The next day after the Wu army entered Lexiang, in the evening.

At this moment, Jiang Wan held the railings with her hand and looked down at the city. Two soldiers beside her each holding shields to protect her from the left and right to prevent the arrows. At first glance, she saw corpses stacked and blood surged into the sky, causing Jiang Wan's face to change slightly.

This is the third time that the Wu army has sieged the city in two days.

The first two times, they broke through a certain garrison along the way, and brought the heads of the rebels in the garrison and threw them at the gate of the county town as a deterrent. Later, they cut down trees to make ladders, wrapped the people in the ravines and launched a tentative attack. However, their determination to fight seemed not very sufficient. When the military and civilians in the city counterattacked fiercely, they quickly retreated.

But this time, it seems to be serious.

The archers of the Wu army shot arrows onto the city head like locusts. Some shot the defenders down, while others crossed the city wall and landed in the city, killing many civilians who transported city defense materials. The Wu army's ladders were raised one by one, dozens of them lined up side by side, and they looked like a dense forest. The Wu army soldiers who climbed up along the ladder were like surging waves, never stopping.

At this time, Jiang Wan himself could not play any role except calming his morale. The officials led by Tao Wei were responsible for combat command. Although they had withdrawn from the military service, they maintained very rich combat experience, so when dealing with the Wu army's offensive, they were often able to defeat enemy forces first.

At the farther Wu people, they commanded the defenders on the city to shoot with arrows, and also threw a large number of tiles and bricks and stones like rain. All the soldiers of the Wu army who were hit were broken and their heads were broken and their heads were bleeding. When the Wu army climbed the city from the cloud ladder, they also had weapons such as fork poles and flying hooks that caused considerable damage to the enemy.

However, the Wu army could not resist the strong strength. About two or three thousand people were divided into three teams and took turns to fight. They attacked fiercely for more than an hour in one go without a stop. So the front lines of both sides retreated from the trench below the city wall to the bottom of the city wall. At this moment, facing each battlement in the main attack direction, they had to go through repeated tug-of-war and severe casualties to keep them in their hands.

The blood of the injured soldiers on both sides flowed down, gradually dyeing the city walls red and penetrated into the rammed earth on the city. It made Jiang Wan feel a little sticky and slippery when she stepped on her feet. Jiang Wan estimated that the strong men in the city had been lost nearly half, and then it was time to mobilize the healthy woman to go to the city. He pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist with one hand, pinched it, and tried the feel. He thought to himself: If the Wu people killed the city tower, I would not give in any way, and I would let the sword go back with blood.

From outsiders, County Chief Jiang personally directed the enemy and looked fearless. In fact, Jiang Wan himself knew very well that because of being too nervous, he had no food for the whole day, and his hands and feet were weak now, and he was afraid that even if he picked up the sword, he would be unable to kill the enemy.

"It's so hard for the county magistrate, why not take a break?" Someone greeted him. This man is about thirty years old, has a burly appearance and a plump beard. He looks like a brave and powerful person, but his tone is quite respectful and pleasing, and even a little flattering.

"No need." Jiang Wan smiled: "Minister Liang, you have worked hard too."

The man was Liang Da, the county magistrate of Lexiang. Previously, under the pressure of Lei Yuan, Liang Da completely sold his Zongshuai accomplices, and thus obtained the position of county magistrate. But strictly speaking, this position was just to repay merits and had no real power. Because of this person's complex background and his past of being connected with Eastern Wu, Lei Yuan and Jiang Wan did not regard him as their real person.

This time, the Sun and Liu families confronted each other. Before Lei Yuan launched troops, he ordered Liang Da to take his family into Lexiang County to live. It was called protection, but it actually meant to be surveillance.

Even though Jiang Wan had to mobilize Liang Da and his clan tribe to go to the city to help the war later, Jiang Wan himself personally sat in the city tower just in case.

Hearing Jiang Wan politely, Liang Da laughed twice and wanted to say something else, but saw Tao Wei coming around from the other side of the city wall.

In the battle just now, Tao Wei's shoulder was covered in blood and blood by the enemy's heavy weapons. In order to prevent the injury from worsening, his subordinates could only tie their arms to his body with cloth strips; while he seemed to be unable to feel the pain, he still called in and commanded the battle.

