Chongzhou City once again faced the plowing of artillery fire, and no part of the entire Chongzhou City wall was intact again.
Baishanguan and Wokuotai were once again lucky enough to survive the bombardment.
However, the tens of thousands of elite soldiers on the city wall were not so lucky. Those who left whole corpses died in a relatively lucky way. As for the tragic situation of the unlucky ones, the reactions of veteran generals such as Bai Shanguan were enough to explain everything.
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Bai Shanguan and Wo Guotai looked at the battle damage documents handed over by Sima with their arms trembling.
The stark figure of more than 21,000 people made both of them heartbroken and frightened.
In just one day, more than 20,000 brothers were killed without even seeing the enemy's specific appearance. This was a result that the two men could not accept but had to accept.
It can be said that more than half of the first batch of more than 40,000 elite soldiers who scaled the city wall were killed or injured under the artillery fire of Dalong's enemy forces in just one day.
Both of them were veterans who had led the army for many years, and there had never been such heavy casualties.
Bai Shanguan remembered his offensive and defensive arrangements on the city wall, and grinned. It turned out that in the face of absolute strength, his tactics of arranging troops were so vulnerable.
Wo Kuotai handed the scroll to Sima with an ugly expression on his face, and looked at Baishan Guan on the side.
"Brother Baishan, what should we do? We don't have artillery. We can't fight back against the enemy troops outside the city. If this continues, if this continues, our 100,000 elite troops will be killed by the enemy in a few days.
Kill them all!"
"If death in battle is excusable in a head-on confrontation, isn't this way of death too oppressive?"
Bai Shanguan glanced at the flying bear guards and horses around him with complicated eyes, and he didn't know what to do when he saw their secretive expressions looking at the city wall.
Now, both the soldiers under his command and the Turkic tribesmen have developed a fear of climbing the city wall, and their morale has dropped to the bottom in just one day.
Bai Shanguan could never imagine why things turned out like this.
The battle with Dalong's troops was clearly evenly matched before, so why did the battle take such a big turn after occupying Dalong's city.
With the advantage of the city wall, it is supposed to be Dalong's troops who suffered the loss. Why did they lose 20,000 troops without engaging in close combat?
What Bai Shanguan couldn't figure out even more was that the Dalong people clearly had so many artillery pieces, why didn't they use them before?
Bai Shanguan took a deep breath and endured the heavy pain in his heart.
"General Wokuotai, let's go write a letter to each other's superiors first. Now we can no longer solve this situation. We must either withdraw from the city, or defend the city and wait for their artillery bombardment."
"As for what to do, let's wait for the Shangguan's decision."
Wo Kuotai nodded gloomily: "It's okay, the morale is now so low that it is difficult to revive it. The city wall is already a place that the soldiers are afraid to set foot in. I will go and write a book for the Great Khan first."
After the two separated, they hurried towards the people's courtyard that they had commandeered. This was their temporary resting place.
However, something happened that once again made the two of them despair. Seeing the soldier raising the golden eagle and falcon fainting on the ground, a bad premonition suddenly arose in their hearts.
They hurriedly ran towards the cage next to them. Looking at the empty cage, the two people suddenly became angry and almost fainted. Fortunately, the guards behind them quickly caught them with quick hands and eyes.
The golden eagles, hawks and other messenger birds have disappeared, which means that Chongzhou will lose contact with the other cities.
It's not impossible to send fast horses to report the situation in Chongzhou, but 50,000 cavalry outside the city surrounded Chongzhou. Bai Shanguan and the others really couldn't imagine what kind of master could deliver the document under such circumstances.
Bai Shanguan took two deep breaths: "Quick, ask General Wo Kuotai to come to my place to discuss matters immediately!"
"Got the order!"
After the figure of a personal guard disappeared, on the higher roof on the left side of the people's courtyard, a plain figure wearing a bamboo hat showed a slanted smile on his mouth. He observed that there was indeed no bird in Bai Shanguan's hand to hide the message.
, then he used Qinggong and quietly left. The jade plaque with the two characters "about" on his waist shone in the afterglow of the setting sun!
Not long after the man in plain clothes left, a golden eagle soared into the sky and disappeared.
At the Chinese army's tent outside the city, Liu Mingzhi took the note from the guard, looked at it for a few times, and then put it into his sleeve.
Now the connection between Chongzhou and other cities has been completely cut off. If you want to rely on war horses to send messages, you will never give them any chance.
Now Chongzhou is like a grasshopper after autumn, it won’t be able to jump around for much longer!
"Jiang Lei!"
"The end is here!"
"How many shells have been used up?"
"Reporting back to the commander, it's nearly 15%. The general suggested to use less artillery shells tomorrow. I'm worried that once the enemy troops in the city are bombarded and jump over the wall, they will make a fuss about the people in the city."
"If our shelling is lighter, they will subconsciously think that our shells are no longer enough, and that's why."
"In this way, they will mount the city wall to defend again. We are bombarding them fiercely. If they make a fuss about the people in the city, they will not have enough troops. After we break into the city, we can fight in close combat to alleviate the crisis for the people."
Liu Mingzhi frowned and subconsciously looked at Jiang Lei on the left while observing the sand table. The others also looked at Jiang Lei subconsciously and frowned.
Liu Mingzhi sat on a chair, tapping his fingers gently on the table and thinking for a moment.
"Yes, we must be on guard. If the generals guarding the city don't have Wan Yan to dominate them, it's not impossible for them to make a fuss about the people!"
"It's up to you. It's getting late, let the brothers repair all night, and then attack the city tomorrow!"
"The last general takes command!"
Song Qing hesitated for a moment and walked up to Liu Mingzhi: "Commander, didn't you warn Wanyan Chizha and them? I don't think they would risk the destruction of the country in the rear to make a fuss over the people!"
Liu Mingzhi looked up at Song Qing and shook his head slightly: "It's hard to say, rabbits will bite when they are anxious!"
"I don't know much about Baishan Guan. He is just a general. In terms of overall situation, he doesn't have the long-term vision of Wan Yan Chi Zha, Hu Yan Yunyao and others."
"Even though they won't harm the people, as long as they drive the people onto the city wall, we will be afraid of them if we want to break the city again."
"A rough estimate is that there are nearly 10,000 enemies who died under artillery fire on the city wall today. I think their minds have collapsed."
"In this way, if we continue to attack fiercely, we may not arouse their ferocity."
"We'll talk about the specific situation tomorrow. It's not the time to make any rash judgments yet."
"The general understands. Late at night, the general plans to arrange for a few highly skilled scout brothers to sneak into the city to inquire about the situation and see if they can find out their next defensive plan."
"That's fine, you can take care of this matter!"
"yes!"
Gu Mo Rongrong's pretty face looked at Young Master Liu with slightly narrowed eyes: "Commander, what are you going to do if it really reaches a point where it can't be eased?"
Liu Mingzhi stopped tapping on the table and looked towards the last ray of sunset outside the tent.
"Liu Mingzhi has been in the army for ten years, and he has never killed a prisoner before."
"After the city is broken, life or death depends on their thoughts!"
"I don't care about the issue of unknown killings and prisoners."