What Lu Yanggong thinks, it is not clear, or it does not matter whether it is clear or not, it is meaningless.

What he wanted was not a promise from Duke Lu Yang, but just the 30,000 troops that Duke Lu Yang could control that could attack the field Chu division of the exhausted Jin and Zheng coalition forces at any time.

It's just that the word maybe is enough for the defense of the city.

Luyang is the foundation of the Duke of Luyang, and it is also the whole of the Duke of Luyang's family, which determines that the Jin-Zheng coalition army must beware of the attack of the Duke of Luyang, and it is impossible to use all their strength to capture Niuyi.

The coalition army of 70,000 people seems to have an advantage in numbers, but Niu Qiyi only needs to let the other party suffer thousands of casualties, and Jin Zheng can only retreat or besiege the city and wait for a decisive battle with Luyang Gong.

The defense of the first day, with surprise and ignorance of gunpowder, gained respite.

It seems that the Jin-Zheng coalition army suffered few casualties, and it also knew the kind of weapons that sounded like thunder and fireworks, but for the rabble defending the city, they also gained time to integrate their forces and more importantly, confidence.

As far as the peasants and soldiers are concerned, when they attack, they certainly start and fall again. And when defending the city, it is the opposite, if you can hold it once and it seems that it is easy to defend, then the next time you will be full of confidence.

Therefore, when the Jin and Zheng coalition forces attacked the city again, the soldiers guarding the city wall were full of confidence.

A musketeer was arranging his cannon, sniffing at the peculiar bitter smell of burning inquisition soaked in vinegar and other medicines, and his hands did not tremble.

He had participated in battles, and the biggest difference between the previous battles as a peasant soldier and this time was that this time there was hope.

Shi told them that if they showed bravery in the battle, then the Mo family could pay for them to move to Pei County.

Pei County is there, this person doesn't know, but he knows that it is a paradise, a paradise as sung in the song.

There are only three hundred places, and everyone is eager to fight for it.

And those who are better than it will stay here and continue to live, but they still have hope, that is, they hope to petition Lu Yanggong to leave a few ink scholars to govern here, exempt those who can't afford to pay the interest, and a better future after all this is exempted.

The Mo family always says that rewards and punishments are clear. The most important thing is to reward what others want, and at the same time what you have.

In addition to the reward, there are also the strict laws of the Mo family to defend the city, and the rhetoric such as fifty cuts and twenty beheadings has not changed.

There are rewards and punishments, so that there is the confidence that the arms suitable for the Mo family can be sold all over the world for the Mo family.

Through the slightly distorted grass under the sunlight, it is appropriate to observe the movement of the Jin-Zheng coalition army, and this time it seems that the Jin-Zheng coalition army is preparing to spread out on a wall.

At the same time, the two wings were also moving north-south, which was deliberately made for the city to see, so that the city could not concentrate all its forces on the east wall.

Those troops on the north and south flanks may be feints, they may just be contained, but they may also really launch a surprise attack when necessary.

Therefore, this possibility, even if it is clearly seen in the city, Shi does not dare to mobilize too many peasants and soldiers from the north and south wings to the east city wall.

After three days of preparation, the Jin-Zheng coalition army had a lot of wooden ladders, rushing cars, shield vehicles and various siege equipment at this time.

The three armies of Zheng, Han and Wei acted together, and they rushed towards the side of the east wall in a black pressure.

Shi also concentrated all the cannons and 700 musketeers on the east wall, plus half of the crossbowmen and archers, today will be the most important day to defend the city, the besieging side cannot fight hard for several days in a row, even if Lu Yang Gong may save his strength and wait for the opportunity, he will not fail to make a posture that he may go north for a decisive battle at any time.

Shi said to the herald behind him: "Tell Comrade Gunner, bombard the Zheng army's military formation, and don't care about the Wei people with the largest number." ”

The herald left, Meng Sheng looked at Shi and said with a smile: "You want to force Zheng Ren away?" ”

Shi shook his head and said: "It's not that it's forced to leave, it's that the princes' coalition always has different intentions." The propaganda of the Xuanyi Department in Zheng Guo has been pressing for a long time, and the Zheng people are worried about the Three Jins, this time the coalition forces have different intentions, and the Zheng people will not do their best. ”

Meng Sheng pondered for a moment, roughly understood what he meant, and asked: "The Wei people must use all their strength this time, today's battle is not easy to fight." ”

Shi sighed and said, "If they can hold it today, they won't launch too much offensive after that." Either they want to use some tricks, but those tricks, the giants have already understood and summarized, where can they succeed? ”

As he spoke, the bronze cannon had already begun the first round of bombardment, avoiding the Wei and Han armies, and was bombarding in the direction where the Zheng people were gathered.

Zheng soldiers continued to fall to the ground, and the drums continued to beat, but the speed of the march slowed down significantly, lagging behind the Wei and Han armies.

Gongzi and Zima and others were all behind the battle, watching that only Zheng people were bombarded in the city, and they also guessed the meaning of the defending side.

Zheng Ren is now a cut behind, and Gongzi understands that the main force attacking the city today must be himself. If the Wei people attacked the city with all their might, and there were signs of breaking the city, maybe the Zheng people would also attack the city with all their might. However, once the siege on their side is unfavorable, the Zheng people will most likely retreat, and they will not even approach the edge of the city wall.

