Jia Qi was anxious to lead a group of people to brave the heavy rain towards Lin'an City, his face was gloomy along the way, this was a failure he had never had, Gao Huaiyuan handed over the rear to him and let him take care of his home, what was the result?

It was his carelessness that caused Zhao Yun, who had already become a salted fish, to turn over and take back control of Lin'an City, and many officials in Gao Huaiyuan's family are now unknown in life and death, especially people like Ji Xiancheng and Liu Dayong, who don't know what the outcome will be. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Ji Xiancheng is regarded by Gao Huaiyuan as a teacher-like character, Liu Dayong is also regarded by Gao Huaiyuan as a brother, if they are also killed, then how will he Jia Qi see Gao Huaiyuan again in the future!

His heart was full of frustration and remorse at this time, if he hadn't chosen to leave Lin'an City at this time, I'm afraid things would never have developed to such a point, with Yu Tianxi's little strength, it would never be possible to control Lin'an City...

"Zhou Yeshan, this idiot!" Along the way, Jia Qi's heart was angrily scolding Zhou Yeshan who was left behind in the capital, and at the same time, he was also thinking about the plan of how to solve this incident.

On July 5, heavy rain also fell in Xuzhou City, and the sound of artillery that had lasted for many days finally subsided because of this heavy rain, and only the sound of shouting and killing remained.

After the siege of the Mongol army on September 19, the sound of killing never stopped, and Ogedai mobilized almost all the available troops and arrived in the area of Xuzhou, and at the same time did not hesitate to spend huge manpower to transport wood and stone from afar to build various siege equipment to storm the city of Xuzhou. At the end of September, the Mongol army had gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses around the city of Xuzhou, and began to storm the cities of Xuzhou and Junzhou day and night.

The Song army was obviously weaker than the Mongol army in terms of strength, but in terms of the will to fight, the Song army was not weaker than the Mongol army.

In addition, the Song army was well prepared, the organization was also very tight, and there were advanced weapons such as artillery to help the battle, and the Mongol army continued to attack for half a month, in addition to paying a heavy price in casualties, but failed to conquer any city in Xuzhou and Junzhou.

The power and superiority of artillery in defense made the Mongol army pay a huge price, and the repeated siege battles they launched were basically destroyed by the concentrated artillery bombardment...

But at this time, the artillery mastered by the Song army could only be regarded as primitive artillery, and its power was still limited, especially before the grenade that could explode was created, the power of the artillery was not as powerful as imagined, and only the scattered bullets at close range could often cause heavy casualties to the enemy.

Although the Mongol army suffered heavy losses, it also completely aroused the anger of the Mongolian generals of Ogedei, who was ruthless and desperate to completely erase the two small cities in this world.

The Mongol army not only did not retreat because of heavy casualties, but continued to increase its troops, changing its tactics day and night, and launching new offensives against Xuzhou City again and again. The initial cluster attack, under the resistance of the Song artillery, caused them heavy casualties, so during this time the Mongol army began to learn to behave, and they also continued to sum up their experience in the battle, changing this large-scale cluster charge, but began to change to a straggler formation charge, so that the casualties were greatly reduced.

At the same time, there is a principle on the battlefield, that is, the attacking side can completely overwhelm the other party with the number of superior personnel, although the Song army has an advantage in firepower, but the Mongolian army has the initiative on the battlefield and a lot of strength advantages beyond the Song army, once concentrated in a little charge, the Song army's defense line is too long, even if it has artillery interception and bombardment, once the density of the Mongolian army's personnel to launch a charge exceeds the density of firepower, it can often break through the Song army's firepower network, like this principle, Before the heavy machine guns were put into the battlefield in later generations, they often worked, which is the so-called crowd tactics...

In this case, the role of artillery in the war is still very limited, a small number of artillery can give the Mongolian army a great psychological deterrent at first, so the initial attack of the Mongolian army is often a cannon sound, a piece of death, the Mongolian army immediately retreated.

But after a long time, the situation of the Mongolian army gradually improved a lot, and if you see more, you will not be afraid, not to mention that when the cluster charges, most of the people who are put into the attack by Wokotai are the new annexed army and the northern Han army, and it is not their people who die, and they Mongolians are not distressed.

Therefore, by the end of September, although the Mongol army had not yet been able to conquer Xuzhou City, it gradually destroyed all kinds of defensive facilities set up by the Song army outside Xuzhou City, swept away the positions on the periphery of the Song army, and made the earthen fortresses outside the city bare** in front of the Mongolian army. At this point in the battle, the difficulty of the Song army's defense has increased a lot.

On the afternoon of the second day of the seventh month, the Mongol army even once attacked the earthen fortress outside the city, and the Song army launched a hand-to-hand battle.

