Ye Baotong and Jiang Lei’s words made many generals present bow their heads and think deeply.
Carefully taste what the outcome would have been if the city had been attacked according to the methods the two men had just said.
After everyone was silent for a long time, a gentle sigh brought the generals back to their senses.
He silently looked at the commander Yunyang who sighed.
Yunyang gently stroked the gray beard on his chin, looked at Ye Baotong and Jiang Lei and sighed again.
“The waves from behind push the waves ahead, and the Yangtze River will eventually become old and decayed.
Thanks to the two generals for clarifying my doubts, I learned a lesson from Yunyang."
Ye Baotong and the others looked at Yunyang who was bowing to salute them both, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.
“Commander, please don’t act like this, brothers and generals will not dare to act like this.”
Yunyang stood up, looked at Ye Baotong and the two of them and shook their heads slightly.
“When it comes to it, when it comes to it, there is no priority in learning, the one who masters it comes first.
The artillery came from your hands and became famous in your hands. There is a reason for your success. We old guys are not complacent and pedantic people.
You should learn the skills of others in order to improve.
Tomorrow the army will officially attack the city. Today we will discuss the siege plan. Jiang Lei, please explain how the soldiers need to cooperate with your gunner brothers when they attack the city tomorrow.
As long as it is reasonable, I will agree to everything."
Ye Baotong and Jiang Lei looked at each other silently, and they both saw the meaning in each other's eyes.
The prince said that if there are no opportunities, create opportunities, and now the opportunity has come.
"Commander, all generals, thanks to your respect, I will show off to you."
Jiang Lei picked up the bamboo pole next to him and started drawing on the sand table, talking endlessly about his experience in the first two sieges with Liu Mingzhi's command.
Slowly instilled the best concepts of running and running synergy into the hearts of these veterans in Yunyang.
The candles in the military tent were dim and dim, and they were not extinguished until late at night.
All the generals in the tent also returned to their tents to rest, and began to rest and recuperate in preparation for tomorrow's massive siege.
The sky is bright and the sun is rising in the east.
The sound of war drums and horns sounded outside the city again, which made the Songzhou garrison nervous.
After yesterday's exploratory attack, Yunyang and the generals came to a rough conclusion. The defenders in Songzhou City were far from as strong as they had seen.
As a result, 300,000 troops were dispatched together and divided into four groups to launch a general attack on the Songzhou city wall.
On March 25, the second year of Dalong Yongping, the sound of the first cannon sounded throughout Songzhou City.
Dalong soldiers and horses changed their siege method from yesterday, and the artillery loaded with explosive shells and solid shells began to intensively move towards the city wall of Songzhou, and the Wengcheng began the bombardment.
Under the cover of artillery fire and sword and shield soldiers, the siege army on the four walls of the city approached the foot of Songzhou City with shouts of killing.
Compared to yesterday, the 300,000-strong army divided into four groups was fierce, but the progress was quite slow, and there was no rush to get close to the counterattack range of the Jin Kingdom guards in the city.
They have been using crossbows, catapults and artillery to suppress the defenders on the city wall, waiting for the four urn walls that hide the murderous intent to be shattered under the bombardment of artillery.
On the Songzhou city wall, Khuluda's soldiers leaned against Khuluda with pale faces.
“General, the enemy has launched a large-scale attack on the city. Hundreds of thousands of troops have rushed out and are approaching our city walls. What should we do? Should we continue to defend?
We only have 8,000 people. The enemy army can drown us with every spitting breath. If that doesn’t work, we can rush out and join the two commanders before the enemy army completely encircles the city wall."
Huluda listened to the shells exploding on the city wall around him and the screams of his brothers.
Grinning, showing a heartbroken yet hearty expression.
“Good brother, the national crisis is approaching, and our soldiers have no choice but to defend our country.
Even if we all die in Songzhou, we will still consume the enemy's artillery shells as much as possible.
With my life, I changed my life, and changed the 300,000 brothers to defeat the opportunity to win.
It’s worth it!
Brothers, since the rear is the country’s frontier, we have no way to retreat.
I swear to serve His Majesty to the death and am determined to defend Songzhou to the end.
Brothers, after eighteen years, you are a good man again.
Fight them.”
The Songzhou garrison, who had been huddled under the battlements to avoid the artillery fire, and was already feeling miserable, gradually felt calmer when he heard the fearless appearance of Hu Luda walking on the city wall to boost morale in the face of the artillery bombardment.
You are a soldier! On the day you join the army, should you be ready to die in battle at any time and to be loyal to your country?
