What Ling Cao said is the truth, after all, in a siege battle, the besieging side occupies the absolute initiative, such as when to attack, what way to attack, etc., so there is a saying that if you defend for a long time, you will lose.

Pan Zhang and Chen Wu also nodded in agreement after hearing Ling Cao's words.

Lu Meng smiled faintly: "Although we only have 3,000 defenders, we can mobilize the people in the city to help defend the city, and when our soldiers go down to rest, let the farmers change into our military uniforms, so that the soldiers on the city will not be reduced, so that Liu Xun can be confused, and the soldiers with combat strength can also get rest." ”

Chen Wu suddenly slapped his thigh excitedly: "It's really wonderful to hide from the world and the sea, and when the time comes, you will definitely be able to deceive Liu Xun's dog thieves." ”

"Haha, let's wait and see." At this point, after some discussion, the Jiangdong Army decided to transfer 3,000 people, and divided the 3,000 defenders in the city and the 3,000 people who helped the battle into two groups, led by Ling Cao and Pan Zhang, and took turns to defend the city.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye, and after another night of harassment, the sky was getting brighter, but the fog showed no sign of dissipating.

Although it was a tired tactic, but after the fierce battle in the past few days, more than hundreds of lives were filled at the foot of the city wall, and the city head was not much better, there were nearly 100 people who closed their eyes forever, but most of the casualties were people who lacked armor protection and could not dodge arrows.

After all, Lü Meng's Jiangdong soldiers were defending the city and occupied an absolute advantage in the siege battle, so the casualties were not large after the siege battle, and as the siege party, Liu Xun's losses were naturally much greater. Since it was a harassment war, the siege was not very strong, otherwise the number of casualties would have increased a lot.

After several days of attacking in vain, and looking at the defenders at the head of the city, it seemed that they would never get tired, and Liu Xun finally lost patience with the so-called tired army. After some weighing, Liu Xun still decided to attack at any cost.

Three days later, the weather was clear and cloudless. Liu Xun opened his eyes from a nap and had a hasty breakfast with all the soldiers of the army.

Immediately turned over and got on the horse, took Gan Ning and Wang Hao to the city to personally supervise the battle, Liu Xun was dressed in a golden helmet and golden armor, suddenly pulled out the sword in his hand and swung it forward, issuing an order for a general attack.

"The whole army is attacking, and today I swear to break the city, whoever dares to retreat will be killed!"

"Woo ......"

With Liu Xun's order, the sound of horns sounded again in the dense fog, and it sounded at the same time in all directions of Moling City, as if the earth was whimpering.

More than 5,000 Lujiang soldiers who had just eaten shouted in unison, and once again with their shields on their heads, they launched a strong attack on Moling with a cloud ladder.

The ravines of the moat had long been filled with rolling stones and trees dropped by the defenders of the city a few days ago, and even every foot had to step on the corpses of his companions to advance, and every inch of land under Moling City was stained with dried blood.

The same drums rumbled on the city, and more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians rained arrows, smaller and smaller rolling stones, and lighter and lighter woods, one after another greeted the Lujiang soldiers who flocked to the city.

Due to Liu Xun's siege of the city day after day, although Liu Xun suffered heavy casualties, but the feather arrows in the city were becoming fewer and fewer, Lü Meng had to send some people to pick up the arrows shot by the Lujiang soldiers on the city, and then shoot them back with their arrows, and even the crossbow arrows inserted into the corpse had to be pulled out and used. The supplies in the city are also a little insufficient!

All this was seen by Liu Xun, who supervised the war, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and urged loudly on the horse: "Soldiers, there are fewer and fewer crossbow arrows in the city, everyone is desperately attacking the city, and the time to break the city is today!" ”

At this moment, a commotion suddenly came from behind the Lujiang soldiers, and the Lujiang army rushed behind the formation.

"Kill, the defenders in the city listen, a certain is Lu Fanfeng, this time I came to reinforce on the orders of the lord!"

Lu Fan carried a spear and charged ahead. While ordering the infantry behind him to shout at the same time, it boosted the morale of the defenders in the city.

I saw that in the chaotic army, Lu Fan was dressed in military uniform, wearing a silver helmet, holding a spear, charging all the way, and successively overturned several Lujiang soldiers who stopped in front of the horse. With such vigorous skills, it is impossible to believe that this person is a civil official.

The rain of arrows in the gallop caused a lot of lethality to the Lujiang army that was caught off guard, and after a wave of arrow rain passed, at least sixty or seventy people were shot down.

Under the leadership of Lu Fan, they charged from west to east behind the Lujiang army, not entangled with the enemy at all, but just fired arrows from afar, which greatly damaged the rhythm of the Lujiang army's siege.

Although the fog was thick, the defenders at the head of the city could clearly hear the sound of reinforcements coming, and the originally low morale of the army was suddenly greatly invigorated, and they naturally worked harder when defending. A fierce rain of arrows on the city suddenly poured down, and the Lujiang army retreated one after another.

Seeing that his rear army was in chaos and the siege plan was destroyed by the reinforcements of the Jiangdong Army, Liu Xun, who was already in a bad mood, was suddenly furious, and shouted angrily: "Where is Gan Ning? I ordered you to lead 2,000 elite soldiers to intercept the attack, and find out how many men and horses the other side came from and where they came from? If there are few people, I will slaughter them all. If there are many people, do not pursue them carelessly. ”

"The last will be ordered!"

Gan Ning agreed, and with a wave of the big knife in his hand, he led two thousand infantry on standby to chase Lu Fan.

Seeing that the Lujiang army was covering up, Lu Fan naturally would not wait stupidly to be cut, and hurriedly ordered to retreat to the east.

Where is Gan Ning willing to give up, he yelled and led his troops to follow closely. has been chasing for five or six miles, seeing that the distance is getting closer and closer, but I found that the Jiangdong army suddenly turned around, each holding a bow and arrow that had been opened, aiming at the Lujiang soldiers who were chasing from the rear.

Lu Jiangbing was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he saw a rain of arrows shooting towards them. At least 30 Lujiang troops were shot dead on the spot.

Seeing that after shooting a wave, the Lujiang soldiers who reacted took advantage of this gap to catch up, but when the two sides were about to meet each other, the Jiangdong army suddenly turned around and continued to flee eastward.

"Wow yes...... I'm angry, give me all the strength to catch up! ”

Gan Ning was suddenly furious, and saw that there were only about 1,000 people in the Jiangdong Army, relying on the strength of the people, and they were trying to catch up with a big knife in their hands.

Who knew that after Lu Fan led his troops to run wildly for a while, he actually turned around again and shot a wave of arrows, shooting twenty or thirty Lujiang soldiers again. Then they still took advantage of the fact that the Jiangdong army was blocked by the rain of arrows, and once again turned around and fled eastward.

"These turtle grandsons fight and don't fight, retreat and don't retreat, is it tolerable or unbearable? Guys are desperately moving forward and annihilating these cowards for me! ”

Gan Ning was provoked and almost lost his mind, and recklessly rode his horse forward to catch up, relying on his mount to be faster than the soldier, and gradually threw the soldiers behind him farther and farther, with the momentum of riding a thousand.