At the moment when the first soldier of Tuyuhun ascended to the top of the city, in a mountain col thirty miles southwest of Liangzhou City, Duan Zhixuan, the general of Zuo Raowei, was standing on a hillside looking in the direction of Liangzhou.

In fact, he couldn't see anything from his position, all he saw was a patch of verdant green bushes and weeds, but he was still looking into the distance, as if his gaze could penetrate all obstacles.

"General, let's go over!" Beside him, a veteran who had followed Duan Zhixuan for many years whispered.

"It's the general, the eldest prince only brought three thousand people over, and the defenders in the city will not exceed five thousand, it's too dangerous." Another guard was also trying to persuade him.

However, in the end, the result was a cold snort from Lao Duan: "This is the path he chose himself, so he has to stick to it no matter what." And when he is a soldier in a war, it is a common thing on the battlefield for friendly troops to lose time, if he can't even adapt to this...... Then he should go back to Chang'an to be his gentleman's son. ”

"But the general, the eldest prince must have only been on the battlefield for the first time...... "The veteran was a little anxious, he couldn't figure out why he had an army of more than 20,000 people here, but he had to stop at this broken place where birds don't.

And in the war that was going on thirty miles away, there was the general's son in it, and that was his own son, could it be that the general just watched his son fight there and ignored it? The sword on the battlefield has no eyes, and if something goes wrong, this mess is a big mess.

"You don't need to say much, a certain family has its own plans in mind." The veteran's words were interrupted by Duan Zhixuan.

Of course, Duan Zhixuan knew that he felt sorry for his son, and he also knew that Liangzhou, where his son was located, was in danger, but when he came out of the capital, His Majesty could say that he would annihilate all of Fu Yun's 100,000 troops outside Liangzhou City.

So he had to wait until Xue Rengui, who had turned around and returned from the Western Regions, came over with the army and blocked Tuyuhun's back road.

Otherwise, if he shows up with the army now, it is very likely that Tuyuhun will be able to flee from the wind, and if he can't catch up with him at that time, let him escape into the depths of the desert, it is one thing to fail Li Er's task, and the aftermath will be even more serious.

After thinking about it, Lao Duan felt that it was better to wait here first and not to show up in a hurry, Liangzhou City, where his son was located, was not very dangerous at the moment, and it was not to the extent that he had to come forward, so it was good to simply let that bastard boy exercise, so as not to say something out of tune and annoy people by saying something out of tune.

Old Duan stood on the hillside, his thoughts were flying, but at the head of Liangzhou City, thirty miles away, Duan Zan didn't know the news that his old man had arrived outside the city, and even if he knew it now, it wouldn't be of much use.

The knives of the Tuyuhun soldiers are about to cut into the brain, who still has the heart to think about those things.

"Kill the ......" Outside the city head, there was a burst of murderous sounds, and countless Tuyuhun soldiers roared and rushed to the ladder that had been erected at the head of the city, and some had already climbed the ladder and went straight to the head of the city.

However, the Tuyuhun people still have too little experience in attacking the city, and they don't know that the city wall of the Tang Dynasty actually has a wooden eaves, which protrudes about three feet out horizontally along the city head, and some rolling wood, masonry and other things are usually placed on it to defend the city.

It is precisely because of this that the ladder of the Tuyuhun people was not actually built at the head of the city, but on the wooden eaves.

The result of this was that even if they went up, they were still standing on the wooden eaves, and they did not really go up to the top of the city, and they were still a little shorter than the defenders on the walls.

"Stab them!" As the first Tuyuhun climbed up the wooden eaves outside, there was a fierce roar from the city wall, and the five-foot-long spears stabbed out of the battlements, piercing the Tuyuhun who wanted to come up along the eaves, and then fell from the city with a scream.

In the roar of "killing ......", a tragic white-knuckle battle instantly unfolded on the city.

One by one, the Tuyuhun soldiers howled and rushed onto the wooden frame, climbed over the rolling logs and stones placed on the wooden frame, and launched an attack on the city.

The 100,000 troops outside the city are overwhelming, and the defenders in the city are only more than 8,000 people, counting the 3,000 men and horses brought by Duan Zhan, and the ratio of 12 to 1 is not to mention for the time being, let's just say that the 8,000 defenders in the city.

They have four walls to defend, and although Tuyuhun has only attacked the east, south, and north directions now, the west can't be defended anyway, right?

Moreover, the defense can't stupidly send all the people up, after all, there are 100,000 troops outside, and only all of them in the city are sent to the head of the city, and under the enemy's fierce rotation attack, their physical strength is difficult to support for a long time.

Therefore, the actual number of defenders on the head of the city is not much, there are only about 1,000 people in each direction, which is already the limit of the number of Liangzhou Governor Yu scribes and the number of people that can be arranged, no matter how much...... He had no choice but to arrange for the people to defend the city.

"Your Royal Highness! Your Royal Highness! Just when Fu Shun was commanding the siege with red eyes, a Fu Yun's personal guard ran over: "Your Highness, Your Majesty asked you to send someone to the city to destroy the enemy's bed crossbow." ”

"Okay, you go back and say 'I know' to your father, go ahead." Fu Shun agreed very quickly, turned his head and glanced around, pulled a strong man beside him, and hissed: "Murong, do you dare to go up and kill for a while!" ”

According to later generations, the height of the strong man known as Murong was about two meters, three or four, and his dark face was hideous: "Xiaoshun, just take a look!" ”

"Be careful!" Looking at the figure of the strong man galloping away, Fu Shun shouted loudly, but he didn't hear the strong man's answer, and he didn't know if he heard it.

For this childhood playmate, Fu Shun's current right-hand man is extremely dependent and trusting, otherwise he would not have given him the task of destroying the bed crossbow.

However, the strong man also has a shortcoming, that is, he is too straightforward and never knows what flexibility is, so looking at the figure of the strong man leaving, Fu Shun is very worried, for fear that as soon as this guy's donkey temper comes up, he will smash the bed crossbow regardless of it, and finally end up with those useless bed crossbows, which would be a pity.

But now that these are all used, the battle is fought to this extent, and personal life is no longer important, if they can't take Liangzhou City, then they will soon face the pursuit of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and the extermination is likely to be only in the mist.

"Your Royal Highness, the Lord of the Kingdom is here." Just when Fu Shun was distracted, Fu Yun, who was in charge of the Chinese army, couldn't bear it anymore and came to the front line from behind.

(End of chapter)

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