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In his eyes, he was no longer just a small city with a radius of only two miles, but a fortress with copper walls and iron walls carefully built by Shen Xi, and it was necessary to use about 40,000 soldiers and horses to conquer this city in one fell swoop, even if he could win in the end, he would pay an extremely painful price.

"National Teacher!"

Ulichari stood behind Ismain, waiting for his patriarch to give the order to siege the city.

Yismain said that the battle of Tumubao should not be delayed any longer, if the nail in front of him cannot be pulled out for a long time, then Dayan Khan Batu Munk will lead the people of various tribes to fight into the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and the people and horses of this tribe will become a reality after staying in the palace.

Yi Sima Yin is not to grab merit, but he believes that once the Tatar soldiers and horses are out of touch, it is easy to be taken advantage of by the Ming army, and the one who can take advantage of the weakness of the Tatars will not be Liu Daxia, who is still in the trilateral land and needs more than half a month to rush back to the Xuanfu battlefield in the starry night, but only Shen Xi's soldiers and horses.

"National teacher, give the order, before dark, the last general will definitely lead people to break through the Ming army fortress!"

Ulica was full of confidence, and in his opinion, the Tumu fort had been crumbling under the attack of the Tatar soldiers and horses, and now even the city gates were in ruins, and it was only necessary to rush to the city walls in one breath, and it would take an hour or two to capture the city.

Ismain asked, "Can you see the head of the city?" ”

"Yes!"

Ulica looked up at the gatehouse in the north of the city, from the foot of the hill, the city was towering, but judging from the location of the city itself, the outer city wall was actually only six or seven meters high, not even as high as the wall of an ordinary county town.

In addition to the city gate and a very short section of the surrounding wall, the rest of the city wall is mostly made of adobe bricks, so that it naturally appears fragile, only need to make continuous force in the same place, you can break the wall and enter, in fact, the civil fort is in disrepair, before the arrival of Shen Xi, the wall is damaged a lot.

Even now, the construction of the city wall is not perfect, because Shen Xi focused the project entirely on digging trenches, and did not think about repairing the city wall at all.

No matter how high the walls are, they will collapse, but the deep and wide trenches can become a natural obstacle, preventing the Tatar soldiers and horses from successfully attacking the city.

Moreover, a trench can be used as a line of defense, the distance of the artillery is enough to cross all the trenches, and the Tatars have to fill a trench, that is, they have to brave the bombardment of the Franc machine guns, and the front and sides can also be supplemented with bows and crossbows and firearms, filling the pit for half an hour or even an hour, and the soldiers who are blocked in front of the trench will not die, but will almost be disabled.

This was just a line of defense, and if it was filled from the bottom of the mountain to the bottom of the wall, the loss would be much greater than Ismaine could have imagined.

Yismain frowned and asked, "How do you plan to fight this battle?" ”

Wu Licha didn't even think about it, and clenched his fists: "Lead the soldiers and horses, just rush forward and kill the Ming army without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

"Don't leave a piece of armor? Can you get closer? Have you observed the deep ditches dug by the Ming army? The two horses fell into it and saw the bottom...... Our adversaries have not rested for the past few days, and many of the trenches have been markedly deepened and widened, and I see that there are signs of moving earth in those clearings, and that there must be a large amount of gunpowder buried. ”

Yi Si Ma Yin didn't understand why Shen Xi's ability to dig ditches was so strong.

In the previous two sieges, although there was a ravine outside the city, it was still possible to throw logs and sandbags and build planks and ladders to pass through, but this time he turned back, and found that the ditch was almost one zhang five feet wide and one zhang deep. With a trench of such width and depth, the amount of material required to fill a road is staggering!

Wu Licha said: "National teacher, please rest assured, the last general will definitely live up to his mission!" ”

Yi Si Ma Yin sighed, a little disappointed in his heart, and said lonely: "Wu Licha, sometimes you have to use your brains more in battle, don't just rely on the courage of flesh and blood. Well, since you insist, then you now lead a hundred cavalry to the Ming army position for a stroll, and if you still think you can attack when you come back, I will appoint you as the siege striker! ”

"Yes!"

