For three consecutive days, the coalition forces launched a full-scale attack but to no avail.
They never even touched the top of the wall. Every time they were either knocked down by stones or shot down by the enemy's arrows.
"General, let's retreat! The more we fight, the fewer brothers we have. If we continue like this, we'll collapse before we can even get reinforcements."
"No, we can't just retreat like this. I've received news that our reinforcements will arrive in less than two days. When the time comes, we will launch an all-out attack. I don't believe we can't take Loulan."
The general had already said so, what else could his subordinates do? They just asked:
"So what should we do now? Continue the assault? But our brothers can't hold on any longer."
"Let the brothers retreat and rest for a while. Their morale is too low right now, and I'm afraid they'll flee. We'll wait for reinforcements to arrive, then we'll attack with our entire army and capture Loulan in one fell swoop."
"yes."
As the horn sounded, the coalition forces retreated again.
This was the sixth attack in three days.
They attacked once in the morning and once in the afternoon without fail.
Not only was morale almost destroyed, but the losses among soldiers were also extremely heavy.
In these three days, they have lost tens of thousands of troops.
This break is the best news in recent days.
The endless siege made everyone suffer.
After the siege just now, everyone was tired and hungry.
As soon as they returned to their camp, everyone clamored for food.
"I'm so hungry, is the food ready?"
"What are you eating? Eat! All you do is eat! We've been fighting for so long and still haven't taken Loulan."
An officer cursed angrily.
Now the soldier dared not say anything, but the others didn't care.
"Even if we don't take it, we still have to eat. If we don't eat, who will work for you? I'm going to be killed at any time if I join the army. If I don't have food to eat, what's the point of being a soldier?"
"Yes, if you don't give me food, I won't do it and go home."
Seeing that the big guy was in a bad state, the officer stopped yelling and immediately comforted him:
"What are you doing? I'm just in a bad mood, what's the big deal? The food is ready, come and eat."
When they heard that there was food, the soldiers did not argue with the officer and ate their meals first.
Originally, there was nothing special about this meal.
But at this moment, the earth shook.
"Da Da Da~~~~"
"The sound of many horses running!"
"Are these our reinforcements?"
"No, the reinforcements won't arrive here for two days!"
"Where did those cavalry come from?"
Just as they were about to serve the meal, they saw smoke and dust in the distance and could not see what was going on.
Seeing the aggressive appearance of these cavalrymen, someone immediately realized:
"Oh no! It's the enemy. The enemy is coming. Quick! Come out and meet them!"
"Oh no! It's an enemy attack!"
The soldiers no longer had the heart to resist.
Now we are tired, hungry and our morale is low.
Without morale, there is no combat effectiveness, and reactions become sluggish.
So they may not have realized how powerful the other party is, and they just stared blankly at the dust in the distance.
Then the general began to cry out:
"Don't just stand there, quickly form a formation and hold off the enemy."
"Don't put down your weapons, raise them up!"
What a pity! It's too late.
The soldiers' reaction speed was also slow enough.
When the enemy came in front of them, they were still huddled together in a mess.
The organization of the coalition forces was not very smooth to begin with, and now with so many cavalry suddenly appearing, it would be great if they could be under unified command.
They immediately began fighting on their own, with no way of forming an effective resistance formation.
Suddenly, heads fell to the ground and limbs flew everywhere.
Teams of war horses rushed into the crowd and started hacking people, then quickly killed their way through their own camp.
Now the morale, which was already on the verge of collapse, was completely destroyed.
"Run! These cavalrymen are so powerful."
"It's over. Our coalition has failed. Run! It's too late to escape."
When some people started shouting to escape, the coalition forces had no way to turn the tide.
They fled in all directions, and whether they could escape was up to fate.
Zhang Yan and Zhang Liao were not expecting so many soldiers to flee.
They also thought that although it was a surprise attack, the other party would at least resist.
It's too easy for them to do that.
In their view, there are an army of more than 400,000 here. If they want to defeat them, they must at least kill them to the point of trembling with fear.
But after just one charge, these people couldn't hold on. They were simply useless.
“Kill!”
"Ah! Don't kill me!"
"Surrender and you won't be killed!"
"I surrender!"
“…”
Afterwards, the one-sided situation on the battlefield was no longer a surprise, and the cavalry of Zhang Liao and Zhang Yan kept killing the soldiers of the coalition forces.
This time, they not only killed enough people.
Even prisoners have been taken enough.
One day later.
"General! There are no more enemies in Loulan."
"Hahaha, okay, how are our results this time?"
"General, we killed 100,000 enemies and captured 300,000. The rest all ran away."
"Very good. The only pity is that we didn't get any war horses from them this time. These people from the Western Regions are really shabby. They don't even want to ride war horses."
This really can't be blamed on them, as war horses are not the absolute main force in the Western Regions.
Their most elite unit is the Camel Corps.
The fact that they did not send anyone out this time shows that they did not take Loulan very seriously.
"General, what shall we do with our prisoners?"
"Take them all to Cheshi State, and then we can train them properly. We in Loulan can't continue to dilute the water, otherwise it will easily cause trouble."
Zhang Liao made a decision immediately.
The Cheshi Kingdom is now considered a big country in the Western Regions, and generally no one is willing to provoke them.
Fengyun, who is now in Loulan City, is not too surprised by this victory.
He didn't take the 500,000 troops outside the city seriously at all. After three days of testing, he knew that the other side was just a mob.
So he ordered Zhang Liao and his men to attack, catching the enemy off guard when they were withdrawing their troops.
Everything was in his calculation.
Because the situation changed so quickly, the battle ended before the soldiers in the city came out.
Then he could only ask everyone to come out and clean up the battlefield, move back all the rubble, rolling logs and arrows from the past few days, and wait for the next war to begin.
He estimated that this wave was just the vanguard and there must be a larger force.
As long as those large armies are eroded, it will be their country's turn.
By then, we will be at the mercy of the world.
Fengyun’s plan was very detailed, but at this moment the news of the defeat had already been passed back to the Allies.
They started arguing among themselves again.
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