In Liaoxi County, Guzhu City, the Xia army''s offensive reached its peak. Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong and other generals even personally participated in the attack, climbing with shields.


    In order to capture Guzhu city as soon as possible and put pressure on the Ming army, the Xia army has so far lost 70000 soldiers and 40000 auxiliary soldiers.


    The 15 meter high wall of Guzhu city is like a natural moat, which needs to be filled with human life.


    The Xia army delayed a lot of time in order to fill out the moat and trench outside Guzhu city and destroy the arrow tower.


    Moreover, the 15 meter high city wall requires the height of the siege tower to be more than 20 meters.


    In the outer city of Guzhu City, there are inner city walls, which are fortified layer by layer and are watertight.


    Guzhu city is one of the three fortresses built by mingguan pass, and the first fortress to prevent Xia army from occupying Liaodong. Therefore, there are plenty of fortifications and grain and grass weapons.


    Sun chuanting raised soldiers while guarding the city and mobilized the residents to help defend the city, which made it more difficult for the Xia army to attack the city.


    Boom!


    Boom!


    With dozens of boulders falling down, along with a loud sound that can be heard clearly in a few miles around, a section of outer wall in the west of Guzhu city was finally unable to withstand the high-intensity bombardment of Xiangyang artillery, and finally collapsed!


    When Ming Guan built a fortress, the city wall pursued the height of the middle ages and ignored the thickness, so Guzhu city was not without flaws.


    "Kill!"


    Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin, two powerful generals sent by Chu Tian to assist Geng Yan in attacking the fortress, lead Xuanjia army and enter Guzhu city along the gap!


    In the outer city of Guzhu City, sun chuanting knew that he could not effectively defend the outer wall at the moment of the collapse of the western wall, so he set up a strong crossbow.


    The Xuanjia army of Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin attacked the outer city and was aimed by several crossbows and hundreds of magic arm bows. They were shocked, but they knew that there was no way to retreat, so they had to brave their heads to charge!


    Dozens of Xuanjia cavalry were shot by bed crossbows and magic arm bows, while Cheng Yaojin waved a big axe and opened a thick crossbow arrow. The ax body was shaking violently.


    The bed crossbow is no longer relying on arm strength, but torsion.


    The archers in the outer city fought and retreated. They were trampled by Xuanjia army at all costs. Hundreds of people were killed. Finally, they returned to the inner city with sun chuanting.


    The outer city was broken, and it would take some time for the Xia army to occupy the outer city.


    In addition to the outer city, Guzhu city has inner city and inner city wall.


    With the inner city wall, sun chuanting was confident that he would stick to it for a longer period of time and continue to frustrate the army''s front.


    Because of sun chuanting''s tenacious resistance, it did cause a lot of casualties to Xia army''s siege troops.


    The morale of the Xia army also declined slightly because Guzhu city could not be attacked for a long time.


    The Xuanjia army of Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin chased all the way to the gate of the inner city and was shot back by the bed crossbow.


    "Why are there walls? Almost killed by a crossbow arrow. "


    Cheng Yaojin is lucky that he survived the disaster.


    "Tear down all the houses and build siege equipment."


    Geng Yan and Cheng Yu, who were in charge of attacking the city, went into the city and saw that there were inner cities in Guzhu city and moats in the periphery of the inner city.


    Tens of thousands of siege troops immediately demolished the houses in the outer city to obtain timber and stone.


    Almost the entire outer city was razed to the ground.


    The large-scale stone throwing machine can not damage the wall and the garrison out of thin air, so it needs to be filled with qualified stones.


    Outside the city, he confronted with many generals, including Karina.


    He and mingguan, almost at the same time, saw the smoke rolling in Guzhu City, probably knowing that the attackers had finally broken the outer city.


    As long as the inner city is captured again, sun chuanting can be captured alive and the city will be occupied. The threat of Guzhu city to Youzhou will be relieved, and the road to Liaodong city will be opened at the same time.


    "If there is only inner city left in Guzhu City, mingguan can''t wait to fight with us to avoid losing Guzhu city."


    Chu Tian sees Gu Zhu city finally to open a breach, can''t help shaking his head.


    If the other side and him in the wild decisive battle, but crisp.


    Generally speaking, every commander-in-chief avoids getting into a hard offensive and defensive battle, but pursues quick victory in the field. For national strength, quick combat and quick decision need not bear too much burden.


    In the battle of Changping, Bai Qi tried to lead out the Zhao army and annihilate it.


    Han Xin tried to coax Wang Zhao out to fight.


    The offensive and defensive war was the most tragic one. Basically, both sides could only increase their troops and then die under the strong walls.


    Especially for the siege side, the offensive and defensive war is more painful.


    "If you win this war, you should have 90% confidence in unifying the Han Empire?"


