Before Shen Yi arrived at the East City Gate, he heard bursts of gunfire. [.\nCOM Situ’s updated chapters are the most complete and comprehensive, and error-free content is repaired in the most timely manner. Due to caching reasons, browser access is recommended.\nCOM official website]
The sound of artillery fire ranged from near to distant.
The closest ones were naturally fired by the artillery of the Huai'an Army.
The farther away artillery means that the Conquering Army outside the city also used artillery.
This alone can show that the fighting situation is extremely fierce.
You must know that when we were at the North Gate just now, neither the Southern Expedition Army outside the city nor the Huai'an Army defending the city used artillery.
Shen Yi just wanted to rush to the tower to check the battle situation. As soon as he went up the stairs, he was spotted by Su Ding on the tower. Su Ding took a big step and almost ran up the stairs. He stretched out his arm to stop Shen Yi and said: "Mr. Shen! Above.
Danger!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a stone flew over from outside the city and landed not far away, injuring two Huai'an army officers.
Master Shen's eyes narrowed.
Catapults and artillery were all used.
Shen Yi took a deep breath and said, "I want to go up and take a look at the battle situation."
Su Ding had no choice but to grit his teeth, waved his hand behind him and said, "Here comes a team of people to protect Mr. Shen!"
Shen Yi pushed him away and strode up to the tower.
He was wearing armor, so as long as he was not unlucky enough to be hit head-on by a cannon, he would not be in much danger. Even if he was hit by a falling rock from a catapult, he would most likely be injured.
In three or two steps, he was already on the tower.
At a glance, there are dense black shadows under the city, and it is almost impossible to see the end!
Once the number of people exceeds 10,000, it seems endless to the naked eye!
These Qi troops under the city, under the cover of catapults and artillery, were like a tide, coming like Xuzhou City!
Even if a row of dozens of people were cut down by a hail of arrows, the following Qi troops would be able to replenish their ranks amidst the shouts of the Qi people and immediately fill the gap!
This scene is extremely shocking and makes people’s scalp numb when watching it!
Even Shen Yi saw this scale of siege battlefield for the first time!
He only glanced at it, then squatted down, hiding behind the wall, took a deep breath, and said: "Su Ding, Su Ding!"
Su Ding was not far away from Shen Yi at this moment. He ran to Shen Yi in three or two steps. Like Shen Yi, he squatted down to guard against missing arrows and flying stones under the city.
"Mr. Shen, the last general is here!"
At this moment, a big stone fell not far away from the two of them. The stone hit the city wall, and the gravel immediately flew away. Mr. Shen sighed, spit out the gravel in his mouth, and asked loudly: "What's going on?"
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Su Ding tried his best to get closer to Shen Yi. Because the roar of the artillery was too loud, he also spoke loudly: "Mr. Shen! In the morning, they were just attacking regularly. The general and others responded normally, and suddenly the catapults and artillery were launched!"
"These Qi people began to rush forward with the round of fire!"
"The beating was extremely fierce!"
Su Ding said loudly: "General, I have seen that there are thousands of people charging at the city at the same time! Behind these thousands of people, there are a large number of Qi troops, ready to attack at any time!"
Shen Yi covered his eyes and other vital parts with his hands, stretched out his head and quickly glanced at the city, then retracted.
At this time, you have to be careful!
Because in a war of this intensity, there must be a sharpshooter, the kind of sharpshooter who can snipe accurately just by showing his head a hundred steps away!
Not only is it accurate, but it is also incredibly powerful!
Originally, Shen Yi had no idea about this kind of marksman. It was not until several marksmen appeared in his anti-Japanese army that he clearly felt the terror of this ancient sniper.
After taking a look at the situation on the battlefield, Shen Yi took a deep breath and asked: "General Su, it seems that the Qi people have suddenly changed their tactics. Among the four gates of Xuzhou, only the east gate suffered such a violent attack.
A fierce attack."
“They started specializing in one thing!”
Shen Yi said solemnly: "No matter what, the city gate must not be lost!"
Just as Su Ding was about to speak, gravel splashed again. He spat outside and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Shen. The Qi people outside look scary now, but they are the ones who are killing people now!"
"Our brothers on the city wall have not lost much."
"Besides, there are still people coming up from the city in turns at any time!"
"The people of Qi will never be able to enter Xuzhou City unless they pile corpses into human ladders!"
Su Ding was right. The Qi troops under the city looked menacing and intimidating, but now, the Huai'an army, which still occupies a favorable location, was killing and injuring a large number of Qi troops.
Because the Qi people wanted to attack the city, they had to charge towards Xuzhou City despite the artillery and arrows missing from the city tower.
In this charging process, people are bound to die.
However, the arrows they shot at the city tower missed, and the flying stones from the catapults were not particularly lethal.
Shen Yi rubbed his brows with his hands, and after thinking quickly, he said: "General Su, just go and command the defense of the city, and don't worry about me."
Su Ding shook his head and said: "Mr. Shen, you are the core of our Huai'an Army. Anyone in the Huai'an Army can get into trouble, but you alone can never get into trouble!"
"This place is really too dangerous. If you don't go down to the tower, I will end up offending you!"
Master Shen laughed dumbly and said, "I'm hiding here and I haven't gone into battle to kill the enemy. What's the danger?"
Su Ding looked back at the soldiers beside him and shouted: "Come on, send Mr. Shen down from the tower!"
