The smoke of gunpowder disappeared, and within five hundred steps of Luokoucang City, it had already become a Shura hell.

A few rebel soldiers who escaped this fierce attack turned around and fled the battlefield like a desperate attempt. On the battlefield, blood flowed into a river, countless broken limbs and broken arms, and broken corpses. Being on this battlefield, death in battle was just a relief...

The most painful thing is that the injured and not dead is. A large number of soldiers did not die directly in this tragic explosion, and more people were injured. Broken hands and feet were broken, bleeding from seven orifices, and deaf ears were roaring and deaf. Some were covered with shrapnel, iron nails, and broken iron pieces sputtered by flowering bombs after explosion. Some were stained with tinder oil sprayed after explosion, and they became a fire man, screaming and rolling around among countless corpses.

Some people were all over, mentally ill, and were hysterically shouting and yelling in the sea of ​​blood. The clothes on their bodies were blown away under the huge impact of the explosion just now.

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"Master, catapult car, big crossbow, will the lightning throwing car start shooting!" The general engineer faced the tragic scene under the city, without any fear, but was extremely excited. Seeing the mine formation that had been busy all night last night, it had such a great effect today, he was so excited that he could not suppress himself.

Li Jing shook his head, his eyes filled with indescribable complexity: "No, this first round ends like this. Give the rebels time to send people to clean the battlefield."

The chief manager of the Engineering Battalion said in confusion: "Master, you are not in charge of the army. On the battlefield, you either die or I die. At this time, I am so merciless. The rebels who just rushed into our mine formation had at least 20,000. Although our mine formation had achieved unexpected results, I just estimated that the lethality of gunpowder was limited, and we only killed about 2,000 rebels at most. The remaining ones had about 10,000 people who had fled back. There are almost 7,000 rebels on the battlefield. These people were injured and could not run back for a while. We are now shooting, just killing all these people in one go and annihilate them."

Li Jing just shook his head and did not answer.

Zhang Zhongjian, who was standing by, saw that the general manager of the engineering battalion was going to continue and quickly patted his shoulder: "General Manager Liu, although Marshal Li felt that the counterattack just now was too tragic and hurt Tianhe, in fact, Marshal Li Jing could still see the situation on the battlefield clearly. Marshal Li did not allow you to continue the attack. In fact, he had carefully considered it. I ask you, how much gunpowder do we have?"

General Manager Liu immediately replied: "We have a lot of gunpowder. If the rebels attack the city fiercely and we use gunpowder to counterattack with saturation, our gunpowder can be used for more than three days. But if we buried as many landmines as last night, we can also buried them twice at most."

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said, "I'll ask you another question. Do you think the wounded soldiers below can return to the battlefield in a short time if they return to the rebel camp?"

"There are probably about a thousand soldiers in eight thousand wounded soldiers." General Manager Liu did not hesitate and immediately replied, "Many of these wounded soldiers have broken hands and feet. Many of them have become deaf and blind, and many of them have gone crazy. In addition, there are many broken iron nails and iron sheets in our landmines. These iron nails and iron sheets are all rusted, and a few have been hardened. Most of the wounded soldiers are splashed. Although they are only slightly injured, they are usually infected with tetanus and other symptoms, and less than one ten can survive. In addition, those who are burned by turbulent bombs cannot go to the battlefield in a short period of time."

When Li Jing and Zhang Zhongjian looked at each other in detail, they were still a little surprised. Zhang Zhongjian patted General Liu on the shoulder: "On the battlefield, sometimes leaving a wounded soldier for the enemy will be more cost-effective than killing an enemy directly. If Wang Xuan rescued these eight thousand wounded soldiers, they will not only not be able to go to the battlefield, but also have to be taken care of by someone, and they will consume food, medicine and herbs every day. If they want to march, they will be dragged down by these people. More importantly, if so many wounded soldiers are rescued, they will make the morale of the rebels fall to the bottom. Another thing is that we have saved gunpowder. Why don't you understand the account that you understand so clearly?"

After hearing Zhang Zhongjian's explanation, General Manager Liu smiled and was frightened. He thought to himself that these immediate bosses were indeed different from their own. They said they were hurting the world on the surface, but in fact they were very bad. They were eager to get more wounded soldiers out.

After a while, dozens of soldiers on the top of Luokoucang City shouted to the rebel camp, saying that Marshal Li and Marshal Zhang were kind-hearted and could not bear to see these injured soldiers die on the battlefield. Therefore, with compassion, the rebels allowed a battalion of troops to come to clean the battlefield without weapons and rescue the wounded soldiers.

Li Mi and others, who were planning a second round of attack in front of the formation, were so angry that their faces turned purple when they heard the soldiers' rewards. In the eyes of Li Mi and the others, the thousands of wounded soldiers were no longer useful, just like dead people. Of course, they were unwilling to rescue these useless wounded soldiers and take a lot of trouble. They originally wanted to take advantage of the second wave of attack and let them die on the battlefield. However, they did not expect that Li Jing and the others would use this move. This way, he would not be able to save them.

