The morning of the fourth day was as gloomy as dusk, as the Dos Allied Forces and Li Liang's Red Flame Army arrived earlier than expected.
Looking at the dense, ant-like mass of enemies outside the city, Lin Mo suddenly felt a headache coming on. This time, the difficulty was far greater than the last time he fought against Kago's army.
At this time, Lin Mo didn't have much capital. Although he had been sleeping like crazy during this period, he only had a little over 23,000 points.
For this battle, he converted all his resources into population, leveled up, and then prepared weapons and armor seized from the Doth.
But there were only a little over ten thousand soldiers.
All told, Lin Mo currently has no more than 45,000 people in total.
In terms of morale, even the soldiers obtained through the system were affected. Not to mention the regular Great Xia soldiers, many of whom were extremely demoralized.
Starting that morning, Lin Mo could clearly hear faint prayers coming from time to time, and many people couldn't help but tremble all over. The more timid ones even burst into tears on the spot, their legs going weak.
By noon that day, the darkness had fully expanded and deepened, placing a heavy pressure on the hearts of the Great Xia soldiers and causing them to feel an unspeakable fear.
Seeing this, Lin Mo came to the front of the formation and shouted loudly, "I don't want to waste any more words. You all have seen how the Dos people treat our Great Xia people. Even if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you've heard it from other people."
They don't treat us Great Xia people like human beings, so we'll kill all these scum.
Before that, I did it; I slaughtered Kago's entire tribe.
And today, I can still do it.
Today's battle is the final battle. With everyone's efforts, the Doth people will be wiped off this continent forever.
From this day forward, our descendants will never again be invaded by the Doss.
As he spoke, Lin Mo drew his long sword and pointed it at the Dos Allied Forces outside the city.
This highly inspiring gesture sent the entire audience's morale soaring.
"Let them come! Great Xia is mighty!"
"Great Xia is mighty!"
The Dos people outside the city were also giving their battle address, and we waited for them to finish.
The siege began amidst deafening shouts.
More than two hundred tall siege ladders slowly approached the outermost city wall, while hundreds of siege engines lined up in a row also slowly drove towards the city wall amidst the crowd.
"The Dos people are not good at siege warfare, therefore, these siege troops are all Li Liang's Crimson Flame Army!" Lin Mo thought to himself.
Indeed, the attacking troops, holding high their fiery red banners surrounded by crimson flames, charged forward with murderous intent.
"Damn it!" Lin Mo couldn't help but curse upon seeing the Crimson Flame Army flag. "Li Hu, Li Liang, I'll wipe out your entire Li family, just like I did with the Miedos!"
Due to Bai Qi's modifications, the defense of the first city wall was pitifully poor. Although there was a completed moat in front of the city wall, it was not very deep and there was not a drop of water in it.
The temporary timber used for the city wall was expensive, which is why it appears somewhat flimsy.
However, even with such a poorly situated city wall, the attacking troops were unable to break through it for a long time.
Lin Mo was not surprised to see this, because most of those who attacked first were cannon fodder.
Tianshui City is a newly built city, and its defensive capabilities are uncertain, not only for the Dos people and Li Liang, but even for Lin Mo.
At the same time, the attacking side in a siege is obviously at a disadvantage. The cost of conquering a city is much greater than that of the defending side.
Therefore, in this situation, the attacking commander will definitely send a batch of the weakest cannon fodder troops up to probe the enemy's strength.
This was indeed the case. Looking down from the city wall, Lin Mo saw that the attacking troops were not uniformly dressed. There were soldiers wearing the regular uniforms of the Crimson Flame Army, as well as farmers wearing civilian clothes.
There were also farmers wielding sickles and rusty swords passed down from their grandfathers, and boys who had been found in some alley and hadn't completed their training...
Not only that, the Crimson Flame Army soldiers looked terrible. Some wore only leather armor, some were old, some had missing arms, and some were missing an eye.
In short, it was a large, undisciplined ragtag army.
Before long, the attacking troops had already charged up.
The vanguard consisted of "engineers" carrying sandbags; their task was to fill the moat.
When these ragtag troops approached within a hundred paces of the city wall, the city walls were filled with archers, thousands of powerful bows drawn to their full extent.
With Lin Mo's command, "Bang, bang, bang!"
Thousands upon thousands of arrows were fired simultaneously, tracing deadly arcs as the arrows rained down like a storm.
In an instant, hundreds or even thousands of attacking soldiers fell outside the walls of Tianshui, losing their lives.
Faced with a hail of arrows like locusts, the poorly trained ragtag army became timid, and many turned and ran.
However, war is not child's play.
Li Liang personally led the charge, blocking the rear. His enforcement team showed no mercy to the deserters, and one deserter after another died tragically under the blades of the enforcement team, dying at the hands of their own people!
Faced with the ruthless enforcers, the attacking soldiers had no choice but to grit their teeth and charge forward.
One by one they fell, and after paying a heavy price, they used their own flesh and blood, along with the sandbags on their shoulders, to fill the moat!
Within a radius of two hundred paces of the city wall, the earth had already been stained red with blood.
The chilling scene made Lin Mo tremble uncontrollably.
This is war, he told himself, victory will be built with blood and bones!
The ravines were filled in, the siege ladders passed smoothly and reached the top of the city wall, and the siege engines slowly drove to the foot of the city wall. However, what awaited them was an even more violent storm.
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