    Yekaterina calmly watched the western Liaoning battlefield.


    The focus of the western Liaoning battlefield is Guzhu city. The Xia army lost more than 100000 soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.


    Chu Tian has rarely suffered such losses, although most of the auxiliary soldiers are civilians pushing sand to fill the moat."I dare not say 90%. There are many kings who unify the north and then turn over. "


    What Chu Tian only knew were Cao Cao in Chibi battle, Fu Jian in Feishui battle, Yuanying in Zhongli battle and WAN Yanliang in Caishiji battle.


    At present, Tongque has the largest Navy in the Han Empire. The navy of Chutian is only a partial division, while for Tongque, the navy is the main force.


    At the same time, although there was a conspiracy between Chu Tian and Sun Jian, he wanted to win over the sun family of the eastern Wu Dynasty, so as to pave the way for the destruction of the southeast.


    However, Sun Jian may not be completely reliable. After all, Sun Jian and Tongque are just brothers, and they may turn against Chu at any time.


    Chu Tian is not good at figuring out what kind of character Sun Jian is in the Lord. They don''t have many opportunities to deal with each other face to face.


    "Since you left Eastern Europe, the situation in Eastern Europe has changed. One third of the territory of the kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has been divided by me and hohensolen, while the Swedish lion Gustav II also wants to carve up the territory from China. He covets the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvian, and Lithuanian), and the situation is quite troublesome. Because of my relationship with you, my empire may be attacked by the kingdom of Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom of Macedonian... "


    Ekaterina inadvertently mentioned the situation in the western continent.


    Because Attila, the leader of the Hun Empire, was killed in the battle, so after the fall of the Hun Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom of Macedonian rose and expanded their territory, and were about to border with the Tsarist empire.


    Coupled with the pressure brought by Gustav II, the Nordic lion, it can be said that yekaterina''s life is not easy, which is equivalent to the pressure of one empire and two kingdoms.


    "The Tsarist Empire had contradictions with them, so even if I did not intervene, they would not let the tsarist Russia go."


    Chu Tian rolled his eyes.


    The contradiction between the tsarist Russia Empire and other European civilizations is not the turn of Chu Tian''s relationship with yekaterina.


    "There is no lack of careerists in the western mainland, but there is no Western Qin Shihuang just because of the over balanced power and complicated problems of belief, nationality, culture and language. Many people have tried to unify the western continent, but there is no doubt that they have failed. Charlemagne, Napoleon and so on


    Ekaterina unconsciously mentioned the history of the western continent.


    "What is Alexander doing recently?"


    "Besieged the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul."


    "He''s doing a wonderful thing. The Ottoman Empire also seemed to have some bad luck, with its capital just between the East and the west, and adjacent to Thrace, which was under the control of the Macedonian kingdom. That is to say, Alexander gathered his forces in Thrace, and he could be under the city in a few days. The Turks don''t know if there is time to react. "


    Chu was silent for a few seconds for the Ottoman Empire.


    Since the Ottoman Empire was accidentally killed by Huo Qubing in the national war, the national fortunes of the Ottoman Empire fell into a slump. First, they fell into civil strife. The army of the Turkish guard, yenicheri, took the opportunity to intervene in the selection of the Sultan, and established the son of Queen schleim to the throne, and the Sultan of shurem listened to the government.


    In the fourth national war, the Ottoman Empire colluded with Attila and attacked Thrace in the kingdom of Macedonian because of its failure to stand in line. As a result, it was hated by Alexander.


    After annexing part of the territory of the Hungarian Empire in the Ukrainian steppe, Alexander immediately retaliated against the Suram Sultan and besieged Istanbul, which is on the border of the kingdom of Macedonia.


    The geographical position of the kingdom of Macedonian is also very favorable, and it can expand to Western Asia.


    The situation in the western continent has become clear.


    The Macedonian kingdom was committed to expanding into Western Asia, the Roman Empire was committed to expanding into North Africa, the Holy Roman Empire wanted to annex the kingdom of Poland, and the kingdom of Sweden wanted to turn the Baltic Sea into an inner lake.


    As for the civilizations of France, England, Netherland, Spain and other Western continents, because of the geographical constraints, it is not easy to expand. We can only consider annexing the civilizations of other continents and establishing colonies.


    Chu Tian shook his head when he thought of the expansion of Western civilization.


    His hand can''t reach that far.


    Various civilizations fought against each other in a dark and dark way. Even Central Asia, which has always been unknown, is rising because of the efforts of wokuotai.


    Chu Tian already knew that the Mongolian and Turkic allied forces had broken down the million troops of the Kushan empire.


    Originally, Chu thought that after Tiemuzhen''s death, the troupes left by the Mongolian Empire would soon fall apart and decline.


    However, Chu Tian still underestimated the gold family.


