Guo Rong and Zhang Jiaxuan teamed up to kill the rebel fierce men wearing three-layer armor, but it did not help the overall defense line, and more and more rebels had successfully climbed the palace wall.

Under the palace walls, seeing this scene, Chen Hongzhi and the completely degenerate rebel military academies had even begun to cheer and celebrate their victory in advance.

However, a dense rain of arrows shot out from the second palace wall on the south side of Xingqing Palace.

More than 200 young men from the steppes and skilled archers let the rebels know that what you think is not necessarily what you think.

Although the war horse can't go up the palace wall, when more than half of these guys with riding and archery skills stand firmly on the ground, everyone is infinitely close to the marksman.

A few guys who are not naturally good at using bows and arrows, such as Mo Lingjun, who is brave and somewhat intimidating on a war horse, are usually equipped with a three-stone heavy crossbow.

Of course, all these young men will carry a secondary weapon on their backs, which is neither a knife nor a club, but a melee artifact that Guo Rong has proven to be useful on the grassland, the sapper shovel.

The combat effectiveness of the per capita marksman is amazing, and the effect of this kind of long-range weapon of the opponent is exhausted, even exceeding Guo Rong's most optimistic expectations.

At that time, there were more than fifty rebels on the palace wall, all red-eyed and heavily armoured, and many more were climbing up.

However, these fellows were carried away in a wave under the fire of more than one hundred and fifty horned bows and fifty heavy crossbows.

This was followed by a second wave of arrows, and dozens of rebels who had just poked their heads out and were about to board the siege fell from the ladder with arrows in their eyebrows, eye sockets, and throats.

Then came the third wave, the fourth wave......

Victory is in sight, but the success is down, and they have begun to lose their humanity, and the rebel generals who control their brains with their animal nature are all dejected and annoyed.

Except for one person, the leader of the rebels, Ju Wenzhen.

For this kind of performance of the defenders who had softened and suddenly stood up, Ju Wenzhen, who was very calm and calm during the entire process of watching and commanding the battle, turned red, as if he was slammed by the defenders who suddenly hardened, and then began to howl wildly, as if he had reached the peak in an instant.

Facing the puzzled gazes of the rebel generals around him, it seemed that he had reached his peak, but Ju Wenzhen gave an order that surprised others.

Mingjin retreats!

The rebels weren't the only ones who felt surprised.

After the rebels receded like a tide, Guo Rong sat down in the blood and gasped for breath.

He also didn't understand why Ju Wenzhen would order Mingjin to withdraw his troops at this time instead of continuing the attack.

The addition of two hundred sharpshooters did play a huge role, but the manpower was limited, and even a light-angled bow could not shoot indefinitely.

If you continue to attack with the intensity just now, how long Guo Rong can hold on is really bottomless.

After all, these red-eyed, incomparably brave rebels just now stormed for a whole hour, just look at the current state of the palace wall, after fighting for a whole hour, less than two hundred defenders survived, and each collapsed in the blood and corpses like Guo Rong, panting heavily.

At the same time, on the palace wall, the young man who entered the first palace wall from the second palace wall sounded a burst of cheers after confirming that the rebels had retreated.

However, along with the cheers of the young men above the palace walls, there were also screams and wails under the palace walls.

In contrast, the wailing sound was particularly harsh.

The huge contrast reminded Guo Rong that the battle was not completely over now, and it was not yet time for victory, he must continue to concentrate and not relax at all.

With a bitter smile on his face, Guo Rong propped up the ground with his hands, ready to get up and observe the situation outside the palace walls.

However, at this time, an accident happened, and the moment his body exerted his strength, Guo Rong was shocked to find that his body was a little disobedient!

Under the intense soreness and heavy exhaustion that filled my body, I didn't stand up on my first attempt!

After a moment of stunned, Guo Rong reacted to him, this is the sequelae of high-intensity overdraft, this kind of ultra-high-intensity overdraft is definitely not relieved by resting for a few seconds.

Guo Rong puffed up his strength, exerted his strength again, stood up from the blood with the soreness and exhaustion, walked behind the city wall again, and stood firm on the battlement.

Before his eyes were cast, Guo Rong first felt that under the palace walls, there were screams and wails, as well as a thick bloody atmosphere.

Exhaled lightly, and a smell of blood poured out of his lungs, making Guo Rong almost vomit.

After three years of bloody battles in Qiuzi, Guo Rong has seen more bloody scenes and more inhumane scenes, but the degree of tragedy is far from comparable to today.

The Tubo people may be treacherous, and there are some really powerful characters, but when it really comes to the time when they need to work hard, the Tubo people will definitely not be able to compare with the real Tang elite.

If the Tibetans had the same fighting power and fighting will as the Shence rebels today, Qiuzi would have fallen thirty years ago.

After counting the number of people, if you don't count the two hundred young men who have just been replenished, there are less than two hundred people with combat power on the entire south side palace wall.

Looking at the palace walls and the rebels, the rebels did retreat, but it was not exhaustion, nor was it a collapse in morale, but Ju Wenzhen needed to collect the corpses and clean up the battlefield to facilitate the follow-up attack.

The next round of the rebels' offensive is a decisive battle!

Patrolling the palace wall for a while, referring to the reaction of the rebels under the palace city, Guo Rong suddenly understood the second point.

The rebels took advantage of the situation to retreat in order to rebuild morale, but also to attack their own side.

In the face of difficulties or crises, people are often stronger than they think, and strong willpower can highly overdraw people's potential.

However, this kind of overdraft is not without a price, and this kind of physical and mental overdraft under the action of willpower is definitely not something that can be compensated for in a short time.

Taking advantage of the situation to collect troops, clean up the battlefield and let the fatigue of the defenders who have fought hard until now ferment, this is Ju Wenzhen's sinister intentions, of course, it can also be seen as Ju Wenzhen's control of the details on the battlefield.

The unaware cheers of the young men obviously aggravated the extent of this situation, with Guo Rong's own physical strength, he tried twice to get up before he succeeded, not to mention the others.

Guo Rong knew that this was not the fault of the young men, but that his understanding of the war was far less profound than that of Ju Wenzhen, looking up at the remnant sun in the distance, pondering what Ju Wenzhen had just done, Guo Rong inadvertently found an opportunity to win!

There is still half an hour before the agreed time, and under Ju Wenzhen's micro-manipulation, if there is no miracle or special happening, he who has been weakened to the extreme will definitely not be able to hold out for the agreed time.

Of course, he is not without hope, in the case of a steady victory, Ju Wenzhen chose to open the card, and he still has two hole cards.

Of course, if the rebels still insist on the state just now, and simply add fuel tactics, they will definitely not be able to support the arrival of reinforcements, and even if they can hold on to time, it will be difficult to win.

The battle situation couldn't have been worse, and Guo Rong had nothing to scruple about.

After pondering the psychological warfare and micro-manipulation he learned from Ju Wenzhen, Guo Rong formed an idea.

Take advantage of the unique double-layer structure of the palace wall on the south side of Xingqing Palace, and play the two hole cards together at the right time!