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Chapter 126 Siege Heavy Artillery
Under the city of Haizhou, the three infantry brigades and one artillery brigade of the Fuliao Army have been assembled, but after these two or three days, the Liao Army built a camp outside the city and did not immediately attack the city.This abnormal movement made the Jin soldiers of the two banners in Haizhou City even more worried.It was like waiting for the terrible silence before the final judgment.You said that if you want to go up, go up quickly, but what's the matter with standing still as the attacker!

"In the past two days, the Liao army did not take any action. They just fired a few tentative shots into the city. Do they want to besiege?" A Min stood on the city wall and looked out of the city.

In the direction of Haizhou City leading to Gaizhou City, the Fuliao Army has already stationed a temporary camp. There are fences, sandbags, stone bricks and other fortifications around the camp to prevent the defenders in the city from rushing out.

"Your Majesty may lead his troops back to Shengjing at any time, isn't he afraid of procrastinating and delaying the battle?" Yue Tuo, the leader of the red flag, also had difficulty understanding the strategy of the Liao army.

At this time, they hoped that the Fuliao army could attack the city as they expected, at least to reassure them a little bit!

It's not that Chu Yun doesn't want to attack the city, it's just that he is still preparing the ordnance to attack Haizhou City!Haizhou City, as the seat of the Haizhou Guard, was first run by the Ming army for a period of time, and then it was taken over by the Hou Jin. It lacked heavy siege weapons and was still somewhat captured.

The most important thing is that Chu Yun does not want to waste his troops in vain under the fortified city.

"Is our grain road unblocked?" Chu Yun asked Yu Cheng of the guard almost every day when he woke up.

"Liangdao is guarded by the Fourth Infantry Brigade. Hou Jin's cavalry tried to plunder once or twice, but they were defeated." Yu Cheng replied.

Chu Yun walked out of the military tent and looked at the Haizhou City standing on the plain, always dissatisfied with his progress.

Wars in ancient times were too boring. If it was put into modern times, Haizhou City would be razed to the ground in a round of carpet bombing.But in ancient times when there was a lack of heavy weapons, these cities were one by one, and it was difficult to get around.Haizhou City used to be Shengjing, the capital of Houjin.If Chu Yun bypassed Haizhou City to attack Shengjing, his grain road would be cut off by the defenders of Haizhou City, so Haizhou City really had to be attacked.

"Master, why don't we attack the city yet? I'm getting impatient with waiting, I wish I could invade Haizhou City immediately, and cut off the heads of Amin and the others inside to worship my dead brother's spirit in heaven." The third Liu Xingzuo of the Infantry Brigade came to the barracks of Chuyun's First Infantry Brigade to ask for a fight.

"General Liu, don't worry. When we capture Haizhou and Shengjing successively, don't say that Amin is at your disposal, even Huang Taiji can be sacrificed to you. But we must minimize our own losses. Are the artillery of your brigade in accordance with the regulations? Is the deployment of the military in place?" Chu Yun asked.

"Mr., please rest assured. Everything is properly arranged. The brothers are waiting for the order of the master to attack the city." Liu Xingzuo said resentfully.

"Soon, soon." Chu Yun looked at Haizhou City again.

The Fuliao army stationed outside the city was not silent, at least Chu Yun was preparing traditional siege equipment such as carts and ladders in a decent manner.

On the official road from Gaizhou to Haizhou, the [-]th Infantry Brigade specially dispatched a brigade to deliver what Chu Yun needed.This batch of supplies consisted of dozens of large carriages, and there were hundreds of horses in consignment alone.

"Tell me, what is under the white canvas? The people from the Ordnance Bureau asked us to escort it to the artillery brigade in its entirety. They also said that if something happened on the way, our heads would fall to the ground. It must be something important." The escort of important supplies The soldier muttered halfway.

"Since it is required to be transported to the artillery brigade, it must be artillery and ammunition." Another soldier said.

"The Artillery Brigade already has a hundred artillery pieces, so there are so many artillery pieces missing."

"Who knows, maybe the military leader wants the artillery battalion to use artillery to flatten the enemy. When the time comes, we infantry will just follow the artillery and kill them. Isn't it better than we piled up with our lives?"

"That's what you said. With the treasures like artillery, we are much more at ease in fighting. Compared with the artillery, the golden man's bows and arrows are just like children playing house."

On the third day after the soldiers of the Fuliao army approached the city of Haizhou, the large amount of supplies transported from the Gaizhou City Ordnance Bureau finally arrived at the Liao army and handed over to Dong Dawei of the Artillery Brigade.

"My dear, these treasures are finally here!" Dong Dawei was ecstatic when he saw dozens of large carriages arriving.

He really wanted to lift the white canvas on the big carriage for the first time and touch the big treasure made by the Ordnance Bureau.But he thought of Chu Yun's order to him, so he said to his soldiers: "Quickly go and notify the military master, and say that the artillery from the Ordnance Bureau has arrived."

"The artillery from the Ordnance Bureau has arrived? Come with me to the artillery brigade." Chu Yun heard that what he was looking forward to had arrived, so he couldn't hold back, and rushed to Dong Dawei's artillery brigade with his own soldiers.

The defenders in the Artillery Brigade's barracks were all in awe when they saw the army leader Chu Yun leading the guards.When Chu Yun entered the artillery brigade, the artillerymen of these artillery brigades immediately talked about it: "Look, the military master really attaches great importance to our Liao army. All the good things are assigned to our artillery brigade, and he even came to inspect it in person."

"By the way, did you see what the military master looks like just now? There was a large group of people just now, and I couldn't tell who the military master was..."

"Nonsense, as a small soldier like you, you are still qualified to meet the military leader? If the military leader didn't come to see the artillery of our artillery brigade, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to see the military leader's guard."

"When the military leader led people past me just now, I seemed to see the military leader smiling at me. My God, I can brag about this for a year!"

Chu Yun didn't have the mind to pay attention to the homely conversations of these big soldiers. He couldn't wait to come to the chief account of the artillery brigade, and saw that the commander of the artillery brigade, Dong Dawei, had led his soldiers around the big carriage outside the main account.

"Master, you are here! I have been waiting so hard!" Dong Dawei was excited when he saw Chu Yun.

"It seems that you can't wait to see the new artillery produced by the Ordnance Bureau, why not me?" Chu Yun laughed.

He had told David Dong to notify him as soon as possible, and he had to lift the canvas, otherwise Chu Yun would have asked David Dong to go to the pigpen to help the Agriculture Department raise pigs, so he asked David Dong, who regarded artillery as his life, to hold back Resisting the urge to check out the new artillery, he waited until Chu Yun arrived.

"But this is not a new type of artillery, it's just that the caliber has become a little bigger." Chu Yun personally lifted the white canvas on the big carriage, revealing the large artillery inside.

"The 24-pound siege gun manufactured by imitating the 24-pound ship gun of the Victory was short of time, so only four were cast, and I took them all out!"

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