Let’s bring the soldiers outside the city back to the city first.
If the barbarians besiege the city, then besiege the city. It's not like they haven't attacked the city before. If the barbarians really arrived at the city and were so close, it would be convenient for him to take action.
Chang Wuchang's expression was also more solemn than ever before. He looked at the endless line of barbarian cavalry behind him and shouted at Da Sheng's soldiers to gather together and retreat together.
As for the barbarians who fell into the river, all these people who knew how to swim were swimming to the other side, out of reach of Dasheng's spear.
Those who don't know how to swim will sink to the bottom of the river.
So there is no need for him and the soldiers to stay here.
Retreat first, retreat while fighting, and check the situation. If you see something wrong, return to the city quickly.
When Li Qiao saw Chang Wuchang, he led his men to retreat. Under the cover of the sky, he killed all the barbarians who fell into the river.
Not long after, the Hu people from the east finally came around the river. At this time, the Hu people on the other side of the river were still coming down the slope in a steady stream. Chang Wuchang no longer delayed and asked everyone to return to the city.
Chapter 242 Use super powers to boost morale
Although the Hu people came quickly, trenches were actually dug on three sides of the border city. Da Sheng's soldiers retreated into the trenches first. The Hu people could not chase them with their horses, so they had to jump off their horses and cross the trenches.
In this way, although the barbarians were coming fiercely, they were blocked by the trenches, and all the soldiers on the east side retreated safely to the trenches.
Because the soldiers in the west did not have Li Qiao to remind them, the person sent by Chang Wuchang to report the news was a step late, so the soldiers and the Hu people briefly fought against each other.
But fortunately, Dasheng's soldiers retreated quickly, only a few people were injured, and no one died for the time being.
The north gate was closed and it was already dawn. Li Qiao and Chang Wuchang went up to the tower together.
The wall of the border city is 13 meters high, and the city tower is 20 meters high. After the advent of cement, Sheng Hong had people plaster a layer of cement inside and out. In terms of solidity, the wall of the border city is still fine.
However, outside the city, the second group of Hu people responsible for transporting weapons had arrived.
These weapons are heavy and therefore move slowly, including trebuchets, ladders, and siege engines.
Some barbarians are laying strong planks on the trench to transport these heavy weapons to the city gate.
The first batch of cavalry did not capture Da Sheng's soldiers and could only help the second batch of Hu people who were responsible for transporting weapons to slowly approach the north gate.
Chang Wuchang stared into the distance, with an ugly face as if he had eaten a mouse alive. He climbed up and looked into the distance, and everywhere he could see were barbarians!
Moreover, the barbarians actually hid so many large weapons for siege!
When the barbarians attacked the city before, there were trebuchets, ladders, and siege engines, but there were only about a dozen of them, which was nothing to be afraid of. But now, after a quick glance, there were more than forty!
The Hu people have taken out all their old tricks.
With so many heavy weapons and so many manpower, can the border town with only 120,000 soldiers be able to defend the border town...
The joy of thousands of barbarians who had died because of the ice break had disappeared. The other soldiers on the tower looked at the black heads in the distance with solemn expressions.
The atmosphere on the tower was extremely depressing.
Chang Wuchang's soldier surnamed Han couldn't stand the suffocating atmosphere at this moment, and wanted to make a joke to brighten the atmosphere: "Fortunately, I ate meat in a hurry yesterday, otherwise I really wouldn't have a chance to eat it."
But as soon as the words came out, no one responded.
This joke is not funny at all.
Everyone knows what the endless black heads represent.
Chang Wuchang took a deep breath and asked Deputy General Wu to quickly send someone to light the smoke to report the news to Dajingmen, so that Dajingmen could report the news to Guanbao.
There were originally 30,000 soldiers in Guanbao, but 20,000 soldiers had been transferred to the border town, and now only 10,000 soldiers remained.
This manpower is simply not enough to support.
He ordered six plumes of smoke to be lit directly, which was a signal that the enemy was besieging the city and requesting support from the court.
If Li Qiao wasn't here, he wouldn't have gone to Shengjing in such a hurry, and he would have had to fight bloody battles no matter what.
But now he wished that Shengjing's imperial army could parachute into the border town with wings. He couldn't bear the responsibility for Li Qiao's accident!
After letting people light up the smoke, he also ordered people to quickly prepare crossbows, trebuchets, wolf fangs, rolling logs, stones, arrows, gold juice and other weapons for defending the city.
After explaining this, seeing Li Qiao standing next to him and listening attentively, looking like an obedient and good student, he didn't care to say anything else, grabbed Li Qiao's shoulders, pushed Li Qiao and let Li Qiao go down the tower.
The city gate is in danger!
The enemy's trebuchet came over and if the stone fell on Li Qiao, he would be in trouble.
But Li Qiao remained motionless, and he said seriously: "Sir, you are busy with your business. If it really comes to a dangerous moment, I will go down on my own."
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Chang Wuchang's eyes almost fell out.
He stared in disbelief at his big hand holding the cattail leaf fan on Li Qiao's shoulder. He couldn't push Brother Li?
But the situation was urgent, and he didn't have time to think too much. He immediately changed his position from pushing to carrying. He grabbed Li Qiao's shoulders with his five fingers and prepared to carry Li Qiao down to the city gate himself.
