"General, the rebel offensive is too fierce, the feather arrow battalion has suffered heavy casualties, if it continues like this, it will not last until tomorrow morning, and the feather arrow battalion will be completely annihilated, and the last general will ask for the transfer of the baggage battalion." Lu Zhao said urgently.

"That's okay, quickly remove the feather arrow battalion, transfer 3,000 people from the baggage battalion to fill the feather arrow battalion battle position, and transfer another 4,000 people, and replace the Xiao cavalry battalion, the mighty battalion, and the tired and wounded soldiers under the command of the general, go quickly."

"General Xie!"

Lu Zhao's feather arrow battalion suffered much greater casualties than the two battalions of Xiaocai and Weiwu, and the archers were often the priority targets of the enemy archers, just like the machine gunners in modern times, and they were the heavy firepower points that the enemy had prioritized to kill. After all, in the era of cold weapons, long-range weapons can kill and injure enemies from a long distance, and archers have the ability to strike first before reaching hand-to-hand combat distance.

The casualties of the two battalions of Xiaocai and Weiwu were also very large, Su Hong and Baihe only made up 1,000 people, and each of them was equipped with an additional 2,000 recruits, and the total number of men and horses of the two divisions reached 6,000 people, and the total number of Lu Zhao and Bailiyan (Wei Xian) two divisions of 6,000 people, and the actual strength of the garrison at the south gate reached 12,000 people, and the fierce battle lasted for a day and night, and the casualties had already exceeded half.

Of course, the casualty rate of the defenders of the city is much less than that of the besieging side, even if more than half of the casualties are less than half of the rebels, but the injuries are not light, most of them are wounded in the chest and head, causing damage to the chest and abdominal organs, chest cavity and abdominal effusion, this kind of open trauma, even under modern medical conditions, in most cases can not help.

After all, the lowest position of the low wall of the battlement of the city wall is just above the abdomen, the position of the chest, and the favorite thing for the siege soldiers is to climb the city wall and reach out to the empty position.

Previously, Baili Yan ordered the reserve Leopard Tao Battalion to take off all the chain mail to equip the two battalions of Xiaoqi and Weiwu to strengthen the resistance to blade damage, in addition, Zhao Xun also allocated 300 pieces, and the Guangxin Mansion gave 500 pieces of ordinary heavy chain mail.

But the world is unpredictable, the plan has not yet caught up with the rapid change, since the appearance of chain mail in the Yongxing River, the rebels have suffered a great loss, after more than a year of confrontation and intelligence spying, the rebels have gradually mastered a set of ways to deal with chain mail.

Among the rebels who besieged the city, especially those who were transported up the city walls by tower carts, were equipped with long-roded copper hammers and short-handled copper melons, which were specially used to smash the soldiers wearing chain mail.

At the beginning of the design of the chain mail, for convenience, it was worn in the light leather armor, and the chain mail produced by Yongxinghe was a half-body compact composite chain mail, which had a certain protective ability in the event of blunt force injury.

On the contrary, the conjoined chain mail of the Guangxin army is too heavy and wide, and it cannot be worn into other armor, and at the same time, the chain mail produced by Guangxin is not attached to the chest of the iron plate or copper plate, which leads to the soldiers equipped with this kind of conjoined heavy chain mail, encountered a blow from the copper hammer, and could not parry at all, either dead or injured.

In addition, a needle gun and a two-legged needle fork were found, a kind of slender bayonet with a diameter of seven or eight millimeters and a length of fifteen centimeters, which had been quenched.

Even if the outer layer is covered with a layer of light leather armor, this needle-shaped spear pierces not only the light leather armor, but also the steel ring of the steel chain mail worn inside.

The chain mail produced by Yongxinghe now is a four-layer single-layer chain mail, leaving a certain gap in the middle of the steel ring, although ordinary arrows cannot penetrate, but this kind of needle-type spear with a very small diameter is violently poked between the gaps, which can forcibly open the seams of the steel rings, and then pierce into the human body to cause trauma, even if it cannot pierce the vital organs, it can also make people lose their combat effectiveness.

However, Bailiyan also found that the strength of the needle gun is not good, after all, the diameter is only seven or eight millimeters, and it is not steel, it is only miscellaneous iron with less material, and the heat treatment lacks heat, and it may be broken or bent if it is not careful, so there is a fist-sized copper hammer at the tail of this needle gun, which is used to use a blunt weapon as a weapon after the needle gun is broken.

