The two sides died down, and the noisy battlefield suddenly became quiet. Although it was only the time of Shin, the early winter days were very short, and the gloomy sky completely obscured the daylight, and the whole battlefield was gray, and the early twilight seemed dull. The ruins on the city wall of Tongzhou are in a mess, and there are countless dead and injured. The beneath the city walls was even more miserable. At the base of the walls, thick layers of corpses and flesh were stacked several feet high. Among them, there are still people who are still breathing, and they make desperate ** noises under the pressure of corpses.

The wind blew through the mess, with a screaming sound, and in the vast twilight of the four fields, there seemed to be ghosts everywhere, and the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves was endless. The battlefield after the Great War was like a hell where lonely ghosts roamed. Even the most courageous witnesses to the scene in front of them could not help but be scattered, their bones weakened, their whole body trembled, their legs and feet were sore, and they did not dare to look at it for a moment.

Li Guangbi's army retreated several miles and rested in place. Li Guangbi walked through the remnants of the defeated army, looking at these stunned soldiers who had not yet recovered from their panic, but he did not reprimand. On the contrary, he also personally fed the soldiers with water to show their care.

Soon after, Lee Kwang-pil ascended the high platform and began to inspire the remnants of the defeated army all over the ground.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's battle is excellent. Ben Shuai was very satisfied. You don't have to regret not being able to capture Tongzhou, because today's battle is just the beginning, and Tongzhou City will be conquered by our army. You need not be frightened by the methods of the enemy, you must know that we are facing the most cunning and ferocious Shence army in the world, and even the 100,000 Hui army is not their opponent, and our army is forced to be helpless today, and the city was almost conquered by our army. This is enough to show that the Shence Army is at the end of its power. ”

The soldiers stared blankly at the figure on the high platform, and many cursed in their hearts: The end of the crossbow? You didn't see their ferocity, you don't have to send them to death anyway, but the old men have to fight hard.

"Good news for you. I just got the news that 50,000 newly recruited soldiers and horses in Jinzhou have been sent to reinforce them, and the logistics channel will be opened up in a few days, and they will arrive together with grain and grass supplies. You don't need to worry about running out of food and grass. Today's battle has severely damaged the Shence army, the opponent has suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and our army has only suffered more than 10,000 casualties. The methods they use today are not unusual. Although it caused some casualties to our army and brought some fear to you, you must know that this method can only be used once, and you and others do not need to worry about the enemy's methods in the next attack. In addition, on the battlefield today, the soldiers fought bravely, and the commander was very pleased. The meritorious service rosters reported by the battalions are already in my possession. The commander announced that from now on, the policy of even rewards on the battlefield will be implemented. After each battle, meritorious personnel are rewarded on the spot, and those who have been punished immediately without delay. ”

Li Guangbi waved his hand, and a general beside him stepped forward with the roster in his hand and began to read the roster aloud. Hundreds of brave soldiers selected from various battalions came to the stage one after another. Li Guangbi personally announced the promotion of these soldiers and generals to military ranks. He also ordered strings of copper coins to be hung around their necks as a reward on the spot. After the ceremony, dozens of soldiers were tied up and escorted to the front of the stage, and after announcing their cowardice and fleeing, they were beheaded on the spot.

Li Guangbi racked his brains to revive morale, and he knew that if urgent measures were not taken, it would be difficult for the soldiers and horses to fight again. Incentives, rewards, punishments, and lies were used to calm the fears of the soldiers. The so-called news that 50,000 soldiers and horses had sent troops from Jinzhou to dredge the grain route was false, and the data on the casualties of the enemy and the enemy in his mouth was also false. Even the list of soldiers who were commended and punished was fake. The valiant are not necessarily heroic, they are just chosen. The cowards are not necessarily cowardly, but just dozens of seriously injured unlucky people who can no longer fight.

Although many soldiers knew that Li Guangbi's words were not true, it has to be said that Li Guangbi's move still played a role in soothing the morale of the army. Let the overall morale be relieved.

Finally, Li Guangbi ordered the remaining hundreds of pigs and sheep in the camp to be slaughtered to reward the soldiers and horses, and after the hot meals and broth were served, the frightened soldiers finally began to recover, and the delicious meals pulled them back from their fear and back to the world.

After dark, Lee Kwang-pil summoned the generals to a meeting. At this time, Li Guangbi was revealed in his true form, and scolded the generals for not attacking the city effectively. After venting, Li Guangbi calmed down and issued a new siege order.

"At the beginning of tonight, launch a siege and sneak attack. The 60,000 soldiers and horses who did not participate in the siege today were responsible for the first attack. I will personally organize 60,000 soldiers and horses to be reinforced. Dong Yuanshu, your 50,000 combatable troops are still feinting in Nancheng. It can be divided into two echelons and attack continuously to prevent the defenders of the city from breathing. It is best to force the other side to reinforce Nancheng. Tonight's sneak attack is not aimed at conquering the city, but at exhausting the enemy. Our army can attack in rotation, one army can attack, one army can take the opportunity to rest, but they have to defend the city continuously, understand? ”

"Li Shuai, what a plan. We have a lot of soldiers, so we should have done this a long time ago. I kept tossing them, tossing them so much that they couldn't sleep or eat, and then they saw the right time to attack the city, and they would definitely be able to take it. Dong Yuanshu said suddenly.

