The people of Jinwen City have been evacuated for more than ten days, and in the past ten days, the number of Shanyue soldiers has increased by thousands almost every day. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Now the camp of the Shanyue soldiers has expanded several times, and the number of soldiers has reached 50,000 or 60,000. From fighting on one city wall to now fighting on four city walls, that is to say, Jin Wencheng was surrounded by these fifty or sixty thousand Shanyue soldiers.

But Zhao Hu and the soldiers didn't care much.

After more than ten days of fighting in the morning, noon, and evening, the soldiers can be said to have all rotated more than a dozen times, that is to say, they have participated in more than a dozen battles, and almost everyone has seen blood on their hands, and they can be said to be veterans.

In the past ten days of fighting, the siege engines of the Shanyue soldiers have become more and more advanced, and the ladder is threatening at the beginning, followed by the appearance of the arrow tower and the crash car, the latter two things, especially the triangular crash car, were really helpless at the beginning.

But it is true that war can make people progress, the arrow tower is burned with a bow and arrow with a small oil tank, and the thick-skinned fireproof crash car is simpler, isn't it going to hit the city? When it came to the city, it threw down a pile of hay, poured a can of oil, and set it on fire, but before the car could catch fire, the people inside were smoked to death.

Later, there was also a catapult, which everyone was shocked when it first appeared, it was too far away to destroy. However, I don't know if the technology is not enough or the materials are not good, this catapult cannot throw big stones, and the accuracy is not enough, sometimes it is thrown inside the city and sometimes outside the city.

After gaining experience, these catapults can all be thrown onto the castle tower.

However, Zhao Hu's soldiers also had experience, as soon as they saw the catapult start, they all raised a shield with one hand and slashed with the other, and the small stones they emitted, as long as they did not hit the head directly, they would not hang up, and even if the head was hard, it was just a coma, so Zhao Hubing soon did not exist as a catapult.

Thinking that with the help of catapults, they would be able to succeed, and the Shanyue soldiers who rushed to the city tower eagerly attacked the city, after being smashed by their own catapults several times, went back to protest, and the Shanyue soldiers' catapults disappeared on the battlefield.

With so much siege equipment, the biggest loss to Zhao Hubing was the cloud ladder.

This area is the world of mountains and forests, nothing else, wood is everywhere, relying on more people, the most powerful Shanyue soldiers, actually set up a thousand ladders on each city wall, you must know that the city wall is only a few kilometers long, only a few meters on a ladder, the density is really amazing.

The sight of 4,000 cloud ladders crawling full of people was so terrifying that even Zhao Hu thought that he couldn't stop it, and personally led the supervising team to fight.

But it's a pity that there are more ladders, and there are fewer people to climb each ladder, think about a ladder needs at least four people to hold it, there are 16,000 people here who can't participate in the battle, and each wall needs at least 2,000 archers, and there are no 8,000 people. The remaining more than 20,000 people were distributed, and there were only five or six people climbing each ladder.

On Zhao Hu's side, after leaving some people to defend the archers, two people from each cloud ladder were in charge, and it was still possible. This battle was the largest loss for the Shanyue soldiers, because Zhao Hubing cut down two or three people in each cloud ladder, so that the Shanyue soldiers were completely lost more than 10,000 at one time.

The losses of the previous days were not as large as this one, and since then, although the Shanyue soldiers have more and more soldiers, they have never used more than 1,000 ladders.

Once again, the Shanyue soldiers were repulsed, and the soldiers lost their previous excitement, nor did they feel much sad about the departure of their comrades, but just evacuated as a whole as a matter of course.

Zhao Hu has always maintained a rotation system, and only the most dangerous siege was the whole army. Now these soldiers can be said to be all elite veterans.

The Mountain Regiment did not show up for the first few days of the battle, but in the following days it began to join the battle more and more frequently.

How do you know who is a member of the Mountain Regiment? As long as you see a strong man with quick hands and feet, rushing up to the city tower and cutting down a few people and retreating, it must be a member of the mountain group.

When encountering such a guy, Zhao Hubing called friends to besiege, and after killing two or three hundred such characters with more and less, there was no longer a man who fought and evacuated like a lone hero, but he was replaced by the elite of Shanyue who knew how to cooperate and knew how to advance and retreat, and it can be said that everyone had experience.

"My lord, seeing that the mountain bandits' army is coming, are we looking for an opportunity to evacuate?" Zhou Wen asked.

Looking at the scene in the city, I saw a ruin, all the houses were demolished for Zhao Hubing to make city defense materials, in this regard, Zhao Hu could only sigh and said: "Well, it looks like the situation, the other party's attack is getting more and more fierce, I paid attention to it, this time at least thousands of members of the mountain regiment were dispatched." ”

"Ah, thousands, such a big deal, no wonder the loss is so big this time." Zhou Wen smacked his lips and said.

