Although the Western Army has not launched an attack, all kinds of siege equipment have been continuously transported, not only that, but all the boulders and giant trees within a radius of nearly 100 miles have been transported, which looks like hills from a distance. The grain is piled up, and the number of soldiers and armor is beyond human imagination.

All the weapons and armor stored for a hundred years by the five major generals in the northwest have been brought in, which is enough to equip 500,000 troops, especially the outrageous number of crossbow arrows. Not only that, there are as many as 200 super-large trebuchets with an attack distance of more than 100 zhang, and there are 1,000 ordinary trebuchets. Tens of thousands of boulders weighing about 30 catties are the biggest killing weapons of the Western Army, and once the war starts, it will be a nightmare for the defenders.

Siege rams, there are 20 battering rams about ten zhang long, which is why the Western Army insists on besieging the city on all sides, that is, the family foundation is strong, the army is sufficient, the siege does not need to be divided into priorities, the war is fought on all sides, as long as the battle is overcome, it will end immediately.

Thirty nest cars about ten zhang high can not only look at the deployment of the city, the mobilization of troops, and the defensive situation, but also can condescendingly shoot arrows into the city, which has great lethality, and will exert great power when covering the soldiers to attack the city.

Hundreds of wooden carts were used to cover the siege of the city, not only to protect the bows and arrows fired from the city, but also to minimize the lethality of the rolling stones and timbers to the besieging army.

There are thousands of carts used to transport troops, this kind of extravagant practice has never been done since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, so when attacking the city, a car can transport ten soldiers, and tens of thousands of soldiers can be sure not to be killed by bows and arrows at a time, if the tens of thousands of soldiers once attack the city, it will bring huge pressure to the side defending the city, and the soldiers can soon kill the city, so the city is just around the corner.

Hundreds of crashing cars obviously didn't hit the city wall, because the city walls of Yunzhou City were too strong, and if they hit the city wall, these crashing cars would not be useful. The effect is obviously to hit the city gate, no matter how strong the city gate is, it can't stand such a non-stop impact, as long as the city gate is knocked loose, then once the battering ram is on the battlefield, the city gate will be overcome,

The huge Linchong Lu bus is useless in the Yunzhou War for a short time, you must know that the defense of the Han army must have been strong at the beginning, in this case, once the huge and cumbersome Linchong Lu bus goes up, it is a live target, and the more it goes up, the more it consumes.

At this time, Yue Fei, who was standing at the head of the city, understood why the Western Army wanted to recruit 200,000 people, not as simple as building camp tents, but to use them as cannon fodder.

If you kill 200,000 people, how different is it from the killing god Bai Qi back then? Yue Fei knew that it was the Western Army that was shameless first, and he was cruel second, and he was afraid that he would never be able to become a famous general like Guo Ziyi in the future. In the future, he is destined to become a killing god such as Wu Anjun Bai Qi, hey, no matter what, in this life, he is destined to kill the Quartet for the Han Dynasty and conquer the world.

At this time, Yue Fei hated the Western Army to the core, and he angrily said to the four fierce generals under him, Zhang Xian, Xu Qing, Dong Xian, and Niu Gao: "Today, the Western Army is attacking the city, and it is estimated that the troops invested will be close to 80,000, of which 60,000 are people's husbands. Such a desperate plan must be a bad idea from Wang Yuan, the commander of the Song Kingdom, in the face of this cruel and shameless act, should we let it break the city, or kill them all? ”

The four fierce generals lowered their heads and went into battle to kill the enemy against the extremely powerful Jin Army, one was braver than the other, and the other was stronger than the other, otherwise he would not have been promoted from a small capital head to the commander of the first army in charge of ten thousand armies. However, to kill those people today, it is indeed a little unbearable, this kind of roommate has made these four people depressed, and now they are going to kill the people, one by one, they are at a loss, and they don't know what to do in a short time.

"A fierce general in the former Han Dynasty once said that those who offend me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away. Now that everyone has killed at the door, our general has lowered his head, it is rare that the former Han has a great Han to fight the world, and my big Han has become a wine bag and a rice bag? ”

Yue Fei's face turned gloomy, and he said angrily: "Today, Ben Shuai will leave his words here, today there are only two thousand soldiers in each city, and the city head can't hold it, so I will use his head to sacrifice the souls of the soldiers who died in battle." As long as more than half of the casualties are inflicted on the city, jump down from the city and apologize. ”

"The last general swears to fight to the death."

