Inside the Dragon City.

Although the large trebuchet collapsed the earthen pagoda at the south gate, this did not alleviate Huang Ning's anxiety, and he always felt that the Chu army commander had more than that.

It's just that Huang Ning couldn't figure out Han Ming's intentions even after thinking about it, and he even wondered if he was thinking complicated about the Marshal of the Chu Army opposite.

But how could a simple person use the strategy of striking east and west to seize the crossing, so he knew that the other party must have a backhand.

Just in case, he arranged 20,000 people at the north gate, for fear that the other party would attack the west again.

After Huang Ning arranged it like this, there were a total of 50,000 defenders at the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, while there were less than 10,000 guards in the huge Dragon City, resulting in an extremely empty city.

Liao Ziping was afraid of changes in the city, so he specially stated the situation in the city to Huang Ning.

It's just that in Huang Ning's opinion, although the people of Longcheng who are powerless are numerous, they can't set off any waves, so they naturally don't take Liao Ziping's words to heart.

And today it is also strange that since the Li army used trebuchets to collapse the earthen tower outside the south gate, the Chu army did not attack the city.

The soldiers were rumored that this trebuchet had stunned the Chu army, and they couldn't find a good way to deal with it, and some people even rumored that the Chu army was about to retreat, which suddenly made the soldiers of the army at the south gate happy.

Min Zheng also gained a lot of prestige in this ** work, and swept away the haze of the crossing of the river and the boat.

Only the one-armed general Liao Ziping was worried in the entire Dragon City, he understood the Dragon City, so what the people of the Dragon City would do, he also understood, just in case, he found his former comrade-in-arms Hu Qiao.

Hu Qiao was defeated by Liao Song and his people on the way to support Huang Ning, and was later besieged by Hu Bugui, although his performance was not good, but he also gained Huang Ning's trust and made him a lieutenant of the Central Military Academy, which was a blessing in disguise.

After Liao Ziping found Hu Qiao, he told him about his worries.

Hu Qiao had been in Longcheng for a long time, and naturally knew that if the people of Longcheng were not taken care of, it would be easy to make trouble when the time came.

The two hit it off, and Hu Qiao decided to keep a part of the army as a backup, and once there was a change in the city, he could use this army to support.

The sky is about to dark, but there is more silence outside the Dragon City, which seems to be a little different from the past, but the soldiers of the army stationed on the city wall are not too careful, in this day that there will be no tomorrow at any time, who will be distracted to find those small changes.

As soon as the unitary time arrived, the army at the south gate already had soldiers ready to go down the city wall, and the daily change of defense was also carried out in an orderly manner.

Suddenly, the battle flags on the city walls began to flutter slowly.

When a soldier saw it, he wondered, "It's going to be windy?"

"Whoosh......"

A sharp arrow slashed through it, breaking one of the flagpoles.

"Night attack, night attack! Night ...... Belch...... Attack!"

The soldier turned his head and saw the black and oppressive army outside the city shouting loudly, but an arrow flew directly through his face.

"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"

At this time, the war drums immediately began to beat, and the soldiers who were changing guards did not have time to think about it, and immediately rushed to the city wall.

The same thing happened at the east gate and the west gate, and the smoke of gunfire suddenly spread everywhere.

Attacking the city at night, this is the first time that the army has encountered it, and many people are panicked and deal with it in a chaotic manner.

After the Chu army was assembled, it didn't stop too much, and directly killed the city wall, and the vigorous siege battle began again, but this time it was different, and the war started at night.

The sight of the siege at night is the biggest obstacle, although it is not completely dark, but the line of sight is certainly not as clear as during the day, in this case, it becomes extremely difficult for both the besieging and defending sides.

Dragon City Castle Guard.

Huang Ning was reading today's battle report, and in the past month, he had to carefully analyze the battle report every day, understand his own situation, and gain insight into the intentions of the Chu army, so he slept late, and sometimes even stayed up all night.

The Chu army launched a surprise attack at our eastern, southern, and western gates. "A herald hurried to report the news.

Hearing the news, Huang Ning immediately put down the battle report in his hand and hurriedly asked, "What is the scale?"

"The east gate is in an emergency, the corner of the south gate has been recaptured repeatedly, and the Chu army is fierce. ”

"Go, tell a few generals and let them hold on!" Huang Ning ordered.

"Yes. ”

What kind of fame is the Chu army doing, why did it suddenly attack the city in the evening, and it came up so violently. Huang Ning couldn't help muttering in his heart.

In a large mansion in the south corner of Dragon City, this was once the residence of Bo Wangshi, the lord of Dragon City, and at this time, a wave of people gathered here.

Although Wang Shi was mediocre, his loyalty to Chu did not change, and he was later killed by the Li army in the defense of Longcheng.

And the group of people gathered in Wang Shi's mansion were Xu Hua and his subordinates.

As for why they are in the city, and in such a large mansion, we have to start from a month ago.

When Han Ming learned that Huang Ning was strong and cleared the wilderness, he was defending Dragon City, so he had a plan in his heart.

After all, Longcheng is the city of Zhongchu, and the people of Longcheng still identify themselves as Zhongchu people in their hearts.

And Han Ming took advantage of this.

Siege warfare is nothing more than that, storming the door, combining inside and outside, and luring the enemy out of the city. More powerful ones will use various means, such as fire and water, thunder and earth, and plague virus.

