"This ......"

On the fourth day, Cao's army suddenly strengthened the offensive, and fortunately reminded everyone last night, otherwise he might have been caught off guard today. Tai Shixiang and other generals were also secretly glad that they didn't mess around, listened to the order, and strengthened their vigilance. Li Ru was different, his brows furrowed slightly, and his face was contemplative.

Zhang Xiu originally wanted to ask if things had changed, but seeing him like this, he had to temporarily suppress this idea and carefully command his defense.

"Cao's army is about to attack the city, and the shield soldiers retreat! Rolling stone, sassal wood preparation! ”

"Saalagi Preparation~"

"Put~"

The sassage wood slid down the ladder, and the Cao soldiers on the ladder were either knocked down or jumped off themselves, either dead or injured.

"Rolling Stone Preparation~"

"Put~"

The rolling stone is different from the sassal wood, but the soldiers of the Ming army have carried out this kind of training, and the accuracy is not bad, so that the siege of the Cao army is slowed down again. However, since Cao's army had stepped up its offensive, it was prepared, and then a more fierce attack broke out.

"Spearmen Ready~"

"Thorn~"

More than ten Cao soldiers had just exposed half of their heads from the battlements, and before they could see the situation at the head of the city, they saw the tip of a spear stabbing at great speed, and wanted to retract it, but it was too late, just a blink of an eye, and the tip of the spear pierced directly into the eye, killing on the spot.

With a "poof", the tip of the gun was withdrawn, and more than ten Cao soldiers suddenly fell down softly, so that most of the Cao soldiers below failed to dodge in time, and were smashed to the ground and seriously injured.

However, it was these few Cao soldiers who were obviously stronger than the others.

I saw that after they dodged the attack of the corpses of their comrades, they used their hands and feet together and quickly climbed towards the city. When he approached the battlement, he did not rush out to look at it, but changed the shield on his back to his hand, went up, and then quickly pounced on the battlement, and at the same time drew his waist knife and slashed at the tip of the spear that stabbed.

The Ming army's clothes and armor are really not said with their mouths, and they are replaced by other spears, and they must have been broken by a knife, but their are very different, after being beheaded, they only left a very obvious knife mark, but they were deflected by the force on it, and they did not stab the shield and pushed it off the city.

Fortunately, there are not many Cao soldiers who came up, although they may be elite, but none of the soldiers of the Ming army have been trained harshly, they are all elite. Immediately, a sword and shield soldier came up and killed him with a little effort.

"Not good, general, Cao Jun really lowered our vigilance, and now ambushed the elite soldiers among the soldiers besieging the city, ready to take us by surprise."

Zhang Xiu also noticed this, but didn't care, and when she heard Li Ru's words, she had to cheer up. At such a short time, more than ten Cao soldiers rushed to the city, and their strength was really not bad, and several of their subordinates were cut down to the ground.

"Looking for death~"

Zhang Xiu's shot was naturally not something that these soldiers could resist, even if the Cao soldiers tried their best to deal with it, they were still stabbed in the throat by a shot and took their lives.

Seeing that Zhang Xiu still looked like he was continuing, Li Ru hurriedly stopped: "General, Cao's army can't make big waves for the time being, but I'm afraid that our side is just a feint, and Cao Cao will put the main force on other sides." ”

Zhang Xiu was taken aback, and immediately said: "That's right, now immediately send an order to the other city gates, they will strengthen the garrison, and they must not let the Cao army take the city." ”

Li Ru nodded, and immediately ordered someone to pass the order to the three generals Tai Shixiang.

The other three sides are the same as this side, and when the third general Tai Shixiang received the order, he was also attacking the Cao army who was killing the head of the city. They also noticed that something was wrong, and their hands were itchy, so they naturally started directly.

However, when the order came, the three generals knew that the matter was big, and if it was not good, their side would be the hidden main direction of attack, and then it would be ......

The third general Tai Shixiang immediately stopped and carefully commanded his subordinates to defend, and at the same time transferred 500 reserve soldiers to the city to strengthen the defensive force.

Timely response broke Cao Jun's conspiracy. Although it lost more than 300 people because of this, Cao's army was even worse, and the losses directly doubled to 3,000 people.

Cao Jun temporarily retreated, and Leping City began to take turns to enjoy lunch.

Today, as Cao's army strengthened its offensive, Li Ru specially ordered it to be richer, because the battle in the afternoon might be very difficult. So the guy took out a lot of meat prepared today, so that one-third of today's meal was meat, and you must know that in the past, it was only one-fifth at the end of the day.

It's just that Li Ru didn't have much appetite when he looked at the food in front of him, so he just ate a few bites casually.

