Liang Guo, Taikang City.

On the field, the catapult was pushed onto the siege line by the Xuanwu army, and the stones thrown out crossed the bright sunlight and smashed on the quaint city wall with exotic colors, making a heavy and muffled sound of 'bang'.

The splashed stone chips flew around, and on the city wall that stretched left and right, a cloud ladder was hanging on the wall stack, and the crowd was like an ant colony climbing up frantically.

Hysterical shouts and screams resounded above and below the city, arrows rose and fell on the city like swarms of locusts, blood continued to flow down the city, and the soldiers who climbed up covered the wounds of their wounds, screaming and falling down the city wall.

The fierce battle for the siege of the city walls began on the last day of May.

Qi 210,000 troops descended into the territory of Liang State, although some people died and some people were injured, but there was the main force of Xia State, plus the emperor accompanied them, they were more heroic than when they were in Qi State, and the generals continued to urge the soldiers to be fearless of death, just thinking that their names could appear in the merit book of the Emperor of Xia State.

The main force of this siege was the Xuanwu Army of Qi State, and the leading general was a general named Han Jinsu, and the deputy general Zhao Taosheng.

At the beginning, I heard that the general defending the city was the Liang State Sect Tuoba Zongji, and the five generals here wanted to take the lead, so they drew lots to decide who would attack.

In the end, Han Jinsu drew the lot, and from morning to noon, both battalions were transferred to participate in the siege of the city, but neither of them stood firm on the city wall, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded, almost one and a half battalions of troops.

"Let the third battalion prepare, I don't believe that I can't take a section of the city wall today!"

Han Jinsu was also stimulated by the tragic siege, and after fighting for a morning, he didn't even stand firm in a section of the city wall, and so many soldiers died in vain, if he gave up, in front of the other four generals, it would be difficult for him to speak with face in the future.

He looked into the distance, was hitting the city gate of the rushing car, was damp by the fire oil poured on the city tower, a Liang Guo archer reached out of the city wall, shot a fire arrow, just poured fire oil instantly in the air into a sea of fire, covering the lower one by one holding shields to protect the rushing car and the soldiers of the comrades, the city tower suddenly flames.

The fiery figure rushed out heartbreakingly, and then was shot to the ground by the archers at the head of the city, and some who were not hit by arrows rolled on the ground covered in fire and burned alive.

On the tower of the city, Tuoba Zong was holding a long knife, he was covered in armor, armed to the teeth, he was born with great strength, and he waved the heavy soldiers in his hands, and he also had the strength of a thousand catties.

The blade was raised, fell, and directly hooked the ladder hanging on the wall, chopped it to pieces, and the siege Xuanwu soldiers who climbed up by the ladder fell down the city wall together with the ladder.

"Haha-"

He wore a heavy iron helmet on his head, covered with layers of armor and neck armor, which protected his neck tightly, even if the sweat soaked through the clothes inside, he didn't feel uncomfortable at this time.

He laughed loudly in his mouth, and his voice was loud: "The dogs of the Xia Kingdom, take a good look at the heroism of the men in the northwest!" ”

The high-pitched shout of the Tuoba Sect greatly boosted the morale of the Tuoba soldiers at the head of the city, and the generals at all levels led their soldiers to continue to fight.

The 'doglegs' in his words naturally referred to the Qi army that attacked Taikang, and in the distance, Han Jinsu, who commanded the siege, heard his words from afar, and his nose was crooked.

Then, Han Jinsu pulled out his sword, pointed at the head of the city, and also shot back with loud words: "The Son of Heaven of Qi has surrendered, how can I wait for the courtiers not to surrender, and I will kill you if you want to take advantage of your tongue and capture the city wall today!" ”

As early as five days ago, the five generals sent a letter of persuasion to each other, hoping that Tuoba Zongju would not resist stubbornly, protect the people in the city, and surrender to the emperor of Xia.

Tuoba Zongju not only refused, but also slashed the messenger who sent the letter, and when he got to the back, Su Chen, the son of the Xia Kingdom, ordered the attack to come down, and the five of them would attack Taikang no matter what!

Before attacking Taikang, they also inquired about the situation, Tuoba Zongji was quite capable of fighting in the Liang clan, and before the expedition, he not only brought Tuoba tribesmen and soldiers, but also the Fushan and Trek armies given by the Emperor of Liang.

These two armies are the armies that Liang Guo has built with all his might in the past two years, plus the soldiers and horses of the counties and counties under Taikang's rule are all concentrated in the city, and the number of people defending the city has almost risen to 60,000, and the young and strong people in the city have been recruited one after another, and if you want to conquer it in a short time, I am afraid it will not be so easy.

But the flames of war are burning, and the two terrifying armies in the hands of Emperor Xia will act at any time, and whether Taikang City will be breached is actually only a matter of time.

The Tuoba Sect on the city tower actually knows this truth, but the Liang State belongs to his Tuoba tribe, as a clan, he has no reason to retreat Once he retreats, there may be no Liang State in the future, let alone the Tuoba Tribe.

