While Ning Yuan was anxiously looking for foreign aid that might help the Condor Empire reduce external pressure, Shen Wanli had already led an army to capture Zhangjiakou, and the army led by Gu Yuntian had also successfully arrived at Datong City.

Facing the defenders of Datong City who refused to surrender, Gu Yuntian immediately ordered the army to launch a fierce attack on Datong City.

Because Datong City is a forbidden city, the Condor Army can only launch a strong attack from the ground.

When the Condor pushed hundreds of trebuchets into attack positions, the enemy and us took the lead in a trebuchet battle.

As the soldiers operating the trebuchet pulled down the hand gate, the boulders were thrown into the sky with great force, and flew towards Datong City with a roar.

When the boulder hit the city wall, there was a deafening sound, and the huge impact force shook the figures of the soldiers on the city.

Although this first wave of attacks did not cause too many casualties to the defenders of Datong City, nor did it destroy the strong city walls, it did increase the pressure on the defenders in the city.

As the saying goes, after the trebuchet of the Condor Army was launched, the trebuchet installed on the head of Datong City immediately launched a counterattack.

Although the number of trebuchets in Datong City is far inferior to that of the Condor Army, they occupy the advantage of altitude, so their power and range are even better than those of the Condor Army.

It was just an ordinary return fire, and several trebuchets on the side of the Condor Army were smashed into a pile of rags, and more than a dozen unlucky Condor soldiers were killed on the spot.

"Oh yes!"

Seeing the results achieved by their own side, the players of the Yanyu Building on the head of the city immediately cheered excitedly.

In the face of his own losses, Gu Yuntian's face did not change, he asked the soldiers to treat the wounded with an expressionless face, and dragged away the wreckage of the trebuchet that had been scrapped.

After the second round of catapults was loaded, the dwarf soldiers in charge of directing the bombs immediately corrected the trajectory, and then launched a second wave of attacks while the trebuchets at the head of the city were loading the stone shells.

After correcting the trajectory, the second wave of the Condor Army's stone-throwing accuracy was much more accurate than the first, except for a few dozen boulders that smashed on the front of the city wall, all the other stone projectiles were thrown at the head of the city.

As the boulder fell on the top of the city, a scream suddenly came from above the city.

In the place where it was run over by the boulder, a bright red mark was left, and the mark was surrounded by blood and corpses, and the tragic situation was like purgatory on earth.

"The defenders stand back for now."

Looking at the tragic situation on the head of the city, the commander of the Yanyu Tower was suddenly stunned. He didn't expect the Condor Army's trebuchets to be so accurate, and in order to avoid too many casualties, he had to let the soldiers go down to the city first to hide.

The second catapult attack of the Condor not only killed and wounded many defenders, but also successfully smashed several trebuchets on the city wall, putting more pressure on the defenders in the city.

"Shoot me back."

After arranging for the defenders to descend to the city for evasion, the player commander immediately let out an earth-shattering roar.

As more than a dozen boulders were thrown into the air, a scream was immediately heard from the position of the Condor Army, and three or four more trebuchets were hit by the boulders, and dozens of Condor soldiers were injured by the flying trebuchet fragments.

However, when the dwarf soldiers finished the second correction of the trebuchet, the trebuchet in Datong City was completely dumbfounded.

Looking at the trebuchet that was smashed into a pile of scraps, the players in the Yanyu Building all looked incredulous.

Although they knew that trebuchet battles were a competition between us and the enemy to see who had more trebuchets and who could hit them more accurately, they were ready to destroy all their trebuchets.

But after only three rounds of catapults, all of their more than 30 trebuchets were scrapped, which made them a little unacceptable.

Although the Condor Army has more trebuchets, they must have been a little too accurate.

If the enemy can always maintain this accuracy, then how can Datong City be defended?

In fact, no matter how much you calibrate the trebuchet, its accuracy can't be compared to other ranged weapons.

The reason why the Condor Army's trebuchets are so "accurate" is mainly because there are too many of them, and then they have more or less shit luck.

In fact, not only the players in the Yanyu Building felt unbelievable, but even the dwarf soldiers in charge of calibration were also a little confused, because they were still waiting for the third calibration.

It was only after discovering the fire of the trebuchet on the head of the city that they suddenly realized.

After two more rounds of stone projectiles were fired at the city, and the enemy did not return any fire, the Condor finally confirmed that the enemy's trebuchets had been destroyed.

After learning that all the enemy's trebuchets had been scrapped, Gu Yuntian immediately sent the siege troops up.

When the soldiers of the Condor Army pushed the siege tower and arrow tower slowly approached the city wall, the defenders of Datong City immediately returned to the city wall, preparing to resist the attack of the Condor Army.

And just as the defenders on the city walls were preparing to launch a long-range attack on the Condor, the Condor's trebuchet positions were once again in full swing.

"Grass."

