When Sima Deren saw that Zhao Guokai had surrendered to Xie An, he was furious and vowed to break through the city and break Zhao Guokai's body into pieces. So with an order, these soldiers waved their flags and shouted like a tide to the moat, and in the face of the surging soldiers, Xie An ordered, "All soldiers pay attention, wait for them to fight near the moat, and be sure to aim and release arrows." Sima Deren's soldiers screamed and rushed over, to see that it was almost over, Xie An ordered to "release the arrows", and suddenly the arrows on the city were like rain, and those soldiers who had just reached the moat or half of the rigidity suddenly fell to the ground countless times, and all kinds of screams and crying fathers and mothers abounded. The waters of the moat were red. Sima Deren's troops withdrew at once.

Sima Deren saw that he pulled out his sword and shouted: "The three armies listen to the truth, and if there is any retreat, they will not be spared." He swung his sword and slashed the two returning soldiers with his own hands. These soldiers suddenly turned around and rushed forward, Sima Deren ordered, transfer three thousand archers, just by the moat for me to shoot arrows to the city, with his order, soon another three thousand people came to the Hucheng River, these people are trained archers, on the contrary, these soldiers defending the city are different, they are all newly recruited farmers nearby, whether the military quality or the accuracy of archery is not successful, Sima Deren's trick is too powerful, the soldiers in the city have suffered heavy losses, and there are countless people who have been hit by arrows.

So why did Sima Deren desperately want to take Tucheng? It turned out that in the past few days, he had been making fire, and the defeat that began the day before yesterday had lost a deputy vanguard officer, which was indeed a great shame. In addition, the first day the national teacher asked about the battle situation, and he was very dissatisfied with its progress. Therefore, this time he gave a death order, and today he must take Tucheng no matter what and give an explanation to the imperial court. This time he was playing with his life. As soon as he played with Sima Rui's people, he couldn't stand it. At this critical moment, I heard Sima Rui standing at the head of the city shouting: "Listen to the truth, I am Sima Rui, now we are facing a life-and-death situation, everyone must defeat the enemy." His shout worked, and suddenly the people of the city began to shoot arrows downward, and those who had just rushed to the city became live targets, and one by one they fell to the ground, and one or two ladders were set up on the wall, but they were all broken by rolling logs, and the soldiers on the ladders fell to the ground. Sima Deren's attack was repulsed again.

At this time, it was getting dark, and taking advantage of the interval of the enemy's attack, Xie An ordered to eat quickly. Feed and drink enough to prepare for a bigger attack from the enemy. But at this time, Sima Deren received a very bad news that the grain and grass in Liucheng were burned. Hearing this, Sima Deren almost didn't sit on the ground, how much grain and grass is consumed in a day by an army of forty or fifty thousand, the grain and grass in Liucheng is the lifeblood of the whole army, how can the army satisfy its hunger without grain and grass, wouldn't it be a big chaos. As soon as he thought of this Sima's people, he panicked, he hurriedly called a few henchmen in, and told them what had happened, and these individuals were also stupid when they heard it.

A man surnamed Wang said: "The prince wants to block the news about this matter, and don't let the soldiers know, if they know, it will be a mess." Then everyone said, "The prince wants to keep it a secret." Sima Deren said: "I know all this you are talking about, but what should we do now? When he said this, everyone was silent, and one of them said, "Lord Wang, but I don't know how long there will be enough food in the army now?" Sima Deren said: "We asked the food supervisor, and he said that there is enough food for a day." The man said, "As long as you give the order of death, the prince must take Tucheng tomorrow, and if you can't do it, the whole army will be sentenced to death." Perhaps there is some remedy. The others nodded their heads incessantly. Sima Deren said worriedly when he heard this: "But the paper can't contain the fire in the end, and this matter will be known sooner or later." ”

Another person said: "Lord, if you break through the earth city, we will be able to enter the city at that time, and I heard that there is a large amount of grain in this earth city, which is enough for our army to eat for half a month." As soon as he said this, Sima Deren immediately said: "Tomorrow the third watch will make food, and the fifth watch will attack the city, we have so many people, and we will attack in turn without giving the people in the city time to breathe, I want to see how long he can hold out on to the soldiers in the city?" So he gave the order, tomorrow the third watch will make food and attack the city on the fifth watch.

Xie An and Sima Rui in the city did not go down to the city wall, they carefully checked whether there were people in each battlement, and asked people to count the casualties of this day, and there were not many people reported in time, a total of more than 5,000 casualties, more than half of the casualties were killed and injured this day, and I don't know how tragic the battle will be tomorrow, "It seems that tomorrow is a test of life and death, and we should prepare early." I'm worried about the safety of Tucheng tomorrow. Sima Rui said worriedly, Xie An said: "Tomorrow is the most critical, I have already asked people to mobilize the people in the city, and the younger ones will go to the city to help us defend the city." "That's a way to do it. Sima Ruikua said. Xie An said: "I have already told the kitchen to tell them to start the meal before dawn tomorrow." At this time, when I looked up at the outside of the city, I saw a tent that could not be seen at a glance, and the lights were bright, and the people were shuttling back and forth, seeing this, Sima Rui felt nervous, and then looked at these people in front of him, and felt sad for a while, I don't know what happened to my father and Uncle Xiaolin?

In the middle of the night, seeing that there was no movement outside the city, Xie An ordered people to take turns to rest for a while, but he himself fell asleep in a daze, and suddenly he was woken up, and someone whispered in his ear: "The military division is not good, and the attack outside the city has begun." Frightened, he quickly opened his eyes, and listened to the horns outside the city, shouting and killing shook the heavens and the earth, Sima Deren's army rushed over like crazy, Xie An hurriedly ordered: "Quickly notify everyone to go to the city." Xie An shouted: "The archers are ready to release the arrows" and saw the bowstring sound, and then one by one the eagle arrows were shot out, and people under the city continued to fall down with arrows, but these people just did not retreat, they shouted and swarmed across the moat, like a city wall gushing.

"Quick, throw the log". As soon as the man's words fell, a waist-thick log was thrown down from the city wall, and there was a scream from the bottom, and then they swarmed again, and then a ladder was built on the city wall, and the people below flocked to the city wall, and a rolling log smashed on the ladder, and the ladder was broken in two. There was a scream from the man on the ladder and he died. At this time, the situation was extremely critical, and Xie An shouted loudly: "Everyone must resist, I, Sima Rui, together with everyone, swear to live and die with this city." With that, he waved his hand and slew a man who was about to climb the wall. His actions led to a large number of people who fought against the people who had climbed the walls, and they were killed one by one, and the ladder was broken by rolling logs. But suddenly there was a sound of hitting the city gate, Xie An looked down when he saw it, and hurriedly said: "Quickly throw down the rolling wood, there is no rolling wood on the city." "Shoot the arrows downward, some people poke their heads out and shoot arrows, but most of them have not had time to shoot arrows in their hands. The man was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground, and it turned out that Sima Deren was outside the city near the city wall, ambushing the archers, but at this time a log was still thrown down. There were a few screams from the people below, and suddenly the sound of the crash disappeared for a while, but after a short time, there was a sound of hitting the city gate.

Suddenly, someone shouted: "Oh no, Sima Deren's army has entered the city." Sima Rui was stunned when he heard this, what?

(End of chapter)