Chief Su snorted coldly and stopped talking. Luo Ren said, "I'll arrange another big tent for you."
Lu Yuan said, "I'm not busy." Then he walked out of the camp with a telescope, looked at the city top illuminated by torches, and said, "Have you arranged a sneak attack on the city wall tonight?"
Chief Su sneered and said: "No. Xie Cheng is a veteran general. He will not be unable to guard against this. A sneak attack on the city wall is just to let the soldiers die in vain."
Lu Yuan turned to him and said, "You are stalling for time."
The people next to him didn't understand what Lu Yuan meant by "delaying time" for a while, but Chief Su understood it immediately. However, he didn't say anything and just stared at Lu Yuan.
The two confronted each other for a while, and Lu Yuan suddenly laughed and said: "I was wrong. Brother Su has always been the best to his son, how could he delay time?"
Then Lu Yuan continued: "There is no need to set up another tent. I can sleep in the same tent with Chief Su tonight."
Of course Chief Su was not willing to sleep in the same tent as Lu Yuan, but just as he opened his mouth to speak, he saw Chief Su turning his head and staring at him with his unexplained eyes, so he opened his mouth and finally
Still haven't spoken out the words.
Early the next morning, after it was dark, Chief Su woke up all the soldiers and asked the cooking soldiers to prepare pots for cooking. After most of the soldiers had eaten, Chief Su organized his soldiers to attack the city.
Xie Cheng was naturally prepared in advance. He had prepared many rolling logs, rocks, rockets and cannons, and also prepared a large pot to start cooking oil at any time.
Although it was already the eve of the rise of thermal weapons at this time, the mode of siege warfare had not changed much from the previous thousands of years. Because the accuracy of the cannon was poor and its power was limited, so unless a blind cat encountered a dead mouse and killed the opponent's general,
Outside of circumstances, the role of artillery is limited, especially when the defending side also has artillery.
But Xie Cheng was still a little unprepared at first. He had never defended a city before, nor had he encountered the opponent using cannons, so he had no experience in handling this situation.
Out of caution, Xie Cheng immediately ordered the east gate to be completely blocked to prevent them from using cannons to attack the city gate, and then ordered the cannons on top of the city to bombard the rebel camps below the city.
The rebels marched all the way from Qingzhou with only light artillery, no more than a two to three hundred kilogram cannon at most. At first, the rebels took the risk of exploding the barrel and increased the amount of gunpowder to bombard the city wall from a distance, and then moved closer to bombard it.
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Because of the close distance, Xie Cheng let his cannons fight back, successfully hitting twice and destroying three of the rebels' cannons.
This made Chief Su feel very distressed. They only brought a total of twelve cannons. Although they were prepared to destroy them all under Jinan City, there was no progress in the siege now. If all the cannons were destroyed, there would be little progress.
Everything that threatened the city was gone.
Chief Su said to Lu Yuan: "Stop bombarding with cannons. Jinan City already has more cannons than us and they are more powerful. If we continue the bombardment, I'm afraid there won't be any left."
Lu Yuan looked at it with a telescope for a while. Although he didn't care about the loss, the fact that none of the soldiers on the top of the city continued to attack was just a loss of cannons, so he nodded and agreed to take back the cannons. But the siege continued.
But how could the siege be successful when there was basically no artillery cover? The rebels fought from morning until nightfall. Although a few soldiers reached the top of the city, the Jinan City defenders responded very quickly.
The loopholes were plugged, allowing the rebels to return in vain all day today.
The next day was the same. In the two days before and after, the rebels suffered a total of more than 6,000 casualties. Among them, more than 5,000 were killed, seriously injured, and disabled. Basically, they could not be saved. Only 1,000 lightly wounded people could be saved.
He could be saved, but because there are not many doctors, if he accidentally gets infected, he may not be able to be saved.
Although everyone did not say it in their hearts at this time, they were all grateful for the military medical system established by Yunxi. Hundreds of people graduated from the medical school in the capital every year and were filled in various health centers across the country. The three guards of King Qi now have more than a dozen military doctors. It is because of this
More than a dozen military doctors, together with the medicinal materials stored by King Qi, ensured the treatment of injuries and illnesses in the army.
Luo Ren knew that although the military generals didn't care much about military doctors, they had a great influence among the soldiers, especially since the beginning of this war. No matter what, everyone was polite to military doctors.
Luo Ren was thinking about it when suddenly a soldier ran in and said, "Sir, reinforcements have arrived from the east gate of Jinan. They appear to be soldiers from a guard, under the banner of Pingshan Guard."
Luo Ren glanced at Lu Yuan and said: "Lu Yuan, we have been attacking the city for two days, with such casualties. Now that reinforcements have arrived, I am afraid that we will not be able to defeat Jinan City. And with more and more reinforcements, there will be more and more reinforcements."
There is a danger of the whole army being annihilated."
"So, it is better to retreat. At least send troops to occupy Zhangqiu County first and ensure the road back to Qingzhou. Otherwise, the troops coming from Jiyang, Qidong and other places will easily cut off our retreat."
Lu Yuan clenched his hands hard, and his short nails pierced into his palms. He was not completely ignorant of soldiers, so he knew that Luo Ren was telling the truth. To the east, with the arrival of Pingshan Guards, reinforcements must be coming in more and more.
The more they have, the more troops they have now.
When it comes to commanding battles, although Luo Ren and Chief Su have been praised by the meritorious generals for their potential, Xie Cheng himself is one of the meritorious generals and has rich experience. With the same strength, the two of them will probably not be able to defeat Xie Cheng, let alone Xie Cheng.
Let's talk about the lack of troops.
What's more, their morale is low now. Once their retreat is cut off, it is possible that the entire army will collapse.
So now is the time to retreat.
However, Lu Yuan roared in his heart: 'Is it possible that this rebellion that I finally started will be over in less than a month? I have tried so hard to survive for less than a month!'
From Luo Ren's point of view, Lu Yuan's eyes were red and there were dark circles around his eyes. He was dressed in black, and his expression was distorted, as if he was impermanent.
But Luo Ren was not afraid at all, and even felt a little relieved. He had really suffered a lot these days. Although he sometimes thought about living, most of the time he thought about dying early and being reborn early.
However, because all the sons are under Lu Yuan's control, they dare not act rashly.
At this time, he was even hoping that the entire army would stay here until the whole army was annihilated, and then the news would spread back to Qingzhou and Qingzhou would be in chaos. Maybe some of his sons would be able to take advantage of the chaos and escape and survive.
In particular, his eldest son Luo Yi is engaged to the daughter of Qi King Zhu Su. If both of them can escape, the court will probably not do anything to his eldest son. It is hard to say about the other sons, who may be
The imperial court executed him.
Luo Ren was thinking about how many of his sons would survive after the rebellion was put down. At this time, Lu Yuan thought about it and said, "Then the whole army will retreat." He finally decided to retreat.
