Xin Tong'er understood what Lihua meant when he looked at him, and knew that the coach wanted him to confirm Fang Cai's judgment from the perspective of a bricklayer.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly saluted and said: "Zuo Daren, if the Rong army is still far away from the entrance of the cave, there will be no specific sound in the urn, but only the sound of the urn and vibration.

But General Gao clearly heard the sound of pickaxes and shovels, which means that the Rong army digging the tunnel is very close to the entrance of the cave, and the last general estimates that they will dig the tunnel tonight. ”

After Xin Tong'er finished speaking in an affirmative tone, Zhu Lihua turned her head peacefully and looked at the trench again.

At this moment, there were countless people in the trench squatting or sitting silently on the soft soil. Everyone stared nervously at the marked places.

In particular, some of the soldiers who sat closest to the estimated tunnel entrances with Changge in their hands were the most elite soldiers in the Lihua army.

Their task tonight is to recoil through the tunnel entrance as soon as it is opened. After assassinating all the Rong people who stood in the tunnel, they had to evacuate from the tunnel before the soldiers at the mouth of the tunnel lit firewood and dead leaves to blow the smoke into the tunnel.

It is conceivable that when they rush into the tunnel, they will encounter countless enemy troops who are ready to enter Huangyin City, and those people will definitely be an elite army.

When such a life-threatening mission befell them, even the elite of the elite, they still felt a slight chill behind them.

As night fell, the soldiers in the trenches remained motionless as clay figurines.

Finally, when a burst of dirt peeled off less than three feet from the estimated tunnel entrance marker, a panicked face poked out of the dark hole and suddenly appeared in front of the dense Qin soldiers in the tunnel.

Then the pre-lit fire, Na Rong Jun looked at the countless Qin soldiers in front of him in a daze, and the countless Qin soldiers also looked at the frightened face.

After a few breaths, only to hear the urging of his companion from the hole behind the man, a Qin soldier immediately stabbed the man in the face.

"Ahh

With a sudden scream in the night sky, after more than 20 days, the two armies of Rong and Qin met again and fought together.

I saw that outside the tunnel that was the first to expose the entrance of the cave, three or five Qin soldiers pounced with wooden shovels in their hands, desperately digging the hole out of a size that could be entered. Then, more than a dozen warriors rushed into the tunnel without looking back.

In the following more than an hour, the same scene appeared in various tunnels one after another, as countless people rushed into the tunnels, and with the return of less than half of the Qin troops who rushed into the tunnels, the firelight at the entrances of the tunnels gradually changed from less to more, from faint to bright.

Eventually, the glow of the fire made the entire base of the giant trench as clear as day. Only then did the generals on the trench see clearly: outside the tunnel entrances, there were streams of smoke like evil dragons, and the soldiers desperately waved the huge fans that were improvised in their hands and flew up and down one after another, and they were all driven into the dark tunnels.

Immediately afterwards, whether inside or outside the city, all the tens of thousands of Rong Qin soldiers and generals who were watching the exits on both sides of the tunnel heard bursts of terrible screams from all over the tunnel.

The muffled scream echoed in the sky above Huangyin City, sounding louder and louder as time passed, and it became more and more miserable.

As time passed, the voices in the tunnel gradually faded away, and Lihua, who was staring at the flames at the entrance of the tunnel slowly extinguished, finally sighed secretly.

He looked up at the dark sky and silently repented. He used all his sincerity to beg for forgiveness from the heavens, just as he had used all his kindness to repent, and repented that these countless lives had been annihilated by the most painful torture in the world at his command.

If he could, he would rather have never made such a decision and given such an order himself.

On the other side of the city wall, the soldiers who escaped from those tunnels after watching the nineteen high platforms cry and crawl gradually became scarce, until there was no longer a single person in sight, but Lin Xu, who was standing on the built platform and waiting for good news, clenched his fists until the nails in his hands also poked into the flesh.

By the light of the fire, his soldiers on the left and right could clearly see the trembling lips and pale face of his own commander.

But they didn't see that Lin Xu's eyes full of tears were as red as a burning fire.

In this darkness, the fire was burning, just like the flames in the sky above the red sun on the banner beside Lin Xu.

After a long time, when everything in the darkness was completely quiet, Lin Xu, who had stood for an unknown number of hours and looked at for an unknown number of hours, finally shouted:

"Passing the order, Lu Jin personally led a team of 10,000 people to kill me from the tunnel, and told him that anyone who dares to retreat in the battle will be killed!

Those who can rush into the yellow yin will be rewarded with a hundred taels.

I killed the one who was in the middle of the house with my own hands, and I, Lin Xu, am willing to reward him with all the fiefs! ”

"Yes!"

............

In a month's time, the Qin and Xia armies slowly passed through the stalemate and melee around dozens of tunnels.

In the first ten days, whether it was the Rong army killing the trenches in the city and being killed by the Qin army, or the Qin army's sudden plan to send dead soldiers to counterattack the Rong army through tunnels was discovered by Lin Xu and fell short, in short, there was no progress on either side.

