"Stand back, stand back ······" One by one, waving his arms and shouting under the city, he ordered his soldiers to quickly retreat from the burning wells and wheeled siege ladders.

Some of the soldiers of the Liaison Army who were stepping on the siege ladder and trying to rush to the city wall were engulfed in the fire, and all the well railings also burned, and the soldiers on the well railings screamed in horror, and some jumped down before the fire had spread to the top, either dead or disabled, and some who did not dare to jump could only watch the fire engulf themselves.

In order to make the fire burn faster and bigger, Chen Xian ordered his soldiers to throw a second wave of fire oil cans, the original fire oil used by the defenders was not easy to burn, but it was attached to the wooden siege ladder and well fence and burned easily, the burning siege ladder and well fence burned more vigorously after adding fire oil, and the fire was bigger.

Beneath the city walls was full of burning and screaming and rolling on the ground, and their heart-rending screams made people feel like they were going to hell.

"Release the arrows—" Chen Xian gave the order to attack with a cold face.

The archers of the defenders on the city wall drew their bows and fired arrows at the co-attendants under the city, and the arrows rained down in waves, and the co-subordinate generals who did not have time to leave the range of their bows and arrows suffered heavy casualties, and many of them collapsed and retreated on their own without orders.

In the formation of the cadre army, the adjutant general said to Su Ji: "General, the siege equipment has been burned, at this time it is better to withdraw the people, the soldiers stayed under the city and suffered bow and arrow blows, suffered losses in vain, and also injured morale, now only a few people turned around and fled, if the large-scale rout and retreat, the impact on military discipline will be great!" ”

Su Ji came back to his senses, his face was a little gray, and he raised his hand weakly: "Tell Mingjin to withdraw his troops!" ”

"No!"

"Dangdangdang······" A crisp gong sounded, and the soldiers of the co-subordinate army under the city turned around and ran away as if they had been amnestied.

The corpses of the dead were no longer taken care of, and the siege equipment that had caught fire was still burning on the edge of the city walls, and many corpses were burned in the fire, emitting an unpleasant stench.

"Big win!" Suddenly, someone on the city wall raised a weapon and shouted, as if to vent the frustration and anger of being beaten passively for so many days.

The other defenders also raised their weapons and shouted: "Great victory, great victory, great victory······"

In front of the cadre army outside the city, half an hour later, the adjutant general came over in a low mood and reported to Su Ji: "General, more than 800 people have been lost, all of whom were burned to death!" ”

Su Ji's eyes widened, and he yelled with a painful expression: "How can there be so many? ”

"General, there are a total of fifty well railings, fifty siege ladders, each well fence has more than fifteen people, less than eight people, all the well railings have been burned, at least a very small number of people jumped down in time at the risk of falling to death, but most of them fell and injured their legs and feet, the others failed to escape in time, all of them were killed in the fire, and some soldiers were burned to death on the siege ladders."

Su Ji suddenly opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of donated blood, and his body fell backwards.

This sudden situation shocked the adjutant general and the surrounding generals, and immediately grabbed him and shouted eagerly: "General, general······"

The adjutant general and the soldiers helped Su Ji to lie down, and quickly called the military doctor for rescue.

This siege battle was planned by Su Ji for a long time, made a lot of preparations, and almost moved more than seventy percent of the heavy siege equipment, but he didn't expect that just after the start of the battle, the whole plan was strangled in the cradle by the defenders, and the well rails and wheeled telescopic siege ladders used for close siege and projection of troops were burned clean by the defenders.

In addition, Su Ji heard that there were seven or eight hundred casualties, which made him angry, and he fainted on the spot with blood gushing on his head.

After some rescue by the military doctor, Su Ji was finally rescued, and he struggled to stand up and ordered in frustration: "Order to collect the troops and return to the camp!" ”

The adjutant general saw that it had only been less than an hour since the siege began, and now he would attack the city? How to explain to the emperor? He saw that Su Ji seemed to have lost his fighting spirit, and hurriedly said: "The general doesn't have to be discouraged, what if the telescopic wheel-type siege ladder and well fence are burned?" Our army still has siege ladders, as well as a large number of trebuchets, and the last general will reorganize the offensive and personally lead the troops to attack the city! ”

Su Ji shook his head and sighed: "Now that the morale of our army is completely gone, the morale of the defenders is high, even if you smash all the city walls, our soldiers will not be able to attack, first order the troops to return to the camp, and then make plans in the future!" ”

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Su Ji, the deputy general hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can ······ How does the general explain to His Majesty? ”

"If you make a mistake, you will naturally pay the price, this battle faux pas is my fault, and it has nothing to do with you, I will ask Your Majesty for the guilt and bear all the responsibility!"

The adjutant general shook his head and said: "The general said this is too outward, this siege plan was discussed by the general and the last general and others, and now the siege plan has failed, and the general cannot be held responsible, and it is much better for us to bear it together than for the general to bear it alone!" ”

At this time, the feint attack on the side of the eastern city wall was in full swing, and although the attacking co-ordinate army was still at a disadvantage in terms of the overall situation, they had already fought a lot with the defenders on the city wall.

In order to defend the city wall, the guard general Ye Tongzhang had to increase his troops to participate in the battle on the city wall every half an hour or so, and the battle for the city wall lasted for an hour to suppress the offensive of the co-servant army, and the number of co-conformists who remained on the city wall to fight decreased sharply.

