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Li Mao said: "It's not good, this is to fight hard with me, advertising rainbow, all the way with you"

Qin Mo said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and fight." ”

Zheng Xiaozhang said: "At the end of the road, playing mourning will win, I hope a miracle will happen, I think he is dizzy." ”

The clerk said: "Fighting in the morning and fighting in the evening is all fighting, and fighting in the snow is not good for me or altruism." ”

Jin Daoan smiled: "Let's fight, play well for the New Year." ”

Li Mao said: "Then let's fight, either he dies or I die, and there can't be two suns in the sky in Liaodong." ”

The Silla people were in full swing, and it was obviously not wise to face the enemy head-on, Li Mao exchanged space for time, resisted step by step, retreated step by step, and slowly consumed the Silla people's sharp spirit and stored food.

In just half a month, Li Mao's control of hundreds of towns, farms, and mining areas scattered east of the Liao River and west of Liaodong City, except for one of the Tortoise Shell Mountain, the rest fell one after another, and the terrain was dangerous.

The Silla people were like bamboos all the way, and they killed directly under the city of Dongju, and the hot-headed Silla generals threatened to capture the city in three days and capture Li Mao, but the battle of Songmu Pass seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water head-on.

Zhu Jiuqin led the first brigade of the second division to defend it heavily, and the Silla people attacked for a day, with more than 1,000 casualties, but Songmu Pass did not move. Jin Tiyong did not go to the front line to inspect, but lightly gave an order: "If you can't take it before dusk tomorrow, from the general to the horseman, all the military law will be carried out." ”

This order was like a talisman, and the 3,000 Silla people went forward one after another, and the attack continued in shifts.

After Zhu Jiu shot the last arrow, he beckoned left and right and said, "I can't stand it, withdraw." ”

Except for food, everything was the same as nothing, and the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division was successfully transferred.

Taking advantage of the victory to pursue, before dusk, the Silla army occupied the La Liga battalion without blood, and further on was Dongju City.

The Silla people came from afar, menacing, but they did not have much confidence in the face of the fortified city.

Liaodong was sealed by ice and snow, and the large siege equipment of the Silla people could not be moved under the Liaodong city, and this offensive and defensive battle was beneficial to the defenders from the beginning.

Dongzhou is a newly built city, with three inner and outer walls, the outermost one with a lower and thinner wall, mainly to block cavalry raids and large equipment approaching, this wall contains barracks, stables, and temporary trading markets, advertising

With the momentum of thunder, Jin Tiyong attacked from all sides, and the various departments took turns to fight, and this wall only lasted for half a day before it fell.

After clearing the obstacles on the attack road, in front of it is the main city of Dongzhou, which is expanded on the basis of the original Donggao Town, the wall is five zhang five high, and the inside is a mound of earth slopes, and a dome culvert is built every fifty steps to store troops and supplies.

Both sides knew it was going to be a bitter battle.

Jin Tiyong moved his command post to an inn inside the outer city gate, he was very interested in the exquisite decoration of this inn, and he could see that the owner of the inn had put a lot of thought into it, whether this could prove that they had confidence in Li Mao It should be okay, otherwise how could they be willing to spend such a large amount of money here

Jin Tiyong divided the station into three strike corps, and launched separate attacks from the east, south, and north, facing the Liao River in the west of Dongzhou, and there was a wharf built on the riverside, the Liao River had a large amount of water, and only part of the river section was frozen in winter, and the river surface between Donggao was originally ice, and after the transfer of the brigade, the ice surface was destroyed, and the water of the main channel flowed again.

On the other side of the river is Gaozhou City, and Gaozhou is also a high wall and deep pool, even more dangerous than Dongzhou, but Jin Tiyong knows that Li Mao's foundation is in Dongzhou, and once Dongzhou is shaken, Gaozhou is undefensible.

Besieging the city on three sides, leaving a way to survive, is to shake the determination of the defenders.

This is easy to understand for Jin Tiyong, who is familiar with the Han classics.

Li Mao's elite is all in the city, and this will be an extremely difficult bone to gnaw.

It can be seen that Jin Tiyong is an expert, and whether the city can be defended depends not only on the use of strategy and tactics, but also on the determination of the coach. Li Mao made arrangements in the Economic Strategy Embassy, the first division and the city defense and garrison bureau were responsible for bombing the city, the second division was responsible for the north and east cities, and the third division was responsible for garrisoning the south city.

Li Mao himself led his pro-army to sit in Xicheng and support the Quartet.

Most of the old and weak in the city had already moved to Gaozhou on the other side, and the overseer envoy Tutu Chengxuan listened to Li Mao's advice and also crossed the river to take up the town. The four departments and eight directors are divided into two places: Zheng Xiaozhang, Wen Cheng, Su Pimao, and Qin Mo cross the river to sit in Gaozhou. Jin Daoan, Zhao Guangliang, Xie Biao, and Chang Mucang stayed in Dongzhou to assist Li Mao.

Li Mao appointed Kim Do-an as the commander of Dongzhou and commanded defensive operations in a unified manner.

The only trouble now is that Lan'er refuses to leave, Li Maoqiang ordered her to be sent across the river, and she secretly ran back in a blink of an eye. Three times and three times, Li Mao got angry, and asked Lan'er what he wanted to do, Lan'er asked him what he was doing, since he said that he was born on the same day and month of the same year, and the same month of the same year, why did he send her away when the disaster came, if she didn't go, she would die together.

Lan'er stared at her eyes and puffed out like a proud fighting.

