Taosi Castle hurriedly arranged various fortifications to prevent invading enemies. Meng Biao even appeared on the heads of various cities, taking the spring silkworm, Dinka and Sha to arrange various traps as soon as possible.

Finally, all the fortifications were almost arranged before dusk, except for the spikes at the west gate.

Meng Biao guessed that Tang Hai should be about to arrive, so he asked three battalions of 1,200 archers to gather at the west city wall, 1,000 contradictory men were on standby at the west city wall, and the remaining 800 contradictory men were distributed among the remaining three city walls.

Get ready, just wait for Tang Hai to bring someone over.

When it was about to get dark, Tang Hai rushed to Taosi City with people, and Tang Hai glanced at the soldiers on the city wall, as well as the Haizi battle flag on the city wall.

There should be no problem, everything looks fine.

"Let's go, let's go into town."

Tang Hai gave an order, and all the soldiers lined up and prepared to enter the city.

The soldiers on the city wall looked at the soldiers under the city, said something back, and the gate slowly opened.

It doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary, it's the process every time you go into town.

Tang Hai followed the soldiers forward, looked up at the soldiers on the city wall, glanced around with unfamiliar faces, and even a soldier smiled at them.

Something is wrong, it stands to reason that the commander of the garrison should greet him on the city wall, but why is he missing at this time.

"Stop!"

Tang Hai stopped the advancing troops.

"What about your rulers? Let him come to the city! ”

"The Commander has gone to rest!"

It's not the right accent, it's more like the accent of the tribes from the South.

"Withdraw! Retreat! Evacuate to the forest! ”

Tang Hai realized that some places were not quite right, too quiet! He asked the soldiers to withdraw first, and when they were confirmed, they were ready to enter the city.

The soldiers under his command thought it was very strange, they had already arrived at the door of the house, why they suddenly had to retreat to the forest area, they could not understand, so the originally neat team instantly became chaotic.

Meng Biao saw that they had the intention of retreating, so he waved.

"Shoot the arrows!"

The archers who were hiding behind the city walls stood up and aimed at the archers under the city and began to shoot, and some of the archers also stood behind the city walls, and they aimed at the sky and threw them, and the soldiers outside the city were shot by the bows and arrows from the walls, and there were also bows and arrows that fell from the sky.

At one time, hundreds of dead and wounded were killed.

The already chaotic army was even more chaotic at this time, running towards the back, the archers on the city wall continued to aim and shoot, and the archers below the city wall constantly adjusted the angle and strength under the guidance of the soldiers on the city wall, and always rained arrows on the heads of the soldiers below.

This time the soldiers raised their shields, but they didn't do much damage. But as they ran backwards, many soldiers tripped and fell, and many wounded soldiers were trampled on the ground.

The soldiers on the city wall became more calm and began to practice archery, and those lying on the ground and dying were shot through the heads with an arrow.

Tang Hai himself was almost squeezed down by the retreating soldiers, but fortunately, the guards around him pulled him back, and the guards raised their shields to protect Tang Hai, even so, several guards around him died from the arrows.

Meng Biao killed many soldiers on the opposite side with a single look.

Tang Hai tried his best to collect the remnants of the soldiers in the forest, and the black light blinded the ground, and it took a long time to gather the soldiers.

After counting, in such a time, there are now less than 6,000 of the 8,000 soldiers brought by Tang Hai, more than 1,000 people killed and wounded by bows and arrows, and more than 1,000 people killed by trampling. Among them were more than 3,000 wounded.

But the wounded can also barely fight, after all, the seriously wounded have died, and only the lightly wounded can accompany the army.

Tang Hai was so angry that he pounded the ground, how could he do this, and the supplies he carried were almost lost in the retreat just now.

"I must capture this city, I don't know where this army came from, while I am not there to capture Taosi City, I must come out of this evil breath!"

Tang Hai asked people to use local materials, rushed to make ladders, and secretly picked up supplies abandoned on the retreat road.

Wang Ping had just led the Sanmiao battalion to the forest in the southwest corner of the Tao Temple, and witnessed the sight of several waves of bows and arrows shooting Tang Hai's soldiers back.

The soldiers of the Sanmiao battalion forcibly marched 70 kilometers, and there was not a drop of water along the way, and there were only more than 500 soldiers who could hold out to Taosi City, and the remaining 500 people were left behind, and they would follow the Sanzi battalion to the battlefield together.

But the soldiers who rushed to Taosi City were also exhausted, and their remaining physical strength could only charge one more wave.

Wang Ping did not expose them, but let these five hundred soldiers rest in place, waiting for the next time Tang Hai attacked the city, these five hundred people would become a sharp knife, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, and stabbing them fiercely.

At this time, the Sanzi Battalion was still twenty kilometers away from Taosi City, and they took the soldiers of the Sanmiao Battalion who had fallen behind along the way and hurried together.

Tang Hai tinkered for a long time, and finally gathered enough for a dozen ladders and a battering ram, but this was far from enough.

"Everyone go up, and the Arhats will also rush up the city wall for me."

Of the 6,000 soldiers who existed, more than 500 soldiers who were indeed too wounded to attack the city were left behind, and the remaining 5,500 soldiers were all on board.

"Prince, won't we besiege the city and attack it again?"

"We don't know how many of them there are, but they definitely have soldiers on all four walls, so we'll concentrate our forces and only attack the western wall!"

"It's a bit risky, and if you are defeated, there is no hope of winning."

"Needless to say, that's it, let's break through the western wall. Hurry up and assemble the soldiers. ”

The commander of his command had no choice but to do so.

The soldiers gathered in the forest and waited for the order to attack the second team.

Tang Hai summoned all the commanders and arranged the combat deployment.

"The ladder and the battering ram are followed by a hundred people, and they will climb up quickly when they get on the ladder."

"The two thousand five hundred lightly wounded are stacked below, and the remaining 1,000 or so soldiers who are in good condition will be sent to the city wall first, and then climb up from the ladder, or wait for the people who go up to open the gate before rushing in."

The commanders under his command received the orders one by one, some led the cloud echelon, some took the wounded to prepare to stack the arhats, and some led the rest to prepare to climb the city wall and open the city gate.

When everything was ready, taking advantage of the night, Tang Hai's army touched the black towards Taosi City.

Meng Biao did not dare to relax at all, he had already erected the spikes at the west gate and lit torches on the city wall, and the archers and contradictory soldiers were waiting behind the spikes on the city wall, and the focus of Meng Biao's defense was still the west gate.

Wang Ping also got the news that the army in the forest had been dispatched, but it was not known how many people were dispatched and how many siege equipment they carried.

After all, this soldier was just sent out to lie on the ground at night to check the enemy's movements, and it was normal to not see clearly.

"Brothers, cheer up, pick up weapons and equipment, and get ready for battle!"