While the Song army soldiers were forced to become suicide squads, the observers' calculations of shelling Fancheng opened their eyes.

When he leaned on Climate Eye to find that the third round of artillery shells had caused a large-scale precise strike on the floor of Fancheng City, he was very impressed.

"These gunners are all doing beautifully! They are fighting very accurately! Haha! It won't take long for these bastards to dare to defend the city on the city tower! Hahahahaha!"

He Feihu smiled proudly and said, "That's natural. Our gunners are masters who have been tempered for thousands of times, especially those observers. I don't know how to command artillery bombardment, just give them everything."

Zhang Yuejing nodded with a smile.

"In this way, we should wait for them to collapse... By the way, the enemy should be soon, right? Once the enemy arrives, they can directly surround Xiangyang City. At that time, Commander, you can directly transfer some artillery to help them wipe out the military camps outside Xiangyang City. How about it?"

"There is no responsibilities."

He Feihu did not hesitate.

At the stall where the two discussed, Chen Qiaoshan, the general of the enemy, led the 30,000 soldiers of the enemy, had already broken through the counter gate and was galloping towards Xiangyang City.

A while ago, they conquered Zaoyang, followed the water flow to the cabinet door gate, easily captured the cabinet door gate gate, and advanced to Xiangyang.

On the afternoon of April 8, Chen Qiaoshan led the main force of the defeated enemy to the southeast of Xiangyang City, and quickly encircled the south, east and west sides of Xiangyang City.

Like Fancheng, he defeated the enemy and surrounded Xiangyang City, and looked at Zhang Yuejing's army who was attacking Fancheng across the Han River.

He quickly sent someone to contact Zhang Yuejing and informed him of the news that he had succeeded.

After receiving the news, Zhang Yuejing immediately arranged for He Feihu to dispatch five general artillery groups, fifteen general artillery groups and one thousand people to attack the enemy and begin to help break the enemy's army and demolish the military camp.

Remove it a little bit, don't rush, and grind it slowly.

The Ming army is currently mainly targeting Fancheng as the first target to attack. Xiangyang City is stronger and more difficult to deal with than Fancheng, so it goes a little further.

Moreover, even if he could break through Xiangyang City, Zhang Yuejing did not plan to break through Xiangyang before the main force of the Song army arrived to support him.

He wanted to preserve a glimmer of vitality for Xiangyang, surrounded the points and attacked the main force of the Song army, and eliminated the military achievements. With this, he might be able to directly force the submission to Xiangyang. He would not need to use too much effort to destroy Xiangyang to obtain this solid city.

Chen Qiaoshan gave the order, received the artillery group of the Shenji Camp, and then began to attack the Song army camp outside Xiangyang City according to the established plan.

Take your time, do it little by little, and don't worry.

If you don’t send troops to attack, I will slowly grind it.

If you take the initiative to attack, I will fight you.

The soldiers in the Song army camp outside Xiangyang City had not yet begun to retreat at this moment because Wang Yan still had doubts about whether to completely shrink his troops.

However, Zhou Benyuan could not bear the huge losses, so he forced his troops to recover. Wang Yan did not support or objected to this.

He thought that Xiangyang is still safe now, so he just gave up the outer military defense line so simply. Isn’t it too cowardly?

Are there any other ways to break the deadlock?

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of a solution, but he couldn't make up his mind to completely give up the military defense line he had worked hard to manage.

Hesitated and hesitated, Chen Qiaoshan led the enemy to break the guards of the counter gate, and came directly to Xiangyang City, surrounded Xiangyang City, and quickly introduced the artillery team of Shenji Camp to launch artillery attacks on the military camps around Xiangyang.

By the time Wang Yan realized that something was wrong, Chen Qiaoshan had already led his army to break through the two camps of the Song army.

At this point, there was nothing to say. Wang Yan finally realized that it was a stupid thing to defend the city outside, so he ordered the Song army inside the military camp outside the city to retreat completely.

The outer military camp was left behind the temple (song) and the inner military camp began to retreat. How much could it be retreated? Leave the green mountains there, and you don’t have to worry about burning firewood.

So when Chen Qiaoshan demolished the military camp on the outside of Xiangyang City, he unexpectedly discovered that the military camp on the inside of Xiangyang City was empty.

They all retreated.

After a brief surprise, Chen Qiaoshan did not order further attack on Xiangyang City. He calmly led his men to demolish the military camp outside and confiscated the spoils. Because the retreat was in a hurry, many of the weapons and food were not taken away by the Song army, and became Chen Qiaoshan's spoils.

It is easy to understand that Chen Qiaoshan did not order a quick attack.

Xiangyang City is not a city that can be captured by quick attack, and the Ming army's purpose is not to quickly attack and capture Xiangyang City, but to surround and attack support.

In fact, according to Chen Qiaoshan's opinion, if there were no artillery in Xiangyang City, it would probably take two or three years to break through. Even with artillery, it would not be easy.

Not to mention anything else, Xiangyang City moat is the largest in China, with 180 meters at the narrowest point and 250 meters at the longest point.

The moat in Fancheng is thirty or forty meters wide, which is already very deterrent, but compared with the giant moat in Xiangyang, it is the difference between urine and high-pressure water guns.

