Seeing the crazy screaming and slashing people indiscriminately, some climbed directly onto the city wall, screaming and jumping down, and some sitting on the ground and crying. Of course, there are also those who rush to the Ming army in a frenzy.

Yang Chao knew that this captive had been defeated, their will to fight had been completely destroyed, and they had been in despair by this kind of close-range artillery bombardment that they had never seen before.

There is nothing to command at this time.

There was only one order: "Charge the whole army!" ”

The total number of captives was only four or five hundred, and all of them lost their formation, and most of them lost their will to resist in a daze, only a small part of them were mixed in the midst of their psychologically broken companions, and they had to guard against the captives who went crazy with their companions, and it was not enough to resist the neat formation, and the elite in armor who charged over, and the captives were strangled layer by layer.

In less than a quarter of an hour, they all became corpses, and the damage caused to Yang Chao was minimal, only a dozen or so were injured and three died.

But at this time, there were still captives who kept kicking the city, and it was clear that the city had no idea what terrible things were happening above, and they still drove their warriors up to the city in an orderly manner.

These scattered captives only ended up being assassinated at the battlements one by one.

The small-scale defensive battle lasted less than half an hour, and the captives completely abandoned the siege, leaving behind the dead and retreating.

Before I knew it, the sky had brightened slightly.

Yang Chao felt a trace of coldness on his face, which turned out to be a drop of rain.

The water vapor that had been gathering for three days finally condensed into water droplets above the nine heavens and landed on the earth.

It's raining!

The drizzle brought a touch of coolness to the earth, but there was a bloody smell in this coolness.

Yang Chao stood up, and suddenly saw that the north side was also on top of the messy sandbag that had been beaten by lead bullets. Suddenly a soldier climbed up, followed by a second, then a third. Song Kun, who had not broken through the wooden wall over there, chose to climb over the wall.

It's just that when they climbed up, they were all stunned. What they saw were fragments and comrades with spears in hand, standing quietly behind the women's wall to keep on the defensive.

Behind Yang Chao, there were already a lot of people gathered, most of them crowded in the corners of the city wall, watching all this blankly.

Many people had already come over during the shelling just now, but they didn't know what they were supposed to do, including Zheng Yongwang's reserves.

Yang Chao beckoned to Zheng Yongwang. He ran quickly.

"Take someone to clean up!"

Yang Chao pointed to the battlefield in front of him.

There are corpses of captives everywhere, although this is an enemy, but being tortured and killed like this, Yang Chao is still a little uncomfortable in his heart.

This place is fragmented, I don't know how many people have been broken, flesh and brains and bone residue are mixed together, except for the butcher, it is estimated that no one will enjoy this kind of scene.

Many of the people who Zheng Yongwang took to clean up immediately vomited.

The captives of the city completely retreated, throwing down seven or eight ladders and a pile of mud and sandbags. There are also wheelbarrows and the like.

Suddenly, I turned around and saw that many men and women were also coming.

Yang Chao remembers ordering him to support the south wall.

So he asked, "How's the situation in the south?" ”

Many men said, "All retreat!" ”

It seems that the captives have completely abandoned this attack.

Also, in the face of such a fiasco, they can't find a reason not to give up.

Here at the Western Wall. They threw down nearly a thousand men, and the southern wall suffered far more casualties than that due to the onslaught that continued overnight.

But the most important thing is that they have clearly occupied a foothold, but they have not held it, and in order to occupy this foothold, they continue to storm on the southern wall to attract firepower, and the price paid is far more than a thousand, and may even reach two or three thousand. In this case, they already have no choice. What else can be done but end this senseless battle?

"Don't slack off. Lead people to collect the dead bodies and pretend to bury the bodies of the fallen soldiers of our army. Zheng Yongwang stayed, and the others went down to the city to rest! ”

Yang Chao ordered one after another.

After speaking, Yang Chao slowly walked down the city tower by himself.

Walking past the warriors, I saw that after the bloody battle, their temperament was different.

When I walked past Wang Pu, I saw that his face was a calm color, neither the joy of victory, nor the grief of losing his comrades, calm, unusually calm.

Yang Chao knows that such a fierce and cruel battle is a deep baptism of human psychology, after this battle, all the soldiers involved, without exception, will become a soldier of a hundred battles, and then in any battle, there will be no tension or excitement, only a cold fight, like a fighting machine.

Yang Chao paused in front of Wang Pu and stared at his calm eyes for a long time.

Since Wang Pu went to war without authorization, Yang Chao has been angry, thinking that he violated military discipline, and thinking that he must be cleaned up after the war.

But now this kind of thinking has faded.

In fact, Yang Chao had privately talked to Lu Mo, who was most familiar with military law, and Lu Mo only asked Yang Chao if he had clearly ordered Wang Pu not to attack at that time, Yang Chao said that he had not given this clear order, and Lu Mo thought that Wang Pu's attack should be in line with military law.

