Chapter 512: Everything is ready
Liu Zheng didn't let Tai Shici and the others be idle at night, because after the feint attack during the day, the soldiers in the entire Xiangyang City were already physically and mentally exhausted. If the attack is stopped and they are given a night's rest, the day's work will be lost.
After a night's rest, the lost energy is back, and tomorrow he will be a good man again, but at night Liu Zheng continues to send people to harass, this will continue, and the tired state will only continue to deepen, although some people may rotate to rest, or even relax their guard, but it doesn't matter.
At least more than half of the people will continue to choose to stick to the city tower, and Liu Zheng is not sure about the mentality of the guard on the city tower, but Liu Zheng believes that with his historical qualifications, he will definitely not be an incompetent person if he can become Liu Bei's trust.
He will definitely be on the tower day and night, waiting for Liu Zheng's people to attack.
As Liu Zheng expected, Li Yan, who had not closed his eyes for a day and a night, really continued to stick to the city tower at night, his eyes were already bloodshot, and his spirit was a little trance, but the whole person still seemed to have some fighting spirit, every time the horn of attack sounded under the city, Li Yan was always the first to stand up and command his men and horses to counterattack.
In the evening, Li Yan finally felt that the enemy troops outside the city were obviously working harder when attacking, at least not a feint attack like the daytime, and there were still some substantial attacks at night.
In any case, at least the enemy troops outside the city have already sent people to the city gate to attack the city gate, and the muffled sound and constant shaking of the city wall with the city hammer hitting the city gate can make these defenders on the city tower sense the existence of the enemy army under the city.
Although it was night, the defenders on the tower could not see how many men and horses were attacking the city, but the enemy army was indeed attacking the city gate, which must make the defenders fight 120,000 points of spirit and keep defending.
He didn't let all the men and horses go to attack the city, but every time he let the two thousand soldiers go to run immediately, one hour for another, and then the others set aside a part of the guard, part of the rest, to recuperate, because tomorrow is the time of the real battle.
When the sun had just risen the next day, Liu Zheng, who had slept comfortably, got up from the camp, and the shouting and killing outside had stopped.
This was specially ordered by Liu Zheng, in the morning, there was no need to harass anymore, let the brothers who had retreated have a good rest.
Then, eat a full meal and start today, the real siege.
Liu Zheng was hung for a day, his expression was tense for almost two days, even if he was an iron man, he was also exhausted, Liu Zheng launched a general attack at this time, this Xiangyang City, can be broken.
After Liu argued, he began to instruct his subordinates to make a fire to make rice, they came from Changsha, and they couldn't bring much food, after all, it was a surprise attack, but fortunately, Zulang's fleet loaded with grain and grass for more than half a month, and it was only a few days ago, and there was still a lot of grain and grass, so it was no problem to eat a full meal.
By the time the sun showed a little bit of power, and the weather began to get hot, Liu Zheng's army had already gathered under Xiangyang City.
This time, the remaining men and horses of the 20,000 army are all here, and after a few days of fighting, there are still 17,000 people in the 20,000 army.
However, relying on these people, Liu Zheng still has a lot of confidence in conquering Xiangyang City, after all, now that he looks at the city tower, those defenders are like candles in the wind, crumbling.
"Soldiers, today is the time for us to break through Xiangyang City, capture Liu Biao, capture Xiangyang City, occupy Jingzhou, the first soldier to enter the city, I promoted him to Tun Chief, the general of the advanced city, and the official was promoted to one level!"
You must know that Liu Zheng's official positions, if you want to be promoted, but it is very difficult, in addition to the outstanding military exploits, either you have real talent and real learning, Liu Zheng is only talented, even if it is just a mere Qu Chang, they are all strong in martial arts, unless they are high-achieving students who graduated from the military academy, they are qualified.
With Liu Zheng's shout, the soldiers of Liu Zheng's army under the city, under the leadership of Tai Shici and Zu Lang, began to launch the largest wave of attacks, heading towards Xiangyang City.
On the tower of Xiangyang City, this time, Liu Biao also came here in person, because on the first day, he had already felt it, if Liu Zheng was just a feint, then the next day, it would definitely be a real siege.
At this critical juncture, Liu Biao could not still sit still, he stood anxiously on the city tower, watching the enemy troops outside the city gather one after another to the city gate, although they were in the city tower, constantly throwing some defensive equipment, but the other party's people were not afraid of life and death at all, or indomitable, swarming to gather under the city.
Seeing that the city gate was crumbling and could be broken at any time, Liu Biao couldn't help but glance at Li Yan.
As soon as he thought of Li Yan's previous heroic words, Liu Biao couldn't help but want to scold, and if he couldn't keep Xiangyang, he would say it earlier, but Li Yan also said that he could keep it, which made Liu Biao's current situation a little dilemma.
"Li Yan, what's going on now, the enemy army is going to come in!"
Li Yan also wanted to cry without tears at this time, he did guard it for many days, and now it is the sixth day, what he said to Liu Biao at the beginning was that he could hold on for five or six days, as long as the reinforcements arrived, the situation could be alleviated.
But what they didn't expect was that reinforcements from Changsha County did not come.
"Lord, it's not that we can't hold this Xiangyang City, but our reinforcements haven't come yet, and that's the point."
Li Yan didn't want to argue with Liu Biao, because in Liu Biao's anger, the argument would only die faster, and the only way was to divert the point of hatred and let Liu Biao blame the responsibility for the delay in the arrival of reinforcements this time.
Saying this, Liu Biao really reacted.
"Cai Mao, this bastard, it's been six days, even if he climbs, he has climbed from Changsha to Xiangyang, he hasn't come yet, when he comes, I must offend him!"
When Cai Zhong, who was standing beside Liu Biao, heard that Liu Biao wanted to cure his eldest brother's sins, he felt happy in his heart, and even cursed, it was best to remove Cai Mao, so that the Cai family could return to his hands.
However, Cai Zhong was also smart, and knew that Liu Biao was now helpless, so he hurriedly stood up and said a word to Liu Biao.
"My lord, don't panic, we still have a killer weapon that we haven't taken out."
Cai Zhong opened his mouth to speak, which made Liu Biao's eyes fall on Cai Zhong's body, and then remembered something, and his face immediately lit up.
"Yes, yes, why did I forget this, quick, bring that woman up!"