Tuo Ba Lie glanced at Han Hu, the leader of the small tribe with whom he had no connection, and felt a little baffled.
Because Tuo Ba Lie really regarded Zhou Yi as a friend, the reason why he took the initiative to stand up was entirely because he did not want to be selected by the Khitan King to attack Pingliang County and Pingjiang County, and he would not be able to face Zhou Yi by then.
But it is different now. As long as there are still wounded in the subsequent battles, Tuo Balie can use the excuse of taking care of the wounded to keep himself and his tribe hidden in the rear.
But Tuo Balie couldn't understand why this Hanhu also chose to do such a thankless thing like him.
At the same time, on the city wall of Pingliang City. Zhou Yi has finished inspecting the injured soldiers.
When Zhou Yi saw Lin Zhenyuan shirtless, he quickly asked someone to bring Lin Zhenyuan a set of paper armor to put on.
"General Lin, I have limited conditions in Pingliang County and cannot get any powerful armor. I can only make it out of paper. It has a pretty good defense. If it hadn't been for it, I might not have been able to escape the poisonous hands of the Huns' eagle shooters today. .”
Armor that can withstand the Huns' vulture shooters!
When Lin Zhenyuan heard this, he also began to carefully look at the set of paper armor in front of him. When he put on this set of armor, he felt that this set of paper armor was more than two or three times lighter than his previous iron armor.
As for the defensive power of this set of paper armor, it was said by Zhou Yi, so Lin Zhenyuan would not doubt it.
"Master Zhou, what are the losses in this battle today?" Lin Zhenyuan asked eagerly.
Zhou Yi pulled Lin Zhenyuan to a beacon tower and talked to Lin Zhenyuan in detail.
In today's battle, the damage situation was very satisfactory. There were only more than 280 people on his side who were slightly injured, only more than 30 people who were seriously injured, and none of them died.
Thanks to this, Zhouyi gave everyone in the army, even the old men who carried dung to the city, a set of paper armor.
The defensive power of this paper armor is actually no worse than ordinary iron armor, but the durability of this armor is not inferior to iron armor.
The most indispensable thing for Zhou Yi is paper, so durability is the last thing Zhou Yi needs to worry about.
Although the paper armor's defensive power is not bad, it still has some areas that it cannot protect.
Most of the soldiers with minor injuries had their arms, thighs or cheeks scratched by the arrows.
Those who were seriously injured had even worse luck. The arrows of the Huns and Khitans were shot into the flesh through the gaps in the paper armor.
On the other hand, the Xiongnu and Khitan coalition forces have suffered tens of thousands of casualties today.
This is not only because the Xiongnu underestimated the enemy during their siege and underestimated the soldiers of Zhouyi and Pingliang County.
This Pingliang County was beyond the expectations of the Xiongnu and Khitan coalition forces.
They didn't expect that Pingliang County not only had high walls and plenty of bows and arrows, Zhou Yi and the others even used soybean oil as kerosene to kill the enemy. What surprised them even more was the disgusting golden soup.
After decades of fighting against Chen Guo's mighty army, this was the first time they encountered a biochemical weapon like boiling dung water.
Hearing such battle losses, Lin Zhenyuan was happy at first, and then began to worry.
Because judging from Zhou Yi's description and Lin Zhenyuan's own observation of the battle outside the city, Zhou Yi consumed too many arrows today.
There are now a full 400,000 troops on the opposite side. If there are not enough arrows by then, then facing the fierce attack of the Khitan and Huns coalition forces, it is very likely that the city will be broken down like Pingyang City.
"Master Zhou, I see that there are arrows everywhere outside the city today. I think it will cost a lot to defend the city. We need to take a clear inventory of our arrow inventory!"
Before Zhou Yi could reply, Qian Yong explained the supply situation of Pingliang County in detail: "Reporting to your lord, our county originally had 600,000 arrows in stock, but today we have used more than 15,000. Now. The army in the city...the blacksmith shop is working hard to make arrows, and they can make about 3,000 arrows every day!"
