In the face of life and death and interests, people's choice is often to live. How powerful the Jizhou family is, but after the Bingzhou Army broke through Jizhou, they gradually became honest. It is not that they don't want to resist, but the monarch's strength is too strong. , After failure, it was destroyed, so that the family did not dare to move.

The Bingzhou army began to attack the city day and night. Three consecutive days of attacking the city. The east city wall was pitted and the arrow piles on the wall, even more than ten, were hit by the Thunderbolt cars. Similarly, the Thunderbolt cars gave The damage caused by the defenders is also huge.

The most serious casualties were the soldiers manipulating the Thunderbolt car on the city wall. They needed to beware of the boulders from outside the city at all times. Many Thunderbolt drivers hit the boulder directly.

The defenders in the city are not like the Chang'an Army outside the city. After the soldiers are injured, they cannot be treated in time. Their lives are not so important in the eyes of the generals. Even Ma Chao thinks so, unless they are in the army. Generals can get timely treatment after being injured.

In these troubled times, the loss of ordinary soldiers is nothing in the eyes of the generals. Instead of spending more money and energy on the wounded soldiers, it is better to re-recruit soldiers, and the cost will be smaller.

However, they neglected what benefits would be brought to the ruler once the wounded soldiers were cured.

Ma Chao gathered the aristocratic families in the city, and the war has reached the present level. The family's strength must be mobilized and let the aristocratic family stand firmly on his side in order to win the war.

The biggest family in Xiabian City is the Zhao family and the Li family. These two control nearly 40% of Wudu's fields. This is a terrifying number. Of course, the strength of the two families is extremely terrible. Influence.

The reason why Ma Chao was able to break through the military capital so easily at the beginning was inseparable from the help of the two families.

"Patriarch Li, Patriarch Zhao, now the enemy is on a fierce offensive. Our army has suffered heavy losses under the enemy's Perak. The Perak in the city has been damaged a lot. According to the current situation, within three days, the enemy Then the moat can be filled, and then Xiabian will face the greatest threat." Ma Chao worried.

Zhang Qi said: "The general can rest assured that the Zhang family will definitely stand on the side of the general. The Zhang family has a thousand private soldiers and still has some combat power. If the enemy is siege, it can be used."

Li Tao, the head of the Li family, also echoed: "With the bravery of the general and the elite of the sergeant, it is natural to guard the lower side. If the general has two places, even if he speaks clearly."

Ma Chao nodded slightly and was quite satisfied with the attitudes of Zhang Qi and Li Tao. As for the two secretly manipulating the price of rice in the city, the price of rice was more than doubled than usual, but Ma Chao did not take it seriously. , The war is coming, and it is still unknown whether the Xiabian can be held. The life and death of ordinary people is not an issue for him to consider.

"With the words of Patriarch Zhang and Patriarch Li, this general is more confident to hold on to Xiabian. What we have to guard against is that there will be a family in the city secretly taking refuge in the enemy. The two Patriarchs should pay more attention to them. Jinhou's methods are extremely powerful. "Ma Chao reminded that this was exactly what he was worried about, and when the state army secretly dispatched assassins in the decisive battle with the princes' coalition forces in Huguan, but it caused a lot of damage to the generals of the princes' coalition forces. If an assassin sneaked into the city, it would definitely be Will cause turbulence in the city.

Zhang Qi smiled and said: "The general is too careful to avoid that the aristocratic families in the city will definitely not take refuge in Lu Bu."

The three discussed for a long time. At the same time, the Li family and Zhang family also paid a lot of money, and got the promise of Lu Bu Ma Chao, and then left one after another.

The reason why the aristocratic family supports Ma Chao in this way is also because of how much benefits they can gain after Ma Chao repels the enemy. War is terrible, but the benefits brought by war are also huge. If they can be used properly, the family The strength of the small family will be further improved. As for the weak family, at this time, the better choice is to join the big family. In the long run, the strength of the small family will become weaker and weaker, and the power controlled by the big family will be More powerful.

Regardless of the number of defenders in the city at this time, as long as the Zhang family and the Li family decide to take refuge in Lu Bu, it will be difficult for Ma Chao to survive the enemy's offensive, and there are many family members in the army.

After Zhang Qi and Li Tao left, Ma Chao's complexion became somber. He was very dissatisfied when discussing the matter with the owners of the two families in such a low voice. In any case, he was the actual controller of Wudu. But now it depends on the faces of the two families, secretly Ma Chao has placed the two on the list to be eliminated in the future.

The support of a powerful family can certainly make the governance more stable~www.mtlnovel.com~ If the family does not know how to advance and retreat, it will also bring a lot of trouble to the ruler.

Three days later, the moat of Xiabian was filled up under the successive offensives of the Chang'an Army. After the moat that the defenders relied on was filled up, it meant that they would meet with the enemy in short-term.

After seeing this situation, Ma Chao did not have the anxiety he had before. As long as the enemy attacked the city, the offensive of the Thunderbolt car would stop, and the advantage of the city wall would be reflected to the greatest extent at this moment. It would make Chang'an Army pay a heavy price, and thus could not attack Longxi. In Ma Chao's heart, Wudu's status is far inferior to Longxi.

However, what was beyond Ma Chao's expectation was that the army outside the city was not eager to attack the city, but used the advantages of the Thunderbolt to continue to cause trouble for the defenders.

Lu Bu has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and the army has Pang Tong and Jushou planning from it. Naturally, he will not launch an attack on Xiabian after the moat is filled. He must make full use of the advantage of the army to cause damage to the enemy. The defender's thunderbolt There are not many cars that can be used, and in this regard, the Changan Army has an absolute advantage.

The bed crossbow was carried to the east of the city by the soldiers of the Chang'an Army. Under the command of the general, the bed crossbows were sent out.

The crossbow arrows play a very important role in the soldiers attacking the city. If the attacker wants to let the soldiers attack the city wall, they can only use the ladder. After the ladder is overthrown by the defenders, the crossbow arrows on the wall can help one's side. The soldier stabilized his figure, and then attacked the city wall again.

Compared with the consumption of crossbow arrows, Lu Bu cares more about the lives of ordinary soldiers. Training a good soldier requires a lot of cost. Only soldiers in the army can survive on the battlefield to the greatest extent and get the elite. Will be more.

(End of this chapter)