In order to decide the first battle, Tong Guan sent 200,000 troops this time to prepare to attack the city in three batches, anyway, even if it is a pile of people, the other party will be piled to death, for this reason Tong Guan even organized the last 50,000 people, and when there is a breakthrough, the whole army will be pressed.

The army marched slowly in formation, and the newly built catapults and giant shields of arrow towers and ladders were pushed up, and when they stopped at a thousand meters of the battlefield, Tong Guan and the others patiently looked at the sky and prepared to attack when the heavy rain fell.

Zhang San looked at the gloomy sky, and remembered the order given yesterday, at this time, the carrier pigeon should have arrived in Hangzhou, the troops in Hangzhou should be boarding, and the other troops should also be assembled, right?

Except for the army in Suzhou, which was far away from Hangzhou, the other attack forces of both the garrison of Hangzhou and the navy were all drawn according to the principle of proximity, so at this time there should have been 50,000 troops on board.

The Suzhou army, on the other hand, would immediately move north after receiving the order, and then the Suzhou army would board ships in the Changshu area, and then merge together, and then land west of Taizhou to bypass the city of Yangzhou, and cross the river north of the canal to the flank of the Song army.

The reason why Zhang San dares to do this now is also because after the recent war in Yangzhou, the villages near Yangzhou have been affected by the war, and most of the villagers have fled or dragged their families to Ryukyu.

The reason why the Ryukyu Army was able to recruit people nearby, the forbidden army also helped a lot, and everyone understands the military discipline of the forbidden army, since the beginning of the war, troops have been transferred from all over the country, and Tong Guan has not strictly restrained his subordinates.

There are also Taizhou defeated soldiers and the defeated soldiers of the first war are flooded nearby, which makes it common for forbidden soldiers to come here to search for spies and enemy scouts, and villages around the country have to sacrifice their own food and even women to 'gratitude' the forbidden army troops when they see the forbidden army crossing the border.

After a long time, the villages did not say that the grain was stored and the seeds were all looted, and even the landlord's family was not spared, and the slightest trouble would be accused of being a bandit, so the people were unbearable, and the agitation of the Ryukyu personnel naturally responded in large numbers.

Since the last time Taizhou's forbidden army was raided, there are no thousands of troops left in Taizhou, if it weren't for Zhang San's lack of manpower to defend, it would have become owned by Ryukyu at this time.

Although Taizhou was not captured, the Ryukyu army still intimidated it, so that from now on, there was not even a single scout of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty in the place west of Taizhou. That's why Zhang San came up with such a sneak attack plan.

Since Tong Guan came, he has always attached great importance to defending against the sneak attack of the Ryukyu Army, since the Ryukyu Army appeared in the field of vision of the Great Song Dynasty, it has always relied on sneak attacks to win, sneak attacks on Dengzhou, sneak attacks on Hangzhou Bay, sneak attacks on Yangzhou River Forbidden Army, and sneak attacks on Yangzhou City.

After that, it was a sneak attack on the Jiankang Water Division, a sneak attack on the flank of the Taizhou Army, and other war examples, which made Tong Guan have to pay attention to it, so Tong Guan has always been sent to serve and defend within a range of twenty miles.

However, since Tong Guan established the camp, the Ryukyu Army has never attacked Tong Guan's camp, which makes the nerves of the waiters who have been tense for more than a month gradually slacken, especially the defenders in the north, if you want to say that the Ryukyu Army in the south is afraid of a sudden landing, and the Ryukyu Army in the west is afraid of landing behind the back, then the north is not afraid.

There are 10,000 sailors on the canal, and the north is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, so the army in the north is now rarely served five miles away from the camp, but the real combat power of the sailors on the canal is probably only known to themselves.

Not to mention the hard regrets with the Ryukyu sailors, even a marine regiment on the other side can overturn themselves, and the small trebuchet that can move on the other side has not less than overturned their ships, so the sailors of Gaoyou Lake are in no mood to cut off the canal except for setting up a guard post in the lake.

In everyone's expectation, after a period of muffled thunder in the sky, the wind suddenly stopped, and the crackling raindrops fell, quickly formed a piece, converged into a line, and then poured down into the sky.

Tong Guan breathed a sigh of relief happily, and the Song army began to move forward slowly, still the same siege method, but the Ryukyu army, which had no way to use fire oil bombs, really needed to rearrange the defensive strategy.

First of all, the walls were filled with bricks that had been removed from the city, and then the archers were given several new bowstrings wrapped in oiled paper in addition to their own bowstrings.

The ballista emplacements are made of canvas and straw to build the recommended roof, so that the ballista emplacements avoid being wet by the rain, but the twists inside the ballista absorb a lot of water, and the strength decreases greatly, although the fire oil bomb can be shot, and although the fire oil is not afraid of water, it can still extinguish him when the rain falls.

So now the ballistae are changed to fire stone bullets and city bricks, of course, it does not mean that the city bricks on the city are shells for these ballistas, in fact, most of them are used for soldiers to throw down.

It was still the strategy of arrow towers and pontoon bridges, and when the ladder pushed over the moat, a large number of Song troops began to charge, and it seemed that the Song army on the opposite side planned to take the city down in one go from the beginning.

On the city wall, bricks and stones flew down, bows and arrows also fell mixed with raindrops, but it could not stop the enthusiasm of the Song army to attack the city, and the torrential rain covered everyone's sight, and seemed to cover up the cruelty of the war.

The Song army under the city was carried out at the same time in a few steps, not only the siege troops were desperately advancing, but those arrow towers and stone-throwing vehicles were shooting desperately, at this time it showed the advantages of their stone-throwing vehicles, because they were not affected by the weather, and their combat power almost did not decline.

So the war in the city fell into a white heat from the beginning, both the offensive and defensive sides tried to defeat each other, and finally an hour later, the first soldier ascended to the top of the city, although he was driven down again, but the Song army below seemed to be greatly encouraged, and everyone's attack became more excited.

Zhang San looked at the crazy Song army's troops, and was a little worried about whether they could hold it for three days, Xu Guanzhong did know that this was just a breath of the Song army, and morale was such a thing, as long as the first wave of the Song army's attack was suppressed, then it would be difficult for the Song army to organize an attack of this scale in regaining confidence.

More and more Song troops climbed the city wall at each battlement, but unfortunately none of them could stand on the city wall for more than a minute, and they did not need to send special troops to suppress them, and all Song troops who climbed the city wall had to face at least a small team of enemies.

The squad tactics of the Ryukyu Army have played an amazing role in this mode of warfare, and often the people who go to the city, whether they are ordinary soldiers or officers who know how to do martial arts, are helpless in the face of such a formation, and occasionally there are a little more powerful, and they can only protect themselves and cannot open the situation.

In the end, the masters who were driven over went down or stayed, but the Song army in the city finally disrupted the rhythm of the defense, and also increased the casualties of the defending troops, Zhang San looked at the sky, and didn't know when the rain would be a little lighter.