Just when Lu Zhao was anxious, someone suddenly exclaimed: "Look! There's a boat over there! ”

Everyone couldn't help but look over in unison, only to see that where the water and sky were connected to the north, there were really boats coming, densely packed, filling the entire water surface.

In fact, this can't be called a boat, it can only be called a raft, a relatively simple kind of raft, on each raft, there are only about five or six people, but the number of these rafts is extremely spectacular, black pressure on a large area, covering a large area of water.

These rafts went down the river, almost without paddling, and they came very quickly, at first they were just small black spots, but in a few moments, these rafts had reached the location of the outer wall of Xindu.

There is no doubt that this is the convoy of the Bingzhou Army, and the flag of the Bingzhou Army can be seen on the raft from a distance.

Lu Zhao's face was like ashes, and there was a sadness in his heart, at this moment he knew very well that the letter was over.

Originally, Lu Zhao was still counting on the Hezhou army to launch a new offensive after the flood subsided, so even if the situation was difficult, the Jizhou army still had a glimmer of hope.

Unfortunately, Cao Liang also killed Lu Zhao's last ray of hope, and there were no boats, and the state army set up countless rafts so that they could cross this flooded area.

Such an attack was simply deadly, and the flood at this time had risen to a height of only a few feet from the city, and as long as the state army launched an attack, it could easily climb to the top of the city.

Of course, the most difficult thing is the situation on the city wall, hundreds of thousands of people poured up, the entire city wall, has been densely packed with people, whether it is the soldiers guarding the city, or ordinary people, shoulder to shoulder, not to mention the passage, not even a place to turn around, some people raised their feet, they couldn't put it down, it can be seen how crowded it is.

Such a crowded situation also caused the defenders to be unable to fight at all, and as long as a row of arrows came at the Bingzhou army, it was estimated that none of the arrows would miss, and they would easily shoot countless people.

After seeing the attack of the Bingzhou army, there was also a burst of restlessness on the head of the city, and the fear of death spread among the crowd, they luckily escaped from the flood, but they had to face the swords and arrows of the Bingzhou army, there was no way to go to the sky, there was no way to enter the ground, this is real despair!

After the state army retreated to the highlands, they cut down a lot of trees, and overnight, set up thousands of rafts, and when the flood flooded, these highlands were basically unharmed, and Yanghu led the infantry battalion to ride on the rafts, down the river, and re-arrived at the city of Xindu.

Sure enough, as Yang Hu expected, when the flood submerged the castle, most of the people in the city fled to the city walls, which was their only place of refuge.

Seeing the black crowd on the inner city wall, Yang Hu showed a slight smile, this kind of mixed and crowded appearance of the military and civilians is definitely not a formation that can fight, and the state army only needs to continuously fire crossbows and bows and arrows, you can easily knock a hole, and the flood at this moment has also flooded most of the city wall, and the state army can easily climb the city without climbing.

However, instead of attacking the inner wall immediately, Yanghu let the raft approach the outer wall, allowing the soldiers of the infantry battalion to ascend the outer wall first.

Compared with the congestion of the inner city wall, the outer city wall is empty, which is not to say that the people of Jizhou Army and Xindu dare not climb the outer city wall, but they found that when the flood came, the flood had already flooded the open space between the inner and outer city walls, and no one dared to risk their lives to swim through this open space, so in the end, when they crowded the inner city wall, they looked at the empty outer city wall opposite with regret.

However, for the heavily armed Bingzhou army, it didn't matter if there was anyone on the outer city wall at all, and if the Jizhou army had troops stationed in the outer city, they could easily crush it.

The biggest consideration for the reason why Yanghu did not directly launch an attack is that most of the people on the city wall of Xindu are not ordinary people, and if they attack hastily at this moment, many innocent people will surely die.

If the soldiers and civilians of the Jizhou army are willing to surrender, they will be spared the pain of the sword soldiers, if they continue to resist stubbornly, then Yanghu will not give them a chance, even if they launch a strong attack, they must also take the city of Xindu.

However, now the Xindu City is already like a bag to get things, and the Xindu City, which was flooded, can no longer organize any effective resistance, and Yanghu is equivalent to leaving them the last ray of life, as for cherishing it or not, that is their own choice.

After Yanghu boarded the outer city wall, he first sent several soldiers with loud voices to shout at the inner city wall to persuade them to surrender, and clearly told the soldiers and civilians of Jizhou that they should lose their illusions, and now there are only two ways in front of them, either to surrender and avoid death, or to destroy the same as the capital of Xin, and the patience of the state army is limited, if they refuse to surrender, after an hour, the state army will launch an attack and no longer give them any chance.

This is also the ultimatum, Yanghu does not want to delay the battle until tomorrow, and today must have a result.

The shouting of the state army set off an uproar among the people of Jizhou and Xindu, for ordinary people and ordinary soldiers, of course, they will not hesitate to choose the way to live, they do not want to bury their lives here, but before Lu Zhao did not speak, no one dared to take the initiative to stand up and say that he wanted to surrender, because Lu Zhao was still alive, he still held the power of life and death of General Zhenbei and Jizhou Mu, his order, it was enough to make the head of the leader fall to the ground.

So even the people who want to surrender the most are silent at the moment, no one wants to be this bird, in the face of rounds of shouting from the state army, the people on the entire inner city wall have fallen into silence, and the entire inner city wall is silent, death-like silence.

No one knows what to do next, in fact, everyone cherishes their own life extraordinarily, and it is precisely because of excessive cherishing that no one dares to take this first step.

Although the state army had repeatedly promised that those who surrendered would not die, they were separated by a water area a stone's throw wide, and in the absence of a ferry, even if they surrendered, they would not be able to get by.

What's more, among so many people, there are countless Jizhou soldiers, and whoever is the first to stand up and surrender must be the first to be stabbed, and he does not dare to risk his life.