Under the city of Yongzhou, thousands of Jiaozhi troops rushed in front with cloud ladders, and behind them were the rear troops pushing the siege vehicles slowly forward, but when the front army rushed to the range of the city head, they only listened to an order from the city head, and immediately countless arrows flew out, straight to the Jiaozhi soldiers below, although these soldiers were blocked by shields, but it was still inevitable to be killed and injured, and the screams and curses were endless for a while.

When those Jiaozhi soldiers finally rushed through the rain of arrows to the city, they saw another order from the city, and as a result, countless black balls were thrown down with black smoke.

"Boom Boom Boom~" With a series of explosions, those balls burst out with amazing power, it is the ace firearm grenade of the Great Song Dynasty, although the power of the grenade with black powder is limited, few soldiers are directly killed, but injuries are inevitable, and in this era of extremely backward medical conditions, injuries on the battlefield are not much stronger than death in battle, especially the hot and humid climate on the side of Jiaozhi, which is more likely to make wound infection, so the mortality rate of wounded soldiers on the battlefield is extremely amazing, The Jiaozhi people had suffered the loss of grenades as early as the beginning of the siege of Yongzhou City, so they were very afraid of the grenade, a weapon that could make a sound like thunder, and generally as long as there were grenades on the battlefield, they would run and flee, for which hundreds of people had been killed because of the escape.

"A bunch of cowards!" Nong Zonggan, who was in the rear of the battle, saw that the army sent to attack the city today was once again defeated and retreated, and he also gritted his teeth and scolded at the moment, and the anger in his eyes was about to erupt.

Looking at his angry deputy, and then at the defeated soldiers of the wolf, Li Changjie's white and bearded face couldn't help but show a trace of worry, but before he could speak. At this time, I saw Nong Zong scolding and scolding: "The Song people are all shrunken turtles, and they don't even dare to fight head-on, they will only hide behind the city wall and put dark arrows, and when Lao Tzu captures Yongzhou City, he has to kill!" ”

"Zong, don't scold. The Song people have such weapons, where can they still use them to fight with us, and the army in Yongzhou City is only a box army, they can rely on firearms to keep us out of the city, if it is replaced by a regular forbidden army, I am afraid that the combat power will be increased several times, no wonder it will destroy Western Xia in a battle! Li Changjie said to his angry deputy at the moment, and in comparison, he seemed very calm. Of course, this is also related to his age and experience, so that he will not lose his mind due to anger lightly.

Hearing Li Changjie's words, Nong Zongjian turned around angrily, and then sat on the big stone next to Li Changjie and said: "Taibao, we have been besieging Yongzhou City for nearly a month, and there have been dozens of large and small attacks, small-scale attacks will not work at all, and large-scale attacks will definitely attract firearms from the Song people in the city." Our soldiers are not angry, and they are terrified when they see firearms. I think this Yongzhou City may not be able to be captured, so it is better to go back. ”

"Go back? Hehe, why go back? Li Changjie asked with an uncharacteristically smile at this time.

"Taibao, we didn't have many troops this time, and now we have nearly two thousand casualties, which is still the reason why we didn't give the order to attack. Otherwise, the casualties will only be greater, and Yongzhou City is like a hedgehog, there is no hope of fighting it at all, and if we stay any longer, we can only waste the lives of the soldiers in vain, isn't this a reason to go back? Nong Zongyan said with a glaring eye at the moment. There was already a bit of dissatisfaction in his tone.

"Haha~, Zong Gan, have you forgotten that the purpose of our coming here is to test the reality of the Great Song Dynasty and prepare for the encroachment on the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in the future?" Regarding Nong Zonggan's dissatisfaction, Li Changjie laughed and said, although he was a eunuch and his voice was a little sharp, but there was an unbeatable pride in his tone.

"Tempting the real and the false? But we have attacked Yongzhou City for so long, except for verifying that the firearms of the Great Song Dynasty are very sharp, how can we gain anything? Nong Zongjia was a little dissatisfied again, originally when the attack on Yongzhou City was frustrated at the beginning, he built a plan for Li Changjie to shift the target, such as bypassing Yongzhou to attack Qinzhou and other places farther away, but Li Changjie insisted on spending here, and as a result, he paid thousands of casualties and did not have any results.

"It seems that you are still too careless, Zong Yan, haven't you seen our harvest in the past month?" Li Changjie also knew the dissatisfaction in Nong Zongji's heart, but he didn't rush to explain, but asked rhetorically.

"Harvest? In addition to losing troops and consuming a large number of grains, grass and weapons, what else can we gain? Nong Zongyan said angrily, he is not yet thirty years old this year, but Li Changjie is almost fifty years old, usually he respects Li Changjie very much, and even regards him as his teacher, but this time Li Changjie's actions made him nineteen disappointed.

