The next day, the gloomy weather could not stop the fighting spirit of the two sides, when the dark sky turned white again, it heralded the arrival of a new day, and also indicated that the bloody battle between the two sides would start again. With the sound of the horn outside the city, the war drums on the head of the city also sounded, and the offensive and defensive battle between the two sides began again.

The attack of the Huns today has obviously changed, the dense phalanx has changed to a looser echelon attack, and dozens of large wooden shields that have been made overnight have also been lifted out, these large wooden shields are four meters high and three meters wide, and every ten warriors push forward, which can effectively defend against the attack of the enemy's bows and crossbows, they will line up every three wooden shields, and the soldiers carrying sandbags hide behind them, and slowly advance forward, and when they advance to the moat, the soldiers behind the wooden shields will throw the sandbags into the river, and then, The soldiers were holding their wooden shields back, which was an effective way to protect them from bows and arrows.

However, Qin Dui also had a precautionary strategy for this kind of attack, and he transferred three more giant trebuchets originally arranged on the other three city walls overnight on the first night, so that the trebuchets on the west wall reached fourteen, and he ordered the soldiers who operated the trebuchets to concentrate their forces on the accurate bombardment of the wooden shield, which often collapsed after several boulder blows, and the soldiers hiding behind were exposed to the arrows and immediately turned into a pile of corpses.

However, the progress of the Huns in filling the moat was greatly accelerated, and the attack on the defenders on the city walls was greatly strengthened.

The fierce battle continued into the afternoon, and after dozens of large wooden shields were intact and nearly six or seven thousand corpses were dropped, a few sections of the moat west of Tokugawa Castle were finally filled, the sky gradually darkened, and the horn of the troops sounded again, after the Hun soldiers had retreated. All that was left of the city was corpses, broken weapons, and siege tools.

This time, although the Huns collected their troops and returned to the camp, they stationed a cavalry unit to monitor the Qin Dusk side, probably to prevent the defending side from taking advantage of the night cover to re-channel the moat, it seems that this wide and deep moat did make the besieging side lacking siege tools suffer enough, so that they had to take precautions. Avoid losing money during the day.

When night completely fell, Qin Dui had dinner in the West City Tower, and after instructing the guards not to follow, he walked up to the top of the West City Wall alone, looking into the distance, the Hun camp a few miles away was a spark, and if you listened carefully, you could even hear the neighing of horses.

Through the blazing torches on the city wall, looking at the corpses everywhere under the city, Qin Dui felt a sad feeling for no reason. It's really "one will make ten thousand bones dry", even Qin Duan himself was a little surprised by his current mood.

Tomorrow will be the hardest and most cruel day, how many soldiers and officers who are familiar with themselves will throw their heads and shed their blood here to defend this city, and for the people who defend this city, this wall will become a silent witness to tomorrow's history.

Qin Duan shook his head, as if he wanted to shake off this decadent love, and took two deep breaths. Standing still in the middle of the tower, he couldn't help but let out a long howl. The soldiers patrolling around all looked at their young commander in amazement, Qin Duan ignored it, his eyes fixed on the Hun camp in the distance, and thought silently in his heart, let the storm come more violently, ask the world. Who is the hero depends on the Ming Dynasty.

In the Humble Hung battalion, Harry Qisheng, Desima and Halibodo were also patrolling various departments overnight, and constantly cheering up the soldiers who had already been red-eyed, and the soldiers were all in high morale. They all asked to act as the vanguard and take the lead in the attack, and all three were very satisfied, and asked the soldiers to take time to rest, stay in good shape, and prepare for tomorrow's battle. The three of them returned to Harry's tent and decided to attack tomorrow with all their might, trying to settle the battle in half a day.

"It was a day I will never forget, and even many years later, the scene of this day is still in my nightmare."

Many years later, Liang Qiming, who was already the generalissimo of the Northwest of the Chinese Empire and the top ten ~ generalissimos of the National Congress, recalled, excerpted from "Rong Ma's Life - Liang Qiming's Memories".

On May 13, the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the decisive battle began. In order to ensure that he could take the city within a day, Harry even ordered 30,000 light cavalry to abandon their horses and launch a general attack with the remaining 20,000 or so infantry. More than 10,000 Hun soldiers, under the escort of more than 30,000 iron cavalry, roared, shouted, pushed the carts rushing the city, carried the ladders, carried the crashing wood, brandished their weapons, densely packed, like ants, launched a charge against the west gate of Tokugawa Castle.

Seeing this formation, Qin Dui, who had originally left two brigade soldiers as reserves, had to transfer all his troops to the head of the city, hoping to withstand the enemy's first charge first.

The first wave of attacking infantry held leather shields, braving the rain of arrows, and soon poured under the city wall, but under the blow of the soldiers defending on the city wall, there were heavy casualties, and there was not much left, Harry Qisheng saw this, and immediately ordered the cavalry to press, because the Hun light cavalry had their own bows and arrows, Harry Qisheng ordered them to approach and use bows and arrows to suppress the enemy on the city wall, and under the rain of arrows one after another, the soldiers defending on the city wall also suffered great casualties.

