Chapter 208: Send Liu Xuecheng away

There were quite a few injured brothers, and some were even seriously injured, hanging on by a single breath.

Jiang Jinshi took out all the Golden Sore Medicine and let Huasheng take people to treat them.

Fortunately, after taking down these cities, there were quite a few people who could be used, among whom naturally included doctors, otherwise there wouldn't be enough people to use now.

"Count the casualties! Report to me later!" Jiang Jinshi continued to handle the post-war affairs steadily. "Don't waste the damaged armor and arrows, send them to the logistics department."

"Transport some more rolling logs and stones to the city wall for backup!"

"By the way, see if the meals in logistics are ready. If they are, send them to the city wall!"

Taking advantage of the time when the battle stopped, the things that needed to be replenished had to be kept up; it wasn't that one could rest just because the battle stopped.

Luo Feng also took advantage of the fact that the sky wasn't dark and the vision was good, leaving Xiexiezi alone to guard the North Gate, while he came to help handle the post-war affairs.

Colonel Li, who returned to the camp, immediately ordered: "Light fires and cook! Rest for a day first!"

Liu Xuecheng walked into the camp and asked: "Colonel Li, why did you withdraw troops?"

Colonel Li had long thought of an excuse. He knew the other party didn't understand the battlefield and didn't intend to tell him in detail.

"The soldiers rushed on the road for a day without any rest, so they attacked, which is why they couldn't take down the other party for a long time! It won't be too late to attack after resting well!"

"Makes sense! I was a bit impatient today!"

Liu Xuecheng nodded affirmatively. He also saw the battle situation today and subconsciously thought it was the situation Colonel Li said, not that they couldn't beat them, but that the soldiers were tired from rushing!

Only Colonel Li understood how hard it was to chew. Those siege methods weren't ordinary bandits at all.

Even if their soldiers broke through many difficulties and reached the city wall, they couldn't stand at all, and the other party didn't even have the slightest intention of retreating.

Forced siege was relying on human lives to pile up, and his losses were much greater than the other party's. Continuing like this would only bury all the manpower here.

At this time, the Vice Colonel came to report: "Colonel, about 1,800 people were killed in battle!"

"Mm! I know! Let everyone rest well first!" Colonel Li nodded calmly, but his heart was extremely suppressed.

Nearly 20% of the soldiers were lost in the first battle, and it would only get harder later.

And in Panjiang City, the casualties of the bandits were also counted. More than 300 were killed in battle, and more than 200 were injured.

This data was still within Jiang Jinshi's acceptable range. After all, the injured people should have no problem saving their lives in front of the Golden Sore Medicine produced by the system.

Even at night, Jiang Jinshi wouldn't slack off. Personnel were arranged at all city gates to not give the other party any chance to sneak attack.

After a night of careful consideration, Colonel Li decided not to carry out large-scale all-out forced sieges, but adopted a more consuming and patient fighting style.

At the same time, in order to block Liu Xuecheng's mouth, he specifically found the other party.

"Jun Governor, leave this to me! These bandits occupy many cities, perhaps you can go and appease the commoners to make some preparations for later things?"

Colonel Li didn't dare to speak clearly, and even more didn't dare to use the tone of command, so he could only say relatively tactfully.

Liu Xuecheng thought that Colonel Li's words made a lot of sense. He came here as a Jun Governor and couldn't do nothing here, but he was afraid that the bandits in those cities would attack him.

"How to deal with the bandits in those cities?"

Colonel Li responded respectfully: "I sent spies in advance. According to the spies, the bandits are all gathered in Panjiang City, so there should be no bandits in other cities."

However, considering Liu Xuecheng's identity, Colonel Li paused and continued: "I sent 500 people to follow you, Jun Governor, to ensure your safety!"

Only then did Liu Xuecheng feel relieved and nodded to Colonel Li: "Can!"

Liu Xuecheng had to change his reputation, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain to the Prince of Zhenbei after winning the battle.

It was just right to let Colonel Li attack the city here, while he went to show compassion to the commoners in the cities that had been "harmed" by the bandits, striving to let everyone say more good things.

Soon Liu Xuecheng rode a horse with 500 people toward Baiyan City. On the horse's back, he had already thought that as long as he announced one or two new regulations that were good for the commoners, wouldn't those lowly people be grateful to him?

And the matter of refugees, as long as he promised to take out some grain for disaster relief, presumably the reputation would change instantly. This time, the advantage was with him.

After Liu Xuecheng left, Colonel Li breathed a sigh of relief and called his subordinates to order: "Don't attack the city today, pull the catapults over and hit them fiercely."

This was Colonel Li's tactic: first consume the other party's energy and manpower, then find an opportunity to break through in one go.

Afterward, the catapults began to exert force, and huge stone bombs whistled and smashed toward the city wall. Although the Panjiang city wall was solid, it was also smashed with many pits, and the wall parapets were destroyed in many places.

More stone bombs crossed the city wall and smashed into the city, causing some panic. Fortunately, the commoners and bandits were of one heart and wouldn't cause much chaos.

Colonel Li's deployment naturally wouldn't be so simple. The soldiers began to selectively carry out "fatigue enemy" tactics.

Day and night, they sent small groups of troops to harass different sections of the city wall in turns.

Gongs and drums were noisy, shouting and killing, making a false appearance of a strong attack, inducing Yangguangzhai to respond nervously, consuming their physical strength and siege defense materials.

When the defenders were ready, they retreated quickly.

Such obvious tactics naturally couldn't be hidden from Jiang Jinshi. Fortunately, there were many people in Yangguangzhai now, so he arranged for 2,500 people to guard the city, and the rest rested, changing shifts at night.

The East Gate only needed to ensure that 1,000 people guarded the city, and the other three directions had 500 each.

Even if the other party wasn't a feint attack but a real attack, they couldn't break the city gate in a short time.

And once there was time to breathe, his main force would arrive immediately.

In this way, everyone had time to rest and wouldn't be disturbed by the other party. Jiang Jinshi even bought quite a lot of meat in the system mall for Li Xinyue to ensure everyone's mental state, so that the brothers of Yangguangzhai could eat well enough.

Due to the reason of the land under Panjiang City, it was temporarily impossible for the other party to dig tunnels. Luo Feng had already tried this before.

So the current Panjiang City was an iron turtle. Not only were the bandits in the city not disturbed by the other party, but their morale was rising instead.

Whenever they ate big pot rice, there were always bandits bragging about how brave they were on the East Gate city wall, and those soldiers were just crooked melons and cracked dates, which always caused laughter among everyone.

Many people even had the idea that even if they went out of the city to fight, they might not be able to beat the other party.

It wasn't just the brothers below who had this idea, even the squad leaders were the same. ===== CHAPTER 209 =====

It is not just the brothers below who have this thought; even the squad leaders feel the same way.