The next day, all the Huainan troops received the news that they might launch a general offensive today, and they made their own preparations early in the morning. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In front of the Huainan Army, Li Chengding's face looked a little nervous, although he tried his best to hide it, Diao Yanneng on the side still saw a little difference.

He walked up and said with a smile: "Brother Li, it's uncertain whether a general attack will be launched today, there's no need to be so nervous!" Besides, you are also the head of a thousand soldiers and horses, and you don't need to fight in person, do you need to be so nervous? ”

Li Chengding's face turned red, and he choked and said, "Who is nervous?" I'm just a little uncomfortable! ”

This time, Yang Wu specially issued an order, and the 3,000 crane control army under his command will also be put into battle today.

Although as Yang Wu's pro-army, its main task is to protect Yang Wu's safety, and killing the enemy in battle is only a secondary task.

However, Yang Wu felt that although the pro-army soldiers were the strongest soldiers in the selected army, if they did not fight for a long time, their combat effectiveness would definitely decline, and eventually they would become useless goods, so how to protect Yang Wu's safety at that time?

In addition, although pro-army generals such as Li Chengding and Diao Yanneng have graduated from military academies, they have no actual combat experience.

These generals must be reused at the time, and it is impossible to be confined to the pro-army for the rest of their lives, so they must be allowed to have actual combat experience.

So this siege Yang Wu decided to put the Crane Control Army into battle as well, at least to maintain their combat effectiveness.

As for Li Chengding, this pampered son, although he has been nurtured by his father since he was a child, and has been on the battlefield many times as a bystander before, it is the first time that he has personally led a thousand troops to participate in the battle, so he will naturally feel nervous.

Diao Yanneng smiled, although he was still young, he had already personally fought with the enemy, so he didn't feel nervous at all at this time, but chatted with Li Chengding without a word to help Li Chengding relieve his nervousness.

A hint of gratitude flashed in Li Chengding's eyes, and in Diao Yanneng's persuasion, his nervousness gradually calmed down.

This time, among the three commanders of the Crane Control Army who went out with the army, in addition to the two of them, another person named Zhong Li, who was the first to follow Yang Wu's old subordinates, and had rich combat experience, this time he will stay in charge of Yang Wu's safety.

Soon, the Huainan Army's Suzhou artillery roared again, and this time the Huainan Army deliberately transported more than 200 Suzhou artillery guns by water from the rear.

After so many days, the Liang army gradually got used to the bombardment of the Huainan army, and every time the Suzhou cannon sounded, the defenders who had stayed on the city wall before rushed down the city wall to hide, leaving only a few people on the city wall to guard.

The city wall of Suzhou is not the camp built by Kang Huaizhen temporarily, so the defenders rely on the protection of the city wall, and the Suzhou artillery bombardment does not bring many casualties to the defenders, but the momentum is very scary, after a few days of bombardment, the morale of the defenders is very low at this time.

"Launch!"

"Keep playing!"

……

On the battlefield, the officers and men who operated the Suzhou artillery kept repeating the process of loading and firing under the command of the officers.

When it was almost noon, only a muffled sound was heard, and then the city wall in front of which had been roared by Suzhou artillery for nearly ten days finally changed, and the masonry and dust continued to peel off, and there was a low roar from inside the city wall.

Yang Wu was overjoyed, and hurriedly rode his horse forward, ready to watch carefully, so frightened that Cheng Xun and other guards on the side hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Yang Wu's horse reins: "Your Highness can't continue to move forward!" ”

Yang Wu didn't pay attention to it at all, the defenders would definitely be aware of such a big movement at this time, so now is the critical moment, and they must compete with the defenders for time.

"Send a signal, let Zhang Xun and Zhou Ben immediately launch a general attack! If you want to attack at any cost, you must contain the enemy army, and you can't let them come for reinforcements! Yang Wu ordered loudly.

Soon, a trained herald began waving a flag in his hand, giving orders to another herald in the distance; The herald then proceeded to deliver orders to those further away......

In just a moment, the order for the general attack was passed into the hands of Zhang Xun and Zhou Ben.

This is the new way of sending orders that Yang Wu has researched, which is not only more secretive and reliable, but also can transmit more information than before, which requires rockets or wolf smoke to transmit messages; However, the disadvantage is that it requires a specially trained herald to do so.

After receiving the order, Zhou Ben and Zhang Xun immediately knew that Yang Wu's side had reached a critical time, and whether the Northern Expedition would succeed or fail this time was at this last moment, so the two did not hesitate to order their subordinates to start a strong attack.

On Yang Wu's side, as the Suzhou cannon continued to roar, the movement of the already crumbling city wall became louder and louder; The defenders of the city had apparently discovered the imminent collapse of the city walls and began to scramble.

After another quarter of an hour, with a loud bang, the walls collapsed in front of him, raising a large cloud of dust.

"Attack! The divisions are attacking immediately! Yang Wu pulled out the sword in his hand and slashed it forward.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

The officers and men of the Huainan Army, who reacted quickly, immediately launched a tidal attack.

