In Shouchun City at night, the cold wind whimpered, and the fire of the stove flashed occasionally. The soldiers sat around the bonfire in a pile, whispering, and even if there was a dispute, they did not dare to make too loud noises. The entire city was filled with a strange tranquility.

After entering the city, Guo Song did not dare to relax. After comforting the families in the city, he even had no time to remove his armor and then began patrol patrol.

The city was extremely large, and even if tens of thousands of people were stationed here, it was not crowded, but there was a slight incongruity. Although the entry of the city was very smooth, Guo Song did not dare to let the soldiers scatter directly into the houses in the city, but just guarded the city gate.

Although there are tens of thousands of people in the city, they all have their own clan relatives and are located in a certain area. Except for a few villagers who took the initiative to open the door to welcome the Yuzhou army into the city, more people actually did not respond very enthusiastically to the arrival of the royal army. They mostly watched coldly and did not make deeper contact.

After the patrol was completed and the generals were ordered to be careful, Guo Song led more than a hundred armored guards to the city. Along the way, they passed by the village people's residence, and they deliberately avoided the disturbance. Occasionally, local villagers stood by the road and looked away, either smiling and nodding, or bowing to show their hands, and their attitude was kind.

The homestays in the city are still neat and there are many traces of repair. Although they are in the same city, the distance between the portals is not close, and there is obvious barriers and alertness at a glance.

This is also a normal situation nowadays. In this chaotic world, I was born in this place of battle in Shouchun. It is difficult for the common people to survive if they are scattered in the wild. However, if they are together, they have no trust. Therefore, the clans of various families form groups and half cooperate with and half alienate with the people of the outside world.

If the person who sits in this city is a commander who values ​​both prestige and talent, the gap between the families can naturally be covered up and they will be obeyed together. For example, in the early years, Zushizu Town West, many people came to rely on it and defend the city together.

But if the master generals do not have the expectations, the citizens gathered here may be separated and no longer live here. What's more, they will attract foreign enemies to fight back against the generals, such as Zu Yi, who was betrayed by his generals in his early years, and local villagers who seized the sect to welcome the royal army this time.

Although the king's army was able to enter the city smoothly, as long as the Jincheng northwest of the city was not captured for one day, the people in these villages would be unable to use it for a day.

After all, for these local villagers, whether it is the Yuzhou army coming from the south or the slave soldiers coming from the north, they are all outsiders who invade their homes. They may watch the situation depends on one side, but when they have conflicts and confrontations, they choose to wait and see more.

Guo Song soon came to Jincheng in the northwest direction of the city. Compared with the entire vast Shouchun City, the area of ​​Jincheng is much smaller, accounting for only one-third of the entire city.

Moreover, although as an inner city, the city defense of Jincheng is completely independent and self-contained. This inner city also has four city gates, which are connected to Bagong Mountain outside the city on the north edge, so the terrain is slightly higher. On the west side, it leads the Dushui tributary of the Feishui River to circle the city, forming a moat. In previous years, the water was strong in summer, and the outer city of Shouchun was repeatedly affected by floods, but Jincheng was able to survive because of the terrain.

Guo Song came from the west and approached Jincheng, all the houses and houses of the people around him were demolished, with a slightly wider view. As for the dismantled wood, stone, bricks and tiles, they were stacked along the water of the water, forming a long roadblock. This was a spontaneous construction of the people in the outer city. It can be seen that after the slave soldiers retreated into the inner city, the villagers were also worried that they would come out again and kill and cause unrest in the outer city.

When Guo Song came over, there were still civilians who were marching nearby with bamboo guns to warn him, but when they saw him and his group arrive, they all avoided them from afar and did not want to have any contact.

Guo Song had no resentment towards the indifferent attitude of the villagers. It was a blessing for him to not cause trouble when these people attacked the city in the future.

Because Dushui passed around the city, the bridge passages above the river channel were also demolished, and the river channel was directly within the range of arrows on the city, so this place was obviously not the main attack direction.

There were shadows flashing under the fire on the top of the city, and there were many Jienu soldiers patrolling and looking at the city walls, occasionally roaring a few times, and Guo Song didn't care about this. He just went around the city to the southeast and chose a main attack point for tomorrow's attack.

When we walked around Dushui a little further away and towards the south gate of Jincheng, we raised the torches in front, and a person walking in the middle was Mao Bao.

When they met, Mao Bao first gave a military salute, and then pointed to the city and sighed: "The slave soldiers are quite determined, and there will be a hard battle in the future."

"Their heart is firm or not. Since we have come to this point, the results are the same. I am still trapped at the moment and demand a quick battle and no chance to give slave thieves to burn the city and escape. Jincheng has accumulated a lot of resources and has a lot of warehouses. If the loss is too much, even if we win, it will be useless."

Although Guo Song was the main general of this trip, he was also kind when facing Mao Bao, a new Jiangdong general, and did not be proud of the old things. The two walked around the city side by side, each expounding their own opinions, and finally determined a tactic. Mao Bao will attack Jincheng in the future, and Guo Song will be responsible for the rear-end of the palace.

