Subconsciously, he picked up the weapon at hand, and the middle-aged man knocked on the huge gong beside him as a warning.

Because the area of ​​the gong was very wide and it was made into such a thin shape, there was a sharp sound coming from the sentry tower just for this blow, and it swept across the entire camp in an instant.

Like an explosion, the entire camp suddenly fell into an unspeakable panic.

"No, there is an enemy attack!"

"Little Ba, go to the stockade to contact the brothers, and say that those stupid officers and soldiers have touched our side!"

"Quick, let the brothers come out quickly, or it will be too late!"

He roared loudly at the young figure behind him. The middle-aged man planned to hit the gong a few more times, but found that his hands and feet were a little weak after one blow, and it was even difficult to use the gong that he had just used to hit the gong. Hold on to your weapon.

Then, amidst his unbelievable expression, the young man he trusted so much moved forward with his lips pursed, and took the weapon that was just used for striking from his hand.

"Oh, what's going on?"

"I remember this thing works very well, how could it overturn?"

Muttering to hold the long knife steadily, the young man just sent the blade forward, then turned around, looked at the bombed cottage, and fell into a silence.

As for the dirty middle-aged man, he felt a slight coolness passing between his neck, and then a sense of dizziness that was far stronger than before, even a bit like the world was upside down, hit him.

"This is troublesome. I hope General Xu will not blame me."

Chapter 56 The Unbreakable Premise

"Hey, what's going on?"

"Yeah, what's going on here?"

……

Outside the bandit camp in Qianshan, a large number of soldiers were hiding in a relatively dense woodland, waiting for the next order from their general, Xu Huang.

Most of these soldiers were wearing the simplest armor, holding a long knife in their right hand, and a round wooden shield with an iron edge in their left hand. They were the sword and shield players who followed Pei Yuanshao to the south this time.

And among these sword and shield hands, there are some archers with quiver on their backs, longbows in their hands, and waist and hip reach.

Undoubtedly, in terms of numbers, the number of archers under Xu Huang's hands is slightly less than that of sword and shield players, but judging from the reactions of both sides, although those sword and shield players are also silent with stern expressions, they are always a little bit The younger one moved from time to time, as if he couldn't hold back the next thing.

On the other hand, those archers leaned against the tree with their longbows in their hands and closed their eyes to rest their minds. They were obviously much calmer than ordinary sword and shield fighters who hadn't experienced a few battles.

On a small path not far from the hiding place of the people, there are still many soldiers bowing their waists and marching towards the hiding place from time to time. These soldiers were at the rear when they marched just now, and they have just arrived at this resting place. warrior.

Although these fighters looked similar to those who had been resting before, in terms of strength and body shape, each one of them was the best among them.

When marching, it is common sense that the strongest man is in charge of the rear and collects the soldiers who fall behind, which needless to say.

And the number of these people is about a thousand, but they can be regarded as Xu Huang's always relatively elite troops.

In addition to these people who are constantly adding to the team, there are some workers who are wearing simple clothes and holding hatchets are working nervously near the hiding places of the people. Some of them are the baggage belonging to Xu Huang's army. The soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, and some of them were farmers he temporarily recruited from the vicinity of the buried hill. They were all holding simple production tools. They were constantly cutting down trees and using those trees to make some simple tools on the spot.

The task of these people is to make siege tools such as ladders and other siege tools for the soldiers who will be in charge of the main attack later. As for the crash...

Firstly, the terrain in the mountain did not allow such large-scale engineering equipment to appear, and there was no need to go to great lengths to attack a three- to four-meter-high wooden camp.

The current time is four o'clock in the afternoon, that is to say, just over half of the application time.

About half an hour ago, everyone arrived at the outskirts of this camp, and at the same time began to silently prepare for the siege work for a while.

As for Xu Huang, the leader of the crowd, he was wearing a delicate armor at the moment, stroking his beard in a daze while looking at the wooden walls and towers in the distance.

