At the end of the second round of fighting, Liu He and Cheng Pu's faces were already very ugly.

"Why did Uyan give up the easy and difficult to attack the annex building on the right? Do I have a lot of loss? Isn't his loss even greater? Just in such a small place, I lost two or three hundred soldiers, and I can't afford to lose them. Cheng Pu clenched his fists and said indignantly.

Liu He frowned, and roughly understood Wu Yan's intentions: "Demou! I'm afraid that it is more cost-effective for Wuyan to fight with our army in the auxiliary building than to fight with our army on the main city wall. ”

"Shunzhi means..."Cheng Pu suddenly realized: "The main city wall has a large defensive surface, and the soldiers on the defending side can complement and assist each other, while the attacking side can only attack passively. ”

"Yes! Guan Wei, you see that after the battle on this day, according to the proportion of casualties on both sides, the attacking side will naturally suffer a big loss. But on the small defensive side, the defenders have few soldiers, and there is almost no possibility of supporting each other. The attacker only needs to pounce a little. In this way, in proportion to the casualties, the attacking side does not seem to suffer very much. Uyan is probably bullying our few soldiers and consuming our troops on the flank battlefield. Xu Rong added.

"But you can't give up the annex. The annex was controlled by the enemy, and the left side of the main wall was completely exposed to the enemy's bow and arrow. It was supposed to be an advantageous location to strengthen the defense, but giving the enemy such an attack turned into chicken ribs. Huang Zhong continued Xu Rong's words.

"Hey! The acute shortage of sergeants is the bottleneck of the current defense. According to this consumption, more than 3,000 people are not enough for the other side. Cheng Pu was very distressed, and now he could only count on the reinforcements from Youbeiping County to arrive immediately.

"Yigong, how many materials are there to defend the city, rolling stones, and wood?" Cheng Pu asked Han Dangdao.

"It can also support seven or eight days." Han Dang flipped through the bamboo slips.

"Mulberry? Wood...," Liu He muttered.

"What's wrong with Shunzhi?" Cheng Pu asked.

"Ahh I have a plan! Liu He looked at Cheng Pu.

It turned out that Liu He was inspired by the wood, and suddenly remembered the forest on the edge of the auxiliary building, because the enemy army was about to come and forgot to cut it, but now it can be used.

"The main reason for the heavy casualties in the past two days is that we are not well prepared, and we did not expect that the enemy would choose to attack here. As a result, a hasty response to the battle led to an undisciplined defense that fell into a melee with the enemy; Secondly, the enemy's bows and arrows were fired endlessly, completely suppressing the support of our upper and lower sides, which was one of the reasons for the increase in casualties. Liu He pointed to the map on the table.

"The problem is that if the defence continues to be so passive, we will lose a lot." Cheng Pu also stared at the map.

"Then the key is to grasp the initiative in defense?" Liu Bei drew a circle with his finger at the location of the annex building.

"Xuande got to the point." Liu He also pointed: "Due to the mountainous situation, the enemy has fully used his strengths, and they use different high and low points to suppress our defense with dense long arrows. If we can't break their archers, no matter how much we defend, we will be very passive and our losses will increase. ”

"Is there a way to break it?" Zhang Fei asked eagerly.

"Burn it, burn the mountain." Liu He suddenly pointed to the mountains and forests in front of him and said through gritted teeth.

The generals' eyes lit up, as if they saw the fire burning in the woods, and the soldiers of Xianbei struggling and shouting in the fire.

"My lord! In fact, we can go further. Zou Jing said.

"Does Sui'an have any other proposals?" Liu He looked at Zou Jing and said.

"We're going to lure in more enemies, and even give them the entire annex! In this way, once the fire burns, the enemy's losses will be even greater, and this time I will see where they will flee. ”

"Wonderful!"

Then, in the middle of the night, he personally led a group of soldiers to quietly climb down the city wall along the rope in the night, and after they threw a large amount of flammable materials in the hidden places of the woods, they disappeared into the dark night like ghosts with more burning oil and other combustible materials.

The next day, Liu He was awakened by the roaring sound of bull horns. He got up sleepily and looked in the direction of the enemy's camp, where the flags were waving and the men were shouting and neighing, and the enemy seemed to be about to launch an all-out attack today. The enemy appeared on the hill opposite the annex, and as yesterday they began to fire intensively, the infantry set up ladders, and the assault troops began to climb the city.

The Han army learned the lesson of yesterday, and the troops were not stationed in separate points, but scattered on the long city walls. More than 500 people started at one end of the main city wall and extended to the annex building. This method of defense was particularly detrimental to the enemy's focused attacks, but in the absence of other means of dodging the enemy's arrow rain, it was the only way to avoid the danger of the reinforcements on both flanks being blocked by the enemy for the first two days.

It wasn't until his own attacking soldiers climbed the ladder that the enemy soldiers stopped firing. But then more close-range shooting soldiers shot long arrows in their hands, helping their besieging soldiers to continue to suppress the Han army on the city walls.

At this time, Liu He guarded the battlement, and a frightened face suddenly appeared in front of him. Liu He dodged to avoid the stabbing from the other party, and at the same time rounded his saber and slashed at the head of the enemy soldier, who let out a heart-rending scream and fell down the ladder. The long arrows that were raining down like a torrent suddenly stopped, and the enemy roared frantically and began the battle to capture the city.

Liu He's sword was swirling, and he fought hard to block the enemy's attack without fear. Seven or eight dead enemies were already lying around him. A Xianbei man was fighting with Liu He, and swords and sparks burst out with the piercing sound of metal.

The enemy soldiers who climbed up immediately after appeared on the wall and were immediately hit by an arrow. Seeing that he couldn't live, the big man suddenly roared and jumped up with his hands open to hug Liu He, who was swinging his sword on the opposite side, Liu He was caught off guard and hugged by him, and with the huge impact of the man jumping down, the two fell heavily on the top of the city wall together.

The enemy soldiers who fought against Liu He were very strong, and immediately followed up and rounded the battle knife and cut it at Liu He's neck. Liu He was suppressed by the enemy's body, and there was no way for his whole body to resist.

At this time, Zhang Fei in the distance saw it, roared and resisted the enemy's blow behind him, and stabbed his snake spear into the enemy's vest before the enemy's war knife fell, piercing his heart cold. The enemy looked at Liu He on the ground with infinite regret, bent down and picked up the war knife dropped by the enemy, used all his strength, roared wildly, and threw it into the body of the enemy soldier who was about to chop Zhang Fei again.

Liu He pushed away the corpse pressed on his body, rolled over and got up, glanced at Zhang Fei gratefully, and once again slaughtered like a madman in the area he was defending—where more enemies were crawling in from the ladder.

An hour later, the enemy was killed and retreated, and Liu He's troops suffered huge losses, and nearly a hundred or so men were carried down. There is nothing opportunistic about this kind of hand-to-hand combat, either death or injury. Generally speaking, a city is not far from being breached. The enemy and the enemy fight for people, and whoever has more people can reach the end.

Liu He looked at these enemy corpses, and for a while it was still difficult to accept the ferocity and tenacity of the Xianbei soldiers. As long as they rush to the city wall, they will never look back until they die in battle, this pure way of taking death is really a bit jaw-dropping, this is a group of people who do not want to die.