This was the first time that Lin Jianyue experienced the power of the barbarian siege trebuchets.

Stones as big as millstones flew from a long distance and hit the city wall. The sky and the earth seemed to tremble. The next moment, Lin Jianyue felt that the city wall was about to collapse.

Lin Jianyue failed to climb the city wall. Instead, he was surrounded by thousands of guards holding heavy shields in a solid stone house in the center of the city. Judging from the serious and resolute posture of the soldiers around him, as long as a huge boulder flew towards him, it was estimated that the guards would kill him.

Block in front of the body.

Lin Jianyue finally understood why Liu Bingyun always opposed him to defend the city personally. He had prepared so many huge rocks, huge trees and glutinous rice paste before, and looted them all within dozens of miles. It turned out that it was all for this moment.

Lin Jianyue was taught another lesson. Liu Bingyun had obviously seen him before. The reason why he didn't say anything was mainly because Lin Jianyue had never seen him and could not be convinced.

Fortunately, Yancheng is a real plain area. There are no mountains or woods that are more than a hundred years old around it. Even if there were any, they were cleared away by Liu Bingyun.

The stones were quickly beaten away, and then there were poisonous water, poisonous smoke and other things, which caused many casualties to the soldiers guarding the city, which made Lin Jianyue feel distressed. These were his most elite guards.

Yancheng is indeed a fortified city, and Liu Bingyun continued to reinforce it day and night. Even after suffering such a blow, it still stood firm. Some large gaps were immediately filled, and the next step was a face-to-face duel.

Seeing that his trump card trebuchet failed, Li Chongshan had to sigh. It would take at least several months to collect and transport these things from around Kaifeng. Now he could only forcefully attack the city regardless of casualties.

After the Hu people showed their power, Hao Tianfeng showed his power next. The Guards' bow and crossbow battalion is not invincible, but above the fortified city, their bed slaves' divine arm bow battalion is a mountain that Li Chongshan's infantry cannot cross.

The barbarians, who were best at riding and archery, did not dare to get too close to help the infantry. They could only shoot arrows from a farther distance, which greatly reduced the risk of damage to the defenders.

Many heavy trebuchets that were too late to be evacuated were destroyed by the powerful penetrating trebuchets. The siege infantry did not dare to use a dense formation to charge the city. The casualties were too great. It was difficult to disperse and rush to the bottom of the city.

Rolling wood and thunder stone

Some things were coming towards us, but there were also brave men who came to the top of the city. What they saw were the Guards infantry in tight formations and heavy armor. In such a large place, facing the dense formation, no matter how hard one's personal force was,

Being strong can only lead to death.

However, on the fourth and fifth days, Li Chongshan's siege troops suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and their morale dropped significantly. How long can the attack continue like this? Li Chongshan had to reduce the intensity of the siege, but it would be difficult to attract many

Zhouzhou, Chenzhou, Lin Jianyue and two other armies left the city.

Batusu sighed in his heart. If these were used in the direction of Chenzhou, the city might be broken and the situation would be opened up. It would be much better than this stalemate at the foot of Yancheng.

"Marshal Ba, Lin Jianyue has a false reputation and is not worthy of his name. Decades ago, I heard that the Jurchens' cavalry was also very powerful. It was here that Zhao Wumu, whom the Han people admired, had only 80,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, but he defeated nearly 150,000

The cavalry regained the Central Plains. Now Lin Jianyue is much stronger than Zhao Wumu at that time, but he shrinks back. It is really not a heroic act. I think highly of him."

Batusu didn't know how to answer, and he was not in the mood to continue complimenting him. What is not a hero? Lin Jianyue was the most correct way to respond. He knew that His Majesty was just complaining.

"Your Majesty, I am worried that Lin Jianyue is so blindly defensive. With Lin Jianyue's ability, there must be some other means of counterattack that we don't know about. We have watched Lin Jianyue's three main forces, but the Jinning Army in Hedong has not.