Several people were also worried about Shen Yi's safety. After hearing Su Ding's words, they no longer hesitated and stepped forward to pull Shen Yi down from the tower.
After Shen Yi got off the tower, Su Ding finally got up, looked at Qi Ren who had rushed to the base of the wall and was about to set up a ladder, and shouted: "Get ready to boil oil! Pour on their ladder!"
For more than a month, the Huai'an army has been actively preparing to defend the city. All kinds of equipment for defending the city are very complete, including hot oil, rolling stones, and gold juice, which are just right for the battlefield at this time.
After Mr. Shen got off the city tower, he was still a little worried. He found a small building with three floors near the east city gate. He went up to the third floor and used a telescope from time to time to look at the situation on the city wall.
After watching for a while, Shen Yi sent someone to find Lin Sheng.
After Lin Sheng arrived, before he had time to speak, he heard Shen Yi's instructions: "Luo Yong is not in Xuzhou. All the reporting staff in Xuzhou City will be led by you. From now on, the news between the four gates must be smooth.
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"Any two city gates must be able to convey accurate news within the tea time."
Mr. Shen's voice was low and he said, "Moreover, make me a batch of two-color fireworks. The other one should be yellow."
The use of fireworks to report news was started by Shen Yi during the Anti-Japanese War period, but until now, the Huai'an Army's fireworks are only red.
Not much information can be conveyed.
But now, the Qi people's attack was obviously divided into two levels of intensity, one was a pretentious sheep attack, and the other was a fierce attack like the east gate.
Red can represent an aggressive attack, and Shen Yi needs another color of fireworks to represent another state.
Lin Sheng half-knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said: "I obey your orders!"
After he obeyed the order, he lowered his head and said with a bitter smile: "It's just making fireworks, my subordinates don't know how to do it..."
"The Huai'an Army has a gunpowder workshop."
Shen Yi waved his hand and said, "Go in and study and get things out for me as soon as possible!"
Lin Sheng did not dare to neglect, lowered his head and said yes, turned around and went down.
Shen Yi, on the other hand, leaned on the railing and watched the battle at the East City Gate.
In the afternoon, Xue Wei, who was originally stationed at the south gate, couldn't bear it any longer. He handed over the south gate to Wan Zhong, who had just recovered from his injury, and boarded the east gate in armor to help out.
In this way, the fierce battle lasted for a whole day!
It was not until evening that the Qi people's offensive finally subsided. After leaving two to three thousand corpses behind, the Qi people outside the East City Gate began to retreat slowly!
Shen Yi directly commandeered this restaurant and summoned all six generals under his command here for a meeting.
Several people sat around Shen Yi in a row.
Mr. Shen took a sip of tea and said in a low voice: "You should also be able to see that Qi people have changed their generals."
"Overnight, their style became extremely fierce. It can be said that they are not afraid of death."
"There are two possibilities."
Shen Yi knocked on the table and said: "Either the new Qi people general is born like this, or he does not regard the life of the conquering southern army as his life."
"That is to say, he is likely to have reinforcements."
"At this time, he is using the lives of the Confederate Army to consume our energy and materials to defend the city."
"I've been thinking here all day today."
Mr. Shen said in a deep voice: "He may attack the east gate today, but he may not attack the east gate tomorrow. Therefore, the four gates in Xuzhou must be prepared to fight a tough battle..."
"Sizheng!"
Before Shen Yi finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lin Sheng who hurriedly boarded the restaurant. Lin Siwu glanced at the generals present, swallowed, looked at Shen Yi, lowered his head and clasped his fists: "Sizheng, Nan
Outside the gate, a large number of people have gathered and are already approaching the south gate!"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Shen rubbed his brows and said in a low voice: "It seems that they want to take advantage of the large number of people and attack day and night to prevent us from stopping."
Without saying a word, Xue Wei stood up directly, clasped his fists and said: "Mr. Shen, the south gate is guarded by the last general. The last general has left!"
Shen Yi waved his hand and motioned for him to go.
Wan Zhong also stood up silently, clasped his fists and said: "Mr. Shen, the last general is also guarding the south gate."
Shen Yi also nodded and let him leave.
After the two people left, Shen Yi looked at everyone.
"If you have any ideas, you can tell them now."
Ling Su hesitated for a moment and then said: "Mr. Shen, the Qi people's Southern Conquest Army has one hundred thousand troops. If there are more reinforcements, it is likely to reach the size of last year's troops. By then, even if Xuzhou City has enough food and grass, it will not be able to survive."
It’s hard to hold on.”
The strength of the Qi people last year was close to 200,000, which was half of this size. They almost defeated Shen Yi's Huai'an army to the point of exhaustion.
Although the current number of Huai'an troops has increased by 40% compared with last year, if 200,000 Qi troops attack Xuzhou, it will still be difficult to defend Xuzhou.
Shen Yi nodded.
"I've thought about this too."
"There are two ways."
Shen Yi lowered his eyebrows and said, "The first way is to ask the imperial court for help to save Xuzhou."
"The second way...
He looked at the four remaining people present.
"I'll stop it when it's good."
"After using Xuzhou City to kill enough Qi people, choose a suitable opportunity to abandon Xuzhou."
Having said this, Shen Yi paused and added.
"My personal stance."
He looked around at everyone and spoke calmly.
"I don't want to give up Xuzhou unless I have to."