As the more stone shells were thrown on the city wall, the casualties of the defenders became larger and larger, which made Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang very shocked and anxious, why did the hit rate of the trebuchets of the cadre army be so high?

In Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang's cognition, although the stone bullet attack of the trebuchet is powerful, the hit rate is very low, and it is very good if two out of ten stone bullets can hit the city wall, but the stone bullets thrown by the cadres are not high except for one or two waves at the beginning, the more they smash, the better the hit rate, and later the hit rate reached half, which is too terrifying.

"No, it's too big to stay on the city wall any longer, General Ye, send an order for the soldiers to quickly go down the city wall in turn to hide, leaving only a few observation posts on the city wall!" Chen Xian hid under the women's wall and yelled while covering his head.

"Good!" Ye Tongzhang agreed, and immediately instructed a few soldiers around him: "Pass the order, except for the sentry, everyone else will go down to the city wall in turn to avoid stone bullets and stand by!" ”

The heralds braved the rain of bullets to weave around the city walls, loudly conveying orders, and the defenders who received the orders quickly descended the city walls and squatted under the base of the city walls, shivering.

Everyone was in disarray, the defenders, look at me, I look at you, many of them were slightly injured, some of their faces were scraped by debris, some of their limbs were cut by the splash of rubble.

There is a high movable lookout in the army formation of the cadres outside the city, the height is higher than the city wall, the view is very good, there are two soldiers on the platform, one of them has good eyesight, can clearly see the situation on the city wall, and the other person is the standard-bearer, responsible for playing the flag.

"Tell below, the defenders on the city wall have all withdrawn to the city, and there are only a few observation posts on the city wall!"

Another companion immediately used the flag to wave the flag to the communication soldier below, and after reading the flag sent by the other party, the communication soldier immediately ran to Su Ji's side to report.

After hearing this, Su Ji pondered for a moment and ordered: "Give the order to the first siege echelon and let them prepare for the siege!" Once the soldiers of the siege battalion dispatched siege ladders, well railings, bed crossbows and other siege equipment, the soldiers of the first attack echelon had to rush out behind the siege ladders and well railings! ”

"No!"

Subsequently, Su Ji sent someone to ask if the siege ladders, well railings, and bed crossbows on the side of the siege camp were ready, and after receiving a clear reply, he immediately ordered the siege camp to be dispatched.

The soldiers of the siege camp carried a ladder in a group, a dozen people guarded a well railing, and several people guarded a ballista.

The ladder general straightened his helmet, picked up a shield with his left hand, pulled out his right hand and pointed forward in battle, and shouted: "Brothers of the ladder, carry the ladder and rush with me, rush!" With that, he ran in the direction of the city wall.

"Rush—" the soldiers roared, shields in their hands, and ladders on their shoulders.

The general rushed for a while, stopped and turned his head, and shouted while waving his sword: "Hurry up, don't be discouraged, don't stop, rush me!" ”

When the soldiers of the cloud echelon carried the cloud ladder past the soldiers at the front of the military formation, the commander of the first siege echelon took out the battle and shouted: "The soldiers follow behind the cloud echelon, follow me!" There is no order, and he who takes a step back, slash-"

"Kill—"

"Kill-" The soldiers of the assistant army are also soldiers who have experienced regular drills, although they surrendered and were reorganized into the assistant army, their morale is a little low, but the military quality is still there, siege is their strength, under the leadership of the officers, they carried shields and swords and rushed to the city wall behind the cloud echelon.

For more than two months, the moat has been filled in little by little by the co-consignees, but the defenders are helpless, at first they also shot a lot of co-consignees, but then in order to save arrows, they can only let it go, and the moat is gradually filled.

After the Qianjun launched the siege of the city, the drums thundered, which had already alarmed the defenders who were dodging the stone bullets, but at this time, the stone bomb attacks of the Qianjun had not stopped, and they could only wait patiently.

When the cloud echelon of the cadres rushed to the vicinity of the city wall, the trebuchet attack stopped, and if it did not stop, it was likely to hit its own people.

"The trebuchet attack has stopped, soldiers come with me to the city wall to set up defenses, armor!" Chen Xian roared, carrying a war knife and rushing to the city wall first, he ran to the female wall to take a look, and immediately commanded the soldiers who ran up behind him to deploy defense.

As soon as the echelons rushed near the city wall, the trebuchets stopped firing stone projectiles, and they rushed to the bottom of the city wall to set up the ladder.

The quality of the individual soldiers of the assistant army was comparable to that of the defenders in the city, and the tacit cooperation between the various units was not because the soldiers were skillful in tactical coordination, but because most of the officers and colonels in charge of command were officers drawn from the cadre army, and it was their command that made the various units cooperate tacitly.

"Arrows, arrows—" Chen Xian yelled, and as he commanded, he took his bow and arrow from his back and shot them at the soldiers and soldiers under the city.

