When the Cao army under the city tower really killed the city tower, the ferocity and cruelty of the hand-to-hand encounter.

finally made Yuan Yao recognize the ruthlessness of the battlefield.

Although the defenders on the city tower have been trained by Yuan Yao for several months, not all of them are the elite of Yuan Yao's lineage, and there are still many people who were originally subordinate to Qiaorui.

When these people faced the attack of the Cao army, they would inevitably still have some fear.

After Cao Jun rushed to the castle tower, hand-to-hand combat began, and some of them began to be afraid.

Fortunately, the Cao soldiers who rushed to the city tower were still a small number after all, and under the resistance of taking advantage of the numerical advantage, the first soldiers still did not break Yuan Yao's defense.

After a wave of fighting between the two sides, there was only a few places where there was some panic, which was quickly filled by the follow-up defenders, who immediately repelled the attacking Cao army.

There were several waves of attacks, and under the fierce attack of the Cao army, it seemed that they were about to occupy the city wall, but then the defenders on Yuan Yao's side, under the leadership of Ji Ling, immediately fought back and killed back.

Where are the dozens of dead soldiers who have landed in the city are the opponents of Ji Ling and the others, and they have all been defeated in just a few rounds.

After pulling a few times, the number of Cao Jun who rushed up was much less.

Under the city tower, Cao Cao looked at the soldiers and horses who rushed up to their deaths in waves, and there was a pain in his eyes.

Just by sending the descendants of the soldiers and horses who launched the charge in the past, there were already nearly 10,000 people.

But nearly 10,000 people were not afraid of death and attacked frantically, but they hadn't even taken down the Zhuxian County Tower.

If the battle continues, the number of soldiers killed in battle will be higher, and at present, it seems that it is not known how many people will need to fight this city.

"Lord, looking at this situation, it doesn't seem to be good."

"Then Yuan Yao's defense is very tight, and it is not easy for our manpower to climb the city tower!"

Cheng Yu didn't want to see the soldiers on his side, so he was sent to death in vain.

But it was not good for him to directly propose the idea of retreat to Cao Cao, after all, in case Cao Cao didn't want to retreat, wouldn't he be bored with him.

Therefore, he could only say that his own side had suffered a lot of casualties, so as to try to make Cao Cao understand that it was very difficult to take down this county.

"I didn't expect Yuan Yao's men and horses to have such combat power."

Cao Cao also followed Cheng Yu's words and said a sentence.

Fang Cai's own soldiers and horses have already climbed the tower.

According to Cao Cao's previous combat experience, once the first dead soldier rushed to the city tower and tore open a hole in the enemy's defense, the follow-up army was like a flood, frantically pouring in.

But this time this situation did not happen, the defenders on the city tower were extremely strong, not only repelled the attack of the Cao army, but organized a defensive line and continued to target the Cao army under the city tower.

After several attacks and defenses, Cao Jun couldn't even see a chance to break the county.

This is completely different from the Yuan Shu soldiers and horses that Cao Cao encountered before.

Cao Cao had also fought with Yuan Shu's men and horses before, and Yuan Shu's men and horses were all cowards, and once they encountered some difficulties in battle, they would immediately lose their morale.

If there were some casualties, it would be a defeat immediately.

But this time, these soldiers and horses encountered by Cao Cao became more and more courageous, and the situation was very different.

This made Cao Cao have to take a look at the defenders in the city.

"It's me who is reckless, I underestimate this person, what about Fengxiao, Mingjin will withdraw his troops, and retire for the time being."

"Wait until you think of a way, and then attack the city."

Cao Cao is also a person who can bend and stretch, knowing that it is difficult for him to conquer this county today, although he now controls the territory of several states, but the actual number of men and horses under his command is not much, and he still can't do it by using crowd tactics to stack.

In order to reduce the casualties of his manpower, he still has to retreat for the time being.

A gong struck with a bang.

The order to retreat came from Cao's army.

These attacking Cao troops were also relieved.

They have experienced several attacks, killed and wounded thousands of soldiers and horses, but all of them have no effect, and continuing to attack the city will only increase casualties, and many soldiers have some gloom in their hearts, who wants to rush forward to die.

Just when they didn't know what to do, the signal from above reassured them that they immediately ran backwards to avoid death.

And Yuan Yao, who was on the city tower, also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the retreat order from the other party.

Don't look at them, they repelled wave after wave of attacks by Cao's army.

But the soldiers, the nerves of the soldiers for many days were tense, and they were all highly fatigued at this moment, and at this moment, they had repelled several attacks by the Cao army, and they were already exhausted.

Many people are about to lose their energy because of the huge energy consumption.

If Cao's army continued to attack for a while, the casualties of Yuan Yao's soldiers would be huge.

Whether the follow-up defense can still be insisted on is really a matter of two words, but fortunately, Cao Jun retreated by himself.

This made Yuan Yao breathe a sigh of relief and was not so worried.

The retreat of Cao's army was like the rise and fall of the tide, coming and going in a hurry.

After the army had retreated, there was still gunsmoke on the ground outside the city, and the mess of the battle just now came into view.

Because of the oil and oil, a fire had been lit outside the city, and after the flames were extinguished, there were only some unburned wood and corpses on the ground.

In addition to the soldiers who died in battle, many fell outside the city, and the smell of blood and burnt burnt was everywhere.

After the battle, the sun outside the city also completely set, and the cold wind blew, and it was a little desolate.

The Cao army sent some people to collect the corpses outside the city, and Yuan Yao did not order anyone to attack, which was to give some face to those soldiers who died in battle.

Coupled with the battle between the two sides just now, they were indeed very tired, and Yuan Yao ordered the soldiers who defended the city to rest, leaving only some soldiers who did not directly participate in the battle to garrison.

It didn't take long for Ji Ling and Qiao Rui to come over.

"Childe, the casualties are out."

Ji Ling's face was gloomy, and his face was tired, in the battle just now, Ji Ling was the first soldier, and he led his own soldiers to fight Cao Jun on the city tower in person.

If it weren't for Ji Ling's men and horses, who killed several waves of Cao Jun's attack, it would be difficult to say whether today's offensive and defensive battles could be defended.

"How's it going?"

Yuan Yao was still more concerned about the number of casualties, after all, it was related to their ability to block the next few waves of Cao Jun's attacks.

"One hundred and thirty-seven were killed and more than eight hundred wounded."

After Ji Ling asked Yuan Yao, he quickly replied to Yuan Yao.

When Yuan Yao listened to Ji Ling talk about the statistics of casualties, his expression was mixed for a while.

In total, nearly 1,000 people were killed or injured as a result of the battle.

For Yuan Yao, he lost almost one-sixth of his manpower.