marquis of jingan

Chapter 1001 Accept it as soon as you see it?

Before Shen Yi arrived at the east gate, he heard bursts of artillery fire.

The sound of gunfire was near and far.

The closest, naturally the Huai'an army's artillery fired.

And the artillery farther away means that the Southern Conscript Army outside the city also fired artillery.

This alone can explain that the fighting situation is extremely fierce.

You must know that when we were at the north gate just now, neither the Zhengnan army outside the city nor the Huai'an army defending the city used artillery.

Shen Yi just wanted to catch up 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 strode forward and almost rushed to the stairs. He stretched out his arms to stop Shen Yi, and said, "Mr. Shen! Danger!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a stone flew over from outside the city, landed not far away, and wounded two soldiers of the Huai'an Army.

Master Shen stared.

Both the catapult and the artillery were used.

Shen Yi took a deep breath and said, "I'm going up to see the battle situation."

Su Ding had no choice but to grit his teeth, waved his hand behind him, and said, "Come with a team to protect Duke Shen!"

Shen Yi pushed him away and strode up the tower.

He was wearing armor, so as long as he wasn't so unlucky that he was hit head-on by the artillery, he wouldn't be in too much danger. Even if he was hit by a falling rock from a catapult, there was a high probability that he would be injured.

In three or two steps, he had already climbed the tower.

Looking down at a glance, there are dense black shadows under the city, and the end is almost invisible!
Once the number of people exceeds [-], in the eyes of the naked eye, it will be boundless!
These Qi troops under the city, under the cover of catapults and artillery, came like a tide, like Xuzhou city!

Even if a row of dozens of people were cut down by the arrow rain like wheat, the follow-up Qi army could fill in the gap amidst the shouts of the Qi people, and immediately filled the gap!
This scene was extremely shocking, and the scalps of those who watched it were numb!

Even Shen Yi was the first to see a siege battlefield of this scale!
He only glanced at it, then squatted down, and hid behind the wall, took a deep breath, and said, "Su Ding, Su Ding!"

At this moment, Su Ding was not far from Shen Yi. He ran to the vicinity of Shen Yi in two or three steps. Like Shen Yi, he squatted down short and guarded against the arrows and flying stones under the city.

"Duke Shen, the last general is here!"

At this moment, a big stone fell not far from the two of them. The stone hit the city wall, and the gravel immediately splashed. Master Shen let out a pooh, spat out the broken stone in his mouth, and asked loudly, "What's the matter?" !"

Su Ding tried his best to get closer to Shen Yi, because the artillery roared too loudly, and he was also talking loudly: "Mr. Shen! In the morning, they were just attacking routinely. The general waited for others to deal with it normally, and suddenly the catapult and the artillery were pushed out!"

"These Qi people, start to charge forward with round fire!"

"The fight was extremely fierce!"

Su Ding said loudly: "The general has seen that there are thousands of people charging at the same time under the city at this time! Behind these thousands of people, there are still a large number of Qi troops, ready to step up at any time!"

Shen Yi covered his eyes and other vital parts with his hands, stretched out his head and glanced at the city quickly, then shrank back.

At this time, you have to be careful!
Because of this intensity of war, there must be a sharpshooter, the kind of sharpshooter who can kill with precision as long as he shows his head from a hundred paces away!

Not only is it accurate to the head and feet, but the strength is also ridiculously strong!
Originally, Shen Yi had no idea about this kind of sharpshooter. It wasn't until several sharpshooters appeared in his anti-Japanese army that he clearly felt the horror of this kind of ancient snipers.

After glancing at the situation on the battlefield, Shen Yi took a deep breath and asked, "General Su, it seems that the people of Qi have suddenly changed their tactics. Among the four gates of Xuzhou, only the east gate has suffered from such a violent attack. attack."

"They started to specialize in one!"

Shen Yi said in a deep voice: "No matter what, the city gate must not be lost!"

Just as Su Ding was about to speak, there were gravels splashing again. He spat out and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Shen, the Qi people outside look scary now, but they are the ones who are always killing people now!"

"Brothers on our city wall, there are not many downsizing."

"Besides, there are still people coming up from the city at any time!"

"The people of Qi will never enter Xuzhou City unless they use corpses to pile up human ladders!"

What Su Ding said is true, the Qi army under the city looks menacing and bluffing, but now, it is still the Huai'an army that occupies a favorable location, killing and wounding a large number of Qi people.

Because if the Qi people wanted to attack the city, they had to charge towards Xuzhou City against the artillery arrows on the tower.

This charging process is bound to kill people.

But the arrows they shot on the city tower, as well as the flying stones from the catapults, were not particularly lethal.

Shen Yi rubbed the center of his eyebrows with his hands, and after a quick thought, he said, "General Su, go and command the defense of the city, 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 have an accident, but you alone must not!"

