After the night military discussion, Zhao Junsheng wanted to ask Hua Mulan about the progress of the war against the surrounding cities, but his son asked him to play and talk with him, so he had to play with his son.

When he put his son to sleep, Zhao Junsheng found an opportunity to talk to Mulan about the war against the surrounding cities.

Hua Mulan saw Zhao Junsheng asking, and said: "I was about to tell you about this matter in the afternoon, except for a few cities that were beyond the reach of the whip chief and were within the attack range of the Tan Daoji army, the others were captured by our army!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was surprised: "It's only been a few days, so fast?" ”

Hua Mulan said: "Divide the troops to attack, and it is not one by one, of course it is much faster, and you can capture two or three cities in one day, can you not be happy?" ”

"Not to mention that your incentive method is still very effective for the commanders and generals below, it is worthy of praise!" Zhao Junsheng praised with a smile.

"Don't just pay lip service, come something practical, what will you get rewarded?" Mulan said as she stretched out her hand.

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said, "Okay, but you close your eyes first!" ”

"Hey, you're so mysterious, are you prepared?" Mulan said, her eyes still closed.

Zhao Junsheng quickly leaned over and took a sip, Hua Mulan was suddenly attacked, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Zhao Junsheng's face close at hand, and said coquettishly: "What are you doing?" That's the reward you're talking about, how do I feel that this is not a reward, but being taken advantage of? ”

Zhao Junsheng took out a golden step and shook it like a trick, "Here!" ”

Hua Mulan took it and looked at it, and there was a shiny bead inlaid on the golden step, but the bead was not round, but a polygonal sphere, which was translucent and water-blue.

Mulan asked, "Why haven't I seen this gem?" It's not a pearl, and it doesn't seem to be inside a jadeite jade."

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "This gemstone is called diamond, and it is said to come from the far west. This aqua blue diamond is an extremely rare variety of diamonds, and polishing it into this shape is not an easy task, only the best lapidologists have this kind of craftsmanship, and it takes a long time! ”

"Where did it come from?" Mulan likes it very much, and she can't put it down in her hand.

Zhao Junsheng sighed in his heart, it turns out that there is no woman who doesn't like gemstones, and Mulan is no exception, he said: "I bought it in a jewelry store in Licheng, and after I bought it, I forgot to give it to you because there were too many things, let me bring it to you?" ”

"Okay!" Hua Mulan handed the diamond-encrusted Jin Bu Shao to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng took it and put it on the top of Mulan's head, took a step back and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Yes, it's even more beautiful to wear this!" ”

"It's all nonsense, it's all children, what kind of beauty do you say!" Mulan's face showed shyness.

"You will always be so beautiful in my heart!" Zhao Junsheng said and hugged Mulan in his arms.

Hua Mulan remembered something and asked, "By the way, the surrounding cities have been captured by our army, do the soldiers and horses sent out have to be withdrawn?" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said: "If we want to carry out the occupation, we must not withdraw all of it, and we must leave a part of the troops to garrison!" I thought about it for a while, our main conquest force should not be wasted on garrisoning, or according to the practice in Qizhou, each county town should take the surrendered or captured county soldiers as the main garrison force, our army will send a tooth of troops to supervise the town, and each county town will be increased to a single building of troops to garrison, and the captured and surrendered county soldiers will still be the main defense force. Don't withdraw the vacated troops for the time being, let's talk about it after we take Linzi City, and temporarily stay in the cities to increase deterrence, so as not to let some people take the opportunity to turn back again! ”

Mulan's brows furrowed slightly: "Isn't it too thin for a county to have only one tooth left?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "It's a lot, we have taken so many cities here in Qizhou and Qingzhou at such a fast speed, the deterrent effect of the military and civilians everywhere has been demonstrated, the officials, generals, soldiers and gentlemen who surrendered everywhere have a fear of our soldiers, and the strength of a county town with a tooth is only enough to deter those people, and you must know that to make those officials and soldiers obey orders is not only to rely on force to deter, the promise of power and interests can make them bow down to orders, and even desperately maintain our rule!" ”

"Okay, tomorrow I'll order them to stay on standby for the time being!"

The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, the main force of the cadre army came to the city again and opened a military formation, and the guards on the city wall, Xue Tong, the deputy general, and the soldiers of Liu Song's army were already waiting for them.

The adjutant general said to Xue Tong: "General, the trebuchet of the cadre army is too powerful, once they launch stones, we can only hide at the foot of the city wall, otherwise we will suffer heavy losses, if they take the opportunity to attack the city, we can't react for a while, and they will be in great trouble if they climb the city wall by their brigade of soldiers!" If you continue to defend like this, the last general will feel that sooner or later something will go wrong! ”

Xue Tong has aged a lot in the past few days, lost a lot of weight, and has deep wrinkles on his forehead, he asked, "What can you do?" ”

The adjutant general said: "We must send people out of the city to destroy all the trebuchets of the cadres, this trebuchet is no different than other siege equipment, the wood used in it must be dried, it will take a long time to completely dry the wood, as long as we can destroy their trebuchets, they will not be able to build them in a short time!" ”

Xue Tong shook his head: "How can I not understand what you said?" Now there are 50,000 or 60,000 troops outside the city, and even if the people who go out of the city can destroy their trebuchets, they will definitely have no return! ”

