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As soon as the horse stood out, just as the front hoof stepped out of the line drawn by Fang Qianhu, a feathered arrow pierced the night sky. The iron arrow reflected a ray of snow, and it was firmly nailed into the rider's head.

With a "plop", the rider's body fell into the snow, splashing a few snowflakes.

The ownerless horse's hooves smashed through the snow, and galloped towards the wall of Gubei City with a rattle, and let out a long hiss at the same time as the corpse fell to the ground.This shrill hiss seemed to be seeing off the riders, and it was also like a horn, sounding the prelude to the Dawan army's attack on the city.

People and horses rushed across the boundary line of bow and arrow. The people who rushed out first were like heavenly soldiers emerging from the surrounding darkness, shouting words that the defenders could not understand, and came straight to the city gate with sabers in their hands. .

"Fire arrows!"

Yuan Xiao handed over all the commanding power on the city wall to Fang Qianhu. Fang Qianhu stood on the top of the city wall, holding a long bow and screaming.

Countless archers responded to his order and let go of their bows at the same time. Hundreds of bows and arrows pierced the sky like rain, and fell into the crowd below the city with the belief that the city defenders would live and die with Gubei City.

"Plop" someone's body fell from the horse, another horse neighed, and its front hooves knelt down on the snow, and the rider "Gululu" rolled a few meters away.

The people and horses in the city screamed, and there was silence on the city wall, except for the whistle of bows and arrows and the panting of archers.

The [-] Dawan troops were reduced to only [-] by the previous rounds of siege, but they rushed forward desperately as if there were thousands of troops.When the corpse fell, he rode his horse directly over it, and when the horse fell, he ran over with his feet.They used human lives and corpses to pave the way forward.

On the city wall, a few small soldiers moved feather arrows from the armament office, and the archer's quiver emptied again and again.

But I can't hold back.

I already knew that the Dawan army would attack the city madly before dawn, and I would never let them drag the time until dawn, but this is too crazy.

Tang Yuan jumped over a small soldier lying on the ground resting, and lightly landed beside Yuan Xiao who was watching the battle, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"

"It's not too long before dawn," Yuan Xiao looked up at the sky, shook his head and said, "They shouldn't be beating so desperately."

"Is it because Zhao En gave them some death order to make them put all their eggs in one basket?"

"It's possible," Yuan Xiao said, "but it's more likely that they know that there are reinforcements behind them, and the reinforcements will arrive soon."

Before Yuan Xiao finished speaking, there was a loud shout from behind Tang Yuan: "Report—"

Yuan Xiao and Tang Yuan looked at each other and leaned out of the city wall at the same time. As for the specific content of the report, neither of them needed to listen.

The facts are right in front of you——

The reinforcements of the Dawan Army came, and they brought a group of strange people.

The Dawan army shouted something they didn't understand, but even if they didn't understand Tang Yuan, they could guess what it was, it was nothing more than - kill.

That group of strange people were all dressed in black, with black armor on their heads, coming out of the darkness, like killing gods who came out of the ground.

After they appeared, they have been standing behind the line of bow and arrow, standing there like evil gods.Tang Yuan glanced over, but felt chills in his heart, and suddenly felt a sense of fear.From behind them, groups of Dawan troops got out and rushed into the three thousand light cavalry, stepping on the corpses of men and horses.

"It's those who drank the alchemy water." Yuan Xiao whispered in Tang Yuan's ear.

Tang Yuan glanced at the soldiers who were still fighting bravely on the city wall, and he knew why Yuan Xiao did this.The group of people who drank alchemy water and became the first emperor's secret army would have to fight hard for a long time even for young knights like Yuan Xiao and Wang Chengqian, let alone ordinary people.These things must not be known to ordinary soldiers. It is a great crime to shake the morale of the army.

Tang Yuan also lowered his voice and said, "Yes, but they don't seem to plan to do anything."

"It may have been ordered by Zhao En."

"I didn't see Zhao En." Tang Yuan thought for a while and thought that there was no sign of Zhao En as far as he could see. "It should be because the battle with Wang Chengqian took a lot of damage, so it's inconvenient to show up now."

"No, that group of people standing there will distract the soldiers, and they must not be tolerated." Yuan Xiao thought for a while and pulled a soldier passing by, "Call Qianhu from the frontier army over."

Tang Yuan leaned over and asked him, "Why do you call the frontier army Qianhu?"

Yuan Xiao didn't speak, but pointed with his hand.Tang Yuan looked in the direction he pointed, it was a crossbow mounted on the city wall.Where the city was built, the city builders anticipated that there would be frequent wars here, and set up heavy crossbows on the city wall in advance.The heavy crossbow uses special bows and arrows, which are more than ten times larger than ordinary feathered arrows, and the force required to open them is also ten times greater, but the power is not comparable to that of ordinary longbows.

While talking, Qianhu from the frontier army had already run up to the two of them. Before he could salute, Yuan Xiao asked, "Can the crossbow machine on the city wall still work?"

Qianhu, a frontier soldier, glanced at the crossbow machine on the city wall in embarrassment, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said a little embarrassedly: "...It has long been unusable."

Hearing this, Yuan Xiao nimbly jumped onto the platform of the crossbow machine, bent his fingers and tapped on the wooden crossbow arm of the crossbow machine, and asked: "The thousand machine crossbow is the legacy of the master of mechanism. Although it is made of wood, it cannot be blown by the wind. It cannot be splashed into the water, and decades of wind and frost will not wear off its sharpness. You tell me, how can this thing not be used. "

The thousand households were already sweating profusely, and they stumbled and said: "Yes, yes, the city lord. The city lord has never used bows and arrows three years ago on the grounds that the maintenance of the crossbow is a waste of manpower, and the long arrows of the crossbow are a waste of material resources. Now Although the crossbow can be used freely, there are no arrows to use."

