The defenders on the city wall were waiting with bows and crossbows, and if they wanted to cross the moat with a ladder and then attack the city, they would simply seek death, and the only way now was to fill the moat.

The truth that Ci is not in charge of the army, Yuan Yao also understands!

Yuan Yao finally put his mind down, looked at Yang Zaixing, and said: "Yang Zaixing, divide the soldiers of the dead soldier battalion into five teams and take turns to fill the moat, and if you don't die after filling the moat, it will be regarded as a beheading level, and the general's shield will also be handed over to them for use." ”

Yang Zaixing bowed and bowed: "No, the last general will receive the order, and I will go to arrange it." ”

Yang Zaixing took the order and left, divided the battalion of 5,000 dead soldiers into five teams, and mobilized more than 1,000 shields from various departments of the army and handed them to use in turn.

The camp of the dead soldiers was originally doing desperate work, and Yuan Yao promised them that after filling the moat and not dying, it would be regarded as a beheading, and all the soldiers were also very moved.

Comparatively speaking, it is easier to cover the landfill moat with a shield than to slash the battle array.

The soldiers of the dead battalion were quickly divided into five teams, and Yang Zaixing gave an order, and the sergeants in the first column lifted the bag full of sand in their left hand, and protected their bodies with a shield in their right hand, and they all spread their feet and rushed straight to the moat in front.

"Humph! Sure enough, I still can't help it? ”

Deng Long sat at the head of the city, and when he saw Yuan Yao's army starting to fill the moat, he snorted coldly and ordered: "All the troops listen to the order, shoot freely and record merit alone, and shoot the enemy soldier to record one merit and reward one hundred dollars!" ”

"No, I'll wait for the order, and the general will take a look!"

Hearing Deng Long's reward, the defenders were overjoyed, and they all prepared with their hands, and they all opened their bows and crossbows to aim at the soldiers of the dead battalion under the city, ready to shoot arrows and make meritorious contributions at any time!

"Whoosh!! Whoosh!! Whoosh!! ……”

The sergeant of the Dead Soldier Battalion marched extremely fast, and soon rushed to the range of the bows and crossbows of the defenders of the city, and the arrows on the city immediately rained down, and countless arrows shot straight towards the Dead Battalion sergeant like leeches!

"Bell, bell!"

"Ahh

……

Most of the arrows were covered by the shields of the soldiers of the Dead Battalion, but the southerners were good at shooting, and there were many people in the Jiangxia Army who were good at shooting, and some of the feather arrows were shot through the shield to the feet and legs of the soldiers of the Dead Battalion, etc., and the shields could not cover the places during the process, and after the soldiers of the Dead Battalion were hit by the arrows, they immediately fell to the ground, and were immediately killed by the subsequent arrows.

A rain of arrows fell, and more than 20 soldiers of the dead battalion were killed by random arrows!

Seeing this, the rest of the soldiers of the Dead Battalion immediately became much more cautious, and tried to protect their bodies with shields when they marched, but there were too many bows and crossbows in the city, and the soldiers of the Dead Soldiers Battalion were still shot to the ground by feather arrows from time to time.

The soldiers of the Dead Battalion continued to press forward, and soon came to the front of the moat, which was close to the city wall, and the number of arrows shot from the city was more and more powerful, and at the moment when the soldiers of the Dead Battalion threw the sandbags, the defenders of the city shot again, and immediately nearly twenty more soldiers of the Dead Battalion were shot to the ground.

After the sergeant of the Dead Soldier Battalion threw the sandbags, he hurriedly dragged the corpses of his comrades and lifted the shields that had fallen on the ground and rushed back, and on the way back, the sergeants were much more flexible without the drag of sandbags, and only a few sergeants were killed by feather arrows.

The sergeant of the Dead Soldier Battalion quickly ran out of the firing range of the bow and crossbow in the city and returned to the military formation, Yuan Yao looked at the many corpses that were dragged back, sighed in his heart, and said, "Go and see how many casualties the first wave of sergeants are?" ”

Yang Zaixing went over to check the number and replied: "Back to the lord, the first wave of sergeants killed fifty-four people, seriously injured eleven people, and lightly injured twenty-three people are still fighting after a simple bandage. ”

Sixty-five people were killed and wounded in the first wave, so how many soldiers would have to be killed and wounded to fill the moat?

Yuan Yao's brows tightened, Yang Zaixing thought about it, and then said: "When the first time the landfill was filled, the soldiers were a little caught off guard, and the next time it should be better, should it be better, should it continue to be landfilled?" ”

There was no turning back when he opened the bow, Yuan Yao naturally couldn't let Jiangxia soldiers and horses see his jokes, and replied coldly: "Go on, let the second wave of sergeants set off!" ”

"The Lord has an order, continue to fill the landfill, and the second wave of sergeants will set off!"

Yang Zaixing gave an order, and the second wave of sergeants immediately lifted their shields and sandbags and rushed straight to the moat ahead.

This time the sergeants were much more careful than the previous wave of sergeants, and after the sergeants entered the range of the bow and crossbow, their speed slowed down, and their bodies shrank behind the shields as much as possible, and the first wave of arrows in the city did not cause many casualties, only a few sergeants were shot to the ground.

The second wave of sergeants quickly threw sandbags into the moat and returned to the military formation, and Yang Zaixing counted the casualties of the sergeants, and a total of 26 people were killed in the landfill, 5 were seriously wounded, and 18 were lightly wounded.

Yuan Yao saw that the number of casualties among the sergeants had been reduced by more than half, so he was a little more relieved, and ordered the sergeants behind him to continue to step forward to fill the moat.

The five teams of dead soldier battalion sergeants quickly took turn, and the casualties of the next three waves of sergeants were basically between 20 and 30 people, and the dead soldier battalion sergeants suffered a total of 171 casualties.

Yuan Yao stood on the high ground and stood with the moat in the distance, feeling a little helpless, each wave of landfill casualties of twenty or thirty people, such casualties were acceptable, but these nearly five thousand bags of sandbags were thrown into the moat, and even the water speed of the moat did not slow down much, when will the moat be filled?

Yuan Yao looked at the moat in front of him, where the water speed was still extremely fast, and ordered again: "Yang Zaixing, divide the sergeants into two teams and bury them again." ”

"No, the last general will take the order!"

Yang Zaixing divided the more than 4,000 soldiers of the dead battalion into two teams and went to fill the moat again, and more than 4,000 bags of sandbags were thrown into the moat, and the moat was still flowing rapidly and only making some waves.

Pang Tong stepped forward at this time and bowed, and said: "Lord, the moat here uses the living water of the Yangtze River, and the water flow is extremely urgent, I expect that most of the sandbags thrown into the river must have been washed into the Yangtze River, and if they continue to be buried, it will only be a dead and wounded soldier in vain." In the opinion of the ministers, it is better to withdraw the troops as soon as possible than to increase casualties and disturb the morale of the army in this way. ”

Yuan Yao glanced at the moat in front of him a few more times, and could only reluctantly order: "Order, withdraw the army, and return to the camp!" ”

"Ding!"

The sound of gold resounded through the four fields, and Yuan Yao's army slowly retreated and went straight to the camp.

When Yuan Yao retreated, he ordered the soldiers to be scattered, trying to lure Deng Long to lead his troops to pursue and then return to defeat him, but Deng Long did not take the bait at all, but shrank motionless in the city.

It was the first time for Yuan Yao to face such a difficult and scoundrel opponent, and he really had no choice but to give up and lead the army back to the camp.

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