Chapter 1393: Beginning the Siege

"Three Kingdoms Online Game: The Battle of Princes ()"

The next morning, the Xianbei army, which had rested overnight, began to attack Chifeng City. What relieved Wang Men was that although the Xianbei army had a large number of people, they had no siege equipment. The only thing they had was some ordinary siege ladders.

Although Chifeng City is located at the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain, the city wall is basically a board-built wall. Because Gongsun Zan did not give Wang Men enough money and food, Wang Men only covered the inner city wall with bluestone and raised it in a few years. Especially after the Xianbei army attacked the city a few years ago, Wang Men deliberately raised the inner city wall by three feet.

On the north city wall, Wang Men led everyone to stand on the tower, watching the Xianbei army in the north slowly approaching. Unlike yesterday, the Xianbei today were obviously prepared. Some of the soldiers rode on war horses, but carried cloth bags filled with soil to fill the trenches, and some soldiers carried bows and arrows to provide cover for the soldiers filling the trenches.

Further away, some soldiers dismounted and lined up behind the trench-filling team. Each team held a scimitar in their right hand, and a siege ladder was placed next to their left foot.

"Woo woo woo!..."

As the horns sounded, tens of thousands of Xianbei soldiers roared together, and nearly a thousand soldiers carrying soil to fill the trench rode on war horses, screaming and rushing out, carrying cloth bags full of soil, and rushed to the moat in front of the city wall.

When they were still 20 or 30 steps away from the moat, they turned their horses' heads, and the war horses passed by the edge of the moat like a boomerang. Almost as the war horses turned around and cut the edge, the cloth bags in the knights' hands were thrown out by them, and after flying a few steps, they fell into the moat.

Just when the Xianbei cavalry was about to approach the range of the arrows on the top of the city, with the order of the city guard, hundreds of archers who had been prepared on the top of the city released their bowstrings. With a buzzing sound, hundreds of arrows flew away from the top of the city and rushed towards the Xianbei cavalry in front.

Unfortunately, there were too few archers on the top of the city. Only a few hundred people were almost a drop in the bucket in the face of the fast-running Xianbei cavalry. After a round of arrows fell, only twenty Xianbei cavalry were shot and fell off their horses. Fortunately, several Xianbei cavalry lost their horses and fell down. Those who reacted quickly rolled to the side and avoided being trampled by the war horses behind them. Those who were unlucky were directly stepped on by the cavalry behind them.

Looking at the front, although Wang Men had been prepared in his heart, he could not help but feel disappointed. There was no way. There were only 7,000 troops in total, including 1,000 cavalry, who were also the most elite soldiers and horses beside him, and they were now resting in the city.

As for the remaining 6,000 soldiers, there were only 1,000 veteran soldiers, and less than 500 archers. Even with the newly recruited soldiers, there were only a few hundred people distributed on the four walls. The enemy's main attack on the northern wall had only more than 400 people.

"Come on, pass the order down, the archers stop shooting, let the veterans shoot directly, and the rest of the people rest on the side, and wait for the ants to attack the city, and then prepare for battle." Without thinking much, Wang Men issued an order that surprised everyone.

"Yes!" Soon, several messengers left the tower and sent orders to the defensive generals on each wall.

Unlike the disappointment of Wang Men's generals, the Xianbei generals outside the city were very happy. Everyone saw the situation on the top of the city just now. There were only a few hundred arrows shot out of the city. It seems that the defense in the city is really empty as Jin Muzhen said. Just increase the intensity of the attack, I believe it will take a few days to break into the city.

When they thought of the gold, silver and countless Han women, all the Xianbei generals were excited.

"General Zuo, it seems that there are not many soldiers in the city. In my opinion, it is better to push the army and attack with all our strength!" Qifu Luling asked for a fight.

Morigen watched the cavalrymen who were filling the moat rushing towards the moat in batches. Although they lost dozens of cavalrymen every time,

this loss was just a drop in the bucket compared to the 50,000 cavalrymen he led.

However, even so, facing Qifu Luling's request for a fight, he still rationally refused.

"No, today is just the first day of the war. Although it seems that there are not many archers on the city wall now, it can consume more arrows and soldiers of the Han army, so that fewer warriors will be sacrificed when the attack comes. Just like hunting wolves on the grassland, smart hunters always wait until the wolves are tired before they attack."

"But, the army of Zuo Xian Wang will arrive soon...." Qifu Luling said anxiously after hearing this;

Morigen stretched out his hand to stop his topic: "Don't worry, the army of Zuo Xian Wang and the old camp will not arrive so quickly. It will take at least ten days to travel. Can't we capture this city in these ten days?"

"Yes!" Qifu Luling had no choice but to bow his head and accept the order.

The Qifu tribe was one of the several large tribes of the Eastern Xianbei. Qifu Luling's sister was Morigen's wife. Therefore, the loyalty of the Qifu tribe to Morigen was second only to the tribes directly under Morigen. Qifu Luling would not directly refute Morigen's orders.

"Jin Muzhen, have the scouts in the south of Chifeng City been sent out?" Seeing that Qifu Luling stopped talking, Morigen turned his head and looked at Jin Muzhen.

"Please rest assured, General Zuo. My third brother has already set out with a thousand elite cavalrymen an hour ago. If there is any news of reinforcements in the south, they will definitely send someone to warn you immediately."

"Very good," Morigen nodded, and continued to watch the reaction on the top of the city wall. Seeing that the defenders in the city had even stopped shooting, he quickly ordered: "Pass the order down, add 2,000 people to fill the trenches. The moat must be blocked before noon today, and the siege will begin in the afternoon."

Soon, another 2,000 cavalrymen crossed the formation and headed towards the moat with cloth bags on their backs.

At noon, the moats on the north and west sides of Chifeng City were finally blocked by the Xianbei cavalry, who filled several siege passages on the moat.

With Morigen's order, the 1,000 Xianbei soldiers who had been prepared long ago, carrying siege ladders in one hand and scimitars in the other, rushed towards the city wall.

The most tragic ant siege in the siege finally kicked off.

"Pass the order, all archers, aim fifty steps ahead, shoot upwards, and get ready."

"Draw the bow!"

"Stretch the string!"

"Ready! Shoot!"

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

"Swish swish swish!"

"Spearmen, swordmen and shieldmen, get ready for battle!"

"Prepare the long forks, the Xianbei dogs' siege ladders are coming up soon!"

With waves of shouts, teams of soldiers began to prepare on the top of the city. Close combat was about to begin.