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Chapter 143: Defending the City

After getting married after one day and one night of remediation.

The offensive of the thieves has also changed. It is reported that the thieves are harassing all day long, but in fact there are not many threatening offensives.

But the spies in the distance rewarded them, and big trees kept cutting down in the forest. It was obvious that the thief army was building siege equipment.

Li Chongjiu climbed to the top of the city and looked around. In addition to a river surrounding the city of Feihu County, most of them were covered with loess. Only the distant mountains could see the lush scenery.

If the thief builds siege equipment in the distance, it will undoubtedly take a lot of effort to transport it to the city. However, for the tens of thousands of troops of pseudo-Yan, the most deficient thing at the moment is manpower.

Although the enemy soldiers are numerous, Li Chongjiu is not very worried about the situation under the city.

The cold winter is coming soon. For the thief who lacks clothing and food, if heavy snow comes, there is no doubt that the number of employees will be greatly reduced in the wild, and it is impossible to last for a few days.

So as long as you support this period of time, the enemy can retreat without fighting.

The next day, the bandits seemed to know that winter was coming, so they began to attack the city in large numbers.

In this era, the siege of cities has always been absconded by three quarries and one. If they are surrounded, it will arouse the resistance of the defenders, which will be detrimental to the siege.

The same was true for the pseudo-Yan army, surrounding the east, south and north of the city, leaving only the west side of the city to give the defenders room to escape.

Although surrounded on three sides, the enemy did not attack the barbarians at the same time. Instead, they distinguished the main and secondary, using the flattering north of the city as the main attack direction, while the south and east of the city as harassment and restraint.

So in front of the north of the city, the enemy's siege lineup appeared, and the thieves' equipment was still as simple as ever.

Except for a few leaders wearing leather armor, the rest were all dressed in a ragged jacket, just like a patrol of the Beggars' Sect.

The weapons in the hands of the thief were holding thick long swords and bamboo guns, while many people still used hoes and hatches.

The big banner with the black letters of Yan in the distance is the arrogant king of heaven, the general flag that the king must have pulled out.

Now the flag is slowly moving forward, and the army of thieves holding cloud ladders, big wooden hammers and other siege equipment is also beginning to move forward.

The bandits began to attack the city like ants gathered.

In front of the bandits were a thousand archers. According to the practice of siege, they came to the front line to raise their bows and faced the defenders at the top of the city, preparing to cover them with a round of arrows.

When Li Chongjiu saw Gao Chu, the lord general of the North City, he saw that the enemy archers came forward thousands of times and said nothing, he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Why don't you let your brothers raise their shields or use bows and arrows to reflect them!"

Gao Chu laughed and said, "Marquis, the two hundred cavalry are invincible in the field. Gao admires it, but in terms of defending the city, Gao has some strengths of confidence. The Marquis will wait and see."

Li Chongjiu knew Gao Chu and was very capable of resisting the besiege of Wang Xuba's army for two months with an isolated city in Linghu County, so he decided not to ask questions again.

A thousand enemy archers divided into two groups. When they approached the city thirty steps, they were blocked by the dense plum blossom stakes under the city, and they raised their bows and shot them at the top of the city.

The enemy archers shot upwards, and the arrows were thirty steps away, shooting towards the city walls more than three meters high. They were either shooting missed or were in short supply and fell one after another in the air.

Occasionally, it can't penetrate the armor of the village soldiers, and it looks like itchy.

Seeing the scene, the Sui army on the top of the city laughed loudly.

Gao Chu said to Li Chongjiu with some show-off: "This is the plum blossom stake I set up, which is blocked under the city. It can not only divide the enemy's formation and prevent them from rushing to the city in one go, but also prevent the enemy from using a wall-breaking hammer to dig our city wall."

Li Chongjiu nodded when he saw this.

The enemy archers shot two rounds away from thirty steps, but they had no effect. The enemy generals were helpless when they saw it, so they hurriedly ordered the archers to retreat and replace them with the new force.

At this time, Gao Chu's face only felt a little serious.

Hey! Hey! Hey!

The enemy soldiers carrying the ladder and hitting the city hammers shouted loudly. Before going into battle, everyone drank a bowl of farewell wine, and knew that it was probably because of death and no life when they went there, so they took advantage of the alcohol and took off their clothes and went into battle with bare shirt.

There were less than a hundred soldiers stationed in the north city, while there were three hundred civilians who were temporarily recruited.

Seeing that the enemy was mainly attacking the North City, Li Chongjiu generals and a team of cavalry were sent to the city to guard the city. At the same time, a team of rural soldiers were drawn from the west of the city where no enemy troops appeared, plus a hundred civilians.

Therefore, there are also people in the north of the city with 600 or 700 people. Seeing the enemy carrying a ladder to climb the city, the rural soldiers and cavalry all raised their bows and arrows in their hands and started shooting arrows at the city!

Unlike short bows that cannot be far away from the enemy, the defenders have at least one stone and two dou of stairs.

It also has the convenience of geographical advantages, so the thief army has no way to hide from the condescending.

Therefore, every time the rain of arrows falls, there is blood under the city.

The thieves relied on their advantage of being crowded, but remained close to the city wall.

"rise!"

"rise!"

"rise!"

The enemy shouted loudly.

The newly built cloud ladders were raised one after another, and they were placed on the top of the city like falling from the sky.

As soon as each ladder was set up, a thief immediately bit the knife, grabbed the ladder with both hands, and used his limbs and hands to start climbing the city.

Behind each ladder were more than twenty thieves, surrounded by densely, climbing up the ladders one after another.

Seeing that the enemy began to climb the city, Gao Chu gave the order, the civilians and soldiers immediately began to come out of the Tibetan soldiers' cave, lifted the rocks piled up by the female wall, and smashed them towards the battlement entrance.

The rocks that were as big as a washbasin were smashed down from the city above three meters high, almost killing them and being injured.

There were screams under the city walls.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, three or four Minzhuang picked up the hook and pushed it at the end of the ladder.

"It's down!"

"It's down!"

"Escape!"

Just listening to a scream under the city, the ladder fell from the city and knocked down a large area of ​​thieves.

As for the direction of the city gate, it was the most intense place for fierce battles, and thieves holding a breaking hammer in their hands flocked to them.

Although the arrows shot from the city were densely filled with rain, the strong men of the thieves moved forward desperately, and no one dared to retreat.

If the retreating person is the row of supervisors standing behind the thief, the shaking knife in his hand will never have any affection.

After each thief was caught in an arrow and fell to the ground, another person immediately took over the other party's position and rushed forward bravely against the rain of arrows on the top of the city.

"Put the nail to pat!" Seeing this scene, Gao Chu showed a cruel smile on his face.

Each nail is about ten feet in size, several feet wide, and weighs more than a hundred kilograms. The thick wooden boards are covered with rusty iron nails.
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