"It has been 23 days since the city was besieged, and our army has suffered more than 24,000 casualties, and less than half of the soldiers are still in battle!"

"The artillery of the main defense force, under repeated use, has more than half of the artillery cracks, or simply exploded and cannot be used, and most of the remaining artillery has been greatly reduced, and the destruction of the enemy's siege equipment is becoming more and more weak."

"There is still ...... food left in the city"

In Caozhou City, He Sanjiang, who had just recovered from typhoid fever, sat on the first seat and quietly listened to the reports of Han Yao and other generals below, more calm than before, at this time, Han Yao's face was a little more calm, and their bodies were full of the breath of war smoke, and it could be seen that they had just retreated from the front line of the battlefield.

"My lord, isn't it time to execute the next battle plan?"

After Shi Ran finished reporting, he suddenly asked He Sanjiang, who was the head of the company.

"Wait a minute, although we are short of heavy artillery weapons now, but with the current strength in hand, we can hold out for a few more days, and we have not yet reached the end of the mountain."

He Sanjiang frowned, insisting on not letting himself show his weakness because of the injury, shook his head and vetoed the other party's suggestion.

"My lord, according to the general, it is timely to carry out the next step now, the overall loss of our army is more than 30,000, and if we insist like this, I am afraid that the next losses will be even greater, and even if we wait until Dashun withdraws, our army will be seriously damaged because of its strength, and it will be coveted by Governor Sun and them."

However, it is obvious that when Shi Ran made his suggestion, he had already been approved by Han Yao and them, and when his suggestion was vetoed by He Sanjiang, Han Yao and they still did not give up on rebuttals.

He Sanjiang looked at a few generals and saw that they were resolute-willed, and the information he had only obtained through data aggregation in the past few days was definitely not as thorough as Han Yao and other generals who actually fought, but he did not insist on his own opinion at this time.

"Since you all feel it's time to act, let's do what you planned!"

He Sanjiang's young and strong body rarely gets sick, but it is not easy to cure if he really gets sick, and he finally raises it, thanks to a dry of doctors and Chinese patent medicine sent from the base camp.

After more than 20 days of repeated firefights, the outer walls of Caozhou City, which were old but solid, have long been mottled and broken, and many of the battlements of the city walls have collapsed, and the places on the city walls are green and black, all of which are soaked in the blood that slipped out when the soldiers on both sides died, and one after another flies and mosquitoes flew around on the battlefield.

The summer weather is hot, and the corpses killed in the city have been decomposed, and the smell of stench and fecal water makes an ordinary person standing on the battlefield of this song, afraid that he will not be able to bear it immediately, and will be smoked directly to the ground.

The soldiers of the He family army were almost half killed, and the casualties of the besieging army of the Dashun Dynasty were even more, with a total of sixty or seventy thousand, which was naturally a wound for the army of the Dashun Dynasty, but it still could not stop Li Zicheng's determination to capture Caozhou City.

Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang and others, the main generals of the Dashun army, were all scolded by Li Zicheng because of the unfavorable siege of the city, and even whipped and punished, but in the end, Caozhou City still stood in front, and Li Zicheng was unable to capture it for a long time.

In fact, the battle at the beginning of the siege was the most intense, and the losses were also the largest, almost half of the soldiers died ten days before the siege, with the delay of the battle, more and more soldiers died on the battlefield, and the morale of the Dashun army gradually faded at the same time, its siege action gradually weakened.

It was the end of another day's siege, the offensive of the Dashun army was still stubbornly resisted by the He army in the city, and the best opportunity to stay in battle today was at the head of the east city, a team climbed the city wall of Caozhou, and insisted on two teas at the head of the city, before being driven off the city wall by the He army.

It is also because of the progress made every day that the army besieging Dashun saw hope, so that it would not become depressed because of repeated defeats, and it was also the reason why Li Zicheng was still able to hold on until now.

In the middle of the night, according to the 24-hour calculation method of Hongmen from the West, at about half past two in the evening, suddenly the gate of the south city of Caozhou City, which was supposed to be recuperating and ready for the siege of the Dashun army on the second day, suddenly opened quietly.

A group of Caozhou defenders, with the remaining 3,000 cavalry of the He family army as the vanguard, attacked lightly along the open south gate of the city before the Dashun army could react, like a sharp arrow, tearing a hole in the Dashun front stationed outside the southern city.

In the past 20 days, from the very beginning, the He Jiajun still had some spare strength to go out of the city to attack the camp at night to find some trouble for the Dashun army, and as the siege lasted longer, the actions of the He Jiajun out of the city to disturb the city gradually disappeared.

And this sudden attack on the camp after the 24th was something that the Dashun army did not expect, and what they did not expect was that this time the He family army was not just an attack on the camp.

The He Jiajun kept the elite cavalry for more than 20 days as a breakthrough knife, and in the face of the Nancheng front of the Dashun army, which was somewhat lax, and then the cavalry assault tore a hole to the periphery, followed by the infantry of the He Jiajun, the gap torn by the cavalry was further expanded, and more and more soldiers of the He Jiajun and the baggage broke through the encirclement of the Dashun army for more than 20 days, and quickly moved forward towards the pitch-black wilderness.

The Dashun army never thought of it, or they thought about it but didn't believe that the other party would break through at this time, when the riots on the southern front fed back to the Chinese army camp and was known to Li Zicheng, at this time, in addition to the 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 elite infantry behind the palace, most of the rest and baggage had broken through the blockade of the Dashun army and disappeared into the southern wilderness.

"Chase, chase Lao Tzu!!"

After dozens of days of siege and siege, what Li Zicheng wanted to see most was that the main force of the He family's army was in his own encirclement, turning into a pile of corpses, so that he could vent the anger and depression in his heart.

But I didn't expect that this He Jiajun obviously only had this strong city to defend, and they didn't reach the end of the mountain, but they actually broke through directly, gave up Caozhou City, which was more conducive to defense, and put themselves in the wilderness, didn't this make Li Zicheng and other calculations fail again?

Li Zicheng, who was furious, waved his hand, and in addition to leaving more than 30,000 soldiers to occupy Caozhou City, the remaining soldiers were sent out by Li Zicheng to chase the team that broke through the He family's army, vowing to completely eradicate it before they would give up.