The early morning was slowly fading, and the eastern sky was gradually white, and the more than 46,000 remnants of the soldiers had a rare good night's sleep, and then they were awakened by the sound of war drums.

Subconsciously rushed out of the tent with weapons in hand, a few people were still naked, standing outside the tent, the nerves in their brains were tense.

"What's going on?"

"Didn't you say yesterday that we don't need to attack ......"

"It's the ...... of the Xiliang Army"

In the sound of war drums, the remnants of the surrounding soldiers, and even around the tent farther away, you can faintly see the soldiers of the Xiliang Army walking around the camp of the Chinese army, Xu Mao, Xu Jinwu, Han Jinsu and other generals heard the drums, and also walked out of the tent, and saw the main general of the Xiliang Army, the fat General Dong, walking out of the big tent, twisting his waist as if no one was around.

"General Dong!"

The three of them stepped forward and saluted Dong Zhuo, the latter twisted a few more times, his thick beard stretched, and smiled at them: "Get up so early to do something, and say let you sleep more, since you are up, then follow up!" ”

Dong Zhuo beckoned to them, then walked to the front, and led these people to the school field, the drums were still beating, at this time, there were already many soldiers of the Xiliang Army standing in the huge army middle school field, these soldiers were almost not in line, or sitting or standing everywhere, holding stones to sharpen the blades, or checking the armor, wrapping leggings.

"General Dong, they are ......"

Xu Mao and other generals were full of doubts in their eyes, it had been some time since they surrendered to Su Chen, and they had heard of several elite soldiers and horses under the command of the Son of Heaven, and the Xiliang Army had naturally heard of it, and it was rumored that it was a rare elite in the world, but it was created at the beginning of the Son of Heaven's army, and it was much more powerful than other armies.

But now, they were surprised that they would be so lazy.

Of course, he didn't show it, he just stood behind Dong Zhuo and watched quietly, and after a while, a general named Li Dao rode over, turned over and dismounted, bowed his hand to Dong Zhuo, and said, "Meet the Taishi." ”

Xu Mao and the three of them showed surprise on their faces, they had always thought that this rough fat man was the main general in the army, but they didn't expect that he was the imperial master, and they hurriedly surrendered their hands and wanted to see them again.

"No, don't blame those who don't know."

Dong Zhuo's face was vicious, even if he smiled kindly at this time, it put a lot of pressure on the three of them, as if he wanted to settle accounts with them afterwards.

"Childish, inform the whole army, and say something to boost morale."

Li Wei nodded, and in the field of vision of the three generals, he strode towards the Dianjiang platform, at this time the drums had stopped, and the school field was full of mixed and crowded figures of the Xiliang Army, and they were still noisy and laughing with each other, and there was no appearance of military discipline.

However, as soon as Li Dao walked up to the high platform, the voice below quickly quieted down between two breaths.

"Xiliang Army!"

Li Wei dragged his cloak, with the sound of iron armor rubbing, standing at the front of the high platform, the soldiers below suddenly moved quickly, Xu Mao and others were surprised, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Xiliang Army almost did not hesitate to find their positions, and lined up at a very fast speed.

"The Taishi asked me to give you a morale-boosting speech, do you want to hear it?!"

"Yes!" Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison.

"Okay, then there is only one sentence: within two hours, take the city wall of Taikang South City!" Li Dao looked at them, "I'm done!" ”

A group of Xiliang soldiers below suddenly burst into laughter, and shouted one after another: "Two hours is too long, one hour!" ”

"General, are you ready for the reward?"

There were also soldiers who slapped their shields with knives and shouted with a smile around: "See you in the city if you are alive, and when you are dead, we will reunite at the monument!" ”

It was originally a tragic word, but it was said in the mouths of these Xiliang soldiers, but there was another unspeakable fierceness, and Taikang City seemed to be in their eyes.

"Wait until you take the city wall, Your Majesty has its own reward!"

Li Dao replied to them, walked off the platform and came to Dong Zhuo's side, "Master, I'm done." ”

"That's a good point, I thought you were going to say that you were going to go into the city to burn and loot at will, and now it's much better than it was at the beginning."

Dong Zhuo nodded with satisfaction and turned around and walked to the high platform.

And Xu Mao, Xu Jinwu, and Han Jinsu here listened to them talking, and they were in a cold sweat, if they didn't know that they were the descendants of the Emperor of Xia, otherwise they would have thought that the thieves came from.

