In Shouchun City at night, the cold wind whimpered, the occasional stove fire flickered, and the soldiers sat around the bonfire in piles, whispering, even if there was a dispute, they did not dare to make too much noise. The whole city was filled with a strange quiet.

After entering the city, Guo Yu did not dare to relax, and after pacifying the families in the city, he didn't even have time to remove his armor, and then began to patrol the camp.

The city is so large that even tens of thousands of people are not crowded here, but there is a hint of incongruity. Although the entry into the city was smooth, Guo Yu did not dare to let the soldiers disperse directly into the houses in the city, but only guarded the city gate.

Although there are tens of thousands of people in the city, they all have their own clansmen and belong to a certain area. Except for a few villagers who took the initiative to open the door to welcome the Yuzhou army into the city, more people did not react too eagerly to the arrival of Wang Shi, and most of them watched coldly and did not make deeper contact.

After patrolling the camp and instructing his generals to be on guard, Guo Yu led more than 100 armor-clad guards to the city. Passing by the villagers' accommodation along the way, they also deliberately avoided not to disturb, and occasionally the local villagers stood on the side of the road and looked into the distance, or smiled and bowed their heads, or arched their hands, and their attitude can be called kind.

The B&B in the city is still neat, and there is no lack of traces of repair. Although they are in the same city, the distance between the portals is not close, and the estrangement and vigilance can be seen at a glance.

This is also a normal state nowadays, in this troubled times, and born in this place of longevity and a hundred battles, the small people's households are scattered in the wilderness and it is difficult to live, but if they get together and have no trust in each other, so the clans and clans form a group, and the villagers outside are half cooperative and half alienated.

If the person who sits in this city is a general with both prestige and talent, the estrangement between the various families can naturally be covered up, and they can obey their orders together, such as the ancestors in the early years of the ancestral town, and the people came to rely on them to defend the fortified city together.

But if the lord general is not hopeful, the people who gather here may scatter and no longer live here, and even attract foreign enemies to attack the town generals, such as Zu Yue, who was betrayed by his generals in the early years, and the local villagers who seized the door to welcome the king this time.

Although Wang Shi was able to enter the city smoothly, as long as he did not capture Jincheng in the northwest of the city, these villagers would be unable to use it for a day.

After all, for these local villagers, whether it is the Yuzhou army from the south or the slave soldiers from the north, they are all outsiders who have invaded their homes. They may wait and see that the situation depends on one side or the other, but when they have a conflict and confrontation, they are more likely to choose to wait and see.

Guo Yu soon came to the Jincheng in the northwest of the city, which was much smaller than the entire vast Shouchun City, occupying only one-third of the size of the entire city.

Moreover, although it is an inner city, the city defense of Jincheng is completely independent and self-contained. This inner city also has four city gates, the north edge is connected to the Bagong Mountain outside the city, so the terrain is slightly higher, and the west side leads the water tributary of the river to pass around the city, which becomes a moat. In previous years, the summer was full of water, and the outer city of Shouchun was repeatedly flooded, but Jincheng was able to survive because of the terrain.

Guo Yu traveled from the west, and when he approached Jincheng, the houses near the left were demolished, and the field of vision was slightly wider, and as for the dismantled wood, stone, bricks, and tiles, they were all stacked along the desecration at this time, forming a long roadblock. This is a fortification built by the people in the outer city, which shows that after the slave soldiers retreated into the inner city, the villagers were also worried that they would cross the city again and kill and create turmoil in the outer city.

When Guo Yu came over, there were still people near him who were cruising around with bamboo guns to warn, but when they saw him and his party coming, they all avoided it and did not want to have any contact.

Guo Yu did not have any resentment against the indifferent attitude of the villagers, and it was a blessing for him that these people did not cause chaos when they attacked the city in Japan.

Because the river went around the city, the bridges above the river were also removed, and the river was directly within the range of arrows at the head of the city, it was obvious that this place could not be used as the direction of the main attack.

Figures could be seen flickering under the firelight on the city, and there was no shortage of slave soldiers patrolling the city wall, occasionally breaking out a few shouts and scolding, and Guo Yu didn't care about it. He just circled the city and went further southeast, choosing a main point of attack for tomorrow's attack.

When going around the water in a little distance and then going to the south gate of Jincheng, the torches in front of him were raised, and a person in the middle walked widely, it was Mao Bao.

When the two met, Mao Bao first gave a military salute, and then pointed to the city and sighed: "The slave soldiers are quite strong, and there will be a hard battle in the coming day." ”

"Whether his heart is strong or not, since we have come to this point, the result is the same. At present, the trapped situation still requires a quick solution, and does not give the thieves a chance to burn the city and escape. Jincheng has accumulated a lot of funds, and there are a lot of warehouses, if the loss is too great, even if it wins, it will be useless. ”

Although Guo Yu is the main general of this trip, in the face of Mao Bao, a cutting-edge general in Jiangdong, his attitude is also kind, and he is not self-conscious because of old things. The two walked around the city side by side, each expounding their own views, and finally determined a tactic, Mao Bao would attack Jincheng in the future, and Guo Yu would be responsible for pressing the rear of the palace.

