The first day of siege was fruitless, but this did not discourage Han Ming.

On the second day, Han Ming still led the troops to start the siege of the city, but only set aside the north gate alone, besieging but not attacking.

Of course, this intention was also easily recognized by Huang Ning, he saw these methods, and was a little disdainful, if the method of three missing and one fight was in someone else's place, he might be tricked, but he had read military books since he was a child, and this was a trick he was used to, so he naturally ignored it.

The fiercest battle was at the South Gate, and in addition to the fierce offensive, there were some other movements at the South Gate.

Han Ming had heard that the Li Army had an aerospace force, and they relied on hot air balloons to transport soldiers into the city from the sky.

If it were someone else, he would naturally not know the principle of the hot air balloon, but this would not be difficult for Han Ming at all, he could explain the thermal effect with his eyes closed, and it would be even more difficult for him to be a hot air balloon.

So, for the first time, Li Jun saw the Aerospace Force, which he was once proud of, appear in the Chu army, if it weren't for Min Zheng finding that this hot air balloon was different from the hot air balloon of his own army, I am afraid that there would be a traitor in the army.

But Han Ming didn't use these hot air balloons to project troops, you must know that Dragon City is also the largest city in the north, and the city can accommodate sixty or seventy thousand troops, and this little force sent by air and space is afraid that it will disappear as soon as it lands.

However, Han Ming ingeniously used this aerospace unit as a propaganda machine, throwing leaflets on the one hand and using a microphone to propagate in the air.

The content on the leaflet is very simple, composed of pictures and words, it cannot be propaganda as the subjects of the Chu State, ready to meet the Chu army, except for these have no substantive content, and there is no propaganda to encourage the people to storm the city wall.

The Li Jun in the city was distracted by this sudden propaganda, and they couldn't figure out what the Chu army outside the city was doing, and some people even laughed at the Chu army for doing such useless means.

Dragon City Castle Guard.

"My lord, look, this is the note that Chu Jun threw in the city. Liao Ziping said with a leaflet.

"What is Chu Jun going to do?"

Huang Ning looked at the leaflet in his hand, and couldn't figure out Han Ming's intentions, if he wanted to encourage the people in the city to cooperate with the outside world, but the leaflet didn't say this, just asked the people to get ready and wait for the Chu army to enter the city.

But if this leaflet is really useless, how could Chu Jun spend so much effort to print a large number of leaflets, this is unreasonable, and it made Huang Ning worry for a while.

In the end, Huang Ning still couldn't figure out Han Ming's intentions, so he had to ask the soldiers to collect all the leaflets thrown by the Chu army and burn them all together.

It's just that the people already know the contents of the leaflets, and it doesn't matter if they burn it or not.

For several days after that, the Chu army did the same thing, on the one hand, stepping up the siege of the city, and on the other hand, dropping leaflets into the city.

During this period, Han Ming also built two or three earthen towers outside the Dragon City, and it seems that they are still being built.

The earthen tower was built outside the city wall of Longcheng, and the height was just more than the city wall of Longcheng, and the Chu army shot arrows on the earthen tower all day long, which made the army miserable.

If an individual soldier on the city wall of the south gate is distracted, I am afraid that he will be hit by a cold arrow. Everyone must be careful at all times, lest one of them be careless, and he will have to eat a hidden arrow, which will make the soldiers of the army at the south gate panic.

Seeing this situation of the army on the city wall of the south gate, Han Ming couldn't help laughing, and joked to the generals beside him: "You said that when they attacked the city in the past, did they also set up an earthen tower outside the city, and then go to the city with arrows?"

"That's right, the last general once heard that in the past, the army attacked Longguan, and built four towers outside Longguan City. Liu Zhixian on the side replied.

"This may be called Heavenly Reason, cause and effect. The grievances suffered by our Longguan soldiers in the past have now all been returned, and they are also disgusted. Han Ming said with a smile.

"As it should be. The crowd chimed in.

In the following month, the leaflets were not issued again, but the earthen towers at the south gate were built more and more, from one or two at the beginning to twelve later, which happened to stand side by side with the city wall of Longcheng, which seemed to be scattered.

It's just that the soldiers of the army who suffered from the south wall, the number of daily casualties remains high, in addition to dealing with the convulsive siege of the Chu army, they also have to guard against the hidden arrows on the earthen tower. As long as you are not careful, you will definitely be tricked, and everyone on the south wall will be in danger.

Although the soldiers on the south wall were miserable, in Huang Ning's eyes, these were all small means, and if he wanted to rely on these means to take Dragon City, he felt that Han Ming was still too tender and didn't take it seriously at all.

