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The 1480th chapter defending the city (5)

The people of Jinwencheng have been evacuated for more than ten days. In the past ten days, the number of Shanyue soldiers has increased by almost a few thousand every day.

Now the camp of Shanyue soldiers has expanded several times, and the number of soldiers has reached 50,000 or 60,000. From one city wall to now the battle of four city walls, Jinwen City is surrounded by these 50,000 or 60,000 Shanyue soldiers.

However, Zhao Hu and the soldiers didn't care much.

This slowly increasing concentration battle can best train soldiers. After more than ten days, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening, the soldiers can all rotated dozens of times, that is, they participated in more than ten battles, and almost everyone had blood on their hands, so they could be veterans.

During the past ten days of battle, the Shanyue soldiers' siege weapons became more and more advanced. From the beginning, the ladder was threatened, and then the arrow tower and the city-hitting car appeared. The two things behind, especially the triangular city-hitting car, were really helpless at the beginning.

However, it is true that war can make people progress. The arrow tower was burned with bows and arrows with oil tanks. A thick-skinned and fire-resistant car crashing is easier. Wouldn't it hit the city? When it came to the city, it threw down a pile of hay, poured a can of oil, and set the fire. Before the car caught fire, the people inside were smoked to death.

Later, a catapult cart appeared. When this thing first appeared, everyone was shocked. It was too far away and could not be destroyed at all. However, I don’t know if the technology is insufficient or the materials are not good. The catapult cart cannot throw big stones, and it is not accurate enough. Sometimes it is thrown into the city and sometimes outside the city.

After gaining experience, all these catapults can be thrown onto the city tower.

However, Zhao Hu's soldiers also had experience. When they saw that the catapult car was activated, they all raised their shields and chopped the stones with one hand. As long as they did not hit the head directly, they would not hang up. Even if they were hit, they would just be unconscious. Therefore, Zhao Hubing quickly regarded the catapult car as non-existent.

Thought that with the help of the catapult, the Shanyue soldiers who were excited and eager to attack the city tower were hit by their catapult several times and went back to protest, the Shanyue soldiers' catapult disappeared on the battlefield.

With so much siege equipment, the biggest loss to Zhao Hubing is the cloud ladder.

This area is a world of mountains and forests, and there is nothing else. There are wood everywhere. With the large number of people, the most powerful Shanyue soldiers was built. There were actually a thousand ladders on each city wall. You should know that the city wall is only a few kilometers long, and only a ladder is only a few meters long. The density is amazing.

The scene of four thousand ladders climbing over people was so terrifying that even Zhao Hu thought he could not stop it, so he personally led the supervision team to fight.

But unfortunately, there are too many ladders, and there are fewer people climbing each ladder. Think about it, a ladder requires at least four people to support it, and there are 16,000 people here that cannot participate in the battle. There are at least two thousand archers on each city wall, and there are eight thousand people missing. The remaining 20,000 people are allocated, and only five or six people climb each ladder.

After Zhao Hu was leaving people to defend the archers, he could still do it. This battle was the biggest loss for Shanyue soldiers, because Zhao Hu soldiers cut down two or three people on each Lantern, and the Shanyue soldiers lost more than 10,000 at one time.

The losses in the past few days have not been greater than this time. Although there have been more and more Shanyue soldiers, they have never used more than a thousand ladders.

The Shanyue soldiers were repelled again. The soldiers no longer had the excitement they had before, nor were they sad about their comrades' departure. They just used to evacuate the whole team.

Zhao Hu has always maintained a rotation system, and only the most dangerous siege was the entire army. Now these soldiers can be all elite veterans.

The Mountain Regiment did not show up in the first few days of the battle, but began to join the battle more and more frequently in the next few days.

How do you know which person is a member of the Mountain Group? As long as you see a strong man who is quick to see, rushing up the city tower and chopping up a few people and then retreating, he must be a member of the Mountain Group.

When encountering such a guy, Zhao Hubing always called his friends to siege him. After killing two or three hundred such people, he no longer had a man who fought and evacuated one by one like a lone hero. However, he changed to Shanyue elite who knew how to cooperate and advance and retreat, so that everyone could have gained experience.

"Sir, depending on the situation, the bandits' large army is coming. Are we looking for an opportunity to evacuate?" Zhou Wen asked.

After looking at the scene in the city, I saw a ruin. All the houses were demolished for Zhao Hubing as city defense supplies. In response, Zhao Hu could only sigh and said, "Well, it depends on the situation. The opponent's attack is getting more and more fierce. I paid attention. At least thousands of members of the mountain regiment were dispatched this time."