In the current situation of Shouchun City, the palace behind the palace may have more important importance than attacking the city. Guo Song has always been known to be able to fight in the north, and he is responsible for the formation, which can greatly shock those potential hidden dangers.

The next day before dawn, military horns sounded at the gates of both outer cities, and then the smoke of stoves rose up. While there were still many sleepy residents in the city, the Yuzhou army had already lined up and headed for Jincheng.

When the King's Army entered the city yesterday, there was still chaos in the city. Many people only knew that the King's Army was coming, but they did not see the military appearance. So today, many people avoided the main roads in the city, stood in the alleys and under the eaves, watching the King's Army's army. However, more people were in a panic, closed their own doors, or simply fled over the wall, worried that they would be driven to attack the city and fill their lives.

However, no matter how the people in the city reacted, the Yuzhou army turned a blind eye to this. First, the two battalions of troops faced the gate of the south side of Jincheng, set up a formation to raise the defense line. The successors were carried on their backs with hemp packaging soil, and they were self-operated to prevent the right wing from going out, and used throwing tools to shoot the earth buns opposite the moat under the city.

Thousands of earthen bundles were thrown over, not only completely filling a section of the trench, but even piled up under the city into a mound of more than meter high. During this process, the defenders on the city naturally responded, and the soldiers were lying high on the city wall to shoot. However, the Yuzhou army was only outside the range, and the arrows were not harassing at all.

It was not until the mound was about to level the height of the city wall that Guo Song and Mao Bao each led their personal guards to appear behind the front line.

There are many ways to siege the city, and the walls of Jincheng are more than three meters high, which makes many siege equipment useless. What's more, many large siege equipment is difficult to transport without the cooperation of hydraulic power. However, if it is built on site in Shouchun Outer City, it takes a long time and may change at any time. The original method has become a good choice.

As soon as the two generals appeared, they attracted the attention of everyone inside and outside. The leaders of the villagers who had opened the door to greet the king's army stood in front and saluted Guo Song from afar and said, "If Mr. Guo is sent, we are willing to serve us."

"At this point, the king's army was to fight hard and save the villagers from the enemy. Crazy and kill the enemy was to fight for the enemy, and it was to be a labor of the soldiers, and there was no involvement in the villagers!"

Guo Song waved his hand and refused the request of these people. Then he said seriously: "When the battle comes later, the arrows are sharp, which will not help the villagers to be affected. I hope you can go around the circle and advise them not to let idle people pass through the border."

After hearing this, the bystanders breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they did not have to be driven to death, and then they felt a sense of sternness in their hearts. I think that if they dared to enter the front line in a mess after the war began, the other party would definitely not be ruthless.

After hearing Guo Song's words, those people were much more at ease. They were not a big family in the county, and it was a gamble to rely on the king's army. Although they were eager to fight, it was just a gesture. If the other party really didn't care about their sect's lives, then they had to consider whether this gamble was worth it.

Fortunately, Guo Song just arranged for them to raid the formation and warn them, so naturally there was no danger of killing them. So he immediately took the order and led people from various sects to persuade the people from the village to retreat beyond the formation set up by the Yuzhou army.

"The first one to climb is a hundred achievements and will give you praise to the army!"

Guo Song jumped onto the wooden platform and beat the drum with heavy hammers, announcing the official start of the siege.

At this time, Mao Bao had already led his elite troops to the front line. As soon as the drum sounded, the soldiers in the front row rushed up along the mound with large shields. After a round of trampling, the mound was even more compacted and the height was several feet shorter, but the highest point was still nearly two feet.

Arrows on the city wall were like rain. When a round of splashes fell, the shield formation immediately became uneven. Some were straying arrows in their bodies, and some were simply knocked down by the huge force of the arrows. However, as they contracted and adjusted, the shield line quickly became stable.

At this time, looking down from the city wall, the hundreds of thick wooden shields were like hedgehogs with dense thorns, and they could hardly see their original shield faces!

After the shield formation, hundreds of crossbowmen rushed to the mound with small shields and joined the front line with arrow rain. The mound was temporarily built, with a real high of less than meter. Other large places were still under the other side's down shooting.

Therefore, in these two rounds of impact, nearly a hundred soldiers still died in the other party's rain of arrows, but they had no time to collect corpses. The corpses became the footholds for their comrades to rush up. This is the cruelty of war.

The crossbowman took his position and immediately launched a counterattack under the cover of the shield. The existence of the mound tied up the huge gap between the upper and lower positions. The powerful crossbow of the Yuzhou Army was also the best in the towns in Jiangbei. As soon as the counterattack was launched, the offensive on the city wall was immediately followed. Many slave soldiers on this section of the city wall who were not as good as hiding behind the battlements of the women's wall were shot in the arrows, and the rest of them were all short and avoided.

"Boom, bounce!"

Taking advantage of the opponent's attack, Mao Bao immediately drove the soldiers to carry the earth and rush forward, and continued to expand the mound. This city is based on this, with no commanding heights at all near it. If you only climb by ladder hooks, it is almost impossible for the city walls more than three meters high to rush up! Therefore, the construction of the commanding heights is crucial.
Chapter completed!