Chapter 48: The Battle of Suzhou

When Yang Wu was busy training his subordinates, on the front line of Suzhou, the 60,000 troops under Yang Xingmi's command were displayed under the city, and they continued to launch tragic siege battles. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Xingmi's army could travel day and night by boat, and rushed to the city of Suzhou six days ago, and then spent a day setting up camp and building siege equipment, and then launched a tidal offensive in the next few days, and today is the fifth day of the siege.

As the drums of war sounded, Yang Xingmi's forward began to move forward slowly, and there was a distance of about two arrows between them and the gate of Suzhou. Since the enemy knew the news before the arrival of Huainan County, they had already burned all the houses near the city gate. Although this trick has brought great losses to the local people, it is indeed very effective, the Huainan army besieging the city did not even have the slightest cover, and really shed a lot of blood here, looking at it from a distance, there was nothing on the empty ground except for the fragments of siege equipment and the corpses of the horizontal display, just like a ghost.

By this time, it had begun to rain in the sky, and the soldiers marched in the rain, and soon came within range of the crossbows at the head of the city.

"Shoot!"

With an order, thousands of arrows were fired at the top of Suzhou City, and the black pressure shot towards the Huainan army besieging the city, like a black cloud, covering the sky.

At this time, the person in charge of the siege was the subordinates of Zhu Yanshou, the assassin of Shouzhou, that is, the soldiers of the famous Heiyundu.

Zhu Yanshou has a murderous personality and is extremely strict with soldiers. Once he selected 500 dead soldiers to prepare to attack the enemy, but one person was not among the 500 but offered to participate in the attack.

Such a strict general supervised the battle in the rear, of course, the soldiers did not dare to slack off, and the soldiers of Heiyundu were already known for their bravery. At this time, even though they were covered by a rain of arrows and suffered heavy losses, they still set up a ladder and began to ascend the city.

Soon, more than ten ladders successfully mounted the city wall of Suzhou. These ladders are different from the ladders of the previous days, they are wrapped in iron sheets, which are difficult to destroy, and they are equipped with iron hooks, which will hook once they are on the city wall, and no matter how hard the soldiers on the city wall push, they can't push away.

The soldiers of Heiyundu, dressed in heavy armor, holding broadswords in one hand and shields in the other, climbed towards the city wall one after another, at this time the defenders not only fired salvos of bows and crossbows, but also kept throwing stones and rolling logs from the city, and even boiling oil and water were poured down, and after being ignited with rockets, even the heavy rain could not extinguish the fire.

However, Heiyundu was not an ordinary army after all, although they suffered heavy casualties at this time, they still did not retreat, and after a while, soldiers climbed the city wall and erected the banner of King Wu.

"Okay, finally boarded!" The generals watching the battle in the rear showed a hint of smile.

In the past few days, they have been shot back by a rain of arrows inside the city before they even climbed the wall, and today is the first time they have climbed the wall on a large scale. The generals sighed one after another, and the black clouds really lived up to their reputation.

However, the enemy soldiers on the city wall were also very brave, and when they saw the enemy army ascending the city, they did not panic at all, but formed a formation to divide and surround the people of Heiyundu, and wiped them out one by one.

It didn't take long for the banner of King Wu erected on the city to be cut down by the defenders.

"Mingjin retreats!" Yang Xingmi ordered in a gloomy voice.

It was almost dark now, and with the heavy rain not stopping, there was no point in continuing the siege except to increase casualties.

After a while, the soldiers of Heiyundu retreated like a tide and returned to the camp to rest.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you can tell me what our army should do next, and what the generals think." On the main seat in the camp tent, Yang Xingmi rubbed his forehead with his hand and asked with a tired face.

At the beginning of the Qingkou War, Zhu Quanzhong led the main force to meet Pang Shigu's vanguard here in Suzhou. Later, after the defeat of Qingkou and returned, Zhu Quanzhong knew that it was difficult to go south to compete with Yang Xingmi, so he strengthened the defense of Suzhou and built it like an iron bucket. Now Yang Xingmi led the army to attack, and he really couldn't gnaw this hard bone.