But soon, the three of them's previous doubts about this army disappeared, and they saw Dong Zhuo walk up to the high platform, raise his arms, and clench his fists in mid-air.

The kindness in front of the three of them just now faded from the other party's face, and at this time it was all vicious and hideous, and Dong Zhuo's voice was rough and high-pitched.

"Xiliang!"

The army that was originally giggling instantly burst into spirit, and tens of thousands of people shouted in unison: "Mighty!" ”

Dong Zhuo, who was standing on the high platform, waved his hand violently.

"Siege!"

……

In Taikang City, the clouds are full of gloom.

In the hall in the backyard of the palace, there were two coffins, and the brazier below was burning with thick ashes.

He hadn't closed his eyes all night, and as soon as he closed his eyes, Tuoba Congwu's heroic face would appear in front of him.

The pain of his relatives being killed was not the most important thing, what annoyed him even more was that he could not explain to His Majesty, the two armies of Fushan and Trek were almost cut off by more than half, and the two armies together were not enough for 10,000 people.

In addition, the emperor wanted to cultivate a pillar of the clan in the future, but it was folded in his hands, even if he was lucky enough to block the Xia army, this account, even if the emperor wanted to offset the credit, would still become the handle of political enemies in the future, and sooner or later it would still be liquidated on his head.

The darkness of politics is not just talk.

"Just die in battle!" He closed his eyes and sighed when he faintly heard the sound of war drums piercing the sky and coming from here.

Outside the hall, Tai Shouye Shiya hurried over, and at this time he was wearing leather armor and carrying a war knife at his waist, and stepped over the threshold to enter.

"General, the Xia army is about to attack the city!"

"Yesterday's big victory, they will definitely attack the city!"

Tuoba Zongju slowly got up, patted the lid of the coffin of the fine mother Langluo, and after a while, he left a sentence: "Take their corpses back to the Western Capital." He lifted his cloak and strode out of the middle hall.

After leaving the palace, he turned over his horse and led his guards to the south of the city, and after waiting for the city wall, he quickly walked behind the battlements, and while observing a black line in the field outside the city, he asked the deputy general Mandu Burying.

"They're going to change troops?"

"There's a message from scouts outside." Mandu Burbu took out the first note from his bosom and handed it to Tuoba Zongju.

The latter glanced at it and frowned, a look of surprise in his eyes at the same time.

"Xiliang Army?!"

"Amazing?"

"The strong army of the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom." Tuoba Zongju took a deep breath, he crumpled the note into a ball, and immediately gathered all the heralds, and one after another orders came out of his mouth.

For a time, the cavalry galloped at the head of the city, and the reserve battalion in the city and the remaining three soldiers also sent two battalions over, and the recruited young men had already mobilized, frantically going up and down the inner city wall, carrying wood and stones, lighting bonfires and boiling gold juice and oil.

Just when the drums were in full swing in Taikang City, the terrifying war drums sounded.

Tuoba Zongju, and even the soldiers of the Liang State at the head of the city glanced out of the city, and then ran around the city more anxiously, preaching, and piling up bundles of arrows.

At this moment, in the field outside the city, two large carts were slowly pulled by horses, each with a large drum on it, and the naked strong man kept waving the drumstick.

Boom!

Boom! Knock knock!

At the end of the sky and the earth, a black line stepped on the node of the drum, neatly advanced over, the battalion flag with the word "Xiliang" was written, and the general flag with the word "Dong" was hunting and flying in the wind, and in the dense and neat footsteps, the 20,000 Xiliang army was moving forward, and with the shouts of the captains and captains on horseback, they gradually began to change their formations.

Behind them, the stone throwers of the Tang Dynasty were being pushed by the people, and there were more craftsmen with burdens on their backs, as well as siege tower parts pulled by donkey carts, and when they stopped from the military formation, they began to unload the bodies and skillfully assemble them.

The 20,000 troops, divided into five battalions, entered the battle quietly, and when they entered the war, the whole army was filled with a solemn atmosphere, which was completely different from the previous state in the camp.

Coming along, General Xu Mao, who wanted to see how the Xiliang army attacked the city, was secretly frightened by the quality of this army.

"Taishi, let's give the defenders at the head of the city a little sweetness first."