Some were squeezed off the walls, some were killed, and the accompanying defenders continued to throw in troops, and there were fewer and fewer co-servants on the walls.

At this moment, billowing smoke rose from the sky in the direction of the north city wall, and a large number of screams were faintly heard.

"Your Majesty, look at the north city wall!" General Li Bao pointed to the northwest and shouted.

Zhao Junsheng had already seen it, he frowned, he had a bad premonition in his heart, and shouted: "Li Bao, quickly send someone to find out what happened!" ”

"No!"

A fast horse galloped towards the cadre army formation outside the northern city wall.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the co-consignment army on the opposite east city wall and seemed to be about to be unable to hold on, the ability to project troops close to the siege ladder was too poor, if it were not for the use of infantry and coordination tactics to send a part of the troops up to occupy some city wall sections in advance, it was impossible for the co-conscription army to hold on to the city wall until now, and it was even difficult to even attack the city wall, often going up and dying one by one.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a moment and ordered: "Summons the order for the siege battalion to dispatch the well fence!" ”

Li Baodao: "Your Majesty, there are only a dozen well bars here, is the number too small?" ”

"It's okay, we can't watch the soldiers on the city wall being killed by the enemy, let's send out the well fence!"

"No!"

After the order was given, the dozen or so well bars that remained here were pushed by the soldiers in the direction of the city wall, and halfway through the march, the knights who had been sent to investigate the vanishing knights returned.

"Newspaper—"

"Newspaper—"

The knight stopped in front of the side of the royal chariot and reported: "Your Majesty, all the defenders of General Su's well fence and wheeled telescopic siege ladder have been burned, and there is not a single body left, and it is said that the soldiers who are besieging the city have suffered heavy casualties!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's face changed after hearing this, he turned his head to look at the more than a dozen well railings that were still advancing in front of him, and immediately ordered: "Order to withdraw the troops!" ”

"Dangdangdang······" A gong sounded, and the co-consignees retreated like a tide, and even the co-consignees on the city wall retreated, but the defenders did not chase them, fearing that the dogs would jump over the wall in a hurry and let them leave.

Soon, Su Ji rode a few people to the palace, he dismounted and knelt down: "Your Majesty, the minister's command failed, and the defenders burned all the melee siege equipment, and lost more than 700 people in less than an hour, and the siege strategy specified before was completely restrained by the defenders, all because the minister was incompetent, and the minister was willing to judge himself to pay for his crimes!" ”

After that, Su Ji drew his knife and wanted to kill himself.

Zhao Junsheng's eyes were quick, and as soon as he shook his hand, several needles shot at Su Ji's wrist, Su Ji screamed in pain, the knife in his hand fell to the ground, and his injured hand trembled.

Zhao Junsheng said angrily with a cold face: "Come here, call the imperial doctor to treat his injuries, and come to see me after the injuries are treated!" Give the order, collect the troops and return to the camp! ”

The emperor immediately drove the horses to turn around and pull the royal chariot towards the direction of the camp, and the generals and colonels also ran to their own troops and ordered the soldiers to turn around and return to the camp to rest.

Originally, the plan was good, today the morale of the soldiers is strong, mental and physical strength have returned to the peak state, I did not expect that the siege war has just begun, the siege mode was completely restrained by the defenders, the siege plan can only be forced to be suspended, this siege battle also ended dismally, this is a very big blow to the morale of the cadres and the army, and so the soldiers all withdraw to the camp, one by one are like frosted eggplants.

Inside the tent.

Zhao Junsheng took advantage of his face to sit on the main seat, his back straight, his hands on his knees, and his eyes swept over the faces of ministers, ministers and generals.

The ministers and generals did not dare to come out one by one, everyone knew that at this time, Zhao Junsheng was on fire in his heart, and it was just a matter of defeating the battle, and the chief general who was in charge of commanding the battle actually wanted to apologize for his crimes, how could Zhao Junsheng stand it? Will death solve the problem? If the ministers, generals, and generals all die like Su Ji, how can he, the emperor, still be? How else do you rule the ministers?

The little colonel on duty outside the tent walked in, the atmosphere inside the tent made his heart beat wildly, and he cautiously walked to the middle to report: "Your Majesty, General Su is waiting outside the tent for His Majesty to summon you!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said coldly: "Xuan this bastard comes in!" ”

Su Ji walked in with his head bowed while covering his wrist that had been bandaged with gauze, and knelt on the ground with a plop, "See Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng drank and asked, "Su Ji, do you still want to die?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!"

Zhao Junsheng pointed at Su Ji is scolding: "I see that you are a fool and a coward!" If something happens, you want to evade responsibility, others are thinking about the Fa to escape, but you are good, you want to die to evade responsibility, you think you are very brave, you are cowardly! If you are bloody and kind, you will break this city for me and capture everyone in it! Sima Yi met Zhuge Liang was defeated repeatedly, and finally Zhuge Liang was consumed to death, you want to die once you fail, I see that you used to live too well, since you want to die, you should die······"

Su Ji was scolded by Zhao Junsheng so bloody, and he also woke him up, he thought that he had indeed lived too smoothly in the past ten years, he had not experienced failure, and he couldn't stand this failure, he was really a bad man.

"Your Majesty, the minister, the minister knows that he is wrong, please give the minister another chance, if the minister does not break this city, he will not stop!"