The thirtieth day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve.

When the officials and people of all the state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty are celebrating this New Year's Festival, the offensive and defensive battles in front of Jiangnan Road and Changshu County under Suzhou Mansion are in full swing, even the biting cold wind cannot stop this increasingly fierce battle between the enemy and us!

Although the army was caught off guard by the Song army when it first arrived, not only did the forward army collapse on the spot, but even the vanguard general Liao Guang was decapitated, and now it is still hanging above the south gate of Changshu. However, only about 2,000 casualties were only scratches for the Wu army of 100,000 people, so after stabilizing the position and calming the army's heart, starting on the 27th of the lunar month, Pang Wanchun launched wave after wave of attacks on Changshu City.

However, the offensive in the first two days was not too fierce, and the soldiers and horses invested in the siege each time were only thousands, but they could not pose much threat to the four gates of Changshu. But on the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, the Wu army suddenly invested more than 30,000 troops to storm the south gate, which caught the defenders by surprise, and the situation was really dangerous.

Lin Chong, the main general guarding the south gate, couldn't care about the injuries on his body, so he personally carried a gun and galloped in various sections of the city wall, shouting loudly from time to time, while cheering up the soldiers, while constantly changing the strength of the troops according to the battlefield situation: "Here, give me arrows, press back their momentum for me......" In his hoarse shout, the officers and men of the Shandong Army defended in an orderly manner, and finally repelled another wave of the enemy's fierce offensive.

But everyone had just taken a breath, and before they had time to rest against the wall, the horn outside the city sounded again, and the enemy army had been rolling in, and after quickly passing the pontoon bridge that had been erected on the moat, more than a dozen ladders had been set up at the head of the city, and then thousands of Wu soldiers continued to climb up the ladder.

The defenders above were also in a hurry after seeing this scene, and they didn't need Lin Chong to give another order, they had already lifted a large number of stones that were placed aside with all their strength and smashed them down. The sound of banging mixed with screams and the muffled sound of a human body falling to the ground constantly sounded on the edge of the city wall, which sounded terrifying, but it still couldn't stop the momentum of Wu Jun's upward climb.

Subsequently, an even more fatal change also happened. When the defenders were desperately throwing arrows and smashing stones to prevent the enemy from landing in the city, someone suddenly shouted: "Where are the arrows? Hurry up and get the arrows! "But because of the arrows to kill the enemy with all his might, someone has already used up all the arrows in the quiver he carried.

Both arrows and stone and wood are the most convenient weapons used by the defenders to block the enemy, but these weapons also have one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, they are extremely fast to consume. After several days of attack and defense, most of the weapons prepared by the defenders of the south gate had been consumed, and some of them could not keep up at this time. Not only did the soldiers shout for arrows in this place, but some other places also shouted for stones and woods, which made the attack on the lower parts suddenly slow down, which naturally gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

After only two incense sticks, an enemy soldier poked his head out from below in the left corner. Fortunately, a soldier quickly stabbed down with a gun, assassinating the enemy who was about to climb the city. But in a matter of moments, several other ladders were raised from time to time, and all of them had learned to be obedient at this time, and at the same time they rose with shields on their heads, so that the weapons of the defenders could not hurt them for a while, so that a few people jumped onto the wall. "Kill!" Fortunately, there were soldiers waiting there on the side, and as soon as they saw someone climbing into the wall, they quickly struck them, slashed them with their swords, and finally killed them on the spot. However, the situation on the wall did not slow down any longer, because as the soldiers began to fight the enemy on the wall, they could not spare more men to stop the enemy on the ladder below and beyond, so the enemy continued to rise up on the entire wall, like a dam blocking the roaring river, and holes began to appear......

In the final analysis, it is the difference in the strength of the enemy and the enemy that leads to this consequence. After a few days of fighting, the soldiers on the south gate side were exhausted, but the enemy could take turns to rest and attack the city, just this hand-wheel battle was enough to drag these thousands of defenders to death.

Seeing that the enemy was springing up like mushrooms after a rain, and was about to occupy one of the sections of the city wall, Lin Chong finally couldn't hold it anymore, and with a loud shout, he had already strode forward, and the spear in his hand burst out a little cold light in front of him, assassinating several enemy soldiers who rushed to the front on the spot, and also surprised the enemies behind, and the action of climbing up also slowed down.

At the same time, Wu Song, Yang Zhi and others, who had been resting for a while below, but ran up because they heard the louder and louder killing sound at the head of the city, finally arrived, and they all shouted, killing the enemy like a fierce tiger pounced, and immediately cut down a piece of enemy troops.