When it was ugly, the siege intensified, the rebel commander Huang Pu led an army of 40,000 to aid the rebels in Xiying, the war escalated again, the rebels attacking the west of the city jumped from nearly 10,000 to 20,000, Hu Mo's department guarding the west gate suffered huge casualties, Song Ping led the army into battle, barely withstood the rebel offensive.

At this time, Xu Wei had transferred 12,000 defenders from the north gate, and Luo Songting immediately suspended the battle out of the city, readjusted the deployment, and gathered more than 30,000 people, preparing to defeat the rebel Dongying in one fell swoop.

"Mr. Luo, Song Ping came to report just now, Ximen is under great pressure, and now Xu Yan has arrived, do you want to leave the city immediately!" Jiang Qian urged, his heart had already risen to his throat.

"The rebels fought for a day and night, and the defenders of the west and south of our city also fought fiercely for a day, and they were all exhausted. However, there are many new soldiers who are not good at fighting, and although they are tight at the moment, they will not be unable to hold on. Wait a little longer, wait until seven or eight o'clock in the ugly hour, when the rebels are hesitating, it is not too late to go out of the city to meet the battle. ”

As Luo Songting expected, after the escalation of the battle at the West Gate, the East Gate suddenly fell silent. Lei Ting couldn't help but suspect again, all signs showed that the Xian army did put troops to the west of the city to resist Wang Pu's siege, but he always felt that the combat effectiveness of the troops put by the Xian army into the west gate was unsatisfactory, and it was still not the main force of the Xian army fighting in the west of the city, but more like hastily trained recruits and a ragtag army with ordinary combat strength resisting at the west gate.

Until the end of the hour, the scout came again to report that the Xian army of Dongmen had left the city:

"Report, report to the king of heaven, the east gate once again found that the Xian army was out of the city, and the number was about two or three thousand." The scout said quickly.

"Two or three thousand again!" Thunder heard two or three thousand now, and all he thought of was four or five thousand: "This is the first time that the Xian army of Dongmen has gone out of the city."

"This is the fifth time that the Xian army has gone out of the city, and the first four times were about four or five thousand people, a total of 20,000 people."

The scout calculated very clearly, the Xian army that went out of the city before and after was 20,000 people, but the well-informed Qin Han didn't think much about it:

"Heavenly King, this is four or five thousand each time, and I go out of the city in batches, I'm afraid there is another mystery in it."

"How?" Thunder Road.

"These 10,000 people, divided into two batches, the first batch of 5,000 people, after the battle, withdrew into the city, and then drew one or two thousand people from the remaining 5,000 people, replaced the 5,000 people who left the city first, and then went out of the city again, and so on and so on, the Xian army went out of the city four or five times, I am afraid there are not 20,000 people."

"Oh, how so?"

"If the Xian army has 20,000 men, it should be 5,000 men in the first wave, and 5,000 men in the second and third waves, and wait until the fourth wave goes out of the city, and the first and second waves return to the city, and then draw half of the first and second waves and make up another 5,000 men, and then reciprocate until all the soldiers are tired and then make repairs.

In this way, if the Xian army is based on 20,000 people, it can at least put together more than ten or five thousand people to go out of the city in turn, and now it has killed four rounds first, and rested for more than an hour in between. According to this calculation, the strength of the Xian army from the east gate should be only more than 10,000 people. ”

Qin Han is an extremely shrewd businessman, of course he can think of this kind of tricky running account, and of course Luo Songting can also think of it, so it is expected that Qin Han will be able to see through this plan.

So after the fourth wave of men and horses recovered, they deliberately stopped the attack. It was the result of creating an illusion for Qin Han and making him mistakenly think that the Xian army attacking at the east gate only had more than 10,000 people taking turns to add troops and reorganize.

If the 25,000 people were reorganized in turn, they could kill at least ten waves without stopping, so that Qin Han could easily calculate the strength of the Dongmen Xian army.

But now that he has only killed four waves, Luo Songting stopped, faintly hinting to Qin Han that the Xian army leaving the city at the east gate was only more than 10,000 people, not 20,000 or 30,000.

Thunder felt reasonable, but Simon's abnormal situation still puzzled him:

"Qin Caidong, according to what you said, the Xian army did not gather heavy troops at the east gate, so what is the explanation for their sudden attack on our army tonight, and what explanation is the poor combat strength of the Xian army at the west gate."

