Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 572 The battle ends today

"Uh... ah..."

Zhu Wei's soldiers attacking the city finally appeared injured. The soldiers who climbed up the ladders to kill quickly fell from the ladders one after another. Some fell to the ground and died, and some fell to the ground. Broken hands and feet, can't help howling in pain.

But as long as more people felt that they were all right, they would quickly look for ladders and rush to the city wall again. They knew very well that only by killing the city wall could they truly overcome the current predicament.

Before the military order was issued, even if they retreated back, they would still be beheaded in violation of the order. At the same time, their previous meritorious service would be stripped away, and all their military achievements would be in vain.

So they would rather die than be injured, and rush to the city wall desperately.

However, the siege battle is cruel. In a short time, hundreds of siege soldiers were killed or injured, even if there were archers and crossbowmen on the siege towers covering them, even if there were gravel throwers Rubble was scattered on the city wall, and even behind them, a large number of crossbowmen came up. When they climbed and attacked the city, they shot arrows at the city wall in a covered manner.

But it is really not easy to attack the city wall. From time to time, soldiers who attack the city still fall from the top of the city wall.

At this time, Liu Xun's soldiers who were defending the city were at their peak. Naturally, they maintained the resilience of the city despite the rain of arrows and stones from Zhu Wei's army. Therefore, even though they suffered a lot of losses, they were still able to stop them. This round of offensive by Zhu Weibing.

Pang Yan, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai, who were in charge of commanding the front of the formation, did not feel sorry for their lives at this moment. Even if they knew that this time was a feint attack, they would not be stingy with the lives of the siege soldiers.

As the saying goes, kindness does not command soldiers, and there is no one who will not die in battle.

Even if it was a feint attack, how could Liu Xun believe that this was a real siege and not a feint attack if some soldiers were not killed.

So even though they watched hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in front of them lose their lives during the siege, they still did not issue an order to withdraw their troops, so the siege battle continued.

"Go! Go! Go!"

"Don't let them come up, shoot arrows, smash, smash!"

The shouts of the attacking party and the defending party resounded from top to bottom of the city wall. At the same time, the screams of falling pain and the wailing of arrows were also heard everywhere. Don't look at Zhu Wei's siege soldiers who suffered a lot of losses. Liu Xun's soldiers guarding the city wall also lost a lot.

The battle continued with time, among which Zhu Wei's siege soldiers rushed up the city wall several times, but they were finally driven back by Liu Xun's defenders on the city wall.

In the end, the sky gradually entered dusk, and the sound of "clang, clang, clang" sounded from the central army behind Zhu Wei. Obviously, the siege battle during the day was coming to an end.

Hearing the voice from behind, Pang Yan, Zhou Yu, Huang Gai, and Sun Quan couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief, and then sent an order to withdraw their troops.

So the remaining three or four thousand soldiers who went to attack the city in front also took the wounded comrades who were not dead, and the corpses of the dead comrades, and retreated back. The elite soldiers died, and there were more than 1000 wounded soldiers.

This scene can be regarded as done enough.

Then all kinds of siege equipment standing in front of the city wall slowly retreated under the protection of the surrounding soldiers, leaving only the scene of a mess under the city wall, all kinds of arrows, stones, rolling logs, and bloody water Pools of pools of blood pooled together.

Of course, the city wall is also in a mess. Many places are feathered arrows and crossbow arrows shot by the Zhu Wei army. There are many gravels scattered all over the place. Under the rock, there is still flesh and blood that cannot be discerned in human form.

This time, Liu Xun's soldiers who defended the city wall lost more than 2000 soldiers. It can be said that in this siege battle, the losses of the attacking side and the defending side were similar, but it also greatly violated the normal siege loss ratio.

But Zhu Wei has prepared so many siege equipment, which makes this ending a bit more normal. In fact, if Zhu Wei really attacks at all costs, as long as there is a fierce general like Pang Yan taking the lead, he may be able to use the help of his talents just now. When the soldiers rushed to the city wall, they attacked the city wall.

It's just that since Zhu Wei deployed internal countermeasures in the city, of course he wouldn't waste his troops in vain and risk the lives of the generals by forcefully attacking the city.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army ended today's siege, so the army slowly left the battlefield and returned to the direction of their own barracks.

The news that Liu Ye sent people out from the city before made Zhu Wei a little bit more thoughtful. This is much more convenient than the tactic of climbing the wall to steal the city tonight. It turned out that Zhu Wei had already had sex with Jia Xu and Zhou Yu. After discussing, maybe Wan County can be captured tonight.

Therefore, on the way of the army turning back, Zhu Wei quietly passed down the military order, so taking advantage of the gradually darkening sky, many people from Zhu Wei's retreating army quietly dispersed.

Not to mention how Zhu Wei arranged it, but Liu Xun in Wan County saw Zhu Wei's army retreating, so he also asked people to count the losses of this battle.

After hearing the statistics of his side's losses, Liu Xun couldn't help but frown again. He looked at his civil and military subordinates and sighed, "Oh, we have the advantage of defending the city, but we didn't expect to lose so many troops." Troop strength, if things go on like this, our army will be short of strength in just a few days! And Yuan Gong's reinforcements will arrive at an unknown time!"

"Liu Gong, I think the main force of Zhu Wei's army is at the south gate today, maybe I can send troops from the north gate to help!"

One of Liu Xun's generals inevitably made suggestions to Liu Xun. After seeing the losses in today's battle, he was also worried that the troops defending the city would be insufficient.

"No, Mr. Liu, there is also Zhu Wei's army stationed outside the north gate. Zhu Wei has always been resourceful in using troops. Maybe he is trying to attract our attention by deliberately attracting our attention at the south gate. Wouldn't it be a bad idea to attack the North Gate suddenly! According to Ye's strategy, the soldiers from the outer fortress will be brought into the city tonight, and when the city is defended tomorrow, some of the strong people may be allocated to use, so that our soldiers can use it One person leads five strong people, and we may be able to exert some combat power, but this can also reduce the loss of our party's pawns!"

In fact, Liu Ye also knew that Zhu Wei's main attack direction was the south gate, so he guessed that what Zhu Wei placed on the north gate was the bait to attract Liu Xun's troops, but he still deliberately exaggerated at this time what Lu Su brought over there. threat of force.

"This..., alas, Ziyang, let's just follow your plan!"

Liu Xun couldn't be sure to pay attention for a while, but the gate of Wancheng on his side really didn't dare to open it easily in the daytime, so he still didn't dare to open the gate immediately to welcome Jiang Qin's army from the fortress into Wanxian city.

Because at this moment Liu Xun could still see that Zhu Wei seemed to have left more than a thousand cavalry wandering outside the city of Wan County. Obviously these cavalry were monitoring the movements in Wan County.

In fact, this is also the reason why Zhu Wei deliberately sent the cavalry from the Baiyu Battalion here to make a noise after receiving the news from Liu Ye. He just couldn't let Liu Xun open the city gate now to let Jiang Qin and other soldiers from outside the city enter the city.

At this time, a messenger rushed over from the wall of Wan County, as if something urgent had happened...

(End of this chapter)