If you are sieging the city outside the mountain, it would be very simple to use the Qingzhou army's weapons and equipment to break through a city that is only about five meters high like Jintang City. As long as you use a catapult to suppress it, and then send a team of Yunti teams to climb the city quickly. But today they are fighting up the mountain, and these heavy siege equipment cannot reach the mountain for the time being, so you can only force the city to climb the city with the simplest means.

Dozens of elite elites from the A-shaped camp threw ropes to the city, and then continued to climb up under the cover of the archers behind, intending to climb up Jintang City in one breath. The movement below quickly made the Erlongshan minions guarding the city frightened. At this time, they didn't care about avoiding the arrows that were constantly shooting up, but rushed to the city wall and kept chopping the ropes to prevent the official army from climbing the city.

The losses on the city increased rapidly. From time to time, people were shot and screamed and fell down, but others were unmoved because they knew very well that once the official army was really on the top of the city, Jintang City would be destroyed! They had experienced the powerful combat power of the Qingzhou army. As long as they had no advantage in geographical advantages, they could only be slaughtered.

Not only the hundreds of defenders in Jintang City understood this, Deng Long and others in the rear knew the urgent situation, so they quickly ordered the defenders at the two levels to quickly dispatch troops to go down the mountain to support, and a large number of bows and arrows were also taken down by them to suppress the official troops near the city.

Once the guards in Jintang City fought desperately, the situation in the Jiazi Camp below would be a little unfavorable. The ropes were cut off one by one, causing them to fall back to the ground. At the same time, the stones and arrows kept falling down like money. After seeing people falling down, Zhou Xing hesitated. Is it really worthwhile to fight like this?

You should know that this is the first level defense line in Erlong Mountain and the easiest way to defeat it. There are two difficulties behind it. If you really have too much damage here, the next battle will be even more difficult.

At the foot of the mountain, Sun Tu also frowned. He really didn't expect that Jintang City would be so difficult to break, so he underestimated the guys of Erlong Mountain. After thinking for a while, he made a decision: "Ming Jin to retreat the A character camp and replace the B character camp. However, this time, don't attack like A character camp again, just consume the arrows and stones on the mountain!"

The sound of gold sounded again in the army. The upper and lower camps of Jiazi breathed a sigh of relief and immediately retreated to the rear in an orderly manner. Compared with the messy and chasing soldiers in Sanshan who had just escaped and left behind many corpses, their actions were much more regular and straightforward.

The minions guarding the city were also short of breath at this time. The two battles made them exhausted, and they wanted to rest both physically and mentally. However, the official army at the foot of the mountain obviously did not give them a chance. With the retreat of the A character camp, the B character camp had replaced it and attacked Jintang City again.

Although the Yi character camp has received the order from Sun Tuzhi, no longer has to attack the city with all their strength, their powerful combat power and the continuous shooting of arrows up the city still put enough pressure on the enemy, and many people have died as a result, which puts the pressure on the defenders on the city to a greater extent. Many people have the intention of giving up here and evacuating up the mountain.

The offensive and defensive battle surrounding Jintang City lasted for a whole day. It was not until dark that the official army finally retreated down the mountain. In this battle, the casualties of the official army had reached more than 300. Although most of the casualties were the three mountain soldiers who attacked the mountain in the first round, the casualties were still so shocking. After all, the Qingzhou army has only about 1,400 people added together.

As for the casualties on Erlong Mountain, there were fewer casualties, less than 200 people died in this battle. However, when the exact number newspaper was launched, the leaders were still panicked. On the first day of the official war, if the official army continued to attack the city with all their might, they would be afraid that the brothers on the mountain would soon be unable to withstand the pressure and collapse.

Erlong Mountain is not as cohesive as the official army. These people stayed on the mountain just to live better. If they really knew that they would die when they were guarding the mountain, there would not be many people who sacrificed their lives. Deng Long also knew this very well, and was even more worried at this time. After walking around Lu Yuan who was watching the mountain for a long time, he sighed: "I didn't expect that the Qingzhou official army was so fierce. Military advisor, what should I do?"

Lu Yuan looked at the smoke rising from the military camp below, and his expression seemed quite calm: "Master, don't panic, brothers, the loss of the government army today will definitely be beyond their expectations. I predict that their offensive will not be so fierce starting tomorrow."

After pausing and looking at the people around him, he said, "Youdao is a stimulus. What they fought is to quickly capture my Jintang City, so they completely ignored the casualties. But the result was not as he wished. Will they dare to give it a try tomorrow? You must know that their troops are not much more than us."

