The situation in Xiling is currently extremely dangerous. If Jiang Wei can get Ning Sui's reinforcements, it will be of great help to the overall situation. However, Ning Sui's reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, and the situation in Xiling has become worse and worse.

Jiang Wei did not see the battle situation in Baisha Tsui. If he had to take a look at it personally, Jiang Wei would not be so angry that he vomited blood. Jiang Wei entrusted Ning Sui with an important task, but at the critical moment, Ning Sui fought like a shit, which was a terrible sight.

Tens of thousands of troops were almost destroyed, but Ning Sui was lucky enough to escape, but the road ahead was cut off, so Ning Sui could only lead the remaining troops to escape to the pying. The plan to return to Xiling failed completely. This was the heaviest blow to Jiang Wei.

Due to the blockade of news, Jiang Wei still did not know the traces of Ning Sui's army until a night after the battle ended. However, based on Jiang Wei's experience, Ning Sui's side must be in danger. Even if it is the most optimistic estimate, if the entire army is not destroyed, it will be blocked by the Wei army halfway and will not be able to return to Xiling for a short time.

Ning Sui must have no hope for it. If you want to remove the troops from other places, there is too little time to go, and whether it is the Shiting, Huya Mountain or Ma'anshan, they are threatened by the Wei army. The troops from these three places should not be moved lightly for the time being.

So if Jiang Wei wants to defend Xiling, he no longer has external help and can only rely on the existing troops in Xiling City. This is indeed a lot of difficulties for Jiang Wei. After all, the Wei army's catapult cart is too powerful. Under the rounds of bombing, the defense of the Shu army is not able to withstand such an attack, no matter how strong the defense is, it is impossible for him to withstand such an attack.

As soon as the sky was dawn, the Wei army launched a full-load attack. Countless fierce oil bombs continued to pour towards the city of Xiling. The city like a sea of ​​fire made the Shu army feel desperate.

Originally, the Shu army thought that the fierce oil fire bomb was an extremely expensive weapon, and the Wei army must have limited equipment. After fighting for a day yesterday, the Wei army's reserves should have bottomed out, but no one expected that the Wei army's fire sea offensive showed no sign of weakening. Instead, it continued to maintain a high momentum, and the fire bombs were shot out, and the entire Xiling city was already flooded in a sea of ​​fire.

Who can withstand such an offensive?

The Shu army, who fled to the city in a hurry, sighed at the fire. In this day and night, the city of Xiling City had been burned by fire many times. Even the stones on the city were cracked and the bricks were deformed. The entire southern city wall was completely scorched earth, and countless Shu soldiers were buried in the sea of ​​fire, and their corpses were probably burned to ashes.

Now the Shu soldiers generally have a fearful mentality. No one wants to climb the city because no one knows when the next round of Wei's attack will come. They don't play according to common sense. No matter whether it is the attack of fire or stone bullets, there is no rule to follow, and they completely stunned the soldiers of the Shu army.

Stepping onto the city is like stepping onto the gate of hell. If you are not careful, you will suffer a catastrophe. This is tantamount to the instinctive resistance of the Shu army. No one wants to climb the city or go to the front line.

But isn't it going up?

The attack of the Wei army's catapulted cart itself provides cover for infantry attacks. The real main force of the siege is the infantry hidden behind the rock bombs of fire bombs. They used the catapulted cart to launch a crazy attack on the Xiling defenders, and then took advantage of the opportunity of the Shu army's unstable foothold to launch another attack. If the Shu army dared not climb to the city, how could Xiling City be defended?

Most of the soldiers stationed in the southern city were originally Yizhou. After a day of fierce fighting, the Yizhou soldiers were greatly reduced, so Lu Kang specially ordered the Jingzhou soldiers to be mobilized from other places to assist in defense to ensure that the Xiling city wall was not lost.

The defense of the Shu army was already tenacious enough. They were running up and down the city, exhausted and had to be careful of the fire and stone bullets falling from their heads, and were extremely nervous.

Moreover, even when they were engaged in offensive and defensive battles with the Wei army's infantry, the Shu army had to do their best. After all, all the defense facilities on the city were destroyed by catapults. The Shu army had no way to use the city's defensive advantages to block the Wei army's attack. The place where they stood was only a little higher advantage than the Shu army, without any other help.

In such a battle situation, it is almost impossible for the Shu army to gain advantage. If the Wei army's attack was not very powerful, Xiling City might have been declared lost yesterday.

It should be said that the Shu army had tried their best to defend, and even their final potential was tapped out. But to be honest, they had no hope of defeating this battle, which was destined to lose.

After a night of restoring energy, Pingjiang Camp was full of fighting spirit and devoted itself to the battle. Under the cover of the catapult cart, they launched round after round of attacks. It was indeed not easy for the Shu army to block such a scattered attack.

The Wei army's attack was continuous and stable, and it continued to increase its attack. In just one morning, the Wei army had already fired hundreds of fire bombs and thousands of stone bombs, and the infantry launched almost three or four attacks. Such attack strength continued to put pressure on the defenders of Xiling. The defense line of Xiling City was in a hurry and was full of dangers.

Jiang Wei is now in a dilemma. Let's continue to defend. He must have more troops to go to Nancheng to defend the city. But judging from the current situation in Nancheng, it is completely a bottomless pit. No matter how much troops the Shu army invests there, it can only be lost in vain. This pit will never be filled.

But if he gave up the South City Gate, the attacking Wei army would rush in and lose the protection of the city wall. The Xiling defense war would definitely be more difficult. Although Jiang Wei was ready for street fighting, it was still difficult for Jiang Wei to make a decision for the time being that he really wanted to give up the city wall and retreat to the city.

However, as the Wei army's offensive became more and more fierce, the situation of the Shu army defending the city became more and more difficult. The attacks of the Wei army's stone casting carts were still as unruly as yesterday, and their accuracy was getting better and better. Most of the stone bullets would fall to the city or the city. In this way, when the Wei army infantry attacked the city, the Wei army's stone casting carts would dare to fire. As long as the Wei army did not climb the city, the stone bullets would keep flying overhead.

Under such close cover from the catapult, the morale of Pingjiang Camp rose sharply, and finally successfully climbed to the top of Xiling and broke through the defense of the Shu army.
Chapter completed!