Li Dao rode back from the front to the middle and reported that the soldiers and horses for the siege had been fully equipped and could attack the city at any time.

"Then give it." Dong Zhuo raised his hand, "Be accurate!" ”

"Haha, the master still doesn't know me? It was notoriously accurate! Li Wei laughed, galloped out, pulled out the ring knife at his waist, and the twenty stone-throwing carts that had been adjusted were pushed up by the soldiers.

The moment the heavy stone was put up, the soldier swung his sword and slashed the rope.

Bang!

The grinding stone-sized stone was thrown out in an instant, and more than a dozen other stone bullets went out along with it, which crossed a long trajectory in the sky and flew towards the distant city tower.

At the head of the city, the Liang soldiers shouted hysterically, and the sound of the shouting stopped abruptly.

Bang bang –

One by one, the stone bullets smashed into the city tower with a whistling sound, the eaves of the building were shattered, and the tiles on it were scattered and splashed, and some hit the wall battlements, shaking the wall battlements.

There were also smashed on the shield, and the foot soldiers on top of the shield were directly beaten and flew backwards.

Tuoba Zongju stood on the city tower, watching a stone bullet flying, and the guards beside him shouted: "Be careful! At the same time, they stepped forward and raised their shields to cover it.

However, the stone bullet grazed the top of the shield and smashed into Tuoba Zongju, who swung the long knife in his hand violently, and forcibly split the stone bullet in half, and the debris crackled against the doors and windows of the castle tower behind him.

He looked down at the stone chips on the ground that were still shaking, and frowned: "This catapult is so powerful. ”

As soon as the words fell, the guards on the side had already called out.

"General, the Xiliang Army is attacking the city!"

Tuoba Zongju raised his head, and in his field of vision, the array of 20,000 people in the field was divided into two battalions of 4,000 people, almost the same as ordinary soldiers, and the top shield covered the cloud ladder towards the city wall, and the 1,000 flying bear army without iron armor galloped under the city wall and began to suppress the city head.

"Let the archers prepare!"

At the same time that the archers defending the city stepped forward to draw their bows, a voice shouted from the Xiliang sergeants who were advancing in the field below: "Hurry! ”

The pace of the crowd increased suddenly, and even the soldiers pushing the ladder sped up under the long shields.

On the city wall, the archers of the Liang army suddenly released arrows one after another, and the moment the falling arrows landed on the shields and bounced, the folding ladder spread out on the frame, and was pushed by the soldiers, and they leaned against the wall battlements.

"I'll go first!"

"And me!"

Two Xiliang soldiers with shields climbed up with a shield with one hand, and the rest of the soldiers climbed behind with knives in their mouths, and their hands and feet quickly followed behind, they had great experience in attacking the city, and the first to climb were all veterans in the army, most of them followed Su Chen from Ding'an City, how to prevent stabbing spears and arrows, almost instinctively keen.

When he was about to reach the battlement, the Liang soldier who had been waiting for a long time stabbed out a spear, and at the same time was blocked by the shield, the Xiliang soldier at the front suddenly reached out and grabbed the handle of the spear, and by the force of the fall, he instantly pulled the person to the wall battlement and lay down, grabbed the opponent's arm, and threw the shield in his hand at the leaning out archer.

The moment he knocked over the opponent, he drew his knife and slashed through the neck of the spearman, jumped to the wall battlement and pounced on the nearest Liang soldier, and the second Xiliang soldier who followed closely behind was also agile with his hands and feet, and as soon as he went to the city, he swung his knife and slashed at the archer who had just been hit by the shield.

In an instant, snatching spears, throwing shields, and skillful cooperation with the comrades behind him, almost completed in two breaths, this lightning-fast way of climbing the city was too fast, making the surrounding Liang soldiers stunned for a while. 、

However, in a short moment, the city wall that stretched for several miles, and several cloud ladders, had been killed by Xiliang soldiers, and a battle was set off in an instant.

……

Outside the city, Xu Mao and the three of them under the banner of the Xiliang Army were excited for a while, the three of them were on horseback, clenched their fists, and looked at the Xiliang soldiers who had landed in the city and killed the defenders in a moment, and couldn't help shouting: "Mighty!" ”

Listening to their excited shouts, Dong Zhuo closed his eyes and snorted proudly.

"I don't see whose soldiers and horses it is."

(End of chapter)