Under the city of Hangzhou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the Huainan army successfully built a wall along the city wall a few days ago, completely surrounding the defenders of Hangzhou, they began to gradually seize the initiative, soldiers from behind the wall constantly shot arrows with bows and crossbows, and fired boulders with Suzhou cannons to suppress the defenders in the city and cover the siege of the city.

However, behind this wall is the loss of nearly 10,000 people and thousands of soldiers, such a heavy loss, can be said to be the heaviest since Yang Wu commanded the army to fight, plus it is now the hottest time in July, soldiers and people under the scorching sun to attack the city and build the wall, one by one complaining. Those conscripted people wailed all over the field, like mourning and examining; Even in the army there was a lot of anti-war sentiment.

But Yang Wu was still unmoved and insisted on continuing to attack the city; After all, if he could take Hangzhou before Zhu Quanzhong went south, it would naturally be the best thing; In that case, at least without risking the possible loss of the northern line.

However, judging from the current situation, it is still very difficult to break through Hangzhou, unless the Huainan army really carries out a fierce attack regardless of casualties.

Cao Gui in the city is worthy of being a famous defensive player, and during this time, he perfectly showed Yang Wu various skills in defense.

The smooth defense made the Huainan army, which had an absolute superiority in strength, have to spend a huge price to climb the city wall every time they attacked the city.

However, climbing the city wall does not mean that the city is broken, on the contrary, at this time, Yang Wu has to admire Cao Gui's reasonable deployment of troops.

Because the Huainan army had the advantage of troops, and built walls, towers and other facilities outside the city to suppress the defenders, Cao Gui did not choose to fight the Huainan army on the city wall, but adopted more flexible tactics.

He dug a number of caves behind the walls to protect them from boulder bombardment, and placed a large number of reserves in them, replacing them whenever the defenders on the walls began to get tired to maintain the physical strength and morale of the defenders.

And when the Huainan army rushed to the city wall at a huge cost, these reserves took on the task of repelling the enemy in time. Under the command of Cao Gui, they were always able to enter the battle at the most opportune time to drive down the Huainan army that had climbed the city walls.

Even sometimes in the critical situation when the Huainan army rushed to the city wall on a large scale, Cao Gui would use Suzhou artillery and fierce fire oil to bombard the enemy and us on the city wall indiscriminately, so as to block the possibility of the Huainan army breaking the city, causing huge casualties to the Huainan army besieging the city.

So by the middle of July, even Yang Wu couldn't help but feel frustrated, feeling that the price to be paid if he wanted to break the city by storming the city was too great, so big that the Huainan army was completely unbearable.

On this day, with the sound of gold, the Huainan army, which failed to attack the city again, retreated like a tide.

This day's siege battle was the largest siege launched by Yang Wu in recent times, not only on Yang Wu's side in the north of the city, but also on Li Shenfu's side launched the most fierce attack on this day, and 60,000 troops were invested in one time.

Because they had tried to dig tunnels under the city walls before, but just as Yang Wu had predicted before the war, the Huainan army had just begun to dig tunnels, and the defenders judged the direction of tunnel excavation through "listening", so as to build Weng City in advance, and at the same time excavated in the direction of the outside of the city in the city, and destroyed the tunnels of the Huainan army by irrigating water.

So this time, Yang Wu did not continue to choose to dig tunnels, but directly dug the foot of the wall, trying to exchange speed for the possibility of breakthrough.

In order to be as successful as possible, Yang ordered the excavation to start at the same time from multiple locations and blast at multiple places at the same time.

In the face of this large-scale attack, the relatively under-armed Hangzhou defenders did have some defensive loopholes, and even two of the five gaps blown up were broken through by the Huainan army.

However, at the critical moment, Sima Fu, Bao Junfu, Qian Chuanying and other generals swore to fight to the death, and even drove out the Huainan army that broke into the city, and then the soldiers of both sides fought a bloody battle around the narrow area at the gap.

The strength advantage of the Huainan side could not be brought into play at all, and the Suzhou artillery covering the rear could only stop in order to avoid accidental damage; As a result, by the time it was getting dark, the defenders had built several walls and re-sealed the gaps that had been blown up.

Since then, this large-scale siege of Huainan has failed again after paying heavy casualties.

On a high hill outside the city, Yang Wulema stood quietly, overlooking the once crumbling city of Hangzhou not far away, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

In the most critical moment before, this city was like a lonely boat in the stormy waves, and it seemed that it could be overturned at any time, and even Yang Wu saw the hope of breaking the city, but in the end the defenders withstood the attack of the Huainan army.

This city has now become a tireless meat grinder, constantly harvesting human lives.

