Tai Shici was outside Xiangyang City, struggling to command the battle.

This is the first time that Tai Shici has served as the commander, commanding 20,000 troops to fight, although a little rusty, but the command is indeed smooth, not dragging the mud and water at all, all the steps, he followed Huang Zhong again, studied many times, and experienced a year of training under Huang Zhong's account, and he worked hard to learn the society.

Now is the time to test his learning results, so he naturally has to work hard to perform in front of Liu Zheng, and at the same time let the 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command know that he, a general, is not in vain.

A fierce siege battle intensified, and on Liu Zheng's side, regardless of the cost, under the order to attack the city with all his might, the indestructible Xiangyang City finally began to waver.

The defenders on the city tower have not been idle, in fact, when Liu Zheng's men and horses launched the siege of the city, Li Yan, who had been closely watching Liu Zheng for a few days, also discovered the actions of Liu Zheng and others at the first time, and then he immediately arranged manpower to resist.

Counting the men and horses that were arranged one after another, on this city tower, there were a total of 8,000 people stationed, and the rest of the people were all assigned to other city gates by Li Yan, although Liu Zheng and others have only paid attention to this city gate for the past few days, but it is difficult to guarantee that it is not a suspicious strategy, and several other city gates still need to send hundreds of men and horses to garrison.

If there are at least a few hundred people stationed in the garrison, once the enemy army is discovered, it can be temporarily resisted for one or two, delay for a while, wait for support, if there are no guards at all, once the enemy army appears, maybe it will be dispersed, and it will start from those gates.

Eight thousand soldiers and horses were stationed at the city gate, and when Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses began to attack the city, all the countermeasures, as early as a few days ago, Li Yan had already come up with them, and a large number of defensive equipment were placed on the city tower.

All kinds of straw, fire oil, ropes for anti-cloud ladders, rolling logs, etc.

However, no matter how well prepared Li Yan was, he didn't expect that Liu Zheng would actually set up a weapon like a trebuchet.

This made the defensive equipment prepared by Li Yan useless for a while, Liu Zheng's people did not use the ladder to climb the city at all, but used trebuchets and arrow rain to suppress the fire on the battlefield, and then cover the infantry under the city, and use the city hammer to storm the city gate.

Although the city gate under the city has long been sealed by Li Yan with a boulder, once the city gate is broken, it is only a matter of time before Liu Zheng's people move away from the boulder.

After realizing that this defensive battle was not easy to fight, Li Yan thought that he could defend Hexiangyang City without damaging the soldiers and horses, but when he saw that the enemy army under the city was breaking the city, Li Yan could only bite the bullet and let his subordinates, at the risk of their lives, go up and use fire oil to stop Liu Zhengjun's breaking of the city.

At the same time, he ordered some archers to counterattack, not seeking to kill Liu Zheng's people, but only to block the attack of some enemy trebuchets and arrow rain, so that the defending soldiers had enough time to counterattack.

However, from time to time, soldiers on the castle tower were killed, shot by arrows, hit by huge timber projected by trebuchets, and so on.

The first round of attacks soon passed under the strict defense of the castle tower.

The city tower has not been broken yet, it's not that Liu Zheng's people can't open it, but the defense of Xiangyang City is too strong, and now it's nightfall, the sun has completely set, and there is only a piece of colorful glow left in the sky, and in a few minutes, the sky will be completely dark, and there is no point in attacking the city at that time, but it is not conducive to Liu Zheng's side.

However, although the city tower was not defeated, the defenders on the city tower had lost a lot, and this kind of siege panic would only continue to increase, and many defenders in the city knew that Xiangyang City was difficult to hold.

If Liu Zheng continues to attack the city tomorrow, he is afraid that most of the cities will not be able to hold it, and this panic will continue to increase. Spread to the entire Xiangyang City, when the time comes, there will definitely be deserters in the city, and even the people will flee, Liu Zheng is deliberately letting this panic spread, which will only make the soldiers in the city unstable.

It was beneficial for Liu Zheng to continue to attack Xiangyang City.

Now these defenders can still defend Xiangyang so tenaciously, firstly, they feel that Liu Zheng's men and horses cannot break Xiangyang City in just a few days, and secondly, they believe that they can rely on reinforcements, and they only need to wait for a few days to be able to wait for reinforcements from Changsha County, and then they don't need to be afraid of Liu Zheng's people.

And Liu Zheng knew what they were thinking, and deliberately delayed the time of the battle until the fifth day, because according to Liu Zheng's speculation, the fifth day was the day when Changsha's reinforcements arrived.

If on the fifth day, the reinforcements from Changsha had not yet appeared, and the situation on the side of Xiangyang became more and more anxious, it would only make the defenders in the city even more afraid.

After a night of silence, Liu Zheng let his people start to rest in the evening, and after counting the battle damage, Liu Zheng found that in this fierce battle, there were only more than 2,000 casualties.

Although the siege seemed to be huge, most of them were fired with trebuchets and archers, and the infantry that stormed the city was only three or four thousand, and after some of them were killed and wounded, they began to continue to send them, so it was normal that only more than 2,000 people were killed or wounded. 、

Presumably, the side defending the city also lost about 1,000 people, or even less than 1,000 people, but the biggest blow to the defending side should be Liu Zheng's method of attacking the city, making it very difficult for them to defend.

Regardless of the casualties, it can be delayed for a while, and this night, Li Yan on the city tower stayed awake all night.

As soon as he thought that the attack under the city might be more ferocious tomorrow, he couldn't sleep at all, and he didn't even know how to defend, but what supported him was the reinforcements from Changsha County that would arrive soon.

As long as he continues to hold out for a day or two, I believe that reinforcements from Changsha County will arrive, and then his pressure will be much less.

With that goal in mind, he forced himself to keep defending here.

On the second day, Liu Zheng did not continue to launch a large-scale attack, the previous attack, the first was to carry out a tentative siege drill, and the second was to give the defenders in the city some powerful looks, telling them that Liu Zheng had the strength to attack the city. Cause them some panic.

His real goal has been achieved, so he is not in a hurry to attack at all, but Liu Zheng is not idle, and asks Tai Shici to dispatch his men and horses to carry out a round of feints every half an hour, without launching a charge, just blowing the horn, bringing a few thousand people, and walking outside the city.

Let the defenders of the city not sit idle, dampen their spirits, and keep them in high tension at all times.