When the Longguan was broken, it was to use the retreat Gary to cooperate with the outside, so that the Longguan defenders could not take care of both inside and outside.

Han Ming knew that the cost of storming Dragon City was too great, and it might not be able to take it down, if Li Guo led an army to come to help, the defeat would be small, and the country would be in danger.

Therefore, the strong attack was vetoed by Han Ming, as for luring the enemy out of the city, he also did this, and the lack of one of the three was his strategy to lure the enemy, but it didn't work.

Next, there is only a surprise move.

It is said to be a strange trick, which is nothing more than flooding and burning holes in the ground.

Although it is summer now, there are no big rivers around Dragon City, let alone downstream of the river, so it is impossible to flood the city by blocking the river.

And even if there is, the people of the Chu State are all in the Dragon City, this trick is purely to hurt the enemy by 800 and lose 1,000, even if it is taken down, Han Ming will not think about it.

The same goes for fire attack.

Then all that's left is to play the tunnels.

However, the tunnel is too dangerous, if the enemy finds out in advance and finds the entrance to the tunnel through means such as listening, it is tantamount to a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.

At the beginning, in Longguan, it was because Xie Yuan was attracted by the Aerospace Force of the Li Army, so he ignored the tunnel.

However, even so, there was only a beggar camp that entered Longguan through the tunnel, and if it weren't for Liao Ziping, a spy, who arrived with troops, Longguan would not have been broken.

If Han Ming wanted to pass through the tunnel, it would not be very realistic, after all, the number of troops would not be too much, and in front of Dragon City, a big city that was measured in tens of thousands, it would not be enough to see at all.

This is also why Huang Ning didn't think that Han Ming would attack the city in an authentic way, in his opinion, if Han Ming dared to attack through the tunnel, there would not be too many soldiers, if the number of soldiers was too small, it would be meaningless in the whole battle situation.

Moreover, there will inevitably be earth and stones when digging tunnels, and there is no river around Dragon City that can wash away the soil and stones, as long as this trick is used, it will inevitably be discovered by Huang Ning.

So Huang Ning has always been fearless.

But Han Ming is ingenious, Dragon City is the Dragon City of Zhongchu, and the people of Dragon City are the people of Zhongchu, he also knows the disadvantages of sneak attacks through tunnels, but he also knows the advantages he has.

First, the hot air balloon troops put out propaganda leaflets to inform the people in the city that the Chu army had entered the city, and then dug tunnels every night to transport the excavated earth and stones to the south gate to build an earthen tower.

Xu slipped to dig tunnels at night, and Zhao Ming repaired the earth tower during the day, which not only solved the problem of too much soil and stone accumulation that was easy for Li Jun to discover, but also hid his true intentions, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Huang Ning was indeed in the plan, he only saw the Chu army building the earthen tower at the south gate, but ignored the source of the soil and stone for the earthen tower.

Within a month, Xu Hua continued to send troops to the city through the dug tunnels, and successively transported more than 10,000 soldiers, and the soldiers who entered the city were hidden in the homes of the people of Longcheng, large and small, without being discovered by the soldiers of the army.

And today, it is the final battle that Han Ming has planned for more than a month.

Xu Hua looked at the generals at all levels in the courtyard, he had already said everything he had to say before he came, but at this moment, he was suddenly a little speechless, looking at the people in front of him, his eyes were hot.

"Today's battle, you and I will go down in history, I don't want to say much about the rest, and I don't have the eloquence of General Han, I just want to tell you that success or failure is here. ”

"Victory. The crowd whispered in response.

"Okay, let's go now, gather the ministries, and act according to the original plan. ”

"Yes!"

Then the people immediately dispersed and gathered together the soldiers who had been scattered in the homes of the people.

Soon after, the soldiers of the Li Army, who were fighting at the city pass, suddenly found a large number of Chu troops coming out of the city, shouting the slogan that the city was broken and the main general was dead.

When the Li army who was in the south gate tower heard this, they panicked for a while, and they all guessed that if so many Chu soldiers could be killed from the city, did that mean that the other city gates had been lost?

And the slogans shouted by Chu Jun were too loud for them to believe.

As a result, although some generals of the army were trying to boost the morale of the army, panic spread like a plague, and many soldiers defending the city had abandoned the city and fled.

The Chu army in the city also began to kill in front of the city gate, and it was not too simple to deal with these soldiers who had no will to fight.

With a loud bang, the south gate was broken, and Liu Zhixian led the army to begin to rush in.

Although the Chu army broke through the south gate, Xu Hua was not among the Chu troops besieging the city. At this moment, he was taking the 3,000 Zhi Mourning Army to the Dragon City Guard Mansion to kill.

Xu Hua, like Zhao Ming, is also the battalion commander of the old city defense battalion, and the identity of the Zhi Aijun was not found at the mouth of the Zimu River that night, and later Zhao Ming explained that he knew the origin.

Although he did not experience the great battle before going to the capital, he still had a certain status in the hearts of the soldiers of the Zhiwai Army.

Before the battle, he prayed to all the soldiers of the Zhiwai Army, and then went straight to the castle guard.

Along the way, Xu Hua saw for the first time what horror is.

All the enemies who stood in front of the soldiers of the Zhiwai Army did not survive a round, and this combat power made Xu Slip's jaw drop in shock.