Luo Yu took a bite of the pot helmet and drank the mutton soup. It was only February, and wanting to eat green leafy vegetables was simply a delusion in this era. When he came back from the expedition, he would find a place to build a greenhouse and try it. There should be a hot spring in Chang'an.

The cavalry's actions are always so fast and fierce. Facing the rising sun, on the official road from Changle to Yuncheng, dust is flying. The hoofbeats and different screams of more than 20,000 war horses startle birds and beasts to flee in all directions. The camp is trapped in the ground.

The road has been smoothed out a long time ago. The infantry followed the cavalry, followed by Li Xiuning's Chinese army, and then various small units. This time it was a bit special. Civilians were not used to transport supplies. Firstly, there was not enough time, and secondly, there was not enough time.

There were many civilians available, and wars were going on all over the country. Yang Guang alone took away more than one million civilians to transport military supplies.

Therefore, everything can only be solved by himself. Luo Yu only allocated 10,000 sergeants of various types to the logistics operation of grain and various military supplies. As time goes by, the army will consume more and more things, and then there will be no need

There are so many people.

Jiezhou Town has long been occupied by Dou's army. This is the south gate of Yuncheng. Because Shanxi has been in war all year round, the city wall of this town is very high. The iron gate is about one foot high, and there are nails two inches long on it.

It is like a structure, densely covered with iron gates, and a moat about two feet wide. There is only a two-finger-wide protrusion on the side of the city wall. If you want to attack the city, you can only fill in the moat or lower the suspension bridge, and then open the city gate.

.It is still the dry season and there are no rolling waves, but it is still a bit difficult to cross the river and break through.

The top of the city wall is covered with archers. There are more than a dozen arched cabins where the powerful eight-oxen crossbows should be placed. The long arrows with thick arms can shoot three hundred steps or even further with the blessing of the mechanism. The human body is in it.

In front of you, like tofu, there is another scarier thing about this thing. If you replace it with a small siege crossbow, it will cause greater damage. Fortunately, the siege crossbow has no accuracy and is usually nailed directly to the city wall.

Go up, so that our soldiers can climb up the city wall along the siege crossbow nailed to the wall and seize control of the city gate.

This thing is relatively bulky, requires a lot of parts to assemble, and is very complicated. Today's smelting technology is far from reaching the level of steel refining. The most important steel spring mechanism will break after being used for a long time. This may be the reason why the Eight Bull Crossbow

There is no reason to use it all over the sky. Otherwise, with all the equipment, why fight?

Luo Yu kept translating the intelligence sent by the special forces and gave the useful information to Li Xiuning for her to make decisions. There was such a big movement along the way, but Dou Jun did not send troops to intercept and harass. It turned out that the troops in the direction of Jincheng had been led by Zhao Kuangyin.

They were surrounded and attacking day and night. Li Yuan also sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to Linfen to station outside the city, ready to attack the city at any time.

These circumstances made Dou Jiande afraid to divide his troops and go out again. Now he finally knew about the so-called three-thirds of power. When Dou Jiande raised his army, he had to help the gentry of Linfen and Jincheng. In order to win over people's hearts, he had to give them part of the power. Of course, there were also

There are elements of threat and compromise in it. If politics is not played well, there will be no place to die.

There is also good news. The guard general of Jiezhou, whose surname is Yuchi, whose single name is Gong and whose given name is Jingde, is a famous general in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He made great contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. This time he is in the hands of Luo Yu. I don’t know if he can be conquered.

The main generals of the cavalry are Li Xiaogong and Yue Yun, with ten generals and thirty squads, each with one thousand cavalry. Because Xue Li took away five thousand cavalry, there are now only twenty-five squads.

When Li Xiuning and Luo Yu arrived in front of the army, hundreds of sergeants in the camp were holding iron shields and dumping earth into the moat in the face of Dou's army's arrows. From time to time, some unlucky ones were hit by random arrows and lost their lives.

Protected by an iron shield, he was shot into a hedgehog in just one breath.

Four hundred steps is theoretically safe in this era, but it is not absolute. A feather crossbow came towards Li Xiuning with a sound of breaking through the air. It was an elongated thumb-thick feather arrow. With the blessing of the Eight Bull Crossbow,

Immediately he arrived in front of Li Xiuning.

A cry of pain echoed through the battlefield. Luo Yu turned around and saw that Li Xiuning had fallen off the horse. There was no blood on her body. There was a guard holding a shield lying next to her. The feather arrow had been halfway into the iron shield, and the tail of the arrow was still there.

It was vibrating, and the sergeant was twitching, vomiting blood from his mouth, and dying at the sight.

Everyone was shocked and hurriedly surrounded Li Xiuning and retreated. The sergeant who blocked the arrow was also taken away. Li Xiaogong hurriedly sent an order to Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
Chapter completed!