After the battle started, Shi Bi realized that the artillery attacks from Fancheng were different from usual, and immediately ordered the troops to prepare for battle. At the same time, the troops in the camp were evacuated. He left the government office in the name of supervising the battle and moved his subordinates to the Dongcheng City Tower. But as he evacuated, the sound of artillery sounds from Xicheng and Nancheng also broke out, and it was overturned in a short while.

As a veteran on the battlefield, Shi Bi naturally knew the danger. After the previous battles, he had already figured out the characteristics of the Song army's combat. That is, the Song army relied heavily on artillery in war and must carry out artillery before attacking. The intensity of the artillery determines the size of the battle and the amount of troops deployed, and he can make a judgment based on this.

In addition, Shi Bi also roughly inferred the range of the Song army artillery based on the results of several battles. It can be said that the entire Xiangyang City is covered by the Song army artillery. Although the power of the artillery is not small, it can destroy houses and blow up the city walls, but it is still insufficient in front of the thick city walls, and at least it is difficult to explode the city walls in a short period of time.

Shi Bi also knew that the Song army would definitely take advantage of the range of artillery before or when siegeing the city, and would definitely destroy the granaries and artillery camps to weaken their ability to defend the city. As for the location of the barracks and official granaries, he understood that these could not escape the enemy's eyes lurking in the city, and the watchtower raised by the Song army outside the city could also clearly see the situation in the city.

Because Shi Bi had already discovered that when the Song army was bombarded, it would avoid the time when the people were traveling intensively, and would not fire fire at the private houses. The frequent shelling in recent times is more like reminding the people in the city to learn to avoid evading artillery, so as to avoid slandering innocent people in the future siege. Therefore, more than ten days ago, they began to prepare, scattered storage of materials and grains sent from the city, and put the collected grains into the merchant's warehouses. Only a small amount of materials were stored in the official ranks to confuse the enemy's detailed work.

Shi Bi also analyzed the deployment of the Song army outside the city. They deployed most of their troops in the west, south and north of the city, and only the surveillance posts stationed in the east city, and patrolled with sentry cavalry. Based on this, he analyzed that the Song army might have to attack the city from the west, south and north. Among them, the west and south are the most important. Although the north city does not have a urn city and seems to have the worst defense, it is close to the wide Han River. With this natural barrier, the Song army is difficult to build a floating bridge and the troops are difficult to deploy, and it is the least likely direction of the attack.

The four directions left alone in the East City, Shi Bi naturally understood that the Song army implemented the tactic of three sieges and one siege, which was also one of the common strategies used by the Mongolian army. When besieging a tough city, it reduced consumption and casualties. The attacking army adopted three sides of the siege, and let go of the isolated enemy to break through, and then annihilate the enemy in the preset ambush area.

Outside the East City is a traditional farming area with a flat and wide terrain. The Song army did not send heavy troops to garrison, and it was difficult to hide the army secretly. It seemed to be the best direction for breaking through. But in fact, outside the East City, everyone was surrounded by the Han River. Without ships, even if they left the city and were left in the wilderness, they had nowhere to hide. Without the shelter of the city, they could only be surrounded and killed.

Based on this, Shi Bi played dark under the light, secretly moved the personnel of the General Administration to Dongcheng, and used the Dongcheng Tower as his command center. He also secretly ordered the reserve team stationed in the military camp to start large-scale artillery attacks, and immediately transferred to Dongcheng and scattered among the civilian houses after receiving the order to preserve his strength. Once the Song army's main attack direction was determined, he could use the horse road around the city to quickly reinforce.

Through the Battle of Fancheng, Shi Bi realized that his side had almost no resistance to the Song army's firearms. Heavy armor and shields could not withstand the shooting of Song army's muskets, and the fort walls that were only ten feet thick could not stop the bombardment of artillery fire. The battle sheds, cloth curtains, corner towers, arrow towers, and city defense facilities on the top of the city were vulnerable to the front of the artillery, and they could only rely on the thick city walls.

The crossbows and stone throwers equipped by our side, and even the long-range weapons such as the "Hui Hui Cannon" that they advocate are difficult to compare with the enemy's artillery. In terms of range, rate of fire and power, they cannot compete with the Song army's artillery. In battles, they will often be destroyed if they are less than two rounds of fire, and they cannot be expected to prevent the Song army from approaching the city.

Therefore, the tactics of defending the city determined by Shi Bi were to fight on the city walls and moats, and to give up the tactics of fighting outside the city to fight against the enemy and defending the enemy outside the city. Focusing on combat in close combat and melee makes the Song army unable to use the power of artillery, but can make its own side be good at melee advantages, thereby offsetting the Song army's advantages.

Of course, Shi Bi also knew that the close combat was exhausted, and whoever could persevere to the end would win. So he had to preserve enough troops to deal with the Song army's continuous siege until the Song army could not hold on and withdrew. It was under this idea that he flatly rejected Alihan's request to send reinforcements when the artillery fire was raging...

"General Manager, the artillery fire of the Southern Army seems to be getting more and more fierce, and they have already started to build pontoon bridges, so we just sit back and see?" Hearing the sound of cannons, it is difficult to distinguish the distance. Seeing the pontoon bridges set up by the Song army outside the city extending to the city, and if it is not stopped, it has already reached the other side, Alihan can no longer sit still.

