"Report ——!"

A herald rushed to the front of Liu De, the general of the Changsha Army, from a distance, knocked on one knee with a sliding step, ignored the dust raised on the ground, clenched his fists with both hands, and said breathlessly: "General, general, Huang Qu will ask for reinforcements!" ”

As soon as the words fell, another herald came in the distance, also like a slippery step knocking on one knee, panting and shouting: "General, General Wei Qu, General Wei Qu asks for reinforcements!" ”

“……”

Liu De stared at the Kunyang city wall in the distance with an expressionless face, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.

Qu general, that is, the general of the department, generally refers to the general who is in charge of the size of 1,000 to 2,000 troops, according to personal ability, there are general who commands 1,000 people, and there are also general generals who command 2,000 people - as for 2,000 people and above, 3,000 people are called partial generals.

Just now, after Qu Shuai Guan Shuo gave the order to attack the city, Liu De sent Huang Ji, Wei Hong, and Gao Yu to command two thousand generals, and ordered Huang Ji and Wei Hong to be responsible for the main attack, while Gao Yu led his crossbowmen to reinforce the two.

In other words, he sent out a full four thousand foot soldiers and two thousand crossbowmen in one go.

However, in less than half an hour, Huang Ji and Wei Hong sent people to ask for reinforcements one after another......

Of course, asking for reinforcements does not mean that the soldiers under Huang Ji and Wei Hong have been wiped out, but more accurately, the casualties of the troops on the battlefield have exceeded or are about to exceed the tolerance of the soldiers.

This range of tolerance has always been different for different armies.

The rabble may collapse when the casualties reach 10%, while the range of well-trained soldiers is about 30%, and beyond this limit, there may be cowardice, slackness, and even rout.

Of course, since ancient times, there have been no shortage of armies that have suffered casualties of fifty percent, or even seventy percent, but they can still fight bravely, but that kind of elite army is obviously a minority, and most of the well-trained armies, the ability of non-commissioned soldiers to withstand casualties is between 30% and 50%, and this is already a very good.

And the 2,000 infantry under Huang Ji and Wei Hong each lost nearly half of their soldiers in just half an hour, a full 2,000 people.

If you simply convert, it means that every time you blink an eye, there is a Changsha sergeant who dies in battle.

I have to say that this is too fast, even if Liu De has already guessed that attacking Kunyang today will definitely pay a heavy price, he is also shocked by the speed of this casualty.

This kind of casualty speed is almost as fast as the fierce battle he fought when attacking Zhaoling County.

"Why are the casualties so severe?"

He asked, frowning.

One of the heralds explained: "Back to the general, the defenders defending Kunyang City at the moment are guards with the banner of 'Nanyang', they are fully armored and well-trained......

Liu De didn't continue to listen, because he understood the word 'Nanyang' as soon as he heard it.

He had already learned the news that Ye County had stationed three thousand Nanyang soldiers in Kunyang County, and now, Kunyang County had sent these Nanyang soldiers to the southern city wall.

Each was a well-trained regular army, but the other had the help of the city walls, so it was no wonder that his soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing Liu De frowning and silent for a long time, one of the heralds cautiously reminded: "General, General Huang Qu will ask for reinforcements......

"And General Wei Qu." Another herald also hurriedly reminded.

“……”

Liu De glanced at the two heralds, then looked up at the battle situation in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Order Huang Ji and Wei Hong, and order them to hold on for a while, and I will send someone to replace them later." ”

"Yes!"

The two heralds clenched their fists and left.

At this time, Liu De turned his head to a henchman next to him and said, "You immediately go to this formation to ask to see Qu Shuai, tell Qu Shuai, and say...... Kunyang used the Nanyang army to defend the city, so that within half an hour, half of my 4,000 infantry soldiers were killed and wounded, considering that most of my remaining 4,000 troops were recruited in Dingling and Zhaoling, I implore that the offensive be postponed and gradually consume the physical strength of the Nanyang soldiers on the opposite side...... That's all, go for it. ”

"Yes!"

The henchmen guard clenched his fists, immediately turned his horse's head, and rode his horse in the direction of his own formation.

After a while, this person came to the place where Qu Shuai Guan Shuo was, clasped his fists towards the latter, and relayed the words of the general Liu De to Guan Shuo as they were.

After hearing this, Guan Shuo pouted slightly, and looked in the direction of Kunyang with a solemn face.

Liu De is right, although for a siege battle, the loss of 2,000 soldiers is far from serious, but the loss of 2,000 soldiers in half an hour is still relatively serious.

This means that Kunyang County's ability to defend the city is quite strong, at least for now.

In this case, it is not a wise choice to forcibly attack the city, and the smarter way is to use a weaker army to consume the Nanyang army, wait until the Nanyang army is tired, and then send the elite to attack the city wall in one go, which is the best policy.

Thinking of this, Guan Shuo nodded and said, "Okay, you go and reply to Liu De, just do what he wants." …… In addition, I will send an order to Hu to send some troops to assist him. ”

"Yes!"

Liu De's guards clenched their fists and left.

