The 30,000 army led by Li Heng had already arrived outside the West City Gate last night, and camped together with Narisong's cavalry, Li Heng listened to Narisong's report, and did not blame him for anything, but just wrote a letter of persuasion and shot into the city.

Zhang Zhensun and Wang Zhenfu sat in the palace, convened the generals and Zhao Tianyou to discuss together, and found out the traitor Li Dayong last night to hit the pursuit of the day Song, a few days ago deeply troubled by the traitor, this time the two people were relieved.

Zhang Zhensun glanced at the letter of persuasion twice, and tore it to shreds.

"The Yuan soldiers are brave and brave, treat us as nothing, and threaten the lives of the people in the city, Li Hengda is not ashamed to order me and you to open the city and surrender, it is really shameless!"

If this had been changed before, some officials with weak minds would have secretly pondered and compared the gains and losses between surrender and enclination, after all, there were too many officials who surrendered in the Song Dynasty, and it was almost impossible to find a Yuan army unit that did not surrender to the general.

Wang Zhenfu said with a smile: "Li Heng has fought from the northwest to Wuzhou, and he has not encountered any tough battles, he has long forgotten what failure is, and he has to teach him a hard lesson in our Guangzhou City, what is a pain in the flesh." ”

Ling Zhen had already woken up from last night's state, and he was impressed by Zhao Tianyou's arrangement yesterday, and bowed to Zhao Tianyou in the hall and said: "General Zhao, thanks to your strategy yesterday, you have defeated Li Dayong's rebellion, if Li Heng really broke through the West City Gate, Guangzhou City will be difficult to protect." ”

Not only Ling Zhen, but also the guards and officials of the other city gates got up one after another and bowed to Zhao Tianyou together, Zhang Zhensun didn't fall behind, and pulled Wang Zhenfu together to express his gratitude to Zhao Tianyou.

"General Zhao is the great benefactor of the military and civilians of my Guangzhou City, Zhang must be the emperor and ask for credit for General Zhao! In the defense of the city in the future, Ling Dutong remembered to cooperate with General Zhao, based on General Zhao's opinion, and there was no need to ask me for orders at a critical time, General Zhao could directly order everyone to obey it. ”

Zhao Tianyou got up and thanked him and said: "Resisting the invasion of the Yuan army is the responsibility of every Chinese man, even if he throws his head and spills his blood." I, Zhao Tianyou, came to Guangzhou just to be able to protect the military and civilians of this city from being destroyed, and I absolutely have no desire to fight for power and profit. All the adults and generals here should remember that from today onwards, we must work together to fight against the Yuan soldiers, strive to start the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, and drive the Yuan soldiers back to the prairie. ”

Outside the north city gate, Lu Shikui's army drove over, and after camping three miles outside the city, Lu Shikui took more than a dozen generals under his command to hold a meeting in Li Heng's Chinese army tent outside the west city gate.

After Na Risong described the thunderbolt cannon fired by the giant crossbow at the head of the city, the range and power of the fire, etc., Lu Shikui nodded, and seemed to have something in his heart.

"The 3,000 cavalry led by Arislan, because of greed, was ambushed by the Song army at the Baiyun Mountain Post Road, and only five or six cavalry escaped, and the rest of the army was annihilated. I arrived a day late because 3,000 men and horses were beheaded by the Song army, and their heads were planted on both sides of the post road more than a mile long, and I had to hold a formal funeral for them, so I delayed it.

The Song army ambushed in Baiyun Mountain, and the weapons used were as powerful as you said, and when they exploded, they resounded in the sky like thunder, and the projectiles that flew out could penetrate the human body, and the power was extremely extraordinary. According to my on-site observations, the power of the gunpowder of the Song army has increased greatly, and the weapons manufactured are no longer limited to arson and poisonous smoke, but powerful explosions.

Li Shuai, what do you think about this? ”

Li Heng is extremely calm, and he has just been given a golden talisman by Kublai Khan, and he has been promoted from the deputy marshal of the left capital to the marshal of the Mongolian Han army, and he has been appointed as the governor of Jiangxi Province. It is said that he captured Wen Tianxiang's hometown, captured his wife and daughter, defeated the Song army to recruit Zhao Shixian, and forced the Song army to surrender 200,000 in Meiling.

This time he went south to Guangzhou, although Lu Shikui retreated and returned to Guangzhou, nominally he was the commander-in-chief, but Li Heng's official status was higher than him, plus he was a general of the Song Dynasty, and he would still respect and care about Li Heng from the heart.

"Well, I have already examined the bodies of the dead wounded soldiers, and they were all injured by this lead pellet!" Li Heng opened his palm, put a lead pill the size of peanuts on the table, and spread it out roundly.

Lu Shikui stepped forward to take a closer look and said, "This is the same thing as the corpse dug up from the Baiyun Mountain Post Road." ”

"It doesn't matter what he is, you and I can't add 100,000 troops, and there is not enough manpower to besiege the city on all sides, so we will first stabilize and block the grain routes on both sides of the northwest. In the east, there are Panyu Meizhou and other Song troops stationed in the unsuitable to attack, leaving a way out to the sea in the south, and stepping up the siege on the northwest side, so that those who want to escape can withdraw from those two sides, and it is best to drive them to the sea. ”

Li Heng was actually extremely dissatisfied with him in his heart, Lu Shikui abandoned the city and retreated because the grain and grass did not arrive, and he was unwilling to rob the people in and around the city, and he also controlled his soldiers not to harass the people. made Li Heng always think that he was not completely loyal to the Yuan Dynasty in his heart, and he didn't dare to stain his hands with too much blood of his own clan, and he was suspected of leaving a way back for himself.

"Okay, just according to what Li Shuai said, build siege equipment on the spot and put pressure on the people in the city."

The habit of the Yuan soldiers to go out on the expedition has always been to travel lightly, never carry slow-moving materials, and the siege equipment is also built on the spot wherever they go. The next day was to harass the defenders of the city, with small cavalry approaching the city walls and firing bows and arrows, while a large number of Yuan soldiers collected nearby timber, captured many peasants and civilians, and were encircled in front of the positions outside the city to build siege wagons.

The city wall of Guangzhou is towering, the moat under the city is deep and rapid, if you want to get close to the city wall, you must first take a ladder to cross the river, and the building car that can be equal to the height of the city wall is too important, he is more convenient and flexible than the mound of earth, and the time comes up quickly and is not afraid of rain.

A building cart is two feet wide and five feet high, three feet high, with a platform and arrow stacks on the top that can stand more than 20 archers, and a layer of straight ladders and platforms below, which can transport materials to the platform at any time to add troops.

Zhang Zhensun was at the head of the north city gate, Zhou Xin and other generals followed behind, looking at the building car that was gradually revealing its prototype in the distance, and the morale of the soldiers of the Song army was a little low. After the building car is built, Yuan Bing will advance little by little until he reaches the vicinity of the city wall, which is actually a flexible bunker fortification, but he is higher than the city wall.

If there are more than a dozen building carts outside the city gate, and hundreds of archers keep shooting arrows at the defenders of the city, then the casualties of the Song army will be extremely considerable, and the defensive ability of the attacking Yuan soldiers under the city will also be greatly weakened.

This kind of siege equipment Zhao Tianyou has seen, and there is also a trebuchet that Yuan Bing is building at the same time, which has the same function as the trebuchet configured on the head of the city, known as stone cannons. It can throw more than 200 catties of boulders 200 steps away, and it is one of the few siege weapons that can destroy the city wall during the Yuan and Song wars.

"General Zhao, is there a good way to retreat from the enemy for these stone cannon tower cars?"