The next day, it was dawn.

The sun is just right.

As soon as the hour arrived, a black army appeared in the east of Anping County, and the ground trembled.

"It's coming! It's really coming! ”

"There are a lot of people, you can't see the end at a glance, this is at least forty or fifty thousand!"

"Quick! All on alert! ”

……

The defenders of the city were in a commotion, and even if they knew that a strong enemy was coming, they still couldn't help but panic when they saw these people, because there were too many people coming.

Tens of thousands of horses poured towards Anping County like a monstrous wave, and the small Anping County seemed to be crushed at any time.

After Qinglong heard the movement, he quickly boarded the city, and with him was General Zhu.

Both of them saw tens of thousands of horses thousands of kilometers away, and they also saw the banners held by the soldiers at the front.

Several of them are written "General Zuo Wang", and several are written "Wu'an Hou", as well as several Great Zhou Dragon Banners.

Surrounded by these flags, there was a chariot on which stood a young general.

General Zhu looked at the chariot and said with a dry mouth: "He is really here!" ”

Before, Qinglong told him that Wang Cheng would attack here this morning, and he thought that Wang Cheng was scaring them, but he never thought it was true.

He is also a person who is familiar with the art of war, has fought and killed people, and has never seen this kind of operation, and he will tell you in advance when he wants to lead a large army to attack you.

What is this?

"That's what makes him terrible! We all thought he wouldn't do it, but he did! Qinglong's expression was solemn.

"If you dare to do this, either he's crazy, or he's too confident." General Zhu said in a deep voice.

Qinglong's eyes narrowed into a line, and said: "You are right, he is too confident, confident that we can't stop him at all, he just wants to defeat us in a grand manner." ”

General Zhu also nodded secretly, he saw Wang Cheng's true thoughts, that is, to use this way to deter them, tell them clearly, and also tell everyone under Ning Hou's command: "You will definitely be defeated!" ”

"What does the shogunate say? When will reinforcements arrive? Qinglong asked.

General Zhu said: "People are already gathering, Boss Qinglong, you also know that most of the soldiers and horses of the Hou Mansion have arrived here, and they can only be mobilized from other places, and it will take a day at the earliest." ”

"That's it!"

Qinglong's old face suddenly showed determination, and said, "Today, let's have a fair battle with him, so that the brothers are all ready!" ”

"Yes!"

General Zhu responded, turned around and came to the city between the guards, shouting as he walked.

"Crossbowmen ready!"

"Here!"

"Rolling Stone Hand Ready!"

"Here!"

"Heavy shield hand ready!"

"Here!"

……

With his order, a large number of soldiers quickly gathered in the city, and things were piled up around him.

There were crossbow arrows, boulders, crosswoods, and hot oil that was about to boil.

Everything is being prepared, ready for an upcoming big war.

Wang Cheng was also preparing here, standing on a chariot and holding a command flag.

He waved his banner, and the cavalry at the front of the army spread out to both sides, revealing the behemoth in the rear.

A whole ten, each of which is more than ten meters high, is mainly composed of four parts.

At the bottom are four wooden wheels with a chassis on which is a bracket with a long lever attached to it.

Qinglong stood on the city, and when he saw these ten things, his pupils shrank, and he blurted out: "Catapult!" Where did he come from? ”

Catapults are large-scale siege weapons, how can a small Anping county withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of catapults?

He looked at General Zhu, who had already returned to his side, and said, "These catapults can't be left by you too, right?" ”

General Zhu's face was embarrassed, he scratched the back of his head, and said: "At the beginning, Master Hou wanted to take Yicheng, Yicheng was tall and strong, and Lao Zhu thought that it would be much more convenient to have catapults, so he made a few. How could I have thought that Hou Ye would take Fuyi so quickly, there was no need to attack the city, and the catapult would be left in Tongling and not moved. ”

"You ......"

Qinglong trembled all over, and said angrily: "Since you can't use them, then why don't you move them away?" ”

"Lao Zhu, I didn't expect Wang Xuanfu's kid to come so quickly, he sent someone to kill Tongling, I didn't receive the news in advance, how can I have time to take this thing away?" General Zhu said.

Qinglong didn't say anything more, he was now more worried about whether the other party had left other big killing weapons.

Although this General Zhu is a martial artist, he is still the son of the Zhu family in the Ninghou Mansion, and he likes to engage in some inventions and creations in his spare time, which is deeply inherited by the Zhu family.

It was also because of this that Ning Hou sent him to Tongling to personally supervise the manufacture of armor and equipment.