Seeing this, Guan Shuo immediately ordered: "Summoning Xiang Hu, ordering him to send two thousand people to reinforce Liu De and put pressure on Kunyang together." …… In addition, I sent someone to contact Xu Bao and Huang Kang, and asked him to immediately send someone to tell me about the current battle situation on the east and west city walls. ”

"Yes!" Left and right immediately responded.

At this time, Liu De's guards had returned to their generals, clasped their fists and said: "General, Qu Shuai has an order, and the general can do what he wants." ”

Liu De nodded, and immediately gave the order: "Pass the order, and order Ju Sheng, Wei Ping, and Zhou Yi to lead the subordinates to replace Huang Ji and Wei Hong." ”

"Yes!"

Immediately, several heralds scattered in all directions, shouting loudly.

"General Liu De has an order and orders Ju Sheng, Wei Ping, and Zhou Yi to lead their subordinates to attack the city and replace Huang Ji and Wei Hong."

"General Liu De has an order and orders Ju Sheng, Wei Ping, and Zhou Yi to lead their subordinates to attack the city and replace Huang Ji and Wei Hong."

“……”

Hearing this order from afar, Liu De's subordinate general Ju Sheng frowned slightly.

You must know that he and Wei Ping's troops suffered heavy losses in the attack on Zhaoling County a while ago, and although they accepted some defeated soldiers from friendly forces, more than half of them were new soldiers in Dingling, Yuncheng, Zhaoling and other counties.

Although his righteous army used the method of 'dividing the land' to offset the hostility of the civilians in various counties to a certain extent, and even recruited a group, how could these new soldiers be sent to the battlefield after only going through the most basic training in just a few days?

You must know that Kunyang County on the opposite side has just defeated the troops of Huang Ji and Wei Hong - don't say that those two Qu generals are still struggling to attack the city, it is just a dead end, otherwise how could General Liu De send them to replace Huang and Wei?

"It seems that I want to consume the physical strength of the other side......

Ju Sheng thought secretly in his heart.

At this moment, the herald sent by Liu De was already panting and rushed to Ju Sheng, knocked on the ground and clenched his fists and said: "General Ju Qu, the general has an order, ordering you to lead the army to attack the city with Wei Ping and Zhou Yi, and replace Huang Ji and Wei Hong. ”

"With a group of new pawns, even if you want to attack, you can't do it......

muttered in his heart, Ju Sheng nodded solemnly: "Please return to the general, Ju Sheng will take the order!" ”

Immediately, he raised his arms and shouted: "I am the general of Qu Ju Sheng, my soldiers obey the order, and the general orders us to take over the soldiers in front of me to attack the city......"

As Ju Sheng expected, as soon as he heard the word 'siege', the new soldiers under his command showed panic and anxiety, and there was a lot of controversy for a while, and the originally neat team was also a little chaotic.

Seeing this, Ju Sheng immediately raised his voice and shouted: "The military order must not be disobeyed, and those who violate the order will be killed on the spot!" ”

Under his deterrence, those new soldiers were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything, seeing this, Ju Sheng drew his sword and pointed to the distant county town of Kunyang, and shouted in his mouth: "Listen to my orders, the whole army will move forward!" ”

At the sound of an order, the soldiers under his command walked quickly in the direction of the city wall with fairly neat steps.

Seeing the new pawns walking past him with a panicked expression, Ju Sheng shook his head slightly.

He knew very well that the vast majority of these new pawns would not survive, no matter how much he slowed down the offensive.

But with his position and position in the army, he couldn't make any changes, so he could only obey the order and take this group of new pawns to die, hoping that these new pawns could successfully consume the physical strength of the Kunyang guards, and it was best to let the opposite side suffer casualties.

"Knock knock!"

"Knock knock!"

After a burst of drums, Qu generals Huang Ji and Wei Hong led their soldiers who had suffered half of the casualties like a receding tide and retreated from the southern city wall of Kunyang.

At this time, the soldiers under their command had already been exhausted by the huge casualties and continuous fierce fighting, and their morale plummeted, and as soon as they heard that they could retreat, they immediately retreated cleanly.

Of course, Sun Xiu and Chen Mo on the city wall knew that this was the rebel army attacking the city in rotation, and they also took this opportunity to withdraw all the Nanyang soldiers who had held on the city wall so far, and replaced them with a thousand Nanyang soldiers.

"Kill!"

With the rebel general Wei Ping's order, the second round of the rebel offensive began.

I saw that the thousands of troops under the command of Ju Sheng, Wei Ping, and Zhou Yi, who were mixed with old and new pawns, poured to the city wall in an uproar, and received the long ladder that the Kunyang guards did not have time to push down because they were in a hurry to rotate.

Soon, the scene of an ant colony attached to the wall reappeared.

Sun Xiu, the general of the Nanyang Army, thought that this was another vicious battle, but as soon as he met the enemy, he keenly discovered that the strength of this second group of rebels was far inferior to that of the first batch, although they were also fully armoured.

『…… I see, this must be a new pawn replenished by the rebels after the Battle of Zhaoling. Aha!'

Thinking of this, Sun Xiu's spirits were greatly lifted.

At the same time, Zhao Yu, under the protection of Jingnu and Niu Heng, listened to the sound of the rebels hitting the city gate with a rushing car, and looked at the massive rebels outside the city, thinking about how to break the enemy.