A heavy rain fell for most of the day, and the offensive of the Songjiang army was delayed for a whole day, and the Sulu army finally did not dare to choose a dignified field battle, but passively defended the city of Morotai.

However, the defenders of the city only had this day of peace left. As the sky cleared, the Matsue army outside the city couldn't wait to move and set up a position under the western wall of Morotai City. The strict purging of the military formation made every defender at the head of the city fearful.

After all, the army of the principality has not won even one battle against the Imperials!

This heavy pressure brought about by repeated defeats in the previous battles cast a shadow on the hearts of the defenders, and also made them a little more pessimistic about the outcome of the battle before the battle began.

With more than 10,000 defenders in the city, can they really defeat these Songjiang people and keep Morotai City?

This suspicion is not only spreading among the army, but even the forces in the court of Suleiman VI, and even he himself are very uncertain. After personally climbing to the top of the city to boost morale and probe the enemy's situation, Suleiman VI had to admit that the military discipline and momentum displayed by the Songjiang army were the same as that of the Sulu army under his command. Even, even the North Luzon Garrison Division, which defected to the other side, looked stronger than its own troops!

This is really not good news for Prince Raman, who has only been on the throne for a long time and has not yet really enjoyed the good rights.

Sighing in his heart, the soldiers of the Songjiang Army outside the city had already begun to change their formations and made a call to attack. Although he knew that the other party did not carry many siege weapons, out of consideration that the son of a daughter would not be able to sit down, he still retreated to the courtyard that was temporarily used as a palace under the protection of the guards, and then waited for the arrival of the sentence.

For the Songjiang army, the siege of the city was really a familiar thing. As early as the Taiping County period, the craftsmen of the rebel army built a number of high-level torsion stone throwers through the drawings provided by Chen Wu, which allowed the Songjiang army to take advantage of the siege war. Subsequently, Chen Wu took out a super-large counterweight stone throwing machine, a siege weapon. After a few years, the research of the Ministry of Industry and the guidance of Chen Wu, the epoch-making gunpowder weapons have directly changed the mode of warfare, even if it is only one step now.

When the royal capital was Manila, the soldiers of the royal army and Suleiman V had already felt the despair firsthand. And now this desperation is the turn of the soldiers of the Sulu Legion.

At the beginning of the siege, there didn't seem to be anything peculiar. A small number of small stone throwers were still used to cooperate with foot archers, supplemented by ladders for soldiers. But this siege method is only a superficial one, and the real killer weapon is still the gunpowder weapon. While the shouts of killing shook the sky, the underground soldiers were also digging tunnels, preparing to repeat their old tricks and use gunpowder to blow down the walls of Morotai City!

The walls of the royal city of Manila are taller and stronger than those of Morotai. Even the walls of the royal city could not stop it, and it was even more impossible for the city of Morotai to resist the bombardment of gunpowder. The officers and men of the Songjiang Army, who had seen that scene last year, were very confident in this.

It was precisely because of this means that the offensive momentum of the Songjiang Army on the first day was very strong, but the real attack was not violent. Although the soldiers of the Sulu Army had a hard time coping, and due to their lack of training and experience, they were able to block the offensive of the Songjiang Army after paying no less than 200 casualties.

When Mingjin withdrew his troops and the soldiers of the Matsue army retreated like a tide, the defenders of Morotai City breathed a sigh of relief, both for the luck of surviving and for the joy of blocking the enemy's attack.

Some of the officers who had not experienced the Battle of Wangcheng were even quite optimistic about the war. In today's view, unless the Songjiang army can have more 10,000 soldiers, it will never be possible to break the city of Morotai with the current forces, at most both sides will be defeated, but for Suleiman VI, as long as he can hold the city, or even just delay until the Andamanies arrive, it will be an acceptable victory.

However, Luya, who had experienced defeat and despair in the royal army, was preoccupied with the results of the first day. The high-ranking of the Royal Capital Legion, the current commander of the Sulu Legion, knew very well how powerful the Matsue Army was, and he was not blindly optimistic at all.

But today is the first day after all, will you be too sensitive?

If the enemy's attack today is only tentative, then such a situation would be reasonable.

Thinking like this, he comforted himself and decided to continue to observe the movements of the Matsue army.

Next, the next day's attack seemed to confirm Luya's thoughts. As the offensive unfolded, the Matsue army really increased the strength of the attack. In particular, the officers and men of the North Luzon Garrison Division, although their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Songjiang soldiers, but under the stimulation of the early bounty, their morale and fighting spirit were even greater than the latter. Under the trend of middle and low-ranking officers, the soldiers of the garrison division launched an attack on the city wall one after another.

