Chapter 722: Consumption, Tug of War (Asking for Subscription)
All morning, Mo Xiaobai was waiting for the next attack of the Han army.
But until it was close to noon, there was no more enemy attack, only scattered outposts looking at the city on the other side of the river.
Mo Xiaobai couldn't figure out the other party's routine, and still took more than a dozen people to guard the city.
However, just after half a quarter of noon, the noisy footsteps that had not been seen for a long time reappeared.
Not again!
This time it was still a team of 1,000 people, almost the same as the previous routine, except that they had the 'ice' precautions, and brought a lot of planks and sandbags, so as not to fall down the pontoon.
Three wooden ladders approached the city, and many soldiers began to climb the wooden ladders again.
Pang De and the others, who were guarding the city, naturally counterattacked and directly threw down the big shield they had picked up before.
If you can't smash it, you can injure a few.
The siege began again, just like the battle two hours before. The slight difference was that the Han army that stormed the city was a little smaller, and the soldiers outside the city no longer looked crowded.
This dozen, another more than an hour.
Seeing that the more than 1,000 soldiers besieging the city had accumulated almost three or four percent casualties, Mo Xiaobai felt that he should be able to drive this army back as before.
However, just as he was about to move, the other side of the river was the first to give the order to retreat.
Hearing the order to retreat, the soldiers no longer guarded the siege ladder and began to cover each other and slowly retreated.
Just walked away neatly!
"What do you mean this is?" Looking at the retreat of the Han army, Mo Xiaobai was a little unhappy, the other party was just stuck in retreating when he was about to exert his strength, obviously seeing through his thoughts.
Mo Xiaobai attacked, not so much to kill the enemy, but to force the other party to retreat in exchange for time to recuperate.
Now that the other party is taking the initiative to retreat, it is tantamount to giving Mo Xiaobai a chance to rest and delay.
Abnormal, and weird!
Mo Xiaobai couldn't figure it out, so he immediately called all the generals under his command to his side: "What do you think?" ”
"My lord, although the enemy army has temporarily retreated, it will definitely not stop." Li Guang has always had a good battlefield eagerness, and said at the moment: "I can't attack hard, I think they will continue to use the strategy of exhausting the enemy." ”
"Taking turns attacking after a while, it seems to give me a chance to rest, but I can't really rest at ease, and I will be physically and mentally exhausted after a long time."
Li Guang's analysis is very simple, and the reason is very clear.
Play for an hour, rest for an hour, and it is impossible to sleep deeply during the hour of rest, at most squint for a while.
When I squinted and squinted to see that I was going to fall asleep, the battle began again.
Such a reciprocal toss is more difficult than fighting for a whole day.
The opponent chose this way to exhaust the enemy, and Mo Xiaobai quickly thought of another point.
The number of soldiers and horses of the besieging Han army is probably not too much, and if there are really enough soldiers and horses, they will definitely adopt the method of attacking day and night regardless of casualties.
But they did not attack at the moment, nor did they choose to feint, or simply harass with the sound of drums, which also shows that their opponents still have troops available.
There won't be too much, and it won't be too little, judging from the two successive battles, it's probably between five or six thousand.
"I see."
Estimating the forces that Liu Heimin had deployed to attack the city, Mo Xiaobai would be able to calculate the next battle situation.
After all, Liu Heimin wants Shui City, not the heads of his own people.
………
Before the time, the Han army and horses really attacked again.
More than 1,000 soldiers and horses began to storm the north city gate in an orderly manner, and Mo Xiaobai also joined the battle at the head of the city.
An hour passed, as if it was stuck in time, and the Han army, which had left more than 100 corpses, began to withdraw again.
When unitary, fight again.
Hey, go on.
When the child was young, the shouts of killing were still noisy and earth-shattering.
The Han army attacked the city again and again, day and night.
deliberately spaced out scattered time to let Mo Xiaobai and the others rest, but in fact, this kind of rest was a challenge to the nerves, because a little wind and grass would make people feel that the Han army had killed again.
In the weather when the snow still does not stop, such a war is definitely painful torture.
Mo Xiaobai and the generals are okay, the big deal is that they don't fit their eyes for a day or two, but those grassroots military attaches can't bear it, although no one has been injured, but they are already tired and panting for breath now.
After the battle, he leaned directly against the wall, and he had long lost the strength to go out of the city to clean up the battlefield.
The situation on Mo Xiaobai's side is gradually getting worse, and the rogue rabbit on the other side is even more miserable. Although the soldiers he brought this time were fourth-order elite soldiers, much stronger than the soldiers that Liu Heimin hastily recruited, he couldn't withstand this kind of tidal rush.
Thirty percent of the thirty elite soldiers have been injured, and what's worse is that Jing Dan and the others have exhausted their essence in their bodies, and their strength has been greatly reduced.
"I can't hold it anymore."
The rogue rabbit had no choice but to come to Mo Xiaobai for help: "The opponent this time doesn't plan to let us rest at all, and I don't know how many tough battles we have to fight in the second half of the night." ”
"I'm not having a good time, but I can ask Li Guang to go to your place to help." Mo Xiaobai knew what the rogue rabbit was here for, and he didn't talk nonsense with him, so he directly named Li Guang's name.
The East Gate is as important as the North Gate, and losing the East Gate is equivalent to losing the copy, which Mo Xiaobai knows very well.
Signaling Li Guang to follow the rogue rabbit, Mo Xiaobai took out two pots of wine from his Sumeru bag.
"It's a long night, let's have a drink together."
The soju entered the throat, driving away the chill brought by the heavy snow, and it could also reinvigorate people's spirits, looking at the small colonels whose faces had recovered slightly, Mo Xiaobai was calculating the loss of the Han army.
From morning to night, more than 2,000 people were lost, to say the least.
Hold on until tomorrow, and that number will expand to more than three thousand.
Once the battle damage reached this level, Mo Xiaobai believed that Liu Heimin would either give up the city or have to increase his troops.
Choose the former, and the quest will naturally end.
If the latter is chosen, it will be equivalent to relieving the pressure on Li Er in the rest of the battle in the water.
With the ability of those people in the Heavenly Strategy, they should be able to grasp it.
"I know it, and I want to come to the generals of the Han army."
"Will there be any other variables tonight?"
No matter how Mo Xiaobai guesses, what should come will always come.
At three o'clock, the Han army attacked again.
The torches swayed in the wind and snow, reflecting the brave faces.
The Han army was uneven in terms of training and equipment, and the only thing that was commendable was that they were all from the land of Yan Zhao.
The camp of thousands of people was nearly forty percent empty in one day, and it did not make the others retreat or fear.
When this group of people stepped into the battlefield, they still rushed to the top of the city with all their strength.
An hour's fight is a real tough battle.
Finally survived another wave of attacks and sent the five injured colonels down, Mo Xiaobai turned around, but he exhaled deeply.
S-class dungeons, it's really enough to toss people.
After sitting down and resting for less than half an hour, seeing the Han army on the other side of the river regrouping and continuing to approach, Mo Xiaobai and the generals got up together.
It was just a simple standing action, but Mo Xiaobai saw more than a dozen Great Dream City military attachés floating under their feet, swaying for a while before holding on to the wall and standing firm.
Everyone's physical strength is almost at the limit!