Qin Feng only stayed in Hong Kong Island for seven days this time, and had to return to Daqi World early.

Feng Qingyun's personal ethics were not good enough, but he was not mediocre and incompetent. After making the decision, he summoned the generals early the next morning and issued the order to start the war. The capital commander Yu Fangzhou led 10,000 troops and went to the front line to preside over the siege.

After Yu Fangzhou silently accepted the order, he left the commander's tent and went to reorganize his troops.

The Commander-in-Chief is nearly fifty years old, with average abilities, but a slightly old-fashioned personality. What is rare is that he is loyal to the court and ignores Feng Qingyun's several hints of recruitment. This makes the coach very upset.

Dissatisfied, this time he assigned this difficult task to him.

Although he didn't say it clearly, Yu Fangzhou was not a fool, so he naturally understood that this was Feng Qingyun's plan to kill someone with a borrowed knife. He and the ten thousand people under him were prepared to use them as chips and cannon fodder on the battlefield, and they were also used as bait.

It was used to lure Zhao Yuanjin into revealing his mysterious trump card.

Regardless of the final outcome of this counter-insurgency battle, he himself and these 10,000 troops were basically in danger.

Unfortunately, after knowing the result, Yu Fangzhou had no choice. After all, he was not the coach, Feng Qingyun was. The laws in the military were strict, and even if they forced you to die, you had no choice but to obey.

Dare you have any objection? I can order you to be pushed out and beheaded on the spot! Afterwards, you will be charged with "cowardice of the enemy and fear of war" and "resistance to military orders". You will not be able to live in peace even if you die.

"...General, what should we do now?"

In the camp, a young captain asked anxiously.

"What else can we do? Of course we are preparing to lead the army to attack the city." Yu Fangzhou said expressionlessly.

The captain said angrily: "That bastard is the dog raised by the old thief Zhang Minzhong. He is deliberately trying to kill you. Are you just letting him do it like this..."

Yu Fangzhou's face changed, his eyes were as cold as a knife, and his power suddenly appeared, which made the captain of the school stop in shock.

After being quiet for a long time, the commander of the old capital sighed quietly and his expression softened. The captain was a member of his clan, and he was somewhat related to him. He had been with him for many years and had a close relationship. This time, he was worried about him.

Because of the danger, I spoke impulsively.

"Yu Zong, I know what you are thinking, but there are some things that you and I can't control. So what can we do now that things have come to this?"

Yu Fangzhou looked solemn and said: "Eating the emperor's salary is a matter of loyalty to the emperor. I joined the army at the age of sixteen and served the imperial court for more than thirty years. I have experienced more than a hundred battles. I am lucky to be alive now. Now I died on the battlefield for my country.

This life of hard work is not in vain..."

He paused, took out a tightly sealed package from under the desk, looked at it for a while before handing it to the captain, and said:

"Although we don't have the name of father and son, I have always treated you as my own. There is nothing to say now. This is my life savings and some experience in marching and fighting. You can take it back to your hometown with you."

"The imperial court is in a state of decay, the country's traitors are in power, the country is overthrown, and the world will be changed within ten years at most. If you are determined, it would be good to choose a Ming emperor to serve you in the future, to have a wife and a son, and to honor your ancestors."

"General..." Yu Zong burst into tears, his voice choked with sobs.

Yu Fangzhou smiled casually and patted him on the shoulder: "A real man stands upright and has a destiny, so why do you have to act like a little girl? Let's go!"

The captain knelt down silently, kowtowed a few times, got up and left the camp.

A moment later, the rapid sound of the horn sounded through the camp, the fence was opened, and a large number of cold-looking soldiers poured out of the camp like a tide. Under the loud orders of the officers, they pushed all kinds of siege equipment and approached the city wall.

Under the banner, Yu Fangzhou rode a war horse and calmly issued dispatching orders one after another.

This time is no different than the last time Meng Luo besieged Jingnan County. At this time, Yangcheng County has sufficient food, grass and weapons, and its morale is high. It is destined to be a big and hard battle. It is not surprising that all the ten thousand soldiers died in the end, including the one he commanded.

Make it inside.

