As Gao Shun's military order was issued, the warriors of the trapped camp who had not wanted to stop in the first place accelerated the speed of wielding the giant scythe and big sword, and the screams were everywhere, and the one-sided killing began to unfold bloodily.

In the face of the warriors who seemed to be invulnerable, the Wei soldiers were indeed panicked and frightened. Who wouldn't be afraid when they found that the swords and guns in their hands had no effect on the enemy, and that they could cut themselves in half with a single flick of the knife?

Under the psychology of stepping forward is death, and there may be a glimmer of life when retreating, the Wei army began to rout.

This sudden rout led to the beginning of cannibalism among the Wei armies. It's like a lot of soldiers who are going up the city through the ladder, and suddenly they find that there are a lot of people who appear from the top of their heads and start to slide down, and when they are not prepared, many people are stepped on in the head, and their bodies are crushed, and then one after another they fall from the ladder.

Under the city, Niu Jin, who originally watched the continuous soldiers rushing up to the city tower by the ladder, thought that the overall situation could be determined, suddenly found that those people had turned back, and also began to create chaos, which greatly affected the pace of the siege, and he glared with his eyes: "What's the matter?" Don't you want to live? Go back, go back to me! ”

Niu Jin shouted as he ordered the archers to release their arrows, and he was going to shoot some of the retreating soldiers, and he was going to make an example of them.

As a result of this practice, a large number of retreating Wei soldiers were wounded by bows and arrows. Under such an iron discipline, it effectively prevented the army from retreating, and some people began to climb up the ladder.

It's just that if you retreat, you will be injured by a bow and arrow, so why not rush forward and be a dead end? Seeing the giant scythe and broadsword swinging down again and again, the comrades in front of them lost their lives one after another, and the time to storm the city wall was only a short time to hold on to a pillar of incense, and some people began to retreat.

And this time, the Wei soldiers didn't care whether there were bows and arrows that would shoot them or not, once they got up the ladder, they began to slide rapidly, and they didn't care if there were other comrades under their feet.

In this kind of environment where there is only a dead end to rushing forward, but when they retreat, there is still a certain chance that they will not be hit by the bow and arrow, and they may survive, they finally chose the latter.

To say that the number of Wei troops is indeed large enough, and it is indeed several times that of the Celestial Empire, but when it comes to the overall quality, it is indeed incomparable. With the help of Qian Zhuang stickers, the Wei State has been vigorously developed, but there have been many problems, such as too many recruits, too short training time, not enough loyalty, and so on.

In the final analysis, the reason why these people choose to be soldiers is because they are paid for their own food, because they eat food as soldiers, and because they make a lot of money as soldiers.

Money opens the way, and sometimes it is easy to get things done, but it also makes the combat effectiveness of the army low. Just like the current Wei army, a team of 100 people often has only about 30 veterans, and the other seventy percent are recruits who have not been on the battlefield. Not to mention, when encountering the elite of the elite like the trapped camp, it is even less worth mentioning.

Cao Cao just thought of conscription and increasing the number of troops, but in fact, the overall military strength did not increase much, on the contrary, so many people had to eat, and he was under a lot of pressure every day, which is why he did not give the recruits too much training time, it was really the reason why every day of delay was greater than the financial pressure. A quick battle is what Cao Cao wants to do most now.

Some of them were far away, and on the top of the tower of Liang County, the warriors who had fallen into the camp suddenly appeared, and with the giant scythe and big sword in their hands, they drove the Wei army off the tower.

In just two quarters of an hour, the two or three thousand Wei troops who had rushed to the city tower were completely driven down, and most of them died in the city tower, here were hacked to death by giant scythes and big swords, and some were shot by the Wei army's own archers.

The first time he attacked the city, he was strangled because of the appearance of the trapped camp, which made the face of Niu Jin, the commander under the city, very ugly.

In order to achieve the effect of winning the first battle and encouraging morale, Xiahou Yuan gave Niu Jin a full 50,000 soldiers and horses, hoping that he could win a battle, even if it didn't work, at least to achieve the effect of severely inflicting damage on the enemy. But now it seems that more than 10,000 people died in the first battle, but it is not bad that the soldiers of the Celestial Empire can have 2,000 casualties.

Such a result could not be reported to Xiahou Yuan, Niu Jin was also very unconvinced, gritted his teeth, and after a short rest, he ordered the soldiers to start a second siege battle.

On the top of the city tower, Ji Ling took over the defense again with the soldiers of the Fifth Legion. The soldiers trapped in the camp are indeed powerful, and their combat power is even stronger, but because of their heavy armor, they are not suitable for protracted warfare. As I said, good steel should be used on the blade, and once the enemy's charge is defeated, then it should go down and rest.

