The king behind the empress

Chapter 381 Preparations Before Siege
Seeing Zheng Anmin leading the troops to charge, Xing Jun, who had been observing from the top of the city for a long time, did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered: "Archers, let the arrows go!"

There are more than 2000 archers on the top of the city. Hearing Xing Jun's order, he immediately drew his bow and arrow and shot towards the Red Flame Dragon Rider under the city wall.

"Ding Ding Ding ~"

The arrows pouring down from the top of the city were as dense as raindrops, hitting the armor of the Scarlet Flame Dragonrider, making metal crashing sounds, but the effect was almost nonexistent.

After a burst of arrows, the Scarlet Flame Dragonriders continued to rush towards the broken soldiers below the city without losing any one of them.

Although the Scarlet Flame Dragon Riders were heavily armored, but because of the amazing horsepower of the Scarlet Blood Dragon Cong, they only had time to release a wave of arrows on the top of the city, and they had already charged in front of the rout soldiers below the city.

A well-armored heavy cavalry, the pressure brought by the head-on impact of the formation is no less than that of a charging tank in the real face, so those defeated soldiers who were already shattered did not have the slightest intention of resisting. Spread out and continue to flee.

But how could their speed compare to that of the Red Flame Dragonriders? In addition, they didn't form a queue at all. In many places, a bunch of people were crowded together, unable to run at all.

A moment later, the Scarlet Flame Dragonrider directly rushed into the formation. Facing these defeated soldiers who had no intention of fighting, the Scarlet Flame Dragonrider did not show any mercy.

"How can they be so fast?"

Standing on the top of the city, Xing Jun looked at the Chiyan Dragonriders below in disbelief. They were obviously heavy armored cavalry, but just before he had time to shoot a wave of arrows, they rushed over. They could ride to the end. What is it?
Shocked by the speed of the Chiyan Dragonrider, Xing Jun didn't pay too much attention to the effect of the wave of arrows just now. Quick, so he didn't see it either.

At this moment, seeing Chi Yanlong riding under the city wall, chasing after his soldiers like chopping vegetables, his face was so gloomy that water dripped out. After a while, he said in a deep voice, "Shoot the arrow!"

"Arrow?"

Liang Ming was stunned for a moment, but he didn't realize it. Now the Chiyan Dragon Knight was chasing Deng Yu and the others to kill them. The two were mixed together. Where should they shoot the arrow?

After a while, he came to his senses, looked at Xing Jun in disbelief and said, "My lord, there are still our brothers under the city. If they shoot arrows, they will die!"

Xing Jun stared at Liang Ming coldly, and said, "Why don't you go down and save them?"

"This……"

Hearing what Xing Jun said, Liang Ming was speechless immediately. Although he couldn't bear to have his robes shot and killed by his own people, he wanted to let himself go down to save them...

Liang Ming looked at the wolves and tigers below the city, and felt that it would be safer to stay on the city wall. As for those comrades, at worst, he would burn some paper money for them next year.

"Humph!"

Xing Jun snorted coldly, and then ordered in a very firm tone: "Fire the arrow immediately!"

After receiving the order to release the arrows, there was an uproar from the Bow Bing Battalion. It was obviously because of shooting one of their own people, which made them a little bit reluctant. However, under the persecution of the war supervisor, they did not delay for too long. A rain of arrows began to pour down from the head of the city.

After the rain of arrows fell, the screams under the city immediately increased several times.

Although the order to release the arrows was given by Xing Jun, he still couldn't bear to close his eyes when he heard the screams below, "This battle was lost because of my wrong decision-making, and it caused the death of the soldiers. There is uneasiness."

"However, if they can use their sacrifices to severely injure this Red Flame Dragonrider, even if they die, they will be very happy..."

"No, my lord, this is not right!!!"

Liang Ming kept staring down to observe the situation. Just as Xing Jun was comforting himself, he noticed something strange and immediately shouted: "Stop, stop quickly, don't let go!!!"

Following Liang Ming's order, the Archery Battalion quickly stopped shooting arrows. Xing Jun looked at Liang Ming with some doubts, and asked, "What happened?"

"My lord, you can see for yourself."

Liang Ming pointed at the bottom of the city wall with a very ugly expression, signaling Xing Jun to go and see for himself.

"There's nothing strange about it?"

