"Ah——!!h

I couldn't hear what he was shouting, but he knew that a roar like thunder suddenly sounded on the battlefield, and immediately, thousands of rebel soldiers who climbed along the long ladder started a fierce battle with the Nanyang soldiers defending the city.

In the constant sound of ping-pong weapons touching, sometimes mixed with screams, it was the Nanyang soldier who was unfortunately pierced through the body by the enemy's spear, or the rebel soldier who fell from the long ladder with fear and attachment.

Strategy and tactics have turned pale at this moment, and the only thing that can win a decisive victory is the quality of the soldiers of both sides, and the momentum of not fearing life and death.

"Hold the line and don't take a step back."

In the western section of the south city wall, Sun Xiu, the general of the Nanyang Army, held a sharp sword in his hand, his eyes were like torches, while watching the battle situation on the city wall, he walked slowly, and loudly encouraged the soldiers on the city wall who were fighting bravely to kill the enemy: "We are the sharp soldiers of the country, and General Wang relies on them, even if the enemy army is several times larger than me, we must also firmly believe that our Nanyang Army ...... Invincible! ”

"Wow!"

The morale of the Nanyang soldiers on the city wall was greatly boosted, roaring like wild beasts, firmly nailed to the side of the battlement, even if the rebel soldiers outside the city wall poured up like ants attached to the wall, they did not retreat a single step.

Blocked!

The rebels' most ferocious first offensive!

After glancing around, Sun Xiu, who did not find any changes or abnormalities, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just like Zhao Yu, he also knows that the first wave of offensive is very critical, especially in siege warfare, as long as he can forcibly suppress the momentum of the enemy at the moment of the first encounter, then his own soldiers will be much more at ease psychologically, and then as long as they don't make mistakes, they can basically stalemate until the end of this round of attacks; On the other hand, if you are suppressed by the opponent's momentum, then the next defense will become very difficult.

Fortunately, the first wave of the rebels' offensive was next, but it was just ......

“……”

Turning his head to look at the rebel soldiers outside the city, a trace of worry flashed on Sun Xiu's seemingly expressionless face.

"There are too many, the rebels outside the city ......"

Sun Xiu thought secretly.

Based on his years of experience in the army, he judged that there were about 30,000 rebels outside the city, but there were only 3,000 Nanyang soldiers under his command......

That's ten times the number of troops.

Even if he is well-trained, he can't exchange one for ten......

"Ahh

With a scream, a Nanyang soldier was pierced in the abdomen by a spear in the hands of the rebels, covering the wound and retreating again and again.

And the rebel soldier was not happy, I saw him step on the wall, and before he jumped on the city wall, he was stabbed in the chest and abdomen by three or four Nanyang soldiers nearby at the same time, but he was full of horror, and his left hand was desperately grabbed in mid-air, but finally fell off the city wall.

Sun Xiu immediately stepped forward quickly, and together with another soldier, dragged the soldier who had been severely injured in the abdomen to the inside of the city wall.

I saw that this soldier was dripping blood from his mouth, and the wound on his abdomen was like a spring of earth, gushing out with blood, and in the blink of an eye, a large piece of the armor on his body was stained red, and even dripping to the ground, to the wall tiles that had not faded their dark red color after many days.

"It's okay, hold on, I'll have someone carry you down the wall."

With a solemn expression of relief, Sun Xiu shouted at the top of his voice: "Someone, send the wounded soldier to the city to bandage, come!" ”

"Sun, Sun Biao...... Ahem......"

The soldier shook Sun Xiu's hand with emotion, unable to speak because his mouth was full of blood.

Under Sun Xiu's order, two soldiers nearby hurriedly came, picked up the Tong Ze, who had been severely injured in the abdomen, and walked slowly down the stairs on the inner side of the city wall.

Seeing the backs of these three people leaving, a trace of gloom flashed in Sun Xiu's eyes.

He knew very well that with the soldier's injuries, there was a chance that he would not survive......

Exhaling slightly, he looked around the wall again with a blank face.

It was purely an extravagant hope to be one enemy and ten, and as soon as he turned his head to look around, more than a dozen soldiers fell within his sight.

In the midst of the cacophony, the soldiers convulsed in pain, and soon lost their breath.

“……”

Sun Xiu unconsciously clenched his fists.

He had known that the rebels outside the city were not a rabble, and he also understood that in this siege battle, his 3,000 soldiers under his command would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and he thought that he had come to his senses, but when his soldiers were killed or wounded, his heart was still as painful as a knife.

But even if he is distressed about the casualties of his subordinates, he will never allow his subordinates to take a step back, because the survival of Kunyang is related to the safety of Ye County, and the safety of Ye County is directly related to Nanyang Wancheng.

He would never allow the rebel army outside the city under the banner of 'Changsha' to break through Kunyang and Yexian and threaten his Nanyang County from the rear, so that General Wang Shangde and Wang would fall into the precipitous situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back.

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and shouted loudly again: "Hold the line, don't retreat!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard only a few swishing sounds, and dozens of arrows flew over his head and shot towards the rebel soldiers outside the city.

