In the early morning of the next day, after the soldiers of the battalion had finished eating, they left the camp in the sound of drums and horns, and officially began the attack on Jinju City.

At this time, at the head of the city, the soldiers defending the city of the Qi army saw the enemy troops outside the city approaching the city from all directions, and their mood was also full of tension and apprehension, but they also faintly carried a little expectation.

For many days, the enemy army has been besieging but not attacking, and the city general does not allow them to go out of the city to attack the enemy army, so it has been a stalemate, and the atmosphere in the city is dull and very torturous. Now that the enemy has finally launched an offensive, the next development of the situation is good or bad, after all, it can be regarded as entering a new stage, and it is no longer the dull and depressing before.

Since the men and horses in the city have not gone out of the city to carry out any defensive arrangements, there are basically no obstacles such as ditches and horses outside the city, and the siege troops and siege equipment on the Western Wei side can directly advance to the city to attack.

In this first round of attempted attacks, the Wei army did not take such fierce siege methods, but first bombarded the city wall with rushing vehicles to find the weak points on the city wall.

However, such an attempt was more or less futile, and although the Qi soldiers in the city did not go out of the city, they also seized the time in the city to strengthen the city defenses. Not only have all the city walls been properly repaired, but there is also a layer of rammed earth inside, which makes the inner and outer city walls extremely strong, and the city walls are completely blocked from the inside, which can be said to be completely free of loopholes.

Although the Wei army invested more than a dozen rushing vehicles to attack the city wall from different angles and directions in the first battle, the huge crashing wood only made a dull sound when it hit the city wall, and the damage to the city wall itself was minimal.

On the contrary, because the sergeants who controlled the rushing car probably underestimated their opponents and were too weak to protect, they were smashed and injured by the arrows falling from the city. And the enemy generals on the city are also running around quickly, issuing counterattack orders one after another, and all kinds of counterattack operations are also in order.

"It seems that there are still shrewd generals in the city."

Li Tai watched the back and forth offensive and defensive battles between the two sides outside the city, and commented with a smile in his mouth.

Liang Shiyan and other generals have a little unsightly, since the start of the war, they have always been the dominant party, the enemy army has always been cowering in the city, but also let these soldiers secretly despise and arrogant in their hearts, but now that they are fighting, they find that it is difficult for them to take advantage of anything, naturally it is a little embarrassing.

"The last general, please recruit the first warriors in the camp and use the ladder to attach the city to attack the thief front!"

Liang Shiyan said with his fists clenched, trying to save a little bit by attacking the city more violently.

When Li Tai heard this, he waved his hand and said, "There is no need to build earth mountains from the east of the city to surpass its city walls, and then dig tunnels from the south of the city to divert Fen water to water its city walls. It doesn't have to be done quickly, be careful, and especially be vigilant against thieves attacking the camp at night."

At present, there is no way to attack the city and pull out the fortification, but there is no way to be too effective, including the Heyang cannon that Li Tai has repeatedly used before, it is also to create an atmosphere that is greater than the actual destructive power, and it needs to be fought to a certain stage before it can be used as a means to destroy the enemy's confidence in holding on, and it is put into use at the beginning of the war, and the effect may not be very good.

Although the soldiers in this city have not been able to shrink before, and have not played the responsibilities and obligations that Pingyang City, an important border town, should bear, but from the perspective of the city defense itself, it is not bad, the defense is very solid, and the morale of the city is also maintained.

For the attack on Jinju City, Li Tai did not want to take the siege method of causing too many casualties, first, there was no need for that, and secondly, there was plenty of time, and the normal siege and siege of the city were exhausting the enemy, and another advantage of grasping the initiative in the war was that there was no need to sacrifice a lot of soldiers' lives in exchange for time.

Not to mention the slightly conservative siege method of the Wei army outside the city, as the offensive came to an end, the defenders at the head of the city also breathed a sigh of relief. It was already the atmosphere of black clouds pressing the city, but it only turned out to be a drizzle, which naturally made people secretly happy.

Especially a guy like Wei Cang, who was already panicked to death before the official start of the war, suddenly regained his courage when he saw with his own eyes that the enemy's offensive was not too fierce.

As the enemy troops outside the city temporarily retreated back to the camp, Wei Cang quickly boarded again

When he went up to the city, he looked at the slightly messy ground outside the city, and laughed loudly: "The Qiang thief is menacing, and he is brave and brave, but when he fights, he can't help but show his cowardice, it turns out that his skills stop here, so what is there to be afraid of!" In my opinion, you don't have to defend the city walls when you come to war, you can use strange soldiers to take the initiative to attack and attack the enemy unprepared!"

Zhencheng Xian Yu Shirong, who had been supervising the battle at the head of the city, heard that Wei Cang was a little forgetful again, and said in a deep voice: "The king still can't take it lightly, the enemy army outside the city is strong, several times larger than me, and besides, it has already passed around the city before, and it is important to enter the city. In this lonely city, the only way to defend is to take the lead, and there is no conclusive news of reinforcements, and it is still not easy to attack."

