Chang Poyu firmly believed in his instincts, and this night would be a rough night in Tianyao City.

has the same feeling as him, and there is also Captain Tianyao.

The fierce and iron-blooded life of the border army made Captain Tianyao not care too much about being kicked away by General Chang in public, but took General Chang back and forth to inspect the city defense.

Although General Chang was dissatisfied with the benevolence and hesitation shown by Captain Tianyao, after inspecting the airtight city defense he had arranged, he slowly reversed his opinion of such a subordinate in his heart.

The moon has gone up to the middle of the sky.

The winter night in the northern part of the Great Xia, although it is not as snowy and windy as the northern desert, but the bone-piercing chill can easily pierce the cold iron armor. Captain Tianyao was worried that the old general's body would not be able to bear it, and told his subordinates,

"Take General Chang back to the mansion first to rest for a while. ”

Chang Poyu is flesh and blood after all, although the blood of the Great Xia boy is still flowing in his body, but after several inspections, those biting cold winds finally awakened the pain accumulated in his body over the years, and he also knew that his face at the moment must not be good-looking, so he no longer insisted, but he did not forget to explain,

"Remember to tell the leader of the gang to prepare some ginger soup for the brothers who are keeping vigil to ward off the cold. ”

Only then did he follow the guards and prepare to go back to the captain's barracks to rest.

At this moment, in the depths of the dense forest, a pair of eyes shining with green light slowly opened, looking at the human city that was guarded by high walls, and on the edge of the dense forest, another group of men and horses who were ready to launch a hopeless charge had been assembled.

These black figures waiting to charge stood motionless, as if they were statues.

As with the previous captives, there was no communication between the dark-faced and numb Xiqiang Iron Harrier and the shield soldiers of Nanjun, and even they themselves did not know what they were waiting for or what they were going to do.

Suddenly, a voice echoed in the minds of all the centaurs at the same time, "Attack!"

So, the horse team marched and took a step forward together.

In the arrow tower of Yaocheng in the summer, standing on the highest platform is the lookout on duty at night, tonight the captain and the old general at the head of the five armies have come to inspect twice, and the lookout also understands the burden on his shoulders, and it can even be said that it is related to the safety of the entire empire.

So the two lookouts alerted each other, and they were constantly scanning the battlefield under the city covered with the clear light of the moonlight.

Strange, how did the bushes in the distance not fit the rhythm of the night wind, and swayed a little abnormally? A lookout patted his comrade next to him and pointed to the slowly wriggling black shadow.

The other lookout stared carefully at the edges of the shadows, and suddenly, he realized that the shaking was not in the shape of a bush, but that the shaking shadows were slowly moving towards the city wall.

The lookout no longer hesitated, picked up the iron mallet on the side, and smashed it on the huge gong hanging in the air.

The sound of the gong sounded loudly and violently, spreading to every corner of the city wall.

"There's an enemy attack!" "There is an enemy attack!" the watchman's warning was passed on by one soldier after another, alerting the entire city wall, and one torch after another lit up alternately.

Captain Tianyao heard the sound of the gong and rushed to the city wall as soon as possible. Chang Poyu, who was already about to walk to the captain's camp, also heard the movement on the north gate, and immediately turned his horse's head and ran towards the place where the alarm sounded.

At this time, the faintly wriggling black line was finally completely exposed to the moonlight, and the defenders on the Tianyao city wall suddenly felt a chill in their hearts, this black line turned out to be a dense new round of hopeless charge, but this time the charge, the number of people and horses far exceeded the number of those people and horses during the day, so that the crowd was crowded, forming a squirming black line.

Captain Tianyao's heart couldn't help but sink, "How can there be so many people?"

"Look at the arrow!"

As soon as the captain gave the order, several soldiers immediately took a few special bamboo arrows, lit the arrows on the torches, bent the bows, set up the arrows, and filled the strings, and then "whoosh" a few times, and the flames carried by several arrows flew out of the air.

Lookout arrows are a special type of arrows that provide shooting assistance for archers in night battles. In addition to the tail feathers of ordinary arrows, there are two wing feathers that are wider than the tail feathers near the shoulders.

These wing feathers can help the arrow to travel against the wind in the process of descending, and fly farther than ordinary bamboo arrows.

And near the tail feathers, above the shaft of the arrow, there is a circle of bamboo barrels for counterweights. The bamboo tube can be filled with some wolf smoke materials called "day hope", and it can also be filled with fire oil called "night look". In this way, wolf smoke can be released with "daytime" during the day, and at night with "nightwatch" can be used to light flames.

Archers who can look at arrows are more skilled than ordinary archers, and what they release at the moment is a "night watch" filled with fire oil. Countless times of training have made these archers extremely confident to release the first batch of "Night Look".

Instead of shooting horizontally, the arrow is shot at mid-air at the best angle, which can accurately control the distance between the arrow and the shooter.

I saw clusters of flames, drawing curved arcs in the air, rising first and then falling, and finally firmly nailed to the ground in the distance.

The first look, four hundred steps.

Two looks, three hundred steps.

Three looks, two hundred and fifty steps.

