The city wall of Songming County is basically built on the mountain. There is a Yaoling Mountain on the east side of Songming County, which is divided into Big Yaoling Mountain and Small Yaoling Mountain. The city wall of Songming County is located between the two mountains.
Therefore, the geographical location of Songming County is quite important. From here, you can march directly into Qujing, because after leaving the city, there is a vast plain less than ten miles away, which is extremely rare in Yunnan and Yunnan, which are mountainous and have many rivers.
It was precisely because of this that Songming County was destroyed repeatedly by King Liang, and Zhu Chong's construction of a city here was equivalent to driving a nail into King Liang's heart. How could he allow Zhu Chong to stay here for a long time?
Of course, Zhu Chong also thought of this. On the first day he arrived in Songming, he relied on the originally destroyed city wall and rebuilt a new Songming city wall with cement exchanged from the system.
The rebuilt Songming city wall has a total of three walls. Looking down from the mountain, the entire city wall is built in the shape of a "sun".
The outermost wall is the main city wall, which is twelve meters high, six meters wide, and an astonishing one hundred and twenty meters long. It is made entirely of stones and cement.
There is a three-meter-high tower on the second city wall. It is the command tower of the city wall and Zhu Chong named it Desheng Tower.
Relying on the mountain terrain, Zhu Chong also built auxiliary city walls from both ends of Desheng Tower. Both sides of the city walls extended directly to the Big and Small Yaoling Mountains. Defensive towers were also built on the mountains as coordinated defense fortifications.
Then, extending backward from the towers on the two mountains, Zhu Chong built a city wall of about two hundred feet as the third line of defense to defend against foreign invasions.
When the news that the Mongols were about to attack spread throughout Songming City, everyone in the city immediately became busy.
A large amount of weapons and city defense supplies were transported to various locations on the three city walls, and then continuously transported to the city walls by young and strong soldiers.
Although the war has not yet begun and the enemy has not appeared in the suburbs of Songming City, a tense atmosphere has already enveloped the entire Songming City inside and outside.
As a former Yuan Dynasty general, Darima made good use of the Mongolian cavalry's ability to move like the wind.
On the Songming City side, the city gate had just been closed when his cavalry brigade appeared less than ten miles outside the city.
Seeing the neat and orderly Mongolian cavalry formation without even a neighing sound from the horses, the soldiers on the Songming City Tower were all shocked. Zhu Chong, who was observing the preparations on the Victory Tower, also saw it.
His expression turned gloomy when he noticed that the soldiers on the city wall were so frightened by the Mongolian cavalry outside the city that they stopped what they were doing and had expressions of horror on their faces.
What Zhu Chong was most worried about finally happened. Even though the 'rewards' given to him by these systems showed full loyalty to him, they were still flesh and blood after all.
Even if they have all undergone a period of training, they are still just ordinary people. Ordinary people who have not experienced the baptism of war cannot be expected to have any combat effectiveness.
"Raise the flags, archers prepare the volley, rangefinders ready!"
Suddenly, Yu Jin's roar resounded throughout the entire main city wall. The soldiers on the city wall were like oil in a hot pan that was suddenly poured with a spoonful of cold water, and the pan exploded in an instant.
On the flagpole of the main city wall, a crimson flag with the word "Zhu" on a black background slowly rose. A team of soldiers holding bows and arrows hurriedly lined up on the city wall, instantly pulled the longbows in their hands to full strength, and then shot a round of arrows.
The arrows shot into the sky, drawing a beautiful arc in the sky, and finally landed about two hundred steps outside the city wall, almost forming a straight long line.
Seeing the long line of Mongolian cavalry gradually approaching the city wall, they suddenly stopped, turned their horses' heads, and retreated to the rear.
Seeing the Mongols withdraw, the nervous soldiers on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief instantly. However, everyone, including Zhu Chong, could see that the Mongols were not really withdrawing, but were planning to regroup and prepare for war.
The most effective type of troops for siege is definitely not cavalry, but infantry. Using cavalry to attack a city with walls more than ten meters high is a fool's errand. Darima will definitely not make such a mistake.
However, the retreat of the Mongolian cavalry gave the soldiers of Songming City, who had just seen the Mongolian army, a lot of confidence. Some even thought that the Mongols were no more powerful than them and they would be afraid too.
Yu Jin looked back at the Desheng Tower and found that a red flag was hung there. That was the signal flag agreed upon by Zhu Chong to assemble the troops for preparation for battle.
"Beat the drums, form up, shield bearers advance, archers prepare, everyone, form up and prepare for battle!"
Yu Jin's roar once again resounded through the main city wall, and soon deafening drumbeats were heard from the city wall.
The fierce drumbeats, like muffled thunder, struck everyone's heart hard, causing every soldier on the city wall to move. According to Yu Jin's previous training requirements, they gathered at their respective positions on the city wall.
Looking at the soldiers on the city wall, who were gathering on the main city wall at the fastest speed, under their respective battle flags, Zhu Chong's nervous mood was slightly relaxed.
He had personally participated in Yu Jin's military training, especially the city wall defense training, and was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers on the city wall at this moment.
Being able to recover from the shock in such a short time and react immediately is already a good performance. Asking for more would be a bit too much.
But deep down, Zhu Chong knew that after this battle, it was hard to say how many of the soldiers currently standing in front of him on the main city wall would still be able to stand in front of him after the war.
Outside the city, Darima's cavalry retreated a hundred steps and then stopped again, then separated to both sides, revealing the infantry behind the cavalry. At this moment, the Mongolian infantry had already formed a battle formation, and the soldiers in front were pushing or carrying siege equipment and slowly advancing.
Before the soldiers on the city wall could fall into a state of tension again, Yu Jin had already drawn the long sword from his waist, raised it high above his head, pointed it at the outside of the city, and shouted loudly: "For my lord, for Songming, kill!"
Hearing Yu Jin's shouts, the emotions of the surrounding soldiers were easily infected. Immediately, the soldiers around Yu Jin raised their arms and shouted wildly: "Kill..."
The shouts and cries of killing easily infected more soldiers, so more people also raised their arms and shouted together. Although they didn't know why they were shouting, they just followed suit when they saw the people around them shouting.
The sky-high shouts of killing echoed back and forth on the walls of Songming City. Many soldiers who had been timid at first when they saw the neat Mongolian army formation were suddenly aroused. Their fear disappeared and they raised their arms and shouted with red eyes.
"kill……"
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