In the early morning of the next day, Li Mubai in Pingcheng sat on the main seat, and his nephew Li Xi sat in the first seat. A battle outside Pingcheng caused the uncle and nephew to have their own changes.

Li Mubai was born in a big family, although he has the habits of a noble child, proud and sluggish, and has a very high self-esteem, for so many years, he has indeed fought countless battles for the Ji country, and has won many victories and large territories.

It has been on the battlefield for decades, how could there have been such a fiasco, the Daijun cavalry is the strongest soldier in the world, but the performance of this battle is so humiliating, the main general died in a face, the deputy general was cowardly, and was killed when he escaped from the battle, and the successor general was on the verge of collapse when he rushed to the aid of the army array, but was broken up by his own rout, and was killed by his own people, not even a whole corpse.

Now that the morale of the Daijun cavalry is declining, Li Mubai looked at them who were depressed, and they were angry, and their arrogant and wanton nature was gradually revealed. He began to impose severe punishment among the cavalry of Daijun, and if the cavalry made a small mistake, he would be whipped, and the tortured cavalry was miserable.

Li Xi experienced a bloody battle, and he had no courage to go back to the battlefield at all, except for being dragged over by Li Mubai every day to hold a military discussion, he hid in his room and shivered, looking straight at the door with frightened eyes.

And with the passage of time, the Yongjun outside the city besieged the city for a long time, and after Li Mubai personally led the troops out of the city to attack and returned to the city after the failure, his temper became more and more moody, and his attitude towards the soldiers became worse and worse, often verbally abusive, punching and kicking, it seemed that everyone was a waste in his eyes, and what he did was not in his eyes.

Every time he inspected the city wall, Li Mubai looked at the tired and lazy Ji soldiers, and his heart was full of anger, and the waving of the horsewhip at the city guards often happened, making every Ji soldier look at him with a little strange look in his eyes, the kind that dared to be angry and dare not speak.

And Li Mubai had already sent a letter of help to the Lingshou Imperial Court, but five days had passed, and he couldn't wait for reinforcements.

At this time, Li Mubai, who was irritable in the house, suddenly heard a loud agitation outside the door, and at the same time, a large number of figures ran around, shouting noisily.

Li Mubai's already irritable mood directly turned into annoyance, he slammed his fist on the table, the water cup on the table was suddenly knocked over to the ground, "Bang Dang" shattered into several pieces, and the tea was sprinkled in the blink of an eye. And he himself didn't care, looked out the door, and shouted loudly: "Bastard thing! The sky fell? Or is the ground sinking? Why is it so noisy? ”

When Li Mubai's personal soldiers heard his words, they hurriedly broke in from outside the door in a panic, tripped over the threshold in a hurry, and fell into a dog eating, but he didn't care about the pain, and said with a frightened face: "General, it's not good!" ”

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of his personal guard, Li Mubai was even more angry, he looked at the personal soldiers on the ground, and said angrily: "Waste! As a soldier, you should be able to do the collapse of Mount Tai in front of you without changing your face, you look at yourself, how can you still look like a soldier?! Stand up for me and say! ”

The soldiers hurriedly nodded yes, and then got up with a panicked face, knelt on one knee, and said without daring to raise their heads: "General Qiyu, Yong... The Yongjun army has begun to attack the city! ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Mubai couldn't care about the appearance of a soldier, he quickly grabbed his spear and straight knife, hugged his armor and walked out of the door, and when he came to the threshold, he was tripped and almost.

Li Mubai's face was gloomy, and he put on his armor with the help of his own soldiers as he walked. At the same time, he sent someone to call his nephew out, the Yong army attacked the city, once the city was broken, what was the difference between Li Xi hiding in his small room and the lamb to be slaughtered, it was better to die in the city with dignity.

At this time, outside Pingcheng, the army was densely packed, and the flags were all over the sky, whirring in the cold wind, which made the defenders of Pingcheng feel cold.

Wang Rong, Li Sujie and Zhang Gengxiao rode on horses, perched high on the hillside, and watched the siege army below. After nearly a week of recruitment and replenishment, Wang's army was restored to a strength of 45,000 men. After discussing with Li Sujie and Zhang Gengxiao, Wang Rong decided that the first and second divisions would be the main troops besieging the city, and the third division, which had a large number of recruits, would train the recruits.

In order to be able to build the siege unbreakable, Wang Rong ordered the camp to be built into three ditches and three walls, with three dry moats with a width of one zhang and three walls as high as two zhang, to surround the Pingcheng. and patrolled day and night, gathering cavalry for mobile support.

Li Mubai and Li Xi, the uncle and nephew, tried to break the siege several times, but they all failed to break in front of Wang Rong, an almost scoundrel. It also lost a lot of people, and the morale of the defending army also reached the bottom.

In this siege, with Lao Wolf and Yin He as the command, the two attacked from the north and south of Pingcheng respectively, and An Hao took the third division to stand at the west gate of Pingcheng and put on a feint attack.