"Well, what about the losses of both the enemy and us so far?" Zhao Hu asked.

"I don't know how many wounded soldiers the mountain bandits were, but there are more than 27,000 corpses buried. On our side, more than 7,000 people were killed and about 3,000 were crippled. Zhou Wen replied.

"Well, is the list of fallen brothers registered?" Zhao Hu asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Wen knew that Zhao Hu was preparing to evacuate, and hurriedly said: "The relics and ashes of the brothers are all properly placed according to the establishment of the troops, and the wounded and sick have also made arrangements. ”

When the people evacuated, the wealthy families left Zhao Hu with hundreds of horses, some of whom were carpenters and blacksmiths, and they were good at making simple carriages. So Zhao Hu now has a carriage large enough to carry the ashes of wounded soldiers and martyrs.

Zhao Hu nodded: "Well, since this is the case, prepare immediately and withdraw tonight." ”

"Huh? Oh yes, but there's still a lot of food and supplies left, what to do with that? Zhou Wen couldn't figure out how to say that the wind was the rain, and he was discussing when to withdraw just now, but it turned into an immediate evacuation, but it was okay, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

"First give the brothers a new set of clothes, then prepare a month's rations, pick up the weapons and take them away, and see if there is any vacancy in the carriage for the rest of the supplies, and load the cart if it can be loaded, and the excess will be piled up at the gate of the city." Zhao Hu said.

"Heaped at the gates? Oh, stop the speed of the mountain bandits, those wild people must only care about grabbing these supplies when they see them, and the city gate is blocked, to see how much time they will have to enter the city. Zhou Wen said with a smile.

When the order came out, and knowing that it was finally time to withdraw, most of the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I am now accustomed to fighting, and my body is still in shape due to the rotation system, my mind is very tired, and now I can finally relax.

Wishing to leave quickly, the soldiers did not eat dinner, but quickly packed their bags and prepared them at night.

Seeing that the preparations were completed, Zhao Hu gave an order, and the horse was gagged, without lighting a torch, and opened the city gate in the dark.

The carriage was even a mile away, and the striker lit a few torches to illuminate the way, and the speed increased slightly. After walking about four or five kilometers, the whole team lit the torches and increased their speed a little. I ran for dozens of kilometers before I stopped to find a corner to camp and rest.

Because the Shanyue soldiers were afraid of being broken by Zhao Hu's soldiers, they did not camp at the other three city gates except for the original camp, and they were also used to Zhao Hu's soldiers trapped in the city.

In their opinion, it was a felony for the Imperial Army to abandon the city they were guarding, so no Shanyue people noticed that Zhao Hu and they had quickly slipped away.

When Zhao Hu left the city, he had already finished dinner in the Shanyue camp, resting and resting, planning the battle.

In the main camp, Lei Ming was asking Tang Feng: "Uncle, the other leaders have a lot of opinions now, they have sacrificed twenty or thirty thousand people, but they have not even broken through the city gate, and they accuse me of being cowardly and avoiding the battle, saying that my soldiers have only sacrificed two or three thousand people."

"I think I'm afraid I'll blame my uncle if it drags on any longer, now that we all have siege experience, ice oil should be usable, right? No, no, our food stocks are almost at the end of our stockpiles. ”

Tang Feng smiled, it seems that his nephew is impatient, but as he said, he killed so many people in the battle without making any progress, and he can't explain to those leaders, in case they think that the reputation of the mountain group is fake, it will not be good.

So he nodded and said, "Since you want to use ice oil, then tonight, gather the leaders and let them see the tribes in the source of Shanyue, which are not comparable to these small tribes." ”

"Yes!" Lei Ming immediately said excitedly.

At the sudden summoning of the night, most of the Shanyue soldiers stood up weakly, and they thought that they were going to prepare for a night attack again.

The Shanyue soldiers were not interested in such useless work, because during the night attack, more people fell on the road and were trampled to death by themselves than in battle. After so many days of ineffective fighting, the fierce and belligerent Shanyue soldiers lost their interest in fighting.

However, after discovering that the whole battalion was mobilized and everyone was allowed to light torches, the Shanyue soldiers were a little excited, could they be preparing for an all-night siege operation?

But when they saw a catapult taking the lead, everyone was stupid, especially the leaders.

Why are you using catapults again? Even if this catapult is well-made and may work better than before, what is the use of having only one? Do you want to rely on such a catapult to break the city?

Suspicious, tens of thousands of torches followed the catapult to the firing distance.

The catapult began to reorient and saw the slinger light the refueled stones, which then flew towards the city in the distance. The flint flew in the night sky, it was beautiful to look at, but it hit the city gate, and the accuracy was still so bad?