Fierce fighting on the Western Front. It began soon after Huangfu Song led the Imperial Forest Army and the Forbidden Army to cross the Yellow River. The two sides did not have too many verbal attacks, and went straight to the action. At this time, everyone knew that no amount of nonsense would be of any use.

The troops stationed in Lin County were the Xiongwu army trained by Guan Yu in the north that year, and the main defender of the city would be Li Jinwu, and the deputy generals would be Liu He and Li Feng. Because the original intention of training this army at that time was to defend against the nomads in the north, relying on the defense of the Chengchi Pass became the focus of the training of the Xiongwu Army, and this time it came in handy.

The besieging side is the descendant troops led by Huangfu Song, his uncle Huangfu Gui, the eldest son Huangfu Jianshou and the son Huangfu Li are all serving in the army, although several people are not famous, but they are all good hands with long-term military experience, and they are extraordinary people in commanding troops.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: ten are to surround it, and five are to attack it. Now Huangfu Song is leading 50,000 people to attack Lin County, which is only garrisoned by 10,000 people, and he is still very sure. While waiting for the eastward crossing of the Yellow River, Huangfu Song had already ordered his subordinates to make many siege equipment, such as ladders, rushing carts, catapults, crossbow machines, and so on. Huangfu Song believes that although the Zhao army defending the city is well-equipped, after all, the number is limited, and under the desperate attack of 50,000 people, Lin County can be broken sooner or later.

The troops of Cao Cao and Sun Jian, who crossed the river together, did not stop when they passed through Lin County, but went directly around the city and went straight to Gaowolf City, which was forty miles away from Lin County, where their main battlefield was. Similarly, Lu Zhi also led 70,000 northern troops, plus 20,000 troops under Pang De and Yan Yan, and went straight to the east, and the goal was also very clear, that is, Lishi City, where Xihe County was located.

In a small city like Lin County, even if hundreds of thousands of people are concentrated to besiege it, there are still only a limited number of soldiers who can be directly put into the city each time, so Lu Zhi simply came to divide his troops into three ways and attack them at the same time. The advantage of this is that it can save time, and as long as Lin Xian, Gaowolf and Lishi break through one city, the coalition army can firmly establish a foothold in Xihe.

A fierce offensive and defensive battle in Lin County has begun. The catapults under the city frantically threw boulders at the city, suppressing the soldiers in the city and not daring to show their heads. The boulders that flew over the city wall into the city from time to time smashed huge holes in the roofs of the houses of the people in the city, and even directly broke the beams of the houses, causing the roof to collapse.

Fortunately, these people had learned how to avoid the stray arrows and boulders, and when they heard the sound of war drums, they dragged their children and daughters into the cellars where the pickles were stored in the backyards of each house.

Li Jinwu used the cover of the female wall at the head of the city to observe the enemy situation from the battlement. He knew that this round of long-range projectiles was just a bluff demonstration before the coalition forces officially entered the city, and the real challenge and threat were still to come.

Seeing that a round of boulder projection was over, Huangfu Song immediately ordered the longbowmen to hide behind the big shield soldiers and began to approach the city of Lin County, as long as these longbowmen reached the firing position, the next step was the follow-up melee troops to charge forward with ladders, and the mission of the longbowmen was to suppress the fire of the Zhao army at the head of the city.

For the Han army's process-based siege routine, Li Jinwu began to learn how to crack it since he entered the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall, and now that he has seen the actual combat version, he will naturally know it at a glance. Without waiting for the longbowmen under the city to get closer, Li Tiezhu immediately issued an order to fight back: "Use the thunder to shoot at a fixed point, don't let these longbowmen get close to the city!" Then, on the city wall, which had been silent, many black iron balls with tail smoke flew out, heading straight for the longbowmen who were gradually approaching under the city.

