Chapter 156: General, Something Happened!
Although he is not good at fighting in military formations, he also knows a lot about these sieges.
More than 100,000 border troops wanted to attack the border towns guarded by 50,000 people.
Not to mention, it takes three days to break the city, how can it be possible to break through Yundong City in just one day.
On the side, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu didn't think about it, he took a step forward and possessed himself.
"Your Majesty, you must not believe this!"
"Since the Su Mo unified the army, it has won a hundred battles, and it has never been defeated, and it is not impossible to break the city in one day!"
Before he could continue to speak, Hu Weitian on the side directly retorted.
"Lu Shangshu may not know about the military formation!"
"The siege is more than ten times more difficult than the decisive battle of the grassland!"
"Besides, the person who led the troops this time was not Su Mo, but Bai Qi!"
His voice fell, and a puzzled question suddenly appeared in the court, and everyone looked at each other, and then asked.
"Bai Qi? Who is this person? ”
"Yes, I've never heard of Bai Qi's name, is this person very strong?"
"It's not Su Mo who commands the army, compared to them, they will definitely be lost in the hands of the Dawu Dynasty this time!"
Listening to the questioning voices beside him, a soldier stood up and explained.
"Bai Qi is a general under Su Mo, and he previously commanded the army to defeat my Great Zhou's million-strong army!"
"Except for this battle, there is no news about Bai Qi!"
Hearing this, all the officials laughed.
"How can a nameless general break a city in one day?"
"Such news must be fake, Your Majesty does not need to worry!"
With the ministers not having to worry, a smile gradually appeared on Zhao Wu's face, and he didn't care about it.
On the other side, the news came back to the Xiongnu Dynasty, and everyone laughed.
King Zuo Xian sneered directly.
"I thought the Dawu Dynasty was so powerful!"
"As a result, people will break the city in one day, which is worse than my Huns!"
In his heart, King Youxian's defeat to Su Mo was also a fight on the grassland.
The opponent's cavalry is superb, and if his own side is defeated, he will be defeated, and the right virtuous king is not good at leading troops.
But now that a deputy general under Su Mo can lead the troops, he can break the city in one day, which is simply ridiculous.
The difficulty of attacking the city is several times more difficult than the decisive battle of the grassland, not to mention, the person who fights is still the deputy general.
While he was sneering, the lieutenants on the side also laughed, laughing at the incompetence of the Dawu Dynasty.
When King Youxian heard this, his face was a little ugly.
King Zuoxian's sentence is inferior to my Huns, it sounds like a mockery of the Dawu Dynasty, but in fact, he also scolded him, the King of Youxian.
This was to remind him that he had only lost to Su Mo not long ago.
But even as a general of the defeated army, he was quite disdainful of the Dawu Dynasty at this time.
In his eyes, if he led a large army to defend the city and Su Mo attacked the city, he would definitely not lose the city in a day.
Not to mention that the person who commanded the army was Bai Qi, a general who had never heard his name.
In the intelligence of the Xiongnu, Bai Qi previously commanded a million-strong army to defeat Xiao Wutian, which seemed to be extremely brilliant.
But King Youxian knew in his heart that the two sides of that battle were head-to-head, and there were no tactics or tactics.
Su Mo is also the commander of the vanguard army, and has little to do with Bai Qi.
The war of the border army behind did not start in vain.
Even if he went deep into the grassland, he didn't hear that Bai Qi went out with the army.
Therefore, his opinion of Bai Qi in his heart is quite disdainful.
The so-called one-day destruction of the city is just a lie made up by Su Mo in order to build momentum for his subordinates, and it can never be true.
Lou Lanxie, the deputy general under the command of King Youxian, even said,
"If the person who leads the army is white, I will definitely tear him up and serve him as a snack for the prince!"
King Zuo Xian on the side was extremely unhappy when he looked at Lou Lan's evil figure, and he choked directly.
"What are you?"
"Is there anything you have to say here?"
