When he fought again in front of Sishui Pass, He Bai's army killed more than 1,300 cavalry in Xiliang, captured more than 300 enemies, and obtained more than 1,100 good horses. In addition, hundreds of enemy troops who were driven into Sishui, they were afraid that they would have no less than 2,000 military achievements.

The army of the army, which had three thousand elite cavalry against most of the new recruits, was defeated. This battle was purely the enemy's chief general Hua Xiong was stunned. As the main general, he did not command the cavalry to fight, but came to fight one-on-one in front of the formation, and he deserved it. However, the Sishui Pass would have been in a state of fear for a while, and he could take advantage of the situation to attack Xingyang and then conquer the Xiliang army. At that time, it was time to send the navy army to dispatch.

After He Bai received Huang Zhong's exact battle report, he was overjoyed. There were 1,800 good horses in Xiliang three times, and all of them could form heavy cavalry. So he asked someone to pick out a thousand good horses and send them back to the Sour Zao Camp. The navy that brought the grain to the Beihai were brought back to the Beihai to store them first, and then wait until the special cavalry heavy armor was made. Now it is a waste to use.

After the camp of Sishui Pass was established, He Bai ordered Huang Zhong and Chunyu Qiong to lead the troops to guard against the possible attacks of Sishui Pass Huaxiong and night attacks. He also sent troops to cut down trees everywhere, make various antlers, resist horses, and prepare for the camp. Since he and the four generals Dian Wei, Zhou Tai, Zhang Zhang and Du Lei have led their troops to Xingyang.

After being sentenced, the two generals Zhang and Liao crossed the Sishui River and set up camp in the northwest five miles north of Xingyang City. They also built a floating bridge on the river with small boats to allow the army to travel east and west. After He Bai arrived, he took the sky was still bright, so he went to Xingyang City with the generals to inspect it.

The city of Xingyang was more than five feet high (12 meters) and three feet thick (7 meters). It was more than three hundred and sixty steps long (500 meters) from east to west, and more than four hundred and twenty steps long (600 meters) from north to south, with an area of ​​nearly 300,000 square meters. Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was a large county of 12,000 households. After the suppression of He Miao, who was the Henan Yin of the time, there were less than eight thousand households.

Now, Xingyang is the forefront of the war, and Dong Zhuo's scorched earth tactics, the people were either moved to Chang'an or fled to another state. In addition to the wilderness, there are a few people, and the entire large Xingyang City is now guarding only a thousand troops.

Although Xingyang leads the Sishui River to form a moat, which is more than 6 meter wide (14 meters) and more than 2 meter deep (5 meters). However, the city has few soldiers and is wider across the horizontal side, which is much easier than the Sishui Pass. And the most important point is that the cities at this time are basically rammed earth cities, all of which are yellow earth embryos.

Including the previous Sishui Pass, it is also a rammed earth pass. Only when it reaches the prefecture and county level, a particularly prosperous city can there be a solid inner city with bricks on the outside and rammed earth inside. There are only more than twenty of the whole country. It’s a pity that I have never understood the making of cement before, otherwise, I can build various strong cities in my territory in the future, which is daunting. As a time traveler, I don’t understand the manufacturing of glass and cement. This is really a waste of my identity.

He Bai asked: "Are reinforcements stationed in Xingyang City? Where is the direction of Hulao Pass? Is there any intention to rescue Xingyang?"

Fu Xing said, "Reporting to the lord, according to the report of the scammers, there are still about a thousand soldiers in Xingyang, and there are no reinforcements in Hulao Pass. There are only three thousand troops themselves, so I am afraid that I will not rescue Xingyang."

He Bai shook his head and said, "In addition to the two armies fighting against each other, there are many other strategies that can be used. They have always had more plans to win and have fewer plans. Whoever makes fewer mistakes will win. Therefore, although our army uses heavy troops to capture the small city, it is still more cautious. The command will be sent to Hulao to the north to send two thousand people to garrison. If enemy troops come to the south to help Beijing County, they will also send thousands of people to garrison. Du Lei sent martial blood cavalry to provoke everywhere to ensure that there is no trace of the enemy within twenty miles."

