When the mounted cavalry broke into range, it immediately rained arrows, and the arrows rained down and flew towards the mounted cavalry.

"Humph!" Seeing that the rain of arrows was dense, and the charging enemy army was only five hundred horsemen, Zhang Heng snorted disdainfully.

But in the next moment, the dense rain of arrows hit the mounted cavalry, and Zhang Heng was dumbfounded. Because as soon as those arrows came into contact with the mounted cavalry, not only did they fail to shoot through the armor on their bodies, but they were bounced off by the armor. After the rain of arrows fell, not a single cavalry in gear fell, and the momentum of the charge did not decrease at all.

Han Sui, Ma Wan, and Cheng Gongying on Lufu City not far away all saw the operation of Xiliang Tieqi. Although he was as calm as Han Sui and Cheng Gongying, he couldn't help but be amazed, and his mouth opened slightly in surprise, dumbfounded, and he couldn't speak for a while.

And Ma Yu froze in place, taken aback, and shouted, "What?!" Jin Ma Chao actually thought of such a clever plan?! With armor and cavalry, you can completely block the rain of arrows shot downward by the defenders of Anmi Castle, so that you can calmly throw sandbags under the city walls?! Now I understand, I understand everything, Jin Ma Chao is going to use sandbags to accumulate a gentle slope that is flush with the city wall, so that his sharp iron horse can step on the gentle slope and rush to the city wall that is impossible to rush to in one fell swoop! Under such an offensive, there is no city that cannot be captured! ”

Han Sui couldn't help but gasp, and then sighed softly. gasped because he didn't expect Jin Ma Chao to think of such a simple and powerful siege method; He sighed because he knew that maybe Anmi City would be breached today. No, maybe Lufu City will be breached today as well.

Seeing Han Sui's expression of despair and grief, Cheng Gongying immediately relieved: "Don't worry, your lord, although it seems that this method can be used in the attack on any city, it is invincible. But in fact, if the arrows are sharp and powerful enough, the armor can be easily pierced, and the cavalry will also be shot. Even if the bow and arrow can't hurt it, only if the defenders of a city are prepared with enough rolling stones, sassal wood, gold juice, etc., they can be stoned, crushed, and scalded to death by mounted cavalry! ”

Han Sui closed his eyes in despair and said, "Boying, have you forgotten? First, our army does not have any powerful crossbows capable of shooting through heavy and sturdy armor; Second, Lufu City and Anmi City are located in a large grassland desert, so our army has no rolling stones or sassal trees! As for the golden juice, it was too late to prepare. ”

Golden juice, that is, the dung is collected and boiled until it boils. Pouring gold juice on a person will not only cause severe burns, but also many microorganisms in the feces have not been killed by the heat, and can cause serious infections as soon as they come into contact with the burn wounds. And in this backward era, without disinfectant water, if you are scalded by gold juice, you will definitely die.

When Cheng Gongying heard this, he immediately lost his mind, and then said frantically: "Then let's tear down the bricks of the houses in the city and use them to smash them!" You will definitely be able to smash all the few equipped cavalry of Jinma Chao to death! ”

Han Sui sighed heavily, didn't speak, and unconsciously had a few more wrinkles on his face, and the whole person looked a lot older.

Ma Yu said: "Mr. Chenggong, you have forgotten that the houses in Lufu City are all made of mud bricks. The mud bricks shattered when they were smashed, and they couldn't kill anyone. If you smash too much, you will build another dirt slope for the enemy. ”

"Ahh Cheng Gongying shouted frantically.

At this time, Cherrigi had already led the mounted cavalry to rush under the city walls.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! Zhang Heng, who understood this, shouted frantically, and the crossbowmen on the city of Anmi radiated wave after wave of arrows, shooting a large area of the city full of dense arrows, so dense that some arrows pierced the end of another arrow, and then inserted it in the place where the arrow was. Despite this, the mounted cavalry remained unscathed, except for the sound of "clanging" on the armor.

Cherrigi and other mounted cavalry came to the city wall, and Cherrigi led the way and threw sandbags at the base of the wall, and ran away. The mounted cavalry who followed him followed suit, throwing sandbags at the walls. In just one round, a thousand sandbags were dropped. The sandbags were the size of a child, so with this throw, the slope was not low, six feet high.

Zhang Heng threw away his helmet in shock, grabbed his hair impatiently, and walked around the city wall, but he couldn't think of any way. Send your troops out of town and throw sandbags away? Zhang Heng thought, no, no! Ma Dai was watching from the sidelines, and he was afraid that as soon as the troops left the city, they would be defeated by the cavalry led by Ma Dai. Don't throw away the sandbags and move them, the mounted cavalry will come a few more times, and the sandbags will be stacked at the level of the city wall! What can I do?

Just when Zhang Heng was impatient, under the city, the Cheriji wind gear cavalry had already brought sandbags again, concocted them in the same way, and rushed towards the pile of sandbags that had accumulated on the city wall.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows quickly!" Zhang Heng shouted heartbreakingly, "Xiu Xiu Xiu", and the nervous crossbowmen shot a large rain of arrows into the city, hitting the mounted cavalry, and a loud "clanging" sound sounded.

