"Bang bang bang".

Several ladders were placed on the city wall by the sword and shield hands, and then countless sword and shield hands came from behind and climbed up in an orderly manner; The shield is raised above the head to resist falling arrows.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" The siege was in full swing, and the archers under the walls began to counterattack, and under the cover of the sword and shield men, the archers retreated out of the range of the falling rocks, about 35 paces from the walls; Start firing in the back. At this moment, one of the fastest climbers grabbed the edge of the city wall with one hand, and half of his head was exposed with a rub of his body; But before he could laugh, a spear suddenly appeared in front of him, the tip of which gradually enlarged in his eyes, and finally he only felt a chill in his left eye, and then flew upside down the ladder with a scream. "Ahh

There were 3,000 soldiers on the city wall, which had been roughly divided into three slopes under the command of Huang Quan, the pikemen were responsible for killing the enemy soldiers who climbed the city wall, the sword and shield men were responsible for lifting the boulders and smashing them down, and the archers retreated behind the city walls to shoot wildly at the city; The whole process of defending the city was also carried out in an orderly manner, without the slightest panic; This also shows that Huang Quan has made enough preparations for how to defend the city in the past few days. "Poof" saw another enemy soldier climb the city wall, Huang Quan's horizontal knife flew out in an instant, and the knife fell down the city wall with a scream.

In general, the enemy has the tight cover of the sword and shield hand, and the arrow feathers shot from the city wall do little damage to the enemy, and after close combat, it is the falling rock that plays a big role, often the enemy sword and shield hand just climb halfway, and will be hit by the falling stone head and fall down the ladder, even if there is a shield cover, it will not help, the power of the boulder is not a small shield can be blocked.

Although the boulder caused a lot of damage to the enemy army, it could not stop the progress of the enemy army, which was like an ant colony, and after a while, some soldiers dodged the attack of the boulder and climbed the city wall; At this time, it is the time for the spear soldiers on the city wall to show their skills, the battlefield pays attention to an inch long and an inch strong, especially this kind of city defense war, the enemy army is not easy to climb with this spear, only with a sword and shield hand to attack the city, and the soldiers on the city wall can use the power of the spear to carry out a favorable counterattack. Each spear has a length of one zhang, and the soldiers can attack the enemy when they stand three feet away from the edge of the city wall, which makes the soldiers who have just climbed up before they can gain a firm foothold and be picked off the ladder by the spears, and the battle situation is extremely tragic; There are pros and cons in everything; One class of troops, one class of troops, the pikemen on the city wall can easily pick down the enemy army that has just climbed up, but they also have to face the sneak attack of hundreds of enemy archers under the city, if they are unlucky, they will be shot by the enemy's arrows on the spot.

The battle lasted from morning to noon, and although Li Zhi's army attacked fiercely, it rarely broke through the defense of the spears in the city; Even on two occasions because the pikemen in the city were killed by bows and arrows and did not have time to make up for it, the enemy troops besieging the city broke through the spear defense and climbed the city wall, but with Huangquan sitting on the city wall, the soldiers who climbed the city wall only held out for a while before being killed, making the siege soldiers fall short.

Under the city wall, Li Zhi's army, in front of the military formation, Qin Shuang's eyes were wide, staring at the battle situation of the siege battle, he wiped the sweat on his head, and said worriedly to Li Zhi next to him: "Big brother, I'm afraid that it won't work if it goes on like this, from the morning to now, our army has killed and wounded 2,000 people, and it has always been difficult to break through the defense of the enemy's spear soldiers.

Li Zhi said helplessly: "If you want to talk about fighting soldiers, our army is stronger than the enemy, but they also know that our army is very powerful, how dare they go out of the city to fight; When it comes to fighting generals, we are weaker than them, and that bald black man is really difficult to deal with; When it comes to fighting formations, I'm not afraid of them, but they still don't dare to go out of the city to break the formation; Now the only way is to attack the city wall fiercely, step by step, steadily, not for a quick victory, but for a hundred battles! ”。 Qin Shuang nodded and said: "What the eldest brother said is reasonable, but there is no way to go on like this, we have to think of a foolproof strategy, which can not only reduce casualties, but also break through this city." Li Zhi straightened out the mane of the war horse under the seat, and said with a smile: "How can there be such a good thing in the world, if you want to attack the city, you must pay the price of blood."

After a pause, Li Zhi continued: "Let's collect the troops and return to the camp first, and then come to attack the city tomorrow, and change the county soldiers from each county tomorrow to fight."

"County soldiers? Big brother, you're not kidding, those county soldiers can only fight a tailwind battle, where have they experienced this kind of vicious battle, I'm just afraid that the casualties will be even worse! ”。

Li Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and explained: "How can there be immortals in the war, instead of letting these elite soldiers go to death, it is better to let these county soldiers go, anyway, they will not be able to capture this city for a while and a half, and let them consume the enemy's garrison equipment and soldiers first, even if they are all dead, the general will not feel distressed, the five thousand county soldiers are the weakest in our army, and it is useless to keep them, if they retreat from the battle in the future, it will affect the morale of our army, it is better to die."

"That's it for today, you give the order to withdraw the troops," Li Zhi said and drove his horse back and retreated.

As soon as the gong sounded, the soldiers who were besieging the city quickly retreated, and followed the army slowly and methodically; The soldiers who were already on the ladder and those who had climbed the city wall were not so lucky, and the soldiers defending the city could not let them climb down the ladder slowly; For a time, those soldiers either fell down the ladder and fell to their deaths, or were picked off the city wall by the soldiers defending the city and fell to pieces, screaming again and again.

"Hey, why did those rabbit cubs retreat, I haven't played yet," Zhang Meng said dissatisfied. Wang Xu said: "The enemy army is also a person, they have been attacking the city all morning, and they should be hungry."

"Sun Yu, immediately send someone to clean up the battlefield, take off all the armor on the enemy's body, and put all weapons, boulders, and arrow feathers into the city; Prepare for tomorrow's defense of the city".

After Sun Yu agreed, he led the troops to turn around and go to carry out the order. Two hours later, the battlefield was cleaned; According to Sun Yu's statistics, the enemy suffered a total of 2,250 casualties in this battle, which also means that Wang Xujun got another 2,250 sets of equipment; Although the harvest is considerable, 2,250 sets of armor can also be said to be a charcoal in the snow for Wang Xu; But Wang Xujun's losses were still not small; A total of 1100 soldiers were lost, of which the pikemen lost the most; Most of them were killed by enemy fire with arrows; From this it can be seen that the archers of the enemy army played a large role; Judging from the corpses of the enemy, most of the enemy soldiers were stabbed in the chest by the pikemen on the city wall, which can also be seen that in addition to a large number of bows and arrows and boulders to defend the city, the role of pikemen can also play a big role; It was precisely because of the desperate resistance of thousands of spearmen on this city wall that Li Zhijun's siege failed.