Taking advantage of the difficulty of the soldiers in the city to come out and shoot arrows vertically downward, the thieves who besieged the city raised their shields, quickly and methodically erected numerous ladders, and began to climb upward; Another twenty or thirty men, pushing chariots nailed to large wooden stakes, also came under the city gates, sheltered by several layers of thick cowhide, and the loud clamming of the trumpets and snare drums was overpowered.

The defenders of the city were in a panic, and it seemed that many people fell to the ground. When Ma Chao saw this, he had doubts about Ma Teng's ability in his heart: I, the old man, is so useless? Why did you see that the city gate was about to be breached as soon as you came?

Although Ma Chao has never had the experience of defending the city. But he had seen it on television, and in such a situation, the defenders should immediately lay down the logs and falling rocks, and at the same time use the pole to knock down the ladder, and if they hesitated a little, let the siege army climb the city wall, and then the general trend would be gone.

Sure enough, Ma Chao saw that more than a dozen thieves had come up quickly!

Seeing that the situation was so critical, Ma Dai pulled out his waist knife and seemed to be about to fight, but Ma Chao frowned calmly and said to Ma Dai: "Calm down, it's not time for you to fight." ”

"Big brother, you didn't see it, the city is about to be broken!" Ma Dai hurriedly said, if he hadn't always regarded Ma Chao as his idol, I am afraid he would have quarreled with Ma Chao.

"No way, even if my father was in a hurry. Come to think of it, my father should have some other behind...... "Ma Chao never dared to underestimate any figure in history, especially his cheap old man who could mix with a poor farmer to become a warlord in Xiliang.

However, in this situation now, it seems that there is really nothing to see: the city wall is an important fortification of the city, and it is also a psychological barrier for the defenders to defend against the enemy. Now it has only suffered a blow and has been quickly broken through, which is a great blow to the fighting spirit of the defenders, and the troops with slightly inferior quality will collapse directly nine times out of ten.

"Big brother, look!" Ma Dai's sudden exclamation made Ma Chao look up.

From Ma Chao's perspective at this time, he happened to see two thieves dragging their bloody tails and falling from the city with their hands dancing. This is followed by the third, fourth...... After a few efforts, all the soldiers who had just gone up were turned into corpses and thrown off the city wall.

Ma Chao's eyes widened and he felt a little surprised: after cannon fodder, the vanguard of the siege is the most critical, so the person who holds this position is either a warrior with outstanding martial arts in the army and sees death as home; Either they are death row inmates who have violated military law and want to use this to make meritorious contributions. The soldiers of Fufeng County were obviously succeeded by a surprise attack, and it seems that the morale of the army has been in turmoil, why is it that now they are cutting melons and chopping vegetables?

"Hey, big brother, look, it turns out to be Uncle Pang and Uncle Huang" Ma Dai's eyes were clear, and he pointed into the distance.

Ma Chao turned his head to look, just in time to see a thief soldier jumping on the city, before he could stand firmly, in the blood splatter, the human head flew into the air, and the headless body was kicked backwards, taking the several soldiers who followed behind on the ladder down. And the brave big man poked his head behind the wall of the battlement, and then quickly retracted it, it seemed that the big man seemed to want to see if the trajectory of the thief falling was beautiful......

The ugly brother in the distance seemed to be better, but Ma Chao took a closer look and found that this ugly brother was actually even more frustrated, because he never killed the enemy army, but always relied on brute force to throw those enemies who climbed the city wall alive......

"This ugly brother, as always, is still as good as ever......" Ma Chao covered his head helplessly, only to feel that none of the generals he picked out took his life seriously.

And with the power of Pound and Ugly Brother, at this time, the situation on the city wall has been reversed.

With this momentary respite, those county defenders had calmed down from their momentary panic and began to counterattack.

More than 20 ladders were overturned by the long pole of rejection, one by one. Hundreds of thieves fell, some fell to the ground, and couldn't get up for a while; Some smashed on others, and several people collided together; Others were falling on other people's blades, with holes in their thighs, and they sat on the ground screaming miserably.

At this moment, hot oil was poured from the top of the city, followed by lighted torches and hay, and the city was suddenly turned into a sea of fire. Some of the nimble soldiers crawled to dodge, but many of them were wrapped in them, and the screams were endless. More than 200 remaining soldiers rushed out of the flames, and their whole bodies were on fire, and they struggled to flee back, and some of them were knocked down by the bows and arrows of the city, and some of them fell to the ground in exhaustion halfway through the run, and let the flames envelop their bodies; Some of them were not seriously injured, so they first took off their oil-stained armor and robes, rolled to the ground to extinguish the flames, and ran back in disgrace.

And in the end, the guards aimed at the chariot under the thick cowhide at the gate, and poured the cauldron and the melted tin or lead from the cauldron. The cowhide on top was several layers thick and soaked in water, and it was impossible to burn through. But the liquid that had fallen to the ground splashed and stuck to the legs and feet of one man, who was unsteady on his feet, and fell down with a terrible howl, and slammed into the other soldiers, so that the tight shield defense was exposed several gaps—the shiny liquid poured down, and the twenty or so people were all rotten, and fell to the ground tossing and turning, and finally did not move.

Seeing this, Ma Chao somewhat understood, the county guards on the city wall, except for those veterans who operated the ballista, the rest should be newly recruited recruits*. After all, although Fufeng County has 10,000 county defenders, this siege has been going on for at least three or four days, and even if those veterans don't suffer many casualties, they should be organized into a temporary mobile team or candidate team by Ma Teng to supplement and fight to the death at critical moments.

Of course, Ma Teng still has more than 20,000 Xiliang iron riders. However, those 20,000 men were cavalry, and could not be used to defend the city. Perhaps, these 20,000 people are Ma Teng's last hole cards, and he plans to use them to fight to the death with the thieves in the city. Before the moment of life and death, Ma Teng should be killed.

Therefore, during this time, Ma Teng should have temporarily recruited some recruits to defend the city. And in this siege battle, Ma Teng may have used the lives of those recruits to train his troops.

Ci is not in charge of the soldiers!

At this point, Ma Chao doesn't think that Ma Teng, who is a general, has done something wrong. But as the commander of a county, it is really unwise to just fight with the enemy army like this.

Just when Ma Chao was still thinking, he suddenly heard a burst of joy on the city wall, and his morale was greatly boosted.

At this time, the enemy's siege equipment was destroyed, and the remaining thousands of thieves could not get close to the city, and arrows and stones rained down on their heads—the siege army had rushed too fast to aim, but now it was very different. There was no way forward and there was no way to hear Mingjin's siege soldiers, who were in a dilemma, and became live targets - there were about a lot of excellent archers in the defenders, and they were in groups of three or five, hiding among the surging soldiers at the head of the city. And those veterans who operated the ballista were even more majestic, and for a while, whenever the arrow missed, the target would definitely fall to the ground with blood splashed.

At this time, the siege army was broken up, and the death of these junior generals left the soldiers without command. Confused and flustered, they began to turn around and flee, first by two, then more and more, and finally thousands of people were all scattered and retreated.

It seems that this siege battle should be over today. And Ma Chao's brows became tighter and tighter......