Looking at the boulder that suddenly flew over, many players in the Yanyu Building couldn't help but curse.

They didn't expect the Condor Army to dare to use trebuchets at this time, weren't they worried that they would accidentally injure their own people?

Of course, the Condor Army was worried about injuring their own people by mistake, so they just made two rounds of stone throwing and stopped directly.

Because the Condor Army was still far away from the city wall before, the chance of accidental injury was not great, and after the Condor Army approached the city wall, they didn't dare to throw stones even if they were confident, after all, the accuracy of the stone throwing was not so easy to control.

Although they could no longer continue to cast stones, their purpose had been achieved.

The two sudden rounds of stone-throwing attacks directly disrupted the rhythm of the defenders on the city walls.

The defenders had all taken refuge behind the female wall in order to avoid the stone throwing, and by the time they got back up, the Condor had managed to approach the wall, and they had missed the best chance to suppress it from a distance.

The walls of Datong City are fifteen meters high, but the arrow tower of the Condor Army is twenty meters high, and when the defenders at the head of the city get up, they are immediately attacked by the long-range sniper of the Condor Army's arrow tower.

Since both sides have already entered the range of the opponent's ranged attack, a rain of arrows ensues.

When both sides use covered shots, there is little point in dodging, after all, no one can really see and hear.

At this time, the competition is which side has better equipment, which side has a tighter defensive formation, and which side has more accurate archery.

Shanxi is rich in coal and iron ore, although the reserves of iron ore resources are far from being comparable with coal resources, and it is not easy to explore and exploit, but Yanyulou still concentrates all the iron ore resources and creates several hoplite regiments.

Most of the hoplites were scattered across the four forbidden cities, guarding the gates of the Smoke and Rain Tower.

Although the defenders of Datong City are small, there are 20,000 aboriginal hoplites.

The hoplites were vulnerable to the boulders falling from the sky, but the Condor's bows and arrows were clearly not enough to hurt them.

The same is true of the siege soldiers of the Condor Army below the city walls.

The Northeast has the largest reserves of iron ore in China, and after occupying Anshan and other places, the Condor Empire has never worried about the lack of iron ore.

Since both sides are heavily armored archers, both sides are doing useless work except for wasting some arrows.

The use of heavy armor archers to defend the city was stolen by Ning Yuan from Jun Moxie, and then it was broadcast live in the defense of Shanhaiguan, and since then all players in the world have learned to use heavy armor archers to defend the city.

Unless there is really no such condition, no one is willing to follow suit, because the benefits are too great.

After discovering that the long-range attack was ineffective, both sides stopped firing and prepared to save their strength for the rest of the hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing that the defense of Datong City was impenetrable and very difficult, Gu Yuntian immediately called a herald to his side and commanded softly.

After receiving the order, the herald immediately rushed to Datong City.

After running to a stop forty or fifty meters away from the city wall, the herald shouted to the defenders at the head of the city: "Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and my marshal can't bear to see the lives in the city, so he decided to give you one last chance."

As long as you open the city gate and surrender now, our army will guarantee the safety of your life.

If you vow to resist to the end, then when the city is broken, our army will massacre the city and turn Datong City into a dead city. ”

As soon as the herald finished shouting, a rain of arrows flew towards him, and the players at the head of the city told the Condor their answer with practical actions.

Under the protection of the soldiers, the heralds retreated directly, and then the siege began.

Gu Yuntian's original intention was to put some pressure on the defenders in the city and destroy their psychological defenses, but he didn't know that the players would not surrender, and his threats were ineffective against the players.

At this time, there were a large number of players on the city wall, and after hearing the shouts of the Condor Army, the players were worried that those aboriginal soldiers would be affected, so they did not hesitate to attack.

Seeing that the enemy didn't know what to do, Gu Yuntian suddenly became angry, so he waved the command flag, and the Condor Army immediately began a ferocious attack.

As the drawbridge over the siege tower was erected on the top of the city, the Condor soldiers in heavy armor and armed with battle axes rushed to the head of the city.

The enemy and the enemy fought frantically over each drawbridge.

At all times, Condor soldiers were stabbed off the drawbridge with long weapons, and defenders were stoned to death by the Condor using tomahawks.

Although both sides are hoplites, there is a clear difference in combat effectiveness.

The morale of the Condor Army is high, all the soldiers have undergone rigorous training, and everyone is the elite of the thousands.

They regard Ning Yuan as a god and have a strong sense of honor, and everyone regards the death on the battlefield as the highest honor for soldiers.

In the face of the enemy, their eyes are bloodthirsty, they don't know what they are afraid of, and they are the real army of tigers and wolves.

On the other hand, on the other side of the Yanyu Building, although during the battle, the soldiers didn't have time to think about those messy things at all, but their personal strength was obviously inferior to the soldiers of the Condor Army, and they did not have the momentum of the Condor Army to look down on the world.

