On the Chuzhou front, the temptation of the enemy and us has reached the late stage, and in five days, the division has launched seven attacks on the battalion, usually choosing to do it in the early morning or at night, and one day it is even killed.

Each raid is three or five hundred people, more than a thousand people, in fact, it is a temptation, Xu Xuanjie naturally knows his intentions, every day during the day, he will carry the captured heads with spears in front of the city gate and scold, because their bows and arrows can only shoot a distance of 100 zhang.

The officers and soldiers on the city wall were full of anger and tried to go out of the city to chase and kill them again and again, but they were all stopped by Shen Lin, and the anxious Zhang Wei and Guo Shiguang scolded loudly.

On the eighth day, that is, on the sixth day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Shenwu, the two sides died down, but it was unusual, and the two sides chose to supply on this day, and the rations of the 100,000 army were not a joke.

"There must be someone behind this division, otherwise they wouldn't have forbearance and won't attack until now......" Even Ning Yuanwen was so sure, Xu Xuanjie smiled: "If there is no military advisor or something, they can't go now, now that both sides are almost tentative, the decisive battle should be soon......"

Xu Xuanjie's subordinates, according to the two military orders, were issued by Gao Yu, who was sitting firmly in the Chinese army fifty miles behind him.

When he arrived in the city for seven days without fighting, he was identified by Gao Yu as delaying the fighter, but the more this was the case, the more Xu Xuanjie was not in a hurry, and only replied to that sentence every time: "The general is outside, and the military order is not subject to it." ”

Xu Xuanjie looked at the sky that was gradually darkening, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Did you hear anything?" The soldiers guarding the city glanced at the city tower, as far as the eye could see, it was like a dead silence, the wind in the first half of the night still carried the heat of the day, especially the city wall of ten zhang in the east of the city, the soldiers in the urn city put out the fire, today the grain and grass were delivered, everyone had a full meal, and even some people secretly drank some wine in groups of three or five.

"What can happen? Small fights, ten-zhang city walls, if you attack the city, you will definitely use towers, so big movements, you can hear them two miles away. Qianhu, who was guarding the city, looked around with a smile, and then said with a smile: "Hehe, I see, the army of this court is nothing more than this, I only know how to scold, and I haven't seen much of the means of attacking the city, no wonder it will be defeated by the Turkic barbarians, hehe, it's just a group of rats, it's just a surface." ”

"Tonight must be fine, thousands of households just eat and drink." The two white households around him walked towards the city tower with a thousand households, the wine and meat had been prepared, and they thought that they would start a war directly, but now they had nothing to do for seven days, and this tense nerve gradually eased.

"Let's go, eat and drink......" The thousand households laughed, patted their stomachs and walked towards the castle tower, as if they remembered something.

His face was slightly gloomy, his footsteps paused, and he stopped at the corner of the lower city wall, and the two hundred households also paused: "What's the matter, my lord?" But what have you forgotten? The small ones are going to get them back. ”

The thousand households frowned, and suddenly asked, "Have people ever come to shout and insult today?" ”

The two looked at each other and shook their heads again and again: "Today is a day of stopping, presumably seeing that this method is invalid, I will stop it." ”

The thousand households slapped the saber on their waists, shouted badly, turned back, picked up the bow and arrow that was on the side of the wall, rolled up the tarpaulin, and pressed towards the torch, and the hind foot stopped, and the rocket swooped into the air and fell towards a hundred feet.

The "bell ......" the rocket made a sound of metal impact, and at night, Qianhu looked at the landing point, and when he heard this sound, his heart was chuckled, and then with the rocket as the center, there was a fire.

In the firelight, rows of officers and soldiers holding shields and carrying ladders appeared as far as the eye could see.

"Not good, alert...... Enemy attack ......"

Qianhu shouted, pulled out the saber in his hand and prepared to meet the enemy, the faces of the two Baihu changed greatly, how did so many people come out of the night?

"Archer, prepare ......" in front of the archers on duty, light the fire, draw the bow, shoot the arrow.

Under the firelight, suddenly there was the sound of earth-shaking thunder drums, followed by the sound of shouting and killing, which roared from hundreds of feet away.

"Go and tell the generalissimo, light the wolf smoke, and meet the enemy at the four gates......" Qianhu shouted, he only had 10,000 horses at the east gate, if the enemy army poured into the nest, he couldn't stop such a few people, not to mention that they had rushed to within a hundred zhang, the archers fired a volley, there were only five hundred arrows, and the five hundred people in rotation were still resting in the urn city.

After a round of salvo, the original second round could not keep up at all, in a panic, the ladder has been erected, and the lights are bright in the dark night, only to see two towers of more than ten zhang under the protection of the shield soldiers, step by step forward, has entered a hundred zhang.

Qianhu only then saw the whole picture of the tower of the Ning family's army, the bottom is the siege ram surrounded by three people, hanging on the base like a pendulum, there are four wooden wheels in front and back, each wooden wheel is more than one person high, up are three platforms, there are archers, shield soldiers and sword and axe hands standing in turn, although the number is not much, but the momentum is very large, such a behemoth, as long as it is pushed to the bottom of the city, it can continue to surge up from the stairs, unless the tower is burned perfectly.

"Fire Attack ......"

Barrels of oil smashed down from the city, accompanied by the light of the fire to form a sea of fire under the city, the ladder was set up, and at the front end of the ladder, there was a group of tiger claw barbs, firmly rooted into the city wall.

"Ah......h

The sound of fighting and screaming are endless, black smoke is billowing out, covering the sky and the sun, some people are on fire all over their bodies, rolling down from the cloud ladder several zhang high, some are covered in blood, wipe their scarlet eyes, under the stimulation of the bloody breath, they have already killed the red eyes, some of them are hit by arrows, one arrow is broken, raise the spear and stab, no matter who he is, no one who stands in my way is left.

"My lord, there are too many people, there are too many people......"

"Fuck, keep it for me, keep ......"

"All four gates are being attacked, retreat to the inner wall, Lord ......"

"Retreat into the interior wall? Damn, the city wall can't be defended, if you enter the urn city, can you fucking hold it when you enter the urn city? Fight them back, and those who break the order will be beheaded ......"

The thousand households shouted, slashed the admonisher to the ground with a knife, raised their arms and shouted.

When the soldiers behind him saw this scene, they were like being beaten with chicken blood, and once again launched a charge, forcing all the dozens of people who had already climbed the city tower to retreat and kill them.

At the same time, the Si Xingfang in the Taishou Mansion frowned, just put on his battle robe, held Changshuo in his hand, and walked outside the hall.

The shouts of killing had come from all directions, and the siege was caught off guard, causing the Manichaeism to be in chaos for a while, and the four walls of the city were attacked almost at the same time.

In the judgment of Shen Lin and Wei Zhong, the north side of Chuzhou City is high, and it is bound to give full play to the advantage of the surprise attack and rush down directly from the north side, so 30,000 people were deployed at the north gate to defend, and the four arrow towers were well stocked, and the city wall was also re-reinforced.

And the remaining three gates, 5,000 soldiers were left in the urn city, 10,000 were defended by the city wall, and the remaining 25,000 people, 5,000 people were used as logistics baggage transportation to quickly transport the ordnance, armor, and food in Chuzhou City to the front line, and the remaining 20,000 people were used as mobile forces, led by the division and the Xingfang, to mobilize and supplement the defense at any time, as long as they did not have the ability to eat Chuzhou City, Chuzhou City could not be broken.

When they are short of food and grass, and when it comes to the rainy season, they will raid again and repel them in one fell swoop.