On the west city wall, more than 200 forbidden troops in armor stood in a row against the female wall, six or seven feet apart from each other, so it seemed very sparse.

The sergeants were guarding their positions, looking at the city with nervous expressions, the knuckles of the weapons had begun to turn white, and their foreheads were covered with cold sweat, but they did not dare to wipe them motionlessly.

Nearly 1,000 people who had been mobilized carried arrows, rolling wood, stone bullets, poisonous smoke balls, iron water chestnuts and other military materials to the city under the command and order of Lu Shangming and other gentry children, and also set up more than a dozen large iron pots to start boiling oil and boiling gold juice.

On the four enemy platforms, Ban Zhi, who was in better condition, was instructing Minzhuang to place bed crossbows and trebuchets, while others were treating their wounds and seizing time to recover their strength.

In the battle just now, Ban Zhi was outnumbered, even if he had armor and body protection, he still killed three people, seriously injured seven or eight, and the others were also injured a little, mainly because the physical consumption was too great, and he needed to breathe a sigh before he could fight again, and now he can only serve as a temporary instructor.

Zhao Mengqi stood at a battlement, expressionlessly observing the water kou who was arrayed sixty zhang away.

I don't know if it was to declare strength or other reasons, a large number of torches were raised in the Shui Kou array, which reflected the sky red, revealing a huge lineup, which really caused a great sense of oppression to the city.

It took a lot of time for dozens of armor soldiers to disperse among the water bandits, running around, constantly calling out and giving orders, and it took a lot of time to command about 2,000 people, and to discharge a somewhat crooked horizontal formation.

The front row of the water robbers should be five hundred, all of them holding various shields, and the three rows behind them are archers.

Not far behind this horizontal formation, there were twenty small formations of about 100 people, carrying many bamboo ladders and bamboo poles, and most of them were hand-to-hand weapons such as knives and axes.

After looking carefully for a while, Zhao Mengqi, who had experience in recruit training, had roughly seen the reality of this Shui Kou army, and his demeanor became relaxed.

"What do you think?"

Chang Geng looked disdainful, "The local chicken and tile dog, it's worse than the previous guy, give me three hundred armor soldiers, and you can defeat it with one blow."

Xiahou Ji even said, "The last general will only need two hundred, and it will take half an hour at most!"

"Xiahou! Hugh said wildly." Chen Xiaokun hurriedly scolded and glared at Xiahou Ji fiercely, people say three hundred, you say two hundred, isn't this not giving others face?

Chang Geng wanted to fight for a few words, but Zhao Mengqi didn't give him a chance, and said, "What does Marquis Chen Duyu think of the enemy army?"

Chen Xiaokun pondered for a moment and replied, "In the opinion of the last general, although the enemy is outnumbered, there are not even decent siege equipment, and we have already prepared, they will definitely not be able to attack, if the other party's command is really Xuanhe, then he must know it himself." Fun Cabinet

"Then why didn't they attack in one go, but now they're dragging their feet?" Qian Xiaopang was a little puzzled.

"It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't." Zhao Mengqi smiled, "Night fighting, it is estimated that many forbidden troops may not be able to play it, not to mention these rabble, they can take advantage of an unexpected advantage, and if we carry it, they will have no chance."

"So they're scaring us by taking a siege stance now?" Qian Xiaopang was still puzzled.

Zhao Mengqi shook his head, "I guess the real siege troops should be coming, so they will definitely attack first, the purpose is to consume and hold us back."

Chang Geng said, "Yes, after all, we have few people and can't take care of the four city walls, if Liu Xiuli sends people to attack from other directions, we can only take care of one and lose the other."

Qian Xiaopang asked rhetorically, "Then if you say that, why don't they divide their forces to attack the other city walls now?"

"Because they don't have that organizational ability, you see they are even reluctant to divide the whole team, if they dare to divide the troops, then they will let the sheep go."

As he spoke, Zhao Mengqi raised his eyebrows, "Now that we know their tactics, we can't be passive, otherwise when Liu Xiuli arrives, this city will really not be able to hold it."

After some arrangement, everyone was amazed by Zhao Mengqi's boldness, but they also felt that it was very feasible, and they went separately to prepare.

In the Shuikou array, Xuanhe had a gloomy face, looked at the brightly lit city, and saw it

The figure shook very frequently, and you knew that the city was ready to deal with it.

Fortunately, he didn't expect to be able to capture the city with these thousands of shrimp soldiers and crabs, so he was no longer in a hurry now.

When it was determined that the sneak attack at the South Gate had failed, Xuan Hyuk immediately began to carry out the second plan developed by Liu Xiuli, which was responsible for attracting the attention of the defenders and launching a feint at the right time to deplete the defenders.

It's just that he has some wonder in his heart why the city has not taken the initiative to attack.

It stands to reason that the strong crossbows of the defenders at the head of the city can reach a range of more than 300 paces, and they also have trebuchets and bed crossbows with a longer range, and the position where he has the water bandits lined up is completely within the range of the attack.

At a distance of sixty zhang, the shield has a certain resistance to arrows, and is completely ineffective against the other two.

The reason why Xuan He chose this distance array is that the quality of Shui Kou is here, so he is helpless, and the other is that he doesn't care about Shui Kou's life at all.

