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 Supervisory Guard, Suzaku Guard, and Xiaoqi Guard, almost all of them were dispatched.

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

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

Tuoba Zhu on the city wall, after observing Chen Jun's dispatch, immediately asked 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.

Gar did as Tuoba Zhu said.

But when the order was issued to the entire army.

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

"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.

Until three days after the siege.

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.”

After saying that, Gar snorted coldly.

He does have enough experience in defending the city.

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.

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.

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

Unfortunately, he had already stocked up on food.

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

Chen Jun still surrounded but did not attack.

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."

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

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

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

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 the city 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 flesh all over the ground from an intact person. The defenders were obviously panicked, and many of them were hiding like headless flies.

In the city, due to the continuous siege for many days, Gal and Tuobazhu naturally did not supervise the battle on the city wall at all times.

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 the defenders crying and wailing on the wall. The strange thunder had stopped long ago, and Chen Jun did not attack the city.

Gar looked at the several gaps on the wall, and when he learned that they were caused by the strange thunder, he opened his mouth in shock.

But Tuoba Zhu frowned, and his doubts were even greater.

Why did it stop?

Did the strange thunder run out?

"Why don't you continue to bombard? If you continue to bombard, the morale of the enemy army will be scattered, and it will definitely be a good time to attack." Xia Zhining saw that the cannon sound stopped, and hurriedly found Chen Mo to ask.

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

Seeing that Chen Mo was keeping her in suspense, Xia Zhining pursed her lips and said, "Then when do you plan to attack the city? It's getting colder and colder."

"Tomorrow." Chen Mo put down the military book, and the one that Chen Mo read in the military book was the "three-sided siege and one missing" of the siege.

In the afternoon, Chen Jun launched another round of bombardment on Bingcheng.

The eleventh day

Chen Mo ordered all nine red cannons to aim at the east gate of Bingcheng, and ordered the Suzaku Guards to fire all the shrapnel shells, and then switch to solid iron balls.

Cannonballs are divided into shrapnel shells and solid iron balls.

The shrapnel shells were almost gone, but the solid iron balls had not been used yet.

After all the shrapnel shells were fired, Chen Mo ordered the Jiangdong Army surrounding the west gate to withdraw.

This made one of the four city walls a "gap".