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Chapter 1548 Battle at Saiyin Mountain (4)

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    "This group of barbarians have a very strong learning ability. If they are asked to defend the small city of Saiyin, even a Sui general who is good at defense may not be able to do better than them. The barbarians are inherently  He is good at riding and shooting, but if he learns how to defend and attack the city, it will be even more terrifying. If this barbarian group is not destroyed, it will become a big trouble in the future!"

    The Tongluo tribe has been Sinicized and has absorbed talents from the Han region. It is no longer completely different from other Hu people. In addition to field warfare, they are also very capable of defending cities.

    Zhang Wenyuan saw the threat from the Tongluo tribe, so he was even more eager to eliminate the opponent.

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    However, facing Saiyin Mountain City surrounded by cliffs, there are really not many ways to attack.  It is nothing more than a strong attack or a surprise attack. A strong attack will not succeed, and a surprise move will not have much effect.

    There are springs on the mountain, so the Sui army can cut off the water source for the soldiers of the Tongluo tribe.

    Although Zhang Wenyuan only had 90,000 troops in his hands, he did not disperse the attack from all directions. He just concentrated the troops on the front, which was convenient for defense. At the same time, Zhang Wenyuan also hoped that the Tongluo tribe would choose to break out.  When the time comes, the other party will support the old and the young. Once they leave Saiyin Mountain City, they will be a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

    After the frontal attack failed, Zhang Wenyuan prepared a step-by-step attack.

    After all, the Tongluo tribe is a grassland tribe. Even if they are good at defense, they can be better than the Goguryeo people on the battlefield of Liaodong mountain city. They have experienced the steep terrain of Liaodong mountain city.

    Zhang Wenyuan decided to attack the city in Nangtu.  After all, the Sui army was superior in military strength and could not break the city purely by using military tactics and skills. It was better to break it with force.  By simply building mountains of earth until a slope is formed that leads directly to the top of the city wall, the time to destroy the city can be controlled by one's side.

    So Zhang Wenyuan ordered the army to dig soil in Guannan.

    When it came time to attack, the Sui army used catapults, crossbows and other equipment to suppress the enemy's bows and arrows on the city top.  The accompanying troops and the Tongluo herdsmen captured along the way were driven towards the city wall carrying sandbags.

    The front of Guancheng is not wide, and it was quickly filled with sandbags, forming a small mountain of earth.

    Seeing this, Tongluo Shilou was shocked. He ordered his soldiers to fight back. However, the catapults and bows and arrows of the Sui army were too sharp, and the soldiers on the suppressed city could not raise their heads at all.

    Seeing that the mountains outside the pass are getting higher and higher, Nanguan is already surrounded by people.

    The Tongluo tribe has been operating Saiyin Mountain City for many years. In addition to building a strong and tall city wall, it also prepared a large amount of defensive materials.  Over the years, Tong Luo Xie also had a shadow in his heart, fearing that the city's defenses would not be strong and that supplies would not be sufficient, so he ordered Fayan to build the city walls as much as possible, repair defenses, and reserve supplies.

    Fa Yan prepared a large number of rough and hard logs at the four checkpoints.  These logs can be used as defensive weapons such as rolling logs and mace, and can also be used to build a temporary defense line when the city wall is destroyed.

    At this time, Luo Duoer and Luo Duoer heard that Nanguan was in serious trouble, so they also came to Nanguan to provide support.  She stood at the critical moment and saw the Sui army under the city braving the rain of arrows and constantly building up the mountains, and she was also worried.  Suddenly she saw a large number of logs in Guanzhong, and her heart moved, so she ordered, "The enemy will pile up and I will pile up too. The enemy will build a mountain of earth with earth under the city, and our army will use wood to build a wall on the city wall so that the mountain of earth will never be higher than the wall of Guanzhong."

    It has to be said that although the daughter¡¯s out-of-the-box thinking is often nonsense, when it comes to strong women, it may play a huge role.

