Gao Biao is hard to beat, this is a consensus among all soldiers.

  The city walls are high and deep, with strict precautions. The guards patrol day and night without stopping, and it's almost impossible to find a blind spot for a sneak attack.

  It's worrying for Zhao Xi to watch, the Imperial Guard can disguise themselves and sneak in, but even if they do, opening the city gate and entering the city would still be a fierce battle... Zhao Xi never thought of fighting a hard battle, infiltrating deep into enemy territory, he just wanted to fight guerrilla warfare and take advantage.

  "Your Highness, joining the army means being prepared to die in battle. If you show mercy to Gao Bang during this critical mission, it would be a weakness unbefitting of a warrior."

  Di Qing could see the hesitation of the Crown Prince. Having an emperor who loves and values the lives of his soldiers is their honor as Han people, but being overly cautious with the lives of soldiers will cause them to miss opportunities in battle.

  Just like now, the great army has already arrived at the city, whether to attack or not is still a decision that needs to be made.

  "Di Shuai, Xī is not unaware, but rather unable. This time the king's army has deeply invaded Annan territory, I am not just considering causing trouble once. I want to arrange Annan under the military control of Guangnan, it's not yet time for a hard battle."

  Zhao Xi's words shocked Di Qing. Swallowing the more than 30,000 elite troops of Annan? The Crown Prince really dares to think about it!

  The Western Army is good at fighting, but the Southern Army soldiers are not bad either.

  The Western army was fighting in a foreign land, while Annan was at home. In terms of familiarity with the terrain or adaptation to the climate, the Western army did not have an advantage.

  Moreover, this time deep into the enemy's rear, the whole army did not carry any heavy loads.

  However, if it were possible every time like last time's ambush, it wouldn't be impossible. The question is, how can we achieve that every time?

  Di Qing naturally knew that what the Crown Prince said about "eating down" was not to annihilate, but to defeat, disperse, intimidate and disrupt.

  Even Annan's entire north is like Guangnan of the national dynasty...

  Really didn't suffer a loss!

  Others don't say, now is Gaobang, it's a difficult problem, although it's also unexpected, but in the city, the defending army will never come out of the city.

  "Tonight at midnight, attack the city. Two tiger squatting cannons will be placed at the east gate and fire at the city gate. The rest will disperse around the four sides of Gaobang City in units, hiding under the city wall until midnight when the tiger squatting cannon sounds, it's the order for a general attack."

  "After the general attack begins, each of you will throw at least one incendiary bomb into the city and then quickly retreat from the city wall to gather at today's assembly point."

  Still no preparation for attacking the city, or rather, Zhao Xi never thought of occupying that city pool, the purpose is to play like this, and toss the Annan army.

  "Your Highness, shall we send more reinforcements in the direction of Guangyuan?"

  "Guangyuan's direction will no longer send reinforcements. Supporting Lang Song's tens of thousands, Guangyuan Wang's army has already been at a stalemate for some time, how could they dare to dispatch more reinforcements?"

  "To defeat their army, first disrupt their minds. Once a war breaks out in the high country, whether or not it is breached, the morale of the Guangyuan army will inevitably collapse."

  "This time, we need to break through the besiegers and absolutely not let a single person from Gaobang go to Guangyuan for reinforcements. We must surround Gaobang for three days."

  Gao Fang's camp in Annan was only thirty miles away, and Zhao Xi did not believe that Annan would ignore the grain route.

  What he needs is for the guards of the grain road to pass on the information about Gaobang's war situation to Guangyuanying, but not let Guangyuanying know the true situation of Gaobang.

  The more unclear it is, the more worried the officers and men are, especially when there is no sign of rescue for three days.

  In this era, there are few night attacks on cities, but there are surprise attacks on camps. After all, a camp is just a temporary encampment, and it can't be compared to a solid city wall.

