen before.

The north gate is in charge of the Wuning Right Army led by Yu Mingzhen, but Yu Mingzhen knows very well that the task he is undertaking is debatable, that is to say, the offensive on his side is between a feint and a breakthrough, and the balance between this needs to be mastered by himself.

Before, Yu Mingzhen also made up his mind to make a sufficient posture as much as possible to attract the Pinglu army to the greatest extent and reduce the attack pressure at the east gate and south gate, but after seeing the power of the new shield car, and seeing a large number of catapults and heavy crossbows, Yu Mingzhen's mind became a little lively again.

He overturned his previous thoughts, he felt that the Wuning Right Army led by him should not only be a secondary participant, but could completely become the protagonist, and even have an advantage over the Huaiyou Left Army and the Wuning Left Army to some extent.

It's very simple, when everyone, well, including the Pinglu Army, thinks that the North Gate is more of a secondary role in attracting troops, and the Wuning Right Army suddenly implements a breakthrough successfully, then I am afraid that the Pinglu Army will not have any preparations and countermeasures, at least it can catch the Pinglu Army by surprise.

Especially after in-depth exchanges with the operators of heavy vehicle crossbows and catapults, Yu Mingzhen's thoughts became more eager and confident.

"My lord, I thought we could turn into a surprise. Lang Kun's eagle-like gaze has been patrolling the city wall, "Wang Shouzhong, they are still quite accurate in judging the situation, and they have already observed that our north gate is probably a feint, or a secondary face, and they are consciously reducing the defensive forces." ”

"Oh, so fast?" Yu Mingzhen took the clairvoyant mirror handed over by his subordinates, and said in surprise: "This Pinglu army still has such a keen insight?"

"My lord, don't underestimate this Pinglu army, although Wang Shouzhong said that he was not brave enough, but he also spent a lot of thought on training the troops, don't you hear that all the money and silver in the Pinglu states are basically used to raise soldiers, because of this, it has also attracted a lot of attacks from the officials of the states, thinking that it costs too much to raise the army, but it can not open up the territory and expand the territory, and it costs money and silver, so Wang Shouzhong will break into Haizhou when Huaiyou marches into Xuzhou. ”

Lang Kun and Yu Mingzhen have some in-law relationship, which was also questioned when the Wuning Right Army was formed at that time, but considering the need to form the Wuning Right Army as soon as possible and form combat effectiveness, plus Lang Kun and Yu Mingzhen are only in-laws, so Jiang Feng still asked the two to form the Wuning Right Army.

It is precisely because of this in-law relationship that although one of the two belonged to the probation army and the other belonged to the Taining army, Lang Kun, as the deputy soldier and horse envoy, was very harmonious with Yu Ming's truth, and Lang Kun could also talk to Yu Ming Zhenyi openly.

"Well, Wang Shouzhong is not a reckless person, but this time he made a mistake, Haizhou is the lifeblood of Xuzhou, and if he takes Haizhou, won't he want to cut off our livelihood in Xuzhou? Yu Mingzhen smiled slightly: "He also overestimated the strength of the Pinglu army, thinking that waiting for work and fighting a protracted battle based on the city can make us lose our strength and retreat, he was too naïve." ”

"It can't be completely said that Wang Shouzhong is stupid, before I saw these equipment made by the Dao Tibetan Officials, I was still a little apprehensive in my heart, thinking about such an attack, I am afraid that if we defeat Qingzhou, we will also suffer huge losses, and may even be taken advantage of by other enemies, but after seeing these big guys, I understand that the county prince is confident. ”

Lang Kun smiled happily, "The observation of the Pinglu Army is good, but if they really think that our North Gate offensive will be a show, then we might as well have a fake show, we also have the strength to do a fake show, what do you think?"

Yu Mingzhen was also quite moved.

When the siege was first discussed, there were disagreements and controversies about the location of the attack on the north gate, and most people still preferred the north gate as the direction of the feint, and at the same time used two of the six armies of the Wuning Right Army as the general reserve.

