After the Qin army was defeated and retreated, Xin Sheng was also quite shocked, although he did not expect this attack to be able to break through the defenders' positions, but this attack did not achieve any results, or greatly exceeded Xin Sheng's expectations, originally according to Xin Sheng's expectations, this attack should also break through at least one fortress, but in fact, the three-way Qin army, not even the edge of the fortress touched.

However, this attack also gave Xin Sheng a new understanding of the battle situation, first, the Wei army's will to fight surprised Xin Sheng very much; Second, the defensive position of Xingkou seems simple, but it is indeed very tight, and it is by no means easy to attack.

But this did not mean that Xin Sheng would give up the attack, but immediately dispatched troops again, this time, of course, to go all out and attack the position in Xingkou again.

The Qin army's offensive targets were still the outermost three fortresses, and they attacked in three directions. Each was followed by a front of five hundred soldiers, all with shields and fifty siege ladders, followed by a thousand soldiers, followed by five hundred soldiers, and a hundred sapper carts.

Not only did the number of troops dispatched this time triple that they did last time, but Xin Sheng also ordered bed crossbows and trebuchets to move forward with the attacking army and launch an attack on the Xingkou city wall, pinning down the long-range strike weapons on the city and covering the attacking army.

With Xin Sheng's order, the Qin army once again regained its strength and once again launched an attack on the Xingkou position.

Bed crossbows and trebuchets were activated, and crossbow guns and stones were directly crossed over the camp outside the city and attacked the city walls. And in order to increase the range, some trebuchets also replaced with twenty or thirty pounds of small stones.

This move was somewhat unexpected by the plateau, because there were not many bunkers on the city wall, and the city wall with adobe as the main structure had limited resistance to the stones projected by the trebuchet, and there were also a large number of bed crossbows and trebuchets placed on the city wall, which were all targets of the Qin army, so although the Qin army advanced to the position again, the bed crossbows and trebuchets on the city wall did not take care of them, and they fought back at the Qin army's long-range strike weapons.

Stones and crossbows flew in the sky again, smashing into the ground and walls. This time, the battle against long-range strike weapons is also obviously much more intense. Soldiers on both sides were hit one after another, some bed crossbows and trebuchets were also smashed and destroyed, and the city walls were hit with stones, and stones and sand flew wildly. Many crossbow guns and stones also fell into Xingkou City, smashing people's houses, wounding and killing many residents in the city.

Although some people persuaded Gao Yuan to go down to the city tower to hide, but Gao Yuan refused, and still insisted on standing on the city tower to command the defensive operation, at this time, if the main general hid, it would have a considerable impact on the morale of the whole army.

However, on the whole, the losses of the Qin army were still greater than those of the defenders, because the defenders had walls to rely on after all, and the Qin army had nothing to stop. Therefore, the two sides fought each other for a while, and the Qin army suffered more than 100 casualties, more than a dozen bed crossbows and trebuchets were damaged, and several were also damaged in the process of pushing. The defenders suffered only more than 50 casualties, and only six or seven pieces of equipment were damaged.

However, the purpose of the Qin army was only to cover the ground attack, so after the forward army entered the offensive position, it immediately withdrew and retreated beyond the range of the defenders, handing over the battlefield to the ground attacking army.

Due to the cover of large long-range strike weapons, the Qin army did not suffer much damage during the advance, and it was not until it entered the range of the bow and crossbow that it was officially attacked by the defenders. However, the defenders were reinforced by 2,000 troops led by Su Hu, and the number of crossbowmen increased accordingly, so the arrows fired were dense and urgent, and although the Qin troops were all carrying shields, they were still killed and wounded.

Braving the rain of arrows from the defenders, the three-way Qin army still pushed forward firmly, and after paying a large number of casualties, the Qin army approached the defense line again, erected the siege ladder, and climbed the sandbag wall.

And this time the Qin army also learned a lot smarter, because the Qin army's siege ladders are prepared for attacking the fortified city, up to four or five zhang, and the sandbag wall is only more than one zhang high, which is completely wasteful, and it is also easy to be pushed down by the defenders, so before the attack, the Qin soldiers cut many siege ladders in half, and when attacking, they did not erect the siege ladders, but placed the siege ladders directly on the sandbag wall, becoming a large slope, so that the Qin soldiers could directly attack the siege ladder to the mine bag wall without climbing, And it was not easy for the defenders to knock down the siege ladder.

However, after defeating the first attack of the Qin army, the defenders' confidence was greatly increased, so they raised their spears and engaged the Qin soldiers, and the two sides once again engaged in fierce white-knuckle fighting.

Subsequently, the second batch of attacking troops of the Qin army also rushed to the defense line and joined the battle group, and the offensive of the Qin army immediately increased greatly, and some Qin soldiers climbed the sandbag wall along the siege ladder to fight the defenders; Even some archers rushed to the front of the position and shot arrows at the defenders, while some Qin soldiers could not grab the siege ladder, but attacked the defenders with their pistols under the wall. Because the sandbag wall is only more than one zhang high, and the length of the spear is more than two zhang, even if it is under the wall, it can also attack the defenders on the wall, and it is to attack the legs of the defenders.

