The words of Ye Baotong and Jiang Lei made many generals present bow their heads in thought.
He carefully savored what the outcome would have been if he had followed the method the two men had just described when attacking the city.
After everyone was silent for a long time, a gentle sigh brought the generals back to their senses.
Silently he 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 behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and it will eventually become old and decrepit.
Thanks to the two generals for clarifying their doubts, the old man Yunyang has learned a lesson. "
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 do this. Brothers, generals, don't dare to do this."
Yunyang stood up and looked at Ye Baotong and the two men and shook their heads slightly.
"Take it, take it, there is no priority in learning, the one who masters 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 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, thank you for your respect, the general is showing off."
Jiang Lei picked up the bamboo pole next to him and started drawing on the sand table, talking endlessly about his experience in attacking the city with Liu Mingzhi's men the first two times.
The best concepts of running and running synergy were slowly instilled into the hearts of these veterans in Yunyang.
The candles in the military tent were dimly lit, 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 large-scale siege.
The sky is bright and the sun is rising.
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 and others saw.
As a result, 300,000 troops were dispatched together, and the troops were divided into four groups and launched 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 the way they attacked the city yesterday, loading explosive shells, and artillery with solid shells began to intensively attack Songzhou's city wall, and the Wengcheng began to bombard.
Under the cover of artillery fire and sword and shield soldiers, the siege army on the four walls approached the foot of Songzhou City with shouts of killing.
Compared with 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 urn city 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 massive 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 not, we can rush out and join the two commanders before the enemy army completely surrounds the city wall. "
Hu Luda listened to the shells exploding on the city wall around him and the screams of his brothers.
He grinned, 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.
I will sacrifice my eight thousand sons and daughters in exchange for the chance of turning defeat into victory for the three hundred thousand brothers behind me, protecting the peace of the people, and protecting the safety of the mountains, rivers, and the country.
Worth it!
Brothers, since the rear is the national border, we have no way to retreat.
I swear to serve His Majesty to the death, and I am determined to defend Songzhou.
Brothers, after eighteen years, he is a good man again.
Fight with them. "
The Songzhou garrison, who had been huddled under the battlements to avoid the artillery fire, and was already feeling miserable, gradually calmed down when he heard the fearless appearance of Hu Luda walking on the city wall to boost morale in the face of the artillery bombardment.
Be a soldier! Should you be ready to die at any time and serve your country loyally on the day you join the army?
Now that so many years have passed, there is nothing to be afraid of.
At worst, he will be an indomitable hero again in eighteen years.
The only remaining soldiers and horses on the city wall looked at Khuluda, who was flying freely among the cannonballs without any fear, leaning against the battlements and waving his weapons high.
"Defend to Songzhou and be loyal to the country!"
"Defend to 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 raging, and the general is raging in a nest.
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, when the troops in northern Xinjiang were depleted, the two countries waited for an opportunity to move south. Isn't it true that I and others were determined to defend the city and defend the country to death.
The Turks and the Jin army did not stop their incursion because of their lack of troops.
It's just this moment and that moment.
He and others admired the righteousness of the Songzhou guard Hu Luda, but they would not treat the lives of his soldiers as trivial matters.
As a soldier, you have long been mentally prepared to die.
You can admire your enemies, but you must never have mercy.
Amidst the roar of artillery, the granite urn city collapsed. Upon 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 attack the Songzhou city wall.
The bed crossbowmen cooperated with each other in tacit understanding and placed the bed crossbow 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.
Crossbows and crossbows, the arrow rain constructed by the archers covered the dragon's siege troops under the city wall.
Under the cover of sword and shield soldiers, the archers of Dalong began to suppress the defenders on the city wall under the alternating cover of crossbows, artillery, and catapults.
Strive for the greatest opportunity for the infantry, ladder operators and leader's cart to approach the city wall.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the sounds of fighting could be heard under the city gates everywhere in Songzhou.
Facing the dragon 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 subsequent soldiers and horses climbed towards the city wall in a steady stream.
Songzhou's solid city gate also collapsed under the impact of the door-ramming truck.
The cavalry that had been meandering on both sides quickly rushed towards the city upon seeing this.
The eight thousand soldiers and horses under the command of Hu Luda, who had promised to hold on for three months, were not even supported for a day before the city was breached by Dalong's soldiers and horses.
"Put down your weapons, disarm and kill!"
"Put down your weapons, disarm and kill!"
"Put down your weapons, disarm and kill!"
The dragon 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.
Hu Luda held the sword in his hand, looked around at the massive dragon soldiers and horses on the city wall, and rushed forward waving the sword.
"Brothers, although Khuluta cannot make you a victorious warrior, he will not make you a ghost in a foreign land.
If you want to die, fight and die on your own land.
To be loyal to the country, 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 weapons fearlessly and charged towards the enemy dragons surrounding them from both sides.
When General Dalong who was standing at the front saw this, he waved the command flag in his hand fiercely 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.
In about half an hour, the remaining Canglang Guardsmen of the Jin Kingdom on the four city walls were all killed by arrows.
No one survived.
Under the protection of a group of soldiers, Ke Yan stopped under the tower of the south city gate.
Looking at Hu Lüda, who had no less than twenty arrow clusters densely inserted in his chest and was still leaning on the ground with his sword in hand and not falling down, he shook his head and sighed heavily.
Keyan took off the wine bag that Khuluda had thrown to him from his waist, pulled out the cork, and poured the remaining wine at Khuluda's feet.
"Why bother!"
