The Xia army's offensive against them reached its peak in Liaoxi County, Guzhu City, and the generals such as Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong even participated in the attack on the city and climbed 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 70,000 soldiers and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers.

The fifteen-meter-high wall of Guzhu City is like a natural chasm, and it needs to be filled with human life.

In order to fill the moats and trenches outside Guzhu City, the Xia army was delayed a lot of time.

Not only that, the city wall that is fifteen meters high requires the height of the siege tower to be more than twenty meters.

In the outer city of Guzhu City, there are also inner city walls, which are built up layers of defense and cannot be leaked.

Guzhu City is one of the three fortresses built by Mingguan and the first fortress to prevent the Xia army from occupying Liaodong. Therefore, there are enough fortifications, food, grass and weapons.

Sun Chuanting defended the city while recruiting troops in the city, mobilizing residents in the city to assist in defending the city, which made it more difficult for the Xia army to attack the city.

boom!

boom!

Dozens of huge rocks fell, and with the loud noises that could be heard within a few miles, a section of outer city wall on the west side of Guzhu City was finally unable to withstand the high-intensity bombardment of Xiangyang cannons and eventually collapsed!

When Mingguan was building a fortress, the city walls pursued the height of the medieval times and ignored the thickness, so Guzhu City was not without flaws.

"kill!!"

Chu Tian sent two powerful generals, Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin, who were sent to assist Geng Yan in attacking the fortress, led the Xuanjia Army and rushed into Guzhu City along the gap!

In the outer city of Guzhu City, when Sun Chuanting collapsed in the west, he knew that he could not effectively defend the outer city wall, so he set up a powerful crossbow.

Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin's Xuanjia Army attacked the outer city and were aimed at by several crossbows and hundreds of divine arm bows. They were shocked, but knew that they had no choice but to go back, so they could only grit their teeth and charge!

Dozens of Xuan Armored Cavalry were shot by the bed crossbow and the Divine Arm Bow, while Cheng Yaojin waved his big axe and shot a thick crossbow arrow, and the axe body was trembling violently.

The crossbow relies on not the arm strength, but the torque.

The crossbowmen in the outer city fought and retreated, but were trampled by the Xuanjia Army at all costs, killing hundreds of people. Finally, they retreated back to the inner city with Sun Chuanting.

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

In addition to the outer city, Guzhu City also has an inner city and inner city walls.

With the inner city walls, Sun Chuanting was confident that he would stick to it for a longer period of time and continue to defeat the Xia army's troops.

Because of Sun Chuanting's tenacious resistance, it did cause considerable casualties to the Xia army's siege troops.

The morale of the Xia army also dropped slightly because Guzhu City could not be captured for a long time.

Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin's Xuanjia Army chased the inner city gate all the way and were shot back by a crossbow.

"Why are there still city walls? I almost took my life with a crossbow."

Cheng Yaojin survived the disaster and couldn't help but be glad.

"Drop off all the houses and create siege equipment."

Geng Yan and Cheng Yu, who were responsible for siege, entered the city and saw that Guzhu City had an inner city and there was also a moat outside the inner city, which felt very difficult.

Tens of thousands of siege troops immediately demolished the houses in the outer city and obtained wood and stone.

Almost the entire outer city was razed to the ground.

Large trenchers cannot cause damage to city walls and defenders out of thin air, and need to be filled with qualified stone.

Chu Tian, ​​Ekaterina, and many generals camped outside the city and confronted Mingguan.

At almost the same time, he and Mingguan saw wolf smoke rolling in Guzhu City, and probably knew that the siege had finally broken through the outer city.

As long as the inner city is captured, most of them can capture Sun Chuanting alive, occupy this city, relieve Guzhu City of threat to Youzhou, and open the road to Liaodong City.

"If Guzhu City only has an inner city left, Mingguan will be eager to fight to the death with us to avoid Guzhu City being truly lost."

When Chu Tian saw that Guzhu City finally opened the breakthrough, he couldn't help but shake his head.

If the opponent fights him in the wild, he will be more straightforward.

Generally speaking, all commanders avoid falling into difficult offensive and defensive battles, but instead pursue quick victory in field battles. For national strength, quick battles and quick decisions do not have to bear too much burden.

During the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi tried to lead the Zhao army out and encircle and annihilate it.

After fighting against the enemy, Han Xin also managed to coax King Zhao out to fight to the decisive battle.

The offensive and defensive war was the most tragic battle. The two sides could basically only increase their troops and then die under the solid city walls.

Especially for the siege, the offensive and defensive battle is even more painful.

"If you win this battle, you should be 90% sure to unify the Han Empire?"

Yekaterina looked at the battlefield in western Liaoning with calmness.

The focus of the battlefield in western Liaoning was Guzhu City, and the Xia army lost more than 100,000 soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

Chu Tian rarely suffered such losses, although among the auxiliary soldiers, most of them might just push the civilians to fill the moat with mud and sand.

"I dare not say 90%. There are many kings who unified the north and then turned the tide."

