The battle continued, and Lu Yang's army attacked the opposite city wall like a tsunami, and the battle was extremely fierce.

Especially in the three places where there are siege towers, the city wall repeatedly changes hands, and both the attack and defense have suffered heavy casualties, although Lu Yang's soldiers have rushed to the city wall many times, but in the end they were all killed and retreated.

Yan Xiang broke out in a cold sweat, and he secretly prayed in his heart, don't break, don't break!

With the favor of heaven, Lu Yang's army attacked until noon, attacked for more than five hours, lost more than 4,000 elites, and finally failed to take the royal city.

Yan Xiang's side also suffered a lot of casualties, Lu Yang's trebuchets and siege towers were too powerful, they were smashed on the city wall all morning, after the battle, after counting, nearly 5,000 people died! Two thousand of them were private soldiers of their own families.

Standing by the city wall, Yan Xiang looked at the Lu Yang Department that was retreating under the city, and sighed in his heart: "It's finally defended." ”

But less than 2,000 people are still alive, and more than half of those 2,000 are seriously wounded.

Yan Xiang praised: "The combat power of the border army is really powerful!" ”

Ding Ran swallowed his saliva and said, "General, it is estimated that the enemy will not come again today." ”

"That's not to be careless." Yan Xiang turned around and said, "Follow me into the palace to meet the prince and ask him to send reinforcements again." ”

At the end of the battle, Wang Xu retreated behind Lu Yang, and the two armies retreated for more than 20 miles and set up camp at the rear of the valley.

After today's battle, Wang Xu completely understood that the number of soldiers does not represent the strength of his army, don't look at the 100,000 troops he has now, but Wang Xu himself knows that if it is compared with Lu Yang's border army, I am afraid that 100,000 people will not be able to defeat 30,000 people.

This is not self-deprecation and self-deprecation, but the truth! Because among Lu Yang's 50,000 troops, in addition to 40,000 infantry, there are 5,000 elite cavalry and 5,000 heavy cavalry! Its combat power is definitely not something that recruits can deal with.

Therefore, Wang Xu made a determination to take the elite route in the future! Never use the number of people to pretend to be a façade, and indiscriminately filling the number is not the way to self-improvement after all. If there are too many people, it will also consume military rations, and the strength of the elite soldiers is not strong.

There is one more thing, that is, to find a way to improve science and technology, just like the siege tower of Luyang today, the siege of the city is absolutely sharp, just imagine, if there is no siege tower, all rely on that simple ladder, what will be the consequences? I'm afraid that after the death of hundreds of thousands of troops, I won't be able to take the royal city.

Think about yourself as a time-traveler from the 21st century, if you lose to others even in the fight for technology, then what else is there to mix?

"Find a way to unearth the explosives!" Wang Xu said secretly in his heart. As for other technologies, they have to keep up, but now they can't be realized, because the war is not over yet, and they can only implement these grand plans after Zhou Yi is eliminated.

It was not until the sun was about to set that the army set up the camp, bury the pot to cook, and all the soldiers rested

Wang Xu was also hungry enough, and he only ate one meal in one day, which is unimaginable for a modern person.

This is already dinner, and it was almost dark after the soldiers had eaten, and Wang Xu called Sun Yu, Huang Quan, Jia Hui and others, a total of eight commanders.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Wang Xu smiled and said: "How is it, after this battle, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Meng said: "Lord, above the siege tower, only three meters away from the city wall, if you let me go, you would have taken the royal city a long time ago, why not retreat." ”

Jia Hui said with a smile: "Now Lu Yang is in charge of attacking the city, there is no need for us to make senseless sacrifices, let's let him attack for two days first." ”

Sun Yu pursed his lips: "Sir, Sun Yu doesn't dare to agree, if Lu Yang doesn't take the royal city, we will replace him, and the casualties will be more than that." ”

Wang Xu pressed his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.

He is thinking about another thing in his heart now, that is, the Jinyi guard in the royal city, Wang Xu has always had illusions and expectations in his heart, if Liu Yang can really open the south gate, it will be a real victory!

It's just that according to what Jinyi Wei General Qi Miansheng said, Liu Yang has not completely controlled the 5,000 soldiers yet, which means that the time to open the south gate has not yet come.

Thinking of this, Wang Xu already had a countermeasure in his heart, to give Liu Yang time as much as possible, the best result was that after Lu Yang's 10,000 elites died, when he replaced himself, the city gate was wide open, and Wang Cheng was broken!

It's just that if you want to do this, you have to delay time, otherwise Lu Yang will attack again tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow it will be time to change yourself.

Wang Xu rolled his eyes and asked, "Do you have any way to make Lu Yang suspend the siege tomorrow?" ”

Pause siege? Everyone didn't understand what Wang Xu meant, and even Jia Hui couldn't guess Wang Xu's intentions, Sun Yu said: "Lord, why do you want Lu Yang to suspend the siege?" ”

Wang Xu didn't speak, quietly waiting for everyone's solution.

Zhang Meng said with a smile: "I'll rush to his barracks to cripple him now, and keep him from going to the battlefield tomorrow." ”

For Zhang Meng, Wang Xu directly ignored it!

After a while, Jia Hui said: "Lord, you can invite Lu Yang to drink and get him drunk." ”

This is a good way, with his own amount of wine, a little Lu Yang must be a problem, pay attention to the decision, Wang Xu said: "Immediately prepare a banquet and invite Lu Yang to come." ”

In the Luyang military camp, in the big tent of the Chinese army, the generals are calculating the gains and losses of today's battle.

"In this battle, we lost 4,300 casualties, 400 were seriously wounded, and the rest were slightly wounded, which was the largest casualty since the establishment of the border army." Luyang Road.

There are two generals under Lu Yang, one is called Yuan Qiang and the other is called Yuan Luo, the two have followed Lu Yang very early and are brothers; is also Lu Yang's right-hand man, and his martial arts are on par with Lu Yang, of course, he can't compare with Sun Yu and others.

Yuan Qiang said: "General, my border army is the best at field warfare, but now it is going to attack the city, and the brothers are too unjustly killed." ”

Lu Yang sighed, he didn't know, was it just a choice?

Yuan Luo said: "There are not many soldiers in our army, and they can't withstand such consumption at all, the last general suggested that Wang Xu's army attack the city tomorrow, they have an army of 100,000!" ”

"He won't agree." Lu Yang shook his head.

Yuan Qiang said: "We can provide him with all the siege equipment, even if we cede a few cities, in short, we can't sacrifice like this, after all, our soldiers are limited, one less to die, and the newly replenished soldiers have poor combat effectiveness, and I don't know when we will be able to recover after this battle." ”

Lu Yang took a deep breath, constantly thinking about the gains and losses of the throne and the city, this morning, he had already made up his mind to exchange the lives of 10,000 soldiers for nineteen cities, plus the throne of the king of Guxi, at that time he felt that it was worth it.

But now, more than 4,000 soldiers have spilled their blood on the battlefield, and they are all brothers who have followed him for many years, when he thinks of this, Lu Yang's heart is like a knife, and he keeps asking himself in his heart, is this right? That's the lives of more than 10,000 brothers!

"That's right, I'll go to Wang Xu for an interview later, I'd rather give up five cities than five thousand soldiers!" Lu Yang said resolutely.

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