So this time, it is already a defeat, and since it is defeated, and it has also lost a lot of manpower, it is only right to retreat quickly.

Li Zicheng immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

Liu Fangliang got the order, his face was full of disbelief, his eyes widened, and he said in his heart: "Something is wrong, when Fang Chuang gave the order to the adult, but he was fierce and looked like he was bound to win, why did he let us retreat so quickly?" ”

However, this was indeed Li Zicheng's order, and Liu Fangliang did not dare to disobey the order, and immediately led his troops to retreat.

And not to mention him, when he saw Li Zicheng ordering the collection of troops, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and others above the city were all greatly surprised.

This Li Zicheng is completely out of common sense!

It stands to reason that why do you have to take another cup of tea or even a quarter of an hour before Mingjin can withdraw his troops, why has he just come to the city, but he has only taken a few dozen breaths, and he has just fought a round, and he is about to withdraw his troops?

Dong Ce sighed, this Li Zicheng is really a difficult person to deal with, he made such a quick decision, if he insisted on fighting again, it would only make his own damage worse, and it was timely to retreat now.

No matter what everyone in the city thought, the intruding army that came like a tide now receded like a low tide. Cao Wenzhao naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and ordered a random shooting, leaving the lives of dozens of intruders, and there were many more corpses on the ground.

After the army was collected, Li Zicheng immediately ordered to send a large number of soldiers to cut wood around and prepare to make ladders.

After all, the number of troops was still large, and he left almost half of his men and horses to guard the camp, and the rest were sent out, which was almost more than 10,000 people, and it didn't take long to collect a lot of wood and come back. And these intruders immediately began to make ladders.

The sound of axes outside the city was incessant, and it jingled for an afternoon, and until the evening, there was no movement from the invading army.

This night, the army did not attack the city, and the night passed quietly.

Early in the morning of the second day, Dong Ce was eating under the city, when he suddenly heard the sound of a horn outside the window, and his heart suddenly sudden, so he hurriedly put his rice bowl aside and walked quickly up the city wall. When I got to the city wall, I looked out, and sure enough, the army attacked the city again. It's just that this time, the number of troops invested by the breaking army has more than doubled yesterday, reaching nearly 5,000.

And in this boundless army, the number of ladders they carried exceeded a hundred.

This time, the number of troops in the invasion army has increased by 3,000, and the number of ladders has reached five or six times that of yesterday.

Dong Ce's heart sank suddenly, and then he looked at Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao next to him, and saw that the uncle and nephew were also solemn, and even a little ugly. It seems that such a number of trespassers and ladders have also put considerable pressure on them.

From the time the army set out to the time they reached the city wall, what happened in this distance was no different from yesterday, it was the army charging and the city wall was shooting arrows downward. It's just that this time the army has learned a lot, they always pay attention to the movements of the soldiers at the head of the city, and when they see them stretching their bows and arrows, ready to shoot, they are ready. Just as the first rain of arrows was about to fall, they began to speed forward, so that the rain of arrows falling from the city caused them much less damage.

It's just that because the number of people attacking this time is relatively large, it is also relatively dense, and this density can kill and injure more of the invading army when the same number of feather arrows are splashed on the top of the city as yesterday. So this back and forth, one plus and one subtraction, when they arrived at the city wall, the number of losses of the breaking army must not be much different from yesterday.

But as soon as they got under the walls, it was a completely different situation than yesterday.

Hundreds of ladders leaned against the city walls, and countless intruders joined the city.

Due to the number of ladders, it was impossible for the defenders at the head of the city to knock down all the ladders at the same time, even if some of them were knocked down, and another part of the trees were there, so the intruders took this opportunity to climb up.

Since the height of the city wall is only more than two zhang, the invading army can easily climb up, which is due to the lack of height of the city wall, which is a disadvantage to the defenders. At the same time, there is another disadvantage, that is, due to the lack of height, even if the ladder is pushed down, even if the intrusive army falls from the city, most of them will not fall to their deaths directly, and even if they are lucky, they will only suffer a little minor injuries and continue to fight.

The ants of the army attacked the city, and the offensive was like a tide, and Cao Wenzhao also took out all his efforts and tried his best to lead his elite soldiers to disintegrate and repel the attack of the army wave by wave.

Dong Ce stood under the city tower, there were a considerable number of officers and soldiers in front of this place, it was very safe, Dong Ce stood there, watching coldly.

He felt that the scene in front of him was really very familiar, and what was happening at this time was no different from what happened in Chengcheng County a few months ago. It's just that at that time, he was standing in Cao Wenzhao's position, standing there, leading his subordinates to fight bravely against the enemy. And at this point, he became a bystander.

This change of role and perspective gave Dong Ce a very unreal feeling. It made him feel as if he was completely unintegrated into the current environment, this situation, as if he was looking at a picture, not being in it.

After almost a quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, the intruders finally retreated again, this time leaving more corpses behind.

The corpse fell sideways under the city wall, and there were fragments of the ladder during the period, as well as a considerable number of intruders, who had been smashed into pulp by various siege equipment, and they couldn't even see their faces clearly.

Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao led their subordinates to repel the breaking army, but the price they paid was also quite large, and the losses were very heavy. Of the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers originally stationed at the head of the city, more than 170 have been killed in battle, and nearly 300 have been wounded. Originally, in Cao Wenzhao's plan, in today's battle, only the 1,000 people at the head of the city would be enough, but he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the invading army and overestimated himself.

At the beginning of the battle, after a cup of tea, he was forced to bring up the soldiers who were on standby under the city walls. If not, Sanshui County may be broken by the intruding army.

And the various defensive equipment that originally filled the city wall also consumed a considerable part of it.

Cao Wenzhao held on to the battlements of the city wall, panting heavily. He was covered in blood, as if his whole body had been soaked in blood, and he didn't know if it was his own or someone else's.

What he was holding in his hand was not the big gun he was used to, but a waist knife.

At this time, the blades of the waist knife had been rolled, and there were countless gaps the size of rice grains on it. This knife has been completely scrapped and can no longer be used, and I am afraid that it can cut a layer of skin with a single knife, and it is estimated that it will not even be able to cut much meat. Originally, Cao Wenzhao was supervising the war, but the number of intruders was too large, and the boundless flooded onto the city wall like a tide. These intruders are all quite elite, and their individual combat effectiveness is quite strong, at least, even if they are worse than Cao Wenzhao's subordinates, they are only a little worse.

But there were so many of them that there were hundreds of ladders that could not be prevented, and it was impossible to tear them down, and the two-zhang high city wall made it possible for them to climb up quickly in a very short time.

As long as there is a cloud ladder that has no time to be knocked down for a while, more than a dozen intruders can immediately rush in. The number of officers and soldiers above the city was originally about 1,000, but with less than a stick of incense, the number of troops pouring into the city exceeded this number. With the advantage of numbers, the Chuang army quickly gained the upper hand again.

This was completely beyond Cao Wenzhao's expectations, and he expected that the invading army would most likely not be able to climb the city wall, because their ladders would be overturned, and when they gathered under the city, the city would continue to shoot arrows downward, causing them great damage. Cao Wenzhao had a very clear understanding of the ability to withstand the battle, and knew that they would often retreat after suffering small casualties.

And his second idea is already a big step back from the first.

Even if the army can climb the city wall, the number will not be too large, and it will soon be defeated, and then defeated.