To put it bluntly, the battle of attacking and defending a city was a contest of blood and courage.
An injury for an injury, a life for a life.
Liu Bei saw his soldiers fall to the ground one by one, but there was no panic on his face.
Moreover, his gaze became calmer and calmer.
It had been more than ten years since Liu Bei left Zhuo County, and he had experienced countless battles.
In Liu Bei's eyes, this battle between thousands of people was nothing.
He continued to walk on the city wall, ignoring the arrows flying all over the sky, and continued to command the soldiers to fight back.
After the rain of arrows stopped, Liu Bei's soldiers on the city walls began to poke their heads out of the battlements and return fire in an orderly manner.
Although they could not fire ten thousand arrows at the same time as Zhang Lu's army.
However, the arrows that were constantly shot out were like locusts that kept pouring down the city wall.
In just three rounds of shooting, Zhang Lu's soldiers had suffered hundreds of casualties.
In this battle, compared to the dozens of casualties of Liu Bei's soldiers on the city walls, Zhang Lu's side had paid ten times the price.
This was a siege.
The defending side had a commanding position and often had an advantage over the attacking side.
Therefore, if you want to take down an enemy city, you can forget about taking it down easily without five times the enemy's strength.
Clang, clang, clang…
Suddenly, Zhang Lu's command came.
When Zhang Lu's soldiers heard the order to retreat, they immediately threw away their ladders and ran back like a swarm of bees.
The first siege ended with Zhang Lu's defeat.
Zhang Lu had sent four to five thousand men to attack the city, but only half of them managed to escape.
On the other hand, Liu Bei's army on the city walls had only lost around 200 men.
Outside the city, at Zhang Lu's central army.
Zhang Lu furrowed his brows tightly as he stared coldly at the Southern Zheng City wall.
He was the one who gave the order to retreat.
When he saw the orderly and powerful counterattack on the city wall, he had a faint feeling that something was wrong. He kept feeling that there was something wrong with the defenders on the city wall.
Before he could react, he saw his soldiers fall in batches.
Therefore, he quickly ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
At this moment, Zhang Xiu walked over." Gongqi, what the hell are you doing? Why did you stop attacking so quickly?"”
Zhang Xiu's army was on the north and south side. He was in charge of the feint attack at the south and north gates.
While his soldiers were still attacking the city, Zhang Lu, who was attacking from the front, suddenly retreated.
This caused his soldiers to lose hundreds of lives in vain because they could not retreat in time.
"Zidao, did you notice that there seems to be something wrong with the guards on the city gate tower today?”
Zhang Lu glanced at Zhang Xiu and frowned.
Ever since they entered Hanzhong, Zhang Xiu had been bossing Zhang Lu around with his status as the commander of another division.
This made Zhang Lu very unhappy.
If it wasn't for the fact that Hanzhong hadn't been taken down yet, Zhang Lu would have fallen out with him long ago.
"What's wrong? It's normal that I'm feinting in two directions. I even saw that annoying Chen Diao at the north gate.”
Zhang Xiu pursed his lips, thinking that Zhang Lu was finding an excuse for his poor offense.
"Zidao, you said you saw Chen Tiao?”
Zhang Lu was shocked and quickly asked.
"Yeah, why?"
Zhang Xiu nodded and said in surprise.
He didn't understand why Zhang Lu was so surprised when he heard about Chen Tiao.
Chen Diao was Su Gu's subordinate and was in charge of the army. Wasn't it normal for him to appear on the city gate tower?
"Zidao, Chen Diao is Su Gu's most skilled general. Logically speaking, he should be at the west gate, which is my main attack.
But since he appeared at the north gate, it was very abnormal.”
Zhang Lu stroked his long beard and slowly analyzed.
"Yes!"
Zhang Xiu pondered for a moment and immediately understood what Zhang Lu meant. He said in a deep voice,"Gongqi, do you mean that Su Gu has invited reinforcements?”
"Yes, I'm sure."
Zhang Lu's face darkened, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.""Who is it? Who has the guts to interfere in the internal affairs of Sichuan? Don't let me catch this person, or I'll use him to light the heavenly lamp as a sacrifice.”
"Report…"
Just as Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu were analyzing who Su Gu's reinforcements were, the messenger rushed in.
"What is it? Tell me quickly."
Zhang Lu, whose train of thought had been interrupted, said unhappily.
"Reporting to Lord Sima, someone from the back camp just shot a letter in.”
The messenger raised an arrow above his head with both hands and reported.
"Oh, let me see."
Zhang Lu hurriedly took the arrow and took the letter box from the arrow.
Zhang Lu slowly opened the letter and saw a few lines of small words:
General Gongqi knew that other than Su Gu's troops, there was also a troop led by Liu Bei, about seven thousand strong, guarding the west gate.
He signed it off as 'Jing Zhou Visitor'.
"I see."
After reading the contents of the letter, Zhang Lu finally understood why the guards at the west gate were different.
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