The first batch of scouts came back breathless and reported: "Regiment commander, the enemy has indeed set up 80,000 soldiers between the front pass and the middle pass, the pennant is fluttering, and the arrangement of troops is very set, the soldiers of the front pass may be difficult to break through, and if you force the attack, at least two-thirds of the casualties will be killed."

"What" Ling Xiaotian was startled, and said in his heart that the enemy wanted to completely block the connection between the front pass and the middle pass, so that the end could not be connected, and if the middle pass was broken, the front pass would lose its effect, it seemed that they wanted to attack the city desperately, but they only had 120,000 people in their hands, and the middle pass could be supplemented by about 30,000 men and horses from the back pass at any time, and the two sides were evenly matched, what did they take to break the pass?

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"Report, regimental commander" The scout said breathlessly: "The enemy has 320,000 soldiers in our Zhongguan, the colors of the flags are different, and the other 200,000 people have come from Xiguan, and we have found horseshoe prints."

"What, the march of 200,000 people, we don't even know at all" Ling Xiaotian said angrily: "If they want to join forces, they must pass through the northwest defense area of Qianguan, why didn't the Lord General notice it, this matter is very strange."

Liu Tiancheng asked, "Boss, what should we do?"

Ling Xiaotian smiled bitterly and said: "What can we do, there are only a few dozen of us, even if it is a patrol against the master's family, it is not an opponent to honestly find a safe place to stay first, see how the situation develops, and then act with the camera."

"I really didn't expect it" Liu Tiancheng said very helplessly: "I came to join the army just to experience the feeling of the battlefield, it was not easy to come to a big war that has not been encountered in more than ten years, the lack has nothing to do with us, people eat meat, we don't even have soup"

Ling Xiaotian patted Liu Tiancheng and Jiang Yicheng on the shoulders, and said with a smile: "When you are fighting, wait."

……

After settling everyone, Ling Xiaotian flew into the air, he wanted to go and see it in person, he didn't believe in the information sent by the scouts, because these people didn't dare to get too close when they went to investigate the information, just took a look from afar, what he needed was 100% accurate information.

The enemy battalion below is very set up, although Ling Xiaotian has never done anything about arranging troops, but he can also see that the enemy army is incredible, and it is not something that ordinary people can do to be able to discharge such a neat and orderly camp.

"Boy, there are indeed 80,000 people below" The old immortal said: "The formation they formed is called the Iron Camp Formation, which is very effective in defense, and it is a joke to attack the same 80,000 Iron Camp Formation with 80,000 people."

"Then I don't understand" Ling Xiaotian said: "Do they really want to encircle the point and send reinforcements, although this is a decent tactic, but I always feel that the other party's commander should not use such a stupid method, let's go, let's go and see the enemy camp in Zhongguan"

……

Commander Kino's face was heavy, he stood at the head of the city, looking at the enemy's huge siege equipment and hundreds of thousands of enemies, and his heart was worried. He couldn't understand why hundreds of thousands of troops had gone here, and there was no news coming, so were the Scouts of the Empire so useless?

"Commander, I have already informed the guards of Houguan that as long as we have a crisis here, they will come to the aid immediately," the adjutant came up and said.

"Okay, that's good" Keno nodded: "I hope they don't need to come to support, if it really comes to that point, it is estimated that they will notify all the soldiers in vain when they come, and they will all look at the enemy below with wide eyes, and they must not be allowed into the city"

"Yes," shouted a group of officers.

……

"Thirty-two hundred thousand enemies, one is not less" Ling Xiaotian circled in the sky, and the old immortal said that the enemy army below was indeed 320,000.

plus the previous 80,000, a total of 400,000, the sum of the two group armies of the Western Han Empire, and their most elite troops, whether it is from the siege equipment or the armor and weapons worn by the soldiers, it is much better than the ** team of the Southern Lu Emperor on the defending side.

"Old immortal, if they attack the city with all their might, how long do you think we can defend it?" Ling Xiaotian asked.

The old immortal replied: "Ten days and half a month should be no problem, although the enemy has 320,000 people, but when attacking the city, it cannot be fully launched at one time, at most one or two legions will charge, for them, this is a refueling tactic, so the personnel consumption will be relatively large According to the ratio of three to one, the two sides are evenly matched, and when the enemy's 320,000 people are consumed about the same, it is estimated that there is not much left here, and the longer the time, the smaller this ratio will be, and the more beneficial it is to the enemy's side."