In the current situation of Shouchun City, the pressure of the palace may be more important than the attack on the city, Guo Yu has always had the reputation of being able to fight in the north, and he is responsible for pressing the formation, which can greatly deter those potential hidden dangers.

Before dawn the next day, the trumpets sounded at the gates of the two outer cities, and then the smoke of the stove fire rose. When there were still many sleepy eyes in the city, the Yuzhou army had lined up neatly and went to Jincheng in separate camps.

When the king entered the city yesterday, there was still chaos in the city, and there were many people who only knew that the king was coming, but they did not see the appearance of the army. Therefore, today there are many people who avoid the main roads in the city, and stand in the alleys and under the eaves of the corridors, watching the appearance of the king's army. But many more are in a state of panic, either closing their doors or simply fleeing over the walls, fearing that they will be driven to the city and fill the city with their lives.

However, regardless of the reaction of the people in the city, the Yuzhou army turned a blind eye to this. First, two battalions of soldiers were facing the city gate in the south of Jincheng, and set up a defensive line, and the successors carried the hemp bag on their backs, marched out on the right flank of the defense by themselves, and threw the soil bag to the opposite side of the ditch under the city with throwing tools.

Thousands of dirt bales were thrown over, filling not only a section of the trench completely, but even piling up a mound more than a foot high under the city. In this process, the defenders of the city naturally reacted, and the soldiers stood high on the city wall to lead the string to shoot, but the Yuzhou army was only outside the range, and the arrows were not harassment at all.

It was not until the mound was about to level the height of the city wall that Guo Yu and Mao Bao and the two generals each led their guards to appear behind the battle line.

There are thousands of siege methods, and the city wall of Jincheng is as high as more than three zhang, which makes many siege equipment useless, not to mention that because there is no cooperation of water power, many large siege equipment are difficult to transport. However, if it is built on the spot in the outer city of Shouchun, it takes a long time and may change at any time, so the original method has become a good choice.

As soon as the second general appeared, it attracted the attention of everyone inside and outside, and the leaders of the villagers who opened the door to greet Wang Shi earlier stood at the forefront, saluted Guo Yu from a distance and said: "If Guo Hou has something to send, we are willing to serve our lives." ”

"The king is here, originally to fight hard and save the villagers from captivity. Rushing into battle to kill the enemy is the labor of a soldier, and it has nothing to do with the villagers! ”

Guo Yu waved his hand, rejected the request of these people, and then said with a straight face: "The battle will start later, the arrows will be sharp, and the villagers will be affected. ”

When the bystanders heard this, they first breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately they did not have to be driven into battle and sent to death, and then they felt awe-inspiring in their hearts, thinking that after the war began, if they dared to enter the front line indiscriminately, the other party would not be relenting.

After those people heard Guo Yu's words, they were also much more relieved, they were not a big family in the county, and it was also a gamble to hope that they would join Wang Shi. Although they are eager to fight, it is just a gesture, if the other party really does not care for their ancestors' lives, then they must consider whether this gamble is worth it.

Fortunately, Guo Yu only arranged for them to sweep the formation and guard, so naturally there was no danger of killing, so he immediately received the order, and led the people of various clans to persuade and drive the villagers back outside the formation opened by the Yuzhou army.

"The first to ascend is a hundred merits, boasting about the army!"

Guo Yu jumped on the wooden platform and beat the drum, announcing the official start of the siege war.

At this time, Mao Bao had already led the elite to the front line, and as soon as the drums sounded, the soldiers of the entire battalion in the front row rushed up along the mound with large shields. After a round of trampling, the mound was tamped and several feet shorter, but the highest point was still nearly two feet.

The arrows on the city wall rained down, and a round of splashing down, the shield array immediately became uneven, some of them were in the middle of the arrows, and some were simply directly knocked down by the huge strength of the arrows and the shield. But as they contracted and adjusted, the shield line soon became solid.

At this time, looking down from the city wall, the hundreds of thick wooden shields were like hedgehogs full of thorns, and the original shield was almost invisible!

After the shield array, hundreds of crossbowmen rushed up to the mound with small shields and joined the battle line in the rain of arrows. This mound was built temporarily, and the real high point was not enough space, and most of the other places were still under the opponent's shot.

Therefore, in these two rounds of impact, there are still nearly 100 soldiers who died under the rain of arrows from the other side, but at this moment there is no time to collect the corpses, and those corpses have become the stepping point of their comrades to rush up, this is the cruelty of war.

The crossbowmen were in position and immediately launched a counter-attack under the cover of their shields. The existence of the mound equaled the disparity between the upper and lower positions, and the strong bow and crossbow of the Yuzhou army were also crowned in the towns of Jiangbei, once the counterattack was launched, the offensive on the city wall suddenly followed, and many slave soldiers on this section of the city wall who did not have time to hide behind the arrow battlements of the female wall were hit by arrows, and the rest were also short to dodge.

"Rush, rush!"

Taking advantage of the slight stiflation of the opponent's offensive, Mao Bao immediately drove the soldiers to rush up and continue to expand the mound and push forward. This city is located alone, and there is no commanding height near the left. If you only rely on the ladder hook to climb, it is almost impossible to rush up the wall more than three feet high! Therefore, the construction of the commanding heights is very important.