Fortunately, the situation in Suzhou is not much different from that of Xiangyang City in the Southern Song Dynasty. On the one hand, there was a great chaos in Hangzhou, and the defenders of Suzhou had no hope www.biquge.info of getting reinforcements in the short term; on the other hand, because the siege of the Huainan army was very sudden, Suzhou was not well prepared, and when the siege began, the soldiers, money and food in the city were somewhat lacking, and Yang Wu sent people to publicize that Hangzhou had fallen and Qian Biao had died, so that the morale of the defenders in Suzhou dropped to the extreme, and everyone had no hope in their hearts to hold Suzhou. Even Sun Yan was a little shaken in his heart.

Therefore, Yang Wu felt that the use of trebuchets was enough to achieve the effect of the Xiangyang cannon in history, even if it could not make the enemy army go out of the city and surrender, but in the next siege, it was possible to make the enemy army reduce their will to resist.

As the stone projectiles continued to bombard the thick wall, the city wall let out a tremor, although the whole wall was not blasted open, but some small cracks had appeared in the wall, and as the trebuchet continued to fire, these cracks were slowly expanding. Fortunately, the city wall of Suzhou is thick, and the city wall will not be destroyed for a long time.

At the head of the city, the once dense towers have been riddled with holes, and the thin female walls have been swept away. The bed crossbows that had once flaunted the besieging soldiers outside the city were now shattered by the roar of stone bullets; Rolling logs and rocks piled up on the city wall were also hit by stone bullets, and they flew into the sky one after another, and then smashed down again, causing even more damage. The walls were full of stumps and severed arms, and flesh and blood were flying.

The stone bullets of the Huainan army outside the city seemed to be endless, and they were not in a hurry to attack the city, but used trebuchets to bomb constantly.

"These trebuchets must be destroyed, otherwise Suzhou will definitely not be able to hold on!" Standing on the city wall, Sun Yan looked at the trebuchets lined up outside the moat, and couldn't help but grit his teeth secretly.

"Be careful!" At this time, the guards on the side knocked him down, only to see a stone bullet flying over the city wall where they had been, smashing a house in the city.

Sun Yan's face did not change, he stood up and patted the dust on his body, "The stone bullets fired by the enemy look scary, but each launch takes a long time to prepare, we only need to send a small number of people to guard the city wall, and the rest will hide behind the city wall!" ”

At this time, after Sun Yan calmed down, he also thought of a way to deal with it, that is, like later generations to avoid artillery bombardment, only a few people were used as "observation posts" on the city wall to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to enter the city; The rest of the people all hid in safe places, waiting for the enemy to ascend the city wall to defend it.

In this way, the casualties of the defenders were indeed much lower, but the fear on the faces of the soldiers did not diminish at all, and the bed crossbows, stones, and rolling logs that had been placed on the city wall were basically destroyed at this time.

Fortunately, the enemy did not take the opportunity to attack the city, otherwise the defenders would not have the heart to resist at this moment. However, as if the enemy had made up their minds to collapse the walls, thirty trebuchets roared incessantly, throwing boulders at them.

In the afternoon, the enemy threw not stone bullets, but mud bombs made of sintered soil, although the weight was reduced, but the power did not decrease at all, and even some of those mud bombs would explode into dozens of pieces after hitting the houses, and the flying mud blocks caused more damage like the shrapnel of later generations.

The wails of the wounded soldiers kept coming, which not only made the other soldiers even more frightened, but also made Sun Yan feel annoyed, and even had the idea of killing all those wounded soldiers.

Fortunately, he is still sane at the moment, but this state of being beaten but unable to fight back makes him full of grievances.

"Go out of town and destroy those trebuchets now? No, wait until the evening! ”

Sun Yan looked at the thick garrison next to the trebuchet outside the city, and knew that it was impossible to get out of the city at this time, "I only hope that when the enemy army returns in the evening, it will be good to relax your vigilance." ”

At dusk, after a long day of bombardment, the trebuchets outside the city finally stopped, and the defenders finally had a little rest to calm their frightened hearts.

However, the soldiers were relieved, but Sun Yan and other generals were even more worried.

At this time, in the garrison camp, several candles flickered in the darkness, and the breeze blew, and suddenly flickered and dimmed.

On the main seat, Sun Yan's stern gaze slowly swept over the generals below, and on their faces, he saw surprise, fear, and despair, but what he didn't see was hope.

Even the generals have this mentality, and the thoughts of the soldiers below can be imagined.

"Everyone has seen the current situation, and they thought that if they didn't destroy these trebuchets, the enemy army was afraid that they would not need to attack the city, as long as they bombarded outside the city day and night, everyone would collapse in a few days."

"So Ben decided to go out of the city tonight and attack the enemy, with the goal of destroying these trebuchets. What do you think? ”

None of the generals below spoke, and it was obvious that they didn't have much faith in their hearts.

After a while, Wang Liangcai, who was standing behind the generals, suddenly got up and said solemnly: "The last general agrees with the general's opinion, and asks the general to transfer a thousand soldiers to the last general, and the last general is willing to take them out of the city to attack!" ”

After Wang Liangcai fled back to Suzhou after the defeat of the Changshu army, Sun Yan demoted him to the battalion commander, but he has made meritorious contributions in defending the city in the past few days, and now he has been reinstated.

"Well, Commander Wang's loyalty and courage are commendable!" Seeing that someone finally responded to his opinion, Sun Yan breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "However, a thousand people is too little, the enemy army takes trebuchets very seriously, and there must be many guards, even if they relax their vigilance, it is difficult for a thousand people to succeed. We only have one chance, and if we don't succeed tonight, we won't have another chance. So Ben decided to take 6,000 people out of the city himself. ”

You must know that 6,000 people are already two-thirds of the defenders in the city, if they don't succeed, or even have some accidents outside the city, then don't think about defending the city anymore.

What's more, Suzhou can hold on, relying on Sun Yan's continuous efforts, if he goes out of the city and goes wrong, Suzhou will also be in danger. Therefore, as soon as his words came out, they were unanimously opposed by the generals below.

"The general can't take risks, the last general is willing to lead the troops out of the city for the general!" Everyone hurriedly persuaded each other.

Sun Yan had already made up his mind to pay attention: "Your kindness should have been understood, but whether or not you can destroy the trebuchet outside the city in one fell swoop is the key to whether Suzhou can hold on, so the general must personally take people out of the city." ”

What he didn't say in his heart was that even if they destroyed the trebuchets tonight, the enemy only needed to make another batch, and it would not have much impact at all, and the defenders would have to venture out of the city again, and it would be difficult to succeed at that time.

However, that's all for later, so let's spend tonight for now.

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