"Haha, Zong Jia, Zong Jia, didn't you notice that we have been besieging Yongzhou City for almost a month, but we haven't seen a single Song army who came to the rescue, doesn't this explain the problem?" Li Changjie laughed and said.

"No rescue in a month?" Nong Zonggan can become Li Changjie's deputy, naturally he is not incompetent, I saw him repeat a sentence and then fell silent, after a while, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Taibao, you mean ......"

"Hehe, yes, we have been besieging Yongzhou City for nearly a month, although the firearms in the city surprised us very much, but we didn't see a single reinforcement, which shows two problems, the first is that the Great Song Dynasty doesn't pay much attention to Yongzhou here, otherwise they should have rushed here now even if they mobilized troops from the north of the Yangtze River. The second shows that the state capitals around Yongzhou City must also be empty, otherwise the army should have been sent to support a long time ago, these two news are hard to find for us, and it is too cost-effective to pay a few casualties in exchange for these two news! Li Changjie smiled at the moment, he was able to become the first person to become a military general in Jiaozhi as a eunuch, and he naturally had outstanding features.

"Sure enough, it turns out that the Taibao has been prepared for a long time, and the last general misunderstood the Taibao before!" Nong Zonggan can become Li Changjie's deputy, and naturally he is not stupid, but his personality is a little impatient, so he can't hold his breath and can't see Li Changjie's purpose in doing this.

"Hehe, Zong Yan, you are young and intelligent, and you are a rare general among the younger generation, but your personality is a little impatient, which makes you easy to offend people, so I hope you can restrain your temper, otherwise you are likely to bring disaster to yourself." Li Changjie smiled again at this time, but when he said the end, there was a solemn expression on his face, he really attached great importance to his deputy, otherwise he would not have warned him so solemnly.

"Thank you Taibao, the last general will pay attention in the future!" Nong Zongjie immediately bowed, but although he said to pay attention, a trace of disapproval flashed in his eyes, obviously he didn't take it to heart, Li Changjie also saw it in his eyes, and sighed secretly in his heart at the moment, I only hope that Nong Zongji's luck will not be bad, otherwise Da Yue will lose a good general.

I have to say that although Li Changjie is a eunuch, but he has a vision that is difficult for ordinary people to reach, in fact, after his death, Nong Zongjia did offend the magnates of the Yue Kingdom, and finally had to defect to the Great Song Dynasty, and also led the army of the Great Song Dynasty to fight a few battles with Jiaozhi, causing a lot of losses to Jiaozhi, fortunately Li Changjie is not a god, and he can't count these specific things, otherwise he may have cut Nong Zongjia on the spot.

Just before Li Changjie and Nong Zongjiao spoke, the Jiaozhi army that had retreated from the attack on Yongzhou City finally withdrew, and the general in charge came to Li Changjie in frustration to give orders, although every time they attacked Yongzhou City during this time, they failed to return, but every failure would make them feel very uncomfortable.

Li Changjie did not scold this failed general, because even if he commanded it personally, he would definitely fail and return. However, for those soldiers who escaped from the battle, Li Changjie was very strict, and let his own soldiers around him pull out those deserters one by one, hoping to correct the law on the spot, after all, it is one thing to be defeated, and it is another thing to escape from the battle.

Seeing the Jiaozhi people collect their troops again, Su Mian on the city head couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then reached out to wipe the sweat on his face, and then checked the casualties on the city, although they seemed to defeat the Jiaozhi people very easily, but the Jiaozhi people under the city also kept shooting arrows upward, causing some casualties to the soldiers at the head of the city, but it was not very strict, plus the defeat of the Jiaozhi people, the morale of the soldiers at the head of the city was very high, even the injured soldiers were talking and laughing, which made Su Mian finally put his mind at ease.

"Zhizhou, these Jiaozhi people obviously can't beat our Yongzhou, but they just don't want to retreat, is there any conspiracy in this?" At this time, Tang Zizheng suddenly found Su Mian, and then asked with a worried face.

"There must be a conspiracy, but we are trapped in the city, and we don't know the plans of the Jiaozhi people at all, what I'm most worried about now is the situation in the city, we don't have many firearms, right?" At this time, Su Mian also put away his relaxed expression at this time, and also showed a worried look.

"Not only is there not much firearms, but the food in our city is about to bottom out, after all, the people outside the city have moved to the city, so we can eat food for a few months but can only last a month, and now I am planning to reduce some food supply." Tang Zizheng also smiled bitterly when he heard this, as a general judge, the grain, grass, weapons and other materials in the city were all under his control, so no one knew the situation in the city better than him. (To be continued......)