The sandbags were chopped up, the dirt was scattered, the wooden fences fell to the ground, and the smoke of black ash was emitted, the fortress collapsed, and there were a few extinguished flames, and the trenches were filled with gravel and mud, and the corpses were carried away, but the ground was strewn with broken flags, broken spears and swords, scattered arrows, and dirt mixed with blood. The soldiers were busy repairing the damaged fortress and the wooden fence, showing how fierce the battle was in the camp outside the city.

As soon as the affairs in Xingkou City were disposed of, Gao Yuan came to the camp outside the city with guards to check the situation after the battle was over, and listened to Yuan Xuan talk about the situation outside the city.

Listening to Yuan Xuan's price, the battle in the camp outside the city was extremely fierce, the long-range strike weapons used by the Qin army were almost twice as many as those of the defenders, and they were divided into two parts, one part was left behind, and the other part was risked to push to a place less than 200 miles away from the position to carry out a deep strike, and at the same time, the catapult machine was filled with more than 100 catties of boulders to strike.

Although the accuracy of long-range strike weapons is not high, because of the large number, there will always be some gains, and a hundred catties of boulders fall from the air, ordinary wooden fences, sandbag walls can not resist, and even the fortress will be smashed. Therefore, under the continuous attack of the Qin army for nearly half an hour, the defense line was opened in many places, and three fortresses were hit by boulders and were damaged by different strokes.

However, the Qin army also paid a lot of price for this, because the defenders also pushed forward long-range strike weapons as the main target, the distance was too close, and the defenders concentrated their forces to strike, so under the attack of the defenders, the Qin army lost a total of more than 30 bed crossbows and trebuchets, and nearly 200 soldiers were killed and wounded.

Only then did the Qin army dispatch ground troops and launch an attack on the defenders' positions.

The attack of the Qin army was very fierce, and the Wei army, the Chu army, and the Dai army also took turns to resist the attack of the Qin army.

But the general shape is the main attack of the Qin army, the main defense of the coalition army, the Qin army launched a tidal attack on the position of the coalition army, wave after wave, and the coalition army held the position to the death, with the help of favorable terrain, resisting the attack of the Qin army, like an unbreakable embankment, let the tide rise higher than Lang, but always stood still.

The fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce, and the soldiers on both sides showed very high morale and fighting spirit, forgetting their lives and deaths, and one after the other, so both sides incurred a large number of casualties.

In some places, the defense line was broken through by the Qin army, and the trenches in some places were also filled, so the Qin army launched the city rush vehicles, crashed and destroyed several fortresses in a row, and developed in the direction of depth, and several city rush vehicles almost rushed to the side of the wall. However, the coalition army was not defeated because of this, on the one hand, they desperately resisted the Qin army, and on the other hand, they also used grease rockets to hit the Qin army's storming vehicles, and as a result, more than 20 storming vehicles were burned in a row, and the Qin army was never able to attack the wall.

At this time, the Qin army also reached the end of the strong crossbow, Yuan Xuan decisively ordered in Dazhai, ordering the Dai army that had been waiting for the opportunity to attack on all fronts and launch a counterattack against the Qin army.

After listening to Yuan Xuan's speech, Gao Yuan also knew that it seemed that the Qin army was mainly attacking the camp outside the city, attacking Xingkou City, but only containing the defenders in the city.

After the inventory, on the two battlefields, the coalition forces lost a total of 2,457 soldiers and another 1,877 wounded, but most of the casualties were Wei troops, the number of Dai soldiers killed was less than 100, and the wounded soldiers were only more than 200. Because the main force guarding the position was the Wei army, it was naturally the Wei army that suffered the greatest casualties.

However, although the casualties of the Dai army are not many, it does not mean that the Dai army has no efforts, because the number of the Dai army is small, and it is impossible to arrange the position on a large scale like the Wei army, but as long as there is a critical situation in the position outside, the Dai army will attack in time to stabilize the battle situation. And the final counterattack was also launched by the Dai Army, so it can also be said that if there is no support from the Dai Army at the time of Guan Jian, relying on the Wei and Chu Second Army, it is likely that it will not be able to hold the position.

In addition, two forts on the periphery of Xingkou Castle were damaged; Two forts outside the city were largely destroyed, and four others were damaged in different ways, and the defensive line outside the fortress was broken through multiple gaps. Nine large-scale long-range strike weapons were destroyed and another 12 were damaged. Overall, the losses of camps outside the city accounted for more than 70%.

On the one hand, this is because the focus of the Qin army's attack this time is on the camp outside the city, and on the other hand, it is also because Xingkou City has a wall to defend after all, and the defense is indeed stronger than the camp outside the city.

The losses of the Qin army were far greater than those of the coalition forces, with a total of 4,622 killed and another 3,247 wounded, almost double the number of casualties of the coalition army, and 45 large weapons such as bed crossbows, trebuchets, and storming vehicles were completely destroyed, another 27 were damaged and needed to be repaired, and the number of siege ladders destroyed reached even more than 100.