With a sullen face, Yuan Xiao leaned on the arm of the crossbow machine and fell silent.

Yuan Xiao didn't speak, and the thousand households didn't dare to open their mouths casually, and this corner of the city wall became miraculously quiet.Just when Tang Yuan was about to be overwhelmed, Yuan Xiao finally spoke: "Go, bring that city lord to the city wall. I'll let him see how the soldiers died because of his stupidity."

"Yes." Qianhu left as if he had been pardoned.

"You want to use a crossbow? How can you use it without arrows?"

"If you don't have an arrow, use the pistol." Yuan Xiao jumped off the crossbow platform and pulled out the pistol beside him.He clasped the barrel of the gun with both hands, and with a wrong foot, the tip of the gun lifted the red tassel and shook out a move of the blue dragon to go out to sea.

There is already a sea of ​​human corpses under the city wall, and there are countless Dawan soldiers crawling towards the gate of Gubei City stepping on the corpses of their predecessors, and they are getting closer and closer.

The feathered arrows fired from the city wall became slower and slower, the archers were tired, and the hands holding the bowstring trembled more and more. The moment the arrows finally let go, the feathered arrows deviated from the course and landed in front of the city wall.The archer who shot the arrow was limp on the edge of the city wall, his fingers were already shaking badly, and he could no longer draw his bow and shoot the arrow.

Fang Qianhu's neat voice came over: "Substitute."

Immediately there was a new archer holding a longbow to replace him, and the feathered arrow was shot again, landing on the chest of the Dawan army who was rushing forward.

The blood stained the bow and arrow and also stained the man's chest. He looked down at his chest in disbelief, and fell to his knees in the snow with a "plop", becoming a stepping stone for the next Dawan army to rush up.

But even with such frequent replacements, they still couldn't resist the crazy Dawan army. When the frontier army Qianhu brought the city lord to the city wall, the Dawan army finally attacked under the city wall.Dead bodies were strewn all over the moat, and the dead bodies of the Dawan army forcefully filled up the moat. Later, people stepped on their corpses to the city wall.

The bows and arrows of the city defenders were finally useless, and the two armies finally fought hand to hand against the danger of the city wall.

Dawan's army set up ladders and climbed up the city wall with their numbers, all of them carrying sabers in their hands, hacking and stabbing with one knife.The city defenders also held big knives and rolled boulders down the city wall.Pots of water poured down from the city wall, forming a thick layer of ice along the city wall in the cold night, freezing the blood of the Dawan army inside.

All of a sudden, the sound of killing on the city wall shook the sky.

The city lord was dragged up from the bed by his collar and dragged all the way to the city wall. Before he realized what was going on, he was so frightened by the bloody light that he yelled out with a loud voice.

"Shut up!" Yuan Xiao looked worried, "Look at it for me! See how many people your stupidity will kill."

The city lord has never seen this kind of battle, usually Gubei City rarely sees even a gangster fighting, let alone such a scene of corpses and blood.Immediately there was a wail, and he almost fainted.

But Yuan Xiao didn't let him faint, and carried him to the crossbow platform: "You decided to destroy the arrows of this crossbow? Then you can take care of it. If you lose this battle and Gubei City is destroyed, you will die for me." Apologize with death before the crossbow."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Xiao stepped on the arm of the crossbow machine with his right foot, stepped on a groove, and pulled the string of the crossbow machine with his teeth.When the strings are pulled apart, there is an overwhelmed "creaking" sound. Even if it is the work of a master mechanism, decades of wind and sun have made the crossbow machine much more difficult to use.The string that could only be pulled by the cooperation of these dozen or so people was pulled away by Yuan Xiao's great strength. If it was placed on an ordinary school captain, he should sigh with emotion at General Yuan's martial arts, but in this critical moment, there is really no such leisurely mood.I saw Yuan Xiao put the gun into the arrow slot with his left hand as an arrow, moved Wangshan to aim at a man in black standing in the distance, and pulled the hanging knife.

Hanging Knife flicked the crossbow trigger, and the pistol, which was used as a substitute, went straight towards the man in black like a bolide with a destructive aura.

Before the man in black could react, the pistol pierced through the sky and pinned him on the chest, pulling him up with great force, his feet hung on the snow, and two deep marks were drawn in the snow.

□□Put through the chest, leaving only a round mark on the chest of the man in black, running through the front and back, and splashing snowflakes floated from the back to the chest.

Hongying, who killed one person, has not diminished, and it is really like the spear technique Yuan Xiao shook out on the city wall. It pierced through several people's chests like a dragon going out to sea, and finally nailed a few Dawan soldiers to stop. on the snow.

Such power and influence cannot be compared with ordinary feather arrows.

Everyone on the city wall was dumbfounded, but Yuan Xiao and Tang Yuan were not among them.

Yuan Xiao knew the power of the arrow in his heart, but Tang Yuan felt cold behind him, rolled on the spot, and picked up a knife on the ground and it was empty.

This frame was holding a broken red silk knife with red silk wrapped around the handle.

Tang Yuan raised his eyes and saw that Zhao Enhong was holding the red silk saber tightly with both hands.Behind Zhao En, there is a faintly bright sky.