It was an arrow shot from several arrow towers in the city, by the crossbowmen of the Nanyang Army under his command.

It turned out that in the last battle of Kunyang, the hundreds of crossbowmen belonging to the Kunyang County Army hesitated that there was not enough space on the city wall, and could only stand inside the city and shoot outside the city, so the performance was extremely poor, considering this, Zhao Yu instructed Chen Cai after the war, and asked Chen Cai to take the workers of many brotherhood workshops in the city to urgently build some arrow towers, so that the crossbowmen could stand on the arrow towers and shoot arrows outside the city, which could not only cover the foot soldiers on the city wall, but also effectively shoot the enemy troops outside the city.

After receiving Zhao Yu's order, Chen Cai led thousands of brotherhood members in the city to build some arrow towers on all four city walls, one every twenty zhang, which is really a lot.

Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, in order to prevent collapse, these towers were built on small ground, and the 'lookouts' on the towers could only stand a dozen crossbowmen at best.

This also makes the role of these arrow towers very small, and they are not enough to curb and combat the momentum of the rebel siege.

Of course, something is better than nothing, and under the urging and shouting of the Nanyang army commanders, the Nanyang army crossbowmen on the row of arrow towers on the inner side of the southern city wall tirelessly repeated the work of shooting arrows and loading crossbow arrows.

As for aiming, there was no need to aim carefully at all, because there were rebels everywhere about a mile from the city, and it was rare to miss unless they were blocked by enemy shields or armor.

However, the rebels outside the city also had crossbowmen, compared to the scale of the salvo of more than a dozen people in a team of the Nanyang army's crossbowmen, once the rebels outside the city launched a salvo, it was thousands of arrows, and the head and face were smashed down like a torrential rain.

No, seeing that the offensive momentum of their own infantry was suppressed by the defenders, the rebel crossbowmen outside the city immediately launched a volley.

"Arrow Strike!"

"Arrow Strike!"

Several Nanyang army commanders with arrows shouted at the top of their voices.

Sun Xiu was also shocked, waving his hand and shouting: "Everyone raise their shields to avoid arrows......"

Before he finished speaking, the thousands of arrows arrived as scheduled, and some Nanyang soldiers who had no time to react were shot by arrows one after another, some were shot in the limbs, some were shot in the body, and some were shot in the neck, and fell to the ground wailing.

"I've been shot, save ......"

"Help, save my ......"

Even the soldiers of the Nanyang Army reacted like ordinary people after being hit by the arrow, covering their wounds while begging for nearby robes.

And their robes did not disappoint them, and they raised their shields, braved the continuous rain of arrows, and dragged their wounded companions to the inner side of the city wall, and then held their shields to defend each other against arrows, and cried out: "Someone has been shot, seriously wounded, and someone needs to take them into the city......"

If these soldiers who were shot by arrows in their limbs, bodies, and necks were lucky, and at least had a chance to call for help, then those soldiers who were shot in the face were probably the most unlucky, and fell to the ground on the spot, and died after a few convulsions of their bodies.

But even so, the Nanyang soldiers on the city wall still did not retreat, and repelled the attacks of the rebels outside the city again and again.

During this period, soldiers were constantly seriously injured, and they were supported by their companions to walk down the city wall and recuperate in the city; Soldiers continue to die in battle, becoming a cold corpse; Soldiers were also sent to the city walls to fill the gaps in defense.

Gradually, the city wall was filled with the corpses of Nanyang soldiers, and under the city walls, the corpses of the rebel soldiers were getting thicker and thicker, but the border where these two armies fought was still the line of the wall battlements - Nanyang soldiers, who fulfilled Sun Xiu's promise to Zhao Yu and did not take a step back!

But casualties ......

"Poof—"

Chen Mo stabbed to death a rebel soldier who tried to jump up the city wall along the long ladder with a spear, and while flicking the spear, the corpse on the tip of the spear was pushed out of the city wall while looking around the battle situation on the city wall.

In all fairness, Sun Xiu only gave Chen Mo preliminary permissions, so that Chen Mo could draw troops from the Nanyang soldiers who were waiting in the city according to the needs of the battlefield, and these soldiers were never his subordinates, but even so, the casualties of these Nanyang soldiers still made Chen Mo frown.

It is undeniable that the quality of Nanyang's soldiers is very strong, compared to his uneven black tiger thieves, these soldiers are very stable, neither too strong nor too weak, everyone sticks to their own defensive area dutifully, and it is really worry-free to command.

However, compared with the rebels outside the city, in fact, the Nanyang soldiers were not much stronger, even with the convenience of the city wall, their casualty ratio with the outside of the city was only about one to two or three - this was his own Chen Mo's rough estimate.

"If you continue to fight like this, you won't survive until dusk, I'm afraid that these three thousand Nanyang troops will collapse......

Chen Mo thought secretly.

He didn't know that at this time, the rebel side on the other side was even more anxious than him, whether it was Liu De, the general who commanded the battle one mile away from the city, or Guan Shuo, who was watching the battle from afar.

There is no other reason, but because the losses of the rebels are greater than those of the Nanyang army, and there is more land.