Cao Neng was ranked among the best among the eight capable generals, so he naturally had his own uniqueness.

Song Xian saw groups of archers of the Xiliang Army dismounting, and they all took their quivers and climbed onto the platform.

He quickly shouted,

"Shield ready!"

But Cao Xing on the side interrupted him and said,

"There's no point in using a shield. I'm more familiar with bows and arrows than you are."

"Have you seen the Xiliang army’s high platform, which is half a foot higher than our city wall?"

"As long as they use projectiles, even if you use three layers of shields stacked on top of each other, they can still penetrate."

"Besides, how do you deal with their siege cones?"

Cao Xing pointed out. What Song Xian saw was the cracked canthus.

The three thousand infantry of the Xiliang Army formed a formation of two hundred people. They held shields and carried huge logs and iron-covered siege cones. , charge the general up!

He immediately shouted in a hurry,"Get out of the city and meet the enemy!""

"Just use cavalry to break their formation and knock down these earthen platforms!"

Cao Xing still shook his head and said,

"This is only the first day, do you want us and Bingzhou Army to reveal all our trump cards?"

"The other party's generals were all killed on horseback along the way. Don't they understand your intentions?"

"If our Bingzhou Army abandons the solid city wall of Chang'an City and fights cavalry with the Liangzhou Army, it will be self-destruction of the city wall!"

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and made a move. Thousands of strong archers behind him immediately appeared.

"Let your men raise their shields. Now they can only shoot with bows and arrows."

"You have to attack the enemies on the platform, but you also have to shoot the infantry attacking the city. Do you understand?"

"Since Lord Fengxian sent me to support you, if this section of the city wall is lost, your Song Xian's head will be lost too!"

The military order was like a mountain, and a cold sweat arose behind Song Xian's back.

He quickly ordered the three thousand infantrymen under his command to raise their shields.

In the blink of an eye, the first round of overwhelming arrow rain came from the earthen platform of the Xiliang Army. ,

"ah!!"

"Kill me!"

The power of the thrown feather arrow doubled, and it easily penetrated the shield in the hand of the infantry. The huge impact was not even reduced much by the ordinary wooden shield, and it directly pierced the arm holding the shield. For a moment, the city wall was Wails were everywhere, and

Song Xian's face was livid. He was protected behind him by the soldiers around him with iron shields. Hearing the wails and tinkling sounds like raining arrows, he secretly cursed the Xiliang people in his heart for their viciousness.

Several rounds When the arrows rained down, the horse archers on the platform had exhausted their strength.

While they were retreating,

Cao Xing, the top archer, immediately seized the opportunity.

The soldiers behind him waved the flag in their hands.

He was the first to step out from under the shield. After getting out, the iron bow in his hand was immediately loaded with three feather arrows.

"Change to rocket!"

"Shoot the Xiliang infantry!"

Thousands of strong archers, each using a hard bow weighing more than 150 kilograms, and having been trained by Cao Xing for so many years, they naturally have extraordinary combat power.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

The rounds of rockets shot down like fireballs.

The strong arm strength caused these rockets to firmly stick to the shields and siege cones of the Xiliang army's infantry.

Even though there was an iron sheet blocking them, there was still some flames. Burning on the body or the siege cone, human beings' natural fear of fire fueled the power of the Bingzhou Army's counterattack.

Many Xiliang troops did not bother to attack the city. As long as there were some sparks on their bodies, they began to extinguish the flames in a panic.

"receive!"

Three rounds of rockets came down and actually suppressed most of the Xiliang Army's siege infantry.

More than half of the siege cones were paralyzed in place.

Thousands of Xiliang Army's infantry were shot or burned alive!

Cao Xing When he saw that the horse archers on the platform had been replaced, he immediately ordered the precious strong archers to return to the protection of the shield to preserve their combat power.

When the time for the horse archers to change, Cao Xing keenly grasped the opportunity. Seize the opportunity and lead the team to shoot the soldiers beside the siege cones.

Both sides came and went. In only half a day, the Xiliang army only had a few siege cones that hit the gate of Chang'an City. The other siege cones hit the city gate.

The cones were either burned into torches or thrown on the battlefield.

Seeing the morning fog dissipate, Guo Bang was furious and ordered his team to pick out a hundred unlucky guys from the retreating soldiers and put them directly in the formation. He was beheaded in front of him.

Seeing a hundred heads like bloody gourds rolling all over the ground,

Guo Bang felt a little better.

He spat on the ground, and then said to Li Jue,

"Zhiran, are you still attacking the city this afternoon?"

"I see that Bingzhou’s archers are so powerful, why don’t we let the boys have a rest?"

Li Jue's eyes were very vicious.

He glared at Guo Si and said,

"What are you afraid of? When we agreed to attack Chang'an City together, didn't we already think of using human lives to do so?"

"What are you afraid of now?"

"I still don’t believe it, everyone in the Bingzhou Army is not afraid of death!"

"In the afternoon, let the supervising team come forward, take one step back and kill one person, take ten steps back and kill the whole team. The outer city of Chang'an must be destroyed today!"

Li Jue is ruthless. Who are the kind people of the Bingzhou Army?

After Song Xian lost most of his soldiers, he actually pulled the trash of the Xiyuan Army directly to the city wall and used them as human shields without shields.

Cao Cao The powerful archers successfully shot and killed one or two thousand Xiliang infantry in the middle of the afternoon. Even though half of all the siege cones had hit the city gate, how could the heavy black iron gate be hit by dozens of times? Can the impact break it?

On the second day, in order to increase the cover, the attacking Xiliang army, in addition to the cavalry on the earth platform, also sent out more teams of cavalry, ten cavalry in a team, to learn from the Huns' circumnavigation. The city's flying shooting tactics were intended to buy more time for the siege cone to approach the city gate.

The Bingzhou Army on the city wall was not to be outdone.

After more than 3,000 Xiyuan troops died on the city wall, only the remaining Hundreds of people still wanted to maintain the last dignity of the Han court, so

Song Xian could discuss it and let his soldiers use knives to force the previously recruited court officials and strong men from the wealthy families in the city to climb onto the city wall, so that they could continue to serve as human shields.

In order to provide cover for Cao Xing's strong archers, even the shields in the arsenal were finally exhausted.

Song Xian ordered people to start demolishing the houses of the common people in two squares, using the door panels as shields and the beams as rolling logs.

Both sides came and went. , fought for five full days, although the Xiliang army used 6,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, and suffered almost tens of thousands of casualties, to break through the gate of the outer city of Chang'an City, it stopped there because their opponents As the defender of the city, the Bingzhou Army actually suffered about eight to nine thousand casualties.

Even though less than 30% of them were real Bingzhou Army, and the rest were made up of strong men or Xiyuan Army, there were only ten thousand people. The Bingzhou Army suffered a lot of casualties.

In the Xiliang Army camp, Guo Si, who saw that there were not many results, was pacing the sidewalk irritably.

"It's been five days, five whole days, and we haven't even penetrated the inner city!"

"I don’t know what the Flying Bear Army does for food? Could it be that that brat is here and they have no intention to fight anymore?"

"In fact, more than a thousand people were killed. In the past, the casualties of more than a thousand Flying Bear Army were enough to conquer a county!"

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