Zhang Zheng frowned and said, "This time it's a little tricky." ”

"Ready for battle." The prince shouted loudly, the flag commander waved the flag, and the war machine of Xizhou City began to operate in an orderly manner.

The war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty looked at the approaching enemy army, and there was no superfluous expression on their faces.

Even if they knew very well, they would probably die here.

"Try to see how powerful the cannon is." The enemy was already within range of the artillery, and three guns were assembled on the city walls.

"Yes." The soldiers who had learned how to control the artillery with Zhang Zheng consciously began to load ammunition.

"Boom..."Three loud noises echoed, and in Zhang Zheng's clairvoyant mirror, there were three blanks in the neat team of Gaochang heavy horses.

Sure enough, no matter how thick the armor is, it can't stop the artillery bombardment. It is a pity that there were only three pieces of artillery.

And every time you use it, you need to cool it down at long intervals. The three shells caused some panic in the heavy cavalry formation of the Gao Chang soldiers.

After all, this is still far away from Xizhou City, what new weapons did the Tang Army dispatch?

Fortunately, there was a long time gap, and the second blow of the Tang Army was not ushered in.

"Sigh Rhythm~" The distance is gradually getting closer, and the war horse under Gao Changshi's crotch begins to gradually speed up. But the speed has always been able to keep up with the footmen behind him.

After all, this is a siege war, not a field battle, and the cavalry can play a small role in it. And the commander of the coalition army used the Gaochang heavy cavalry as a meat shield to meet the bombing of the Tang army, which was a big deal and a helpless move.

The result of three days of deliberation was to fill it with human lives and pile it up. When the enemy army was about three hundred steps away from the outside of the city, the Tang army on the city wall was also ready.

"Catapult ready."

"Archers prepare." One order after another was conveyed by the heralds to any corner of the Xizhou city wall.

After the Gaochang heavy cavalry entered the firing range, the flag bearer of the Tang Army waved the flag in his hand and shouted: "Catapult, release!" "Countless small clay pots emitting smoke were thrown out by the catapults in the city.

The enemy's catapult also smashed a boulder weighing hundreds of pounds into the Xizhou city wall. In the midst of the splashing of rocks, outside Xizhou City, which had been calm for three days, once again remembered the earth-shaking sound.

"Boom..."

"Ah~"

"Kill!" I couldn't tell whether it was an explosion, a wail, or a hiss, and the enemy army was pouring towards Xizhou City like a tidal wave.

It seems that the monstrous waves set off made everyone on the city wall, including Zhang Zheng, feel hammered in their hearts.

"Meet the enemy."

"The enemy is a hundred paces, eighty paces away, the archers are ready, put." There was a hissing and lung-splitting shout, and the hum of a bowstring trembling.

Enemy arrows flew up the walls, inadvertently taking some lives. The rain of arrows in the sky could not be avoided even by the soldiers hiding behind the battlements.

Looking at the much more orderly offensives than the previous two ones, Chen Yu pulled Zhang Zheng, who was fighting on the city tower, and squatted down.

Then he held the wooden shield like a pot lid above his head.

"Knock knock...", almost in the blink of an eye, the shield was filled with arrows. Chen Yu's face was a little ugly, and Zhang Zheng was too conspicuous standing on the city wall.

Almost all enemy archers were aiming in this direction.

"Uncle!" shouted anxiously, Zhang Zheng sighed, and knew that now was not the time to be reckless, so he slowly retreated back under Chen Yu's escort.

The two of them had just left with their front feet, and the next moment, there was an extra hundred-pound boulder on the position where the two of them were located.

"Damn, do you want to shoot so accurately?" Zhang Zheng was afraid for a while, if he hadn't retreated quickly, he was afraid that he would have become a meatloaf now.

"What about the artillery, don't stop, bomb his grandmother." After retreating to a bunker, Zhang Zheng's face was full of anger.

The non-commissioned officer who was in control of the cannon understood, reversed the direction of the muzzle, and aimed at the enemy's catapult.

"Bang~" The rumbling sound shook Zhang Zheng's scalp, and he instantly felt a landslide and crack. Three rounds of artillery shells were fired, successfully destroying one of the enemy's catapults.

The other two shells were crooked, killing several people. However, the gunner and the cooperating non-commissioned officers quickly cleared the chamber, cooled down, and then reloaded the ammunition.

"Aim for the catapult and hit it hard!"

"Boom... Bang... Boom..."There were several loud bangs, and the enemy sergeants who were controlling the catapult were in a rage, and hurriedly raised their shields to resist.

However, it was artillery, how could flesh and blood block iron shells. In the next second, several soldiers were torn to pieces.

"The archers withdrew, the shieldmen stepped forward, and the grenadiers prepared. Eight Bull Crossbow Ready! "On the city walls, one order after another was issued in an orderly manner.

The enemy army was about to attack the city, and the archers of the Tang army fired another round of arrows and then turned around and retreated.

The shield men, who had long been ready, quickly took their place. Then came a group of strange soldiers with their weapons unloaded, a basket hanging in front of them, and a fire source in their hands, hiding behind the shield soldiers.

He kept taking out grenades from the basket in front of him, lit them, and threw them out of the city. A sea of explosions rang out, mixed with countless screams.

Before the Gaochang heavy cavalry came to the bottom of the Xizhou city wall, they had already suffered heavy losses. But Gao Chang had no other way but to accept his fate.

Because, Xizhou is the city of Gaochang. Among the allied armies, other soldiers can fish in troubled waters, but they can't.

Xizhou City is as important to Gaochang at a strategic level as it is to Datang. Zhang Huan, who had already been promoted to the general of Changzuo, stood at the back on his horse, and the long knife in his hand pointed directly in the direction of Xizhou City.

shouted loudly: "Sons, the Tang Dynasty is unkind, forcibly occupy my Xizhou City, pick up your weapons, kill all the Tang people, recover our Xizhou, kill!" ”

"Kill!" The Gaochang Heavy Cavalry filled the trenches outside the city of Xizhou at the cost of almost all dead and wounded. Countless Gaochang soldiers hid behind their shields and rushed towards the city in front of them without fear of death.

War leaves no room for chance. After all, the disadvantage of the Tang army in Xizhou City was there, and it was tantamount to a fool's dream to completely stop all the enemy troops like ant colonies outside the city.

Gradually, a siege ladder was erected on top of the city wall. Sweat was already oozing from Sayaku's forehead, and he hurriedly shouted: "Roll wood and stone preparation, gold juice, pour!" ”

"Grenadier, blow up their ladder!" The reserve Tang soldiers also began to get busy, and most of the rolling logs and stones that had been prepared long ago came from the demolition of buildings in the city.

And the foul-smelling golden juice has long been boiled over the fire. On the ladder that the grenade could not completely destroy, Gao Chang bit the back of the knife with his teeth, and his hands continued to climb upwards like nimble apes.

But as soon as he stepped on the ladder, he was crushed to death by the rolling wood and stones thrown by the Tang army, or rolled to the ground by the golden juice soup.