The ladders for the siege were all prepared in advance, and Cao Liang gave an order, and Yang Hu and Du Yu led the Wei infantry to launch a fierce attack on the Golden Siege.

In fact, Cao Liang hated this way of attacking the city with ants, after all, this way of attacking the city was at the cost of the lives of soldiers, and the flesh and blood were used to build victorious feats, even if they could capture the enemy's city, they would definitely pay a heavy price.

But in this era of cold weapons, the least valuable thing is often human life, and no one cares no matter how many lives are sacrificed in order to win the battle.

Cao Liang took the initiative to ask for orders to attack the Golden Siege, but also under great pressure, the road to the north is hopeless, only to break through the gold to the east, is the only way out for the Wei army, if Cao Liang can not win this battle, then the Wei army can really only be trapped in the Xingshi.

And because of the exhaustion of military rations, there is not much time left for Cao Liang, Cao Liang has no time to slow down, he must use the most violent and tough means to take the Golden Siege as quickly as possible and open up the passage for the eastward retreat.

Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Under the command of Yanghu and Du Pre, the Wei army began to swarm upwards and launched a fierce attack on the Golden Siege.

Braving the rain of arrows on the city, one after another cloud ladders were erected, and the Wei soldiers held their shields and struggled to climb up the cloud ladders.

In order to cover the besieging troops, Yanghu and Du Pre specially mobilized a phalanx of archers and kept firing arrows at the head of the city to suppress the Shu army defending the city.

Although it was the first time to command a siege battle, Yanghu and Du Yu were still unusually calm, commanding and scheduling, having a clear eye and being very disciplined, and they were not in a hurry and at a loss because it was the first time to participate in the battle.

Liu Yin has been fighting for many years, and the experience of defending the city is very rich, although there are only 2,000 Shu soldiers guarding the Golden Siege, but under Liu Yin's dispatch, the entire defense line is in good order, and in the face of the Wei army's attack like locusts and ants, Liu Yin is also calm and unhurried, and the command is determined.

As the most important frontier fortress of Shu, the reserve of strategic materials is quite sufficient, and the defense equipment is readily available.

The most important thing is the special geographical location of the Golden Siege, because the south of the Golden Siege is the surging Han River, and the north is the cliff, the direction that the Wei army can attack, only the west of the Golden Siege, can not besiege the city on all sides, and attack in an all-round way.

Since the Wei army could only attack from one direction, it invisibly relieved a lot of pressure on the defenders, and besides, the city wall to the west of the Golden Siege was only a short distance of dozens of zhang, and no matter how many soldiers and horses the Wei army had, they had to line up, and the large army could not fight at all.

The special geographical location completely offset the numerical advantage of the Wei army, although the number of the Wei army is now five or six times that of the Shu army, but this advantage can not be reflected, and the two sides are almost equal in strength on the face of the confrontation.

In the offensive and defensive battle of the city, the siege side is more difficult, and the defending side is much easier, so although Yanghu and Du Pre command and dispatch well, the results are not ideal, and they have launched many fierce attacks in a row, and they have never been able to break through the defense line of the Shu army.

The battle was extremely fierce, the Wei army had many soldiers and horses, and almost the entire road in front of the pass was stuffed, and looking down from the head of the golden city, it was densely packed with people.

However, the defense of the Shu army was extremely tenacious, with bows and crossbows, rolling logs and stones, boiling water and hot oil, but everything that could be used as a defensive weapon could be thrown out.

The ladder was burned, the Wei soldiers were shot to death, stoned to death and burned to death, and the whole city was covered with corpses, but this did not seem to stop the pace of the Wei army's advance, and they launched rounds of fierce attacks against the Golden City.

Yang Hudu knew the predicament of the Wei army, the battle they commanded would determine the life and death of the 100,000 Wei army, it would be a battle with no way out, and they had to win.

Therefore, Yang Hu and Du Yu did not dare to relax in the slightest, they kept commanding the infantry to attack the city, and increased the strength of cover, sent more archers to the city, and kept throwing arrows at the city.

The battle was fierce, and both sides fought to the death with all their might.

However, from morning to afternoon, the Wei army paid a lot of casualties, but it was never able to break through the defense line at the head of the city and attack the golden city.

Cao Liang paid close attention to the siege of the city from afar, his brows were tightly locked, his expression was extremely grim, the defensive ability of the Golden Siege seemed to exceed Cao Liang's expectations, a city guarded by only 2,000 people, and it was able to do a drop of water, so that the Wei army was invulnerable.

According to the defensive situation of the defenders, if the Wei army continued to use such an offensive method, it would obviously be difficult to break through the Golden Siege in a short period of time, and Cao Liang estimated that even if he launched an attack without sleep, it would be at least ten days before there might be a chance to break the city, and it was basically hopeless in a short time.

However, the predicament faced by the Wei army could not hold out for more than ten days, and the cut off of the grain route put the Wei army in a desperate situation, and only by finding a way out in a short period of time was the only way to solve the predicament.

Guo Huai thinks that the difficulty of fighting the Golden Siege is no less than that of the watershed, the Wei army has now invested 50,000 or 60,000 troops to attack the watershed, Xiahouba has launched many attacks in a row, but there is no progress at all, Cao Liang only led more than 10,000 people to break through such a dangerous pass, no wonder Guo Huai will ridicule.

Now Cao Liang is not thinking about the ridicule of Guo Huai and others at all, if he can't take the golden encirclement, all the people in the Wei army will be a dead end, including those who ridiculed, of course, including Cao Liang himself.

Of course, if you surrender to the Shu army, you may be able to survive, you must know that Cao Liang has another layer of identity, that is, he is still the nephew of Liu Chan, the lord of Shu, after surrendering, with such a relationship, at least Cao Liang will not die, if Liu Channian is in the relationship between uncle and nephew, maybe he can give him an official and a half position.

But all this is not what Cao Liang wants, in the Wei State, with his foundation, with his power, he is still ready to compete with the Sima family for the world, if he really has to descend to the Shu State, I am afraid that he can really only be a waste that eats and waits for death.

Since a strong attack is not possible, then Cao Liang must make another plan, such a strong attack, except for increasing casualties, is of no use, and there is no benefit in continuing to fight.

So Cao Liang ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and stop the siege.