"The artillery fire raged in the city, and all the equipment was destroyed. It was difficult for soldiers to do anything when they went up, but it only increased casualties!" Shi Bi retracted his gaze and turned his face to look at Alihan and said quietly.

"Main-General, if the enemy forces come to the city, wouldn't it be too late!" Alihan held his breath and said with a hurricane look on his face.

"This is just the beginning. If our troops suffer heavy losses, support will be powerless. This is exactly the purpose of using artillery to consume our strength. We must not fall into their trap!" Shi Bi pointed to the Western dialect and said.

"The young emperor of the Southern Dynasty personally supervised the battle. It seems that they will never stop today!" Alihan looked in the direction pointed by Shi Bi, and could vaguely tell the Southern Dynasty's imperial flag was hanging high through the smoke and dust, and he took a cold breath.

"The city guards are at ease, so the Southern Army naturally hopes to decide in one battle, and this shelling is unprecedentedly fierce since the siege of the city. Therefore, we cannot take it lightly and easily send all the main forces to the city, but we must deal with them to the end!" Shi Biyan said.

"What the Chief Executive said is, what if the subordinates should be?" Alihan thought about it. Now that the elite soldiers are consumed, they are just starting to become a cook without rice.

"The city guards, and the city is in chaos. I am worried that the Southern Dynasty who was hidden in the city will take the opportunity to stir up trouble. In the chaos, the city gate will open the city gate to welcome the enemy outside the city into the city." Shi Bi frowned and heard the chaotic noise under the city, "The most urgent task is to restore the situation in the city as soon as possible and not give the enemy a chance to do it. The city guards are in charge of the troops and horses that are rushing to disperse the riots who are rushing to the city gate, block the important roads in the city, put out the fires, and stabilize people's hearts."

"This is exactly the duty of the officials. I will go down to the city to mobilize the troops!" Alihan turned around and was about to leave.

"The city guard is slow, and it is time to hire people. We must quickly call on the husband and soldiers to help the army defend the city, repair the city defense, transport materials to the city, rescue the injured, and bury the fallen soldiers." Shi Bi reminded again.

"Yes, I will ask my officials to summon Ding Zhuang to the city immediately!" Alihan nodded.

"There is also a chaotic world now. We must use heavy laws. Those who do not follow the orders must not be ruthless. Killing some people can shock the chaotic people. And let the household chiefs keep an eye on the residence and not let the irrelevant people go out. Those who violate the law can be rectified on the spot!" Shi Bi waved his hand as a knife, and said with a hideous face.

The so-called "ten-household chief system" is the Mongolian Yuan model of the Central Plains, which divided the Han people across the country into small units of ten households according to their families. Each such small unit is equipped with a Mongolian person to serve as the ten households, which is the parents of these ten households. The role of this leadership is to comprehensively supervise and lead the farming and all activities of these ten households.

In other words, all activities of these ten families were carried out under the rule of this Mongolian family. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have the power of life and death of the Han people under their command. What Shi Bi was most worried about was that civil strife occurred when the war was in urgent need. At that time, it was difficult to take care of each other, and the best strategy was to clear the streets. And officials could not keep an eye on them all the time, and those "household chiefs" could take on this responsibility.

"Okay, the subordinates make arrangements immediately to ensure the stability of the city and not let those little ones succeed!" Alihan replied, and the subordinates of the city arranged for implementation as soon as possible.

After the shelling lasted for more than half an hour, the explosion seemed to have become much smaller. Shi Bi looked out from the city tower. At this time, the Nancheng Tower and the Arrow Tower in the City Tower in the City Tower in the City Tower in the City City Tower in the City City and the Arrow Tower in the City City Tower had collapsed under the shelling, and the remaining bodies were lit. The city walls were also in a mess, and the battle shed had been destroyed, and many pheasants were destroyed, revealing gaps. The horse path was covered with corpses.

The city is also not very good-looking. The road to the ring road was bombed with bumps and covered with bullet craters. The materials piled up under the city were burning with flames. The ladders to climb the city were also damaged. Some places had collapsed under the shelling, revealing the rammed earth layer under the city. The soldiers hid in the door hole and in the hidden military cave. Seeing the fire was sparse, they looked out in panic.

The smoke of gunpowder over the West City was filled with smoke and it was not dispersed for a long time. It was not very real to see it. I think it was probably the case. Shi Bi was in the East City, due to the angle of the angle, he could not see the whole picture outside the South City, but he could see that several floating bridges had been built and winding towards the city. The Song army had already assembled on the shore, and the vanguard had divided into several routes, carrying large shields, and carrying cloud ladders had already climbed up the floating bridge, and was rushing down the city.

"Going up to the city to prepare for war!" There were already surveillance watches on the city that found that the Song army had launched a charge and blew the horn. Shi Bi urgently ordered the flag bearer to wave the trumpet flag to let the generals waiting to fight in the city go up to the city. For a moment, countless soldiers rushed out from the city, carrying bows and arrows, carrying swords and guns to rush up the city along the stairs and ramps of the city. For a moment, the empty city was surging heads and covered with soldiers. The archers had already bent their bows and arrows to shoot arrows under the city, and dense arrows were scattered towards the enemy rushing to the city like rain...
Chapter completed!