But the archers in Qiongshui County are not ordinary archers. The arrows they shoot are not only extremely fast, but also very accurate.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten cavalrymen were shot off their horses, which caused a black-faced strong man among the barbarian cavalry to become furious.
This black-faced brawny man is Haru Yong among the Xiwan barbarians.
The ruling class of the Siwan barbarians is relatively complex and loose. Its supreme ruler is called Jinlu Khan, who is in charge of hundreds of tribes, large and small. The leader of each tribe is called Mingjia Xiaohan.
In addition to his own tribe, Jinlu Khan was also in charge of an elite direct cavalry force of 20,000 riders.
This elite direct cavalry is a regular armed force recruited from various tribes.
Haru is the captain of this elite direct cavalry, with only twenty people in total.
This is a general with a high status among the barbarians.
Moreover, this Haru servant was able to be appointed as the vanguard general by Jinlu Khan, so he naturally had his own strengths.
As a result, when we arrived outside this small county town, instead of killing a single enemy, we lost more than ten people.
You must know that these thousand cavalry are the elite of Xiwanli. In terms of personal ability, they are no less than the previous scout cavalry.
An elite like this, even among the 20,000 elite cavalry directly under the cavalry, is one of the best in ten.
In the previous siege of the city, such a rush of fire could completely suppress the enemy's ability to raise its head, and no one would be lost at all.
This also made the Haru warrior's face turn black with anger. After regrouping in the distance, he announced that the sword would not be sealed for three days after the city was broken!
As a result, the morale of the elite cavalry was greatly boosted, and they all rushed towards the county seat of Qiongshui County again.
For them, the purpose of this invasion was to rob Daze Country of its money, food, and women.
Therefore, not sealing the sword for three days allows them to do whatever they want. For these barbarians who have been thirsty for a long time on horseback, it is simply the best stimulant.
Seeing the cavalry coming again, Fang Xiaoyue immediately had the two crossbows on the city wall activated.
Weapons like bed crossbows are great weapons in city defense battles.
Although Qiongshui County has a small population and a small city, because it is located in the northwest and is a regular county town, there are two crossbows deployed on the east and west sides of the city wall.
However, before this, no barbarians had ever attacked Qiongshui County, and these two bed crossbows had not been maintained for a long time.
Fortunately, Fang Xiaoyue asked the craftsmen to overhaul the bed crossbow a week ago.
Although the bed crossbow after the overhaul looks far worse than when it was first made, its rate of fire and power have been restored to its original state.
Following Zhang Yuanming's order, when the barbarian cavalry was still a hundred meters away from the city wall, the county soldier responsible for operating the crossbow slammed the trigger with a hammer.
The next moment, with a booming sound, two crossbow arrows about one meter long and as thick as a child's arm shot out, piercing several cavalrymen in an instant.
The power of the bed crossbow is far greater than that of ordinary bows and arrows.
After a person's body is hit, there is no way to stop the power of the crossbow.
Therefore, with the right angle, each crossbow arrow penetrated several people before diagonally inserting into the ground.
There is no doubt that the power of the bed crossbow made those barbarian cavalry so frightened that they couldn't help but shake their bodies.
But this was not likely to scare these barbarian cavalry into retreating. On the contrary, under the roar of the Haru warrior, they beat their horses desperately and accelerated their attack.
At this time, the archers on the city wall opened their bows one after another in response to Fang Xiaoyue's shooting, and shot arrows one after another.
Compared to being shot when leaving, the oncoming cavalry will suffer greater damage after being hit by arrows.
On the spot, another dozen cavalrymen fell off their horses.
But these barbarian cavalry only gave the archers a chance to shoot twice, and then rushed under the city wall.
Obviously, although the cavalry rarely directly attacked the city, these elite cavalry were trained to attack the city.
After they rushed to the city wall, they immediately dismounted, pulled out two sharp daggers from their waists, and then used the daggers as mountaineering picks, inserting them into the cracks of the bricks. They kept exerting their legs, and even kicked towards the city wall.
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Due to the limited height of the city wall in Qiongshui County, even if Fang Xiaoyue had people urgently increase the height before this, the height of the city wall at this time would only be about three meters.
For these cavalrymen who are only about 1.56 meters tall, it is only as difficult as climbing 1.5 meters.