Although he had already obtained the general location of the camp and other information, Xu Huang was quite surprised to see that the other party was able to build such a proposed city wall in the mountains.

He originally thought that according to the scale and organizational ability of these bandits, it would be great for the other party to build some simple wooden houses in the mountains at most. The construction of some walls more than two meters high will not be carried out with great fanfare.

You know, the wooden wall in front of you is more than three meters high and nearly four meters high, and it stretches for nearly a kilometer. This is definitely not something that can be built overnight.

At first glance, although the wooden wall doesn't look thick, but in terms of size, it is not much smaller than some ordinary county towns.

……

"Tsk tsk, I really didn't expect it. I thought I was cautious enough, but I didn't expect these guys to give me some surprises."

"This city wall, this sentry tower...Although it looks a little crude, as long as it is properly repaired, isn't this a natural camp?"

"Based on the size drawn in this map, this mountain depression is probably at least thousands of acres or even tens of thousands of acres in size."

"My lord, he even complained to me by correspondence a few days ago, saying that Pei Yuanshao's military training was too disturbing to the people. Now it seems that as long as half or even half of this mountain can be used, it will accommodate the more than [-] soldiers waiting for me." It shouldn't be a problem."

"Such a group of thieves occupy such a precious land, it's really a bit of a riot!"

Seeing the distant city wall let out a heartfelt sigh, Xu Huang turned around to look at the soldiers who were preparing behind him, and then turned his gaze back to the distant cottage.

……

"Hey, look at this sentry tower. It's obviously not something that the Yue people can make. It smells like a Han-made building from the inside to the outside."

"My lord said that most of these guys are Han people. I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems..."

"The lord is still the lord after all. After all, I have seen less, and I am too young."

Looking at the three towering towers behind the camp with some fiery eyes, with Xu Huang's eyesight, he could easily see the mountain vietnamese bandits on duty above the towers.

Different from the relatively low city wall, this tower is at least five or six meters high according to Xu Huang's visual inspection, which is far higher than the city wall.

If there are such defensive measures, then the opponent will have a high altitude advantage, and if he prepares some flying stones, throwing ropes and other objects, it will be really difficult for him to put them in front of him.

Fortunately, things are different now.After Pei Yuanshao's arrival, the help Xu Huang received was far from being as simple as that of more than [-] well-trained soldiers.

"Heh, the height of five or six meters may be difficult for ordinary archers, but for those generals at the level of centurion and thousand commanders in the barracks, this distance is probably very easy. Throw it over."

"As for the city wall... there aren't enough archers to defend it, so how effective will it be in the face of the rain of arrows we're waiting for?"

Sneering and glanced at the low wall in front of him, Xu Huang knew that if there were enough archers, this kind of city wall plus tower structure could indeed command a commanding height and cause huge trauma to the incoming enemy troops.

But that is only possible if there are enough archers.

Just like Xu Huang himself, if Xu Huang personally led the three thousand shieldmen and two thousand longbowmen under his command to defend the low wall, even if the intruder's strength was four times five times greater than his Times are meaningless.

This low wall, together with the three arrow towers, can be called an unbreakable line of defense.

But then again, it has been said that these guys are bandits. Could it be possible that there can be an organized archer unit among these bandits?

Dream about it.

Chapter 57 Siege Prologue

He secretly commented on the sentry tower. With Xu Huang's strength, he could even clearly see the expressions of every defender on the sentry tower, and saw the original middle-aged defender on the sentry tower. Under the instigation of the spy I arranged a few days ago, he was pouring poisonous wine.

With some disdain, he withdrew his gaze. Just as Xu Huang turned around and walked back to the hiding place of the people, just as he was about to see how the five ladders he ordered to build were ready, a metal explosion suddenly sounded from above the camp. up.

"Boom-"

The unique timbre of the gong exploded in the forest. At that moment, Xu Huang saw countless birds soaring from the forest, and the sound of flapping wings swept everyone's eardrums like a storm.

