"Bang", with a loud bang, a long arm of Xifan throwing car was lifted up high, and the huge stones threw hit the roof of the west gate of Wuyuan, and then broke through the wall, and the thick smoke and debris of wooden beams and bricks poured out.

"Is anyone injured?" Wu You, the head of the West Gate Pavilion in Yanzhou City who was struggling to get up behind the horse's wall, looked around at the brokenness of the surrounding city gate tower and shouted loudly.

The pavilion chief is a small official in charge of access control and defense work in each city gate, and is a role that is mixed with other people.

"Xiao Qi and Wenlang are both dead. Ju Wu and Jiang Sheng are seriously injured. Come quickly, Chief Wu Ting." In the collapse of the beams of the building, several soldiers in black pulled out two bloody corpses, dragged out two wounded men who were groaning and kept moaning, and said to Wu You.

Because Wu You knew some medical skills, he also served as a pharmacist in the army while guarding the city gate.

"Nuqiong!" Wu You turned around and shouted.

A woman with a rosy face and a braided braid in Xifan style immediately climbed up along the way behind the city wall, carrying a medicine bag behind her back, then knelt in the city wall with Wu You, cut the linen and applied ointment to bandage the injured soldiers Ju Wu and Jiang Sheng.

Her name is Nuqiong. When Xifan attacked Yanzhou ten years ago, she was abandoned by Baichi after retreating. Later, she was taken in by the pavilion chief Wu You, who became his woman and gave birth to two sons for him.

At the time when the foreign soldiers and the Tang soldiers at the city were fighting fiercely, no one regarded Nu Qiong as an outsider or even an enemy. He just regarded her as the wife of Chief Wu Ting. After she helped Ju Wu and Jiang Sheng treat the wounds, she gradually helped all the injured soldiers behind the entire horse-faced wall to apply medicine.

At this time, a strange and dense vibration came from the sky. All the guards at the Ximen of Yanzhou looked up: the arrow feathers shot by the Xifan people under the city blocked the sun like locusts, and were covered in darkness, crossing the entire sky and pouring down.

Then, arrows shot into the windows of the building, the roof, the plaques raised by the soldiers, and the broken pheasants. Countless arrows either fell or bent or jumped. The light of the cluster head flashed everywhere, soaked with the breath of death.

"More people are injured again, Nuqiong come, Nuqiong come!" Wu You's shouting sounded.

The air was tense and as if it was frozen: the archery and stone throwing stopped at this time. The soldiers siege were wearing heavy armor, with only two eyes exposed on their heads, holding a copper shield with embroidered patterns in one hand, and an anchor axe and a broad sword in the other hand. With the shrill sound of trumpets, they stepped on the cloud beams that were lying on the top of the city and gradually climbed up.

Under it, more foreign soldiers and Dangxiang minion soldiers protected the "donkey carts" that attacked the city. The roof of this vehicle raised high like a donkey's head and tilted to both sides. The torches thrown by the Tang army landed on it and slid down one after another. The four wooden wheels driven by the drive were removed under the shed, and there was also a huge iron-packed wood hanging inside to hit the city wall and cause it to collapse.

In addition to the donkey cart, the foreign soldiers also had "goose carts" to attack the city. The vehicles were covered with camel skins offered by the Dangxiang. They were watered and moistened, and the fire could not be burned at all. They raised a sharp shovel on their heads like gooses to reach the city and completely digging the rammed earth walls.

"Fanzi is here to kill him!"

The head of the Ximen City in Yanzhou was filled with angry shouts of killing. The Tang soldiers guarding the city formed a decisive defense line along the battlements. They either raised stones and rolled wood, held powerful crossbows, smashed and shot down, and some bravely erected iron forks or crutches to knock down the ladders raised by Xifan, and stabbed the heavily armored soldiers on the ladder and pulled them down...

Then the city wall suddenly trembled, and people could feel the dull impact on it.

"Fanzi used a donkey cart to destroy my city wall." Many people shouted.

"Can't burn it." The Tang soldiers who threw down the torch but found that it was ineffective against the donkey cart were incomprehensible.

The pavilion chief Wu You and his wife Nu Qiong were unaware of the arrow feathers flying over their heads, and were still helping the injured people lying everywhere.

In the city, more than a thousand women, children, monks, nuns, and merchants were kneeling in front of the City God Temple, praying hard, hoping that Yanzhou City could escape this time.

"The envoy is here!" Such shouts followed by such shouts. Du Xiquan, the governor of Yanzhou, braved the rain of arrows, climbed to the Ximen City, looked at the equipment and formations of Xifan's attack on the city below, and then ordered the people next to him, "Quickly take the swallowtail torch reserved in the Armor Tower and burn Fanzi's donkey cart."

Soon, the swallowtail torch was transported to the head of Ximen City. On its top was a huge iron cone, with stacks of straw ropes coiled around it, shaped like a swallowtail, and the straw ropes were soaked with flammable tincture oil.

"Let me go!" Du Xiquan shouted vigorously.

The simple orange slugs on the city wall flipped with a neat sound, falling down one by one, "bang", sparks spread out under the city one by one - the swallowtail torch was penetrated with a sharp iron cone through the roof of Xifan donkey cart, unable to be pulled out, and the donkey cart was smashed to a point of falling a little. Then the straw rope quickly spreads flames in the "donkey cart", pushing the carts that were mostly wearing sheepskin coats and burned to fire. Some fell into the cart and were burned into coke, while others crawled out of the underside of the cart and rolled on the ground.

Several donkey carts and goose carts caught fire, and the smoke rose higher and higher under the city, covering the sky of Yanzhou City. The foreign soldiers who failed to siege this time retreated like a tide and continued to use the siege to throw huge rocks, bombarding and weakening the defense of Yanzhou City.

At dusk, Du Xiquan still insisted on staying behind Ximen City and urged the soldiers to do their best to repair the city defense. He asked the men and women and children in the city to come to the city to help defend.

"Teacher Wu, thank you for your hard work!" When the pavilion leader Wu You walked towards the governor Du Xiquan with blood, Du held his hands gratefully, "There are many living people in the pavilion. After the defeat and departure of the Fan army this time, he will definitely report your merits to the court and recommend you to the Imperial Medical Office in the capital."

"Empress, I have been in Yanzhou for half my life, just to protect the people from being poisoned by the sons, and not to enter the capital to show their talents." Wu You answered hurriedly.

"It should be." Then Du Xi leaned against the railings of the looking building and spoke to the soldiers and people guarding the city walls, "The imperial army is about to cross Qinggang Ridge soon, and we will be saved in Yanzhou City!"

"Long live!" Happiness and hope appeared on everyone's faces.

At this time, Nuqiong looked at the Western Fan army like the sea outside the city. Ma Chongying's flag was clearly visible. The red lantern tied to it was still shaking. Looking at the rising night, she felt a terrifying feeling, and her eyebrows were locked in melancholy.

After nightfall, Du Xiquan asked one-fifth of the soldiers to stay in the Ximen security, and the rest returned to the military hall to rest, because the energy of the Xifan people was limited and it was impossible to pull the cannons day and night.
Chapter completed!