Qin Du immediately ordered all the trebuchets to concentrate on bombarding the approaching enemy cavalry troops, and in a burst of "creaking" sounds, the boulders fell from the sky, smashing the cavalrymen and horses into flesh and mud into the range of the trebuchets, this move immediately had a very good effect, the cavalry saw that their comrades were smashed by the falling boulders as soon as they entered the range of the trebuchet, and they all grabbed the reins of the horses, not daring to get too close, so that although there was no boulder threat, the threat to the imperial soldiers on the city wall was also greatly reduced.

However, the infantry attack under the city did not weaken in the slightest, and wave after wave of soldiers poured under the city wall to erect the ladders, and the rushing carts also continued to attack the weaker areas of the city wall, and some of the city walls were already shaking.

The fierce Hungarian soldiers stared at the blood-red eyes, bit the weapon in their mouths, braved the rolling wood, stones and even boiling oil smashed on the city wall, and climbed up frantically, and the soldiers defending on the city wall were also red-eyed, bows and arrows, rolling logs, and stones poured down, once a Humble and Hungarian soldier broke through the defense and rushed to the city wall, the soldiers next to him did not hesitate to raise the weapons in their hands and rush to desperately, everyone knew that once the enemy successfully rushed to the city wall, that is, the time came for the whole army to be annihilated.

Looking at the ever-expanding casualty numbers of his subordinates, Harry Qisheng was expressionless, and still kept ordering the retreating troops to regroup, organize an attack again, and even order officers below the senior general to personally lead the attack. Under the personal leadership of the officer, the morale of the already slack-off Huns-Hungarian soldiers was boosted again.

The impatient Halibodo ignored the dissuasion of Harry Qisheng and Desima, personally went out and led a group of Hun soldiers to attack, seeing that his lieutenants were all in the lead, the Hun soldiers were even more provoked, and they flocked to the city at the expense of their lives, and suddenly, there was an unnoticed gap in the city wall in the northwest corner.

Halibodo, who was commanding under the city, immediately discovered this, he took three steps and two steps, came to the northwest corner of the city wall, the soldiers behind him immediately set up the ladder, he jumped up the city wall in a few vertical leaps, and several imperial soldiers around immediately screamed and pounced, but where were they Halibodo's opponents, the two fell under Halibodo's sword, and the Hun soldiers under the city wall also followed the trend, and the soldiers defending nearby could not parry, and they were defeated and retreated, seeing that this section of the city wall was about to be lost.

At the critical moment, a burly figure appeared next to the Imperial soldiers who fell one after another, "You go and deal with those people, I will deal with this person!" The soldiers who followed immediately pounced on the Hun soldiers who were climbing up like hungry tigers.

Coming to reinforce is Qin Duan's recruit temporary first brigade, led by the first soldier Kang Younian who was the first to challenge Qin Duan half a year ago, he has now served as the head of the temporary first brigade of recruits from the deputy brigade commander of the first brigade, after the failure of that challenge to Qin Dui, he admired Qin Dui so much that he threw himself to the ground, in the past six months, Kang Younian has trained quite hard, and his martial arts have also improved by leaps and bounds.

Halibodo also saw that this person was not an idle person, and reported the idea of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and the two immediately fought together. And the humble Hun soldiers behind Halibodo were unlucky, due to the difference in numbers, they were soon surrounded and killed by the soldiers brought by Kang Younian, and Halibodo, who was fighting fiercely with Kang Younian, saw that the situation was not right, and knew that if he didn't escape, he might have to become a prisoner of the enemy, so he forced Kang Younian away, jumped on the city, jumped on the city, jumped twice, and jumped off the city wall again.

The surrounding Imperial soldiers also discovered the problem here, and also came over to reinforce it, and the originally precarious gap was finally plugged again.

After discovering that Halibodo had broken through the gap in the northwest corner, Harry Kaisheng who was closely following the development of the battle situation under the city immediately ordered Desima to lead the elite troops to attack the southwest corner of the weakest part of the city wall, on the one hand, he could reduce the pressure on Halibodo, and on the other hand, he also wanted to use Halibodo's breakthrough to cause the opponent's attention to focus on the northwest corner, and his side happened to open the gap from the southwest.

But he didn't expect that in just a few moments, the soldiers who had broken through from the northwest corner would be wiped out, and Halibodo would be forced to retreat.

The offensive and defensive battles in the southwest corner were more intense, and Desima's personal participation in the battle also greatly encouraged the fighting spirit of the Hungarian soldiers. Due to the relatively low terrain in the southwest corner, the city wall is also thinner, the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides are unprecedentedly fierce, under the leadership of Desima, the charge of the Hun soldiers is higher than a wave, and several sections of the city wall have changed hands several times, but under Liang Qiming's tenacious defensive counterattack, the defense line has never collapsed, and Desima has also clashed with Liang Qiming several times, but they have not taken advantage. (To be continued......)