At this point in the battle, the entire battlefield, except for the Ji forbidden army led by Zhao Gang, lined up in the rear; The front and the left and right flanks were no longer able to resist the Ji *** team of the state army. Wang then ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, and then led his troops back to the barracks. new

Zhao Gang was very relieved to see that the Bingzhou army had stopped attacking. He watched the troops leave the battlefield and return to the barracks before leading the troops back to the city.

In today's battle, the Bingzhou army annihilated more than 20,000 people of the Hebei army, which greatly hit the morale of the Hebei army, and this is very terrible for the Hebei team. Because since the battle with the Bingzhou army, the Ji *** team has not won a victory, which makes the fear of the Ji soldiers for the Bingzhou army increasing day by day, and the morale of the whole army is low to the bottom.

Zhao Gang is very helpless about the current predicament, he finally knows how Li Mubai feels in Pingcheng, he can't fight and can't fight, and he can't defend it, it's really overwhelming.

And in Ji ***, the most painful is not Zhao Gang, but Zhao Fan. In this battle, more than half of the 30,000 former troops of the Ji Kingdom were lost, and Su Wu, Zhao Fan's friend of the neck, was also killed in battle, which can be said to be a great injury to his vitality. After the heads of the Bingzhou Army, including Su Wu and other Ji *** lieutenant colonels, were hung outside the gate to show the public, Zhao Fan's resentment became even stronger. Of course, in addition to hating the state army, he hated Zhao Gang even more.

After the end of the war, Zhao Fan, who had suffered heavy losses, did not care about reorganizing the army, so he rushed to Zhao Gang and loudly asked why he did not rescue his troops, resulting in a crushing defeat for his troops.

Zhao Gang is gentle and has a cautious and low-key personality, but he is now a general of the Ji State after all. Although he was afraid of Zhao Fan and didn't dare to deal with Zhao Fan, he wouldn't let other generals see his jokes.

Zhao Gang had a cold face, looked at Zhao Fan whose angry chest was flickering, and sneered, "Don't you usually boast that you are invincible in the world in terms of bravery? It is claimed that he is invincible in the Central Plains, why do you need others to rescue him now?"

After ridiculing Zhao Fan, Zhao Gang didn't even look at him, and let his guards blast Zhao Fan out of the Zhongjun Hall.

When Zhao Fan heard Zhao Gang's ridicule, he was already angry, and he was even more angry, if he hadn't been pulled by Lin Xue, who was also a general, he was afraid that he would make a big fuss in the Zhongjun Hall. But even so, Zhao Fan's jealousy of Zhao Gang deepened, and after returning to the capital army, he did not report to Zhao Gang, and led his troops and horses out of the gall Tao City without authorization, and came to the camp outside the city to station.

At this time, in order to take revenge on Zhao Gang, Zhao Fan wrote a letter to Zhao Huan, the emperor of Ji State, in which he framed Zhao Gang for colluding with the Bingzhou army, and there seemed to be a vague objection. If Zhao Gang deliberately lost the city of Gauntlet, the country would be in danger. For Zhao Fan or the officials of the Minister of State, it does not matter whether Zhao Gang colluded with the state army, as long as Zhao Gang is overthrown, he can take the opportunity to divide his power, which is the most important thing.

Zhao Fan relied on the fact that he was a close confidant of Zhao Huan, the emperor of Ji State, and secretly contacted some generals in the army, preparing to jointly file a complaint with Zhao Huan, vowing to overthrow Zhao Gang.

Of course, these internal struggles in the Ji State could not change the situation in the city of Gauntlet, but the seeds of division had been planted, and Zhao Gang's fate was no longer in his own hands, but depended on the game between Zhao Huan, the emperor of the Ji State, and Lian Yuan, the prime minister of the country.

The two armies inside and outside the city rested peacefully for the night, and the next morning, Wang Rong ordered the siege of the city.

This time, because of the defense that Zhao Gang arranged in the gall Tao City, it would be impossible to go down without a fight like Yang County. Therefore, Wang Rong had already arranged for the craftsman institute to build siege equipment such as ladders and rushing cars, and began to carry out conventional sieges.

However, the ditches and fences outside the city, as well as archers and catapults, posed a great threat to the besieging forces.

Wang Rong looked at the towering catapult and nodded to Wang Hao. The latter received the signal and immediately raised the order flag in his hand, and the catapult soldiers who received the order quickly moved. They pulled down the towering wooden pole and filled the pouch with a bag of sand. That's right, sand.

Of course, it was impossible for Wang Rong to let his precious soldiers fill the trenches, and to do so was tantamount to driving them to death, so Wang Rong thought of throwing sand and soil with catapults.

In addition to the catapults used for siege, the craftsman also made many small catapults, which can throw sand and soil up to two or three hundred meters away.

In order to

siege of the city, and the state army has long prepared tens of thousands of bags of sand. At this time, the order was given, and the catapult started, and I saw smoke and dust rising outside the city, and the huge dust covered the ditches and camps outside the city.

Zhao Fan choked on the smoke and dust and coughed, and he tried to keep his eyes open, trying to see the situation in front of the trench. He covered the towel with one hand, gestured with the other, and said, "Let our trebuchets come up, we can't let the Bingzhou army fill the trench so calmly."

Zhao Fan's idea is very good, he wants to use the trebuchet on his side to eliminate the trebuchet of the opposite state army. But the reality quickly gave him a *** fight, and the herald who ran back was out of breath, and he didn't even have time to cover his mouth with a wet towel, and reported to Zhao Fanyu: "General! The trebuchet didn't come, saying that the trebuchet couldn't be easily moved without the general's order!"