The besieging side has an army of 80,000, that is, there are only 20,000 on each side, but there are only 2,000 defenders of the city, and the attacking side invests more than twice the troops, which can resist the unfavorable situation of the attack, and more than twice the other side will begin to suppress the opponent, and more than five times can easily break the city, but this time it is ten times, the attacking side can be said to win, and the defending side can not only not lose the city, but also the casualties can not be more than half, which shows how great the pressure of defense is.

Yue Fei no longer paid attention to the four fierce generals, he waved his hand and motioned for the four of them to go down.

At this time, Yang Zaixing. Yao Zhen, Wang Jun, and Ji Qing walked up.

Yue Fei said coldly: "The task of the four of them to defend the city is to defend the city with 2,000 people, and if more than half of the casualties are killed, they will apologize for their crimes, lose the head of the city and lose their heads." Then the task of the four is simpler, each leader 1,000 cavalry, 3,000 infantry, open the city gate to kill the enemy, the city gate is lost, then and all the 4,000 soldiers under his command are executed. ”

Cruel, defeat is death in battle, this situation has never appeared in the Han Dynasty, but Yang Zaixing and other four generals know that in the Han Dynasty, the military order is as big as a mountain, as long as the military order is issued, whether it is reasonable or not, the people below will continue to implement it unconditionally, even if it is to hunt their own family members and take off their heads, they must be executed, and they cannot be discounted.

Yue Fei looked at Yang Zaixing coldly and said: "Among the Northwest Generals, the Yang family has neither defected to the Great Han nor been driven by the imperial court, and you should know that the Great Han has always been a principle, and all enemies outside the Great Han are enemies. This time you have to know that after the battle of Yunzhou, there will never be the word Western Army again. The Han army will sweep through the entire northwest, you are justifying the name of the Yang family in this battle, either you Yang Zaixing will become famous in a battle, or the Yang family will disappear in the long river of history, where to go, you decide for yourself. The most difficult south gate is guarded by you, don't insult the hundred-year glory of the Yang family. ”

"Swear to defend the south gate."

Yang Zaixing knelt on the ground and made a blood oath with the glory of the Yang family for a hundred years, the Yang family will be able to die in battle, and it will never be defeated, which is the last pride of the centennial general.

After the four generals left, Song Zhong walked in front of Yue Fei, and after he saluted, he said: "General Yue, we had a lot of misunderstandings before, but from this moment on, the bloody battle in Yunzhou, we will live and die together." It's just one thing, I don't quite understand, it stands to reason that the first battle is very important, it is a battle to boost morale, but why do you show weakness, there are only 2,000 soldiers on each wall, and you have to open the city gates to face the battle, aren't you afraid that the western army will attack the city in one go? ”

Song Zhong suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing, and this guy slapped himself a few times and was about to go back.

"You're not saying the wrong thing, a lot of people think like that, it's just that they don't dare to say it." Yue Fei looked up at the sky and said domineeringly: "After this battle, the glory of the Western Army for a hundred years was trampled under the feet of the Han army, and the morale was beaten, not planned. I don't know how long the battle of Yunzhou can last, I just know that tomorrow's battle is definitely not a nightmare for the Western Army. You can oversee the battle, and if a Western army enters the inner city, you can cut off my head. ”

The night before the first day of the siege, the heads of the Han generals defending the city of the attacking Western Army were clouded, but the mood of the two sides was different.

In the Western Army, Yao Pingzhong, Qu Duan, Liu Yanqing, and Liu Qi, who were in charge of the main attack, were very dissatisfied with the arrangement of this battle, and they couldn't figure out why the first battle, which was related to the direction of the entire battle, was so bizarre in the first battle. These four people are the main attackers, and it is normal to have opinions, but even Liu Zhongwu and Liu Guangshi have opinions.

It was the first time for Liu Guangshi to participate in such a big battle, and the most famous 'escaped general' in later generations was still boiling with enthusiasm, and he said angrily: "The 200,000 army attacked Yunzhou, which had only 50,000 defenders, and it was still more than a month to prepare, but if you choose to attack, you can take Yunzhou on the first day." But why did such a decision make that 80,000 civilians were allowed to participate in the war, and only 10,000 Western troops actually participated in the war, isn't this sick? ”

Yao Pingzhong patted the table and said: "Wang Yuan, that bastard, just doesn't dare to fight the Han army, he wants Yunzhou to besiege and surrender." But if the army that can surrender is still the Han army? Let's not talk about this, let's prepare for war, maybe with 80,000 people as cannon fodder, our army will be able to take Yunzhou. ”

