Fan Lihua's arrow shocked the Western Turkic army, but in fact, she herself was also shocked by Yang Fan, the power of the arrow just now, she herself knows best, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can catch, but Yang Fan actually took it, and was only shocked back by a foot, it can be seen how high Yang Fan's martial arts are, no wonder he was confident to go head-to-head with himself just now, if it is really heads-up, the outcome is really unknown.

Fan Lihua couldn't help but secretly wonder: "It seems that this Yang Fan's thirteen years of hard training has indeed had an effect, but I don't know what his strategy is in the art of war, if he is also as powerful in the art of war, then this siege is only a hard battle." ”

With such a thought, Fan Lihua turned the horse's head and was about to go back, but after a few zhang, she heard Yang Fan shouting behind her: "Come and don't be rude!" You take my arrows too! ”

When Fan Lihua heard this, she immediately turned her head to look back, and saw Yang Fan bending his bow and arrows, and shooting an arrow at her.

Fan Lihua frowned, suddenly brandished the silver spear, danced hard, "snapped", the arrow was pushed away by her shot, although Yang Fan also used a strong bow, but compared with the steel tire bow, it was really far worse, and the arrow was also made of wooden poles, too light, and the power was limited.

"Humph! Sneak attack from behind! Despicable villain! Fan Lihua snorted coldly, gave Yang Fan a look of contempt, and patted the horse and left.

Yang Fan was very angry when he heard this, he clearly reminded him just now, but he was still scolded as a despicable villain, so he didn't remind him if he knew it.

After returning to the camp, Fan Lihua ordered all the guards who shouted to persuade him to come back, no longer persuaded to surrender, and ordered the whole army to prepare and start attacking the city tomorrow, and the entire Tang army camp began to get busy, especially the craftsmen were the busiest, and began to assemble various siege equipment.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the Tang army marched in a neat formation to the royal court, and stopped more than two miles away from the royal court, and began to set up catapults there, sixty catapults on the east city wall, and thirty on the north and south city walls, a total of 120 catapults. The carts were also pushed out, and countless ladders were prepared.

At the same time, the city of Wangting was also busy, and the Western Turkic army was also making pre-war preparations, rolling stones, bundles of arrows, and cans of fire oil...... All kinds of fortification props are being transported to the city.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Fan Lihua waved the flag, the siege began, the catapult threw stones first, the fire suppressed, the rear army held a shield from the up, and many Tang troops carried ladders, braved the rain of arrows of the Western Turkic army, rushed down to the city.

It was only at this time that Fan Lihua suddenly discovered that the number of defenders at the head of Wang Ting City was wrong, much more than expected, and according to her experience in defending the city, the defenders in the city definitely exceeded 40,000.

This is not good news, the siege army is generally at least twice as large as the defending army, so that it can barely fight, but now the other party has forty or fifty thousand troops to defend the city, and they only have sixty thousand people to attack the city, you can imagine how difficult this is, but now that the war has begun, how can it be easy to call it off, so she can only fight hard, first see the situation.

The Tang army soon rushed to the bottom of the city, set up a ladder and began to climb the city wall, but the city head of countless stones and rolling logs continued to fall, smashing the Tang army to the ground, what is more depressing is that their ladders are not qualified, nearly half of the ladders are three feet shorter than the city wall, don't underestimate this short three feet, at the end of the time to climb the city wall, less than three feet can not wait for the city, it is simply to climb up to die.

When the herald came back to give the order, Fan Lihua frowned, and immediately ordered the soldiers who were too short to retreat, and let the soldiers push out the bed crossbow to suppress the fire and help the others wait for the city.

As soon as the bed crossbow joined the battlefield and cooperated with the catapult, it really had some effect, but although the bed crossbow was powerful, it could not penetrate the battlements, and there were too many defenders of the Western Turks, and the Tang army still could not attack the city wall.

The battle lasted for nearly an hour, and there were casualties on both sides, and the Tang army, which was the besieging party, naturally suffered more serious damage, and Fan Lihua knew that fighting like this would only increase the battle losses, so she immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

As soon as the gong sounded, the Tang army retreated, and the Western Turkic army at the head of the city cheered excitedly.

