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"Subordinates greet the general!"

Hua Mulan raised her hand: "No! General Zhao sent you here?"

"Yes! There are a few craftsmen who came with me." After finishing speaking, Jiao Yunzhe took out the letter from his pocket and handed it over, "This is a letter from General Zhao!"

Hua Mulan took the letter and opened it to read it. She already had a solid idea in her heart. After putting away the letter, she raised her head and asked, "How long will it take to build ten well rails and one hundred siege ladders?"

"It depends on how many carpenters the general has!"

"45 carpenters, all of them can be handed over to you!"

Jiao Yunzhe made some calculations in his mind, cupped his hands and said, "As long as there is enough wood, the work can be completed in two days!"

"Okay!" Hua Mulan immediately shouted to the outside: "Come on!"

"General!" Hua Hai walked in and cupped his fists.

"Prepare a few tents for them, take them to the artisan camp, pass on the general's order, and from now on, Jiao Yunzhe will be the head of the artisan camp, and everyone will obey his assignment!"

"Yes!"

After Jiao Yunzhe and the others left, Hua Mulan was about to stand up and go to practice the soldiers' siege tactics when a young eunuch came over and said, "General Hua, Your Majesty has summoned you!"

Hua Mulan cupped her fists, raised her sword and hung it on her waist, and followed the little eunuch to the palace.

Seeing Hua Mulan walk into the hall, Tuoba Jian asked after she saluted, "Hua Aiqing, it's been several days, when will you be able to attack the city?"

Hua Mulan clasped her fists and said, "Return to Your Majesty, the general is training his soldiers to practice siege tactics, and at the same time, he is also ordering people to build siege equipment. Please wait patiently for another two days, Your Majesty. After two days, he will attack the city by himself. Then please return." Your Majesty is going to watch the battle!"

Tuoba Jian saw that Hua Mulan had given the exact time for attacking the city, he was slightly relieved, and said with a smile: "Well, I will wait to see Hua Aiqing break through Wuzhou Pass!"

Two nights later, Hua Mulan sat under the oil lamp and read the letter from Zhao Junsheng again. Zhao Junsheng made it very clear in the letter that he wanted to attack the city wall once and compete with the defenders for control of the city. Give the defenders time to figure out how to deal with the curb!

Everyone knows that everything in this world has its advantages and disadvantages. The well fence is a rare long-range suppression weapon for the siege party, and it can also easily send the siege soldiers to the top of the city to participate in the battle for the top of the city. , but it also has weaknesses, and there are ways to deal with it. Once the enemy thinks of a way to deal with it, its role will be greatly reduced.

In the early morning of the next day, after breakfast, tens of thousands of troops gathered and walked out of the camp, forming an army formation and slowly approaching the city wall of Wuzhou Pass.

The army formation stopped a mile away from the city wall.

Tuoba Jian turned to Hua Mulan and said, "Hua Aiqing, it's getting late, I look forward to your performance!"

"As ordered!"

Hua Mulan promised, rushed to the front of the siege team, and shouted loudly: "I have nothing to say, general, today's battle is about our life and death, everyone must fight the enemy bravely, and those who do not order to retreat without authorization will kill everyone." Forgiveness, those who are afraid of the enemy will not be killed! The first person to attack the top of the city will be promoted to a higher rank, and will be rewarded with fifty cattle and sheep each. Everyone will follow this general and advance—"

"Enter—" With a loud roar, a slightly neat line of weapons and knives followed behind Hua Mulan.

In the middle of the team, there are a large number of siege ladders and ten high well rails, and the well rails are full of bows and arrows.

Hand and sword shield hand, a sword shield hand to cover an archer.

Looking at the slowly advancing siege army, the defenders on the top of the city began to feel a little nervous, because this siege team was obviously different from the previous ones.

On the top of the city, Xi Zhonglang frowned and looked at the slowly approaching siege army. He could see that this siege team was obviously more organized than the previous attacking teams. They didn't swarm over to hedge, and didn't stop clamoring.

There is also the towering tower that keeps moving forward, full of soldiers standing on it, and its height is much higher than the city head, which seems to be very bad for the defenders.

The siege team stopped for a short while away from the city wall, and heard several roars in succession. The ten towering well fences were pushed to the front, and there were a large number of swords and shields under each well fence. Guards, their role is to act as a power pair to push the curb and keep it safe.

"Attack—" Hua Mulan took out her sword and pointed towards the city wall and shouted.

The drummer who received the order immediately began to beat the drum with both hands in turn. The drumbeat was slow but heavy, and everyone in the siege team stepped forward on the drumbeat.

