Zhang Xiaoting finished reading the battle report in his hand and slowly put it on the table in front of him.

In this battle, they paid for the lives of 135,000 people, and there were also 50,000 or 60,000 wounded, which was too great for the harvest, because they only broke through the first line of defense on the border of Yunyu Country, and they paid such a heavy price.

Together with the 20,000 casualties on the previous day, the death toll so far stands at more than 150,000.

This is a heavy number, and Zhang Xiaoting doesn't know if it is a victory.

However, whether he wants to accept it or not, the war will continue, and his army of 1.5 million will only be able to go to war with 1.3 million in the blink of an eye.

Early the next morning, the front pages of the Ugu Daily and the Eastern Qin Daily were full of detailed reports on the war, and interestingly, both the Eastern Qin and Yunyu kingdoms claimed to have won the war.

The report of "Dongqin Daily" is that the Eastern Qin State has broken through the first line of defense of Yunyu Kingdom, defeated the army of Yunyu Kingdom guarding the border, and officially entered the territory of Yunyu Kingdom, and is now stationed twenty miles away from Zhongzhou City, and will soon take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Zhongzhou City.

And "Yugu Daily" also said that the army of Yunyu Kingdom in this war, achieved a huge victory, with only 20,000 casualties, successfully annihilated nearly 200,000 enemies, the number of casualties is only one-tenth of the enemy, in order to preserve strength, has successfully retreated to Zhongzhou City, now, Zhongzhou City has been built into an iron wall, waiting for the battle.

The people of the Eastern Qin State first saw the report of the "Eastern Qin Daily", and when they heard that the Eastern Qin State had finally won a great victory and broken through Yunyu's first line of defense, everyone rejoiced and was very happy.

No matter how disappointed they are in the country, the country is their own country after all, and the soldiers in the army are their relatives.

Since they couldn't see the Uko Daily, they didn't know at what cost to break through the defenses, and when they saw the casualties on both sides in the anonymous tabloids in the afternoon, the excitement of the people immediately disappeared.

It took such a big price to break through the first line of defense of the Cloud Feather Country, can such a victory be called a victory?

Others are just retreating, not defeated.

Qin Siyong originally wanted to boost the people's hearts with a big victory, but he didn't expect it to have the expected effect.

Five days later, the three-way army of the Eastern Qin State had already gathered outside Zhongzhou City, and this time, it was more than three million troops that had gathered, which showed the determination of the Eastern Qin State to win a big victory.

After the convergence of the three route armies, Zhang Xiaoting served as the commander-in-chief, he did not gather the three route armies together to attack, but divided the troops into three routes, and launched an attack at the same time from the east gate, west gate and north gate of Zhongzhou City.

On the seventh day, it was raining heavily, and the three armies of the Eastern Qin State came to the city in the heavy rain, each in place, Zhang Xiaoting was responsible for attacking the North City Gate, and the other two Route Army attacked the East City Gate and the West City Gate respectively.

The reason why a rainy weather was chosen was to prevent the Yunyu Kingdom from still using grease-filled straw to stop the pace of the Eastern Qin army's attack.

In Zhongzhou City, Zhuang Shujun is also divided into three roads, each guarding a city gate, and Zhuang Shujun personally commands at the north city gate.

There are not so many troops in Zhongzhou City, and there are three million people outside, but there are only in the city

One hundred and twenty thousand, the strength of the Yunyu Kingdom is only one-third of that of the Eastern Qin State, and the average number of troops per seat of the city gate is only 400,000.

Fortunately, the gate of Zhongzhou City is relatively high, unlike the first line of defense, which is a simple city wall, and it is easier to defend.

Zhang Xiaoting began to attack from Chenshi, and it was the time agreed in advance for the three city gates, and he chose to attack at the same time.

The siege is always tragic, Zhang Xiaoting still launched a fierce attack from the beginning, there is no straw, there is no obstruction of the raging fire, the Eastern Qin army under the cover of the archers, quickly came to the city gate, almost ignoring the other party's rain-like arrow shooting, in the rain curtain and arrow rain tragic forward.

On the city wall, archers and trebuchets attacked the Eastern Qin army outside the city almost non-stop.

Affected by the heavy rain, the defensive counterattack effect of Yun Yu Country is also much worse, shooting arrows and controlling trebuchets in heavy rain is not as smooth as on sunny days, firstly, it is affected by the line of sight, it is difficult to aim at the enemy, and secondly, the action of archery and controlling trebuchets on rainy days is not so smooth.

Of course, the siege of the city is also greatly affected, the horses of the archers are also uncontrollable in the heavy rain, the running is not flexible, the soldiers who hit the city gate are holding the giant trees in the rain, there is also a feeling of not being able to exert their strength, especially the soldiers who want to climb the city tower with the help of the ladder, while drenched in the rain to dodge the bow and arrow shot from the city wall or the stones thrown by the trebuchet, it is also difficult to walk, it is difficult to walk.

