At dawn, there was no longer half of the dungeon outside the city of Dayi, and wolf smoke rose from it.

The main army of the Prairie Royal Court has already arrived in the city.

After a night of offensive and defensive battles, the head of Dayi City was in a mess, and Dayi Shou pressed Zhao Xu's hand on the handle of the knife to step over a corpse, and came to a lookout in front of a lookout.

The wind swept the sand and cold snow particles on Zhao Xu's face, causing pain.

I saw that under the strong wind and yellow sand, a forest with gold characters on a black background was waving in the wind, and under the royal flag was an endless tide army.

Zhao Xu squinted his eyes, looked at the black gold king flag in the depths of the layers of black armor, and suddenly laughed, and said: "It turns out that last night's siege was just a temptation, and today is the main play, and it is the presence of the king of Zhenbei in person, which really flatters me Zhao." ”

Zhao Xu could laugh, but the others around him couldn't, and even worse, their faces were already dead. They didn't know if the steppe army would be able to break through the northwest defense line in the end, but they knew that it would be tantamount to a fool's dream to rely on the city under their feet to block the steppe army led by the king of the steppe Khan.

The fall of Da Yi City seems to be only a matter of time.

All the city leaders subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife, and the hand holding the handle of the knife was slightly cold.

Zhao Xu restrained his smile and said with a solemn expression: "Are the grain and silver in the treasury ready?"

A general, also in armor, replied, "It's all ready." ”

Zhao Xu said: "It's all distributed, it's already at the juncture of survival, there can't be the slightest mistake, if anyone dares to stretch out his hand at this time, don't blame me for not being emotional." ”

The lieutenant general in charge of the matter of money and food had a slightly abrupt expression, and he clenched his fists and said, "No!"

Zhao Xu said to the Da Yi prefect behind him: "Gather the gentry in the city and ask them to donate generously to help defend the city. Tell them that those steppe barbarians will not recruit prisoners, and once the city is broken, all over the city, no matter whether they are high or low, will be spared. ”

The prefect of Dayi Mansion went as promised.

Zhao Xu pondered for a moment, turned his head to the deputy general beside him, and said: "Gather the young people in the city, let them be ready to assist in defending the city at any time, and at the same time send people to demolish the houses in turn from the south of the city to make wooden rolling stones." ”

The lieutenant shouted a promise, then turned and went down to the city.

After arranging all this, Zhao Xu seemed to be a few years older, and finally said: "Send someone to Zhongdu again to report the emergency." ”

A desolate whimpering trumpet sounded suddenly, followed by the rumbling of drums.

Zhao Xu'an's hand on the handle of the knife trembled slightly. If the grassland went south in the past, he still had some confidence to defend the Dayi Mansion, after all, the grassland army was good at cavalry warfare, and weak at siege, for thousands of years, the Central Plains relied on Xiongguan to keep these nomads out.

But today's grassland army is very different. Today's grassland army after ten years of chasing deer, is no longer only able to use simple ladders and crashes, this time the grassland army is equipped with the necessary ladders, crashes, shield cars and other things, but also used trebuchets, but also the invincible Zhongdu artillery of the Taizu army.

Since ancient times, offensive and defensive weapons have been as good as cannons. If the attacker has the art of artillery, the city will be invincible, and if the defender has the skill of artillery, he will be able to defeat the enemy. Later, when the army attacked Xiangyang, it was to destroy the city wall of Xiangyang with a salvo of boulder cannons, and the three-year battle of Xiangyang finally settled in the sound of artillery.

The Zhongdu cannon, called a cannon, is actually a stone thrower, and the thing fired is a boulder, not a solid iron bullet. After Ai Linnan's improvement, it was more labor-saving at the same time, and it could throw a boulder weighing 150 catties, with a projectile distance of 250 steps, about 130 zhang, and after the boulder landed, it could enter the ground seven feet.

