Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 297 Destroying Morale
The commander of the military camp outside Jizhou City.

Luo Youdu looked at the letter sent by Fu Qinger:
Chou Chou is not ugly at all now, with white skin, fat little face, and big eyes, just like the golden boy in the painting.

Mother said, our nickname is good.

Ugly, it can overwhelm the little guy's beauty.

Wherever you go, people praise you for being ugly and beautiful.

There are still people who want to make a kiss with Chou Chou!

……

Today, the concubine brought Chou Chou into the palace and followed her mother to visit the Queen's sister.

My sister has lost a lot of weight and has been watching memorials all day long.

The concubine felt uncomfortable physically and mentally.

Mother wanted to pay homage to His Majesty, but she was not allowed.

……

Huber bought a rattle, and Chou Chou liked it very much. Whenever he heard the sound, he would "giggle" and would find out where the sound came from.

Hold it in your hand and don't want to let it go.

He is so strong that even the concubine can't pull him.

Never let go of sleep...

Fu Qing'er's letter is not written in one breath, just like a diary, write whatever comes to mind, and write a little interesting life story every day.

Then send them together.

Every time Luo Youdu looked at it, he would laugh alone. The scene in the letter seemed to happen right in front of his eyes, and he felt very comfortable.

With longing for his wife and children, Luo Youdu slept until dawn.

Luo Youdu got up early, washed up briefly, and ran around the camp twice.

Then I sat in the handsome tent and read a book.

At Chenshi, Pan Mei reported to Luo Youdu with yesterday's victory: "Yesterday, 31 catapult trucks were damaged, and they have been delivered to the general supervisor for repair."

Luo Youdu nodded and said: "Don't be afraid of damage, the general prison is idle and has nothing to do. If it is broken, it will be repaired. If it is not repaired, it will be dismantled and rebuilt. Anyway, don't stop. We have many catapults and stones, so we don't use them. I'm sorry for the great situation that the Khitan chief gave us."

Pan Mei wrote it down, and continued: "Last night, Xie Li intended to lead the death squad out of the city to burn the catapults, and retreated fifty steps before leaving the city."

Luo Youdu wondered: "Since they dared to go out of the city, why did they retreat?"

Pan Mei couldn't laugh or cry: "They couldn't get up to speed. The ground was full of boulders left by the catapult at night... They rushed forward for more than 50 steps, injured many people, and retreated in despair."

Luo Youdu smiled and said, "Go and see!"

As he spoke, he rode his horse to the front line of the siege.

Before getting close, Luo Youdu heard

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

……

The sound of cannon stones hitting the tower was heard one after another.

When he came to the front of the formation, Luo Youdu looked at the scene in front of him with shock in his eyes.

The towers and pavilions of Jizhou City have been destroyed, and the city walls are full of potholes, with traces of thousands of cannon stones.

And the huge boulders bouncing off the ground under the city gate wall spread all over the front of the city gate, forming a barricade.

It's no wonder that Xie Li was ashamed, it was not easy to ride a horse through in broad daylight, let alone at night...

This cannonball tactic is the most boring. Luo Youdu stayed for a whole morning on the first day, but he didn't want to come the next day.

I didn't want to see this scene in front of me just on the third day.

Knowing Luo Youdu's arrival, Yao Nebin came to Qingqi and said, "Tongjun, look, it's in the southwest section of the tower, that's..."

He pointed to a part in the middle of the southwestern section of the city wall of Jizhou City, and said: "This morning, when I inspected, I found something strange. There were not many bombardments on the boulder there, just a dozen scattered marks. But the marks are particularly obvious. The subordinate shot a few arrows with the crossbow, and found that the part of the wall was relatively not firm enough. The subordinate estimated that when repairing the city wall, the materials used here were not correct."

"If we smashed the surrounding riprap trucks in that direction, it would collapse within a day or two."

Luo Youdu watched from a distance, and it was exactly as Yao Neibin said, and praised with a smile: "Good eyesight! I credit you! But..."

He changed his voice and said: "To be a man, you must be honest. If you talk about smashing for a few days and nights, you have to spend a few days and nights, and you have to rest for a few days. It's only the third day. It's not good to talk about it."

Yao Nebin looked dull.

Luo Youdu laughed loudly and said: "Continue smashing, first smash [-] cannon stones, and then consider the matter of attack."

Seeing Yao Nebin's blank face, he smiled at Pan Mei and said, "Explain to him."

Pan Mei respectfully replied: "The smashing by the commanding army is not the city wall, but the morale of the opponent. The old place of Yanyou is all owned by our army. This is an isolated city in Jizhou, which hurts morale the most. It's just that Xie Li in the city is a veteran, and he has won the hearts of the army. People's hearts, under his encouragement, stabilized the morale."

"We launched the attack too early, and the morale in the city was still there. Under Xie Li's desperate fight, the soldiers worked hard and it was not easy to attack."

"They don't have long-distance catapults in the city, so they can only be beaten passively, and their morale will inevitably decline day by day."

"Xie Li can agitate for one day, two days and three days, how long can he last in this situation?"

"Use [-] flying stones to destroy the opponent's morale first."

"The morale is gone. As long as we break into the city, they will no longer have the fighting spirit to continue to resist. Street fighting can be avoided very well."

Luo Youdu said: "People will do a lot of stupid things because of impulsiveness and fever. But as soon as you regain your composure, you will find... death is quite scary."

