Liaoxi County, Guzhu City, the Xia army's offensive reached its peak, and generals such as Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong even personally participated in the siege and climbed with shields.

In order to capture Guzhu City as soon as possible and put pressure on the Ming army, the Xia army has so far lost 70,000 soldiers and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers.

The fifteen-meter-high wall of Guzhu City is like a moat, which needs to be filled with human lives.

In order to fill the moats and ditches on the periphery of Guzhu City and destroy the arrow tower, the Xia army delayed a lot of time.

Not only that, the fifteen-meter-high city wall requires the height of the siege tower to be more than twenty meters.

In the outer city of the lonely bamboo city, there is also an inner city wall, which is fortified layer by layer, and it does not leak.

Guzhu City is one of the three fortresses built by Mingguan, and it is also the first fortress to prevent the Xia army from occupying Liaodong, so whether it is fortifications, or grain, grass and weapons, everything is sufficient.

Sun Chuanting was defending the city while recruiting troops and mobilizing the residents of the city to assist in defending the city, which increased the difficulty of the Xia army's siege.

Rumble!

Boom ——!

Dozens of boulders fell, accompanied by a loud bang that could be clearly heard within a radius of several miles, and a section of the outer city wall to the west of Guzhu City finally could not withstand the high-intensity bombardment of the Xiangyang cannon, and finally collapsed!

When Mingguan was building the fortress, the city wall pursued the height of the Middle Ages and ignored the thickness, so the lonely bamboo city was not without flaws.

"Kill!!"

The two fierce generals sent by Chutian to assist Geng Yi in attacking the fortress, Wei Chi Gong and Cheng Yanjin, led the Xuanjia Army and smashed into the Lonely Bamboo City along the gap!

In the outer city of Guzhu City, Sun Chuanting knew that he could not effectively defend the outer city wall at the moment when the western city wall collapsed, so he set up a strong crossbow.

Yu Chigong and Cheng Biting Jin's Xuanjia army attacked the outer city, and was targeted by a few bed crossbows and hundreds of divine arm bows, and they were shocked, but they knew that there was no way to retreat, so they could only charge hard!

Dozens of Xuanjia cavalry were shot by bed crossbows and divine arm bows, and Cheng Yanjin swung a big axe and struck a thick crossbow arrow, and the axe body was trembling violently.

The bed crossbow no longer relies on arm strength, but torsion.

The crossbowmen in the outer city fought and retreated, and were trampled by the Xuanjia army at any cost, killing hundreds of people, and finally retreated to the inner city with Sun Chuanting.

The outer city was breached, and it would take some time for the Xia army to occupy the outer city.

In addition to the outer city, the Lonely Bamboo City also has an inner city and an inner city wall.

With the walls of the inner city, Sun Chuanting was confident that he would hold on for a longer period of time and continue to thwart the Xia army's advances.

Because of Sun Chuanting's stubborn resistance, it did cause a lot of casualties to the siege troops of the Xia army.

The morale of the Xia army also dropped slightly because Guzhu City could not be captured for a long time.

The Xuanjia army of Wei Chigong and Cheng Yanjin pursued all the way to the gate of the inner city, and was shot back by the bed crossbow.

"How can there be walls? He was almost killed by an arrow from a bed crossbow. ”

Cheng bit the rest of his life after the gold catastrophe, and couldn't help but rejoice.

"Tear down all the houses and build siege engines."

Geng Yi and Cheng Yu, who were in charge of the siege, entered the city and saw that there was still an inner city in Guzhu City, and there was also a moat outside the inner city, which was very tricky.

Tens of thousands of siege troops immediately demolished the houses in the outer city and obtained wood and stone.

Almost the entire outer city was razed to the ground.

Large trebuchets do not damage walls and defenders out of thin air, they need to be loaded with qualified stone.

Chutian and Catherine, as well as many generals, camped outside the city and confronted Mingguan.

He and Mingguan, almost at the same time, saw wolf smoke billowing in the city of Guzhu City, and probably knew that the besieging party had finally broken through the outer city.

As long as the inner city is captured again, then it is likely that Sun Chuanting can be captured alive, and this city can be occupied, and the threat of Guzhu City to Youzhou will be removed, and the road to Liaodong City will be opened at the same time.

"If there is only the inner city left in Lone Bamboo City, Mingguan will be eager to fight us to the death to avoid the real loss of Lone Bamboo City."

Seeing that Guzhu City had finally opened a breakthrough, Chu Tian couldn't help but shake his head.

If the opponent fights him in the field, it will be neat.

Generally speaking, all commanders avoid falling into arduous offensive and defensive battles, but pursue quick victory in field battles, and for national strength, quick battles and quick solutions do not have to bear too much burden.

In the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi tried to lure out the army of Zhao and encircle and annihilate it.

In the last battle, Han Xin also managed to coax King Zhao out for a decisive battle.

The offensive and defensive battles were the most tragic battles, with both sides basically having to keep increasing their troops and then die under the strong walls.