  Zhao Xi started attacking the city at midnight. There was no battle to speak of, just because he had incendiary bullets.

  From the end of the battle at Guiren Pu, Zhao Xi and Su Song did not stop rushing to make it. Even when Zhao Xi led the Guards Regiment to launch a long-range raid on Guangyuan, Su Song did not stop making it.

  Su Song didn't understand military affairs, but he knew what this thing was used for in large-scale battles and never carried it with him.

  So Zhao Xi is now full of grievances.

  Such a siege is boring and can't even be called a siege, it's more like messing around.

  Zhao Xizhi had the soldiers surround the city wall and throw fire arrows, just to try their luck, to see if anyone could accidentally blow up the grain depot...

  It was clear that they had overthought it. After firing a round of incendiary shells, the actual effect was simply to open up a breach in the entire city wall's defenses.

  It's a pity, to be honest, all the generals feel that way. If after a Huoyao Dan explosion, Your Highness could arrange for a real siege, at this moment, they should probably be fighting inside the city.

  Zhao Xi couldn't let this opportunity slip away, Gao Bang would eventually take it down, but not now.

  "Your Highness, the East Gate has been breached..."

  The guards are familiar with the tiger squat cannon and have experimented many times. For a large target like Gaobang City Gate, they can still hit it.

  Unfortunately, it's not a blooming flower shell.

  Zhao Xi looked at the city gate that had been hit by several iron eggs... If it were a high-explosive shell, one would have been enough. But now, after four or five hits, the city gate still looked like a city gate.

  "Surround them on all sides and cut off any escape routes! Not a single person from Gaobang is allowed to get away!"

  Look at this city gate again, alas... can't make explosive bullets, Su Song is already the top scientist of this era, but still can't figure it out.

  "Your Highness, we want to try using stone bullets and Huoyao bullets..."

  Stone bullets, about the size of iron eggs... Are they Huoyao bullets?

  This is very challenging for people, especially coordination.

  Ignite the fuse, reload into the tiger squat cannon, and then fire the tiger squat cannon... must ensure not to burst in the barrel.

  Whether it succeeds or not, Zhao Xi still let them try. He was happy to see that the people of the Guard Camp had such divergent thinking, and even if they destroyed a tiger crouching cannon in the end, it would be fine.

  No one dares to destroy the tiger squat cannon, and no one dares to mention this to Zhao Xi, it's something that the artilleryman has carefully considered.

  It seems that Hu Dun Pao can fire shotgun shells... but this is a siege, not an indiscriminate large-scale attack. Zhao Xi thought of it, didn't need to use it, and didn't mention it.

  This thing was carried all the way back from afar, and indeed has never been properly used.

  It's clear that Zhao Xi underestimated the abilities of the soldiers.

  Along with the broken city gate, the soldiers really fired stone-quality bursting shells into the city.

  "Circle around, high angle of elevation, intermittent fire into the city."

  Anyway, it's just three days, let them play for three days then.

  Such repeated experiments will eventually hit the mark. From time to time, there are fires in the city, but unfortunately, Zhao Xi and others do not know if they have hit the grain or not.

  There have been attempts to break through in the city all along. It's possible that there is a disparity in troop numbers and some preparation has been made, but several breakout attempts have been intercepted and killed.

  When the three-day deadline was up and night fell once again, Zhao Xie gave the order to withdraw.

  There are still some unfulfilled desires, it's quite fun, especially this kind of game where you besiege others' cities and hunt down those who seek help, it's still a case of many bullying the few, really no burden at all.

  Zhao Xi's order once again made people puzzled, and they actually returned on the same road... They had to return to Lang Song again.

  Isn't it over just like this after going deep into Annan? It shouldn't be.

  This is not the northwest, where there are problems with grain and fodder supply. In these mountains, game can be hunted everywhere, let alone the compressed biscuits of the guard camp, and it is impossible for grain and fodder to run out.

  But why must Your Highness return?

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