In the next instant, an earth-shattering loud bang sounded everywhere under the city, and many large shield soldiers and longbowmen were blown to the ground by the air set off by the thunderstorm, but there were still many royal forest soldiers and forbidden soldiers who rushed through the blockade of the thunderstorm and continued to approach the city.

As soon as Huangfu Song saw that the soldiers defending the city came up, he used a big killing weapon to blast the sky and thunder, and quickly ordered the catapult and the bed crossbow to launch a second ** attack on the city.

Li Jinwu knew that the effect of the thunder was to deter, and if he wanted to completely block the attack of the soldiers in the city, he still needed to rely on the dense volley of longbowmen. So, when the catapults under the city attacked again, he immediately ordered the thunderbolt to stop the projectile and let the longbowmen start preparing.

The big shield soldiers under the city covered the longbowmen and continued to approach the city wall, and suddenly the arrows at the head of the city rained down, although there were big shield soldiers as cover, but after all, a shield could not completely cover the bodies of two people, so many people who were approaching the city wall were immediately hit by arrows and fell to the ground.

Because they had to shoot under the pressure of the stone-throwing trucks under the city, the defenders of the city began to suffer casualties. Li Jinwu then ordered Liu He and Li Feng to command large bed crossbows arranged in the city to attack the catapults in the distance below the city.

These large bed crossbows have a slower rate of fire and require ten men to wield them, and are intended to be used as strategic weapons, not to be used lightly in an emergency. Now the stone thrower under the city is too strong to suppress the city, so Li Jinwu wants to use the bed crossbow to carry out a targeted elimination of Huangfu Song's trebuchet.

The longbowmen under the city had already reached a position where they could shoot under the cover of the big shield soldiers, and Huangfu Song immediately ordered the foot soldiers who were responsible for the attack to carry the ladder to the city, and at the same time commanded the chariot to move slowly under the city gate. At this moment, a sharp sound of breaking the sky sounded from the top of the city, and a terrifying spear flew down from the city, and swooped down on the stone-throwing machine that continued to shoot the boulder, hitting dozens of stone-throwing trucks at that time. Seeing this scene, Huangfu Song hurriedly ordered the stone thrower to retreat backwards.

The attacking infantry, who had already put the ladder diagonally on the city wall, with axes or knives tied to their waists, climbed towards the head of Lin County. Li Jinwu was not afraid of danger, and commanded the crossbowmen to attack the soldiers on the ladder, and for a time many soldiers who climbed the city were hit by crossbow arrows and fell off the ladder one after another.

In the chaos, there are naturally soldiers who risk death to climb the head of the city. So the battlefield between the two sides rose further from the bottom of the city to the head of the city. Li Jinwu personally led the heavy armored infantry to defend the head of the city, and gave a ruthless counterattack to the enemy who had already reached the head of the city.

The Imperial Forest Sergeants, who had approached the city gate cave with a rushing cart, were surprised to find that they could not blast open the city gate cave in Lin County, because the city gate was blocked with stones from the inside. It can also be seen from this that the Xiongwu army that held on to Lin County was holding the heart of death that the city was in the people and the city was ruined, and held the bridgehead on the east bank of the Yellow River.

Gradually, the first group of siege soldiers did not move, and the attacking troops that rushed to the head of the city had all been thrown down, and there were some large shield soldiers and archers under the city who fired cold arrows at the battlements of the city head from time to time, but it was difficult to reverse the overall situation of the first siege of the Imperial Forest Army.

It was only the first battle after the meeting, and Huangfu Song invested 10,000 troops. The Xiongwu army defending the city suffered more than 3,000 casualties, while the 10,000 Imperial Forest Army successfully withdrew to their own camp of less than 4,000. If Huangfu Song attacked a few more times like this, Li Jinwu would only have one way to go.

ps: It's been the fifth day in a row, and I've been busy with work for the past two days, and Nandao has been completely overdrawn......

Tomorrow will begin to return to normal, if it is not particularly busy, guarantee three shifts a day, occasionally may have two shifts, I hope you understand!