Especially for the besieging side, the offensive and defensive battles are even more painful.

"If you win this battle, you should be ninety percent sure of the unification of the Han Empire?"

Catherine calmly looked at the battlefield in western Liaoning.

The focus of the battlefield in western Liaoning was Guzhu City, and the Xia army lost more than 100,000 soldiers and auxiliaries.

Chu Tian has rarely suffered such losses, although most of the auxiliaries are probably just civilians pushing mud and sand to fill the moat.

"I don't dare to say ninety percent. There are quite a few kings who unify the north and then overturn. ”

Chutian only knew Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, Fu Jian (Former Qin) in the Battle of Weishui, Yuan Ying (Northern Wei) in the Battle of Zhongli, and Wan Yanliang (Jin Guo) in the Battle of Quarshiji.

At present, the Bronze Sparrow has the largest water division in the Han Empire, and the water division of Chutian is only a partial division of stocking, and for the copper sparrow, the water division is the main force.

At the same time, although Chu Tian conspired with Sun Jian, he wanted to win over the Sun family of Eastern Wu to pave the way for the future peace of the southeast.

But Sun Jian may not be completely reliable, after all, Sun Jian and Tongque are righteous brothers, and they may turn their faces against Chu Tian at any time.

Chu Tian is also not easy to grasp what kind of character Sun Jian in "Lord" is, and there are not many opportunities for them to deal face-to-face.

"Since you left Eastern Europe, the situation in Eastern Europe has changed, and the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has been divided by me and Hohenzollern, and Gustav II of Sweden also wants to divide the territory from it, and he covets the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and the situation is quite troublesome. Because of my relationship with you, my empire may be attacked from three sides by the Kingdom of Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Kingdom of Macedonia......"

Catherine inadvertently mentioned the situation on the Western continent.

Because of the death of Attila, the leader of the Hun Empire, after the fall of the Hun Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the Macedonian Kingdom rose and expanded their territory, and they were about to border the Russian Empire.

Coupled with the pressure brought by Gustav II, the Norse lion, it can be said that Catherine's life is not easy, which is equivalent to an empire having to carry one empire, plus the pressure of two kingdoms.

"The Tsarist Empire originally had contradictions with them, so even if I didn't intervene, they wouldn't let Tsarist Russia go."

Chu Tian rolled his eyes.

The contradictions between the Tsarist Empire and other European civilizations are not yet the turn of the relationship between Chutian and Catherine.

"There is no shortage of careerists on the Western continent, but because of the over-balanced power and complex issues of faith, ethnicity, culture, and language, there is no Western Qin Shi Huang. Quite a few people have tried to unify the Western continent, but undoubtedly all have failed, Charlemagne, Napoleon, etc. ”

Catherine unconsciously mentioned the history of the Western continent.

"What has Alexander been doing lately?"

"Siege of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire."

"He's doing something terrible. The Ottomans also seem to have been somewhat unlucky, with their capital just halfway between the eastern and western continents, and adjacent to the Thracian region controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia. That is, Alexander gathered his forces in Thrace, and in a few days he could reach the city, and the Turks did not know if there was time to react. ”

Chutian observed a few seconds of silence for the Ottoman Empire.

Since the Ottoman Empire was accidentally killed by Huo Qu in the national war, the national fortunes of the Ottoman Empire have been in a slump, first falling into civil strife, and the Turkish Praetorian Janissary Army took the opportunity to intervene in the selection of the Sultan, and supported the son of the Empress Xurem to the throne, and the Sultan of Xurem listened to the government.

In the Fourth National War, the Ottoman Empire failed to take sides, colluded with Attila to attack the Thrace region of the Macedonian Kingdom, and was hated by Alexander.

Immediately after annexing part of the Hunnic Empire's territory in the steppes of Ukraine, Alexander retaliated against Sultan Hurem by besieging the city of Istanbul, which was on the border with the Kingdom of Macedonia.

The Kingdom of Macedonia also occupied a favorable geographical position to expand into Western Asia.

The situation on the Western continent has become clearer.

The Kingdom of Macedonia was committed to expanding into Western Asia, the Roman Empire was committed to expanding into North Africa, while the Holy Roman Empire wanted to annex the Kingdom of Poland and the Kingdom of Sweden wanted to turn the Baltic Sea into an inland lake.

As for the civilizations of the Western continents such as France, England, the Netherlands, and Spain, because of the terrain restrictions, it is difficult to expand, so they can only consider annexing civilizations on other continents and establishing colonies.

Chu Tian thought that the civilization of the Western Continent was also expanding, and shook his head again.

His hand couldn't reach that far.

Various civilizations are fighting, and even the Central Asian region, which has always been unknown, is rising because of the efforts of Ogedei.

Chu Tian already knew about the Mongol and Turkic alliances that had destroyed the millions of soldiers and horses of the Kushan Empire.

Originally, Chutian thought that after Temujin's death, the remaining team of the Mongol Empire would soon be torn apart and decline from then on.

