Hu Shide's "Flying Fish Army" under the jurisdiction of three battalions of the Green Banner and two battalions of the Red Flag, each battalion of 1,200 people, the two battalions of the Red Flag were lost in the battle of the mouth of the river, and the remnants returned to the Lingwu garrison, Wuhai City was defended by three battalions of the Green Flag, Hu Shide was a famous general of Shuofang, and the city of Wuhai City was high and deep, and the defense facilities were very complete, and the defenders in the city were quite unimpressed with this upcoming cruel siege battle.

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"Let him come, and have a good taste of our awesomeness." Veteran Chef Hu waved a spatula and said,

"Thousands of rotten soldiers still want to eat Wuhai City and choke to death the grass-eating sheep." The archer laughed,

"If Yang Hao can enter the city, I will write my surname upside down." A recruit surnamed Tian shouted in a sharp voice,

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However, the defeat of the Jiahekou still greatly dampened the morale of the "Flying Fish Army", especially the morale of middle and senior officers, the record of 2,000 people to 600 people back, almost the worst record since the establishment of the Flying Fish Army, the honor of the army comes from the battlefield, only in the rain of guns and arrows, in the siege of the city can it be proved that an army is an iron army or a tofu army,

The Flying Fish Army is an elite army that is famous all over the world in actual combat, losing to the little-known Xining Army, this ugly loss is too big, this mouth is too ruthless, and the whole army is filled with a strong sense of revenge.

Lou Chuan also thinks that this is the military heart available, the torrent of anger is unstoppable, an army surrounded by anger and eager for revenge will be able to exert its strength exponentially, Hu Shide is not as optimistic as him, the defeat of the estuary is inevitable by chance, the Xining army was established not long ago, but the record is brilliant, and Tiande, Zhenwu, Xia Sui, Hedong, Uighur, Khitan, and Murwei have all fought against each other, basically maintaining a record of total victory,

When the battle of Poyang Valley, the Xining army defeated the Tiger Guard of the Heavenly Wolf Army, Hu Shide began to seriously study this newly rising strong force, this is a new army from the inside out, full of vigorous vitality from top to bottom, their military discipline is strict but not rigid, well-equipped and practical not luxurious, tactical literacy is extremely high, and several generals of the unified army are proven by the battlefield to be able to conquer and fight fiercely,

Hu Shide was the only one in the Shuofang army who noticed that the structure of the Xining Army was different from that of other senior generals of the Tang Army, although he did not understand what positive impact this new establishment had on the improvement of combat effectiveness, but he firmly believed that this was an army that was best not to encounter on the battlefield, Hu Shide told his opinion to Lou Chuanye and a few other senior generals in the army, he could not let too many people know his worries, and that could be regarded as shaking the morale of the army.

After Wang Chong'an categorically rejected Yang Hao's request for peace, Hu Shide expected that a fierce battle was inevitable, he stepped up the construction of city fortifications, Wuhai City is square, two miles long in the southeast, north and south, the city wall is nearly four zhang high, and the thickness is as high as one zhang and five, it was originally built for rammed earth, and later wrapped a layer of bricks in the outer layer, the grassland people are generally good at field warfare and not good at attacking the city, this kind of city wall is already relatively advanced in the border area,

A trench was dug outside the city wall that was 17 meters wide and 5 meters deep, and there was clay at the bottom of the trench, and sharpened bamboo swords and wooden stakes were laid on it, which were used to poke and kill the enemies who fell into the trench.

On the inside of the ditch with a wooden fence built a sheep and horse wall, used to protect the city wall, the so-called sheep and horse wall, originally used to contain the common people who came from the outskirts of the city to take refuge and as their property sheep, horses, cattle and built a kind of fortification, this low wall is very useful to prevent the enemy from filling the trench siege, and at the same time to repel the enemy's charge, block the enemy's large siege weapons close to the city wall also play a role that cannot be underestimated,

In addition to the four arrow towers on the city gate, there is also a convex and concave parapet wall for shooting, called the female wall, which is used every two or three hundred steps to observe and monitor the enemy's movements and shoot at the enemy.