"Pull it down, 80,000 people are cannon fodder, we are the sinners of history." Liu Yanqing's tiger eyes were full of sad tears, and he said very uncomfortably: "If we win Yunzhou tomorrow, the reward of the imperial court will be given to the families of those people." ”

"Hey, you underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Han army too much, not to mention 80,000 people and 10,000 western troops, even if it is 100,000 western troops, you can't take Yunzhou City in a day. However, Liu Yanqing is right, you can't lose those people. "Yao Pingzhong is also considered to be lacking in confidence, but there is no way, who will let the imperial court always be in charge of the army by those civilian officials who do not understand military affairs?

The generals in the Western Army camp were overshadowed by a shadow over their heads, and the Han generals who were defending the city were not having a good time, they were a little different from the Western Army. That is, Yue Fei, as the commander-in-chief, is only responsible for issuing tasks, and it is up to those generals to decide how to fight.

The eight generals in charge of defending the city were divided into two groups, Yang Zaixing and others in charge of the city gate discussed how to kill out, while Zhang Xian and others in charge of the city discussed how to defend the city. Use victory to face the sentence 'use me in the first battle, use me to win, the Han army is invincible, sweep the world' is not a slogan, but the strength of the Han army.

Zhang Xian, who was in charge of defending the city, took the lead in saying: "The significance of this victory is not to be said, what I want to say is that since the Western Army uses the people as cannon fodder, that is, the beginning is the full range of trebuchets to suppress, the first half an hour, we are passively beaten, and then we are all-round siege, defending not to be defeated by trebuchets, even if we have taken the first step, and this step is the most painful and difficult step." ”

Dong Xian said: "The opponent's nest car is too high, and there are too many, and the one who shoots arrows at the head of the city from above must be the Western army with excellent archery skills, and it is very difficult for our defense to be watertight, so the archers must counterattack under the cover of the shield, so we must set up the shield before and fix it with a fake to ensure that the casualties are minimized, otherwise, before the Western army attacks the city, our casualty rate will be more than half." ”

"Don't worry, this artisan battalion has already prepared a shield mobile rack, and as long as our archers hide behind the shield, there will be no problem in reacting quickly." Niu Gao didn't think about this, he said very solemnly: "Although the vast majority of the Western army are people, there are too many of them, once we kill the city, it will be difficult for us to hold the city. I mean, we will do our best to hold the head of the city, and use heavy weapons, even firearms to block the western army as if it is to ascend the city, and we should not prepare for the battle of the city, because as long as the western army climbs the city, then we will not be able to defend it, after all, it is too difficult for 2,000 people to defend the ten-mile-long city wall, and if we want to win, we must keep the enemy out of the city wall. ”

The side defending the city wants to do its best to defend, while the side guarding the city gate is attacking with all its might, and they will encounter more than ten times or more enemies, especially the fierce western army, which can be imagined.

Yang Zaixing said to everyone: "We are a little bit of a bull's horn, don't think about guarding the city gate, it should be regarded as a field resistance battle, this is the strongest place of our Han army, and it is also the shortcoming of the Western Army." I mean, a thousand cavalry with two thousand soldiers to fight the enemy, to attack instead of defending. The other 1,000 infantry held the city gates, and if our front army could not withstand the charge of the western army, then the rear army would close the city gates. ’”

The closing of the city gate indicates that the 3,000 soldiers who have given up leaving the city will all be killed, and this kind of ruin brings a tragic atmosphere to the start of the war.

Wang Jun shook his head and said: "It can't be like this, because if there is no one to guard the city gate, if the battering ram directly faces the city gate, it will be difficult for the city gate to resist continuous impact, once the city gate is knocked open, a thousand soldiers will not be able to withstand the city gate." I mean make some corrections on the basis of General Yang's tactics, and the front 3,000 soldiers will not change. A thousand soldiers in the back were divided into two parts. The 700 former troops used firearms to block the western army at the city gate, after all, in a small space, firearms can still exert great power. The other 300 soldiers were strapped with fire and thunder and perished with the enemy. ”

Yao Zhen continued: "That's it, with the help of three hundred migrant workers to close the jack gate at that time, in this way, when the explosion blows up the battering ram, hinder the attack of the western army, at least the city gate will be held on the first day, although the four thousand soldiers will be wiped out, but they will definitely be able to hold it." ”