How can it be accomplished overnight if you want to build a city wall?

But it turns out that Yang Xiu did it.

Yang Xiu ordered people to pile all the soil they carried on the ice near the dock, and then pour water on these mounds. After the water condenses into ice, they piled the soil on it again and then watered it again. This was repeated several times, and a wall formed by ice condensed was presented to everyone.

This section of the city wall is not too long, but it just connects the city wall that is broken due to the water. In addition, a tower half a meter higher than the city wall was piled up with soil, which can accommodate one hundred soldiers. There are shooting holes on the wall, and the rest are all frozen to resist external attacks.

After the city wall was built, it was already early in the morning, so Yang Xiu could rest assured. He left three hundred soldiers who were proficient in archery to guard it, so that the officials could leave here together, while the remaining six hundred soldiers were all scattered to the east, south and west city gates to continue their mission to defend the city.

It was snowing heavily, and it was all night long, and the snow on the road was more than one foot deep.

At Juntai, ten miles southwest of Yangdi City, Zhang Xiu pushed open the tent and took a look, then immediately summoned the soldiers to make rice. After the meal, he began to attack Yangdi City.

At the third hour of Mao, Zhang Xiu's army had already assembled. Zhang Xiu led the 5,000 cavalry to run directly towards the Yingshui River. After the frozen night of last year, a thick layer of ice had formed on the Yingshui River. Zhang Xiu first sent people to ride horses on the ice layer. After seeing that he was safe and sound, the army rushed into the ice layer in batches. Each hundred people were in a team and headed towards Yangdi City in a mighty manner.

Zhang Xiu is located. In the upper reaches of the Yingshui River, he walked down the river and soon saw Yangdi City. Last night, he discovered an important information about Yangdi City here, that is, Yangdi City faces water in the north, and there is a wharf beside the river. There is no city wall here. Even if troops are sent to defend here, he can quickly break it and directly break into Yangdi City from the glacier. He can attack Yangdi City in one go.

His idea was good, but he ignored one reason, that is, the defenders in the city were not fools. On the contrary, the one who faced him was a meticulous and extremely smart person.

When Zhang Xiu brought five thousand cavalrymen, he came to the north of Yangdi City happily, everything in front of him suddenly made him stunned. A wall appeared out of thin air above the glacier.

Zhang Xiu tied the war horse under his seat, looked at it, and suddenly found that this was a city wall made of soil and ice, which formed an excellent connection with the city walls on both sides that were broken due to the waters, just like a whole.

This place was still blank yesterday, just a dock. But after only one night, a city wall had appeared here, blocking his way.

Zhang Xiu was very upset and hated why he didn't launch an attack directly yesterday, but he missed the opportunity.

Zhang Xiu looked at the city wall that appeared out of thin air and was very angry. Since he had come, he had no intention of leaving again. Since he could not be smart, he would attack. The five thousand cavalry under his command were all elite and knights who were very good at archery. He wanted to use bows and arrows to destroy the willpower of the defenders in the city and let them know how powerful they were.

Instead of rushing to attack, Zhang Xiu ordered the cavalry to cut down some trees in the woods by the river, and then brought the cut wooden stakes over, and tied them firmly with the reins carried by the cavalry. The two cavalrymen pulled a wooden stake.

On that newly built city wall, flags were floating, crowded, and tense, as if they had already expected Zhang Xiu to attack.

"attack!"

Zhang Xiu waved the iron spear in his hand and shouted hysterically: "The first person who rushed into the city will reward a thousand gold!"

With Zhang Xiu's order, five thousand cavalry roared towards the newly built city wall, holding big bows and drawing out bows and arrows, galloping wildly while shooting arrows on the city wall.

For a moment, dense arrows attacked like locusts, directly suppressing the defenders on the city wall and unable to lift them up. The three hundred soldiers who left here stood tightly against the city wall, fearing that the arrows would be shot. At the same time, they sent people to notify the prefect Yang Xiu and told Yang Xiu that the enemy was coming to attack.

The person in charge of commanding here was a military sage. He immediately asked a hundred archers to climb the towers of the city walls and borrowed the towers as a bunker to attack the enemy.

Just as the defenders were climbing the tower, the enemy's cavalry rushed to the newly built city wall as fast as possible, borrowing the fast maneuver power of the horses and powerful impact force, but they saw two cavalry lined up in rows, pulling a huge wooden stake and rushing directly under the city wall, and then threw the wooden stakes directly to the ground, while the two cavalry rode their horses to run to both sides.

After a while, many wooden stakes had been piled up under the city wall, and the attacking cavalry retreated to the distance. However, Zhang Xiu was riding on a horse, pulling his bow and arrow, and shooting a burning arrow directly under the city wall.

