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    Update time: 2013-04-16

    Ten days later, Landu City once again fell into fierce fighting.  The Turkic army, which had received supplies, launched a fierce attack again.

    Unlike last time, this time the Turkic soldiers were equipped with shields and ladders.

    Amid the earth-shattering sounds of horns and war drums, tens of thousands of Turkic troops armed with wooden shields and leather shields, and carrying sandbags on their backs, rushed toward the moat. As soon as the battle began, shouts resounded through the sky, and crossbow arrows were still on the city.  Facing the crossbows, the Turkic army's shields were useless.  But after getting closer, the rain of arrows had an unusual effect.

    Amidst the clanging sound, countless arrows were nailed into the wooden and leather shields, and many arrows were ejected and flew away.  Others were shot from the edge of the shield, piercing the bodies of the Turkic soldiers.  However, these shields still blocked a lot of arrows.  At the very least, it gives them a layer of protection.

    In this regard, the defenders of Landu City did not panic. They continued to rain crossbows and arrows on the Turkic troops nearby.  No matter how many shields there are, they still have some effect.  Enemies at long distances still have to face the test of large crossbows.

    When someone is hit by a large crossbow, even if he has a shield, the shield in his hand will fly away with a "bang", and the shield fragments will bounce around.  Immediately afterwards, the owner of the shield will be shot by a crossbow arrow.  Either the head was blown open, or a big hole was shot out of the body.  Red blood, white brains, and bone fragments flew down, looking extremely tragic.

    However, despite this, the Turkic army was already moving forward desperately, with no intention of retreating or delaying the attack.

    On the city wall, Zhao Xun and others watched the battle in front of them in silence.  Especially those generals who underestimated the Turkic army last time.  The fighting in front of them also made them understand that the Turkic army was not a group of weaklings.

    "It seems that the Turkic army commander is determined to capture this city!" Zhang Yuanjing said slowly.  For a civil servant, the current Zhang Yuanjing has gone beyond the experience of ordinary civil servants.  Fighting on the battlefield has become a common occurrence for him, and he does not feel any discomfort due to the bloodthirsty fighting.

    Zhao Xun said calmly: "Not only are they determined to capture Landu City, but I am also one of their important targets. Unfortunately, Xue Nie still hasn't come."

    Zhang Yuanjing smiled and said: "Although he did not come, his troops have already moved a hundred miles south. Doesn't this mean that the Turkic Army Khan is also tempted."

    Time is passing and the battle is getting more intense.  An hour later, the Turkic army filled in the moat to the north of Landu City and created three 30-foot-wide siege passages.

    With the change of the trumpet sound in the Turkic army, the first wave of more than 10,000 Turkic troops rushed towards the city wall with swords and shields. Behind them were ladders.  Each ladder was carried by more than a dozen people towards the city wall.

    Because the land price was getting closer and closer, reaching the foot of the city wall, the arrows rained more and more.  Although the Turkic army had shields for defense, how could they withstand all the arrows?

    In an instant, the arrows shot down like no money, and the sound of the bowstring made people's hearts ache.

    Looking at the ant-like Turkic army below the city, the generals on the city wall all looked solemn.  After all, there are not many defenders in Landu City.  However, the soldiers were not worried that Landu City would be lost.  For now, the casualties are basically all from the Turkic army, and the casualties are not small.  For the city defenders, all they paid was a huge number of arrows.  And Landu City will not lack this stuff at all.

    When the Turkic soldiers saw them approaching the city wall, they suddenly burst into shouts, like waves, hitting the city wall in waves, as if they could destroy the city wall at any time.

    "Dangdangdang"

    With loud sounds, dozens of ladders began to be erected on the city wall.  After paying a heavy price, the Turkic army finally erected their siege equipment.

    Seeing the ladder being erected at the center of the Chinese army outside the city, Ji Li immediately excitedly ordered: "Let the Bu Xin tribe be dispatched. If necessary, speed up the action and we must capture Landu City."

    The Turkic army sent another complete team of ten thousand people to join the siege sequence, adding new combat power to the siege team.  Countless Turkic soldiers held their shields and moved closer to the ladder, preparing to climb up.