"My Tuoba clan, rooted in the northwest for more than 300 years, and founded the country for 275 years, how can it be destroyed!"

He walked to the battlement, the long knife in his hand, and at the same time as he slashed a Xuanwu soldier who climbed up, the blade smashed on the wall, and his voice was sonorous and powerful, and he shouted outside the city: "You are waiting to surrender the army, how can you be qualified to talk about this truth with us and other loyal and righteous people for the country, and you are not ashamed!" ”

The sound was dignified, like a wind knife blowing in the northwest.

The sun crossed the middle and was slightly skewed, and the siege continued after a short break.

The Xuanwu army that attacked the city in the morning had been withdrawn and put on the field in the southeast corner to rest, and it was Xu Jinwu's Zanwei army that went up to attack again.

The style of play of the five generals Xu Mao, Xu Jinwu, Tong Ju, Han Jinsu, and Zhao Ji'an is the traditional siege method of feints and forcible attacks on three gates.

After all, it was the first day, and there was a sense of testing the strength of the other party's defense.

Xu Jinwu's Zanwei army was replaced, and it was directly two battalions that swarmed towards the Taikang city wall, and the sound of shouting and the blood of the battle covered everything.

The reaccumulated rocks were thrown at the city wall with all their might, so much so that in an hour of fighting, seven of the more than twenty catapults were damaged, and the soldiers of the Zanwei army who climbed the ladder to kill the city wall did not make much progress.

Rolling logs and gravel were constantly thrown down the walls.

The boiling gold juice was turned down from the city by the soldiers of the Liang State, poured on the siege soldiers on the cloud ladder, and the Zanwei soldiers gathered under the cloud ladder were instantly swollen and festered by the hot gold juice.

The archers under the city wall shot as they walked, but unfortunately there were shields and wall battlements in the city as cover, and the arrows shot out rarely shot down the soldiers of the Liang Kingdom.

On the contrary, the Liang army defending the city continued to throw stones and rolling wood, and the Qi army continued to knock down the city wall, and the arrows shot were condescending, easily knocking the dense figures below to the ground.

Even so, the Zanwei army continued to climb the city wall with swords and spears, and the soldiers who hesitated or retreated to escape from such a terrible siege would be caught and executed on the spot by the overseers in the rear.

At the head of the city, Tuoba Zongju returned to the city tower to drink water to relieve fatigue, and then looked at the movement from the other three gates, at this time, once the other three gates had the intention of attacking, he turned around and went to the town to defend there, but the soldiers defending the city would not move.

"It's time!"

He stood up, lifted his gray head, looked at the skewed sun, and counted the time.

In a short time, Taikang's offensive and defensive battles were still raging, firmly sucking the soldiers and horses of Qi State on the city wall.

At this time, between the hills to the west, a large cloud of dust was raised, and a cavalry army quickly jumped out of the mountains.

This army was dressed in black iron armor, obviously had changed mounts, the armored war horses showed no signs of fatigue, fast and full of might, the banner of the Liang State hunted in the wind, this is the eight thousand iron cavalry in the 10,000 Fushan army, the heavy cavalry built with the strength of the whole country, and the other two thousand, are servant light horses.

Looking down from the sky, the dense waves that seemed to be churning over the field pushed forward on the field, and the scouts who galloped through the field spotted the sudden appearance of the cavalry coming this way, and their servants came with light horses, chasing these scouts like hunters in the mountains.

By the time Xu Mao and other generals on the siege side knew the news, the eight thousand iron cavalry of Liang State was already less than two miles away.

At this time, it was Tong Ju's Yang Lie army who feinted to attack the west gate, more than 37,000 people, and after receiving the order from Xu Mao, he left 10,000 people to continue to make a feint posture towards the west gate of Taikang.

The remaining 27,000 men turned around and formed a formation in the field leading to the southern gate.

Attacking the city all the way, the general of the Yang Lie Army was more or less underestimated the enemy, and felt that the Liang army was just like this, hoping that the other party would see his soldiers and horses, and stop advancing and confront him.

However, the Fushan army of the Liang State that rushed all the way did not hesitate at all, and the eight thousand iron cavalry turned into two strands, and led the servants to ride lightly and raise a long smoke and dust on the field, directly bypassing the military formation in the middle, and instead rushed towards the left and right flanks of the Yanglie army three miles away.

Tong Ju had somewhat learned about the fighting style of the Liang army in Xu Mao's mouth, but at the moment, the opponent's cavalry was completely different from the Liang army's fighting style in the other party's mouth, and only used 4,500 cavalry to rush to the left and right flanks of the double Yang Lie army.

It's too much like the cavalry under the command of the Emperor of Xia.

When he thought like this, the left and right flanks, which were separated by three miles, had already reported the battle, the formation was directly chiseled, the army collapsed, and the soldiers were killed and broke out, and fled everywhere.