The situation of the three gates is similar, it is difficult to defend it, and it is even more difficult to attack it.

An hour later, the corpses of the soldiers of the Eastern Qin State under the city wall had piled up, but the soldiers behind them still went forward one after another, and continued to attack wave after wave.

Military orders are like a mountain, as a soldier has no choice, escaping from the battle is death, and attacking may be nine deaths, but there is still a glimmer of hope for life.

Of course, the soldiers of the Yunyu Kingdom on the city gate also had casualties, and the archers of the Eastern Qin Army under the city gate shot at the soldiers of the Yunyu Kingdom on the city wall, which also caused some casualties, but compared to the casualties of the Eastern Qin Kingdom, it was almost negligible.

However, the Eastern Qin army just didn't care about the casualties, and in the heavy rain, wave after wave of soldiers kept running under the city wall, which was still a momentum that would never stop without breaking the city gate.

On the city wall, Zhuang Shujun stood in the rain, and did not choose to shelter from the rain alone, but had the meaning of living and dying with the soldiers.

In the heavy rain, he stood near the city, like a petrified statue, standing in the rain like that, calmly giving orders one after another.

Occasionally, an arrow would fly to the place where he was standing, and he would hardly have to look at it, and he could break or shoot it down with a wave of his sword.

Zhang Xiaoting rode on a horse, standing in the middle of the team, and did not use any tools to avoid the rain, and the armor that fell on him in the heavy rain soon converged into streams of flowing water, flowing down the armor, and then sliding off the war horse.

His war horse, which is also one of the best in a million, is very spiritual, and has lived and died with him several times, so he is also very cooperative and stands motionless.

Since he was far away, he was not worried that a bow and arrow would be able to shoot him on the body, and like Zhuang Shujun, he also looked at the battle in front of him very calmly, and then calmly issued orders one after another, directing the soldiers to attack.

Because of the experience of the previous war, Zhang Xiaoting also had full psychological preparation for the scene in front of him, and there were not many mood swings, whenever he saw the soldiers in front of him fall, he immediately waved his hand and sent new soldiers to continue to replenish.

By the time of the third wave, people had already begun to attack the city wall along the ladder, one, two, three, five, ten......

This is always the case, once the first person to climb the wall is there, it becomes much easier for those who follow, because there are people above who can temporarily block the brunt of the attack.

After a while, there was already a hand-to-hand battle on the city wall.

By the time Zhang Xiaoting waved his hand for the fifth time to replenish his troops, the sturdy gate of Zhongzhou City was finally knocked open.

In the face of this kind of siege method regardless of casualties, Zhuang Shujun had no way, he looked at it from a distance, the water outside the city wall was a river, and the turbid water was mixed with red blood, it was really like a river of blood, and there was a shocking feeling when he looked at it.

When the gates were breached, he knew it was time to retreat again.

All this was expected by Mu Qianmei, before the war, Mu Qianmei had already arranged, as long as the city gate was breached, they would retreat in an orderly manner, and they would never be allowed to fight head-on with the enemy, fighting less to more, facing the enemy head-on would only cause more casualties, and the Eastern Qin State could afford it, but they couldn't afford it.

So, under the command of Zhuang Shujun, Yun Yu's ** team fought and retreated, and at this time, the East City Gate had also been breached, and the soldiers of the East City Gate were also fighting and retreating.

Only the West City Gate has not yet been breached, because the commander of the siege of the Eastern Qin State over there is Tang Xiao, and he is personally very disgusted with this kind of attack regardless of casualties, so the attack on his side is not so fierce, which makes the defenders much easier.

But Zhuang Shujun also ordered the defenders of the West City Gate to retreat in an orderly manner.

For the route in the city, the soldiers of Yunyu Country are naturally the most familiar, even if it is raining heavily, their retreat still seems very calm and calm.

In the battle in the city, the casualties on both sides became much smaller, because the terrain was not wide enough, and the number of people who really fought head-on was only that, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on both sides was also comparable, so they all had their own casualties, but the casualties were not large.

When Zhuang Shujun's Third Route Army withdrew from Zhongzhou City, they immediately smashed a bridge outside the South City Gate, making it difficult for the Eastern Qin army's troops to cross the river.

It turned out that there was a river five or six hundred meters outside the south city gate, and there was an independent bridge outside the city, which was usually a bridge that must be passed out of the south city gate.

Now it is raining heavily, and the river is even higher, and the flow is very fast, it is not easy to pass through the river that is more than 20 meters wide.

When Zhang Xiaoting arrived here, he could only look at the river helplessly and sigh, watching the army of Yunyu Kingdom leave calmly from a distance.

The rain is still falling, and it's not raining lightly.

At this moment, it was already noon, and the Eastern Qin army that attacked the city was exhausted, so he had to reluctantly give up building the bridge and continue the pursuit.

Another tragic victory, although he captured a city, Zhang Xiaoting's mood was still heavy.