Things were as Ling Xia expected, as soon as he returned to the camp in Beicheng, Yoshio Yamamoto began to divide his troops, the fire in the city burned for two days and one night, and one-third of the eastern city was burned down, although the city was burned, but the battle guards who defended the city seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no trace of it.

I thought that the battle guards had given up resistance and fled, but when they just wanted to march inland along the Dongcheng defense area, two legions appeared on the way to sneak attack from behind, if it weren't for the large number of people on the island country's side, the convoy responsible for logistics and supply was robbed, although it was found in time, the battle guards immediately withdrew, but the island country still lost twenty tents.

After this incident, Yoshio Yamamoto did not dare to rush forward, if he led his troops to attack the inland, the defense army behind combined with the troops of the surrounding provinces to encircle and suppress, at that time, under the combination of the inside and the outside, his group army would not be eaten by the other party, for the sake of safety, he immediately withdrew the army and stationed near the gate of the east city.

Yoshio Yamamoto is also a wise general, in addition to being able to fight well, this person's strategy is also very powerful, seeing that the battle guards were not burned out after two days of arson, he instantly saw through the intention of the war guards to fight a protracted war, so he called back the soldiers who planned to continue to set fires.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of those generals, Yoshio Yamamoto told the other party that there was no point in setting fire to the ground now, even if the entire city was burned to ashes, it would be useless, their task was to conquer Ontario, not to play hide and seek with the soldiers defending the city, if they wasted all their time burning houses, they would not be able to complete the military order of the commander of the Nakajima Corps.

After explaining the reason, Yoshio Yamamoto appointed five army commanders and asked them to stay in Dongcheng to pursue the battle guards defending the city, while he led the other five army commanders to Beicheng, as long as they broke through the gate of Beicheng and wiped out the battle guards defending the city, the army could cut inland from Beicheng and support the army to fight the enemy on the side.

After gathering all the people, bringing enough supplies, and arranging the task, Yoshio Yamamoto left five legions to continue to pursue the Dongcheng Battle Guard, while he led the other five legions to the next door to crusade against Beicheng, according to Yamamoto Yoshio's idea, since there are two legions in Dongcheng, there must be only one legion in Beicheng, and one legion on the other side, after he goes, he must be captured.

Although the idea is good, but when Yoshio Yamamoto led five legions to the northern city quickly, looking at the towering and mighty city wall in front of him, he was suddenly a little dumbfounded, he had been marching and fighting for so long, he had never seen such a configuration of the defense system, and looked at the densely arranged arrow towers on the city wall, his scalp was faintly numb.

At this time, the two armies besieging and defending the city were observing each other, the sky was gradually darkening, and there was a tense and solemn atmosphere in the air.

"The siege corps is out of the ranks, on the catapults, first destroyed those arrow towers, everyone is staring at the opposite side, if the soldiers above withdraw, let's stop the attack quickly, don't be like last time as if you have to lose money and make money, waste so many precious stone bullets and crossbow arrows, and finally not even a fly hit, we must not repeat the mistakes of the past." Yoshio Yamamoto ordered.

"Honoring the military order." In response, the siege corps of the island nation took the lead, and they broke the previous stalemate and took the initiative to launch an offensive.

Above the city wall, Huya saw the soldiers on the opposite side slowly pull out six hundred catapults, and he immediately reported to Ling Xia behind him: "Division commander, the other side is really using catapults as a vanguard, and at this moment they are advancing to the front, what should we do?" Do you want to warn the other side with the catapult last time and force the opponent's catapult army to retreat? ”

At this time, Ling Xia, Jiang Hailiu and the others were all standing on the city wall, looking at the five legion phalanxes on the opposite side, as well as the soldiers who were pushing the catapults towards the front of the city wall, he said lightly: "This time we have to change our moves, I have seen the enemy's siege team in Dongcheng before, and they have more than 600 catapults on their side. ”

"We don't need a catapult, so what do we do?" Sima Chenfeng looked at the catapults that were getting closer and closer under the city, and his face was a little worried: "The enemy is about to push into the range of the catapults, if we don't use the catapults to counterattack now, and when the enemy arranges the catapults from the range, we won't have a chance to counterattack." ”

"If there is no chance, let's find a way to create it." When the words fell, Ling Xia shouted at Elder Luo: "Go, drag all those captives over, they have eaten so much of our food, and they should also make some contributions to us, after coming up, let the captives stand in a row on the city wall, remember one thing, when queuing up, be even, and plug their mouths by the way."

There are 110,000 captives on the city wall, if they dare to use catapults, they will be the first to encounter these captives, and put Yasuo Miyano and several senior generals in a conspicuous position, I really want to see, in the face of this situation, how will the opposite general choose? Kill all these captives? Or do you feel sorry for the captured soldiers and give up the forcible siege? ”

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"Your Excellency the Chief Soldier, no, the other party drove a group of people wearing imperial uniforms to the city wall, the soldiers identified them, and found that those were all imperial soldiers, and some of them were still the number one troops under our command, before they mysteriously disappeared before, they all thought that they had sacrificed their jade, but they didn't expect them to be captured by the enemy." The adjutant general reports.

Hearing the words of the adjutant general, Yoshio Yamamoto glared at him with a gloomy face: "I have my own eyes, can't I see for myself, the one directly above the city gate is Yasuo Miyano, and the one next to him is Saburo Koizumi, Suga Wei Changlong, and a few other people are also very familiar, even if they are not the generals under my command, they should have met before."

The commander of the battle guard is so despicable that he even uses our prisoners of war as a meat shield, if the catapult continues to attack the city, the first batch to be stoned to death must be those prisoners, if the military department and the people of the empire learn that we have killed 110,000 of our own people with our own hands, even if we win the war, we will be punished. ”

After hearing this, the adjutant general said carefully: "There is a sentence, the last general doesn't know whether to say it or not, in addition to the military department's punishment, I am worried that our soldiers will also leave a psychological barrier, they are all soldiers, and anyone may be captured by the enemy, if the soldiers see us treat their captured soldiers like this, I am afraid that they will be cold, what now?" Still not attacking the city? ”

"You've said everything you need to say and shouldn't say, now I don't know what to do?" Yoshio Yamamoto showed a hint of depression on his face.