Chapter 33 Stalemate Consumption
The cold wind in the middle of the night was icy on my body, and the wind was filled with a burnt smell of trees. The big crow above Lu Longsai was flying in the night with a huge "pa" sound.
"Tomorrow...will it be peaceful tomorrow?" Liu He thought alone at the enemy camp that was vaguely visible outside the city.
Because the soldiers were exhausted, Liu He and Guan Yu were responsible for patrolling the city walls at night after the soldiers slept.
Guan Yu pointed to the enemy camp in the distance and asked Liu He, "Lord! I wonder if they will fight?"
"We will definitely fight! Although more than 2,000 people were lost, they did not hurt their muscles. They still have time to find reinforcements. When they breathe and recover their morale, the time for the attack will come. But there are too few people in our lives. Now there are only a little more than 2,000 people who can jump around. Standing side by side on this city wall, there is no one in line. If reinforcements are not available, the situation will be very dangerous." Liu He was very anxious.
Guan Yu sighed without saying a word.
"Chang Yun! We will survive. You will definitely go home to see your wife." Liu He hurriedly comforted him.
Guan Yu took out a jade pendant from his arms and looked at it again and again, with deep affection in his eyes.
At this time, the Xianbei leader Xiong came with news of reinforcements. Wuyan and Queji hurriedly took him into the tent.
"Where are our reinforcements?" Queji is most concerned about.
"It will arrive in three days! The reinforcements arranged by the chief leader have arrived as fast as possible. Because the baggage needs to be transported at the same time, the time is a little later."
"Will we wait for the reinforcements to attack or start the attack from the Ming Dynasty?" Wuyan immediately felt better when he heard that the reinforcements had arrived.
"Let's start fighting tomorrow! The soldiers have recovered their morale these days, and they are all full of anger and want to kill Lu Longsai to avenge Suli's army." Que Ji took the speech and said viciously.
"The soldiers are indeed very eager to fight. I think they can attack immediately and attack it for three consecutive days. As soon as the reinforcements arrive, they will take down Lulongsai in one go." Wu Yan said with excitement with both hands excitedly and gestured fiercely.
"Although we lost more than 2,000 troops of Suli's power very unexpectedly, we did not lose in vain. He completed the task we booked and completed it completely. Now I estimate that the Han army has no reserve troops. In the first two days, we saw with our own eyes that his losses in the fortress would not be less than 300 or 400 people. We would use his troops to death." Xiong said.
"Then we have to fight faster. It has been seven days since we arrived in Lulongsai. Logically, Xu Wu County, which is closest to it, should send reinforcements." Queji added from the side.
"But Xu Wucheng's reinforcements are not worth worrying about. How many people can a small county town send? One ten households can draw one, and two hundred people are already amazing. And all the infantry guarding the city have no combat power." Xiong said no longer.
The battle began again on the eighth day.
Liu He held up a large stone with both hands and pointed it hard at the enemy soldiers who were climbing up. Today he smashed the stones like this, shooting arrows and other soldiers carrying huge pounding trees to throw them on the ladder. I don’t know how many times it has been repeated. The soldiers on both sides were a little unreasonable, and they ran and stuffed them into their mouths from morning to afternoon to dinner. The enemy broke through at several points and successfully climbed the city wall. Although they were quickly hit, it was a big blow to the morale of the soldiers guarding the city.
The soldiers on the main building were very nervous and confronted the enemy outside the auxiliary wall. The two sides were shooting arrows from time to time. The enemy was still digging soil to put bags on the mountain outside the range, as if they were going to start a big battle.
After hearing the report, Cheng Pu suspected that it was the enemy's restraining action, but he was not sure, so he had to ask the defending soldiers to be careful and not to look at other battlefields.
At this time, Liu He was covered in blood, his dark steel gun roared, rolling and flying between the enemy, desperately eroding the enemy's life.
On the left side of the main city wall, Guan Yu and his subordinates led all the soldiers to fight in a fierce battle. The enemies swarmed too many, and no one had time to smash stones and roll wood, so they could only fight with the enemy on the city wall.
On the right side of the main city wall, Liu Bei was commanding the troops and was still able to barely deal with the situation, because his side was not the enemy's main attack direction. But even so, he had no soldiers to support the battlefield on the left.
When the horn of the enemy's retreat sounded, the Han soldiers on the city wall breathed a long sigh, and the unbearable and bloody day was finally over. The Han army suffered heavy losses. Facing the crazy enemy, the weak defense forces were clearly visible. Although it would not be a critical moment, if the enemy attacked like this every day, it would be a matter of days that the main city wall would be lost after most of the defending soldiers were damaged.
As it got dark, the enemy slowly retreated back to the camp.
The city walls were covered with corpses everywhere. The Han army was exhausted and sat on the top of the blood-stained city walls, enjoying a rare rest.
Liu He and Cheng Pu looked at the generals and were speechless. The losses of the troops had reached the point where they could not maintain the defense of the entire city wall. After fighting for ten days, there were only more than 1,300 soldiers who could stand on the city wall to continue fighting, including the 200 slightly injured soldiers on the backstairs. The defensive soldiers on the left city wall were left with only more than 100 people left under the enemy's fierce attack for three consecutive days. Maybe tomorrow the fortress may be broken by the enemy.
"Lord! The enemy's losses are also huge. Look at the troops they have withdrawn, there will be no more than two thousand. We have lost half of them, and they have lost more than half. Everyone is basically in balance in terms of numbers." Zou Jing said slowly.
He was comforting Liu He and himself.
"Yes, Shunzhi! Wuhuan's troops suffered a lot of losses. Tomorrow he would not be able to spread out all the attack surface, so he could only choose a key attack method. If so, we can focus on defending at his attack location, and we can still support the past tomorrow." Cheng Pu said in a hoarse voice.
"The enemy's reinforcements are coming soon." Liu He said softly.
The generals were stunned.
"Lord, do you have any basis?" Liu Bei asked hesitated.
"Their attack without regard for consequences and casualties just exposed that he had support behind him! If he continued to fight like this, his troops would be consumed immediately. He was not an idiot to fight all his people and there was no benefit. Would he do such a stupid thing?"
"What should we do?" Zhang Fei asked helplessly as he looked at the soldiers lying all over the ground.
"We will become sinners of the great Han Dynasty." Liu Bei said sadly: "The descendants will bear this shame that will never be erased for us."
At this moment, a dense drum sound came from the backcourt.
The soldiers on the city wall were stunned at first, and then they burst into a huge cheer. Reinforcements! The reinforcements that were looking forward to the eyes finally arrived. The soldiers suddenly became excited, and they rushed to the inner side of the city wall and looked towards Lulong Tower.
Chapter completed!