The arrow shot directly into a wooden stake. As soon as the arrow's spark touched the wooden stake, the wooden stake quickly burned and spread outward at the fastest speed. In just a moment, a raging fire ignited under the city wall.

The fire surged into the sky. As the high temperature released by the fire burned the city wall, the frozen city wall gradually began to melt. The ice layer in the middle of the city wall suddenly broke. The one hundred soldiers who had just climbed up the stairs had not yet reacted, but felt that the tower made of heavy ice layer was tilted down and fell heavily on the dock, falling into pieces. The soldiers inside the tower were either killed or seriously injured.

The city wall collapsed, leaving only the mound of soil at the bottom, leaving a large hole in the pier. Zhang Xiu and others outside the city were very happy when they saw it, and cheered loudly, as if celebrating the collapse of the city wall.

It turned out that when Zhang Xiu saw that the city wall was condensed by the ice layer, he came up with a fire attack plan. He poured it on the wooden stakes with strong tinder oil, making the wooden stakes extremely flammable. In this way, he could use the heat of the fire to melt the ice layer and cause the city wall to collapse.

"The city wall has collapsed, follow me to rush into the city!" Zhang Xiu shouted loudly, and his soldiers were also excited.

"Running—"

Zhang Xiu rode his horse and spear, leading the way, rushed to the front of the team like an arrow, rushing towards the gap, and behind him were thousands of cavalry.

At this moment, Yang Xiu and his team suddenly arrived. Seeing the collapsed city wall, burning fire, wounded soldiers, and the galloping cavalry, he immediately ordered: "At any cost, you must defend this place and never let the enemy enter the city."

Then, Yang Xiu said a few more words to his confidant beside him. He nodded, turned his head and ran towards the city.

Yang Xiu's led reinforcements and quickly filled the vacancy here. They hid in the inner harbor of the dock and used the moored ships as bunker to shoot arrows at Zhang Xiu and others.

Thousands of arrows were shot out one after another. The sharp arrows penetrated the iron armor of the enemy cavalry and shot hundreds of cavalry to death. Some of them were shot off the horses, but were trampled to death by the horses under the seats of the cavalry following behind.

Yang Xiu commanded his subordinates and kept fighting back with bows and arrows. Although the city wall collapsed and a large hole was exposed, there were still many burning wooden stakes piled up near the city wall. The raging fire not only melted the ice layer of the city wall, but also melted together with the surrounding ice layer. The ice layer became thinner and thinner, making a large ice hole soon appear in that area, making the defenders unable to get close to it.

But for the cavalry running rapidly, it would be easy to jump through this ice cave. Zhang Xiu and others were about to rush over.

It was a time to say that, and soon, a group of ordinary people holding torches came to the dock, threw all the torches in their hands near the ice wall and used the fire to form a fire wall, which could at least organize the enemy's horses to have psychological barriers when jumping.

Sure enough, Zhang Xiu, who was rushing in front, planned to jump into the city while using a spear to block the arrows. However, a sudden fire wall seriously affected the psychology of the war horse under his seat. When he reached the edge of the ice cave, lifted the reins, and prepared to jump, the war horse under his seat suddenly came a sudden brake, and four hooves stood on the ice surface and did not dare to jump forward.

However, the cavalry following behind quickly rushed over and knocked Zhang Xiu and his men and horses into the ice cave. Zhang Xiu was shocked. In desperation, he immediately waved his spear and stabbed below the ice surface. As a result, the spear head was firmly stabbed into the ice surface. The spear was standing straight up. With the help of the bullet-head of the spear handle, he bounced himself out of the ice cave and fell heavily on the ice surface about a meter away.

But Zhang Xiu's subordinates were not so lucky. The cavalry galloped one after another from behind rushed to the front. Even if someone strangled the horses and wanted to stop, they were knocked away by the cavalry rushing from behind, and they all fell into the ice cave.

Moreover, the ice cave was gradually spreading and soon became an increasingly larger ice cave. Even the damaged city wall on the ice surface sank.

In an instant, hundreds of cavalry fell into the ice hole. When the soldiers following him saw it, they stopped moving forward in time, and survived. The soldiers who fell into the ice hole suffered a biting cold, and some even flowed downstream directly with the water flow, and were forever sealed under the ice layer, and no one lived.

When the defenders in the city saw this scene, they cheered, were very excited, and began to fight back fiercely.

Zhang Xiu lost his first battle and almost lost his life. Moreover, the gap that he had finally broken through became larger and larger due to the melting of the ice. In addition, the defenders in the city gathered here, Zhang Xiu immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops from here and prepared to fight elsewhere, and faced the head-on battle from the city gate, and attacked the city at all costs!.)
Chapter completed!