"Do you think you can hold on for another day tomorrow?" Luo Ming asked Zhao Hui. Today, he and other generals spent the whole day on the top of the mountain here, carefully observing the battle situation on the front line, and were deeply impressed by the combat ability of the Northern Alliance army and the tenacious fighting spirit of the army in Black Cloud City.

"Why?" Zhao Hui asked a little blankly: "The Northern Alliance army is very strong in combat, and we have struggled as the defender for a day, but the losses are greater than those of the attacker. You've seen it all. Why do you want us to hold it up for another day?"

Luo Ming explained: "We are a weak country, and the population of the whole country is not as large as that of the Northern Alliance. If you pull all the armies up at the beginning and fight with them, it is obviously very uneconomical. I want you to hold them back for at least two days, which will create impatience in the upper echelons of their military.

In this case, once they break through the castle defense line in the future, they will be eager to drive straight in, and no longer maintain the caution they deserve. They will be eager to try to take our capital, Black Cloud City, in one fell swoop. At this time, we will give him an internal and external attack, which can wipe out the army of the Northern Alliance to the greatest extent. ”

Seeing that everyone was nodding, he continued, "You must remember that what I need is a large-scale war of annihilation, not a protracted war of annihilation with them. ”

The fat man was a little puzzled, and asked, "If we beat them badly this time, wouldn't they be faceless?" In this way, they will immediately organize a second invasion, which will be even crazier and more violent than this one. So what do we do?"

Luo Ming sneered: "No matter how you defeat them, they will start a second war right away." Therefore, it is better for us to eliminate a few more of them at a time, and try to maintain our own strength. The most unfortunate situation is that we will lose both this time, and people will only need to dispatch one or two thousand people at random next time, and they can clean us up. Or what's worse is that we and Gu Yinqi's 100,000 people are exhausted, and then someone else has a reinforcement, and we will all be finished. ”

Everyone nodded, and Luo Ming asked Zhao Hui: "If you hold on for another day, can you withstand it?" Zhao Hui thought for a moment and said, "I try to persevere, but I need a lot of firewood." ”

Luo Ming smiled and said, "My troops here have been collecting firewood for the past two days, and they will be sent in for you as soon as it gets dark." In addition, I will let the Qilin Tiger Army enter the pass with you later, collect the arrows fired by the Northern Alliance, and support you with bows and arrows tomorrow to suppress their attacks. ”

"Okay!" Zhao Hui was overjoyed and said, "If this is the case, I am confident that I will withstand it for another day." All of their crashing cars today were paralyzed by us, and tomorrow they will not pose a threat to us. In addition, their bows and arrows are very expensive today, and if they continue to fight like this, their reserves are estimated to last three or four days at most. When they run out of bows and arrows, they will have much less power when they attack the capital. ”

At the same time, in the marshal's mansion temporarily set up on the outskirts of Fuhua Prefecture of the Northern Alliance, Gu Yinqi was walking around very anxiously. Ding Zhenzhong stood beside him. The first battle was unfavorable, which made the atmosphere here extremely depressing.

"What else are you telling me, our hoplites in the Northern Alliance are invincible in the world?" Gu Yinqi almost jumped to his feet and scolded as soon as he started the fire. "What heavy cavalry swept through Unai. As a result, after a whole day of fighting, I couldn't even take a small castle defense line. ”

"Your Highness. Jiang Yunhui bent his knees and reported: "Our hoplites and cavalry have not been able to come in handy, because it is impossible for them to wear heavy armor and carry large and long weapons to climb the city wall. Besides, war horses can't climb ladders and ropes. ”

"I don't care about that. Gu Yinqi waved his hand impatiently and shouted, "I just want the result." Tomorrow I will set foot in Mingyang Fort, and I will plant my ancient flag at the highest point of Mingyang Fort. He added angrily: "You organize a death squad for me, and tomorrow Gu Ye will personally command." Before leaving, his father had repeatedly told him to listen to the opinions of experienced generals, and he promised well, but at this time he completely left it behind.

"Tell them to prepare more 'fire bombs'," Gu Yinqi shouted again, "I'm going to give them a barbecue dinner tomorrow." ”

"Your Highness. Jiang Yunhui said cautiously: "Do you think we will give them a sneak attack tonight?" They have been fighting all day, and they must be very tired at this time, and if we sneak up in the middle of the night, we will definitely be able to catch them off guard." ”

"Don't keep doing that. Gu Yinqi waved his hand impatiently: "I am invincible in the army of the Northern Alliance, do I still need to rely on this kind of trick of stealing chickens and touching dogs? Tomorrow, I will defeat them with dignity. ”

He paused, and then said loudly: "In today's battle, our 100,000 army suffered very little losses. Although Black Cloud City is very tenacious, it is already at the end of its power. Tomorrow I must crush the remnants of their strength to pieces. ”

The battlefield, filled with the smell of blood and the smell of various items being burned, ushered in the dawn of dawn in calm. The morning mist on the earth was like a light smoke floating around people.

When everything was recovering, the sound of trumpets and war drums was remembered outside the gate, which broke the quiet and beautiful atmosphere. The armies of the Northern Union began to assemble.

Zhao Hui used to be very worried about the enemy's night attack. But the quiet night reassured him a lot, and most of the soldiers were well rested after a day of bloody fighting. Since Luo Ming sent the Qilin Tiger Ben Army to his rear last night, ready to give him strong support at any time, his confidence was high, and he was determined to give the Xuanwu Army's army a little color today. But he soon discovers that things are not as simple as he imagined.

The army of the Northern Alliance was the first to unfold, still the same as yesterday, and began to bombard with trebuchetsets.

It's just that today's bombardment is different from yesterday's, and today it uses what Gu Yinqi called "fire bombs." They poured oil on the stones, lit a fire, and then launched them with trebuchets. Soon fires broke out everywhere on the walls of the castle.

In the face of the opponent's fire offensive, Zhao Hui was unmoved. He ordered most of his soldiers to withdraw from the city walls and stand by in hiding, leaving only observation posts to observe the enemy.

The entire Great Wall-like wall was made of stone, and he didn't care about the fire, so he didn't worry about the damage the bombardment would cause him.

On the contrary, he was secretly glad that he would have plenty of stones to use when he defended himself against enemy attacks.