For a whole day, Li Guangbi's soldiers and horses were frantically cutting down trees and pulling them back to the camp to build siege equipment. After last night's battle, Li Guangbi had a breath of anger in his heart that he couldn't vent. The generals under him were also in a fierce mood, and they hoped that Lang would immediately launch a siege to combat the arrogance of the other party. It is a great shame that the soldiers and horses, who occupy an absolute numerical advantage, are attacked by the opponent in front of them under strict precautions.

However, Li Guangbi was angry and angry, but he did not lose his mind. He knew that without the assistance of siege equipment, it would be absolutely impossible to attack the city. He has seen the fierceness of the opponent's defensive firepower, and if he wants to capture the city and defeat the opponent, he can only rely on the cover and impact of a large number of siege equipment to achieve the goal. Otherwise, it will be a vain loss of troops, but it may not be successful. If the loss of troops is too great, the morale will be too great, and the opponent will suffer a counterattack. Therefore, Li Guangbi ordered to speed up the logging and construction.

By the afternoon, the two hills within the confines of the Grand Army camp were bare and there was not a single tree standing. Not only the trees, but also the bushes and firewood were all cut down, because the army needed fires to make food, and campfires were needed to keep warm at night. Although logistics soldiers and horses will also send firewood, charcoal, and other materials, the consumption of 300,000 yuan cannot be achieved completely by logistics transportation. Grain and grass naturally need to be transported in logistics, but in addition, what firewood, charcoal, ropes, and other things often need to be solved by the soldiers and horses themselves.

Since the trees on the two hills in the middle of the camp had been cut down, we had to turn our attention to the trees on some of the slopes that were further away from the camp. In fact, the geographical location of Tongzhou City is actually a flat land in the remaining veins of Bashan. There are many surrounding mountains, and they are almost surrounded by the surrounding mountains on three sides. There is absolutely no shortage of firewood for trees, and there are dense bamboo forests on the larger mountains, which are more suitable materials for making equipment than hard trees. However, they were far away from the plains, and they had to walk a rough road and a long distance to carry them back to the barracks. As a result, efficiency and schedule become inefficient.

In order to complete the construction of 1,000 siege catapults, 5,000 ladders, 100 rushing carts and 60,000 chain shields as soon as possible. Lee Kwang-pil decided to increase the number of people involved in logging transportation to 100,000. This allows logging to be done from both the north and the eastern slopes behind the camp, which greatly speeds up the process.

100,000 people felling, what kind of concept is that. The mountains were full of soldiers like ants, hundreds of trees were cut down at every breath, hundreds of timber were transported to the camp at every moment, and piled up in a large clearing in the middle of the camp, piled up like a hill. Countless soldiers, under the guidance of the craftsmen in the army, pulled saws, axes, chisels, carried and assembled, and were busy building siege equipment. Everything went smoothly, and Lee Kwang-pil said he was very satisfied after his inspection.

However, from the afternoon onwards, bad news came one after another. There have been attacks on several tree-harvesting hillsides. Some people are hiding in the mountains and forests, and they are attacking the soldiers and horses who are felling. In just half an hour, hundreds of soldiers died as they felled. And it was under the noses of many people, shot by arrows flying out of thin air in the woods.

In fact, in order to ensure the smooth logging, Li Guangbi has already taken measures. 100,000 people fell, and another 50,000 were on hand to help. And the soldiers who cut the wood carried their blades with them. If Wang Yuan's soldiers and horses launched a sneak attack and interference, they could launch a counterattack on the spot and quickly form a superior force. Moreover, hundreds of scouts kept staring around Tongzhou City. Once there is a large-scale outflow of troops and horses from the city, you can immediately know the opponent's movements.

However, thousands of calculations and thousands of precautions cannot prevent attacks in the mountains and forests. And the attack in the forest is beyond the power of many soldiers and horses. The feathered arrows and poisonous needles that suddenly shot out of the canopy of the mountains and forests made all the logging soldiers terrified. After the news spread, all the soldiers on the logging surface were all soldiers, and when they heard that there was any feng shui and grass movement, they were all frightened and threw their axes and big saws and lay on the ground and did not dare to move. And the wind and grass in the mountains and forests are everywhere. When the mountain wind blows, the little beasts run by, and the birds fly by, it will cause panic.

