After Ma Shao made up his mind to break through, he seemed to have immediately regained the prestige of the king of Zhennan, and there was no more panic and doubt on his face. But when he raised his legs and walked to the back house, he hesitated for a moment, and then resolutely turned to Lahudo and said, "You go to the back house to call Lao Zhang and take off the flowers...... If the barbarians come out, the king will not go in! ”

"Your Highness, the princess and the other princes...... The little one got it! Lahudo was taken aback and asked, but when he looked at Tuhuan's gloomy face, he immediately understood his master's thoughts. In order not to arouse the suspicion of others, he decided to bring only his three sons-in-law with him, and the others became outcasts.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the generals, it was only said that after the enemy broke through the city, in order to facilitate the cavalry to carry out a counter-attack, to prevent pedestrians from trampling and injuring innocents; Subsequently, in the name of personally participating in the battle, the three thousand-strong team of cowardly Xue was transferred to the surrounding of the palace, and was led by Lahudo himself. At the same time, it was ordered to transfer the three thousand heavy cavalry units in the city to the east gate.

"See Father!" As soon as he had passed down the order, Lahudo led the three princes to him and saluted them.

"Excuse me, go and put on your armor, go to the stables and choose a good horse from each of you, and stand by in front of the palace!" Tuohuan waved his hand, and let them be exempt from the command.

"Father, is the Southern Army about to break the city?" The three of them were suddenly summoned, and they were very puzzled when they got such a strange order, and the eldest son, Lao Zhang, asked with some confusion.

"Don't you all want to go into battle to kill the enemy on weekdays, today the enemy army is not only attacking the city, my father wants to take you to see the real battle formation, and later your brothers will each lead a team of 1,000 people to follow your father to break the enemy!" Tuhuan glanced at the still immature faces of his three sons, and tried to make himself look calmer.

"Yes, Erchen will live up to expectations!" The three of them looked at each other, all of them were happy, and they all saluted together.

"What is Your Highness's plan?" Lahudo asked the three princes to go down to the palace to select the horses and weapons, he asked instead.

"We broke through from the east gate, first rushed through the defense line of the Song army with heavy cavalry, and the king was leading the light cavalry out of the city, and then turned to the northeast, joined the Tuolie capital, and then went all the way north to Huai'an, and then reported to the imperial court!" Tuo Huanyan said.

"Your Highness's arrangement is very good, but in what name should we go out of the city? If we break through the siege rashly, it will inevitably cause chaos, and at that time, the defenders everywhere will flee, and we will not be able to leave if we want to! Lahudo asked as he took off his robe and put on another layer of iron armor. He had no objection to the direction of his master's breakthrough, and the northern city was attacking fiercely, and it was obviously not suitable to leave the city. The southern city is too close to the riverside, even if it successfully highlights the city, it is easy to be surrounded by the Song army and forced to the riverside, which is not the right way. Outside the west gate is the canal, and there are many rivers, which is not conducive to the galloping of war horses. Only the east gate is relatively flat, there are few rivers, and at the same time, the Turlie capital is also cruising outside, which can be used as a help.

"At present, the enemy army is attacking the city fiercely, and this king wants to lead the army out of the east gate to detour back behind the enemy to attack and harass, and at the same time defeat the enemy army besieging the city, so as to reduce the pressure on the northern city!" Tuhuan had already thought of a reason to leave the city, and it was not easy to arouse the suspicion of others.

"Your Highness is heroic!" Lahudo nodded secretly in his heart, Tuhuan is still very talented, but his fate is not good, and his mind is not used in the right place, at the moment of crisis, he did not hesitate to abandon his wife and children and huge wealth and resolutely decided to break through, which shows his ruthlessness. In fact, he was still worried about whether they could break through the blockade line built by the firearms of the Song army, but now that he had made up his mind, he didn't dare to say more, and bowed his head to obey orders.

'Boom, boom! Then there were two more muffled noises in the north of the city, no louder than before, but everyone felt a tremble under their feet.

"Your Highness, the enemy army buried gunpowder under the city wall, blew up the northern corner of the city, and the soldiers in the city suffered heavy casualties!" Someone came in and said.

"Ling Badu ordered all the infantry and Ding Zhuang to go to the city, repair the city, and block the enemy army from the city, and tell his own king to lead troops to reinforce!" Seeing that the soldiers who came to deliver the letter were covered with dust and bleeding from their ears and noses, he knew the power of this blast, and the city had been blasted several times, but he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand another heavy blow, he patted the messenger on the shoulder and said.

"You Cheng also asks His Highness to send troops quickly, otherwise it will be difficult for Beicheng to support it!" The messenger perked up.

"This king knows, inform the right king, this king will be there later!" Tuhuan nodded, but there was a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes, and he secretly scolded that if it weren't for Ma Shao, a nerd, who lied about the military situation, he would not have misjudged the situation, resulting in today's situation being difficult to clean up.

"Today's battle is a matter of Yangzhou's survival, and the property is for all sons and daughters to take, and then go with the king to kill the enemy!" Tuhuan walked to the front of the inner mansion behind the palace, opened the door and said loudly to the generals gathered here, he also knew that since the contents could not be taken away, it was better to reward everyone to boost morale.

