Wu Cheng.

In later generations, it has a more well-known name, that is, Suzhou in the middle of "heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou".

This city was built by Wu Zixu, the famous minister of Wu Zixu, the king of Wu, in 514 BC, more than 200 years ago.

And the state of Wu has long been destroyed by Goujian, the king of Yue, and after the destruction of Wu by the Yue country, it was also the capital of the Yue country for a period of time.

Time has passed, and the Yue State has long been destroyed by the Chu State, and now it has become the territory of the Chu State and the core area of the three major family forces.

In fact, the original core of the power of the three major families was in the Yingdu area, and they had been operating there for hundreds of years, and even the monarch could not easily shake their status.

However, as Bai Qi invaded the Jianghan Plain, both Yingdu and Yan were occupied by Qin, and Chu had to move its capital to Chencheng, and the three major families also suffered heavy losses in that battle, and Wucheng was selected as the new power management point.

From this point of view, the three major families have actually operated Wucheng for more than 20 years.

At this moment, the de facto supreme leader of the three major families, Yin Jingtong of the Chu State Order, stood on top of the city of Wucheng, staring at the little fires lit up in the Zhao army camp outside the city, his face was very ugly.

At the beginning, Jingtong was actually on the front line of the Yangtze River, in case Zhao Guopangxuan's army broke through the Yangtze River defense line and went south.

Jingtong's strategy is completely consistent with many later countries, such as Eastern Wu, Southern Tang, and Southern Chen.

It's a pity that whether it is Jingtong or the three major families, they are of course racking their brains to hold the Yangtze River defense line, but from the perspective of military strategy, they are undoubtedly much worse than generals like Zhao Guo Pang Xuan.

Ever since he heard the news that Sima Shangqi had attacked Wucheng and almost succeeded, Jingtong had almost fainted at that time.

You must know that now all the core members of the three major families, including Jingtong's wife and children, are all in Wucheng!

If Wu Cheng is really taken by Sima Shang, then everyone's wives and children will be caught, and this is a fart, and they can honestly surrender.

What made Jingtong even more speechless was that he originally wanted to block the news, but he just summoned a few important people to discuss the matter overnight, but he never thought that this matter had not yet been discussed, and the next day most of the camp knew about it.

This blow to the morale of the Chu army can be imagined, you must know that everyone is fighting desperately on the front line, isn't the most important thing is for the sake of the wife and children, now the wife and children are going to become the prisoners of the Zhao people, we are still guarding the front line.

What's worse is that it is not only the low-level soldiers of the Chu army who think this way, but even many high-ranking members of the three major families, that is, the generals in the army.

In this way, even if Jing informed how important the Yangtze River defense line was, he had to abandon the Yangtze River and choose to retreat with the whole army to support Wucheng.

Jingtong actually knew some military strategies, so of course he knew that with the height of Wucheng and the thousands of defenders in the city, it was impossible to break through with only 8,000 Zhao troops.

But the problem is that Zhao's army is not the kind of army that can be judged by common sense.

The people of Zhao have earth-shattering thunder!

Something like earth-shattering thunder, that's the nemesis of the city wall.

As long as the city wall is breached, the eight thousand Zhao troops rush into the city, and they can even beat the sixteen Chu army!

So Jingtong also had to go back to defense.

However, with such a defense, the Yangtze River defense line that had been built up with great difficulty was naturally all over.

Within two or three days of Jingtong's front foot returning to Wucheng, Pang Xuan had already chased after him with 150,000 Zhao troops and surrounded Wucheng.

That was almost two months ago.

After that, the Zhao army launched a powerful offensive against Wu Cheng.

Fortunately, most of today's Wucheng is dominated by the private elite soldiers raised by the three major families in the early years, although these elite soldiers are definitely inferior to the Zhao army in combat, but they are extremely brave when they fight, so they also block the people of Zhao to death.

After two months of fierce fighting, the Zhao army naturally paid a lot of damage, but the Chu army in the city also paid a heavy price.

At this moment, it was already dark, and Jingtong walked all the way on the city wall with dozens of guards, while pacifying the soldiers who were keeping vigil and learning about the situation by the way.

"Very good, you have done a good job, as long as you hold on for some time, the people of Zhao can only retreat. Then it will be time for us to fight back and reclaim our homeland. ”

"Pay attention to Zhao Jun's tunnel! If you hear any strange noises underground, be sure to report it as soon as possible! Whoever verifies it will be rewarded with a knight, five servants, and 10,000 gold! ”

In order to consolidate the defense of Wucheng, Jingtong can be regarded as exhausted.

After so many years of war with the Zhao State, the current Chu people have actually preliminarily figured out some of the characteristics and laws of things like Heaven Shaking Thunder.

For example, if the earth-shaking thunder is bombarded with a trebuchet like a cannonball, the damage to the city wall is actually quite limited, and only by burying a large number of them and detonating them at the same time can there be hope of destroying the tall city wall of Wucheng in one fell swoop.

Therefore, whether it is Li Yuan in the Yingdu or Jingtong in Wucheng, they are particularly vigilant against the activities of the Zhao people digging pits and tunnels when they are defending.

The two sides have been fighting wits and courage around the tunnel for a while, and it is useless to bury any flooding and burying the earth.

From the current point of view, many of Jingtong's measures are still very useful, at least the Zhao people have not been able to break through Wucheng.

Although Wucheng is not as good as Handan, the capital of Ying, it can be regarded as one of the big cities on the mainland today, so this circle came down, and when Jingtong returned to his Lingyin official residence, it was already midnight, and the time was about to pass.

Jingtong was about to rest, when someone suddenly reported that Zhao Ling, the head of the Zhao clan, had come to visit.

"It's so late at night, what's the matter?" Jingtong muttered a little, but still spoke: "Invite him to the lobby." ”

You must know that in terms of heritage, in fact, the Zhao family and the Jing family are the two leading brothers among the three major families, and the Qu family belongs to the younger brother, so Zhao Ling, the family of the Zhao family, really can't be lazy.

Moments later, Jingtong met Zhao Ling in the lobby.

After the simple salute, Zhao Ling worriedly told Jingtong a piece of news.

"Ling Yin, now that the hearts of the people in the city are fluctuating, many people have begun to plan to sacrifice the city and surrender to Pang Xuan!"