"yes, that's how it should be. This is long overdue. The generals also chimed in.

Li Guangbi said slowly: "Why don't you know this handsome? But doing so during the day is easy to expose the attempt. This was to be done at night, because it was dark, and they could not figure out how many of our attackers were, so they had to defend with all their might. This is the premise of the implementation of this policy. ”

"I see, Li Shuai is smart." The generals said.

In fact, everyone didn't think so, it was obvious that Li Shuai didn't think of this beforehand, and he thought that he could break through the city in one fell swoop, so he didn't think much about strategy at all. To say this now is just to save face.

The first shift is approaching, and the sky and the earth are pitch black, like ink dyeing. The north wind howled and raged on the battlefield, and the cold weather caused the corpses and flesh on the battlefield to begin to condense, and at such temperatures that the corpses and flesh would freeze into ice in the middle of the night.

The top of Tongzhou City was also dark for a long time after dark, and the attacking scouts under the city did not dare to get too close, only staring at the city head from a distance, but they could not see anything. I just kept hearing the sound of things being thrown down from the city, like the sound of sweeping the gravel and broken wood corpses at the head of the city. It's too far away to see clearly.

But for the scouts, they just had to keep an eye on the gates, and they couldn't see and didn't care what was going on on the city. That's not their job.

Soon after, torches appeared on the walls of Tongzhou. Small groups of soldiers defending the city carried torches up the city wall and distributed throughout the city wall. It doesn't look like there are many of them. It's just a few thousands. Although they craned their necks to look down at the city, experienced soldiers knew that when they held torches and looked into the darkness below, they could not see anything. It's just a trick to deceive yourself.

As a matter of fact, the thousands of soldiers and horses at the head of the city knew nothing about the situation under the city. They couldn't even see the situation twenty or thirty paces below the city, let alone the 60,000 black siege soldiers who were sneaking down on the city from miles away.

The first shift has passed, and the night attack siege has begun again.

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More than 60,000 siege soldiers and horses approached under the cover of darkness under the walls of Tongzhou Dongcheng, and they were the new force that did not have time to participate in the battle during the day. Li Guangbi organized the 180,000 troops in the direction of Dongcheng into three waves, each with 60,000 soldiers and horses. In the afternoon, after the second wave of 60,000 soldiers and horses joined the battlefield, they were beaten back by the Tongzhou defenders with maces, and the third wave of 60,000 soldiers and horses did not even have a chance to rush to the battlefield, and the war ended temporarily. This also deprived these 60,000 soldiers and horses of the cruelty of the daytime battlefield.

However, at this moment, when they were hunched forward in the dark, they finally saw the tragedy of the battle during the day. Their feet were littered with the frozen corpses of their own soldiers and horses, and if they were not careful, someone would fall on the hard ground and come into close contact with the dead corpses on the ground. It can only be said that they are fortunate to have the cover of night, otherwise if they witnessed the tragic scene of the entire battlefield, when they saw the corpses on the ground that were frozen like white wax, the soldiers and horses, mainly recruits, would immediately scatter and flee.

According to the prior arrangement, 60,000 soldiers and horses slowly crawled through the open area like crabs catching up with the tide in a straggler formation, and gradually reached hundreds of steps below the city. The more they reached the city, the more cautious they became. Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps.

The closer they got to the city walls, the more nervous the soldiers' hearts became. A soldier trembled nervously, and as he walked, he accidentally fell to the ground with a corpse and screamed. At this voice, hundreds of soldiers around him froze in place like clay sculptures and wood carvings, looking at the movements of the defenders at the head of the city in surprise.

"Raised by a son of a bitch, do you want to kill everyone?" A lieutenant rushed to his side, lowering his voice and scolding angrily.

"Villain...... The little man ...... "The soldier struggled to his feet, and his hand touched a round, cold, hairy thing. He subconsciously leaned in front of him to take a look, and by the glimmer of light, he saw a terrifying dead human face, looking at him indifferently.

"Ah......h The soldier opened his mouth and let out a half-sound, and a sharp blade pierced the back of his neck, piercing his throat and cutting his cry in his throat.

"The son of a bitch is not the enemy's meticulous work." The lieutenant next to him drew his blade and raised his foot to kick the dead corpse.

The surrounding soldiers had no sympathy, but breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the captain had killed decisively and in time. Even several soldiers who were joined by the army at the same time, and who were familiar with the deceased, also felt that it was good to kill. At this time, whoever threatens his life or death deserves to die. Even if it's a fellow villager or friend you've known before.

