Li Jiangyao and Xu Youchang followed Xiahou Ninghan and rushed to the northern section of the city wall, and saw a group of soldiers in a circle from a distance. Seeing the arrival of the three people, the soldiers hurriedly saluted and gave way at the same time.

Li Jiangyao approached and took a closer look, there was a felt blanket on the ground in the middle of the crowd, Lian Ji was lying on it, covered in blood, and a military doctor Lang Zhong was half-squatting and half-kneeling next to her to bandage her wounds.

A veteran introduced: "This girl climbed up with all her might, and we only helped her, and she fainted, so everyone didn't dare to lift it easily, so they had to call Lang Zhong to come here to treat her injuries." ”

Xiahou Ninghan waited for Lang Zhong to finish his work, stepped forward and put his hand on Lian Ji's chest, secretly entering the innate Gang Qi, and after only a while, Lian Ji woke up, and her face was bloody.

She looked around blankly, saw Li Jiangyao next to her at a glance, and said softly with a smile: "I can finally see you alive...... That's nice. ”

Li Jiangyao held her hand and complained slightly: "What are you doing here?" Don't you want to die? ”

Lian Ji broke free of Li Jiangyao's hand and pointed to a short distance with difficulty: "Well, that's the head of a Turkic general, I took it back...... He, before he died, was forced by me to confess, saying...... What are you talking about the eight-armed divine crossbow, oh yes, and the poison soldiers...... It's a pity that the Turkic soldiers on patrol were too alert and found my ......"

Xiahou Ninghan said distressedly while healing her: "Don't talk so much first, lose your vitality." ”

Li Jiangyao looked at the human head on the ground and said with a wry smile: "You...... If you have three long and two short, and their ten heads are not enough to compensate, why are you so stupid? ”

Xu You ordered the soldiers to hang the head of the enemy general on the head of the city, and asked Lang Zhong in a low voice: "How is she doing now?" Can I carry it to the medical hall in the rear? ”

Lang Zhong nodded: "Although this girl was injured in many places and bled a lot, fortunately she did not hurt her muscles and bones, and she was not worried about her life. ”

Hearing that Lian Ji was fine, everyone finally relieved their hearts, Li Jiangyao comforted her a few more words, and then ordered someone to carry Lian Ji away. Xiahou Ninghan said hello to Li Xu and the others, and also accompanied them to the hospital to take care of them.

After they all left, Xu Youchang couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I really don't know whether to say that she is reckless or brave, Wan Jun took the head of the enemy general from it, and finally escaped alive, it's really amazing." ”

Li Jiangyao sighed: "Lian Ji has been a murderer since she was a child, and some things that you and I can't do may have become commonplace for her. It's just that...... Alas, this girl has a will to die in her heart, and it may not be a good thing in the future. ”

"Anyway, it's a great achievement." Xu Youchang knew that Li Jiangyao was worried about Lian Ji, so he comforted: "Tomorrow, when the Turks see the heads of the people in the city, they must be mad with anger. ”

Li Jiangyao bowed slightly: "This is indeed a great blow to the enemy's morale, and it will also pose a psychological threat to them to a certain extent." In addition, the information provided by Renji is also very important. ”

Xu Youchang agreed: "Yes, the eight-armed divine crossbow." Needless to say, it must have been demolished from the imperial capital. Fuck, it actually fell into the hands of the Turks, and in turn they turned against us. ”

"I'm not very familiar with that thing," Li Jiangyao asked, "Do you know the power of the eight-armed divine crossbow?" ”

Xu Youchang nodded: "The Divine Machine Crossbow belongs to the defenders of the Imperial Capital. And the defenders of the imperial capital are my grandfather's unicorn army, so I have been riding and playing on them since I was a child. If you want to talk about its power, compared to the eight-armed divine crossbow, our giant crossbow is not worth mentioning. To be precise, a giant crossbow is a giant crossbow arrow, one shot at a time, while a divine crossbow is a ballista that can fire four arrows in a row. Within 500 steps, the shield could not be carried. ”

Li Jiangyao's sword eyebrows tightened: "How many are there?" ”

Xu Youchang thought for a while: "I remember that there are a total of 600 towers in the imperial capital, and 150 on each of the four city walls. I don't know how much was damaged in the previous war, but it should be no problem to ship 100 units. ”

One hundred eight-armed divine machine crossbows, one salvo is four hundred long-rod crossbow arrows that are enough to open mountains and crack rocks, and it is self-evident what kind of threat such a metal storm will pose to Zijin Pass.

However, Xu Youchang's estimate is still conservative.

The eight-armed divine machine crossbow that Ashina sent to Ronia was not a hundred, nor two hundred, but three hundred and forty-six!

At the same time, it is equipped with 100,000 long-rod crossbow arrows!

The front line of Zijin Pass, which had been silent for ten days, was once again open because of the arrival of the eight-armed divine crossbow.

This time, the Prince of the Temple, Ronia, personally took command, and the subordinate army of the Western Frontier was ordered to transfer 10,000 strong men to carry sand and gravel and fill in the trenches. Tanley's Eleventh Legion, on the other hand, operated trebuchets and eight-armed crossbows to suppress Zijin Pass.

Flying stones and crossbow arrows spilled down into the walls with a terrible whistling sound.

The roar is deafening, and the rubble is splashing.

The officers and men of Zhenjiang were overwhelmed by the enemy's long-range killing weapons for a while, and they were unable to strike at the Xijiang Army that filled the pit, so they could only rely on the trebuchet located behind the Chengguan to launch a desperate attack with the Turks.