"Now." The generals immediately bowed their orders.

On the second day, He Bai sent Zhou Tai and Liu Zheng to guard the Hulao direction, and sent a thousand people under Zhang Liao to guard the direction of Jingxian. He led 500 military craftsmen and made siege weapons with the help of 8,000 soldiers. Since ancient times, siege wars have been neglected. Unless it is a cavalry raid, the siege weapons alone will need to be made for a long time. After a siege war is over, three months will be normal.

It was not until the sixth day that the siege equipment was basically complete. However, the generals looked at the three cloud cars, six rushing cars, twelve cloud ladders, twenty Jinglans, one hundred and twenty European torsional crossbows and two hundred hand-pushed four-wheeled shields in front of them, and were stunned.

The generals in the past relied on their own bravery and had almost never encountered siege. A few years ago, I only heard that the Yellow Turban Moth thieves and ants were attached to the city, while the officers and soldiers carried soil to fill the ditches and built soil mountains to attack the city. But they never thought that there would be so many ways to attack the city.

Like this kind of siege weapon during the pre-Qin and Warring States Period, most generals and officials are now unknown except for a few aristocratic families in the country. He Bai used it and immediately suppressed everyone. If you want to talk about the method of field battle, He Bai may be similar to the generals, but this method of siege is far stronger than that of the generals, which amazed the generals.

Only Fu Xing raised a small question and asked: "Lord, you have tried to make a thunderbolt chariot. The thunderbolt chariot is more powerful than a crossbow, why not use it this time?"

The generals were shocked again, and did not expect that He Bai would have another equipment in his belly. He Bai smiled and said, "Although the thunder chariot is powerful, its distance is close and its accuracy is inaccurate. I am afraid that the Xiliang Army will have a big yellow crossbow to block it, so I use the crossbow with less power but greater distance and accuracy. I am not trying to destroy the city wall, it is enough to have a crossbow."

On the seventh day, He Bai led the army to push various siege weapons to prepare for the siege. Most of the 8,000 troops led this time were recruits, and only 500 private soldiers from Taiyuan had experienced several wars and were considered elite soldiers. In addition, more than a thousand people under Bao Xin's Jibei army, whom he collected not long ago, fought one battle, but it was a defeat, with a low morale and a great use. Therefore, the Battle of Xingyang was considered to be a training of troops through war.

Although He Bai was fully prepared, the siege battle was always fierce and would be damaged. In order to avoid too much loss, He Bai could not help but follow the habit of the people of the time to be polite and then the army, and ordered people to go to the city to persuade the surrender. He spread the military strength of the army and advised the defenders with 10 to 1 strength, and said that the country was righteous. I hope the defenders of Xingyang would be more sensible so that the army would not lose their troops in vain.

Unexpectedly, the Xingyang garrison said on the city tower: "I have never heard of the country's kindness to me since I was a child, but I have been deeply grateful to the Prime Minister Dong for several years. You don't have to say much, you can only die. You can go back and tell He Bai and come and attack."

The envoy advised the Xingyang garrison again and said, "The army is very different and cannot be resisted. Why should you take the destruction in vain?"

Unexpectedly, the Xingyang garrison ignored him and shot the envoy back with a raid. When He Bai saw this, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly that even the evil people were still loyal subordinates, and it seemed that many soldiers would be damaged in this battle. He Bai ordered Fu Xing to lead 3,000 troops, attacking the south and north sides. He led 2,000 troops, and gave up the east side and located in the west to attack the city.

He Bai personally climbed up the cloud cart ten feet high and looked into Xingyang City. The scene in Xingyang City was obvious. He saw that there were only about 200 soldiers in Xiliang west of Xingyang City, each holding his bow and spear, hiding behind the walls, and was filled with arrows and stones of all sizes and sizes. Push rods and wolf teeth were all available, and boiling water and turbulent oil.

