Chapter 487: Relaxation and Moderation
The stormy ballista attack hit the south gate of Quanzhou into a mess, originally like a small white tooth chest wall into jagged dog teeth, and as the façade of the city tower is crumbling at the moment, if it is placed in the present is definitely a dangerous building to be demolished, as for the soldiers who defend the city can move to climb down the city, I am afraid they are hiding behind the city gate trembling. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Commander, you should be able to send troops to the city, right?" Zhao Yu saw that this attack had completely destroyed the city defense facilities, and he turned his face to ask Zhang Shijie, who accompanied him to watch the battle, although he had lost a lot of battles, he could be regarded as the leading land warfare expert in the current Great Song Dynasty, and he was much better than himself, a half-man who was a halfway monk who fought by calculation.
"Your Majesty, the minister thought that he could wait for a while, he saw that our ballista was very powerful, and the city head was difficult to wait for, just temporarily sheltered under the city, and the strength was not damaged, and it should be attacked repeatedly, not in a hurry. Governor, what do you think? The emperor asked himself for advice, Zhang Shijie was a little surprised, and flattered, and after answering, he turned to the side and said to Ying Jieyan.
"Hehe, the cardinal commander has experienced a hundred battles and has experienced countless battles, where does the subordinate understand the matter of this battle array!" Ying Jieyan waved his hand and smiled.
"The governor should be humble, when a certain family was still a pawn under Mr. Kitayama, he heard the name of Mr. At that time, Mr. had already counseled the military aircraft and dispatched all the troops to retreat from the enemy! Zhang Shijie arched his hand and said.
"At that time, Xia Guan was just a staff member under Mr. Beishan's account, and he just helped Mr. Beishan deal with the miscellaneous things in the army, so he didn't dare to praise him as a cardinal commander!" should be strict and bow back.
"The two of you will talk about the friendship of the robe later, what should we do now?" Zhao Yu knew that the Mr. Beishan in their mouth was Li Tingzhi, who had been the envoy of the Lianghuai system and was awarded the right prime minister by the Xing Dynasty, but he was martyred in Changzhou as early as the beginning of his establishment, but he was famous for his ability to recruit and recommend talents. His account is full of strategists and countless generals, but unfortunately he died before he could meet him. But at this moment, the two of them reminisced, and he couldn't wait!
"Hehe, Your Majesty, what the cardinal commander said is right, things should be measured, if it should be tight, it should be tight, and when it should be loose, it must be loose!" Ying Jieyan looked at His Majesty's anxious appearance, stroked his beard and smiled.
"Relaxation!" Zhao Hao frowned and said thoughtfully, "I have been taught, today's battle will be commanded by the two Aiqing, I am only a visitor!" ”
"Obey orders!" Seeing that the little emperor understood the meaning of his words, Ying Jieyan bowed down to give a salute and received the order, turned around and said, "Lord, please!" ”
"This ...... The minister was disrespectful! Zhang Shijie was stunned and said, he didn't expect His Majesty to give up the handsome position to himself.
If Zhang Shijie was commanded before the expedition, he would have to think about it a lot, and wonder if the little emperor was playing with him, after all, the team of the Eastern Expedition to Quanzhou was the foundation of the guards and pro-army, and he would inevitably be unable to dispatch well. In addition, everyone knows that Quanzhou is not so easy to fight, otherwise there would be no today's move, the victory must be the emperor's credit, and the defeat is the scapegoat.
But Zhang Shijie saw the current situation, whether it was a double-layer defense, a feint attack on Beicheng, and the current odd-shaped warship, it made him believe that even if he was not 10% sure of victory, 70% would always be there. But at this time, the little emperor gave up the command of the former enemy, obviously to give himself credit, and his intention should be to rebuild his prestige in the army through this battle, and let himself be defeated in Quanzhou twice......
Zhang Shijie took over the command, changed the fierce bombardment like a storm just now, and adopted the tactics of attacking slowly and waiting for the enemy army to re-enter the city to deploy and strike with flowering shells, which is indeed somewhat similar to Zhao Yu's tactics of attacking Yacheng. It was often repeated and back and forth, several times, but still no order was given to attack the city, and by this time the high tide had basically ended, and the current on the sea surface had stabilized.
It should be said that although he has not changed Zhao Yu's strategic deployment, his tactical arrangements have been modified, not only missing the time to launch a surprise attack by taking advantage of the rising tide, but also increasing the pressure on Huang Xianyao in Beicheng.
Zhao Yu wanted to say a few words, but he still held back, he knew that a thousand troops are easy to get a general, although Zhang Shijie is not the best candidate for the commander, but at present, his role is not replaced, and he also needs a general like him in the army. At the moment, since he has delegated power, he can't interfere without permission, and he still understands the truth of employing people, thinking of this, his heart calmed down, and watched how he commanded the city.
When his heart is stable, he is steady, and Zhao Yu gradually sees the doorway. Zhang Shijie is not unreasonable, there are many towers in Quanzhou City, in the era when there are no high-rise buildings, it is the commanding height of the whole city, the situation inside and outside the city can be seen clearly, and their actions are naturally in the eyes of others. If their side attacks after being attacked by ballistas, they will be able to judge their main target, and their repeated attacks will not only consume the enemy's vital forces, but also paralyze the enemy's army, so that they cannot judge which side is the real main attack, but do not dare to mobilize the mobile forces in the city to reinforce either side, and can only watch the defenders in the north and south cities being consumed little by little.
"Let the raft enter the battle position, the transport fleet will follow, and the Ruifeng battalion will prepare to attack the city!" Zhao Yu couldn't remember how many rounds of ballista attacks this was, and after a quarter of an hour of lasting, Zhang Shijie suddenly ordered.
"It's finally begun!" Zhao Hao, who was a little bored, stood up from the throne, climbed on the high platform and looked at the city with a telescope, but at this time, the smoke and dust from the explosion of the flowering bomb made people look like seeing flowers in the fog, but in his judgment, there was probably not even a living mouse on the southern city wall that had been bombarded by multiple rounds.
Zhao Hao lowered his gaze and saw that the raft carrying the 'crowbar' was moving rapidly towards the front of the city under the impetus of the penny, and the sailors on the transport boat behind also rowed hard and followed closely behind the city. The raft advanced smoothly to the front of the moat before stopping, and the transport ship was also anchored two or three feet behind it. He was really nervous at this moment, and rubbed his sweat-soaked palms on his clothes, so as not to slip his hands and make the telescope fall to the ground, making people laugh at himself for being scared.
However, Zhao Yu is not worried that the enemy army in the city will prevent his soldiers from landing in the city, they are still hiding under the city to avoid the bombardment of ballistas at the moment, and he is worried that the length of the 'crowbar' is not enough to cross the moat to send the soldiers to the city wall smoothly...... (To be continued.) )