After waiting patiently for nearly a quarter of an hour, he still did not see any movement of the defenders, and seeing that the formation of the Shui Kou could barely meet the requirements, he issued the order to attack.

"Everyone obey the order, take thirty steps forward!"

At the shouting of the armor soldiers, the Shui Kou army began to slowly move towards the city wall, this speed is like a turtle.

And the first row of water cobs also tightly clung to the "turtle shell", carefully moving their steps.

The archers in the back row also bowed their bodies and shrunk their necks, trying to keep themselves in the shade of their shields and bodies in the front row.

These water cowards knew in their hearts that the bows and crossbows of the official army were stronger than their own side, and they also had a high advantage, so every step forward was one step closer to death.

One step is five feet, and thirty steps can reach a distance of forty-five zhang from the city, and at this time the archers of the water kou can begin to throw at the head of the city.

After walking ten steps, there was no response from the city, twenty steps, still no movement, twenty-five steps, still silent.

It wasn't until they were about to reach the thirtieth step that there was a banging sound at the head of the city, and hundreds of black dots shot out of the light curtain, flew into the night sky, and disappeared.

The water cowards in the horizontal formation were all frightened, and some even squatted directly on the ground, but they heard the whistling sound of arrows flying overhead, and they did not fall.

Just as they were glad they were still alive, there were constant screams behind them.

It turned out that the target of this wave of crossbow arrows was not these archers, but the climbing troops following behind them.

Xuan He, who was walking at the back, swung his knife and slapped down a stray arrow, his brows furrowed tightly.

Shouldn't the defenders prioritize attacking the archers who threaten them!?

At this moment, he heard a tooth-aching creak from the top of the city, and in an instant, four stone bullets smashed into the shield array, and at the same time, eight short spear-like crossbow arrows also pierced the shield array.

The shields in the hands of the water gangsters were not only unprotective, but instead fell into the splinter and became accomplices in the killing of the wood.

For a while, dozens of people were killed and wounded, and screams came and went, and the water gangsters began to become chaotic.

"Running and dying! Stabilization! Stabilization! …… Stay where the fuck is, or you won't be killed! ……」

Nearly 100 armor soldiers shouted frantically and shouted orders, and the long knives in their hands cut down the violators mercilessly.

Afraid of the *** and harsh law enforcement of the armor soldiers, most of the water cowards did not dare to run around anymore, and the lineup was barely maintained.

But at this moment, the sound of bangzi sounded again, and more than 100 water couges were killed and wounded, followed by a giant crossbow, and the trebuchet threw into a fireball of thick smoke.

The casualties of the two rounds of attacks were actually less than one-tenth of the total, and it was said that there were probably one or two hundred people killed by the armor soldiers.

This was within Xuanhe's expectations, so there were not many waves in his heart, and he ordered with a cold face, letting the guards around him blow the horn.

"Stand shield, stand shield! Hurry up and set up your shield!"

"The archers fight back! Shoot an arrow at the head of the city!"

"Rush, carry a ladder for me!"

"If you don't want to die, run forward! If you dare to retreat, you will die, and if you do not cower, you will die!"

"Phew, spray Lao Tzu's face with dog blood...... I've fucking said it hundreds of times, and I dare to run!"

"Forward! Rush to the base of the wall and you will be alive!"

The armor soldiers shouted hoarsely, but the water was not a regular army after all, and it became even more chaotic.

The shields were mostly standing, but they were uneven, and there were many gaps.

Some of the archers crouched on the ground and did not move, while others simply fired an arrow in the direction of the wall.

Many of the climbing troops behind them ran blindly with their eyes closed, only some of them still remembered to run through the passage reserved by the horizontal formation, and many others collided with the archers in the horizontal formation.

During this period, the crossbow arrows at the head of the city kept stopping, and more and more poisonous smoke balls fell, so that many water cowards fell into the poisonous smoke, choked and dizzy and coughed, basically lost their mobility, and their bodies became weaker and weaker.

Xuan He stopped in the darkness of fifty zhang, looking at all this with cold eyes, the only thing he wanted to do now was to let these water cowards hold out in front of this city wall for a longer time.

Fang Tang beside him couldn't stand it anymore, "Commander Xuan, you are sending my people to death!"

Xuan Hyuk didn't even look at him, and said coldly, "Either they die, or, you and your family die!"

Fang Tang was blocked by this and became speechless.

Xuan He said coldly, "Don't worry, there are more than 200 people in the city at most, even if there are 4,000 pigs for them to kill, it will take half a day to kill."

At this time, there are really a lot of water robbers who have reached the root of the city wall, and even some people have put bamboo ladders on the city wall, and a small number of fierce people are about to climb up the ladder.

As a result, a large pot of boiling oil and gold juice was poured over his head, and in an instant, a terrible scream sounded, and at the same time, a strange smell of meat and stench mixed together.

Whether it is scalded by boiling oil or watered with gold juice, even if you survive the battlefield, you are basically hopeless, and you will only die more miserably after a long period of pain.

Subsequently, more than a dozen rolling logs fell from the city, and everywhere they went, countless pieces of minced flesh were crushed, setting off layers of blood waves.

This is not only that, and then countless bricks and stones were thrown down, causing a large number of casualties, just half a pillar of incense, at least three to five hundred people died in Huangquan, and the injured were even doubled.

A hard-fought siege battle is a giant meat grinder, which can devour countless lives in a moment!