"So what else can we do now? There was no other way than to send cavalry out of the city and destroy their trebuchets! It's a pity that our walls are not wide enough, otherwise we would have put trebuchets on the walls and fired stone bullets outside the city to kill them! ”

Xue Tong gritted his teeth and said to the adjutant general: "Order the thousand cavalry to prepare, Ben will take them out of the city to destroy the Qianjun trebuchet, after Ben will leave, you will be responsible for commanding and defending the city, if Ben will not come back······ You are the defender of Linzi City! ”

The deputy general held down Xue Tong: "No, general, you are the main general, how can there be any reason to let the main general charge into battle?" The remaining thousands of soldiers in the city can't do without you, let the last general go, if the last general can't come back, if the general can survive this battle, he will have the opportunity to go home to visit his mother on behalf of the last general in the future, please! ”

Xue Tong gritted his teeth and forcibly endured not to let himself drip mouse urine, and reached out and patted the deputy general's shoulder: "Okay!" If you can't come back, I will take care of your old mother as my own mother!" ”

"Thank you, General, the last general will go!" The lieutenant clenched his fists, turned around and ran down the tower.

Xue Tong thought about it for a while and found a general to order: "Send someone to remove the door panels of some houses in the city and carry them to the city wall, although it is not absolute insurance to use the door panels to resist the attack of the stone rain, but there is always a layer of protection, which is stronger than a shield!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Soon the drawbridge was lowered, the gates opened, and the adjutant general rushed out with a thousand cavalry, while some of the generals also carried pieces of door panels on their backs.

Outside the city, the cadres and troops are in formation.

"Hey, Liu Songjun actually had the courage to go out of the city, and he sent cavalry?" Zhao Junsheng was surprised.

Gao Xu's face changed, and he immediately said, "King, I'm afraid they're just here to destroy our siege equipment!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was stunned when he heard this, "Hahaha······ He wants to break into my army of tens of thousands and destroy my siege engines with a thousand light horsemen? Command the troops, let them in, and the armies form a formation and cooperate with each other to trap them in the formation! ”

"Yes!"

"Woo-woo-woo-" The horn sounded, and the cadres and soldiers quickly moved when they heard the horn and saw the flag unfurled by the heralds.

At this time, the sound of drums was also heard on the city walls, which was the drum that inspired the thousand cavalry who had left the city, and the cavalry attack brought a large splash of earth and grass clippings.

The banners of the cadres were waving in the formation, and the soldiers moved quickly to change formations, and the 1,000 Liu Song cavalry who rushed into the formation soon lost their direction in the military formation.

Xue Tong, who was on the city wall, saw that his face changed greatly, and exclaimed: "It's not good, Lei Zhen and they are trapped in the formation!" ”

Xue Tong knew that his lieutenant general and the thousand cavalry were finished, not only did he not destroy the trebuchet of the cadre army, but he was also trapped in the cadre army's array, and it was impossible to send someone to rescue the thousand cavalry, the entire Linzi City was just a thousand cavalry, what to save it? Sending the infantry out of the city is no different from sending them to their deaths.

More than half an hour passed, and all the 1,000 Liu Song cavalry trapped in the formation were there, none of them were left, no one surrendered, and Xue Tong's deputy general Lei Zhen was beheaded by the captain.

Zhao Junsheng beat his horse and walked into the encirclement and looked at the corpses and armor banners all over the ground, none of these Liu Song soldiers of the Southern Dynasty surrendered, all of them fought to death, and ordered: "They are all warriors, bury them!" ”

Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, no matter which dynasty, no matter friend or foe, all respect warriors, even treacherous and vicious people.

"Yes, King!"

Zhao Junsheng turned his head to look at the direction of the city wall, and ordered Gao Xu: "It's not too early, let's start attacking the city!" ”

"Yes!"

After Gao Xu agreed, he began to give orders to the catapult crew, and first fired stone bullets at the city wall again with heavy stone projectiles.

Heavy stone bullets flew into the sky and landed in the city or outside the city or at the head of the city with a thunderous momentum, smashing out big craters, which frightened the soldiers and civilians in the city and screamed and fled in all directions to avoid the stone bullets.

The outer walls and walls of the city walls were also patronized by heavy stone shells, and the outer walls were smashed out of potholes, and a large number of wall bricks were smashed into debris and fell to the ground.

On the head of the city, there are soldiers who were smashed into meatloaf, and the smashed gravel is scattered and splashed in all directions, so that many soldiers are in their hands, after the stone bomb attack the day before, the defenders have adapted a little, although these heavy stone bullets are terrible, the probability of being hit is not large, as long as they are not hit or impacted head-on, the possibility of death is very small, at most they are only injured by gravel shooting.

The defenders had been worried that the rain of stone bullets had finally arrived, and the dense stones were falling from the sky, "bang bang bang ·····" The defenders pressed the door panel above their heads, and the dense stones made a loud noise.

The wooden tough and thick door panel can still withstand it, but if it is attacked many times, I am afraid that the door panel will not be broken, and the soldiers below will also be shocked to death, and some thin door panels will be smashed through on the spot, and the soldiers below will be smashed to death and injured.