Although he despised Han Ming's methods in his heart, he also had to pay attention to the situation on the south wall, after all, it was easy to affect the morale of the army after a long time.

In order to deal with this situation, Huang Ning summoned the generals to the city guard.

"I think you also know that now the Chu army's offensive on the south gate is getting tighter, and the twelve earthen towers are harassing our soldiers all day long, although it can't affect the overall situation, but if it takes a long time, it will inevitably lead to the discouragement of the army, I don't know what your good plan is?"

The rest of the generals listened, and they were all at a loss, after all, the earth tower is higher than the city wall, and it is definitely not possible to shoot arrows to counterattack.

"There was going to be a plan. ”

Just when everyone was distressed by this, someone suddenly spoke.

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly looked over, only to see Min Zheng looking confident.

Although Huang Ning's status is higher than Min Zheng's, after all, Min Zheng is the acting general personally authorized by Zhou Cheng when he left, and Huang Ning still has more trust in Min Zheng.

When Han Ming attacked the East Gate, he asked Min Zheng to personally lead the troops to supervise the East Gate, and then he has been holding on to the East Gate, and he did not participate in the defense of the South Gate.

"What can General Min do?" Someone asked.

"Two months ago, the general had attacked the gap in Daba Mountain, and at that time, the Chu army built an earth and stone wall at the gap. The gap was narrow, and the soldiers and horses could not pass, so the general imitated a simple trebuchet according to the soil method, and the effect was good. Hearing that the Chu army was building an earthen tower in the south city, the general also seized the time to copy twelve large trebuchets and fixed them at the south gate. ”

Everyone didn't expect that Min Zheng had already done everything, and with trebuchets, these earthen towers were naturally no problem.

But there are also people who don't like Min Zheng's approach, the earthen tower was built for a month, although the large trebuchet also needs time to build, but it will certainly not be longer than the construction of the earthen tower, but Min Zheng is only proposing it now, it must be to win a wave of credit in front of everyone, this kind of utilitarian behavior makes people a little disdainful.

Although Huang Ning also understood Min Zheng's thoughts, after all, there was a way to break the earth tower, he was naturally happy, and hurriedly said: "Okay, then start the trebuchet immediately, and be sure to collapse the earth tower outside the city in one fell swoop." ”

"Order!" Min Zheng responded.

An hour later, from the south gate of Dragon City, a series of machine reinforcements suddenly sounded, and then dozens of boulders flew out of the Dragon City City, and these boulders smashed directly on the earthen tower outside the city.

The already imsolid earthen tower fell in response, and none of the Chu troops on the earthen tower were spared.

But Han Ming, who heard the news, didn't seem too angry. At this moment, he was squinting, looking at Xu Slip, who was covered in dirt in front of him.

"How's it arranged?" Han Ming asked.

Hearing Han Ming's inquiry, Xu Hua said, "All the 10,000 soldiers have been arranged. ”

Although his face was covered with mud and his armor was covered with loess, his excitement was beyond words, and he waited for Han Ming's order.

"Okay!" Han Ming slapped his chair excitedly when he heard the news.

"Pass the order, attack the city tonight, light the lights and fight at night. "

"Order!" Xu Hua shouted, and immediately ran down to make arrangements.

The rest of the generals looked at the mute conversation between the two, confused, and couldn't understand what they were planning.

However, their doubts did not last long, and Han Ming immediately issued an order to everyone.

"The rest of the congregation will obey orders!"

"Yes!" everyone replied in unison.

"Give the order to go down, and attack the city at the right time. Liu Zhixian led 20,000 people to attack the south gate, Zhao Ming led 10,000 people to attack the west gate, and Chen Feng led 20,000 people to attack the east gate.

"Order!" shouted everyone.

Although it was not clear where Han Ming's inner statement came from, since the order had been given, everyone was looking forward to taking Dragon City this time, after all, the military feats were not small.

"Feng Yu listens to orders!"

"The end will be. ”

"Order you to lead the White Horse Guard to Huangshigang to ambush, if you encounter the army, you will be killed!"

"Order!" Feng Yu's face was happy, his favorite thing was to fight this kind of pursuit and annihilation battle, not to mention the great credit, it was also in line with the characteristics of the cavalry he led.

"What about me?" Madness asked as he heard that he hadn't assigned a task for himself, and hurriedly pointed to himself.

Seeing this kind of madness, Han Ming smiled.

"Well, I have a heavy responsibility for you. ”