Ulica was quite unimpressed by Yismain's caution, he didn't believe that he would be stumped by the difficulties in front of him, and said secretly in his heart: "Isn't it just a few ditches? I will take people with me, and if I can't pass through on land, I will go along the ditch, or it won't be long before I will rush to the bottom of the city, and then the Ming army will kneel before me and beg for mercy...... Look at me! ”

When Wu Licha led people to the forward positions of the Ming army to investigate, Yi Si Ma Yin looked at the trenches and shook his head and sighed.

"The time and place are favorable, the other party has all the advantages, if it snows a few more times, the water source will not have to worry at all, unless it can survive until the food in the city is cut off, but in that case, I don't know when to wait, it's really nerve-wracking!"

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In the second moment, the sky was dark, and Shen Xi was processing the gathered information in the lobby of the command post.

He sat upright in front of the brazier and from time to time put his hand close to it to keep warm.

This is already the warmest place in the city after the foundry, but Shen Xi still can't bear the cold weather, his hands are basically frozen every day, and he has to go out to inspect the city and defense line during the day to check the output of the arsenal, which is very hard.

This is miserable enough, but God came to add chaos again, and when he came back from outside the city the day before yesterday, Shen Xi was infected with a wind chill and coughed violently from time to time.

"In such an era, if you don't have a good body, don't come out and lead the troops!"

Shen Xi had ginger soup and hot tea next to him, these were the best things in the city, and Yun Liu personally cooked them for him.

Shen Xi knew that he was sick at the wrong time, but he was helpless, at this time he didn't dare to sleep at night, because the night in Tumubao was too cold, and the temperature had dropped to about minus 20 degrees, and it was also this heavy snowfall, he was forced to be unable to, he could only fall asleep during the day, and he only slept for two or three hours a day.

"My lord, the medicinal materials in the city have been broken, and you are sick, so let's drink the ginger soup and hot tea first to warm up your body!" Yun Liu is very careful, she is the kind of person who can spy on intelligence and be a virtuous woman.

At this time, Shen Xi deeply felt the benefits of having a woman around him to take care of.

The more sick he is, the more Shen Xi misses his wife and children in the capital, and the warm hot kang, and even the scolding of the old lady Zhou, have become a kind of beautiful nostalgia.

Shen Xi shook his head and said, "Take it to the infected soldiers, I have a brazier here, and I can still hold on!" ”

Even if he was sick, Shen Xi still cared about the soldiers outside and didn't want to be special.

The soldiers inside and outside the city have been infected with a lot of diseases these days, so that the medicinal materials that were already lacking have been completely exhausted now, and even he, the commander, is sick and there is no cure.

Yun Liu's expression was a little lost, in her opinion, Shen Xi's current performance was purely reckless.

She wanted to persuade a few words, but she knew that she had no right to speak, and when it came to her mouth, she finally forcibly swallowed it.

Yun Liu knew one thing, the reason why Tumu Fort was still strong and not broken by the Tatars was not because of how tight the defense here was, nor because of how brave the soldiers were, but because Shen Xi led the troops to defend it.

If you change people, even if you have more soldiers and horses, it is impossible to defend such a lonely city.

Shen Xi's position in the army, no one can replace him, if Shen Xi falls at this time, then the civil fort is likely to collapse immediately.

Just when Yun Liu took ginger soup and hot tea out of the command post lobby and asked Shen Xi's personal guards to hand over the things to those wounded and sick people, suddenly there was a scout, holding the order flag and running quickly to the gate of the command post, shouting along the way: "Urgent report, the Tartars are attacking the city......"

The voice was like a talisman, and every soldier who heard the news unconsciously lifted his spirits.

What I had been afraid of for many days seemed to happen soon, and not long after the scout entered the gate of the command post, Liu Xu had already heard the news and rushed over, with a few relatives behind him.