This, he empathizes with.

Martyrs who can truly maintain the will to die are extremely rare in this era of moral depravity and no faith.

Luo Youdu didn't believe that the soldiers in the city could hold the belief of death for a long time.

Jizhou City.

Xie Li stood on the tower, loudly boosting morale.

But as Luo Youdu said, the effect is minimal.

It was only the third day that Xie Li discovered that there were deserters in the army.

Jizhou is an isolated city, and no one knows the result of defending the city.

Xie Li stayed in Jizhou for 11 years and did many good deeds.

Therefore, knowing that they must die, most of the soldiers are willing to die for him under his call.

However, the high morale did not usher in the siege of the Zhou army, but the attack of flying stones all over the sky.

The catapults in the city were transferred by Yelujing to attack the Central Plains army stronghold in Youzhou.

The craftsmen in the city can indeed make simple trebuchets, but how can they be the opponents of the trebuchets carefully developed by Jiang Zuojian?
Khitan has indeed mastered the skills of the Central Plains trebuchet, but it is not something that just a craftsman can build.

At least there are no such talents in Jizhou city.

In the beginning, they could use the defensive crossbows to fight back one or two. With the indiscriminate bombardment of flying stones all over the sky, after destroying all the defensive crossbows, they were left passively beaten.

Some soldiers lost their enthusiasm and began to fear.

When they go home to rest, the family members definitely don't want their son, husband, and father to die on the tower.

Especially the older generation of people who have been trained by the Khitan to fight the grass valley, although they did live well under the Khitan's governance.But the old hatred of the past will not be easily eliminated.

For the sake of his own children, he would naturally describe in detail what Khitan did in the past.

The morale of the army was also shaken.

There is no good way to solve this problem. The opponent doesn't talk about martial arts at all, and he will bite on the weak point if he catches it.

The risky attack last night also saw the reality clearly, and then the artillery bombarded it, the city did not collapse, and the morale of the army collapsed first.

It's just the obstacles along the way that made his daring adventure a joke.

Now all he can do is take the risk of being crushed to death by cannon stones, and use his fearlessness to boost the morale that is about to fall to the bottom.

Day [-]...

Day [-]...

For five consecutive days, the cannon stone attack, for five consecutive days, the tortoise's female wall; for five consecutive days, listening to the nagging of parents, wives and children; for five consecutive days, the literati called by Song Qi and Song Xiong in the city were secretly spreading various rumors... …

Outside Jizhou city.

Luo Youdu came to the front of the formation again, called Yao Nebin, and said, "Inspector Yao, you discovered the flaws in Jizhou City, so you will command the first wave of offensive. Your troops, and these catapults, all At your disposal."

Yao Nebin regained his energy in an instant, and shouted: "Never let the commanding army down."

Yao Neibin rode his horse and raised his whip, and led his troops to the front of the formation.

He gathered all the catapults in the southwest section in one place, and launched a concentrated bombardment on the flaw he had discovered before.

The hit rate of the catapults is indeed not high, but more than [-] catapults are fired at one point, and they can hit a few shots no matter what.

The catapults bombarded them one by one.

The huge power caused the walls of Jizhou City to fall off quickly, and a crack appeared in just one morning.

Xie Li widened his eyes in disbelief, even if he concentrated on a little bombardment, how could the catapult have such power?

He suddenly thought of one thing. Five years ago, there was a natural disaster in Jizhou, the earth dragon turned over, and the old city wall was damaged many times.

At that time, the governor was unwilling to renovate, and felt that it was more appropriate to use the money for repairing the city wall to relieve the disaster-stricken people and repair their houses.

After all, the Central Plains has not gone north for many years...

At that time, he was so angry that he led his troops to surround the governor's mansion and forced the governor to repair the city wall.

Is it?

"The son of a bitch..."

Xie Li yelled and cursed, so he could only ask people to prepare the knife cart to deal with the collapse of the city wall anytime and anywhere.

The next day, with a cannon stone accurately hitting the city wall.

Amidst the loud bang of "rumbling", the riddled southwest section collapsed.

Yao Neibin looked excited, waiting to swarm up.

Pan Mei came quickly and said, "Inspector Yao, Commander asked me to bring you some good things."

He pointed to the clay pot brought up by the soldiers behind him.

Yao Neibin knew at a glance that it was filled with oil, and laughed: "There is such a good thing, keep it in one wave and attack the city."

He shouted excitedly: "Brothers, make contributions, just today..."

Yao Neibin showed his martial arts demeanor in this era to the fullest, even if he was attacking the city, he rushed to the front line without fear.

He held up his large shield to protect the soldiers carrying the folding trench bridge behind him.

Feeling the force of the arrow hitting the shield, this Yao Dachong was not afraid at all, and said with a smile: "The thief's arrow is just like Rao's tickle, you quickly build the trench bridge, someone must first enter the city, and grab the lead!" !"

The soldiers were all touched by his heroism, and they moved more quickly, braved the rain of arrows, and successfully built the trench bridge.

Looking at the gap under the city, it has been tightly packed for the door knife cart.

A hint of admiration flashed in Yao Nebin's eyes, and he shouted: "Brothers who carry oil, come up, and you will be rewarded for throwing the plug car..."

　Thank you book friend Yuriko Matsuzaki for your reward, thank you for your support!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)