"Strategist, what are you?" After Zhang Xiu finished eating, seeing Li Ru like this, he couldn't help but be a little worried, and asked.

Li Ru simply put down his chopsticks and said: "Today, the Cao army suddenly strengthened the offensive, although it seems that it has killed the city and has the potential to take the city, but in fact, the impact on us is really not big, even if the offensive in the afternoon is a few points stronger, it can only be stronger, and the losses may be more." ”

"But it's only possible, after all, the morning is not so guarded, and the afternoon will be different, and then maybe Cao Jun will add casualties in vain. And Prime Minister Cao Cheng wouldn't have thought of this, so why should it be like this? Is there something else going on? ”

Speaking of this, Li Ru's eyes shrank and said, "I wonder if the soldiers guarding the vat have found out?" ”

Zhang Xiu hadn't been reported before, and when he heard it, he subconsciously shook his head, and then reacted, and hurriedly said: "It's not clear yet, why don't you call Tai Shixiang and them over to ask?" ”

Li Ru nodded immediately, and then called someone over, but did not get useful information.

Could it be that Confucianism is wrong?

While Li Ru was pondering, Zhang Xiu and the others were worried that Cao Jun was coming, and they had already gone to the city. When Li Ru came back to his senses, only the soldiers acting as guards were still beside him.

Li Ru also wanted to go to the city to have a look, but he didn't hear the shouting and killing, and the food in front of him fell into his eyes, so he had to quickly pick up the food in his mouth before getting up and going to the city. When he arrived at the city gate, Cao Jun's shouting of killing came, and Li Ru paused at his feet, turned around and walked towards the vat on both sides.

After looking at them one by one, Li Ru didn't notice anything wrong, he was unwilling, and asked the guards to bring a message to Zhang Xiu, and then turned to other city gates.

It took more than an hour, and Li Ru turned around the four city gates, but still found nothing, which made his doubts inevitably a little more.

Since Zhang Xiu didn't let people come to find him, Li Ru didn't rush to the city, and thought about it carefully to see if he had missed anything-

At present, the Cao army is attacking the city from all sides, and it is still impossible to see which side is attacking, but the momentum is getting bigger and bigger, but it cannot be faked at all. General Zhang and Prime Minister Cao Cheng have a great enmity for killing their sons, and since Prime Minister Cao Cheng is here, it is impossible to give up this opportunity.

It's just that with such an offensive, it's really difficult to take down Leping, at least not in a short period of time. And after a long time, the reinforcements of our army will arrive, and then Cao's army will have no numerical advantage and will inevitably be defeated!

Since this is the case, Cao Jun's onslaught must have other intentions, but if it is not to cover up the excavation of the tunnel, what will it be?

After thinking about it, it was still fruitless, and Li Ru's eyes flickered: or ...... Test?

Thinking of this, Li Ru didn't think much about it and stepped to the head of the city.

As soon as he went to the city, more than a dozen shield soldiers protected him with shields.

Li Ru listened to the dense impact sound on the shield, and was a little confused about what Cao Jun was doing, so he looked left and right, and only when he didn't see a Cao Jun soldier standing there, did he understand.

"Look ahead and see what's going on outside the city!"

That being the case, Li Ru gave the order, and then approached the Ru Wall, and with the cooperation of the shield soldiers, looked out of the city through the slightest gap that was exposed.

On the left and right sides of the city, there are about 20,000 Cao troops, shield soldiers and archers are staggered, and waves of arrows and arrows continue to pour into the city, so that the Ming army defending the city can not raise their heads.

The Ming army's bow and crossbow were stronger than Cao's army, but now that it looked like this, Li Ru was really a little puzzled, so he had to turn his gaze to Zhang Xiu.

"General, this ......"

Zhang Xiu smiled embarrassedly, and then said in disbelief: "Before, the Cao army suddenly attacked, and no less than fifty people killed the city, Xiu was worried that there would be an accident, so he personally took action. However, without waiting for all the Cao soldiers to be left, they were suddenly like this, and then ......"

Li Ru understood when he heard this, and was caught off guard by Cao Jun.

Moreover, Leping is a small city in the end, the city wall is not long, and the 20,000 Cao army is shooting in turns, which is enough to continue to suppress the city head, and it is difficult to counterattack.

Li Ru smiled helplessly and said, "It's okay, general, these people should be the elite shooters in Cao's army, which can be regarded as reducing the pressure on the other three sides." Besides, even the elite can't last long with this kind of shooting, and after a little longer, they should be attacking the city again. ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Xiu nodded fiercely, and clenched his fists vigorously, it seemed that the Cao soldiers would have to bear it again.