"General, last night was attacked by Chen's army at night, the outer city has been occupied by them, and we have lost nearly seven thousand brothers! The rest of the people have already withdrawn to the inner city, and if you add the people in the city, we still have more than 20,000 people in our hands! A lieutenant general reported to Wang Lin.

Wang Lin, who had not slept all night, seemed to be a little haggard now, and a pair of tired eyes in his sunken eyes were looking at the outer city, where a group of Chen soldiers were walking around, hurriedly collecting the corpses on the ground, and then moving outside the city to be cremated.

"I was careless! I actually ignored Xiao Yao, a key person! With the powerful firearms he possessed, he could penetrate the city gate with a single shot, and Chen Jun could attack the city whenever he wanted! I actually think that Chen Jun will not attack until after the third day! This time it's my fault! Wang Lin blamed himself.

"General Wang doesn't have to blame himself too much! Although the Chen army suddenly attacked at night and caught us off guard, we also fought back fiercely, although we lost 7,000 soldiers, but also let the Chen army leave more than 5,000 corpses! No one won this battle! And we have also withdrawn to the inner city, with our advance defense in the inner city, if the Chen army wants to attack it, then prepare to die more than 10,000 people! Wang Guixian persuaded.

"We can't be careless this time! Those 7,000 brothers desperately dragged down the Chen army, so that we could retreat to the inner city, and we couldn't let them sacrifice in vain! Xiao Yao has a powerful firearm, it is difficult to resist the city gate alone, pass on my order, and demolish some unnecessary houses in the inner city for me! Block the gates with debris and rocks for me! We can't get out, but they don't want to come in! All the soldiers, divided into three parts, took turns to defend the city day and night to resist the siege of Chen's army! Wang Lin was full of fighting spirit again and ordered decisively.

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"Shiro, if it weren't for your gunpowder last night to help us blow up the city gates, we wouldn't have been able to storm the outer city so easily and fight with them, and now we have successfully captured the outer city! I'll take note of your credit! Wu Mingche praised.

"Governor Wu, it's just a gesture, no need! Besides, it wasn't my infantry battalion that rushed in to fight the defenders, everyone suffered heavy casualties, so don't take credit for it now! Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

When he saw that the two sides had suffered more than 10,000 casualties in a fierce battle all night, the battle was too tragic! And although he also sent Huang Wenyuan to lead the cavalry team to rush in and want a piece of the pie, the cavalry team rushed and killed several times, except for the head, nothing else was harvested at all, not even bags of grain! It seems that Wang Lin is determined to defend Shouyang, and has already moved all the supplies to the inner city, leaving only soldiers in the outer city to fight with Chen Jun!

"The infantry battalion has run out of gunpowder, and it will take some time to bring it over, but our offensive cannot be stopped! So when attacking the inner city next, it can't be as simple as last night, you can easily blow open the city gate and then rush in! It depends on everyone's real skills! Wu Mingche said solemnly.

"Don't worry, there was no infantry battalion of Captain Xiao before, and we attacked the city and how many cities we won! The last general asked the governor for battle, and the main attack on the inner city was handed over to me as a barbarian slave! Ren Mannu said loudly.

"General Ren's troops have suffered a lot of casualties after last night's fierce battle, and the soldiers are already exhausted, if they continue to serve as the main attack, they may not achieve the best results, so it is better for me to take the lead attack!" Zhou Luo also competed.

"Well, last night General Zhou's troops only made a feint outside the city, and did not participate in the fierce battle outside the city, and there were no casualties, okay! This time, the main attack mission of the inner city is handed over to you! Early tomorrow morning, lead the army to attack the city and take the inner city in one fell swoop! Wu Mingche slammed the desk and said.

In the early morning of the second morning, the Chen army in the outer city blew the horns, thousands of soldiers set up an array, in front of the array, there are dozens of long ladders for attacking the city, in addition to the long ladder, there are two wooden cars pushed by dozens of people, the car is tied with a siege ram made of a giant wood more than ten meters long and half a meter in diameter.

"Siege!" Zhou Luo waved the command flag and shouted loudly.

The soldiers of the Chen army, who were lined up in the phalanx, immediately raised their shields, stepped on neat steps, and advanced step by step! The horns are bursting, the battle flags are fluttering, and the soldiers will let out a neat roar every two steps! That formation, that momentum, and that roar, it's like someone is beating your heart rhythmically, suffocating you, shaking you to collapse!

At this time, the defenders at the head of the city had also bent their bows and arrows, aiming at the Chen soldiers who were getting closer and closer under the city!