More than 100,000 soldiers looked at them, and Wang Xuanying had to kill them in the end and swallow them. He sent a team of men to clean the battlefield. Tens of thousands of wounded soldiers and the remains of thousands of people. Zheng Jun cleaned the battlefield for a long time.

The golden crow falls westward, at dusk.

After experiencing the previous battle, the morale of the Zheng army dropped to the lowest point. Li Mi and the others finally gathered again and let the soldiers in the army have a full meal before they formed a formation under the city again.

"The general's move just now was really wonderful. First, he declared to the people of the world that we are a benevolent and righteous army. Second, he greatly reduced the morale of the rebels, and third, he saved us gunpowder. Fourth, he delayed the time for more than half a day. He killed a stone and was really admirable to his brothers." Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile.

Li Jing smiled heavyly: "Just for Wang Xuanying and Li Mi and his people's ambitions will make countless people rush to blood and bury the corpse under the city, alas!"

"That's why we have to assist King Chen and return a great peace to the world as soon as possible. Today's killing is for tomorrow's not to kill. Li Shuai doesn't need to worry about it, you are doing the right thing." Zhang Zhongjian comforted.

After taking the mine formation, Wang Xuanying and others were obviously much more cautious. After knowing that the Hebei Army had a lot of gunpowder, Li Mi offered a plan. They no longer continued to attack with cloud ladders, but instead used the strategy of piled up the earth and mountain.

More than 100,000 rebels began to build mountains with earth. Li Mi established a huge shield formation in front of the formation to cover the rebels behind to build earth mountains, intending to build earth mountains directly under the city, and finally rise above the city wall and attack the city from a high height.

Facing Li Mi's shield formation, the Hebei Army's powerful crossbows, catapults, firearms, weapons, etc. were fired, but the effect was very small. The giant wooden shield made of thick wood was extremely thick. Even if a giant stone bullet of twenty kilograms hit it, it would only smash a small pit. The large iron crossbow shot from a super giant crossbow with a range of up to 700 steps could not penetrate the giant wooden shield. The Hebei Army used rockets to attack the giant shield, but these giant wooden shields were not only made of trees that had just been cut down, but were all soaked in water. The rockets could not burn when they were shot on it. This giant shield formation like a huge turtle shell blocked it. The rebels behind built a mountain of earth and were extremely quick and uninterrupted.

Especially after it was dark, it would be even more trouble for the Hebei army on the top of the city to deal with them. The rebels took advantage of the evening to build a huge earth mountain in the south of the city before dawn. The earth mountain was close to the south wall, several feet above the city wall, and was facing high.

Teams of rebel archers climbed to the top of the Tushan Mountain and shot arrows at the top of the city from a high place. The dense rain of arrows made the defenders on the top of the city unable to raise their heads. Under the city, Li Mi sent countless soldiers to carry the ladder like ant to the city.

On the top of the city, Li Jing, under the protection of dozens of guards' shield formations, carefully watched the earthy mountain built overnight, and frowned.

"Get wood, use wood to raise the city tower, and build an arrow tower of one or three meters high across the city wall!" Li Jing responded calmly and ordered loudly.

Teams of Hebei soldiers rushed up to the city tower with iron and steel shields, and escorted the soldiers of the engineering battalion to quickly build arrow towers and raise the city towers on the city. Zhang Zhongjian also mobilized a large number of crossbows, catapults, and thunderbolts in the engineering battalion, and used these ultra-long-range weapons to suppress and interfere with the archers on the rebels' earthen hills.

The two sides fought back and forth, fighting from morning to dusk. Although the rebels used the advantages of the earthen mountains to destroy the Arrow Tower on the top of the Hebei Army many times, in the end, with the hard work of professional engineer battalions, the Hebei Army still built arrow towers after the rebels under the city rushed to the top of the city several times.

The completed arrow tower and wooden tower were much higher than the rebels' Tucheng. Well-equipped Hebei crossbowmen archers climbed the arrow tower and stood high, using the Hebei army's strong bows and crossbows to launch a fierce counterattack against the rebels.

When the battle was dark, the rebels finally couldn't stand it anymore and retreated in the overwhelming dense rain of arrows. Without the cover and support of Tucheng, the infantrymen who were sieging like ants under the city were quickly defeated by the archers, stone casters, and thunder throwers on the city.

After one day, although the Zheng army broke into the city several times, it still returned in vain. After the war, after one day, the Zheng army suffered losses and lost more than 3,000 soldiers and injured more than 10,000 people. In the camp by the Luoshui River, there was a fog of sorrow and sighing.

"We almost captured Nancheng today. We will continue tomorrow. We will definitely be able to capture Nancheng in one fell swoop!" Huangfu Xiren shouted, jumping and shouting.

Li Mi said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, in this battle today, although we almost successfully captured the South City, there are actually some unexpected reasons. Now the Hebei Army has built wooden buildings and arrow towers on the city. If we want to use Tucheng to attack the city, it will be several feet higher than the Tucheng built yesterday. Besides, today's fierce attack, we consumed too many arrows, and we have no more arrows available. At that time, we will build Tucheng, but if we don't have enough arrows to suppress the Hebei Army, it will be useless."

"I have a plan, which may break the city!" Xu Shiji, who had been silent, suddenly spoke out.
Chapter completed!