The next morning, Lingzhou City.
This is the century-old capital of the Ling Kingdom. Not only is it densely populated and extremely prosperous, but it also covers an incredibly large area.
Looking down from a high altitude, the entire giant city is shrouded in war. Outside the four city gates, there are black armor and red tassels forming a neat square array. Farther away, there are several battle lines to echo the siege of the city.
In Lingzhou now, let alone people, not even a fly can fly out.
The fortifications and defenses of this city are even more complete.
At present, the Qin army is also conducting pre-war research on Lingzhou city defense.
There are generals commanding the front lines, and they are all waiting for military orders to be issued. However, if you want to attack the city, you must have some arrangements, not a swarm of swarms.
From the commander's position, Su Yi said: "Lingzhou not only has a high city and a deep pool, but more importantly, it is protected by Wengcheng. Its two sides are connected with the city wall and are equipped with archery towers, gates and other defense fortifications, which greatly limits our army." siege equipment."
The Wengcheng is a small semicircular city built outside the city gate. Its main function is to strengthen the defense of the city gate. If you enter the Wengcheng, you will be attacked from all directions. It will take countless lives to get close to the real city. This is where the idea of catching turtles in an urn comes from.
Xiao Yuan stood on the edge of the handsome car and looked at Lingzhou. After listening to his explanation, he casually asked: "What suggestions do you have for capturing Lingzhou?"
Su Yi said: "In my opinion, it is better to give up the offensive on the city gate and use the ladder to attack the city wall!"
Hearing this, Jiang Yi couldn't help but said: "The large-scale equipment of our army is beneficial to siege the city, and if there is no pressure on the city gate, the Ling army will focus on front defense, and this battle will not be easy to fight."
"Of course, the pressure on the city gate must be increased. We can use it as a feint attack and put the main offensive on the ladder." Su Yi said: "If we rely solely on siege equipment, even if our army breaks through the first gate, after entering the barbican city , the spiritual army is on the four walls of the city, condescending, shooting random arrows, and there will be a river of blood."
"But it may be difficult to win with the ladder offensive alone." Jiang Yi sounded worried.
Su Yi glanced at him and said, "The strength of our army is our army, not the spirit army. Looking back at past wars, when attacking a city, the enemy's city defense front was often breached by our soldiers first, and the city gate was instead Later, it was opened, which shows that our infantry is fierce and overwhelming in attack, but is not good at fighting forced defense. This is the case in Wengcheng. Once it falls into a hard battle, it will definitely be disadvantageous to our army."
Xiao Yuan withdrew his gaze from a distance and pondered for a moment: "According to Su Yi's words, all armies are ordered to focus the main siege force on the ladder offensive and test feint attacks at the city gate."
"No!" Su Yi cupped his fists.
Immediately afterwards, a civil servant stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Lingzhou is a huge city in the world. It has a century-old foundation and prosperity, and there are countless luxurious buildings. If it is attacked by force, I am worried that it will be destroyed under the attack of our army's trebuchets. A lot of things.”
"The order to attack Lingzhou has been issued. This is a military issue. How can we change the order overnight!" Xiao Yuan glanced at him: "Is the buildings in Lingzhou City more important, or the lives of our soldiers?"
"This, your Majesty, please calm down." The civil servant was startled and saluted quickly.
Xiao Yuan ignored him and looked directly at Su Yi, pointing his finger and saying: "Instruct the three armies to attack Lingzhou in full force in half an hour!"
"No!" Su Yi took the order and left.
At the same time, Bu Shuo's mansion.
The Spirit King is visiting personally, apparently to re-activate the latter.
His condition was getting worse. After he took out his handkerchief and coughed up blood again, he took a few breaths and said sincerely: "My dear, I wrongly blamed you at the beginning. I hope you don't mind. Now that the country is in trouble, you are the only one." , to be able to shoulder this heavy burden."
The four commanders of the Ling Kingdom, Murong Yan, surrendered, Huang Zu died in battle, Wei Guang committed suicide, and only Bu Shuo remained. To defend Lingzhou, whether you can defend it or not, you need an excellent general, who can at least delay time.
Bu Shuo stood respectfully below. He was silent for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, is it possible to defend Lingzhou in the current situation?"
After hearing this, King Ling coughed violently and said, "The city of Lingzhou is strong and cannot be invaded by the Qin army if they want to. Besides, isn't there a general here? Isn't it true that the general is unwilling to save the country from danger? Are you resenting me?"
"How dare I, a humble minister." Bu Shuo lowered his body and said, "Even if Your Majesty lets me die, I will have to die, so why should I be resentful?"
He paused and then said: "Since Your Majesty trusts me, then I...should do my best to protect Lingzhou."
When he said this, he obviously didn't have any confidence, but King Ling was secretly relieved and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I'll leave it to the general to defend Lingzhou."
Now among all the generals of the Ling Army, no one has higher military talent than Bu Shuo. In this final defensive battle, he can only rely on Bu Shuo.
After saying this, King Ling also stood up and said seriously: "The battle in Lingzhou is under the command of the general. I also ask the general to quickly go to the city defense."
"Yes, I'll go right away." Bu Shuo saluted.
After leaving the mansion, King Ling put away his white handkerchief and stepped onto the carriage. At the same time, he also called to Cheng Ping who was following him: "Master Cheng, come with us."
"This, yes." Cheng Ping quickly stepped forward respectfully.
No matter what the situation is in the Spiritual Kingdom, the identity of the Spiritual King is there. It is very rare to ride with the king.
In the carriage, Cheng Ping sat stiffly, while King Ling said casually: "I followed your suggestion and reactivated Bu Shuo. Now, can we mobilize the people in the city to defend the city together?"
Cheng Ping was silent for a moment and said: "Although there are ancient war examples of mobilizing the people to defend the city, Your Majesty, the current situation is not favorable here, and the Qin Army's arrow formation is unique in the world, covering a large area and firing continuously, but there are only a few more people. It's just a corpse. So... it's useless."
"Alas, King Qin refuses to talk, and I don't know how long Bu Shuo can hold on." King Ling sighed deeply. The worsening of his condition and the worry in his heart had long since left any look on his face.
The current situation Cheng Ping mentioned is the general trend. Now all the countries are destroyed, leaving only the last Lingzhou. Moreover, this is not an invasion by foreigners at all, but a war of unification. It is conceivable that the people in the city are willing to sacrifice in vain.
Regarding the issue of military strength, King Ling could only mobilize 10,000 palace forbidden troops to the front line. With the remnants of the army brought back by Yin Dian, it was only enough for more than 20,000 people.
More than 20,000 people want to defend such a huge city from all four directions. Needless to say, the result is that it will only be a matter of time before the city is destroyed.
Therefore, when King Ling had just returned and his buttocks were still hot, a group of ministers began to ask for an audience again.
"Your Majesty, the Qin army has millions of tigers and wolves, their banners cover the sun, and their armor fills the sky. We really cannot confront them head-on..."
"Once the war breaks out, everything will be destroyed, the city will be destroyed, and people will die, Your Majesty..."
"Your Majesty, please consider for the sake of living creatures and avoid this battle..."
"Your Majesty, think twice..."
All the ministers were talking about anything, but they could be summed up as persuading them to surrender.
The Spirit King closed his eyes deeply.
