There is also good news for Guo Tai and others, that is, the third and final group of people starting from Xiangfen will finally arrive in Anyi smoothly. Although they were also harassed by cavalry sent by Wei Xuan at night, because the previous group had

Late experience taught us that more than 7,000 people worked together. When they set up camp at night, they deliberately placed food, grass, and baggage in the center of the camp, and sent scouts to patrol and guard outside the camp. In the end, more than 100 people sacrificed their lives.

The officers and soldiers were driven away by their lives.

Compared with the loss of five to six thousand people the previous night, the loss of only more than a hundred people the second time was a sound of heaven to Mrs. Guo and others.

The siege went on as scheduled. Although the moat was only filled with less than a hundred steps, a lot of siege ladders were built quickly.

The siege of the city started at noon. Guo Tai divided the siege team into four teams, each team had 2,000 people. It looked clear-cut, a few people even wore armor, and more people had leather armor.

Obviously these are the elite selected by the bandits.

When the four phalanxes were deployed outside Anyi City, Wei Xuan, like all the county soldiers, regained their dignity again. Although Wei Xuan often led guests to kill people since time travel, and used all his methods to suppress bandits in Huoshan, but

Defending the city is completely different now. In a field battle, if you can't defeat it, you can use artillery. Once the rebels are allowed to enter the city, the people in the city will suffer. Moreover, Wei Xuan has dispatched the cavalry team that carries the hopes of the Wei family, and he has no way out.

The prefect Yinde finally reluctantly climbed onto the tower again after being urged by Wei Xuan repeatedly. When he saw that there were seven or eight thousand more rebels outside the city, his legs never stopped shaking. Yang Feng swept

He also knew the news about Xiangfen and Xiangling. Seeing him like this, Wei Xuan could only ask someone to move the Taishi chair and let him sit down in a place where many county soldiers could see him, and then he came to the city wall

Command the county soldiers to prepare for the enemy's attack.

The county soldiers in Hedong originally numbered 3,000, but Huoshan lost dozens of them in the suppression of the bandits, and more than 100 cavalry were mobilized. Including the original vacancies, only more than 2,400 people actually reported for duty. Wei Xuan removed many of them.

The gray old men were selected and they did not dare to fire them directly at this time. Instead, they were asked to stay in the city to take charge of food and carry supplies with the civilian husbands.

Only 2,000 people can really be used. In addition, 300 soldiers from Anyi County and government officials were arranged by Wei Xuan to guard the other three gates. One hundred county soldiers were sent to the east gate, leaving more than 1,900 people.

They barely managed to make up 3,000 people, plus the strong men sent by the major families in the city. Wei Xuan divided them into three teams of 800 people each to take turns guarding the city wall, and the remaining 600 people served as a reserve team.

The first phalanx of thieves quickly assembled outside the moat, and then carried the ladder and launched a charge against the city wall. Wei Xuan looked coldly outside the city, turned to the herald beside him and said: "All the archers

Get ready, listen to orders, and don’t advance your room!”

Wei Xuan looks very calm on the surface, but in fact he is more nervous than most county soldiers. County soldiers only need to obey orders and act, but he needs to issue orders accurately and timely, and make changes according to the situation between the enemy and ourselves inside and outside the city. Fortunately,

The thieves attacking the city are also newbies.

First, dozens of infantrymen in armor rushed forward carrying ladders. Wei Xuan let them go and stared at the large army behind. Soon hundreds of people rushed across the moat.

Right now, Wei Xuan pulled out the sword from his waist and shouted: "Fire the arrow!"

The two hundred archers in the team released their bows and arrows in unison. Due to the close distance and the dense concentration of thieves, there was no need to aim. Wei Xuan looked outside the city wall and saw that at least fifty or sixty people had been shot over.

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At the same time, several of the traitor's ladders have been successfully erected on the city wall.

"Fire the arrow!"

"Get ready!"

"Fire the arrow!"

"The archer steps back, the archer steps forward, prepare, push!"

Since the distance between the moat and the moat was limited, the bandits were relatively concentrated in attacking the city. Wei Xuan was still able to observe the overall situation for the time being. When he saw that some people had already started climbing on some ladders, he changed to a team of five or six people.

, holding Chang's fork, after Wei Xuan gave the order, he put the fork on the ladder almost at the same time, and then used force together, the first ladder was smoothly flipped over and fell backwards, and the thieves on the ladder also fell from the mid-air.

, I don’t know whether I will live or die.

Then several ladders were overturned in succession, and the bandit's first wave of attacks was neutralized.

"Archers, come forward, prepare, release!"

"Fire the arrow!"

"Fire the arrow!"

"The archers step back, the pole-hands step forward!"

The second round of thieves seemed to have learned a lot. The ladders changed from six to twelve and were erected on the city wall at the same time. Several thieves wearing armor below tried their best to hold down the ladders. The strong thieves

Holding the Huanshou knife in his mouth, he quickly climbed up with his body with both hands.

Seeing this, Wei Xuan couldn't help but applaud, but thinking of his responsibility, he still ordered the pole scratchers to be sent out when the thieves were halfway up most of the ladders.

