Young Master Liu walked out of the big tent with all his armor on, holding the Heavenly Sword in his left hand, and holding the cute little Liu Luoyue who looked like a little fairy after washing himself in his right hand.
"See the Marshal!"
"No gift."
"Thank you, Marshal."
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the more than 200,000 cavalrymen who had already prepared for war, leading the little cutie towards the general station.
Sitting boldly on the handsome chair, Major General Liu placed his handsome seal on the table of the general station, and glanced majestically at the surrounding soldiers.
"Beat the drum and gather the generals!"
The sound of war drums sounded, and more than 200,000 soldiers tied white silk ribbons around their waists. Their bright eyes were fixed on Young Master Liu who was standing on the general platform. For a moment, the camp was filled with a solemn and sad feeling.
More than 200,000 troops, dressed in plain clothes, stared at Mr. Liu, waiting for his command to attack the city.
A group of generals headed by Song Qing gathered under the general platform and looked seriously at Young Master Liu, who was scanning the army lightly.
"We see the Grand Marshal."
After a day of familiarity with the little cutie standing next to Young Master Liu, the generals were no longer surprised at all.
Liu Mingzhi stood up gently, took the command flag from the guard's hand and waved it.
"The original plan was to attack the city with the entire army."
"It's an order."
After receiving the order, more than twenty generals immediately mounted their horses, holding their own flags, and led their troops towards the city wall.
As soon as the army set off, the war drums of the Chinese army sounded in unison, starting to boost the morale of the brothers.
Han Zhong and Jiang Lei took the lead and rushed towards the artillery phalanx.
As the two men waved their command flags, the moment the order was issued, three hundred artillery pieces bombarded the city wall in batches.
The rebels above the capital did not expect that King Qin's army under Liu Mingzhi outside the city did not attack the city tentatively at all, and they were bombarded with fierce artillery fire.
Countless rebel soldiers were caught off guard and died under artillery fire.
The rebel generals Jiang Zhou, Wang Qinian, Lu Gui and others on the city wall immediately ordered their soldiers to repeat their old tricks and retreat to the city wall to avoid the bombardment of artillery fire.
It's not that the artillery captured by the Imperial Guard cannot be used, but it can't bombard other people's artillery positions. Jiang Zhou, Lu Gui and the others are also helpless.
They originally thought of repaying tooth for tooth, blood for blood, but when they found that they did not have the strength at all and could only be beaten passively, several people felt full of powerlessness but were unable to do anything.
"Quickly retreat behind the city wall and wait for the enemy's artillery."
Before the orders were given to a few people, they discovered that more than 200,000 enemy cavalry had been watching the battle, waving their horse reins and charging towards the city wall. PC::/
He was followed by thousands of enemy soldiers carrying ladders.
Several people were stunned for a while, and hurriedly called on their soldiers to charge towards the city wall again to prevent the enemy from attacking the city wall.
However, as soon as the rebels defended behind the city battlements, the sound of artillery outside the city immediately became intensive, and the explosions on the city wall became relatively fierce.
The corpses of the rebels were blown away one by one in the smoke and dust of the gunfire.
Jiang Lei was a battle-experienced general and fully seized the opportunity to bombard the rebels. Although it was the first time for the troops Han Zhong brought from the East China Sea to the battlefield, they had already memorized the use of the artillery in their hands.
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As soon as the rebels captured the city, they suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of artillery.
"Report!"
"Commander, the masonry of the east city gate has been demolished in half under the command of General Jiang. General Jiang asked a lowly official to come and inquire whether he would blast open the city gate in one go?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his telescope and looked at the situation on the city wall, and saw countless rebels dying on the spot without even a chance to scream under the explosion of shells.
"Send an order to Jiang Lei to stop bombarding the city gates and extend the artillery range to the city walls to destroy the rebels' effective strength."
"While the rebels have not discovered our intentions, we will focus on shelling and continue the attack."