In addition, there are also large high-rise buildings called corner towers in the four corners of the city wall, as well as war sheds that complement each other, used to snipe and kill siege enemies, the city defense facilities of Wuhai City are typical and complete, and the Flying Fish Army is full of confidence in this city defense system.

The Xining Army is responsible for the main attack task of the Tiger Battalion and the Fengya Battalion, Yu Chongchong is the main general of the siege, and has the right to control the other departments, except for one part of the Agni Battalion to guard the Chinese army, most of it is used to guard the enemy in the southwest, and the Weiyuan Battalion is stationed in the west of the city as a general reserve, which can respond to the main force to attack the city, and can also assist the Agni Battalion to guard the southwest.

The total strength of the besieging side is 7,800 people, and the defending side of the Flying Fish Army and the front army of the Shuo side have a total of 5,000 people.

But Hu Shide did not dare to have the slightest luck in this coming, the fierce battle related to the life and death of the Flying Fish Army and his own life and death, he led the battalion commanders to inspect the combat readiness for two days in a row, and solved the problems on the spot, without delay, in the east gate, when he saw that the sharp knives on the two Saimen knife carts parked on the side of the road had been rusted, he couldn't help but sigh: "Although Shuo Fang has been fighting for many years, you can see that the knife carts here are rusty, Wuhai City has not had a big battle for many years, this scene can not be played in the hands of you and me." ”

Adjutant General Min Lan laughed and said: "Seven thousand people against five thousand people, and it is still Wuhai City, which is well defended, I think he Yang Hao is mostly dizzy, how can he break the city, ha, they can't fly in with wings." ”

Everyone burst into laughter, and Lou Chuan also saw Hu Shide's gloomy face, and hurriedly signaled the generals to calm down, but Min Lan didn't know how to restrain himself, and was still laughing: "The general is too cautious, I think that Yang Hao is not three heads and six arms, where is he afraid." ”

"Someone." Hu Shide suddenly shouted like thunder, his fingers almost touched Min Lan's nose, and he trembled with anger for a while: "Take this lightly talking...... Grab it for me. ”

The ironclad guards swarmed up and twisted Min Lan, everyone was dumbfounded for a while, Min Lan is Hu Shide's nephew, as close as father and son, I didn't expect his casual words to provoke Hu Shide so angry, Lou Chuan hurriedly stopped the ironclad guard, and pleaded with Hu Shide: "Min Lan underestimated the enemy, and his crime should be punished, but the war is imminent, it is the time to employ people, beg the general to open the net, let him make meritorious contributions." ”

All the generals also helped Min Lan intercede, Hu Shide exhaled, and said sadly: "The Jiahekou fiasco is not far from Yinjian, you don't know how to wake up, and you still make such ridiculous words, you really don't know how to ......die" The war is coming, and it is ominous to spit out the word "death", Hu Shide swallowed the word "death" again,

Hu Shide took a deep breath: "You are all crawling over the pile of dead people, what are the consequences of vainly talking about underestimating the enemy, do you still use me to say, the Flying Fish Army has experienced a fiasco like the Jiahe Estuary since its creation, and the Xining Army is the strongest opponent our army has encountered in my life, you can still laugh, can we still afford to lose." ”

The generals were silent, Min Lan's face turned red, and finally roared: "The Flying Fish Army can't stand such a, Lao Tzu...... Even if Lao Tzu throws this head, he will never let the battle flag be disgraced again. ”

The generals echoed the voice, and the agitated emotions infected the soldiers who were rushing to repair the fortifications, and the sound of the war was spread out wave after wave, and the majestic and mighty voice resounded throughout the world, Hu Shide had a feeling that he had never felt before, he choked back a cry, and was speechless with excitement for a while, so he could only bow his hand to the soldiers......

