Chapter 811: Between Attack and Defense

After lunch, the army rested for a quarter of an hour, and Zhang He ordered the army to continue the siege.

The river filling in the morning was just the beginning of the whole war, not even the appetizer. The formal ant-attached siege in the afternoon was the beginning of the tragic siege.

As the horns and drums of the central army sounded, the soldiers of the first round of attack began to march towards the city wall. Behind them were the archers and crossbowmen who were ready for battle, and behind them were the catapults.

The first round of soldiers was about a thousand people, divided into more than ten groups. In addition to the more than ten groups of ant-attached sieges, they also had two teams guarding large siege ladders. Their goal was the city gate.

When Zhang He ordered the army to start the attack, the defenders in the city were also ready for defense. On the newly built platforms behind the city wall, there were dozens of catapults. The soldiers and civilians on the top of the city were also busy, constantly moving rolling stones and wood from the bottom of the city. The hot oil on the top of the city began to burn, so that they could be used when the enemy army climbed the city like ants.

Soon, the attacking soldiers entered the range of the archers on the top of the city. With the order of the general defending the city, the archers on the top of the city shot arrows at the bottom of the city, and the archers under the city also began to shoot at the top of the city, trying to suppress the archers on the top of the city.

For a while, in the sky outside the city wall, arrows were like locusts. If you look closely, you can see that there are obviously many more arrows shot from the bottom of the city to the top of the city.

Seeing this, the general guarding the top of the city ordered the soldiers to pay attention to avoid the enemy's arrows, and at the same time ordered the catapults behind the city to start throwing stones to the marked positions outside the city.

As the "buzzing" sound rang out, the soldiers on the top of the city caused considerable losses to the soldiers under the city, but soon, the counterattack outside the city arrived. After a few breaths, the catapults in the city were almost completely lost.

Fortunately, at this time, the soldiers who were attacking the city had arrived under the city, and the archers and catapults outside the city stopped attacking to avoid accidentally injuring their own soldiers attacking the city. At this time, the defenders had the upper hand. With the order of the defender, the rolling stones and battering rams that had been prepared for the defense of the city slammed down on the soldiers under the city, and bursts of screams suddenly rang out under the city.

In the central army outside the city, Zhang He stared at the soldiers who were attacking the city, and orders came out from time to time, and then the messengers went to convey them to the generals. He knew that whether he could gain a foothold in the Andong army, today's battle would be his touchstone.

Standing next to Zhang He was his lord Huangfu Chaobo. Although he was not good at commanding battles, he had seen battles commanded by many famous generals in the past few years since entering the game.

In his opinion, although Zhang He's command ability could not be compared with Xu Rong, Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun, it was also very good. If there was a comparison, he was only slightly inferior to Zhao Yun, and much stronger than Tian Yu and Huang Xu.

While Huangfu Chaobo was thinking, the battle on the top of the city had made progress. The soldiers in the first round of attack had begun to climb the top of the city, but they were soon driven down by the defenders on the top of the city. At this time, the siege ladder had also reached the city gate, and the battle at the city gate began.

The soldiers under the city wall continued to climb to the top of the city, and soon another soldier climbed up to the top of the city, but before they had time to stand, they were driven down by the soldiers guarding the city, and this happened again and again.

An hour passed, and no soldier could hold on to the top of the city. Seeing this, Zhang He immediately ordered his men to call off the troops. The morale of this round of soldiers had been lost, and it would be useless to hold on any longer.

However, when the first round of soldiers retreated, Zhang He also sent out the second round of soldiers to attack the top of the city.

Until the middle of the Shenshi, the war had not made any progress. Huangfu Chaobo knew that it was impossible to capture Taiyang today, so he turned to Zhang He and said, "General Zhang, I will return to the camp first, and I will leave this to you."

Zhang He hurriedly said, "I will not disappoint you, my lord!"

"It doesn't matter, you did a good job. Although Taiyang is small, it still has 5,000 soldiers and horses defending it. I have never thought of taking the city in one day.

You can attack according to your own strategy, without any pressure."

After speaking, Huangfu Chaobo turned around and left under the escort of the soldiers of the Tiebi Camp.

"Goodbye, lord!" Zhang He was moved when he heard it, and he bowed and saluted;

The other generals around him also saluted and watched their lord leave.

After Huangfu Chaobo left, Zhang He looked up at the sky, and then at the battle below the city. He knew that there was no hope today, so he ordered his guards: "Come on, sound the horn to withdraw the troops, and order the archers to prepare for the support."

On the top of Taiyang City, watching the An Dong army retreating like a tide, the soldiers of Taiyang City seemed to have all their strength drained away. Most of them collapsed on the city wall and were unwilling to stand up again.

Taiyang was originally under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou. Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the elite soldiers and horses have been almost exhausted in the battle with the Yellow Turban bandit army. The current soldiers and horses are soldiers recruited in the following years. The combat power is not comparable to the previous army.

After Kong Yi took office, he also transferred many elite soldiers from various cities, and the remaining soldiers became even weaker. After Yuan Shu's army captured these cities, he also ordered the cities to step up the training of soldiers, strengthen the cities, and defend them. However, due to the weak foundation, poor foundation, and tight time, the situation of soldiers in Runan cities was really worrying. This is why Huang Yi sent imperial guards to each city to supervise the army after arriving in Runan.

What they didn't know was that Runan had always been under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, and had no sense of belonging to Yangzhou. In addition, although Kong Jun was not good at managing the army, he was impeccable in civil affairs. Therefore, both the soldiers and the people had a much better impression of the Yuzhou army than the Yuan Shu army.

Although the army was not allowed to fight with the Yuzhou army under the supervision of the Zhong family's imperial guards, the morale of the army had almost fallen to the bottom.

The Taiyang school lieutenant was surnamed Jiang, a descendant of the Shouchun Jiang family. Like the county magistrate surnamed Kuang, they were all officials sent from Yangzhou. Although they were not alone in their posts, each of them brought two hundred confidants to Taiyang, but the strong dragon could not fight the local snake, so although they were in charge of the people and the army respectively, the deputies and middle and lower-level officials and generals were still locals.

Today's battle can be said to have just begun, but there have been hundreds of casualties among the defenders, and 30% of them were their own confidants. There was no way. At the critical moment, when the soldiers retreated, they could only rely on their own confidants.