For ordinary soldiers, there are always only a few who are really afraid of death, most of them are still afraid of death, but they don't dare to disobey Lu Zhao's orders, if anyone dares to escape from the city at this time, waiting for them is probably a row of knife and axe hands, without Lu Zhao personally to order, these knife and axe hands will directly cut off their heads.

  Staying in the city is a dead end, and escaping from the city is even more difficult to find a way to live, these soldiers secretly complain that they are unable to escape, and can only work hard and die.

  On the catapult position of the state army, countless torches are now lit, illuminated as if day, when the defense is changed in the dark, in order to confuse the Jizhou army, the state army did not light the torch, now the change of defense is completed, lighting the torch is conducive to the operation of the catapult, Du pre ordered to light the fire.

  Even if his position is exposed in the open, Du Yu has nothing to worry about, after all, the catapult is the weapon with the longest range, and now in the hands of the Jizhou army, there is no weapon that exceeds this range to threaten the catapult, and in order to prevent the sneak attack of the Jizhou army, and the strict defense line that the state army has already laid out, the Jizhou army has no chance to sneak attack again.

  After the last sneak attack by the Jizhou army, the loss of the Bingzhou army is really not, not only more than a dozen catapults were destroyed, but also the casualties alone, it reached thousands of people, and the Jizhou army, only lost 200 cavalry, this battle was regarded as a great shame by the Bingzhou army, in order to avoid the lessons of the previous car, the catapult position defense was unprecedentedly strengthened, and the Jizhou army would never be given another opportunity to take advantage of.

  In the previous battles, the state army often won more with less, and overcame the strong with the weak, but this battle was killed and wounded by two hundred cavalry so much, although the Jizhou army had the use of fierce oil fire cans This special weapon, but after all, it was the state army's own defense was not in place, which led to this result.

  As the chief general, Yang Hu seriously reviewed his mistakes and wrote to Cao Liang, asking for punishment.

  But Cao Liang did not punish him, of course, this is not because Yanghu is his brother-in-law and opened the net, Cao Liang has always governed the army equally, there is no distinction between relatives and aliens, Yanghu naturally has mistakes, but the war wants the result, not the process, Cao Liang said that he will not pursue any mistakes in the battle, but if they can't take Xindu City within the scheduled time, that is the real blame, Cao Liang will certainly not sit idly by.

  Cao Liang's words, not only to Yanghu, but also to all the generals of the former enemy, the time is tight and the task is heavy, these generals do not dare to slack off at all, they are all going all out to find a way to seriously supervise the battle.

  Ma Long's suggestion is to destroy the Jizhou army's plan to repair the city wall through continuous attacks, and if the city wall is not repaired, the damage will naturally become more and more serious, so the attack of the catapult of the Bingzhou army cannot be stopped for a moment, and the coherence of the attack must be maintained, so that the Jizhou army has no chance to climb the city.

  But can Lu Zhao really give up repairing the city wall, can he watch the city wall collapse and remain indifferent? Obviously, this is impossible, Du predicts that Lu Zhao will definitely repair the city wall at any cost, even if there are more casualties.

  However, it was dark on the city, and it was not easy to see the movements of the Jizhou army.

  The best means of ignition is undoubtedly the fierce oil fire canister, that is, the thing used in the last sneak attack in Jizhou, as a kind of big killing weapon for siege, this thing is also equipped in the state army, but Du pre thinks that it is just used for lighting, and the fierce oil canister is a bit of a big material, Du pre doesn't want to waste it, so naturally there is another wonderful blink

  Du ordered people to collect straw ropes and rotten clothes, then pack them into balls, soak them in oil, put them on catapults, light them, and then throw them out.

  These straw rope balls are lighter than stone balls, and the catapult needs to adjust the force of the catapult, and the first few are thrown directly into the city, and after adjustment, they can be thrown to the city without error.

  The first few fireballs thrown into the city made the Jizhou army mistakenly think that it was a new attack launched by the Bingzhou army, as if it was facing a great enemy, but they soon found that these fireballs were not thrown into the city but on the city.

  These oil-soaked straw rope balls can burn for a longer period of time, and the fire is very strong, the flame is very high, and it is brighter than torches as a means of lighting at night.

  At this time, almost all the battlements on the Xindu city wall were destroyed, and the entire city head was also uneven.

  Originally, the Jizhou army had groping in the dark, and the state army could only see some vague shadows in the shadows, but now these fireballs fell on the city, shining like day, and the movements of the Jizhou army were naturally seen clearly by Du Yu.

  Good guy, Du Pre's inference is not wrong at all, Lu Zhao really braved the stone rain to send people to repair the city wall at all costs, and there were quite a few people, in the dark before, the catapult could only shoot blindly, but it is estimated that it also killed and injured a lot of people.

  Now that there are lighting conditions, without Du Pre's orders, the catapults began to aim at the Jizhou army in the city to carry out precise strikes.

  All of a sudden, almost all the stone bullets were thrown at the head of the city, under such a dense stone rain, how could the Jizhou army continue to carry out the repair operation, they could only hug their heads and flee in embarrassment, leaving in the city, there was almost no way to live.

  Originally, under the city, Lu Zhao arranged a row of sword and axe men, who dared to be a deserter, and corrected the law on the spot, but at this moment, almost all the Jizhou soldiers poured down, and the knife and axe hands hesitated, not knowing whether to kill or not, after all, the law does not govern the people, and besides, so many people, even if they let them kill, they can't kill it!

  Lu Zhao's face was pale, but he didn't say anything to hold these soldiers accountable, after all, he also saw the situation on the city head clearly, and the state army used fireballs to make the soldiers on the city head have nothing to hide, and they can't repair the city wall at all, so it must be inevitable to retreat.

  Obviously, the purpose of the non-stop attack of the Bingzhou army day and night was to destroy the repair of the city wall by the Jizhou army.

  The hand of the Bingzhou army was really ruthless, and it didn't give the defenders of Xindu any way to live at all, and no matter how strong the city wall was, it would collapse sooner or later under this kind of repeated bombardment.

  Lu Zhao was worried, he was really poor at the moment, and he didn't know what to do.