Although this time, Liu Cong opened a posture and stormed at the east gate. But Chengdu is not an ordinary small county town, and Huang Quan is not Liu Zhang's generation. In the days before, he had urgently recruited nearly 10,000 recruits from the people of the city. These recruits want to say that it is definitely not good to march and fight in the field, but it is not bad to follow the old fritters to throw stones and rolling logs on the city wall, pour hot oil and boiling water.

Although Liu Cong's army was suppressed by catapults on the dirt slope, it still suffered nearly 2,000 casualties in half a day. Huang Quan's side also suffered a lot of losses, but most of them were recruits, and in the final analysis, they were ordinary people. And there are more than 100,000 strong men in Chengdu, Huang Quan really wants to be ruthless and arm them all, when will this battle be fought? Obviously, it is not good for Liu Cong, who is besieging the city!

Seeing this result, Liu Cong was naturally dissatisfied. Now he finally realized the hardships of the siege, after the Battle of Chibi in history, Zhou Yu besieged Jingzhou for a full year, and also achieved Cao Ren's prestige. The current situation seems that if he is barely the same as Zhou Yu, then Huang Quan will never lose to Cao Ren. Liu Cong also understood why Huang Quan would take a risk, and he would make a mistake and resist stubbornly! Zhou Yu fought for a year, but he still had Jingnan and Jiangdong to rely on, and he was far away from Jingzhou's lonely army, and Zhang Lu and Ma Chao in the north were waiting for the opportunity to move, and if they really wanted to attack for a year, Cao Cao was only afraid that Jingzhou would be flattened.

The onslaught continued, but Liu Cong fell into deep thought......

Will it continue to be consumed and wait for chaos in the city, or will it continue to storm and try to take the east gate?

In the following days, Liu Cong sent soldiers to attack several times, but each time they did not succeed under the desperate resistance of the enemy, but many soldiers were killed and wounded. And since Liu Cong began to attack Chengdu, Huang Quan recruited the people in the city, and went to the city to help defend the city.

Seeing the enemy army using the people and consuming his own troops, Liu Cong's teeth itched, but there was no good way, so he could only give up attacking the enemy army and stay on the outskirts of the city. At the same time, he ordered all departments to build a large number of siege equipment, after all, relying on people is not the way, even according to the normal casualty ratio of 1:2 and 1:3, it is not easy for his 60,000 people to consume the 25,000 elite soldiers in Huangquan City.

And Zhuge Liang, who had been in ambush for a day and found nothing, left thousands of soldiers on standby, and he returned to Liu Cong's camp. Huang Zhong, Yu Ban and others are also helpless. I can only go down to supervise the production of equipment.

"Kong Ming, do you have a clever plan to capture Chengdu quickly?"

"Lord, the enemy army is like a turtle with a shrunken head, plus Chengdu has plenty of food and a large population, so it's really nothing to do if you want to attack quickly! Liang thought that it was better for the lord to go back to the city to recruit troops and buy horses for the time being, so as to make a long-term plan, Liang continued to besiege Chengdu for the lord here. ”

"Do you want to go back to the city?" Liu Cong was very reluctant in his heart, but if it was consumed like this, the supply of soldiers and grain and grass would be a problem. Zhuge Liang is worthy of being the great steward of internal affairs, if the war continues for half a month, either Liu Cong or Zhuge Liang must have someone to go to Luocheng to prepare for the follow-up.

No, the art of war is cloudy, one blow, then decline, and three exhaustions.

If he retreats first at this time, it will undoubtedly greatly boost the morale of the enemy army, and leave enough time for Huang Quan to stabilize the situation in Chengdu and deal with some local chaos. The onslaught must continue, and only in this way can Huang Quan be pinned down at the east gate. The cooperation of the West Gate can not be broken, so that the people of Chengdu can be driven away from the West Gate, and after a long time, someone will definitely get the news, and then gather at the South Gate.

It takes a little patience to create internal chaos and consume the enemy, but in order to achieve victory, it is still necessary to rely on force to crush the opponent's mental will. I can't admit defeat first, I must find a way to defeat Huang Quan in the shortest possible time! Liu Cong secretly made up his mind, and Zhuge Liang's suggestion was naturally shelved.

But Liu Cong also knew that he wanted to repel Huang Quan, or force him to surrender, unless the four gates were constantly attacking like today's East Gate and consuming his elite soldiers, but in this way, his soldiers were far from enough. Therefore, he could only find another way to severely attack the self-confidence of Huang Quan and the soldiers defending the city, so as to cause greater chaos in the city, so that in the end, Huang Quan lost control of Chengdu and surrendered obediently!

But what can you do to crack down on Huang Quan?

The daylight passed quickly, and darkness gradually enveloped the earth, and the bright stars hung in the sky with the moon, giving a soft light to the big belt. A bunch of bonfires were set up in the camp, Liu Cong and others sat in the camp for dinner, and the generals reported on the affairs of the recent period.

Gradually the wind picked up, and suddenly a breeze blew up a withered yellow leaf, which hovered above the bonfire for a long time, and did not fall.

"Huh" Liu Cong saw this scene, his heart was shocked, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly pondered, trying to grasp the flash of inspiration. Unfortunately, the leaves did not hold on in the end, and slowly fell, turning to ashes in the fire. The flicker of the leaves being burned by the fire, Liu Cong's heart was like a lightning bolt, and he immediately realized the inspiration just now.