With the soldiers of the ladder building set up the ladder, the first siege echelon that followed up has also arrived, the soldiers with a shield in one hand, a war knife in the other, under the supervision of the officers and colonels, they rushed to the city in turn, put the war knife in their mouths, they held the shield in one hand, and climbed the ladder with both feet with one hand.

At this time, a large number of archers outside the city rushed over and fired arrows at the city wall to provide long-range support to the siege soldiers who were climbing the ladder.

But as the besieging soldiers climbed to the top of the city, the bow and arrow support under the city had to be stopped, lest they shoot their own people.

The defenders with the protection of the city wall still had the advantage after all, they could pick up a piece of rubble and smash it down to cause damage to the soldiers on the ladder, even if they could not kill people, they could not continue to climb, and if they smashed it accurately enough, they would also smash people down directly.

When it comes to the time when the real sword and real gun are face-to-face, the importance of individual soldier quality is reflected at this time, this is not on the battle formation, but in the siege, each soldier only faces one enemy, and even the siege soldier has to face several enemies at the same time.

The shortcomings of the poor quality of individual soldiers of the co-conformist army are revealed at this moment, whether it is morale, ferocity, or individual combat effectiveness, these co-conformists are at the same level as the defenders, but because they are the besieging side, the disadvantages are also very obvious, and a defender soldier can calmly use the advantages of the city wall to attack in the face of a siege co-servant army, and many co-subordinate troops have no power to fight back and be beaten down.

After the siege of the city had begun to climb the ladders, the trebuchets and ground archers had no deterrent effect on the defenders, and these two weapons could not be used, otherwise they could easily injure their own people.

The advantage of a defender who has the protection of the walls and attacks from a high position is very obvious, and a single defender soldier guarding the battlement can even kill three or four companions climbing the ladder.

However, there were also soldiers who climbed the ladder and rushed to the head of the city to engage in a fierce battle with the defenders, but they were soon besieged and killed by the defenders.

The co-consignees who were climbing were faced with arrows or stones shot from the top of their heads at any time, and even the defending soldiers continued to scoop up boiling water with scoops and pour it on the co-consignees who were climbing the ladders, so that they screamed and fell down the city and were seriously injured or directly fell to their deaths.

Su Ji, who was in charge of the siege command, frowned and looked at it for most of the hour, "The casualties are too great, and the order is for the siege battalion to dispatch the well fence and order the follow-up troops of the first siege echelon to attack!" ”

"Yes!" The herald agreed, and turned around to deliver the order.

On the imperial chariot, Zhao Junsheng sat for a long time and stood up and walked to the front to hold on to the railing to observe for a while, and said to the ministers and generals around him: "What do you think of the combat strength of the defenders?" ”

Dongfang Chen said: "Your Majesty, this guard Chen Xian is indeed very good at defending the city, and the quality of the individual soldiers of the defenders is similar to that of the co-conservators, but under his deployment and command, he is well guarded, and even relaxed!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought that Dongfang Chen was quite pertinent, when the offensive of the co-consignee army was more ferocious, and there was also bow and arrow support, Chen Xian ordered the defenders to let a lot of co-consort troops go to the city wall for short-term combat in order to reduce the casualties of the archers of the cadres under the city.

In this way, the archers of the cadre army under the city could only stop firing arrows in order not to hurt the friendly troops, so that the long-range support of the cadre army lost its effect, and the defenders formed a formation on the city wall under the command of Chen Xian to defend and encircle and suppress the co-subordinate army that attacked the head of the city one by one.

In the well fence of the dry army close to the command, the follow-up forces of the first siege echelon rushed to the city wall, and the archers of the cadre army also climbed the well fence one after another, the height of the well fence was very high, even higher than the city wall, and the archers of the cadre army standing on the well fence began to shoot arrows at the defenders after entering the firing range.

The long-range suppression of the archers of the dry army finally worked, and the activities of the defenders on the city wall were restricted, and a large number of arrows were fired.

Chen Xian found out about this unfavorable situation and ordered some archers to be mobilized to contain them, and at the same time ordered the sword and shield men to block the front, so that they could use their shields to block the arrows.

Although the hesitant moat was filled, but the filling was not smooth, the well fence could not be pushed to the edge of the city wall, dozens of well railings could only stop on the edge of the moat, the archers on it and the defending archers on the city wall fired arrows from each other, each with damage, because the well fence was high and the city wall was a lot, there was a condescending advantage, and the defender archers suffered a relatively large loss.

The siege battle lasted for a morning, and Zhao Junsheng never pointed a finger at Su Ji's command, in his opinion, Su Ji's command was no problem.

At the beginning of noon, the temperature was too high, the battle lasted for nearly two hours, and many of the co-followers were a little prostration, so Su Ji ordered the troops to be withdrawn and fight again in the afternoon.