Chief Su snorted coldly and stopped talking. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Luo Ren said: "Let's arrange a big tent for you." ”

Lu Yuan said, "I'm not busy." Then he took the telescope out of the tent, looked at the city head, which was very bright with torches, and said, "Have you arranged for someone to attack the city wall tonight?" ”

Chief Su sneered and said, "No." Xie Cheng is a general, and he will not be unable to guard against this, and the sneak attack on the city wall is just to let the soldiers die in vain. ”

Lu Yuan turned his head to him and said, "You're stalling for time." ”

The people next to him didn't understand what Lu Yuan's 'delaying time' meant for a while, but Chief Su immediately understood. But he didn't speak, just stared at Lu Yuan.

The two confronted each other for a while, and Lu Yuan suddenly smiled: "I thought it was wrong." Brother Su has always been the best for his son, how can he delay time? ”

Then Lu Yuan continued: "There is no need to set up another tent, I will just squeeze and sleep in the same tent with Chief Su tonight." ”

Of course, Chief Su was reluctant to sleep in a tent with Lu Yuan, but as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he saw Chief Su turn his head and stare at him with his eyes of unknown meaning, so he opened his mouth, and finally did not say anything.

Early the next morning, after dawn, Chief Su woke up all the soldiers and asked the cooks to bury the pot and cook; After most of the soldiers had eaten enough, the Su chieftain organized soldiers to begin to attack the city.

Xie Cheng naturally had already prepared, he had prepared a lot of rolling wood and stones, rocket cannons, and also prepared a cauldron to start cooking oil at any time.

At this time, although it was already the eve of the rise of thermal weapons, the mode of siege warfare had not changed much from the previous millennia, because the accuracy of the cannon was very poor and the power was limited, so except for the situation where the blind cat met the dead mouse and killed the opponent's main general, the role of the cannon was limited, especially when the defending side also had cannons.

But Xie Cheng was still a little caught off guard at first. He had never defended a city before, and he had never encountered a situation where the opponent used artillery, so he had no experience in dealing with such a situation.

Xie Cheng cautiously immediately ordered the east gate to be completely blocked to prevent them from using artillery to attack the city gate, and then ordered the artillery on the city head to bombard the rebel camp below the city.

The rebels marched all the way from Qingzhou, and they only had light artillery in their hands, at most two or three hundred catties of artillery. At first, the rebels risked the bombardment of the gunpowder and bombarded the walls at a distance, and then pushed closer to bombard.

Because of the close distance, Xie Cheng let the artillery counterattack, and successfully hit it twice, blowing up three cannons of the rebels.

This made Chief Su feel distressed. They only brought a total of twelve cannons, although they were also ready to destroy all of them under the city of Jinan, but now there is no progress in the siege of the city, if the cannons are destroyed, there will be nothing that threatens the city.

Chief Su said to Lu Yuan: "Don't use artillery bombardment. There are already more cannons in Jinan City than ours, and the power is also great, and if we continue to bombard, I am afraid that there will be no one left. ”

Lu Yuan looked at it with a telescope for a while, although he didn't care about the loss, but now a soldier who climbed to the top of the city did not continue to bombard, but he lost the cannon in vain, so he nodded and agreed to withdraw the cannon. But the siege continued.

But how could a siege that was barely covered by artillery be successful? The rebels fought from morning to almost dark, although a few soldiers touched the city, but the defenders of Jinan City reacted very quickly, and immediately plugged the loopholes, so that the rebels returned in vain all day today.

The next day was the same, two days before and after, the rebels had a total of more than 6,000 casualties, including more than 5,000 killed and seriously injured and disabled, basically could not be saved, only 1,000 lightly wounded people could be saved, but because there were not many doctors, if they were accidentally infected, they would not be able to save them.

At this time, although everyone didn't say anything in their hearts, they were all grateful for the military medical system established by Yun Xi. Every year, hundreds of people graduate from the medical hall in the capital and then fill in the various health centers across the country, and there are now more than a dozen military doctors in the three guards of Qi Wang. It relied on these dozen or so military doctors, plus the medicinal materials stored by King Qi, to ensure the treatment of the army's injuries and illnesses.

Luo Ren knew that although the generals didn't care much about the military doctors, the military doctors had a great influence among the soldiers, especially since the beginning of this war, no matter what, everyone was polite to the military doctors.

Luo Ren was thinking about it, when suddenly a soldier ran in and said, "My lord, reinforcements are coming from the east gate of Jinan." It looks like a guard's soldier, playing the banner of Pingshan Wei. ”

Luo Ren glanced at Lu Yuan and said: "Lu Yuan, we have been attacking the city for two days, and the casualties are so good, and now that reinforcements are coming, I am afraid that we will not be able to defeat Jinan City." And with more and more reinforcements, there is also the danger of annihilation. ”

"So, it's better to retreat. At least send troops to occupy Zhangqiu County first, and ensure the road back to Qingzhou. Otherwise, the troops coming from Jiyang, Qidong and other places would easily cut off our back route. ”

Lu Yuan clenched his hands hard, and his not long nails pierced into his palms. He is not a person who is completely ignorant of soldiers, and knows that Luo Ren is telling the truth. To the east, with the arrival of Pingshanwei, there must be more and more reinforcements, and they will soon be able to surpass the strength they have now.

When it comes to commanding battles, although Luo Ren and Su Sheikh have the potential to be praised by the meritorious generals, Xie Cheng himself is one of the meritorious generals and has rich experience, and most of them can't beat Xie Cheng with the same strength, not to mention the small number of troops.

What's more, they are now demoralized, and once the back road is cut off, then the collapse of the whole army is possible.

So now it's time to retreat.

However, Lu Yuan roared angrily in his heart: 'Could it be that this rebellion that I have finally launched will be over in less than a month!' I struggled to survive for less than a month! ’

From Luo Ren's point of view, Lu Yuan's eyes were red, there were dark circles around his eyes, and he was dressed in black, coupled with his distorted expression at this time, it was like black impermanence.

However, Luo Ren was not afraid at all, and even felt a little relieved. He has really suffered a lot in the past few days, although sometimes he wants to live, but most of the time he thinks about dying early and taking care of his life, but because all his sons are under the control of Lu Yuan, he doesn't dare to act rashly.

At this time, he was even looking forward to the whole army staying here until the whole army was annihilated, and then after the news was transmitted back to Qingzhou, Qingzhou was in chaos, maybe some of his sons could take advantage of the chaos to escape and survive.

Especially his eldest son, Luo Yi, has a marriage contract with the daughter of Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, if both of them can escape, the court will probably not do anything with his eldest son. The rest of the sons are not easy to say, and they may be executed by the imperial court.

Luo Ren was thinking about how many of his sons would survive after the rebellion was put down, when Lu Yuan thought about it and said, "Then the whole army will retreat." He finally decided to retreat.