The five-day tragic siege battle, while causing a large number of casualties among the soldiers, gradually wore away Yang Xingmi's ambition. When he sent troops from Yangzhou, he was full of confidence, thinking that he would definitely be able to take Suzhou and then go north to the Central Plains; However, just under the city of Suzhou, he gave him a head start.

The generals under the tent bowed their heads and said nothing, and the five-day siege battle made them feel tired, and they had long lost the spirit they had when they sent out the troops.

Seeing that the generals did not speak, Dai Yougui got up and replied, "Your Majesty, the rain has been continuous for the past few days, resulting in muddy roads, and it takes more time than usual for the besieging soldiers to walk to the city, and as a result, they have suffered heavy losses under the enemy's dense rain of arrows before they have even reached the city. If you continue to attack in the rain like this, I am afraid that the casualties of the soldiers will be too great. He also asked the king to wait until the weather cleared before attacking the city. ”

"Yes, my lord, it is too bad for our army to storm the city in the rain, so let's wait for the weather to clear before attacking." General Tai Meng also persuaded. He is Yang Xingmi's elder brother, one of the "Thirty-six Heroes" of the year, and his current official position is the Lianshui System Envoy, and he led a part of the army to help in the attack on Suzhou.

Yang Xingmi was silent when he heard it, he didn't know the harm caused by the rain attack, but Gao Mian had already told him, because the rain did not stop, the big ship transporting military food could not arrive in time, and if he only relied on small boats to transport, the military food supply was insufficient, and now he could still use the grain and grass hoarded before the war, but if he didn't capture Suzhou as soon as possible and take Suzhou grain and grass to supplement the army, I was afraid that it would not be long before the army ran out of food.

"Can we only return in vain?"

Yang Xingmi was a little unwilling, Taimeng and they also knew that there was a shortage of food and grass in the army, and persuaded him to wait for the weather to clear before attacking the city, what is the difference between this and persuading him to withdraw the army?

This time, he worked hard to gather 60,000 troops, and took advantage of the absence of Zhu Quanzhong's main force to want to enter the Central Plains north, did he hastily withdraw his troops because he suffered a little setback under the city of Suzhou?

Wang Maozhang was a little unconvinced when he heard Dai Yougui's words, he stood up suddenly, and said angrily, "Mr. Dai, there has been no easy thing to attack a city since ancient times. Now that he wants to give up after only five days of attacking Suzhou, he will be the first to disagree with such a approach! Please also ask the king for permission, the last general is willing to personally lead the army to attack the city! ”

Although Wang Maozhang is already a commander, he is still a "newcomer" in the army, and he has not made much contributions. This time, he finally went out with the army, where was he willing to withdraw the army.

Other generals also rose up to ask for battle, for them, it was not easy to gather a large army to go to battle, if they withdrew their troops in such a hasty manner, they really couldn't afford to lose this face.

In this era, the siege technology is still very simple, as long as the defending side of the city is used properly, coupled with sufficient food and grass, a city defense battle can be fought for several months or even more than a year, like in history, after An Renyi's rebellion, he held on to Runzhou for more than a year before falling.

Therefore, the generals all thought that they could not withdraw the army like this, and the army rations were insufficient, so they could only continue to attack the city in the rain.

Yang Xingmi saw that the generals' desire to fight was still very high, so he was relieved, and said with a smile, "Okay, the generals have this courage, why worry that Suzhou can't be defeated." But you're all lonely, so you can't take the risk yourself. Therefore, it is not allowed to ask for war. ”

After a pause, Yang Xingmi finally said, "Tomorrow, whether it is sunny or rainy, the army will continue to attack the city, and Suzhou will not withdraw if it is not broken!" ”

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