Because at that time, Yang Chao asked Wang Pu to command the southern battle alone, Wang Pu was equivalent to the chief officer in the south, and the chief officer naturally had the right to recognize the opportunity and take the initiative to attack.

If we look at it from this nature, Wang Pu's assault at that time not only did not rush forward, but seized the opportunity to seize the advantage, which was quite agile battlefield performance, which is worthy of praise.

But Yang Chao knew very well in his heart that if he hadn't made a desperate bet, Wang Pu would have been wiped out by the captives at that time.

In fact, what made Yang Chao most dissatisfied was that since that assault, Wang Pu once again regained his previous smugness, and he coaxed in the army, and he had a great deal of overpowering Li Wuliu's posture, and this kid didn't understand at all that he almost put his soldiers to death.

So if you want to clean up Wang Pu, Yang Chao can still find a reason, it depends on whether he wants to clean him up or not, but the reason why Yang Chao wants to clean up Wang Pu is just to beat him up, let him rein in, and don't make that kind of rash move that traps the whole army in disadvantage, but he doesn't really want to kill him.

Now after a night of bloody battles, seeing Wang Pu's calm expression again, Yang Chao understands that in fact, Wang Pu has changed, and his psychology has matured.

Standing in front of Wang Pu for a while, Yang Chao gently patted Wang Pu's shoulder.

Nodding his head, he said, "Good job!" Don't be so reckless in the future. ”

Wang Pu saluted: "Don't worry, sir, mark it and understand it in your heart." ”

Yang Chao nodded, he was really mature, Yang Chao completely dispelled the mind of settling accounts after the autumn, let that venture blow away in the wind, let him become a brave attack of Wang Pu, the honor of the captive general, not a shame, not a random command, burying the psychological burden of several brothers.

When Yang Chao turned around and walked down the city, the people in the city also got up one after another, or most of them stayed awake all night.

That night, they survived in trembling, and the shouts of killing could be heard in most of the city, and the rumbling of cannons spread throughout the city.

A dull atmosphere hung over them like a cloud, and the people couldn't breathe, and at last it was dawn, and many people spontaneously came to the base of the city wall to look, and saw the soldiers walking down the city in silence.

The soldiers passed by them, making the common people feel a chill, and the breath of a night of killing was suppressed under the calm appearance of the soldiers, brewing into a strong tyranny.

Seeing the armored soldiers walking down the city wall, finally some people broke their legs and climbed up the city wall.

One by one, the people were stunned by the scene on the city, some vomited, some cried, some cried and laughed, and those who vomited at least couldn't stand this Shura field, crying loudly because they saw their relatives dying in battle, and those who cried and laughed saw the corpses of the captives, thinking of their relatives who died under the butcher's knives of the captives.

When Yang Chao walked down the city wall, he found Song Lian with a few people, standing quietly under the city wall.

Yang Chao walked past him calmly and did not greet him.

As a result, Song Lian suddenly whispered to Yang Chao's back: "The soldiers' breakfast is ready." ”

Song Lian's tone lost the arrogance of the literati before, but a faint sentimentality.

Yang Chao didn't look back, but said lightly: "Thank you, Lord Song." ”

After eating the hot rice porridge sent by the soldiers and a few pieces of salted fish, Yang Chao fell asleep.

Yang Chao dreamed of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, but when he faced all this in his dream, he was so calm, so calm, as if he had changed a person.

After waking up, it was already evening, and he still felt weak, and he fought in armor last night, although he did not rush to the front, but the double consumption of mental power and physical strength still made Yang Chao a little out of strength.

looked at his soldiers, sure enough, most of them were still sleeping, they consumed more physical strength than Yang Chao, and they were obviously more tired, Yang Chao did not disturb them, but took two personal soldiers and stepped on the city wall.

Yang Chao kicked the city to understand the battle situation, and learned that the captives did not come to attack for a day, which Yang Chao had long expected, and fought fiercely all night, with the scale of yesterday's battle, I am afraid that the captives were almost all dispatched, and after such a tragic defeat, it was impossible for them to muster up morale and continue to fight.

This is also the reason why Yang Chao dared to rest assured and boldly let most of the soldiers rest.

The wreckage in the city had been cleared, and a day's misty drizzle had washed away a lot of blood.

Yang Chao glanced at the captive camp from afar, and his eyes fell back to the moat, the sandbag causeway a few feet wide was still quietly blocking the moat, and Yang Chao knew that this passage must be destroyed.

Although this passage is kept, the captives may not attack the city again, and the captives can't withstand another failure, but Yang Chao can't afford to be attacked again, so this passage must be destroyed anyway, so that Yang Chao can take the initiative. (To be continued).