In fact, no matter how many troops on both sides are, it is limited to invest in a certain section of the city wall, and it is impossible for the attacking side to put all the troops into it, and the side defending the city has no extra place to accommodate more soldiers.

Obviously, the Bingzhou army has the upper hand in terms of momentum, they are skillful in cooperation, skillful in action, high morale, strong fighting spirit, and unstoppable momentum when attacking the city.

On the other hand, the Jizhou army is generally demoralized, which is probably caused by the collapse of the outer city wall, the collapse of the outer city wall, bringing them a lot of psychological shadows, you know, the outer city wall is the most important part of the defense of Xindu, and it will collapse in a blink of an eye, which naturally makes these Jizhou troops fearful, and they are secretly worried about whether the inner city wall can be held.

Originally, most of these Jizhou troops were peasants from Jizhou, with low quality, even after two years of training, but they could only master some of the most basic combat methods, in essence, they were a group of rabble, if in good times, they may still have the ability to fight, but if in adversity, I am afraid that they are cowardly before fighting, and they have long lost their fighting spirit.

It is indeed not easy for such an army to resist the attack of the elite troops of the Bingzhou army, even if they have the city wall as a support, Lu Zhao does not dare to guarantee that they will definitely be able to repel the attack of the Bingzhou army.

Although there was Lu Zhao's order to fight to the death, these Jizhou soldiers did not dare to retreat, but their clumsy combat skills made them still overstretched and unable to support the frantic offensive of the Bingzhou army.

The casualties of the Jizhou army are constantly increasing, and the archers under the city are constantly shooting and killing the Jizhou soldiers, but now the Jizhou army can't care about counterattacking these archers at all, and they can only use all their energy to deal with the siege team to prevent the Bingzhou army from rushing to the city.

At a critical time, you still have to count on Lu Zhao's descendants, who are the backbone of the city.

This army Lu Zhao has been leading for many years, and he has also experienced countless battles, and his combat experience is incomparably rich. This time to defend Xindu City, Lu Zhao deployed it in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest, which means that no matter which direction the Bingzhou army attacks from, there will be an elite force waiting for them.

To tell the truth, Lu Zhao really didn't dare to hand over all the city defenses of Xindu to these newly recruited troops, if any place was not guarded by his descendants, Lu Zhao was ten thousand worried.

Sure enough, it was not beyond Lu Zhao's expectations, in this offensive and defensive battle, it was his descendants who really took the lead, whenever there was a hidden situation in the city, these descendants would rush up, stand at the forefront, and start a desperate battle with the state army, and defend the city wall without losing.

Bows and arrows, rolling logs, stones, boiling water, boiling oil, bricks, and stones all became weapons of the Jizhou army, and they kept throwing them over the city, smashing them at the Bingzhou soldiers who were climbing from the ladder.

With a scream, I don't know how many Bingzhou soldiers fell from the ladder, and those ladders that were drenched with oil can be ignited with a random spark, and the entire ladder was engulfed by flames At the same time, the Bingzhou soldiers on the ladder made a terrible cry.

But this did not seem to stop the determination of the state army to attack, and they fell down the ladder, as long as they did not break their bones and tendons, they would stubbornly get up and fight again.

Underneath the city, the state army deliberately covered a thick layer of fine sand, which would protect the fallen soldiers from falling and being seriously injured.

The reason for not laying softer hay and other things is obviously for fear of being burned by the Jizhou army, so what is piled up under the city can only be flame retardant.

There was no flinching, no retreat, even if the robe in front of them continued to die, but the soldiers behind still rushed to the city desperately, death did not make them afraid, more surging blood, boiling in their veins, since victory needs to be piled up with life, they want to be the moths that put out the fire, until someone can successfully climb the city and achieve the final victory.

This is the soldier brought out by Yanghu, there is no pre-war mobilization with grandiose words, there is no sword and axe hand to supervise the battle after the battle, and there will be no order to kill those who cower without a fight, but it seems that every soldier knows what he should do, and the entire infantry battalion is like a sophisticated war machine, and every soldier is a part of this machine, and they perform their duties without hesitation, even if they burn their own lives.

Where Yanghu was standing, there were constantly stray arrows falling, and the nearest stray arrow even flew over with Yanghu's helmet, which shocked the soldiers around him in a cold sweat, and advised Yanghu to retreat a little and retreat to a safe place.

But Yanghu was calm and calm, and said to the people around him: "The soldiers in front of them regard death as home, they are in danger but no one retreats, how can this general retreat?" ”

If you retreat to the ruins, although it is safe, but you can't see the situation of the battle, Yanghu came to the front line in person, not to supervise the battle, he is to adjust the tactics in a timely manner according to the current battle situation, in order to achieve the best siege effect.

Siege warfare is the most difficult battle for anyone, Zhuge Ke besieged Hefei New City with 200,000 people, and he didn't fight for a hundred days, is Zhuge Ke too vegetable? Of course not, otherwise how could Wu come to Dongxing for a great victory?

Therefore, siege warfare is a siege battle, and there is no battle more difficult to fight than siege warfare, especially a city like Xindu that is heavily defended, and it is not easy to conquer it.

And the guard general Lu Zhao is not an ordinary person, he has been good at fighting for a long time, experienced, and loyal to the Sima clan, with him in charge of the war, if you want to take the city of Xindu, Yanghu must go all out.

In fact, when the outer wall was breached, it was not too early, according to other people's thoughts, it was not too late to fight again tomorrow, but Yanghu didn't want to waste this time, although he also knew that it was only a short hour or two, and it was almost impossible to take Xindu City.

But Yanghu still never gave up, the biggest purpose of his sending troops to attack was to test the defensive strength of the city walls in Xindu City, according to the situation of the battle, he would make some adjustments, after all, there was really not much time left for him, Yanghu had to make full use of every moment.