The next day, in the morning, it was Si time, which was nine o'clock in the morning, the most common time for working people.

Lin Hai's flag appeared on the battlefield on time.

Next to his flag were the flags of the Qinghe First and Third Armies, and next to them were the slightly smaller flags of Cheng Guorong and Ding Lin. As for the two sides further away, they were the flags of the various regiments.

Although none of the flags were related to the Daliang Empire, at least Hong Jiu, the imperial envoy, was present, so Lin Hai still showed basic respect for the Daliang Empire.

Well, he ordered people to make a national flag of Daliang. It was not big. If a modern person were to see it, he would be able to tell at a glance that it was probably about the size of an A4 paper.

Such a flag naturally cannot be raised using a flagpole.

So Lin Hai thoughtfully asked someone to install a small bamboo stick on the flag, so that when the army attacked the city, Hong Jiu could wave the Daliang flag to cheer on the army.

Quite humane.

Pan Liangyong, who was standing on the city wall, felt his scalp tingling.

Especially when he saw the main force and flag of the Qinghe Third Army, Pan Liangyong had to admit that the kingdom's only rescue operation had completely failed.

I just don’t know what happened to the reinforcements in the end. If they escaped back, it would be fine. But if they were really surrounded and attacked, then it wouldn’t matter whether Jingdong could defend itself or not.

But no matter what, we can't give up.

Facing the enemy's aggressive army, Pan Liangyong still appeared on the city wall fully armed, just as he had done in the past.

Of course, in order to avoid being targeted and eliminated by artillery vehicles, he did not stand under his own flag, but still sent messengers to inform the four city walls that today should be the most difficult day since the siege, and Cambodia needs the bravery of every soldier.

And in this situation, the Qinghe army began to openly prepare for various siege activities.

Then they began to add reinforcements to the positions openly and even sent a small group of troops to conduct on-site surveys of the attack route.

Pan Liangyong responded to this by ordering the treasury to be opened and taking out the bacon and fine rice prepared for the long siege. He had people chop the bacon into pieces and mix it into the fine rice, then light a high fire and put a large pot in it to steam a lot of it, and then kept distributing it to the soldiers defending the city.

He even promised that if they could hold the city today, not only would everyone receive a reward of silver, but each person would even receive a glass of rice wine!

This is a great encouragement to the soldiers.

Of course, the rice wine stored in the city was definitely not enough for the soldiers to drink. After all, even now, there were still tens of thousands of soldiers and mobilized civilians in the city.

But by night, there shouldn't be so many people who need to drink.

Pan Liangyong thought pessimistically in his heart, but then continued to maintain an extremely positive and optimistic attitude and expression, inspiring the morale of the soldiers around him.

It was just noon, that is, eleven o'clock in the morning.

With Lin Hai's order, the siege began.

Qinghe's destroyer catapults began to roar first, bombarding several fortifications built and reinforced on the city wall during the night, and then continued to expand the bombardment area. Part of the impact points of the stone and tile bombs extended to both sides along the middle of the city wall, and the other part extended as far as possible into the city to attack the counterattack force of the Khmer army behind the city wall.

Then, under the cover of the catapult, the crossbows moved forward.

Since the Khmer soldiers defending the city had learned their lesson, no one would show up when the Qinghe people launched a long-range attack, so the Qinghe crossbows had actually been silent for several days.

And now pushing out the crossbow is obviously not intended to attack the manpower on the city wall.

The Qinghe soldiers pushed the crossbows to the designated firing positions, loaded them with specially made alloy steel crossbow arrows with barbs, and began shooting at the city walls.

Yes, their target was the city walls, not the people on them.

This is also a method that Qinghe has repeatedly experimented with on the training ground, but this is the first time it has been used in actual combat.

The extremely strong barbed steel gun tip is very effective against city walls like Jingdong, which have an inner layer of rammed earth and an outer layer of bricks.

Once a crossbow arrow over two meters long hits the city wall, under the huge impact force, the fine steel spear head will immediately penetrate the outer layer of bricks, then penetrate deeply into the rammed earth inside the city wall and be firmly fixed by the barbs.

Therefore, if the attack positions of the crossbows on the city walls are planned accurately, then the agile and brave soldiers can rely on the crossbow arrows nailed to the city walls to climb directly onto the city walls.

However, high-quality alloy steel has many uses and its production is insufficient, so even Lin Hai finds it difficult to use it.

Moreover, if the entire city wall is built with huge stones, then unless the crossbow arrow hits the joint between two huge stones, it will not be of much use.

But how many city walls are there in the world that are built with huge stones?

There was one capital in each of the Daliang Empire's capitals, and Jiankang, the capital of the Chen Dynasty, was also one. The others were probably just some carefully built small fortresses. Among the cities, even Taijing and Zhongxing Prefecture did not receive such treatment.

Therefore, this method of siege still has its necessity.

The next to be dispatched was Qinghe's goose cart.

Although Lin Hai felt that the goose cart was too traditional and outdated, everyone really couldn't find a safer and more effective way to deliver troops directly to the city wall, so although reluctantly, the goose cart was retained.

The so-called goose cart is a large four-wheeled cart with four wheels at the bottom and armor on the top, and the soldiers push the cart in the middle.

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