Yilouji on the top of the city saw the siege team's attacking range, and immediately ordered loudly: "Shoot the arrow—"

"Shoot the arrow—"

Seeing this, Hua Mulan immediately ordered the archers on the well curb to carry out long-range suppression.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Both sides started long-range shooting. The defenders on the top of the city were shooting at the densely packed siege team below, while the archers on the well fence were shooting at the archers at the top of the city.

The defenders at the top of the city didn't notice for a while, and soon suffered a big loss. In the blink of an eye, many archers on the top of the city were shot to death.

Yilouji was shocked: "No! Come on, don't worry about the people below the city, shoot the archers on the tower for me, and shoot them all to death!"

Seeing this scene, Hua Mulan immediately issued a new order, ordered the well fence to stop advancing, suppressed the city head, and ordered the siege team to rush to the city wall as quickly as possible.

"咚咚咚······" The sound of the drum is getting faster and faster, which means speeding up the sprint.

"Kill—" everyone in the siege team roared, and the soldiers carrying the siege ladder shouted and rushed to the city wall. The sword and shield soldiers on both sides stood in front of them with shields on their left arms, The knife roared and rushed to the city wall.

Chapter 423 If you have the ability, you command it!

A large number of siege soldiers rushed under the city wall, and a siege ladder was erected on the wall of the city wall. Two special soldiers protected the bottom of the ladder to prevent it from slipping. One after another, the soldiers bit the back of their swords, The left hand is holding the shield, and the right hand is climbing the ladder.

This siege ladder is very different from ordinary wooden ladders. Although it is also made of wood, its length is much longer than ordinary wooden ladders, and it is built according to the height of the city wall. There is an inner groove on the top. On the female wall of the city wall, when the lower part of the ladder is pulled out, the groove on the top is stuck on the wall. , it will be able to escape from the city wall.

There are also siege ladders with an iron hook fixed on the top. Once the ladder is placed on the city wall, the iron hook hooks the wall. On the ladder, there are siege soldiers climbing up, and the weight of the body weighs on it. The defenders are helpless.

There is also a wheeled siege ladder, in the form of a vehicle, with a wide banner pedal, some up to 1.5 meters wide, and the length can be freely expanded and contracted by winch control. The siege soldiers can step on it and rush to the city. Walk on the ground {I won’t give a detailed introduction here}.

If there is a spear, there must be a shield. At this time, there is no doubt that there is always a way to restrain it. The key is whether you can think of it.

Yilouji on the top of the city brandished a scimitar to chop off a few sharp arrows, and looked down at the city wall. He saw the besieging soldiers climbing quickly on the ladders, and some of them even wanted to climb to the top of the city. , he immediately shouted: "Spearmen step forward to defend!"

Teams of spearmen who had been prepared for a long time immediately walked to the edge of the wall to fight, and soon there was the sound of weapons clashing, and soldiers on the ladder fell from time to time, but the soldiers below were still standing still. Keep going up.

As the archers on the well fence were fully engaged in the battle, the casualties of the archers on the wall became more and more serious. They had been completely suppressed. There were even spear soldiers and sword and shield soldiers on the top of the city. People were shot by arrows and hid everywhere, but the city walls were bare, and there was no place to hide.

"Move another two hundred archers to the city wall, hurry up!" Yilou Ji ordered loudly.

As the siege battle continued, the defenders at the top of the city were suppressed more and more severely. Some defenders with spears and swords and shields were hacked and killed by soldiers climbing on the ladder or pulled down the city wall. He dared to be rushed up the city wall by a siege soldier.

Fortunately, the officers of the defending army rushed up to besiege with people and killed the siege soldiers who climbed up, but this has given the siege soldiers even greater encouragement.

For the defenders, the situation was extremely serious. Yilouji knew that the siege soldiers could not climb up, otherwise the defenders under his command would easily collapse. These soldiers were usually stationed in Wuzhou County, and they had hardly practiced the method of defending the city. The city has not been defended for decades. If it were not for this strong and dangerous pass, these defenders would have collapsed long ago.

"Come here, pour boiling water and scald them to death!" Yilouji roared.

The defenders scooped up the tumbling boiling water from the iron pot with ladles, rushed to the edge of the wall and poured it down the city wall.

"Ah——" the siege soldiers on the ladder were drenched in boiling water, screaming and falling down one by one, and fell to the ground lifelessly with a "bump".

One after another, the siege soldiers were scalded by boiling water until they rolled down the ladder, but there were still siege soldiers who kept climbing up.