"The saint doesn't have that much patience, so we must take Guizhou City in the shortest possible time and take off the head of the thief leader Li Nan!"

Tong Guan gave the theme of this military meeting, which means that no other opinions are allowed, and suggestions can only be made from this general direction.

Just when everyone in the tent was silent, a burly young general clenched his fists and said: "To appease the lord, there will be a plan in the end, I don't know if it is feasible or not." ”

The person who spoke was surnamed Han Shizhong, the word Liangchen, joined the army at the age of eighteen, and had made a lot of military exploits in the Western Army over the years, so Tong Guan would bring them together this time.

Hearing Han Shizhong's words, Tong Guan ordered: "Tell me and listen." ”

"In today's battle, the last general has been carefully observing, the soldiers of the Zhennan Army seem to rely entirely on the advantage of firearms, if it is hand-to-hand combat, they must not be the opponent of our Western Army, so as long as we engage the other party, we have already won half of the victory."

Liu Yanqing sneered: "Who doesn't know what you said, the key is that the Zhennan Army is artillery, grenades and muskets, under this triple attack, how can our army engage the other side?" ”

"Actually, we've all fallen into a misunderstanding." Han Shizhong waved his hand and said: "The Zhennan army is arrayed outside the city today, so we all regard this battle as a field battle, what if we treat this battle as a siege battle now?" ”

"Huh!" Han Shizhong's words really woke up the dreamer, and after hearing it, many generals in the handsome tent suddenly realized it.

At the beginning of today, the Song army relied on its advantage of having 30,000 cavalry, and did not think of attacking the city at all.

After experiencing a painful defeat in the daytime, hearing Han Shizhong's words to break the situation, the brains of these experienced Song generals suddenly became active, if the field position of the Zhennan Army was attacked as a city, then there were many feasible methods.

For example, to deal with the trenches and barbed wire fences of the Zhennan army, the siege cart battering ram can come in handy; The carts and wooden carts that can protect soldiers from the rain of arrows and falling rocks from the towers can also effectively resist enemy firearms.

In addition, there are medium- and long-range weapons such as siege catapults, eight-bull crossbows, and divine arm crossbows, and it can be said that if all these weapons are put into the battlefield, the damage caused by the Zhennan firearms will be greatly weakened.

Most of the generals in the tent were people with real talents and learning, and they quickly formulated new battle plans.

The next day, the Song Dynasty army led by Tong Guan began to build camps and fortifications, waiting for the arrival of the rear siege equipment, and the overall number of Zhennan troops was small, and it was impossible to take the initiative to attack, so the two armies showed a stalemate.

Just after the Great Song army stopped attacking, Li Nan, Tyrion and others found out that something was wrong, and after the flying eagle sent by the Transfigurant Warr to investigate, they soon discovered the movement of the Song army's rear.

Spartacus, who was good at attacking, immediately asked to lead an army to attack the Song army camp after learning of this, but this proposal was rejected by Li Nan and Tyrion without hesitation.

Generally speaking, in offensive and defensive battles, the losses of the attacking side are relatively large, and the Zhennan army only has more than 40,000 people, if it takes the initiative to attack the camp where the opponent's 200,000 people are stationed, even if it is one for two, it will be more than worth the loss.

With Tong Guan, a powerful and important figure, in the nearby state capitals, no official or general dared not give him face. Three days later, a large number of siege equipment arrived outside Guizhou City one after another, and Han Shizhong even led the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry to patrol and protect the road for transporting supplies and equipment, in case the Zhennan Army would send troops to attack.

A few days later, the well-prepared Song army began an even more fierce attack.

Artillery and stone bullets flew in the sky, and wooden carts and mantle carts on the ground covered the advance of the Song army, countless grenades exploded around them, and the sound of musket fire never stopped.

Whenever there are siege equipment in front of the position of the Zhennan army, there will always be several soldiers who are not afraid of death rushing out with explosives bags, exchanging their lives for the stability of the front, and the outside of Guizhou City has become a huge meat grinding ground, day and night, there are soldiers dying here at all times.

Because the main battlefield outside Guizhou was not too big and could not accommodate hundreds of thousands of people at all, in these fierce battles, Liu Yanqing ordered the 170,000 infantry under his command, divided into more than ten batches, to launch a fierce attack on the Zhennan army day and night.

A few days passed, and all the long-range equipment on the Song army's side was basically shattered by the opponent's artillery fire, but the artillery of the Zhennan army, because of repeated shots, a large number of artillery shells exploded, and after both sides lost their long-range attacks, the battle in front of those trenches and barbed wire became more and more tragic.

When another day of fighting was over, Tong Guan couldn't help but be stunned for a long time when he listened to the Song army generals report the results.

Everyone knows that the Zhennan Army has the First Army and the Praetorian Guard Legion directly under Li Nan stationed in Guizhou City this time, and according to the calculation of a legion with a full strength of 20,000 people, that is to say, they have less than 50,000 people.

"As of today, the enemy has probably killed about 7,000 to 10,000 people. Our army went out on the first day of battle, losing 15,000 cavalry, 8,000 infantry on the second day, 12,000 infantry on the third day, and about 15,000 on the fourth day......"

"Don't read it!" Tong Guan, whose face was pale, roared angrily.

The generals who reported the number of battle losses closed their mouths and retreated, and the faces of everyone in the tent became ugly.

Although since ancient times, the battle loss ratio of the besieging side has been very large, but the Zhennan army suffered less than 10,000 casualties, which brought five times the losses to the Song army, and no one can accept such a result.

Han Shizhong, a young general in the Western Army, had warned himself in his heart not to despise these traitors since the first day of fighting, but after these few days of fighting, the performance of the Zhennan Army still shocked him.

Tong Guan really wants to leave this killing quagmire now, because if the current situation continues, I am afraid that the 200,000 troops in his hands will still be here, and when the time comes, not to mention going north to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun and completing the glory of the king, I am afraid that his life will be lost.

"What are we going to do now?" Tong Guan said in disappointment.

There was no joke in the army, and no one dared to answer Tong Guan's question easily, and the silence in the handsome tent was like a cemetery.

Just when Tong Guan was about to be furious, Han Shizhong came out and said: "Lord Tong, now that the iron fences and trenches outside Guizhou City have been filled in by our army, tomorrow I am willing to lead the remaining cavalry to break through their positions, and when the time comes, the army will be pressed, and the rebels can be defeated in one fell swoop!" ”

After these days of fighting, all the Song generals knew the fate of the charge, it was really nine deaths, so the eyes of everyone looking at Han Shizhong were full of admiration and pity.

"Good!" Tong Guan strode in front of Han Shizhong, hammered the iron armor on his body a few times, and praised loudly: "I have a fierce general like Liangchen in the Great Song Dynasty, why worry about not winning this battle?" ”