At noon, Wang Rong rode out of the south gate of Yanmen Pass alone.

Li Sujie, Zhang Gengxiao, and the generals of the First Division all looked down at the head of the city, and unconsciously, their hearts were raised to their throats, because Wang Rong had no other weapons except for the "ten thousand enemies" on his waist, and he didn't even bring spears and shields.

Li Mubai was waiting outside the city early, and when he saw Wang Rong alone, he was quite surprised in his heart, and sighed secretly: Good man!

Li Mubai waved his hand to his guards, asked them all to retreat, waved his horsewhip, and drove the war horse under the seat to slowly move towards Wang Rong.

The warm winter sun brought a touch of warmth to the earth, the cloudless sky was a refreshing blue, the two gradually approached, and the whole battlefield seemed extraordinarily quiet, only the main generals of both sides looked at each other and were silent.

Li Mubai first broke the silence: "Your master is Wang Hanzhi?" ”

Wang Rong replied very calmly: "As the general of the Ji Kingdom, I have been defeated once in my hands, you should already know my details, unless you Ji State spies are all eating dry rice, or you knowingly ask." ”

Li Mubai smiled and said: "Our spy sacrificed his life in exchange for your information, I didn't expect that the apprentice of a pawn back then actually made me embarrassed and defeated, this time, I came to take your life, to be ashamed!" ”

Wang Rong looked at Li Mubai, with a slight mockery in his eyes, he had no waves in his heart about Li Mubai's words, and as soon as he spoke, Li Mubai's face became gloomy.

"Since you've worked so hard to come, don't go back!"

Li Mubai's face turned purple and turned his horse back, Wang Rong's eyes stared at his back for a while, and with a flick of the reins, Chiyun turned his head knowingly, raised the bowl-sized horse's hooves and ran towards the south gate of Yanmen Pass.

The offensive and defensive battle of Yanmen Pass has officially begun!

When Wang Rong entered the south gate of Yanmen Pass, a low and long horn sound came from outside Yanmen Pass, and then Li Mubai's army rushed towards the south gate of Yanmen Pass, because the battlefield was narrow, and the Ji army could only put a phalanx in the front.

The Ji army took 1,000 soldiers as a phalanx, and the front row was carried forward by the elite soldiers wearing armor with shields, opening the way for the soldiers behind them, and dozens of people following behind pushed the ladders. Behind the dead are hundreds of ordinary soldiers, and once the dead are dead, they will make up for them.

Outside the south gate of Yanmen Pass, the Ji army deployed ten phalanxes with tens of thousands of soldiers, and there were a considerable number of siege ladders between the phalanx. The ladder built by the Ji army is a wooden structure, this is nonsense, this era can not build an iron ladder, one is too heavy, people can't push it, one is the iron yield is low, you have to tightly make weapons and armor.

The bottom of the ladder is equipped with wheels, which can be pushed forward by the soldiers, and it is easy to move. There is a narrow staircase in the middle for two soldiers, who can climb from the bottom to the top in turn. The ladder is surrounded by wooden planks, and the top is a small attic-style hut, which can be stretched out and directly put on the city wall, so that the soldiers can jump directly to the city through the gangplank, and there are arrow holes on both sides of the hut, and the soldiers can hide behind the wooden planks to shoot arrows to the city, so the ladder is much safer than the unsheltered flying ladder.

This kind of ladder is the same

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Compared with the ones made in the army of Wang Rong and Zhou, they are relatively simple, not so delicate and strong, but they are enough to deal with the southern city wall of Yanmen Pass.

In the rear of the siege phalanx, more than a dozen catapults stood there, if it weren't for the lack of width of the battlefield, Li Mubai wanted to put out all the catapults in his hand and smash him fiercely.

On both sides of the catapult, thousands of Ji cavalry pressed the formation to prevent the Yongguo soldiers in the Yanmen Pass from suddenly coming out of the city.

Li Mubai sat in the camp and did not come to the front line in person, he knew that the siege could not be a day's work, it would be a protracted battle, and the matter of commanding the attack on the south gate of Yanmen Pass was handed over to a general in the army, Zhao Hui.

Zhao Hui, who is already in his fifties, was born in the Ji State clan, his beard is gray, and the wrinkles on his face are like ravines on the high slopes of loess. At this time, the veteran's face was not so nervous, but a confident look.

Zhao Hui is a rare person in the Ji State clan who knows the soldiers, and has been fighting for the south and north of the Ji State for decades, if he attacks Yanmen Pass from the north, he may be nervous, but now he is attacking Yanmen Pass from the south, so it is not easy to capture?

However, the reality is always cruel, and the slap in the face comes very quickly, and when the Ji military array crossed the first mark marked by the Bingzhou army, the rain of arrows immediately poured down from the city.

The soldiers in the front row of the Ji military formation held a huge shield one person high to protect the whole body. But the rain of arrows was a parabolic trail, completely skipping the big shield in the front row of the Ji army and covering the ordinary Ji soldiers in the back.

The hook of the ordinary Ji sergeant is a small shield, with hooks up and down, which can be attacked and defended, but there are some chicken ribs, whether it is offensive or defending, the effect is not good.