"It's too dangerous here. If you don't go down the tower, I will only offend you!"

Master Shen couldn't help laughing, and said, "I'm hiding here, and I haven't fought the enemy before, so what's the danger?"

Su Ding looked back at the soldiers beside him, and shouted: "Come on, send Mr. Shen down the tower!"

Several people were also worried about Shen Yi's safety. After hearing Su Ding's words, they stopped hesitating and stepped forward to pull Shen Yi down the tower.

After Shen Yi got off the tower, Su Ding finally got up, looked at the people of Qi who had rushed to the base of the wall, and was about to set up the ladder, and shouted: "Get ready to burn oil! Splash 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 suitable for use on the battlefield at this time.

After Mr. Shen got off the tower, he was still a little worried. He found a small building with three floors near the east gate, went up to the third floor, and used binoculars 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 listened to Shen Yi's order: "Luo Yong is not in Xuzhou, and all the staff of the mansion and newspaper department in Xuzhou city are under your command. From now on, the news between the four gates must be unimpeded." .”

"Any two city gates must be able to deliver accurate news within the time of a cup of tea."

Master Shen said in a low voice, "Also, make me a batch of two-color fireworks, and the other one should be yellow."

Shen Yi began to use fireworks to signal messages during the anti-Japanese army period, but until now, the Huai'an army's fireworks have only been red.

Not much information can be conveyed.

But now, the attacks of the Qi people are clearly divided into two intensities, one is a pretentious feint attack, and the other is the violent attack of Dongmen.

Red can represent onslaught, and Shen Yi needs another color of fireworks to represent another state.

Lin Sheng half-kneeled on the ground, lowered his head and said, "Your subordinate obeys!"

After he obeyed, he lowered his head and smiled wryly: "It's just making fireworks, my subordinates don't know..."

"The Huai'an army has gunpowder workshops."

Shen Yi waved his hand and said, "Go in and learn, and get the things out for me as soon as possible!"

Lin Sheng didn't dare to neglect, he bowed his head and answered yes, turned around and went down.

Shen Yi, on the other hand, was leaning on the railing to watch the flames of 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 climbed up to the east gate in armor to help out.

In this way, the fierce battle lasted for a whole day!
Until the evening, the Qi people's offensive finally subsided, and the Qi people outside the east gate, after leaving behind two or three thousand corpses, began to retreat slowly!
Shen Yi directly requisitioned this restaurant, and all six generals under his command were called here for a meeting.

Several people sat around Shen Yi in a row.

Master Shen took a sip of tea and said in a low voice, "Everyone should be able to see that the people of Qi have changed 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 general of the Qi people has such a natural nature, or he didn't regard the life of Zhengnan Army as his life."

"In other words, he is very likely to have reinforcements."

"At this time, he is using the lives of the southern army to consume our energy and supplies for defending the city."

"I've been thinking about it all day here today."

Master Shen said in a deep voice: "He attacked the east gate today, but he may not necessarily attack the east gate tomorrow. Therefore, the four gates of Xuzhou must be prepared to fight tough battles..."

"Si Zheng!"

Before Shen Yi could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Lin Sheng who hurried up to the restaurant. Siwu Lin 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 Qi people have gathered, and they are already approaching the south gate!"

Hearing this, Master Shen rubbed his brows, and said in a muffled voice: "It seems that they want to take advantage of the large number of people to attack day and night, so as not to let us stop."

Without further ado, Xue Wei stood up, clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Shen, the last general is guarding the south gate, and the last general is gone!"

Shen Yi waved his hand, motioning for him to go.

Wan Zhong also got up silently, cupped his fists and said, "Mr. Shen, the last general also guards the south gate."

Shen Yi also nodded and let him go.

After the two left, Shen Yi looked at everyone.

"What do you think, you can say it now."

Ling Su hesitated for a moment, and said: "Mr. Shen, the Qi people have [-] troops to conscript the South. If there are more reinforcements, it is very likely to reach the size of last year's troops. By that time, even if there is enough food and grass in Xuzhou City, it will be impossible It's hard to hold on."

The strength of the Qi people last year was close to 20, half of this size, and almost beat Shen Yi's Huai'an army to the point of desperation.

Although the current number of the Huai'an army has increased by 20% compared to last year, if [-] Qi troops attack Xuzhou, it will still be difficult for Xuzhou to defend.

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 keep Xuzhou."

"The second way...

He looked at the four remaining people present.

"Take it when you see it."

"After killing enough Qi people with Xuzhou City, choose a suitable opportunity and give up Xuzhou."

Having said that, Shen Yi paused and added.

"I speak personally."

He glanced around at everyone and spoke calmly.

"Unless it is absolutely necessary, I don't want to give up Xuzhou."

(End of this chapter)