In fact, before this battle, Daming Mansion had already judged the direction of the Liberation Army's attack.
So they moved all the old, weak, women, children and other burdens in Nanle City out of the city in advance.
Many people couldn't leave their homeland and were unwilling to leave, so they were driven away. Jin soldiers brandished steel swords and violently scolded them, forcing them to leave.
Only young and strong men are left in the city as civilian husbands. They can also help the regular soldiers repair their equipment, handle chores, and go to the city to fight when necessary.
Everything in the city was requisitioned during the war, and all buildings and houses were used as weapons to defend the city, and there was no longer normal order.
It can be said that Nanle County is already a war fortress.
Faced with such a war fortress, even if the Liberation Army is surrounded by three and one is missing, the effect will not be great.
Without the burden of other food sources, the city's food reserves and water reserves are quite sufficient. As long as nothing unexpected happens, it will not be a problem to last for three to five months or even half a year.
And three to five months is actually enough for Daming Mansion to ask for help from the Jin Kingdom Central Committee.
The Daming Prefecture knew about the chaos in Shandong very early and knew that the crisis was approaching. Because of its distrust of Shu Hu Siji, Daming Prefecture Yin Li Zhong refused to send more troops and resources to him, and chose to use these troops and resources. Self-protection.
Now it seems that Li Zhong's choice was right, because Shu Husiji defeated all the resistance forces in Shandong in one battle, Shandong East Road and Shandong East Road completely collapsed, and they all returned to the Liberation Army.
And now the Liberation Army has indeed come to Daming Mansion to attack the city, which makes him worried.
Thinking of all the threats and inducements Tu Danjing had used against him, Li Zhong was very moved. He believed that his insistence to the end and never compromise was correct. Although he was a bit suspected of not saving friendly forces, he was still waiting to save Daming Mansion now. Reinforcements brought a glimmer of hope.
Otherwise, when the Liberation Army comes, Daming Mansion will simply surrender. Why fight?
Local protectionism seems to have some meaning...
As long as the Central Army of the Jin Empire can arrive for rescue before the food is exhausted, then there is still room for recovery. When the time comes, when the city is attacked from both sides, can the Liberation Army hold on?
Li Zhong is full of confidence.
So Zhao Kaishan had a headache.
An army of 80,000 men surrounded a city and stormed it. It took them half a day, but before sunset, they could not remove all the obstacles and failed to approach the moat. Instead, they lost hundreds of troops in the process.
Among them, Zhao Xiang's troops suffered the most losses.
He is only responsible for Zhao Kaishan and does not care about the lives of soldiers.
He made unfounded demands for rapid and violent attacks by the army, repeatedly forced soldiers to attack the obstacle area, and did not provide the soldiers with adequate protection, which ultimately led to mass deaths of soldiers in the obstacle area.
The weapons used by the Jin army to defend the city were very sharp, with a large number of bows and crossbows, as well as long-range weapons such as bed crossbows. They were set up on the city walls and fired at every turn. Long-range attacks were a huge threat to the Liberation Army.
The Liberation Army still had experience in sieges, but this was the first time they attacked such a well-defended city.
After attacking for an entire afternoon, no effective progress was made, which can be regarded as a minor setback for the Liberation Army.
After withdrawing his troops, Zhao Kaishan expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the four armies had not made any progress, criticized them, and asked the generals on all sides to increase their siege efforts.
"Don't worry about casualties! If you don't have enough troops, you can continue to recruit, but if you lose the battle, it will be difficult to get them back! We can't be defeated! Absolutely not! So attack the city with all your strength! On the day of the city's destruction, no one in the city will be spared. !”
Zhao Kaishan was extremely angry and personally supervised the battle the next day. While watching his army continue to advance, he also paid a huge price.
A large number of soldiers fell while advancing, and their blood was sprinkled on the spot.
But Zhao Kaishan didn't care too much about the cost. He was more concerned about whether his army could make greater progress.
The Liberation Army did make progress on the second day of the war.
For example, they finally bulldozed the horses, filled the pits, cleared away obstacles such as iron caltrops, and prepared to cross the moat to attack.
The moat is indeed very wide, but the Liberation Army also has corresponding tools for crossing the river. It is a kind of equipment. It is basically a simple wooden bridge, but there is a top design above the wooden bridge, which can block arrow attacks and facilitate soldiers to cross the moat. Attack the city wall directly.