    "Okay, prepare to counterattack. I will slowly consume the Turkic army's strength here. I want to see if this Xue Nie Khan really doesn't care at all that all his 130,000 soldiers died in the battle.  Here." Zhao Xun said coldly as he looked at the Turkic troops swarming outside the city.

    "Zhang Ju, don't hit them too hard. When you get to the back, let them feel like they are about to break the city but are still a little short of it."

    Zhang Ju nodded in agreement, he naturally understood what this meant.  You know, there are thunders in the city,??And the number is not small.  If you really want to defeat the enemy in front of you and prevent them from committing another crime, you only need to throw out a series of thunderbolts to make these Turkic troops dare not move again.  However, this is not in Zhao Jun's interests.  The purpose of Zhao Jun is to consume the maximum number of Turkic troops here, making them unable to go south for several years or decades.

    "Prepare the rocks and logs to hit me hard!" Zhang Ju ordered loudly.

    In fact, only a small number of soldiers guarding the city wall were soldiers from Zhao, and most of them were soldiers from the three tribes and members of the Landu tribe.  Among the three masters, the real power of the Landu tribe is in the hands of Zhao Jun.  In other words, in Landu City, in addition to the 5,000 town troops and 5,000 personal guards, the Zhao army was supported by tens of thousands of Landu tribesmen.  As for the remaining two groups of soldiers, they were divided into four groups and guarded four cities.  The Acropolis is similar to the Landu City, and there are also many young men from the Landu tribe stationed as reserve troops.

    Unlike the Han people, all men, women, and children in the Turkic tribes can serve as soldiers and people.  Most of the old, weak, women and children of the Landu tribe were moved southward, leaving behind tens of thousands of young people.  Therefore, although Zhao Jun's apparent army in these four cities is 50,000, in fact, it can recruit nearly 100,000 troops at any time.

    In the north city of Landu City, dozens of ladders have been set up on the city wall several feet high.  Turkic soldiers, as dense as ants, were crowding under the city tower. Soldiers kept trying to climb up the ladder, but they were quickly knocked down by rolling wood and rocks on the top of the city.

    "Fire oil! Pour kerosene!"

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Not only the soldiers on the ladders were killed and wounded, but also the Turkic soldiers crowded under the city also fell one by one, screaming in agony.  Immediately afterwards, large vats of boiling kerosene poured down from the top of the city. Dozens and hundreds of soldiers were wailing in the boiling oil. Suddenly, burning rockets were shot down from the city tower, and the ground below the city tower vacated.  A huge fire was ignited, and in the raging fire, countless figures of Turkic soldiers were running, wailing, struggling and rolling

    "Golden juice, pour the golden juice quickly, let these Turkic troops have a good taste, haha" On the city wall, the officer's high-pitched voice spread everywhere.  Immediately afterwards, pots of scalding golden juice were poured down against the wall. Like kerosene, this golden juice could not be blocked by a shield.  One by one, the soldiers who were severely burned screamed and fell to the bottom of the city, and the flesh and skin on their bodies fell off.  You know, golden juice is poisonous

    "Damn it!" The Turkic army's central army looked at the siege soldiers who kept falling. Geely was itching with hatred. "Come here, let's replace the second 10,000-man army!"

    The remaining thousands of people from the first wave were scattered, and the second team of 10,000 people followed. For Geely, every point and skill cannot be wasted now. He must capture this place as quickly as possible and capture it.  King Zhao.

    The second team of ten thousand people is no different from the previous one. It is still covered by arrows at the beginning. When they get closer and the battle becomes fiercer, the stones and rolling wood on the city tower will be smashed down, and the pots of gold have been boiled.  The juice will pour out and be so hot that the Turkic soldiers crowded under the city tower cry for their fathers and mothers and run like wolves and pigs.

    The next moment, kerosene followed closely and sprinkled on the heads of the Turkic soldiers outside the city wall.  Immediately afterwards, a continuous stream of rockets shot down from the city tower, and fire began to burn from the foot of the city wall. The raging sea of ????fire swallowed countless Turkic soldiers in an instant

    Outside the city, Geely saw that a team of ten thousand people had failed and suffered heavy losses. His livid face suddenly twitched, and his eyes became extremely ferocious.  Those soldiers who were wailing and struggling in the sea of ????fire were warriors from the Turkic tribes. How could it be like this if they were fighting in the field outside the city?  The hateful Zhao Xun, the hateful Zhao Jun, and the hateful Landu tribe, but when they break through Landu City, they will definitely wash the city with blood and avenge the soldiers who died in the battle.

