"Haha, General Deng, the thief is in a hurry!" Yang Zhilin, who was following behind Deng Pinghe, rode his horse and walked two steps forward, standing only half a horse away from Deng Pinghe, and said with a smile: "It's better for your subordinates to lead the army to attack, and the general will wait for my good news." ”

Deng Pinghe raised a hand, put it in his ear, and stopped Yang Zhilin. He turned his head to look at Yang Zhilin and said: "I asked you to come this time to ask you to give me a strategy, our siege is not only to break the city, but also to ensure that the casualties are minimized, you and lead two hundred people to the left to detour, to attract the attention of the thieves on the city, I don't give orders, you don't attack, understand?" ”

"Order!" Yang Zhilin clenched his fists in response, and ordered two hundred soldiers and horses to take the order and detour towards the left side of Hanshan Pass.

Sure enough, the attention of the defenders at the head of the city was attracted by Yang Zhilin's two hundred people, and many crossbow arrows flew towards the two hundred men and horses who were detouring to the left, but the distance was not too far, and the crossbow arrows could not penetrate our thick shield at all, and did not cause any damage to the personnel.

After Yang Zhilin led the army to leave, Deng Pinghe waved his hand at the flag waver, and the flag waver, Pan Wenyuan in the back immediately shouted to the two thousand archers behind him: "Prepare for the shield array!" Archers follow! ”

Pan Wenyuan gave an order, and more than 2,000 archers with big shields crossed the formation, holding their shields high and rushed towards Hanshan Pass.

The defenders on the city saw that the main formation of our army's flank suddenly rushed out of two or three thousand people, and immediately understood that Yang Zhilin and the two hundred people who detoured to the left were just a bait, and the real siege would still be launched from the right flank, so they hurriedly turned the direction of the crossbow and shot crossbow arrows at the shield array that was charging towards the city wall.

Due to the proximity of the distance, this time the crossbow arrows caused a lot of trouble for my shield array, and many crossbow arrows drilled through the gaps between the shields, shooting the archers hiding behind the shields, and many archers fell to the ground.

The archers who fell to the ground and did not die lost the protection of their shields, and suddenly became the target of the crossbow arrows of the thief army, and one by one they were shot like hedgehogs by the crossbow arrows that rained down from the sky.

When Pan Wenyuan rushed within range of his bow and arrows with less than 1,500 men, the shields formed a solid shield wall, and the archers of the army hid behind the shield wall and launched a confrontation with the thieves in the city.

Due to the protection of the defenders of the city with battlements, it was difficult for our bows and arrows to be effective, and most of the arrows bounced off the battlements and fell to the ground, and a pile of arrows quickly piled up at the foot of the city wall.

I watched the arrows of the two armies shoot at each other, and knew that although there was a shield array to protect it, after a long time, our army that launched an attack from the bottom up would still suffer a big loss, so I hurriedly raised my hand again.

Deng Pinghe saw Pan Wenyuan raise his hand, asked the ready archers to prepare the ladder, and shouted: "Siege ladder siege!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers rushed towards the city walls with shields in one hand and long ladders in the other.

The ladders were very long, and there were twenty or thirty soldiers on the left and right sides of each ladder, and one ladder would have to be carried by fifty men.

Hundreds of soldiers were only carrying more than a dozen siege ladders, these soldiers quickly rushed towards the city wall, and the defenders at the head of the city saw our men rushing towards them with siege ladders, the target shifted again, and the crossbow arrows suddenly flew towards the soldiers carrying the ladders. The rebels who carried the ladder raised their shields high above their heads, blocking the crossbow arrows flying from the city, and rushed to the city walls with no regard for their lives.

During the charge, many of the soldiers carrying the ladder were shot by crossbow arrows and fell to the ground, while the remaining soldiers continued to carry the long ladder and rushed forward.

The soldiers and archers who had been hiding behind the shield under the city stepped up their efforts to fire arrows at the city, and although our archers rarely hit the soldiers of the imperial army in the city, they played a somewhat suppressive role in the thief army.

Yang Zhilin, who had already rounded back to the left, saw that Pan Wenyuan had already launched an attack on the right side, and couldn't help but be a little anxious, and frequently looked in the direction of the flag waver.

Soon after the rebels who carried the ladder and rushed to the city wall rushed out, Yang Zhilin finally waited for Deng Pinghe to let the flag waver give him a signal, and a large flag shook back and forth in the flag waver's hand, which was the signal ordering him to lead the army to attack.

After receiving the order, Yang Zhilin was overjoyed and shouted to more than 200 people behind him: "Siege the city!" ”

Yang Zhilin's camp walked out of three ladders, when the ladder walked out, Yang Zhilin turned over and dismounted, snatched the shield from a soldier's hand, rushed to the side of a ladder, and rushed towards the city wall with the ladder first.

The defenders on the city wall originally thought that Yang Zhilin's 200 men were just luring the enemy, but they didn't expect that they would really attack them.

The defender hurriedly ordered to send more men to defend the eastern wall, and a group of defenders rushed to the east with crossbow arrows, and the defenders on the front of the defense were suddenly weaker.

Deng Pinghe, who was attacking head-on, finally rushed down at the foot of the city wall, and they put the ladder on the city wall, and as soon as the ladder was erected, they swarmed and climbed towards the city.

Deng Pinghe saw that the ladder was set up, the corners of his mouth pulled slightly, and the horse rushed towards the city wall.

The defenders on the city wall saw Deng Pinghe rushing towards the city wall, and hurriedly sent him a dense crossbow arrow.

The crossbow arrow roared and flew towards Deng Pinghe, Deng Pinghe saw the crossbow arrow flying towards him, he shouted, and the halberd in his hand spun rapidly, as if adding a strong shield in front of him. The crossbow arrows shot at Deng Pinghe were thrown to the ground by the halberd in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed down at the foot of the city wall.

At the foot of the city wall, Deng Pinghe turned over and dismounted, chose a nearby ladder, and climbed up.

Seeing that Deng Pinghe was the first soldier, the morale of our army was greatly boosted, and they all howled and rushed towards the city wall, and even the shield wall that had been formed before was scattered in an instant, and everyone was crowded at the foot of the city wall.

The defenders of the city kept pushing the ladders on the city walls, and many soldiers who were climbing towards the city fell to the ground along with the fallen ladders, and their brains burst and they died.

The death of these soldiers did not frighten the soldiers behind them, and the soldiers who were still alive removed the ladder from the corpses of their companions, lifted the ladder again and erected it on the wall, and rushed towards the head of the city.

Several defenders supported the ladder climbed by Deng Pinghe desperately retreated, the ladder shook, Deng Pinghe roared, and the hand holding the ladder pressed down violently, and the ladder that had been pushed away from the city wall fell back to the city wall again.

After the ladder fell back, Deng Pinghe sped up the speed of climbing, and when the defenders at the head of the city tried to push the ladder away again, the halberd in his hand stabbed upwards and pierced into the throat of a defender who poked his head out, and the defender didn't even have time to snort before he fell to the ground and became a corpse.