Ma Chao said "Okay", and put an arrow on top of the crossbow. According to the different parts of the force, the crossbow is also divided into arm tension crossbow, waist lead crossbow, and kick tension crossbow. This crossbow is a crossbow, but Ma Chao is so brave that he doesn't need to lie down and open the bow at all, he directly pushes it with his hand, and then tears the crossbow apart and pulls the bowstring to his teeth. The onlookers saw Ma Chao open the crossbow, but they didn't need to lie down and kick it open with their legs, they easily pulled it away with only one hand, and it didn't take much effort, and the guards burst into high cheers.

Ma Chao took aim at the armor with his crossbow, took a cursory look at the engraved Wangshan, and then pulled the suspension knife, which was equivalent to the trigger of a pistol. As soon as the hanging knife moved, the arrow galloped, and an arrow shot straight at the armor, and after the shot, there was a sound, and the arrow was immediately bounced away, and immediately fell to the ground. Ma Chao took a closer look, and it turned out that the armor on Cherrigi's body only had a white spot, that is, the paint had been shot off. Ma Chao reached out and touched the armor and found that the armor was just a little dented.

Now, Ma Chao was relieved. Jia Xu walked to Ma Chao's side and said, "Young master, since the armor and cavalry equipment can be used, then you can not be afraid of the bows and crossbows and arrows of the Han army, and you can use the armor and cavalry equipment to get close to the city." The next step is to let our soldiers climb up to the city wall. On this point, the subordinates have a plan. ”

Ma Chao said happily: "What is the plan? ”

Jia Xu said: "You can fill the sack with sand, and throw the armor and riding equipment under the city wall of Anmi, and pile it up into a slope. ”

Ma Chao smiled, he knew that the method of sandbags and slopes was thought of by Genghis Khan when he was attacking the city. Ma Chao said with a smile: "Then the iron horse can follow the slope made of sandbags and rush directly to the city!" ”

"Exactly!" Jia Xu bowed his head slightly.

"Cherrigie!" Ma Chao shouted.

Cherrigi immediately ran over and knelt down and said, "The last will be!" ”

Ma Chao said: "I stipulate that from today onwards, this armor and cavalry will be officially separated from the guard camp and listed as a separate section, temporarily named 'Heavy Cavalry Song', and you will be the military marquis!" ”

Cherrigi was overjoyed, bowed his head, and said, "Cherrigi thanks the young lord for his kindness!" ”

Immediately, Ma Chao gathered all the generals and ordered the soldiers of the whole army to take sacks to the desert to load sand. The soldiers thought that Ma Chao was going to build another new camp, and it was soon filled with more than 6,000 sandbags. Ma Chao ordered the sergeants to carry sandbags and leave the camp.

The first to enter Ma Chao's field of vision was An Mi City. Because the defender of Anmi City is Zhang Heng, Zhang Heng is easier to defeat than Han Sui; Moreover, Anmi City is also smaller and has fewer defenders, so Ma Chao plans to use Anmi City as a breakthrough and test point first.

However, in order to prevent Han Sui from leading his main army out of Lufu City to rescue Anmi City, Liu Fan ordered Ma Dai to lead 3,000 cavalry, including Chongqi Qu, as the part to attack Anmi City, while he led the remaining 17,000 cavalry to surround Lufu City.

Ma Dai quickly understood the strategy of Ma Chao and Jia Xu, and while Ma Chao led the main force to surround Lufu City, he also led 3,000 cavalry to Lin'an Mi City, beating drums and being magnificent.

The long-lost drum sound, which had never sounded a few days ago, resounded between Lufu City and Anmi City at this moment, and immediately put the defenders of Lufu City and Anmi City on alert.

Zhang Heng, the defender of Anmi City, heard that the Xiliang army was going to attack the city, so he hurried to the city wall, looked down, and his hurried heart immediately calmed down. He saw that Ma Dai had only brought no more than 3,000 horsemen to battle under the city, and Ma Chao led the main army to surround Lufu City. However, with 3,000 horsemen and no siege equipment, he wanted to capture Anmi City, which was garrisoned by him and thousands of men and horses, Zhang Heng thought that Ma Dai must have a problem with his brain, so he would seek a way out.

But what made Zhang Heng feel strange was that there was a large pile of sandbags next to Ma Daijun, and the sandbags were piled up into a small mountain. However, Zhang Heng didn't care, he thought, this must be the Xiliang army wanted to use sandbags to accumulate into a mountain, higher than the city wall, and send people to investigate the situation in Anmi City on the earth mountain. However, Zhang Heng thought to himself, even if the sandbags were piled up very high, and the Xiliang army could overlook the entire Anmi City from the dirt mountain, it would be useless, and it would not be able to attack the well-defended Anmi City.

On the side of Lufu City, which is only twenty miles away from Anmi City, Han Sui, Cheng Gongying, and Ma Wan also heard the sound of drums.

Ma Yu was a little apprehensive and said: "The Xiliang army has been scolding our army for the past few days, why did you suddenly beat the drum today?" ”

Cheng Gongying walked up the stairs and walked up the city wall, his expression was a little solemn, and he said: "It's hard to guarantee that the siege equipment of the Xiliang Army has arrived, and Ma Chao is impatient to attack the city." ”

Han Sui also climbed the stairs and said, "No way! Jincheng is so far away from here, Ma Chao's siege equipment must still be on the way, far from arriving here. ”

"That's strange, could it be that Ma Chao thought of some other strategy to attack the city?" Horse play said.

