Four days later, the sappers had dug a second parallel trench 250 paces close to the city wall, and this parallel trench was finally within the range of the defenders' artillery, but it could not cause any damage to the soldiers inside because of the angle and relationship.

From the excavation to this time, a total of six people have been lost on the Sishang side, three of which were caused by the collapse accident, and the other three were strangely and unreasonably ejected into the trench by the iron bullets of the defenders.

The soldiers in front were working hard to widen the width of the parallel trench, digging according to the specification of four steps, or six meters, and it seemed that if the people in the city did not go out of the city to fight back, it could be completed by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Six Fingers observed the trench in the distance, turned back to the artillery commander beside him, and said, "Tomorrow will depend on you." ”

"Once the trench is widened and the sappers have completed the deployment of the artillery positions, you will have to transport the artillery through the trenches."

"Those dozen or so large curved stone cannons will cover you, and when the time comes, you should turn down the angle and smash the iron bullets on the masonry slope as much as possible, and jump in all directions to completely destroy the defenders in front of you."

"As long as you do a good job and suppress the city, whether you rely on artillery bombardment, cloud ladders to climb the city, or dig caves and blasts, that's a story for later."

Taking advantage of the weakness of the masonry structure and the shortcomings of the unreasonable angle of the slope, it was the opinion of the artillery commander to bounce with iron bullets, who knew exactly what to do.

Yesterday's hot air balloon was lifted off to observe, and it was found that the main forces in the city had been assembled on this side, and the front of the city wall was densely packed with people, which was a slaughter for the jumping iron bullets.

Dangshan was too close to Pengcheng, so many heavy copper cannons for defending the city could be transported.

There were a total of fourteen heavy mortars that fired dozens of pounds of iron bullets, but had a very short range and high curves.

The reason why it is called a mortar is because the whole appearance looks like the mortar of the rice and garlic, with a thick caliber, a thick outer wall, and a short cannon chamber.

Originally, this was used to defend the city of Pengcheng, used to cross the city wall to destroy the siege party's chariot, and it was replaced by the Mojia city defense technology before the gunpowder age.

Some flat-firing guns replaced the position of relay shooters and bed crossbows in the original system.

Under the original city defense system of the Mo family, the replacement of the gunpowder age did not have the slightest sluggishness.

If you can defend a city, you can use it to siege it, and this has never changed.

The commander of the artillery is a suitable descendant, and he can be regarded as one of the appropriate personal disciples, and the six fingers are also considered to be from the same school, and the two of them have a tacit understanding in some ideas of attacking and defending the city.

From now on, the commander of the artillery felt that he must be the one who sang the leading role this time, and he was also sure that his original suggestion was enough to dismantle the city defense of Dangshan.

When the two of them were about to continue discussing some details, a herald came to report that it was observed from a hot air balloon that some people had gathered in the city, and it seemed that they were going out of the city to attack and disturb.

Six Fingers smiled and said to the commander of the artillery: "This is good, there is no siege yet, so I want you to play first." ”

Without waiting for the artillery commander to answer, Six Fingers said to the herald: "Raise the flag, beat the drums, and let the departments prepare for a counterattack according to the established plan of the staff officers." ”

"Cover the sappers and let them continue digging without panicking."

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In the city, the imperial father Yue Ling looked at the trench that stretched like a spider's web, and looked at the dirt that flew out of the trench from time to time, and his face was gloomy.

This siege method of the Mo family made him very uneasy.

It's like two people fighting and competing with swords, even if they are weak and their skills are not as good as others, then the two of them can show their swords, knowing that they are dead, they can also fight.

But now this siege method is more like a wound on his body that will never heal, bleeding every day. I knew very well in my heart that once the blood was exhausted, then I would inevitably die, but I could only watch the blood drain day by day, but I was helpless, and I couldn't even see the enemy who made this wound.

He knew that the Mo family's siege methods were quite different, and he also knew that he couldn't defend it on his own, but he didn't expect that the gap between the actual combat and his imagination would be so big.

The cronies and advisers said, "There is no other way unless you send people out of the city to fight back and destroy these trenches." ”

The imperial father Yue Ling felt a little noisy, pointed to the wide position that had been formed in the trench in the distance and the cannon that flashed with copper light in the distance, and asked: "When you go out of the city to counterattack, can one of the hundred people approach the trench?" ”

"If you can't get close, how can you destroy it?"

He felt that there was really nothing he could do, and the cronies and advisers were talking nonsense, could he still not know that he could continue to defend by destroying the trench?

But the question is how to destroy it?

There were only a few cannons at the head of the city, and the sappers on the opposite side hid in the trench like rats, and the shape of the trench was extremely disgusting, all of which were almost parallel to the angle of the city wall, and the artillery bombardment was ineffective.

The bow and crossbow at the head of the city, the musket cover, is even more useless, and now the nearest trench is still two hundred and fifty steps away, not to mention the arquebus that is about the same as hitting the moon a hundred steps away, even if it is to raise the resurrection of the base, it is only a hundred steps through the Yang, and who can do it in two hundred and fifty steps?