At this moment, a rocket flew in the sky, and the siege began.

Yu Chong gave full play to the power of the improved longbow rocket, this longbow that has been repeatedly improved by the Ordnance Division, the appearance is slightly larger than the original bow, and the user's arm strength requirements have also been improved, its range has increased by nearly 100 zhang, and the accuracy has not decreased but risen, and the fire oil powder bag tied to the rocket arrow shaft has been greatly improved, which can not only keep the rocket flying in the air and the fire after landing, but because of the use of new gunpowder oil, the arrow can burst out after the arrow touches the ground, These spilled out fire can ignite a raging fire in an instant, and people and things within a radius of three or five feet will be injured.

Hu Shide suffered this loss, in the first wave of rocket attacks, he was splashed with fire oil on his cloak, the guards rushed to the rescue, fortunately not injured, but the toss of stripping and unloading his armor still made him very embarrassed,

The Xining army is good at attacking with fire, this is not news, Hu Shide has seriously studied the longbow array and the rocket specially equipped for them, this rocket structure seems to be no different from ordinary rockets, but the power is several times that of ordinary rockets, he also used to imitate rockets, and even the idea of creating a longbow army, but because the cost is too great, the two technologies of rockets and longbows can not be understood and finally abandoned,

In order to prevent Wuhai City from turning into a sea of fire under the attack of rockets, these days he dismantled all the flammable things in the city, or burned, or buried in the ground, within the range of the rockets may attack, he removed six vertical and six horizontal twelve fire roads, in order to prevent one fire from affecting the rest, and the wonderful thing is that the night before the siege of the city, there was a light rain in Wuhai City, inside and outside the city, everything and people became wet,

"God is on my side." Hu Shide thought so,

But after the three waves of rockets in the Xining Army, Hu Shide came to his senses, and all this he did was far from enough, Wuhai City still became a sea of fire, billowing smoke everywhere, and a suffocating smell of burnt paste everywhere, the longbow and rockets showed his unparalleled superiority, Hu Shide had to think that if there were three more waves of rockets, maybe the defensive will of the entire Wuhai City would be crushed,

When his life hung by a thread, the attack stopped abruptly,

After successfully dampening the morale of the city defense army with rockets, the Xining army began to attack all the times, the banner battalion attacked the north gate, the tiger battalion attacked the west gate, and the Fengya battalion attacked the east gate, the three battalions were launched at the same time, but the strength was very different, the tiger battalion and the banner battalion were really fighting, and the Fengya battalion was only a feint outside the east gate to contain it, the tiger battalion was equipped with six huge rushing vehicles, the banner battalion was equipped with four, but the Fengya battalion did not have one.

This kind of car is about 12 meters high, 6 meters wide, and about 7 meters long, the height of the car is roughly the same as the height of the city wall of Wuhai City.

Zuo Mansion has made on-the-spot measurements of the height and thickness of the city walls of Hedong, Shuofang, Zhenwu and Xiasui, several major enemies of the Xining Army, and the General Staff Department has developed different countermeasures accordingly, and the Ordnance Department has developed targeted siege weapons accordingly.

In addition to being equipped with a variety of long weapons, the car is also loaded with heavy weapons such as crossbows and stone cannons, as a weapon for directly attacking the city wall, in addition to destroying the female wall, it is also equipped with a "flyover" that can be flipped out from the upper part of the car or the front to climb the city wall, so it is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing to let the car approach the city wall.

The Flying Fish sergeants were crazy and generally used crossbows, rockets and stone throwers to block the approach of the rushing cars, but the thick-skinned rushing cars didn't care about this, they moved to the edge of the trench step by step, and the sappers began to build pontoon bridges with rain-like arrows, Hu Shide was shocked again: they didn't go to fill the pit, they were actually building wooden bridges, what is the reason?