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Chen Xian ordered the recruits to eat forcibly. If they didn't eat, how would they have the strength to continue fighting?

The forced recruits had to swallow some food by force.

After dinner, Huang Zhuang will report to Chen Xian in the future, "General, the battle damage has been calculated!"

"How many casualties?" Chen Xian asked.

"Three hundred and 11 people died, and 220 three people were injured!"

Chen Xian was not surprised by this result. The city wall was covered with corpses and broken limbs, which could be estimated at a glance.

General Huang Zhuang continued: "According to the general's statistics, as many as 200 people were killed and injured by the stone bullets thrown by the enemy's catapults in the morning. It was the archers of our army, and the rest were the gun soldiers and sword and shield soldiers, only a few dozen people were actually killed by the enemy climbing up the city wall!"

Chen Xian asked, "How many enemy casualties are there?"

General Huang Zhuang replied: "The corpses they left behind were 300, and the number of wounded soldiers should be between [-] and [-]. The number of heavy casualties should be higher than ours, but they are the attacking side. It is normal to be more than twice as many as our army, but now it seems that their casualties are not much higher than ours!"

Chen Xian's face was heavy, and his heart was even more heavy. He said: "I observed the whole city today, and the individual combat strength of these allied troops is similar to that of our soldiers, but they became weak under the command of the enemy generals. It's the same, and the combat power has increased a lot!"

"Besides, the opponent's siege equipment is sharp, first of all is the trebuchet, the stone bomb exploded and scattered when it hit the ground, which caused us a lot of casualties, and their archers have a high command rate, far exceeding ours. The archers, especially when they use the fence to shoot at us, they have the advantage, and the next battle will be very difficult!"

General Huang Zhuang nodded and said: "What the general said is true, the archers of the dry army are indeed powerful. If they shoot arrows below the city, they will not pose a great threat to our soldiers, but they have the advantage of being condescending when they shoot arrows standing on the well rail. Coupled with the superb archery skills, our army's archers are completely suppressed, and the losses are too great, so we must find a way to destroy their curbs!"

Chen Xian thought for a while and shook his head with a wry smile: "I can't think of a way for the time being. If there is a cavalry in the city, we can plan to destroy their well fences, but we don't have cavalry. If we send infantry out of the city to destroy the opponent's well fences, I'm afraid If there is no return, it may not be able to get the purpose!"

General Huang Zhuang said worriedly: "General, if the fight continues like this, if there are such casualties every day, the morale of the soldiers will collapse within a few days, and once the casualties exceed half, the morale of the army will be unstable! "

Judging from today's casualties, it only takes four or five days for more than half of the casualties, and the consequences of more than half of the casualties are not only a heavy blow to morale, but also cause the city's defense forces to be extremely weakened.

For example, if a section of the city wall is defended by 1000 men, compared with that defended by 500 men, the defensive power of 500 men will definitely drop by more than half.

Chen Xian thought for a while, and ordered to General Huang Zhuang: "Take some people to the city to dismantle some door planks and come here, saw them into pieces with a saw, give each soldier a piece, and ask them to tie the planks on their backs. Once the enemy stands on the well rail and shoots arrows, turn your back to the enemy, block it with wooden boards, and turn around to fight back, so that you can not only defend against the enemy's arrows, but also recycle the enemy's arrows!"

When General Huang Zhuang heard this, his eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "This is a good idea. The general will take someone there right away!" 13

Chapter 1012 Using the Ultimate Weapon

Early the next morning, the Qian army continued to attack the city.

After yesterday's siege, both attackers and defenders were less flustered and more calm.

Therefore, people are very adaptable in many cases.

Under the orders and supervision of the generals, the Allied Army of the Gan Army rushed to the city wall like a tide, and a ladder was erected on the city wall. The soldiers of the Allied Army climbed the city wall like ants, and the arrows on the wall kept shooting. Next, the soldiers of the Union Army fell from the ladder one after another, and the people below followed, one after another.

Boiled water, boiling oil, and stones, the defenders at the top of the city changed their tricks and kept dropping these lethal weapons on the heads of the attacking allies.

Some Confederate soldiers were scalded with blisters all over their faces, some were shot by arrows and fell to their deaths, and some were maimed by falling stones.

There were also some defenders who were stabbed to death by soldiers of the Union Army on the ladder, or were hacked and stabbed to death after being pulled down the city wall and fell to pieces.

The more brave soldiers of the Confederate Army blocked all the attacks above their heads with their shields, climbed to the top of the city in one breath, and jumped onto the city wall to start a fierce battle with the defenders.

Countless shouts, screams, and roars were intertwined. Under the shadow of swords and swords, countless blood spatters stained the outer wall of the city wall. Corpses and stumps and broken arms were everywhere. There were corpses lying on the wall. Arrows or knives and guns were stuck on the ground, and the ground of the city wall was soaked in blood. The flags on the flagpoles at the top of the city had already been riddled with arrows and stained red with blood. Some soldiers died with their eyes wide open. , never rest in peace.

On the second day of the siege battle, the battle was extremely fierce. Both the attackers and the defenders were killed. The soldiers who were originally from the same camp now looked like enemies and wanted to chop each other into meat paste.

In the beginning, the Allied Army, which was the attacking side, suffered heavy casualties. After the defenders went through yesterday's battle, many recruits began to adapt to defending the city. The cadres on the side of the city caused a lot of casualties.