Stay, Dieshiha defends

There is more than enough to attack, but he cannot do nothing. It is not appropriate for his entire army to stay in Liaozhou now. It is recommended that your majesty order him to send tens of thousands of people south to Longde Mansion to take an offensive posture against the Jinning Army. He must delay

Keep the Jinning Army in place and prevent him from crossing the river to go south."

Li Chongshan thought for a while and nodded.

"Hahe on Jingdong Road should deal with Pu Jinzhong as soon as possible. Instead of seeking complete annihilation, just defeat and dispel Pu Jinzhong's attempt to attack. Don't worry about whether Jingdong Road is empty. Zhou Qing near Xuzhou should also ignore him. Immediately lead the main force including infantry at top speed.

Go south and attack Chenzhou's Wuwei Army immediately, so that we can have a chance of victory."

"Marshal Ba is very thoughtful, but that will only happen in a month or two. The Yancheng in front of us is the focus now. Does Marshal Ba have any special tricks?"

"No matter how strong Lin Jianyue's guards are, they can't run out of food, and they can't run out of bows, arrows, thunder and stones, and they can't get replenished. Since we have already surrounded the city, we can continue to besiege and the siege cannot stop. However,

You don't have to be too pushy. You can order all the ministries to fight in turns. After gradually restoring morale, there is still a good chance. I don't believe that Xuzhou and Chenzhou can endure it. We also sent tens of thousands of rangers to sweep Lin Jianyue's rear.

It has a great effect.”

But the news that came one day later shocked Batusu. Not only did the rangers who went out not only failed to grab anything, but also lost seven to eight thousand rangers. Could it be that Lin Jianyue's control over his subordinates had reached such an extent?

There was still a large hidden force that he didn't know about. Until this time, Batusu had already decided to retreat, but he didn't dare to tell Li Chongshan at this time, and Li Chongshan would not agree unless something major happened.

Xihua County in Chenzhou is the city closest to Kaifeng Prefecture in Chenzhou. Sun Zhengyi restored the city defense well here in the past. The main force of the Wuwei Army is basically here, as well as Li Jiyong's Guards Cavalry.

Liu Jiahao looked at the direction of Yancheng and was very worried. Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded His Highness in the vast area around Yancheng. He knew that the barbarians were waiting for him to reinforce Yancheng, and they must not leave the city now.

"General Liu, we have been doing nothing here for so long, do we still want to continue? Even if we don't go to Yancheng and might be ambushed, we can go to Kaifeng! This is what His Highness did before, to kill Li Chongshan.

The baggage line directly stabbed him in the buttocks. Li Chongshan will have to retreat if he doesn't retreat, and maybe a big defeat is possible."

This is Li Jiyong's complaint, which has been murmuring in Liu Jiahao's ears for several days, and has also been recognized by many commanders of other armies.

Liu Jiahao knew Li Jiyong's urgent mood. He had been with His Highness for a long time and had deep feelings. His irrational emotions were understandable.

Would Liu Jiahao not know how to attack Li Chongshan's weak link? But Li Chongshan was attacking Yancheng openly, but he was focusing on Wuwei Army and Long Jie Army. This is what His Highness emphasized to them repeatedly. The winner is not here, but

It's in Hedong, on Jingdong Road.

"His Highness issued three military orders in a row. Without His Highness's warrant, he went out of the city privately except for scouts to engage in military affairs. Now it is impossible to get the warrant, but His Highness has already thought of it and agreed on three beacon messages. One means it is more urgent, but still

We are not allowed to leave the city, but we must strengthen our vigilance; the second line is very urgent, and we will send out support according to the situation; the third line is for the entire army to attack for a decisive battle. Now there is no one, how can we go out?"

Since Yancheng was besieged, Tie Qinglin would sit on the city gate tower before dawn every day, fully dressed in armor and looking in the direction of Yancheng. He wanted to know the information about Fengyan and the scouts' reports as soon as possible, and he would not delay even a moment.
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