Black Fairy, the master is a female ghost

The Northern Barbarian cavalry on the other side were afraid of falling into a trap, so they stopped chasing and quickly turned back to join the main army.

Seeing that the enemy had contracted their formation, the Eastern Yan cavalry stopped harassing them and quickly left.

In the wilderness, the soldiers of Dong Yan had disappeared without a trace.

The Northern Barbarian General asked everyone to form a team and take inventory.

Now there are still 15,000 usable war horses and 190,000 soldiers.

In this way, even though they lost many horses and most of their cavalry, their strength was still strong.

After the inventory was completed, the Northern Barbarian Army moved forward, cleared the obstacles, and continued westward to Beishan City.

After the Northern Barbarian army left, Eastern Yan also assembled its army of more than 50,000 men and followed them 30 miles behind.

Two days later, the 190,000-strong Northern Barbarian army finally arrived outside Beishan City.

But what they saw was a wooden wall that stretched for miles.

The wooden wall is slanted, connecting to the Beishan City wall in the north and the sluice gate in the south.

If the Northern Barbarians want to take back the sluice gate, they must tear down this wall.

The wall is twelve feet high, covering the rear.

Therefore, the Northern Barbarian soldiers could not see what was behind the wall at all.

The general watched for a while, wondering what the people of Dong Yan were up to.

Can building a wooden wall several miles long stop the soldiers?

He gave the order: "Ten thousand infantrymen, march out and tear down the wall."

At the command, a phalanx of Northern Barbarian infantry stepped out of the formation, holding shields in their left hands and swords in their right hands, and walked towards the inexplicable wooden wall.

A quarter of an hour later, the infantry phalanx was only twenty steps away from the wooden wall.

On the wooden wall, about five feet from the ground, small pieces of wood suddenly fell off, revealing a row of densely packed square holes.

A moment later, the arrow shot out from the square hole.

The Northern Barbarian infantry phalanx was caught off guard and was immediately enveloped in a hail of arrows.

In the back, the Northern Barbarian general's eyes widened.

He hurriedly ordered: "Let the infantry retreat, catapults."

With a burst of urgent horns, the northern barbarians retreated in a panic, leaving behind thousands of corpses of their soldiers.

The northern barbarians' catapults quickly moved out, arrived in front of the formation, aimed at the wooden wall, and threw heavy stones out.

This wooden wall is actually the chariot designed by Lu Xunhuan. Countless chariots are spliced ​​together to form a long wooden wall.

Each of the panels on the outside of the chariot is five inches thick, and the rear is made of strong wood to form a bracket for firm support.

From the opposite side, it's just a wall.

But in the rear, each chariot is divided into two layers, upper and lower.

As long as the enemy does not rush to the chariot, no one will go to the upper level.

The floor that separates the upper and lower floors has thick horizontal beams underneath and is covered with thick wooden boards above.

When the enemy's catapult hit the floor, it landed on the floor. Although it was heavy, it was difficult to break through.

The soldiers hid below.

Lu Xunhuan's design imitates the anti-shell design in tunnels in modern warfare.

As long as the design is reasonable, even artillery shells cannot penetrate it, let alone stones.

After the Northern Barbarians' catapults smashed the wooden wall for a while, only a few parts of it were damaged, while the vast majority of it remained intact.

Of course, many stones also hit the back of the wooden wall.

The northern barbarians did not know whether there were large-scale casualties among the Eastern Yan soldiers.

It is conceivable that so many heavy stones falling on them would have caused heavy casualties among the soldiers of Eastern Yan.

After the catapults had been pounding for a quarter of an hour, the Northern Barbarian general gave another order: "No more probing, charge with all your forces."

At the command, more than 180,000 soldiers in the army rushed towards the wooden wall like a tide.

When the soldiers in front ran to a distance of twenty steps behind the wooden wall, the merciless rain of arrows came again.

Behind the chariot, under the floor, the archers were also divided into three rows.

Everyone took turns shooting, and the sky was filled with arrows, covering the entire sky and the sun, like a violent storm.

When the general saw this, his brows furrowed.

But if we don’t charge forward and break through the wooden wall, what’s the point of retreating?

There are pursuers behind us.

So, despite the heavy casualties, he still ordered his soldiers to charge continuously.

In Beishan City, on the city wall, the guarding general looked at the dense enemy troops like a tide below, and his scalp went numb with fear.

Fortunately, so many enemy troops did not attack the city, but instead attacked the wooden wall.

Behind the wooden wall, the density of arrows was not as high as before.

The enemy troops were too numerous. Although the wooden wall was strong, the soldiers had limited arrows.

When we set out, each person only carried 100 sticks.

By now, I'm afraid it has been almost consumed.

The general hurriedly ordered: "Wave the flag to signal them to use the catapults."

On the city wall, some soldiers obeyed the order and quickly waved flags downwards.

Outside the city, a hundred feet behind the wooden wall, there were eighteen catapults, which were captured from the northern barbarians after the city was captured.

Seeing the command flags waving on the city wall, everyone hurriedly raised the catapults from the riverside and pushed them forward with all their might.

As for the distance of pushing, everyone looks at the flag signals.

