Unexpectedly, now, when the two sides finally met on the battlefield today.

Meng Gong won the battle, and he was naturally proud.

Although Meng Gong's number of defenders was still at a disadvantage, the number of people in the city was 60,000 against the enemy troops outside the city.

But he was defending the city at this time, and this advantage in geographical advantages narrowed the gap in military strength between the two sides.

For now, he also has steel arm crossbows when the other party has.

Moreover, he also has a sharp weapon to defend the city and thunder, so it is almost a foregone conclusion for him to defend Shaoxing City.

At this time, Meng Gong was the first time after participating in the Battle of the Yangtze River Barriers three years ago.

The current situation is very good, which makes him feel secretly proud.

...And at this time, Song Wuhui, outside the city, quickly found a way to break the city! Song Wuhui knew that the general Zhao Jiang was a local from Shaoxing, so he called him over and asked about the situation in Shaoxing City carefully.

After Zhao Jiang's introduction, it turned out that Wu Hui and their siege were not good for the city this time, and the reasons inside were really complicated.

The first is that Shaoxing has developed water transportation and a prosperous economy. There are now 100,000 households in the city, with a population of about 400,000.

Such a big city will never be lacking in terms of grain reserves and the youthful and strong people.

At the same time, just eight years ago, that is, the 16th year of Jiading (1223) of this dynasty.

Wang Gang, a famous minister who was the prefect of this place at that time, had completely renovated and renovated the Shaoxing city wall.

The original five gates were set up to the current nine gates of Shaoxing.

In other words, the walls of others are basically brand new, which makes it more and more difficult for them to attack the city without regrets.

According to the words of Zhao Jiang, among the nine gates of Shaoxing, the six city gates, Dongguo, Dusi, Chang'an, Xiguo, Fangmen, and Nanmen, are all water gates, and are used for boats, which are not conducive to the army's attack from then on.

The other three gates: Jishan, Wuyun and Leimen, are built with double-layer "moon gates", so they are very difficult to attack.

This kind of moon gate is actually an additional fortification built on an ancient city gate. It is very similar to the shape of the urn city, but it is different from the urn city.

The first thing is to build the city wall in the city, while the moon gate is to build the city outside the city.

The second is the so-called Moon Gate. In fact, it is not as closed as the urn city. Instead, it has built two city walls like the arms of two hands, and hugged the city gate from outside the city.

There is still an opening at the fingertips between the city walls like both hands.

In this way, if the troops who came from outside wanted to attack the city gate, they would be shot by bows and arrows from all directions on the moon gate before they approached the city gate.

That's fine, and the moon gate included in the three gates of Shaoxing is still double, which means that the shape of the moon gate is similar to that of the gourd.

All the attacking troops had to pass through there, and they didn't know how much damage they would suffer! When they heard this, Song Wuhui couldn't help but exclaim in secret.

Wang Gang, the minister who built this Shaoxing Prefecture City, was really a genius! For Song Wuhui, if his teacher's army arrived here, he could use artillery or explosives to blast a section of the city wall, and he would not have to worry about the city gate and the moon gate.

But he didn't have such equipment at all, how could Shaoxing Mansion be able to conquer?

At this time, Zhao Jiang smiled at Wuhui again and said, "General Song must not be in a hurry. If you want to attack Shaoxing Prefecture, there is a good idea here!"

"Um?"

Song Wuhui looked at Zhao Jiang in surprise. To be honest, his performance was really impressive this time! Zhao Jiang smiled and said, "Originally, after the construction of Shaoxing City was completed, it was really a waste of money.

But five years ago, someone made another reconstruction of it."

As he said that, Zhao Jiang pointed his hand and pointed his hand at the northwest corner of Shaoxing City on the map!… Zhao Jiang smiled and said, “There is a city gate here, its real name is Ying'en Gate.”

"This gate is the Xiguo Gate mentioned earlier by the last general. It was set up by Yang Su, Duke of Yue of the Sui Dynasty. According to legend, King Goujian of Yue built an arrow tower outside Yingen Gate. The arrow tower was Goujian's place to sleep on firewood and taste gall."

"For this reason, as long as the court officials or emperors come from above, they often have to pass this gate, so its name is called Yingen Gate."

"In the reconstruction five years ago, in order to please and curry favor with high-ranking officials from above, the local prefect changed Yingen Gate from Water Gate to a city gate that is both amphibious and land-based."

“Because Ying'en Gate is right at the corner of the southwest corner, it is actually the least easy to defend against.

And the most wonderful thing is that it does not have those two moon gates! This makes this gate the only flaw in Shaoxing City!”

At this time, Song Wuhui looked at the location of the Yingen Gate on the map, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart! This is really a fateful way! Even if his predecessors tried their best to make up their minds, they could not stop a prodigal descendant from behind making trouble later! It was because of the reconstruction five years ago that the originally impregnable Shaoxing Mansion actually revealed such a big flaw! After thinking about it, Song Wuhui immediately laughed.

He shook his head and said, "It just so happened that the southwest wind was blowing in the past two days. If smoke blew up in the northwest corner where Ying'en Gate was located, I'm afraid that the one who was choking to death by the poisonous flames would not be our siege troops, but their guards!"

"It's all over now," Song Wuhui said with a smile: "Tomorrow morning, Jianzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou army will still attack from the south gate to attract troops in the city."

"I will lead the second army of Longxiang and Hu Ben to directly attack Yingen Sect!"

...When all the generals take the order back, they will prepare for tomorrow's battle.

Song Wuhui looked at the back of Zhao Jiang walking out of the military tent, and thought thoughtfully in his heart: "I don't want this guy to be meticulous and take the initiative to cooperate with the siege. It seems that he is still a scheming person."

After this battle, he received the first merit of breaking the city this time, and he could promote him seriously!... After the attack the next day, the situation was exactly the same as Song Wuhui thought.

The three armies fought fiercely at the South Gate until noon, and threw them down from the city wall like thunder and rain.

The large number of servants were choked and retreated repeatedly, and both sides were forced to shoot at the steel arm crossbow.

The battle was extremely lively. After noon, both sides could not help but show fatigue.

At this time, Song Wuhui decisively led the Longxiang Tiger Army to the Yingen Gate in the northwest corner, and launched an attack on the city gate like a fire! This time, Song Wuhui's direct troops personally participated in the siege, so the situation was naturally different.
Chapter completed!