Li Mao could only laugh and scold: "Crow's mouth, sooner or later I will be cursed to death by you, it's okay if you don't leave, stay at home and don't come out casually, so as not to become a burden to me." Lan'er sneered and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you, I won't be a burden to you." ”

After a day's rest, Silla's offensive officially began, and the dense arrows were overwhelming, and the Andong army could not raise its head, and the soldiers who were as dense as an ant colony carried the siege ladder that had been created overnight and crashed into it like a turbid wave.

The sky is cold, the bowstring is easy to break, the Silla people in order to create an overwhelming rain of arrows, lost thirty percent of the spare strings in one breath, now the green and yellow are not connected, the arrow rain stops, the crossbow arrows at the head of the city shoot down like locusts, a large number of soldiers fall on the way to the charge, screaming, struggling, dying, but the turbid waves are still rolling forward, fiercely hitting the city wall.

The method of ant possession is the most primitive, the most tragic, and the most effective siege technique, people climb the ladder like ants to climb up, arrows, rolling stones, sassal wood or other things, just throw one can hurt people, but there are too many attackers, kill a hundred, there are still a thousand people, kill a thousand, and there are ten thousand people, there is always a time when you are exhausted and caught off guard.

In the first wave of attacks, the Silla people climbed to the top of the city, and a fierce white-knuckle battle began.

A Silla army broke through the defense line and rushed into the city, ready to set fire to the chaos everywhere, but was attacked by the city defense garrison bureau, the tragic street battle lasted for a long time, the city defense garrison bureau used one-third of the mobile force to annihilate this stubborn enemy, but the fire still burned, and the Dongju fire department urgently dispatched to extinguish the fire.

Fortunately, the city was fully aware of this when planning, and the residential areas in the city were divided into grids by crisscrossing streets and alleys, with large grids and small grids on top of each other, so that a fire would not affect the left and right.

At the height of the war, Zhao Guangliang, who was sitting next to Li Mao, couldn't hold his breath, drew his sword, and asked to lead the reserve team to help.

Li Mao said: "Chief Manager Zhao is a little restless, if the front army can't resist it, even if the reserve team presses up, it can only be blocked for a while." ”

Zhao Guangliang didn't quite understand Li Mao's words, Xie Biao reassured: "They have echelons and reserve troops, and now although the front team has been frustrated, they have not moved the reserves, which shows that the situation still has a chance to recover, and rashly using the reserves will only shake the morale of the army."

Chang Mucang said: "The supreme commander of the offensive and defensive battle in Dongzhou is Jindutou, let's not disturb him." ”

Zhao Guangliang also knew that he was out of shape, blushed, and sat down again. Li Mao sat at the head of the West Gate of Dongzhou with a sword, as steady as Mount Tai, which gave great encouragement to the armies defending the city, and Jin Daoan, who commanded the battle, was also relieved.

After a white-knuckle battle lasted for a long time, all the divisions mobilized their reserves, and the Silla people left a dense pile of corpses at the head of the city, and retreated from the city in defeat, and the first wave of attacks was declared a failure.

The second round of attacks was immediately launched, this time it was not a full flower, but the south knocked the north and hit the east to contain it, and the Silla people attacked the east and west, and the left and right were flickered, coaxing Zhu Jiu to be fooled, he concentrated the main force of the second division in the east of the city, preparing to give the enemy a head-on attack, but he didn't want the Silla people to suddenly exert force in the north city, break through the city defense in one fell swoop, and howl into the city.

Zhu Jiu hurriedly ordered the soldiers stationed in Dongcheng to enter the city to engage in battle, Li Mao was taken aback when he heard this, and urgently ordered Wei Xiangcheng to lead his troops to recapture the north gate and cut off the Silla people.

Wei Xiangcheng and Wei Guanhai are often ridiculed as "women's army", which means that their style is not tough enough, but Li Mao knows that the two are just cautious, not brave and resourceless, and they can still stand up at critical moments.

Wei Xiangcheng understood Li Mao's meaning, led his troops straight to the northern city, no matter what the Silla army was doing on the way, regardless of it, after the Silla people occupied the north gate, they were busy destroying the city gate, so that more reinforcements could enter, but several city gates in Dongzhou City were personally supervised by Li Mao, the quality of the project was excellent, and the sturdiness was abnormal, and the Silla sappers only smashed a few holes in the door with great effort, and the gate stood tall and there was no major damage.

Wei Sangcheng fired an arrow at the sappers, and ten thousand arrows followed, and the only dozens of sappers of the Silla people died tragically under the arrows.

At this time, Zhu Jiu also came back to his senses, personally led his troops to help, and the two families joined forces in one place, and fought fiercely for an hour before splitting the Silla army into two sections.

At this point, the hundreds of Silla troops who broke into the city became turtles in the urn.

The operation was mainly undertaken by the City Defense Garrison Bureau and the Security Bureau, and the fierce battle lasted for an hour before it came to an end, which depended on the heroic struggle of the garrison troops in the city, the rational science of the city defense design, and the policy of all the people that Liaodong has always pursued.

Suddenly, the Silla people in the city found that there were countless small cities in this big city, and each square was a small city, with walls, gates and defenders.

The smoke of the first day slowly dissipated, and after nightfall, the temperature dropped very low, and although there was snow shining, it was obviously impossible to launch another major battle.

Li Mao held a meeting in the Jingluo Mansion to review, and after a day of hard fighting, although everyone was extremely tired, their confidence was even stronger.

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