The first line of Zang Ba who rushed to kill a Jizhou army who dared to climb the battlement was picked down, and the rest were even killed as soon as they appeared, just in a short time, the second attack organized by the Jizhou army turned into a unilateral massacre, and the screams from Kaiyang City were especially dense with the Jizhou army that fell from the city tower.

But the fierceness of the battle to defend the city is not so much, although the defenders of Kaiyang City fought bravely to kill the enemy, but in front of the Jizhou army that attacked like a tide, the number of casualties became more and more, after one or two or three times of rushing to kill, in the face of the new arrival of the Jizhou army, the Kaiyang defenders finally could not kill them directly under the city tower, soon, under the fierce attack of the enemy wave after wave, there were still several wall battlements at the head of the city that were seized by it, but the Jizhou army was not happy for a long time, although they used up their strength, But in the end, under the fierce counterattack of the Kaiyang defenders, they regained control again.

Attack and defend each other, this is the real cruel hand-to-hand combat, to capture a battlement, the Jizhou army needs to spend a lot of troops, but if you want to recapture the battlements, the defenders also have to exchange for several times the price.

Such a tragic battle, even in the face of Cao Cao did not happen back then, in the face of the crazy Jizhou army, Zang Ba was really a little frightened, if the Jizhou army attacked Kaiyang at such a cost, he really didn't dare to guarantee whether he could defend until Huang Zhong arrived, and even three days would be difficult.

It seems that Yuan Tan is really bound to Kaiyang, but he can't figure it out, is it really worth paying such a big price for a Langya? This battle continues to be consumed so much, I am afraid that the troops in Jizhou will not want to get involved in Xuzhou again.

The fierce battle is completely at a fever pitch.

The east gate of Kaiyang City began to be tight, not only physical strength but also battle damage, Sun Guan was even considering sending troops from other gates to support him, and even Xu Fang's reserve, but Xu Fang's Langya soldiers and horses have been hidden in the shadows, this is the back hand that he and Huang Zhong have discussed, and they will never be used unless they have to.

After all, when it was declared to the outside world, but the Langya army all followed Huang Zhong away, in fact, it was only more than 20,000 people of the Qingzhou army and the guards who followed Huang Zhong to leave, and the Langya army did not leave, they were scattered in the city and hidden, just waiting for Zang Ba to summon them, and they would go into battle.

Now, seeing that the east gate is so tight, especially Zang Ba, who is on the front line, is most clear about this, he said a few words to the person around him, and the person quickly climbed up the city tower and conveyed the order to transfer the defenders of each gate.

The most important thing in a battlefield battle, especially a confrontation of such a scale in front of us, is not the elite of which side, but the morale.

At this moment, the Jizhou army is attacking in a big way, and it is bound to seize such a rare opportunity to capture Kaiyang in one go, and Zang Ba, who saw the intention of the Jizhou army, transferred his troops in time and successfully withstood the most fierce attack of the Jizhou army.

Sure enough, the offensive of the Jizhou army began to weaken under such an attack, and finally it was long ago that I didn't know how many attacks began to retreat like a tide, and Kaiyang City finally ushered in another rare rest.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, just a quarter of an hour seemed short, but it was long enough for the defenders of Kaiyang City.

After all, it is necessary to wait for the front army to completely retreat before it can organize an attack, and it is inevitable to waste some time, but after many offensives, Yuan Tan's troops that once attacked the city with 10,000 people had to be reduced to a unit of 5,000 people.

In this way, there are more troops that can rest at the same time, and although the offensive will be much smaller, the number of soldiers who have been rested by the lord has increased the number of times they have attacked the tower.

Seeing that the effect of the wheel battle was so good, Yuan Tan naturally wanted to split the troops, so that the interval between each attack was only a quarter of an hour, and the defenders on the Kaiyang City Tower had almost no time to rest and reach their physical limits.

Through the half-day siege battle, the Jizhou army naturally saw that at this moment Zang Ba had gathered the focus of defense in Freeze, and the battle here became extremely difficult, and Yuan Tan was even considering whether to attack three missing one, and attack three gates at the same time, so as to test the defensive weakness of Kaiyang City.