At first, the guards and horses organized a plan to enter the mountains and forests to search and arrest, because judging by the situation of the other side shooting their own people, there should be a small number of people. Each shot was just three or two, and they were scattered across the harvesting surface. According to preliminary estimates, there may be only a few hundred people hiding in the mountains and forests to sneak attack. It took more than 20,000 people to enter the mountains and forests, and they thought that this was enough, but after entering the mountains and forests, they found that it was simply an impossible task. After 20,000 people entered, they soon found that they were hidden in it, and it was impossible to even communicate with each other. In the midst of trees and thorns, propulsion is also a big problem. You can't walk the road, let alone round up the enemies in the forest.

Half an hour after entering the forest, the 20,000 people were forced to withdraw. There were 20,000 people who entered, and more than 1,000 people were missing when they came out, some were separated from the team in the mountains and forests and could not find their way out, and some were killed and wounded by the enemy and died in the woods. In the dark and deep woods, there was no daylight for ordinary people to see, and the soldiers often walked with their heads probed, and out of nowhere an arrow flew and shot him. The 20,000 soldiers and horses did nothing, and only a few people saw the figure moving quickly in the canopy and moving freely through the forest, but they could not reach it.

The trembling logging is still going on. The logging soldiers and horses were still being shot. The arrogance of the other side became more and more arrogant, and even a few of the logging soldiers were not shot by arrows, but were hunted by the traps they shot. What's more, in a corner on the hillside in the southeast of the mountain, more than a dozen logging soldiers were hunted en masse, their bodies hanging around their necks and wandering in the wind, causing the other soldiers who rushed to hear the news to scream in terror.

By the end of the hour, the number of dead and missing soldiers had reached more than three thousand. The logging soldiers finally broke down, they left their axes and saws and refused to continue their work, who wants to stand on the edge of the forest like a fool and be hunted like a boar, but do nothing? Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses went into the mountains and forests empty-handed, even if they caught one, not only did they not catch one, but even thousands of people who went in were missing, how can this ensure safety? As a result, the entire logger came to a standstill.

The generals can't do anything, they can't force the soldiers to die. If this continues, everyone has the possibility of being shot, this is not logging, this is sending themselves to be a live target. The generals had to report the matter to Li Guangbi. Li Guangbi was so angry, everything was going well, but how did this happen again. After arriving at the scene, Li Guangbi judged from the situation and reports at the scene that it was Nanzhao's barbarian soldiers who were making trouble in the mountains and forests. The soldiers of Nanzhao are Wang Yuan's soldiers and horses, and Luo Feng, the lord of Nanzhao Kingdom, is Wang Yuan's brother-in-law, and he must bring soldiers and horses to help Wang Yuan at this time. Moreover, those blowing needle traps that shoot soldiers are also necessary for the Nanzhao people, which is enough to determine that they were done by the Nanzhao barbarians.

In this case, Li Guangbi had no choice, he knew that there were huge mountains and forests, and it was a fool's dream for soldiers and horses to enter them to search for hundreds of barbarians. It's a place where the barbarians are like fish in water, and any rest of them are in a quagmire, so it's impossible to catch them and remove the threat. In this case, encircling and suppressing the barbarians is a waste of time, and in order to ensure the normal progress of logging, they can only ignore the threat in the forest. The only thing that can be done is to order people to be on guard within a few dozen steps of the forest surface, because it is close to the edge of the woods, but there is no need to worry about falling into it, it should be able to deter the other party. The soldiers who entered were equipped with large shields to defend against arrows, and there should not be too many casualties.

The commander gave the order, and the soldiers cursed in their hearts, but they were helpless. The soldiers had to go back to the edge of the woodland on the hillside to cut wood. Tens of thousands of soldiers with large shields and bows and arrows went thirty paces deep on the edge of the forest to guard the loggers. This reassures the logging soldiers.

