On the night of the third day of the first month of the first year of Xiangxing, there was a heavy fog around the city of Guangzhou, and the whole city fell into a confused fog.

The officers, soldiers, and civilians in Guangzhou had already summoned the city in batches to take precautions at the beginning of the fog in the middle of the night, and at this time it seemed that there was a bit of a shortage of manpower. The number of officers and men in the regular Song Dynasty was only 20,000, and the local armed forces such as the township army and civilian regiments were less than 10,000, and the armed forces on Hong Kong Island were greatly absorbed, but only about 3,000 people remained in Guangzhou to devote themselves to the city defense.

And the 80,000 residents of the city, in the lie and the threat of the siege of the Yuan soldiers, as many as 30% of the families fled, and the remaining residents were only more than 10,000 young and middle-aged. The army of Mongolia outside the city had 60,000 people from the beginning of the siege, and after such a long period of replenishment, it had already exceeded 100,000.

If calculated according to the proportion of the number of troops invested and the level of combat effectiveness, Li Heng has an absolute advantage, and it is a two-to-one advantage. With such a big advantage in numbers, why did Li Heng wait? According to the previous Yuan soldiers, after the army came to the city, it must be a non-stop attack day and night, and the Yuan soldiers could attack and rest in batches without stopping, and the defenders in the city spent all day in panic, even if they relied on the torment of time to achieve victory.

All the seemingly unfinished siege machinery outside the city can actually be done with only the last hammer, but they are scattered and piled up for the Song army to see. And once the decision is made to use troops, it only takes half a day's work, hundreds of catapults can be put into use, and the more than 100 tall building carts have already been completed, and the platform ladders can be installed and immediately ready to go into battle.

Zhao Tianyou went to the west gate in the early hours of the morning, and since that day Song shot an arrow that could threaten him, Zhao Tianyou had to carry a three-stone longbow on his back and two bulging quivers around his waist.

Little Gray didn't want to get up from snooze, but the taste of being flicked by the boss's finger was very unpleasant, and he drooped his head and followed the back of his ass while discounting, and he lay on the ground and took a nap when he didn't pay attention, and he didn't have a sense of crisis on the battlefield.

Zhao Tianyou's five senses are far beyond ordinary people, but after all, they can't compare to the feeling of beasts, this task was originally the most suitable for the big dark horse, but last night the big dark horse went out to play in the wild, and he didn't come back at night.

The sound of knocking, dingding, and bells has been ringing in the middle of the night, and the Yuan soldiers are still bluffing in preparing siege equipment, and they can't be sure by their eyesight, and the people on the head of the city can only guard and not relax. It is also very dangerous to send scouts to investigate at this time, and you must be very close to see clearly, but you are afraid that the Yuan soldiers will deceive and deliberately bluff, and there are still people waiting to trap the scouts.

"Little Ash, you give me some spirit! In lazy sleep on you for three days! Zhao Tianyou kicked the giant wolf who had closed his eyes and seemed to be lying down to sleep.

Little Gray opened his eyes cutely, shook his body very reluctantly, and climbed up to the arrow with his ears stunned, and stuck his head out to listen to the distant voice of the person. As time passed, Little Gray's ears began to swing, the beard on the side of his mouth trembled, and he began to let out a low roar, baring his teeth towards Zhao Tianyou in warning.

In fact, in the movement hidden in the sound of beating, Zhao Tianyou can also feel some, tens of thousands of people are preparing for battle, and the sound is hidden enough, if it weren't for Xiao Gray Gray to listen carefully and confirm, Zhao Tianyou himself is really not sure.

Walking a few hundred steps along the city wall, Ash poked his head out to listen for a while, constantly determining the location of the Yuan soldiers' assembly, as well as the direction of the carts and trebuchets that had begun to move. The little gray gray is simply a moving living radar, which can confirm the location of the enemy's gathering through the fog, the weather caused by the disadvantage, and the inability to distinguish the enemy's position will be greatly passive.

The eight Hongyi cannons at the West City Gate began to re-position, and the artillery reinforcement squad of more than 20 people surrounded the left and right, and under a set of movable canopies, there were 40 expensive flowering shells. For the sake of safety, the temporary powder magazine where the flowering shells are placed should be more than 50 paces away from the running position, even if the chamber is blown up, it will not cause a large chain explosion.

These people are the elite of Hong Kong Island selected from the old team. Each one of them has the responsibility to be in charge of everything from the storage and arranging of shells to aiming, cleaning, and refilling, and even the gun wagons must be disassembled and repaired.

Li Heng has not slept since midnight last year, and the sudden fog is simply a New Year's gift sent in advance, and it seems to be a sure thing for him to be stationed in Guangzhou City for the New Year. An army of 100,000 occupies the right time and place, hundreds of catapults have been assembled, and with the efforts of thousands of soldiers, they are approaching the city wall step by step.

The carts, loaded with ladders and wheels, were carrying bundles of arrows onto the top platform, and in a moment they would be fired by a multitude of archers, raining down on the entire city. The soldiers who withdrew downstairs held thick wooden sticks in their hands, pushed the building carts and beat them again and again, making a neat and dense sound, which was used to confuse the Song troops in the city.

Li Heng's mobilization of troops had no intention of hiding it from the Song army, and no fool would let go of the opportunity to attack the city today, and the defenders in the city would inevitably pack up and strengthen their precautions. Then just make the movement a little louder, so that you can hear the beating sound of the patches, telling you that I am coming to fight you, but can you guess where I am attacking the city from?

On the city wall dozens of miles long, there are not many 100,000 people, but how many troops there are in the city Li Heng knows very well, and some of the people who surrendered even reported the news of the Hongyi cannon to Li Heng. There were also artillery soldiers, they used it when Genghis Khan was there, and they used gunpowder when they conquered the European continent to the west, which they all learned from the Jin and Song dynasties, and Zeng Jing frightened many European kings.

At that time, the cannon could shoot gravel and iron filings, etc., similar to the thunderbolt cannon used in the defense of Jinling City, the proportion of artillery caliber was unscientific, and it either could not shoot far or exploded. The Yuan soldiers mainly used gunpowder to set fires, and they had long since abandoned the use of metal cast cannons, believing that the mobility was too poor and completely inconsistent with the high mobility combat habits of the Mongol cavalry.

The young gunner was very nervous, his heart was beating violently in Peng Peng, and a three-pound flowering shell was in his arms, which would be the first time for him and the Zhaozhou City Defense Force, and the smoothbore gun with a breech charge fired a flowering shell.

The artillery squad leader bit his mouth tightly, the gunpowder had been loaded according to the quantity, the small yellow flag in his hand waved down, and the young gunner walked up with the shell. Lifting the cannonball in front of the thick barrel, he let go slightly, and with a grunt the cannonball slid in, landing on the rammed ****** without much sound.

"Wangwang!"

"Put!"