Chapter 317

Someone urged..

168. Shock! Li Li Yuanba! He didn't die?

Hearing Wei Pao's idea of letting the army disperse, Meng Tian couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Nearly a million troops, let them disperse?

Do you think I can pass down the order by shouting once?

This order needs to be passed by people, and then passed down layer by layer by lower-level officers.

By the time everyone received the order, it might take an hour!

It would be better if the order was received late; what's more terrifying is the commotion caused when passing the order to disperse.

When people here receive the order to disperse, other troops who haven't received the order might mistake it for a retreat, or something else happened!

Once a commander misunderstands and acts on his own, it will trigger a chain reaction.

By then, let alone attacking the city, the army might fall into chaos first.

Therefore, the army's battle formation is very important!

Anyone who changes the formation without authorization is a capital crime!

"Pass my order to continue attacking the city; anyone who retreats without authorization will be beheaded!" Meng Tian decisively issued the order.

"General Meng, why not let the soldiers disperse?"

Wei Pao was puzzled.

"Leave the fighting to me." Meng Tian said displeasedly.

It is very troublesome to explain the principle that the formation cannot be messed up to a layman.

Now there is no time to talk to Wei Pao about these things?

Meng Tian didn't want to talk, but fortunately, someone who understood was on the side and pulled Wei Pao aside to explain quietly, which avoided a conflict between Wei Pao and Meng Tian.

Under Meng Tian's order, the army did not fall into chaos despite the shells falling down.

It was just that those soldiers were miserable.

They could only pray in their hearts that the shells wouldn't land on their side.

After a while, the sound gradually stopped.

"They have no more shells!" Meng Tian was overjoyed: "Quick, intensify the attack! Anyone who opens the city gate will be rewarded with a thousand gold and promoted three ranks!"

And at this time, the defenders on the city wall, under Zhuge Liang's command, readjusted the direction of the artillery, aiming the cannons at the enemy below the city wall.

Before long, the cannons started again.

The difference was that these shells were fired at the enemy below the city wall.

For a time, the area below the city wall was filled with flames.

Mutilated limbs were blown everywhere!

And the sturdy scaling ladders and various siege weapons were all destroyed!

These wooden siege weapons were simply vulnerable in front of the shells; as long as one shell hit, it would be smashed to pieces.

Without siege weapons, no matter how fearless the soldiers below were, they couldn't continue the attack.

Meng Tian had no choice but to order a suspension of the attack.

On the city wall, watching the enemy army retreating like a tide, Ying Zheng couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

They actually held it!

They actually held it without sending out Li Li Yuanba!

And according to what he knew, this battle just now only used about ten percent of the shells.

Similar attacks would be enough to easily defend more than ten times!

Not only that, but also... (aebj)

Ying Zheng thought of one thing.

If shells were fired at the enemy's commander, wouldn't they be able to win directly?

From the distance the shells were fired just now, there was a chance to do this.

But Zhuge Liang didn't do it.

If it were someone else, Ying Zheng would think the other party didn't think of this trick.

But the problem is that this person is Zhuge Liang!

Zhuge Liang must have thought of being able to directly kill the enemy leaders, but didn't do it.

There is only one reason for this, which is that Ying Su didn't want to do it!

But why didn't Ying Su want to do it?

Ying Zheng fell into deep thought.

After a while, he seemed to understand some things.

But there were still some things he didn't understand.

After another while, Ying Zheng's eyes were full of shock.

"This rebellious son, actually thinks so far ahead?"

"Why didn't I notice him before?"

"If I had known this, I would have made him the Crown Prince, and avoided this guy rebelling!"

Just as Ying Zheng was thinking about this and that, Zhuge Liang had just found Li Li Yuanba.

"Now the enemy's siege troops have retreated, but they haven't gone far; I think they still want to attack again."

"When the time comes, General Li, please take the trouble to go out and finish them off!"

Zhuge Liang said.

In fact, he didn't want to send Li Li Yuanba out.

He wanted to use his own way to repel the enemy.

To deal with the million-strong army outside the city, the thirty thousand defenders inside the city were enough.

He had already thought of three ways to repel the enemy.

But in the end, he decided to send Li Li Yuanba to fight.

Because this was the way with the least loss for their side.

"Don't worry, I'll go and kill them all!" Li Li Yuanba's eyes showed ferocity, and he walked toward the city gate carrying his big hammers.

"General Li, after leaving the city, head toward the enemy's main camp and make a move to kill Meng Tian and the others, but don't actually kill them." Zhuge Liang called out to Li Li Yuanba.

"Good!" Li Li Yuanba changed direction immediately without saying a word.

For him, he just needed to listen to Ying Su's orders; as for what the meaning of this order was, there was no need to know.

And now Ying Su was not here, and Zhuge Liang was issuing Ying Su's orders on his behalf; for Li Li Yuanba, this was no different from executing Ying Su's orders.

Ying Zheng, who was standing on the side, saw all this and didn't say anything.

He finally understood that Li Li Yuanba, Zhuge Liang, Xiao He, Han Xin, and the like, only had Ying Su in their eyes and didn't put him, Ying Zheng, in their eyes at all!

Ying Zheng was angry, but there was no way.

Now he was like Ying Su's puppet.

Outside the city, Meng Tian looked at the soldiers retreating from the front line, calculating the time for the next attack in his heart.

According to his speculation, there were still some shells in the city, but the quantity shouldn't be too many.

If they were used like they were a while ago, it would be about the same after two or three more rounds.

And after one round of artillery attack, their losses were about ten thousand.

Two or three rounds would mean losing another twenty or thirty thousand soldiers.

For a million-strong army, this was not worth mentioning at all.

The difficult part was the siege weapons.

If there were no scaling ladders, it would be impossible to climb the city wall.

And now there were not many spare scaling ladders, only enough for one or two attacks.

"Pass my order, intensify the construction of scaling ladders, the more the better, the faster the better!" Meng Tian issued the order.

As long as the new scaling ladders were made, he would immediately order an attack.

After consuming the shells in the city, the army would be able to attack the city!

Just at this moment, the city gate in the distance suddenly opened!

One person and one horse came out from the city.