"In addition, there are no less than 10,000 weapons such as knives, swords, spears, longges, and chains. We have no less than 30,000 tanks of oil to defend the city."
After hearing Qian Yong's report, Lin Zhenyuan felt numb.
At first, he was worried that Pingliang County's supplies would not be enough to defend the city, but now he heard that with Pingliang County's equipment storage, he could immediately raise an army of no less than 50,000 people. From this point of view, as long as the entire city is mobilized, the Khitan and Huns coalition forces outside the city will not have the so-called tenfold advantage.
What Lin Zhenyuan didn't know was that the oil used by Zhou Yi and others to defend the city was not kerosene at all, but cooking oil. If he knew, he would definitely scold Zhou Yi for his extravagance.
The next day, it was dawn.
The Xiongnu and Khitan armies had already set up their posture, preparing to jointly attack the three gates of Zhouyi's southeast, southeast and west.
The east and west gates have the largest number of people deployed to attack the city. Although the south gate has only 10,000 people, they are all elite soldiers of the Xiongnu and Khitan.
When Prince Atam of the Xiongnu and King Ashinaba of the Khitan both saw the number of people arranged in the east, west, and south sides of the city in Zhouyi, they looked at each other and smiled, feeling that the situation was stable.
The Khitan and Xiongnu coalition forces on the east and west sides were large in number and their offensive was fierce, but the attack from the south was also very fierce.
After fighting for an hour, Lin Zhenyuan realized that something was wrong with the South Gate offensive. So he immediately asked Zhou Yi and said: "Master Zhou, although the Xiongnu Khitan South Gate has few people, the attack is very fierce. I ask Master Zhou to give me a team of troops to support the south gate!"
Originally, Lin Zhenyuan thought that his simple request would be granted, but he did not expect it to be rejected by Zhou Yi: "General Lin is a tiger general, and bothering General Lin is just killing a chicken with a knife."
"Master Zhou, I think the Xiongnu and Khitan coalition forces attacking the south gate are probably warriors who have fought a hundred battles. Although the number of people in the south gate is smaller than that of the east and west gates, I feel that these people are more like sharp knives. The south gate is very It is possible that we will attack the city from the east and west gates first!"
"Even if Mr. Zhou doesn't want Lin to take this risk, he still needs to send some more people to support the south gate."
Zhou Yi looked at Lin Zhenyuan's extremely anxious look, but he was very calm. He pointed to the southern city wall and said: "General Lin, don't worry, my soldiers on the southern city are holding a newly invented weapon of mine." It’s called Lianjia.”
"This chain is made by me to imitate the farmers' shackles that break away from the grain. Most of the soldiers guarding the city at the south gate are farmers. They will not get tired from beating this chain for a day. Each of them can compete with Wu Wu. He yelled out the phrase "I Can do this all day" like a captain!"
At this time, Zhou Yi pointed to a soldier in the south and said: "General Lin, look, wasn't that Hun soldier who just climbed up was beaten down by our soldier Yi Lianjia? If he fell from such a height, I guess he would be disabled even if he didn't die. !”
Lin Zhenyuan was not referring to the defenses on the city wall, but to the south gate.
The city gates on the east and west sides have not been approached by siege cones, but the siege cones on the south have been ringing continuously for more than an hour.
But now that Zhou Yi was here telling him about the Lianjia he invented, Lin Zhenyuan had no intention of listening to it at all.
He only knew that if the south gate was broken, the entire Pingliang County would be doomed.
"Could it be that yesterday's victory made Zhou Yi and Zhou Xingjian feel proud and complacent this week?"
Just when Lin Zhenyuan was thinking about how to persuade Zhou Yi to increase his troops at the south gate, a loud bang suddenly came from the south gate, and the gate of the south gate was broken.
At this time, a group of soldiers at the south gate shouted happily: "The south gate is broken, the south gate is broken!"
Lin Zhiyuan looked at the soldiers who were happy that the south gate was breached, and couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that the Huns and Khitan spies were also mixed into Zhou Xingjian's army? Otherwise, how could they be so happy if the south gate was breached! "