But the county soldiers on the city wall didn't just watch them climb the wall.
Just after they approached the city wall, spoonfuls of golden juice poured down from the city wall.
Golden juice has been one of the weapons used to defend the city from ancient times to the present.
Its advantages are that it is powerful and cheap and easy to obtain.
As long as someone poops, there will be no shortage of golden juice.
Whether it is fresh excrement or excrement that has been stored in a cesspool for several months, heating it at high temperatures in a cauldron and adding some messy things is enough to make any siege enemy tremble.
In fact, since sieges of cities had not been the job of these elite cavalry before, this was the first time they saw the horror of this weapon.
The cavalryman who climbed the fastest was the first to enjoy the baptism of this kind of stuff.
As soon as he poked his head out from the edge of the city wall, a spoonful of boiling golden juice was poured on his face.
The golden juice immediately burned a layer of his face off, and the severe pain caused him to fall directly from the outer edge of the city wall.
He could only howl and struggle desperately under the city wall. His eyes were burned and he became blind, unable to find the direction to leave.
One, two, three...
Within a few seconds, more than ten cavalrymen fell from the city wall, howling in pain.
However, before more cavalry could climb up, they were stabbed by the spears extended by the county soldiers, and their hands were cut off with long knives.
Of course, thousands of cavalry rushed to the bottom of the city wall and began to climb the wall. There were always some cavalry who successfully climbed up the wall.
But when they climbed up the city wall, what awaited them was the long swords of the county soldiers who gathered to attack them.
At this point, there is no need to mention any benevolence, justice and morality.
How to kill the enemy faster is what they need.
Every county soldier has practiced the Sky-shattering Sword Technique, but their level of realm is different.
And even the county soldiers with the lowest level have a great advantage when facing the cavalry who are panting and climbing up the city wall without their horses.
Therefore, even though the number of cavalry is larger, the number of county soldiers is still 400.
Although Fang Xiaoyue only deployed two hundred county soldiers on the city wall where the cavalry attacked in order to prevent more casualties and save physical strength, the rest of the county soldiers were resting and waiting inside the city wall, ready to fight on the wall at any time.
But these two hundred county soldiers alone gave the barbarian cavalry a huge blow.
After just about ten minutes, the Haru soldier endured great anger and ordered a retreat.
We have no choice but to retreat.
In just twenty minutes, his cavalry suffered heavy losses on and off the city wall.
When the barbarian cavalry retreated one after another, the county soldiers took the opportunity to cover up the attack and caused another wave of damage to the barbarian cavalry.
So when Haruyi regrouped his cavalry in a distant place for roll call, he realized that his losses in this wave of siege were too heavy.
More than three hundred people were lost!
Of course, not all of the more than 300 people died in the battle.
But it's also equivalent to death.
Because at this time, the county soldiers were finishing up the injured cavalry.
Let’s not talk about how disgusted the people of Daze Kingdom are with the barbarian invasion and massacre of the city at every turn.
It is only said that most of these injured cavalry were injured by gold juice.
Even if those injured by the golden juice are saved, subsequent infection will cause them to die quickly.
The doctors in Qiongshui County don't have the ability to treat people.
As for Fang Xiaoyue, it can be treated, but why should he be treated?
If you have the energy, it would be better to treat the injured county soldiers first.
It has to be said that such a loss made the Haru servant furious on the spot.
He almost lost his mind and led the cavalry to attack the city again.
However, this move was still dissuaded by several of his personal guards.
He is an elite cavalryman!
With such a mindless attack on the city, even if the county town is captured, it is unknown how many of the more than 600 cavalry will be left.
Of course, Haruya still had some brains after he calmed down.
He did not withdraw, but stationed troops 10,000 meters away from the county seat. Even if the city wanted to make a sneak attack at such a distance, it would be easy to be discovered.
As a result, people in Qiongshui County will not be able to escape even if they want to.
These elite cavalry are not very good at attacking cities, but in the wild, even if the people in Qiongshui County have horses, it will be difficult to escape their pursuit.
In addition, he also sent more than ten cavalrymen to report to Jinlu Khan.
Failure to report is unacceptable.
More than 300 elite cavalry were lost. Even if his sister was Jin Luhan's concubine, if he dared to conceal the news, he would probably not end well when Jinlu Khan found out.
