When he saw the Xianbei people appear in the field of vision like a swarm of ants on the distant horizon, the first thing Wu Anguo and the Qingxu Volunteer Army led by him showed was not nervousness, but inexplicable excitement.

As we have often said before, nervousness and excitement are two completely different concepts and levels, and when a lamb sees a pack of wolves, it is absolutely not excited. Wu Anguo and the Qingxu army were excited about the enemy, which can only show one problem, this army is not as weak as the lamb in the eyes of the leader.

Hu Dingfeng, as the elder of the Huangxuan clan and the person in charge when Hu Che'er was not in the clan, was specially arranged by Xu Huang to assist Wu Anguo in the defense of Guangmu City this time. Hu Dingfeng is familiar with the customs of various ethnic groups in the north, knows the languages of several ethnic groups, and has fought with other tribes before, so he is familiar with the routines of the Xianbei people, which can be used to deal with the kuitou.

Compared with other forms of warfare, the defense of the city has a clear goal and a single means. It is nothing more than the use of bows, catapults, bed crossbows, wooden rolling stones, etc. to attack the enemy, or to carry out hand-to-hand combat at the head of the city or even to counterattack out of the city, etc., to ensure that the city is not lost and it is difficult for the enemy to enter the city.

The nomadic cavalry, whose strength lies in their mobility, makes them suitable for hunting on the steppes like wolves, but when besieging a fortified city, it is somewhat incompetent. Just like the leader who is now leading 80,000 cavalry to attack Guangmu City, although he looks huge, the Han army who still takes the head of the city has no choice.

The Xianbei people are not good at making large equipment such as storming cars, well railings, and trebuchets for siege, and at most they are going to come out with some ladders. They were accustomed to riding around the walls and firing at the head of the city with a dense array of arrows. However, this method is based on the premise of being able to get close to the city, and it can only work if the defenders are weak in their protective gear. Nowadays, the Han soldiers are wearing armor made of stainless steel, and even they wear well-protected straw hat-like helmets on their heads.

Since Zhao Xing improved the range and power of bows and crossbows, the Han army's life-length longbow has greatly increased, as long as a group of archers are placed on top of the fortress at the head of the city, the enemy under the city will be shot head-on into a hedgehog before the enemy under the city can get close to the fortress and the city wall. Even if the besieging side rushed within range of the bows and arrows they carried, the thunder thrown from the city would make the Xianbei people suffer.

If you continue to get close to the walls, there are also crossbows with a shorter range and high-speed bursts waiting for the enemy. Even if the besieging side was brave and fearless, after paying huge casualties, they climbed to the top of the city with their climbing equipment, but the condescending Han army could still drive the enemy off the city as long as they fought to the death and did not retreat. What made the besieging side even more painful was that the heavy infantry used to block the battlements was simply invulnerable, and ordinary soldiers could not resist at all.

After almost ten years of exploration, the Zhenbei Army was able to give full play to the advantages of terrain, weapons and equipment, and the characteristics of the defenders, and if it wanted to capture a well-defended city, the besieging side needed to pay a price of 1 to 5, or even 1 to 10 casualties. A large part of the reason why Xian Yufu led a thousand county soldiers plus some ordinary people to block Zhang Yan's 50,000 Black Mountain Army was here.

The first ** city launched by the Xianbei people was ruthlessly counterattacked by the Han army in the city. In accordance with the habit of intensive training, the Qingxu soldiers shot arrows one after another to the city, and those Xianbei who carried ladders to try to get close to the city wall were directly greeted with bed crossbows and trebuchets. Occasionally, arrows flew from the city to the city, but their strength was also weak, and they were easily resisted by the steel armor worn by the Qing Xu army.

The Xianbei people are wearing protective gear made of leather, and the protective effect is not half a star compared with the standard steel armor from the Crouching Tiger City Steel Mill. The bows and arrows used by the Xianbei people for shooting are made by themselves, and they are difficult to unify in a variety of ways, and their power is difficult to compare with the standard bows used by the archers of the Zhenbei Army. In order to ensure the safety of the city, the Crouching Tiger Weapons Manufacturing Bureau produces and manufactures arrows throughout the year, and each city's weapons warehouse is filled with commonly used equipment, as well as gunpowder for self-destruction. The soldiers defending the city could not spare the consumption of arrows, and once the Xianbei people had finished shooting the arrows they carried in the quiver, there was nowhere to replenish them.

To sum up, in addition to the large number of people, in the case of not being superior in all aspects, the ending of the leader attacking Guangmu is destined to be tragic for him. As it turned out, it turned out to be exactly that.

The Xianbei people shouted under the city and wanted to fight with the Han people. Wu Anguo confidently wanted to go down to the city to compare with the Xianbei people, but was persuaded by Hu Dingfeng. Hu Dingfeng said that when the Han people were fighting, they kept their promises and asked the soldiers to stop the siege of the city, while the Xianbei people had no integrity at all, and they might rush to tear apart the Han people who went out of the city. Wu Anguo was sure that the other party might play group fighting, and immediately took back the head that poked out of the battlement. Playing group fights with the barbarians under the city, Wu Anguo has no interest in this.

Of course, the Xianbei people are not helpless to take the city. For example, when the Mongolian cavalry, the descendants of the Xianbei people, went on an expedition to the west, they could still use cavalry to attack the city, and the main method was to throw soil and bury the city. This method was to have each cavalry carry a bag of soil, throw it to the city, and then turn around to get the soil again, and so on and so forth, and then a slope as high as the city wall could be piled up, and the cavalry could ride their horses directly up to the city.

But there are also some conditions in this approach, one is that the number of people on the besieging side must be large, and the defending side has no long-range killing weapons, so it can only watch the besieging side pile up dirt. If Genghis Khan's cavalry wanted to use the method of piling up earth and fortifying cities to attack Guangmu, they would also return in vain. Because Zhao Xing has long taken this into account and has taken measures to deal with it.

The stone throwers and bed crossbows at the head of the city were prepared for the cavalry who dared to pile up earth, and the thunder could scare the horses into not daring to move forward, blowing the enemy apart. As for some other inhumane and ruthless methods, only the defender will know about them, and when it comes to a moment of crisis, they will naturally be used.

The Qingxu soldiers who defended the city saw that the Xianbei people under the city were constantly being shot by themselves, and the huge siege action had no effect, so they became more confident. Some of the soldiers began to bet on whose bed crossbow could shoot far and accurately; some soldiers competed to see who could shoot the most Xianbei people; and some soldiers shouted at the Xianbei people under the city, shouting Xianbei swear words they had just learned from Hu Dingfeng.

The Han soldiers, who were not lambs in the first place, immediately showed their well-trained qualities after Gao Shun's initial polishing and bloody tests on the battlefield, and everyone fought back against the besieging Xianbei people in an orderly manner according to the command of the generals defending the city. Once there are casualties, there are medical team members who immediately treat them, and everyone is busy like workers on an assembly line......