When the sound of flying birds gradually subsided, the bandit camp, which was still a little quiet, exploded and boiled like a pot of boiling water.

……

"Damn, what's going on!"

"Could it be that we were discovered by these guys?"

Hurriedly turning around and looking at the sentry tower at the camp, Xu Huang saw that the spy he had sent was covered in blood, but looked at him innocently.

Obviously, the whistle of the Shanyue who had sounded the gong earlier was killed by him immediately, but the sound of the gong spread out in the camp early, as if the water was overwhelmed.

If the previous camp was as quiet as a pond in the early morning, then the current camp is the noisiest market in the afternoon——

Footsteps, clothes rubbing, shouting, questioning.

Accompanied by the warning of the gong, the original camp fell into a panic and noise for a while.

……

"Didn't it go well just now, why did something go wrong at this critical moment?"

"Quick, pass my order, don't dawdle any longer, the whole army gathers immediately, we are going to take advantage of the chaos to attack these guys' camp!"

"All battalion officers above the commander-in-chief stand out! This time, you will personally lead the team to attack, and you must take down the wooden city wall at the entrance of the camp before the other party reacts!"

……

Even if Xu Huang didn't have the ability to see through, he could well imagine the thousands of thieves and bandits in the camp at this moment scurrying around in panic and at a loss.

But just like those flustered Shanyue, Xu Huang looked at the stunned soldiers behind him at this moment, and felt a little helpless in his heart.

To be honest, this time I was accidentally spotted by the other party. The other party was not ready, but they were not ready either.

Leaving aside the small road leading down the mountain, there are still many soldiers who failed to arrive at the scene. Even the ladder that Xu Huang was going to make, only one has just set up the bracket, and the rest even has the most basic structure. Neither was supported.

"At this point, we can only make mistakes..."

"Commander, pass on my order. All the longbowmen line up and start to advance after the drum beats. They will shoot arrows at the enemy's camp thirty feet away from the enemy's wall."

"The feather arrow takes ten breaths for one round, a total of five rounds. We must ensure that during our army's attack, the thieves in all the local camps will be suppressed by us, and they will not be able to climb the city wall to fight back against our soldiers!"

"As for the sword and shield troops, there are 500 people as a unit, [-] people in each wave, with an interval of ten breaths between each other, starting from the end of the second drum, and charging towards the opponent's camp from here!"

"Including the centurion and the battalion general, all the soldiers hold shields to protect their heads. The opponents don't have bows and arrows. Flying stones and slings can't hurt your armor at all, but you must protect your heads with shields!"

"Finally, there are auxiliary soldiers... Auxiliary troops, take the ladder you have built, and charge with the first wave of sword and shield fighters!"

"The two ladders that are already in the final stage are speeding up their construction. As for the other ladders that have not yet been built..."

"Stop cutting down trees!"

"Three ladders are enough, hurry up and prepare to rush to the front line with the sword and shield troops!"

A series of dozens of orders flowed out from Xu Huang's mouth. At the beginning, he was still giving orders to the lower-level generals through the messengers beside him, but soon, the speed of the messengers began to be unable to keep up with him giving orders. After increasing the speed, Xu Huang simply raised his voice, making his thunderous voice resound around the camp.

The orders one by one were quickly conveyed to the execution level, a large number of soldiers began to line up and gather, and the sound of passionate military drums began to vibrate near the camp in Qianshan.

Until then, Xu Huang saw that everyone had already started to move, so he wiped the sweat off his brow, replaced the job duty beside him, and called back the herald who was a little at a loss for a while.

"Hey, you, come here!"

"Our supply troops have brought a lot of hay, you pile the hay together... after lighting it, wet it with urine, and a puff of smoke will come out, let Pei Yuanshao and the others follow us to attack, there is no time to delay !"

"be quick!"

It seemed that he hadn't adapted to the change in voice level for a while, Xu Huang roared at the soldier beside him with the same volume after roaring at the crowd.

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