Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Prince Zhao Xin led his army towards Guangchang County, where a new situation also emerged.

Jiga Wa marked the approximate location of Cheng Jushu's troops. Na Lan Guifang had a bold idea based on his guess.

That is, Cheng Jushu planned to have all his soldiers take a detour, perhaps to snipe himself, or to cooperate with Changshan County and the other side's Great Khan's team.

If the Great Chanyu divided his troops among himself at this time, it would inevitably cause some emptiness in the rear.

Before he could figure out how to respond, news came from the army that reinforcements sent by the Great Chanyu had arrived.

"Have we got any news from our spies in Dingzhou?" When Lan Guifang learned that the Great Chanyu's men had arrived, his first thought was Dingzhou.

"People who are coming back, haven't received the news yet."

After hearing the answer from the people below, Na Lan looked up at the sky. It was not yet noon. According to his speculation, even if Dingzhou had reinforcements, they would not arrive until tomorrow.

"Hurry up and cook. I plan to launch a surprise attack on Guangchang County at noon."

The day before yesterday, we almost captured the city of Guangchang County, and it was those captured soldiers mixed with some small tribes that were able to achieve such a record.

This shows that there are not many defenders in Guangchang County. If it weren't for the defeat in the south of the city, the people defending the city now should be their Xiongnu army.

He did not think that his fishing-style fighting method was a mistake, as he had achieved some initial results before. It was just that a new and strange fighting method emerged later, especially those weapons, which he had never heard of or seen before.

According to the troops taken away by Cheng Jushu and the analysis of the attack on the county town the day before yesterday, there should be about 10,000 people in the county town now.

If he hadn't been worried that someone was plagiarizing him behind his back, he would have had this idea yesterday.

However... he was still too worried about those sharp weapons, which could hit him from such a distance.

At noon, the Huns had lunch half an hour earlier.

The defenders in Guangchang County were also divided into two teams to cook. When the first team had just finished their meal and was changing shifts, they discovered that the Hun army had launched an attack.

"Quick, call the police, enemy attack!" Zhao Long, who was leading the team defending the city, was just about to replace the rest of the people to go eat when this situation occurred.

The former Guangchang County defenders had just picked up their bowls when they heard the alarm drums and stood up one by one to prepare for battle.

"Just sit down and eat quickly. The city wall won't be taken down that quickly."

Zhao Sheng shouted to the nervous people that most of them were his own soldiers and he wanted to stabilize the morale of the army.

Are you kidding? There are 5,000 people on the city wall. If the first batch of 10,000 people eat, how long will it take for the remaining soldiers to eat?

The previous 3,000 people were able to hold out for two days, so how could these 10,000 people be afraid?

County Magistrate Sun Jiping and Zhang Chunye were present at the scene. They had not eaten yet. The new army's regulations required that the frontline soldiers eat first, and then these senior generals eat.

Zhao Sheng and these officials were there to maintain order and prevent their former officers and soldiers from getting used to this.

Fortunately, there were not many of them, and most of them were soldiers defending the city, so the only ones who were wronged were officials such as the county magistrate and the county magistrate.

The people in the city were a little nervous when they heard the drums. The day before yesterday, they had to go up to the city themselves to save the city wall. Although they now have reinforcements, they are still scared.

There are usually 4,000 men manning the four city gates. Today, there are 1,000 more men at the north gate. Just now, when the drum sounded, the 5,000 men on standby below were immediately reinforced by 2,000 men.

Zhao Sheng was so worried about the battle situation that he didn't even have time to eat. He took Chen Da, who was only half full, and headed towards the north gate.

"What's going on?" Zhao Sheng asked when he saw Zhao Long.

"There are less than 10,000 cavalrymen heading towards us."

Following the direction of Zhao Long's finger, I saw a group of people coming slowly, as if they were here for sightseeing.

"What do you think of these people's attack?"

Mr. Zhao actually had his own thoughts in mind, but he still wanted to hear what Zhao Long had to say?

"The county has received reinforcements. The Xiongnu must be aware of this. I think they are testing us. We have 4,000 men on the city wall now, and they want to see how many more we have."

"I think so. These are trick soldiers. One reason they want to use up our arrows is to test our strength."

Zhao Sheng's idea was that he had hurt them the day before yesterday, so today he came to test the strength of the army on the city wall, and also to see if it was the same army here, so that he could calculate the number of people guarding the city.

"We'll switch to the arrows used by the defenders later. Shoot a few rounds. Don't show our weapons."

Are you kidding? If you don’t bait the bait when fishing, how can the fish take the bait?

According to Zhao Sheng's deployment, the cavalry retreated immediately after only two rounds of arrows were shot.

"Nan Lantou, look at these arrows, they are from the past. I don't think the defenders are very strong."

The man was holding an arrow in his hand. Having attacked a city before, he knew very well what the defenders' bows and arrows looked like. This time, Lan Guifang wanted to know if there were any arrows that could explode like the ones he saw the day before yesterday.

Since it was much easier without those arrows, he ordered his troops to attack the city immediately, with 30,000 men at a time.

"Then Lantouren, are you only attacking one city gate? Why not attack more gates?"

The person sent by the Great Chanyu asked in confusion.

Na Lan Guifang knew this man, and he was a close confidant of the Great Khan. His name was Wu Ke Nan. He was good at long-distance raids and was like a wild horse running wild when fighting on the grassland.

The Great Chanyu asked this person to come and assist Lan Guifang, intending that he would take over his position, but he did not say it explicitly.

"If we organize an effective attack, we can break the confidence of the soldiers defending the city."

Wu Ke'nan brought 50,000 reinforcements, and now there are 60,000 people attacking the city. If he doesn't invest 30,000 at once, it will be difficult to add more troops for the attack later.

What he was most worried about was the depletion of his own military strength. In the next battle, Wu Ke'nan would have the final say and he would have no choice but to obey the orders of others.

Thirty thousand Hun soldiers came towards Guangchang County with great momentum. Soon the enemy approached the city and was within the range of bows and arrows.

There were actually not many archers in the new army. Although Zhao Sheng imitated the recurve compound bow of later generations, due to material problems, using such a bow still required a certain amount of arm strength. Many people could not bear to repeatedly pull and shoot ten times.

Therefore, later on, bows and crossbows replaced short-range improvisational shooting.

When they discovered that 30,000 people were attacking the city, 10,000 soldiers were ambushed on the city wall to be ready to deal with any enemy that might attack the city wall.

The city wall of Guangchang County was not very high, only two zhang (approximately 20 ft) excluding the battlements, so a siege ladder could be placed on top and climbed up quickly.

After the archers finished shooting, the crossbowmen fired, and after several rounds of alternating shooting back and forth, the Huns' siege ladders were already set up on the battlements of the city wall.

In ancient times, many things had standards for construction, and city walls were no exception. The width of the siege ladder was just on both sides of the battlement, and it was somewhat difficult to push the ladder down with a long spear.

The most effective way at this time is to roll logs or stones down.

In some battles, oil would even be burned on the city walls and poured down from the walls. This was not only to scald the enemy to death or make them slip when climbing the stairs, but more importantly, the wooden ladders would easily ignite if there was oil on them.

Therefore, oil was very expensive in ancient times. It was not only used for lighting, but also a strategic material.