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Chapter 345 Siege
Northern Xinjiang has the longest border in the Great Zhou Dynasty, with a total length of more than 3,000 miles and five cities, namely Tacheng, Wucheng, Mocheng, Xicheng and Hecheng. Bordering Northern Xinjiang is the vast Mobei Grassland. .

There are dozens of nomadic tribes, large and small, in Mobei. These tribes range from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of people. They have lived a life of chasing water and grass for a long time.

In the barren Mobei, there are countless pastures with rich water and grass. They continue to migrate with the seasons, so it is difficult to form urban settlements and accumulate wealth.

That is to say, they rely purely on the weather. Once snow disasters, droughts occur, and livestock losses are heavy, it will be a devastating blow to the nomads. They will go south to rob and trigger wars.

The nomadic peoples are brave, aggressive, and cruel. They often use wars, plunders, marriages, mutual trade, etc. to oppose each other and depend on each other.

The Tatars are the largest nomadic nation among the many tribes in Mobei. In recent years, the Tatars have successively annexed all the surrounding small tribes and established the Mobei Imperial Court, which is now the Tatar royal family.

In other words, the borders of northern Xinjiang are now all Tatar territory.

There are a total of 200,000 troops in Northern Xinjiang. Because Tacheng is the largest and most populous city, and is the political center of Northern Xinjiang, 80,000 troops are stationed in Tacheng, and 30,000 troops are stationed in the other four cities.

The deputy commander of Northern Xinjiang, Dingyuan General Xu Yong, secretly defected to Xiao Hongbin. When the Tatar army captured Tacheng, he led his men to open the city gate from the inside. Wherever the Tatar army passed, the Tacheng soldiers were either killed or surrendered. Commander Zhaowu General Yi Zhenpeng led some soldiers to fight their way out of the siege and fled to Wucheng.

After Yi Zhenpeng fled to Wucheng with the remaining troops in Tacheng, he ordered people to send letters back to Beijing to request support, and asked his confidants to inform the confidant generals in other cities not to act rashly and to focus on guarding their cities.

The city walls in Wucheng were also quickly raised.

Yi Zhenpeng stood on the wall of Wucheng, his shirt was solemn, his black armor was bright, and the spear in his hand shone with cold light, as bright as the stars, making people shudder. His eyes were as sharp as an eagle, awe-inspiring and cold.

He stared at the dark 250,000 Tatar army not far away, his brows tightly knitted together, and there was deep worry in his eyes.

Amul mobilized tens of thousands of people to set up ladders and push siege engines and trebuchets to attack the city.

'Bang bang bang' huge rocks hit the tower, causing dust to fly everywhere.

Thick logs hit the city gate.

The Zhou soldiers on the city wall thrust their spears down and killed the Tatars who tried to climb up the ladder one by one.

The Tatars fell down one by one, and climbed up again.

The archers on the archery towers on the four walls are always ready to shoot enemies flying up.

The men brought by Mr. Ling patrolled the surrounding city walls. When some enemy soldiers climbed up with shields and wanted to kill the Zhou soldiers, they quickly killed the enemy soldiers with their quick eyesight and hands.

The Tatars have been attacking the city for three consecutive days. No matter how thick the city wall is, it will soon collapse if they continue to attack like this.

The current Wucheng has only 50,000 soldiers when it is full. Even if the 90,000 soldiers in other cities add up to only 140,000, the most important point is that he does not know if there are people in other cities who are secretly seeking refuge with Xiao Hongbin. If there are, he will mobilize troops. If he comes here, he will play into the hands of Xiao Hongbin and the Tatars. All of northern Xinjiang will be lost, and he will become a criminal in history.

Yi Zhenpeng's hand holding the spear tightened, and the ends of his eyes were slightly red. Behind him was the territory of Great Zhou, and the people of Li. They had no choice but to fight, give it a go, and defend the territory of Great Zhou to the death.

"General Zhaowu" Ling Yunsu's cold voice interrupted his thoughts.

Yi Zhenpeng cupped his hand and said, "Mr. Ling."

Ling Yunsu looked at the Tatars below who were trying to climb up the city wall through the ladder, and narrowed his eyes slightly. "If you grit your teeth and persist for one more day, the emperor's grandson and Princess Protector will arrive in Wucheng tonight." Yi Zhenpeng's eyes looked at him. After a while, there was a hint of loneliness on his face: "In this situation, even if the emperor's grandson and the princess come, it will not help."

Ling Yunsu said in an extremely firm tone: "They will find a way."

This is his fascinating confidence in Shen Jia.

Yi Zhenpeng sighed deeply, "It's too difficult. We have been holding on for three days, and the soldiers are already exhausted. The Tatar army is overwhelming, and the city will be broken sooner or later..."

Ling Yunsu looked at the exhausted Zhou soldiers, and then at the batch after batch of Tatars who were attacking the city, and his heart sank to the bottom.

Judging from the situation, the Tatars seem to be preparing to launch a full-scale attack?
Once the city gate is broken, the 250,000 energetic and brave Tatar army will fight against the 50,000 exhausted Zhou soldiers. The result can be imagined.

No, he had to find a way to extend the time for them to break through the city gate, just wait until Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen arrived.

Ling Yunsu thought of this and left the city wall in a flash. Within half a quarter of an hour, he came over with a baggage on his back.

He opened the bag and took out the bottles and jars inside, "General Zhaowu, these are poisons such as poison, ruanjin powder, and poison. If we wrap the poison in paper and shoot it at the Tatar army under the city wall, Maybe I can resist it for a while..."

Yi Zhenpeng's eyes lit up and he said eagerly: "Master Ling, I will do as you say. I will listen to you how to do it."

Ling Yunsu raised his lips slightly and summoned five soldiers. He gave them the antidote first, then wrapped the poison in the porcelain bottle with paper and tied it to the arrow with a small rope. As long as it was shot out, the poison would fly down. .

Two quarters of an hour later, all the poisons were wrapped, and a total of two hundred arrows were wrapped, which could be evenly distributed to each of the four arrow towers on the four walls with fifty poisoned arrows.

Yi Zhenpeng couldn't wait to distribute them, and gave the order to shoot them at the enemy immediately.

On the archery towers on the four walls of the city, the soldiers who received the order stood in front of the archery window, nocking arrows, stringing strings, and drawing bows in one clean and beautiful movement.

'Chirp, chirp, chirp' Dozens of sharp arrows shot down from the air, shooting at the Tatar army from near to far. The wind blew away the poison in the small paper bag and sprinkled it on the heads of the Tatar soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the army from the city tower to 500 meters away fell down like dominoes, with at least thousands of people falling on each city wall.

Some were unconscious, some had bleeding from their mouths and noses, and some were weak all over...

When Yi Zhenpeng and Ling Yunsu saw this, their eyes were full of smiles.

When Xiao Hongbin saw this scene, his heart was filled with turmoil. These soldiers were poisoned! How much poison is needed to kill so many people at once? Who is so generous?

He suddenly looked up and saw the extremely handsome and graceful Ling Yunsu standing on the city wall.

It was him, Ling Yunsu, a subordinate of Princess Protector.

Xiao Hongbin was full of doubts, why was he here?
Could it be that Xiao Yichen and Shen Jia discovered that something happened in Northern Xinjiang?

How could it be so fast?
So will they arrive in northern Xinjiang soon?
No, he had to capture Northern Xinjiang before they arrived.

As long as he takes the northern Xinjiang, recruits troops, accumulates strength, and then contacts the generals hidden in other military camps, he can fight back to the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty step by step.