This is the moment of the general attack, but also the moment of decisive victory, which has long been pushed to the highest morale by successive victories, and the officers and men of the Huainan Army have burst out with the most powerful combat effectiveness.

The defenders in the city were already demoralized by the Suzhou artillery bombardment, and at this time, seeing the city wall falling, everyone felt that the general trend had gone, except for a few people who were still insisting on resisting, most of the rest began to flee for their lives.

"What? Has the walls of the West City collapsed? When he received the news, Kou Yanqing was leading 5,000 people to prepare to reinforce Xicheng, who knew that he received the news halfway, and he suddenly felt cold.

"The Huainan army has entered the city, and they all seem to be crazy, and their edges are unstoppable! General, our army is gone, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the enemy army has not yet entered the city in a big way, and quickly break out from the north of the city! The generals proposed.

"Ridiculous! Our army still has more than 20,000 people, and no matter how strong the Huainan army is, it is impossible to break through the city at once! Now it's just a gap in the city wall, and you will go back with the generals and drive the Huainan army out of the city! Kou Yanqing said angrily.

There is only a small gap in the city wall, and the number of Huainan troops entering the city at this time is definitely not large, and if a counterattack is launched at this time, there is still hope to drive the enemy out.

And once they succeed in doing this, then the Huainan army will definitely be demoralized, and at this moment when the Liang army reinforcements are about to arrive, they will most likely withdraw their troops back, and he will also achieve the final victory in this siege battle.

However, to his disappointment, when he heard that he was going to return to launch a counterattack and drive the Huainan army out of the city, the generals were all like dirt: "The general can't!" The Huainan army is strong, and it has already entered the city at this time, how can our army drive them out? It's better to run for your life as soon as possible! ”

At this time, Kou Yanqing's shortcomings of being temporarily appointed as the defender of Suzhou were revealed, if Kang Huaizhen was here to defend the city and he gave the order to counterattack, these generals would definitely not dare to hesitate.

But he was only temporarily appointed by Zhu Quanzhong to guard Suzhou, and his reputation in the Liang army was not obvious before, so this majesty was insufficient, so the generals dared to question his orders.

Just when Kou Yanqing wanted to get angry, a large group of rout soldiers came in front of him, and the leading general said after seeing Kou Yanqing: "General, the West City Gate has been lost, the defenders of the West City have been completely dispersed, and the Huainan Army has entered the city in a big way!" ”

Now there is no need for the generals to persuade him, Kou Yanqing also understands that the general trend has really gone, even the city gate has been lost, and the Huainan army has entered the city in a big way, in this case, it is basically impossible to drive them out again.

"Breakout! Immediately break through to the north of the city, and then go to Xuzhou! ”

Under the personal leadership of Kou Yanqing, the defenders began to break through from the north of the city, which was not surrounded by the Huainan army.

By the afternoon, the entire Suzhou finally fell into the hands of the Huainan army, and finally more than 10,000 Liang troops broke through, leaving nearly 10,000 people who were basically prisoners of the Huainan army.

"Suzhou, it's finally down!" Outside the city, after hearing the news that the overall situation had been decided, Yang Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This city, his father Yang Xingmi, has sent troops to fight for this city many times, but in the end it failed again and again, and Yang Xingmi's dream of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains was also shattered here.

But today, the city has finally fallen into his hands!

"After the order goes down, after entering the city, the various departments immediately begin to repair the city wall and restore the city defense facilities! Tell Zhu Jing that from now on he will be the real history of Suzhou Thorn! Yang Wu ordered loudly.

At the beginning of the battle of Wangjiadu, Zhu Jing made great contributions and was appointed by Yang Wu as the assassin of Suzhou, but at that time Suzhou was still in the hands of the Liang army, so Zhu Jing originally thought it was just a false position, but he didn't expect that it was only a little more than a month, and Suzhou was really taken down by the Huainan army.

Yang Wu was happy to take Suzhou, however, Guo Chongtao on the side still had a different opinion: "Your Highness, after taking this city, Your Highness's best choice is to retreat to the south of the Huai River, relying on the already solid defense line there to resist Zhu Quanzhong." If His Royal Highness is reluctant to give up this city, then he will definitely fight with Zhu Quanzhong next, which is not conducive to the overall policy of first south and then north! ”

Yang Wu smiled and said in a deep voice: "Maybe your point of view is right, but Suzhou's location is prominent, even if it is to prepare for the Northern Expedition in the future, Gu must try to protect it to the end!" Even if he fights with the Liang army for this, he will not hesitate! ”

At this time, Zhang Xun came to report: "Your Highness, our army has captured more than 10,000 prisoners, how to deal with these people, please show your Highness!" ”

"Those soldiers whose families are in Suzhou City, let Zhu Jing incorporate them as Suzhou defenders, and bring these people's families back to Huainan to settle down! As for those whose families are not in the city, they will all be sent to Shengzhou to repair the city wall! ”

A large number of captives captured in Haozhou were eventually sent to Shengzhou to repair the city wall, and with these free laborers, the construction speed of the Shengzhou city wall has been accelerated a lot.

(Thank you for the commuter pass!) ）