"Send someone to persuade you to surrender!" Basa led the army to line up outside the two arrows west of Changshu City, and it can be said that seeing the envoy who went to surrender was bombarded with a bombardment of the city, his heart also twitched, but he still ordered again.

"Wanhu, the southern army killed the envoy of our army, but I am afraid that it will fight to the death, and I will not sacrifice the city, and it will be useless to send the envoy to it!" Bald was stunned when he heard this, he knew that the Southern Dynasty had the particularity of 'two armies fighting, not cutting the envoy', but it was not without exceptions, and once the envoy was killed, it meant that there was no room for negotiation in the matter, and expressed his determination to fight to the death. But Wanhu wanted to send another envoy, which made him a little surprised.

"You dare to disobey orders?" Basa glared and shouted in a deep voice. And in my heart, I secretly cursed, don't I know what happened, and I am willing to send someone to die?

Through exploring the city, he has already understood that Changshu City is no longer a small city in the past, but has become a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack under the reconstruction of the Southern Dynasty. At present, if you want to break through this city, you will have to go through a hard battle, and your own side is a cavalry army, and it is not your own strength to attack the city. In addition, the means of siege are also severely restricted, in the past they can surrender the army or capture the people as the front to attack the city, but all the way, let alone surrender the enemy army, even the people have not caught a few, with the siege of the city is a joke.

In addition, Changshu City is surrounded by water on three sides, and the groundwater is shallow, so I am afraid that I will see water if I can't play two feet, and it is almost impossible to dig tunnels to attack the city. And to replace the army with water to attack the city, this season is the dry season, and the river is not abundant. In addition, there are many rivers and lakes around Changshu, the water system is developed, and the moat and river are interconnected, which can also quickly discharge water. In addition, it is backed by Yushan Mountain, which is the commanding height of the surrounding area, and it is difficult to succeed in capturing the city by water. Relying on long-term siege and siege is also one of the commonly used methods, but Changshu City has accumulated a large amount of grain, grass and baggage, and it is not it that is afraid of dying by besieging the city, but by himself.

And Basa found that the Song army did not abandon the city and flee after seeing its own army approaching the city, and this situation was very rare in the previous battle with the Southern Dynasty, many of its cities were not captured, but often pointed out by the soldiers, and the Southern Dynasty guards either fled from the wind, or surrendered the city. And those who refuse to surrender tend to fight to the death, and even if the city is breached, they will still engage in street fighting, which is the last thing he wants.

Basa knew that as the besieging party, he would inevitably have an advantage in numbers, and he also had a great psychological advantage. It can break through the city for street fighting, and it also has to be hand-to-hand combat, and it will be very tragic. The most tragic thing he has ever heard is the last battle to destroy the Jin Dynasty - the Battle of Caizhou, after the suicide of Aizong, the remaining more than 1,000 Jin troops carried out street battles that regarded death as home, and in the case of the overall situation has been irretrievable, up to the political participation, the chief division, the marshal, down to the ordinary soldiers, and more than 500 followers committed suicide and martyrdom.

Basa personally participated in the battle of Fancheng, and at the critical juncture of life and death, the local soldiers and civilians of Xiangfan resisted stubbornly and resisted them for six years. It was not until the ninth year of Xianchun that Fancheng was breached, and the coach Fan Tianshun committed suicide and martyrdom. After the city was broken, Niu Fu, the commander of the commander, still led the last hundred or so soldiers to resist stubbornly, engaged in street battles with his own side, and when he was thirsty, he drank blood and water and continued to fight. In the end, because he was seriously injured, Niu Fu committed suicide by throwing himself into the fire.

Basa also understood that his superiority was based on relying on the rapid maneuver and impact of war horses, and once he was involved in street fighting, he would have to fight in a lack of communication coordination and effective organization, and relying on individual combat would consume a large number of veterans and grassroots commanders with rich combat experience. After all, a good army is not so easy to cultivate, and a large number of weapons and equipment will be lost in street fighting, which is not conducive to future operations, and this is only a last resort. Therefore, it is also a tactic to retreat moderately and attack by retreating.

In addition, street fighting is very susceptible to the brutal retaliation of the besieging side, often burning, looting, slaughtering the city to vent anger, and even when the besieging troops are unable to clear the defenders of the street fighting, in order to ensure safety, in extreme cases, the city will be burned, forcing the defenders to withdraw. Then there are the forces to force the defenders to engage in street fighting, which are generally divided into three situations, one is some important cities, which affect the whole body; second, the defenders failed to break through, and there were reinforcements from outside; Third, the defenders have a strong will to resist and are determined to fight to the death.

Basa thought that Changshu City was just an ordinary county town in the south of the Yangtze River, not the capital, nor a frontier defense place, and it did not have the value of sticking. And his purpose is to capture the city, not to annihilate the enemy, so he only deployed troops in the west city, and the other three sides did not send troops, which can be used for the evacuation of the defending troops, and it is also a strategy to break the determination of the defending troops, after all, the garrison troops in the city will not fight hard if they have a chance to live. And what he was most worried about was that the defenders were dead and had to fight with him, but he also thought that such people were still a minority.

