In the face of life and death and interests, people's choice is often to live, how powerful the family of Jizhou is, but it is gradually honest after the state army broke through Jizhou, not that they do not want to resist, but the strength of the monarch is too strong, and after defeat is annihilation, so that the family does not dare to move.

The state army began to attack the city day and night, three days in a row, the east city wall was full of potholes, and the arrow stacks above the city wall were even more not one in ten, and more were hit by thunderbolts, and the damage caused by thunderbolts to the defenders was also huge.

The most casualties were the soldiers on the city walls who operated the thunderbolts, and they had to be on the lookout for boulders from outside the city, and many of the riders were directly hit by the boulders.

The defenders in the city are not as good as the Chang'an army outside the city, after the soldiers are injured, they cannot be treated in time, and their lives are not so important in the eyes of the generals, even Ma Chao thinks so, unless the generals in the army can get timely treatment after being injured.

In these troubled times, the loss of ordinary soldiers is nothing in the eyes of the generals, and instead of spending more money and energy on the wounded soldiers, it is better to re-recruit the soldiers, and the cost will be smaller.

However, they ignore the benefits to the ruler once the wounded soldiers are healed.

Ma Chao gathered the families in the city together, and the war has reached such a point that the strength of the family must be mobilized, so that the family can unswervingly stand on his side, in order to win the war.

The largest families in the city are none other than the Zhao family and the Li family, these two families control nearly forty percent of the fields in Wudu, which is a terrifying number, of course, the strength of the two families is extremely terrifying, and they have a terrible influence in Wudu.

The reason why Ma Chao was able to break through the martial arts so easily was inseparable from the help of the two families.

"Master Li, Master Zhao, now the enemy is on the offensive, our army has suffered heavy losses under the enemy's thunderbolts, and the thunderbolts in the city have been damaged a lot, according to the current situation, within three days, the enemy will be able to fill in the moat, and then the next will face the biggest threat." Ma Chao worried.

Zhang Qi said: "General rest assured, the Zhang family will definitely stand on the general's side, the Zhang family has a thousand private soldiers, and there is still some combat power, if the enemy army attacks the city, it can also come in handy." ”

Li Tao, the head of the Li family, also echoed: "With the courage of the general and the elite of the sergeants, it is naturally not a problem to defend the subordinates. ”

Ma Chao nodded slightly, he was still quite satisfied with Zhang Qi and Li Tao's attitude, as for the two families secretly manipulating the price of rice grain in the city, which made the price of rice grain more than double that of usual, Ma Chao didn't take it to heart, the war is coming, it is still unknown whether he can hold it, and the life and death of ordinary people is not a matter for him to consider.

"With the words of the head of the Zhang family and the head of the Li family, the general is more confident in guarding the next division, and what he has to guard against is that there will be families in the city who secretly surrender to the enemy, and the two family masters should pay more attention to it secretly, and the means of the Marquis of Jin are extremely powerful." Ma Chao reminded that this was also what he was worried about, and when the state army was in the decisive battle with the princes' coalition forces in Huguan, they secretly sent assassins, but the generals of the princes' coalition army suffered a lot of losses, and if there were assassins infiltrating the city, it would definitely cause turmoil in the city.

Zhang Qi said with a smile: "The general is not too careful, and the family in the city will definitely not take refuge in Lu Bu." ”

The three of them discussed for a long time, and at the same time, the Li family and the Zhang family also paid a lot of price, and only after getting the promise of Lu Bu and Ma Chao did they leave one after another.

The reason why the family supports Ma Chao like this is also to fancy how many benefits they can get after Ma Chao repels the enemy army, the war is terrible, but the benefits brought by the war are also huge, if it can be used properly, the strength of the family will be further improved, as for the weak family, at this time, the better choice is to take refuge in the big family, in the long run, the strength of the small family becomes weaker and weaker, and the power controlled by the big family is even stronger.

Don't look at the number of defenders in the city at this time, as long as the Zhang family and the Li family decide to defect to Lu Bu, it will be difficult for Ma Chao to survive under the enemy's offensive, and there is no shortage of people from the family in the army.

After Zhang Qi and Li Tao left, Ma Chao's face became gloomy, and he discussed the matter with the heads of the two families in such a low voice, which made him feel very dissatisfied, no matter what, he was the actual controller of Wudu, but now it depends on the faces of the two families, and secretly Ma Chao has placed the two families on the list of future elimination.

The support of a strong family can certainly make the rule more stable, but if the family does not know how to advance and retreat, it will also bring a lot of trouble to the ruler.

Three days later, the moat was filled in under the successive offensives of the Chang'an army, and the moat on which the defenders relied meant that they would then engage the enemy in close combat.

After seeing this situation, Ma Chao did not have the previous anxiety, as long as the enemy army attacked the city, the offensive of the thunderbolt car would stop, and the advantage of the city wall could be maximized at this moment, as long as the defense was attentive, Ma Chao could make the Chang'an army pay a heavy price, so that he was unable to attack Longxi, in Ma Chao's heart, the status of Wudu was far inferior to Longxi.

However, to Ma Chao's surprise, the army outside the city did not rush to attack the city, but used the advantage of the thunderbolt to constantly cause trouble for the defenders.

Lu Bu has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and the army has Pang Tong and frustration planning from it, so naturally he will not attack Xia Zhi after the moat is filled, he wants to make full use of the advantages of the army to cause damage to the enemy, and the defenders' thunderbolt can not be used much, but in this regard, the Chang'an army has an absolute advantage.

The bed crossbow was carried to the east of the city by the soldiers of the Chang'an army, and under the order of the general, the bed crossbow was fired together, and the city wall was covered with dense crossbow arrows, which looked shocking.

The crossbow arrows play a big role in the siege of the city, the besieging side, if you want the soldiers to attack the city wall, you can only use the ladder, and after the ladder is pushed down by the defenders, the crossbow arrows on the city wall can help your soldiers stabilize their shape, and then attack the city wall again.

Compared with the consumption of crossbow arrows, Lu Bu cares more about the lives of ordinary soldiers, and it takes a lot of money to train an elite soldier, and only if the soldiers in the army can survive to the greatest extent on the battlefield, they will get more elites.

(End of chapter)