From the head of the city to the nearest trench, the distance of two hundred and fifty paces was all open land, and the nearby houses and trees had been cleared before retreating, so as to prevent the besieging side from taking cover.

Now in the open field of 250 paces, facing the musketeers and artillerymen of the Sishang Yishi who were waiting for the battle, I am afraid that if I can't rush close, I will die cleanly, and the morale of the city will fall even more.

The cronies and strategists beside him said: "In my opinion, the Mo family's method of attacking the city is quite meaningful. Now two hundred and fifty paces from the wall, another trench has been dug parallel to the wall, and it is being widened. ”

"With the speed of their excavation, they will be able to widen it by early tomorrow morning."

"Once widened, the soldiers of Sishang can advance to a distance of two hundred and fifty paces from us, and continue digging forward, and they will have complete control over the distance of two hundred and fifty paces."

"And there is an earthen fortress piled up there, it should be deployed with copper cannons, Sishang has many cannons, once the earthen fortress is completed, the head of the city must be within the range of the Sishang copper cannon."

The head of what the strategist said was the Tao, and the imperial father Yue Ling sighed and said: "You are right, I can see it, you can see it, but everyone who knows the soldiers can see it." ”

"But the difficulty is that even if we can see it, even if we calculate it correctly, we can even calculate when the trench can be widened on the Sishang side...... But what's the use? ”

What's the use of this sentence, I completely asked the cronies and strategists around me.

It is said that soldiers are sophisticating, and that is strategy.

Now the Mo family has put the tactics in front of everyone, including the people who defend the city, can see the tactics of the Mo family, deduce the time when the parallel trench outside the city is completed, and judge the location of the artillery deployment......

The question is, what to do?

The Mo family showed everything to the defenders of the city, what is the use of seeing it?

Just when the imperial father Yue Ling was about to be anxious, a cronie gently pulled the corner of the imperial father Yue Ling's clothes, and the imperial father Yue Ling understood that this cronie was to let him suppress the irritability in his heart, so as not to completely discourage people's hearts.

So he eagerly changed to the humility of a person who was really good at raising soldiers, and expressed his apologies for what he had just been irritated with with an elegant aristocratic attitude.

When no one was around, the emperor's father, Yue Ling, asked the man who had just pulled the corner of his clothes: "What is your plan?" ”

The strategist asked rhetorically: "Do you think that according to the Mo family's current excavation speed and siege methods, how many days can the city last?" ”

The emperor's father, Yue Ling, looked at the sky, since this person is a confidant, he has always been anti-ink, so he doesn't have to hide it, but said: "If there is no rain, it will be ten days at most." ”

The strategist asked again: "If the city is broken, judging from the actions of the public and the behavior of the Mojia Heze to judge Tian Wu, do you think you can live?" ”

Where would the imperial father Yue Ling not know his situation?

At that time, even if the Mo family doesn't want to get blood and throw him to the Dai family, will the Dai family choose to let him go into exile? I am afraid that I will put the responsibility for all the contradictions in the Song State on him, and then execute him at the will of the people.

The contradictions of the Song Kingdom are not accumulated by him, but they are difficult to return, if he is a person who does nothing, maybe he can prevent this contradiction from breaking out so quickly.

It is precisely because of his ambition and ambition that the contradictions are irrepressible.

Now it seems that death is already an inevitable way, and the Mo family will not spare him, at least use his blood as a warning: whoever dares to learn from him is a dead end.

Faced with such a problem, the emperor's father Yue Ling sighed with a remark when he changed the law of childbirth: "Profit and society, life and death." ”

To say this is to acquiesce to one's own mortal end.

He didn't expect the princes to be so short-sighted, let alone that he might not be able to hold out for even a month in the face of the offensive in Sishang, and the Dangshan fortress that he spent a lot of money to build was simply a joke in Sishang's eyes.

Seeing that the emperor's father Yue Ling answered so indifferently, the cronies and strategists asked again: "The deceased, the first priority, is how to take revenge." ”

"The methods that those people are thinking of now are meaningless, even if more than 100 people are abolished today and two or three trenches outside the city are dug, it will only postpone the day of the destruction of the city by one day."

Imperial Father Yue Ling frowned, looked at the strategist, and asked coldly, "What do you mean?" As you say, should I surrender to Sishang? Are you a lobbyist? ”

It sounds like it's saying don't think about whether you can hold it or not, but think about something else.

What is something else?

The implication outside the string, the imperial father Yue Ling felt that it was nothing more than surrender.

The strategist shook his head and said, "I'm not a lobbyist, I have a grudge against Si, and my father died in the Shangqiu Incident. ”

"I just want to tell you that since you are already mortal, instead of thinking about how to die a few days later, you should think about revenge after death."

"Don't you hear the story of Si Shang's 'ruling law was opposed by the nobles, and before he died, he used a plot to kill the heirs of seventy families'?"