The victory or defeat of a war cannot depend on weapons, and no matter how sharp a weapon is, the wrong person who uses it will not be able to change the defeat.

But it still has to be used when it should be used, and what it can do now is to do everything possible, use all the power it can muster, defend this city to the death, and fight for yourself and the robes.

The workshop in the city started again, fortunately, last time Wang Zhu personally got a large number of saltpeter sulfur and charcoal from Shazhou, this guy does things with a tendon, and he needs something to defend the city as if he wants to get it, the more the better, Wang Zhu originally led a caravan from Shazhou, hundreds of camels, and all of them were loaded with raw materials for making earth-shaking thunder, so after more than 10,000 earth-shaking thunders were made in the city, the raw materials were still more than enough.

Originally, the workshop invited more than 100 people to make firearms, and then Li Su drove all the people out of the city, and the workshop stopped from then on, expecting to think that more than 10,000 earth-shaking thunders were enough to defend the city, but Li Su saw that the enemy army did not want to kill the siege posture today, and couldn't help but worry about it.

Li Su couldn't help but be glad that Wang Zhu had a lot of muscles, but fortunately, with him, there were enough materials to build earth-shaking thunder in the city, otherwise the battle to defend the city would be even more difficult.

The military order was conveyed, a hundred townsmen put down their weapons and entered the workshop, according to Li Su's assembly line production method began to make earth-shaking thunder, the west of the city, the enemy's second round of siege also entered the white heat, this round of attack was more fierce than the last time, the enemy general seemed to have noticed that it was more difficult to break through Xizhou City than he imagined, so he stimulated his ferocity, simply let go of his hands and feet, with the brutal tactics of adding fuel to fill his life, launched a fierce attack on the defenders of the city.

Not only that, but in the middle army outside the city, a siege vehicle was slowly launched.

The main body of the siege vehicle is a large wooden stake with a thickness of four or five hugs. The front end of the stake is cone-shaped, the tip of the cone points straight to the city gate, and the bottom is supported by four large wooden wheels, from the middle army formation to the city gate, about five miles away, the siege vehicle slowly advances forward. When he was almost at the city gate, he began to speed up in vain.

On the city tower, Jiang Quan was in a hurry when he saw this, and hurriedly mobilized a thousand people to block the city gate with everything in the city, while Li Su ordered ten earth-shattering thunderbolts to be fixed, and then tied their leads together and threw them under the city wall with torches.

There was a loud bang, and the walls shook slightly, and when I looked down, the siege engine had been blown out of shape. Of the hundreds of enemy soldiers pushing the cart, only a few dozen fled in panic with their heads in their hands, and before they could run in front of the Chinese army, they were met by the enemy generals and cut off the heads of those deserters one by one.

As far as the eye could see, there were corpses and stumps and broken arms, blood and broken bones of Bai Sensen, and countless wounded soldiers fell in pools of blood and wailed helplessly. Moan/groan, on the head of the city. The attacking and defending sides are still fighting for their lives, and the enemy troops who climbed to the top of the city are killed by several defenders with a burst of swords and halberds, or several enemy soldiers choose the weakest place to take advantage of the weakness, and several people strike together, and the scimitars dance vigorously, and then the defenders rush up and cut down.

Jiang Quan's face was covered in blood. Unable to tell whether it was the enemy's or his own, he ran back and forth on the road at the head of the city, giving orders in a hoarse voice, and ran from place to place, hurrying around. Li Su was busy transferring troops from the southeast, north, south, and north, and Zheng Xiaolou followed closely behind him, swinging his sword from time to time to knock one or two cold arrows towards Li Su.

The battle was fierce, ten miles of red blood, the city whimpered in the afterglow of the setting sun, and under the fiery red sky stained by the sunset, there seemed to be a pair of cold and ruthless, eyes that regarded everything as a dog, coldly watching the mutual killing and killing of human beings, watching countless lives that had paid their lives but were not recorded in history disappear into the world and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.

The corners of the earth are cold, and the sky is singing and the clouds are flying. The banner is about to be broken, what will be the lonely general?

It wasn't until the sun was completely hidden below the horizon that there was a sudden sound of gold from the Chinese army outside the city, and the enemy troops besieging the city retreated like a tide, throwing down thousands of corpses inside and outside the city walls.

After the enemy army had completely retreated, Li Sucai sat weakly on the ground, leaning on the arrow battlements of the city wall with his back and letting out a long sigh.

This lonely city has been held for another day.

Difficult, tragic, cruel, but helpless, all the sacrifices, just to live.

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The soldiers were tired, and collapsed all over the city regardless of it, some of them were asleep, some were holding their wounds and breathing in a low voice, and some threw their weapons and knelt in front of the corpse of the good robe and wept endlessly.

Li Su was so tired that he couldn't do it, his expression became more and more depressed, and his mood became heavier and heavier.

Sticking to Xizhou, he has always been pessimistic, this city can hold for three or five days, and if he is lucky, he may be able to hold it for ten days, but if the enemy army does not give up, he will attack like this every day, ten days, at most half a month later, he is not sure that he can defend it.

It was too difficult, the walls were fragile, isolated on all sides, and half of the defenders were village warriors who could be called a rabble, and their combat power was almost negligible...... All kinds of unfavorable factors add up, and this city is doomed to a doomed end.

What should I do if I can't keep the day?

Li Su opened his eyes tiredly, staring at the crescent moon quietly hanging in the east, and a complicated smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The day I can't keep it, I may really choose to die with the city, since I walked back from the halfway point of the escape that day, then, dying with the city is my inevitable end, not for the community, nothing about good or evil, purely just for the rest of my life to live a decent life, not so guilty.

The night had just shrouded this land mixed with scorched smoke and red blood, and the city was already snoring one after another, some were still biting half a piece of vegetable cake in their mouths, but the people were already asleep, and some of the seriously injured were silent, as if they had passed away in a deep sleep, and the awake soldiers probed their noses, and then sighed, and carried the deceased down from the city in silence.

Jiang Quan sat next to Li Su with his buttocks, the wound on his back had been treated, and there were two long knife wounds on his face, which he casually smeared with some black wound medicine.

His eyes were bloodshot and red, and he didn't know if it was because of exhaustion or pain, so he sat next to Li Su and sighed heavily, hanging his head and being silent.

Li Su looked up at the bright crescent moon above his head, and said lightly: "How are the casualties of our army?" ”

Jiang Quan pursed his lips a few times and said, "More than 800 died, more than 200 were seriously injured, and more than 60 of the seriously injured were afraid of ...... I can't survive tonight. ”

"In other words, in today's battle, more than 800 of our 5,000 defenders died, plus the seriously injured who couldn't move, almost 1,000 people were lost, right?"

Jiang Quan's eyes turned red and nodded.

Li Su's face was a little bitter: "It's only been two days, and it's broken by a thousand, can we still withstand the enemy's several sieges?" ”

Jiang Quan sighed: "Do your best, and finally leave this life in Xizhou to repay Your Majesty's imperial kindness." ”

Li Su shook his head: "You can't hold on so stupidly, it's too passive, we have to change our tactics......"

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PS: There is one more ...... (To be continued.) )