On the city wall, the rebels were already waiting, and numerous boiling cauldrons were lined up, filled with gold juice and boiling oil.

Golden juice is also called golden soup, which is a soup of rotten and fermented dung. In ancient battlefields, this thing appeared very frequently. Its effect is equivalent to a relatively primitive biochemical weapon. Once the boiled gold juice is poured on the body,

, skin and flesh wounds are inevitable, and there is almost no cure because it is impossible not to get infected.

The effect of boiling oil is similar to that of boiling oil. They are both sharp weapons in city defense. Of course, there is not much oil in this era, so the cost of use is high. Qin Feng managed to get these on the city wall.

At this moment, he and Zhao Yuanjin were observing the military situation in the city gate tower. The imperial troops under the city were in formation, the archer phalanx had been launched, and swarms of arrows were flying in like a gust of wind and rain. The soldiers on the city wall were in panic.

Hidden, hiding behind the crenellations of the city wall and protecting the vital parts of the body with a shield.

Further away there were trebuchets to assist. Stones rolled in the air and fell on the city wall with huge potential energy, causing the city tower to shake slightly.

This was considered the preparation of firepower in the cold weapon age. For a time, the city walls, towers, crenellations, and corridors were full of cracked stones, and falling arrows were as densely packed as hedgehogs. There were also many stones and arrows passing over them.

The city wall fell into the open space and residential areas behind.

After a while, the rain of arrows stopped, and amid the dull and dense sound of drums, hundreds of soldiers pushed various siege equipment and rushed towards the city wall regardless of the situation.

Lin Ke, the guard on the city, looked calm and stared coldly at the imperial troops approaching from the city without saying a word. It was not until they approached a certain distance that he waved his hand fiercely and ordered the arrows to be fired.

Suddenly, arrows rained down from the top of the city, and due to the acceleration of gravity, the penetrating force of the arrows when they fell was much stronger. Many soldiers who had no time to protect themselves were hit by the arrows, and screams and groans could not be heard.

The soldiers who were not hit by the arrows raised their shields in unison and continued to rush forward. Some of the soldiers who moved faster had already set up ladders on the top of the city, and then climbed up with all their strength.

The rebels who defended the city were condescending, and ladles of scalding golden juice and boiling oil kept pouring down. The soldiers who were splashed screamed and fell down one after another, breaking their muscles and bones.

In a city offensive and defensive battle, the defensive side has a natural advantage in attacking from above. The attacking side rushes in from a hundred steps away with siege equipment, which consumes a lot of physical energy. Then they have to work from the bottom up, risking the enemy's attack above.

Intensive attacks climbed up to the top of the city, with 40 to 50 casualties on the way.

Sun Tzu's Art of War says: "The first step is to attack the enemy, the second step is to attack the enemy, the second step is to attack the army, and the third step is to attack the city."

"If the general is overwhelmed by its anger and the ants attack it, killing a third of the soldiers but the city is not taken out, this attack will be a disaster."

It means that when two countries are at war, the most brilliant strategy is to subjugate the enemy without fighting. The second is to defeat the enemy's diplomacy and isolate it. The third is to defeat the enemy's army. As for attacking the enemy's city, it is actually the lowest level.

, the least cost-effective approach.

The general could not restrain his anger and drove his soldiers to climb the ladder like ants to attack the city. As a result, one-third of the soldiers were killed or injured, but the city still could not be conquered. This was a disaster for the siege.

The famous Tang general Ge Shuhan led more than 60,000 men to attack the strategically important Shibao City of Tibet. Due to the dangerous terrain, only 400 Tibetan soldiers defended the city, but the Tang army had to pay tens of thousands of casualties before they could conquer it.

In the Battle of Diaoyu City at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army had been attacking for many years but was unable to do anything. Even the Great Khan Meng Ge was seriously injured and died under the city.

Therefore, in the era of cold weapons, the casualty rate in city offensive and defensive battles has always been high, even for famous generals.

Now facing Yangcheng County with complete defense measures, sufficient food, grass and weapons, and Qin Feng secretly sparing no effort to provide logistical support, it would be extremely difficult for the imperial army to capture this city.
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