Before nightfall, Zhao Dangshi's whole army gathered in Tangya's long lawsuit.

The generals entered the hall of the division and sat down in turn, Guo Hutou said with a smile: "What is 'timely rain', they all command this is really called 'timely rain'." My old Guo almost died of thirst, but he commanded it, quack, and he was alive again! ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone laughed, Zhao Dangshi shook his head with a smile, and said to Xu Hui: "Mr. Xu Qian, fortunately you are in control here, so you can be safe." Here, I Zhao Dangshi thanked me in advance. ”

His words are not exaggerated, he can stabilize the morale of the army when he is completely out of contact with the main army, and resist the many attacks of the famous stone soldiers in the world, just looking at these two points, Xu Hui is already very remarkable.

Xu Hui sighed lightly and said: "They all commanded the task of attacking the city to their subordinates, but their subordinates not only failed to do it, but were trapped by the enemy. If it weren't for the command to come to the aid in time, I was afraid that the two thousand brothers would be harmed in the hands of their subordinates. ”

Zhao Dangshi knew that he had a modest personality, which was very different from Hou Dagui, Yang Chengfu and others, so he didn't say much. Hou Dagui said at this time: "All command, the stone soldiers will retreat temporarily, and they will definitely make a comeback, how to plan, we have to make a decision as soon as possible." ”

During the day, Qin Liangyu led the stone soldiers to retreat north, and Zhao Dangshi attacked a few times on his flank, but the two sides did not really hand over the swords and guns, and the stone soldiers had no losses, and of course they would not be held back. I think that in the next two days, it will strike again.

Zhao Dangshi looked around at everyone and said: "My intention, early tomorrow morning, I will attack the thousands of households in Datian first." ”

Xu Hui hesitated a little and said, "I don't know what the commander is, my subordinates attacked Datian once earlier. The walls there are covered with bricks, and the defenders are also thousands, so they are not in a hurry. In case the stone soldiers take advantage of the weakness to come, they are only afraid of ......"

As soon as his words fell, Hou Dagui said: "I came here from the Shizhou Guard, and I only brought two days' rations. ”

"Two days?" Xu Hui was stunned. There is not much grain stored in Tang Ya's lawsuit, only enough for the original 2,000 people for three days, so it seems that it is really urgent to take the abundant grain storage in the Datian Thousand Households for self-sufficiency.

Zhao Dangshi continued: "Early tomorrow morning, we will attack the Daejeon Thousand Households, no matter whether it is successful or not, we will not stay, and the whole army will go north to meet with the Zhonglu soldiers." ”

However, Xu Hui still had reservations, and only listened to him: "Since you are determined to go north, it is better to leave directly tomorrow morning." ”

Zhao Dangshi asked, "How did you attack the city before?" ”

"Ant-possessed." Xu Hui replied truthfully. The ant-attached siege is the simplest and most brutal siege method, and you don't have time to buy equipment such as rushing cars, and you can't besiege the city, so you can only do it. If it weren't for the strong will of the officers and soldiers in the city to resist, he would have almost taken the city that day.

"And what are the defenders of the city going to do?" Zhao Dangshi continued to ask.

Xu Hui didn't think much about it, and said, "Turtle retreats into the city." ”

"Yes." Zhao Dangshi clapped his hands and said, "In defending the city, it is best to gain the initiative in the field; Control several dangerous strongholds in the field, divided into horns and middle; Guarding the lonely city alone, not communicating with the outside world. Listen to what you say, the commander of Ota Chito has courage, but lacks vision, he abandoned the favorable area under the city, is not sitting still and waiting for death? ”

"All commanders, subordinates are foolish, please dial." Xu Hui was puzzled. Although Zhao Dangshi brought more than 2,000 people, the conditions of these soldiers and horses are similar to his own, so don't you have to use ants?

Zhao Dangshi gently knocked his right fist on his left palm and said, "Have you tried this method?" ”

At that moment, Xu Hui heard him say the way, and his originally gloomy face instantly glowed. He patted his head vigorously and said with a smile: "Not all commanders and reminders, and their subordinates have almost forgotten their old jobs." Then he added, "This method can indeed be tried." ”

The so-called "old business" is to operate firearms, and "this method" is called "collapse method". This method of siege is actually not new, Li Zicheng likes to use it very much, the main point is to bury gunpowder at the root of the city wall, blast it to collapse the city wall, and then attack it. However, this has a certain technical difficulty, the first is to be able to touch the city wall, if the city head is dense or the defenders still have strong field control, then you can only dig tunnels, time-consuming and laborious. The second is to grasp the dose of gunpowder, too little dose will not shake the foundation of the wall, but will make the defender vigilant, which requires the attacker to make a more accurate estimate of the tightness and solidity of the wall.

Fortunately, at present, Ota Senhu has taken the initiative to give up the wilderness, and the infant city is self-defending, so there is no need to dig tunnels. And Xu Hui has some experience in the use of gunpowder, and he is still relatively sure that he will take action.