It seemed that the shout should have been heard by them, but the defenders at the head of the city did not make the slightest commotion, and seemed to be unconscious. Soon, thousands of soldiers at the head of the city were under the city walls, and the defenders at the head of the city still did not know about it. Fortunately, the soldiers who arrived at the city also felt something strange. Because they found that the base of the city wall was not as terrible as the other soldiers in the pre-war camp had said. The soldiers said that the city was full of flesh and bones, but that was not the case here at all. The soft soles of the feet, the thick firewood and grass covered the bones of the corpses under the city, and there was nothing terrible to be seen. The ground was full of firewood and grass, and some were even scattered in bundles in an area more than ten zhang wide below the city wall. It's just that these firewood and grass are wet and smell stinky, and I don't know if it's because they have absorbed the blood and water on the ground.

If you are an experienced veteran, I am afraid that you will smell a hint of danger from this unusual situation. However, most of this soldier and horse were half-hanged, and the experienced soldiers and leading generals were in the rear, so they were reluctant to rush to the city to die. Since it was a harassment war, and he didn't seek to capture the city, the shrewd generals and a small number of veterans were slowly playing soy sauce at the rear.

The soldiers who had gathered under the city checked and found that most of the ladders were still there. The mace did not knock down and damage all the ladders, and there were hundreds of ladders standing firmly under the city walls, and some ladders fell to the ground, and they could still be used when they were held up.

More and more soldiers touched the city, and they cowered under the walls and waited for orders. Even when the dense crowd of soldiers gathered at the base of the wall, and the ground they stepped on made a noisy noise, the defenders at the head of the city ignored them as if they were deaf.

The attacking soldiers began to slowly climb up the ladder, the creaking sound of the ladder was harsh, but there were no defenders looking down at the city.

On the north side of the city gate, above a ladder, a soldier named Ah Lang climbed into the air with his blade and feet. He was just an ordinary teenager with no lofty ideals. I just want to work for others and save some money to get a daughter-in-law to live a small life. Regarding the matter of being forcibly dragged into the army to serve as a soldier, he scolded viciously many times behind his back, and his thoughts were extremely pessimistic and disappointed.

But today, after seeing that Marshal Li Guangbi promoted hundreds of ordinary soldiers to the rank of official and rewarded him with five pieces of money, this made Ah Lang very envious. It turns out that it is so simple to get promoted and make a fortune. If you fight a battle, you can be immediately promoted to the fire captain or something, and that's not all, you can also get a huge reward of five dollars. This money is enough to marry a daughter-in-law in his hometown. Ah Qiu, the woman from Mrs. Wang's family, who sells pancakes on the street, has long been interested in herself, but unfortunately she has no money to propose marriage. In this case, why don't you give it a go, get an official, win a reward, and then you can get what you want?

Ah Lang was greatly encouraged, and when he touched the city at this moment, everyone was reluctant to be the first to climb to the city, and he took the initiative to be the first to climb the ladder without saying a word. He was agile, his hands and feet were as light as a tanuki, and he was silent and swift in fear. He was sure that he would be the first to climb the wall, and the rest of the men would not climb as fast as he could. The first to climb the city wall, Li Dashuai knew that he always had to reward himself.

Ah Lang was full of strength, and soon climbed to the end of the ladder, and he could already see the half-cut body of the enemy soldier standing on the city wall. The enemy soldier stood with his back to him, the torches beside him shining brightly on the red tassels above his head, and the cloak on his back was also beautiful.

"This is an enemy general! But, in any case, I'm sorry. I don't care who you are, I want to make meritorious contributions, get rewards, and marry a daughter-in-law. I'm sorry! ”

Ah Lang muttered in his heart, stretched out his hand and took the steel knife in his mouth, with one hand and his feet slightly bent, he wanted to jump up the city wall from the ladder in a posture of a fierce tiger pounced. Ah Hu had already figured out that when he jumped in mid-air, he could slash at the back of the general's neck, and then use his body as a cover to dodge the attack of the man holding the torch on the other side. You can stand firmly on the city wall.

Ah Lang's body was about to jump, his muscles had begun to contract, and the corners of his mouth showed a sneer. Suddenly, he saw the general with his back to him turning his head and smiling condescendingly at him with neat white teeth.

"Hello!" The general laughed.

“……”

"Goodbye!" The general raised his sword. That goodbye was also the last word Ah Lang heard in his life. A steel sword slashed at his head, and before the stunned Ah Lang could even think about how to dodge and block, his head was split in two, and his body fell backwards, falling to the ground with a thud.

Ah Lang didn't know why the man turned his head at that juncture. But if the dead man had known, he would have found that the general had already made countless glances with the slender woman holding the torch opposite. If Quanxia really knew something, he should also find out that this general was Wang Yuan, the commander of the Shence Army. He won the jackpot, chose a position he shouldn't have, and met someone he shouldn't have met the most. However, if he really knew it, he would be proud that he could die at the hands of the opposing manager. After all, after a war, very few people can die at the hands of the coach, which can be regarded as an honor.

Ah Lang has already flown away, he can be said to be lucky, after all, he doesn't know what happened next, and he didn't look at what his comrades experienced next. If he had known what they had been through, he would have preferred to be the first to die at the beginning of the battle.

Wang Yuan slashed a soldier who climbed to the edge of the city wall with a sword, and watched him fall under the city wall, and the order had already been issued in his mouth.

"Do it!" Wang Yuan shouted.

Flares pierced the dark night sky, next