When the siege soldiers who rushed to the front entered the range of the archers on the city wall, a storm of arrows came to them, blocking the counterattack of the Tufan soldiers.

The Tufan archers who followed immediately came forward to cover and shoot at the wall, but if they wanted to shoot their arrows at the wall, they had to rush into the range of the defending archers, and when they rushed through the rain of arrows, before they could bend their bows and arrows, they found that the cavalry under the city wall had already raised their swords to kill them, and they immediately ran back in fright.

The cavalry troops led by Tianci killed the enemy archers and retreated, but did not pursue, but retreated to the base of the city wall, and waited for the battle. As soon as a siege soldier or archer breaks through the defense line of the archers on the wall and attacks the wall, they immediately kill and destroy it.

In this way, the rapid and mobile cavalry troops, and the defensive range formed by the archers and crossbowmen on the city wall, complemented each other, supported each other, and formed a complementary trend, preventing and controlling the enemy's siege force dozens of zhang away, and it was no longer easy to approach the city wall.

After the success of this battle, General Huang was overjoyed when he received the letter, and immediately ordered Tianci to be promoted to deputy overseer of the cavalry battalion, and put him in charge of leading all the cavalry in the army to fortify the perimeter of the city wall.

After that, the Tufan army tried several sieges of the city, but they were all in vain, and there was no way to deal with this defensive method for a while. The two sides gradually formed a stalemate with each other, the Tufan army only shouted and scolded on the periphery, besieged but not attacked, and Dafeng Guo also defended and could not come out, and the war calmed down for a while.

For more than half a month, the two sides had been at each other without fighting, and the officers and men in the city who had been freed from the brutal battle in front of them rarely took this opportunity to recuperate, and the vitality of the soldiers was greatly restored.

On this day, after Tianci took two cavalry battalions to complete the task of patrolling around the city, he returned to the camp and went to bed early. In the middle of the night, he suddenly woke up from his dream, sat up from his bed, and felt that some kind of movement had disturbed him. He closed his eyes, tilted his head slightly, and listened calmly for a while, clearly feeling that a sound did not belong to the ordinary night, and it was never before.

He got out of bed, got dressed, and stepped out of the tent, it was a dark and windy night, and it was pitch black all around, except for some wind sounds in the ears of others, it could be said that there was silence, but in the ears of heaven it was like a galloping horse, and all kinds of sounds were captured by his magical ears.

After a round in the barracks, he went to the castle tower. He stepped up the tower from the north gate, and looked out of the city, where he could faintly see the lights and figures of the enemy camp in the distance under the black pressure. After staring for a while, Tianci made another round around the castle tower, pacing back and forth, while burying his head in carefully distinguishing, trying to sort out the different one from the many sound messages.

After a long time, he suddenly stopped, stood there, and looked up into the distance outside the tower, for a moment, he nodded his head deeply, as if he was already confident, and a smile of understanding appeared on his face, and after looking out of the tower for a while, with a smile he turned back and got off the tower, and walked back to the barracks.

Two days later, there was news in the city that Emperor Dafeng would come to Wulingzhou City in person, and there were various theories about the emperor's intention to come to the front line, and the atmosphere in the city suddenly became tense again.

Sure enough, on the third day, the leaders of the major military camps were summoned to a meeting, and came back to convey that the imperial court would send officers to the front line to supervise the battle in the near future, and asked the heads of all departments to go down to rectify the military style and discipline, repair the defensive fortifications, and improve the city defense. People also began to clean up the streets and alleys of the city, and for a time the whole city began to prepare to welcome the ministers of the imperial court.

There is also a deputy overseer in the cavalry battalion, named Wan Chengpeng, who was originally a disciple of the official eunuch of the court, and hung a position in the army, but he has never participated in a battle, he originally wanted to experience the front line and increase some capital in politics, and he didn't want to be trapped here for a while and couldn't get out. He had already heard that the minister sent by the imperial court this time was his father's family friend, and when he was the imperial lieutenant Shi Kecheng Shi Taiwei, he was overjoyed and felt that this was a good opportunity and must seize it.

He immediately came to the Overseer to pay his respects to the King, and after a while of greetings, he said straight to the point: "Your Excellency, I recently received a letter from my father saying that I will send the imperial court to the front line to supervise the battle, hoping that I can seize the opportunity to strive for meritorious service to the imperial court on the front line." I hope the Overseers will give you a small chance. ”

Lord Wang smiled understandingly, and said: "General Wan is still a general, a descendant of heroes, that is a role model in our army, but the strength of our army and the enemy army is very different, and it is considered to do our best to hold the Central Plains without losing at present, and now it is not easy to make contributions on the battlefield." ”

"However, the cavalry battalion attacked the enemy in the early stage, and helped defend the city with all its might, forming a momentum with the enemy, this is a great achievement, and you are also involved in it.

Wan Chengpeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed: "Then rely on the support of adults, and the small ones must serve the adults and serve the dogs and horses, and they will never give up!"

"Why is General Wan so polite, and the old man still expects you to say a few good words for me at Captain Shi's place, ha. Ha.. Lord Wang laughed heartily and helped Wan Chengpeng up.

The next day, when Tianci was gathering the cavalry to assemble and prepare to start his daily patrol around the city, he saw a young officer riding a tall horse, accompanied by two lieutenants, majestically coming to the front of the camp.

Tianci had just waved his hand to signal the team to leave, when the officer suddenly shouted, "Stop!" The soldiers of the cavalry battalion all stopped to look at him, and Tianci also looked at him, feeling that he did not know this man, and could not remember where he had seen him.

The man stepped forward, came to Tianci, arched his hand, and said very arrogantly: "You are Deputy Zhang Du? I am Wan Chengpeng, and I am also the deputy overseer of the cavalry battalion. With that, he took out a token from his waist and shook it in the face of God.

After hearing this, Tianci replied, "The cavalry battalion has been assembled here, and since the overseer has an order, I would like to ask Lord Wan to dispatch it." He thought of the deputy overseer of the cavalry battalion, who had never been seen, and wondered why he had suddenly become interested in military activities today, but he was glad to leave the errand to him, and he had to take it easy.

Wan Chengpeng ordered the cavalry battalions to line up and circle around the playground in the shape of a marching army, and from time to time he picked out a few cavalry soldiers from the queue and asked them to stand by them.

Finally, after selecting sixty or so cavalry soldiers, he ordered them: "You people follow me to the city gate for honor training, and the rest are still led by Deputy Zhang Du to make a tour around the city." So saying, he led the group and set out for the city gate.