When Zhao Fan heard this, he was even more angry in his heart, but there was no way, the trebuchet was commanded by Zhao Gang. Moreover, it is difficult for trebuchets to move, and when they are moved to the camp, this time is enough for the state army to fill in the trench and build an earthen platform.

Zhao Fan thought about it carefully, and then changed his order: "Tell the brothers, keep my eyes open, and if you see the Bingzhou army approaching the trench, shoot them to death!"

Zhao Fan's guess was right, at this smoke-filled stall, the infantry of the Seventh Division had already rushed to the front of the trench with scarves and swords and shields in hand, as swift as cheetahs.

A sharp-eyed soldier of Ji barely saw a figure shaking through the fog, and shouted, "There is an enemy!"

This shout was like a signal, and the three thousand archers of the Ji army shot the arrows in their hands one after another.

"Whoosh! Sou! Whoosh!"

The sound of the bowstring alerted the sergeants of the state.

One of the hundred generals raised his shield and shouted, "Beware of feathered arrows! Raise your shield!" The soldiers around him raised their shields to block the arrows.

The shield in the hand of the hundred general was immediately shot by several feathered arrows, and the sharp arrows pierced the skin and the plank, only ten centimeters away from his eyes.

Seeing that the Ji *** team began to attack, Wang Rong immediately ordered the catapults and bed crossbows in the army formation to counterattack. The archers of the Ji army could not resist the attacks of trebuchets and bed crossbows, and every stone projectile that hit the crowd brought countless stumps and severed arms; After each crossbow pierced through the archers' formation, it shot several people like a string of sugar gourds.

These archers of the Ji army suffered huge casualties, and the formation had long been shattered. The heavy stones and powerful crossbow guns caused serious injuries to the Ji soldiers.

The crossbowmen of the 7th Division could no longer watch the play in the back at this time, and under Song Wenbai's order, they rushed behind the foot soldiers, raised their bows and crossbows, and fired arrows. At this time, the two armies came and went, and from time to time someone was mistakenly hit and fell.

The infantry of the 7th Division was already crazy at this time, they did not care about their own life or death, braved the dense arrows, strode up the filled channel, and rushed to the rejecting horses behind the trench.

The foot soldiers in the front row were armed with short axes, and in three or two strokes they broke up the horses. A few were lucky, and the horses in front of them were smashed by flying stones.

The trebuchet of the Bingzhou army has been continuously improved by the craftsman's institute, and the attack range has reached between 300 and 500 meters, which is completely capable of bombarding the Ji army.

However, the catapults of the Ji State were much simpler than those of the Bingzhou Army, and the distance that could be projected was only more than 100 meters, less than 200 meters, and the weight of the stone projectiles was also light. Therefore, the infantry of the Ji army could only suffer from the bombardment of stones in the camp and suffered huge casualties.

Zhao Fan had no choice but to reluctantly transfer these people back to the camp. As for the ditches outside the city and the rejection of horses, they had to be abandoned as well.

The trebuchets of the Bingzhou army continued to bombard the Ji military camp outside the city, and when the infantry soldiers of the Bingzhou army rushed to the wall of the camp, several walls had been smashed by stones. Where it did not collapse, the crossbow gun was firmly rooted into the wall, forming a staircase to climb the wall. The vigorous infantry of the Bingzhou army carried the ring head knife and shield on their backs, used their hands and feet together, and climbed the wall in a few strokes.

At this point, the real offensive and defensive battle began.

Zhao Fan took the lead with his personal guards and stood behind the gap in the wall, holding spears and shields, and formed a shield array with his subordinates.

And the state army foot soldiers

Rushed into the camp and faced the Ji army foot soldiers waiting behind the wall of the wall. They formed a long serpent formation, armed with shields and spears, like hedgehogs. Behind them were crossbowmen with crossbows in their hands, standing on a high place.

The infantry of the 7th Division encountered unprecedented resistance, and under the double blow of melee and long-range, they could not rush through at all.

But it's just this one place that is blocked, the whole camp is so big, there are always places that Zhao Fan can't take care of. A Yu Hou rushed up to him and reported, "Will... General, the camp has been breached, run."

This bad news made Zhao Fan's mood very bad, and he had to order the whole army to withdraw from the camp, in order to be able to block the state army, he had to force one of his generals to take part of the troops to break off.

At this time, it means to die, but Zhao Fan gave a death order, listened to the order to die himself, and if he didn't obey the order, the whole family died, and the general had to obey the order.

The desperate resistance of the troops after the break was effective, and Zhao Fan retreated to the city of Gauntow with the remnants of the defeated army.

Wang Rong looked at the camp that was in the way, and said to Li Sujie, who was watching with relish from the sidelines: "This camp is a bit of an obstacle to the siege, Su Jie, the matter of demolishing the camp will be handed over to you."

When Li Sujie was watching with great interest, when he heard Wang Rong's order, he felt that his whole person was not good. He retorted, "No, Zhong Ming, why are you giving me this life? I'm not one of those craftsmen who likes to disassemble and assemble."

Wang Rong looked at Li Sujie, who was dissatisfied, and said, "Because here, you are the most idle."

Li Sujie listened to Wang Rong's explanation and felt inexplicable, he looked back at Zhang Genghuang and Zhang Yunshu, and saw that Zhang Genghuang had already trotted to count the casualties. Zhang Yunshu led a group of soldiers to carefully study this on the map of Gaunt Tao City. Li Sujie secretly scolded in his heart: These unrighteous guys!