Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chapter 490 Attacking the heart, surrounding three and missing one
"Defend the city?" Sun Meng couldn't help but sneer. At this time, he was full of confidence in the red cannon and said: "We have the red cannon. How can a small annexed city stop our army."

Chen Mo took the telescope from Xia Zhining's hand and observed it for a while, then said: "The red cannon is not omnipotent, and we don't have much ammunition left, so we have to use it sparingly."

It didn't take long to develop blooming bombs, so there was no time to expand production. In a few months, not many were made, but they were all brought.

Some are used up in Guanshan Plain and some are used up in Yaoer City, but there are not many left.

The same goes for clay pot bombs.

Sun Meng was stunned: "Master Hou, then we won't attack the city tomorrow?"

"No attack." Chen Mo put down his telescope, turned around and mounted his horse, and said: "Since they want to defend, let's let them defend. I will surround the city tomorrow and cut off the supplies of these barbarians first."

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Soon, the Jade Rabbit sets in the west and the Golden Crow rises in the east. In the blink of an eye, another day has passed without even realizing it.

According to Chen Mo's order, nearly 40,000 troops were dispatched from the Shenyong Guard, Shenwu Guard, Trap Guard, Xiaoqi Guard, and Jiangdong Army. Except for the Monitoring Guard, Suzaku Guard, and Xiaoqi Guard, almost all of them were dispatched.

But Tuoba Zhu was not as optimistic as Gar. Fortunately, he had also dealt with Chen Mo. Based on his understanding of Chen Mo, this shouldn't be the case.

Until three days after the siege.

Gar relaxed a little and smiled and said to Tuoba: "It seems that Chen Jun still doesn't know that our army has gathered food in the city. It has been eight days. If this continues, it will be enough to delay the winter."

"Is this a siege first and then an attack?" Gar muttered. This was a common method of siege, and he didn't pay too much attention to it.

Unfortunately, he had already stocked up on food.

Gar did as Tuoba Zhu said.

But for the past few days, there has been no action other than siege of the city.

If he were the opponent, he would first use strange thunder to frighten the defenders in the city, thereby reducing their morale.

He does have enough experience in defending the city.

But when the order was issued to the entire army.

Chen Jun still surrounded but did not attack.

Gar couldn't help but smile and said: "Fortunately, after I garrisoned the city, I gathered all the food collected from surrounding cities and counties into the city. This food alone is enough for our army to last for more than three months. I want to use this to cut off our Supplies, huh.”

He knew that the purpose of besieging the city was nothing more than to use this method to cause food shortage in the city and achieve the purpose of seizing the city.

So far, the overall casualties have not exceeded 3,000.

When he attacked Gaoliao before, he was also besieged by Gaoliao, and he was able to defend it with only a very small number of troops.

When Tuoba Zhu on the city wall observed Chen Jun's dispatch, he immediately ordered Gar to order all the defenders on the city wall to disperse. Crowds should not gather. If they heard a loud noise, they should immediately hold their heads. Get down.

And for them, as outsiders, this method really works.

Chen Jun did not attack the city, but surrounded the city.

Well, whether it was the battle of Guanshan Plain or Yaoer City, the casualties paid by Chen Jun were very small.

Soon, another five days passed and it was the end of October.

After saying that, Gar snorted coldly.

Gar was not in a hurry, but Xia Zhining was a little anxious. She went to Chen Mo and said, "Winter will come if we don't attack the city, and the situation will be unfavorable to us."

"It's true that the weather is getting colder day by day." Chen Mo walked out of the military tent, looked at the sky outside, and said: "It's been eight days. It's time to announce Timur's death to them. Didn't I leave a few questions before? The barbarians, it’s time to let them play their role.”

On the ninth day, everyone in Bingcheng knew that Timur was killed by Chen Mo.

Because Sergeant Chen held a simple "big speaker" and shouted at the city for twelve hours.

It is said in the art of war that attacking the city is the lowest priority and attacking the heart is the highest priority. Although the Jinxia defenders who were annexing the city knew about Timur's defeat in Cangzhou, they did not know that Timur was dead.

As the head coach of the Eastern Route Army, now that the people below learned that he was dead, some people suddenly became panicked.

tenth day.

Just when the Jinxia defenders thought that Chen Jun was still the same as before.

boom!
A loud bang exploded on the gate tower of Bingcheng. The entire gate tower collapsed. The defenders below were unable to dodge and were buried under the rubble.

The surrounding defenders were even shaken by the loud noise, their ears ringing.

The Jinxia defenders, who had never seen strange thunder, were still a little confused and at a loss.

The Jinxia soldiers who came back with Tuoba Zhu shouted in panic: "It's a strange thunder, it's Chen Jun's strange thunder!"

Just finished speaking.

Another nine loud bangs exploded on the city wall, awakening everyone in the city.

Several gaps were blown out on the city wall, and some of the defenders were blown up into pieces of meat all over the ground from an intact person. The defenders were obviously panicked, and many people were hiding like headless flies.

In the city, due to the continuous siege for many days, Gar and Tuobazhu were naturally not always supervising the battle on the city wall.

At this moment, the two of them were drinking tea in a mansion they occupied in the city. Suddenly, they heard a loud bang outside, and even the tea on the table spilled out.

Gar was startled: "What happened?"

The experienced Tuoba Zhu immediately said: "It's a strange thunder, Chen's army is about to attack the city."

Afterwards, nine loud explosions made Tuoba Zhu solidify this idea in his mind.

The two of them hurried towards the city wall.

But when the two arrived, there were only mourning defenders on the city wall. The strange thunder had stopped long ago, and Chen Jun did not attack the city.

Gar looked at the several gaps in the city wall, and when he learned that they were caused by strange thunder, he couldn't help but open his mouth in shock.

Tuoba Zhu, however, frowned and became even more confused.

Why did it stop?

Have you run out of strange thunder?
"Why don't you continue the bombardment? If you continue the bombardment, the morale of the troops on the other side will be dispersed. This is definitely a good time to attack." Xia Zhining saw that the sound of artillery stopped and quickly found Chen Mo to ask.

"There are not many shells left. Even if we blast them all, it may not have the desired effect. We need to take our time." Chen Mo has his own plan.

Seeing that Chen Mo was being so indifferent to her, Xia Zhining flattened her lips and said, "Then when do you plan to attack the city? It's getting colder and colder today."

"Tomorrow." Chen Mo put down the book of war, and the article in the book of war that Chen Mo read was the "Besiege three and one missing" section of the siege.

In the afternoon, Chen Jun conducted another round of shelling on Bingcheng.

the eleventh day.

Chen Mo ordered the nine red cannons to aim at the east gate of the city, and ordered the Suzaku Guards to blast all the explosive bullets, and then use solid iron pellets to bombard them.

Cannonballs are divided into flower shells and solid iron pellets.

The blooming bullets are almost gone, but the solid iron pellets have not been used yet.

After all the explosive bombs were blasted, Chen Mo asked Jiangdong's army surrounding the west city gate to withdraw.

This resulted in a "gap" on one side of the four walls.

(End of this chapter)