"In addition to these ten catapults and the Iron Arm Divine Crossbow, what else did you leave behind in Tongling?" Qinglong asked.

General Zhu lowered his head and said, "Armor, weapons, bows and crossbows...... All the weapons on the battlefield should have. ”

"You ......"

Qinglong raised his big hand angrily, wanting to slap him to death.

General Zhu hurriedly dodged and defended: "Boss Qinglong, this really can't rely on Lao Zhu." Hou Ye gave a death order, asking me to build 30,000 people of armor within three months, in order to complete the task, Lao Zhu I got up earlier than the chicken and slept later than the dog. Now that the mission is almost complete, you are not happy again. ”

"So, Tongling has 30,000 people of armor?" Qinglong said in a deep voice.

"Nope! No! ”

General Zhu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "20,000 sets have been delivered before, and less than 10,000 are left in Tongling." ”

"That's not a lot!" Qinglong's face was solemn.

Anping County is just an ordinary county seat, and it can't be compared with a border town at all, and it is very stressful to encounter a large siege weapon like a catapult.

Seeing that the formation had already been set up on the opposite side, Qinglong said to General Zhu: "You hurry up and organize it below, you still have to command the weapons you made." ”

General Zhu was relieved after hearing this, and finally he didn't need to be trained, and flew down from the city directly.

"Whoosh!"

At that moment, a catapult outside the city began to fire, and ten stones struck.

Some fell outside the city, some fell inside the city, and only two or three fell on the city, or on the outer walls of the city.

Even so, all the armor soldiers in the city were also frightened, and if those few stones hit them just now, they would definitely be dead.

However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, ten more stones flew towards them.

This time, only two of the ten boulders missed their target, and the remaining eight all fell on the city.

The boulder, which was several circles bigger than a basketball, smashed into the city, and the city wall was smashed into holes.

Qinglong frowned, how could he not see that the first wave of attacks just now was just debugging, and now it is clear that it has been debugged, and the next thing is to strike seriously.

"Whoosh!"

Ten boulders flew from the sky again, "bang bang bang", and smashed down on the city with precision.

Several large stones flew over the top of the green dragon's head and smashed on the city tower behind him with a "boom".

The walls were smashed open, the bricks and tiles flew, and several people who were close were hit by the splinters, their heads were bleeding, and they passed out on the spot, but none of them were actually hit by the stones fired by the catapult.

The real function of the catapult is to destroy the city, not to kill people, after all, the catapult has no ability to track, how can it be so easy to hit people.

However, destroying a city is far more threatening than smashing people, because once the city is destroyed, the soldiers will lose their protection.

Seeing that the city tower behind him was smashed by flying stones, Qinglong was a little anxious, and shouted to the city: "Are you ready?" ”

General Zhu's voice came from under the city, "Okay! ”

Then, from under the city, canisters flew out, but the shape was closer to a sphere, and they went straight to the opposite Lingzhou army and smashed them.

After a parabolic flight, the spherical jar eventually fell hundreds of meters away.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

The canisters exploded as soon as they hit the ground, and the flames burst into flames.

The enormous force of the explosion propelled the fragments of the jar in all directions, like throwing knives, which could easily take people's lives.

When the light of the fire weakened, there were more large pits on the ground, each of which was one or two meters deep and five or six meters in diameter.

Wang Cheng stood behind the catapult, still 100 meters away from the explosion point, but he still felt a chill in his heart.

The thing that was smashed down just now was more powerful than a mine, but fortunately the landing site was still some distance away from them, otherwise I don't know how many people were injured in that random bombing.

Wang Cheng couldn't imagine that someone here could concoct such a powerful "gunpowder" and use it on the battlefield, and his idea was very advanced.

Knowing that it was powerful, he immediately asked the catapult to make it a little longer.

There are ten catapults, each of which is a baby bump, and it is up to them to bomb and bomb.

Wang Cheng waved the flag and said, "Crossbowman, go into battle!" ”

A dense sound of footsteps sounded, and from behind slowly came a huge phalanx, at least five thousand people.

These soldiers were in groups of five, two of them carried a large bed crossbow about two meters long, one carried a large bundle of crossbow arrows, and the other two were tall and strong, and their thick arms contained great strength.

They passed through Wang Cheng and came to the front of the catapult, and then formed a formation and set up bed crossbows.

This scene naturally fell in Qinglong's eyes, he knew that Wang Cheng had the Iron Arm Divine Crossbow in his hand, and he had also thought of countermeasures in advance.

He ordered the heavy shieldmen to step forward and the crossbowmen to step back, allowing the heavy shieldmen to cover the crossbowmen.