Seeing the two pieces of information that arrived almost at the same time, Tong Ju almost fainted.

He just thought about the opponent's fighting style, but he didn't expect to defeat his soldiers so cleanly, but he didn't have time to wait for the battle report to come, and the first thing that came was the rumbling sound of horses' hooves.

Liang Guo rode on the mountain, killed the two wings of the Yang Lie army, detoured to the middle of the battlefield, and came directly towards him.

"Shrink the array, release the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

Facing the churning iron hooves and the iron horses coming from both sides, Tong Ju looked at this scene dumbfounded, and at the moment when the other party's speed rushed in, he reacted and kept screaming and giving orders.

The roar of iron hooves stepped into the land of an arrow.

The arrows that flew out 'crackled' on the body of the rushing iron horseman, and the arrows shot with the protection of iron armor were not of much significance, only a few were unlucky, and were shot in the neck by the arrow, or the arrow of the war horse died on the road of the charge.

Then, in the next moment, the mountains of iron horsemen, like the arms of giants, hit both sides of the Yang Lie Army on the left and right, and the high-speed charging war horses knocked over the screaming figures, and the mounted spears pushed out countless pieces of flesh and blood flowers in the front door of the people.

The cavalry that entered the array fell when they stormed the pile, the war horses fell, and there were countless blood holes pierced by the spears of the columns, but more iron cavalry directly killed a bloody path and went straight to the banner where the main general was.

Tong Ju kept issuing orders, trying to make the army array gather in front of him into an airtight array, but when he saw the iron cavalry rushing towards him, his heart and liver trembled, as if he saw the majesty of the cavalry general named Lu Bu in the Xia army rushing over that day.

He gritted his teeth and gripped the hilt of his knife.

Then, with an angry roar of "ah-", he turned around and rushed to the south gate of Taikang City with his personal guards.

The flag was chopped down, and the Fushan army that ran out of the slaughter let out a savage scream, ignoring the routs fleeing all over the mountains, but chose to continue to chase and kill.

In less than half an hour, Xu Jinwu, who was leading the army to attack the city, received the news, and he looked at the reported scout tremblingly under the banner of Jing.

But there were still some people who didn't believe it, and asked again: "Is the news true?" ”

The scout was covered in blood, and there was no need to answer his answer, and when Tong Ju came to his side, Xu Jinwu directly asked his soldiers to tie people up.

"It's a failure! Falling short! Look at the good things you've done! ”

Xu Jinwu's eyes were bloodshot, he turned over and dismounted, stomped his feet again, and pointed at the tied Tong Tong's nose and scolded angrily.

His mood almost fell to a low point at this time, and it was normal for him to be angry, all the way over, several of them continued to win battles, cultivated the morale of the soldiers, and maintained a high posture to kill all the way to the western capital of Liang State, so that in front of Su Chen, even if they couldn't enter the inner circle, they also made a lot of capital.

This is also why the fierce attack on the fortified city of Taikang at any cost, but at the moment, the fierce battle is imminent, I didn't expect the Yang Lie army to feint in the west to be so vulnerable, Tong Ju took the lead in running, and the morale cultivated before directly collapsed.

In addition to the anger in his heart, he also thought of the anger of Emperor Su Chen.

"You can take this sin yourself!"

At this time, he scolded Tong Jue, turned around and summoned Lingqi, and immediately went to inform the rest of the two armies at the North Gate and the East Gate, as well as to transfer the resting Xuanwu Army over, and on his own side, Xu Jinwu immediately sent the order to the soldiers and horses besieging the city to collect the troops, and the rest of the army immediately deployed the array and began to retreat slowly.

Shortly after a series of commands, the earth shook.

The galloping iron knight appeared on the horizon in shock.

On Taikang City, the siege of the Zanwei army was retreating from the city wall, Tuoba Zongju put on armor and held a sword, laughing: "The Qianli horse of the Tuoba tribe is here!" ”

He swung his long knife away, blood burning in his body, and the sound resounded through the city walls.

"Daliang's son, come with me to fight out of the city gate and fight to the death with the Xia army."

Tuoba Zongju dragged his long sword, rushed down the city wall, turned over his horse, and the defenders who had already prepared to open the city gate struggled to open the heavy door.

Zong Ju was guarded by his own soldiers, and behind him were the same 8,000 trekking cavalry, and 2,000 servant light horses.

"Kill!"

He dragged the long knife in his hand, and the prancing horse rushed out of the city gate, and the mighty trekking cavalry rushed out, forming two terrifying torrents with the Fushan cavalry on the other side of the field.

Nearly 20,000 cavalry, slaughtering the retreating Zanwei army-

……

The sandbar borders the state of Zunwang.

The emperor's imperial chariot was stationed between the two armies of Xiliang and Youyan, and it was late at night when Su Chen received the battle report, he sat behind the long case in a single coat, looked at this information with an oil lamp, and only said one word.

"What a fucking shit."

His face was surprisingly calm.

(End of chapter)