All the horses of the Tenth Army Corps were crowded into the small city of Huaining, and the officers and soldiers were all resting, eating, and drinking on the streets, and they could get on their horses and leave the city at any time.

"Do you really want to do this?" Yi Feng asked Shao Diantai.

"Otherwise?" Shao Diantai asked rhetorically.

"The Gongsun family chose to sit idly by, we should go back. Yi Feng said in the lowest voice, not wanting the third person to hear it.

"Can you run away in front of the Eighth Legion? I can't do it!"

"Ding Kui put on such a posture just to lure us over, why did he throw himself into the net?"

"One-on-one, it's fair, maybe there won't be such an opportunity in the future. ”

"The Eighth Legion has helpers. ”

Shaodian Tai said in a voice that was almost angry: "We also have it! Although we are a little weaker, we are a cavalry legion, the strongest legion in Shaodian Country!"

Yi Feng calmly looked at the other party's eyes, and squeezed out his throat word by word: "After the war of Cao Guo, it is difficult to call it the strongest. ”

The Tenth Legion was wounded in the first battle of Cao State, and later lost to the Giant Shark Legion, and the world-famous Knight Legion was greatly damaged, and the recruits who were added to the Legion after that were definitely not as good as the veterans who could fight well.

If Lei Feixiang faced the 10th Army Corps at its peak in Donglai City, there was basically no possibility of winning, and the 196th Division might not be able to hold Gongbo City.

Objectively speaking, a large attrition of veteran soldiers has a non-negligible impact on a unit, and a decline in combat effectiveness is inevitable, and commanders are forced to adjust their previous tactics.

Shao Diantai stared at Yi Feng with round eyes, and Yi Feng calmly faced his boss.

After a while, Shao Dian Tai gasped and said, "When the military flag is raised, I am the strongest." The 10th Army Corps has not fallen before, and it will not fall now, and will not fall in the future! You take the 100th Division to escort the military flag back to Wangzhou, and I must stay behind to defend the glory of the Corps. ”

No one had the confidence to win against the Eighth Legion, and even the always arrogant Shaodiantai was not sure that he could defeat them, and let a division take the flag with him before the decisive battle, obviously to keep the fire for the legion.

There is no military flag to command the troops, the commander can play the role of the military flag, and Shaodiantai gambled his life.

"No!" Yi Feng shouted in a lost voice, "I think that Gongsun Chong is also defeated under Ding Kui, you take the 100th division back, and I will stay." ”

"You are not Ding Kui's opponent, the Tenth Legion is not much worse than me, and the Eighth Legion is a completely different force without Ding Kui, you don't need to say it, carry out the military order!"

There were not only troops of the Eighth Army Corps outside Nanjing, but also more than the troops of the Tenth Army Corps in Shaodiantai's hands, and reinforcements from the north of Nannuma Prefecture arrived.

There are four counties in the north of Nannuma Prefecture, from west to east are Wenguo County, Chiba County, Qingdong County, and Changtai County, and its Chinese County has no movement, and the remaining three counties have temporarily gathered 5,000 troops, plus the emergency rescue force of the state water army, a total of nearly 30,000 people, under the leadership of Gan Yun, the deputy commander of the water army, directly attacked Nanjing City.

Shao Dianxi's order to the navy was for the whole army to come to help, but Hua Song excused: "My country's navy will not leave the waters of Nannuma Prefecture for a day, and the navy will swear to fight with it." ”

Gan Yun belonged to the generals of the local faction, and there were also officers and soldiers in the navy who were loyal to the governor, and this time Hua Song sent them to Nanjing City.

Ding Kui didn't know the movements of the Tenth Legion, but Gan Yun's movements did.

"This rescue force has more than 10,000 sailors, and the remaining local armies do not have much combat effectiveness, and it is difficult to pose a threat to each other. He asked Jiang Zhi to discuss countermeasures.

"They are nearly 30,000 men together, and it will take some effort to drive away 30,000 pigs, not to mention a heavily armed enemy, and a division will have to be drawn to deal with them. Jiang Zhi didn't underestimate the reinforcements of Nanjing City.

"Fortunately, the Gongsun family had bad intentions and did not go all out to rescue Shao Dianxi, otherwise with this reinforcement that I missed, the victory or defeat of Nanjing City would be unknown. "Ding Kui underestimated the war potential of the city of Nanjing.

"The Ten Legions, plus this support army, is in danger. Jiang Zhi planted a red pennant in the north of Nanjing City, "If I will assemble here, I can attack and retreat, and I can contain the siege troops on three sides." ”

"Shao Diantai is a ruthless person, he may not consider retreating, he will win if he wins, he will lose if he loses, he will not drag the mud and water. "Ding Kui recently made up the information of the Tenth Legion, focusing on the Legion Commander.

"It's hard to predict without that support force dragging down, this is not the home of the Ten Legions after all. ”

"It makes sense, so let's fight it. After speaking, Ding Kui gave Jiang Zhi a blank military order, with the commander's seal on it.

On the afternoon of the third day of the siege of Nanjing, the offensive and defensive battles tended to be fierce, and all battlefields approached the city wall.

On the southern battlefield, a team of sappers rushed to the city wall to remove the antlers, clearing the first area where a ladder could be erected, and after only a stick of incense, huge stones fell from the city, occupying this area.