Now that so many years have passed, there is nothing to be afraid of anymore.
At worst, in eighteen years he will be an upright hero again.
The only remaining soldiers and horses on the city wall looked at Hulvda, who was flying freely among the cannonballs without any fear, leaning against the battlements and waving their weapons high.
“Stand firmly in Songzhou and be loyal to the country!”
“Stand firmly in Songzhou and be loyal to the country!”
The shouts of thousands of soldiers and horses even covered the rumbling explosions of artillery fire around them. They were generous and powerful, and their momentum was no less powerful than tens of thousands of people.
One soldier is in raging state, and the general is in raging group.
Huluda relied on his own prestige to single-handedly reverse the momentum of the defenders on the city wall.
General Dalong, who was directing the siege outside the city, heard the shouts of people on the city wall who were determined to die. He sighed silently and continued to direct his troops to attack the city.
Back then, due to the rebellion of the kings of Shu, the troops in the northern border were depleted. The two countries waited for an opportunity to move south. Why didn't I and others defend the city and defend the country with the determination to die?
The Turks and the Jin army did not stop their incursion because of the lack of troops on their side.
As a soldier, you have already prepared yourself to die.
You can admire your enemies, but you must never be kind.
Amid the roar of artillery, the granite urn city collapsed. Seeing this, the slow-moving siege army immediately shouted and rushed towards the Songzhou city wall.
The various military formations cooperated with each other to launch an attack on the Songzhou city wall.
The bed crossbowmen cooperated with each other tacitly and placed the bed crossbows in a suitable attack position, and aimed their cold and thick arrow shafts at the battlements of the Songzhou city wall.
Once the enemy defenders come forward to attack, hundreds of crossbows will fly towards the defenders on the city wall.
When the siege army entered a certain distance, the artillery on the city wall also began to roar.
With crossbows and arrows, the rain of arrows created by the archers covered the dragon's siege troops under the city wall.
Under the cover of sword and shield soldiers, crossbows, artillery, and catapults, the archers of the dragon began to suppress the defenders on the city wall.
Striving for the greatest chance for the infantry, ladder bearers and chariots to approach the city wall.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the sounds of fighting rang out from the four gates of Songzhou.
Facing the dragon's vanguard infantry that climbed up the city wall like locusts, the Jin Kingdom's defenders' counterattack seemed so weak.
At three o'clock in the morning, more than ten elite dragon soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ladder and opened a gap.
The soldiers and horses that followed continued to climb up the city wall.
Songzhou’s solid city gate also collapsed under the impact of the door-ramming truck.
The cavalry that had been meandering on both sides saw this and quickly rushed towards the city.
The eight thousand soldiers and horses under the command of Khuluda, who promised to hold on for three months, were not even supported for one day before the city was breached by the dragon's soldiers and horses.
“Put down your weapons, disarm and do not kill!”
“Put down your weapons, disarm and do not kill!”
“Put down your weapons, disarm and do not kill!”
Dalong soldiers and horses attacked the city wall, and surrounded the remaining soldiers and horses on the city wall, covered in blood. They began to press forward step by step against the Jin Kingdom guards who were retreating step by step, shouting words to persuade them to surrender.
Huluda held the sword in his hand, looked around at the large dragon soldiers and horses on the city wall, and rushed forward waving the sword.
“Brothers, although Khuludad cannot lead you to become victorious warriors, he will not lead you to become ghosts in a foreign land.
If you want to die, fight and die in your own country.
To serve the country loyally, at this moment, I will kill you."
“Kill!”
With Hu Luda taking the lead, the remaining Canglang Guard army on the city wall waved their swords fearlessly and charged towards the dragon enemy troops surrounding them from both sides.
When General Dalong who was standing at the front saw this, he waved the command flag in his hand with a look of reluctance in his eyes.
The crossbowmen and archers, under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, fiercely pulled the crossbow in their hands and released the bowstring in their hands.
Arrows penetrated the body, and the sound of blood splattering came one after another.
About half an hour later, the remaining Canglang Guardsmen of the Jin Kingdom on the four city walls were all killed by arrows.
No one survived.
Ke Yan, escorted by a group of soldiers, stopped under the tower of the south city gate.
Looking at Hulvda, who still had no less than twenty arrow clusters stuck in his chest and was still leaning on the ground with his sword in hand, he shook his head and sighed heavily.
Ke Yan took off the wine bag from his waist that Khuluda had thrown to him, pulled out the cork, and poured the remaining wine at Khuluda's feet.