Cangsong Castle Head.

The soldiers under Ma Chao's command were originally mainly cavalry, and they were best at fighting on horseback, but now they were helplessly guarding the city, desperately resisting the enemy's attack.

Half a month ago, there were many soldiers because of lack of experience, dodging in time and being killed and wounded by the opponent's bow and arrow, but after half a month, they grew up rapidly, although there will still be losses, but now in a siege battle, the number of casualties on their side is less than 30% of the original.

Of course, this is also a valuable experience gained on the basis of the loss of nearly 10,000 people, which has led to the fact that the original 30,000 iron cavalry army is now only 10,000 people, and even these 10,000 people are mostly wounded, if it is not for a belief to persevere, these people would have been unable to hold on.

"Hold on! Keep it up! The reinforcements of our army are already on the road, and it will only take half a month at most, and before that, we must go all out and persevere! ”

Above the city, Ma Chao's second brother Ma Xiu not only went into battle to kill the enemy, but also shouted loudly to boost morale.

However, at this moment, a feathered arrow flew and burrowed into Matthew's shoulder socket like a poisonous snake, which was still Marthew's quick dodge, otherwise the arrow would have gone straight to his throat and killed Matthew on the spot.

However, Ma Xiu did not cry out, he endured the pain, pulled out the feather arrow, tore off the corner of the battle flag, hurriedly bandaged the wound, rushed forward, cut down a Qiang soldier who was afraid of the city, and then continued to shout: "Kill, kill, kill, until the last moment, no one can say give up!" ”

Some of the soldiers around saw the scene of Matthew's injury, and immediately cheered up, and the morale that had been a little low instantly rose, as if they were crazy, staring at the red eyes, and killing the enemy army, for a while, they saw the screams in the enemy camp endlessly, and many soldiers were frightened, and turned around to leave.

At this time, he saw a large number of people in the city shouting: "At this time, the soldiers of the whole army should fight to the death, so why retreat?" Those who dare to retreat will be killed! ”

Hearing this person's words, all the siege soldiers were terrified, and they did not dare to retreat, but they mustered up the courage to attack the city again, only to hear the soldiers on both sides gritting their teeth and desperately, and the screams were endless.

On the top of the city, Ma Chao could see clearly that this person was Li Yuanhao, one of the three generals who had surrendered and led to his defeat, this person pretended to use a Han surname, and falsely claimed to be a disciple of the Li family in Longxi, Ma Chao accepted his surrender, but unexpectedly, on the night of the surrender, these people mixed into the camp and launched a night attack, resulting in heavy casualties on their side.

For the culprit who caused his defeat, Ma Chao naturally hated, this time because of Li Yuanhao's words, which caused the enemy army to retreat in this battle, but now he is facing a crisis again, which makes Ma Chao even more unhappy, pointing at Li Yuanhao with a spear in his hand, and scolding loudly: "Traitor Li Yuanhao, is it only the ability to shrink aside?" Some of them will come up to the city and fight me, and promise to take your life within ten he! ”

Li Yuanhao sneered: "Ma Chao, you are conceited and brave, but it's a pity that people are too stupid and blind, uncle, I was originally a member of the Qiang tribe, who made you but you don't know your uncle's identity?" I didn't have those two hits, but I even learned from Corporal Lixian, and arranged for us to rest in the Chinese army, you are looking for death yourself, who do you blame? If you have the ability, you will lead the army to open the city gate, and we will fight to the death, and we will definitely accompany you to the end when the time comes! ”

How could Ma Chao be outnumbered at this time, regardless of the safety of the whole city? So even if he couldn't get out of the city immediately and kill the traitor, he could only forcibly endure it, snorted coldly, and said softly: "Just endure it for half a month, and after half a month, I will definitely take your head!" ”

However, even so, Ma Chao's heart is really unsettled, he was extremely depressed, he killed the city alone, the tiger head in his hand was like a golden gun in the yellow sand, with the surrounding enemy soldiers, they were killed, just a moment, Ma Chao killed more than 50 people, so that the enemy army was angry.

At this time, under the head of the city, the general in charge of the siege of the city, Ashina Sheer, sighed: "This Ma Chao is really extremely brave, I am afraid that no one in my army can compare, but it is a pity that my city-breaking skills cannot be effective, otherwise, this small city would have been in the hands of you and me." Fortunately, General Li was good at strict military discipline, which led to our lack of deserters, otherwise, just because we fled for fear of the enemy, or if we were unable to move forward, our army would have lost this battle long ago. ”

Li Yuanhao also had a gloomy face, and said to Ashina Sheer: "The general doesn't have to worry, although Ma Chao is brave, but how can he be invincible with two fists, the strength of the city is extremely limited, it is estimated that after this battle, the opponent's fighting power will not exceed eight thousand, and there are still sixty or seventy thousand capable fighters under our command, almost a ten-to-one advantage, as long as we persist, we will definitely be able to capture Cangsong City in a short period of time and kill Ma Chao!" ”

"But half a month ago, Ma Chao's brother Ma Tie created a large camp alone, I think it must be to Chang'an for help, I estimate that with the speed of the Han army, they will soon be able to rush to support, if they let them hold on, once they encounter the reinforcements of the Han Dynasty, supplemented by good generals, I am afraid that we will be in vain this time." Ashina Sheer looked worried and said to Li Yuanhao.

Li Yuanhao nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Therefore, we must hold on to this battle for two more hours today, and by that time, even if we can't capture Cangsong City, I believe that the loss under Ma Chao's command will definitely be more than 30%." As long as this attack continues, it will only take three days at most, and we will be able to break through Cangsong City. ”

"Hehe, this is also thanks to General Li's clever plan, the appearance of making efforts to attack the city before, in fact, is less than three percent of our total combat strength, so that Ma Chao mistakenly thinks that our siege ability is not enough, it is absolutely no problem to hold on for a month, today our offensive has increased by three times, it is estimated that Ma Chao's losses will be very large, so big that he can hardly bear it, and even, frightened! With General Li's offensive, we will definitely be able to break through Cangsong City in three days, but the Han army won't come in three days, right? ”

Ashina Sheer's face was still worried, and he said hesitantly to Li Yuanhao: "Otherwise, General Li ordered the two brothers under your command, Yeli Yuqi and Yeli Wangrong, to set up an ambush in front, so that when the Han reinforcements arrive, we will also be prepared, otherwise, once it really comes, we will be caught off guard." ”

"Haha, General Ashina, rest assured, how fast can the Han army be? I can guarantee that within three days, they will not be able to come. Li Yuanhao laughed when he heard this, and said disapprerovingly to Ashina Sheer.

However, at this moment, the soldiers who could only hear the rear suddenly fell into a panic, Li Yuanhao's face changed when he saw this, and he asked in a deep voice, "What happened?" ”

The surrounding soldiers were all surprised, I don't know why, a moment later, a small colonel ran over, hurriedly said: "King, king, the big thing is not good, the Han army, the reinforcements of the Han army have arrived, led by two female generals, but they are very heroic, Ren Duo instigated General Ding to fight with him, not out of Sanhe, he was beheaded by the female general, so the rear army was in chaos." ”