After twenty years of ups and downs, is it true that in the end, he is the only one who still wants to defend it faithfully?

Xiao Maha stretched out his hand to support the battlements and looked at the camp in the distance.

Siege for so many days, this as the main direction of the north gate has been under considerable pressure, more importantly, Jiangling as the former capital of the Western Liang, its city construction focus on the south and east of the two directions that may face the main force of Nan Chen, although in the later Xiao Maha also once strengthened the defense of the north and west, but in the final analysis, it is not an overnight effort to change the existing defense system of a city.

After a few days of hard fighting, now the moat outside the north gate has been filled, before the attack, it is obvious that Pei Zilie has been fully prepared, a large number of sandbags poured down, plus the sailor cooperates with the digging of the embankment at the entrance and exit of the moat, so that the water of the moat has no ingress, and it is only a matter of time before the moat is filled, or more accurately, the trench without water.

However, in order to express his intention to advance and retreat with Jiangling City, Xiao Maha still decisively demolished the stone bridge outside the north gate, and in order to be able to rebuild a road to the city gate, the Shu Han soldiers paid a heavy price.

In the wilderness outside the city, the huge ladder cart has burned to the skeleton, and it seems that it can be reduced to ashes and scattered when the wind blows. The corpses on the battlefield have been collected and cleaned, after all, it is already summer, although the weather is not too hot, but it is also necessary to be careful of epidemic prevention, but the land soaked in blood is impossible to sweep.

And the situation on the city is not much better than outside the city, there is already an obvious collapse on the north side of the city wall, just yesterday's siege, Shu Han soldiers once poured up here, if it wasn't for Chen Yu with Xiao Maha's personal guards to go up, maybe the city has been broken.

As for the bed crossbows and iron pots in the city, they have been destroyed by trebuchets, and even some trebuchets in the city have been destroyed.

Xiao Maha knew very well that if such an attack continued for ten days, then the city would definitely not be able to hold it. No matter how tall Jiangling City is, no matter how high the morale of the soldiers under his command is, there is always a limit to all this, not to mention the death of Chen Ji, the fighting spirit in the city has inevitably been affected, and the Shu Han soldiers outside the city have obviously seen the dawn of victory.

I'm afraid this battle won't even last for ten days, let alone support it until the end of the month.

A gust of wind with the smell of blood blew, and Xiao Maha suddenly shuddered.

Even the coach with the most determination has such thoughts now, so what will the people below think?

At this time, on the west city gate, a partial general said in a deep voice: "General, Xiao Maha wants to take us to the funeral of this imperial court!" ”

"Yes, General, I've been fighting for so many days, and if I continue to fight, this will be the result." The other battle master couldn't help but say.

Sitting on the top was Ren Zhong, who was in charge of the defense of the west. He retreated from the Zhangchuan defense line without authorization, just to test Xiao Maha's attitude towards Li Xinchen, Xiao Mahe did not punish him, so that Ren Zhong thought that Xiao Maha had planned to negotiate peace with Li Xinchen, and it was just a show to defend here.

As a result, who would have thought that Xiao Maha not only personally went into battle to guard the most important north gate, but now that Chen Ji had died, he had no intention of ending this battle, which made Ren Zhong very frightened.

Xiao Mahatie is determined to live and die with Gangneung City, but it doesn't mean that everyone has the same idea as him.

If this Jiangling City is dedicated now, Li Xinchen will definitely not treat them badly, and if they continue to defend it like this, I am afraid that it will really be burned at that time.

Those who are qualified to discuss this matter in this city tower are Ren Zhong's cronies, and even this topic is not something they have the courage to say at all, but Ren Zhong privately instructed a crony to speak tentatively, which led everyone's emotions out.

As Ren Zhong's subordinates, they have not been very good in these years, although Ren Zhong is a veteran of the Southern Chen Army, but the fate is not very good, as long as it is a victory, it basically has nothing to do with him, as long as it is a defeat, it basically makes him catch up, the problem is that every time it is actually not much to do with Ren Zhong who is late or guarding the side, but since it is defeated, it naturally has no credit.

So after so many years, Ren Zhongcai, who has become an old senior, can be mixed up with an Anxi general, and this is still newly canonized, and he was even just a miscellaneous general before.

Ren Zhong is not very good, and his subordinates naturally don't need to say much, if Ren Zhong is not promoted, they naturally have no chance, so everyone has already been in this Nanchen enough. Especially Xiao Maha, a "young man" who is only forty years old, how can He De be able to take charge of the army when veterans like Ren Zhong are still there, which makes everyone even more indignant.

Now it's a good thing that this Xiao Maha dares to drag everyone to bury him for the sake of his posthumous name, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Chen Ji is already dead, the generals of the previous generation of Nan Chen have done their best, everyone knows who the emperor will be next to ascend the throne, and there is no need to say much about what kind of person this person is, no one wants to serve such an emperor.

Especially when the enemy on the opposite side is still Li Xinchen.

"General!" In the final analysis, Ren Zhong has to be in charge of this matter, everyone looks at Ren Zhong together, they are all grasshoppers on a rope, everyone's voice is like this, general, you can't go against everyone's minds, let alone really go against this rolling tide with that Xiao Maha.

Ren Zhong took a deep breath, looking at these bright-eyed subordinates, he already knew very well that he had no choice at all. The general trend of the world is like this, and the people in this Jiangling City who have the same mind must not only be in this room.

"In that case, a certain barbarian slave should follow the general trend!" Ren Zhong Huo Ran stood up, "Barbarian Slave" was his name before joining the army, and he changed his name to "Zhong" in order to show his loyalty to Nan Chen, and now he uses "Barbarian Slave" to refer to himself, and the meaning is naturally clear.

"Yes!" The generals breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time made a promise.

At this moment, on the east city gate, Lu Shixiong and Lu Shizhen were also looking at Lu Guangda.

Although the East City Gate is not Pei Zilie's main direction of attack, but because there is a river connecting the river that passes through here, it can be regarded as half of the water gate, and the warships of the Shu Han Navy Division have ravaged the defenders in the past few days, but the defenders' trebuchets and bed crossbows can't reach people at all, so they can only cry out in vain.

However, the focus of the sailor's attack was on the side of the water gate, so he didn't destroy the city gate tower much, and he left a little face.