Since the beginning of the war, nearly 10,000 soldiers have been killed on the Huainan side, and more than 20,000 have been wounded; And this is only the loss of the army, and the loss of the people is also not small. In this case, even Qin Pei and other generals in the army couldn't stand it anymore, and they all proposed to take a temporary break.

Do you want to continue the assault? Yang Wu shook his head in his heart.

A year ago, Zhu Quanzhong's army of more than 100,000 attacked Fengxiang, but in the end, Li Maozhen had no choice but to force him to hand over the Son of Heaven and withdraw the army.

In history, after Zhou Shizong Chai Rong drove the expedition in person, attacked Shouzhou City, and requisitioned hundreds of thousands of people in Songzhou, Chenzhou, Xuzhou, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Caizhou and other places, and launched a fierce attack day and night, but he was always helpless to Shouzhou City. In the end, it was more than a year later that Liu Renzhan, the defender of Shouzhou, was seriously ill, and his generals took the initiative to surrender, so they took the fortified city of Shouzhou.

In the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun, the defender of Suiyang, with thousands of defenders, faced a rebel army of more than 200,000 at most, and held the lonely city for ten months before finally falling.

In addition, there are the Battle of Jinyang during the Warring States Period, the Battle of Handan, the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Battle of Diaoyu City during the Song Dynasty, the Battle of Xiangyang, etc., all of which tell Yang Wu that the siege war is the most time-consuming and the most tragic.

Perhaps now the Huainan army has gunpowder to blow up the city, and Suzhou artillery has bombarded the city wall, but the siege warfare during this period still reminds him that in the face of a strong city and a determined defender, a strong attack is still not the best choice.

"Let's rest for a few days!" Yang Wu thought helplessly, maybe it was time to rest for a while to restore the morale of the army.

At this time, the messenger who went to the east to deliver the order returned and brought Yang Wu the situation on Li Shenfu's side.

"Your Highness, the siege losses of the eastern army were also very heavy, and soon after His Highness ordered the withdrawal of the army, General Li Shenfu also ordered the withdrawal of the army. But......" the messenger reported with an anxious face.

"But what?" Yang Wu asked in a deep voice, today's siege battle was originally a coordinated command, so it is normal for the east to stop after the siege is stopped here.

"But General Li Shenfu suddenly fainted before giving the order to withdraw the troops!" "What?!" Yang Wu was shocked.

To say that Yang Wu was not only worried about the siege of the city during this time, but also worried about the situation of Yang Xingmi, Li Shenfu and Tai Meng.

He remembered that Yang Xingmi died of illness in November next year, and the news that Yang Xingmi was sick from Guangling a few days ago naturally made him nervous. Fortunately, the results of the doctor's diagnosis showed that Yang Xingmi's condition could be cured soon as he cultivated well.

But Tai Meng and Li Shenfu made Yang Wu even more nervous, they both died of illness next month in history.

Among them, Tai Meng was sick while serving as a assassin in Xuanzhou, and died soon after; Li Shenfu fell ill in front of the Ezhou army and died of illness after returning to Guangling.

Now, although Yang Wu has crossed over, the two of them are not in the original environment, so Yang Wu doesn't know if these two people will die of illness as in history.

Now that Taimeng is far away in Haizhou, he can't manage it, but Li Shenfu is in his army. As August approached day by day, Yang Wu was also worried about Li Shenfu's body day by day, and sent doctors with the army to check his body many times, and the results of the examination showed that Li Shenfu was in good health, which made Yang Wu think that history had changed, but he didn't expect that the sudden news made him shocked.

"It's a pity that Fan Yu went to find a famous doctor, but there is no result so far." He thought to himself.

In order to prevent it in advance, Yang Wu asked Fan Yu to send people to search for famous doctors last year, but now it is the five generations of troubled times, and it is very difficult to find the real famous doctors, and even if there is, most of them have been supported by other feudal towns, so there has been no result until now.

"Tell me, how is General Li now?" Yang Wu stepped forward and grabbed the messenger and asked eagerly.

"The little one is not very clear, in short, General Wang Maozhang asked His Highness to hurry over." The messenger said with some panic.

Yang Wu nodded, barely calmed down, and said to Qin Pei, who was also anxious on the side: "I will go over and take a look first, the situation here will be handed over to you first, and after the army withdraws, let's rest first!" ”

Without waiting for Qin Pei to answer, Yang Wu turned his horse's head and galloped east under the escort of the guards.

"Now Li Shenfu is no longer staying in Ezhou as in history, and he successfully avoided Li Chengding being captured by Tian Yan during the Tian Yan Rebellion, so that he had to personally order the tragedy of his son being shot to death, if this can't avoid his death, then will Tai Meng die suddenly next month like in history? and his father Yang Xingmi, will he die of illness next year like in history? Thinking of this, Yang Wu couldn't help but feel heavy.