Because the Qin army was the attacking side, and the coalition army was not only the defensive side, but also had relatively complete fortifications, the losses of the Qin army were naturally much greater than those of the coalition army. And on the whole, this day's battle, the Qin army basically did not achieve much results, although the Qin army rushed to destroy two fortresses, and damaged many, but after a night of rushing work by the coalition forces, not only the damaged rest was restored, but even the two fortresses that were destroyed were rebuilt.

As a result, when the Qin army attacked the coalition positions again the next day, they found that almost all of the defenders' positions were restored as before, as if they had not been destroyed.

It turns out that the defensive positions and fortresses of the coalition army are mainly sandbags, and the biggest advantage is that it is simple to build, and it is a fortress, only using logs to build a frame, and then pile up the sandbags, so if there are enough people to step up the work, it is absolutely possible to build a fortress overnight.

In the following days, the Qin army launched an attack on the defense line of the coalition forces every day, and the main attack direction was the camp outside the city, while the Xingkou city was only mainly contained.

Although the Qin army's attack was very fierce, not only broke through the position of the camp outside the city many times, destroyed the fortress, and once attacked the position of the wall, but the coalition army always firmly held the defensive line, and did not give the Qin army a real chance to break through the position, and always took advantage of the night truce to repair the defensive line, fortifications, and fortresses that the Qin army had urged to destroy.

Later, the Qin army also discovered this situation, so the whole army was divided into three groups and attacked in turn, day and night, in an attempt to break through the defense line of the coalition army with continuous attacks.

This attack lasted for three days and two nights, and in the face of the Qin army's repeated attacks, Gao Yuan also mobilized a part of the army from Xingkou City to reinforce the camp outside the city, and finally even rushed to the camp outside the city to take command in person, so as to boost the morale of the whole army. By the third day, both sides were exhausted and exhausted.

At this moment, Gao Yuan ordered the Fan Yong Army, which had been recuperating in Xingkou City, to attack, and launched a fierce attack on the Qin army with the momentum of thunder and shock. Although the Qin army had always been guarding against the attack of the Dai army's cavalry, at this time the Qin army was already exhausted and could not withstand the impact of the cavalry at all, and as a result, the whole army was defeated, with countless casualties and deaths, and fled back to the camp.

Fortunately, in the past few days, the Qin army has also established the necessary fortifications on the hill, so the Fan Yong army did not take advantage of the situation to attack the Qin army's camp. But this battle has also dealt a heavy defeat to the Qin army.

By this time of the battle, the Qin army had lost more than 24,000 soldiers, plus the wounded soldiers, more than half of the number of soldiers had been reduced, and the loss of large weapons had exceeded 200, so the Qin army could no longer attack Xingkou for the time being. This is not to say that the strength of the Qin army is insufficient, because the Qin army still has enough troops, but after these few days of fighting, the Qin army really has no way to take the Xingkou defense line, and the morale of the Qin army is also severely frustrated, so Wang Jian also ordered to temporarily stop the attack on Xingkou and repair it for a few days.

In fact, the casualties of the Qin army were heavy, and the casualties of the coalition army were not small, and the number of soldiers killed in battle exceeded 10,000, plus the wounded soldiers, which was actually reduced by nearly half, of which the casualties of the Dai army also exceeded 1,500 people, and although the coalition army could repair the damaged positions every day, it also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.

However, the coalition army also has a strong reserve force, and the plateau transferred 10,000 Wei troops, 5,000 craftsmen and a large number of materials from Daliang, so the defense of Xingkou has not been weakened, and Wang Jian chose to suspend the attack, which is indeed correct, if the Qin army wants to force an attack, it will only suffer more losses.

While guarding Xingkou, the plateau did not relax other things, the bridges on the chasm that should have been demolished have been demolished, and the fort and beacon tower built along the chasm have also begun to be built, because the beacon tower is still using this sandbag stacking method, so the progress of the project has greatly exceeded the plateau's expectations, and it has been half completed by this time.

In addition, the work of collecting boats ordered by the plateau was also carried out very smoothly, and at this time more than 500 large and small boats had been collected, of which more than 300 small boats could accommodate less than 30 people; There are more than 120 medium-sized boats that can accommodate 30 to 60 people; There are more than 60 large ships that can accommodate more than 60 people; There are also more than 10 oversized ships that can accommodate more than 100 people. At the same time, more than 1,500 shipwrights were recruited. Basically, they are people who live on the Yellow River, and they are very familiar with the water conditions of the Yellow River.

At this time, Ling Feng also reported to the plateau that according to the news that the scouts heard that Yang Rui and his troops of the Qin army on the north bank of the Yellow River were also recruiting boat sailors, and it was indeed the intention to cross the river.

Gao Yuan also ordered that beacon towers should be built along the banks of the Yellow River immediately, and that the collected ships should be intensified to prepare for the crossing of the river.