Chapter 404: Not an easy task

At this time, the second batch of more than 8,000 soldiers of the Youjun Army who were rushed to death had also attacked with desperation under the persecution of the supervision team organized by Li Cong and other noble generals.

I have to say that if the previous group of Phantom Army slaves still had a little hope of breaking through the city wall, then now this group of Phantom Army slaves can only be said to be completely desperate.

I saw these ghostly army slaves dragging towards the city wall. It's said to be running, but in fact, it's not even a sprint, as if it's just to delay the work of survival.

Even, a considerable number of the soldiers are looking left and right, looking for an opportunity to escape from the battlefield.

And in fact, they did.

In Meng Song's field of vision, when there were still two arrows away from the city wall of Zhuolu County, deserters appeared among the eight thousand Youjun slaves, and about dozens of people took the lead in running to the side, trying to escape from this battlefield.

However, they were flanked by a group of warlords on horseback and carrying swords, and seeing these ghostly slaves fleeing in fear, they unceremoniously drew their ring-headed knives from their waists, pursued them on horseback, and killed dozens of slaves who tried to escape one after another.

This is not the first time they have slaughtered slaves today, in fact, in the siege battle just now, when the first group of Youjun slaves fled backwards out of despair, several warlords went to intercept them, slaughtered many of the escaped Youjun slaves, and finally forced the 2,000 Youjun slaves to be killed by the county army.

It is no exaggeration to say that Duan Yu, the lieutenant of Zhuolu County, claimed to have defeated 2,000 enemy troops, but in fact, the 2,000 Youzhou slaves were killed by the Youjun Commander team, and at least 200 of them were forcibly prevented from escaping with the blood of these people.

However, this time, this trick didn't work, because the destruction of the previous two thousand Youjun slaves made the second group of Youjun slaves completely recognize the sinister intentions of the nobles of Youguo, and they have realized their dilemma of "attacking the city and dying, and fleeing and dying".

If it were a group of bloody people, I am afraid that these people would have rebelled a long time ago, but those Youjun slaves have lost the courage to resist under the long-term oppression of the nobles of Youguo.

Of course, the real reason is because they don't know how many people will rebel against the army.

Therefore, those who want to survive only think of escaping, and then they are killed by the Ghost Army Warlord.

"Unbelievable ......"

On the gate tower of the East City Gate of Zhuolu County, Cheng Puhong of Zhuolu County witnessed the brutality of the Youjun Commander's team. He was shocked that the Youjun was also merciless to his own people, and did not hesitate to sacrifice the butcher's knife.

What shocked him even more was that the number of Youjun slaves was obviously as many as 8,000 people, but they didn't dare to resist the Youjun Commander Clan, which only had a total of more than 1,000 people, so he could only approach the city wall of Zhuolu County with despair under the threat and intimidation of the latter, and walked on the road to death step by step.

Zhu Heng also noticed this, tilted his head to look at Han Yan, and said, "I'll just say that these people are useless."

During the occupation of Zhuolu County for more than ten days, Meng Song carried out a brutal and bloody suppression of the dignitaries, nobles, landlords and gentry who dared to resist the rule of the Tang Army in Zhuolu County. In this suppression, the Tang army captured a group of domestic servants who were obviously different from ordinary people, and through understanding, Meng Song knew that there were still slaves in Youguo. Meng Song immediately overrode public opinion, collected these captured slaves, and arranged them under Han Yan of the first division.

Han Yan didn't care about Zhu Heng's complaints, and said with a smile, "We not only need brave soldiers, but also labor. It is also good to take in the slaves and make them move things."

Zhu Heng shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively: "Anyway, those people are under your hands, how to arrange it, you have the final say."

Han Yan shook his head slightly, then turned around, gave a military salute to Meng Song, and said, "Marshal, it seems that in this second round of siege, the enemy army has already been defeated by half."

Not to mention Meng Song, even Liang Du, the commander of Zhuolu County, and Cheng Puhong, the county commander who didn't know anything about military affairs, also agreed with Han Yan's point of view at this moment, after all, they could also see that the group of Youjun slaves outside the city were already on the verge of collapse, and there was a possibility of backlashing against the Youjun at any time, but for some reason they didn't do so.

Meng Song shook his head and said, "One less to take the lead,

The dragons have no leader, which is probably the case."

Hearing Meng Song say this, Zhuolu County Ling Liang Du and County Cheng Puhong were stunned for a moment, and soon nodded in unison.

They agreed with Meng Song's statement that those Youjun slaves didn't dare to resist the Youjun Warlord's team, probably because there was one less leader to take the lead.

At this time, Meng Song's main focus was no longer on the soldiers of the Youjun army who were besieging the city, but on the middle army of the Youjun army.

Although the first round of the siege had been won, and the second round of the siege was about to be won, considering that the enemy in these two rounds of the offensive was just a group of ghostly soldiers, Meng Song did not dare to relax at all. After all, for the Tang Army, the real threat is the Untouched Youjun Zhongjun.

Only by resisting the attack of the regular army of the Youguo can they relax a little.

Looking at the regular army of Youguo in the distance, Meng Song secretly thought in his heart: They won't move, if I were the captain of Youguo, I would definitely try to attack the city today. No, no, no, not trying, but doing everything in their power to knock Zhuolu down. In this way, they can not only enter the city to station, but also collect food, otherwise, these hidden troops will have to send people to cut down trees and set up camp.

Although the regular army of Youguo in the distance has not moved so far, he believes that the Youguo army will definitely launch an attack today, and the only question is when these regular troops of Youguo will join this siege battle.

Suddenly, the pupils in Meng Song's eyes shrank. Because he found that in the distance of the regular sergeants of Youguo, nearly sixty percent of the soldiers were sitting on the ground, watching the attack of the Youjun slaves, while resting and recovering their strength. But at this moment, all the soldiers stood up. What this means, goes without saying.

Seeing this, Meng Song immediately instructed Li Xian: "Send an order to go down, let my Tang army soldiers go to the city, and send more sword and shield soldiers!"

Meng Song's tone suddenly became serious, which attracted the attention of the people around him.

Han Yan was the first to react, a pair of tiger eyes glanced at the regular army of Youguo in the distance, and asked in a deep voice, "Is the Youjun going to make a move?"

"Hmm!"

Meng Song nodded, and said solemnly: "The previous advantage is only temporary, whether we can hold Zhuolu County depends on whether we can block the regular army of Youguo outside the city!"

With that, he glanced up at the sky and frowned slightly, for he found that it was at least two hours before it got dark.

It is not an easy task to hold on for two hours in front of the more than 300,000 regular troops of Youguo.