"Scissors, bamboo, paper, paste, find them for me immediately" After Liu Cong returned to the big tent, he immediately ordered his personal soldier Liao Hua to look for these things. Zhuge Liang, Huang Zhong, Yu Ban and others saw Liu Cong hurrying back to the tent, and thought that there was something important about the military aircraft, so they all got up one after another and followed.

"Hey, lord, what are you doing here?" Zhuge Liang was very puzzled when he saw the mess of things on Liu Cong's case.

"Don't leak it!" Liu Cong also pretended to be a mysterious general and smiled, lowered his head and continued to busy himself.

The more mysterious Liu Cong was, the more he aroused the appetite of several people, and they simply didn't go outside the tent, but found a place in the tent and sat down, wanting to see what tricks Liu Cong was going to play?

"Lord, what the hell are you doing here, we can help you together?" Liao Hua didn't understand what Liu Cong wanted these things to do, so he stood aside and asked curiously.

"I'll tell you later, I'll tell you when it's done."

"Sir, do you see what the lord wants to do?" Although Huang Zhong is old, it is his turn to see that he admires Zhuge Liang very much, and seeing Liu Cong's mysterious appearance, he knows that he is blind if he asks the lord again, so he turns to Zhuge Liang for help.

"I didn't understand it, it looks like a paper bamboo box, but it doesn't look like ......" Zhuge Liang also shook his head.

"Wen Ze, what about you?"

Yu Ban shook his head desperately.

Soon in everyone's expectations, the work in Liu Cong's hands was completed, looking at the lantern in front of him, he smiled, Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang, this is Kong Ming's lantern, you Kong Ming don't know? Ha ha......

Seeing that Liu Cong finally stopped, Huang Zhong couldn't hold it back: "Lord, what is this for?" ”

"yes, what is the Lord for?" Yu Ban and Zhao Yun also asked in unison, what are you doing with such a bamboo box mysteriously at night?

"Come with me!" Liu Cong didn't explain, and walked out of the tent with the Kong Ming lantern at the moment.

The generals didn't know why, so they had to follow behind, only to see Liu Cong stop in the air, add a lot of oil to the bamboo box, and then set it on fire......

Slowly, slowly, the hot gas lamp staggered and flew up under the expansion of the air. However, before he could fly a few steps away, a gust of wind blew and he fell directly to the ground, and the oil was sprinkled on the ground, igniting a fire.

Seeing that the Kong Ming lantern he made fell off so quickly, Liu Cong shook his head and thought, it's unprofessional. But making it fly is already a breakthrough, and the next thing should be left to Zhuge Liang to improve, he is an expert in this area.

"Sir, have you seen it, this lantern made of bamboo can fly when heated!"

"See, this thing is really magical, it can fly by itself? Lord, you are going to ...... What can this thing do? ”

"Sir, this thing is very useful, imagine if you can make it fly a little higher, fly a little farther, can it be used to transmit signals between the two armies at night? If it were a little bigger, think about it...... If you do it well, you can take people to the sky and fly into the city......"

"Lord, you want to ......" Zhuge Liang's brain spun rapidly, and under the influence of his wife Huang Yueying, he was also very receptive to these novelties.

"Does the lord mean to let it take people to the sky? And then go into the city to create chaos? Zhuge Liang's eyes were as wide as bull's eyes for the first time, in this era, in addition to birds, the gods in the sky can fly, this thing can actually fly, according to the lord, make it bigger, maybe it can really bring people? If there were hundreds of them in the army, wouldn't they suddenly leap over the city walls and enter the city?

Although one hundred and ten cannot completely annihilate the enemy army, it is possible to open the city gates...... The more Zhuge Liang thought about it, the more excited he became!

"You've seen it, it can fly, and if it's big enough, it can carry people. At the moment, our army is in a stalemate in the siege, so I want to make a breakthrough with this thing......"

"Expect it to break the city?" The generals behind him were suspicious, this lord had never been so playful and unreliable as he was today, could it be that he was tired of attacking the city and wanted everyone to relax?

"That's right, it's it! If you use it well, it can be worth the front army! Sir, come over with your ears and ...... "Liu Cong, this is about to hand over the project."

Ideas and plans are put forward by themselves, and specific revisions and implementation are counted on Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang walked to Liu Cong's side, and the two whispered for a while. Several generals in the distance frowned, why is Mr. Kong Ming so unreliable today, and he is frequently nodding his head by the lord?

After a while, Liu Cong raised his voice: "Sir, the amount is small and not a gentleman, and it is not a husband who is not poisonous, this is all forced by Huang Quan." We can't afford to spend it here for long. Pass on my general's order, and tomorrow's generals will still lead their troops to attack the city. Sir, you can lead 3,000 troops to do this! ”

"No! The people took the command and left! ”

Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and the others didn't know what the lord had ordered Mr. Kong Ming to take three thousand people to tinker with the bamboo lanterns, but fortunately, they would still attack the city tomorrow, so Huang Zhong didn't think much about it, in his opinion, the fierce attack was the most real! The lantern thing, although it can fly, is tired and panicked after a day of fighting, do a few games to relieve the pressure, nothing else, don't count on it!