There is also good news for Guo Tai and others, that is, the third and last group of people who set off from Xiangfen are finally about to arrive in Anyi smoothly, although they were also attacked by the cavalry sent by Wei Xuan at night, because of the experience and education of the previous night, more than 7,000 people were concentrated together to act, and when they set up camp at night, they also deliberately put grain, grass and baggage in the center of the camp, and sent scouts to patrol outside the camp. In the end, more than 100 people were killed to drive the officers and soldiers away.

Compared with the loss of five or six thousand people the previous night, the second time only lost more than 100 people, which is simply a sound of heaven for Mrs. Guo and others.

The siege proceeded as scheduled, and although the moat was filled in less than a hundred paces, the siege ladders were quite a bit overpowered.

It was the siege that began at noon, and Mrs. Guo divided the siege team into four teams, each with 2,000 men. It seems that the banner is clear, a few people also wear armor, and many more people have leather armor, and it is clear that these are the elite selected by the thieves.

When the four phalanxes were set up outside the city of Anyi, Wei Xuan, like all the county soldiers, regained his solemnity again, although Wei Xuan did not take the guests to kill people, and the bandits in Huoshan were all means, but now the defense of the city is completely different, in the field, it can not be artillery, once the thieves enter the city, the people of the whole city will suffer, and Wei Xuan has sent the cavalry team carrying the hope of the Wei family, and he has no way to retreat.

Taishou Yinde finally reluctantly climbed the city tower again and again under the urging of Wei Xuan, when he saw that there were seven or eight thousand more thieves outside the city, his legs did not stop trembling, Yang Feng swept Xiangfen, Xiangling The news he also knew, seeing him like this, Wei Xuan could only let people move to the Taishi chair and let him find a position where many county soldiers could see and sit down, and then came to the city wall to command the county soldiers to prepare for the enemy's attack.

There were originally 3,000 soldiers in Hedong, Huoshan lost dozens of people to suppress bandits, and more than 100 cavalry were transferred, plus the original vacancy, only more than 2,400 people really reported for duty, Wei Xuan selected many of them gray-haired old men, and did not dare to fire them directly at this time, but let them stay in the city to be responsible for food and carry materials with the people.

There are only 2,000 people who can really be used, plus 300 soldiers and servants of Anyi County, who were arranged by Wei Xuan to guard the city gate at the other three gates. Dongmen sent a hundred county soldiers, leaving more than 1,900 people, plus the strong men sent by the major families in the city barely scraped together 3,000 people, Wei Xuan divided them into three teams, each team of 800 people took turns to guard the city wall, and the remaining 600 people as a reserve.

The first phalanx of thieves quickly assembled outside the moat, and then carried the ladder to the city wall, Wei Xuan looked coldly outside the city, turned his head and said to the herald beside him: "All archers are ready, listen to orders, and are not allowed to advance the room!" ”

Wei Xuan seemed to be very calm on the surface, but in fact he was more nervous than most of the county soldiers, who only needed to follow orders, but he needed to issue orders accurately and in a timely manner, and make changes according to the situation of both the enemy and us inside and outside the city. Fortunately, the thieves who are now besieging the city are also novices.

First of all, dozens of armored infantry rushed forward carrying ladders, Wei Xuan let them go, staring at the large army behind, and soon several hundred people rushed across the moat.

Right now, Wei Xuan pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

The two hundred archers in the team unleashed their bows and arrows in unison, and due to the close distance and the dense number of thieves, they didn't need to aim at all, and Wei Xuan looked out of the city wall, and at least fifty or sixty people were shot over.

At the same time, several of the thieves' ladders have been successfully erected on the city wall.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Scratcher ready!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

"The archer steps back, the pole flexor steps forward, prepare, push!"

Due to the limited distance of the moat being filled, the thieves attacked the city relatively concentrated, Wei Xuan could still observe the overall situation for the time being, and saw that some people on the ladder had begun to climb, so they changed to the scratching pole team, these people in a group of five or six people, holding the fork of the fork, after Wei Xuan gave the order, the fork was forked almost at the same time, and then worked together, the first ladder was successfully forked and fell backwards, and the thieves on the ladder also fell from mid-air, life and death are unknown.

Then several ladders were overturned, and the first wave of thieves' attacks was disintegrated.

"Archers come forward, ready, put!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

"The archer stands back, the pole bender steps forward!"

The second round of thieves seemed to have learned a lot smarter, the ladder changed from six to twelve shelves on the city wall at the same time, and several thieves wearing armor below desperately pressed the ladder, and the sturdy thief soldier held the ring head knife in his mouth, and climbed quickly with his body with both hands.

Seeing this, Wei Xuan couldn't help but applaud, but thinking of his responsibility, he still ordered the pole scratchers to go out when most of the thieves on the ladder were halfway up.

