The rebels once again suffered heavy losses, and the casualties were not less than the previous day, but after two consecutive days of projectiles, the rebels already understood the tactics of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and when the Northern Expeditionary Army continued to carry out stone throwing on the third day, the rebels had become smart, leaving only a small number of troops to hold the city wall, and the main force all withdrew to the city to avoid the stones and thunderbolts thrown by the Northern Expeditionary Army's thunderbolts.

The rebels were so arranged, the casualties were reduced a lot, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's thunderbolts could no longer inflict large-scale damage on the rebels, but these reactions of the rebels were completely expected by Hua'an, and Hua'an had already made a move.

"Big brother, the main force of the rebels has all hid under the city, and there are not many people in the city at all, this is a good opportunity to attack the city!" Iron Bull asked Hua'an for his life and asked for a siege.

Hua An smiled and said: "It's okay to attack the city, but it's just a feint, it's okay to scare and scare the rebels, don't really attack the city!" ”

"Big brother, that's not fun! Simply take the city directly, capture the rebel general, and force him to surrender, that would be fine. Iron Bull complained.

"No, the plan to attack the heart lies in using force and benevolence to make the enemy take the initiative to surrender, our army has killed enough rebel soldiers, and we can't increase hatred on a large scale, besides, since the southern expedition, our soldiers have killed two or three thousand, and we can't kill a few thousand more." Hua'an opposed the capture of the city.

"Yes, big brother, a feint will be a feint." Iron Bull replied loudly.

Hua An looked at the direction of Jiude City and ordered loudly: "The thunderbolt adjusts its range, strikes at Jiude City, and the whole army beats the drum and prepares to attack." ”

Soon, under the order of Hua'an, 500 thunderbolt vehicles adjusted their angles, extended their shooting at Jiude City, and fired stones and burning thunderbolts into the city of Jiude City, and then, the whole army beat the drums, and Tie Niu led 10,000 infantry, under the cover of a large number of shields, surrounded by twelve inclined six-wheel siege ladders, and slowly moved towards the walls of Jiude City.

From the moment the Northern Expeditionary Army beat the drums, the rebels hiding under the city realized that the situation was not good, and the surviving rebel soldiers who were holding on to the city wall discovered the Northern Expeditionary Army's siege through the lookout of the female wall.

"General, the Jin army has attacked the city, and the main force of the Jin army has attacked the city." The shouts of soldiers came from the walls.

"Go up to the city to defend, quick, go up to the city wall." The rebel general shouted loudly and led thousands of soldiers under his command to rush to the city wall.

By the time the rebels' thousands of men and horses had rushed up the walls, the Northern Expeditionary Army had advanced to a stone's throw from the walls.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows quickly." The rebel generals shouted and told their soldiers to release their arrows.

"Whoosh ......" A rapid rain of arrows shot towards the Northern Expeditionary Army formation under the city, but all of them were blocked by the giant shield in front of the Northern Expeditionary Army formation, and none of the arrows hit the Northern Expeditionary Army soldiers.

But the shield can't stop the rolling wood and stones, and if you continue to attack, it is inevitable that there will be many casualties, and the purpose of Hua'an's battle is not to kill and injure many enemies, nor is it in a hurry to capture the city, so when a large number of rebels are stationed on the wall, Hua'an decisively ordered that Tie Niu's feint attack corps immediately stop advancing and stand by in place, and at the same time, order five hundred thunderbolts to adjust the angle again and throw stones at the city wall.

After two days of actual combat projectile training, the soldiers' projectile technology has made great progress, and the strike accuracy has improved a lot, so Hua'an has confidence in the soldiers, and the stones thrown will not fall on the heads of the soldiers under his command.

As soon as the soldiers of the rebel brigade went to the city to garrison, they were attacked by the thunderbolts of the Northern Expeditionary Army, but the siege men and horses of the Jin army were just a stone's throw away, if they were evacuated from the city wall again, the siege infantry of the Northern Expeditionary Army would definitely advance to the bottom of the city wall, so as to take advantage of the absence of their own brigade to occupy the city wall, and finally the brigade of men and horses swarmed up and occupied the entire Jiude City.

For this reason, the rebels had no choice but to hold on, and although the losses would be great, it was much better than losing the city.

Under a series of attacks by the Northern Expeditionary Army, the rebel soldiers suffered heavy losses again, and the city walls were in disarray, with various broken stones mixed with the corpses of the rebel soldiers, forming a tragic picture.

After throwing the last stone, the Northern Expeditionary soldiers and horses withdrew from Jiude City one after another, leaving only stunned but helpless rebel soldiers.

"General, you can't fight like this anymore, our army has more and more casualties, and the Jin army has not lost a single soldier, if you continue to fight like this, our army will be defeated and the city will be lost!" A colonel said to the rebel general.

When the rebel general heard this, he did not speak, but his face was extremely ugly, as if he had a stomach full of grievances to vent.

"Optimistic about the city wall, I will go to the big tent to discuss countermeasures with the main general." The rebel general threw down a word and strode away from the walls.

In the Chinese army tent of the rebel general of Jiude City, the rebel general fell into deep worry, due to the loss of 60,000 main forces outside Xupu City, he is now a guilty body, and the current shape of Jiude City is very unoptimistic, the Northern Expeditionary Army has been feinting for days, causing a lot of losses to the defenders defending the north gate, and the main force of Jiaoguang and Erzhou is also gathered outside the east gate, and the intention is unknown.

Now, the army strength he has in his hands is very weak, and it is not enough to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Jin army, and only by holding on can he hold on for a while longer.

But in the end, whether he can hold the city or not, the rebel lord has no bottom in his heart, but if he gives up the city and continues to retreat to the south, he will give up the entire Jiude County to the Jin army, and even his retreating troops will be pursued by the Jin cavalry, resulting in heavy losses.

Moreover, there is only one county left in the south of Jiude County, if the Jin army continues to pursue, where can their men and horses retreat, and the south of Rinan County is the vast South China Sea.

"General, General." Just as the rebel commander was thinking about how to solve the current predicament, the rebel general defending the north gate strode in.

"How's it going, what's going on at the North Gate?" The rebel commander saw the black look on his subordinates' faces and hurriedly asked.

The general sighed secretly and said, "What else, the stone attack of the Jin army is more fierce than yesterday, and the last general's men and horses have suffered great losses." ”

"The losses are very large, didn't Ben ask you to hide the main force under the city walls, leaving only a small number of troops to hold the city walls? How can there be heavy losses. "The rebel commander is a little puzzled.

"The last general did according to the general's strategy, however, the Jin army saw that the main force of our army withdrew from the city wall, immediately beat the drum to attack the city, 10,000 horses pushed more than a dozen ladders to the north gate city wall to kill, how could the last general let the Jin army break through the city, so, led the army to the city wall to defend, hateful, the Jin army stopped at the place of the next arrow in the city, and the stones in the sky smashed into the city wall, the last general is not withdrawn, not withdrawn, hey!" The rebel general sighed.