So Zhang Miaoshou immediately ordered the soldiers to listen to his instructions when the officers and soldiers attacked the city, and no one was allowed to fire without his orders!

After two consecutive attacks, the officers and soldiers stopped the attack at the same time!

At this time, at the south gate, north gate, and east gate, at the same time, a master of a small Cheng realm cultivation level or above appeared, shouting the same passage to the rogue soldiers on the city wall with his majestic true qi.

"Brothers defending the city, now that your grain, grass, and ordnance have been burned out, you are at the end of your rope! If you continue to fight against the officials and troops, there is only one way to die! You also know that the emperor is merciful, and he has always surrendered and not killed those of you who have been forced to become cowards! Not only did he not kill, but the officials and soldiers also gave you rice, flour, money, and grain, so that you could send you back to your hometown! I repeat, fighting against the officials and the army is a dead end! Surrender the officers and soldiers, and go home safely! Gao Yingxiang wants to be the emperor, but now it seems that he is dead, so why should you die with him?"

These masters of the Xiaocheng Realm used their true qi when they spoke, and their voices were like a loud bell, long and long, and the rogue soldiers on the city wall could hear them clearly.

Although none of these rogue soldiers dared to speak, let alone answer, they were greatly shaken in their hearts.

There is a tradition for the officials and soldiers to surrender but not kill the rogues! If that could really be the case, then it would be great! He Gao Yingxiang wanted to be the emperor, so why should we use him as cannon fodder? If we want to say that there is enough food, grass, and weapons in the city, it is fine, but now that the grain is gone, and the arrows and projectiles will run out sooner or later, what will we use to fight the officials and soldiers at that time?

Most of the Rogue soldiers have this thought, but there are also many Rogue soldiers who are also worried.

I heard that it was Qin Shuhuai who led the troops this time, and that demon was vicious, and it is said that all of the 8,000 people we were captured last time were killed by him! Although the officers and soldiers surrendered this time and did not kill them, who can guarantee that they are not fooling us? If that is the case, then Lao Tzu might as well die in battle than die on his knees!

I have to say that there are two sides to everything. At the beginning, Yang He's policy of "not killing prisoners" would certainly encourage banditry, but it was really effective in persuading him to surrender. And Qin Shuhuai's thunderous means of punishing all the rogue can certainly curb the spread of banditry, but it has become a negative factor when persuading him to surrender.

However, Qin Shuhuai didn't care what they thought now. This exhortation was written by himself, and the purpose was only to continue to demoralize the defenders and shake their morale.

Since ancient times, countless allusions have emphasized the importance of morale, such as Cao Di's polemics, breaking the cauldron and sinking the ship, and embattled. Psychologically speaking, once morale is low, when an unfavorable situation arises, the psychology of "surrendering and not dying" will immediately gain the upper hand, which is determined by people's survival instinct, and this kind of psychology is the most lethal for an army.

Therefore, whether it was burning military rations, burning weapons, burning the yamen, or persuading him to surrender, what Qin Shuhuai wanted was just to accelerate the collapse of the more than 40,000 defenders in the city, so as to help him quickly capture Shangluo City!

He can't afford it at all in Shangluo!

After the officials and soldiers shouted, naturally there was no situation in which the rogues in the city opened the door and surrendered, which was expected.

So, Hong Chengchou gave the order to continue the attack!

The officers and troops launched another wave of siege on three sides, this time more ferocious than the previous two. After the official army arrived at the city, they began to climb the ladder, and the archer platform was closer this time than before, and the arrows shot by the official archers above were like raindrops, and many of the rogues at the head of the city fell down with arrows.

The rogue soldiers at the west and north gates still fought back as if they were going to dump all the ammunition at once. And the rogue soldiers at the east gate, under the command of Zhang Miaoshou, knew that the officers and soldiers began to climb the ladder before they opened fire. But once fired, they were like crazy, and they were crazy about what they had at hand!

The strange thing is that the official army retreated again halfway through the attack!

The soldiers who had climbed halfway up stopped climbing, jumped down one after another, and then threw down twenty or so ladders and ran.

Zhang Miaoshou saw that all the troops in the rear of the official army were gone, and only three or four hundred soldiers were left within a hundred meters, all of whom were carrying shields and armored vehicles.

He hurriedly ordered the soldiers to stop firing, but Xicheng was so long, where would his order come for a while? Every soldier followed the magic and fired wildly, and when they all stopped, a lot of arrows and ammunition had been wasted.

The Ming army never tired of playing feints, but the rogue soldiers at the head of the city couldn't stand it!

The main problem is that they find that the military resources for counterattacks are constantly decreasing, but they are not replenished in the slightest!

There are less than half of the arrows left, and even fewer of the projectiles, shells, thunderbolts, and oil of the birds, less than a third of the original number. They don't know how to make these materials themselves, and they all rely on a little bit of looting from the official army.

There were no arrows and ammunition, and the soldiers at the head of the city panicked.

If we continue to fight like this, soon the skills of the archers, the birds, the guns of the birds, and the cannons will all become burning sticks!

The official and military routines are deep. After this wave of fighting, the three masters of Xiaochengjing came to shout again, and they shouted exactly the same words!

The rogue soldiers at the head of the city had completely wrong expressions. Many soldiers kept looking in the direction where the big boss was, obviously trying to find out what the big boss was thinking.

But these leaders are all Gao Yingxiang's old subordinates, and their will to resist is still very resolute.

Zhang Miao took a soldier's bow and arrow in his hand, and shot it at the Ming army Xiaochengjing who was full of bowstrings and shouted to the city, although he was easily caught by the other party, it showed his determination to resist resolutely!

At the head of the city, the leader of the Liukou began to repeatedly mention to the soldiers that Qin Shuhuai had slaughtered 8,000 prisoners, telling them that once they surrendered, what was waiting for them would definitely be Qin Shuhuai's butcher's knife!

After the second round of shouting, the officers and troops regrouped.

At this time, it has reached the ugly time, and according to the agreement, this time they are going to really attack!

Hong Chengchou advanced three hundred meters, and at this time he was only three or four hundred meters away from the city, and he couldn't hit him with one shot.

And He Renlong was even more red-eyed, and advanced to about 200 meters below the city to personally supervise the battle. This is his last chance to save face, and if another siege fails, he doesn't want to go back alive!

Seeing that the fireworks representing the general attack had been raised, he drew his sword and shouted with his green muscles exposed, "Brothers, kill me!"

"Kill!"

With the roar of the mountains and the tsunami, the officers and soldiers rushed forward with overwhelming momentum!

This time, the officials and soldiers used not only twenty or thirty ladders on each city wall, but hundreds! The number of ladders that had been used only by four or five archers at a time had increased to thirty at once. Moreover, the strength of one echelon has suddenly increased from the original seven or eight hundred to one thousand and eight hundred!

Everyone knows that the officers and soldiers are going to move in earnest!

After four feints, the psychologically devastated rogue soldiers ushered in a stormy attack by the official army!