Moreover, it has snowed heavily these days, and the temperature has plummeted, which has also made Lin Xu full of confidence in his brilliant idea that has never been seen before.

Because he found that the cold winter that came ahead of schedule made it very likely that the water in the moat would be frozen in the next few days, and the soil slope would be frozen harder and harder without being easily destroyed by the Qin army.

The soldiers who went to Wang Kun and Lu Jin to give orders left and hurriedly returned to the Chinese army's tent shortly after, only to see the soldier enter the tent and immediately salute after seeing Lin Xu and said: "Marshal, Wang Kun and Lu Jin, the two generals, are leading the soldiers to dig the soil, but because of the heavy snow last night, the ground is frozen and difficult to dig, which delays the progress.

But the two generals asked him to bring a message to the marshal, and the two generals said that they would dig up all the soil from the slope tonight, and that the marshal could rest assured. ”

After the soldier finished speaking, Lin Xu nodded with satisfaction.

He got up and walked out of his Chinese army camp and stared at the Huangyin City not far away.

After a long time, Lin Xu said silently:

"Zhu Lihua, everyone says that among all the leaders in the world, only you and I are the best among them, but I don't know which of you and me is more powerful?"

Speaking of this, the corners of Lin Xu's mouth curled slightly, he waved his big hand, and turned around and entered the tent. And the snowflakes that were fluffing in all directions by the big flank behind him drifted in all directions in the curling of the north wind.

......

"Zuo Daren, it's not good, the Rong army is attacking the city!"

That night, just after a day of inspecting the city, the exhausted Lu Lihua had just gone to bed, when a hurried call from outside the door came to his ears.

"Siege?"

Lihua muttered to herself with sleepy eyes. While touching his armor on the edge of the couch, he ordered the door to be opened.

As the door opened, Gao Yunce entered the house with an anxious expression, and with him entered the house a shivering cold wind and snowflakes mixed in with him.

"What time is it?" While enduring the cold, he stretched out his arm so that his soldiers could put on his armor for him, and asked Gao Yunce.

"Sub-hour." Gao Yunce hurriedly replied.

"Why did the Rong army attack the city when it was a child, could it be that the water of the moat froze? They want to take advantage of the fact that the moat freezes at night and attack the city?

No, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and it has only snowed for a day, so how can the river surface freeze?

Besides, if it froze, they could wait until dawn to attack the city, so why rush? ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Lihua looked at Gao Yunce, who was gasping for breath, and frowned and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Gao Yunce had just smoothed out his breath at this time, and he hurriedly said to Zhu Lihua: "Zuo Daren, the soldiers vaguely saw that there seemed to be a large force of soldiers and horses of the Rong army moving outside the moat in the distance, we thought that they were just filling in those scattered horse pits, so we didn't pay much attention to it.

It was just that some soldiers fired rockets into the moat for surveillance. But it was windy tonight, and the Rong army was too far away from us, so most of those rockets were extinguished in the air.

Even the arrows that hit the other side of the river were too far away and the number of rockets was too small to see what was going on there.

But the last general always felt that something was wrong, so he sent a team of 100 men to the moat to investigate the enemy's situation.

When they fired rockets across the river, they found that tens of thousands of Rong troops were carrying stones to fill the moat. ”

After finishing speaking, Gao Yunce frowned and looked at the neatly dressed Zhu Lihua waiting for his instructions, but Zhu Lihua was only a little stunned for a while, and then motioned to his soldiers to help him onto the bamboo chair, and then said to Gao Yunce: "Let's go, let's go and see first!" ”

When the two of them came to the head of the western city, they immediately saw that countless soldiers on the city wall were constantly shooting arrows into the darkness in the distance. And by the moat in the dark, there were bursts of screams from time to time.

But Zhu Lihua keenly found that even if more than a hundred arrows were shot on the city wall, there were only one or two screams coming from the dark moat.

"Stop shooting!"

Lu Lihua raised his hand and shouted.

"Stop shooting!"

"Stop shooting!"

Although some people didn't understand why they wanted everyone to stop shooting arrows, Gao Yunce and his soldiers immediately conveyed the order.

For a moment, the city, which had seemed a little chaotic, was quiet again, and outside the city, the sound of stones falling into the water could occasionally be heard in a gust of cold wind.

Zhu Lihua looked left and right at the mile-long city wall, and after listening carefully to the movement outside the city, he said to Gao Yunce: "Go and let Liu Jaw transfer the people over to help garrison the city wall, and you let your soldiers go to rest first." ”

Gao Yunce immediately understood what Lu Lihua meant, it seemed that the main general had already judged that the Rong army was only to fill the moat tonight and had no intention of attacking the city, so it was to let his soldiers recuperate.