    If it were anywhere else, it would be impossible to build a city. It would be impossible to build a city with just a pile of wood. However, there are mountains on both sides of Nanguan Pass and the terrain is narrow. The Guan Wall is very spacious because of the lack of city building capabilities of the Tongluo tribe.  It's more than ten feet wide, and you can run a horse on it.

    Such terrain is naturally suitable for raising the city.

    The Tongluo tribe did not use bricks and stones, but directly built the city wall with huge wood on the city wall.

    As the city wall grew taller, Sui soldiers had to bring more soil than before to slightly increase the height of the mountain.  As for the wooden city tower, due to its structural advantages and solid wall foundation, it can easily be built up to two or three floors. If it is stronger, it can directly double the height of the city wall.

    Although the city wall built by Tongluobu is not very good, it is barely usable.

    The Tongluo tribe was not good at architecture, but Tongluo Xie also wanted to imitate the Han people in building palaces in the city, so they mostly used wood to build houses.  Moreover, the Tongluo tribe built hundreds of beacon towers on the grassland, all of which were built with a mixture of wood and soil. The Tongluo tribe also had experience.

    So from the outside of the Nanguan city wall, Tongluo tribe suddenly built another city wall of almost two feet. Adding the original city wall, the city wall was already close to five feet high.

    In this era, such a height of the city wall is almost impossible to break through.

    The city wall grew taller quickly, making it easy for the soldiers transporting earth to feel "desperate".  Looking at the distant city wall, countless people fell into worry.

      Zhang Wenyuan was surprised when he saw this scene, but he did not panic.  After careful consideration, he discovered the flaw in the opponent's wall.  These city walls were temporarily built and mostly made of logs and mud. They were not strong enough to withstand high-density bombardment.

    So Zhang Wenyuan ordered all the catapults and ballistas in the army to bombard the opponent's newly built wooden city wall.

    As Zhang Wenyuan expected, the quality of these newly built city walls was average, and many places were destroyed.

    Seeing this, Tongluo Duoer was not discouraged. She ordered the soldiers to continue repairing the city wall while dumping soil into the gaps in the city wall.  At the same time, the base is widened to enhance the stability of the wooden city wall.

    After that, the Sui army's catapults bombarded the city wall again, but they could not damage the city wall.

    Zhang Wenyuan ordered rockets to be fired at the city wall in an attempt to cause a fire at the top of the city. However, in order to prevent the wooden city wall from being burned by Sui army rockets, Luo Duoer had already covered it with a thick layer of cowhide.

    Despite repeated attacks by the Sui army, the wooden city wall remained standing.

    The subordinate army did not have the fighting spirit of the Sui army. Seeing that the attack was fruitless, its morale dropped at a visible speed.

    Zhang Wenyuan knew that he could not make the soldiers despair, otherwise they would easily mutiny, so he stopped building soil and prepared to find another way.

    Someone suggested that Zhang Wenyuan dig a tunnel to the city.  But Zhang Wenyuan observed it for a long time and finally rejected this suggestion.

    The walls of the Tongluo tribe are all built against Saiyin Mountain. The ground stone is so hard that it cannot be dug through with ordinary tools.  If we wanted to hide it from the city, we would have to start digging from two or three miles away. It would take a long time and it would be impossible.

    Some people also suggested using barbarian ants to attack the city. Anyway, they have so many barbarians in their hands, and they will only consume them.  As long as Saiyin Mountain City can hold on, so can they.

    Zhang Wenyuan still disagrees.  There is no problem in consuming the barbarians to a certain extent, but it would be a foolish act to let the barbarians die in vain.  Hu people are not fools, so how can they be willing to die in vain?  Moreover, there are so many barbarians in the army. Once chaos breaks out, it is easy to get burned.

    ¡°And the Hu people are also the Sui army now. Huang Mingyuan has been creating an atmosphere of great unity. This kind of thing cannot mess up Huang Mingyuan¡¯s plan.

    So there was no way around it, and the Sui army's attack had to come to a standstill.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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