As soon as Meng Shiyi's words fell, a burst of artillery was discharged, and the sound of breaking the wind sounded, and even though there was a dull heavy blow, Xuan Hui felt that the ground under his feet shook a few times. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I'll go and see if I'm leaving." She insisted.

Meng Shiyi had no choice but to be by her side.

The west gate of Jinling City is not as strong as the Zhengyang Gate, there is only one layer of the outer urn city, and one layer of the inner urn city. Together with the West Gate Wall itself, there are three lines of defense.

Xuanhui and others walked to the inner urn city and found that the soldiers were setting up trebuchets on the site, and Xu Sheng ran back and forth to inspect and inspect.

After a few more artillery shots came outside, a sergeant next to him shouted: "Release!" Then two men with colored flags appeared on the hollow enemy platforms on both sides of the tower. They waved the bunting a few times in a very orderly manner, and the outermost two trebuchets were reoriented by the soldiers and shot out in an instant.

Although Xuanhui was a little stunned, he could probably guess that the people waving the colored flags were telling the enemy the direction, otherwise the trebuchet was hiding in the urn city, and the line of sight was blocked by the city wall, how could it be accurate?

Xuanhui and the other trebuchets were all beaten out, so they wanted to lift their skirts and go up to the city tower to check, but they were stopped by Xu Sheng.

"Princess, the enemy is now attacking the city! Artillery fire has no eyes, you can't go up! Besides, the bed crossbow and cannon are being adjusted above, you ......"

His words were drowned out in the sound of cannonballs.

Xuan Hui hurriedly said: "I know, go up quickly!" If I have something to say, just ask Lord Meng! ”

Xu Sheng nodded, hurriedly saluted her and ran up to the city tower.

"Is the enemy now attacking only Simon? Or is there a side door too?

Meng Shiyi replied: "If you go back to the princess, there is only Ximen at the moment. However, the enemy army set up large camps at both the north and east gates, and there were high fences between the moat and the large camp. Arrows can't shoot through, heavy crossbows and stone throws can pass, but when they are stopped by a row of fences, their power is also reduced a lot. ”

Xuan Hui frowned and said: "I didn't attack the city at the north gate and east gate, but erected a fence...... Let's go and see! ”

Meng Shiyi looked back at the defenders on the city wall, and saw that the situation was not very critical, so he rode a horse and followed Xuanhui's sedan chair and went to the north gate together.

When he arrived at the place, Meng Shiyi followed Xuanhui up to the city wall, and said as he walked: "The Wang family has about 50,000 people coming this time, attacking such a big city as Jinling, it is not too much, and it is not too little. They have been fighting and stopping for the past few days, getting up early in the morning to persuade them to surrender, continuing after breakfast, and starting to bombard the West Gate after lunch. Usually when attacking the city, soldiers follow after the bombardment, but the Wang family never does this, but it seems to harass with artillery, and it is ...... after the battle."

Xuanhui took a clairvoyant eye to carefully observe the enemy's camp, and suddenly asked, "Where did all this soil they used to pile up the fence come from?" ”

Meng Shiyi replied: "It was picked up from the back of the camp, and we probably dug the soil from the river, but it is also possible that they dug it out of the tunnel. ”

Tunnel......

I don't know if it's because I'm nervous or because the sun is too sunny, a dense layer of sweat appeared on Xuanhui's forehead. She took out her handkerchief and wiped it off gently, and continued to ask, "Then do we have a way to deal with it?" ”

Meng Shiyi led Xuanhui to the side of the city wall facing inward, pointed to the small group of busy soldiers in the southeast corner of the inner urn city, and said, "General Xu has allocated three hundred people, one team for every ten people, to dig the ground near the city wall. ”

"Listen?" Xuanhui asked suspiciously.

"It is to dig a few feet deep into the ground, and then send people to listen to the surrounding movements with a jar covered with thin cowhide. Usually one can hear a sound within a radius of 500 paces. ”

Xuanhui nodded and said with a smile: "Sure enough, General Xu is good at fighting and knows these good methods." ”

Meng Shiyi also smiled: "Yes, as long as we can hear where the enemy army is digging tunnels, we can wait for the rabbit, and it doesn't matter how many people are hidden inside." ”

Tibetan...... Xuanhui suddenly thought of a very terrifying siege method in the future.

"Then, what if the enemy army does not hide people, but gunpowder?" She asked nervously.

Meng Shiyi was a little confused, he had never heard of digging tunnels to hide gunpowder. "The tunnels are not ventilated and prone to moisture. Especially in Jinling, because there is the Qinhuai River near the river, the soil is very damp. If you store gunpowder in the tunnel, I am afraid that it will not be long before it will be damp and there is no way to use it. ”

"No," Xuanhui shook his head, "I mean, a siege method that I saw in the Chongwen Pavilion in the palace before. The enemy dug tunnels under the walls, stuffed them with gunpowder, and laid the lead until the exit......"

At that time, the enemy only needs to light the fuse at the exit, and after a short time, the gunpowder in the tunnel will be detonated, and no matter how strong the wall is, it will be blown out of the gap......

Meng Shiyi's eyes widened, and she said incoherently: "This, this, what the princess said, Weichen has never heard of...... If the enemy really does this strategy, Jinling City is only afraid of ......"

"All they have to do is make a feint at the West Gate and attract our artillery fire. Avoid the impregnable main gate and dig tunnels and lay gunpowder under the north and east gates. Once these two gates are blown up, the 30,000 soldiers in the city will lose one or the other, and Jinling City will definitely not be able to keep it! ”

At this time, Xuanhui regretted for a while, why didn't he think earlier that there was such a means as digging tunnels to blow up the city wall!

She slammed her fist on the city wall with hatred, and Meng Shiyi hurriedly persuaded her: "Don't be angry, princess, General Xu is brave and good at fighting, maybe there will be a good way to defeat the enemy." Wechen will go to Ximen to report now and discuss countermeasures with General Xu. ”

Xuanhui wanted to go with him, but he was afraid that he would cause trouble in the past, so he said: "Then I will go back to the Gongfu first to wait for your news, and if I discuss a countermeasure, I hope to inform me." ”

"It's nature!" After Meng Shiyi saluted, he turned on his horse and galloped towards the west gate.

The rumbling artillery fire outside the city slowly died down when the shadow of the sun was deflected. Xuan Hui sat in front of the bookcase, writing and drawing on the paper, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it.

At this time, a maid came over to spread the word: "Princess, General Xu and the two Meng adults are here." ”

"Please!" Xuanhui said anxiously.

When the three of them came in, Xuan Hui swept over their faces, and their hearts sank.

All three of them had serious and sad expressions on their faces, and it was clear that they had not come up with any effective countermeasures.

Xu Sheng said in a deep voice: "Princess, what you said to Lord Xiao Meng during the day is really sensational, but the enemy army does have the possibility of doing so. Therefore, I intend to personally lead a thousand light horsemen tonight to disturb the enemy army at night. It would be nice to find out where they were hoarding gunpowder, but at least it would cause them some trouble, and we can't deal with them so passively! ”