Four looks, two hundred steps.

Five looks, one hundred and fifty steps.

......

After five looks, I relied on the lights on the city wall, and I could see the movement under the wall directly.

These arrows, even to illuminate the enemy's whereabouts, are meant to provide other archers with a sense of distance from their shots.

Soon, the first batch of arrows was drowned out by the black line of the charge, which showed that the charging team was less than 400 paces away from the city.

However, Tianyao City Defense, except for this batch of arrows, there was no other movement.

Gradually, the speed of the black line's movement began to accelerate, and at the same time, the second batch of arrows began to be extinguished one after another, and Tianyao City's counterattack finally began.

Boom, boom, several muffled explosions rang out, and flaming bamboo arrows, as if they had just been drawn out of the furnace, came out side by side from the top of the city wall.

Because within three hundred steps, it is the distance of the invincible firearms of Great Xia, the fire thunderbolt that is powerful. These fire thunderbolts, which had been fired during the day, were reloaded with spears for rapid fire, and the roaring effect of these flying fire spears at night was even more shocking.

On the dense charging line array, these fire spears were finally torn out one by one.

The spear is so powerful that each time it falls to the ground, it will move the target it hits for a certain distance, and other targets in the path will also be skewered into the body.

However, these torn cracks made the face of Captain Tianyao on the city wall even more solemn - compared to these torn cracks, the black line of the charge seemed so strong, and the cracks torn out by each fire spear would soon be filled by other black shadows.

The fire spear is like a clipper piercing the waves, and those black shadows that charge make up the waves of the entire sea, and the boat cannot stop the waves.

"What's the situation?" Just when Captain Tianyao was uneasy, a low and heavy question behind him brought him incomparable courage.

"General Chang, the situation is not optimistic, the enemy is coming more quickly and more numerically than during the day, and our defense line can still resist at present. ”

This time, Captain Tianyao's slightly unconfident reply did not cause too much dissatisfaction among the generals, which was also the situation that General Chang expected, he personally climbed the lookout of the arrow tower, looked at the charging teams below that had been ignited by the flames, and couldn't help but ask himself, "They, what is the charge for?"

General Chang's experience gave him an accurate preliminary judgment that these charging teams were not for victory.

There are generally only two situations in the crazy siege regardless of the cost, "one is that the city defense is not strong enough, and the defensive force is much weaker than the offensive force, and the purpose of the onslaught is to break the will of the defenders through momentum." The second is to take revenge, attacking regardless of the cost, just to vent some kind of previous dissatisfaction and humiliation. But in both cases, there is also an implicit premise, that is, the battle damage should not exceed the tolerable range. ”

General Chang Poyu has already estimated the losses of the siege personnel, and under such attrition, even if the city is finally broken, it will be more than worth the loss.

Because such a large amount of consumption could not be replenished by plundering the city. After the crushing victory, even if the city was captured, the consumption was too large, and it was not enough to resist the victorious border army of Great Xia.

But even such a careful analysis could not affect General Chang's determination to defend the city. He had already told the defenders of Tianyao this truth, Tianyao's defense would be the defense of the entire Great Xia Empire, if Tianyao was lost, then the Great Xia Empire would lose not only the majesty of the Heavenly Empire, but also the loss of strategic places, and the danger that the Great Xia Empire would face from the enemy's long-term advance. Therefore, Chang Poyu decided that tonight, he would be Captain Tianyao's subordinate and protect this gateway city located in the northwest of the Great Xia Empire.

At this moment, the launch pads of several Fire Thunderbolts have been launched, and Captain Tianyao instructed the defenders to hurry up and re-lay the fire spears, and on the other side, he personally supervised and began to activate the Heavenly Fire Cloud Thunder.

By the time the charging enemy had already broken through Sanwang, the soldiers in charge of operating the cloud thunder array ignited the fuses in their hands.

Hiss, beating sparks, with the breath of death, happily rushed towards the darkness.

The cloud thunder needs to be ignited by a fuse, so it can't be too far away from the city defense, but because the impact force of the explosion is too large, and it can't be too close to the city wall, it is laid at a distance of 200 steps.

Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~ The intermittent and violent explosion sounded, it was the roar of those clouds and thunder buried in the ground, and the roar of this sound seemed to be a warning from the Great Xia Empire, no matter where you are sacred, if you dare to attack, you will be buried in dust by my Great Xia.

In fact, those exploding clouds and thunder shook the whole earth, and there was constantly loess mixed with flesh and blood flying into the air. Immediately, the soft soil continued to fall from the sky, gradually burying the shattered corpses.

The smoke and flames of the explosion dissipated, and Tianyao's defenders nervously monitored the enemy's movements, passing through the layers of gunsmoke, and those surviving stormtroopers did not adjust their rhythm at all, and still surged towards the city wall firmly.

"Bow and arrow, hair!" Captain Tianyao's voice was calm and firm, because he knew that as a commander, he had to give his soldiers enough confidence, and if they were uneasy, they would try their best to hide it.

Because his soldiers also felt the difference at this moment, although the previous charge was also very deadly, it was not yet in a situation where the archers faced so many enemies.