This time, only four of the twelve ladders were overturned the first time, and three were overturned the second time, and the thieves on the ladders were almost climbing to the city wall, screaming and falling down and dying on the spot. But there are still five ladders that have failed to overturn the pole several times in a row, Wei Xuan really wants to go up and pick up those wastes a few feet, but no one has yet to go up to the wall, what are you condescending to panic on it.

"The pole scratcher stepped back, the spearman stepped forward! Archers ready! ”

Five ladders finally had thieves climb the city wall smoothly, but the first outcropping thief was unlucky, because at least four spears stabbed him in the upper body at the same time, he dodged three of them, but was hit in the waist by a rod, and fell down from the ladder, but the ladder did not fall, the second thief quickly climbed up, and jumped on the city wall while the pikemen took advantage of the time when the pikemen retracted their spears, but only one person was quickly stabbed on the city wall by the county soldiers who reacted.

However, this was not bad news for the thieves, as they began to climb the walls so quickly, and the thieves behind them began to chant, and the thieves under the walls continued to lift the ladders and erect them on the walls.

Wei Xuan shouted with a black face: "Each tun is assembled as a unit and attacks freely!" Each tun chief is responsible for the division number. ”

Once the enemy breaks through a little, he will not be able to command collectively, so he can only rely on the commanders to fight separately.

Several tun commanders were still lamenting that Wei Xuan was so young and so skilled in commanding and defending the city, but it was a pity that his subordinates were not useful, and they easily let the cloud ladder be erected, and easily let the thieves climb up, which was a blow to their morale, and the originally nervous ones would be even more nervous.

Wei Xuan glanced at Du Peng and more than twenty other light men who were surrounding him, this was the person Xu Huang left behind to protect Wei Xuan's safety.

"Du Peng, you disperse, a group of four to help guard the ladder, and leave a group of people by my side."

Du Peng shook his head, the Wei family didn't know how many people had told him, even Taishou and Juncheng had personally asked him to protect Wei Xuan.

Not to mention Wei Xuan and the Wei family's kindness to him, just for the defense of Anyi City, he also needs to attach great importance to Wei Xuan's safety.

Wei Xuan said with a dark face: "Now there are no thieves on the city wall, I have armor on my body, and the random arrows of the thieves under the city can't hurt me at all." If you don't hold the ladder, more and more thieves will climb the wall, and when the time comes, we will be inferior in numbers and will soon occupy the wall. ”

Although Du Peng had never led troops to defend the city, he also knew that if the thieves wanted to gain a foothold on the city wall, they needed to gather at least dozens of people in a small area, and looking at the combat effectiveness of the previous thieves, the two thousand people in the first phalanx would not be able to do it.

Of course, Wei Xuan also estimated the combat effectiveness of the thief soldiers, but he didn't want to see the thieves succeed in landing the city continuously, which would be a heavy blow to his side. Du Peng and these people are brave, and the small-scale fight is very advantageous, as long as a few of them take the lead to defend the middle section of the city wall, even if there are omissions in other places, the thieves will not be able to gather in a short time.

Master and servant, you look at me, I look at you, no one refuses to retreat, at this time a voice came from behind him: "Yun Jiao, do it according to my brother's order first, I will stay here, I really want the thieves to come up and you will retreat." ”

The two looked back and saw that it was Zhao Yun! Wei Xuan smiled, this guy had a sword hanging from his waist and a bright silver spear in his hand, Wei Xuan glanced at Du Peng again: "Now you can rest assured." ”

Du Peng didn't say much, and quickly divided his subordinates into five groups, but he only sent four groups and they were around the city wall near Wei Xuan, and his own group of four people still insisted on being in front of Wei Xuan, and Wei Xuan no longer insisted.

The first wave of thieves and 50 archers attacked the city, and although the shooting from the bottom of the city was not very lethal, it quickly caused casualties to the defenders on the city walls.

After Wei Xuan ordered each tun to fight separately, each tun archers were only about thirty, so it would not be able to suppress the archers outside the city for a while.

The battle entered a stalemate, and the attackers desperately sent troops to the city wall, but because Wei Xuan's four groups of light heroes stubbornly held the city wall about thirty steps long, the thieves could not meet each other end to end, resulting in many thieves finally climbing the city wall and being cut down, and occasionally gathering three or four people were eventually stabbed by the pikemen.

At a price of nearly two hundred people, the thieves withdrew their troops, and the first phalanx pushed down like a tide. The second phalanx immediately began to assemble, and Wei Xuan did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered that the second team go to the wall and the first team go down to rest.

The first phalanx of thieves attacked for only half an hour, and the defenders on the city wall also paid more than 30 casualties, several of whom fell off the city wall with too much force. A few others were hacked to death and wounded by the thieves who jumped onto the walls, and most were wounded by archers.

Absorbing the previous education, Wei Xuan gathered the second team of more than 100 archers in front of him to command the unified command to suppress the thief archers under the city, and the other sections of the city wall were directly handed over to the commanders of each tun.