The soldiers of the Southern Dynasty who defended the city stretched their heads out of the wall and looked down, only to see that the outer wall of the city wall was nailed with dense pedal arrows, the soldiers and generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty may not have seen this thing, but the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty are no strangers to this thing, the Liu Song Dynasty completely inherited the culture, politics and military of the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasty, how could these soldiers of the Southern Dynasty not know things?

The faces of the defenders of the Southern Dynasty changed one by one, and then looked at the tall wells and siege vehicles that were erected in the distance outside the city, and the defenders realized that this was over, the Wei army had so many siege weapons, and there were tens of thousands of troops, and the defenders in the city were only more than a thousand people, and the people would not help them defend the city.

"All the soldiers don't need to panic, it's just death, and they will be a good man again in eighteen years!" The guards cheered at the soldiers.

In the face of death, not everyone can deal with it calmly, as if it were at home, no matter how nice the words are, they can't solve the actual problem, if it is the previous Northern Wei army, these Southern Dynasty generals are not afraid at all, relying on the height and solidity of the city, they are not a problem to guard for five or six days with more than 1,000 people, but this Northern Wei army, at a glance, is different from other Northern Wei armies, not only has a large number of siege equipment, but also has a large number of advanced and retreated, well-trained, well-equipped infantry.

A deputy general was quite worried: "The general is also a clear-eyed person, these Northern Wei troops are not the Northern Wei army we have encountered in the past, the Northern Wei army is almost all cavalry, and now this Northern Wei army has so many infantry, you see them, full of spirit, weapons, armor and shields, you look at the treadmill arrows on the outer wall of the city wall, we are in big trouble this time!" ”

"Yes, the key is that we don't have much equipment to defend the city at all, general, you look at so many wells of them, we can only stare dryly, once these wells are pushed over and shoot arrows at my city wall in a condescending manner, we will all be suppressed and turbulent!" Said another lieutenant.

"General, did you notice just now, their bed crossbows seem to fire quickly, with much shorter intervals than we've seen······"

The guard general's vest was sweating, this was not hot, but panic and nervousness, he was a guard general, he had to suppress the panic in his heart, pretending to be calm and said to the soldiers: "Brothers, I believe you can see that this Northern Wei army is strong, our strength is too thin, but we are not alone, the marshal has sent someone to convey the order, let us hold on for five days, and there will be reinforcements within five days!" ”

As a leading general with some military knowledge, how could he not know that Tan Daoji would not dare to personally lead a large army to confront Zhao Junsheng's main force if he did not take the city of Qizhou Zhishu, which Sima Chuzhi was stationed? Aren't you afraid of being attacked in the back? If only a small number of troops are sent, it will not be able to achieve the purpose of relieving the siege of Linyi City, and it will be just to send them to death, the Northern Wei army will dominate the world with cavalry, and if the Southern Dynasty army does not have a strength advantage, it will be even more difficult to defeat them head-on! Wouldn't sending a small number of troops over to reinforce Linyi City play into Zhao Junsheng's hands and let Zhao Junsheng encircle and send reinforcements?

"If I have a large number of cavalry in the Great Song Dynasty, why should I be afraid of the northern captives?"

The two lieutenants glanced at each other, and their eyes showed helplessness and sighs, but the matter has come to this point, they can only try their best to boost morale, otherwise the morale will collapse before the battle starts, what else to fight? Surrender early.

"Okay, okay, cheer up Lao Tzu, didn't the general say, hold on for five days, and after five days, reinforcements will definitely arrive, and then we will fight with the reinforcements inside and outside, and defeat the northern captives in one fell swoop!" The adjutant general pressed his sword on the city wall to check whether the city defense deployment was in place, and at the same time cheered up the soldiers loudly.

An old soldier said, "General Wu, only you believe this, I don't believe it!" ”

Wu Chengjie scolded angrily: "Old man Huang, if you mess around and disturb the morale of the army, Lao Tzu will behead you!" ”

"Gotta get it, even if the old man didn't say it, please please!"

As he was talking, there was already movement outside the city, the command flag in the Wei army's large array kept waving, and the siege team in front of him slowly moved towards the city wall with neat steps, and many foot soldiers who were moving together carrying siege ladders, pushing siege vehicles and well railings.

"Prepare for battle—" The guard shouted as he drew his sword, and everyone on the walls began to look nervous.

Heavy and neat footsteps trampled on the snow with a deafening tremor, and the whole five thousand infantry, divided into many phalanxes of various sizes, the first of which was undoubtedly the infantry carrying siege ladders.

All the defenders of the Southern Dynasty on the city wall looked at this momentum, their faces turned pale, and their hands holding weapons trembled, this Wei army was completely different from the Wei army that had fought before, an army dominated by cavalry actually trained the infantry into this gang, how terrible is this?

The army finally moved to a stone's throw away from the city wall, and Fu Zhan, who had emerged in the Youzhou army, received special care from Zhao Junsheng and got the opportunity to command the infantry to attack the city.

