On the city wall, Zongze led his soldiers and fired a dense rain of arrows at the enemy. Although the enemy held up shields to resist, some of them were still killed.
The army rushed to the city gate. Liu Xiujun set up a ladder and began to climb with shields on his head. The Jin army smashed it down with huge rocks and even poured hot gold juice on it. Liu Xiujun wailed under the city wall, but soon someone else began to climb.
Rains of arrows continued to shoot out from inside the city and on the city walls, and arrows like javelins were continuously shot from crossbows on the walls. Not to be outdone, Liu Xiujun used siege engines, catapults, and other means.
Liu Xiujun suffered heavy casualties. On the other hand, Zongze and others occupied the city and defended it, but their losses were much lower than Liu Xiu's. General Deng Xia personally picked up a three-pointed two-edged sword and rushed towards the city. Seeing this, Zongze hurriedly commanded everyone to use his strong bow.
The crossbow forced Deng Xia.
Whenever Deng Xia or Wu Zhiqi approached, Zongze would use the reserved crossbow team. This made Deng Xia, a god general, feel aggrieved and wanted to rush forward and kill all the Jin troops.
Deng Xia was furious, but there was nothing he could do to Zongze. Facing those powerful bows and crossbows, even he had to retreat temporarily!
"Quickly, pour the golden juice! Hot water! Oil! Use rockets instead!" Looking at the enemy troops approaching in darkness under the city wall, Zongze slashed down a soldier who was about to climb up the city wall with one knife while commanding calmly.
A soldier of Liu Xiu subconsciously used his shield to block it, but found that the shield had become extremely hot, and immediately threw away the shield in his hand. The Jin soldiers upstairs were not blind, how could they miss such a good opportunity and kill this dead soldier directly?
Those who were shot to death cannot die again.
Hot oil was poured under the city wall, and a rocket caused a raging fire. The Yuan Jun soldiers below let out bursts of screams, and from time to time there was a smell of barbecue...
The shield in the enemy's hand may be able to prevent the surging arrows, but it has no protective effect against these liquids!
"Work in pairs and cooperate to shoot the enemy soldiers upstairs!" Liu Xiu finally couldn't bear it anymore. Most of the dead were his carefully trained soldiers!
His current wealth is so small, even if a few ordinary soldiers die, it can even make his heart bleed!
During this period of time, Liu Xiu gathered the 20,000 troops here, whether it was his own 10,000 soldiers and horses, or the 10,000 Shu army soldiers and horses, and gathered all the people who were good at shooting in the army.
, specially used to accurately shoot enemy troops on the city wall!
Liu Xiu's move was very effective. After all, the number of these people was limited. The number of enemy soldiers shot alone every day did not seem to be very many, but if accumulated over time, this would be a quite terrifying number!
After all, Zongze only has eight thousand soldiers and horses in his hands!
Under the bloody sunset, there was a layer of corpses lying under Yiling City. Most of them were burned beyond recognition, which made people sick. Upstairs, soldiers of the Jin army carried their fallen brothers and collected arrows, stones, wood, etc.
There are wounded soldiers everywhere in the camps of both armies. Fortunately, all the princes have basically set up field medical institutions of varying sizes. However, some of the monkeys are at a higher level and some groups are at a lower level.
But in short, this did effectively reduce the death rate of the soldiers under the princes.
Under the setting sun, Zongze dragged his tired body and summoned the generals in the city.
Since the days of fighting, the soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted, and the number of defenders is getting smaller and smaller day by day. Moreover, various supplies in the city have been severely consumed. In fact, Zongze has now been forced to demolish residential houses close to the city wall to use as rolling stones. .
Liu Xiu's use of troops was unpredictable, and he lured Zongze to consume a large amount of defensive supplies. Although the rolling wood, thunder stones and kerosene he had accumulated in the city were used in large quantities several times, in the end he found that they were nothing more than It was just Liu Xiu who used some false moves, which wasted supplies, but did not cause enough casualties to Liu Xiu.
"General Tan, how much food and grass are left in the city?" Zongze said with some sadness.
When Liu Xiu's army first arrived, he pretended to attack the city for three days. After finding that it was difficult to break the city in a short time, he prepared to retreat and assist Xu Shiji in attacking Jiangling where Zhuge Liang was.
Before leaving, that part of the Shu soldiers collected all the food and grass from the villages around Yiling. Without food, the people gathered into Yiling City. Zongze couldn't bear the displacement of the people, and the scouts had indeed surveyed Liu Xiu's area. The soldiers and horses had retreated, and then the city was opened to help the people.
Each general has a different style. Perhaps some generals can turn a blind eye to these people, but Zongze cannot do this. This can only be said to be good or bad. In Zongze's own period, he was able to rely on this unique His charisma and methods allowed hundreds of thousands of rebels to be used by him. After his death, these hundreds of thousands of rebels turned into a bunch of rogues.
However, this time it became a weakness of his, and he fell into Liu Xiu's scheme.
Liu Xiu never thought of using these people to launch a surprise attack when Zongze opened the door. His retreat was indeed a retreat. However, since he could retreat, of course, he could also return again.
After Zongze rescued the people, Liu Xiu's troops once again killed a carbine and arrived at Yiling City. It was precisely because there were nearly 20,000 more soldiers in Yiling City at one time that the original preparations were sufficient. The supply of food and grass began to become a bit embarrassing.
"General, if you save a little, you can still last for half a month!"
Tanlong's expression was not good-looking. During this period of time, Yiling had nearly 20,000 more mouths to eat. However, these 20,000 people were mainly women, children, old and weak, and only a very small part were truly strong. These nearly 20,000 mouths are of limited help to them in defending the city. They can almost be said to be a pure drag.
From this, we can see the sinister intentions of Liu Xiu!
At this stage, although their food and grass can still last for half a month, what will be their fate after half a month?
"General Zong, 90% of our army's fuel oil has been consumed!" Xue Tong said with the same helpless expression.
When the kerosene is exhausted, they will really have no effective means against the enemy's siege vehicles and siege equipment such as wells!
And if the rolling wood and thunder stones are used up, they can demolish the buildings in the city to replenish them. However, when the kerosene is used up, they have no way to get limited replenishment!
"General, Governor Zhuge Fei Ge has sent a message. Zhu Yuanzhang's 20,000 troops will arrive in three days!" Another general spoke.
The constant bad news came, which made the veteran feel dazed for a while, knowing in his heart that they might be in trouble this time!