More and more soldiers died in battle and were injured.
Yesterday's battle lasted all day and night. It seemed fierce, but compared with today, it was not on the same level at all.
Originally, Wang Ding thought that even if Zhang Lu attacked with all his strength, he could sustain it for five or six days.
It's just that their mentality is different.
Wang Ding had never thought of attacking Wudu and Yangping Pass before.
As for Zhang Lu, yesterday was just a test, just to let those believers gain some experience, and left 20,000 corpses behind.
Today, casualties are completely ignored.
Wang Ding stood on the city wall, his scalp numb.
Zhang Lu is really using his life to pile up.
Last night, he thought that today would be a tough battle. In order to allow the soldiers to have a good rest, he specially took apart more than a hundred cotton-padded clothes and asked the soldiers to plug their ears with cotton cloth.
This battle has lasted for two hours.
Wherever Wang Ding looked, there were corpses and pools of blood everywhere.
In just two hours, the Han army suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
And as the fighting time prolongs, the number of casualties will increase.
In the first two hours, there were 2,000 casualties. In the next hour, another 2,000 casualties may occur.
Wang Ding does not know the specific number of casualties of the enemy troops outside the city.
However, in terms of scale, in these two hours, the other party has reduced its staff by approximately 8,000 to 10,000 people.
Casualties from one to four to one to five.
According to this ratio, even if Zhang Lu finally breaks through Yangping Pass, he will not have many people left in his hands.
It's just that Zhang Lu obviously doesn't care. He is in Hanzhong and has Liu Yan's support behind him. He is not afraid that others will take advantage of him if he wastes all his people here.
Even if all 100,000 believers are wiped out, it won’t be long before Zhang Lu can win over another group.
The Five Dou Rice Sect is now in Hanzhong and has no shortage of followers.
His career is booming, but he doesn’t want Hanzhong to change hands.
On the city wall, more than two thousand soldiers were injured or killed, and the pressure on the remaining people was increasing.
The only good news is that the archers under Zhang Lu were finally suppressed.
I don’t know how many people were injured by the opponent after more than a dozen waves of arrows were fired at each other. The arrows fired at the city wall were no longer as dense as before, and they no longer posed a great threat to the Han army on the city wall.
"Lord, the city gate cannot be defended." Han Sui said anxiously.
The city gate has been deformed by the impact. If it weren't for a group of soldiers behind the gate blocking it with their bodies, it would have been knocked open by now.
The deformed city gate obviously cannot last long.
The casualty ratio is now close to one to five. When Zhang Lu leads his army in, the casualty ratio may be raised to one to three or one to two.
Gao Shun said: "Lord, I led a group of people down and burned the siege vehicles."
They no longer knew how much kerosene they poured on the siege truck and how many rocks they threw at it, but it only slightly deformed the siege truck. Zhang Lu, who was hiding underneath, had no big impact.
Wang Ding looked at the situation below the city, took a deep breath, and said, "You stay in the city while I go."
In Chang'an, he trained with the soldiers every day, and at this moment he finally came into use.
Gao Shun did not dare to let Wang Ding go. He shouted: "My lord...it's dangerous down there. Please stay on top of the city."
It is not difficult to go down the city wall that is more than two feet high. Just pull a rope and you can slide down.
But underneath the city wall, there are all enemy troops.
It is easy to go down, but difficult to come up.
You may never come back.
Wang Ding said: "Let me go first, and you will watch from the city. If I am in danger, you will come and help me."
Wang Ding doesn’t want Gao Shun to go down.
If Gao Shun is in danger, he may not be able to save Gao Shun.
But when he goes down and encounters a dangerous situation, the probability that Gao Shun can save him will be higher.
Moreover, it is easier for Gao Shun to command on the city wall.
His judgment of the situation is also more accurate than Wang Ding's.
Wang Ding is in Chang'an, training with the soldiers every day, not just to protect himself on the battlefield.
In the battles Wang Ding participated in before, except for the battle with the Xiongnu outside Chang'an City, he was actually not in much danger, and he was surrounded by his personal guards.
But now, when he goes down, he will be surrounded by countless enemy troops in an instant, and there are only dozens of people around him.
No one is sure whether those who go down can come back again.
It's not an exaggeration to say it's a death squad.
"Are you afraid?" Wang Ding has already tied the rope.
Lu Hao said: "Not afraid."
As Wang Ding's bodyguards, they will go wherever Wang Ding is.
Ten ropes hang from the city wall.
Wang Ding grabbed the Mo Dao with one hand and the arm-thick hemp rope with the other, and slid down the city wall with his feet.
When he was still nearly ten feet away from the ground, Wang Ding let go of the rope, and the Mo Dao struck down at the enemy below.
Boom!
Below Wang Ding, the enemy soldier was directly split in half by Mo Dao. Even if he raised his shield, it would be of no avail.
Falling from a high altitude, coupled with the weight of Mo Dao, the one-foot-thick wooden shield was easily cut in half.
Lu Hao and other personal guards also came down from several other ropes.
Everyone used the Mo Dao to slash horizontally and vertically, instantly clearing the surrounding area of enemies.
On the rope, there were other guards coming down the rope, but they did not hold weapons in their hands, but held a clay pot.
Wang Ding killed three people in a row and rushed straight towards the siege truck.
More than thirty people held Mo Dao to clear the way, and another dozen people followed behind holding clay pots, and two more held torches in their hands.
"What's going on there?" Zhang Lu was a little far away, and he didn't know that Wang Ding had already gone to the city in person to burn his siege vehicles.
He just felt that there was something abnormal in that area of the city wall. His people were cleared away, leaving an area vacant.
Yang Ang rode his war horse close to the city wall, then retreated and said: "My lord, someone from the enemy army came down from the city. They should be elites, holding big swords in their hands. It is difficult for ordinary soldiers to resist."
He just glanced at it and didn't know Wang Ding's plan.
But even if he knew, he wouldn't dare to go over and fight Wang Ding.
He just sent some more men to surround Wang Ding and others.
Zhang Lu frowned.
He doesn't feel right.
Now that the battle is fierce, even if he is a little farther away, he still understands the battle under the city wall. Why do the people on the city wall come down to die?
And they are still elites. If they stay on the city wall, each of them can be worth two or three soldiers.
"Send another team over." Zhang Lu said.
Yang Ang felt that Zhang Lu was making a fuss out of a molehill, but he didn't dare to refute Zhang Lu. He nodded and said, "Here."
Yang Ang personally led a group of soldiers and approached the city wall.
Wang Ding had already reached the siege vehicle. He held the Mo Dao and got directly under the siege vehicle.
Under the siege vehicle, there were dozens of soldiers. They were still holding on to ropes, pushing the hanging giant trees, and constantly bombarding the city gate.
"Ah!"
Under the siege vehicle, there were screams and screams. These people did not expect that someone would suddenly get in and hack at them.
In just five breaths, Wang Ding got out of the siege vehicle.
The dozen or so people holding pots threw the pots under the siege vehicles.
Then a torch followed the clay pot and was thrown under the siege vehicle.