Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 376 Taking Down the County City
The head of the city is still stubbornly resisting.

Zhang Ming and the others attacked fiercely, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

On the top of the city, the guard is patrolling.

"Hold on, hold on to me."

"Whoever dares to retreat will be killed without mercy."

"Reinforcements are on the way. As long as we persist for a while, reinforcements will arrive, and the bandits will retreat."

Guard, intends to defend to the death.

The guard turned half a circle around the top of the city and arrived at the south gate.

Outside the south gate, they had already sent people out to patrol several times, but there was no ambush at all.

This puzzled them.

At first, they all understood that there were three circles and one missing.

But usually this side is also a feint attack, or an ambush outside the city, but Zhang Ming and the others did nothing.

Just let them run.

The guard looked at the empty city, but he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

He said to the soldiers a hundred times confident, as if he could really hold on, as if he really had reinforcements.

In fact, there will be reinforcements, as long as they can persist until then.

They have sent several waves of scouts out, asking them to go out for help.

The nearby county towns are not far away, and if you need support, you can get there in half a day.

The guard went to other cities to check.

Yuan Jun's morale has always been low, while Zhang Ming's side has high morale, and the soldiers rushed desperately.

If it is not broken, it will not be returned.

Onslaught for more than two hours, change the batch, and then attack.

Before the attack, the arrows plowed the ground, and the arrow array all over the sky gave people great pressure. Many people who had never been on the battlefield saw the rain of arrows like migratory locusts below, and their legs were weak in fright.

The army continued to attack, and it was not until late at night that Zhang Ming gave the order to retreat.

After some counting, Zhang Ming and the others had more than 4000 casualties.

On the top of the city, more than 300 people were lost in Zhang Ming's desperate attack.

Both sides are flesh and blood, and everyone will be afraid.

The guard and the prefect were very worried, so they appeased the soldiers overnight and gave them rewards.

"Baby, how old are you?"

In the city, a veteran couldn't sleep and asked a young soldier next to him.

"17."

The little soldier couldn't sleep either, and was a little flustered.

"It's an adult, but it looks young."

The veteran knew that it might be because the little soldier couldn't eat well all the time, that's why he was so small.

"Are you afraid, can we hold it?"

The veteran sighed and said: "You need morale to fight, and you have to depend on your luck. Now Mr. Yuan is not lucky, and our morale is not good. We can't hold on."

The little soldier was even more frightened, holding his spear tightly, and shrinking back.

At this time, you sleep with your armor on, and you have to go into battle at any time.

The little soldier asked, "Are we going to die?"

"I don't know, I have fought more than a dozen battles, this time we are in danger."

Xiaobing panicked, it was his first time on the battlefield, so he was very scared now.

"Boy, don't be afraid. If we are defeated, you can throw away your weapons and squat on the ground. Maybe you can survive."

"Really? The other party won't kill us, right?"

"No, I know this army is very fierce and has a bad reputation, but I have never heard of it killing prisoners."

The little soldier got some comfort, and he asked again: "Didn't the general say that there are reinforcements?"

"Hehe." The veteran sneered a few times and said, "Looking at the situation, it's useless to have reinforcements. Before fighting Cao Cao, all the generals were dead. At this time, no one can call the surrounding troops to support."

The prefect needs to mobilize the surrounding prefects to support, which may be possible normally, but now it is impossible for everyone to save their lives.

This veteran can also be considered thorough.

Overnight, Zhang Ming did not attack.

Early the next morning, Zhang Ming ordered the army to rearrange.

This time, he didn't call out, but let the soldiers maintain a kind of coercion.

"Don't rush to attack, after half an hour, let them see our mighty army formation."

Speechless, sometimes a great threat.

The soldiers on the top of the city looked at the neat army formation below, and felt a great pressure inexplicably.

Stress can make people afraid and make people collapse.

"Cavalry company, attack."

Wrong above, try again.

"The whole army, attack."

With an order, the army began to attack in three directions again.

Entering the field quickly, the archer reached the range of the city, and immediately squatted down on one knee and began to attack.

After a few quick attacks, the enemy's counterattack was obviously very weak.

Their archers have lost a lot, and they have long lost their previous morale.

After several rounds of arrow attacks, Zhang Ming's infantry quickly began to charge.

Morale is like a rainbow.

Treat death as home.

Zhang Ming's army rushed forward, and began to charge with the ladder.

Several young generals went to the top of the city in person, quickly climbed to avoid the attack from above.

Not long after it started, many people were scared.

These are Yuan Shao's second-line troops, either old or new recruits who have never been to the battlefield.

Yuan Shao's elite had all been lost in the Battle of Guandu.

After starting the attack, Zhang Ming's army attacked desperately.

This kind of momentum scared many recruits who had never seen the battlefield.

Many people wanted to escape, at least they were afraid to go forward.

Once they started to avoid the battle, Zhang Ming's opportunity came.

Several young generals led the army and killed them on the top of the city.

Fighting began at the top of the city.

Gao Lan and Xu Huang also took the opportunity to kill them.

The two generals rushed up, and the enemy couldn't hold on immediately.

They started running down the city.

The guard was not an opponent at all, seeing that the general situation was over, he didn't dare to stay, and rushed out towards the south gate with his people.

Zhang Ming did not intercept.

After opening the city gate, Xu Huang came to greet him.

"Grandma Bear, you run so fast, my lord, why don't we chase it down."

"Not interested, this group of people is too weak."

Xu Huang nodded, that's true, they are all a group of troops who haven't been to the battlefield very much, some of them may have just joined the army not long ago to make a living.

Zhang Ming entered the city, ordered the gates to be closed, and began to count supplies.

The supplies must be counted, because Zhang Ming and the others plan to stay here permanently.

"Report, my lord."

"Another support army of more than 1 people continued to attack Tang County at this time."

The other part of Yuan Jun only dispatched more than 1 people, and not all of them went to battle.

Zhang Ming shouted: "Gao Lan, you immediately lead 5000 people to support Yan Rou, and annihilate this team. If you can make an emergency landing, do your best to resolve the battle as soon as possible."

"After eating this army, go straight north and take down the entire Zhongshan County."

"Yes, my lord."

Gao Lan quickly went to action.

This matter was handed over to Gao Lan because he had just joined and hadn't done much credit yet, so it was just for him to claim credit.

Xu Huang is an old subordinate, and he has made a lot of credits, but he doesn't need any credits at all.

Gao Lan took the order to leave, Zhang Ming said to Xu Huang: "Strengthen the defense immediately, the guarding army behind us will be stationed here permanently in the future."

After hitting here, Zhang Ming will turn this place into a frontier, and the city behind will not have to suffer, and let the defenders take over here.

The main battle army cannot be held back, and cannot be left to defend the city, so let the rear army take over.

Now, in the center of Zhangming, some cities have no defenders.

(End of this chapter)