The first siege ended hastily, and the Great Xia soldiers who attacked the city wall lost more than 800 people killed and 500 wounded.

This number made Liu Mo feel distressed.

Immediately after the withdrawal, he called an emergency meeting.

"What the hell!" Zhu Min ripped off his helmet with both hands and threw it to the ground. The hideous helmet was charred and deformed, and half of it was concave. Blood was dripping from the top of one of his eyes, covering half of his face from his old burn scar.

"How can there be so many defenders in Yongxing City?" Zhu Min's breathing was rough, "Do you have long eyes?" ”

"Sun Kan, what's going on, how can the information from your scout be so discrewed?" Liu Mo asked.

"My lord, my subordinates don't know." Sun Kan frowned.

A scout stepped forward. "My lord, it's understandable that one person is wrong, but his subordinates have investigated four times, and indeed only saw 3,000 people!"

Before Liu Mo's army came to Yongxing, he had sent scouts to investigate, and the news he brought back was the same.

The blood on Zhu Min's face shone red, and his eyes were full of anger. "Are the enemy troops in Yongxing City drilled out of the ground?"

"Don't say these nonsense words again!" Liu Mo interrupted Zhu Min.

There may be more than 10,000 defenders in Woody City. What was Yang Yizhi thinking? Why did you make such a deployment!

"My lord, let's talk about it!" Zhu Min spoke again, "Let's launch a strong attack tomorrow!" ”

"No, no!" A general said, "In Yongxing City, there is the personal guard of the emperor of the enemy country!" ”

Liu Mo looked at the man in shock, "What did you say?" ”

"Zhou Dynasty Imperial Guard!" The general explained as he looked at Zhu Min, "General Zhu, the last time you fought with them, you taught me to recognize the armor of the Zhou Dynasty's royal guards. ”

The royal family guards of the Zhou Dynasty are equivalent to the Great Xia Yulin Guard?

Liu Mo couldn't believe his ears, what was the situation. Little Yongxing, the king of the Zhou Dynasty is stationed with his personal guards?

"Sun Kan, are there ambushes around?" Liu Mo immediately asked, he was very worried, Yang Yi would learn from him to come to an ambush, just like the last battle of Rongcheng!

The latter shook his head, "I didn't find it!" ”

"Expand the scope and do reconnaissance within thirty miles!" Liu Mo frowned and said, "Also, the six princes, don't cut off the contact, report the military situation at any time!" ”

"Yes!"

"My lord, what about Yongxing City? Do you want to attack the city tomorrow? Zhu Min asked.

"Don't do it for the time being, our army has plenty of food and grass, so don't be in a hurry!"

"But Xiao Yongxing can't take it, let's not say that the six princes will be blamed, do we still want this face?" Zhu Min said impatiently.

"Is face more important or is the lives of the soldiers more important?" Liu Molang said. "The enemy army has nearly 10,000 defenders, and forcibly captured Yongxing, how many casualties did our army have?"

When the time comes, what will you do to fight with Wei Deng and Wei Changjun.

"So just wait?"

"I will write to the Sixth Prince, Hetu City has been broken, presumably His Highness can spare his hands to support." Liu Mo said, "Before that, I have other clever plans!" ”

The 30,000-strong attack on Yongxing is of course different from the effect of the 100,000-strong army, and the casualties will be much smaller.

At this point, Zhu Min didn't say more.

The next day, under Liu Mo's orders, the Great Xia army began to get busy outside Yongxing City.

Do what? Collect the things that start the fire!

Under Liu Mo's order, the soldiers tied the hay and firewood they found into bundles, whichever manpower could carry, and then moved to the east of Yongxing City.

Objective? Siege 1: Smoke.

After the preparation, Liu Mo ordered the firewood to be flammable with the hay as the center, and the wet grass around it to make it smoke.

Since the place where the fire and smoke are generated should not be too far from the city, it is necessary to prepare a leather fence or shield in case the enemy attacks with arrows. Because these forages are wet, they will emit thick smoke and smoke the eight inside!

When the firewood was lit and real gray smoke came out, Zhu Min and the others couldn't help but smile, "Damn stinky kings, I hope they won't be able to hold back and go out of the city to fight, haha!" ”

Liu Mo was silent, listening to the firewood burning, and let out a scream like thunder.

Smoke rolled up and hit Woody City.

The Great Xia soldiers standing above could even clearly hear the coughing and scolding of the defenders, and the reprimands of the non-commissioned officers.

"Come out, Ba Wang! Come out and die! ”

Under Liu Mo's orders, the Great Xia soldiers also began to shout in unison, laughing at the cowardice of the defenders.

Will the other party be stupid enough to go out of the city to fight? The probability is negligible, but the impact on morale is huge!

In the era of cold weapons, morale is the most critical factor in determining victory or defeat.

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, "Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top!" ”

As expected, the defenders of Woody City were the tortoise.

And Liu Mo's siege methods are more than this.

After smoking the Zhou Dynasty for a full day, he ordered again to implement the next one: smoke balls and poison smoke balls.

Both weapons were projected into Woody City using catapults (gun carts).

The smoke ball is to put a pound of artemisia annua on the outside of three catties of gunpowder, and then pierce the thick paper layer that ignites the gunpowder with a red-hot awl when the bomb is to be dropped, and it is placed on the gun cart to fire, calculate the distance and burning speed, and when the ball falls to the enemy camp, it just ignites the ball gunpowder to cause an explosion.

The composition of the poison smoke ball is a little more complicated, with sulfur fifteen taels, grass aconitum five taels, flame nitrate one catty fourteen taels, croton five taels, wolf poison five taels, tung oil two halves, small oil two halves, charcoal powder five taels.

Two halves of asphalt, two taels of pi frost, one tael of yellow wax, one or two points of bamboo ru, one or two points of maru, pounded into a ball, weighing five catties.

It is a hemp rope, one zhang and two feet long, weighs half a catty, and is a string. Therefore, the paper is twelve and a half, the hemp skin is ten taels, the asphalt is two and a half, the yellow wax is two and a half, the yellow dan is one or two and a half, and the charcoal is pounded and coated outside.

When using it, first use a fire cone to burn through the shell, and then put it with a catapult. When the enemy bursts, its breath is smoky, and the mouth and nose bleed.

Do you have any of these things? That's for sure!

Before leaving, he knew that there would be siege battles, and Liu Mo had already prepared these siege methods and siege items.

It's just that the materials are more precious, and he didn't plan to use them in Yongxing City at first.

But now the war has encountered a bottleneck, and it can't be managed so much.

The poison smoke ball is made and filled with catapults.

Liu Mo gave an order, "Bang, bang, bang!" "Throwing a poisonous cigarette ball into Woody City.

Soon after, there was a burst of screams in the city.

Seeing this situation, Liu Mo couldn't help but sigh, if Yang Yizhi used these moves to attack the city at that time, he was afraid that he would be difficult to resist.

"Brother Zhu, wouldn't it be too cruel?" When Zhu Min walked in front of him, Liu Mo asked in a low voice.

"No! It's war! Zhu Min replied.

"Then be a little more cruel!" Liu Mo grinned. "You can dig less latrines and add more material to put into the throwables!"