At this time, Zhang Heng suddenly had an idea, and saw that there were several soldiers on the city wall directly above the sandbag pile, he rushed over and raised his foot to kick those soldiers off the city wall and fell on top of the sandbag pile.

"Ahh Six unfortunate Han Suijun soldiers fell heavily on the sandbags, but fortunately the sandbags were soft and had been piled up to a height of six feet, so they were not injured.

Zhang Heng poked his head down from the battlements, pointed at the six soldiers who fell on the pile of sandbags, and shouted: "Don't be stunned, quickly throw away and knock down the sandbags!" ”

Only then did the six soldiers scramble to lift the sandbags and throw them to the left and right. However, Zhang Heng chose the timing of kicking people down too poorly, and actually chose to come when the mounted cavalry arrived, not after the mounted cavalry left.

The mounted cavalry marched up, and Cherrigi didn't bother to kill these unlucky guys, and threw sandbags directly at them. The 500 men did the same, and they took turns throwing sandbags at the pile. After throwing it, the six soldiers who had been kicked off the city wall by Zhang Heng had been buried alive with a thousand sandbags.

But Zhang Hengcai didn't care about this, and when he saw that the mounted cavalry threw down the sandbags again, piling them up one foot and two feet high, he quickly grabbed dozens of soldiers and kicked them down, ordering them to quickly throw away the sandbags and destroy the sandbag pile.

This worked, dozens of soldiers threw away more than 400 sandbags, reducing the height of the sandbag pile to nine feet high, and Zhang Heng dared to wipe the sweat from his forehead. But when the mounted cavalry returned again with sandbags, the situation changed dramatically, and the dozens of soldiers who had broken the sandbags were afraid that they would also be buried alive by the sandbags. Some were killed by the mounted cavalry, while others were smarter and bypassed the mounted cavalry and ran to Madaina to surrender.

The pile of sandbags was piled up again, to a height of one and a half feet. Zhang Heng was crazy again, all he thought about was kicking people down to destroy the sandbag pile, but when he turned his head to look at the soldiers around him, he saw that the soldiers were all avoiding him from a distance, and no one wanted to be kicked down. Zhang Heng still grabbed more than a hundred people and kicked them down, but as just now, the sandbag pile had not been lowered much, and the mounted cavalry came again and raised the sandbag pile again.

In the midst of Zhang Heng's heart-rending shouts, Cherrigi led the mounted cavalry back and forth several times, and the sandbags increased at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally leveled with the low Anmi city wall, and formed a wide dirt slope, and some sandbags were even thrown onto the Anmi city wall.

Ma Dai was overjoyed and ordered Cherrigi to lead the mounted cavalry as the vanguard and rush to the dirt slope first, while he led the remaining 2,500 horsemen to follow him and charge together.

Seeing that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under the city launched the final general attack, all Zhang Heng's unwillingness disappeared, and he closed his eyes in despair.

However, Zhang Heng decided to make a last ditch effort, and he gathered the entire city defender to concentrate on a section of the city wall where the soil slope was located, preparing to intercept the enemy troops rushing up the wall. At the front of the line were rows of shields, and behind the shields were rows of spearmen, and Zhang Heng ordered them to line up in an extremely tight formation, with the spears on top of the shields, and they were united against the dirt slope.

Although Cherrigi's mounted cavalry was heavily armoured, they were still fast and rushed up the dirt slope because the horses they rode were rare horses. When the two armies met, the armored cavalry erupted into a fierce shout, which shook the heavens and the earth.

Cherrigi was the first, and without hesitation, he slammed headlong into the wall formed by the shield. As soon as it collided, the huge potential energy brought by the war horse, coupled with the extremely hard armor, directly smashed through the two shields, and the two shield soldiers holding the shields were instantly smashed to pieces. The war horse did not stop at all, and continued to gallop with a roar, and immediately knocked down the three layers of shields, and the spears could not pierce the armor and broke one after another. A cry of pain rang out, and the shields overwhelmed the spearmen behind them. As soon as the mounted cavalry that followed Cherrigi rushed down the city wall, they immediately washed the beach like a huge wave, and the infantry formation prepared by Zhang Heng completely collapsed.

"Hold it off for me! Resist! In the midst of the screams of pain, Zhang Heng's impatient commands could not be heard at all, not even the sound of bones, shields, and spears breaking.

After the complete collapse of the shield, it was even more difficult for the infantry behind to stop it. In addition, the city wall was not so spacious, and the mounted cavalry rushed to both sides of the city wall, knocking the defenders of Anmi Castle off the city wall. The mounted cavalry also wielded spears, charging and killing while wielding spears to knock the enemy off the walls. The situation is irreversible.

The defenders who had not yet been rushed and lined up in the back retreated, and no one dared to meet the steel fortress of the mounted cavalry with their flesh and blood. It's just that in a short period of time, a large section of the city wall was occupied by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and continued to expand to the left and right. After all the mounted cavalry rushed up the city wall and spread out on both sides, Ma Dai led another 2,500 cavalry to rush up, and soon the city gate tower was also occupied by Cherrigi's mounted cavalry. Seeing this, Zhang Heng knew that the general trend had gone, and immediately led more than 2,000 horsemen to escape from the city wall and fled towards another city gate in the opposite direction.