His hair was dissipated now, and his body was covered in blood, but his expression was a little excited.

"County magistrate, the flag of the Wu people's rear team is swaying, and they are about to withdraw!"

"Oh?" Jiang Wan looked in the direction Tao Wei pointed, and indeed saw the position of the Wu army commander, and the two black and blue flags swinged and swung.

"They clearly take the initiative, why should they retreat?" Jiang Wan asked frowned.

Tao Wei said confidently: "It must be the sect leader who is thinking of a solution!"

"That's the best." Jiang Wan smiled. He thought for a while and said, "When the people of Wu retreat, we have to send people to contact the manor walls in various places as soon as possible to see if we can gather some troops and disturb the people of Wu."

Tao Wei nodded. The Wu army attacked very quickly, so many manors and garrisons on the east side of Lexiang County were broken, and the people suffered a lot of losses. Fortunately, they occupied dangers everywhere, and most of the dock walls with food and fodder were firmly in their hands. If the power of these dock walls was concentrated, they could at least play a disruptive role.

The two of them were about to make careful plans and make arrangements, suddenly they heard more than a hundred steps on the left side of the city tower, and the offense and defense roared in unison, as if the sky was collapsed and the earth was broken.

Looking up, he saw a Wu army soldier, who rushed straight to the trunk like a tiger, sweeping across the trunk with a long sword. This man was extremely brave. No one of the defenders could hold on wherever he went, and he instantly killed four or five people. Behind this soldier, more Wu army soldiers climbed up along the long ladder.

It turned out that although the Wu army's central commander sent a retreat order, the Wu general in charge of the front team was red and unwilling to retreat. He personally led dozens of elite soldiers wearing heavy armor to climb the city bravely, intending to rush to the last time. Because the defenders knew that the Wu army was retreating, they relaxed a little bit, and he rushed up!

"Archer! Archer!" Tao Wei didn't have time to walk the stairs, so he jumped from the edge of the city tower to the top of the city wall, running over and shouting.

More than a dozen archers shot arrows in the opposite direction.

The arrow shot on the Wu general, but because the armor was too thick to penetrate. Everyone watched the man's body full of arrow feathers, slashing and killing like a crazy beast.

Tao Wei and several subordinates arrived in time to reinforce.

The two sides collided with long swords. With a sound from the local area, the knife in Tao Wei flew out from afar, and it was no match for him at all. Wu Jiangwu broke into the sword, and Tao Wei could not dodge and was about to be cut into two pieces.

At this time, another person rushed from the slant, hugged General Wu's waist, and threw him to the ground. General Wu was limited by armor and could not get up for a moment after falling to the ground, so he had to shout angrily. Other Wu people rushed to rescue him from the cliff, but were blocked by the defenders and Tao Wei's subordinates in this section, and the two sides fought in a mess.

The one who hugged General Wu turned out to be Liang Da. He and General Wu were tangling hands and feet, rolling around in the corner of the city wall. General Wu was extremely brave and swung his sword to slash Liang Da's back twice. Liang Da felt in pain, and knew that he could not bear the third knife. Suddenly, he grabbed the half-cut arrow embedded in General Wu's armor and stabbed him hard into his face.

General Wu shouted loudly, Liang Da pulled out the broken arrow and stabbed it again. After repeated attempts, thick blood was splashed on his face, while General Wu's voice gradually lowered and he stopped moving.

After the attack was defeated and retreated, the Wu people no longer launched a new offensive.

With the sound of orders one after another, thousands of people slowly retreated without delay.

Liang Da sat in front of General Wu like a bloody man, feeling the pain all over his body, and the wounds behind him were even more painful. He was a cruel man. Even if he couldn't get up and couldn't lift his hand, he stretched out his feet and kicked. He was sure that General Wu was dead, so he laughed proudly.

Jiang Wan arrived panting and repeatedly summoned the doctor to come for emergency treatment. Looking at Liang Da’s miserable appearance, he couldn’t help but say sincerely: “Prince Liang, thank you so much!”

Two hours later, the light and dark checkpoints walking around the place came to report at night: Wu's army retreated urgently towards the direction of the Xiajiang water and land route, as if giving up on continuing to attack Lexiang and heading eastward.
Chapter completed!