Xing Jun glanced down. At this time, under the double attack of the archers and the Red Flame Dragon Knight, the rout soldiers were almost killed, and the corpses of the rout soldiers were everywhere. At this time, the Red Flame Dragon Knight was Chasing and killing the remaining broken soldiers, it seems that they are ready to withdraw, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

wait...

Xing Jun suddenly realized the problem, took a step forward, poked his head out and looked down the city, "This is wrong! Where are the corpses? Where are their corpses!!!"

There were corpses of rout soldiers all over the city, and he didn't see any of the corpses belonging to the Red Flame Dragonriders!

"There are no bodies."

A bitter smile appeared on Liang Ming's face, "Because they didn't die."

"how can that be!"

Xing Jun turned back to stare at Liang Ming with a ferocious expression, and roared loudly: "The archers have been shooting at them for so long, how could it be possible that they didn't die? Don't you think they are all warriors?"

"I don't know if they are warriors or not, but they are indeed not dead."

Liang Ming could understand Xing Jun's mood, so he didn't care about Xing Jun's tone, but explained: "The humble officer saw very clearly just now that the rain of arrows fell on those cavalry, and almost all of them were blocked by their armor. Occasionally, arrows shot through the gaps in their armor, but they didn't hurt them at all."

What Liang Ming saw was not wrong, because the heavy armor of the Scarlet Flame Dragonrider was divided into two layers, and the outer layer was a metal armor made of black iron, which was the most important defensive part.

On the inner layer, the link of the battle armor is wrapped with a layer of lining made of animal skin, which further strengthens the defense of the heavy armor.

In addition, the Chiyan Dragon Riders are all at the Body Forging Realm, and their bodies are far superior to ordinary people. After these two layers of weakening, ordinary arrows can't hurt them at all.

"How could this be?"

Xing Jun looked at the Red Flame Dragon Knight below in a daze. As a general, although he didn't have heavy armored cavalry under his command, he still knew something about it.

Although this kind of heavy armor has relatively strong defensive power, bows and arrows are not very lethal to them, but you fight against the rain of arrows without even a single casualty, isn't this a bit too much?
Seeing that the Chiyan Dragonriders had killed all the soldiers in the city and began to retreat, Xing Jun took a deep breath, suppressed the distracting thoughts in his heart, and ordered: "Go and prepare more boiling oil and golden juice immediately. Tunneled on the city wall."

"Also, bring back the arrows. If these cavalry dare to approach them again and shoot them directly with arrows, I don't believe it. They can even hold the arrows."

Arrows are weapons of war, so there are not too many special arrows stored. Its function is generally used to suppress the enemy's masters and prevent the stronger generals on the opposite side from rushing directly to the city wall. Belongs to that kind of deterrent weapon.

But at this moment, Xing Jun couldn't care about so much anymore, if the Chiyan Dragonrider was allowed to appear under the city so unscrupulously, the morale of Zhaoyuan City would be completely lost.

After saying this, Xing Jun still felt that it was not enough, and continued to speak: "Also, block and seal all the six city gates for me, and don't leave any gaps."

A city that is generally defended will not block the city gates. After all, the city gates are not much weaker than the city walls, and it is extremely difficult to break through the city walls.

Coupled with the fact that the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, in case of any emergency, if there is a better time, such as reinforcements arriving or the enemy bombing the camp inexplicably, the city gate can be opened at any time to switch to the defense. attack.

At this time, Xing Jun asked his subordinates to block all the gates of the city, which meant that he completely gave up the opportunity to attack, and even if there was a great opportunity, he would not be able to go out of the city to fight again.

Although Liang Ming was a little surprised when he heard the words, after thinking about the fighting power of the Red Flame Dragonrider just now, he nodded in agreement, thinking that it should be so.

Otherwise, if there is another "good time", then it is not me who needs to go out of the city to make a surprise attack. If I am ambushed by this red flame dragon ride again, then I will have to end up like Deng Yu .

Thinking of Deng Yu, who was in the Bone Forging Realm just now, being given the head of a sword by the Red Flame Dragon Knight like a miscellaneous soldier, Liang Ming couldn't help shivering.

He wasn't afraid of soldiers dying on the battlefield, but he was a little unwilling to die without dignity like Deng Yu.

Therefore, he immediately cupped his hands and assured Xing Jun: "Don't worry, my lord, I will send people to block the gate of the city, to ensure that even if they break down the gate, they will not be able to enter Zhaoyuan City within three days."

Of course, the implication of these words is also very clear, that is, if the city gate is blocked, if they want to leave the city, it will take three days to clear the city gate.