As long as the only land passage is cut off by the Song army, Xiangyang City is a giant water city. It is almost unimaginable to break through Xiangyang.

Therefore, Su Yonglin and Zhang Yuejing both thought of a simple strategy of surrounding the points and attacking aid, using Xiangyang City as bait to attract the main force of the Song army to help, thereby achieving the goal of eliminating the main force of the Song army.

As for Xiangyang City, there is no need to attack fiercely.

Attacking Fancheng is already adding psychological pressure to the defenders of Xiangyang City, otherwise Zhang Yuejing would not have wanted to conquer Fancheng so much.

However, Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan did not know the true purpose of the Ming army. Faced with the roar of the Ming army's artillery and the huge deterrence brought by the artillery, Zhou Benyuan no longer dared to emerge. After witnessing the terrifying attack power of the artillery, Wang Yan directly ordered the army to evacuate and not make unnecessary sacrifices.

They still have to work hard to defend the city!

The night attack failed and the initiative failed, so the only way to defend Gucheng was left.

In the next few days, the army of the army maintained a certain degree of artillery bombardment on Fancheng, constantly bringing huge damage and deterrence to the Fancheng defenders.

The bombardment of the city wall is secondly. The solid city wall several meters thick has not been collapsed so quickly, but the general's cannon can raise the muzzle to bombard the city.

The bombardment of the general's artillery on the city made the defenders of Fancheng very uncomfortable. After all, no one knew when a large iron ball fell from the sky and fell to the ground with a bang. The scorching airflow could completely burn a person, let alone the bombardment hit the buildings in the city.

Especially the buildings that store arms and grain were all bombarded by fierce shelling, causing a large amount of arms and large amounts of grain to lose a good storage environment.

In order to avoid damage and waste, Zhou Benyuan urgently dispatched cannon fodder tyrants to dig cellars to store grain and Tibetans.

It seems that I can’t stay on the ground anymore, and it’s also a way to do it underground.

The Ming army's attack on Fancheng was so harsh that compared with this, the attack on Xiangyang seemed affectionate.

Chen Qiaoshan just demolished all the military camps, confiscated all the spoils, and then slowly built artillery positions outside the city, allowing the observers to calculate as much as possible and choose the best shooting angle and shooting position.

Take your time, don't worry.

The Ming army's food supply was absolutely abundant and could afford it.

At the same time, the Song army in Xiangfan fell into an unprecedented trough and panic. The huge threat of the Ming army artillery hung on the head of the Song army in Xiangfan like a sharp sword, and it would fall at any time.

If the Xiangyang moat was not too wide and had no way to go, the Song army would probably have large-scale deserters.

Despite this, some people tried to escape from the dock in the north of the city along the Han River, and were found to be tortured and punished.

The remaining forty-six soldiers in the team where the four deserters were located were forced to insert four deserters into one knife, and they were not allowed to insert them into vital points, but could only insert them into legs, arms, etc.

As a result, the four deserters were bleeding profusely and eventually died of miserable blood. Then their bodies were chopped down and put into the pot and cooked a pot, forcing the forty-six people in the same team to eat one piece of meat.

Can't do it?

You will die with you.

Can't get out of your mouth?

You will die with you.

When dealing with deserters, the Song army was so fierce and cruel.

Of course, such high pressure will cause serious psychological problems for soldiers, so senior generals of the Song army will not have only such means.

In order to boost morale and maintain the morale of the army, in addition to severe punishment, Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan, especially Zhou Benyuan, also set up corresponding reward measures.

In addition to rewards and meals, there are also "special reward terms".

For example, if you dare to fight in the city for half an hour, you will reward a woman for him to play.

If you dare to fight in the city for an hour, then you will reward two women with one play.

If you fight in the city for an hour twice, you will be rewarded with a relatively beautiful woman for him to play once.

If you fight three times in the city for an hour, you will be rewarded with a carefully selected beauty that the big head soldier will never touch in his life and let him play once.

The carefully selected beauties were dressed up and pulled out to parade. They were wearing heavy makeup and extremely tempting, and were forced to show them to the big-headed soldiers.

Zhou Benyuan told the big-headed soldiers that as long as they fight bravely, they can play such beautiful women.

The big-headed soldiers who have long lacked the means to solve physiological problems have turned green.

The lower body quickly dominates the upper body and even the brain thinking.

In this way, coupled with the fierce execution method of Zhou Benyuan's personal guards, the Song soldiers in Fancheng always maintained a certain degree of counterattack ability, and the soldiers in the city did not lose control in extreme high-pressure environments.

Although this counterattack could not bring any losses to the Ming army, and such a way to maintain the rationality of the soldiers may not be able to last.

But as long as it can be maintained, it is enough.

Zhou Benyuan didn't care so much, let alone the sorrow of those women.

Like Wang Yan, what he cares most now is when the Lin'an court can send troops to support him. If they don't send people to support him quickly, they will really not be able to stand it.

Do you know when that terrifying artillery can smash the city wall?

They were so panicked that they were about to collapse, while the Southern Song Dynasty court would only be even more panicked than them.
Chapter completed!