"Ah, thousands of people, such a big deal, no wonder the loss this time was so big." Zhou Wen smacked his lips.

"Well, how have the losses of both the enemy and us so far?" Zhao Hu asked.

"I don't know how many wounded soldiers of the bandits are, but there are more than 27,000 buried corpses. More than 7,000 people died in battle, and about 3,000 disabled people." Zhou Wen replied.

"Well, is the list of fallen brothers registered properly?" Zhao Hu asked.

Hearing this, Zhou Wen knew that Zhao Hu was about to evacuate and hurriedly said, "The brothers' relics and ashes are arranged according to the army, and the injured have made arrangements. With just one order, they can board the carriage and evacuate immediately."

When the people evacuated, the wealthy families left hundreds of horses for Zhao Hu, some of the strong men were carpenters and blacksmiths, and it was a good thing to make simple carriages. Therefore, Zhao Hu now has a carriage that was enough to carry the ashes of wounded soldiers and martyrs.

Zhao Hutou: "Well, since that's the case, prepare immediately and withdraw tonight."

"Ah? Oh, yes, but there is still a lot of food and supplies left. How to deal with these?" Zhou Wen couldn't figure out why the wind was rain. He just discussed when to evacuate, but it turned into evacuating immediately, but it was fine, so as not to have too many dreams.

"First change the brothers to a new set of clothes, prepare a month's ration, pick up the weapons and take them away, check if there are any remaining supplies, check if there are any empty spaces in the carriage, load them up, and the extra ones are piled at the city gate." Zhao Hu said.

"Pile at the gate of the city? Oh, stop the bandits from speed. Those savages must be just snatching these supplies when they see them. If the gate is blocked, see how long they will take to enter the city." Zhou Wen said with a smile.

When the order was heard, and when the majority of the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief when they knew that they were finally withdrawing.

Although I am used to fighting now and my body is still in a state due to the rotation system, my mind is very tired, and now I can finally relax.

With the wish of leaving quickly, the soldiers stopped eating supper and quickly packed their bags and prepared them when they were at night.

Seeing that the preparations were completed, Zhao Hu gave the order and the slow horse was blocked, without a torch, so he opened the city gate in the dark.

The forward only ignited a few torches to the road, and the speed increased slightly. After walking about four or five kilometers, the whole team ignited the torches and slightly accelerated. After running for dozens of kilometers, they stopped and found a corner to camp and rested.

Because the Shanyue soldiers were afraid of being defeated by Zhao Hu soldiers, they did not camp at the other three gates except the original camp. Moreover, they were used to Zhao Hu soldiers trapping the city.

In their opinion, the abandonment of the city protected by Emperor* was a serious crime, so no Shanyue people discovered that Zhao Hu and the others had quickly slipped away.

When Zhao Hu left the city, he had already finished supper in the Shanyue camp, rested and planned to fight.

In the main camp, Lei Ming was asking Tang Feng: "Uncle, the other leaders are very dissatisfied now. They sacrificed 20,000 to 30,000 people, but they did not even break through the city gate. They also accused me of avoiding war, and only two or three thousand soldiers sacrificed.

"I think if we drag it on, we may blame the uncle. Now that we have experience in siege, ice oil should be available, right? No, our food stock is almost over."

Tang Feng smiled. It seemed that his nephew was impatient, but like his, he died of so many people in battle as soon as there was no progress. He couldn't explain to those leaders. If they thought the reputation of the mountain group was false, it would be bad.

So he said, "Since you want to use ice oil, then let's gather the heads tonight and let them see the tribes in the origin of the mountain. They are not comparable to those of these tribes."

"Yes!" Lei Ming immediately said excitedly.

When the night was suddenly summoned, most of the Shanyue soldiers stood up weakly, and they wanted to prepare for the night attack again.

The Shanyue soldiers were not interested in such useless kung fu, because they fell and trampled to death on the road during the night attack than they died in battle. So many days of fighting without any effect made the fierce and warlike Shanyue soldiers lose interest in fighting.

However, after discovering that the entire battalion was mobilized and everyone was allowed to fire torches, the Shanyue soldiers were excited. Are they preparing to take a night siege?

But when they saw a catapult cart taking the lead, everyone was stunned, especially those who were the leader.

Why are you using a catapult again? Even if this catapult is well-made and the effect may be better than before, but what's the use of only one? Do you want to break through the city with such a catapult?

With a puzzled mood, tens of thousands of torches followed the catapult cart to the launch distance.

The catapult car began to adjust its position and saw the catapult burning of oiled stones. Then the fired stones flew to the city in the distance. Flints flew over the night sky. It looked good, but when it hit the city gate, was it still so bad?
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