A tragic siege battle, until the evening, Zhang He ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops with an ugly face.

It was only a one-day siege, not counting the engineering team that was slaughtered by Tian Kai, with nearly 6,000 casualties, and the lethality of the siege weapons on the city of Beiping was really terrifying. The loss of the defenders of Beiping is estimated to be less than 1,000 people, and it would be good to have 800.

This was the result of Zhang He's insistence on storming until the evening, because of the towering Beiping city wall and the numerous and effective weapons to defend the city, it took more than an hour for the Zhao army under Zhang He to climb the city wall and start a white-knuckle battle with the defenders. Prior to this, only crossbow bolts could inflict some damage on the opponent, and the number of enemy soldiers killed and wounded was expected to be less than a hundred.

After the temptation of this battle, Zhang He and others completely dispelled the idea of attacking. According to this battle loss ratio, if they want to capture this Beiping, their more than 100,000 troops are not enough. In this way, Zhang He can also be regarded as able to explain this matter to Yuan Shao, proving that it is absolutely undesirable to storm Beiping.

"What should I do next, do I continue to excavate the city wall?" After this battle, Chun Yuqiong also calmed down at this time. There is no way, anyone who is hit by an overwhelming boulder crossbow during the charge and cannot return fire will be terrified. Every time Chun Yuqiong thought of the situation at that time, she felt that her scalp was numb, and her heart was extremely aggrieved.

"Naturally, today's battle is enough to prove that a strong attack is not advisable. With the towering city walls and siege equipment of Beiping, the assault was completely self-inflicted. Our plan remains the same, which is to dig the walls. Zhang He said.

"But you have also seen today's situation, Tian Yu recklessly rode out of the city to sneak attack, and it is difficult for us to support at all! And after such a short time out of the city, the soldiers who carved the wall didn't have time to react. Chun Yu Qiong said.

"This time it's just our carelessness, the next time we send soldiers to dig the wall, we will send two thousand more elites to be responsible for defense. When the Yan army leaves the city, we will immediately sound the gong to warn, and it is not a big problem. ”

Gao Ran also nodded and said, "Yes, this time our soldiers were careless, so they couldn't reflect in time." If they had been hiding in the tunnels they had dug at that time, they would not have been defeated so easily by Tian Kai's iron horsemen. Let these soldiers carry some more strong crossbows, once they find that the enemy is hiding in the tunnel and shoot with strong crossbows, Tian Kai will definitely not be pleased. ”

"Take 10,000 steps back and say, as long as we are prepared, we will be defeated by Tian Kai's army, and the battle damage will be much better than the storming of Beiping." Zhang He said in a deep voice.

In the following days, Zhang He still sent soldiers to continue to excavate the Beiping city wall. During this period, Tian Kai also repeated his old tricks several times and led the army to attack, but the result made Tian Kai feel cold.

A small force attacked, and Zhang He's army did not pay any attention to it. The soldiers who dug the walls of the city were very resistant, and instead of huddled together in a panic as before, they scattered and hid in the tunnels, shooting them with strong crossbows. The cavalry led by Tian Kai had to dismount and engage these people in the tunnels, and they were in danger several times, but they did not take much advantage.

Tian Kai did not dare to send a large force to attack, he knew that if he was like this, he was afraid that Zhang He would inevitably take advantage of the situation and lead the army to press up, and his losses would only be more heavy when he fell.

Tian Kai, who originally thought that he had found a breakthrough, once again fell into a dilemma. Sending troops, the loss is not small, even if he wins, the battle loss ratio is not acceptable to him. After all, he only had 20,000 soldiers, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops under the city of Beiping. But he didn't send troops, and listened to the voices from the city every day, which made Tian Kai feel extremely anxious.

"Give the order to let the soldiers withdraw to the inner city, and evacuate most of the siege equipment, leaving two thousand soldiers and a certain garrison on this wall." A few days later, feeling the louder and louder movement under the city wall, Tian Kai said in a deep voice to the deputy general. At this time, he could already faintly feel the slight tremor of the city wall, and it was estimated that in the most two days, this section of the city wall would probably collapse.

"General, why don't we retreat to the inner city together, it's too dangerous to stay here any longer." Said the adjutant general.

"No, if we all evacuate, Zhao Jun will definitely press on directly, and it's good that I can hold out here for a while longer." Tian Kai said calmly. This kind of desperate situation is extremely important for a day and a half, and if Gongsun Chan has reinforcements coming, he must hold out until then.

"No!"

A day later, this small section of the city wall in the southwest corner of Beiping unexpectedly collapsed, revealing a huge gap. Seeing this, Zhang He did not hesitate to lead the army directly towards the city of Beiping.

And Tian Kai also destroyed the siege equipment on the city wall at the first time when the city wall collapsed, and directly led the army to withdraw towards the inner city. Zhang He took advantage of the situation to directly occupy all the outer cities of Beiping City.

The walls of the inner city are not as tall as the outer city, although there are a lot of siege equipment on it, Zhang He still did not hesitate to directly attack the city after reorganizing the army a little.

After that, the siege battles never stopped, and the entire Beiping City was filled with shouts of killing every day. Relying on the large number of soldiers, Zhang He sent troops to harass day and night, which made the Yan soldiers who were dead in the inner city exhausted.

On this day, after another hard battle, when Zhao Jun Mingjin withdrew his troops, Tian Kai, who was covered with scars, let go of the hand holding the knife, leaned against the city wall, breathed a sigh of relief, and could not hide the exhaustion on his still resolute face.

After a while, after the adjutant general finished counting the losses, he rushed over: "General, today we have lost more than 1,300 people, and we have killed about 5,000 or 6,000 enemies. ”

Hearing this, Tian Kai did not feel happy at all, and said in a deep voice: "How many soldiers are there in the city?" ”

"There are about 6,000 brothers who can still fight, and less than 1,000 who are in good condition. General, Beiping can't hold it anymore! The adjutant said bitterly.

"Don't panic, Your Majesty's reinforcements will arrive soon." Tian Kai still repeated this sentence that he had said countless times.

When the adjutant general heard this, the corners of his mouth were slightly bitter. He was not afraid of death, especially for Gongsun Zhan. But in the face of such a desperate situation, I still can't help but feel sad in my heart.

Gongsun Zhan, who was reported by Tian Kai and others as hopeful, was at this time near Fanyang between Beiping and Jixian and in the upper reaches of the Duma River near Beiping City.

"Let's do it!"

Looking at the boiling river behind the embankment in front of him, Gongsun Chan said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty!" Tian Yu, who was next to Gongsun Zhan, showed a sad look on his face, and said sadly: "No! ”

Gongsun Chan waved his hand indifferently, directly interrupted Tian Yu, and ordered with a cold voice: "Do it!" ”

With that, the sergeants on both sides of the embankment grabbed the rope that connected the shelves that supported the embankment and pulled it hard.

In an instant, the levee collapsed, and the water that rolled behind it swarmed down like wild horses. At the same time, the strategists in Gongsun Zhan's army also mobilized their spiritual power, hooked up the clouds, and the pouring rain fell overwhelmingly, pouring into the river.

In the eyes of everyone, the rolling torrent kept rushing into the distance.