A quarter of an hour later, the Northern Barbarian soldiers came forward one after another, and countless soldiers had rushed to the front of the wooden wall.

They used siege ladders here and placed them on top of the wooden wall.

Under the floor, the archers were still shooting.

On the top of the floor, the spearmen who had been resting quickly climbed up, with their long hair erect, and stabbed the enemy soldiers who were coming up on the ladders.

In a blink of an eye, the fight on the wooden wall became intense.

And in the rear, the catapult finally arrived.

Everyone quickly put up bundles of wood, and at the command, they all threw them out.

Countless pieces of wood fell from the sky. Although they were not as powerful as stones, they still injured many people in the enemy's rear.

After the eighteen catapults each threw firewood three times quickly, they finally threw a fireball.

Above the sky, burning fireballs drew parabolas and fell into the enemy group.

After the fireball hit the ground, it exploded, killing and wounding many enemy soldiers. Sparks burst and burned everywhere.

After several rounds of continuous projection, the exploding fireballs ignited the firewood thrown previously.

The enemy's position was filled with burning fires.

But the catapult did not stop and was still throwing firewood madly.

In order to build chariots, everyone cut down countless trees and there was plenty of firewood.

At this time, there were blazing flames everywhere on the opposite side. The soldiers just had to keep throwing firewood over, just like constantly adding firewood to the furnace, and the fire would never go out.

Behind the Northern Barbarian Army, Lu Xunhuan and Yan Bei led their soldiers and were only five miles away from the enemy.

There were raging flames and billowing smoke ahead, and the battle was in full swing.

Lu Xunhuan ordered, "Cavalry, attack left and right to harass the enemy's flanks."

"One column of infantry, with spears forward, in formation. One column of archers, in formation, following behind the infantry."

"Maintain a formation of one row of infantry and one row of archers."

"Second column, follow."

"All troops, run forward and quickly approach the enemy's rear."

"If the enemy attacks, immediately stop advancing, maintain a defensive formation, and shoot the enemy."

"If any infantrymen from the first column are killed, the second column's infantrymen will immediately replace them."

The general of the Northern Barbarian Army watched the front position turn into a sea of ​​fire and countless of his soldiers were killed or wounded, and his eyes turned red.

But at least there were many people, and the two sides were fighting fiercely in front of the wooden wall.

He believed that he could break through the wooden wall and seize the sluice gate.

But suddenly, a soldier reported: "Report, the pursuers behind are advancing quickly and charging towards our army."

The general turned around and gave the order: "They don't have any barricades now, right? Cavalry, kill them."

In the rear, the Eastern Yan infantry and archers were running forward in formation.

The cavalry suddenly rushed out from the enemy's formation.

Although the enemy cavalry suffered heavy losses, there were still 15,000 of them, and when they charged, they could cover the mountains and plains.

A column of infantry hurriedly stopped, and all of them tightened their forward and backward bow stances, with their spears pointing forward in unison, and suddenly the spears formed a forest.

Behind the infantry, the archers saw that the enemy cavalry was only fifty steps away and immediately opened fire.

Arrows whizzed across the sky.

In a blink of an eye, there was another scene of people and horses falling to the ground.

But although the cavalry in front fell, the rear was still charging.

In the blink of an eye, the enemy cavalry was only twenty steps away from the defensive formation of the Eastern Yan soldiers.

Then, the archers in the second column, the third column, and even the archers further back, all shot arrows at the same time at an angle of forty-five degrees.

Arrows fell like rain, and a large number of cavalry fell in front of the battle.

But there were also tenacious cavalrymen who rushed forward, and both men and horses, with huge inertia, crashed into the tips of more than ten spears.

The horse was stabbed to death on the spot, and the cavalry also did not survive. After falling to the ground, they were immediately stabbed to death by the soldiers of Eastern Yan.

But the soldiers were unable to withstand the huge impact, and the more than ten soldiers who blocked the horses were knocked back collectively.

There were even some who were unfortunately killed by being hit by the heavy bodies of horses.

But the front fell and some people sacrificed their lives. The infantry of the Second Column quickly moved forward to fill the positions and kept the sharp defense line from collapsing.

The fierce battle lasted for another stick of incense, and the Northern Barbarians' cavalry had suffered heavy casualties.

Thousands of Eastern Yan infantry and archers also died.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry had been basically wiped out, Lu Xunhuan gave another order: "Maintain formation, move forward quickly, and strike the enemy's rear."

At this time, the Northern Barbarian army was trapped in a narrow strip of land, being attacked from both front and back.

In addition, the enemy's catapults kept throwing firewood, almost turning the entire front of the formation into a sea of ​​fire.

Originally, it seemed that the general had a chance to break through the wooden wall, but because of the fire, it became extremely difficult for the soldiers in the rear to connect.

The wooden wall had already had several holes punched in it, but because the follow-up force could not keep up, all the previous efforts were wasted.

The wilderness was littered with corpses.

When the Northern Barbarian general saw the situation, he realized that it was extremely difficult.

He hurriedly ordered: "Contract the troops and concentrate on attacking the sluice gate."

A moment later, the enemy army turned around as a whole and launched a desperate attack in the direction of the sluice.