What Ling Cao said is true. After all, in a siege, the party attacking the city has the absolute initiative, such as when to launch the attack, how to attack, etc., so there is a saying that if you defend for a long time, you will lose.

Pan Zhang and Chen Wu also nodded in agreement after hearing Ling Cao's words.

Lu Meng smiled lightly: "Although we only have three thousand defenders, we can mobilize the civilians in the city to help defend the city. When our soldiers go down to rest, we will let the farmers put on our military uniforms, so that we can maintain the city."

The number of soldiers at the head will not be reduced, so that Liu Xun can be confused, and the capable soldiers can rest."

Chen Wu suddenly slapped his thigh in excitement: "The governor's trick is really wonderful. When the time comes, he will be able to deceive the dog thief Liu Xun."

"Haha, let's just wait and see." At this point, Jiangdong Army decided to mobilize 3,000 civilians after some discussion, and divided the 3,000 defenders on the city and the 3,000 civilians to help the battle into two groups, with Ling Cao and Pan Zhang each leading one group.

Department, take turns to defend the city.

Five more days passed in the blink of an eye, and after another night of harassment, the sky was getting brighter, but the heavy fog showed no sign of dissipating.

Although the strategy was to exhaust the troops, after these fierce battles in the past few days, more than hundreds of lives were lost at the foot of the city wall, and the situation on the top of the city was not much better. Nearly a hundred people closed their eyes forever.

, but most of the casualties were civilians who lacked armor protection and did not know how to avoid arrows.

After all, Lu Meng's Jiangdong soldiers defended the city and had an absolute advantage in the siege. Therefore, the casualties after the siege were not large. As the siege party, Liu Xun's losses were naturally much greater. Because

It was a harassment battle, so the intensity of the siege was not very strong, otherwise the number of casualties would have increased a lot.

After days of attacking, all failed. Seeing that the defenders on the city wall never seemed to get tired, Liu Xun finally lost patience with the so-called exhaustion strategy. After some weighing, Liu Xun decided

Attack hard at any cost.

Three days later, the weather was sunny and the sky was cloudless. Liu Xun opened his eyes from a nap and had a hasty breakfast with all the soldiers.

Immediately he got on his horse and led Gan Ning and Wang Hao to the city to supervise the battle in person. Liu Xun, wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, suddenly pulled out the sword in his hand and swung it forward fiercely, giving the order for a general attack.

"The whole army is attacking. We will fight to the death to break the city today. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

"Woooo..."

Following Liu Xun's order, the horn sound sounded again in the thick fog, ringing from all sides of Moling City at the same time, as if the earth was whimpering.

More than 5,000 Lujiang soldiers who had just eaten all shouted in unison, and once again carried their shields and ladders and launched a strong attack on Moling.

The gully of the moat has long been filled with the rolling stones and wooden logs thrown down by the defenders in the past few days. Every time you step down, you have to step on the corpses of your companions to move forward. Every inch of the land under Moling City is stained with dried blood.

Drums were also rumbling on the top of the city, and more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians greeted the Lujiang soldiers who were swarming below the city with flying arrows, smaller and smaller rolling stones, and lighter and lighter wood.

Due to Liu Xun's continuous attack on the city, although Liu Xun suffered heavy casualties, there were fewer and fewer arrows in the city. Lu Meng had to send some people to pick up the arrows shot by the Lujiang soldiers on the top of the city, and then use the other arrows.

Even the crossbow arrows inserted into the corpse had to be pulled out and used. The supplies in the city were also somewhat insufficient!

All this was seen by Liu Xun, who was supervising the battle, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He shouted loudly on his horse: "Soldiers, there are fewer and fewer crossbows in the city. Everyone is fighting to the death to attack the city. The time to break the city is now!"

At this moment, a commotion suddenly came from behind the Lujiang soldiers, causing chaos in the formation of the Lujiang soldiers.

"Kill! Listen to the defenders in the city. This is Lu Fanfeng. This time, I have come to reinforce you on the order of my lord!"

Lu Fan held a spear in his hand and charged forward. At the same time, he ordered the infantry behind him to shout and shout at the same time to boost the morale of the defenders in the city.

Among the rebels, Lu Fan was seen wearing a military uniform, a silver helmet on his head, and a spear in his hand. He charged all the way and knocked over several Lujiang soldiers who were blocking his horse. Such strong skills made it impossible for people to believe this.

A person is a civil servant.

The rain of arrows while running caused a lot of damage to the Lujiang army who was caught off guard. After the wave of arrows passed, at least sixty or seventy people were shot down.

Under the leadership of Lu Fan, they charged from west to east behind the Lujiang Army. They did not engage the enemy closely at all, but only fired arrows from a distance, which greatly disrupted the rhythm of the Lujiang Army's siege.

Although the fog was thick, the defenders on the top of the city could clearly hear the sound of reinforcements arriving. The originally low morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and they naturally worked harder on the defense. A wave of fierce arrow rain suddenly poured down on the city.

When they came down, the Lujiang troops who shot them retreated one after another.

Seeing that his rear army formation was in chaos and the siege plan was ruined by Jiangdong Army's reinforcements, Liu Xun, who was already in a bad mood, became furious and shouted angrily: "Where is Gan Ning? I ordered you to lead two thousand elite troops.

Intercept and find out how many people and horses the other party has coming and where they come from. If there are few people, I will kill them all. If there are many people, don't carelessly pursue them."

"The general will get the order!"

Gan Ning agreed, waved his sword, and led two thousand infantrymen on standby to chase Lu Fan.

Seeing the Lujiang army approaching to cover up the enemy, Lu Fan naturally would not wait foolishly to be killed, and quickly ordered a retreat to the east.

Gan Ning was unwilling to give up. He roared and led his troops to follow closely. He kept chasing for five or six miles. As the distance got closer and closer, he found that Jiangdong's army suddenly turned around, each holding an open bow and arrow, aiming.

The Lujiang soldiers were pursuing from behind.

The Lujiang soldiers were stunned and before they had time to react, they saw a hail of arrows being fired at them. At least thirty Lujiang soldiers were shot dead on the spot.

After seeing a wave of fire, the Lujiang soldiers reacted and took advantage of the gap to catch up. However, when the two sides were about to engage in hand-to-hand combat, Jiangdong's army suddenly turned around and continued to flee eastward.

"Wow... I'm so angry, so give me all your strength to chase him!"

Gan Ning was immediately furious and furious. Seeing that Jiangdong's army only had about a thousand men, relying on the strength of their numbers, he pursued them hard with a sword in hand.

Unexpectedly, after Lu Fan led his troops to run wildly for a while, he turned around again and fired another wave of arrows, killing twenty or thirty Lujiang soldiers again. Then, while Jiangdong's army was blocked by the arrows, he launched another wave of arrows.

Turn around and run eastward.

"These gangsters fight but don't fight, and retreat but don't retreat. Which one is intolerable? You all go forward with all your might and annihilate these cowards for me!"
Chapter completed!