At this time, the enemy army had not yet attacked the city, Xie Xing was still relatively relaxed, he smiled,

"Lao Zhang, our mission this time is to bring you and Zhang Mengqi back in good shape.

You have killed the enemy on the city wall, and you have no eyes for your sword and gun, and if there is a mistake, how can we go back to the marshal? 33

Besides, you have done enough for your country, and we should protect our heroes.

You, just go back and hug your two little wives and live happily together, with us, the enemy can't break through the city. ”

"General Xie! The subordinates are soldiers, even if they have been civilian officials for five years, but they have not forgotten the nature of fighting in their bones, you just let me do something, even if I am holding a knife, I can cut down the enemy troops on the ladder. ”

"You claim to be a subordinate, do you still regard yourself as a soldier of my Yue's army?"

"That's nature!"

"Okay, Zhang Xiaoyu, a soldier of the Yue family, listens to the order!"

The smile on Xie Xing's face disappeared, and he shouted solemnly,

"This general now appoints you as the commander of the Sichuan battalion, and you will be in charge of the soldiers and horses of the Sichuan battalion, leading the auxiliary troops, looting the whole city, and bringing all the materials and grain and grass that can be used to defend the city to the city wall.

You are familiar with Loulan City, you know where to hide things, take your people and auxiliaries to loot them! ”

"The last general obeys!"

Zhang Xiaoyu knew that Xie Xing was protecting him, so he didn't say anything more, and immediately went down the city wall and took the soldiers of the Sichuan battalion to loot the whole city.

After he left, the enemy troops who had been in a neat formation also stopped.

The 100,000 troops in the south lined up, and the first regiment rushed towards the city wall with a ladder.

Because the enemy was about to march in a hurry, they did not prepare any large siege equipment, but just came with a ladder.

The 10,000 men of this corps, the rear team held bows and arrows to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and the front team carried the ladder and ran wildly.

At the head of the city, the soldiers of the Yue family army all fired arrows downward.

Loulan was poor, there were no trebuchets and no bed crossbows.

When the Sichuan army attacked the city yesterday, these were all good things, and now that the Sichuan army is defending the city, these have become inconvenient.

The defenders at the head of the city could only use long sticks to knock down the enemy's ladders, and smash them down with stones and logs, or burn the oil and fall down the ladders, and even burn all the ladders with men.

The battle to defend the city is always the most brutal war, and both sides will use all means to drive out the enemy at all costs.

The first corps of the enemy army, after only one hour of fighting, was no longer a formation, this corps withdrew, and the next corps came up again.

This is siege warfare, there is no such thing as a quick battle in siege warfare, unless there are unreasonable masters like Yu Ming and Li Miaoyuan in the Zhenbei army who can fight open the city gate, otherwise siege warfare is a war of attrition.

Consume the ordnance and materials of the defenders, consume the number of the defenders, consume the will of the defenders, and when the number of defenders is too small to take care of all the walls, the will collapses, and the siege can climb the top of the city and occupy the walls.

At this time, not only the southern wall was under great pressure, but also the other three walls.

The enemy army did not have any feint tactics at all, and when it came up, it was a general attack, one corps after another, and when one corps attacked, the other corps were resting.

But the number of defenders is small, the rotation is also small, the enemy army is 400,000 against 50,000, fighting a war of attrition, and the advantage is on the enemy's side.

The siege began in the morning and continued uninterruptedly, with the enemy attacking in turn, endlessly, and with a moderate deployment.

Its elite level and tactical coordination are not the same as the Loulan army that attacked Yumen Pass before.

Zhao Long had been observing the enemy's offensive, and after a while, he said to Xie Xing,

"Brother Xie, the enemy army is obviously commanded by a master, you see, every corps has a degree of attack and defense, heavy shield men protect the archers, suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and the others run wildly, take a ladder to attack the city, once a corps casualties exceed two percent, they will immediately retreat to rest, and the next corps will come up.

This kind of siege is not easy to fight, and our casualties are not small, and the enemy army will consume us. ”

"What then? Help? ”

"That's not enough, I'll take the Zhenbei Army out to kill for a while, see where the enemy's defense is weak, and see if there is any hope to break through with you, if there is no hope of breaking through, it's not too late to ask for help."

"Okay, then you can go."

Zhao Long descended the city wall, came to the place where the Zhenbei army assembled, and led the Zhenbei army to the south gate to kill.

The south gate of the city opened, and 20,000 troops from the north of the town rushed out and killed the enemy troops who were attacking the city outside the city.

The enemy never expected that the Sichuan army would dare to take the initiative to attack when it was at a disadvantage and passively defending the city.

Zhao Long led the Zhenbei Army to chase and kill the enemy's rout, and pursued it until the enemy army camp, the Zhenbei Army was like a torrent of steel, straight into the center of the enemy's army, the enemy's infantry could not match it at all, and it was easily killed by the Zhenbei Army.

However, just as Zhao Long was about to kill the horse pistol, there was a sudden sound of gong beating from the city, which was the meaning of Ming Jin's retreat.

When Zhao Long heard this, his brows furrowed, and he immediately turned his head to look at the city.

At the head of the city, the herald was waving the order flag, Zhao Long understood the meaning of the flag, and the enemy army in the west and east of the city was thinking that the south side of the city was closing and surrounding, Xie Xing asked him to hurry back to the city and withdraw the army.

After Zhao Long understood the meaning, he pondered for a moment, and did not choose to return to the city from the south gate, but directly led the Zhenbei army to kill in the east of the city.

They bypassed the back of the elite army and headed straight for the east of the city, the Zhenbei army rode the desert wolf, the speed was extremely fast, the elite army wanted to intercept them, but they couldn't do it at all, and soon they shook off the enemy army and collided with the army of the Che Division in the east of the city that came to support.

Many of these Cheshi troops were people who fled back to China from the defeat of Mangya City in the west of Qinchuan, and these people were all defeated by the Zhenbei Army at the beginning.

Zhao Long easily rushed to defeat the enemy's reinforcements, and then led the Zhenbei army to the side of the Cheshi army.

Almost all of the Cheshi troops here are new troops, and they have never seen the Zhenbei Army, but they saw the Zhenbei Army rushing over, and they resisted desperately one by one, causing a lot of resistance to the Zhenbei Army.

But how powerful the Zhenbei Army was, these new troops had no combat experience to speak of, and under the open guns and hidden arrows of the Zhenbei Army, they were quickly killed out of a bloody road.

The Zhenbei army passed through the Cheshi army and came to the east gate, and the defenders inside immediately opened the city gate and let the Zhenbei army enter the city.

Some people died, but not completely......