After recalling the army, the battle losses were counted, and in just a few moments, the Tang army lost 8,000 people, and at the same time, Yang Fan also counted the battle losses, and they only lost more than 2,500 people.

Eight thousand people is a lot of people, which makes Fan Lihua very distressed, she knows that she can't fight like this, otherwise she will definitely lose, so she immediately ordered the commanders of the marching troops to come to the Chinese army to hold a meeting in the tent to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

That night, Fan Lihua and all the marching commanders formulated a strategy, and decided to adopt Li Hao's original method of attacking Khan Futu City, and set fire to the city.

Oil is extremely rare in this era, everyone is not familiar with it, and they don't even know what this black thing is, but Li Hao is no stranger to it, and Li Hao knows that this is a rare treasure.

Although Li Hao does not have the technology to extract oil now, if he wants to get a few tons or more than ten tons of oil, he can still do it, but it is just a bit troublesome. In order to help Fan Lihua break through the Western Turks, Li Hao took great pains to bring all the eighteen tons of oil he got to Fan Lihua.

From the next day, Fan Lihua began to send people to wrap the stones in thick cloth, wrap them with iron wire, and make them into large cloth balls with a diameter of fifty or sixty centimeters, and then soak these cloth balls in oil and make four or five hundred of them, which they called a big fireball, because this thing is a big fireball when it burns. Then they filled large jars with oil, and filled hundreds of large jars.

After two days of busy work, everything was ready, and in the early morning of the third day, Fan Lihua ordered all the trebuchets to move forward more than a mile, just outside the range of the Western Turk soldiers, which made the Western Turk soldiers at the head of the city very puzzled, the catapults were used to throw boulders and gravel against the enemy troops on the city, but if they were so close, they could only throw stones into the city.

When Yang Fan saw this scene, he had a bad premonition in his heart, and immediately began to estimate the throwing range of the Tang army's catapults, he vaguely guessed the intentions of the Tang army, and immediately ordered people to move all the people within the throwing range.

Just when the people were moving in the city, a large jar suddenly crossed an arc, crossed the city, and landed on the streets of the city, and exploded with a "pop", splashing out a large black liquid, which frightened everyone, and everyone saw these black liquids, and did not understand what it was, but instinctively felt a little crazy.

Immediately afterwards, countless jars flew into the city, some fell on the roof, some fell on the street, and some directly hit people, killing or injuring people, anyway, no matter where they fell, these jars would be broken, after all, they were sand pottery jars, which were easy to break.

Every time the jar is broken, the black liquid will be splashed everywhere, Yang Fan looked at this scene, seemed to guess something, and quickly sent people to give orders everywhere, away from those black liquids, everyone quickly evacuated the throwing area, to the foot of the city wall to hide.

Just when the herald was giving orders, a large fireball appeared in the sky, dragging a long flame and black smoke, as if dragging a big tail, drawing a beautiful arc, falling in the city, the fireball immediately scattered and cracked after landing, and the flames burst everywhere, because the city was now full of oil, a fire suddenly rose, whirring, like a giant dragon raising its head, only a moment, a small spark has developed into a long fire dragon, across the street, began to devour the houses on both sides, The people around them were frightened and screamed, and fled in all directions, some of them ran slowly, and their clothes were directly burned by the fire, and they were screaming and rolling on the ground.

At the same time, the sky is like a meteor shower, countless fireballs drag their long tails, over the city, flying towards the city, after each fireball lands, there will be a large sea of fire, the Western Turkic army at the head of the city looks up at the fireballs flying by, and then looks at the sea of fire spreading in the city, all of them are dumbfounded, and a sense of powerlessness wells up in their hearts.

"Damn!" Yang Fan turned his head to look at the fire in the city, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said to himself, "The Tang Army really has a lot of means, and I don't know where to get so much black oil." ”

At this moment, Fan Lihua said coldly in front of the battle: "Siege!" ”