Zhong Shung watched this scene from the top of the city, stunned, who would have thought that the Song army had not yet begun to attack the city uprightly, and would beat the Manichaean army on the city wall to the ground.

After more than a dozen consecutive rounds of firing by the Song army, the walls of Guizhou City were full of fire and smoke, and some firearms even fell into the city, causing many fires. The city wall was also blown to the ground, and there were two obvious large cracks, but fortunately they did not collapse. The passages at the head of the city were full of corpses. In less than half an hour, the death toll of the Manichaean army reached more than a thousand.

Compared to the more than 40,000 defenders in the city, more than 1,000 killed are actually nothing? But originally wanted the Song army to pay for the bitter fruits of the siege, but the terrible thing was that the Song army had not contacted the Manichaean army at all, and just relied on long-range weapons, and beat the Manichaean army to the point that it could not raise its head. How could such a fact not discourage the soldiers and leaders of the Manichaean army. Who knows what new tricks Song Jun has in the back.

At this moment, the horn sounded again in the formation of the Song army.

With the sound of the horn of "woo-woo-woo", the three phalanxes of the second row of the Song army began to advance, and they passed through the gap between the three phalanxes in the first row, came to the advance, and continued to the city wall of Guizhou City. At this time, the bed crossbows of the Song army also temporarily stopped firing crossbows and firearms.

"Could it be that the Song army is planning to attack the city?" Zhong Shung's spirit perked up, if the Song army attacked the city, then the bed crossbow would not dare to fire casually, although the city is very chaotic now, but the Manichaean army has a lot of people, and it can still fight with the Song army. Zhong Shung immediately ordered, and the whole army cheered up and guarded carefully.

I saw that among the three phalanxes of the Song army, there were thirty or forty chariots clustered in each phalanx, and on each chariot stood a high pole more than four zhang high and the thickness of a bucket, like a flagpole, but it was not visible in the flag.

"What is this, is it another trick of Song Jun?" Just when Zhong Shung was puzzled, Song Jun had stopped a hundred steps away from the wall of Guizhou City. "What the hell is Yang Yan trying to do?"

The current distance is the limit distance of the Manichaean army's bow and arrow, and when Zhong Shung was hesitating whether to start releasing the arrows, he saw three buckets rising on each high pole, and there were four Song soldiers in each bucket.

"Not good, let go of the arrows." Zhong Shung suddenly understood and ordered loudly. A rain of loose arrows shot from the city wall towards the Song army's formation, but the Song army was also prepared, and the Song army in the first few rows immediately raised the shield in their hands to block the arrows. And since the distance is now almost the limit of the Manichaean army's bow and arrow, the Manichaean army's arrows are not much of a threat to the Song army.

At this time, the Song army in the bucket also began to shoot arrows at the city wall. The archers on the bucket are all selected archers in the Song army, not only the archery is more accurate, but also the hard bow is more than one stone, plus because the height of the bucket is almost the same as the city wall, the Song army does not need to use the back shot, so the current distance is just within the range of the Song army.

Wave after wave of arrows rained down on the head of Guizhou City, the density and accuracy of the blow were several times greater than that of the previous bed crossbow, and the soldiers of the Manichaean army fell in pieces. The bed crossbow in the back row of the Song army began to fire again, although the frequency and density of the bed crossbow were much smaller than before for fear of accidentally injuring their own people, but for the Manichaean army, it was tantamount to adding insult to injury.

And when the archers of the Manichaean army were suppressed by the Song army, another thousand archers of the Song army, under the cover of 3,000 rattan players, rushed to a distance of about seventy paces from the city wall and shot arrows at the city. This made it impossible for the Manichaean army to parry. In mutual attacks using long-range weapons, the Manichaean army was simply defeated, suffering heavy casualties.

It turned out that the Song army was also divided into several routes, and this time Yang Yanlai only mobilized about 45,000 men and horses to attack Guizhou, which was roughly the same as the defenders of the Manichaean army in Guizhou. Generally speaking, the siege of the city should be more than three times the strength of the city to have a chance of victory, because the siege is the largest casualty of a combat method, Sun Shu also has the art of war "siege for the bottom" said, the general battlefield, will try to avoid siege warfare.

Yang Yan knew very well in his heart that once he set up a ladder and attacked, he would definitely suffer heavy losses. Even if you open the city gate, you will get caught in the street battle in the city, which is really worth the loss. Therefore, at the beginning, Yang Yan did not plan to start a strong attack, but took advantage of the Song army's advantages in equipment and technology, using crossbow guns, firearms and other long-range strikes, first hitting the Manichaean army by surprise, and unable to fight back, and then sending bucket trucks to increase the attack on the Manichaean army, and then sending archers to strengthen the Song army's attack, advancing layer by layer, but always using long-range weapons to attack, not making short-range contact with the Manichaean army.

At this time, even if his martial arts are as high as Zhong Shung, he can only hide under the battlements and peek at the city. This Zhong Zhenxian came to his side with a cat's waist and said: "Dad, it's not a way to go on like this, we have no way to deal with Benna Song Jun, I think it's better for me to open the door and go out to kill for a while, maybe I can disrupt the Song Army." ”

Zhong Shung's heart moved, this is a try, when he attacked the city of the Song army in the past, Yang Yan always suddenly sent an army to kill from the city, and he was caught off guard, and there was a big chaos. This time, you can try this trick yourself. And now there is really no other way, you can't just be beaten like this, you have to try it no matter what.

Therefore, Zhong Shung said: "Okay, you and King Chen Yi will lead five thousand people out to kill for a while, but if the situation is not right, come back immediately, and don't fight hard with the Song army." ”

After a series of fierce battles, when the Manichaean army was originally reorganized, the elite of the front, rear, left, right, and middle armies of the formation lost seven or eight out of ten, and only seven or eight thousand people remained in Guizhou, and more than 10,000 people who came back with Zhao Cao and Lai Wenzheng also belonged to the elite of the five armies, Zhong Shung was originally suspicious of them, but now the situation is critical, don't not use them again, but just in case, Zhong Shung still disrupted them and scattered them among the other armies, but some of them were sent out to garrison each way, At present, there are still more than 12,000 elite people of the Fifth Army in Guizhou.

As soon as the gates opened, a group of Manichaean troops came out of the city. However, the Song army was also prepared, and the archers immediately put away their bows and arrows and retreated to the phalanx behind, and the 3,000 rattan troops who were responsible for protecting the archers immediately met them, and more than 3,000 horses and horses were also killed in the back phalanx, and the two sides started a battle under the city. And the archers in and out of the city are also afraid of injuring their own people by mistake, so they are much more cautious in firing their bows and arrows.

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