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"It's the fleet of the Northern Front!"

The soldiers who had just prepared for a lunch break hurriedly picked up their stiff armor and hurried to the city wall on the coastal side. While looking out from the tower, Mo Huan commanded the soldiers in the city to deploy bed crossbows, rolling logs, oil pots, etc. in place. But looking at the North Wind Fleet gradually rising from the sea level, Mo Huan felt more and more that this would be a tough battle.

The autumn wind can't help but blow the sea, and the waves can't help but roll, reflecting the bright sunshine extraordinarily dazzlingly. The white light at the junction of the sea and the sky sets off the dark warships, and it is easy to see the number and variety of warships.

In the first row were the Raid Clippers, about thirty or forty ships, followed by nearly 100 ships in several rows, with several tall ships sandwiched between them, dozens of sea falcons and red horse boats on the two wings, and more than a dozen large ships at the end of the fleet, probably carrying soldiers, horses, and food and grass supplies. In this way, this fleet has about 10,000 people.

Mo Huan thought that now he had 3,000 Red Dragon Army and 1,000 Canglong Army in his hand, and if he counted Shi Fei's remnants, he would face an enemy three times his size. If the Jieshi City is strong, it is fine, but at the moment the city defense is as loose as tofu slag, although a city gate has been repaired, but I don't know how many hidden dangers I don't know. If you really want to fight in the cage city, you really can't be very sure.

As she thought about it, she turned her head and saw that the procession of military quartermasters was about to leave the city, so she hurriedly jumped down from the tower and instructed the soldiers around her to go up and stop it. When the quartermaster, who had just been exonerated from his crimes, saw this, his face turned pale with fright for a while. "General Mo Huan, this and this...... What's the point? ”

"I see that the fleet of the North Frontier will come up in about an hour and a half, and you can't run out of the city now. Put your men under my command first, and find a way to defend Jieshi City first. ”

"But just now, the general didn't say that I should deliver the military needs on time, and now this ......"

"The military situation has changed right now."

"But it's been a waste of time."

Thinking of the current situation, Mo Huan didn't care a lot, "I will bear it when I miss the hour, and the damaged objects are also mine." I'm the commander of this stone, and now everything is headed by the cage battle. As she spoke, she held up the token and said to the crowd, "Now I will take over all the military supplies until the siege is lifted." The soldiers listened to the order, and quickly placed the grain and grass back to the treasury, and all the materials that could be used to defend the city were transported to the southeast city, and the roads in the city were quickly emptied. After completion, they quickly gathered in the southern city to prepare for the defense of the city. ”

As soon as the order came out, although there was a lot of discussion, everyone in the transport team acted quickly, after all, Shi Zhi's body was lying on the street. Mo Huan saw that the order worked, and was busy thinking about the next thing. She seemed to have something in mind, and directly found the carriage and horse that was transporting the Xiangyang cannon, stopped and asked:

"This Xiangyang cannon has a rack?"

"The general just destroyed one, and now there are only two left."

"Two planes are fine, and they will be assembled in an open area in the southeast city as soon as possible."

Then Mo Huan went to look for bed crossbows, thunder stones, etc., but whatever she could think of was placed around the coastal city wall in one go.

Although this Jieshi City is close to the sea, the area that is really used as a port is all outside the city, and it is about a mile away from the south gate. The city walls were all built on the high ground of the tidal flats, of which the eastern city was the highest, on the cliff wall several feet high, only separated by some rocks and below the rolling tide. The southern city is relatively low, and the city gate is open on the tidal flats. Therefore, compared with going straight to Dongcheng with ships and ships, it was relatively easy to cooperate with the fleet to capture Nancheng after the landing of the army, so Mo Huan also gathered heavy troops in Nancheng.

Outside the north city is the mountain forest, only one road leads to the Tu River, and the outside of the west city is relatively open, which is the road to the Shanhaiguan. Mo Huan only arranged a few hundred people on both sides, just to prevent Shi Fei from taking advantage of the chaos to touch him.

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"General Liu, this Jieshi City is already in front of you. The general could land a large army in a shilling order, join us with our troops, and then attack the city from both land and sea. On the three-row boat, Shi Fei and Liu Wang, the general of the Northern Front who had just arrived from Liaodong, were talking about the plan to attack Jieshi.

"No, why bother with a small city of Jieshi, my regular army of 10,000 people plus the 35,000 people collected along the way can't break through here? What's more, my fleet was originally prepared for the siege of the city, and you can see me set foot on this place, and then I will pick up the wind and wash the dust for your troops. ”

After listening to Liu Wang's reply, Shi Fei secretly cursed in her heart, she had always known that this general loved to fight for credit, but she couldn't show it on her face, after all, this person was one level older than her. "The general is better to be careful, the wind is not in my favor at this time. And yesterday my harrier sent a letter, saying that Yuan Xian seemed to have sent a deputy general to garrison here, and now looking at the city, the other party is obviously ready. ”

"Hmph, do you think I don't know that Yuan Qian sent 3,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city?"

"If the general knows, why bother with it?"

"Now it is our army's advantage, and it is they who want to avoid the edge. I think you were scared by Yuan Xian after the First World War! ”

Hearing this, Shi Fei's eyes widened with anger all of a sudden, but she immediately calmed down, the victory or defeat of this battle would not be counted on her head, so there was no need to provoke right and wrong before the big battle. "Since the general insists on attacking the city directly, then our department will cooperate at any time."

3

The Japanese side turned westward, and the southeast of Jieshi was already tense, and countless warships were neatly arranged, stretching for ten miles, and a swarm of ants generally covered the sea surface with black pressure. Gloomy trumpets and heavy snare drums spread from the open sea, and the north wind kicks up rolling waves.