What Chu Tian only knew were Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, Fu Jian in the Battle of Feishui (Former Qin), Yuan Ying in the Battle of Zhongli (Northern Wei), and Wanyan Liang in the Battle of Caishiji (Jin Kingdom).

At present, Tongque has the largest naval commander in the Han Empire. Chu Tian’s naval commander is just a partial commander for free. For Tongque, the naval commander is the main force.

At the same time, although Chu Tian had a conspiracy with Sun Jian, he wanted to win over the Sun family of Eastern Wu and pave the way for the future pacification of the southeast.

But Sun Jian may not be completely reliable. After all, Sun Jian and Tongque are righteous brothers and may turn against Chu Tian at any time.

Chu Tian is not easy to figure out what Sun Jian's personality is in "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. The territory of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has been divided by me and Hohenzollern. Gustav II, the Swedish lion, also wanted to divide the territory from it. He coveted the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). The situation is quite troublesome. Because of your relationship, my empire may be attacked by the Kingdom of Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Kingdom of Macedonia..."

Catherine inadvertently mentioned the situation in the Western continent.

Because Attila, the leader of the Hun Empire, was killed, after the Hun Empire camp fell, the Holy Roman Empire and the Macedonian Kingdom rose and expanded their territory, and were about to border the Tsarist Russian Empire.

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

"The Tsarist Russian Empire had conflicts with them, so even if I didn't intervene, they wouldn't let Tsarist Russia go."

Chu Tian rolled his eyes.

The conflict between the Tsarist Russian Empire and other European civilizations is not yet the relationship between Chu Tian and Yekaterina.

"The Western continent is not short of ambitious people. It is just because of the overly balanced power and complex problems of belief, ethnicity, culture and language, so there is no Western Qin Shihuang. Many people have tried to unify the Western continent, but they have undoubtedly failed, including Charlemagne, Napoleon, etc.."

Catherine unknowingly mentioned the history of the Western continent.

“What is Alexander doing lately?”

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

"He is doing something amazing. The Ottoman Empire seems to be a little unlucky. Their capital is just between the Eastern and Western continents, and is adjacent to the Thracian region controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia. In other words, Alexander gathered troops in Thracian and could reach the city in less than a few days. The Turks don't know if there is any time to react."

Chu Tian observed a few seconds of silence for the Ottoman Empire.

Since the Ottoman Empire was accidentally killed by Huo Qubing in the national war, the national fortune has been slumped. First, it fell into civil unrest. The Turkish Imperial Guard Jenicheri Legion took the opportunity to interfere in the Sultan candidates and supported the son of Queen Xurem to take the throne, and Sultan Xurem ruled behind the curtain.

In the Fourth National War, the Ottoman Empire colluded with Attila and attacked the Thracian region of the Macedonian Kingdom, but was resentful by Alexander.

After Alexander annexed part of the territory of the Hun Empire in the Ukrainian prairie, he immediately took revenge on Sultan Xurem and besieged the city of Istanbul, which was on the border of the Kingdom of Macedonia.

The geographical location occupied by the Kingdom of Macedonia is also very favorable and can expand into West Asia.

The situation in the Western continent has become clear.

The Kingdom of Macedonia was committed to expanding to West Asia, the Roman Empire was committed to expanding to North Africa, while the Holy Roman Empire wanted to annex the Kingdom of Poland, and the Swedish Kingdom wanted to turn the Baltic Sea into an inner lake.

As for the civilizations of Western continents such as France, England, the Netherlands, Spain, it is difficult to expand due to terrain restrictions. They can only consider annexing civilizations from other continents and establishing colonies.

Chu Tian shook his head again when he thought that the civilization of the Western continent was also expanding.

His hands can't reach that far.

All civilizations fought hard, and even the Central Asian region, which has always been unknown, is still rising due to Ogedei's efforts.

Chu Tian already knew about the fact that the Mongolian and Turkic coalition forces destroyed millions of soldiers and horses of the Kushan Empire.

Originally, Chu Tian thought that after Temujin's death, the team left by the Mongol Empire would soon be divided and declined from then on.

However, Chu Tian still underestimated the Golden Family.

If Temujin is regarded as the first generation, then the second generation, Ogedei, Tolei and others are still quite united, and the third generation and the fourth generation begin to move towards division.

"I have no time to take care of myself and solve the enemy in front of me."

Chu Tian thought about it and found that he really didn't have the ability to deal with so many civilizations at the same time.

The entire lord world is in constant conflict, and even a civilization like Japan with a medium-sized upper-sized scale is trying to expand.

"Lord, the army of the Ming King is frequently mobilized and is heading towards our camp."

Mulan came to inform Chu Tian in person about the mobilization of the army opposite.

The Battle of Western Liao was too important to Chutian's power, and Mulan had to take care of it.

If the Ming Pass cannot be defeated and Luoyang City is taken back by Lao Qin, then the northern war initiated by Chu Tian in the past or two years will fail, and the situation may even reverse.

Sometimes, the situation is reversed just after a battle. Personal abilities are difficult to control when changes in the general trend.
To be continued...