Even though he was surprised, Ye Tianzong would not give up on this rebellion because Tang Hongzhi's strength was higher than expected.

Ye Tianzong knew very well that once this failure to counter the rebellion, whether it was the failure caused by his voluntary retreat or the failure to be defeated by a head-on victory, civilians and even gentry in the domestic counties would realize Tang Hongzhi's true rise.

Using the rules of the game of fate to understand it is the orthodox law that Tang Hongzhi will obtain the vassal state!

The basic condition for becoming a vassal state is to occupy at least one county-level administrative unit and block the initial attack of the original forces.

The orthodox legal principles in the game of fate are not just illusory things like public opinion recognition.

Once the orthodox legal principles are obtained, Tang Hongzhi can form his own staff office like a real vassal state.

That is, obtain the right to appoint civil servants and military officers.

If you can occupy a county, you can obtain the right to appoint military generals and senior civil officials and form your own military governor's yamen.

Therefore, in the game of fate, if you want to become a qualified vassal state, you must at least occupy a county town, otherwise you will not even have a decent yamen!

The shooting of the county town of Qingping County was in full swing. Both sides were desperate game soldiers. They straightened their waists without fear (reloading faster and aiming more conveniently), and shot arrows close to the best effective range.

At this distance, even wearing armor will be penetrated!

Tang Hongzhi's side had many experienced crossbow-holding soldiers who had been baptized by war, and they replaced themselves with crossbows that were not inferior to those of crossbow-holding soldiers by selling spoils, and they used cone-headed crossbow arrows that were purchased.

In addition, the crossbow lost its penetration ability even more, which widened the gap between the armor between the two sides!

If both sides shoot at each other in a flat terrain, the experienced crossbow-held soldiers who do not have armor will inevitably suffer a loss, but shooting a group of crossbow-held soldiers who shoot from a high place on the city wall will be completely stressed.

In order to ensure the hit rate and lethality of the crossbow-holding soldiers, the storm-shooting soldiers were closer than those attached to the flat terrain. Naturally, the protective power of the armor became indifferent...

Both sides gave up shooting (then the shot is not accurate), and they all used straight aim, which is also the shooting method where the crossbow can exert its maximum power.

However, as time goes by, Tang Hongzhi's troops have become more and more advantageous.

Because Tang Hongzhi's crossbowmen all rely on the battlements on the city wall to shoot arrows, they will only lean out and aim when shooting, and will shrink behind the wall when winding the string.

On the other hand, the crossbow-holding soldiers under the city were exposed to the enemy's firepower regardless of whether they were in the string. In this way, the casualties on both sides naturally grew larger and larger!

However, there are many low-level crossbowmen among the crossbow soldiers under Tang Hongzhi's troops.

Their core combat skills are not as good as those of experienced crossbow-holding soldiers. They are only slightly more successful, so their accuracy is naturally not as good as those of crossbow-holding soldiers outside the city (entering the hall and entering the room).

Therefore, the crossbow-holding soldiers outside the city have not yet suffered enough casualties to the point where they can't hold on. The advantage of numbers can make up for the disadvantage of backfire to a certain extent, and persist for a longer time.

Finally, after half an hour of shooting between the crossbowmen on both sides, only dozens of county soldiers who died were left finally completed the task of filling the trench.

Because of the cover of a large group of crossbow-holding soldiers, the crossbow soldiers of Tang Hongzhi on the city wall could only distribute a small part of their energy to shoot the county soldiers who were filling the trenches. This is why Ye Tianzong could tolerate the death of a large number of crossbow-holding soldiers on his side.

After the trench was filled, the crossbow-holding soldiers, whose casualties were far more than those of the defenders, did not retreat.

This is the advantage of crossbow soldiers, which does not consume much arm strength, allowing them to stay on the front line for a long time to fight.

If it were an archer, he would have exhausted his arm strength and become a useless person.

Under the cover of the crossbow-holding soldiers, a large group of sword-pai County soldiers surrounded the engineering county soldiers and rushed up the siege ladder.

The siege ladders of the domestic counties to suppress the rebel army are not simple wooden ladders made by the dog-headed men before, they all come with their own base and wheels.

You can push it to the city wall, and because of the base, it is basically impossible to be pushed down by the defenders on the city wall.

This kind of siege ladder is a standard for attacking county cities and fortresses. Attacking a county town with a low city wall is a bit like killing a chicken and using a slaughter.

As expected, the siege ladder quickly leaned on the city wall when the arrow rain was unable to be used at the top of the city.

Ye Tianzong looked down on the pile of gravel blocked by the city gate tower at all, or he did not want to limit the battlefield to such a narrow area.

Although the collapse of the city gate tower can climb up by infantry alone, it cannot expand its forces and can only add fuel to the tactics of the soldiers.

At that time, not only will the guards crossbowmen shooting on the city walls on both sides, but the defenders can also concentrate long spear formations to block the siege soldiers who climb up.

The corpse of the dog-headed man was covered with piles of gravel!

Although Ye Tianzong has an advantage in military strength, after realizing that Tang Hongzhi's military strength is stronger, Ye Tianzong knows that his military strength is not very outstanding.

So he chose a more secure full-line attack.

After more than a dozen siege ladders leaning against the city wall, more than a dozen roads to climb the city immediately appeared.

At the same time, a group of Daopai County soldiers began to climb the gravel piles at the city gate tower.

After Ye Tianzong learned that there were more defenders in the city, he sent all the sword and card counties at one time, leaving only a few hundred small spear counties as a reserve team.

The sword-card soldiers are often better used when siegeing cities than the spearmen. However, for the defenders, both the spearmen and the sword-card soldiers are easy to use, but the use is different.

For example, the pile of gravel at the city gate tower.

On the outside, there is a steeper side, but on the inside, it is paved with a gentle slope.

Before the climbing Daopai County soldiers reached the peak, they saw a row of long spears suddenly appearing on it, poking at them!

As expected, this pile of gravel became the most difficult point to break. Tang Hongzhi arranged all 25 senior county soldiers with guns here, and poked the climbing sword-paper county soldiers one by one to death.

The gun skills of senior county soldiers with guns have reached the level of hard work. In the real world, everyone is comparable to the so-called masters of guns.

Playing a gun is a basic operation.

Therefore, even if those climbing swordsmen put their shields on their heads, it is difficult to defend against the pervasive spears!

If Ye Tianzong had chosen to use this point as a breakthrough before, he would definitely suffer heavy losses.

The large group of siege county soldiers rushed up to force Tang Hongzhi's crossbow soldiers on the city wall to distract a lot of energy from shooting hand-to-hand combat county soldiers, which resulted in the crossbow soldiers under the city changing from a disadvantage in shooting to an advantage.
Chapter completed!