374. This battle and retreat

"Bang... Bang bang bang ......"

The rocks fell from the air one by one, some fell in front of the military formation formed by Liu Biao's soldiers, and a cloud of smoke and dust was raised on the ground, and some fell on the rammed earth city wall of Yicheng, which inevitably smashed a hole several meters wide on the city wall.

But there were also eight or nine pieces that fell directly into the dense military formation formed by Liu Biao's soldiers, which was simply a miserable sight, and the people who were hit by the rocks almost did not react to them, and the fragments of the corpses splashed around with blood and water, and they couldn't see the human form at all.

Before they could even react, they felt that they were splashed with minced flesh and blood, and when they turned their heads to look again, they saw the rocks and the blood on the ground.

"Run!"

Like a sudden outbreak, Liu Biao's soldiers couldn't help but panic, and then fled in the direction of the city gate.

Almost all of Liu Biao's soldiers were afraid to escape from the dangerous area here, even if a rock might just kill one or two people, but no one wanted to be one or two people.

For a while, Liu Biao's soldiers crowded and pushed people in front of the city gate, and many people fell to the ground, and they were directly stepped on by others.

Under the threat of the continuous projectile of rocks from the torsion thunderbolt cannon, even Liu Qi and other generals who led the troops did not dare to stand outside the city, so with the rush of Liu Qi's personal soldiers, Liu Qi took the lead in escaping back to the city, and as for these soldiers outside the city, they didn't care about how they were confused.

It can be said that nearly 8,000 soldiers outside the city crowded to the city gate, and one or two thousand people trampled to death.

Originally, Tai Shi Ci was also ready to lead his troops to rush forward for a while, wanting to take the opportunity to kill into the city, but Zhu Wei sent a military order in the main formation of the Chinese army behind, telling Tai Shi Ci not to charge.

Because Zhu Wei knew that there were still 20,000 or 30,000 Liu Biao soldiers guarding Yicheng at this moment, even if Tai Shici broke through the city gate, he would fall into a bitter battle, and he might not be able to break the city all at once.

At that time, there will be bows and arrows of Liu Biao's soldiers on the city wall, and there will be Liu Biao's soldiers in the city gate to resist, but I am afraid that Tai Shici's divine arrow battalion will also suffer heavy losses.

Even if Zhu Wei's follow-up army also rushed over and launched a fierce attack of the whole army, there would be a lot of casualties, anyway, Zhu Wei was not in a hurry, so Zhu Wei ordered Tai Shici not to be in a hurry.

Of course, from the time when Zhu Wei's army arrived in Yicheng to declare war, to the time when Zhu Wei sent a torsion thunderbolt to bombard Liu Biao's soldiers outside the city, nearly three hours have passed, and the sky has gradually become dim from the light at noon.

So Zhu Wei is ready to end today's war.

Judging from the previous performance of the siege and the response of Liu Biao's soldiers, Zhu Wei already knew some of the combat effectiveness of Liu Biao's soldiers, and at the same time, Zhu Wei also spent ten units of gold to check the military intelligence of Liu Biao's side through the intelligence exploration instructions of the war interface of the Three Kingdoms game system.

Although the actual information on the distribution of Liu Biao's military strength is somewhat different from the situation in the game, Zhu Wei can still fully know the situation of Liu Biao's troops on the Yicheng side, coupled with the general table of the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, Zhu Wei can be more aware of the changes in the strength of Liu Biao's side at any time.

It can be said that in this Yicheng, Liu Xian still has a lot of troops, even if many of them are young people with very low training and morale, but after all, they also have some ability to resist.

And Zhu Wei is really not very willing to fight hard with Liu Biao, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800, if he really fights so hard, Zhu Wei's own side will also suffer a great loss because of this.

If Cao Cao took the opportunity to attack after that, then Zhu Wei would not have the strength to defend the newly captured Jingzhou.

That's really the praying mantis catching cicadas and the yellow finch behind, and being taken advantage of by Cao Cao's yellow finch.

In this way, in Zhu Wei's military strategy, the best way is to kill or injure or surrender Liu Biao's soldiers as much as possible on the premise of protecting his own troops without losing too much, so that the size of Zhu Wei's army can still be maintained after this battle.

Although it is not easy to achieve such a strategic goal on the real battlefield, how can you know if it will work without trying?

Therefore, looking at Yicheng from afar, Liu Biao's soldiers retreated into Yicheng one after another, and Zhu Wei ordered Tai Shici to slowly retreat with those torsion thunderbolts, and at the same time, Zhu Wei's army also began to slowly retreat towards the military village on the north bank of the Han River.

The next thing is that the two sides tacitly agreed to send people to clean up the battlefield, and each of them will carry the corpses and various weapons of the soldiers on their respective sides back to deal with it, so as to end today's battle.

After Zhu Wei returned to the military village, he immediately arranged for ordinary soldiers to eat and rest, and then began to study the next tactics in the military tent with Wang Yuyan and Huang Yueying, and at the same time, Zhu Wei also checked the battle situation on Mu Lan, Teng Yuyan, Gan Ning, and Wei Yan through the Three Kingdoms game system, and then considered the battle situation arrangements of the entire Nanjun and Nanyang counties.

Okay, Zhu Wei won't talk about it for the time being, just say that after Zhu Wei withdrew from Yicheng, Liu Biao also returned to Yicheng Yasi with his civil and military forces to discuss the next military strategic arrangement.

In today's battle, Zhu Wei used a variety of siege equipment, and the suppressed Liu Biao defenders had no choice.

Although Zhu Wei took the initiative to withdraw his troops in the end, Liu Biao also knew in his heart that this time it was only Zhu Wei's tentative siege, and it was obviously Zhu Wei's side that had the advantage in the scene.

It can be said that in addition to taking the initiative to go out of the city to fight, Liu Biao's side had no way to resist Zhu Wei's attack on Yicheng by those siege equipment.

If it goes on like this, Yicheng will not be able to keep it for long, once Zhu Wei attacks the city here, it will be when Yicheng is broken, so Liu Biao must think of a countermeasure, otherwise the Xiangyang City behind it will be difficult to defend.

Zhu Wei's siege methods are indeed beyond the normal means of this era, which makes Liu Biao a little overwhelmed.

Liu Biao knew that Zhu Wei also had a so-called palm-like thunder-like special weapon, which could trigger the earth dragon to turn over, and once Zhu Wei took out this method to attack his side, how should he deal with it.

Thinking of this, Liu Biao's brows couldn't help but lock, he really couldn't figure out how he could control the land of Jingzhou's rich seven counties by Zhu Wei, who was not a weak crown at a young age and had only risen for less than two years, to be forced to his current situation.

Thinking that seven years ago, he rode into Jingzhou alone, from the predicament of having nothing, to facing the situation of thieves everywhere in Jingzhou, to controlling the seven counties of Jingzhou before, holding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, how heroic and energetic.

Especially after occupying Nanyang County, thinking of the majestic posture of the ancestors of Guangwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty who raised troops from Nanyang and then entered the world, Liu Biao felt that he might also have a bit of the posture of the ancestors.

But how did it come to be like this now......