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Because cloth is also a very valuable thing now, especially in the winter in the north, it is a scarce material. Even the wealthy Yu Jiajun cannot get too much cloth. As for sacks and straw bags, it is impossible to prepare them in large quantities.

, In this way, Yu Jiajun cannot get too many sandbags and waste a lot of resources here, so the bags are materials that need to be recycled. After the recruits arrive at the moat, they can only pour the soil in the bags into the moat.

It's a bit troublesome, but it can save a lot of bags.

As soon as the soil is dumped, the recruits will run back quickly, then go back to load the soil, and continue to carry it to fill the moat.

After repeating this, more and more earth and rocks were filled into the moat. As a result, a channel was gradually filled in in the moat in three places.

The officers and soldiers on the city looked worried, and Gao Qiqian was even more anxious. He jumped on his feet and yelled at the generals, asking them to immediately find a way to stop the Yu family's army from filling up the moat. If anyone was afraid of the enemy and avoided fighting again, he would be punished by military law.

In short, Gao Qiqian is very anxious. If things continue like this, there is no guarantee that the Chaoyang Gate will really be unable to be defended. Once the Yu family's army attacks the city, he will probably be killed. Who else is he worried about?

I was anxious, so I dived as fast as a mad dog, trying to bite anyone I caught.

The generals were also very unhappy, but they did not dare to disobey, so they had to force the officers and soldiers to fight desperately. However, as soon as the officers and soldiers showed up, they were killed and injured. In addition, everyone felt that it was not worth their lives for Gao Qiqian, so they resisted.

The intensity never increased, no matter how whipped or kicked the generals were, the life and death of a soldier was just refusing to show his face.

Two generals were not convinced and acted like heroes. They jumped high, took their bows and fired arrows towards the city. However, as soon as they shot down two soldiers who were filling the river, one of the two generals had his head blown off, and the other was wounded in the chest.

A hole was opened, and the corpse fell onto the city wall with a clang. One guy even fell headfirst into the city wall, and the corpse landed heavily at the foot of the city wall.

As a result, the soldiers were so frightened that they did not dare to show their heads. Then the Yu Jiajun was even more ruthless. The officer ordered each musketeer to keep an eye on a crenel. As soon as he saw someone showing his head, he would shoot immediately. A large number of musketeers approached.

Arriving next to the moat, relying on the resisting horses under the city to cover their bodies, they set up their rifles and aimed at the crenellations. At this time, they didn't even need to fire a concentrated fire salvo, and simply started shooting in pieces with precise aim.

As a result, the officers and soldiers were beaten so hard that they didn't even dare to show their heads. After just firing a few cannons, they completely stopped again. The battle reached such an extent that even Yu Xiaotian felt ridiculous watching from behind. It turned out that

He was also worried that the attacking troops would be counterattacked by relatively fierce artillery fire, which would cause huge casualties to his brothers. But now it seems that he still overestimated the combat effectiveness of the army.

Another generational difference in weapons also caused the current situation. Yu Jiajun's artillery completely suppressed the defenders' artillery fire. The rifles had high accuracy and long range, and could directly seal the crenels, making the officers and soldiers

Even if there is cover, the only result is to be suppressed and beaten.

The tactics used by the officers and soldiers in the past were basically completely ineffective when facing the Yu Jiajun. Therefore, it is not surprising that the battle ended like this, not to mention that the morale of the officers and soldiers was very low.

In fact, the city defense of the capital is still quite tight overall, and the facilities are also very complete. Although a lot of the crenellations have been knocked out, there are still a lot of wooden parapets prepared under the city, which are specially prepared to be stoned at the crenellations. When destroyed, it was used to replace the parapet on the city.

But at this moment, the Yu Jiajun's artillery fire was so sharp that the officers and soldiers did not even bother to push against the city wall. Almost all the officers and soldiers lowered their bodies as much as possible, and even lay on the wall, not even daring to raise their heads. Hey, it would be really strange if it could stop Yu Jiajun from filling in the moat.

And the strength of the Yu family army is far from being called a sea of ​​​​people. The overall strength of the siege troops does not even exceed 10,000, and they have not captured a large number of civilians to help them fill the river. As long as the defenders are a little braver, they want to be so smooth. Filling the river is basically impossible without paying a huge price.

From this, we can see how low the morale of the defenders has been. Now, even if they have extraordinary abilities, they cannot save the situation.

On this day, the Yu family's army attacked until dark, and Yu Xiaocai ordered to temporarily withdraw the troops. Although they failed to attack the foot of the city wall on the first day, the overall progress was still very satisfactory.

After a whole day of continuous bombardment, the entire upper crenellations of the city wall in the Chaoyang Gate area, and the parapets and crenellations at a distance of several hundred meters wide were basically destroyed by Yu Jiajun's artillery. The city wall could now be It was said to be like a ruin, with bricks and rubble everywhere.

The turrets and watchtowers in this area were basically destroyed by Yu Jiajun's heavy artillery, including the gate tower on the Wengcheng, which was also blown down by Yu Jiajun's artillery. Inevitably, many shells fell into the city, and many shells fell into the city. Many houses were destroyed and some people were killed and injured, which also caused a certain degree of panic among the people in the city.