"Your Highness!" The generals thanked them in unison, of course, they would not be polite, and they led the troops to take it one after another, and they would never care if it was good or not, and the golden statues and jade Buddhas that were inconvenient to carry were immediately smashed and dismembered, and then put them in their arms and put them in their bags. The corners of his mouth twitched, this is all his own hard work!

"Go, kill the enemy!" Seeing that the treasury was empty, he turned over and shouted as he left the mansion. Several sons and generals also got on their horses and shouted in unison, and for a while the momentum was high.

"Your Highness, the battlefield has no eyes, you have to be more careful!" Knowing that the prince was going to personally lead the soldiers into battle, the princess also led a group of wives and concubines and a few children to see him off, and kept instructing.

"Take care!" Looking at the wives and children who stayed in the house, Tuhuan was also sour in his heart, thinking that his trip might be goodbye, but he also knew that this was not the time to be sad, so he glanced at everyone and said indifferently, and then resolutely knocked the horse's belly and took the lead out of the house......

Zhao Hao has been guarding the Bijia Mountain in the north of the city to watch the battle, his own side used artillery fire to cover, with a hole car to dig the city foundation and then carry out the blasting, but the progress is not as smooth as expected. First of all, the base of the city wall is generally made of stones, and in order to increase the stability of the city wall, it is compacted with triple soil, so it is not easy to make a hole in it; Then there is the stone throwing machine in the city, and the cave car is difficult to withstand the continuous attack of hundreds of pounds of stone bullets.

In addition, at the time of life and death, the enemy army is also fighting to the death, they brave the artillery fire to throw rolling logs and gravel from the city, and the biggest threat to the cave car is the fire oil. In order to set fires, the cave car uses raw cowhide as a canopy, and it also prepares muddy water and mops to extinguish fires, which can be used to deal with small fires, but it is very difficult to extinguish oil fires. In addition, the cave car is a wooden structure, and once ignited, it is difficult to extinguish, and its strength decreases, and it cannot withstand the heavy blows of rolling wood and gravel.

Therefore, although the Song army sent more than ten cave trucks at one time, they were able to successfully dig tunnels and blast less than half of them, and the casualties were not small. The Song army then changed its tactics, concentrating artillery on the head of the city and carrying out precision strikes on the stone throwers with artillery fire arranged in the forts. At the same time, a large number of sharpshooters were thrown to snipe the enemy soldiers on the city, reducing the pressure on the city diggers.

After adopting targeted measures, the speed of the sappers to dig the city was accelerated, and three successful blasts were carried out, but due to the lack of power, the city wall did not collapse in a large area, and after the enemy risked his life to repair it, it still became an insurmountable obstacle to the Song army's attack. Now that more than two zhang and three zhang wide have been excavated, the sappers are connecting several cave carts to form a tunnel, and then send gunpowder to the city.

Zhao Hao estimated that this tunnel could hold 2,000 catties of gunpowder, and if it could be successfully detonated, it would be enough to blow up a section of the city wall on the basis of the previous blasts and open the way for attack. At this moment, suddenly there was a fierce gunfire in the east of the city, but due to the cover of the city wall, he could not see the battle even if he was condescending. But Zhao Hao was not too worried, although the main direction of attack was in the northern city, troops were also deployed to defend the remaining three gates, and even if the enemy broke through, it was impossible to jump down from the city wall, and could only come out from the city gate, so as long as the city gate was blocked with firepower, they could be blocked in the city.

"Your Majesty, the enemy brigade wanted to break through from the east gate and charge the battle with heavy cavalry, but due to the lack of artillery in our army, the enemy cavalry broke through the first line of defense, and now retreats to the second line of defense. The subordinates want to send some troops to support, so as not to be highlighted by the enemy! After a while, Chen Fenglin suddenly went up the mountain from the forward command post and hurriedly announced.

"Seeing that the city is about to be destroyed, you can't leave, and the enemy cavalry breaking through from the east gate may also be a feint, and you can't just draw troops. Or I led the baggage regiment to reinforcements, and ordered the provisional cavalry regiment to prepare for the volley! Zhao Yu thought about it and shook his head. After most of the troops returned to Jiangdong, the siege of the city with the remaining troops was actually overstretched, and even the Marine Brigade undertook the task of blocking the West Gate, and its own personal guard regiment was also used as a reserve. Since all the formed cavalry had been withdrawn, in order to increase mobility, he could only integrate the cavalry battalions and cavalry corps directly under the generals, divisions, and regiments into a temporary regiment for intercepting the enemy troops who broke through.

"Your Majesty can take risks, so let's go down!" Chen Fenglin originally wanted His Majesty to command the siege and go to block the enemy army that broke through, but he didn't expect to fall and persuade again.

"The war is urgent, so there is no need to say more. Remember that you have made a military order, and you can't break through the city today, but you have to do it by military law! Zhao Yu said half-seriously, half-jokingly. Then he ordered Tan Fei to gather the team and hurry to the east city gate.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Chen Fenglin knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he could only take the war horse and pull the reins to help His Majesty get on the horse.

Zhao Yu nodded, took the whip and went down the mountain first, turned the clamp city, crossed the moat from the long bridge of Baoyou City and then turned to the east gate of the main city, he could already see the situation on the battlefield, and the battle situation in front of him made him frown......