King Anqing instructed the guards beside him, "Send Wang Yin to come and let him go to Ximen to supervise the battle." ”

Wang Yin is an old minister of Longning Mansion.

It is also a role similar to that of the prime minister.

This time, it was Wang Yin who persuaded the officials to approve of his army.

Letting Wang Yin, an important minister, supervise the battle is the best way to stimulate morale.

Outside the West City Gate.

Guo Tianyi's army has arrived.

Of the 100,000 troops, Guo Tianyi sent 30,000 to guard the remaining three city gates.

Leaving 70,000 men and horses ready to storm the northern gate.

"Herald." Guo Tianyi, who was in the middle army, ordered, "Immediately send shield soldiers and engineering vehicles to fill the moat." ”

"No!"

The herald waved his flag, and three huge chariots wrapped in iron appeared in the rear of the army.

In order to attack the city, the moat must be filled.

Otherwise, the army would not be able to attack.

This engineering chariot existed long before Daebong, but it was not taken seriously.

I saw that the engineering chariot wrapped in iron sheet was like a large wooden box, and there was a derivative baffle at the rear, and the baffle was also wrapped with iron sheet, and many soldiers pushed the engineering vehicle forward under the rear baffle.

On both sides of the chariot, shield soldiers will follow, approaching the moat.

On the west city wall, Wang Yin had already arrived at the scene, and his eyes widened when he looked at the three huge wooden boxes below.

He didn't know what the other party was going to do.

But there was a faint feeling that something was wrong.

"Shoot the arrows."

"Hurry up and release the arrows!"

When Wang Yin saw the engineering truck on the edge of the moat, and someone carried bags of sand and gravel from inside the chariot and threw it into the moat, he immediately ordered.

Woo Woo Woo ~ Woo Woo Woo ~ The rain of arrows rained down, but did not cause the slightest damage to the shield soldiers and engineering vehicles.

Seeing this, Wang Yin was furious.

Watching the engineers constantly throw bags of sand and gravel into the moat.

After the first wave of sand and gravel was filled, the engineering truck turned around and went back.

Not for a while.

The second wave is coming.

The third wave...

The fourth wave...

"Your Highness, two more waves, and this moat will be filled?" Ning Yuanwu looked at the moat that was gradually being filled in and said excitedly.

Ning Yuanwu is also a veteran of the Shenwu Army.

Thanks to Guo Tianyi's fancy, he became the head of Guo Tianyi's personal guard regiment.

He had also participated in several battles, large and small, in the past.

But the clever use of engineering troops and engineering vehicles opened his eyes today.

The rest of the generals were also shocked.

For the first time, I felt that it was so easy to fight.

The clever use of the engineering troops has refreshed their cognition.

"Wusun Tuo."

"Shoot down the civil official on the city wall for this king!"

Guo Tianyi looked at the west city wall from afar, noticed Wang Yin, who was supervising the battle, and said loudly.

"No!"

After Wusun Tuo responded, he immediately took out his bow and arrows, and the bow pulled the full moon and aimed at the city wall.

Wusun Tuo is a native of Wu and is good at shooting.

He can hold a bow and arrows of three hundred pounds.

With a "boom", Wusun Tuo's first arrow shot out.

Wang Yin, who was standing on the west city wall to supervise the battle, only felt something flying overhead, and his official hat had been shot by an arrow and nailed straight to the bell tower behind him.

"Protect your lordship!!"

Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately surrounded and raised their shields to protect Wang Yin.

However, at the moment when the soldiers gathered around, Wusun Tuo's second arrow had already been fired.

"Damn..."

Wang Yin's pupils contracted suddenly, and he felt a chill in his neck, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to his scalp.

Out of instinctive reflex to danger, he jerked sideways.

An arrow pierced his shoulder blade.

If only it was slower.

This arrow will surely seal the throat with one arrow.

Wang Yin let out an "ah" and collapsed to the ground.

The sharp pain in his shoulder blades made his heart palpitate.

At such a distance, hundreds of paces, that an enemy archer could actually hit him?

Terrible.

It's horrible.

The entire western city wall was made a mess because of Wang Yin's arrow.

However, Wang Yin gritted his teeth and stood up, and said in a loud voice, "Don't panic, the enemy can't attack, the old man and you will live and die together!" ”

Even if he was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, Wang Yin did not retreat in the slightest.

This time he learned wisely, and stood behind the shield soldiers, not daring to show his head.

It was Wang Yin's fearless attitude that greatly increased the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

"It's a pity..."

"Your Highness, the last general missed."

After Wusun Tuo finished shooting the two arrows, he said apologetically when he saw that Wang Yin was not killed.

"Not bad."

"General Wusun deserves to be a marksman."

"Fan Xiong, Dong Zhiqiang, immediately organize an attack."

Guo Tianyi didn't care if he could kill the enemy's war officials with one arrow, if the arrows were so powerful, how could there be guns and hot weapons?

"The last general commands."

After Guo Tianyi's order was issued, tens of thousands of new troops immediately launched a siege battle.

It was their first time on the battlefield.

And it is the most tragic siege war, which is a process that every soldier must go through.

Go to the shield soldier to clear the way.

In the middle is the heavy infantry.

Mixed with light infantry carrying ladders, the army charged.

Facing a rain of enemy arrows, the army approached the city walls after paying minimal casualties.

As soon as the ladder was erected on the wall, the soldiers climbed the ladder and began to attack the city.

A shield in the left hand and a broadsword in the right hand.

There was also the sound of drums to cheer on, and the soldiers let out earth-shattering shouts to strengthen their courage.

The soldiers defending the city were not vegetarians either.

As Guo Tianyi's troops began to climb the ladder, they lowered boulders and hot oil from the city walls.

Then there was the torch attack.

A tragic scene occurred.

Under the impact of the boulders, soldiers were constantly smashed, and those who were lucky became disabled, and those who were unlucky died directly.

What's even more terrifying is the hot oil and fire attack.

The soldiers below were doused with hot oil and immediately lit by torches.

One by one, the burning people appeared, some rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire, and some were seriously burned alive.

A quarter of an hour later.

Guo Tianyi frowned and said, "It's okay, Mingjin withdraws his troops." ”

This stop is just for the recruits to experience life and death and temper their will.

If you continue to let them attack, the gains will outweigh the losses.

The tragic siege battle also made Guo Tianyi see a clear truth, the ancient cold weapon battlefield was completely a hard fight for human lives.

"Yes, Your Highness!"

"Mingjin retreats!"

Fan Xiong shouted at the heralds, and suddenly the sound of gold rang out.

When the besieging forces heard this, they immediately retreated like a tidal wave.

It's just a quarter of an hour.

Thousands of corpses were left behind.

It's not tragic.

In ancient siege warfare, the casualties of one to three were conservatively estimated.

Guo Tianyi knew that if he hadn't built a catapult in advance, he would never have been able to capture Longning Mansion with just 100,000 soldiers and horses.

But the fact is that Guo Tianyi didn't want the soldiers to attack the city with their lives at all.

This wave of offense is just a practice of hands.

Let the recruits go through a life and death experience, let them overcome the fear of death, and make them grow quickly.

Look at the other side.

Loud cheers erupted from the city walls.

Knowing that the first wave of attack was held, King Anqing also smiled from ear to ear, personally arrived at the west city wall, and asked the soldiers to shout in unison, "King Han'er, go back where you came from~"