Although it was a night's work, Yanghu was ready to attack at the end of the day, and one hundred and thirty catapults threw locust-like stone projectiles and smashed them into the walls of Sindu.

Yesterday, the state army collected the troops early, and the degree of damage to the city wall was not as good as before, so last night Lu Zhao only carried out a simple repair of the city wall, and even the sergeants only called it easy, it seems that the offensive of the state army is just a three-plate axe, the front is menacing, and the back is a tiger and a snake's tail, according to this momentum, the Jizhou army can easily hold for half a month, there is not much pressure.

But Lu Zhao faintly felt that something was wrong, it stands to reason that the siege of the state army had just begun, and after only two hours, the offensive was obviously weakened, which was too abnormal, it seemed that behind this, there was a bigger conspiracy.

But no matter what conspiracy the state army has, Lu Zhao is powerless to intervene, and now he is cowering in the city, can only do passive defense, although Qiu Lin once led a death squad to assault, but with little effect, only destroyed a dozen catapults, but lost Qiu Lin such a confidant general, so that Lu Zhao felt that the gains outweighed the losses.

The Jizhou army soon completed the repair of the city wall, and Lu Zhao ordered them to go down to rest, so that they could recharge their energy and deal with the fierce battle of the Ming Dynasty.

The generals below also persuaded Lu Zhao to go down and rest, since the start of the war, Lu Zhao has not closed his eyes all day and night, if he continues to stay up like this, even if it is iron and copper, it will not be able to bear it. Now that I have nothing to do, I just had to rest, so my subordinates persuaded Lu Zhao to go down to the city.

Lu Zhao thought about it and felt that it was also right, this battle of Xindu, the days are still long, if it is really a few days before the body is exhausted, how will the next fierce battle be dealt with?

So he followed the advice of his subordinates and returned to the state pastor's mansion, but after lying down, Lu Zhao couldn't sleep, tossing and turning, unable to sleep all night, of course, it couldn't be all night, after all, when Lu Zhao slept, it had already passed the third watch, but unfortunately it was more deeply exposed, and Lu Zhao was still not sleepy.

It was the burden on his shoulders that made him dare not relax at all, the safety of Xindu was tied to a war, if Xindu was lost, not only would his life be difficult to protect, but also hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city would be buried with him, although he died not a pity, but he lived up to the Sima family's ardent expectations for him, and also destroyed the defense plan of Jizhou.

Therefore, Lu Zhao can't die, and he can't lose his faith, and in the face of the fierce and abnormal offensive of the Bingzhou army, he must block it at all costs.

It wasn't until the color was faint that Lu Zhao fell asleep in a trance, but before he could sleep for long, he heard his men hurriedly come in to report that the state army began to attack the city again.

Lu Zhao hurried to the east gate, and halfway through, he asked again, "What is the situation in Xicheng now?" ”

His subordinates said: "There is no movement of the state army on the Xicheng side, and I haven't seen a catapult until now." ”

Lu Zhao was stunned for a moment, the two have been taking the offensive of attacking from both sides, although the situation on the east gate side is more critical, and the city wall is in danger repeatedly, but the west gate side is also not easy at all, and the offensive of the state army is also extremely fierce.

However, the current state army is only taking an offensive in the east, but the west is silent, and such a change seems abnormal.

"To Simon!" Lu Zhao immediately turned his horse's head and galloped towards the west gate at a rapid pace.

Ascended the tower of the west gate, and sure enough, I saw that there was not a single catapult on the original catapult position of the Bingzhou army, and the Bingzhou military camp in the distance was fluttering high with flags and strict barriers, and there was no cherry blossom at all

Lu Zhao couldn't help frowning, this situation is really weird, it stands to reason that the state army also understands the situation they are in now, if they can't take Xindu as soon as possible, the reinforcements from the imperial court will come, and when the time comes, they won't be able to catch anything.

Therefore, at this moment, the Bingzhou army should launch a full-scale attack at all costs, but the Bingzhou army in the west is now standing still, besieging but not attacking, could it be that after they attacked for two, they found it difficult to shake the walls of Xindu, so they simply gave up and turned to a long-term siege, wanting to trap the defenders of Xindu.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhao smiled gloomily, Xindu City is the state city of Jizhou, and the reserves of grain and grass materials are quite sufficient, enough for hundreds of thousands of military and civilian expenses in the city for two years, with such a strong strength, the last thing Lu Zhao is worried about is that the state army will adopt a long-term siege.

If Cao Liang is really ready to adopt such a method, then he is doomed to a defeat, not two years, Xindu City only needs to hold on for half a month, and all the crises will be solved.

But after laughing, Lu Zhao faintly felt that something was wrong, if the Bingzhou army gave up the attack and changed to siege, then this siege tactic should be comprehensive, not only to fight the east and not to fight the west, now the offensive in the east of the Bingzhou army is still the same, but the west is not moving, it seems that there is really a problem.

"Go to the East Gate!" After confirming the situation in the west, Lu Zhao ordered to rush to the east gate, and the group hurried to the east gate.

Before he reached the top of the east gate, Lu Zhao heard the loud sound of the stone bullet smashing against the city wall, not only the city wall was shaking, but even the ground in the city was shaking.

Before Lu Zhao landed in the city, he saw a large group of Jizhou soldiers crying wolves and fleeing from the city, either with broken heads and bleeding, or broken muscles and bones, and their condition was unbearable, obviously caused by the attack of the Bingzhou army.

Lu Zhao was about to climb the city tower to take a look, but a partial general hurriedly stopped him and said: "General Lu, don't go to the city, today the catapult of the Bingzhou army smashed the stone on the head of the city like crazy, causing many casualties in our army, most of the army has been withdrawn, the general must not go to the city at this moment." ”

As he was talking, a stone bullet flew whizzing, hitting the city tower at the east gate, and the city tower collapsed violently, stirring up countless dust and smoke.

Obviously, the state army has strengthened the attack on the city head, which is a completely different tactic from the previous one, in the first two attacks, the state army is more attacking the city wall, and now it is attacking the city head, which is undoubtedly a significant change in the attack method of the state army.

Since the offensive tactics of the Bingzhou army have obviously changed, Lu Zhao is even more determined to go to the top of the city to see what is going on.

The surrounding subordinates were frightened at a glance, and now the stone bullets are smashed on the city in turn, and the Jizhou army is afraid of it, but Lu Zhao has to go against the trend, if he is not lucky, he is hit by the stone bullet, I am afraid that he will die without a corpse.

But Lu Zhao did not listen to the dissuasion and forcibly climbed to the top of the city.