There was a strong wind and snow in Yanliangguan, which made the doors and windows creak.
Shen Yu didn't sleep peacefully.
Ever since she arrived at Yanliang Pass, she had nightmares one after another, and she could not sleep until dawn one day.
In the dream, Yanliang Pass was still raging with wind and snow. She had gradually become accustomed to the company of nightmares, and could look at the scene in front of her calmly in her dream.
But this time it was different. She heard footsteps, as if someone was coming to watch this dream with her.
"princess!"
Shen Yu was awakened by the howling, and when she sat up, she realized that the footsteps in her dream came from reality.
She got out of bed, put on her coat, opened the door, and Changliu ran towards her.
"What happened?" Shen Yu asked.
Just as Changliu was about to speak, the two of them turned their heads and looked in the direction of the city gate.
Drums and horns sounded. This was no ordinary enemy attack.
"The Xijue people are coming."
Shen Yu quickly put on her clothes and armor and told Chang Liu, "I'm going to the city gate. I may not have time to explain later. You wait here. If the city gate is lost, you ride on your fast horse and take Xi Xi to the north. Go, don’t stay here.”
Changliu burst into tears when he heard Shen Yu's tone of explaining the funeral, "No, Princess, the prince will come, he must be on the way."
Shen Yu smiled at him, "I know."
Changliu chased him out, "I won't leave, the prince will come."
Shen Yu stopped and reached out to pat his shoulder, "Be obedient."
She got on her horse, and the sound of the horse's hooves was masked by the warning sound carried by the wind in the snow.
The soldier got up from his bed and ran through the streets, heading in the same direction.
When Shen Yu climbed up the city wall, it seemed as if the wind had stopped for a moment.
Before they had time to observe the enemy's situation, there was a "boom", and the city wall seemed to tremble slightly, and a heavy boulder hit the city wall.
"It's a trebuchet!" the soldiers shouted, running among the splashing rubble.
"Princess, the Xijue people have launched a general attack!"
Shen Yu looked outside the pass, and the continuous torches lit up half of the sky. One of them stretched into the distance, and the first one disappeared into the vast wind and snow.
The opportunity the Xijue people had been waiting for finally came.
There are more than 100,000 Xijue soldiers, and the disparity in military strength is terrifying enough just by looking at it.
But Shen Yu couldn't flinch, or even look a little scared.
Shen Yu calmed down and asked, "Has the smoke been lit?"
"General Xiao has given the order." The soldier said, "But..."
Shen Yu knew what was going on. The wind and snow were too heavy, and the beacon tower ten miles away might not be able to see the beacon fire here.
Besides, if the beacon is lit, whose reinforcements can be expected at this moment?
The Xiao family's army from Chihe will not come, and neither will the soldiers from South Camp.
She knew that she couldn't place her hope on others. All they could do now was to hold on and delay as long as possible, waiting for Beilin's rescue.
Huge boulders hit the city wall one after another. The city wall of Yanliangguan was reinforced at the end of last year, and its thickness was increased from 15 meters to 25 meters.
However, the 25-meter-thick city wall was still dented by the trebuchet attack, and bricks and gravel splashed westward.
Shen Yu stood next to Xiao Chuan, supported the female wall and said: "They actually brought a battering ram and a trench bridge. We can't let them get close. They can suppress it as long as they can."
Xiao Chuan looked serious, stared at the advancing Xijue army, and said firmly: "They also brought Lu Gong's car, it seems they have not discovered our intentions."
A trench was dug outside the city, this time a serious trench, but time was tight and they worked day and night, but they could only dig two meters deep and three meters wide.
There was no water diversion, and the trenches were filled with sharpened wooden stakes. But they did not expect that the narrow trenches would be able to block the attack of the Western Jue people.
Shen Yu and Xiao Chuan looked into the distance together. The trebuchet threw the huge boulder into the sky, gradually getting bigger in their eyes, and then smashed against the wall.
The female wall under Shen Yu's palm was trembling slightly, and she frowned, "The wind and snow are too strong."
Xiao Chuan leaned against the wall and wiped the bow and arrow in his hand, "That's enough!"
Boda was riding a horse. He couldn't see clearly the people on the wall. The wind and snow were blowing the braid on his head, and his eyes were sharp.
The deputy general rode on the side, "Chief, they actually want to use a trench to stop us. If they could dig a trench properly on the first day they arrived, they might be able to dig it wider, but they wasted too much time."
Boda dare not underestimate the enemy. His current opponent is Shen Zhongan's daughter who has suppressed him and his father for more than 20 years.
Shen Zhongan built the copper and iron walls on the northwest defense line. It took Boda and his son more than 20 years to break through this line of defense.
Now, Shen Zhongan's young daughter has taken up this line of defense again.
"Forward!" Boda said word by word: "We want to cross Yanliang Pass and take the rich land in the pass for my people. We no longer have to worry about not having food in winter."
The trebuchets pressed at the rear, and the soldiers pushed forward with Lu Gong's chariot and battering ram.
Shen Yu and Xiao Chuan stared straight ahead, Xiao Chuan set up his bow in the wind and snow.
Beads of sweat appeared on Xiao Chuan's forehead. He was distracted by the heavy blow of the trebuchet, and his scattered mind could not be condensed no matter how hard he tried.
The Xijue people's siege ram and Lu Gong's chariot were about to reach the line he had drawn with his bow and arrow. Xiao Chuan was still nervous. If they missed a hit, their shield soldiers would be alarmed and block all those behind them. Bow and arrow.
Then their deployment would be in vain.
A hand was placed on the shoulder, pressing down gently with a little weight.
Xiao Chuan saw Shen Yu's weak but firm profile in his peripheral vision, and his heart suddenly miraculously settled down.
Boda had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still didn't understand what it was.
"Stop!" Boda said, "I have an ominous premonition."
The lieutenant waited quietly. His leader had extraordinary acumen for war and had led them to heights they had never reached before. He believed in Boda's judgment.
"Why did they stop?" Xiao Chuan put down his bow, "Could they have discovered it?"
Shen Yu said nothing.
After a while, the Xijue army started moving again and continued to advance.
Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
The heavy battering ram continued to move forward, Xiao Chuan's sharp eyes were fixed behind the bowstring.
Boda looked at the city wall in the distance and said, "Maybe I'm overthinking it, and I'm not within the range of their bows and arrows yet."
As soon as he finished speaking, the wooden plank made a crisp sound, and the front wheel of the battering ram sank. However, Lu Gong's car was too high, and it lost its balance and fell down.
Screams rang out, and the Xijue soldiers walking in front of Lu Gong's car were crushed underneath.
The soldier yelled: "Damn it! There are trenches here!"
It was more like a ditch than a trench. The ditch was not wide, less than one meter, but the entire front wheel of the battering ram was sunken.
"Quick! Lift up!"
The soldier jumped down from the ditch and tried to lift the battering ram on his shoulders. When he landed, his feet felt soft, and he vaguely smelled a different smell.
"No! There is kerosene!"