However, just when Lee Kwang Pi thought that this method had worked and rode his horse to his satisfaction, a series of attacks occurred again under Lee Kwang Pi's nose. As if agreed, at dozens of logging sites, these barbarians appeared from the canopy above their heads in front of the vigilant soldiers, flew over the canopy of branches, and quickly shot the logging soldiers. More than 100 loggers died, and the barbarians swayed into the forest. The vigilant soldiers shot arrows at the canopy, eventually killing both of them. Let the two brute soldiers in leather robes fall down, and the flesh and blood of the fall are blurred.

Shooting two people can't turn the situation around, two for more than a hundred, no matter how you count it, it's a bloody deal. Moreover, after this attack, the soldiers went on strike again, and they were reluctant to cut down again. Li Guangbi's thick eyebrows tightened, he knew that this must be Wang Yuan's idea, Wang Yuan's purpose was to make his plan to cut down wood and build siege equipment infinitely blocked, forcing himself to attack the city without preparation.

How could Li Guangbi allow Wang Yuan to succeed, since there was no way to solve the problem of the attack, then he would exchange human heads for wood. There are only two or three hundred people at most. Each attack only caused dozens or even more than 100 casualties, and with so many soldiers and horses, he was not afraid of losing so many people. The key is to cut down the wood as soon as possible. So Li Guangbi gave the order to ignore the attack, and ordered the soldiers to go back to cutting wood immediately. The soldiers were willing to go again, the generals persuaded to no avail, and finally with the approval of Li Guangbi, hundreds of people who took the lead in making trouble were killed, and the rest of the soldiers cursed in their stomachs, and returned to the hillside to cut wood in a state full of vicious curses for Li Guangbi's whole family.

Although the logging resumed, the logs were once again transported to the camp in a steady stream, and Li Guangbi breathed a sigh of relief. But in fact, he was really panicked in his heart. As a commander-in-chief, who is willing to disregard the lives of the soldiers, who is willing to force them to cut down trees in such a situation, and who is willing to do such a careless thing to disregard human lives? But there is no way, the overall situation is important, and those soldiers who are about to be shot are considered to have contributed to the victory of the battle.

Li Guangbi's mood is bad and gloomy, and he has never encountered such a depressed time. It's only been a few days since you arrived in Tongzhou? Before he and Wang Yuan even had a formal battle, they had been forced by Wang Yuan to be clumsy and in a bad mood. It's a terrible feeling, as if everything is dominated by the other person, everything seems to be going wrong, shrouded in invisible clouds, shrouded in heavy pressure. Wang Yuan is capable, he is really a capable person, which Li Guangbi can't help but admit from his heart. What Li Guangbi is thinking about now is to quickly complete the preparations and make a bold move with Wang Yuan to see who is the final winner. He didn't want to go on with Wang Yuan like this, because he didn't know what other means Wang Yuan had to harass and attack him, and if he continued like this, his morale would collapse.

By sunset, more than 5,000 men were killed and wounded, and more than 30 brutes were killed. It's simply an asymmetrical battle. The logging soldiers were simply live targets, they could not defend themselves against the barbarian attacks, but they had to cut the wood head-on. The whole process of logging is like betting on luck, on whether the barbarians have taken a fancy to you, on whether they will shoot arrows at your throat. The 5,000 soldiers were the losers in the gamble, and their deaths and injuries were exchanged for the survival of the rest. But this is not to be celebrated and rejoiced, being pressed into such a appearance and shot by the other party. The commander of his own side had no choice but to ignore the life and death of the soldiers, which caused violent fluctuations in the hearts of the soldiers and some generals, and caused great dissatisfaction.

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After dark, the logging stopped, and the nightmare of the logging soldiers ended. While they were returning to the camp with all their strength exhausted, their opponents were also returning to the city, receiving personal rewards and hospitality from Wang Yuan.