    If Tiemuzhen is regarded as the first generation, then the second generation, wokuotai, Tuolei and others, are still quite united, and the third and fourth generations will begin to split up.


    "For the time being, we have no time to think more about it and solve the enemy in front of us."


    Chu thought for a moment that he was not able to deal with so many civilizations at the same time.


    The whole world of Lords is in constant dispute, and even the upper middle Japanese civilization is trying to expand.


    "My Lord, the army of the king of Ming Dynasty has been frequently mobilized to our camp."Hua Mulan personally came to tell Chu Tian about the movement of the army on the opposite side.


    The battle in western Liaoning was too important to Chu Tian''s power, and Hua Mulan had to be careful.


    If the Ming pass cannot be defeated and Luoyang city is taken back by Lao Qin, the Northern War launched by Chu Tian in the past two years will fall short, and the situation may even be reversed.


    Sometimes, a reversal is only after a battle. For the general situation changes, personal ability, it is difficult to control.


    "Because the outer city of Guzhu city was lost, the king of Ming Dynasty could not help it. He wanted to fight with us in western Liaoning. He did use Guzhu city to cause us a lot of casualties."


    Through Hua Mulan''s report, Chu Tian speculated that the decisive battle with Liaodong army was coming.


    Chu Tian wanted a quick battle and a quick decision, and mingguan wanted to take the lead in consuming Chu Tian''s military power before the decisive battle began. Now both sides have achieved their own goals. Therefore, the decisive battle time that both sides want has come.


    "There is an important piece of information."


    Before the decisive battle, Xue Yue, who was in charge of intelligence, got new information in Liaodong city.


    Hearing the latest information obtained by XueYue, Chu Tian frowned: "mingguan has obtained such a good thing However, it is not surprising that in the battle of pine and brocade at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing really began to be popular. Because mingguan also suffered a lot, it was not easy to win... "


    "What happened?"


    Yekaterina doubts.


    Chutian''s vision is not low now. It can be regarded as good props by Chutian. Most of them are really good things, and they are still props that Chu Tian has never seen.


    Chu Tian nodded: "it''s really a good thing..."


    In the camp of the Ming army, a large team of carriages arrived, and the red cloth covered the carriages, covering the bottom card of the Ming pass.


    "The battle of pine and brocade was a life of death, and this small batch of props came."


    Mingguan and his generals came to the front of the carriage.


    The Xianbei military generals such as murongba, murongke, muronglin, Yuwen yidougui, yuwentai, Duan Piri, and Wuhuan generals like Mudun didn''t follow the Ming pass to the battle of Songjin in the fifth epic battle, so they didn''t know what kind of props were brought back by mingguan.


    "This small team of carriages can really reverse the war situation?"


    Murongke was very curious about the things brought back by mingguan.


    "It''s impossible, in any case, to change the whole battlefield with a small team of carriages. There are more than one million troops in western Liaoning. "


    Thurton shook his head.


    As a military adviser, Yao Guangxiao wore a black robe, so that the left and right soldiers uncovered the red cloth.


    Almost everyone''s eyes are focused on the props under the red cloth.


    Almost all the generals of the Ming army understood that the Ming army could not defeat the Xia army with its positive strength.


    If you want to win, you have to find another way.


    The red cloth was opened to reveal the cold bronze firearm with heavy weight.


    "The Qing army Red cannon


    Mingguan''s eyes show a bit of fanaticism.


    In the battle of Songjin, his cavalry captured the position of the Qing army, plundered a number of red cannon, and captured a number of Qing artillery men.


    In Lord, firearms need to be matched with the corresponding arms in order to play an effective role.


    If there is no such a special branch of artillery, then the red artillery obtained by mingguan is just a pile of scrap iron.


    At the same time, there were no military symbols and drawings of the corresponding buildings and firearms in mingguan. Therefore, these red coated artillery and artillery men were more like consumables. They were killed in battle and could not be recruited.


    This is also the first bronze gun in the Lord, which is basically the most advanced firearm in Lord!


    The tribal leaders such as murongba, murongke, murongling, yuwentai, Mudun and other tribal leaders can''t help but stare. They have never seen such strange weapons.


    "Although it is still enough to replace cold weapons and can not achieve absolute suppression, it is enough to frighten the Xia army."


    Ming Guan captured the artillery positions of the Qing army with cavalry, which showed that in the period of coexistence of cold weapons and firearms, the deterrent effect of bronze artillery was greater than the killing effect, so he could not rest assured.


    "But it''s just a trophy. I want to see Chu Zimu, how to deal with red cannon. He participated in the battle of Kunyang. I don''t know if he has brought back any cards... "


    Some scouts in mingguan were also inquiring about Chu Tian, who knew that Chu Tian was involved in the Kunyang war.


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