Chapter 904: Siege
Li Chuwen's envoy went very smoothly, and Tong Guan agreed after pondering for a long time.
Tong Guan also warmly left Li Chuwen to participate in the banquet in the evening, Li Chuwen naturally knew that Tong Guan wanted to keep him as a guarantee, so he did not refuse.
"Tong Xiang, the demise of Northern Liao is imminent, why should we cooperate with them!"
Yang Keshi saw Li Chuwen leaving, looked at Tong Guan and said.
"Northern Liao is destroyed, and Yanyun can't fall into the hands of Sun Lei!"
Tong Guan said directly.
"Tong Xiang, if you want to deal with Sun Lei, why do you have to go to Xijin Mansion, let's attack Cangzhou directly, cut off Sun Lei's retreat, and then Sun Lei will be a rootless tree, and it is a matter of time when he perishes!"
Seed Master Dao looked at Tong Guan and suggested, in his heart, he was very pessimistic about this battle, they couldn't help Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi, but Sun Lei could directly besiege Xijin Mansion, and the combat strength of the two sides was not at the same level for a long time.
"Why do you think Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi don't leave outside? Why should I keep Lee? ”
Tong Guan looked at the farmer with a cold eye, this group of veterans knew that they relied on the old and sold the old, and always thought that they were the smartest, but they didn't know that he was the master of the human heart power technique, otherwise how would he climb to his current position.
Tong Guan's words made everyone present speechless, they are now besieged by the Northern Liao cavalry, if they don't go to deal with Sun Lei outside the Xijin Mansion, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi will never retreat, if it goes on like this, it will only be a defeat for both sides, and Sun Lei will benefit.
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Outside the Satsu Prefecture.
Under the bombardment of artillery rounds after rounds, the once prosperous Xijin Mansion has been deserted, and there is no one else on the streets of the city except soldiers, and the cold wind of late autumn rolls up and leaves whirls on the streets of the city.
Sun Lei's patience is far better than Ye Luchun thought, that is, he kept bombarding and constantly putting pressure on Xijin Mansion.
"Damn, why didn't they come to attack the city!"
Ye Luchun gritted his teeth and said, the city of Xijin Mansion is tall, if Sun Lei comes to attack the city, it only takes a few bloody battles for them to consume Sun Lei's soldiers and horses and let Sun Lei retreat.
"Your Majesty, the barracks in the north of the city have been smashed a lot, and now the soldiers have nowhere to live......"
An official reports to Yelu Chunyu.
Ye Luchun didn't reply, he had heard this kind of thing in the past few days, his ears were calloused, either the houses were smashed, or the city towers were smashed, and even the military camp was smashed today.
"Your Majesty, if the soldiers have nowhere to live, I'm afraid it will cause chaos, so it's better to requisition some private houses to live in!"
Someone spoke.
Ye Luchun just waved his hand, he felt that it was already a little difficult to breathe, let the officials solve these things.
"If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that the people will be dissatisfied!"
Immediately, there was an objection that more houses were destroyed, and that houses that had the opportunity to get close to the city walls were destroyed.
"Now that the enemy is besieging the city, the soldiers are working hard to defend the city, and the people should make sacrifices!"
Yelu Guobao opened his mouth and said, the most important thing now is to stabilize the morale of the army, which is the key to defending the city.
Yeluchun heard the quarrel and coughed violently, and the eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to serve, and Yeluchun got better after a long time, but he didn't care about everyone's quarrels, and went to the harem with the help of the eunuch.
After the quarrel, the solution was to expropriate the houses, and no one thought about what would happen to the people who lost their houses.
Outside the city, it was getting late.
The artillery that had been bombarded for a day began to slowly retreat, and the artillery of Liangshan had been fighting very regularly in the past few days, bombarding the city one mile outside the city during the day, and at night the artillery withdrew two miles away, focusing on the defenders on the city wall.
"Damn!"
Yelu Guozhen was furious as he watched the retreating enemy artillery, one mile was beyond the reach of their long-range weapons, and at night the artillery withdrew two miles away, making it difficult for them to sneak attack.
"It can't go on like this!"
Wu Yanguang looked at the retreating enemy artillery, this way of running to beat the cavalry and infantry without charging made them powerful and had nowhere to go, and they wanted to rely on the city wall to consume the enemy, but they ended up being consumed by the enemy.
The smell of food had already come from the enemy camp in the distance, which made the faces of the defenders even more gloomy.
In this regard, Wu Yanguang is also helpless, forcing the restaurant in the city to prepare meals, but there is no way to go on like this.
In the past few days, many houses in the city have been smashed, and under the panic of the people, there have been no restaurants and restaurants for a long time.
"General, instead of being beaten like this, it's better to go out and fight, we have an army of 200,000, and Sun Lei is only 100,000!"
Qiong Demon Nayan immediately spoke, he had enough of this kind of aggrieved law-abiding.
"After dark, the enemy will definitely shell the city wall again, let the defenders be careful, rest for the night, and tomorrow we will go out of the city!"
Wu Yanguang ordered, in this way, the hearts of the army and the people will not be able to hold on, and they will not be able to support Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi to come back.
"Yes!"
And they were overjoyed, and immediately they received the command.
Outside the city, Liangshan camp.
Sun Lei was having dinner with everyone.
"It's been almost the past few days, change the way you play tonight, get on the trebuchet, the weather is a little cold, add a fire to the city, keep them warm!"
Sun Lei said with a smile, I am afraid that the regular attacks in the past few days have made the defenders of Xijin Mansion accustomed to it, thinking that it will still be the same bombardment of the city wall tonight.
"Yes, brother!"
Ling Zhen smiled and said, he has collected a lot of data in the past few days, and he can improve the artillery after he goes back.
After dark, there were no soldiers in the city of Xijin Mansion, although Wu Yanguang strictly forbade the soldiers to leave their posts without authorization, but the artillery bombardment had already made the soldiers defending the city frightened.
During the day, there were generals patrolling, artillery was fired into the city, and the soldiers dared to stay on the city wall, but at night, the soldiers hid behind the city wall and could not be killed.
In the dark night, Ling Zhen commanded his soldiers to push the trebuchet to the south of the city of Xijin Mansion, and according to the law, they should shell the north of the city tonight.
"Fire oil bombs, throw!"
Ling Zhen didn't aim either, and directly asked the soldiers to ignite the barrel filled with fire oil, and then the trebuchet began to throw.
Compared to artillery, trebuchets made almost no sound, and the lit barrels smashed into the city, the barrels shattered, and the oil splashed when it encountered an open flame, igniting everything that was contaminated.
In the night, the fire of Xijin Mansion was loud, and the sky-high fire lit up half of the city.
Ling Zhen did not stop, and after a few rounds, he took the trebuchet to change direction and continued to throw fire oil bombs.
The defenders, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, were immediately awakened by the light of the fire and hurried out to extinguish the fire, but the fire ignited by the oil was not so easy to extinguish, and the water splashed on it had little effect, but would expand the fire.
"What's going on?"
Ye Luchun, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by the firelight and shouting, and his already bad body was uncomfortable again, and the coughing sound sounded.
Wu Yanguang and others also quickly led people to the place where the fire was on fire, and when they saw the huge fire, they immediately asked people to extinguish the fire with sand.
But there was far more than one flame, and with the continuous projection of trebuchets outside the city, a circle of fire had already formed in the outer city of Xijin Prefecture.