So even if they have done their best, they have done their best, but they still can't stop the Condor Army from rushing to the city.

As more and more Condor soldiers rushed to the city, the Condor began to gain a firm foothold on the city walls.

Seeing that if it continued like this, the city wall was about to be lost, and the commander of Yanyulou had to transfer the defenders from other places, and at this time, he couldn't take care of too much.

When he found that the defenders in the city had begun to converge on the wall where the Condor Army was attacking, the Seraphic Scout who was located above Datong City immediately reported the news to Gu Yuntian.

"Immediately order the Ascending Legion to attack."

After learning that the defenders of the other city walls had been transferred away in large numbers, Gu Yuntian immediately smiled.

The so-called Ascending Legion is actually the Ape Legion, Ning Yuan originally wanted to name them the Great Sage Legion, but it felt a bit too much, so he changed its name to the Ascending Legion, which means that the ape warriors have a strong climbing ability, and they can even ascend to the sky when conditions permit.

The Condor Army mainly attacked the southern wall of Datong City, while the Ascending Army ambushed the north of Datong City.

After receiving the order, 50,000 strong ape-man warriors immediately rushed to Datong City at full speed.

After coming to the bottom of the city wall, they braved the rain of arrows from the defenders, hung the special climbing rope made by the Condor Army to the top of the city, and then quickly climbed up the rope.

After discovering that a large number of enemies had suddenly appeared, the defenders in charge of defending the northern wall urgently called for help from the rear while attacking the ape-man warriors with bows and arrows.

When the ape-warriors hung the climbing rope to the head of the city, they instinctively used their swords to slash and cut the rope.

They had a very good idea, but they were doomed to disappointment.

Because the Condor Army had already taken this into account when developing this kind of rope, these ropes are not only unusually strong, but their grappling hooks are also difficult to remove when the rope is tightened.

Every rope used by the ape-man warriors is carefully crafted from special materials, and even if it is slashed with a giant axe, it will take a thousand slashes to cut it, and as for ordinary swords, it is even worse.

And the ape-man warriors below the city walls would certainly not give the enemy this time, so the defenders only had to stop after a few slashes, because the ape-man warriors had already climbed up the rope.

Just as the defenders were about to attack the ape warriors who were about to approach the city, the ape warriors suddenly hit the wall with force and swung directly on the wall.

Under the stunned gaze of the defenders at the head of the city, they jumped into the air with their strength, and then landed directly on the top of the city.

Upon reaching the top of the city, the ape-man warriors immediately removed their maces tied behind them and slashed directly at the defenders who were rushing towards them.

As more and more ape-man warriors ascended to the top of the city, the northern walls of Datong City were soon completely lost.

When the reinforcements sent by Yanyulou arrived, they had already opened the north gate, and the Condor Army waiting outside directly followed the city gate.

The Condor Army launched the siege at about eight o'clock in the morning, and when the time came to three o'clock in the afternoon, all the players of the Yanyulou guarding Datong City had already been killed.

Just when Gu Yuntian was still hesitating when he looked at the aboriginal soldiers who surrendered, the post-war statistics were sent to him.

When he learned that the heavy armor of the Condor Army had lost more than 4,000 people, he immediately clenched his fists.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Yuntian directly gave the order to slaughter the city.

As the soldiers of the Condor Army waved their butcher knives at the captives and the people in the city, the blood in Datong City immediately flowed.

When the cries in the city gradually disappeared, except for the two hundred people who were specially left behind, there was a dead silence in Datong City.

Looking at the two hundred prisoners with angry faces, Gu Yuntian sneered: "I have already given you a chance before, but you yourself don't know how to cherish it, so all of this is caused by yourself."

The reason why I left you people alive is not because I pity you.

In a moment I will have someone prepare a fast horse and dry rations for each of you, and let you go.

Your task is to tell the others what is happening in Datong City.

This task is not mandatory, you love to do it or not.

But I'll say the ugly things first, if the next city still resists to the end, then I will continue to slaughter the city after it is broken.

Come, prepare horses and rations for them, and let them go. ”

In fact, if he could, Gu Yuntian didn't want to slaughter the city, after all, this would damage the reputation of the Condor Army.

But the situation is too urgent.

The Condor Empire is now embattled, and the pressure from the outside is increasing, so he can't afford to delay here for too long.

Now that Tang Yu's army is alone in the enemy's hinterland, facing the risk of being surrounded and suppressed by the enemy at all times, he must open the passage between Datong and Taiyuan as soon as possible.

If every city of the enemy is defended like Datong City, then when will he be able to open this passage?

Moreover, 4,000 elites were killed in a single siege, and his elite legions could not withstand such huge losses, so he had to let the enemy know the cost of resistance, and slaughtering the city was the most effective deterrent.

Although this is likely to provoke the enemy's rebellion, he doesn't care so much now, and he doesn't mind being an executioner in order to open this passage as soon as possible.

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