But who knew that with a slight shake of Li Qiao's shoulders, he broke away from Chang Wuchang's big hand. Then he took two steps back and said with a serious face: "Sir, I will not joke with my own life. I have a husband and children. Yes, I don’t want to die. When it comes to danger, I don’t need you to rush me, I will definitely run faster than everyone else.”
Chang Wuchang: "..."
He also heard about Mr. Xiao Li's doting on her husband.
He had also witnessed the speed at which Mr. Xiao Li ran away just now.
Just at this time, another deputy general named Li rushed up to the tower to look for him, and he immediately turned his attention.
Forget it, when the fight really started, he knocked Li Qiao unconscious directly, so he didn't waste any words.
Deputy General Li came to Chang Wuchang to report that the defensive weapons behind the North Gate were ready. Although the city gate was now strong, proper defense must be arranged.
Li Qiao stood in the corner, not blocking the way or occupying the position of the city's defense weapons. He placed his hands on the city wall, distractedly listening to Chang Wuchang's arrangements, and looking into the distance, vaguely sensing the surroundings four miles away with water drops. Condition.
There is still the sound of horse hooves four miles away, but it is not dense. According to Chang Wuchang, the total number of cavalry from the five major Donghu tribes is five to six million people. These five major tribes will definitely not come out in full force, because besides Donghu, there are also There is Xihu.
If the entire army is annihilated, the only thing they can do is be annexed by Xihu.
Now Xihu is waging war in Xishan Province. If Xihu cannot please Dasheng, he will definitely turn his spearhead and attack the five major tribes of Donghu.
Therefore, the five major tribes will never spare any effort. If it were him, he would at least reserve half of his troops just in case.
If the five major tribes only dispatched half of their cavalry, there would still be more than 200,000 people.
But the border town now has only 120,000 troops garrisoned.
We are outnumbered and outnumbered...
He couldn't help but narrowed his eyes. Hu Ren caught Chang Wuchang off guard. Was it like this in the previous life?
If this is true, then the Sixth Prince is really unlucky.
In his previous life, Sheng Hong did not assess the Forbidden Army. The Forbidden Army was not very powerful and did not have so many resources constantly sent to the border towns.
But it happened that the sixth prince had a war-like heart and wanted to make meritorious deeds.
Pursing his lips, he put back his thoughts of running away and looked at the barbarian who was only four or five hundred meters away from the tower.
These barbarians are working hard to transport the heavy weapons for siege to the north gate.
After staring at the barbarian's trebuchet for a few times, ten water droplets appeared silently on his fingertips, and then rolled down the city wall.
When the barbarians laid planks on the trench, the trebuchet was pushed onto the planks. Transparent water droplets as big as rice grains immediately came under the planks of the trebuchet, while another water droplet lay gently on the trebuchet. The lever used by the stone machine to throw stones.
There was a silent and gentle explosion, and the board immediately broke into two pieces.
The heavy trebuchet immediately fell into the trench.
As the trebuchet shook, the water droplets on the lever also cracked, and the most important lever was immediately broken into two pieces.
The barbarian who was pushing the stone trebuchet was dumbfounded.
The gate to the border town is right in front of us, but the trebuchet is broken?
Li Qiao ignored the reaction of the barbarians in front of the trebuchet. He used the same method and disabled four more trebuchets.
The trebuchet can attack from a distance and poses the greatest threat to the city gate. Heavy stones will hit people or buildings, and they will be smashed.
And depending on the type of the barbarian trebuchet, its range should be about two hundred meters.
In this case, the barbarian's trebuchet must have broken down three hundred meters away from the border town.
If it breaks down there, it will definitely make people vomit blood.
As for whether Dasheng would have any suspicions, he no longer cared about it. If the border city was destroyed, how many of the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city would survive?
How many of these soldiers can survive?
The reaction of the Hu people was indeed as jumpy as Li Qiao had guessed. He was immediately within the range of the trebuchet. As a result, he broke five trebuchets in a row?
This affects combat effectiveness too much!
It also affects morale!
First the ice broke and two to three thousand people fell into the river, and now five trebuchets were directly damaged. This is really fucking annoying!
But it shouldn’t be. I checked these wooden boards carefully before setting off. Why did they suddenly break?
But the siege was imminent, and these barbarians had no time to study this problem. They temporarily put aside the five broken trebuchets and turned to help transport other heavy weapons.
Anyway, we must capture the border town today. After grabbing the supplies, we can bring it back and repair it slowly!
Chang Wuchang on the tower saw this scene, even though he felt heavy, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
The Hu people are having a bad start today, and God is doing all they can to help him.
He turned around, raised his hands, and spoke loudly to the people on the tower. The morale was too low now, and he had to take this opportunity to seriously encourage the soldiers, so that they could not be timid before they started fighting.
A good man from Dasheng cannot be a coward!
"Everyone has seen it. The barbarian fell into the river first, and now the trebuchet is broken. God is on our side!"
"Even God is helping us, so we will beat the barbarians today until they cry for father and mother. Do you think this is right?!"
"right!!!"
The neatly matched words immediately resounded through the sky after Chang Wuchang finished speaking.
Many people on the city tower had just seen the scene where the barbarians' trebuchet was broken. They were like Chang Wuchang. Even though they were in a terrible mood, they still couldn't help but have hope in their hearts.