"Lie down!"

The ships lined up a mile away, and the arrows of the bed crossbows dragged the blue-black smoke in a formation. The watchtowers, the organs, everything that was exposed outside the city walls were for a time cut to pieces by huge steel arrows, and the wooden walls were also full of arm-thick arrows, and the smoke and heat waves of grass and sulfur burned over the battlements came in bursts. If it weren't for Mo Huan pouring water on the city wall, the city wall would have been a sea of fire at this time.

"General!"

Mo Huan hid behind the sandbags at the battlement, and saw that many soldiers on the left and right were frightened by the crossbow, rolled out from under the sandbags, and were nailed to the city wall by stray arrows. These logistics troops, who have not been on the battlefield for a long time, can only be used as cannon fodder to resist the first wave of attacks at this moment. "Hide behind sandbags, bed crossbows can't break sandbags."

In between shooting, she hurriedly instructed the soldiers to bring water up from under the city, and from time to time to cool the city walls. "Hold on, we don't have that many projectiles!"

After a few more rounds of firing, the slow-moving ship also approached the city walls, fueling the fire with stone cannons. This time, the city wall, which could barely support it, broke open in an instant, and the soldiers who were hiding behind the sandbags were smashed beyond recognition by the flying stone bullets.

"How much longer?" Seeing this situation, Mo Huan couldn't help but become anxious, she could only pin all her hopes on the Xiangyang cannon that had not yet been assembled.

"General Hui, I'm loading."

Another round of stone projectiles flew, and watching the soldiers on the city wall being smashed out one by one, and the weight box of the Xiangyang cannon was still rising little by little, she couldn't wait to jump off the city wall and step on the huge and cumbersome roller herself.

"Reloaded, General!"

"Okay, look at the direction of my finger, launch quickly!"

As he spoke, two flames lit up, and the moment he struck the mechanism, he drew a slender and graceful arc across the sky. Mo Huan watched as the fire bomb flew over the sparkling sea, stirring up two towering white waves. The waves subsided, and in the mist, a ship was cut off by half and sank in the deep blue waters.

"What is this?" Shi Fei, who was also watching the battle, also witnessed this scene.

"I can't imagine that there is a killing weapon like Xiangyang Cannon in this city!" Liu Wang brushed away the seawater on his face, and his originally relaxed face gradually became serious. "It doesn't seem like it's just a matter of fun. Order, Clippers siege. ”

When Mo Huan heard the drum beating between the ships, he knew that Fang Cai's attack had worked. "I just missed, and the next round of shooting will be on the building boat, and I want to hit them until they know it hurts!" She encouraged the soldiers in a positive tone, and the veterans were demoralized when they saw that the attack had worked.

However, at this time, the earthquake-like shaking and thunderous roar came, and I saw that a piece of the eastern city wall could not withstand the bombardment of stone cannons and collapsed violently, and the earth and lime rolled up the equipment and people and leaned down the cliff, just to open a way for the besieging soldiers to climb to the top of the city.

The broken city wall was about seven or eight zhang wide, and Mo Huan was thinking about who he wanted to fill the gap, when he saw more than 100 ships rushing towards the city with the sea falcons.

"Shoot your arrows!"

The soldiers who had been hiding behind sandbags for a long time finally had their chance, and they grabbed their crossbows and fired arrows at the city. However, both the Maurus and the Sea Falcon have thick leather lids on their tops, which are difficult for crossbows to penetrate. On the contrary, when the soldiers on the ship arrived at the city, they took out their short bows and fired back, and for a time the arrows rained down on the city, and countless casualties were killed.

"What a good thing this is!" After coming to Jieshi, such fear once again swept through Mo Huan's body. She habitually recalled what Zhong Ying had said and done, which was something she had to do since she came here.

"Trading and combat are basically the same, both are to seize and crush the opponent's weaknesses as the first goal, and must not be fooled by the appearance of a sentence and a move, so as to fall into the rhythm of the other party."

This sentence is what Zhong Min often teaches Mo Huan, and she has basically taken it as her creed.

"Where is the weakness and what is the appearance? The appearance is that the other party wants to land, and I want to prevent it from landing, so what can really defeat the enemy with one move? Mo Huan repeatedly observed everything in front of him: the soldiers defending the city, the soldiers' equipment, the Xiangyang cannon behind the city, the broken city wall, the rough-skinned and thick-skinned clippers, the soldiers on board ready to land at any time, the ships covering and shooting in the distance, and the occasional building ship commanded in it.

"Do you use Xiangyang artillery to bombard the building ship? This is just a deterrent, and if you want to kill with one blow, you will simply hit a big luck. It is indeed feasible to put the opponent's soldiers up to fight, but the opponent's strength is several times that of mine, and I can't finish the fight at all......"

The soldiers on the city wall fell one by one, the sound of killing on the beach sounded, and the scene passed in front of Mo Huan's eyes. Suddenly, a stone fire bomb exploded in front of her eyes, and Mo Huan was shocked and lost her balance, as if there was nothing to support her to stand at the head of the city again.

"General, general?" The dust dispersed, and the soldiers on the side hurriedly came over to check the situation, and Mo Huan was lying on the ground, unable to tell whose blood was sticky on his face. A gust of wind swept by, and the fire of the stone bullet fueled the city, Mo Huan looked at the flames blankly, and suddenly felt shocked, and said with great joy: "There is, there is!" ”

The soldiers on the side were overjoyed to see that Mo Huan was unhindered, but they were confused by her words. "What's there, General?"

"Go quickly, fill the stone fire shells of the Xiangyang cannon to the gap, and all the bows and crossbows in the city will be projected to the rear of the siege fleet."

"But the general, the enemy has gathered."

"I know, do as I say!"