Their strength is enough to complete such a heavy task, but in this way, then the wheel tactics will have to be abandoned, and the previous efforts will be in vain, but in that scene, he clearly saw the arrival of a new force in Kaiyang City, if his news is accurate, the new force that can come over at this time, it goes without saying, if it were not for Yan Liang's order to break Kaiyang on the 10th, he would still have a good time with Zang Ba, but now he can only focus on breaking Kaiyang, and immediately ordered, the troops changed the east gate attack to three simultaneous attacks.

Yuan Tan changed his operational policy and intensified his onslaught with the northeast, east, and south as a breakthrough, so that the north and south gates, which had been evacuated from most of their troops, immediately became anxious and asked Zang Ba for help.

"Sun Guan, go and let Xu Fang come to help!"

"But ......"

"It's nothing, you have seen the current situation, even if Xu Fang's troops of more than 10,000 people are transferred, it will definitely not be able to hold Kaiyang, the most important thing for us now is to hold on, and at the same time ask the lord and Huang Zhong for help!"

Huang Zhong must come back quickly, and even if he can get Liu Lan's assistance, anyway, before Kaiyang City is broken, there must be reinforcements coming over no matter what.

The soldiers who asked for help left the city, as for the result, Zang Ba could not know, but he had no other way now, but he could only hope that Huang Zhong would rush back as soon as possible.

After all the orders were delivered, Xu Fang divided his troops into two to support the North and South Second Gates, while Zang Ba led the Qingzhou Army to defend at the East Gate.

Holding a spear has long since become a saber, and the use of a spear consumes too much physical strength, and it is also extremely inconvenient to defend the city, but it is not as practical as a short weapon like a saber.

Zang Ba, who was defending on the top of the city tower, soon found that the enemy's offensive had weakened a lot, after all, it was a wheel war before, and every time the troops who came to attack the city were effectively rested, but now, the enemy's situation could not reach the purpose of the wheel war, and the threat to the east city became a lot smaller.

"Rubbish, a bunch of rubbish!"

I thought that I would find out the weak point of the enemy's defense of the city, and even break the city with one blow, but in the end I found that the previous advantage was gone, and Yuan Tan, who was so angry that he was directing the siege, scolded him, especially every time the troops retreated, there would be statistics of losses, the first and second sieges, the losses were the most, there were more than five hundred, and the subsequent attacks did not exceed two hundred, but just now there was a wave of attacks, there were thousands of people, although it was a three-sided siege, but such casualties still made Yuan Tan become a little hysterical, shouted, and said: " Are you all idiots, do you just stick your neck out and wait for someone to cut it after you attack the city, and fight back! “

"Fought back, but ......"

"I don't listen to explanations, I just need to look at the results, such a large casualty figure, how did you lead the troops, I will ask you a word, can you make changes to reduce the casualty number?" It is very common for the casualties of siege battles to be several times that of the defenders, although I don't know the number of casualties of the enemy, but such a large casualty, capturing Kaiyang, they will also lose nearly half, so what is the significance of their attack on Kaiyang, if the enemy's losses are not large, or even a one-sided slaughter, then it is likely that in the end he will all die here, and Kaiyang City will not be taken.

"I'll go and inform the generals."

Yuan Tan didn't bother to pay attention to him, waved his hand, and then stared at the battle on the east gate again, and the rushing troops had already retreated, the city gate had already collapsed, but the city gate hole had already been blocked, and the road to enter the city directly from the city gate was completely blocked, and he could only hope to enter the city from the ladder.

The other gates are attacking, and it is unknown whether the city gate hole has also been blocked, but there is one thing he can be sure of, that is, Zang Ba will never block all four gates, and no one will do anything that does not leave a way out for himself.

Although the siege is mainly now, it is the key to be able to directly rush into the gate of Kaiyang City.

The offensive of the Jizhou army increased again, Zang Ba held a sword in front of the battlements, and fought with the Jizhou army that came up, such fierce battles were staged everywhere, blood was like rain, and stumps and broken arms flew everywhere.

In the cruel defense of the city, the sky darkened, the first day of the siege was so tragic, it was Zang Ba and Xu Fang did not expect, after the Jizhou army completely retreated, the tired and paralyzed two finally took time to meet, lamenting the lack of preparation for the Jizhou army, at this time, the two have long been not confident in defending the city.

I hope Huang Zhong can come in time.

"Xuangao, if you can't wait for Hansheng, you can break through with the Qingzhou Army."

"What about you?"

