The first wave of attacks did not achieve the expected results. More than 500 soldiers who entered the passage were attacked by the city defense crossbow. The long crossbow arrows broke through the armor on their bodies and nailed them to the ground. In more than ten blood-colored passages, less than twenty soldiers came back alive.

Yaoli's expression remained unchanged, and there was no slight fluctuation due to the failure of the first attack. In his opinion, death on the battlefield was the glory of the soldiers. More than 480 soldiers used their lives to test the opponent's defensive traps to avoid casualties in subsequent troops. Then their deaths were valuable.

The order of attacks was slightly adjusted and the second attack was to be quickly organized.

A row of shield armored soldiers strode forward and soon advanced to the edge of the trench. They supported the large shield diagonally and formed a shield wall. The archers behind were shot under the cover of the shield, suppressing the archers on the opposite dirt slope. The remaining soldiers stood on the shield and came out from the gaps reserved by the shield wall.

This time it was the defenders on the earth slope that were uncomfortable. The enemy troops who went down into the trench did not form a formation, but directly launched a rapid attack with the scattered formation. The defense archers could not find the opponent's flaws and could not cause effective killing. In addition, the suppression of the opponent's feather arrows greatly increased the pressure on defense. Many archers could only barely launch attacks on the attacking enemy, but in the end they did not cause effective killing. However, they were accidentally hit by the falling feather arrows and lost their combat ability.

"Mingjin, let the soldiers retreat." Fan Li observed for a long time and suddenly said to the messenger beside him.

"Dangdangdangdangdang"

Hearing the sound of gongs on the top of the city, the defenders on the slope suddenly exerted force and pushed down the huge rocks used as cover. The rocks rolled up and brought up a series of dust, as if a monster was rushing towards the soldiers of the Guard below. The soldiers exclaimed and dodged left and right, but they would always be hit by the huge rocks in a little bit unable to dodge.

"Bang"

A guard set up the shield in despair, trying to escape by chance under the protection of the shield, but reality is always cruel. The shield made of pure copper only slightly delayed the castration of the boulder, and the next second it was the end of the shovel. The boulder continued to roll down with blood until it rushed into the bottom of the ditch, and the castration slowed down, and then slowly stopped.

After a brief pause, the surviving soldiers continued to attack, but no longer rushing down their heads, but slowed down their pace and observed vigilantly above them. As long as they saw signs of falling rocks, they immediately avoided them as soon as they were. However, there was silence above the slope now. Apart from the thick gasping sounds around, there were no other sounds on the entire battlefield.

The first soldier who climbed to the top of the earth slope carefully poked his head out and wanted to see the situation behind the slope. However, as soon as his head was exposed, he heard a whizzing sound of breaking through the air from the opposite side. The soldier reacted very quickly, curled up his body under the shield while shrank his head, and then felt the shield tremble. The arrows fell on the shield and crackled. It turned out that the top of the earth slope was already within the attack range of the arrows on the city.

But that hurried glance had already allowed him to see the situation behind the slope. All the defenders had retreated to the city. He even saw a dozen people at the end dragging empty bags into the city gate.

The general's order was to take down the earth slope before noon, so the soldiers who climbed to the top of the slope did not continue to chase, but retreated from the shooting range of the crossbow on the city. At the same time, the latest military order to leave came from behind, asking the soldiers to rest on the spot and wait for the next instructions.

"It's worthy of being my vanguard general who took down the dirt slope, and Qingyun County City was directly exposed to us. The vanguard army who was about to leave first retreat to the rear and rest. Fu Zan, you take your people up. Take soil on the dirt slope, fill a few roads out, and then expand the location of the dirt to allow a building car to pass through, and you must not be lazy. The original passages are not allowed to be used. The city defense crossbows on the opposite side are aimed at there. Although those things are powerful, the rotation angle is small, and once fixed, they cannot be moved. As long as you move out of the front, the threat of those crossbows to our building car will be greatly reduced. I won't say anything extra. If I mess up the errand, I will want your head. Do you understand?"

"Don't worry, General, just pave a road. This is not the first time I have done this job. Before dark, I guarantee to build a few passages and will not affect the attack the next day."

Hearing Fu Zan's promise, Le Yang nodded with satisfaction. It would take a day for the building to be assembled. Tomorrow, the infantry can go up and try the waters to see the defense strength at the city. It would be even better if the loopholes in the city defense could be tested.

At the same time, in the county magistrate's office of Qingyun County, Ying Guang summoned the generals to discuss some details of tomorrow's defense. Due to the sufficient preparation in the early stage, the city's defensive equipment and food and supplies were all available. In addition, Luffy's baggage team traveled back and forth between Guiling County and Qingyun County every seven days, greatly increasing Qingyun County's continuous defense ability and having the advantage of continuous supply, Ying Guang and others were full of confidence in defending Qingyun County.

"Old win, although the logistics is smooth now, we have to take more precautions. If the food route is cut off, we can only be trapped in the county city." Dian Jun thought more. Although Shuyang, Qingyun and Shangjun were connected, Shuyang and Shangjun had guards confronted each other. In this way, the other party could send a light cavalry to swagger through the defense areas of the two counties, encircle the rear of Qingyun County, and then cut off the food route. If the other party had sufficient troops, they could even advance to Guiling County. In this way, the pressure on their side would inevitably increase greatly. If one was careless, the city would be destroyed and the people would die.

"Dian Jun said it right. When Leyang found that he could not defeat us head-on, he would definitely go around our rear to cut off our food route, but he would definitely not send much troops. First of all, he would not transfer troops from Le Yi and Le Feng, because the troops he arranged there could barely maintain a confrontation with Shuyang and Shangjun. If he was transferred, the two brothers would definitely take the initiative to attack and eat up his remaining troops. Therefore, to encircle our retreat, he could only draw from our troops, but large-scale mobilization could not be hidden from our eyes, so he could only send a small number of troops in secret and circle around us."

Ying Guang stopped, and the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up slightly. He turned his head and said to Dian Jun: "Lao Dian, we have an old brother who is coming back, so guess who he is." To be continued.

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