Chapter 813

After lunch, after a quarter of an hour's rest, Zhang Ying ordered the army to continue to attack the city.

The reclamation in the morning was just the beginning of the whole war, not even the delicious food. The formal ant siege in the afternoon was the beginning of the fierce siege.

With the clarion call and battle drum of the Chinese Army's attack, the first round of attack soldiers began to march towards the wall. Behind them were archers and crossbows, and behind them were catapults.

The first round of soldiers was about 1000 people, which was divided into more than 10 units. In addition to the more than 10 units of ants attacking the city, they also had two teams guarding the large siege ladder. Their goal was the city gate.

When Zhang Ying ordered the army to attack, the garrison in the city was also ready for defense. On the newly built platforms behind the city wall, there were more than ten catapults. The city's soldiers and civilians were also busy. They kept moving rolling stones and logs from the bottom of the city, and the hot oil at the head of the city began to burn, so that they could use it when the enemy ants attached to the city.

Soon, the attacking taxi soldiers entered the range of the archers at the head of the city. With the order of the city general, the archers at the head of the city began to shoot at the head of the city, trying to suppress the archers at the head of the city.

For a moment, in the sky outside the city wall, the arrows were like locusts. If you look carefully, you can see that the arrows from the lower part of the city hit the upper part of the city much more.

Seeing this, the general ordered the soldiers to avoid the enemy's arrows, and the catapult behind the city began to project stones to the marked position outside the city.

With the sound of "buzzing", the traffic at the head of the city caused great losses to the taxi drivers. But soon, the counter attack outside the city arrived. After counting the interest, the catapults in the city were almost lost.

Fortunately, by this time, the soldiers had already arrived at the foot of the city, and the archers and catapults outside the city stopped attacking, so as not to hurt their own soldiers. At this time, it was the time for the garrison to take up the peak. With the order of the garrison general, he had already been ready to defend the city. Rolling stones and rocks smacked fiercely at the soldiers under the city, and there were bursts of screams under the city.

Outside the city, Zhang Ying's eyes were fixed on the soldiers who were attacking the city. From time to time, an order came out from his mouth, and then he passed it to the commander. He knew that if he could stand firm in Anton's army, today's battle would be his touchstone.

Standing next to Zhang Ying is his lord Huangfu Chaobo. For him, although he is not good at directing the war, he has seen many famous generals directing the war in these years.

In his opinion, although Zhang Ying's command ability can't be compared with Xu Rong, Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun, it's also very good. If there is a comparison, he is only slightly inferior to Zhao Yun, much better than Tian Yu, Huang Xu and others.

During the time when Huangfu Chaobo was meditating, the battle at the head of the city had made progress. The first round of attacking soldiers had already begun to mount the head of the city, but they were soon driven down by the city's defenders. At this time, the siege ladder has also reached the gate position, the gate of the war began.

Under the city wall, the soldiers scrambled to the city head one after another. Soon another soldier climbed to the city head, but he was driven down from the city head before he had time to stand up.

An hour has passed, and no soldiers have been able to persist in the city. Seeing this, Zhang Ying immediately calls for the end of the army. This round of soldiers' morale has been lost, and it is not good to persist.

However, after the first round of soldiers retreated, Zhang Ying also sent the second round of attack soldiers to attack Chengfa.

Until Shenshi, there was no progress in the war. Huangfu Chaobo knew that it was impossible to capture Xianyang today, so he turned to Zhang Ying and said, "General Zhang, I will go back to the camp first. I'll leave it to you."

On hearing this, Zhang Ying hurriedly said, "I'm going to let you down!"

"No matter, you've done well. Although he's small, he still has 5000 troops to defend. I didn't think that I would attack the city in one day. You attack according to your own strategy. There's no need to have any pressure."

With that, Huangfu Chaobo turned around and left under the protection of the soldiers of Tiebi camp.

"To my Lord!" When Zhang Ying heard this, she was moved and quickly bowed to salute;

the other generals around her also hurriedly saluted and watched her master leave.

When Huangfu Chaobo left, Zhang Ying looked up at the sky and the war under the city. He knew that there was no hope for today, so he ordered to his personal guards: "come, call for gold, and order the bowmen to be ready."

At the head of the city, looking at Anton's soldiers retreating like a tide, the soldiers of the city seemed to have been drained of all their strength. Most of them collapsed on the wall and were unwilling to stand up again.

Xianyang was originally under the rule of Yuzhou. Since the yellow scarf rebellion, the elite soldiers and horses have spent almost all of their time fighting against the yellow scarf bandits. Today's soldiers and horses are recruiting soldiers in the following years, and their combat power is not the same as that of the front army.

After Kong took office, he transferred a lot of elite troops from various cities, and the left behind troops were even weaker. After Yuan Shujun captured these cities, although he also ordered the cities to step up the training of troops, strengthen the cities, and strictly guard against death. However, due to his weak foundation, poor foundation and tight time, the situation of the troops in the cities of Runan is really worrying. This is also the reason why Huang Yi sent more imperial guards to supervise the troops in the cities as soon as he arrived in Runan.What they didn't know was that Runan had always been under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, and they had no sense of belonging to Yangzhou. In addition, although Kong was not good at running the army, he was impeccable in civil affairs. Therefore, both the soldiers and the people liked the Yuzhou army much better than yuan Shujun.

Today, although the army is not allowed to fight with Yuzhou army under the supervision of emperor Zhongjia's Imperial Army, the morale of the army has almost fallen to the bottom.

Capt. Xianyang, whose surname is Jiang, is the son of shouchunjiang family. Like county magistrate Kuang, they are all officials sent from Yangzhou. Although they are not alone, they each brought 200 cronies to Xianyang, but the strong dragon can't fight against the local leader. Therefore, although one of them is in charge of the people and the other is in charge of the army, they can serve as the deputy and the middle and lower level officials.

Today's war can be said to have just begun, but there have been hundreds of casualties among the soldiers. Among them, 30% are their own cronies. There is no way. When it comes to the critical moment, the soldiers can only rely on their own cronies when they retreat.