The old wolf and the old dog jumped in front of the formation, overlooking the head of Pingcheng City, and behind the two of them were a large number of soldiers and soldiers. Similarly, outside the South City Gate, Yin He and Liu Heze also jumped in front of the formation, and behind them were the infantry soldiers of the Bingzhou Army who gathered in formation.

Wang Rong nodded to Wang Hao, who understood, and waved his hand to the guards who held the order flag, and the guards drove their horses, flew out, ran to the army, and shouted angrily: "The general has an order!" Besiege! ”

"Boom!"

A series of ladder carts, battering rams and building carts were pushed out of the large array, quickly towards the Pingcheng city wall, each side of the wheel of 20 soldiers holding shield carts, ladder carts and building carts are hidden in many crossbow hands.

"One, two! Lapidation! ”

With an order, dozens of catapults in the large array threw the stones in the wooden spoon and smashed them into the head of Pingcheng City.

Immediately afterwards, the old wolf and Yin He invariably pointed the ring-headed knife in their hands forward, and the heralds came and went: "Foot pawn!" Advance! ”

Immediately after the siege equipment, a large group of foot soldiers lined up, with the front row of foot soldiers holding their shields aloft, and the foot soldiers behind them were armed with bows and crossbows, and the quivers hanging from their waists were full of arrows.

Unlike a few days ago, after the army reached the city wall of Pingcheng, not a single soldier landed in the city, and after entering the range of the bow and crossbow, they stopped advancing and established a defensive line on the spot.

There are two rows of crossbowmen behind each row of shield-holding foot soldiers, which are carefully selected by Wang Rong and trained to shoot arrows, two rows take turns to shoot arrows, and immediately hide under the shield after the arrow rain is shot.

Because the moat outside the city has been filled by the captives, so the siege equipment is easy all the way to the city wall, the arrow tower on the building car keeps shooting crossbow arrows, the arrow tower of the building car is one zhang higher than the city wall of Pingcheng, and the use of the condescending situation has caused great damage to the defenders on the city wall.

Catapults, carts and crossbowmen outside the city weave a large net of arrows and boulders, covering the city.

The defenders of the city were stunned by the sudden and intensive attack, and immediately fell into chaos, not to mention defense, and even the escape had to depend on God, so the defenders at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties.

Li Mubai and Li Xi, who already knew that the Bingzhou army was attacking the city, hurriedly climbed to the top of the city, and as soon as they appeared, a stray arrow flew in front of Li Xi's eyes, nailing one of Li Xi's guards to the wall, and the splash of blood splashed Li Xi's face, startling him into a cold sweat.

The soldiers behind him hurriedly surrounded him with shields and tightly protected the uncle and nephew.

Li Mubai looked at the chaotic city and shouted: "Fight back!" Don't mess around! All the shields are on the head of the city! Crossbowmen release arrows! ”

Compared with Li Xi, who was already urinating, Li Mubai was very calm, and he immediately began to command the battle.

The shadow of the person, the name of the tree, the guards of the city saw Li Mubai, immediately relieved themselves, and began to pour waves of arrows from the city, but unfortunately the ladders and the building cars were all covered with iron wooden boards, and the arrows could not shoot into it at all.

The crossbowmen of the Bingzhou army outside the city also had shields to cover, and even if the defenders of Pingcheng kept firing arrows, they could not bring them much damage.

Li Mubai looked at the Bingzhou army who did not go to the city by shooting arrows, and wondered in his heart: "Strange, why does this Yongjun army just release arrows and not attack the city?" Could it be that there is some aftermath? ”

With a gloomy face, he kept observing the movements of the Yongjun from the shield, and there must be a demon when something goes wrong, and he believes that the Yongjun must have a backhand.

This strange scene lasted until noon, and during this half day, the crossbowmen in Bingzhou changed several waves one after another, after all, the continuous release of arrows caused great loss to the arm muscles, and the strength of the arrow rain could only be guaranteed through rotation.

However, there was no one to replace the soldiers at the head of the city, and this continuous crossbow shooting caused them to be unable to raise their arms a little, and the rain of arrows out of the city became less and less.

Seeing that the rain of arrows above the city was getting smaller and smaller, a smile appeared on the corner of Wang Rong's mouth, the old wolf and Yin He attacked the city exactly according to his ideas, which was very good.

At this time, Yuan Tiangang was holding a long-handled hammer and standing in front of a group of strangely dressed soldiers.

I saw these 5,000 people, wearing only a single coat in the cold wind, with bare feet and hair tied up, and only a pair of black trousers on the lower half of their bodies. The soldier had a round bamboo shield tied to his left arm, and his right hand held a ring-headed knife, and everyone had a fierce look on their faces, and their muscles were bulging.

These 5,000 people were in stark contrast to the armored soldiers around them, and it was very strange.

These are the captives who have survived these days, all of them are Daijun soldiers, and the fact that they can survive from the landfill moat shows their ferocity, and they will be the first to climb the city.

Everyone knows that the besiegers suffered the most casualties, but they also knew that the steel swords of the Bingzhou army were behind them, and they chose to join the Bingzhou army, but this does not mean that they can be respected, do not fight tough battles, and the soldiers will always be inferior. And the battle of attacking Pingcheng is very important.