Relying on the full strength of these fierce generals in the Shandong army, coupled with the heroic performance of the officers and men of the Shandong army who were inspired by them and risked their lives to fight the enemy to the end, this round of the enemy's terrible offensive was finally blocked, and the rest of the men and horses finally retreated again, leaving only nearly 500 corpses to the entire south gate of the city......

Although the battle was won and the enemy's attack was repulsed, all the soldiers in the city had no joy on their faces, and all of them frowned. Because they all know very well that the situation has become more and more dangerous, and that many days of fighting are a great drain on both physical strength and energy, and perhaps at any time one negligence will completely fall the city.

At this time, another team of people and horses rushed to the bottom, and the leader was Sun Tu. Because he had to report that the south gate was under the onslaught of the enemy, he was worried about the loss, so he specially drew such a team of about 200 people from the city to support, until he found that the battle in the city had stopped, and he was a little relieved.

When he walked up to the city, several generals hurriedly stepped forward to salute, but he waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't care about being polite at this time." How is it, can the South Gate still stand up to it here? ”

"It can be held for the time being, but the casualties of the soldiers are not small, and they are ......" Lin Chong hesitated a little before he said uneasily: "The available weapons to defend the city are almost exhausted, especially the arrows, there are less than thirty ......percent of them left."

Sun Tu also frowned when he heard this: "I heard that the rebels didn't release many arrows in this siege, it seems that they are thinking about breaking our bows and arrows?" ”

"Yes, once the supply of arrows is not available, our condescending advantage will be greatly reduced...... The rebel generals outside the city must have seen this and made such a seemingly ridiculous decision! Yang Zhi also said with a worried face.

Sun Tu's brows furrowed even tighter: "Did they actually think of consuming our army's arrow supplies early in the morning?" It's just that how are they convinced that our weapons of all kinds are inadequate? "Indeed, this situation is a secret in the army, with the style of the Song army, there should not be a shortage of weapons, but because Sun Tu came to fight Danyang and fought one after another before, it led to the emergence of this fatal problem.

"It must be that they have collected our relevant information early, and Pang Wanchun is also one of the top generals in the anti-army, so naturally there will be targeted arrangements." Lin Chong didn't think deeply, just looked at the front of him: "Commander, we must get a batch of arrows from other armies to replenish, otherwise it will be difficult to defend the south gate anymore." ”

"Bring in some arrows from somewhere else?" Sun Tu thought for a moment, but shook his head inaccurately: "This will not cure the symptoms and not the root cause, but will make the situation more and more difficult." Although the anti-army forces have not attacked the other three gates now, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not suddenly change their main attack target! ”

"That'...... How's that good? Lin Chong was a little helpless at this time. Although he and Yang Zhi and the others were brave, they had indeed relied on their hard work to repel an enemy siege before, but this was not a long-term solution after all. Even if they were all cast in iron and bronze, how many nails could they hit? Again, the fighting of two armies on the battlefield is by no means the main factor in victory or defeat.

"In this way, I will allocate to you all the arrows of the defenders in the city, so that it should last another two or three days." After thinking about it, Sun Tu came up with a compromise plan.

In addition to the four defenders, Sun Tu also left an elite army of 2,000 to guard the city to prevent the people in the city from rebelling, and their bows and arrows could not be used for the time being.

Lin Chong didn't shirk them, nodded in response, but there was not much joy. Because in their opinion, this is just a drop in the bucket, at most let them last an extra day or two, but the problem still exists.

"In my opinion, if you don't take the initiative to attack tonight, maybe you can snatch a batch of arrows from the enemy!" Ruda suddenly put forward an opinion, which also made many people's eyes shine. Because they believed that there must be a large number of arrows in the anti-military camp, and if they could really grab them, it would be enough to consume them for a long time.

But Sun Tu quickly poured cold water on them: "No, the cavalry has almost been wiped out of the city before, if the foot soldiers are killed, it will only be more dangerous, we are already short of troops, we can't take such a risk." And do you really think you can find out the arrows from the enemy camp? ”

The last question immediately made them all speechless, and they all smiled helplessly: "How is this good?" ”

"There is no way to do it." Sun Tu comforted them dryly, and then said solemnly: "Use the arrows of the defenders in the city first, anyway, no one is allowed to leave the city without my order!" ”

"Whoa!" Several generals could only whisper in agreement.

Outside the city, Pang Wanchun smiled confidently after listening to the report of his subordinates: "It seems that my previous decision has worked, only attacking one gate will consume almost their arrows and other weapons to defend the city, and if you attack it twice, the south gate of Changshu will definitely be broken!" Sun Tu, do you still have a way to crack it? ”

After a pause, he quickly ordered: "Suspend the attack on the south gate today, let the soldiers and horses outside the other three gates attack, at least contain all the weapons there!" ”