    Above the Landu City, Zhao Xun and others have left, leaving behind the Guards General Han Meng, the North City General Zhang Ju, and several thousand captains from the other two tribes of the Landu Tribe, except for the leader of the three tribes.

    Looking at the screaming Turkic army, Zhang Ju sneered: "You want to rely on the numerical advantage to break the city? Do you think that with shields and ladders, you can defeat our Zhao army? It is simply a delusion. The weapons our Zhao army has are no longer  You barbarians can understand that you are looking for death! There is nothing to be afraid of."

    The generals who stood beside Zhang Ju were silent, especially the three generals who were attached to the Zhao army, their faces were solemn and their brows were furrowed in silence.  At the same time, these people looked across the burning sea of ????fire below the city and looked at the cold Zhao Jun soldiers on the city wall. They felt uneasy and fearful at the same time.

    The fighting continued, one day, two days

    Five days later, the moat outside Landu City no longer existed and had been filled in by the Turkic army.  During the five days, except for the first day when the Turkic army's offensive was the fiercest, the other four days were mainly about filling the river and waiting for more shields and ladders from the rear to arrive.?.

    It has to be said that the Turkic army's rear movements were still very rapid.  Five days later, there were already more than a hundred ladders in the Turkic Army's forward camp outside Landu City.  As for the shield, everyone in the Taoist community has one. Of course, there are still more.

    Even during these five days, there was no right to attack the city in the last four days.  However, the Turkic army's forward army still lost more than 30,000 people.  In other words, the Turkic forward army of 130,000 in the past is now only about 70,000.  In addition to the 60,000 people who died in the siege of Landu City and the soldiers of Landu City, plus the initial 15,000 people, the total number was more than 75,000 people.

    Such heavy casualties not only did not make Geely retreat, but instead angered him.  At this moment, he was like a crazy leopard, wanting to fly into Landu City and turn everything in Landu City into powder.

    During these five days, Geely did not think of any solutions.  Landu City does not need to transport food from the rear, so the strategy of cutting off the food road cannot be implemented, and this is also a common method used by the Turkic army to attack the Yan Kingdom in the old days.  After all, there are not many cavalry in Yan State.

    In addition to the fact that Zhao Jun does not need to transport food from the rear, there are tens of thousands of Zhao Jun cavalry on the grasslands hundreds of miles around.  Among the 30,000 soldiers who died in battle, 5,000 of them died in the attempt to test the south and prepare to attract the Zhao army from Land City.  For this reason, Geely did not dare to easily send troops to bypass Landu City and go south.  If you send too many troops, you are afraid that Landou City will attack from behind.  If there are too few factions, they will not be able to do the job.

    Although, if the main army from the rear comes to attack Landu City, some troops can be separated to go south.  However, within Xiazhou, there are still a large number of local soldiers. In addition, more young men can be mobilized to counterattack at any time.  Of course, the most important thing that forced the Turkic army headquarters to dare not move lightly was the Zhao army in the Baili Grassland in the north of Bingzhou.  In addition, Dingzhou in the northwest also had a large number of Zhao troops eyeing it, making Xue Nie Khan dare not move all his troops to Landu City at will.

    Since the official start of the war, Xue Nie Khan's 400,000-strong army has sent 200,000 troops to patrol the grassland area connecting Dingzhou and northern Bingzhou in the east to prevent the Zhao army from attacking from the side.  But despite this, he still did not dare to mobilize easily.

    In five days, Landu City consumed a lot of stone and rolling wood on the city wall, indeed a lot.  The Turkic army also "almost" attacked the city wall many times.  This was also the reason why the generals who had suffered heavy losses did not completely lose their confidence, and that made the generals determined to fight to the death with the Zhao army and avenge their dead brothers.  Of course, the most important thing is to attack Landu City and gain benefits.

    "The troops from the 1,000 to 3,000 men on the left and the troops from 1,000 to 3,000 on the right are going to fight!" Above Landu City, Zhang Ju's cold voice sounded again.

