Chapter 1318: Changing Strategy

An Gui watched helplessly as he approached the big pit in front of him step by step. He couldn't help but feel terrified. He waved his hands and shouted, "Don't push, you're going to fall!" There were too many, and there was a steady stream of people climbing up the ladder behind them. Everything he did was in vain.

"thump"

Finally, An Gui was pushed into the big pit behind the city wall. As soon as he fell off the city wall, An Gui immediately got up from the ground, and then quickly left here using his hands and feet. He knew that if he didn't leave quickly, It is very likely that they will be trampled or crushed to death by these people falling behind.

Outside Baitu City, a group of miscellaneous generals looked at the ongoing battle with joy. Once one city wall was breached, there would soon be a second and third one. As expected, progress was soon made at the other four gaps in the city walls, and they were all attacked one after another.

"Great, we've all attacked!"

"Give the order and ask the cavalry to be ready. As soon as the city gate is opened, they will rush into the city immediately. No one of the Tang troops inside can be spared. Also, send 10,000 cavalry into two teams and send them to the north and south directions respectively. Get ready to chase the escaping Tang Army cavalry!" Hu Chuquan ordered vigorously;

Immediately, a tribal general followed his request, and then everyone looked eagerly at the direction of the city gate, hoping to see the city gate open as soon as possible.

But what surprised everyone was that although soldiers continued to pour in from several gaps in the city wall, and killing cries kept ringing in the city, the city gate was never opened.

The people outside the city finally discovered this anomaly, and they all stared blankly, not knowing what was going on inside the city.

At this time, Baitu City had turned into a hell of Shura. Xu Huang stood on the city tower and watched coldly as those miscellaneous Hu soldiers were pushed down like dumplings by his own people and fell into several large pits in the city. There are more and more enemy troops in the pit, and the middle and low-level generals among them are already organizing their soldiers to prepare ways to escape.

Xu Huang sneered: "A turtle in a jar, do you still want to escape?"

After saying that, he looked at the gaps in several other locations. Standing on the city tower, he could basically see the situation in several places. Now there were a large number of enemy troops in each pit. Xu Huang knew that the time was ripe, so he turned around and ordered: "Give me the order, the crossbowmen will start attacking the enemy in the pit!"

Following Xu Huang's order, the thousands of soldiers, crossbowmen and archers who had been hiding behind the parapets of several large pits all stood up one after another. Under the general's order, they poured out their hands towards the enemy troops surrounding the pits. of arrows.

"Buzzing..."

"Whizzing……"

"ah……"

In several deep pits, screams suddenly sounded one after another, and hundreds of soldiers fell to the ground in the dense rain of arrows. On the city wall, soldiers from the coalition army continued to crowd onto the city wall.

After several rounds of arrow rain, there were no coalition soldiers left standing in several deep pits. There were only wailing wounded soldiers and a forest of arrows all over the ground.

Outside the city, at the center of the coalition forces, they saw that the nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses they had invested were like mud oxen sinking into the sea, disappearing without a trace. The generals were dumbfounded. After a while, they finally sent someone to pick up a few who had the chance to escape. Soldiers, only then did they know what happened behind the city wall.

The 50,000-strong army had only attacked for one round, but already there were only more than 30,000 left, and the rest of the troops were completely exhausted. This result made everyone tremble with fear.

Chu Lian Si and Peng Yang looked at each other and saw a hint of fear in each other's eyes. An adult from a small tribe even said: "The Tang army is invincible. How about we just retreat?" ?”

"No!" Huchuquan shouted loudly;

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Hu Chuquan said: "We must not retreat at this time. We still have more than 30,000 people.

If they form a group, they can still fight against the Tang army. If they retreat, they can be easily defeated by the Tang army one by one. There are still thousands of elites in my camp. It only takes two days to arrive and join forces. Marquis Gudu, immediately send someone back to pass the order, asking them to leave only a thousand soldiers and horses to defend the old camp, and all the rest. Come and join us. "

Xu Pu Gu Duhou was stunned and was about to retort, but Hu Chuquan reached out to stop him: "Go, if we can't drive the Tang army out this time, you and I will both die without a burial place."

Hearing this, Marquis Xupugu Du also understood that what Huchuquan said was true. He quickly clasped his fists and accepted the promise, then turned around and left to arrange for someone to return to the old camp to deliver the order.

Seeing Lord Xupugu leave, Huchuquan said to the others: "Everyone, if you don't want to die and destroy your clan, then just fight to the death."

Seeing this situation, Lian Si and Peng Yang understood that what Hu Chuquan said was true. After gritting their teeth and thinking for a moment, they all sent people back to their old camps and mobilized more troops to join the army. , ready to accomplish all his achievements in one battle.

"Khanyu Huchuquan, what are we going to do next?" After arranging the personnel to return to the old camp to mobilize troops, Chulian Si looked at Huchuquan again and asked;

"Next, we will continue to attack the city. Since the Tang army has set traps at those gaps, we will not attack from those places, but directly attack their city gates. Anyway, our reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, and the number of soldiers and horses will increase by then." Huochuquan pointed at the city gate with his whip and said to everyone with gritted teeth.

"No," Peng Yang added on the side: "We still have to continue to attack those gaps, but after we attack, we will not go directly into the city, but use ladders to attack the broken walls on both sides. After occupying the entire city wall, we will open the city gate. In this way, no matter what conspiracy the Tang army has, it will be useless."

"That's right." Everyone was excited when they heard it.

"Woo..."

"Woo...Woo..."

A moment later, the attack horn of the coalition army's central army sounded again, and thousands of coalition soldiers, carrying more siege ladders, launched another attack in the direction of the city wall.

The battle lasted until it was almost dark, and the coalition forces withdrew at the sound of trumpets. As expected, the coalition forces were not able to successfully capture the city wall. However, in the two rounds of attacks in the afternoon, the losses of the coalition soldiers were only a few thousand, far less than the losses in the first round. Moreover, although they were unable to capture the city wall, they also caused considerable losses to the soldiers defending the city, especially the large number of cavalry who were constantly firing horse archers around the city wall, causing many casualties among the Tang army soldiers defending the city.