On the western battlefield, an iron beast passed through the gap in the fortifications, and stood at the foot of the wall, and the infantry controlling the iron beast withdrew, and more than a dozen oil cans fell down, followed by a few torches, and the fire instantly engulfed the iron beast. In this case, there is no way to hide people in the Iron Beast, but when the fire is extinguished, the Iron Beast can be used as the fulcrum of the ladder.

On the northern battlefield, the attackers paved the road with wooden planks, paved a 200-step cordon and switched to iron plates, and the progress was very fast with the cover of the elite armored infantry, and three roads were less than 50 steps away from the foot of the wall.

The attackers on the eastern side of the battlefield advanced a little slowly, but the seven dirt roads had reached the cordon of two hundred paces, and the Minfu had to use cement slabs to open the way before transporting a large number of cement slabs to the archers' positions.

The 12th Army Corps was stationed in Shibu County, and stockpiled some cement in the city north of the county, and the 111th, 112th, and 113th divisions all brought some of them to Nanjing.

The number of iron plates and cement plates is limited, and they cannot be supplied to the whole army, only who is ready to use them, and the same is true in front of Ding Kui.

The defenders of the city had no choice but to desperately fire long-range attacks such as stone projectiles, bows and arrows, throwing spears, and steel needles to prevent the attack from advancing as much as possible.

However, the closer to the city wall, the stronger the defenders' defense, the conventional means is fire attack, in addition to the use of fire oil, hay, dry wood, broken straw mats, broken quilts and other flammable materials, someone close to throw down, and then a fire.

There is a lack of water on the battlefield, there are not many ways to deal with fire attacks, there are long-range attacks on the key overhead, there is no safe environment to extinguish fires, and most of them can only avoid waiting for the fire to go out.

Most of the losses of the attacking side were concentrated at the foot of the wall, and the number of people killed in the middle of the road and on the wall did not add up to the number of people who died at the foot of the wall, and the "death zone" was twenty paces from the wall.

Night was approaching, and the pressure on the defenders was at its peak except for the eastern battlefield, where attacking soldiers had fallen in the "death zone".

The enemy climbed the city wall, and at that time the defenders had to fight to the death, and they had no idea in their hearts, but they were the most nervous when the enemy was about to climb up, and it was easy to die if they could kill the enemy when they reached out their bodies, which was the most tangled point for the defenders.

"The siege of the city is non-stop, and the battalions are trying to find ways to make a breakthrough in a key way. Ding Kui ordered an overnight attack on the city of Nanjing.

The purpose of the attacker is clear, the pressure is relatively small, and it is definitely the death squad that rushes into the "death zone", the ranged soldiers are trying their best to kill and injure the defenders in the city, the auxiliary troops are concentrating on opening up more landing points, and the reserves are on standby in the rear and can go to the battlefield at any time.

The camp owners will basically be veterans and are no strangers to key breakthroughs.

The first thing to do is to identify the weak points of the defenders, usually at both ends of the wall, near the corner tower, and then where the long-range troops are concentrating.

The second is to organize death squads, most of these are veterans, especially those who have not accumulated enough military exploits for many years, and they can't live a good life after retiring.

The last thing is to fight wits with the commander of the city and choose the best time to break through, which is the most exquisite and the most difficult to master, and if you don't do it, all the preparations in front will be in vain.

"Phew, these thieves won't stop. "The Beicheng commander's eyes are red, he didn't sleep much last night, and it seems that he has no time to rest today.

At this time, Wei Shiwen climbed the North City Tower and asked, "How is the situation?"

"There have been more than a dozen waves of enemy troops breaking into the 'death zone', and they have opened the way with iron plates, and they can't stop them at all. "The North City Commander was very depressed.

The siege troops were made of iron plates that were slightly larger than the door panels, usually mounted on carts, and the shield-bearers opened the way in front and advanced along the paved road, with most of the defenders' long-range attacks ineffective, and only the larger stones briefly halted their advance.

It's not easy to throw a big rock, and it's even harder to throw it accurately.

An iron plate is about two or three steps long, ten pieces are twenty or thirty steps, and less than a hundred pieces are paved under the city wall.

"Well, let the trebuchet rest for a while, the whole army is ready for contact battle, the poison gas golden soup is ready, and the ladder will come up and greet you. ”

Wei Shiwen's order relieved the trebuchet troops, and they all ran down the city and lay on the ground, unable to get up no matter how they shouted, and they were exhausted by such a high-intensity battle.

In the blink of an eye, Qiao Meng found that the trebuchet in the city had stopped, so he immediately ordered: "The three teams have begun to break through, give me the first time." ”

This is the experience, when the opponent changes tactics, there must be a rotation of troops, and at this time there will be a gap in the combat readiness and psychology of the defenders.

The three major teams of the 80th Division had just organized a death squad, and they had not had time to mobilize before the war, and the captain immediately led the team to attack after receiving the order.

Ten wells attacked a section of the wall on the east side of the tower at the same time, and the elite infantry spread iron plates at the foot of the corresponding wall with boulders to provide a ladder fulcrum for the death squads. The two squadron leaders struggled to throw up more than a dozen shields, knock off the oil canisters that fell in the air, and then work together to pick up a boulder, and lead their troops to defend around the fulcrum.

The death squad took advantage of the gap suppressed by the well, shouldered the ladder, stepped on the iron plate, rushed to the city, and set up the ladder with the help of the elite infantry.

"Brothers, I'll pull up first!" said one of the thugs who leaped high and climbed the ladder with his hands and feet.