However, Chu Tian still underestimated the Golden Family a little.

If Temujin is regarded as the first generation, then the second generation, Ogedei, Tuolei and others, is still quite united, and the third and fourth generations are only beginning to split.

"I don't have time to worry about it for the time being, and I'll talk about solving the enemy in front of me."

Chu Tian thought about it, he really didn't have the ability to deal with so many civilizations at the same time.

The entire lord world is in turmoil, and even a medium-to-upper-sized civilization like Dongying is trying to expand.

"My lord, King Ming's army has moved frequently and is coming towards our camp."

Hua Mulan personally came to inform Chu Tian of the information about the movement of the army on the opposite side.

The battle of Liaoxi was too important for the Chutian forces, and Mulan had to be careful.

If Mingguan cannot be defeated and Luoyang City is recaptured by Lao Qin, then the northern war launched by Chutian in the past two years will fall short, and the situation may even be reversed.

Sometimes, the tide turns, just after a battle. For the general change, the ability of the individual is difficult to control.

"King Ming is estimated to be unable to hold back because of the loss of the outer city of Lone Bamboo City, and he wants to fight a decisive battle with us in Liaoxi, and he did use Lone Bamboo City to cause us a lot of casualties."

Through the situation reported by Mulan, Chutian speculated that the decisive battle with the Liaodong Army was coming.

Chutian wants a quick battle, Mingguan wants to take the lead in consuming Chutian's army before the decisive battle begins, and now both sides have achieved their goals, so the decisive time that both sides want has come.

"There's an important piece of information."

Before the decisive battle, Xue Yue, who was in charge of intelligence, got new information in Liaodong City.

When Chu Tian heard the latest information obtained by Xue Yue, he raised his eyebrows: "Mingguan actually obtained such a good thing...... However, it is not surprising that in the battle of Songjin at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing has indeed begun to become popular, and Mingguan has also suffered a lot, and it is not easy to win......"

"What happened?"

Ekaterina wondered.

Chu Tian's vision is not low now, and it can be regarded as a prop by Chu Tian as a good thing, so many of them are really good things, and they are props that Chu Tian has never seen.

Chu Tian nodded: "It is indeed a good thing......

In the camp of the Ming army, a large carriage arrived, and the red cloth covered the carriage, covering the hole card of Mingguan.

"The battle of Songjin, nine deaths and one life, only to get this small batch of props ......"

Mingguan led the generals to the front of the carriage.

Murong Ba, Murong Ke, Murong Lin, Yuwen Yi Dougui, Yuwen Tai, Duan Piyan and other Xianbei generals, and Wuhuan generals such as Bang Dun, did not follow Mingguan to the Battle of Songjin in the Fifth Epic Battle, so they didn't know what props Mingguan brought back.

"This small team of carriages can really turn the tide of the battle?"

Murong Ke was very curious about what Mingguan brought back.

"Impossible, no matter what, with a small team of wagons, it is impossible to change the entire battlefield. There are more than one million soldiers and horses in western Liaoning. ”

Badon shook his head.

As a military advisor, Yao Guangxiao wore a black robe and ordered the soldiers on the left and right to uncover the red cloth.

Almost everyone's eyes were focused on the props under the red cloth.

Almost all the generals of the Ming army understood that with their frontal strength, the Ming army would most likely not be able to defeat the Xia army.

If you want to win, you have to find another way.

The red cloth was lifted, revealing a cold bronze firearm, heavy in weight.

"The ...... of the Qing army Red Cannon! ”

Mingguan's eyes showed a bit of fanaticism.

In the Battle of Songjin, his cavalry captured the positions of the Qing army, plundered a number of red-coated artillery, and captured a group of Qing artillerymen.

In "Lord", firearms need to be matched with the corresponding class in order to be effective.

If there is no special class such as an artillery man, then the red-coated cannon obtained by Mingguan is just a pile of broken copper and iron.

At the same time, Mingguan also does not have talismans and corresponding building and firearm drawings, so this batch of red-coated cannons and artillery crews are more like consumables, killed in battle, and cannot be recruited.

This is also the first time that bronze artillery has appeared in "Lord", which is basically the highest level of firearms in "Lord"!

Murong Ba, Murong Ke, Murong Ling, Yuwentai, Bang Dun and other tribal leaders couldn't help but widen their eyes, they had never seen such a strange weapon.

"Although it is enough to replace cold weapons, and it cannot achieve absolute suppression, it is enough to deter the Xia army."

Mingguan relied on cavalry to capture the artillery positions of the Qing army, which shows that in the period when cold weapons and firearms coexisted, the deterrent effect of bronze artillery was greater than the lethal effect, so he could not be completely assured.

"It's a pity it's just trophies. I want to see how Chu Zimou deals with the red-clothed cannon. He participated in the battle of Kunyang, and I don't know if he brought back any hole cards......"

Mingguan also had scouts who were investigating Chutian's news, knowing that Chutian was involved in the Battle of Kunyang.

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