The next attack was very casual.

Liu Zheng's men and horses continued to use trebuchets to attack the towers.

Only this time the attack was more dispersed than the previous one, and instead of such a dense firepower projection as before, the trebuchet was divided into two parts.

One part does a projection first, and then the second part starts after three to five minutes.

At such intervals, the density of fire decreased, but it was more able to attract the attention of the defenders on the towers.

Because of the continuous attack, those defenders cowered behind the city wall and did not emerge, so Liu Zheng did not know how many defenders were on the city tower at this time, but what he could know was that the people in the city must be more and more difficult to suppress because of the lack of water and food.

Most of the defenders who were responsible for defending the city would be sent to suppress the rebellion of the people. In this way, when more and more soldiers and horses are dispatched, and the number of defenders in charge of city defense is getting smaller and smaller, Liu Zheng and others will have the opportunity to break through the city wall, and at the same time, if the people in the city riot more and more powerful, when the defenders in the city can not suppress it, there will even be people who surrender directly.

In addition to these results, it is also possible that the soldiers participated in the rebellion, and once the water source in the city could not meet the daily needs of the soldiers, some disobedient soldiers would begin to seize the city gates, and surrender out of the city in order to find a way to survive.

Liu Zheng and Yan Baihu continued to launch a tight attack here, thinking that it would take three days to cause a huge repercussion.

However, to Liu Zheng's surprise, a great change was discovered in the city of Huiji only the next day.

Liu Zheng thought that the defenders in the city would hold out for another two days. But who knows, on the second day, there will be an enemy army in this city that broke through directly from the west gate.

Because Liu Zheng and others distributed their troops at the four city gates, Liu Zheng mainly attacked the north city gate, and Yan Baihu mainly guarded the south city gate, so the garrison at the west city gate was only more than 5,000 people, and it happened that Yan Baihu's soldiers and horses retreated to rest after a wave of siege, and were frightened by the sudden attack of the enemy army at the west city gate, and they were not well defended at all.

In this way, this group of enemy troops broke through the city and fled, and fled directly in the direction of Danyang County.

By the time Liu Zheng received the news, the group had disappeared.

Liu Zheng came over with his own soldiers and horses, and it happened that Yan Baihu had just arrived here, and it was Yan Baihu's younger brother Yan Xing who was in charge of guarding the West City Gate, Yan Xing had also seen Liu Zheng before, and he could be regarded as acquaintances, and he was looking at Yan Baihu and Liu Zheng with a depressed face at this time.

"What about people?"

Yan Baihu was even more anxious than Liu Zheng, and as soon as he got closer, he asked his younger brother.

"Ran away."

Yan Xing hesitated, but still said two words.

"Ran away? How could it be that you ran away, didn't I ask you to bring someone to be stationed here? You can't stop a few soldiers and horses coming out of the city! ”

As soon as Yan Baihu heard his younger brother Yan Xing's words, his face was a little angry.

However, Liu Zheng was relatively calm, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he stopped Yan Baihu from continuing to scold Yan Xing.

turned to Yan Xing to ask.

"Do you see how many soldiers and horses have come out of the city? Who is the leader? ”

Now it is useless to scold Yan Xing, the top priority is to find out who the people who broke through from the city are, how many soldiers there are, and how many people are left in the city at this time, only after figuring out these. Liu Zheng and they were able to make further preparations and plans for the next things.

Yan Xing was still clear about what Liu Zheng asked, he immediately calmed down and began to describe some of the situations he had seen before to Liu Zheng.

"I wrote this down, the number of soldiers and horses who came out of Huiji City was not much, only four or five thousand people, I don't know the military general who led the way, but looking at the armor he was wearing, it should be not a low position, as soon as they appeared, they directly attacked us, and after a part of the outermost people stopped us, they covered the escape of the small group of troops and went directly to the direction of Danyang County."

Yan Xing's description, although brief, is also a detailed description of the situation at that time. After listening to this, Liu Zheng nodded.

"If my guess is correct, this part of the people did not go to Danyang County to ask for help, but directly escaped with some of the most important people in the city."

Liu Zheng didn't know that Liu Miao had already left, and he thought that Liu Miao had left with these breakthrough people this time.

"So, all the important people in the city have fled, and all that is left in the city at this time are just some ordinary soldiers?"

Yan Baihu seemed to understand what Liu Zheng said.

Liu Zheng nodded, turned around and said to Yan Baihu.

"It should be right, the situation in the city is very bad, and the guards know that they can't suppress it, so they can't wait to escape, and he can escape from the West City Gate smoothly now, I'm afraid that he has been thinking about it for several days, knowing that there is a city gate where we are stationed, it is not easy to escape, only to pick the weak West City Gate to escape, and we can enter Danyang County by taking advantage of the situation, I expect that we don't dare to pursue deeply."

Liu Zheng told these people who escaped from the city and broke through the siege about their next plans, and Yan Baihu frowned even more after hearing it.

"Forget it, just run away, I don't plan to kill them here anyway."

Liu Zheng didn't care about these fleeing men and horses, anyway, their goal was just to take down this Huiji City, and now that the guards had fled, there were only some leaderless soldiers and horses left in this Huiji City, and it would be much easier to deal with them.

After he finished analyzing, he decisively ordered Yan Baihu to prepare for the siege with him. And directly attack the current West City Gate, the West City Gate has been extremely weak because a large number of defenders have left the city gate, and the Liu Zheng army that has been gathered, Yan Baihu's army adds up to more than 15,000 people, if they attack the West City Gate together, it is simply a breeze.

With Liu Zheng's affirmation, Yan Baihu naturally would not flinch at all, he was inclined to attack the city directly.

Yan Baihu led the soldiers and horses to join the ranks of attacking Huiji City, and as Liu Zheng expected, the west gate was extremely weak because of a large number of defenders who escaped from the city gate, and the city gate was broken after just a moment of effort.

There were less than 100 defenders, and such a defensive lineup couldn't stop Yan Baihu's ferocious attack at all, but at the cost of losing hundreds of people, it broke through the gates of Huiji City.

Yan Baihu, who had entered the city, was extremely excited. directly plundered a large amount of wealth that originally belonged to the imperial court and used it to supplement his own deficit.