Due to the lack of the threat of archers at the head of the city, the subordinate army in the western Xinjiang proceeded relatively smoothly, and after paying the price of four or five hundred casualties, it gradually filled half of the ravine.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Xu Youchang gave a death order to the front-line soldiers:

Fight back with a crossbow!

The Third and Fifth Armies moved upon hearing the order, and at the risk of being crushed by the crossbow arrows, they stood up one after another, operated the giant crossbows, opened their bows and arrows, and frantically suppressed the troops sent by the enemy to fill the trenches.

In this way, the Turkic people's eight-armed divine crossbow suddenly became more rampant, and the long-pole giant arrows like cannons became more and more dense, hitting the flesh and blood of the Zijin Guancheng.

After a long day's work, the first trench was almost filled.

Ronia looked at the sky and ordered the subordinate troops in the western frontier not to stop, and then select 10,000 fresh troops, replace the previous men and horses, and fight all night to strive to take the second trench in one fell swoop.

When night fell completely, new landfill troops were reinforced, transporting sand and gravel in the dark without raising lights. They couldn't see the way, so they could only follow the general direction and scurry around, and their ears were full of the sound of whizzing arrows, and when they were accidentally shot by arrows flying from the city, they turned over and fell to the ground, and then they were trampled to death by their companions behind them.

But even so, the Turkic commander did not have the slightest mercy.

The heralds kept sending instructions from Ronia: Hurry! Fast! Fast! Don't be afraid to die, fill in the second trench!

Tanley's eleventh legion had been shooting frantically for a whole day, and at this time the first batch of 30,000 giant arrows had long been used up, and only a few dozen trebuchets were still barely whistling.

The generals of Western Xinjiang were forced to have no choice but to turn their hearts sideways, urge their subordinates to forget the threat of death, and march forward fiercely, throwing carts and baskets of sand and gravel into the trenches.

As the threat of Turkic long-range weapons decreased, the Zhenjiang army finally passed the most difficult stage and began to fight back on a large scale.

Thousands of new archers were sent to the city, and they didn't care if they couldn't see their targets, but they just fired arrows into the darkness in a frenzy, and a storm of metal arrows completely enveloped the area between the first and second trenches.

The crossbows on the city and the trebuchets behind the city were also constantly angled, one part to suppress the Turkic trebuchet, and the other to smash into the trenches.

"How's it going?" Li Jiangyao came to the side and asked in a deep voice.

Xu Youchang stared at the fire near the trench with his eyes, and responded, "The situation is not good. You see, the area lit by the fire bombs, the second ravine, has been filled in a small way. The Turks are so ruthless that they let the people of Western Xinjiang throw the corpses directly into the ditch! ”

Li Jiangyao's ears were filled with the sound of roaring and shouting, and he said lightly: "Then what are you waiting for?" ”

Xu Youchang was stunned: "Now?" ”

"Yes, now!" Li Jiangyao stretched out his hand and pointed: "The enemy has gone completely crazy, if you want to break their will, you must use an even more crazy way!" ”

"Got it!" Xu Youchang shouted: "I'll give the order immediately." ”

Knock knock, hundreds of war drums beat at the same time, and the sound shook the sky.

The heavy gate of Zijin Pass suddenly opened, and 5,000 heavily armored cavalry jumped out of the pass angrily, and rushed straight down the passage to the enemy army hundreds of paces away.

Long live our emperor! Kill!

The sound of horses' hooves shattered the earth and the hearts of the landfill troops.

Tens of thousands of unarmed soldiers in Western Xinjiang immediately threw away the sand and gravel bags in their hands, turned around and fled. In the darkness, no one could see the direction clearly, only to run wildly behind and get out of the threat of death as soon as possible.

Originally, Ronia sent the Overseer to the rear of the landfill troops, on the one hand, to force the people of Western Xinjiang to work hard to fill the pits and not to escape, and on the other hand, to provide assistance and protection for these unfortunate coolies. However, due to the great threat of the archers at the head of the city, this 6,000-strong Golden Clan Warlord did not completely carry out their orders from the Prince of the Temple.

Not only are these guys very far back, but they are also careless and have no sense of guard.

The soldiers of the Western Frontier fled violently, and the Warlords also panicked.

In the darkness, they couldn't tell how many Zhenjiang troops had come out, and they didn't know where the other party had rushed, and when they heard the deafening shouts of killing and the sound of horses' hooves, the tips of the heavy cavalry's spears were about to poke into their noses.

The six thousand warlords turned around and withdrew.

And not far behind them was the trebuchet position of the Eleventh Legion.

The second prince, Stanley, was the first to realize that the situation was not good, and he hurriedly ordered the two cavalry teams guarding the position to bravely go up, and at the same time asked the rear to ask the Prince of the Temple to send troops to attack quickly.

Ronia's reaction was also quick enough, and after a little chaos in front, he guessed what was going on, and without Tanli calling for help, he directly ordered the 20,000 iron cavalry of the Tenth Legion of the Golden Clan to charge.

Charge in the dark, top-of-the-line operation.

It's a pity that it was his own people who died first.

The soldiers and horses under the command of Tanley, the soldiers and horses of the Overseers, and the soldiers and horses of the landfill troops who escaped by luck were knocked down and hacked to death by the cavalry of the Tenth Legion.

The Iron Rider rushed forward, leaving corpses everywhere they went.

In the blink of an eye, the Turkic cavalry and the Zhenjiang cavalry met in the area outside the trench and fought fiercely.