Such a series of fierce battles, although the Song army caused a lot of casualties to the Mongolian army, but the main casualties of the Mongolian army were mostly the new annex army and the Han army, for the main force of its headquarters The loss was not large, but for the Song army, the consumption of war materials was very huge...

It had only been half a month, and most of the gunpowder, projectiles, and arrows stored in the city had been consumed, and even the artillery they relied on had been damaged a lot in the high-intensity shelling, and Gao Huaiyuan and Meng Heng had to start restricting the use of these materials so that the Song army could hold out for a longer time.

Coupled with the fierce fighting for half a month, the casualties of the Song army were not too few, the Mongols rushed to build as many as hundreds of stone-throwing vehicles outside the city, and kept bombarding the Song army's defense line, every time the battle started, the Mongolian army's artillery fell on the Song army's position like a torrential rain, causing a lot of casualties to the Song army.

And the earthen ramparts outside the city were originally a pass wall built temporarily with civil engineering, and the ability to resist blows was not very strong, under the intensive artillery bombardment of the Mongolian army, many places have collapsed, and they had to be repaired while fighting, and when necessary, they had to rely on the soldiers to fill in the generals, in order to stop the Mongolian army's lifeless attack. . . .

As a result, the superiority of the Song army was gradually weakened, but the superiority of the Mongol army was gradually increasing.

On the afternoon of July 4, the sky, which had been overcast for several days, finally couldn't help but rain heavily, turning the entire Xuzhou area into a swamp, and the artillery of the Song army finally failed in the heavy rain and could no longer be used for firing.

Even in such weather, the Mongol army did not stop attacking the city, and still urged a group of new annexed troops to attack the Song army's earthen fortress...

The artillery and crossbows of the Song army basically failed in such a situation, and the failure of long-range weapons of destruction gave the Mongol army a great advantage, they braved the rain to shoot artillery to bombard the Song army's position, and at the same time concentrated their forces on the west of the city to try to break through this broken pass wall, and once again successfully attacked the earthen fortress, and the Song army launched a large-scale melee battle.

Both sides invested considerable forces in the earthen fortress breach in the west of the city, one side wanted to completely break through the earthen fortress defense line and wanted to drive the Song army into the inner city, and the other side swore to stick to the earthen fortress defense line and tried to drive the Mongol army out.

All the generals who put into the battlefield are fighting hard in the muddy water, all of them are like beasts attacking the enemy fiercely, in such a melee, the formation has no effect, all by personal fighting spirit to fight each other...

A fresh life dissipated in such a fight, a warm corpse fell into the mud, blood spread in the mud, and finally the mud also turned red, the puddle in the low-lying place also became a pool of blood-red blood, many soldiers to death were entangled with the enemy, the gun was broken and smashed with the barrel of the gun, the knife was broken and swung up with a fist, the leg was broken and lay on the ground to hug the enemy's leg, to provide a chance for colleagues to kill the enemy, even if the arm was broken, he also pounced on the other party's ears, cheeks, and throat with his teeth, and did not let go until death......

Under such circumstances, Gao Huaiyuan had to put the reserves in the city into the battlefield, and fought until dark, when the Mongol army had to withdraw from the battlefield with the corpses all over the ground.

The Song army once again won the victory of the earthen fortress offensive and defensive battle, but this victory also made the Song army pay a heavy price, the casualties of as many as 2,000 soldiers, the earthen fortress defense line almost collapsed, the people after the extreme tension watched the Mongolian army withdraw from the earthen fortress like a tide, and suddenly the strength of the whole body seemed to be evacuated, and the legs were weak with muddy water and blood stains all over the body and sat in the red mud, looking at the corpses all over the ground with dull eyes, many of them friends or officers, Half a day ago, he was still standing alive in front of them, but at this moment, they all lay down in the blood-colored mud and no longer had a trace of life.

More than 20,000 Song troops in the city, the battle until July 5, only more than 10,000 usable soldiers remained, the strength declined quickly, the dead could not go out of the city, they could only be buried on the spot, the wounded were transported into the city for treatment, every day there were seriously injured and incurable people were transported out of the inner city to be buried in the earthen fortress, morale also began to decline, and the medicine was basically running out at this time, which made Meng Heng and Gao Huaiyuan a little worried.

In order to boost morale, Gao Huaiyuan and Meng Heng kept patrolling the army to boost the morale of the army, and they also had to visit the wounded soldiers in the medical camp, and they were very busy.

Perhaps because of the failure of the first day, Ogedai was also a little discouraged, it was still raining in the sky on July 5, and the Mongol army rarely stopped the offensive for a day, so that Xuzhou City got a rare day of peace.

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