At the beginning of dawn, a group of soldiers and horses from the Tang Ya chief lawsuit went out of the village first. This army of 1,000 people, led by Hou Dagui and Wu Mingfeng, went to the north to cruise around Zhongxiao and Jintong, making the posture that Zhao Ying intended to attack. Judging from the performance of Shi Yanbing's soldiers before, Qin Liangyu used his troops cautiously, with Qin Jinxiao, Hou Dagui, and Wu Mingfeng, and she was unlikely to directly attack Tang Ya without complete arrangements. However, Zhao Dangshi still left a hand, and let Bai Jiaolong and Hao Shaoqi guard the Tang Cliff, in case Qin Liangyu saw through the suspicious plan to attack, he could also rely on the village and Hou Dagui to cooperate with them to block it.

Zhao Dangshi himself, together with Xu Hui, Yang Chengfu, Guo Hutou, Wang Laixing, and Liu Weiming, took the remaining 2,200 soldiers and horses to attack Datian Qianhu.

There were soldiers all around, and the war was raging for days, and the Ota Senhe was heavily guarded. Xu Hui attacked the city before, and the palm prints of the thousand households were killed, and the two deputy thousand households were also missing-they were all rogue officials, had no property in the local area, cherished their lives, and did not want to live and die with the city. At present, the city is in charge of a relatively prestigious pacification. He was born in a local family, a hereditary guard officer, and had the foundation and courage, so he was temporarily in charge.

Most of the defenders in the city are local natives, who are rooted here, and the safety of their families and wives are all related to the same city.

On that day, Xu Hui withdrew from the army, and this Datian Zhenfu was as anxious as a spark to ask for help from the Sanmao and Zhongjian Er Xuanfu Divisions in the south. But the Tusi of these two places were greedy for life and afraid of death, and only deduced that their subordinates were only enough to protect themselves and could not be dispatched. Daejeon's envoys sent five waves in a row, but they all prevaricated back for various reasons. Last night, this town still did not give up, bit his fingers, wrote a bloody letter, and the letter was full of tears, begging for Austrian aid, but the messenger did not have time to go out of the city, and Zhao Ying came unexpectedly.

The defenders were nervously prepared, and the town Fu went to the top of the city to watch, but when he saw the shining sun on the opposite side and the solemn appearance of the army, it seemed to be more difficult to deal with than before, and he was shocked in his heart, and he wondered in vain, could it be that the stone soldiers from the north were defeated? Two days ago, in order to boost morale, he held a rally, and publicized in public that the mighty old lady Qin led the troops to the scene, and the Zhao thief could be destroyed overnight, which was tantamount to a slap in the face. His own relatives, the soldiers defending the city also showed a look of fear - the stone soldiers still couldn't stop this group of ghosts, let alone themselves?

Cowardice before fighting is a taboo for soldiers. Because of this fear, the pacification was more conservative than before, and when Guo Hutou personally led the advance of Zhao Ying to approach twenty steps from the city wall, he suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly instructed the archers to release arrows.

Guo Hutou's five hundred people are the front battalion blades, all with thick armor, almost and the front of the battalion Hou Dagui's front division, at this time most of the soldiers in the front row erected the regimental card, sparse arrows hit the regimental card, weakly fell to the side, occasionally in the face of the armor defense, the damage is also negligible.

When facing a unit with a slightly higher armor rate, if it is not a dense bow formation with extra training, in fact, the lethality rate is low, and the main role is to hit the morale of the enemy. The soldiers of this Daejeon Thousand Households have courage, how can they be negligent in training, and secondly, the small bow and hunting bow in their hands are not strong bows, and the bows that are less than one stone account for the vast majority, what impact will it cause to self-difficulty, and there are few strong crossbows and guns in the city, Guo Hutou already knew this in advance, so he had no scruples and let his subordinates advance quickly.

Because of the experience of the previous time, this calmer prepared the defenders for hand-to-hand combat in advance, and the bumper bars, sasswoods, wolf tooth slaps and even boiling oil and dung juice were all transported to the city one after another. Zhao thieves and horses don't seem to be much more than the last time, relying on the city to fight, there is still a chance of winning.

Several simple bamboo ladders were erected at the head of the city one after another, and the town was about to meet the attack as usual, when his subordinates suddenly exclaimed: "My lord, look! ”

The town Fushun pointed to look down the city, and saw seven or eight house-shaped carts scurrying forward by the city wall, and they couldn't see the situation below through the wooden planks on the top.

"What is this?" Many of the defenders had never seen anything before, and their attention was drawn to it.

"It's not good, set fire to the arrow!" Na Zhenfu's heart jumped, and he suddenly remembered that although these seven or eight house-shaped cars were simple, their shapes were not similar to those of "cave house cars"? The soldiers hid inside the cave house to fight against the arrows and stones, just to carry out the excavation and wall breaking operations. He hadn't figured out the enemy's intentions yet, but he had a hunch that the sudden appearance of the cave house car at this time was definitely not a good one.

Regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, under the urgent urging of the suppressor, the archers lined up horizontally along the head of the city, each leaned out of the gap in the female wall, and drew their bows diagonally and shot hard. The sky is not yet bright, it is still gray, these fire arrows are densely packed, and when viewed from a distance, it is like a spark flowing waterfall, which is extremely bright.

The battle was fierce, and the generals who stood far away were all sweating, holding their breath, Zhao Dangshi sighed coldly: "The soldiers are fierce, but if they don't see it with their own eyes, who would have thought that there would be such a magnificent scene outside." ”

Yang Chengfu echoed again and again: "Yes, this is better than fireworks." "Since he was a child, he has only seen fireworks once, that is, when he was young, he went to Xi'an with his father, and happened to meet the Lantern Festival fireworks party. Although the father and son could only dig dung for people as part-time workers in the dark corners of the alleys at that time, and only glimpsed a glimpse of the bright corner when they raised their heads when they heard the sound, the dazzling scenery still left a deep impression on the young man.

Xu Hui said coldly: "The brighter the snake skin, the more poisonous the snake teeth." The commanders sit back and watch the success or failure, and sit back and relax, but the soldiers who are fighting desperately on the front line may not have leisure and sentimentality. ”

His words were like a sharp knife, and he directly poked Zhao Dangshi through the heart. Yang Chengfu was dissatisfied: "Mr. Xu Qian's words are a bit rude. ”

Zhao Dangshi changed his face and said solemnly: "In short, what I said is very true, but I lost my words." A little sigh, not out of my heart, I hope that I will forgive you. can persuade each other with slander, Xu Huiguo lives up to the nickname of "Xu Lingguan". People love to listen to good words, Yang Chengfu's words are comfortable to listen to, and Xu Hui's words are alarming. I'm just a little famous, and I've just won a few battles by luck, so what's the right to sigh?

Xu Hui looked at him, and Zhao Dangshi found that his eyes were a little less cold than before, and there were a few more periods: "The subordinates don't dare, what the subordinates think, just for the sake of command, for the sake of Zhao Ying." With that, he withdrew his gaze and turned to the city again.

However, in just one sentence, it was like Huang Zhong Dalu, repeatedly oscillating in Zhao Dangshi's chest. Sometimes, if there is no outspoken person like Xu Hui who dares to admonish him at all times, he will inevitably be proud of his victory. Wisdom is not prepared for one person, and he must participate in the crowd, Zhao Dangshi is both ashamed and happy.

The defenders of the city tried their best to stop the approaching of the cave house, but the fire bolts that could be sent out were shot on the linoleum covered by the roof of the car, but with little effect, Guo Hutou ignored the danger, and rushed into the range of the defenders' bows, and shouted horizontally. The soldiers around him listened to his encouragement, and they all let out a majestic roar.

In order to cover the cave house vehicles that were stepping up their operations, Guo Hutou instructed the three tiger squatting cannons to continue to bombard the city. In order to effectively suppress the firepower of the city, Guo Hutou specially arranged for the three tiger squatting cannons to unload the large stone shells, and each time they were all filled with nearly 100 small stones to diverge the striking surface. Therefore, although these three guns had a short range and were within the striking distance of the defenders, they could not raise their heads because of the overwhelming stone bullets swept by "brushing".

The town was helpless, hiding behind the battlements, not moving, from time to time a burst of stone bullets screamed past his face, and a soldier next to him probed slightly, wanting to see the situation, suddenly screamed, his left eye had already been beaten to pieces, and the thick frozen broken eyes were mixed with blood and water into a mess.

After a long while, the roar of the tiger cannon suddenly stopped, and the calm was frightened and didn't know why. Although he wanted to find out, the bloody corpse at his feet was still twitching unconsciously, and he really didn't dare to risk his head.

After waiting for a while, a high-pitched and hurried shout suddenly came from the city: "Lead the way, brothers, go away!" At the same time, there were countless laughter and exclamations in Zhao Ying's array.

"What's wrong?" He questioned loudly left and right, after the defenders around him curled up one by one, you look at me and I look at you, all of them are inexplicable. Finally, two bold trembling bodies leaned against the wall and peeked out through the gap, and shouted with joy: "The thieves have retreated, the thieves have retreated!" ”

The town was stunned, and before he had time to rejoice, there was a deafening loud sound in his ears, and his body shook violently with the trembling city walls, almost turning him upside down.

"This ......" he was so frightened that he wanted to run, but the stone bricks under his feet were like a lonely boat on the sea, and they began to float, and his footing was unstable, and everywhere he looked, the earth and rocks collapsed, and the gravel flew, and the whole person was like a reed, and was annihilated in the collapsed city wall with a frightened expression.