    Immediately, the Dujin tribe and the Tumen tribe gathered together with the Landu tribe to form the three divisions responsible for Landu City. Soldiers from the Dujin tribe and the Tumen tribe immediately committed suicide and killed more than 2,000 people each.

    The Dujin tribe is on the left, the Tumen tribe is on the right, and the Landu tribe is the direct descendant of Zhao Jun in the middle.  The three thousand-man teams are now only over two thousand together.  In the battle to defend the city, both the left and right troops were the main force.  In addition to their good shooting skills, more importantly, they are only attached to Zhao Jun, not direct descendants of Zhao Jun.

    According to Zhao Jun's regulations, each of the nine tribes has a standing army of 25,000 to 30,000. This means that the 25,000 to 30,000 sets of Zhao Jun's trade were eliminated by Zhao Jun, except for crossbows and heavy armor.  Foreign standard equipment.  Among them, the Landu tribe became a part of the Zhao army, and the Bujia tribe was also annexed by the Zhao army.  But the remaining seven tribes still have a huge army of warriors.  Although they are not many individually, together they are a large number.

    This time, the nine major tribes are divided into three and formed into three collectives. Isn't it annexing and weakening these seven tribes?  Now that they have been cultivated, they must be used. Why should they become enemies if they are not used?

    Zhao Xun built cities in three gathering places, with Zhao Jun as the main garrison. Each place was built in a tribal camp to gather enemy troops from the three tribes.  But as soon as the war began, these three cities were located in tribal areas, and their tribesmen were moved south by the Zhao army and began to integrate into the more than a hundred tribal leaders in the south who were dismantled by the Zhao army.  In the three cities, a large number of Han people moved in, especially caravans.  In addition, raising livestock in captivity is not just a special expertise of nomadic people, Han people can also do it.

    The guards of the Dujin tribe and the Tumen tribe knew that Zhao Jun was weakening them, but they did not dare to show any reluctance.  Their subordinates were dismantled to various places.  In addition to the Land City and the three acropolis, some were incorporated into the Zhao army's cavalry and wandered around the surrounding grasslands.  The remaining small group led the tribesmen to guard the tribe.

    It can be said that whether it is these two tribes or not, the other seven tribes are the same. Their subordinates were all dismantled and began to be divided by the various tribes of the Zhao army.  And here in Landu City, because it is the main battlefield.  Therefore, the Dujin tribe and the native? tribes became the first two tribes to be weakened and annexed.

    After seeing how powerful Zhao Jun was after having the city, seeing Zhao Jun's powerful and sharp armor and equipment, and seeing the thunderous thunder hidden in the dark, the two guards retreated.

    Rights are a good thing, but you also have to have a life to enjoy them, right?

    Therefore, amid fear and worry, the governors of the Dujin tribe and the Tumen tribe slowly released their military power, leaving all major city defense matters to the Zhao army.  The two of them surrounded King Zhao all day long, expressing their loyalty to Zhao Xun.  They knew that King Zhao and his soldiers were so relaxed, which meant that the city of Landu was as stable as Mount Tai.  Then, relatively speaking, the Turkic army outside the city would naturally be unlucky.

    Although they are of the same race as the Turkic army outside the city, it is not so difficult to accept that they are now Han people.  After all, under the command of King Zhao, they can enjoy more and be more comfortable.

    Outside the city, because there is no obstacle from the moat, the Turkic army can rush towards Landu City unimpeded.  Because of this, the casualties of the Turkic army were greatly reduced.  After all, there were only three passable passages that were dozens of feet wide at the beginning, which turned into a thoroughfare.

    However, this is not a disadvantageous situation for the defenders.  The faster and more enemy troops come, the more enemy troops there will be under the city wall.  The more powerful the archers and kerosene are.  Of course, the effect of the arrow rain is also much greater.  Because of this, the defenders began to suffer casualties.  The three soldiers of the garrison were good at shooting, but the tens of thousands of enemy troops outside the city were also good at shooting.  Under the city walls, they were already able to fight back.

    Seeing that he could suppress the defenders and cause casualties to the Zhao army, Ji Li naturally ordered his generals to attack fiercely.  The four-day siege battle calmed down slightly and entered a tragic period again.
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