Under Hangu Pass, the spells cast by the bandits when they attacked the city were unguardable, but most of them could only damage the bed crossbow and kill and injure ordinary soldiers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the damage caused by these spells to the wall cannot be ignored.

Some battlements have been smashed, some walls have been pierced by stalagmites, and even the adhesive of the city wall that has been decaying for many years will be ignited by fire spells.

It may not be a problem in a short time, but once the bandits attack lasts for a long time, even the strongest city walls will be wreaked out.

This is the usual trick used by bandits when attacking the city!

"Shoot the arrows and fight back!"

On the wall, when the bandits stepped within a thousand steps of the wall, the generals at all levels who presided over the defense of the city gave the order to release arrows.

One by one, the crossbow guns roared angrily, and flew towards the more than three hundred bandits, almost instantly.

However, although the hit rate of the bed crossbow is very high, the hit rate is not guaranteed in the face of bandits who are constantly moving and dodging. Of the nearly 100 crossbow guns, only a dozen of them hit the target, and they have not been able to shoot even a single bandit.

Fortunately, there are enough bed crossbows on the wall, and a few more rounds of fire will always be able to take out some bandits.

Under the Hangu Pass, the siege bandits continued to use spells, and the bed crossbow on the wall did not stop roaring.

The two sides have come and gone, and the casualties are increasing.

Relatively speaking, most of the dead and wounded on Hangu Pass were ordinary soldiers, and there were still tens of thousands of soldiers in the pass, who could replenish consumption at any time, and they didn't care about this casualty at all.

At least, in a short period of time, Cao Mengde does not have to worry about the casualties of ordinary soldiers!

And the more than 300 bandits under the gate, after more than a dozen rounds of arrow rain, are much more sparse.

Before and after the pass, it was very narrow, and it was impossible to deploy many troops at the same time. Three hundred bandits spread out under the Hangu Pass, and even if they kept dodging left and right, they would still run into dead rats with blind cats.

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In less than a quarter of an hour after the start of the battle, the defenders of the city suffered less than 1,000 casualties, but most of the 300 bandits under the city were wiped out, and the mana of the remaining 100 bandits was also consumed, and they could no longer continue to wreak havoc on the wall.

At this time, after hearing a sound from the bandit camp, another row of bandits rode into the Hangu Pass within a thousand steps. And the remnants of the bandits, whose mana had been consumed, took this opportunity to withdraw from the battle.

This method of warfare is obviously different from the previous bandit siege mode!

The bandits' forces alternated, and there was no time for Hangu Pass to breathe at all.

Fortunately, there is a wall to block it, and the soldiers who have been on call for a long time in the gate can also make up for the damage on the wall in time. Even the bed crossbow destroyed by the spell can be replaced in time.

As time went on, the offensive and defensive battles at Hangu Pass came to a stalemate, and the bandits and Cao Mengde were fighting each other.

In a short period of time, this stalemate of mutual struggle and consumption is beneficial to Cao Mengde.

After all, the bandits lost all the "generals" with a strength of up to twenty or thirty levels, while Cao Mengde lost just ordinary soldiers.

The cultivation of military generals is not an overnight thing, even if it is a bandit cottage, it is impossible to gather tens of thousands of bandits immediately.

As for ordinary soldiers, as long as they have money and food, they can recruit as much as they want, and they can form considerable combat effectiveness in a short period of time. At least, even if it is for the common people, it is worth using to defend the city!

It's just that once this kind of consumption lasts for ten days and half a month, or maybe even three or five days, Cao Cao will inevitably be unable to hold on.

Perhaps, even Cao Mengde didn't see so much long-term for the time being, his territory at this time shrank to only a corner of Luoyang, and even if the population under his rule was all formed into an army, I am afraid that it would not be able to reach two or three hundred thousand.

Although the damage of the bandits is more serious, the root of it, the bandit cottage is still there, which is a source of energy to constantly "refresh" the unearthed bandits, and it can replenish the consumption under Hangu Pass every day.

Moreover, with the passage of time, every day passes, the strength of the bandits that are refreshed will inevitably change with each passing day and rise to a higher level.

It is foreseeable that once Cao Mengde can really hold on for ten days and half a month, this may not be a good thing for him. At that time, the bandits that Cao Cao needs to face, even if it is a small bandit minion, I am afraid that they will all be above level 40, right?

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For three or five days, under the Spring and Autumn brushwork, I am afraid that I will not be able to retain some ink. However, for Hanguguan, these three to five days were extremely difficult.

The bandits attacked the city, almost day and night, without the slightest stop.

The bandits only send 300 minions to attack the city in each wave, and when they run out of mana, they will withdraw the next wave. Tens of thousands of bandits, every day there are still a large number of new forces to replenish, so under the cycle, there is no need to stop at all.

The defenders on the Hangu Pass are always in high spirits, and every soldier will pass by the king of Hades at any time. Hangu Pass held on for almost five days, and the guards did not collapse, which was already Cao Mengde's luck.

However, in the last two days, the defense of Hangu Pass has become a little difficult.

Cao Cao has been sitting in the city gate tower of Hangu Pass for the past two days, and naturally has his own experience.

Five days ago, when the bandits first started to attack the city, most of the bandits could only cast eighty or ninety spells, and their mana would be exhausted, and then they would replace the next wave of bandits and continue to attack Hangu Pass.

To this day, each wave of bandits attacking the city can cast at least fifteen spells.

Although they are all low-level spells, and the damage to the wall is minimal, it shows that the strength of the bandits has been greatly improved. At least, the mana of these bandits has made great progress!

There is another point for proof.

Five days ago, the bandits, on the premise of not hitting the vital point, generally only needed three or five crossbow guns to shoot him, and they could teach him to be wiped out. However, today, seven or eight crossbow guns may not be able to send a bandit into reincarnation!

It was only at this time that Cao Cao suddenly realized that if he continued like this, Hangu Pass would never be able to hold it.

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Seeing that another wave of bandits came to attack the city, Cao Cao was a little melancholy and asked, "Wen Ruo, you say, should we continue to hold on to Hangu Pass, or retreat to Tiger Pass?" ”

The question is so, but Cao Cao's meaning is that he wants to retreat to the Tiger Prison.

At the beginning, when the wave of monsters descending was higher than one wave, since Cao Mengde was able to shrink his forces and only defend Luoyang, he could no longer give up Luoyang and retreat directly to the Tiger Prison Pass today.

In exchange for space, as long as he can hold on until the end of this meteor shower and the demons and monsters no longer come, Cao Cao can lead his three thousand generals to go out of the customs to exterminate the bandits and recover the lost territory by the way.