Guzang City is the capital of Wuwei County and the largest city in this county.

However, the size of this city is worse than that of Jincheng. It is made of earth and stone castles, and is only a few miles in size. Since the Xiliang regime has established a foothold here and after re-establishing the new capital, an outer city was built here and Guzang surrounded it.

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the outer and inner houses are now taking action, storing bows, arrows, rolling wood, stones, tincture oil, etc. for the purpose of guarding the city.

Li Boyu was the crown prince, and Shangshu Zuo Pushe Cao Zhen personally came out to supervise and inspect the defense situation.

These soldiers were not in a good mood to fight because they all heard about Luo Cheng's achievements and had swept across seven counties, gathered 100,000 troops to attack Guzang City, and wanted to integrate the eight border defense counties in Hexi and Longxi, redistribute land and resources, so that the local people can live a good life and no longer have any wars.

Such a publicity stunt disintegrated the soldiers' feelings of resisting to the death. They learned that Xiping County, Jincheng County, Kuanghan County, etc., the elderly and children had special care, reduced taxes, and distributed food. The Young Marshal reintegrated the Merchant Alliance, which caused many big merchants to communicate with Hu merchants from the Central Plains. The northwest supplies became abundant, and they lived a good life that was not even in the prosperous era before. This prompted the defenders to want to surrender to the Young Marshal's army as soon as possible.

"I wrote a letter from my family. My mother said that under the rule of the young marshal, the Governor's Office not only pardoned everyone's taxes and corvee for three years, but also re-planned the land and gave the people the food and salt to spend the winter in advance. The salt was much better than before. I advised me not to resist and submit to the young marshal as soon as possible. Alas, it's embarrassing. How could the general submit?" A young man named You Ying muttered to several soldiers like this.

"Why, let's escape secretly at night?" Another soldier also became jealous and thoughtful, and suggested in a low voice.

"That's too dangerous. How can we escape? First of all, we can't get past the city gate. Secondly, even if we escape, we will be discovered by the scattered scouts, cavalry, and warlords."

A middle-aged veteran said, "Then wait until the Sui army arrives at the city, we will turn against each other at the end of the battle, or as soon as the Sui army enters the city, they will immediately abandon their weapons and surrender. Didn't the Sui army not kill the prisoners? Let's just stop resisting."

You Ying was cautious and lowered her voice: "We should ask if other fire teams and other Yu Houjuns have such ideas. It would be easier to get together."

This scene was staged in many places in the outer city, and they were whispering, which had a great impact on the morale of the army.

Among them, some of them are newly recruited by Yanlang Pavilion, responsible for invading the enemy's army, conducting counter-propaganda, disrupting the morale of the army, and affecting morale.

At this time, Liang Shuo and Guan Jin brought the guards over and issued the latest military order. They must not criticize the military situation by themselves. They must have the determination to live and die together with Guzang City.

The soldiers in the camp all stopped and looked at each other. Although they did not dare to mutter or discuss, their dissatisfaction was still increasing.

Two days later, Luo Zhaoyun and tens of thousands of troops arrived at the city of Guzang.

The three armies stopped, and the young marshal stood up and sat on the back of Yuzhao Lion, his waist was straight, and his face was full of solemnity to stare at the outline of the outer city. The walls of Guzang and the moat were not very steep. Because there was a large desert wasteland north of Wuwei County, the city was close to the desert, and the city was simple to build.

The people and men on the northwest grasslands are more accustomed to cavalry bent their bows and archers against the enemy, and charge into battle, but are not used to the attack and defense of the city.

Therefore, most of the northwest cities here are not as complex as those in the Central Plains. There are no viewing holes and shooting outlets in the battlements between the bricks and balustrades. There are only city towers on the city walls, and there are no corner towers, viewing towers, etc., which are relatively bare and simple.

The strong wind roared the flags and flew, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers lined up outside the city, with strong soldiers and murderous auras.

Before attacking Xiliang, Luo Zhaoyun had already done enough effort to bring enough food and grass, siege weapons, whirlwind cannons, chariots and crossbows, hard bows, etc.

Only the black gunpowder is still in the development stage and has not been used. He has to use it in the final critical battle to achieve unexpected results.

However, using fish oil, resin, some black gunpowder waste, etc., mixed together, put some iron beads and iron sheets in the pottery jar, ignite them, and then use a whirlwind cannon to shoot them out, emitting black smoke, pulling the fire, and smashing them over. Although the explosion is not powerful, the iron beads flying out are very lethal, and can cause various minor injuries to the soldiers and seriously damage the morale of the other party.

At the same time, Luo Zhaoyun, the group of middle-aged soldiers, were fully prepared in strategic analysis and tactical exercises.

"Issuing an ultimatum. If you don't open the city to surrender in one day, our army will attack immediately!"

"Abide by the order!"

A row of archers stood up and shot arrows with letters tied into the city, giving Xiliang an ultimatum.

Li Gui and others in the city discussed again after receiving the letter, but finally decided to hold on.

Li Gui lacked a global concept and did not have the talent to govern the country. He is now considering how to hold on, struggle to defend the city, exhausting all the spirit of the Sui army and supplies, and allowing Luo Cheng to retreat. However, this hope is very small, because the Sui army is coming with great momentum and Luo Cheng is famous and cannot easily return without success.

At noon the next day, the Sui army besieged the city again. This time, the siege cars, tower cars, rushing cars, ladders, etc. were all assembled and launched, showing a strong attack momentum.

"The time has come. Since the Xiliang regime is so stubborn, don't blame us for being rude and attacking!" Luo Zhaoyun looked cold, raised his horse whip and pointed at Guzang City in front.

"Marson Commander, attack!" The official of the order roared and sent an order to all directions.

The army, which stood like a mountain and spear, began to move in an instant, and huge square formations leaned forward and charged forward neatly, like a tide breaking the dike, surging and surging.

As the siege general, Xue Wanren commanded the army to launch a full-line attack.

"Kill! Kill-kill--"

The soldiers of the Sui army in the northwest shouted slogans in unison and pushed various siege equipment toward the city walls. With the rumbling wheels and horse hooves, huge whirlwind cannons, stone casting cars, siege tower cars, ladders, and city cars, like giants with claws, pounced on them.

The war began, and the two sides had no way out, so they chose to fight each other.

The soldiers guarding the city were a little scared when they saw the elite momentum of the Sui army. They were already a little passive in resistance, but when they saw this fierce army, they were a little scared.

Most of them are farmers, tenants, and rural tyrants. After being recruited, they have experienced too few major battles and have no formal training. Facing the elite military soldiers under the young marshal, they feel powerless and resist with a stinging bullet.
Chapter completed!