"Pass the order! Beat the drum and go all out! ”

As soon as the command sounded, the drums became rapid, and the Wei soldiers who were attacking forward listened to the strange wind sound of the iron ball cannonballs in the air, and secretly rejoiced that they were not attacked this time, and the luck of those Zheng people was really bad.

After the archers were in position, they began to throw at the city, but the city head did not launch a counterattack, and the only cannon that could match the range of the bow and arrow was used in the direction of suppressing the Zheng army.

The wooden dog holes in the city walls and the walls blocked most of the feathered arrows, and the concave and tortuous walls also prevented the Wei archers from covering the whole area.

The sound of clanging arrows hitting the earth or masonry sounded in his ears, and he hid in the masonry towers and ordered: "When the enemy is forty paces near, you can fire a volley." After the salvo, reload freely! ”

The musketeers who were hiding behind the battlements were not panicked, the battle of the previous day had given them enough confidence to wait quietly for orders.

Firebolts and archers are different.

Archers need more space, a wider view, and a smoother wall.

Guns could be shot outwards from the battlements and some of the reserved firing holes, which was much more difficult for the archers.

When the first batch of Wei soldiers had already rushed to about forty paces, the order for the first salvo was also issued.

The Wei people in the front row fell down after a stroke, and the originally neat formation was instantly loosened, ignoring the orders behind, the surviving people could no longer bear such casualties, and rushed forward with shouts.

Carrying the wooden ladder, desperately crossed the city wall that had been soaked in blood a few days ago, and supported the wooden ladder, several people held the wooden ladder, and the people behind were about to climb up with a shield.

An iron gunpowder thunderbolt fell next to the wooden ladder, and the sneering and burning lead was like a countdown to death, and after a loud noise, the Wei soldiers who were holding the wooden ladder either fell to the ground or fled in terror.

The peasants and soldiers on the city wall with their spears shouted and supported the wooden ladder with their spears, and dozens of people pushed them down with all their might, and smashed them next to several Wei soldiers who were hiding behind the shield carts.

Armed with a variety of tools, they quickly excavated the city walls under the cover of the skin shield cart.

Neither the fallen wooden ladder nor the screaming soldiers could distract them, and they knew that if they dug a hole, they would be safe.

Neither the flying buckshot nor the gunpowder mines thrown from above would bend into the holes dug under the walls.

However, after a few digs, a jar of gunpowder in a wooden frame that fell from the sky burst into flames around them, igniting the covered hides and the soldiers who were digging.

The flames and smoke, like the land of ghosts in the north, still moving, threw away the tools in their hands, screamed and fled backwards, but were hit by lead bullets from the city.

The most miserable were the soldiers who approached the city gate and tried to break through it.

Mozi's article "Preparing for the City Gate" clearly pointed out that there must be concave walls on both sides of the city gate, so that the city gate is in the center of the concave surface, so that it can attack one side on three sides, and no matter how many soldiers close to the city gate cannot be as many as the guards who are spread out on three sides.

And the overall concave city wall also put the Wei people in front of the city gate in a situation of being attacked from three sides.

The two stone cannons with a large caliber but a very short range smashed into the middle of the Wei people's shield-raising Sima team, and more than 20 people were hit by more than 100 catties of large stone balls, and instantly lost their combat ability, how could those wooden shields block the hundred-kilogram stone balls falling from a height of thirty or fifty steps?

In the fortresses on both sides of the city gate, the light shotgun Tiger Zun cannon that fired sand and gravel had also lit the fuse.

Facing the Wei soldiers who were slamming the city gate, a total of six gates were deployed on both sides, filled with rubble, and a burst of smoke was spraying on the Wei soldiers who were shouting hard, and more than ten people covered their faces or bodies, screaming and lying on the ground.

Two wood-framed gunpowder canisters were thrown down, igniting the clothes and leather armor of many Wei people, and the screams were incessant.

The walls every few dozen steps, the overall concave polygonal structure, and the gunpowder that can be made out all made Wei people feel the power of the Mo family's city defense technique.

Originally, many things of the Mo family were out of the times, not to mention the "concurrent love" and "people are nothing more than the old and the young" that can be turned into equality and fraternity, even the most concerned city defense techniques.

For example, the concept of "walking wall", even if Mozi does not clearly point out the concepts of crossfire and shooting blind spots, as well as the instantaneous firepower of troops, and the contrast between the length of straight lines and curved edges, its connotation is already there.

For example, the concept of "collecting grain and rice is recorded in the book and returned at a fair price in the future", in the feudal era, I am afraid that the only one who could do this was the army that froze to death in later generations and did not demolish the house.

When these concepts that are out of touch with the weapons of the times, the power that bursts out is far from being able to resist the so-called strong armies of this era.

At this time, the strong army of the times, at this moment when the Qin army, which had a sudden rise in heavy infantry and military merits, had not yet appeared, the only one who was suitable for recognition was the Xihe warriors. However...... At the moment, this army is not a soldier of the West River.

In the field, those chariots were still stronger than the peasant soldiers in the city. But what is the difference between them and the peasants who defend the city?

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