These barbarian guards who killed people in the woods for a day were indeed more than 300 people. To be exact, it is the barbarian guards of Ge Luofeng. Ge Luofeng had already returned to China, but he left the barbarian guards, saying that he was staying to protect Princess Aluo and be Princess Aluo's personal guards.

This kind of thinking is understandable, the big war is coming, as a brother, it is impossible not to consider Ah Luo's safety, leave some people to protect Ruan Luozhu, and it is reasonable to protect her at a critical time. When Wang Yuan led his army to Tongzhou, Ah Luo also came with these barbarian guards. Of course, Wang Yuan was unwilling to destroy the heavens, and in the operation to save Xuanzong, Wang Yuan had already seen the combat effectiveness of these carefully selected barbarians and the role of them in specific situations, so of course he used these powerful barbarians in the right circumstances.

In fact, from the first day, when he saw the opponent cutting wood to build siege equipment, Wang Yuan's heart germinated the idea of letting these more than 300 barbarians hide in the mountains and forests to ambush and hunt the opponent. This morning, when he saw a large number of opposing soldiers and horses marching towards the mountains and forests to the north, Wang Yuan immediately ordered Ah Shui to sneak into the mountains and forests with 300 barbarians to hunt and kill, that is, to obstruct the opponent's logging operations, and to eat away at the opponent and hit their morale. But in fact, Wang Yuan didn't expect their actions to be so successful. In one afternoon, more than 300 barbarians relied on the continuous shooting *** distributed by Wang Yuan and their own equipment, and actually shot and killed more than 5,000 people, which was simply against the sky. Of course, Wang Yuan didn't expect that Li Guangbi would ignore the casualties and insist on exchanging the normal progress of logging at the cost of human heads. Although Li Guangbi's move is paranoid and crazy, it is also decisive and resolute. To a certain extent, such a person makes people fearful, of course, Wang Yuan will not.

"General Ah Shui, I didn't expect you to make such a great achievement, which made Ben Shuai awe-inspired. Come on, serve wine, and the commander will give you a glass of glass. In the courtyard with bright torches, Wang Yuan stood in front of more than three hundred barbarian guards and praised loudly.

Ah Shui and the other barbarians thanked them in unison, although they were thin and small, they looked unusually tall in everyone's minds at the moment. It's rare for the brutes to be so proud. In fact, if it weren't for Wang Yuan's order to equip them with flying claws and repeating crossbows, they would not have had such brilliant achievements. So, they themselves were surprised.

When the wine came up, Wang Yuan took a full bowl and drank it all, and the barbarians also drank it all. Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Everyone, you have made such a great achievement, I will naturally reward you well." But I think it's better for your princess to reward you herself. ”

The barbarian guards were overjoyed, Princess Aluo was a more beloved person in the Nanzhao Kingdom than the lord of the country. Nanzhao can have today, it is because she sacrificed her life and relatives in exchange. Although the Nanzhao Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty have now reconciled, the people in the country still will not forget Princess Aluo's exploits in their minds. It is naturally a supreme honor to be rewarded by Princess Aluo herself.

As soon as Wang Yuan's words fell, the flattered barbarians really saw their Erhai princess, Princess Aluo, stepping into the courtyard with a smile on her face.

"See the princess." The barbarians hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

A Luo smiled and said, "Get up, you will win glory for my Nanzhao country." All are warriors. The marshal said, whatever I give you, then I will prepare a few rewards for you. Come, carry up. ”

A group of soldiers carried dozens of large boxes up, and Wang Yuan touched his chin and was stunned, not knowing what Ah Luo wanted to reward.

A row of wooden boxes was opened, and inside were neatly stacked new armor. They are all the latest armors in the Shence Army. Wang Yuan smashed his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't say it. These new types of armor are based on the Mingguang armor, which discarded the slightly bulky shortcomings of the Mingguang armor, and installed soft armor at the shoulder and elbow joints with free movement while the protection remained unchanged. This batch of armor has not yet equipped the army, but it was used by Ah Luo to reward the Nanzhao barbarians. Wang Yuan couldn't laugh or cry. But of course he is