Ji Ling was originally kind, but when he heard Yuan Yao say this, he naturally didn't continue to insist.

What's more, he also agrees with Yuan Yao's statement.

did not continue to come up to support Yuan Yao, and at the same time cast an admiring gaze at Yuan Yao again.

Yuan Yao and Yuan Shu are really different.

In other words, it is Yuan Shu, when facing this situation.

has long been frightened and fled, where will he live and die with the soldiers on this city tower?

With Yuan Yao's example, as an example, the soldiers on the city tower were beaten one by one, and no one shouted to escape.

What's more, in this situation, escaping is also a dead end.

While the arrows under the city began to become dense, Yuan Yao was not idle, and hurriedly ordered his soldiers to start a counterattack.

The opponent had arrows that could suppress the counterattack on the city tower, but Yuan Yao was not in a hurry to attack.

Waiting for the opponent's besieging men and horses to get closer, he ordered someone to use bows and arrows to try to shoot.

A round of hundreds of arrows shot up into the sky and shot out of the city.

In fact, there were more than 100 people standing on the city tower, but the number of arrows under Yuan Yao's command was limited, and it was a waste to shoot too many at one time.

It's better to keep the arrows and shoot them a few more times to deal more damage to the enemy.

Because of the limited manpower, Yuan Yao himself was not idle, taking advantage of the soldiers on the national highway on the city tower to carry the defensive equipment, he also had to come with a bow, while practicing archery, on the other hand, he commanded his men and horses from time to time, taking turns to defend.

There are a lot of people on the tower of Yuan Yaocheng, plus there are preparations in advance, and there are not many props for defense, as long as there is no civil strife, no people force open the city gate, and let the enemy army in, the defenders under the city tower want to kill in the city, it is simply wishful thinking.

You must know how difficult the battle of defending the city during the Three Kingdoms period was, just look at Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang led tens of thousands of troops to the Northern Expedition, but in the small place of Chencang, Hao Zhao used more than 1,000 people and horses to block it for more than 20 days.

Even Zhuge Liang couldn't break such a small city.

And Zhu County, where Yuan Yao is located, although it is not as strong as the strong city wall of Chen Cang, Yuan Yao has more soldiers and horses than Hao Zhao, and more defensive equipment.

And he didn't need to block Cao Cao for more than 20 days, according to Yuan Yao's calculations, it only took less than ten days for Cao Cao to retreat.

Although he may not have Hao Zhao's ability, Yuan Yao is confident that it will not be a problem to use six or seven thousand soldiers and horses to block Cao Cao's 30,000 army attack.

The Cao army under the city was still very fierce in the first wave of attacks.

After all, these people are Cao Cao's elite soldiers, not afraid of death, not to mention, but also very offensive ability, resisting the rain of arrows under Yuan Yao's hands, many people have already held the ladder, rushed to the bottom of the city tower, and began to erect the ladder.

As soon as the ladder was erected, the first to climb the dead.

It's a pity that Cao Cao underestimated these soldiers under Yuan Yao.

In other words, if it is a soldier from other battalions in Yuan Shu's army, in the face of this situation, there may be timidity, and even fear of escaping.

But the warrior battalion under Yuan Yao's command has followed Yuan Yao from birth to death and experienced several battles, these people are veterans, and now they have sharpness, especially after the offensive and defensive battle the day before yesterday, so that the veterans of the warrior battalion are reborn from the ashes, no longer the group of old, weak, sick and disabled, but some elite soldiers in a hundred battles.

In the face of Cao's army, they did not have a trace of fear, but they were all brave, scrambling to fight with the enemy army who landed in the city.

As soon as the enemy on the ladder appeared, he was immediately met by a spear.

Soon the enemy troops who had landed in the city were stabbed.

The situation occurred again and again, and a long time passed after the battle, and no one in the Cao army climbed the tower of Zhuxian County.

And the screams under the city tower were loud, and the corpses were all over the field.

Cao Cao looked at his soldiers and horses, rushing up wave after wave, but he didn't take any advantage at all, and after he didn't even climb the city tower, he realized that this city was not so easy to take down.

Now think about Xiahoudun's words again, it's not that Xiahoudun is incompetent and can't defeat this county, but that the defenders in the county town are indeed different from the Yuan Shu soldiers and horses he knew before.

"Lord, Mingjin should withdraw his troops, this city is not easy to fight, if you continue to attack, the casualties of the soldiers will increase greatly."

In the few waves of attack just now, Cao Cao has sent three waves of a total of 10,000 horses, but these people, more than 3,000 dead and wounded, have no effect, if they continue to attack, although they can rely on the advantage of the number of people to consume, rely on this sea of tactics to defeat the city.

But Cao Jun's losses will also be quite large.

It is estimated that more than half of the casualties must be killed, in that case, even if this county seat is taken, it will not be worth it for Cao Jun.

There are so many casualties in a county town, what should be done in the follow-up battles?

So Guo Jia, who was standing next to Cao Cao, couldn't stand it, in the eyes of a strategist like Guo Jia, the army that surrendered without a fight was the king.

Attacking the city is more important than attacking the heart, attacking the city for the bottom, and attacking the heart for the top.

As long as the atmosphere of slaughtering the city is created, the defenders in the city will naturally collapse without a fight.

"Cao Ren, Mingjin, I underestimated this Yuan Yao, this son really has two brushes."

"It seems that Xiahoudun is not unjustly lost."

Cao Cao hadn't forgotten to make an excuse for Xiahoudun.

"Bonghyo, what do you think of this battle?"

After trying an attack and not gaining any advantage, Cao Cao chose to retreat temporarily, so as to ask his advisers what they thought of the battle.

This time to attack Yuan Shu, Cao Cao did not bring anyone else, only Guo Jia, Xun Yu's status in Cao Ying is very high, so generally Cao Cao personally went out to fight, leaving Xun Yu in Xuchang to guard all affairs.

Guo Jia's duty is to sacrifice wine as a military advisor, so he often gives advice to Cao Cao and follows Cao Cao a lot.

"Lord, this city is stronger than Yuan Shu's Shouchun."

Guo Jia could see the difficulties of this city just by looking at it.

In order to defend this city, Yuan Yao spent a lot of money and prepared defensive equipment in advance, and when attacking the city, those boulders and rolling logs were thrown down without money, after all, the first wave of attacks was the most important.

If you can't play the momentum, you will be in a thousand miles and you will not be able to form an army.

As long as the first wave is held, the follow-up attack of the Cao army will be more anxious, and it is easy to have flaws when it is in a hurry.

"That Yuan Yao is much more powerful than we imagined, from his deployment of troops and horses, command and dispatch, it can be seen that this person is familiar with military affairs and knows the art of war."

"There is no shortage of manpower in the city, the spies came to report, Yuan Shu sent Qiao Rui to assist Yuan Yao, these two people have a total of 5,000 troops, counting the defenders in the city, it is estimated that there are at least 6,000 people."