He Bai couldn't help but laugh. The preparation was good, but did he have a chance to use it? Others attacked the city, or they had to divide the number of waves, attacking the city head one by one, first consuming the defending troops' materials, manpower, and spirit of the city, and then rushing forward in anger. But do you need it yourself? Just try it.

He Bai stood on the cloud car and waved the flag. Immediately, 250 people pushed fifty three-meter-high rattle cars, stepped forward to level the various terrains on the battlefield, leveling all the battlefield terrain that the enemy deliberately destroyed. Then he retreated and replaced 250 tall and strong soldiers wearing double-sized armor, each carrying long-handled ring knives and bows and arrows, pushing the cart to the gate of Xingyang City to guard to prevent enemy cavalry from rushing out.

The order flag waved again, and 240 soldiers pushed thirty European torsional crossbows to stop three hundred steps away from Xingyang. One was installed every fifteen meters, adjusted their respective shooting angles, began to use the pulley turntable to wind the strings, and loaded five or six kilograms of stone bullets into the crossbow box.

When an iron whistle blew, "Swoosh swish", thirty stone bombs accurately hit the city wall in Xingyang. After a slight vibration, the stone bomb smashed open a deep hole of more than thirty feet in size, and then fell weakly with the mud under the sheep and horse wall under the city.

The shooting angle was slightly lower. After another debugging, thirty stone bombs flew up again and hit the battlements near the battlements. The head of Xingyang City suddenly splashed blood, and screams were endless. It turned out that several battlements were destroyed. The enemy soldiers hiding behind the battlements were splashed and injured, and even the enemy soldiers who were injured by the jumping of the female wall on the inside were screamed.

Hearing the screams at the head of Xingyang City, the soldiers operating the crossbow chariots became more excited and stepped up their movements. Stone bullets were projected one after another, and the entire Xingyang City was in chaos. The head of Xingyang City also used a yellow crossbow to counterattack, but the precise range of the yellow crossbow was far inferior to that of the crossbow, and it would be hit by the fire of the crossbow. Under the continuous attacks of thousands of stone bullets, the guards suffered heavy casualties, with more than fifty people.

The head of Xingyang City was at all untenable at this time, and even the enemy soldiers hiding in the mud castle of horse-faced walls were hit one after another. They ran around in fear on the head of the city and died faster. In the end, they could only lean against the city wall and lie down without any guidance to avoid it.

Seeing the chaos of the defenders, He Bai waved his flag again, and 300 people pushed the Jinglan car, which was eight feet high and nearly ten tons, towards Xingyang. He did not receive any counterattack from the enemy along the way, and he pushed it to a distance of thirty steps before stopping. There were sixty primates standing on it, and they began to strike precisely into the city from a high point.

At this time, even the enemy lying on the ground had no place to settle down, and there were 30 or 40 guards finally couldn't hold on. The nearly half of the casualties could not be exchanged for one of the siege's casualties. How could we fight this battle? So, under the leadership of the generals, they fled from the city and ran into the city.

When He Bai saw this, he waved the order flag again. Eight hundred people pushed four ten-foot-high cloud ladders weighing 20 tons each and rushed towards the city quickly. When he arrived at the moat, he said the order, and the cloud ladder fell heavily to the city. Four loud "dongdongdongdongdongdongdong" sounded loudly, and the cloud ladder had already reached the top of the city. The soldiers shouted, rushed up the cloud ladder, and stepped onto the city one after another.

However, at this time, the Xingyang general hurriedly carried two heads and led two hundred soldiers to defend the city, but saw that the suspension bridge in the west city had been lowered and the city gate was wide open. The soldiers of He Bai and his army continued to pour into the city. The cheers of "The city is broken, the city is broken" sounded at the same time on the south and north sides. The Xingyang general was stunned, and the head in his hand couldn't help but rolled to the ground. He sighed and committed suicide by tying his knife.
Chapter completed!