Ji Ling went up to the city tower, cleaned the battlefield, burned the corpses, handed over the weapons to the military warehouse, and when he was done, the sound of the horn sounded under the city again, and the Wei army began to attack the city again.

"Draw the bow... Put! Ji Ling repeated the previous thing again, and a new round of siege vehicles began again.

Attacking and defending, in contrast, the defending side generally occupies a greater advantage, after all, they only need to wait for work and look for the flaws of the other party, which is why the besieging side always has more troops than the defending side.

And the biggest loss in the siege battle is the moment when the siege has just been attacked, and the distance of a few hundred steps needs to be rushed hard, which is also the time when the attrition is great. General Niu Jin knows this truth, but many times, the situation is not decided by him, the soldiers do not have to die, and they retreat when they encounter difficulties, which is the reason for morale, not all of them.

It is exactly like this, after seeing the soldiers in his hands break through the bow and arrow array of more than 300 steps and lose thousands of people, his eyes are filled with helpless anger, he just hopes that this time the siege can go up to the city tower, can stabilize the position, and then with the advantage of the strength of the army step by step to eat away at the opponent.

The idea is good, the reality is cruel. When the Wei soldiers once again got up to the city tower, as if they had achieved a certain advantage, the giant sickle and the big sword appeared again, and Gao Shun led the warriors who were trapped in the camp to kill it twice, and under the strong strength comparison, the Wei soldiers were defeated twice.

Niu Jin, who supervised the formation, killed nearly 100 soldiers who fled, but he still couldn't recover the situation of declining morale. He had no choice but to carry out a third attack after resting.

In this way, at the end of the day, Niu Jin attacked the city wall three times in a row, and lost three times in a row, losing a total of more than 23,000 people, and losing nearly half of his troops, he did not make the slightest progress. At this moment, the sky finally got dark, and he went to see Xiahou Yuan with a look of guilt.

In front of Xiahou Yuan, Niu Jin told the story of the first battle, and he believed that there was no mistake in command, so he put the responsibility for the defeat on the soldiers who refused to use their lives and lacked training. And in the face of these reasons, without waiting for the main general Xiahou to speak, the other deputy general on the side, General Che Guan, had already stood up and accused, "General Niu, it is clear that you did not play a leading role, it is true that most of the recruits we brought are true, but there are also thirty percent of veterans to complement each other, with the advantage of numbers, there should be no problems in combat power, if the main general is willing to go into battle with his life, presumably even if he can't win, he can also hit the enemy hard." ”

In the past, Che Xuan had asked for battle, but Xiahou Yuan used Niu Jin and did not use him, which made him feel sad in his heart, and now that Niu Jin was defeated, he would definitely fight and step on it.

Niu Jin is also a fierce man, and when he heard Che Xuan accusing himself like this, he immediately said unhappily: "Yes, I didn't perform well in today's battle, and I was defeated, but so what, is it true that General Che will definitely win when he goes to the battlefield?" ”

"I didn't say I would win, but at least I could lead by example." Che Xuan snorted coldly.

Seeing these two lieutenant generals who did not deal with each other, Xiahou Yuan also had a headache, but he boasted in front of Cao Cao that Haikou could capture Liang County in two days at the latest, and now that half of the time had passed, he couldn't wait.

Maybe in normal times, Xiahou Yuan would still be giving General Niu Jin a chance, but now he really can't do this. "Okay, I'll fight in person tomorrow, and I'll meet this camp for a while."

Xiahou Yuan personally stood up, whether it was Niu Jin or Che Xuan, they didn't say anything, but they were really worried in their hearts, and if they had the opportunity tomorrow, they would definitely have to perform well.

In the first battle during the day, Ji Ling and Gao Shun joined forces to defeat the Wei army, and that night, a meal was added in the city to reward the bloody soldiers.

"General Gao, thanks to you today, otherwise, even if you can defend the city, I am afraid you will have to pay a lot of price." Ji Ling felt it. In the battle during the day, his 50,000 men only lost less than 5,000, but he did achieve the goal of inflicting heavy losses on the enemy's 23,000 men, which can be regarded as a victory.

"General Ji is polite, this is also your proper command." Gao Shun immediately said very modestly.

"Hehe, General Gao doesn't have to be humble." Ji Ling smiled at first, but when he thought that he had suffered a big loss today, he was afraid that the Wei army would attack the city on a large scale tomorrow, so he said carefully, "General Gao, I'm afraid that tomorrow Xiahou Yuan will personally go to battle." ”

Knowing what Ji Ling was worried about, Gao Shun smiled and said: "It's okay, before I came, the emperor had already prepared, I'm afraid that Xiahou Yuan won't come, otherwise, he will definitely come and go." ”

Gao Shun was so confident, Ji Ling nodded with a relaxed expression, "Okay, so tomorrow I will see the warriors in the camp show their might, hahaha, do it." ”