In this wave of surprise attacks, the Wu army did not take advantage of it in the slightest.

The Wu army temporarily retreated to three miles away, and began to bury the pot to prepare for lunch, and then fight again in the afternoon.

The bronze artillery of Danyang City can hook a little bit in front of it, but it can't hurt anyone.

Chu Tianxiu didn't waste shells either.

The soldiers who defended the city in Danyang were all relieved and began to rest in place. When it was time to eat, the wounded soldiers were carried down to the city to heal their wounds.

Prince Xiang Tiange, Shen Wanbao and others were all relieved. I was so frightened just now that my brain was stunned, and I almost thought that I was going to be attacked by the Wu army.

Fortunately, Li Yu dispatched heavy riflemen in time to block the light cavalry of the Wu army.

"Uncle, do you want to tear down the slope? There are explosives in the city, and these slope wooden frames are directly blown up. ”

Li Dangnian said.

"Let's keep it for now!"

Chu Tianxiu thought about it and shook his head.

This 500-meter-long slope wooden frame will definitely become an important place that Wu Jun desperately wants to take. It was far easier to attack this place than it was to attack other steep walls.

As long as this slope is still there, the Wu army will definitely gather heavy troops here and attack this section of the city wall with all its might.

However, the defenders of Danyang City were not weak, with 30,000 elite infantry, all of whom were the main elite of the imperial court from Jinling.

There were also ten bronze cannons, hundreds of small steel cannons, and six thousand musketeers.

The more concentrated the artillery fire, the more powerful it became.

It can play a very high battle loss ratio.

The defenders only had to pay the price of one soldier, enough to kill five to ten soldiers on the opposite side.

In the battle just now, at the cost of only a few hundred heavy infantry, 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers and 1,500 elite light cavalry of the Wu army were defeated.

Such a battle loss ratio, the defenders of Danyang City, is completely acceptable.

And by demolishing this slope wooden frame, the Wu army attacked from the city walls in all directions, and it was not densely dispersed, but it was difficult to hit such a high battle loss ratio.

Moreover, Chu Tianxiu still had an explosive bag in his hand that had not been used, and he was not worried that the slope would be captured by the Wu army.

Thousands of heavy infantry armed with shields and spears piled up on the wooden shelves on the slope to form a thick defensive wall, and no matter how many troops the Wu army sent to attack, they could not rush up.

"Clean up the slope, let the debut, and lure the Wu army to attack!"

"Yes!"

The defenders of Danyang quickly sent thousands of people to clean up the corpses and horses of thousands of Wu cavalry on the wooden frames on the slope.

The bodies were all returned to Wu Jun.

Fifteen hundred dead war horses, of course, were directly slaughtered and eaten, and the defenders of Danyang City who fought desperately and bloodily were fed, with one pound of horse meat per person.

Seeing that the defenders of Danyang City had moved away all the dead war horses, Wu Jun's teeth were itching, but he didn't dare to send troops over to snatch them.

...

After lunch, both armies were well fed and drunk.

The low morale of the Wu army after the setback gradually recovered.

In front of the Wu army.

"General Wu Pei, lead 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers and go to the North City Gate to attack the city! Feint, don't wear too much. ”

"General Wang Xian, lead 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers, go to the East City Gate to attack the city! Feint, don't wear too much. ”

"General Zhang Gao, leading 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers, went to the West City Gate to attack the city! Feint, don't wear too much. ”

"The rest of the generals, follow the king, attack the south gate!"

Wu Wang Xiang Bi shouted.

"Father, each gate sent 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers. Will the Danyang garrison take the opportunity to go out of the city and eat these miscellaneous soldiers? ”

Xiang Xian was a little worried.

"These three battalions of 30,000 foot soldiers are all bait, and if the defenders go out of the city to eat miscellaneous soldiers, it is in line with the king's intentions.

If Xiao Duhou wants to eat any of my 30,000-strong battalions, he will definitely send tens of thousands of horses out of the city to attack. A large infantry battalion of 30,000 men could not be eaten in one go, let alone two or three hours.

The king joined forces and directly ate all the soldiers and horses he went out of the city.

If the little dusk marquis wants to take advantage of the king's division of half of his troops, he will directly attack my own formation. The three 30,000-strong battalions just took the city and copied his back road. ”

Xiang Bi sneered.

Only then did Xiang Xian, the son of the world, understand that those 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers still have the role of bait.

"Yes!"

The three generals, Wu Pei, Wang Xian, and Zhang Gao, listened to the order and each took 30,000 foot soldiers to the rest of the city gates. However, they only had the rudimentary wooden ladder in their hands, and there were no other siege equipment.

In the south of the city, there are nearly 100,000 main forces of the Wu army left.

Among them, there are three battalions of elite infantry of 10,000 people, more than 18,000 elite cavalry, and five battalions of miscellaneous soldiers.

Soon, the four sides of Danyang City began to ignite the flames of war.

The troops defending the city in Danyang are still very sufficient, as many as fifty or sixty thousand people, and almost all of them are elite infantry of the imperial court.

Two thousand elite infantry on each wall is enough to defend the city, and there is no need to worry about being brought up to the city by miscellaneous soldiers.

Chu Tianxiu and Li Yu, with more than a dozen generals, were at the south gate of Danyang, confronting the main force of the Wu army under the city.

"Two battalions of miscellaneous soldiers and 10,000 people, on the walls on both sides of the south city gate, began to attack."

"Thirty pointed-head siege vehicles, taking turns attacking the south gate!"

"Fifty ladders three feet high, one hundred and fifty paces from the city wall, archers to the head of the city, shooting oil rockets, to suppress."

"Fifty stone throwers, advance to a mile from the city wall, and shoot at the head of the city!"

Wu Wang Xiang Bi shouted.

When attacking Wanling County before, in order to capture the two-and-a-half-zhang high Wanling city wall, the Wu army's 250,000 troops built a lot of large-scale siege equipment.

But the walk was slow, and the new advance was less than half that of the infantry.

This large number of large-scale siege equipment, escorted by thousands of miscellaneous infantry soldiers, hung behind the main army of Wu, lagging behind a large margin.

King Wu secretly left 10,000 light cavalry, not far away, to protect these siege equipment, hoping that more than 10,000 defenders of Wanling City would go out of the city to destroy these equipment.

It's a pity that Xie Anran didn't take the bait, he guarded Wanling City and didn't send out a single soldier.

King Wu felt pity.

If Xie Anran sent troops out of the city to destroy these siege equipment, he could immediately kill a horse gun, and maybe he could take Wanling City.

It's a pity, just thinking about it.

Xie Anran did not take the bait.

The main force of the Wu army arrived at the city of Danyang last night.

And these heavy equipment on the road, it took a day and a night, and in the middle of the night they lit torches to hurry, until noon today, they arrived at the city of Danyang.

It can just be used to attack the head of Danyang City.

These ladders alone are three zhang high, and above them is a platform that can stand dozens of archers to facilitate archery suppression of Wanling City. Danyang City, which is used to deal with a zhang high, is, of course, even more condescending.

In addition to these large-scale siege equipment, there are also countless small and medium-sized siege equipment, large and small. Not a battle-hardened veteran who doesn't even understand what they're for.

Used to attack the two-and-a-half-zhang high, sturdy Wanling County City, the power of these siege equipment is a bit weak. Attacking a small low Danyang county town, they are still quite powerful.