Early the next morning, Zhang He led the army to the city of Xindu.

"Listen to the city guards, I am the general of Liaodong, Zhang He, quickly open the city and surrender, you will not die!" Zhang He shouted loudly.

"Humph! That's a nice thing to say, General Liaodong? It's just a traitor to my Jizhou! Gao Gan snorted coldly and replied with great disdain.

"You're ......!" Zhang He was furious in his heart, but what the facts, he didn't want to argue, so he had to shout again, "Quickly open the city and surrender, I will save you from death!" ”

"Joke, my senior cadres will open the city and surrender? There is a kind of siege! Let's see if you can take the city of my sindu! Hahaha! Gao Gan laughed, and the disdain in the laughter could be heard by anyone.

"In that case, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Zhang He said coldly, "Siege!" ”

"It's kind of coming!" Gao Gan shouted loudly.

"It's kind of coming!" As soon as Gao Gan's shout fell, the soldiers at the head of the city were impressed by his momentum and shouted loudly. For a while, the sound was very loud and earth-shattering.

"Artillery ready!" After the siege began, Zhang He was just supervising the battle, and there were people in charge of everything.

With this order from the artillery captain, more than 100 catapults took up their positions and began to throw stones towards the city. In the first few rounds of bombing, it was naturally impossible to directly load the explosive package, after all, the number of explosive packages was limited, and if you don't want to stone bombs, once you run out, you can replenish them in the mountains in time.

“！！！” Seeing this, Gao Gan almost scolded his mother, he could throw it on the city at such a distance! It's open, right?

However, thinking about it, Gao Gan still gave the order as quickly as possible: "All of them put their shields above their heads to prevent them from being smashed!" ”

And it turned out that Gao Gan's choice was correct, wave after wave of stones, like locusts flying in the sky, smashed to the head of the city, and also smashed to the soldiers who defended the city, but with the protection of the shield, even if the force of the stone projectile was huge, and even some wooden shields were smashed to pieces, but the soldiers saved their lives, although the arms may be useless, but at least their lives were saved, and they were able to participate in the defense of the city!

"Change the explosives pack!" Seeing that the defenders at the head of the city were protected by shields, the lethality of the stone bullets was greatly weakened, so Zhang He hurriedly ordered.

The shield can protect against stone bullets, but how do you protect the explosive bag, the power of the explosion is not easy to resist!

Of course, the defenders who were busy defending, and the ringing in their ears did not hear Zhang He's order, and naturally they didn't know that the next batch of Liaodong catapults was no longer stone bombs, but explosive packs!

Gao Gan saw that the flying "stones" seemed to be larger again, but they felt as if they were light and fluttering, and they did not have the lethality of the previous stone bullets. Could it be that the stone bullets of the Liaodong Army have been exhausted, and now these are just used to make up the numbers?

However, at the moment when the stone bullet fell, Gao Gan was completely shocked, only to see that the explosive package exploded in the moment after it hit the city, and the strong blasting force directly blew up all the soldiers around that piece, and the soldiers who were close to the body were directly blown up.

"Boom! Rumble! ......Immediately after, countless explosions sounded at the head of the city, and after each explosion, a small sea of fire appeared, and after several explosions, the small sea of fire became one, and the whole city was as terrible as hell on earth.

"What is this? What exactly is this? Gao Gan was completely stunned by the power of the explosives pack, and muttered to himself.

First of all, now is certainly not the time for him to be surprised, now he urgently needs to come up with a countermeasure, if he can't quickly make an effective response, then once the enemy stops bombing, quickly attack the city, his side of the city will definitely be breached! However, he still didn't think about how to deal with it.

Sure enough, as he expected, after this wave of bombing, Zhang He decisively ordered to stop the bombing and let Sun Ce lead his troops to attack the city!

Looking around, there were not many of the 5,000 soldiers left above the city, and even the soldiers who survived were either vomiting or were too scared to stand up, completely losing their combat effectiveness.

"Quick, drop another team of soldiers and come right away, defend the city!" Gao Gan hurriedly said to the lieutenant general who was still in shock beside him.

"Huh? Be! Be! The adjutant general crawled to the bottom of the city and brought the five thousand soldiers who had already been prepared to the city.

Just as the 5,000 soldiers had just reached the top of the city, Sun Ce led his troops to the city and prepared to attack the city.

Zhang He shook his head regretfully, because once there were soldiers guarding the city, it would be impossible for these soldiers led by Sun Ce to attack the city.

"General Zhang, let me go too!" Ma Chao asked for a battle on the side. Seeing that only Sun Ce went to attack the city, Ma Chao was also so anxious that his hands were itching.

"Don't be in a hurry, let Bo Fu attack for a while, you can wait for the order at any time!" Zhang He shook his head, he wanted to see what the strength of the guards of the Xindu City was.

"Yes!" Ma Chao clasped his fists and nodded.

Those who know what Ma Chao was like before or in history may be surprised, when did Ma Chao become so obedient? How can you not be impulsive in the slightest?

To say all this, it is still thanks to Zhao Feng's education, after Zhao Feng took Ma Chao as an apprentice, the first thing he handed over to Ma Chao was to obey orders!

The short-tempered Ma Chao before gradually made Zhao Feng repair the current Ma Chao who abides by military discipline, even if he is angry in his heart, he will not be angry and say that he violated the military order!

As he spoke, Sun Ce had already begun to attack the city, but the result was destined to disappoint Zhang He and others, above the city, Gao Gan led those soldiers to block the siege of Liaodong soldiers, and after nearly half an hour, even Sun Ce failed to attack the city.

In desperation, Zhang He ordered Mingjin to let Sun Ce retreat.

Hearing the sound of Mingjin, Gao Gan breathed a sigh of relief, this Liaodong soldier is really terrifying, one by one fierce like a tiger, if it weren't for his quick response and the advantage of terrain, I'm afraid that this Xindu City would be captured!

"Boom again!" After Sun Ce led the troops to retreat, Zhang He gave the order again. Then another wave of bombardment.

"Retreat! Withdraw! Retreat to the city! Gao Gan saw that it was another explosive bag, and hurriedly ordered.

Fortunately, the soldiers reacted quite quickly, and when they heard the order of the senior cadre, although they did not understand why, they still obeyed the order and hurriedly withdrew from the city.

However, Gao Gan's order was still a little slower, and those soldiers who were left behind were hit by explosives bags, and they were either stunned or killed directly! 5,000 soldiers, still with nearly 3,000 casualties.

Compared with the previous wave of bombing, the number of casualties can be said to have been greatly reduced, Gao Gan saw this, his heart was full of confidence, he believed that if there was such a time, he would definitely be able to reduce, or even avoid casualties!

(End of chapter)