Relying on the favorable terrain on the mountain, they continued to block the Nan Chu soldiers who were climbing the mountain.
The attack on the mountain lasted for a day and a night, and the Southern Chu army only climbed halfway up the mountain.
It would be difficult to go any further up.
The soldiers above must fight back even at the risk of being bombed by sky-high bombs.
The two sides thus reached a stalemate.
Time passed slowly, and it was the third day.
The Southern Chu army was unable to capture either of the two mountains on the left or right.
The Southern Chu Army seemed to be losing their patience.
The army once again launched a new round of attacks on Tucheng!
Hundreds of catapults were divided into two rows, front and back.
Continuously throwing air mines onto the walls of the earthen city and inside the city.
However, Zhao Hao had already asked the soldiers to prepare a large number of sacks.
Burlap bags were filled with soil and piled up to serve as shelter.
The sky bombs used by the Southern Chu Army were not powerful enough.
The soldiers used burlap bags filled with soil as cover, which greatly reduced casualties.
However, after a day and night of fighting, considerable casualties were still caused.
However, the Southern Chu army suffered greater casualties.
Basically, for every casualty of the Gan army soldier, three casualties would occur on the Nanchu army side.
The casualty ratio is one to three, or even more.
In this way, the two sides remained in a stalemate for nearly a month.
There were only about 5,000 defenders left in the city.
Xiao Danglu and Zhao Hao jointly wrote a letter back to the capital, detailing the battle situation and asking Jiang Wan'er to send more reinforcements.
Otherwise it will be difficult to continue to hold on.
After receiving the letter, the imperial capital responded quickly. Ten thousand troops set out from Xinzhou and soon arrived at the camp on the south bank of Chushui.
A secret weapon also arrived at the same time.
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