Today is Ma Shilong's third day under Shengjing City, and after three consecutive days of fierce engineering, whether it is Brother Hao who is responsible for defending the city or Ma Shilong who is besieging the city, he feels endless tiredness.

In the past three days, Ma Shilong has exhausted all methods and attacked the city wall several times, but he was blocked by Haoge and his people. For those who were caught, the slave people were also exhausted at this time, and they could only stand on their own. As a result, the casualties have begun to increase gradually, and even have risen in a straight line.

As for Hauge, the same is true, and now Hauge has forcibly pulled the children in the city from 60 to seven or eight years old to the city wall, trying to defend against Ma Shilong's attack.

Not only ordinary people, but even the domestic slaves of the princes and nobles in Shengjing City. If it weren't for everyone's obstruction, Hauge would have even wanted to pull all the eunuchs in the palace up the walls.

In the camp of the Ming army outside the city, Ma Shilong, who had a sad face, sat in the military tent to deal with the casualty reports sent by his subordinates. Looking at the string of casualty figures, Ma Shilong's heart was dripping blood, you must know that these are all the best soldiers in a hundred battles, and I don't know how much effort has been wasted, and now there are so many casualties.

At the same time, Ma Shilong's heart was also full of remorse, he should have attacked immediately while the building was not ready, and repaired something. It's good now, it's really repaired, but the casualties are so great.

Now every day is spent in torment, no matter the army's food and grass, even the medicinal herbs are no longer enough, countless wounded soldiers can only slowly die in pain.

"Let a few thousand generals come over and discuss the plan to attack the city."

Ma Shilong commanded the counselor beside him a little weakly, and after seeing the counselor go out, he sighed a little weakly.

Ma Shilong didn't want to discuss the method of attacking the city at all this time, but planned to discuss the plan for withdrawing troops with several thousand generals.

It seems that Sheng Jing can't be defeated now, he has exhausted all methods these days, and he has to be careful every day to prevent Jiannu from sneaking up from behind. If it continues to be drained under Shengjing City, it is really possible that the army will be cut off and the whole army will be annihilated.

After a while, 8 thousand generals came to the military tent, and at this time they were all wounded. At the same time, there was a frown on his face, as if someone else owed money and did not pay it back.

After seeing a few people, Ma Shilong went straight to the point.

"I came to you this time to discuss the plan for withdrawing troops, what are your opinions?"

Ma Shilong's being so straightforward made several Qian always a little uncomfortable.

These days, they have also talked to each other in private, thinking about whether to persuade Ma Shilong to withdraw the troops first, after all, Shengjing can't be defeated at all, you must know that the original Jiannu cut off all the reinforcements, and forced Shenyang Zhongwei to surrender by besieging the city for two months, if there is any chance for reinforcements to come, Jiannu can't capture Shengjing.

Everyone was gossiping about their opinions one by one, and Ma Shilong also analyzed them one by one to find out the best retreat route.

"Okay, now that the matter has been decided, let's launch one last attack this attack, at all costs."

In order to see Brother Hao's heart to go out of the city when the army retreats, Ma Shilong plans to try it at the end, first, to see if he can write the Bible at the last moment, and secondly, to lose Brother Hao's men and horses.

In this siege, Ma Shilong gave up the method of attacking from all sides a few days ago, except for the other three gates, a small number of men and horses were placed to supervise the other party to prevent the other party from leaving the city, so as to sneak attack the rear of the army, and all the men and horses were gathered at the east gate.

In three days, Ma Shilong's army has been reduced from the original 15,000 to more than 10,000 people, and more than 1,000 wounded soldiers.

As the saying goes, there are more than 10,000 people and boundless, Ma Shilong pulled all the people and horses to the east gate, which also cast a shadow on Haoge's heart, knowing that Ma Shilong really wanted to press the whole army this time.

"Listen to all, Baylor has orders. Whoever kills a Ming soldier will be rewarded with five taels of silver, ten taels of small flags, one hundred taels of one hundred households, and one thousand taels of thousands of households."

In order to effectively resist Ma Shilong's attack, Brother Hao directly pulled out the silver from the treasury and placed it next to the city wall, intending to use the power of money to motivate the soldiers defending the city.

Not to mention that Haoge's method suddenly worked, whether it was the soldiers who were defending the city, or the people who were forcibly pulled over by Brother Hao to rush over to be a strong man, looking at the white silver and the shining gold in front of him, they were suddenly full of strength, and looked at the Ming army under the city was no longer human, but white silver.

Even the women in the city heard Hauge's plan, and they all fought bravely one by one, wanting to go to the city to help defend the city.

For these women, Brother Hao naturally wants to refuse directly, after all, their strength is not as good as that of men, especially the blood on the battlefield, don't end up with the enemy not succeeding, but scare himself half to death. It's nothing to scare yourself half to death, but before the two armies fought, the spirit of each side was highly concentrated, and if the army of these women broke down, it would be more than worth the loss.

However, for this point, Fan Wencheng did propose another way.

"Baelor, you can order these women to help carry the stones under the city, or to transport the wounded soldiers, so that we can save manpower and better protect the walls."

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that this method was okay, at least he didn't have to let these women climb the city wall and cause chaos, so he agreed to Fan Wencheng's proposal.

"General, the army is ready to attack at any time."

"Let's get started".

It's just that as soon as this battle started, Ma Shilong immediately sensed that this siege seemed to be more difficult.

As in the past, as long as the army used catapults to start throwing boulders, the Jiannu on the city wall would dodge one by one, but now they stood up one by one, looked directly at the army under the city that was approaching the city wall, and even began to release the bows and arrows in their hands, not caring about the boulders that were dropped.

"What's the matter, is it possible that they are not afraid of death one by one."

Ma Shilong's face suddenly looked ugly, but he still gritted his teeth and ordered the army to continue the attack.

If Ma Shilong stood at the same height as the city wall, he would definitely find that there were hundreds of people standing behind these people, these people were the overseers in charge of the battle a few days ago, but at this time they were no longer holding weapons, but thick notebooks, on which the names of various people were densely recorded.

In order to convince his subordinates that he would really give them the silver, Brother Hao directly ordered his team to be bookkeepers, as long as he killed a Ming soldier, he would immediately add a sum to her name, even if he died on the battlefield in the future, the silver would be given to their families.

Didn't you say that money can make ghosts grind, and silver can be made, and there is nothing more exciting in the world, and everyone's heart is full of fighting spirit.

This attack of the Ming army can really be described as a fiasco, tens of thousands of troops, even without climbing the city wall, were forcibly repelled by Jiannu.

As for the few thousands of households under Ma Shilong, they were even more dumbfounded, when the number was small in the past, the people under his command could still climb the city wall, why did tens of thousands of troops attack together this time, they couldn't even climb the city wall, and they were beaten down in half.

Is this the weakening of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army? Or has Jiannu's combat effectiveness become stronger? But looking at the people on the city wall, there is basically no change, but in their eyes, some ordinary people are even more fierce than the Jiannu soldiers.

The battle lasted all morning, and the Ming army declared the siege a failure with 1,000 dead and more than 2,000 wounded.

Ma Shilong, who was standing at the rear of the army, looked at the result of such a siege and was speechless for a long time. In the end, he could only flick his sleeves and return to the military tent with an expressionless face.