As a last resort, during the battle in the afternoon, Su Ji ordered the siege battalion to mobilize well fences and a large number of dry army archers again.

The dry army sent out wells and a large number of archers to suppress the defenders at the top of the city again. The defender Chen Xian originally ordered to issue a wooden plank that could just cover the entire back of each defender, but he did not expect that in the morning During the battle, the dry army did not use the well rails and archers, and the wooden boards prepared by the defenders were not used, and they were all thrown aside.

In the afternoon, the dry army dispatched the well fence and archers under heavy casualties. Before the defenders had time to prepare to tie the planks, the dry army's well fence was already close to the city wall, and a large number of arrows shot over. The generals rushed among them, and the number of casualties rose sharply, especially the archers and crossbowmen who suffered the most losses. They were the main targets of the archers of the dry army.

"General, I can't stand it anymore. The bows and arrows of the Gan army are too powerful. Our army's archers and crossbowmen are almost lost. If this continues, they will only be suppressed and have no power to fight back!" General Xiang Zhu stabbed with his long spear A soldier of the Confederate Army who just climbed up the city wall shouted to Chen Xian, who was directing the battle nearby.

With a stern face, Chen Xian turned his head to look left and right, and saw that many allied troops had climbed up the city wall under the cover of archers. He immediately ordered: "Order the first reserve team to go up the city wall for support, and let the frontline soldiers stand on top of the city wall." Withdraw your shields, put the enemy on the wall and fight again!"

"Okay!" Xiang Zhuang immediately agreed, and sent someone to convey the order.

Putting the allies who are climbing the ladders on the city wall to fight with them can make the archers of the dry army throw rats and prevent them from shooting arrows, but this is very dangerous. Then the enemy troops behind will continue to climb up, and once the city wall falls, the city will be broken.

Chen Xian was also bold, and other generals would not dare to adopt this kind of tactics. In fact, Chen Xian had no choice but to do so. Who would let the enemy have a siege weapon like a well fence?

Chen Xian issued another order, and he sent people to prepare the catapults, and collect the stone bullets and fragments thrown by the catapults of the Qianjun army yesterday as projectiles.

After the garrison put a lot of Congregation troops on the city wall, the reserve team of the defenders also arrived. The reserve team and the original defenders fought together with the Congregation army under the order and leadership of Chen Xian.

Chen Xian's timing was very precise. The number of allied troops released was not large, but it was enough to scare the dry army archers on the well fence outside the city. If they shot more arrows, there would be a great possibility of hitting friendly troops. , So I couldn't stop shooting arrows.

The two sides fought fiercely on the top of the city, and the archers of the Gan army were helpless.

At this time, a defender ran to Chen Xian with a shield on his back and reported loudly: "General, all the launchers are ready and ready to launch at any time!"

Chen Xian was overjoyed, and immediately said: "Okay, pass on the order, wait for the general's order after a cup of tea, if the flag in my hand is under the command, launch it immediately!"

"promise!"

The scuffle on the city wall continued, but the defenders had the upper hand with their large numbers and organized counterattacks. The allied army under the city wanted to climb up, but they couldn't continue because the friendly troops blocked their positions.

A cup of tea time passed, Chen Xian took a flag and waved it down vigorously, and the hair stone carts hidden on the enemy towers were uncovered to reveal their true colors.

"Launch" followed a mournful roar.

The launcher of each rock-making vehicle hammered down the launcher bracket with a heavy hammer, and the stone bullets and gravel were fired out by the rock-forming vehicle one by one.

The archers of the dry army who were watching the battle on the well fence suddenly felt a black shadow appearing above their heads. When they looked up, they were all frightened.

"No, it's a boulder cart, retreat, retreat quickly!" The archer general in charge of commanding on the well fence shouted.

But it was too late at this time, a large number of stone bullets, stones and gravel were fired from the enemy towers on the city wall, and the archers who approached the ten well rails were wiped out.

The stone bullets, stones and gravels fired by the "boom boom boom" hit the well curb, and the archers of the dry army were either killed on the spot, or fell down the well curb, or were smashed to death by the gravel Flow, screams and wailing sounded one after another.

"Back, fast back"

As the generals of the archers and archers of the dry army kept shouting, the soldiers below finally pushed the well fence back, away from the launch distance of the launch vehicle.

The catapult and the trebuchet are two different weapons. They can both defend the city, but the catapult can only fire one stone bomb at a time, and the firing distance is longer, while the catapult can launch a large number of small stones and gravel at a time , the launch distance is relatively short, but the killing range is relatively large. The large amount of gravel it launches can attack a wide range. When it hits a large area, one launch is like a rain of stones all over the sky.

After the dry army withdrew from the launching range of the defenders' stone carts, almost all the allied troops who climbed the city wall were eliminated by the defenders. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, some of the remaining allied troops retreated one after another. Some people slid down the ladder. Some didn't want to be killed, so they turned around and jumped down the city wall. Whether they survived or not depended on God's will.

Su Ji, who was commanding in the army formation, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order the third siege echelon to take over the second siege echelon to attack the city!"

"Wait a minute!"

Zhao Junsheng stopped Su Ji, "withdrew the second siege echelon, and ordered the siege battalion to speculate and prepare to launch stone bombs, especially aiming at the enemy towers of the city wall, before they moved the stone bombs to the position as quickly as possible." Destroy them!"