About an hour later.

The Wuhuan army came to a halt twenty miles north of Wangping.

Qiu Liju ordered his soldiers to set up camp, and then sent his henchmen to Wangping City to persuade him to surrender.

Wu Li, the commander of Wuhuan, was ordered to beat his horse and came to the city of Wangping.

After Wu Li left, Qiu Liju led his army forward fifteen miles and stopped five miles away from Wangping City.

After a long time.

Wu Li looked up at the head of Wangping City, and found that the faces of the soldiers defending the city vaguely showed a look of panic that could not be concealed, and saw that there were only hundreds of defenders standing at the head of the city, and all of them looked untidy. ”

Although Wu Li showed a look of ambition to Wangping, he still did not forget the task given to him by Qiu Liju, if he could conquer Wangping without blood, then he would be the first to be promoted, and the promotion was just around the corner.

Wu Li has absolute confidence in his martial arts, and the performance of Wangping's defenders is too stretched, so Wu Li can't help but be proud and complacent, and he doesn't care about his safety and enters a place less than a stone's throw away from Wangping.

Looking at the smug Wu Li, Zhang Xun glanced sideways at Nan Jiyun beside him, and said, "The thief will be less than two hundred steps away from the city, can you be sure to shoot him?" ”

Nan Jiyun squinted his eyes slightly, silently calculated the distance between them, and then nodded slowly, and said, "If you can distract him a little, the success rate should be greater." ”

When Zhang Xun heard this, he nodded silently, and then paced forward, put his hand on the battlements, looked at Wu Li under the city, and said loudly: "I am Xuanwu Taishou Zhang Xun is also, who will come?" Can you use my name? ”

The Hu people have great respect for most of the Central Plains Plains scholars, and when they heard that Zhang Xun was in the position of Taishou, Wu Li immediately put on a smiling face, showed the appearance of a corporal of Lixian, and arched his hand to Zhang Xun, and said: "I am Wu Li, the commander of Wuhuan Wanfu, and now I am ordered by the king to come to recover the three counties of Liaodong, and I hope that Your Excellency can abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible, and do not make useless resistance." ”

As soon as Wu Li's words fell, he saw an arrow with a burst of wind-breaking sound, nailed into his head alive.

Wu Li suddenly felt a pain in his head, then snorted, reached out and touched the increasingly heavy head, and intentionally broke the arrow, but was surprised to find that the arrow had completely submerged into his head.

As time passed, Wu Li found that his body shook involuntarily, and after about a dozen breaths, he suddenly felt his head sink, and then his eyes went black, and he slowly fell under the horse.

Wu Li, an unlucky bastard, was tricked by Zhang Xun and Nan Jiyun without knowing it, and a seemingly inadvertent gesture of giving up his hands and saluting eventually became his talisman.

Seeing that Wu Li's arrow fell under the horse, Zhang Xun slapped the battlements heavily, and gave a thumbs up to Nan Jiyun, who hid half of his body behind a pillar, and said, "The general is good at archery." ”

"But the carving insect is a little skill, and the prince has won the award." Nan Jiyun smiled and said modestly.

Nan Jiyun said, glanced sideways at the city guard sergeant who was leaning over and squatting under the battlements, and saw that everyone was surprised, but no one dared to exclaim, this scene saw Nan Jiyun couldn't help but secretly speak, when he looked at Zhang Xun again, there was a faint look of fear in his eyes, and he said: "Who is this person sacred?" Can it make a group of rough men who look at death like a tiger? It's incredible. ”

Just when Nan Jiyun sighed at Zhang Xun's back.

Qiu Liju, who was far away in the Wuhuan array, also saw the scene that happened under Wangping City, and saw that his confidant was shot down by the other party's arrow under the horse, he was extremely shocked and at the same time, he also felt extremely humiliated.

At this time, the scout who followed Wu Li to Wangping City to call for battle happened to escape back in a hurry, and the scout rolled the saddle and dismounted at a distance of more than 20 steps from Qiu Liju, and immediately stepped forward to report, saying: "Lord Qiqi, there are sharpshooters in Wangping City, and the captain of Wanfu was unfortunately poisoned, please send troops quickly to avenge the captain." ”

Qiu Liju frowned, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said, "How many defenders are there in the city?" ”

"The garrison at the head of the city is less than fifteen hundred."

The scout deliberately played a trick on Qiu Liju, and said that the number of defenders at the head of the city was a little more, so that he could also leave some room for himself to turn around, in case there was fraud in the city and an ambush was laid, at that time, the number of defenders he lied about could save his life.

On the other hand, if there were really only a few hundred defenders at the head of the city, then Qiu Liju would not be overjoyed after conquering the city, and he would not bother with himself too much.

It's not uncommon for scouts to lie about the number of enemy troops, and it's an unwritten rule.

Qiu Liju nodded silently, and then turned his head sideways and glanced at the man beside him.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and then nodded slowly, and said, "You can first use catapults to carry out a tentative attack on the city." ”

When Qiu Liju heard this, he nodded thoughtfully, and said, "What you said is exactly what I want." ”

Qiu Liju said that, and immediately waved his hand to the catapult phalanx at the rear of the military formation.

After a long time.

A thousand Wuhuan soldiers pushed twenty catapults and slowly walked towards the head of Wangping City.

In fact, at present, the power of catapults is not very large, and the range is only about four or five hundred steps, and the lethality is extremely limited.

During the Battle of Guandu, Liu Ye made some improvements to the catapult, and the power of the catapult was greatly improved, and since then, the catapult has a new name, Thunderbolt.

About a stick of incense later.

A thousand Wuhuan soldiers pushed catapults to the range of Wangping City.

After some preparations, the people, under the command of a commander, launched a tentative round of stone-throwing attacks on Wangping Castle.

Huge boulders the size of millstones pierced the sky, and with a chilling sound of breaking wind, they fell around the city.

The catapults were limited in their accuracy, and only four or five boulders landed at the top of the city, and the rest either did not have enough range to fall outside the city, or flew over the city and landed in the middle of the city.

The boulder that only fell at the head of the city did not bring any substantial damage to the head of the city.

After the first round of tentative stone throwing, the Wuhuan people then carried out a second round of calibrated attacks on the head of Wangping City.

This time, the catapult's accuracy was significantly higher than before, and at least eight boulders fell on the city, causing a wave of casualties to the defenders at the head of the city, and at least sixteen defenders were unfortunately hit by the boulders, thus paying for their young lives.

The boulder with the size of the millstone falls from the sky, with huge inertia, and the flesh and blood of the human body is simply difficult to parry, once it is hit by the boulder, it is either dead or disabled.

In ancient times, disability is death, because the medical conditions in ancient times were very limited, especially in wartime, once something happened due to injury, it was equivalent to announcing the death date of the disabled soldier.

In fact, these sixteen soldiers could have avoided death, at least five of them could have avoided the oncoming boulders, but before the battle, Zhang Xun had issued a death order to the soldiers defending the city, and the soldiers who were hiding under the battlements could not get up without an order, and they would not make a sound, and those who violated it would be killed.

For the defenders, instead of dying under Zhang Xun's knife and dishonoring his family, it is better to die in the hands of the Wuhuan people, and at that time, it is better to earn a pension for his family than to be Zhang Xun's knife soul in an unknown way.

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