"And they still have 80,000 tiger and wolf divisions waiting, they can come over and join the battlefield at any time," Ling Xiaotian added.

"That's right," said the old immortal, "when they join the battlefield, the former guard will definitely not pursue them immediately, because he will worry about whether this is a trick to lure the enemy, and if this delay, the war here is likely to be over."

"But I always feel that this matter is not so simple" Ling Xiaotian touched his chin and said: "Fight to lose both, just get a pass, it seems to take advantage, but in fact, it is a loss-making deal, after entering the pass, every city must continue to carry out siege warfare, is it possible that the Western Han Empire is just to get a 'ticket' to enter the Southern Lu Empire?"

……

The attack finally began, and the soldiers pushed their heavy and huge siege weapons towards the walls, and the stone throwers on the walls creaked, and the burning jars of fire oil flew out with a roar and smashed into the enemies below

The main purpose of the oil jar was not to kill or injure the enemy, but to their siege weapons, and Commander Keno did not know that the enemy's siege weapons had been covered with a thick layer of steel, and the fire had no effect on them.

"Boom, boom, boom......" Some unlucky soldiers were splashed with fire oil, they didn't care at all, and their fighting spirit suddenly went out, sending the flames and fire oil out together.

"Isn't it" Kino rushed over, and said incredibly: "The people who are responsible for the charge are all fighters above the thirty-first level, and the flames do not pose any threat to them, so many people, it seems that the Western Han Empire has made a lot of money."

Ling Xiaotian in the sky also knew this, and he said it from the old immortal.

With no less than 20,000 enemies on charge, they were the bravest soldiers of the two groups, many of whom were officers, who gave their command to their subordinates and joined the death squads.

"In this way, Zhongguan is dangerous" Ling Xiaotian said: "The lethality of flames and stones to the death squad is almost zero, only after reaching the distance of the bow and arrow attack, it can play a certain suppressive role, but the other party has 20,000 people, their siege equipment can be easily pushed under the city, and the enemy can swarm to the city, once the melee begins, it is obvious that it is our side that suffers."

"Yes, the Western Han Empire has made a lot of money," said the old immortal.

……

Commander Keno immediately ordered, put the bravest teams in the front, hoping that they could withstand it, as long as they withstood the first wave of the enemy's impact and fundamentally weakened the number of their intermediate fighters, they could hold it here, and get the time for reinforcements to arrive, the reinforcements here are not the defenders of Houguan, but the army transferred from the imperial capital, at the moment of the attack, Kino sent a herald for help, and galloped away from the imperial capital.

"Release the arrows" was ordered, and ten thousand arrows were fired on the city wall.

"Defense" This was the enemy's order, and the infantry immediately raised their shields, and the men who pushed the cart pulled up the shield and buckled it up, and also hid themselves in it, and did not affect the continuation of the cart.

In a rain of arrows, only a small number of unlucky ghosts were killed, and most of them were fine.

"The stone thrower, the biggest kind of pot, the biggest one," Keno roared, he originally thought that a round of arrow rain would harvest at least a thousand lives of the enemy, but he didn't expect that it was not even a tenth, you must know that it was tens of thousands of feathered arrows.

The jar of oil burst through the crowd, forcing the enemy soldiers to react to extinguish the flames, and the archers on the walls saw an opportunity to take aim at the enemy and release their bowstrings

The second round of arrow rain was much stronger than the first round, Keno's frown stretched slightly, but he suddenly found that the enemy's advance speed was very fast, and now it was less than a hundred meters away from the city wall, and according to their current advance speed, they could reach the city in less than a minute.

In the enemy's siege equipment, there is no such primitive thing as a ladder, the most unfortunate is the cloud tower that is higher than the city wall, the cloud tower is divided into three layers, the upper and middle layers are hidden in the archers, once the cloud tower climbs the city wall, the steel baffle in front of the archers will be released, and the archers on the city wall will shoot condescendingly; The third level was a passageway, with steps that reached to the ground, through which soldiers could jump up the walls and fight the defenders.

With a total of eight medium-sized cloud towers and four large surname cloud towers, plus the crashes that specialize in dealing with the city gates, these steel behemoths seem to have opened their mouths, waiting to devour the lives on the city walls.

Keno's expression became heavier and heavier, and he knew very well that once these cloud towers were built on the city wall, the time to break through the level would not be far away.

"Go and let the soldiers of Houguan come to support Zhongguan immediately" Keno gave the order without hesitation.