The Liberation Army is also equipped with mechanical ladders. As long as they are close to the city wall, there is absolutely no way to destroy these ladders unless they are burned by fire attack. There is no way to knock them down or anything.
Facing the rain of arrows from the Jin Army, the soldiers of the Liberation Army crossed the moat one after another and followed the ladder to attack the city wall.
The Jin Army's long-range blockade failed, and they began to use rolling wood, stones, firearms, boiling water, etc. to attack the Liberation Army soldiers under the city at close range.
The huge rocks were thrown directly downwards. As long as they were aimed, a single stone could hit several soldiers of the Liberation Army to death in succession, severely injuring them, or directly falling to death.
Firearms with combustion and explosion functions were a huge deterrent to the Liberation Army. The huge roar made the firearms even if they were not very lethal, they were enough to kill a large number of Liberation Army soldiers.
There were many soldiers running around with their bodies on fire and even jumping into the moat.
The scalding boiling water was poured accurately every time. When a jar of boiling water was poured down, the city was filled with the miserable screams of Liberation Army soldiers. Their hair fell off and their skin cracked. Many of them were scalded to death on the spot.
It's cruel, but this is the normal state of siege warfare. People with a little experience are used to it, and there is no fluctuation in their hearts.
They are still under the supervision of their superiors and driven by interests, and continue to push forward.
While the Jin Army caused huge damage to the Liberation Army, the Liberation Army's chariots also kept approaching the city wall, launching bows and arrows to attack the Jin soldiers on the city. The dust-raising vehicles also played a very good role, especially when the wind direction at this time was more favorable to the Liberation Army. operation.
As a result, the Jin soldiers on the city wall were suppressed by the Liberation Army.
At the south city gate where Li Xiao was responsible for the main attack, many soldiers who were carrying the Wei army took this opportunity to rush onto the city wall and fight with the Jin soldiers. The bloody battle between the two sides continued.
Pucha Sixiang was shocked and felt that he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Liberation Army. He immediately dispatched a reserve force, his own soldiers, to rush to the south city wall and fight with the soldiers who came up from behind the Wei army.
At the same time, he ordered the bed crossbows on the city to immediately aim at the Liberation Army's building trucks and dust trucks, and destroy them as soon as possible.
He was also worried that the counterattack force on the city wall was insufficient, so he ordered the catapults placed in the city to fire a large number of stone bullets in response. Under the continuous attack of stone bullets and bed crossbows, the siege equipment of the Liberation Army suffered a lot. blow.
The advancement of Puchasi Xiang's soldiers also caused a tragic failure for the soldiers who rushed up to the city wall with the Wei army behind them. They were all killed and their bodies were all pushed under the city tower.
Things have reached this point, and this time the siege failed again.
Zhao Kaishan, who was watching the battle from a distance, was very angry and stamped his feet fiercely, hating that the soldiers were not strong enough, so he decided to send his own guards out to join the battle and seize the city by force.
He ordered half of his personal guards to go into battle, take over from Beiwei's army and launch an attack, preparing to attack the city with ants. Zhao Yucheng was shocked by this.
"Commander! The attack is blocked. We should withdraw our troops and reorganize our ranks to reduce casualties. If we continue to attack, the casualties will be very high! Moreover, the commander's personal guards are all elites. They should not engage in siege warfare unless absolutely necessary!"
Zhao Kaishan pushed Zhao Yucheng away.
"Things have come to this point. If we can't capture the city, it means nothing! And I'm the leader, so whatever I say is what I say! Give me the order! Attack me!!!"
Zhao Kaishan lost his mind in anger and ordered half of his most elite guards to attack, allowing these field elites who had finally been selected and trained to attack the city wall.
As a result, a considerable part of it was broken during the impact, and another part was broken during the climbing process, and was hit by rolling wood, rocks, and hot water, resulting in serious losses.
Of course, in the end, many people climbed onto the city wall and fought bloody battles with the Jin soldiers. However, due to the lack of backup, the Jin soldiers on the city had a numerical advantage, so the attack of the leading guard also failed. This shock team basically failed. completely annihilated.
Zhao Kaishan's offensive was blocked again.
