Chapter 53 Linchong Lu Gongche

Towards evening, Fu Youde led his army to three miles outside Songming City.

When Fu Youde, Zhu Di, Zhu Su and others saw Songming City for the first time, their eyes widened when they saw the eight connected city walls outside the main city wall of Songming.

Mu Ying and Fei Ju, who had come for the third time, felt uneasy when they saw the eight barbicans guarding Songming City.

"How is this possible? Impossible! When did they do this? There are so many! Oh my God!"

Mu Ying was speechless. He really couldn't believe it. He had only been gone for a short time, so how come Songming City once again refreshed his cognition?

At this moment, Mu Yingcai discovered that every time he came to Songming City, Songming City would bring him different shocks!

And each time it only took more than a month, the changes in Songming City would make Mu Ying question his life.

"How on earth did they do it?" Fei Ju was also muttering to himself, he was a little confused.

Zhu Chong was already gone, so where did Songming City find its cohesion, and where did it find the financial and material resources to achieve its current scale? Could it be that someone in this city possessed sorcery?

At this time, only magic can explain the changes in Songming City.

It was not until this moment that Fu Youde and others finally understood why Mu Ying had explained so much about Songming City in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and attached so much importance to it, believing that Songming City would become a major threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Indeed, based on the city walls and moat that were ridiculously larger than those of Yingtian Prefecture, Fu Youde also believed that this place should be completely razed to the ground. How could there be a city in the world more magnificent than the capital of the Ming Dynasty!

But putting these aside, from an objective point of view, if Songming City was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it would definitely be able to deter all hostile forces in the world. Just looking at the eight urn cities here is enough to scare people.

Even a powerful country like the Ming Dynasty had only four urn-shaped cities in its capital, Yingtian Prefecture. A city like Songming City with eight urn-shaped cities was simply unheard of.

Moreover, Fu Youde had already realized that if he wanted to capture Songming City, he had to take the city wall in front of him first. Moreover, it might not be enough to just take one city wall. At least he had to capture one side, which means four city walls.

But if the city wall is connected to the main city, no matter which city wall Fu Youde attacks, he will be counterattacked from the city walls on both sides and the main city wall.

If there were still tethered troops stationed outside the city, the Ming army attacking the city would be attacked from all sides and would inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

Thinking of this, Fu Youde looked at the tall Songming city wall in front of him, and suddenly felt unsure. He felt that it would not be so easy to take the city by force.

While Fu Youde was pondering how he should attack, Mu Ying, Zhu Di and others finally recovered from their shock.

Zhu Su rode up to Zhu Di and whispered to his brother, "Fourth brother, this is such a large city with so many barbicans. I'm afraid this battle will be difficult, right?"

Zhu Di did not respond. He was not the commander-in-chief of the army. The order given by Zhu Di was for them to cooperate with Fu Youde and Mu Ying to capture Songming City. If Fu Youde insisted on attacking by force, they could only obey.

At this moment, an accident happened. As a loud war drum sounded, Zhu Di and Zhu Su were startled and looked in the direction of the drum, with even more astonishment in their eyes.

"That's Mu Ying's army. Is he crazy? He started fighting before Fu Youde even said anything?

Fu Youde was also confused at this time, but when he saw the troops sent by Mu Ying and the formation they put up, he stopped talking.

In Songming City, Yuchi Gong and others had already climbed up to the Victory Tower and looked outside the city. When they clearly saw the direction of Mu Ying's army, a sneer appeared on their faces.

"With such a small number of troops, you want to test the strength of our army? General, let me take people out and teach them a lesson!" Luo Shixin was a warmonger. Seeing the provocation of the Ming army, he immediately clamored to go to the battlefield.

"Shut up." Yuchi Gong glared at Luo Shixin unhappily, frowned and stared at the movements of Mu Ying's army outside the city, and started to think in his mind.

The three urn cities outside the main city wall in front have been arranged properly. There are sufficient people and horses in the urn cities, and Liang Hongyu, Pan Feng and Shangguan Wan'er are personally in charge, so there is absolutely no problem in defending the city.

According to Zhu Chong's original design and the later rearrangement by Yuchi Gong and others, the total number of troops in the city wall may be less than that of the current Ming army, but Yuchi Gong does not think that his people will suffer losses against the Ming army.

After all, in a siege, the defenders have the advantage, especially the design and characteristics of the city wall, which limit the performance of the attackers.

The height of the urn city is lower than the main city wall, and the urn cities can form a corner with each other. If one side is attacked by the enemy, the other two sides can provide support immediately, and the main city wall can also provide support according to the actual situation.

Therefore, for an attack of the magnitude of Mu Ying's in front of us, there is no need to send out troops from the main city.

After observing the enemy's troop movements, Yuchi Gong waved his hand and said, "Raise the flags and tell all the fortified towns to fight according to the original plan!"

"Yes!" With a reply, battle flags were raised on the main city wall, and battle flags were immediately raised in response in the inner city.

Almost at the same time, Mu Ying's army took the initiative to beat the war drums and sent a large army to approach Songming City. Tens of thousands of elite Ming troops formed a goose-shaped formation and slowly approached the city wall of Songming City.

At the front of the formation, countless huge chariots were approaching the city wall like ferocious beasts from the ancient times.

After the previous experience and lessons, Mu Ying had a preliminary understanding of the defense system of Songming City, so this time, in addition to suggesting Zhu Yuanzhang to bring half of the country's firearms, he also brought these big guys.

The Linchong Giant Chariot is also called the Linchong Lu Gong Chariot. According to legend, these big guys were first created by Jiang Taigong. Because Jiang Taigong was granted a fief in Lu, he was respected as Lu Gong, so it was called this name.

But in fact, the Linchong giant chariot was first formed in the Song Dynasty. It was not until it came into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang that it was put to more extensive use.

At that time, the Linchong chariot was the largest chariot in the world. The height of the chariot varied from several feet to several meters, but the length was about ten feet. The interior of the chariot was divided into several floors, and each floor had a wooden ladder for going up and down. Each Linchong chariot could carry hundreds of soldiers.

Although the giant chariots brought by Mu Ying were all made of wood, their outer shells were covered with iron sheets and divided into four layers from top to bottom.

The first layer is the base, but it is equipped with iron-wrapped battering rams that can destroy the city walls. It can accommodate hundreds of soldiers who can move calmly in any direction.

There were originally twelve cannons mounted on the second and third floors, but because the previous cannons were ineffective against the city walls, Mu Ying removed all the cannons on these two floors and replaced them with swordsmen and axemen. The top floor was staffed with hundreds of archers and swordsmen.