But just letting the Rong people fill the moat still made Gao Yunce a little puzzled, so when he left the city, he still couldn't help but want to ask Xun Lihua, but before the words could be spoken, he heard Lihua explain to him:

"The Rong army must have been fully prepared to fill the moat at night, and those stones must have been mined by them during the day, and they must have moved them to fill the river at night.

Now it was snowing and there was no moon, so we didn't know what was going on outside the city, and we didn't know where the Rong army was filling the river.

I saw that most of the arrows shot at the head of the city did not hit the target, so I knew that they would not stick to one place to fill the river, and we would not only not stop the enemy by shooting arrows indiscriminately, but would waste arrows, and add psychological pressure to the soldiers.

So let's change the people's husbands and let them keep an eye on it. How can it be so easy to storm the city at night?

Your brothers should take their time tonight, and wait until tomorrow morning when they fill the moat, and then give me a good fight when they really attack the city. ”

Gao Yunce also nodded again and again after hearing the words, but he was still a little unwilling to take a moat like this useless, but Zhu Lihua saw Gao Yunce's thoughts, he patted the back of his brother standing beside him, and said slowly:

"It doesn't seem to be hot for a while, maybe it's another cold winter this year, and if so, even if they don't fill in the river tomorrow, the moat will freeze.

However, without the moat, don't we still have this towering wall, and even without this towering wall, don't we still have a blood and flesh and blood?

Brother Gao, it's not like we haven't fought a battle without the city wall, but when have we ever lost? ”

The smiling Lihua's calm words came into Gao Yunce's ears, which made Gao Yunce immediately shake, and he smiled and hugged his fists and said, "It's me who is too worried, then I will arrange for my subordinates to rest." ”

After saying that, Gao Yunce left the city in good spirits.

Early the next morning, Yu Lihua, who was tightly surrounded by two Sumeru wolves, couldn't help but frown when he looked at the moat outside the city wall and the roads filled with stones.

He knew that in terms of the amount of work he could see in front of him, he was afraid that the Rong people really used more than 10,000 horses last night.

Although the Rong people have now retreated, leaving only countless bridges on the moat, it seems that Lihua can already see that the bridges are bleeding like rivers and corpses are everywhere.

But until half a day passed, the Rong army still had no intention of attacking the city, which made Zhu Lihua, who had not rested all night and day long, finally give up waiting.

After getting An Moran, who got the north gate, replied that the Rong army outside the north gate had only scolded for two days and had no sign of attacking the city, Zhu Lihua, who was relieved, only left the order to report to him immediately after the Rong army attacked the city, and then returned to the city.

The sun was setting in the west, and a dark curtain in the sky gradually completely enveloped the four fields. When the outside of Huangyin City became pitch black again, the footsteps of countless people suddenly reached the head of the city.

After resting for a long time, he came to the city again, and he clearly saw that outside the Huangyin City, there were countless black shadows on the distance from the moat to the city wall, which were hurrying like ants.

"What are they doing here? Is it a mound platform? Gao Yunce muttered to himself in some surprise. But a hint of strangeness suddenly appeared on the face of the person next to him.

He subconsciously looked at Mao Biao, who was with his mouth open behind him, and said with a dumb smile: "Are you familiar with this scene?" ”

Mao Biao just coughed embarrassedly when he heard this, but he didn't dare to speak.

"Command someone to keep an eye on them, and when the distance is accurate and you can shoot arrows."

Lu Lihua said softly, and Gao Yunce immediately arranged for the archers to stand by the female wall at the head of the city.

Finally, in the second half of the night, when the Qin army fired rounds of rockets to illuminate the outside of the city as if it were day, countless soldiers of the Rong army carrying dirt bags were horrified to find that the sharp arrows were like the call of death, accurately harvesting their lives.

After discarding the dirt bags in one place, the soldiers fled back to the moat.

But not long after, when the soldiers returned to the city wall, they had a small shield in front of them, in addition to the dirt bags that were one size smaller than the original.

In this way, along with the sharp arrows that continued to be fired at the head of the city, the Rong army still relied on the courage of ordinary people to pile more than ten huge earthen platforms on the edge of the city wall at dawn.

"The Kunpeng Army is really unusual." Listening to the praise of the generals beside him for the enemy army, he couldn't help but look at the dead bodies all over the ground outside the city.

Although there were only about a thousand corpses left in the heavy snow, it still made him feel a pang in his heart, and he suddenly understood why Fang Shuai's army would lose to these disheveled Kunpeng troops back then.

"No, they don't seem to be building a platform, but"

"Rather, I want to build a dirt slope for foot soldiers or cavalry to rush up to the city!"

Lu Lihua came to a conclusion about the speculation of Gao Yunce beside him.

At this moment, he also saw that the Rong army was not planning to build some earthen platforms similar to the ones he had built outside Jilin City, they planned to pile the earthen platforms directly under the city, piling them higher and higher, until his soldiers and even cavalry could rush down the earthen platforms to the top of the city.