In just half a day, the defenders of the Sulu Legion threw a fifth of the stock of rolling wood stones down the city!

However, such a counterattack and the casualties caused could not completely stop the offensive of the Songjiang Army. There was still a group of brave soldiers, either by force and luck, or by catching up with the defenders' defenses, and climbed to the top of the city, brandishing their swords and fighting with the nearby soldiers.

For a time, there were swords and swords on the city, and there was blood and killing everywhere.

Many of the Sulu legionnaires, who had never seen such a scene, were frightened by what they saw. It is difficult to exert all your strength when you are bound and tired, and some even have symptoms of vomiting and blood fainting. But under the merciless whipping and kicking of the officers of the Sulu Legion, these soldiers were mercilessly pushed into battle. Soldiers who cannot overcome and adapt to the battlefield can only end up dying!

In one day, the number of casualties on both sides combined was almost twice as high as on the first day.

This ferocious offensive made the soldiers of the Sulu Legion bitter, but it made the Legion Commander Lua feel a lot more reassured. Standing on the city wall during the day, he decided that this was the level that the Songjiang Army really deserved. If it was still the same as yesterday, he would have to wonder if the people of Songjiang were feintifying and secretly engaging in some kind of conspiracy.

Conspiracy, though?

Luya's heart tightened, and she couldn't help but think of the earth-shattering explosion in Manila, the royal capital, and the city walls that collapsed with it. If it hadn't been for that unexpected explosion, the royal capital of Manila would never have been captured in ten days, and even the entire battle would have gone in a completely different direction.

Will the explosion that directly changed the fortunes of the Principality be repeated in Morotai City?

Thinking like this, Lu Ya suddenly lost his sleepiness. Ignoring the fact that it was already dark, he put on his armor and took his guards back to the city to inspect it. Walking down, the Songjiang military camp outside the city was silent, only bright or dark sentry posts and torches at the main roads, proving that the camp was not empty. Other than that, no suspicious symptoms are seen.

No, you can't be fooled by appearances.

Luya recalled the battle in the royal city, and after a moment of distraction, he quickly thought of the suspicious thing that he remembered so closely. Before the explosion of the royal city, the enemy had dug a tunnel. At that time, the defenders thought that the Songjiang people were trying to enter the city through the guò tunnel, so they took strict precautions in the back. Who would have thought that not long after, the nearby city wall would suddenly explode and collapse, and then it would be a premeditated attack.

The explosion was never an accident, but a ghost of the Songjiang Army.

Luya is well aware of this. Recalling the scene at that time, he couldn't help but have a thought in his heart that the explosion was probably related to the tunnel dug by the enemy. Otherwise, the Songjiang military could have directly blown down the city wall in the first place, instead of bothering to dig up a useless thing.

This idea, in fact, had been in Luya for a long time, but it was just a vague guess before, and it was not really thought through until this moment.

He immediately ordered someone to bring a water tank, put it upside down on the inside of the city wall, place one every 100 meters, and sent people to listen to the sound of the water tank.

Perhaps it was because the enemy did not carry out the construction at night, or it may have just begun to dig and the distance was still far away, and the Luya faction did not hear anything unusual. Some of the officers were puzzled by his sudden upsurge, but Luya didn't explain anything to them, except that they had to be monitored every other hour.

For the next two days, the attack of the Matsue army was still fierce.

The increasing casualties clearly affected the morale of the Sulu Legion. It was only under the pressure of officers at all levels and the bounty offered by Suleiman VI that it could be maintained for the time being. And in the afternoon of this day, when the soldier in charge of listening to the movement put his ear to the water tank in the corner of the city wall again, he was suddenly stunned.

He heard a noise he hadn't heard before!

It was the small movement of the underground soil being excavated, and the sound of the inverted water tank reflecting back and forth and amplifying!

Although the soldier didn't know why, after listening to it several times in a row, he was excited and immediately reported the news. Only a quarter of an hour later, the commander of the army, Luya, who was unattainable in the eyes of the soldiers, hurried over, showing an unimaginable attention.

"It's really ringing!"

After listening back and forth for a moment on two adjacent water tanks at a distance of 100 meters, Luya's face was both scared and happy. He was now almost certain that the people of Matsue outside the city were planning to repeat their old tricks, digging tunnels again and blasting down the walls of Morotai by some unknown means.

If that's the case......

Thinking that the tragedy of Wangcheng was about to be repeated, Lu Ya shuddered a little in his heart. He subconsciously wanted to rush back to Suleiman VI's palace and report this heavy discovery. But as soon as his figure moved, he stopped abruptly. This officer, who had experienced the battle of the royal capital, suddenly found a problem: even if he knew that the enemy was going to dig a tunnel to blow up the city wall, how could he stop them?