Wei Cang just casually said that he wanted to redeem his previous performance of being too timid, so he naturally would not insist on going out of the city to fight, and after hearing this, he nodded, and then looked at Xian Yu Shirong and the others and said: "In terms of arrangement, it is not my forte to win against the enemy, but it is also my duty to honor relatives and be virtuous for the country!"

If you can't win, you and I are no enemy, and there is nothing to say. But if I can defeat the enemy, then after I return to the court, I will definitely honor your and other merits, and I will not bury the heroes without a name!"

Hearing Yu Cang say this, Xian Yu Shirong and the others were also secretly relieved. To be honest, the biggest destabilizing factor in this city is Wei Cang, as long as this guy can be safe and secure and not dictate the city defense affairs, with the various strengths they have made to the city defense in the past few days, it should not be difficult to hold on for a while.

Although the Wei army's thunderous and rainy siege method relieved the defenders of Jinzhou City, the urgent letter sent by Wei Cang out of the city to swim to Fenxi and then forwarded it caused an uproar everywhere.

The first person to learn about this was the Jinyang side, and in the past few days, the Jinyang side has recruited and transferred people, and the armor soldiers from all sides have been continuously gathered. When the envoys of Jinzhou City finally arrived in Jinyang after traveling day and night in the mountains and forests, Jinyang had gathered sixty or seventy thousand horses again, because the armor strength was gradually increasing, and Gao Yang, the lord of Qi, gradually regained his courageous state.

However, when he saw the urgent letter from Jinzhou that the Western Wei army was two or three hundred thousand, and the envoy also repeatedly described the vigorous state of the Wei army, Gao Yang suddenly became a little unconfident.

However, now that it is known that the enemy's main army has been engaged in the battle here, the Northern Qi side should no longer be too conservative, and should actively take action to encircle and attack the enemy. If the enemy army is allowed to capture Jinju City and have a solid army base, then with its current strength, it will be difficult to take Jinju back.

If Jinzhou is captured by the Western Wei Dynasty, it is tantamount to directly resisting a sharp knife under the throat of the Northern Qi, even if Jinyang can be undisturbed for a while, but if Gao Yang imagines that Jinyang and Ye are free to come and go like in previous years, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it.

Once the emperor's own actions are restricted and he must live somewhere for a long time, then according to the situation of people within their Northern Qi, one of the two places in Jinyang and Hebei will inevitably drop the chain!

Although Gao Yang has been in the dark in recent years, he has always been very clear about these personnel issues within his regime. The gains and losses of Jinzhou are not only the gains and losses of simple military border defense, once Jinzhou cannot be defended, then a series of personnel contradictions within the Northern Qi Dynasty will soon become obviously intensified, and even he, the emperor, will find it difficult to carry out any balancing operations.

It's just that the enemy army is large at the moment, and the strength of the Jinyang side has still not fully recovered, and it is not enough to serve as the main force in this counterattack. And with the loss of the two main roads of the Bird Mouse Valley and the Thousand Miles Path, it will take a certain amount of time to reopen.

So Gao Yang ordered Gao Sihao, the king of Nan'an, who had just arrived in Jinyang from Shuozhou, to lead 20,000 divisions and brigades to the south, and tried to reopen the main road to the south with Pan Zihuang, the king of Hedong, and at the same time asked Tang Yong to increase the recruitment and deployment of troops.

During the period when Jinyang continued to recruit men and horses and accumulate strength, Duan Shao, the king of the plains, could only be allowed to act as the main force attacking the enemy army in Yedu. The combined number of Yedu and Heyang people has reached more than 100,000, even if they can't completely defeat the enemy army, but through continuous disturbance, the enemy army can be tired and demoralized.

When the time comes, Jinyang will gather enough armor soldiers, and after opening the southbound passage, it will be able to be under the army.

To give the enemy a head-on blow, we must make Li Boshan, a cunning and stubborn enemy, pay a heavy price. When the time comes, don't talk about Jinju, even Hedong can be captured in one go!

Soon, Gao Yang's order reached Yedu. At this time, Yedu had withdrawn nearly 60,000 horses from Heyang back and forth.

Duan Shao had already led 20,000 horses into Fukou before, and if he wanted to serve as the main force to counterattack the enemy at this stage, only 20,000 horses were obviously not enough.

After receiving the emperor's edict, Gao Yan, who stayed in Yedu, hurriedly sent an envoy to Fukou to discuss with Duan Shao, and decided to reinforce Duan Shao with all the men and horses in Yedu at present, and then continued to mobilize troops from Heyang to return to Yedu as a reserve force and maintain law and order in Yedu.

However, when Gao Yan's order reached Heyang again, it was opposed by Hu Luguang, the guard general of Heyang. Hu Luguang did not follow the order to continue to arrange for the return of the people and horses, but went to Yedu secretly in person to express his views to King Changshan in person.

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