Of course, he wouldn't let it go.
During the two days of the truce, Fang Xiaoyue treated the injured county soldiers.
These injuries are not serious, at most they are minor injuries after the leather armor was cut.
Fang Xiaoyue can heal several people with just one Clear Dew Talisman.
However, the people in the county have been busy during these hours except sleeping.
In just a few days, they built another prototype of a city wall about 70 meters behind the city wall.
An inner city was built in the county town.
In order to build this city wall, they demolished all the houses and buildings within 70 meters of the outer city wall, and used the demolished masonry and wood to build the second city wall.
Since the county seat of Qiongshui County originally occupies a small area, the second city wall was retracted inward by about 70 meters, which made the project volume of the second city wall much smaller than that of the first city wall.
Of course, according to Fang Xiaoyue's plan, the height of this second city wall must be four or even more than five meters, so even though the construction started one week ago, until now, the city wall has only been built to about three meters.
Two days later, when Fang Xiaoyue was inspecting the progress of the second city wall, she felt a slight vibration from the ground.
When he went up to the first city wall to check, he discovered that densely packed cavalry were coming from a distance like a tide.
The cavalry vanguard stationed outside the county seat hurriedly rushed forward and shouted cheers.
The total number of cavalry arriving in this wave was three thousand.
This is not surprising. This time Jinlu Khan led the Siwan army to invade. In addition to looting, killing, burning and looting, the main purpose was to force the Daze Kingdom to agree to more open trade terms.
The trade terms signed by the two parties before were limited to salt and tea.
Things like iron pots and grains are clearly not allowed to be traded.
Even though many merchants conduct transactions quietly, the quantity is also greatly restricted.
After all, the garrisons along the way may conduct inspections.
Once caught, the businessman will be in big trouble.
As a result, it was very difficult for Jinlu Khan to obtain a large amount of iron to arm his cavalry.
For now, what Jinlu Khan can arm is the most elite cavalry under his command, about five thousand people.
These bodyguard cavalry have fine fish scale armor, and their weapons are also fine steel knives and iron arrows.
The equipment of other cavalry is much different.
Wearing leather armor, the knife is an ordinary iron knife, and many arrows are made of wolf fangs. In terms of killing power, they are absolutely incomparable to iron arrows.
If the Daze Kingdom can be forced to agree to more relaxed trade terms, then Jinlu Khan can obtain a large amount of iron. In only three years, Jinlu Khan can arm all his cavalry.
By that time, Daze Country will likely become Jinlu Khan’s pasture!
It is precisely because of this that the Daze Kingdom strictly controls the entry of iron into the barbarians.
Now a small county town has actually blocked Xiwan's military front. When this news spreads, it is conceivable that it will increase the morale of many cities along the Daze Kingdom and increase the damage to Xiwan's army.
This is why, after receiving the emergency report, Jinlu Khan would dispatch 3,000 cavalry to reinforce the Haru force even when he was besieging the provincial capital of Luyuan Province.
As for whether to punish the Haru army, it depends on whether the Haru army can attack the county seat of Qiongshui County after receiving reinforcements.
However, Nahalu had experienced some battles. After receiving reinforcements, he did not directly send people to attack the city. Instead, he asked the three thousand cavalry to disperse to chop down trees and prepare to make siege equipment.
But before that, Fang Xiaoyue cut down all the trees within a ten-mile radius of the county when he was clearing the countryside.
If you want to defend the city, you must not leave wood for the enemy to make siege equipment.
But even though Qiongshui County was originally barren and had few trees, Haruyü still found a small forest.
The only drawback is that this small forest is too far away from the county seat, a full 20 kilometers away.
This is also the reason why Fang Xiaoyue failed to send people to cut it down.
The first is that there is too little time, and the second is that there are few trees in Qiongshui County. It is impossible to cut down all the trees in the county?
But this also brought trouble to the barbarian cavalry.
They need to go 20 kilometers away to cut down trees, and then bring the trees back to make siege equipment.
This back and forth, even if there is a war horse to drag it, is still very tiring for the horse.
After all, animals like horses are not as good as humans in terms of endurance.
What's even more troublesome is that they lack the professional tools to cut down trees.