Cheng Gongying said: "General and relax, although Jin Ma Chao has a strategy, we may not be able to block it!" ”

The three of them climbed the city gate tower and looked down, a large number of Xiliang iron horsemen were surrounding Lufu City on all sides, and they were waiting five hundred steps away from the range of the bow and crossbow. Looking at the Xiliang Iron Cavalry formation from a distance, thousands of thunders rise, and thousands of horses are in chaos, which is really violent.

Han Sui put his hands on the battlements and looked over, and saw that it was Ma Chao who came out in person among the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and set up a banner of "Shenwei General Horse" in the formation. However, what made Han Sui feel a little relaxed was that although it was Ma Chao who came out in person, Xiliang Tieqi did not bring any siege equipment such as ladder cars, city vehicles, well carts, and trebuchets.

After Ma Yu saw it, he said disdainfully: "What kind of trick do I have for Jinma Chao, I don't even have siege equipment, so I dare to offend my Lufu City, which has 30,000 defenders, it's really a mistake!" ”

Cheng Gongying's eyesight was excellent, and when he saw that there were mountains of sandbags behind the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Formation, he said, "That's not right! Look, the enemy army also brought a lot of sandbags. ”

Han Sui looked at it, and sure enough, it was a large pile of sandbags piled up as high as a city wall. Han Sui immediately became alert again and said, "What is Jin Ma Chao doing with so many sandbags? Do you want to pile up a mountain of dirt so that you can probe the situation of the defenders in my Lufu City, and then find the weak point of my Lufu City's defense and launch a siege? ”

Cheng Gongying thought nervously for a moment and said, "That's probably the case." The subordinates really can't figure out what other uses Jinma Chao can have. ”

Han Sui shook his head when he heard this, and said, "No, no, it's so easy to think clearly, Jin Ma Chao shouldn't use it easily, because he must know that the old man will think of what he will do." With so many sandbags, there must be other uses for Jinma Chao. ”

The horse said suspiciously, "What is that for?" ”

Han Sui shook his head and said, "The old man hasn't thought of it for the time being, but what is certain is that Jin Ma Chao must have another plan, a plan that can successfully attack the city, but it is difficult for us to think of it." ”

Han Sui, Ma Wan, and Cheng Gongying immediately became nervous, although the Ma Chao army under the city was far away from Lufu City, and they had no plans to attack the city, but they were quietly waiting for the formation, and the formation never changed.

Cheng Gongying looked away at An Micheng, and suddenly saw the situation in Ma Dai, and said, "Lord, look! The Ma Dai army under Anmi City also piled up a pile of sandbags, just like this! ”

After Han Sui saw it, he said: "Ma Chao must want to use Anmi City as the first place where he uses sandbags, if Anmi City can be captured, then he will definitely apply his method to attack Lufu City intact." ”

Ma Yu said suspiciously: "Since Anmi City and Lufu City have the same sandbags, why does Jin Ma Chao wait to capture Anmi City first before attacking my Lufu City, why don't you attack the two cities together?" Wouldn't that be more time-saving? ”

Cheng Gongying thought for a while, his face was solemn, and he said: "Jin Ma Chao must have another siege tool in addition to sandbags, and it can only be used in Anmi City for a while. Only after Anmi City is captured, can Jin Ma Chao mobilize that other tool and come to attack my Lufu City! ”

"And what is that kind of paraphernalia?" Horse play asked.

Cheng Gongying was irritated by his question, and said, "If I had known, I would have said it a long time ago!" ”

Han Sui said: "Then I'll just wait and see what kind of plan Jinma Chao will make!" ”

At this moment, Ma Dai ordered: "Cherrighi! ”

"The last general!"

Ma Dai said, "You take the armor and horses, each of you takes two sandbags, runs to the city wall on the right side of the Anmi City Gate, and throws the sandbags under the city wall." After throwing it, come back and get the sandbag, throw it under the wall, and so on until the sandbag is level with the wall, and remember to be tired into a gentle slope shape! ”

"Order! Brethren, go! After Cherrigi replied, he immediately waved his hand and led the armored horsemen, who had already put on their helmets and armor, and rushed to the sandbag pile.

And next to the sandbag, Ma Dai had already arranged for the sergeant to be there. The armor mounted in a line and quickly passed by the sandbag pile, and the sergeant next to the sandbag pile handed each of the mounted cavalrymen two sandbags. After receiving the sandbags, the mounted cavalry left in an orderly manner, went around a circle, turned around and ran towards the city of Anmi behind them.

"What are the people of Xiliang doing?" Although Zhang Heng was very puzzled and couldn't see through what Xiliang Tieqi was doing, he saw that Xiliang Tieqi was acting abnormally, and he instinctively became impatient.

Cheriji led the cavalrymen who had already had two large sandbags in their hands and rushed to Anmi City, five hundred horsemen, all of them were armored, from the head to the feet of the horses were covered with heavy armor, revealing only two human eyes and two horse eyes, and four horse legs, and they rushed like a mountain shaking, and the momentum was violent.

Zhang Heng was taken aback, although he couldn't understand why the Xiliang people wanted to rush towards the city with heavy cavalry, he still immediately ordered: "Crossbowmen prepare, aim at those enemy troops who rush into the range!" ”

The defenders of Anmi City couldn't understand the plans of the Xiliang people even more than Zhang Heng, so they hurriedly opened their crossbows and aimed at the mounted cavalry who were charging towards the city.