At the beginning, the defenders were caught off guard, and many soldiers were stabbed in the legs by the Qin soldiers and grabbed the wall by the Qin soldiers. But the defenders quickly adjusted, and some soldiers jumped off the sandbag wall to fight the Qin soldiers, while some crossbowmen kicked on the sandbag wall to cover the soldiers fighting under the wall. Therefore, the situation was turned around in one fell swoop.

The third group of attacking teams of the Qin army also rushed to the battlefield and dumped the sand and gravel and soil in the sapper vehicles into the trenches, some of which crashed directly into the sandbag wall, and some of which crashed into the sandbag wall. Some of them couldn't hit the sandbag wall, but they leaned against the sandbag wall, which also served as a springboard for other Qin soldiers to attack.

But as the battle also went on extremely fiercely, the number of dead and wounded soldiers on both sides continued to increase, and the corpses of soldiers on both sides were lying under the sandbag walls, walls, and trenches, and blood was flowing all over the ground and walls, as well as many broken guns, broken swords and shields, and broken armor and broken arms and stumps. The wounded were constantly being sent back to their positions, and the soldiers were still fighting the battlefield.

Su Gauntlet used a bronze halberd and led a team of personal soldiers to run back and forth on the position, where it was critical, so he rushed there to reinforce. Sometimes they would fight out of the gaps in the defensive line and catch the Qin army off guard.

This time the Qin army's offensive is indeed much stronger than the last time, some trenches were broken by the Qin army, and some Qin troops even killed to the side of the fortress and attacked the fortress, but although the Qin army's attack was very fierce, the defenders also defended it well, and the defenders occupied a geographical advantage after all, and the number was not less than that of the Qin army, because the defenders were not only the three fortresses in the front row, but the defenders in the eight fortresses in the back row could also attack the Qin army with bows and arrows and assist the defenders in fighting, so the Qin army was still very passive, After more than an hour of fighting, the killing of the Qin army had reached a considerable level, and it was finally a little unsupportable.

At this time, the clarion call for withdrawal sounded again in the rear of the Qin army, and the Qin army immediately retreated, and the defenders immediately let out a burst of cheers, celebrating the defeat of the enemy once again.

After the Qin army retreated to the array, it did not immediately organize the next attack, but pushed all the bed crossbows and trebuchets back into the array, and at the same time sent three hundred unarmed soldiers and dozens of carts to the front of the array to collect the corpses of the Qin soldiers.

Gao Yuan saw it on the city tower, and also knew that the Qin army was ready to collect troops and retreat, so he immediately ordered to send sappers and military doctors to the battle, while repairing the fortifications of the battlefield, while treating the wounded, and at the same time collecting the corpses of his own soldiers, because the casualties of the defenders in this battle were also a lot, and in addition, they had to collect weapons, bows and arrows, crossbow guns and other materials left on the battlefield, which could still be used in future battles.

So both sides go back and forth on the battlefield, searching for the bodies of their comrades, sometimes nodding to each other, saying hello, and sometimes returning each other's corpses, and the receiving party will also say thank you.

Su Hu led a team of Wei troops, returned to the city, and immediately rushed to the city tower to meet the plateau. I saw that Su Hu was covered in blood, panting, his helmet fell somewhere, and the halberd in his hand was covered with blood, and it continued to fall to the ground along the halberd pole.

Gao Yuan immediately said: "General Su, are you injured." ”

Su Hu said: "It's all a few minor injuries, it's not a big deal, but this battle made me happy." As he spoke, he raised the halberd in his hand and said, "Just now I killed nine Qin soldiers in a row, and two of them were at least centurions of the Qin army, and it turned out that the Qin army was nothing more than that." If our Wei army could have fought like this before, we would not have been killed so badly by the Qin army. ”

At this time, a Wei general said: "In fact, although the Qin army is very strong, our Wei army is not inferior to them, when Xinling Jun was here, our Wei army was not afraid of the Qin army at all, and now with Wu Anjun leading the army, we can fight to the death with the Qin army, it can be seen that it is not that our Wei army cannot fight, but that the ministers of the court are too incompetent." ”

Gao Yuan knows, this Wei general is called Wei Ben, is a young brave general under Su Hu, his father once fought with Xin Lingjun in the Qin army, Wei did not reuse Xin Ling Jun, has always been angry, so although he is also the clan of Wei, but has always been very dissatisfied with the monarchs and ministers of Wei, on the contrary, he admires Gao Yuan very much, unlike other clan members.

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "It's too much of an award, to be able to play like this, it's all the efforts of the soldiers, and I am far from Xinlingjun compared to me." ”

As he was talking, Ling Feng rushed to report to Gao Yuan, it turned out that the Qin army outside the city had also retreated, Gao Yuan said: "Okay, although you are not seriously injured, you can't be careless, hurry up and bandage it, because there are still many important battles to fight in the future." ”