Following.

Matsubara Castle Head.

The Kushan soldiers defending the city are changing their guards.

"How was last night? Nothing happens, right? ”

"Hey, what can you do, the Tatars let them be okay on the plains and meadows, let them attack the city, do you look down on them, do you see that there is a city in the steppe?

No one night! ”

"That's good, I just hope that a few days can pass safely during the day!"

The soldiers who changed guards said with hope on their faces.

The soldier on guard immediately laughed and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, it'll be fine, I'll go back and rest first, and I'll bring you wine when I come at night!" ”

"Good!"

Laughing, the two sides completed the change of guards, and Ye Hu also led people up the city wall at this time and began to patrol along the city gate.

As a general of the border pass, he is responsible for the defense of the fifteen cities, and he sits in the most important and closest to the grassland, Songyuan City, and the other fourteen cities are also his henchmen.

Although his practice of abandoning the land has aroused great discussion in the country these days, with the implementation of the defense line of the fifteen cities, the Tatars have never been able to bypass the defense line and enter the territory after the fifteen cities.

Their family is also a great martial artist in the Kushan country, and they are also the nobles of the original Kushan Department, and it can be said that the mother's family in the emperor's family today comes out of the same department.

Their former Kushan tribe has always been united after the Kushan department occupied a dominant position in the Otsuki clan, and this time they will definitely support him in the rear, so he is not worried at all that he will be punished for this matter, at most because he will be questioned at this time.

But as long as he can defend the defense line of the fifteen cities, then he will not only have no faults but also merits.

Now he is clear about the situation of the Otsuki clan as a high-ranking general, and he is full of flowers on the surface, but in fact it is just a false appearance.

As long as he was able to hold the line and prevent the Tatars from advancing, his credit was already very high.

In contrast, he is very confident.

The Tatars are not good at attacking cities!

At this time, everyone's consensus, in the past, they were the same as the Great Yue Clan, and it was not until after the annexation of Great Xia that they gradually made up for the disadvantages in this regard, it can be said that this disadvantage is usually a common problem of all nomads, and their siege methods are also very consistent, and the people who capture the other party use human lives to pile up!

But he had deployed nearly 300,000 troops in the fifteen cities, and he was confident that even if the Tatars fought them all, they would not be able to break the city!

Walking on the gate of the city, looking at the soldiers of the Guishan Country with their heads held high, Ye Hu couldn't help but nodded, the Dayue Clan has been established for more than 20 years, and the first generation of soldiers has grown old, and now most of the backbones are already the second generation.

However, it has been found in various armies recently that the second generation of soldiers may be due to the fact that the life of the Dayue clan has improved after entering the Western Regions, so the will to fight is generally much worse than that of the previous generation, and some nobles with military merits are lustful, but they are as timid as mice.

There is a second generation of Wuxun's family who has a relationship with his family, and he can't even ride a horse, which is a joke!

The martial nobles of the Otsutsuki clan actually don't know how to ride horses!

If this kind of goods were placed on the grassland in the past, it would not have been possible to grow up at all, and they would have been eliminated by the cruel laws of the grassland.

Where can it grow that big?

After all, the times are different!

Ye Hu, who was on patrol, suddenly sighed.

The adjutant general on the side glanced at his own general in surprise, but he suddenly waved his hand to continue the inspection, and the adjutant general continued to lead the way.

When they arrived at the south gate, they suddenly heard a burst of exclamations around them!

Ye Hu's heart moved, he looked up, and the next moment, his pupils couldn't help but dilate, and his mouth opened wide!

The black pressure is as if dark clouds are drifting towards this side, and the army with no end in sight is gradually approaching outside the city!

Banner Hunting!

Countless black flags fluttered in the air, hunting and ringing by the north wind!

Among them, in particular, a cloud flag with a black background and gold border in the middle of the army is the tallest and most conspicuous!

The flags of the surrounding tribes are all one head lower, but they surround it like a guard, and they arch it up like the stars and the moon, showing the status of this banner and its owner!

"Enemy attack!! All troops on alert! ”

The mournful warning sound instantly sounded throughout Matsubara Castle, and the rumbling drums and heart-rending shouts of the defenders suddenly brought the originally peaceful Matsubara Castle into a state of emergency.

The defenders of the city, who had just changed their guards, scolded them for their bad luck, quickly checked their weapons and equipment, and quickly began to arrange manpower to continuously transport the materials piled up under the city to the city, but secretly prayed in their hearts that they could survive the battle that was waiting for them.

No one will doubt the intensity of the war, judging by the boundless army outside, it is clear that this time the Tatars are going to be big!

Although there were many defenders in the castle, as the most important first castle, Matsubara Castle alone had a full 50,000 troops defending the city.

But in the face of the black army outside that couldn't see the number of people, everyone's hearts were shrouded in a layer of haze!

Can the two of them really stop it?

Are the Tatars crazy enough to have so many people at once!?

When the soldiers were frantically preparing, Ye Hu, who was on the south gate tower, propped his hands on the battlements, his eyes staring at the conspicuous cloud-shaped flag in the center of the army that was constantly approaching!

