The cliff to the west of the Persis Highland is far more steep than the east. It rises from a nearly vertical angle. Due to weathering, the angle of its local cliff is even more than 90 degrees. Moreover, the entire cliff is almost made of rocks, and there is no obvious place for some sparse plants and trees growing in the cracks.

Climbing such as dozens of battles is also dangerous and difficult for well-trained people, and it will take a lot of time to climb up successfully.

If it is limited to this, it is not enough for Sulehar to completely ignore that the Liang army may launch a sneak attack from this direction. Suppose some soldiers of the Liang army overcome many difficulties and spend a lot of time to climb to the top of the cliff, they will immediately fall into despair.

Because they will find that there is still no way out or even no place to stand. The west wall of Persis, which is as tall as four or five battles, is built along the edge of the cliff. Once discovered by the guard sentry here, no matter how many people you have, you only need a few dozen soldiers to easily kill with various defense facilities.

However, now Dian Wei and Liang Jun from Gao Shun's troops are doing this impossible. The dozens of Liang soldiers who fought for the vanguard were mountain scouts from mountain people. They were seen carrying bundles of ropes and individual crossbows, carrying various rock climbing equipment to climb up the cliff. More than a thousand people in the second echelon were lying in the nearby grass and shrubs without moving. The remaining main troops were hidden outside two hundred battles. They needed to wait until the front troops gained a foothold at the city and lay out a vertical "pathway" before they could catch up.

The Liang army soldiers who climbed the cliff did not say a word, and they only gestured when they needed to communicate. It turned out that they tied their mouths tightly with cloth strips and could not be found out at all. The individual crossbows they carried were not just their weapons, but now they have replaced the nail hammer and become a rock climbing tool. They used individual crossbows to shoot a special steel-clustered crossbow gun deep into the rock body, using it as the focus of climbing.

Gao Shun was in the second echelon and watched nervously as the dozens of people slowly crawled towards the cliff. As long as one of them was discovered by the defenders on the top of the city, it meant that the entire operation was failed. Suddenly, a black shadow fell from the cliff, and then a muffled sound of the puff fell to the ground.

It turned out that a mountain scout fell down, but from his mistake to his death, he did not shout loudly. This was not because he had such strong willpower, but because he had already blocked his mouth.

At the top of the city wall, a team of more than twenty guard patrols were walking up the stairs. The general in charge had a very sharp hearing and had the nickname of Shunfeng in the army. At this moment, he always felt that some special sound came with the wind.

In fact, these sounds are the crisp sound of crossbow guns shooting into the rock body at close range, or the jingle of a mace hammer hitting a mountaineering nail. It is just that the bottom of the cliff is still dozens of battles away from the head of the city, and when it comes up, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to hear it.

He could not tell what these sounds were. But the muffled sound of Liang's soldiers falling off the cliff aroused his vigilance. He asked the soldiers behind him, "Did you hear anything?"

However, these soldiers looked confused. "Shunfeng'er" looked out of the city again. The bottom of the cliff outside the city was pitch black and could not see anything. In fact, even during the day, he could not find anything. Because the cliff wall had a partial slope greater than 90 degrees, and the bottom was blocked by the cliff itself.

At this time, "Shunfenger" heard a burst of rapid footsteps behind him. He turned his head and saw that a soldier holding a banner was running hurriedly. The soldier ran and shouted: "The troops from the Second, Fifth and Sixth Dao Shield Camp guarding the West City will quickly go to the square in front of the Governor's Mansion to gather and standby. There is a new task!"

"Shangfenger" wanted to stop him and ask carefully, but the other party had already passed by them like a gust of wind and continued to send people to report the news. Naturally, Sulehar was mobilizing troops to support the two battlefields opened by the Liang army on the high ground.

"Shunfenger" belonged to the Fifth Battalion. After receiving the military order, he had to take the soldiers behind him to the city. The strange sound he had vaguely heard had already been thrown behind his head. When he ran down the city, he also saw a large number of Sassanian soldiers running towards the Governor's Mansion from different corners of Persis City.

The square in front of the Governor's Office had gathered in black Sassanian soldiers. From time to time, they saw teams of soldiers coming out of the crowd, either south or north along the main street to the outside of the city. Shunfenger quickly found the assembly place of his own camp. When the commanders of the Fifth Battalion saw that the people were almost there, they pulled their men and horses to run towards the south gate.

Shunfenger only learned from others that it was Liang's army who came from the cliff to the high ground. The chief general Sulehar tried to drive them down the city, so he drew troops from various defense lines to reinforce.

Soon, the team of Shunfenger followed him came to the battlefield. He was so sensitive that he heard the sound of fighting and even the howling sound of arrows breaking through the air when he flew. Then, at the scene where flames were everywhere, he saw corpses all over the ground. Under the reflection of the flames, the circle of Liang Jun shields in the distance appeared faintly in the gaps in the shadows in front of him.

A sound of arrows came from the air. Shunfeng'er saw the overlapping figures in front of him falling down, and screams and wailing came immediately. Somewhere else, there was a shout from a senior general: "Are the sword and shield soldiers coming? Where are the sword and shield soldiers?" Then he shouted loudly: "The sword and shield soldiers lined up the shields and moved forward, and the rest of the troops followed closely behind and rushed forward. As long as we can advance twenty battles, we can drive them to the low ground!"

The head of Shunfeng's ear was commanding them immediately. The soldiers in front of him were next to the shield to form a shield wall. The soldiers in the back raised the shield over their heads to form a turtle shell, and pushed them towards Liang Jun with their knives. Then Shunfeng's ear heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air and the dull sound of these arrows penetrating the shield.

Shunfeng's ear was in the front row, and he also felt a huge force coming, as if his shield was pushed hard, and then he saw a thick arrow penetrate the shield halfway through. Rather than an arrow, it was more appropriate to say that it was a pocket-short spear. He took two steps forward with the military formation, and the force came again, and at the same time his arm felt a heart-wrenching pain. It turned out that a crossbow gun penetrated the shield, and shot his arm that was close to the shield, nailed it to the shield.

The wind screamed heart-wrenchingly, but a sound of cry was heard in his ears. A fireball fell into the middle of the crowd and smashed on the ground from the gap in the shield. The flames rose into the air and people scattered to avoid it.

Shunfeng's ear was pushed by the dodging crowd, and the shield in front also revealed a flaw. In just this moment, a crossbow gun pierced his chest...
Chapter completed!