Therefore, Basa thought that it was best to seize the city through negotiation, so he endured his anger and sent someone to shout, hoping that the defenders in the city would know the current affairs. But a dense burst of gunfire shattered his illusions, and the envoy sent for the second time was shot and killed in the city before he could even speak, apparently the other party was not even interested in answering them......

Shot the Mongolian envoy who came to negotiate twice in a row, Luo Datong showed his determination to defend the city at the same time, but also showed the soldiers and civilians in the city that there was no way back after killing the Mengyuan envoy, and only by holding the city could he save his life, whether it was fighting or surrendering, it was a dead end. And this inspired the determination of the army and civilians to fight to the death and live with the city.

After a while, the Mongol army launched an attack, and their target was the west gate of the city. Because in the eyes of those with a slight military vision, in the absence of ships and siege equipment, Xicheng, which is not covered by a moat, is also an excellent point of attack. Of course, Luo Datong was also well aware of this, so he focused his defense on the west city and the north city around the mountain.

Although the west city was not covered by a moat, the defense facilities were also strengthened during the construction, and the urn city was built at the west gate, after all, the city gate was the weakest link in the entire defense measures, and at this time the city wall had also built a war tent and built a fort. Luo Datong arranged a regiment of troops in Xicheng and strengthened an artillery team, two of which were already in the city at this time, one battalion was used as a reserve, and the command post was set up on the Xicheng Tower.

Luo Datong stood on the top of the city tower and looked at the enemy formation, but saw the generals waving the flag again and again, and two teams of men and horses rushed out of it. One team galloped to the Zhenshan Gate in the northwest direction, and the other team went straight to the West Gate to speed the original. He saw that the two teams were evenly matched, about 500 men each, and there were generals following behind, obviously to attack the two gates. But he knew that with Meng Yuan's existing troops, he could not take care of the two points, and one way must be a feint attack to attract his own troops, and the other way would take the opportunity to seize the city. Therefore, he only ordered the soldiers who were guarding the two places to be on standby, but did not rashly mobilize his troops.

The town mountain gate is built in the middle of the Yu Mountain, the road leading to the city is not wide, and some steep, the enemy fights the horse and rushes to the halfway, the horse speed drops, and they dismount one after another, avoid the road and spread out to the two wings, and continue to approach the city gate by the cover of the mountain. The Song army in the city opened fire to intercept them, but they had already spread out in formation and did not have a good lethal effect, so they were able to continue to move forward, and immediately after entering the range of the bow and arrow, they immediately picked up their bows and arrows and fired arrows into the city, trying to suppress the Song army in the city. But after all, it was in a situation of attacking from the back, and there were rocks and bushes to obstruct it, and the progress was very slow under the suppression of the guns of the Song army, and it was difficult to get close for a while.

Outside the west gate of Changshu is much wider than the Zhenshan Gate, this road of enemy cavalry quickly rushed forward, after being intercepted by their own fire, only scattered the formation to reduce the concentrated killing of artillery fire, some people held shields against the rain of bullets to rush forward, destroying the fence in front of the city, foothills. Others shot at the city with bows and arrows. Luo Datong knew that the enemy army wanted to take advantage of his speed to quickly enter the dead end of the guns in the city, assault to the city, and then ascend the city.

So Luo Datong ordered the battalion guarding the west gate to increase its firepower, changing the three-fold sequential shooting to one person shooting, and the rest were only responsible for loading the guns, subtracting the time for changing formations and increasing the firing speed. At the same time, taking advantage of the shortness and lightness of the battalion and team subordinates, which are convenient for aiming and shooting, they constantly change their gun positions to snipe at the targets of the enemy group.

Despite the increased density of firepower, the Meng Yuan army used war horses to maneuver quickly, and some enemy troops still broke through the blockade of guns and artillery and entered the shooting blind spot. And when they came to the city, they did not pause at all, and immediately threw their hooks into the city. The Changshu city wall is only two zhang high, and the hook rope is not only a production tool for catching horses, but also a weapon when fighting, so everyone has a fun time. As soon as the iron hook at the head of the rope hooked the city wall, he immediately climbed upwards with his strength.

Seeing this, the Song soldiers defending the city immediately cut off the piso with hook knives and sharp axes, and at the same time, the grenadiers who had been waiting for the battle threw grenades from the city. One or two of the enemy soldiers, who had been lucky enough to climb up the hook and rope, were stabbed into the city by several stabbing bayonets as soon as they showed their heads and leaped over the battlements with their swords.

And just when the defenders of the West Gate prevented the enemy from landing the city, the Mongolian army that followed behind suddenly accelerated, seizing the opportunity of their division of troops to deal with the enemy under the city, and the firepower weakened and quickly advanced forward. There were also Mengyuan archers who threw arrows at the city under the cover of the shield hand, not seeking a hit rate, but just firing arrows quickly, trying to suppress the Song army with a dense rain of arrows.

Luo Datong looked at it, and saw that this group of enemy troops wearing heavy armor, carrying climbing poles and ladders, holding a large shield modified from a door panel to cover the rain of bullets on the city, divided into more than a dozen teams to attack. Although some people were hit and fell from time to time by bullets fired from the city, and even fell directly by artillery, they still did not stop, and no one went to rescue the dead and wounded, and the living or regrouped, or filled the gaps and continued to attack. When they made their way to the dead end of the artillery firing, several groups of Mongolian troops increased their speed again and came out of the crowd......