Loulan Xie was about to get angry, but turned to see that the person who spoke was King Zuo Xian, and helplessly suppressed the anger in his heart.
He bowed indignantly and apologized, and then stood back behind the Right Hyun King.
The Xiongnu Khan, fearing that the king of the left and the king of the right would quarrel again, immediately pulled everyone back and let them go home.
On the other side, outside Tianshui City, Chen Wu and others also caught up with the logistics troops, only sixty miles away from Tianshui City.
After receiving the news, Bai Qi immediately arranged for his soldiers to begin preparations for the siege of the city.
He asked the lieutenant general to mobilize all the red-coated cannons to the front line and prepare for an all-out bombardment.
Not far away, Chen Wu had already taken the lead in rushing to the outside of Tianshui City with the vanguard army, and everyone looked at the Bai Qi army not far away, and they were puzzled.
Adjutant General Lu Tian asked out loud.
"General, why are the border troops only besieging the city and not besieging it!"
"If the four gates of Shuicheng are closed today, you should lead the army to attack the city!"
In Lu Tian's heart, the siege battle is a white-knuckle battle between swords and soldiers, and everyone wants to fight with real swords and guns when they attack the city.
See whose morale can hold on.
Now that the army under Bai Qi has the advantage, he should take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and directly attack and break the city.
Why wait for the deployment of the army?
Chen Wu on the side looked at the military formation not far away, and was quite unconvinced.
He was originally a general of the Great Zhou, and he had only heard of the name of Bai Qi, and it was said that this person had broken Xiao Wutian's million-strong army.
But even so, he believed that Bai Qi was not qualified to be the commander of the army and go deep into the hinterland of the Dawu Dynasty.
This commander-in-chief position should be his.
In terms of qualifications, he was born in a family of generals in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he was a famous general.
In terms of talent, he went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu and asked himself how much he was not inferior to Bai Qi.
In terms of experience, he has been fighting against the Dawu Dynasty all the year round, and he knows the Dawu Dynasty better than Bai Qi.
But now that the army is attacking the Dawu Dynasty, he is not even a vanguard general, and can only be used as a logistics force.
The gap in this made him quite dissatisfied with Bai Qi, the commander, and he wanted to see how Bai Qi would break the city!
Just when Chen Wu and the others were about to see how Bai Qi attacked the city, the latter had already made preparations at this time.
Thirty red-coated cannons were erected seven miles outside Tianshui City, which was the best firing range that the craftsmen had experimented with.
With Bai Qi's order, thirty red-clothed cannons were fired together!
Boom, boom, boom!
The sound of bombardment one after another instantly resounded through Tianshui City!
Chen Wu and the others not far away were still talking and laughing about how to deal with logistics.
Suddenly, they were shocked by the bombardment of the red-clothed cannon, and Lu Tian and the others on the side were directly stunned on the spot.
"W-where is this sound coming from?"
"Could it be that the heavenly punishment has been lowered?"
A group of lieutenants got up one after another, and everyone looked around.
I want to see where the sound is coming from nearby.
Just as everyone was looking, the second volley came again.
Bang!
Bang!
The sound of the sky was heard again, and everyone reacted.
Looking along the line of sight, he suddenly found the place where the red-coated cannon was.
Thirty red-coated cannons were emitting thick green smoke at the moment.
Not far away, the force of the shock kicked up a cloud of dust.
The fog of burning gunpowder caused a burst of white smoke to rise over a radius of several hundred meters around it.
It looks like a special formation, and it's extremely weird.
Not far away, the red-clothed cannon bombarded Tianshui City, and the huge explosion instantly shattered the city wall.
Each bombardment kicked up a fog several feet high, and the rubble and smoke flying on the walls made it difficult to see what was really happening on the walls.
On the other side, in Tianshui City, the commander Wang Tiancheng was busy at the moment, and the whole person was unconscious.
The sound of bombing made him a little confused for a while.
Before he could make a decision, an adjutant general rushed over quickly.