This time there were twelve ladders, only four were overturned the first time, and three were overturned the second time. The thieves on the ladders had almost climbed to the city wall, and they fell down screaming and died on the spot.

He died. However, there were still five ladders that could not be overturned even after several attempts to scratch the poles. Wei Xuan really wanted to go up and pick up those rubbish, but they hadn't even climbed up the wall yet. Why are you being so condescending and panicking up there?

"The pole-taker steps back, the spearman steps forward! The archer prepares!"

Finally, a thief on the five ladders successfully climbed onto the city wall. However, the first thief who showed up was unlucky because at least four spears pierced his upper body at the same time. He dodged three of them, but was shot.

He hit his waist with a pole and fell down from the ladder, but the ladder did not fall down. The second bandit quickly climbed up and jumped onto the city wall while the pikeman retracted his spear. However, there was only one person, and he still

He was quickly knocked over by the county soldiers who reacted and was thrown against the city wall.

But this was not bad news for the bandits, because so quickly some of them began to climb up the city wall. The bandits on standby behind began to shout, while the bandits under the city wall continued to hold up the ladders and set them up on the city wall.

Wei Xuan shouted with a dark face: "Each village assembles as a unit and attacks freely! Each village leader is responsible for the division number."

Once the enemy breaks through, he will not be able to command collectively and can only rely on the commanders of each camp to fight independently.

Several village commanders had been lamenting that Wei Xuan was so young and could command the city defenders so skillfully. It was a pity that his subordinates were incompetent and could easily be held up by ladders and easily climbed up by traitors. This was detrimental to our own morale.

A kind of blow will make those who were originally nervous become even more nervous.

Wei Xuan glanced at Du Peng and more than 20 light knights surrounding him. These were the people left by Xu Huang to protect Wei Xuan's safety.

"Du Peng, please spread out and go in groups of four to help guard the ladder. Just leave one group beside me."

Du Peng shook his head. Countless people in the Wei family had told him. Even the prefect and the county magistrate had personally asked him to protect Wei Xuan.

Not to mention Wei Xuan and the Wei family's kindness to him, just for the defense of Anyi City, he also needs to attach great importance to Wei Xuan's safety.

Wei Xuan said with a dark face: "There are no thieves climbing up the city wall now. I have armor on my body, and the random arrows of the thieves below the city can't hurt me at all. If you don't guard the ladder, more and more thieves will climb up the city wall."

, by then we will be at a numerical disadvantage and the city wall will soon be captured."

Although Du Peng had never led troops to defend the city, he knew after watching for a long time that if the rebels wanted to gain a foothold on the city wall, at least dozens of people would need to gather in a small area. Looking at the combat effectiveness of the previous rebel soldiers, the two thousand in the first phalanx

People are afraid that they can't do it.

Of course, Wei Xuan had estimated the combat effectiveness of the rebels, but he didn't want to see the rebels successfully ascending the city in succession, which would be a heavy blow to his own side. People like Du Peng were brave, and small-scale fighting was very advantageous, as long as a few of them took the lead.

Hold on to the middle section of the city wall. Even if there are omissions in other places, the thieves will not be able to gather in a short time.

Master and servant, you look at me and I look at you. No one wants to back down. At this moment, a voice comes from behind: "Yunjiao, follow your brother's orders first. I'll stay here. Really?"

If there are too many traitors, please move back."

The two of them turned around and saw that the person coming was none other than Zhao Yun! Wei Xuan smiled. This guy had a sword hanging on his waist and a bright silver gun in his hand. Wei Xuan glanced at Du Peng again: "Don't worry now."

Du Peng didn't say much and quickly divided his men into five groups. However, he only sent four groups and they were on the wall near Wei Xuan. His own group of four insisted on staying in front of Wei Xuan. Wei Xuan also

No more persistence.

There were about 2,000 thieves and fifty archers in the first wave of attacks on the city. Although the shots fired from below the city had little damage, they still quickly caused casualties to the defenders on the city wall.

After Wei Xuan ordered each village to fight on its own, the number of archers in each village was only about thirty, so it was not possible to suppress the archers outside the city for a while.

The battle thus entered a stalemate. The attackers tried their best to send troops to the city wall. However, because Wei Xuan's four groups of knights held on to the city wall, which was about 30 steps long, the thieves were never able to connect end to end, resulting in many

The thieves finally climbed up the city wall and were cut down. Occasionally, three or four people gathered and were eventually cut down by spearmen.

At a cost of nearly two hundred men, the thieves retreated and the first phalanx pushed down like a tide. The second phalanx immediately began to assemble. Wei Xuan did not dare to neglect and immediately ordered the second team to go up the wall.

The team went down to rest.

The first phalanx of thieves attacked in less than half an hour. The defenders on the city wall also suffered more than thirty casualties. Several of them fell off the city wall due to excessive force. Several others were killed by thieves who jumped on the city wall.

The soldiers killed and wounded them, and most of them were injured by archers.
Chapter completed!