Luo Youdu looked at the letter sent by Fu Qing'er:
Chou Chou is not ugly at all now. With her fair skin, plump little face, and big eyes, she looks like the golden boy in the painting.
Mom said, we got our nicknames well.
Being ugly can suppress the beauty of the little guy.
Everywhere I go, people praise me for being ugly and good-looking.
There are still people who want to marry Chou Chou!
…
Today, I brought Chou Chou into the palace with my mother to visit the Queen's sister.
My sister has lost a lot of weight and spends all day reading memorials.
I feel very uncomfortable both physically and mentally.
My mother wanted to pay a visit to His Majesty, but was not allowed to do so.
…
Huber bought a rattle, and Chou Chou liked it very much. He would giggle when he heard the sound, and would also look for where the sound came from.
I hold it in my hand and don't want to let it go.
He is so strong that I can't even pull him.
Don’t let go even when you sleep…
Fu Qing'er's letters were not written in one sitting. They were just like diaries. She wrote whatever came to her mind and wrote some interesting things about her life every day.
Then send them together.
Luo Youdu would laugh out loud every time he read it. The scene in the letter seemed to be happening right in front of his eyes, and he felt particularly happy.
With thoughts of his wife and children, Luo Youdu slept until early dawn.
Luo Youdu got up early, washed briefly, and ran around the camp twice.
Then he sat in the handsome tent and read a book.
At Chen time, Pan Mei reported to Luo Youdu with yesterday's results: "Thirty-one riprap trucks were damaged yesterday and have been handed over to the supervisor for repairs."
Luo Youdu nodded and said: "Don't be afraid of damage. The general will be idle and have nothing to do. If it's broken, repair it. If it can't be repaired, tear it down and rebuild it. Anyway, don't stop. We have many trebuchets and stones. If we don't use them,
I'm sorry for the good situation given by the Khitan chief."
Pan Mei wrote it down and continued: "Last night, Xie Li planned to lead the death squad out of the city to burn the catapults, but he retreated even fifty steps out of the city."
Luo Youdu wondered: "Since they dared to leave the city, why did they retreat again?"
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Pan Mei couldn't laugh or cry and said: "They couldn't pick up the speed, and the ground at night was full of huge rocks left by the trebuchets... They advanced more than fifty steps, injured many people, and retreated in despair."
Luo Youdu smiled and said, "Let's take a look!"
As he spoke, he rode his horse and rushed to the siege front line.
Before he got close, Luo Youdu heard it
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
…
There was a continuous sound of cannon stones hitting the tower.
Arriving in front of the formation, Luo Youdu looked at the scene in front of him with a hint of shock in his eyes.
The towers and pavilions of Jizhou City have been destroyed, and the city walls are full of pits and traces of thousands of cannon stones.
And the huge rocks that bounced off the ground under the city gate wall were scattered here and there in front of the city gate, forming a roadblock.
No wonder Jieli was so disgraced, it was not easy to ride a horse through it in broad daylight, let alone at night...
This artillery and rock tactic was the most boring. Luo Youdu stayed all morning on the first day and refused to come the next day.
I didn't expect that it was just the third day that I saw this scene in front of me.
When Yao Neibin learned of Luo Youdu's arrival, Qingqi came to his side and said: "Commander, look, in the southwest section of the tower, that's..."
He pointed at a spot in the middle of the southwest section of the city wall of Jizhou City and said: "This morning when my subordinates were inspecting, they discovered something strange. The boulders there were not shelled very much, but there were only a dozen or so scattered marks. But the marks were particularly obvious.
The subordinate shot a few arrows with a crossbow and found that that part of the wall was relatively not tight enough. The subordinate estimated that when the city wall was repaired, the materials used here were incorrect."
"If we direct the surrounding rock dump trucks in that direction, the area will collapse within a day or two."
Luo Youdu looked at it from a distance, and it was just as Yao Neibin said. He smiled and praised: "Good eyesight! I will mark your contribution! But..."
He changed his voice and said: "Being honest, you have to do it for a few days and nights, and then you have to do it for a few days and nights. It's only the third day and it's over. It's not good to attract people's attention."
Yao Neibin looked dull.
Luo Youdu laughed,...
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He said: "Continue to smash, first smash 20,000 cannon stones, and then consider the attack."
Seeing Yao Neibin's confused look, he smiled and said to Pan Mei, "Explain it to him."
Pan Mei responded respectfully: "The unified army is not smashing the city wall, but the opponent's morale. The hometown of Yanyou is our army's. This isolated city in Jizhou hurts morale the most. It's just that the commander in the city is a veteran general who has won the hearts of the army."
The people's morale was stabilized by his encouragement."
"We launched the attack prematurely, but the morale in the city was still there. Under the desperate fighting of Jieli, the soldiers sacrificed their lives, and it was not easy to capture."
"They don't have long-range stone-throwing trucks in the city, so they can only be beaten passively. Their morale will inevitably decline day by day."
"If Jieli can encourage one day, two days and three days, how long can it last under such circumstances?"
"First use 20,000 flying stones to destroy the opponent's morale."
"Morale is gone. As long as we break into the city, they will no longer have the will to fight and continue to resist. Street fighting can be avoided very well."