"Wait until the rebels react and then attack the city according to my command."
"It's an order."
After the ordering soldiers left, Liu Mingzhi glanced at the scene where he had feinted for half an hour but not a single soldier was lost and sighed slightly.
These millions of taels of silver were not wasted.
Liu Mingzhi stretched his stiff neck and smiled quietly as he looked at the bombed rebels scurrying about on top of the city wall.
"I see, there will be no good outcome if you go against money-paying players."
The little cutie who was in her father's arms heard her father's muttering and looked up at her father's unpredictable face with a blank expression.
"Dad, why don't you end up going against the money-paying players?"
Gently stroking his daughter's hair, which was a little messy due to the cold wind, Mr. Liu smiled faintly.
"You will understand if you live for thousands more years. If you want to outsmart your enemies, you have to spend money. The more money you have, the more powerful you will be."
"Anything like positioning, movement, and technique are all nonsense in front of money and are vulnerable to a single blow."
"Dad is the rich enemy of the civilian rebels across the street."
Listening to Mr. Liu's words that he didn't understand at all, the little cutie shook his head silently.
"Yue'er doesn't understand. I have no idea what dad is going to say."
"It's okay if you don't understand. I hope you don't move for the rest of your life. That's a trap. There is a shopkeeper named Ma who is even more cheating than dad. He's even worse."
"Okay, you can just talk nonsense for the rest of the month."
The little cutie listened to the incomprehensible words in her father's mouth, and shook her head helplessly, not wanting to continue delving into this issue.
Dad is a good dad, but his brain is not normal.
On top of the city wall, Lu Gui and the others listened to the deafening explosions in their ears, watching each of their brothers being killed and wounded by enemy artillery, but there was nothing they could do.
"General, something is wrong. The enemy is shouting and refusing to get close to the city wall."
"They deliberately trapped us on the city wall waiting for artillery bombardment. Come up with a solution quickly. If this continues, we won't be able to kill a single enemy, and we will lose thousands of our brothers."
Wang Qinian held up a shield and leaned forward to look at the city wall.
He found that the infantry carrying the ladders had just reached the city wall, and the soldiers under his command had just stood up with thunder stones and rolling logs to fight back, and they retreated like a tide.
There are only twenty shield bearers beside a ladder, and they can't even cover it with bows and arrows. This is not a siege. It's just a turtle teasing himself and others.
Before Wang Qinian could say anything, a man not far away ran toward Wang Qinian against the crenellations of the city wall despite the explosion of artillery fire. It was Jiang Zhou, one of the rebel generals.
"Lao Wang, how is the situation here?"
When Wang Qinian saw it was Jiangzhou, he pointed to the city wall behind him with a sad expression.
"There are heavy casualties. How is the situation over there?"
Jiang Zhou hammered the wall tiles hard: "There were also heavy casualties. More than 4,000 soldiers were killed or injured in less than half a day, but we didn't even have a chance to fight back."
"I just ordered my brothers to fire artillery to bombard the enemy troops attacking the city. I just wounded a few enemy troops. Before they could fire three rounds, the enemy's artillery blew the barrels away."
"Looking at this situation, Liu Mingzhi deliberately allowed the enemy to pretend to attack us, so that we could gather on the city wall and be beaten passively."
Wang Qinian's face was also extremely embarrassed: "I have also discovered that continuing like this is not an option. We have to find a way. No matter how many troops we have, we can't stop this consumption."
"What should we do? Should we let the brothers retreat first? If we continue like this, we will die in vain."
"I also want our brothers to retreat, but what if the enemy's feigned attack turns into a real attack as soon as we retreat? We won't be able to defend it this way."
"Liu Mingzhi is so damn sinister!"
"He knows that our military equipment is not as good as his, and he deliberately disgusts us. We still have to defend the city."
"General, retreat, the four gates plus the casualties among our brothers have reached nearly 10,000!"