Chapter 278

Seeing that the siege soldiers were close to the town wall, Dianwei at the head of the city burst out to drink. The elite soldiers of changshe City, who had been under the city, quickly grabbed the head of the city and defended the crenels at the head of the city. They were all assisted by one or two soldiers from Taohuadao town. With the siege ladder under the city one by one, the fierce siege of ants finally began. Unfortunately, the elite of the soldiers guarding the city was far more than the one attacking the city. So even if there were soldiers jumping on the city, they were soon killed by the city's soldiers. And at this time, although the Jinglan of the attackers under the city can't cover the city, the Jinglan and the catapult of the city can safely attack those outside the city. With the passage of time, the attack at the head of the city was still unable to move forward, while the siege equipment under the city was hit and damaged by the sporadic attacks of the garrison. Seeing this, Li Guang had to order a temporary withdrawal, because the siege soldiers had lost their spirit, so they had to retreat first and then fight again. With a sound of gold, Dong Zhuo's army retreated like a tide, and the soldiers in the city began to shout. However, Dian Wei didn't say much. He just ordered to count the casualties of the soldiers, and then they were carried down to the city. He also ordered that all the soldiers except Dong Zhuo's soldiers should be left at the head of the city to observe. Because he knew that once Dong Zhuo's soldiers were removed, the catapult behind would attack.

As expected, less than a quarter of an hour after the siege soldiers retreated, the observation soldiers at the head of the city gave a loud warning: "Dodge, enemy throwing stones to attack!"

Then, all the people behind the city wall had to listen to the "buzzing" sound above their heads, and then there were stone bullets falling from the sky around them. From time to time, soldiers were smacked by the stone bullets, and their flesh and blood were flying. Even more tragically, one part of their body was smashed by the flying stone bullets, leaving another part still screaming like a human voice.

This time, the attack of the catapult lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour. As soon as the attack of the catapult ended, Li Guang immediately ordered the soldiers to attack Chengfa. After this round of the attack of the catapult, the town wall and the city were in a mess. Seeing the attack soldiers attack the town wall again, the observation soldiers on the town wall immediately warn the city, and get the order of Dianwei, the soldiers under the city climb the city again and prepare to fight.

Soon this round of attack was beaten back again. When Li Guang was ready to launch another attack, he found that it was almost noon. As a last resort, he had to order his soldiers to retreat and prepare to eat at noon before attacking again. Huangfu Chaobo and Taohua Island leader in the town took advantage of the midday to count the war losses of their own side. When the results came out, they were relieved. Only 10 people were lost and more than 30 people were injured in the changshe army of Huangfu Chaobo. Although Taohua Island town suffered a great loss, less than 80 soldiers died and about 200 injured. On the contrary, the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp who attacked the city wall alone accounted for nearly 300 people, as well as those who were damaged in the battle below the city and those who were rescued when they retreated. It is estimated that Dong Zhuo's army will lose 600 to 800 people at the end of this day. However, this morning's war was mainly on the west side of the city wall, and on the East and south sides, because there were not enough equipment, and the four lords of the two departments had the idea of making soy sauce, so Zhou Cang and Pei yuanshao led the defense more easily.

In the afternoon, shortly after the midday meal, the central army of Dong Zhuo's camp sounded the drum of attack. Then, a series of taxi soldiers left the camp again and attacked the town again. As usual in the morning, first the catapult continued to bombard. After more than half an hour, the Jinglan, who had already moved to the attack position, covered the siegers and attacked the town wall. Unfortunately, under the command of Dian Wei, the soldiers of Taohuadao town assisted the changshe army to drive Dong Zhuo's army down the city wall again. Li Guang, who was watching the battle under the city, was so angry that he stamped his feet, but he was helpless. Just as he was preparing to continue to organize the next round of attack, he heard the general of the catapult report that the stone bombs were not enough to support an attack. As a last Resort, Li Guang had to order to withdraw. However, he was keen to find that a crack had appeared in a position of the town wall, and believed that there would be a large number of stone bombs to cooperate At that time, without the advantage of the city wall, he believed that his army would be able to take down the town, so although it was still early, he ordered to withdraw. However, after returning to the camp, he did not stop, but ordered the craftsmen to speed up the production of stone bombs to prepare for tomorrow's war. In Li Guang's view, just break the wall and enter the town, and the battle will be won by himself.

When Li Guang was making what he thought was the final preparation in the camp, the town of Taohuadao was full of cheers. After a day of fierce fighting, he finally beat back several attacks of Dong Zhuo's army, which made the residents and soldiers in the town feel at ease. The initial panic had subsided, and the residents in the town were able to consciously come around the city wall to help transport the injured soldiers and clean up all kinds of buildings A mess of things. However, compared with the cheers of ordinary people and soldiers, Huangfu Chaobo and Dianwei were not so relaxed, because it was not only Li Guang who found a crack in the town wall, but also Dianwei, who had been in war for a long time, who reported it to Huangfu Chaobo and Dianwei at the first time after the war. They were surprised at first and then pretended to be silent It was the way of inspecting the city wall. After carefully examining the crack, Dianwei and other generals were summoned to the western city wall to discuss business. After listening to Dian Wei, everyone was silent. Today's war made everyone feel that Yali mountain is big, and there is a big difference in the number of equipment between the two sides. Especially the catapult. Today's three rounds of attacks brought down the town wall in almost one day. It is estimated that the wall will be broken tomorrow.After a long silence, Pei yuanshao said, "what if we repair the town wall overnight?"

Dianwei looked at him, shook his head and stopped talking. Instead, Zhou Cang said to one side, "what about repairing it tonight? There are so many other catapults. It's estimated that there will be more tomorrow. It's a big deal. They will smash it for one more day. Can we repair the city wall every day? "

The deputy mayor of Taohuadao said: "there is another big problem. You generals may not know." With that, he glanced at all the people present and said, "there are not many spare stones in the town. When the city wall was built, the stones accumulated since the village was built were almost used up. Now there are only some stones left for building houses in the village, unless we break the stones for houses."