After a short period of panic, the Ji sergeant also began to pull the bow and wind it to fight back, but because it was an elevation shot, both the range and the accuracy were quite poor.

The soldiers of the Ji army who were besieging the city withstood the rain of arrows on their heads, and after paying hundreds of corpses, they finally approached the city wall, and the ladder was also pushed by the soldiers to a position large enough to place a flat board to climb the city, and the tragic hand-to-hand combat began.

Wang Rong did not stand on the head of the city, and the head of the Yanmen Pass could not be compared with the normal city, and too many soldiers could not be placed.

At this time, it was Wuluo who led the soldiers to guard the city wall, and I saw that he was dressed in steel armor, shining in the sun, and he led more than 1,000 people of the first brigade and the first regiment of the first division to guard the city.

Wuluo watched the Ji military formation gradually approach the city wall, and the shouts of killing pierced his eardrums. After seeing the enemy come into range of the bow and arrow, he shouted: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

The soldiers with bows and crossbows around him wound up one after another, and soon shot the arrows in their hands, and Wuluo was not idle, he held a hard bow, aimed at a Ji army general, and sent the arrows in his hands out. The target fell in response, and Uluo didn't look at it, but set his sights on the next target.

After the soldiers at the head of the city shot more than ten arrows, the soldiers of the Ji army also went to the city wall. They leaned the ladder and the ladder against the city wall, and Wu Luo put down his bow and arrows, lifted the stone under the wall battlement, and smashed it down, hitting the head of a dead soldier of the Ji army, causing his blood to splatter on the spot and die completely.

Ulo had just picked up a piece of wood and was about to throw it down when he heard a break

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The sound of the wind came, and he tilted his head sharply, "Whoosh! With a bang, an arrow fired by a crossbowman grazed his cheek, leaving a bloody trail on his face.

With the arrival of the Ji army's ladder, the defensive pressure on the city has increased a lot, and cold arrows are shot from the ladder from time to time. At this time, many of the Ji army's foot soldiers had jumped up to the city from the cloud ladder, and the entire city had become a little chaotic.

Wang Rong stared at the battle situation at the head of the city, without speaking. The old dog drew his ring-headed knife, pointed at the head of the city, and shouted: "Brothers of the second regiment, follow me into battle to kill the enemy!" ”

More than 1,000 people of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division quickly passed the road to the city, and the addition of the new force put a lot of pressure on Wuluo. He slashed down a dead soldier of the Ji army with a knife, looked at the ladder of the Ji army that was already leaning on the city wall, and shouted angrily: "Give Lao Tzu the ladder to the end!" ”

The survivors who had just fought with the Ji army at the head of the city heard Wuluo's words, and they ran towards the cloud ladder in groups. A commander slashed down two Ji soldiers one after another, his face was stained with blood, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he picked up a fire oil tank and threw it towards the cloud ladder fiercely, and several of his soldiers did the same.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a crisp cracking sound of the jars, and the oil splashed all over the gangplanks that had been placed on the city, and several torches were thrown on them, and the gangplanks were ignited with a "bang". Immediately afterwards, the entire top of the cloud car was engulfed in flames, and then the fire quickly spread downward, and soon the entire cloud ladder was set on fire.

In the small space of the ladder, the people inside couldn't hide at all, and for a while, a terrible scream came from the ladder, which made people panic.

Zhao Hui looked at the ladders that were ignited by the fire, his face was expressionless, and he shouted: "Phalanx rotation!" ”

The herald behind him galloped to the front as soon as he rode a fast horse.

I saw that the phalanx at the front of the Ji army slowly retreated, followed closely by the new army with recuperation and energy, who took over from their comrades and were thrown into the battlefield.

Li Mubai's purpose was not only to capture Yanmen Pass, but also to make all the soldiers rotate to train the army's combat power in siege and be familiar with the tactics of siege.

The 100,000 troops under his command have always been field fronts, and the number of siege battles is only a handful, if they are not adapted to siege warfare, then it will be very difficult to attack Mayi, Wuzhou and other cities next.

Wu Luo looked at the Ji army that was in rotation, spat fiercely, and with a wave of his big hand, many soldiers suddenly poured up from under the city tower. Just after the fierce battle on the head of the city, the defenders of the city, who had exhausted their physical strength, slowly retreated under the city wall.

The soldiers who retreated to the city wall leaned against the corner, swallowing their dry pot helmets and taking a sip of cold water when they choked. The chewing sound of eating was accompanied by the fierce shouting of killing at the head of the city, and the sound of crackling weapons colliding with each other, the retreating soldiers did not dare to stop eating and drinking for a moment, and they needed to recover their strength as quickly as possible to prepare for another battle.

The soldiers of the state army are sufficient, and it is the defender of the city, so the first division is divided into several batches, each group has the opportunity to climb the city wall to fight the enemy, and the soldiers who are exhausted will be withdrawn to the city to rest and replenish, so that the soldiers of the entire first division have formed an efficient rotation, so that the Yanmen Pass has always been a fresh force in the battle, and the Ji army besieging the city continues to cause casualties.

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