When the Xianbei people appeared in sight like a group of ants on the horizon in the distance, Wu Anguo and the Qingxu Volunteer Army led by him showed no tension, but inexplicable excitement. The vitality of an army does not depend on how nervous he is, but on how excited he is when facing the enemy.

As we often say before, nervousness and excitement are two completely different concepts and degrees; when the lamb sees the wolves, it is absolutely unexciting. Wu Anguo and Qing Xujun are excited when facing the enemy, which can only explain one problem: this unit is not as weak as the lamb in Kuitou's eyes.

As the elder of the Huangxuan clan and the person in charge of Hu Cheer when he was not in the clan, Hu Dingfeng was specially arranged by Xu Huang to assist Wu'anguo in Guangmu City in defense. Hu Dingfeng was familiar with the customs of the northern tribes and knew the language of several tribes. He had fought with other tribes before and was familiar with the routines of the Xianbei people, which could be used to deal with Kuitou.

Compared with other forms of combat, the goal is clear and the means are single. It is nothing more than using crossbows, catapults, bed crossbows, wooden rolling stones, etc. to attack the enemy, or conduct hand-to-hand combat at the city or even counterattacks from the city to ensure that the city is not lost and it is difficult for the enemy to enter the city.

The strength of the nomadic cavalry lies in their mobility, which makes them suitable for hunting on the grassland like wolves, but when they besiege a strong city, they will seem a little incompetent. Just like the Kuitou, who is now leading 80,000 cavalry to attack Guangmu City, although it looks huge, there is still no way to deal with the Han army on the top of the city.

The Xianbei people were not good at making large-scale equipment such as siege, well railing, and trenchers for siege. At most, they would have some ladders. They were used to riding horses around the city walls, that is, using dense arrows to shoot the defenders at the city. However, this method was based on the premise of being able to get close to the city, and it could only work if the guards of the city were weak. Nowadays, the Han soldiers were wearing armor made of fine steel, and even had a straw hat-shaped helmet on their heads. Even if they were hit by an arrow, they would generally be in the limbs and could not easily hurt their lives.

Since Zhao Xing improved the range and power of bows and crossbows, the power of the Han army's long bow has greatly increased. As long as a group of archers are placed on the gates at the top of the city, the enemy under the city will be shot head-on into a hedgehog without waiting for the enemy under the city to approach the gates and walls. Even if the siege party rushed to the range of the bows and arrows they carried regardless of casualties, the sky-burning thunder shot down from the top of the city will endure the Xianbei people.

If you continue to approach the city wall, there will be a short range and can be launched continuously at high speed to wait for the enemy. Even if the siege is brave and fearless, after suffering huge casualties, and climbing up to the city with its equipment to climb the city, the condescending Han army can still drive the enemy down to the city as long as it fights to death. What makes the siege even more painful is that heavy armored infantry used to block the siege is simply invulnerable to swords and guns, and ordinary soldiers cannot resist at all.

After almost ten years of exploration, the Zhenbei Legion can fully utilize the advantages of the terrain, weapons and equipment, and the characteristics of the soldiers guarding the city. If you want to capture a city with strict defense, the siege side will have to pay a casualty price of 1 to 5, or even 1 to 1 to 10. This is a large part of the reason why Xian Yufu led 1,000 county soldiers and some ordinary people to block Zhang Yan's 50,000 Black Mountain Army.

The first round of siege launched by the Xianbei people was ruthlessly counterattacked by the Han army on the city. According to the habit of strengthening training, the soldiers of the Qingxu army shot arrows down the city one after another. For those Xianbei people carrying the ladder and attempting to approach the city wall, they directly used crossbows and catapults. Occasionally, arrows flew from the city below to the city, but their strength was weak and they were easily blocked by the steel armor worn by Qingxu army.

The Xianbei people wore protective gear made of leather, and the protection effect was not a small margin compared to the standard steel armor from the Wohu City Steel Plant. The bows and arrows used by the Xianbei people were made by themselves, and they were difficult to unify in all kinds of ways, and their power was difficult to compare with the standard large bows used by the archers of Zhenbei Army. In order to ensure the safety of the city, the Wohu Weapon Manufacturing Bureau produced and manufactured arrows all year round. The weapons warehouses of each city were filled with commonly used equipment and self-destructed gunpowder. The soldiers guarding the city could care about the consumption of arrows, and once the Xianbei people shot the arrows they carried in the quiver, there was nowhere to replenish them.

To sum up, except for the large number of people, and without any advantage in all aspects, the ending of Kuitou's attack on Guangmu is destined to be tragic for him. As it turns out, the result is indeed so.

The Xianbei people were clamoring at the city, wanting to fight against the Han people. Wu'anguo was confident that he wanted to go down the city to compete with the Xianbei people, but Hu Dingfeng persuaded him. Hu Dingfeng said that when the Han people fought against the generals, they always kept their promises and asked the soldiers to stop the attack. The Xianbei people had no integrity, and they might rush forward to tear the Han people out of the city to tear apart. Wu'anguo must have played gang fights, so he immediately took back his head that poked out of the battlements. He played gang fights with the barbarians under the city, and Wu'anguo had no interest in this.

Of course, the Xianbei people did not have no choice but to use the city. For example, when the descendants of the Xianbei people, the Mongolian cavalry, who used cavalry to attack the city and bury the city, they mainly adopted the practice of throwing soil and burying the city. This practice was to let each cavalry carry a bag of soil and throw it to the city, and then turn around and get the soil. After repeated trips, a slope of the same height as the city wall can be piled up, and the cavalry can directly ride the horses on the top of the city.

However, there are some conditions for this approach. First, the number of people on the siege must be large, and the defending party does not have long-range killing weapons, so they can only watch the siege pile up soil. If Genghis Khan's cavalry wanted to use the method of piled up soil to attack Guangmu, they would still return without success. Because Zhao Xing had already taken this into consideration and took measures to deal with it.

The stone throwing machine and crossbow on the city are prepared for cavalry who dare to pile up soil. The sky-blasting thunder can scare the war horses from the front and blow the enemy into pieces. As for some other inhumane and ruthless means, only the lord guarding the city knows that when the crisis comes, they will naturally be used.

Qing Xubing, who was guarding the city, saw that the Xianbei people under the city were constantly being shot by themselves, and the huge siege had no effect at all, so he became more confident. Some soldiers began to bet to see whose bed crossbow shot far and aim accurately; some soldiers competed to see who shot many Xianbei people to death; some soldiers shouted greetings to the city, and they shouted the Xianbei swear words they had just learned from Hu Dingfeng.

Han soldiers who were not originally lamb-like were immediately demonstrated after Gao Shun's preliminary polishing and bloody tests on the battlefield. Everyone responded to the command of the generals defending the city and fought back against the Xianbei people who attacked the city in an orderly manner. Once casualties occur, medical team members will immediately treat them. Everyone is busy like workers on the assembly line...
Chapter completed!