Luo Youdu said: "People will do many stupid things due to impulse and fever. But as soon as they regain their composure, they will find that... death is still quite scary."
He felt the same way about this.
Martyrs who can truly maintain their determination to die are extremely rare in this era of moral decay and lack of faith.
Luo Youdu did not believe that the soldiers in the city could hold the belief of death for a long time.
Jizhou City.
Jie Li stood on the tower and loudly encouraged morale.
But as Luo Youdu said, the effect is very little.
On only the third day, Xie Li discovered deserters in the army.
Jizhou is an isolated city, and no one knows the outcome of defending the city.
Xie Li stayed in Jizhou for eleven years and did many good things.
Therefore, knowing that they must die, under his call, most of the soldiers were willing to die for him.
However, the high morale did not usher in the Zhou army's siege, but instead the sky was filled with flying rocks.
The catapults in the city were transferred to Yelujing to attack the Central Plains military stronghold in Youzhou.
The craftsmen in the city can indeed make simple trebuchets, but how can they prepare the trebuchets carefully developed by the supervisor...
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opponent?
The Khitan did master the skills of the Central Plains trebuchet, but it was not something that just any craftsman could build.
At least there are no such talents in Jizhou City.
At first they were able to use the city-defending crossbows to counterattack, but after the indiscriminate bombardment of flying rocks destroyed all the city-defending crossbows, they were left passively beaten.
Some soldiers lost their enthusiasm and began to feel frightened.
When they go home to rest, their families certainly don’t want their sons, husbands, and fathers to die on the tower.
Especially the older generation of people who have been exploited by the Khitan. Although they have indeed lived a good life under the governance of the Khitan, the deep hatred and hatred of the past will not be easily eliminated.
For the sake of my own children, I will naturally tell you in detail what the Khitans did in the past.
The morale of the military was also shaken.
There is no good way to solve this problem. The other party has no martial ethics at all and will stick to it if it finds a weakness.
The risky attack last night showed us the reality clearly, and when we were bombarded with artillery and stone, the city did not collapse, but the morale of the army collapsed first.
It was just the obstacles along the way that made him take such a bold risk and became a joke.
Now all he can do is risk being stoned to death and use his fearlessness to encourage the morale that is about to hit the bottom.
The fourth day...
The fifth day...
Five consecutive days of artillery and stone attacks, five consecutive days of cowering on the female wall; five consecutive days of listening to the nagging of parents, wives and children; five consecutive days of literati in the city who were called upon by Song Qi and Song Xiong to secretly spread various rumors... …
Outside Jizhou City.
Luo Youdu came to the front of the battle again, called Yao Neibin, and said: "President Yao, you discovered the flaw in Jizhou City, so you will command the first wave of offensive. Your troops, and these catapults, They are all at your disposal."
Yao Neibin instantly became energetic and shouted: "We will never let the army down."
Yao Neibin rode his horse and whipped his whip, and led his troops to the front of the formation.
He gathered all the rock-trebuchets in the southwest section at one place and launched a concentrated bombardment on the flaw he had discovered earlier.
The hit rate of riprap trucks is indeed not high, but if more than fifty riprap trucks all fire at one point, how come...
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You can also get a few hits.
The trebuchets fired one after another.
The huge power caused the wall of Jizhou City to fall off quickly, and a crack appeared in just one morning.
Jie Li's eyes widened in disbelief. Even if he concentrated his bombardment, how could the trebuchet have such power?
He suddenly thought of something. Five years ago, there was a natural disaster in Jizhou. The earth dragon turned over and the old city walls were damaged many times.
The governor at that time was unwilling to re-renovate, and felt that it would be more appropriate to use the money for repairing the city wall to relieve the people affected by the disaster and repair their houses.
After all, the Central Plains has not gone north for many years...
At that time, he was so angry that he led his troops to surround the governor's mansion and forced the governor to repair the city wall.
Could it be?
"Son of a bitch..."
Jie Li cursed loudly, so he could only prepare people to prepare gate-blocking carts to deal with the collapse of the city wall anytime and anywhere.
The next day, a cannonball accurately hit the city wall.
With a loud "rumbling" sound, the southwest section riddled with holes collapsed.
Yao Neibin looked excited and was waiting to be swarmed.
Pan Mei came quickly and said: "Yao Governor, the commander-in-chief asked me to bring you some good things."
He pointed to the clay pot brought up by the soldiers behind him.
Yao Neibin knew at a glance that it contained oil, and laughed: "If you have such a good thing, you can take care of it and then invade the city."
He shouted excitedly: "Brothers, make great achievements today..."
Yao Neibin displayed the martial arts of this era. Even when attacking a city, he was on the front line without fear.
He held his large shield high to protect the soldiers behind him who were carrying the folding trench bridge.
Feeling the force of the arrow hitting the big shield, Yao Chong was not afraid at all and said with a smile: "The thieves' arrows are just like Rao Itch. You guys quickly build the trench bridge. I want to log into the city first and seize the lead." !”
The soldiers were all impressed by his heroic spirit, moved more quickly, and successfully built the trench bridge despite the rain of arrows.
Looking at the gap under the city, it has been tightly blocked with gates and carts.
A hint of admiration flashed in Yao Neibin's eyes, and he shouted: "Brothers carrying oil come up and throw the gate truck heavily..."
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