"Archer prepare!" Zhou Luo shouted loudly,

I saw that the shield soldier holding the shield showed a gap, and a sharp arrow stretched out from it, also aimed at the defenders at the head of the city.

"Put!" The generals of both sides shouted almost simultaneously.

The archers on both sides released their bowstrings at the same time, and the sharp arrows quickly shot at each other, and the arrows staggered back and forth, forming a dense network of arrows above the battlefield! There were people in Chen's army who were shot by arrows and fell, but the others did not retreat, but continued to advance, and finally put the long ladder on the city wall!

"Kill!" With a roar, the soldiers of the Chen army, armed with round shields and broadswords, blocked the other party's dense arrows like raindrops, like monkeys, climbed the long ladder, and climbed towards the city wall one after another, and behind them, there were also archers who intensively shot arrows at the defenders on the city head, providing cover for the soldiers who climbed the city.

"Kill them back, and don't let any of them come up!" The soldiers defending the city also reacted immediately, risking the sharp arrows shot up from below, holding spears and broadswords, as long as Chen soldiers came forward, they would stab them with a spear and cut them with a knife; Or lift a boulder and smash it straight down, turning the entire ladder like dominoes, and solving a row of people at once!

The soldiers defending the city will not take the initiative to knock down the ladder, because they just want the soldiers who ascend the city to line up one after another to send them to death!

And the soldiers who ascended the city also knew that what was waiting for them on the top of the city was either sharp spears and sharp knives, or boulders and hardwoods, but they also had to continue to move forward bravely, because those who ascended first were rewarded with gold and silver, and good fields and beautiful houses! And when you climb up, you may just encounter the opponent's stabbing and sore hands, and you will be tired of killing, and you will avoid the opponent's attack by yourself if you don't want to, and that's the time for you to fight back!

But in the first siege, the soldiers defending the city did not stab their hands sore, nor did they kill until their hands were tired, they repelled several waves of attacks by Chen's army!

Under the walls of the inner city of Shouyang, the corpses of the soldiers of the Chen army are piled up, and the picture is extremely tragic: some were hacked to death by the soldiers defending the city, and their heads were in different places; Some were pierced through the body by spears and fell directly into the ladder; Others were smashed in the head by boulders and killed by random arrows.

There was no progress in the attack on the side of the city wall, and on the side of the city gate, the two battering rams did not have any effect, hundreds of soldiers pushed the battering rams, braved the rain of arrows of the other side, and kept hitting the city gates, but the two wooden gates have not moved at all, and the battering rams are like hitting a wall.

In the first siege, in one morning, Zhou Luo's main attacking force had already suffered more than 2,000 casualties, but still no one could climb the opponent's city wall, and the city gate could not be broken open.

"Fuck! Who are these soldiers recruited by Wang Lin! Kill people so hard! A returning veteran scolded.

"It is rumored that his subordinates used to be robbers and bandits, of course they were ruthless people who killed people without blinking! But now I push that battering ram and hit that gate, it's like hitting a wall, and it doesn't have any effect at all! Did they seal the gates of the city with stones, and they were not going to leave a way out! One of the soldiers in charge of the battering ram complained.

"How did we attack the outer city and the gate was so easily slammed open by us? If the city gate is broken and we rush in and hack them to death, we don't have to be like now, we don't even see the appearance of the opposing defenders clearly, and we will be beaten down by them, and we will take the lives of so many brothers in vain. A soldier remembered the white-knuckle battle in the outer city the night before, the kind of direct hand-to-hand combat between the two sides, which was refreshing!

"I heard that Captain Xiao of the infantry battalion has used up his kind of magical powder called gunpowder, and he is transporting it from Jinling, I don't know when it will arrive, if Captain Xiao makes a move, it will be easy to take this Shouyang City! I remember that in the battle of Shiliang City, the infantry battalion and artillery team that assisted us in the battle, as soon as the artillery hit it, a large part of the cavalry of the Qi army fell, and our brothers only had to rush up and cut it indiscriminately! ”

"Yes, I heard that Captain Xiao's infantry battalion is not only easy to make meritorious contributions, but also has a very low casualty rate, and I haven't seen many brothers die in the Northern Expedition for so long! I wish I could be Captain Xiao's subordinate! ”

"Even if you are a coward, you can also be a soldier of Captain Xiao? However, if Captain Xiao is promoted and we are placed under his command, won't we become his soldiers? ”

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Without Xiao Yao's assistance, Chen's offensive suffered a great setback, which made many soldiers begin to miss the days when they had an infantry battalion to assist them!