"The first siege phalanx covers the siege cloud echelon, charge—" Fu Zhan drew his sword and pointed in the direction of the city wall and shouted.

The howling north wind blew away Fu Zhan's words, but the standard-bearer was not lazy, and faithfully typed his order in the flag.

The trumpeters blew the horn of the charge, and the soldiers carrying the siege ladder rushed towards the city wall, holding their shields in one hand and the siege ladder on their shoulders in the other, and shouting: "Rush—"

In addition to the ladders carried by the soldiers, there are also four-wheeled siege ladders, and more than a dozen soldiers push a siege ladder to move forward quickly.

The soldiers of the first siege phalanx tightly guarded the sides of the siege equipment team, protecting the siege equipment in the middle.

Fu Zhan turned his head and looked up at the city wall, looked back again, and ordered: "Siege engines, well railings, archers phalanx, give me -"

The guard saw that the Wei army was within the range of bows and arrows, and immediately ordered: "Archers release arrows!" ”

The bows and arrows on the walls stepped forward to the room on the edge of the battlements to keep at the besieging teams that were charging rapidly, but the besieging teams rushed forward with their shields on their heads.

The team rushed to the edge of the moat, and the soldiers carrying the siege ladder roared one by one, threw the ladders to the other side of the moat, and then jumped off the moat, the moat was already frozen, and the siege soldiers rushed down and slid to the opposite bank, they climbed the moat with their swords in their mouths, and climbed up the moat with their hands and feet against the arrows that kept shooting from their heads, and lifted the siege ladder again and erected it on the city wall.

"Give it to me!" A soldier with a sword in his hand shouted orders to his soldiers.

Some began to climb the ladder, others began to climb upwards with arrows nailed to the city walls, and the siege soldiers who rushed to the city walls attracted all the attention of the defenders on the city walls, and then a large number of baggage soldiers rushed from the rear of the army formation with long gangplanks and laid the gangplanks on the moat.

This wheeled siege ladder and siege vehicle can cross the moat through the gangplank and approach the city wall, the wheeled siege ladder leaned against the city wall in countless shouts and roars, and a team of siege soldiers took weapons and shields and stepped on the pedal to rush directly to the city wall.

"Kill—"

"Die!"

The well railing was also pushed to the edge of the moat, and a group of archers stepped on the staircase treads to the platform at the top of the well railing, and each well fence had an archer tooth master, who carried a war knife and commanded the bows and arrows to release arrows.

"Aim at Lao Tzu at the Southern Dynasty soldiers on the city wall, don't shoot your own people, release arrows!"

The defenders on the walls were suppressed, especially the archers, and the platform at the top of the well railing was much higher than the city walls, and the advantage of condescending arrows was too obvious.

In the Qianjun (in order to distinguish other Wei armies, they will be called Qianjun in the future), Zhao Junsheng wrapped his son tightly with a cloak, only revealing a small head, he turned his head and asked: "Mulan, how long do you think the defenders of Linyi City can hold up?" ”

Hua Mulan said: "I heard that the Liu Song army of the Southern Dynasty is good at defending the city, but our army has an absolute advantage in strength, and there are large siege weapons, even if they are good at defending, they will be defeated, I estimate that they can only support one morning at most!" ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head with a smile and said, "I think they can only last for an hour at most!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said this with a basis and judgment, the defenders of Linyi would not have thought that the heavy snow would freeze the Yellow River last night, so their preparations were not sufficient, and the materials for defending the city were seriously insufficient; secondly, the defenders underestimated the siege combat effectiveness of the cadre army; Third, the cadres had large siege equipment, while the Liu Song army of the Southern Dynasty did not have many weapons to counteract; Fourth, the cadres did not feel comfortable fighting in the ice and snow, and in order to end the battle, they had to attack the city with all their might.

Mulan shook her head: "An hour? It's too short, they're not Wei Jun! ”

"How about a bet?" Zhao Junsheng asked with a smile.

"Bet on what?" Mulan asked.

"If the defenders of the Southern Dynasty can hold out for more than an hour, even if I lose, I will wash your feet tonight; If they don't survive an hour, even if you lose, you'll have to wash my feet! ”

The surrounding generals and staff officials of the army couldn't help but pull the corners of their mouths when they heard Zhao Junsheng put forward such a bet, and everyone wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

Many people slander in their hearts, you are also a king, can you be more majestic in front of women? Can you not be so unserious?

Mulan smiled and agreed: "Okay, I'll bet with you!" ”

On the outer wall of the city wall and on the siege ladder, there are constantly siege soldiers who are shot down by the defenders, but the siege army is too dense, and the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty who were originally good at defending the city have never been subjected to such a dense and intense siege tactics before, and they have been comprehensively suppressed in the long range, only for less than an hour, the defenders can not support it, and a large number of siege soldiers poured onto the city wall to fight to the death with the defenders.

When Mulan saw this posture, she knew that she was doomed.

Sure enough, it took only half an hour for the besieging army to occupy the north gate tower and a large section of the city wall, and the defenders could no longer withstand it at this time, and were defeated and retreated.

"Look, the defenders have surrendered!"