"What if they changed the attack to siege? The food stored in our parody is only enough for one month." Someone immediately raised a new question.

"That's exactly what we hope to see. We can support January. Can the government army? Don't forget that Han Benshan set fire to Qingzhou Guanjian before coming here. Not to mention January, even ten or half a month, I think they can't hold on. Moreover, because they are so eager to attack the mountains, food shortage is also the key.

"There are also reinforcements from Liangshanbo, which should also arrive within this month. At that time, we will have the strength of both sides and attack inside and outside. Are you still worried about not defeating this Qingzhou army?"

Lu Yuan's analysis really made the people present excited. The psychological pressure arising from the urgent scene in Jintang City was finally relieved a lot. At this moment, these people went back, leaving Lu Yuan still looking out at the military camp below, but a hint of doubt and worry flashed in his eyes.

Can he easily see these questions, does Sun Tu and other officials not know about it? Then why do they dare to attack Erlong Mountain so without any scruples? What is the reliance on? It is precisely because they cannot see through this that Lu Yuan is uneasy, but he cannot tell others about this concern, otherwise it will only disrupt the morale of the army.

In the end, he could only remember everything he had seen before, and then sighed secretly and turned back to the temple to eat and drink. No matter what situation he was about to face, eating and drinking first and nourishing his spirit was the most important thing.

The battle in the next few days was as Lu Yuan judged. I wonder if the price paid for the first attack on the mountain was too heavy, but the offensive of the official army became much weaker from the next day. Although there were still troops taking turns to attack the city every day, their threat to Jintang City was far less than that of the first day. The casualties of both sides continued to decrease, and from a strong attack and a war of attrition gradually became a war of tug-of-war and attrition.

It seems that from the next day, the official army has changed its strategic purpose, changing from forcibly breaking the pass to consuming various weapons guarding the mountain at the lowest cost to achieve the goal of dragging down Erlong Mountain.

But Lu Yuan still had some concerns. Even if the battle was no longer intense, he would still check the movements below from the high place outside Baozhu Temple every day. On the fifth day, he indeed saw something strange and immediately asked someone to invite Deng Long and others over.

"Military advisor, are you going to attack the mountain again at the foot of the mountain?" Deng Long hurried over after hearing the news. He only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw more than a hundred officials in front of Jintang City shooting arrows at the top of the city.

But Lu Yuan's face seemed extremely solemn: "Master, look at the foot of the mountain from the hillside there." As he said that, he also pointed at the left with his hand.

"Um..." Deng Long and the others were observing the area carefully with some confusion. To be honest, they didn't care about the direction of the area, because there was really nothing worth paying attention to except for the large forests. Of course, they also found that the area is different now, and the trees are much sparse than before.

Seeing that they were all confused, Lu Yuan could only explain patiently: "Master, brothers, the trees were cut down by the government army. They should have spent a lot of effort on this in the past few days, so they did not forcefully attack my Jintang City."

"So what? Can they still threaten me Erlong Mountain by cutting down trees?"

Lu Yuan sighed inwardly. These guys have no strategic mind except fighting and killing. At this time, they can only continue to explain: "The reason why I was able to stand in Jintang City before was because the government army could not use heavy siege equipment, but once they could use it, a mere small city could not stop the government army's offensive..."

"Even if they want to build siege equipment on the spot, it will take a long time..."

"It's not that the government army should have brought these weapons long ago, but they were not used due to the terrain restrictions. In the past few days, they are opening up the road that hinders their progress. Once that area is completely empty and they are asked to send weapons such as catapults up the mountain, my Jintang City will be completely finished!" Lu Yuan was really anxious this time, and he almost blushed and shouted his worries.

As soon as these words were said, the others also changed their color, and Deng Long even said anxiously: "What should I do?"

"There are only two ways. One is to send troops to attack the local area at night while they are not ready, hoping to destroy all the catapults. But this is a huge risk. Maybe the official army has set up an ambush there long ago, just waiting for us to crash into it."

When Deng Long heard this, he shook his head decisively: "This is really not possible, it's too risky." After several battles, he had long been afraid of the Qingzhou army, so how could he dare to send troops rashly?

Lu Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "Then the only way is to give up Jintang City and defend the sky to the forefront. That can save our brother's lives. Fortunately, the mountain road behind Jintang City is steeper and narrow, so the government will definitely not be able to transport heavy siege equipment to come up next."
Chapter completed!