"Childe, don't hesitate!"

"Don't hesitate, the enemy is about to storm the city!" Zhang Liao was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

At this time, Su Ming had already made up his mind.

"Tai Shi Ci!" Su Ming called out to Tai Shi Ci.

"The last general!" Tai Shici threw away the half-eaten flatbread in his hand and gave up his hand to receive the order.

"Immediately issue weapons and armor to those eight thousand strong men, and bring them to the city!" Su Ming gave the order.

"Order!" Tai Shi Ci gave the order.

These eight thousand strong men, except for letting them carry weapons, Su Ming has not used them.

These strong men are different from the private army, which has undergone military training and knows some martial arts.

And the strong man, except for a handful of strength, has not undergone any military training at all.

Even if these strong men are issued weapons and armor, their combat effectiveness is very poor.

The poor combat effectiveness is only one aspect, and the most important thing is that the psychological quality of these strong men is also very poor.

If the casualties are too large, they will definitely turn around and flee.

At that time, it will disrupt your own camp.

Tai Shi Ci went down the city wall and went to distribute weapons and equipment to the strong men.

As soon as Tai Shi Ci left, Zhang Liao said with a gloomy face: "Son, how can you do this kind of tough battle with a strong man." ”

"If you use these strong men, I'm afraid, you won't be able to hold it for an hour!"

Zhang Liao thought to himself, isn't Childe playing the piano indiscriminately?

At the beginning of the war, it was okay to use strong men to reduce some of your own casualties while the battle was not fierce.

Now that the war is fighting to the point of white heat, if you don't need elite soldiers, if you use strong men, this is simply a rush to the doctor.

Although there are a large number of these strong men, they will not be able to fight for an hour, and they will suffer a large number of casualties, and they will definitely be defeated.

When the time comes, these strong men will all squeeze under the city wall, and the city wall will be chaotic.

"Wen Yuan, I have my own way!"

"One person is desperate, ten people are unstoppable!"

"If these strong men are desperate, they can at least fight Zhang He's 5,000 soldiers and horses!" Su Ming groaned.

Zhuang Ding is the defensive side, and Zhang He is the offensive side.

In a war, the defending side has the upper hand.

No matter how bad the combat effectiveness of the strong men is, the eight thousand strong men will definitely not be a big problem if they fight Zhang He's five thousand elite soldiers.

However, it is all built on a premise.

That is, these strong men had to fight hard with Zhang He's army on the city wall, not run away.

Don't run?

No way.

No matter how elite the troops are, when the casualties reach a critical point, they will flee.

What's more, these are just strong men!

Without waiting for Zhang Liao to ask his question, Su Ming had already begun to assign tasks to Zhang Liao.

"Wen Yuan, Tai Shi Ci will take eight thousand strong men to the city wall and take over the defense."

"Immediately take the rest of the men and horses on the wall and take it down and repair it, and then, on all the passages under the wall, pile up dry wood, pour oil on it, and light a great fire." Su Ming gave Zhang Liao an extremely vicious order.

Hearing this order, Zhang Liao couldn't help but gasp.

Speaking of which, Zhang Liao understood everything.

Su Ming removed the soldiers and horses on the city wall, issued weapons and armor to the eight thousand strong men, and let the eight thousand strong men defend the city.

Then, Su Ming set fire to block the passage of the lower city wall.

In this way, there are only two roads left for the 8,000 strong men on the city wall.

The first is to fight with Zhang He's army on the city wall to the end.

The second is to forcibly descend the city wall and be burned alive by the fire.

Ci is not in charge of the army!

Su Ming's plan vividly displayed the four words of Ci Bu in charge of the soldiers.

"Childe, why did you withdraw your troops?"

"Let's stay on the city wall together, follow the example of the overlord of Western Chu to break the cauldron and block the way with fire."

"In this way, everyone will stay on the city wall together, and if the city is broken, they will die together!" Zhang Liao suggested to Su Ming.

However, Su Ming shook his head and said, "Yecheng must not be lost!" ”

"Yecheng can be preserved, and the world can be unified twenty years earlier. If Yecheng is not protected, it will be difficult for the prime minister to unify the north. ”

"I withdrew these combat-effective soldiers and horses, just to fight with Zhang He Lane step by step in the city after the city wall was lost."

"Even if it's a street fight, I'm going to have to hold on for a few days. As long as the Prime Minister's reinforcements arrive, victory will be ours. ”

After understanding Su Ming's meaning, Zhang Liao could only obey orders.

Soon, Tai Shi Ci took the strong man who had changed into equipment and went up to the city wall.

These strong men had not yet experienced the cruelty of war, so when they first climbed the city wall, they were still very excited.

These strong men have also chosen middle and lower-level officers such as chiefs, centurions, and thousands.

The strong men in armor looked like that, but once the fight began, the gap between them and the veterans was immediately revealed.

After these strong men took over the defense of the city wall, Zhang Liao and Tai Shici immediately led the rest of the soldiers and horses to withdraw from the city wall.

At first, due to the distance between the two sides, some bows and arrows and catapults shot at each other.

At this time, the strong men were still able to barely cope.

Anyway, this kind of large-scale projectile does not need any accuracy.

Just pull the bow and shoot down, and if you don't hit, it's all up to luck.

However, when the Yuan army erected the ladder and began to attack the city, the gap between them was revealed.

In less than an hour, Yuan's army had already attacked the city wall.

At first, Zhang He was very careful, but soon he found that the soldiers on the city wall had poor combat effectiveness.

At this time, Zhang He is a bit like a lol mid-laner professional player.

That is, don't let me find out that you are weak, if you let me find out that you are weak, then I will be killed.

Zhang He found that the soldiers on the city wall were very weak, and immediately led the halberd warriors to launch a fierce attack.

These strong men, where are the opponents of the Euphorbia!

Ten strong men can't beat a halberd.

Yuan's army had attacked Shangcheng for less than half an hour, and the casualties of Zhuangding were less than one-fifth.

At this time, the strong man began to rout.

Some strong men began to run down the city.

When they ran to the staircase of the city wall, they saw that the staircase was filled with dense dry firewood.

"General Su, I can't hold it!"

"I can't hold it!" After the strong man above saw Su Ming, he shouted at Su Ming.

At the same time, more and more strong men were fleeing, and they had begun to pour down the city.

Su Ming's eyes closed and ordered, "Light the fire." ”

"Boom."

"Boom, boom."

Su Ming gave an order, and all the dry firewood blocking the staircase of the city wall was ignited.

The dry wood was poured with fire oil, and in an instant, it was as if a fire dragon was rising.

Many strong men were squeezed into the fire, and they wailed in pain from the fire.

At this time, the strong men on the city wall also understood.

Su Ming cut off their retreat, and now, they were either burned alive by the fire.

Or, return to the city wall and fight with Yuan Jun to the death.

(End of chapter)