Eight hundred and fortieth chapters advance and retreat with evidence
The sound of killing in the city spread to the city below, shocking everyone watching and preparing to participate in the battle.
Li Xingchen stood silently under the chariot, watching the flags waving on the city top.
The soldiers of Bashu were retreating from the city wall in an orderly manner. The ladders they once climbed with all their strength became tools for them to push back. It must be said that sometimes fate likes to play tricks on people.
Not everyone is Chen Zhishen, so it is difficult for the Bashu army to gain a foothold on the city wall. After all, they go up one by one through ladders, while the enemy can quickly swarm up the city wall through the wide upper city trail. The gap in the middle means that when
When Cao Xiaoda arrived with reinforcements, Li Xingchen had to order a retreat, otherwise the consequences would be serious.
Rather than holding on blindly and abandoning nearly a thousand soldiers on the city wall, Li Xingchen preferred to withdraw all the effective forces before the enemy's reinforcements arrived. If morale is low, it can be improved again.
However, the army suffered heavy losses and could not be replenished in a short time.
"None of Chen Zhishen and the others came down." Pei Zilie stood beside Li Xingchen, looking at the battlefield ahead, and couldn't help but say worriedly.
As more and more soldiers and horses retreat, it will inevitably become more difficult to break up the rear in the city. Cao Xiaoda will not be so generous and directly let people go.
"They will retreat." Li Xingchen said calmly, "The soldiers who went down to the city first were all the soldiers who went there early, so they were more tired and almost everyone was injured. This means that those who stayed were the ones who climbed to the city later."
When Li Xingchen said this, Pei Zilie already understood what he meant.
The soldiers who have been fighting for a long time should be at the front on the city wall. After all, the small city wall does not have many opportunities to form formations and change troops. They can only wait for the people in front to fall, and the people behind can rush up.
But now that these soldiers who were tired from long battles were able to go down to the city first, it shows that the retreat of the Bashu troops on the city wall is still in an orderly manner.
Otherwise, the mess would definitely not be caused by the soldiers who were at the front coming down first.
At this time, the general flag representing Lu Qing was carried down from the city by a soldier, and the original four general flags were reduced to three. Although each one was riddled with holes, they were still flying proudly on top of the city.
Compared to the east wall that fought hard for a day without any breakthrough, the west wall was able to climb the city in the first attack, which was already very successful. After all, no one expected to capture Xiangyang City in the first attack.
Lu Qing, covered in blood, quickly ran to Li Xinchen and handed over his hand: "I failed to break through the city, please forgive me, general!"
Li Xingchen held him up and said in a cold voice: "Xiangyang can be destroyed in one day, so I'm going to wonder what's fancy about it. Stop talking nonsense here and go get the people in the city!"
"No!" Lu Qing turned around and left.
Li Xingchen looked at the eager Pei Zilie next to him and nodded slightly: "Master, go to the front to suppress the formation. The retreat is almost complete. There are probably one or two hundred people in the city, and the three generals are all there. Cao Xiaoda probably won't let them leave easily.
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Pei Zilie was also unambiguous, and immediately waved his hand, and a team of crossbowmen quickly followed.
"Perak chariot, aim at the city gate, fire three times!" Li Xingchen immediately ordered.
The Pili Cha, which had been waiting for a long time, had to temporarily cease fire for fear of accidentally injuring friendly forces. At this time, the soldiers around the Pili Cha quickly ran again, and huge rocks roared and smashed at the city gate.
The Bashu soldiers on the city had shrunk and were some distance away from the city gate, so as long as they did not drop bombs with their eyes closed, they would not be accidentally injured.
"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and a stone bullet just passed over Cao Xiaoda's head and crashed into the city gate tower behind him. The stone bullet rushed in from the second floor of the city gate tower, destroying everything along the way, and the entire city gate tower was destroyed.
Violent shaking. Considering the powerful attack power of the Thunderbolt Chariot, the city gate tower that can serve as a hiding place for troops during the war was not used. Otherwise, no one knows how many people would have been killed or injured.
Cao Xiaoda pushed away the guard who was jumping on him, panting heavily and looked back at the city gate tower where a big hole had appeared.
And more rocks are still coming.
At the same time, on the distant city wall, Yuchishun's counterattack was once again forced back. Immediately, bursts of arrows were shot up from under the city, making it difficult for Yuchishun to move forward directly for a while.
When Yu Chishun stretched out his hand to push away the shield in front of him, there were only corpses scattered on the city wall, including the Bashu army, the Northern Zhou defenders, and many civilians in Xiangyang City.
The ground is in a mess, scattered everywhere.
As for Chen Zhishen's group, which had only a dozen people left just now, where is anyone left?
Yuchi Shun stamped his feet, a little helpless. The arrows fired by the enemy from under the city were scattered, but they also made the advancing Northern Zhou soldiers panic. More importantly, the sudden stone bullets completely disrupted the city gate.
Northern Zhou soldiers preparing to shoot arrows.
This naturally gave Chen Zhishen and others the last chance to escape.
Dense arrows once again hit the city. After all of their own people retreated, the crossbowmen of the Bashu army were no longer restrained.
"Shield!" Yuchi picked up the shield on the ground, and more soldiers were suddenly attacked by the arrows and fell down screaming.
However, Cao Xiaoda's place was not affected by the arrows. He squinted slightly and looked at the Bashu army slowly retreating under the city, and sighed softly.
The first attack was to fill in a few trenches and then attack the city wall. The invasion was like fire and the retreat was like wind. The advance and retreat were well-founded. More importantly, when the army retreated, all the generals personally cut off the rear of the team. This is
It is almost difficult to see the situation among the rest of the army.
After all, the lives of generals are much more important than those of soldiers.
But this doesn't seem to be the case in this army. After the generals are cut off, the soldiers can leave more easily and calmly. After all, the generals are their backbone. Even if their own leader is behind them, what's so scary?
Obviously, when the generals of this army encountered such a dangerous situation and could easily be defeated, they did not choose to take the first step, but tried their best to keep the army in order and retreat in sequence.
Cao Xiaoda, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, knows very well that such enemies are the most terrifying, which means that they will expose fewer flaws and be more like a sophisticated war machine, just to be able to send more enemies to hell.
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Although Li Xingchen's large-scale attack did not finally break through Xiangyang City, it still caused heavy losses to the entire Xiangyang garrison. More importantly, the first attack allowed the enemy to board the city for so long, which was a serious blow to the morale of any army.
It’s easy to imagine.
At the same time, Li Xingchen also informed Cao Xiaoda with evidence of the army's advance and retreat.
This army is not easy to deal with, and Li Xingchen not only wants Xiangyang City, but also has the qualifications. (To be continued)