"This ...... In the lower dullness, please also ask the king of heaven to teach. ”

"According to the Heavenly King, the Xian army found that our army was secretly drawing troops, and concluded that our army was going to attack Dingyang, and I am afraid that it is the idea of attacking my eastern camp at this time."

"What does the King of Heaven mean that the Xian army is going to march out of the city?"

"Is that possible? If the Xian army had discovered that our army was secretly drawing troops, it would be excusable for them to attack Dongying. ”

"In this way, Dongying is not in danger!"

"Humph!" Lei Ting snorted coldly: "The main force of our army is attracted to the city wall at this time and cannot get out, they go to attack the eastern camp, they are bound to take advantage of the weakness, the person who set up this plan is really scheming, I am afraid it is definitely not Wei Xian's strategy, but Luo Songting or Chen Yunfeng and the two of them." ”

"How can the King of Heaven see it?"

"Wei Xian, this person is risky and scheming, he has always been deviant and unruly, he knows the head but it is difficult to know the end, and the person who set up this plan is acting closely and step by step, without Wei Xian's empty hand, so the person who set up this plan is definitely not Wei Xian."

"If the Heavenly King says so, it must be Luo Songting."

"Then why did Jiang Min lead the army to garrison Yangting, but he fought with our army repeatedly but had a mediocre record, why didn't he design and use it."

Qin Han said helplessly:

"Luo Songting has never easily revealed his scheming, Qin has worked with him for more than ten years, and this person is also hidden and rarely seen, only that he is quite resourceful. And King Xian has been afraid of Jiang Min of Guangxin for a long time, if the Guangxin Army has made great contributions in the Yongxing River, Jiang Min will not be a thorn in the eye of King Xian.

The king of heaven does not look at the Yongxing River army, the Guangxin army has the smallest loss, compared to the use of strategy, silently preserving the strength and secretly training troops, this is the strength of Luo Songting.

If the Guangxin Army becomes famous, it is not only a big trouble for our army, but also a thorn in the heart of the Xian King, how can the Guangxin Army have a good end. ”

"So, Luo Songting's city is far above Wei Xian?"

This is difficult to say, Luo Songting does not easily confide in his scheming, but he must not be underestimated. However, this person is not as good as Wei Xian, Wei Xian has a lot of means and no rules, how to do it at all, Luo Songting is more or less upright and gentleman. ”

"Hmph, what a righteous gentleman, how can there be a righteous gentleman when the two armies are fighting!" Lei Ting scoffed, and then said: "Someone is coming, pass on the military order of the Heavenly King, and order the general Huang Pu to quickly transfer 20,000 soldiers and horses, and attack the north gate with a ladder car." ”

"No!"

The scout said, and then left. Qin Han was puzzled and asked:

"Heavenly King, this north gate is narrow, why do you want to fight the north gate if you don't send troops to help Dongying!"

"Hmph, the grain and grass in Guangxin City is enough to barely raise seventy or eighty thousand miscellaneous soldiers and people in the city for half a year, even if tens of thousands of young people can be levied, but what is the use of no food, grass and armor. Therefore, there are no more than 80,000 soldiers in Guangxin City at this time, but there are more than 50,000 people with blades, and they must concentrate the main force of the old soldiers at the east gate.

The west gate and the south gate were attacked by our army very urgently, dragging half of the soldiers and horses of Guangxin, so that if the Guangxin army wants to draw enough troops to attack our east camp, it is bound to draw troops from the north gate to fill the east gate. Our army went to attack the north gate at this time, just when it was empty. ”

"But our army intends to Tupucheng and Dingyang, and now it is only attacking the city with 100,000 people, so it is inevitable to support it."

"Winning is expensive to use flexibility, how can there be no reason not to take risks."

"But if it drags on in Guangxin and can't be attacked for a long time, won't our army lose its strength in vain."

"Then Qin Caidong knows that our army can't hit Guangxin hard?"

Thunder asked rhetorically, leaving Qin Han speechless, or rather speechless.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that 100,000 people attack the fortified city of 70,000 or 80,000 people, even if it is 780,000 miscellaneous soldiers, but it is not 70,000 or 80,000 cats and dogs, where is it easy to fight it down in one night, not to mention that it is Wei Xian who sits in Guangxin, and Luo Songting is not an idle person.