I kept thinking about which tribe this was? Why do the banners of other Tatar tribes have to live under it?

After thinking about it for a long time, he turned his head and asked the lieutenant general beside him.

"Tuer, what is written on the banner in the middle of the army, which tribe of Tatar is it? Why have I never seen one? ”

The deputy general Tu Er also looked at the cloud-shaped banner carefully for a while, and after a while, he shook his head and said: "General, I don't recognize which tribe that flag belongs to, but when I look at the words on the flag, how is it a bit like the text of the Song Kingdom?" ”

Tu Er is in his forties this year, and he also invaded the Great Song Dynasty with the Da Yue clan who was still on the grassland, but now so many years have passed, and he has not seen the Song script for so long, and his memory is a little blurred.

"Song script?"

Ye was stunned for a moment, but then his eyes narrowed, and he said, "Could it be that the Song army's army is coming?" ”

Tu Er was also taken aback, and said, "General, it is very likely!" It has long been said that the current Tatars have surrendered and belong to the command of a Song king, but I am afraid that it is not the army sent by the Song king.

It is no wonder that all the Tatars will take the initiative to attack the city.

But general, if the Song army comes, we will be in danger!

The Tatars are not good at attacking cities, but the Song people are extremely good at it!

Can we, the 50,000 men in Matsubara Castle, stop them? ”

Ye Huyan gritted his teeth when he heard this: "If you can't stop it, you have to block it, if you can't stop us, then the next fourteen cities will be even more unstoppable, once you let these hundreds of thousands of Tatars enter the country, with the current situation in the country, what kind of scene will appear, you know!"

When the time comes, don't say it's the general, even our family will be finished!

The Tatars will not let us go, and Your Majesty will not spare us!

Immediately send an order to double all the materials to defend the city, mobilize all the people in the city, including civilians, to transport the materials together, we must use the most important attitude to defend the city, notify all the warriors of Xiu Mu, cancel Xiu Mu and prepare to defend the city at any time.

and those warriors who have just changed their defenses, let them find a place to rest under the city, don't go back, and be able to wake them up at any time to defend the city together.

At the same time, notify the rear and send at least 30,000 people to support as soon as possible!

We need to be as prepared as possible to deal with this battle! ”

"Yes! Checkmate! ”

The adjutant general responded and quickly went to make arrangements.

And Ye Hu immediately summoned generals at all levels to begin to discuss the matter of defending the city.

Soon the entire Matsubara Castle moved, and countless soldiers who had been resting were called back, and the common people in the city were driven out of their houses to help transport supplies to the city.

The soldiers who had just changed their guard and were about to go back to sleep were stopped, and they found some random houses nearby to rest on the spot, not allowing them to go too far from the city wall, and they had to be ready to support at any time.

At the same time, seven or eight messengers received them from inside the city and went out of the city to the rear of Kushan, passed the news to the rear, and asked for reinforcements and troop transfers.

Outside the city, Zhao Jun sat on the king of his vassal kingdom under the arch guard of the army, and came to the outside of Songyuan City under the arch guard of a large number of large and small khans and the arch of the army.

Looking at the three-zhang high city wall in front of him, he smiled coldly, and with a wave of his hand, Ding Hongguang next to him immediately held a meeting, and hurriedly asked the flag soldiers to wave the command flag, and the next moment the 650,000 troops were separated from it.

Thousands of soldiers of the Yunzhou Army's Shenji Battalion appeared on the battlefield with one hundred and thirty Burning Cloud II artillery, and under the cover of shield soldiers, they came to a distance of less than three hundred steps from the city wall!

This is the secret weapon that Zhao Jun brought for this war, the latest improved artillery of the Tiangong Academy, the Burning Cloud II Style!

Although it is still a front-loading smoothbore gun, this time due to the progress of iron-making technology, the steel quality of the Yunzhou Army has become better and better in recent years, and the cannon chamber of the Fire Yun-2 style has become thinner and lighter overall, but the caliber has not only become smaller, but also larger!

The original 100 mm caliber was expanded to a 200 mm caliber.

Even the gunpowder is an improved version, at least twice as powerful as it was in the beginning!

It's just that there is not much improvement in range, for the sake of accuracy, Zhao Jun still asked the army to place it within 300 steps of the target for shooting!

Since the second type of burning clouds was the first time on the battlefield, all the generals in the Yunzhou army looked at it with curiosity and wanted to know how much stronger it was than the first type.

The Tatar army, on the other hand, looked at the Divine Machine Battalion with some blankness, they didn't know what these small chimney-like things were?

But looking at the appearance of the Yunzhou army, it should be a very powerful weapon, so they all watched curiously.

At the head of Songyuan City, Ye Hu and the others looked at the scene below and were also confused, not understanding what the other party was going to do?

But there was always a sense of unease that hung over them.

Seeing that everything was ready, the corners of Zhao Jun's mouth curled slightly, and he waved his hand and gave the order to attack!

The flag soldiers immediately gave the signal to open artillery, and the general of the Shenji Battalion immediately gave the order to attack as soon as he saw the signal!

"The prince has an order! All of them! Fire! ”

Thundered!

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(End of chapter)