Chapter 737: Retreat in the face of difficulties

Ah Hui Lan seems to have some understanding of this Yiling County.

The previous spies should have been sent by Ah Huilan, and these spies almost inquired about the situation near Yiling County.

After the news was transmitted back to Ah Huilan, Ah Huilan had a deeper understanding of Yiling County, so he dared to lead soldiers and horses to surround Yiling County.

Perhaps it was precisely because he knew that there were only thousands of soldiers and horses in Yiling County, and he was not afraid, that Ah Huilan would be so bold and directly lead the soldiers and horses to compete with Liu Zheng head-on.

"I really don't know if you Southern Barbarians are arrogant or impatient."

For Ah Hui's decision, Liu Zheng just sneered.

Although there were only a few thousand soldiers and horses in Yiling City at this time, Liu Zheng did not think that a single Xiongxi tribe could break the county seat of Yiling by relying on these tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers and horses.

After all, no matter what, this Yiling is also a county seat, although the city tower is not high, and the defenders are not many, but there are thousands of soldiers and horses guarding, and the people of these barbarian tribes are not good at attacking the city, but it is not easy to rely on the numerical advantage to directly break the county seat of Yiling.

Anyway, while Liu Zheng looked around, he didn't see complex siege equipment outside Yiling County, which means that these barbarian tribes have no reason to attack the city, and such a siege is tantamount to death.

"Whether it's arrogant or not, you'll know right away, since you don't want to open the city gate and let us in, then we'll have to come in ourselves."

Ah Hui couldn't talk about Liu Zheng in language, and he didn't plan to talk nonsense with Liu Zheng at the moment.

After not deceiving the county seat of Yiling, Ah Huinan planned to attack directly.

Ah Hui Mo didn't continue to say anything, and soon began to gather these barbarian warriors on the periphery.

Originally, Liu Zheng thought that the barbarian warriors outside the Yiling City were at most more than 10,000 people.

But when he learned from Ah Hui's mouth that the barbarian warriors outside were actually all the soldiers and horses of the Xiongxi tribe, a total of nearly 50,000 people.

This news will still make Liu Zheng feel a lot of pressure.

Although he has Gao Shun, Lu Bu and others stationed on this city wall, he may not be inferior if he fights, but the weakness of the soldiers and horses will make the people in the city feel panicked.

Just when Liu Zheng was still puzzled, the barbarian warriors outside the city had already begun to attack the city tower.

At this time, the barbarian warriors of Wuyang and Wuyang let out some wild roars, and at the same time, under the guidance of Ah Huilan, they rushed to the gate of the city of Yiling County.

This attack was even more powerful than the last one, when there were only two or three thousand men.

The movement caused was even more outrageous, and in the blink of an eye, the thousands of barbarian warriors who took the lead had already rushed to the downstairs where they lived at the west gate of Yiling City.

The shouting of killing came up from under the city tower, which was exciting and made people's blood boil.

Liu Zheng nervously patrolled back and forth on the city tower, and Lu Bu also had a gloomy face at the moment, without any words, and kept observing the battle on the city tower.

Only Gao Shun was busy at the moment, and quickly commanded the soldiers in charge of defense on the city tower to continue to defend.

Fire oil, rolling wood, arrow shooting, and even some catapults loaded on the city tower are bombarded outside the city at this moment, and these equipment that give up defending the city do not cost money.

Because he had long known that the county seat of Yiling might be attacked, Shiwu had prepared a large number of city defense equipment some time ago.

These city defense equipment played a huge role in this siege battle.

Originally, the soldiers under Shiwu had some experience in defending the city. The thousands of soldiers and horses he brought over with money were all standing troops in Jiaozhou, and their offensive ability may not be good, but they just defended the city, so they had a lot of experience, so they would not be held back at this time.

In addition, there are also Gao Shun's trapping camp soldiers who are responsible for assisting in the defense.

With the defense of these soldiers and horses, those barbarian warriors under the city really didn't take advantage of it for a while.

Liu Zheng has not fought with these people from the Nanban tribe, the only time is by the Youxi River, ambushed by the people of these Xiongxi tribes, but that time he did not fight with the other party, this siege battle is the first confrontation in the real sense, but from the perspective of the offensive rhythm of these people, the rhythm and experience of their engagement are not very good.

Some of the soldiers sent out in front rushed to the bottom of the city tower, and immediately carried huge rams to storm the city gate and smash the city open.

However, as the rolling logs on the city tower fell, after scattering the barbarian warriors who were carrying the hammer of the city, Gao Shun directly ordered people to pour down the fire oil, and the city gate was in flames for a while, and no one dared to approach the city gate at this time.

Losing the possibility of attacking the city gates, these people wanted to take the city walls directly through the ladders.

It's a pity that these people don't have many ladders, and the only few ladders have just been erected on the city tower, and they were directly pushed by Gao Shun's people, and after repeating it several times, these people from the Nanban tribe haven't even gone up to the city tower at all.

On the contrary, morale has gradually become weaker.

By observing the rhythm of these Nanban tribes attacking the city, Liu Zheng finally had some understanding of the soldiers of these Nanban tribes.

The people of these Nanban tribes do not have a high level of education, and their level of civilization is not as strong as that of the Han Dynasty. But these Nanban tribes also have their advantages, that is, they are extremely brave.

Fearless to follow Ah Huilan, with Ah Huilan's command and dispatch, he rushed to Yiling County without his life, and still did not choose to retreat under the condition of constantly suffering from the baptism of artillery.

Such a persistent soldier, except for those elite soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng, who have such terrifying combat power, it is difficult for some other soldiers and horses to do it.

After they did not gain any advantage after the attack of the small half-meeting, their morale also reached a critical point, and the number of people who charged slowly decreased, and Ah Huinan also slowed down the pace of attacking the city tower.

After losing three or four thousand men, Ah Huinan chose to temporarily withdraw his troops and did not continue the attack.

This kind of offensive means without sharp engineering equipment, just using the population to attack, is tantamount to a moth to a fire.

In less than half an hour of offensive battle, Liu Zheng did not lose any soldiers and horses on his side, and only a dozen people died, who were shot by the enemy's arrows.

On the other hand, Ah Huilan lost at least three or four thousand men and horses, but for the tens of thousands of troops he had now, a few thousand men and horses were nothing.

Ah Huilan retreated for the time being, but did not withdraw, but let the army continue to surround the county seat of Yiling, as if he was preparing some powerful siege equipment.

I came too hurriedly before, and I didn't prepare the engineering equipment to storm Yiling County.