"Today, I will go up to the city wall to see the scenery of Xihe City, and that warrior is willing to open the way for me!"

Zhao Min rode on top of the horse, the horsewhip pointed at the city wall, and her words were full of confidence and pride, as if there was nothing in the world that she Zhao Min could not do.

"I'm willing to serve the county lord!"

All the soldiers knelt on the ground and shouted in unison, the sound shook the sky, on Xihe City, many people who had never experienced such a big battle changed their faces slightly, Zhang Yuan looked at the mighty army under the city, and knew in his heart that Zhao Min was afraid that he was going to really attack once and try the strength of Xihe City.

"Let all the crossbowmen under the city wall come up, and all the archers will return to the army to change their armor!" Zhang Yuan ordered and said, the crossbowman throwing angle is not as good as the archer, although the problem of the short and heavy arrow has changed, but it is impossible to completely throw like a bow and arrow, across a city wall, they can only shoot relatively far away from the city wall, and this swing was to let Xihe City have more and many shooting points to suppress the opponent's attack.

However, in this way, it is also exposed to the range of the return artillery, and together with the fierce battle, it can only be used as a target for the return artillery!

As for the archers, they showed little success in this battle, although they killed many people, they were also shot by the grassland warriors, which made Zhang Yuan feel that it was not worth it no matter how he looked at it.

"Woooooooo............oo

The long horn sounded, and the mighty army marched forward, and the front of the 50,000 army was the foot soldiers, the foot soldiers of the grassland warriors were temporarily formed, they carried the siege ladder, and they went towards Xihe City in a little confusion, and then there were archers, row by row, column by column, obviously Zhao Min was planning to use the bow and arrow to suppress Zhang Yuan and them.

The army stopped three hundred meters away from Xihe City, which was exactly the limit of the crossbow's killing range.

Zhao Min looked at Zhang Yuan on the city wall, glanced at it again and didn't find Zhang Wuji and the others, and sighed in his heart, and shouted in a cold and coquettish voice: "Beat the drums, attack the city!" ”

"Knock ............!!!"

The cowhide drum sounded, and the slightly chaotic siege team was neat and began to slowly rush towards Xihe City, not the siege ladder at the front, but the grassland warriors with sandbags on their backs, they hid their bodies under bags made of animal skins, and slowly came to Xihe City like ants.

Zhang Yuan ordered: "Crossbowmen shoot freely!" ”

The crossbowmen who came up to the city wall began to pull their crossbows, because the city wall was only three meters wide, and the crossbowmen only occupied one row, and the number of rows was not much, which was also to rush the work, but also to limit the enemy's siege, but at first it inevitably limited their own actions.

"I knew that I should have asked people to build a few more high platforms in the outer city that were flush with the city walls, but this would also be dangerous, so I should return the cannons! I don't know how long it will take for that group of people to get the return cannon out, this "Expedition" is really fucked up, materials, or material problems, always restricting players from climbing the technology tree! ”

Looking at the steppe warriors who were shot dead from time to time, and the archers behind them, who were protected by shield soldiers, Zhang Yuan's thoughts flew a little far.

In the shooting of the crossbow archers, the dense grassland warriors still shuttled over, getting closer and closer to Xihe City, some crossbowmen had to lower their crossbows in order to shoot, this time the crossbowmen were more scattered, more and more people came out of the encirclement, Zhang Yuan looked at it and frowned a little, and ordered: "Shoot all the enemies about one hundred and fifty meters, and don't worry about them for the rest!" ”

With Zhang Yuan's order, the crossbowmen who were divided into two sections were suddenly much more tidy, and the first bag of sand was also thrown into the moat by the steppe warriors.

Their counterattack was faced with a group of Xihe soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding shields, even the Xihe crossbowmen were wearing full-body armor, but the weight was lighter, more convenient, and the main material was made of Xuan Iron, and the defense might be lower, but it was much stronger than the double-layered cowhide archers, hiding behind the heavy infantry, and there were almost no casualties in the face of waves of arrows.

At this time, Jia Xu also left the city wall, and only Zhang Yuan and a group of generals remained on the city wall.

After more than an hour passed like this, the moat was flattened with corpses and sandbags by them, and the casualties of the grassland warriors reached more than 2,000, and the crossbowmen on Xihe City were also replaced in five batches in a row.

"Siege!!"

With Zhao Min's order, the long-awaited army finally started, Zhang Yuan looked at the city wall, but showed a smile, the city wall design of Xihe City itself is combined with the design of Xihe heavy armor soldiers, narrow, no up and down ladders, inconvenient to go up and down, but suitable for invulnerable heavy armor guards.

Therefore, compared with shooting, Zhang Yuan attaches more importance to hand-to-hand combat, on the one hand, to increase the soldier's experience in fierce combat, and on the other hand, to increase the bloodiness of the soldiers, the bloodiness of daring to fight hand-to-hand, instead of making them accustomed to defending the city, relying on defending the city, and losing the bloody nature and courage of hand-to-hand combat with the opponent, although this will increase many unnecessary casualties and increase the danger of defending the city, Zhang Yuan feels that it is worth it, because what he needs is a group of lions, not a group of sheep hiding in the fence.

Zhang Yuan once read a book about an ancient king, to the effect that my kingdom does not need city walls, he doesn't know which one, but when he saw this, he felt very excited, and felt that only such a kingdom is a symbol of strength.

Of course, it is impossible for such a situation to occur in reality, even in the elite army, it is impossible to be on standby all the time, always on guard against incoming enemies or robbers, so the city wall is necessary, but it must not be allowed to become an obstacle to the strength of the army.

In Zhang Yuan's view, the city wall is used to protect the people, not the army.

"The crossbowmen are withdrawn, the heavy infantry is lined up in two rows to fight, the two walls are on standby, the catapults are ready, and the bed crossbows are ready!"

Bed crossbows and catapults were placed at the three forks of the city wall connecting the inner and outer cities, and the other in the outer city, which were not numerous but did not hinder the operation of the army on the city walls.

"Beat the drums, siege the city! Let the archers all take down and rest, the effect is minimal, the eight heroes of the divine arrows, you go and choose the archers for me! Zhao Min watched the archers shoot waves of arrows, and the effect achieved was almost none, only hearing the clanging metal impact on the city wall, but failed to shoot a heavy armor soldier wearing heavy armor and holding a shield, and she rolled her eyes.