This kind of power, the first to enter the Earth Immortal Realm cultivator's all-out blow is nothing more than that.

At this moment, a full sixty of them were all arranged in an arc, aiming at the city wall of Dayi Mansion together.

Zhao Xu looked at this scene and said to his side: "Everyone, the time has come to be loyal to the imperial court." ”

......

In front of the steppe army, the king of the steppe Khan came in person.

Lin Han looked at the boulder that had been filled on the trebuchet, and said with emotion: "When Xiao Yu led the army into the customs, he also entered from the Great Yi Mansion, and I personally attacked the city back then, and today it is your turn." ”

Lin Shu, who was accompanying Lin Han, said in a deep voice: "I will live up to my father's hopes." ”

Lin Han nodded, and under the guard of many grassland shaman sacrifices and monks of the Molun Temple, he turned around and walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army.

After Lin Han walked away, Lin Shu, who was dressed in military uniform, pulled out the scimitar at his waist and said in a deep voice: "Siege the city." ”

A bearded grassland captain waved his hand, and the grassland soldiers standing on both sides of the Zhongdu cannon immediately began to act, and after a few breaths, sixty boulders weighing one hundred and fifty catties rose into the air with a whistling sound, drawing a terrifying arc in the sky, and smashed into the head of Dayi City.

The sound shook for hundreds of miles, countless smoke and dust rose, and rubble and dust fell from the cracks, as if the entire city wall was trembling.

A boulder flew directly up to the city, and the dozen or so defenders who had no time to dodge were directly smashed into bloody mud when they landed, and then the boulder rolled over again, crushing a road of flesh and blood made of broken arms and corpses.

However, more boulders smashed on the walls, making the walls that had weathered the northwest wind and frost crumbling and crumbling.

With another wave of his hand, the sixty Zhongdu guns began to prepare for the second round of stone throwing, and after the first round of test firing, the hit rate of the second round of stone throwing was bound to be more accurate.

Lin Shu is determined to win the Dayi Mansion with a garrison of more than 10,000 people, and the Dayi Mansion is the gateway to the entire northern line, and to break through this place is to tear a hole in the northwest defense line, and Lin Han's requirement is to capture this city within one day, regardless of casualties and losses.

The reason for this is to break through into the northwest before Zhang Wuji's reinforcements arrive.

Countless art of war are illustrating a truth, the soldier is fast, and killing the enemy before he reacts is the way to minimize the loss, if it is caught in the pull of the two sides, it will become a bottomless pit, and no one can escape from this quagmire before one side is completely dead.

In the final analysis, the war is still the money and grain heritage, compared to the background, the grassland can not compare with the big Qi, if it falls into a scorching battle, the grassland will be defeated, the grassland has always gone south, are better in a fast word, even if the grassland is not the same as in the past, but it is still necessary to guard a fast word.

After three consecutive rounds of boulder throwing, the surging foot soldiers rushed forward under the cover of the shield carts, against the rain of arrows poured down from the city.

Lin Shu's face suddenly had a slight smile.

In his opinion, this is the first battle of the grassland, but it is not a critical battle, when his father Lin Han followed the Emperor Taizu of the Great Qi from here, he directly used the Zhongdu artillery to collapse the city wall, and rushed in from the gap in the city wall, and successfully captured the city. It can be said that it was the former master of the grassland who taught the grassland how to attack the city, and now the grassland uses what he taught to attack his city, is this considered to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot?

After about a stick of incense, the infantry began to climb the city.

This siege battle lasted until late at night, and Lin Shu still refused to retreat, fighting at night, determined to overwhelm the defenders in the Great Yi Mansion in one breath and not give them any time to breathe.

In the city, 10,000 defenders were divided into three groups by Zhao Xu, each with 3,000 people and 1,000 reserves, taking turns to defend the city.

Outside the city, Lin Shu prepared a team of 30,000 people to attack the city in turn.

Ten times the enemy.

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