The most critical thing is that after a day's attack, the Yu Jiajun successfully opened up several passages to the moat and destroyed all the defense facilities outside the moat, laying a good foundation for the next attack. As long as the officers and soldiers If you don't have the guts to go out at night to restore these facilities, tomorrow's attack will be much easier.

In addition to these, there is another very important thing, that is, after half a day, several recruit camps transported sand, soil and gravel to fill the moat. Although several channels across the river have not been completely opened, three places have still been filled. With most of the passage out, without much manpower, the landfill project can be easily completed tomorrow morning and the passage to attack the city wall can be completely opened.

After nightfall, most of the troops of the Yu family retreated to the camp to rest. Yu Xiaotian ordered the new and old soldiers to improve the food together, so that everyone had meat, and the staple food was opened for them to make and eat well so that they could rest early.

However, on the battlefield, the Yu Jiajun still left a small number of security troops to guard the results of the day, to prevent the officers and soldiers from leaving the city at night, launching a counterattack or trying to destroy the results obtained by the Yu Jiajun during the day.

Sure enough, after nightfall, Gao Qiqian offered a heavy reward, recruited dead soldiers to lower down the city, crossed the moat at night, launched a counterattack against the Yu family army, and took advantage of the situation to send people out of the city to destroy the moat channel that the Yu family army had filled in during the day. .

Originally a soldier, he didn't want to do this, but Gao Qiqian successively raised the reward. From the beginning, he only had to go out of the city to kill a rebel, and the reward was five taels of silver. It has been increased to thirty taels of silver, and he even had to go out to destroy the landfill. You can get five taels of silver by exiting the moat passage. Finally, some desperadoes couldn't bear the temptation and stepped forward to accept the reward.

So at dusk, there began to be movement in the city. A group of desperadoes, wearing light armor and holding swords and spears, lowered ropes from the city wall, and then pulled the ropes and slipped down along the city wall.

Now the sheep and horses gathered at the wall, and then they began to figure out the sheep and horses wall and began to cross the river.

But every move they made fell into the eyes of the Yu Jiajun secret sentries who stayed outside the moat. As soon as there was any movement on the city top, they were discovered by these Yu Jiajun secret sentries, and the news was immediately spread to the Yu Jiajun camp.

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So the troops who were on duty that night immediately took action, and under the cover of darkness, they rushed into the battlefield and blocked one side of the moat.

When the officers and soldiers took it out, they were trying to cross the moat with pieces of wooden planks and other messy things, and when they attacked the Yu Jiajun camp, a row of lamps and torches were suddenly lit along the moat.

The bright pine trees suddenly illuminated the moat.

The figures of these officers and soldiers trying to cross the river to steal the camp were immediately exposed in the night. Before they could react, countless flames suddenly flashed in the darkness on the other side of the river, followed by guns as dense as exploding beans.

The sound rang out.

The officers and soldiers gathered on the bank of the moat immediately let out a scream and fell into the moat like dumplings in rows, including those officers and soldiers who had already started to cross the river, as if they were being hunted by ducks.

Usually groups of them were beaten to death in the river.

Although the color of the river water could not be seen in the darkness, at dawn, we still saw the corpses of officers and soldiers lying on the ground on the other side of the moat. There were also dozens of corpses of officers and soldiers floating in the moat. This section of the river

, glowing with a strange light red color, which is the color dyed by human blood, alluring and cruel.

After being hit head-on by Yu Jiajun, the officers and soldiers became completely honest. They stood up and looked at the dead soldiers sent out. Only less than half of them came back, and their hearts felt even colder. They felt cold all night.

He didn't sleep, so he called out the city's garrison officers and soldiers, and also the people who were recruited on the spot. They went to the city overnight to repair the female wall that had been destroyed during the day, and to clean up the city wall that was full of ruins.

Against the backdrop of the slightly lighter night, the shadowy figures on the top of the city immediately attracted Yu Jiajun's attention. There were full-time snipers on duty at night. When a large number of people were found moving on the city wall, these snipers

Got busy again.

Sporadic gunshots continued to ring out everywhere outside the city. The snipers were not afraid of the enemy's counterattack, so they simply lay down in one place and kept shooting.

When working in the city, it is inevitable that lanterns and torches will be lit for lighting. This makes the people working in the city an excellent hunting target. As long as they are exposed inadvertently, they will be attacked almost immediately.

The enemy's snipers shot and killed them, so at the end of the night, the officers and soldiers had almost no progress on the city wall. In addition to dozens of corpses left in vain, they were not able to repair and clear much space at all.

Gao Qiqian was completely blinded by this, and he hurriedly asked Cao Huachun for help, asking Cao Huachun to send him some reinforcements. However, Cao Huachun rejected Gao Qiqian's request.

(Special thanks to Wind Is My Soul, Daai Zhibai, Yi Zui Ren, and several friends for their tips! I was so tired yesterday that I drove to two cities in one afternoon, and both times were round trip, and I didn’t come back until late at night! I almost missed it today

Can’t get up!)