Under this wave of arrows after volley, the soldiers of the Tang Army could only hide under the shield, using the lookout between the battlements to peek into the situation of the siege infantry outside the city, and the distance between the latter and the city wall.

"Two hundred steps, only two hundred steps!"

"One hundred steps, everyone is ready to meet the enemy......

"Fifty steps!"

"Twenty steps!"

"Ten steps!"

"Engage!!"

After the last shout, Zhang Lang commanded 100,000 infantry soldiers of the Youjun Army, risking being shot by his own crossbowmen, and erected the flying ladder on his shoulder under the city wall.

"Siege !!"

With Zhang Lang's order, the countless soldiers under the city wall continued to climb up the ladder and try to attack the city wall.

At this time, out of fear of accidentally injuring his own soldiers, the 20,000 crossbowmen under the command of Jin Chong, the general of the Youjun Army in the distance, temporarily stopped firing volleys.

But unfortunately, the Tang soldiers on the city wall did not breathe a sigh of relief, after all, tens of thousands of enemy foot soldiers had attacked their city.

Unlike the battle between the soldiers who guarded the city and the soldiers of the Youjun army, as soon as the soldiers of the Tang army on the city wall met the enemy, there were casualties.

It's no wonder, after all, they regard it as a great enemy, but the trained regular army, and one by one they wear armor and hold spears, and the spears in their hands can also stab the Tang soldiers on the city wall who tried to kill them.

If you look at the flying ladder outside the city wall at this time, it is not difficult to see those Youyou soldiers climbing the flying ladder with one hand, and stabbing at the Tang soldiers who are probing on the city wall with only the other hand.

Although this is physically more depleting, these Shadow Army Foot Soldiers have ample siege experience, for example, when the foot soldiers on the ladder feel exhausted, they will actively jump off the ladder to make room for the friendly troops behind them.

And this means that the soldiers of the Tang Army on the city wall are basically soldiers with the power to counterattack, and once they make a mistake, they will be killed by the enemy.

It is for this reason that the Tang army soldiers on the city wall soon suffered hundreds of casualties, mainly new soldiers.

In the face of such casualties, Han Yan's face became extremely serious, and he waved his big hand and said, "Change the old pawn!"

Under his order, the Tang army led by Zhang Teng, Shi Pu and others replaced the new soldiers of the Tang army to the front line, which temporarily controlled the soaring battle losses and gradually caused casualties among the soldiers who were besieging the city.

"Bell-"

"Ding—"

"Bell—"

For a while, the sound of Jin Ge colliding sounded on the side of the city wall, and countless soldiers stood on the flying ladder and fought with the Tang soldiers on the city wall.

In the meantime, sometimes there are soldiers and soldiers who have exhausted their physical strength and take the initiative to jump off the ladder, and sometimes there are Tang soldiers on the city wall who are injured by the enemy after killing the enemy. But in general, there are still more Phantom soldiers who are stabbed to death in the end.

And the whole war situation has also fallen into a stalemate and has become a war of attrition.

Fortunately, the siege army did not use other siege equipment except for the flying ladder, while the soldiers of the Tang army defending the city had sharp weapons such as forks and pry bars.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

With the help of the pry bar, several flying ladders were immediately overturned in reverse, smashing and injuring a large number of soldiers and soldiers below.

However, the good times did not last long, and Zhang Lang, the general of the Youjun Army who commanded the battle, quickly saw the limitations of the fork rod and the pry bar, and waved his hand and ordered: "Let the soldiers below stabilize the flying ladder!"

Under his command, the soldiers and soldiers under the city wall tightened the ladder and fixed it firmly.

In this case, even if the Tang soldiers who operated the fork poles and pry bars on the city wall tried their best, it would be difficult to overturn or pry over those flying ladders.

Seeing this, a Tang sergeant immediately reported the matter to Meng Song, who was near the city gate tower.

Knowing that his pry bar was ineffective, Meng Song did not hesitate to order: "Go to the stone grease! Attack with fire!"

Not bad, except for the pry bar, Zhuolu

The county also prepared other equipment for defending the city, and the clay pot filled with stone grease was one of them.

"Let's go! Let it go!"

With a shout, the Tang soldiers picked up the stone grease clay pots stacked on the inside of the city wall, and smashed the clay pots about the size of a human head towards the ghost soldiers on the flying ladder.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

When the sound of the crockpot shattering sounded, a soldier named Youyou was smashed to the ground.

Before they could react, torches were dropped from the walls.

"Ah! ——」

"Ah! ——」

The most terrible scream so far rang out, and the poor soldiers who were smashed on the head of the clay pot were ignited by the torches dropped on the city wall, and one by one they became burning men.

If they die like this, they don't need to go through much pain, but the worst thing is that the fire on their bodies will not burn them for a while and a half, at least for a dozen breaths.

"Help...... Help...... Help me ......."

"Help...... Save ......"

I saw the burning people rolling on the ground in pain, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies, or asking for help from Tongze on the side. Sadly, most of them were burned alive.

It's not that the soldiers of the nearby Youjun don't save them when they see death, but they really can't save them. Once a person with a body of stone grease is ignited by fire, it is basically impossible to save it.

Even if a few desperate soldiers did their best to extinguish the fire on their bodies, the friendly troops that had been burned beyond recognition were basically left with a breath that could only be used to explain the aftermath.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Lang, the general of the Youjun Army, was unmoved, because this is a commonplace thing. Whenever a city is attacked, the defenders will inevitably prepare all kinds of weapons to defend the city, and the more insidious and vicious ones will also use "gold juice", that is, boiled dung juice.

Once drenched by the hot "golden juice", even if a person does not die at that time, his whole body will festered and die within a few days, which can be called the earliest biological and chemical weapon.

Therefore, compared with those soldiers who were burned to death, Zhang Lang was more concerned about the siege ladders that were about to be burned.

Fools know that once these siege ladders are destroyed, their siege will have to end.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lang ordered to rescue the wounded and rescue the flying ladder as much as possible, while urging the besieging soldiers to step up the siege.

Under his orders, the soldiers who were besieging the city showed a more ferocious offensive momentum than Fang Cai.

In the face of the ferocious attack of these ghost soldiers, the Tang army defending the city was also provoked to be ferocious, only to see this group of red-eyed Tang army soldiers, even if they were injured in many places, they still fought to the death.

So much so that until the sun set, the soldiers of the ghost army failed to attack the city, and the results of the battle were even worse than the previous soldiers of the army, and the slaves of the previous army took the opportunity to jump on the city wall.