There is also an iron-armed crossbow in the city, which is also produced from Tongling, but it is some time earlier than the one in the hands of the Lingzhou army, and then it was sent to Ninghou Mansion.

When he learned that he was going to lead an army to defend the city, Qinglong asked for five hundred pairs of iron-armed crossbows.

"Shoot the arrow!!"

With his order, the bow and arrow were wound, and then shot at the Lingzhou army.

They were condescending and occupied the terrain advantage, and as soon as the crossbowmen on Wang Cheng's side set up their formation, several people were killed by crossbow arrows.

Wang Cheng's face was expressionless, and he waved the flag and immediately ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

"Woohoo!"

Nearly a thousand crossbow arrows were shot, like a rainstorm, heading straight for Anping County.

The defenders of the city suddenly felt that it was getting dark, and the spear-like crossbow arrows were rapidly enlarged in front of their eyes.

"Mi!!"

Qinglong immediately ordered, and the heavy shield hand raised a large shield weighing hundreds of catties in front of him.

The shields were connected to each other to form a long rain rope that protected the city's defenders below.

"Bang bang bang!"

A large number of crossbow arrows were fired at the shield, but instead of penetrating the shield, it was bounced out.

These large shields are not wooden shields or leather shields, but are made of refined steel, which is thick and hard.

Seeing that this wave of attacks was blocked, the green dragon ordered the heavy shield hands to disperse, and then let the crossbowmen release their arrows.

You don't need to aim at all, because the direction has been corrected just now, and now you can just release the arrow.

"Woohoo!"

Five hundred crossbow arrows broke through the air and went straight to the crossbow array on Wang Cheng's side.

Wang Cheng's clairvoyance accurately grasped the trajectory of these crossbow arrows, and when they were a hundred meters away, he ordered everyone to crouch down and dodge.

Even so, a small number of people were shot by crossbow arrows and died instantly.

The back-and-forth attack made him uncomfortable, and it wasn't what he wanted.

So, he gave the order that the first three hundred Iron Arm Divine Crossbows would shoot first, then the three hundred in the middle, and then the three hundred in the back, which would be "three-stage shooting".

The ten catapults at the back are to be projected until all the flying stones are used up.

"Old General!"

Wang Cheng invited Gu Yanzhang again and advised: "Old general, I will leave it to you here." ”

"Wu Anhou, this is ......," Gu Yanzhang vaguely guessed what Wang Cheng was going to do next.

Wang Cheng nodded and said: "It's not a way to go on like this, the fighters are fought, and after a while, Wang Cheng will personally lead three thousand iron horsemen to storm the city gate of Anping County and force them to come out for a decisive battle." ”

Gu Yanzhang didn't stop it, because he also knew that this was the most effective way at the moment.

Wang Cheng handed over the order flag to Gu Yanzhang, clasped his fists and said, "Please old general!" ”

Gu Yanzhang took the order flag and returned the salute: "I will not disgrace my mission!" Wu Anhou be careful! ”

Wang Cheng nodded, whistled, and a blue light appeared beside him, it was the mount Qinglei.

He turned over and got on his horse, casually took off the tiger-headed Zhan golden gun on Qinglei's back, and shouted: "Ironclad Army!" ”

"In!"

"In!"

……

Three thousand cavalry drove their horses to the scene, each wearing a brand new piece of iron armor, shiny and shiny, which was the "trophies" captured from Tongling Town.

"Charge with me!"

Wang Cheng didn't talk nonsense, he only said this, and rode the green thunder to Anping County.

Three thousand horsemen followed closely and killed them together.

There were crossbow arrows flying everywhere in the sky, and they were basically shot by the Lingzhou army.

After using the "three-stage shot", the defenders of Anping County on the opposite side suppressed by the Lingzhou Army could not raise their heads.

In fact, it was also for this reason that Wang Cheng dared to lead the cavalry to attack Anping County.

Qinglong stood on the city tower, seeing that Wang Cheng's cavalry was getting closer and closer to Anping County, and the defenders under his command were so suppressed that they did not dare to raise their heads, he felt anxious in his heart.

He knew Wang Cheng's purpose very well, once they approached the city, the gate of Anping County would be absolutely unstoppable.

As soon as he thought of this, he shouted towards the city: "Wang Xuanfu has already led three thousand iron horsemen to kill, and our crossbowmen are suppressed and unable to shoot, can you force people back for me with your weapon?" Don't let them come close! ”

"Don't worry! Green Dragon Boss! Lao Zhu, my weapon is much more powerful than a catapult, you just wait and see! ”