However, at this point, Jiang Feng still left a hole for Wuning's right army, saying that although it was a feint attack on the North Gate offensive, it was also necessary to play a real fight, forcing the Pinglu Army to not easily transfer its troops to the East Gate and the South Gate, so it was up to Yu Mingzhen to control the proportions.

Now the Pinglu army has sensed that the offensive at the north gate may be a feint, so it has been adjusted, after all, it can be seen from the number of catapults and heavy ballistas, which is obviously less than the south gate, which is similar to the north gate, and the troop deployment is also significantly less than the south gate, which cannot be concealed from these battlefield generals.

"But the general reserve is ......," Yu Mingzhen hesitated slightly.

"My lord, don't worry, we might as well show weakness, the attack points should not be too many, hit one place, maintain the strength, but not all our strength, and wait until the battle between the east gate and the south gate is fierce and then try again. Lang Kun is also quite an experienced general, "Of course, we also have to play a little more in the early offensive, to give the Pinglu army a we have done our best, but the strength is limited, we just want to make the shelf enough, in order to better help the east gate and the south gate to attract troops, as long as we can make the Pinglu army have such an impression, we have half of the success." ”

Of course, Yu Mingzhen understood what Lang Kun meant, to preserve his strength, but to maintain the strength of the offensive, this also means that the losses of the troops in the early feint attack will definitely be very large, and the retained new force will be used to break through at the last time.

"Well, so be it. Yu Mingzhen pondered for a while, "Take a look and be fully prepared, the Wuning Right Army can't be a bystander, and must always do something." ”

Wang Shouzhong's face was gloomy, his hands were on the battlements of the city wall, staring at the shield cart that was slowly retreating.

It only took half a day for the Huaiyou army to completely fill in the moats of the three gates, which greatly surprised Wang Shouzhong's expectations.

In his opinion, the Huaiyou army may not be able to fill the moat even for a day regardless of the life or death of the master, after all, the catapults and ballistas erected on the city wall are not vegetarian, and the defense system of Qingzhou City is perfect enough to deal with any attack.

But I didn't expect to beat him up on the first day.

The impact of the enemy's new shield carts made the Pinglu army completely unprepared, and it was difficult for the conventional strikes to be effective, even if some catapults and ballistas were urgently pushed up later to increase the intensity of the attack, but the effect was still not good.

Wang Shouzhong also saw with his own eyes that the three shield carts were damaged and dragged back to the rear, it is estimated that there should be quite a lot of craftsmen in the Huaiyou Army in full swing to repair, maybe it will not be long before these shield carts will go to the battlefield again, and the next time they will cover the master is no longer the master, but the siege soldiers.

There have been many damages on the city wall, and a pheasant moat next to Wang Shouzhong was hit by a catapult's boulder, knocking off half of the corner, and the edge of the sharp stone was irregular and hideous, and if you were not careful, you would cut people's hands.

A soldier's corpse was being lifted down by the master, but the slumped body had no head, and it was estimated that it should have been hit in the head by a stone bullet.

A crossbow bolt was pierced on the pillar of the city gatehouse, and a soldier tried to pull it out, but he couldn't take it off after shaking it a few times, which shows the strength of this crossbow arrow.

In November, Qingzhou was already cold, and even the noon sun could not bring a little warmth to the city, and the soldiers were busy arranging their defenses, and a team of strong crossbowmen began to form a team at the horse face.

The other two magicians were also quietly hiding at the small gate of the city gate tower, and their bags were bulging, which should be some kind of magic weapons.

Wang Shouzhong was in a very bad mood, and the enemy showed his great strength, far beyond his previous expectations, not only shield carts, but also catapults and ballistas.

Originally, these Pinglu troops also had them, but compared with the two, Wang Shouzhong found a huge gap between the two sides in this regard, and this gap cannot be made up in a short time, which may be a lifetime without a chance to make up for it.