Tian Qing remained expressionless until the auxiliary troops came within firing range.
"Release the arrows!"
The archers of the defending army, who had been waiting in ambush, released their bowstrings, and arrows rained down with a vengeful whistle, instantly carving bloody grooves in the charging crowd.
Logs and boulders followed closely behind, tumbling down the slope of the city wall with a roar, crushing the enemies who tried to climb, breaking their bones and causing them to scream in agony.
The first day's attack was repelled by the defenders' fierce resistance, and corpses littered the ground below the city.
But Tian Qing knew that this was just the beginning.
Tuoba Wugu was using these cannon fodder to wear down the defenders' strength and resources.
In the days that followed, the offensive and defensive battle entered into a fierce tug-of-war.
The Northern Barbarians began to use engineering machinery. Crude catapults hurled huge stones onto the city walls, shattering the crenellations and causing frequent casualties among the defenders.
At night, the Northern Barbarian suicide squad attempted a sneak attack, but was discovered by the alarm bells and patrols set up by Tian Qing. Torches on the city wall suddenly lit up, and another bloody close-quarters battle ensued.
The defenders were running out of arrows very quickly, and their logs and rolling stones were also dwindling.
Tian Qing ordered the demolition of abandoned houses near the city wall to obtain stones and beams for future use.
Under Tian Qing's mobilization, the people in the city also spontaneously organized themselves to transport supplies, rescue the wounded, and some young men even took up the weapons of fallen soldiers and joined the ranks of defending the city.
The most critical moment came on the tenth day of the siege.
The Northern Di people concentrated dozens of siege ladders and, under the cover of heavily armored infantry, launched the fiercest attack on the southern city.
Fierce hand-to-hand combat broke out in several sections of the city wall.
Tian Qing personally went to the south city, holding a long spear, and successively stabbed two bronze-armored Tartars who had climbed up the city wall down.
He led by example, which greatly boosted the morale of the defending troops.
After a half-month siege, Yunzhou City still stood tall. The city walls were damaged in many places, and the defending army had suffered a 30% loss, with everyone wounded, but their fighting spirit remained undiminished.
Looking at the fortified city that had been under siege for so long, Tufa Wugu realized that if he could not take Yunzhou in a short time, continuing to besiege the fortified city would only waste his troops.
Is he destined to follow in the footsteps of the Uriyangkhai and be stopped in Yunzhou?
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