"Me?" Xu Fang smiled and didn't speak, but his meaning was already very obvious, he wanted to live and die with Kaiyang.

The shock in Zang Ba's heart is beyond words, it is unlikely that he will make such a decision, but once he really leaves, it is difficult for him to make such a decision: "Let's talk about it then, now it is still mainly about defending the city." ”

While the two were discussing the defense of the city, Yuan Tan, who was unwilling to withdraw his troops, returned to the big tent and didn't even look at the corpses that were placed together to be disposed of.

Even their attraction to Yuan Tan is not as good as Kaiyang's mottled city tower.

He cares about casualties, but the dead don't care, and the soldiers lost in the siege are, in his eyes, just a string of numbers.

After counting the casualties, he ordered the soldiers to rest early and continue to storm Kaiyang early tomorrow morning.

Zang Ba and Xu Fang dragged their tired bodies, drank the soldiers in the soldiers' camp and ate some dinner hastily before resting, and most of the soldiers, even so tired that they couldn't even pick up the dishes and chopsticks, and fell asleep after lying down.

Zang Ba and Xu Fang rested in the big tent of the military camp at the foot of the city wall, but as the main general, how could he sleep so easily, in addition to Sun Guan at the east gate and Wu Dun at the west gate, Yin Li and Chang Feng from the north gate and the south gate arrived successively.

They had to report to Zang Ba on today's battle situation, because the Jizhou army only launched a fierce attack on the two gates in the afternoon, so the losses of the two gates were not much, and the total number of people was only about 300, compared to the casualties of 800 people in the east gate, it was almost negligible.

But at the end of this day, he lost more than 1,000 people, this price can be a little unbearable for him, you must know that this is the result of using all the hole cards of Kaiyang, if it is only they alone to defend the city There are such large casualties can still be accepted, but even Xu Fang's men and horses are counted in it, this price has to make him pay special attention.

Moreover, after today's confrontation, the two sides can be regarded as having a deep understanding of each other, if Yuan Tan will use troops to attack the city, then he must have seen the flaw, and he will definitely increase the attack tomorrow.

However, there is one thing that can be known, Yuan Tan must have found that the number of defenders of Kaiyang City is far more, so it is unlikely that the battle method of tomorrow's wheel battle will be unlikely, I believe that he will continue to attack the three gates, but just like Zang Ba said, if he will attack the city, although he will attack the three gates at the same time, it must be a feint attack on two gates and a real attack on one, and judging from today's casualties, the east gate is unlikely to be the main attack location, so tomorrow must be careful to facilitate the south gate and the north gate.

Yin Li and Chang Feng both agreed with Zang Ba's words, but it was difficult to guess who it was, although it seemed that the North Gate was the most likely, but what was so easy to think of, would Yuan Tan do it?

For a moment, all three of them were a little distressed.

"Or else." At this moment, Yin Li suddenly spoke: "Since we know that the enemy is going to storm the north and south gates, then we will organize the young men in the city to transport the equipment and materials to the two places tonight, prepare in advance, and check the clues from the enemy's offensive when the time comes, although this is also a conservative policy, but it is also a foolproof way, and the enemy's strength is far more than ours, it can be seen from today's offensive, and this Yuan Tan is the kind of general who is very good at taking advantage of the advantages of many soldiers, so we must make arrangements in advance."

If we wait until wartime to perceive the enemy's intentions and then make corresponding deployments, we are afraid that there will not be enough time, and if this happens, it is very likely that the two gates will not even survive for a day, so we can only exchange time for space.

This is the only way to do the first two.

"Aren't you afraid that he will suddenly attack Simon?" Chang Xuan said suddenly.

"I'm afraid, but since it's a gamble, you have to gamble!"

"Okay, let Wang Xiu mobilize the people." Zang Ba made a decision after thinking about it very seriously, now he can't think about it so much, he thinks too much, but he will find that Kaiyang City is full of loopholes, just like Yin Li said, at this time, he can only bet on one end, just bet that Yuan Tan will storm one of the north and south gates.

Ximen he will not, far away from his camp, and if the Xuzhou army comes to help, it is also the first target to be attacked, once there is an accident, when the time comes, his Chinese army whip is beyond reach, and it is easy to lead to the battle situation to fall into passivity, so what Chang Xuan said about the enemy army will attack Ximen, it is completely casual, but it also exposes that he is completely a reckless man, and has no brains.