Therefore, a brief stalemate was once again formed inside and outside the Yellow Yin City.

As a last resort, Lu Lihua had no choice but to order someone to ram all the tunnels, and Lin Xu also saw that the strategy of sneak attack on the tunnels was no longer available, so he suddenly stopped and no longer sent people to re-dig the tunnels.

In fact, Lin Xu's sudden stop to attack was not entirely because he had nothing to do, but in the past two months, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command have been killed or wounded, which has drastically reduced the number of Kunpeng troops that originally accounted for most of them, while the number of Rong troops led by Bemur and Ahuanu has accounted for the majority.

As a result, the generals of the Rong army, who had already complained about Lin Xu's command, publicly accused Lin Xu one after another. Especially after the complete defeat of the Battle of Didao, the high-level generals of the Rong army led by Bemur and Ahuanu became active.

They were originally unenthusiastic about Lin Xu, who had not been in the army for a long time, as the commander, not to mention that Lin Xu was still a Qin countryman.

Although Bei Mu Er and Ah Hua Nu also have respect for Lin Xu's Kunpeng army's strong attack on Huang Yin regardless of casualties, they are even more grateful to Lin Xu for never letting them be cannon fodder.

However, these generals from the outside of the Saiwai tribe have always only advocated force, so the two of them, who saw the decline of the Kunpeng army, gradually complained a lot about Lin Xu's command.

They felt that this Lin Xu was a madman, if he had built a rushing car and a ladder to attack the city step by step, then even if he had killed and injured 30,000 horses now, it would definitely have dealt a great blow to the Qin army, and if it went well, maybe at this time, the head of the Huangyin City was already hanging with the burning Chiyang Banner.

Therefore, when the two of them were active, they went to the commander's account one after another, accusing Lin Xu of improper command, and taking the tactics of course as he wanted, regardless of the deaths and injuries of his subordinates.

Although the dead and wounded Erlang had little to do with the two of them, they still felt that if Lin Xu was allowed to continue to command like this blindly, then even if the Kunpeng army was wiped out, Huangyin City would still be in the hands of the Qin people.

However, to the surprise of the two, it seemed that Lin Xu was already disheartened, so when the two came to the big handsome tent for the third time to accuse Lin Xu, Lin Xu immediately moved out of the handsome seal and insisted on handing it over to Beimuer.

This made Bei Mu Er feel happy for a while, but he categorically refused Lin Xu's behavior of handing over the handsome seal to him, and just asked him to hand over the command to himself.

Lin Xu agreed, and very decisively agreed to Bemuer's request.

Subsequently, after he gave the commanders of the Kunpeng Army under his command an order that he would no longer command the battle from now on, Lin Xu walked out of the tent gloomily.

Although, at this time, he was still nominally the commander-in-chief of the whole army.

Now there are less than 90,000 men and horses left in the Rong army, of which 10,000 horses are still under the eight heights of Huangyin to prevent the Qin army from descending the mountain.

Among the remaining 80,000 troops, there were as many as 40,000 Rong troops, and in addition to this, there were more than 30,000 tired and no Kunpeng troops with no will to fight.

At this time, Zhu Lihua in Huangyin City naturally did not expect that there would be a transfer of power in the Rong military camp, which was only one city wall away from him.

At this time, he still thought that the Rong army had not attacked for several days, and it was because their soldiers and horses were too badly damaged, so they wanted to get a temporary rest.

This conclusion was not due to the mistake of Zhu Lihua, but because Zhu Lihua understood that when the soldiers defending the city had already lost more than 10,000 people, what a terrible price the besieging side should pay.

In just over two months, the small Huangyin City has become a cemetery for 40,000 horses.

This battle showed his cruelty and tragedy from the beginning.

……

At the beginning of the new year, there was no joy in the Yellow Yin City inside and outside the city, and only the countless soldiers who were in extreme tension looked at each other across the city wall every day.

In the early morning of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, when Lihua got the news that the Rong army had begun to attack the city again, he immediately walked to the top of the city and stared at the spectacular scene of rolling men and horses killing the city wall.

I saw that the Rong army outside the moat divided their army into countless battle formations with 3,000 people, and each group of battle formations was preceded by soldiers standing neatly waiting for orders, and those soldiers were ready to carry dozens of towering ladders to rush to the head of Huangyin at any time.

Suddenly, the beating war drums resounded in the sky like thunder in the rear of the Rong army, and even shook the entire Yellow Yin Earthquake to make people's hearts vibrate with fear.

Zhu Lihua listened carefully to the sound of war drums, and suddenly he frowned and said to himself:

"Listening to the sound of the drums coming from all directions, are they ready to attack the four gates at the same time?

It shouldn't be, this Lin Xu is full of scheming, he shouldn't have suddenly given up his strategy but started to attack, what does he want to do? ”