Xing Jun heard Liang Ming's implication, but he didn't say much, just nodded and said: "Okay, I will leave this matter to you, you can do it immediately!"

"promise!"

Liang Ming responded loudly, and immediately led his troops to block the city gate with stones.

Mo Zizai, Zhou Qi, Yang Yanzhang, Han Qu, and Li Huai'en and their generals were sitting in the camp in the large tent of the Yuzhi Army. After Zheng Anming settled down and came in, several people immediately looked at him. .

"how?"

Mo Zizai looked at Zheng Anming and asked, "What do you gain from this attack?"

"The two thousand soldiers who left the city have been wiped out."

Zheng Anmin first reported the results of the battle, and then said: "But the generals guarding the city are more cautious. They watched these two thousand soldiers die under the city, and they have no intention of opening the city gate."

Speaking of this, Zheng Anmin said with some concern: "Besides, after this battle, I think the guard will definitely be more cautious. It is almost impossible to take Zhaoyuan City by chance."

"As expected."

Mo Zizai and the others were not too surprised. After all, the Chiyan Dragonrider's intention to chase after him was too obvious. As long as the guards of Zhaoyuan City were not stupid, they would not be able to easily open the city gate and let the Red Flame Dragonrider take the opportunity to charge. went in.

So although the Red Flame Dragonriders didn't achieve their final goal this time, they weren't too disappointed.

"Since you can't take it by chance, you can only attack by force."

Siege warfare, especially in the case of storming, is generally a war of attrition with almost no technical content.

One side is responsible for attacking and the other is responsible for defending. It depends on which side can't hold on first. As long as one side can't hold on, the victory will be decided naturally.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Mo Zizai was not in a hurry to attack the city. After all, his soldiers could not fly. If he wanted to attack Zhaoyuan City, he had to have enough siege equipment.

So in the first few days, he was not in a hurry, and led the army to build siege equipment patiently, but what Xing Jun on the top of the city couldn't understand was that what Mo Zizai's army seemed to build in the past few days were all siege ladders. None of the other siege equipment, such as wells, rams, and ladders, seemed to have been built, which made Xing Jun a little confused.

"Could it be that Mo Zizai is planning to take down my Zhaoyuan City by relying on the siege ladder?"

After this idea flashed through Xing Jun's mind, he immediately shook his head and put this ridiculous idea behind him. The siege is for consumption, even if Mo Zizai has five thousand red flame dragons in his hands Qi, if he wanted to take down his Zhaoyuan City with only a siege ladder, it would be a little too contemptuous of his Zhaoyuan City. Could it be that he really used his own Zhaoyuan City as mud?

Although he was very annoyed at Mo Zizai's contemptuous attitude in his heart, Xing Jun, who had just suffered a big loss, became very cautious now. He pondered for a moment, then summoned Liang Ming, and said, "Go to the warehouse and set fire to the fire." The oil was also taken and put on the top of the city for use.”

"Fire oil?"

When Liang Ming heard that Xing Jun was going to fetch the fierce oil now, he couldn't help hesitating, "My lord, isn't it too early to bring the fierce oil here?"

Fuel oil is not easy to store, so Zhaoyuan City doesn't have much in stock. In addition, it is very powerful, so when defending the city, it is generally regarded as the last resort.

When it is the most difficult time to defend the city, take it out, the inextinguishable flame can not only frighten the enemy, but also improve the morale of your own side, it can be regarded as the last booster for the defenders.

"not early."

Xing Jun was bitten by a snake once, and he was afraid of well ropes for ten years. He was afraid that Mo Zizai would make something wrong again, so he said firmly: "The fire oil is just in case, what accident will happen to me then?" , it’s too late to get it temporarily.”

"That's not enough, is it?"

Looking at the cautious Xing Jun, Liang Ming always felt that he was frightened by the Red Flame Dragon Knight, but who made him his immediate boss, so he just muttered in his heart without saying anything, and directly Ask the soldiers to move the fierce oil to the city wall one by one.

And as the two sides became more and more prepared, the atmosphere under Zhaoyuan City became more and more tense, and a big battle was imminent.

In this atmosphere, after another two full days, Mo Zi finally built enough siege ladders in this regard. Seeing the Yuzhi Army forming troops outside the city, Xing Jun knew that Mo Zi had no choice but to attack the city. Finally, I couldn't bear it any longer, and started to attack.

(End of this chapter)