Night, new town, outside the eastern city walls.

The city walls were brightly lit, and the night in Goguryeo at the end of March was still a little cold, and the defenders on the castle towers, holding torches, kept patrolling back and forth.

"Team Zheng, why do you say the Han people are coming to fight us!" A patrolling soldier asks his captain as he patrols.

"How do I know, I need to know that I'm not a team!"

"You say we can beat the Han people!"

As soon as the words fell, the team stared at the soldier with straight eyes, and the meaning in his eyes was that your thoughts were very dangerous, but when he thought that this guy had been with him for several years, he sighed: "Don't ask this kind of question in the future, be careful of being heard by the general, and cut off your head!" ”

Hearing the team's words, the soldier shrank his head, stuck out his tongue and said, "This ghost weather is really cold!" ”

"Keep patrolling!"

After a brief exchange, the patrol continued, and only some soldiers could be seen on the castle tower, and many more soldiers were resting behind the battlement walls.

About three kilometers away from the east city wall, Zhang Liao and Xu Rong stopped with 6,000 people, these 6,000 people did not swagger over directly, but prepared a lot of simple ships, on which a layer of iron sheet was laid, and there were soldiers below who used simple physical principles to jack up the ships, and after arriving at the location, they could be supported by using brackets, and there was enough space for soldiers to dig underneath.

Looking up at the sky, it was already the second half of the night, Zhang Liao waved his hand and motioned for his men to move on.

Zhang Liao and Xu Rong swaggered to the outside of the east city wall, and the patrolling defenders soon found the traces, stretched out their heads to check carefully, and when they saw the banner of the Yutang Empire, they were so frightened that they immediately shouted: "Enemy attack!" ”

Then the entire eastern city wall immediately became lively, and the Goguryeo soldiers who were hiding behind the battlement wall to rest climbed up sleepily, and the guards who were resting in the city tower also got up one after another, rushed out with their weapons, and stood in the middle of the battlement wall to observe the situation outside.

"Who shouted that the enemy attacked!"

"General, I, I found traces of enemy troops outside the city!" 、

"Throw the torch!"

"Whoa!"

Immediately, a few wrestlers raised the torches, and then threw them out of the city, and the torches turned around in the air a few times and fell to the ground, illuminating the soldiers and horses of Zhang Liao and others who were advancing.

"Prepare for battle, come here, go to the General's Mansion and tell the General that the enemy has entered the palace from the East Gate!"

The guards did not panic, they commanded in an orderly manner, and the defenders also calmed down after seeing that the guards were calm.

"General, do you want to shoot arrows?"

"Don't use it for the time being, let people guard the city gates, and be careful that there is a combination of inside and outside!"

"Yes!"

The guards patrolled back and forth on the towers, constantly reminding the defenders of where there were problems and where they needed to fill the gaps, and soon all the soldiers were in position, bows and arrows, ready to fight back.

But Zhang Liao and Xu Rong and others outside the city, stopped at a stone's throw away, no longer forward, the soldiers all hid in the boats, began to approach the city wall, these soldiers only have shovels in their hands, no other items, their task is very simple, is to keep digging, keep digging under the city wall, after digging enough space, someone will come up to fill the gunpowder.

"General, the Han people have begun to attack the city!"

After a soldier saw the shadow of the warp, he shouted loudly, and after this sentence came out immediately, two soldiers did not hold back, and directly let go of their tight hands, and several arrows shot out of their hands and flew to the liner below, and these soldiers shot arrows, and the buzzing sound of the bowstring was like a signal to enter the palace, and the Goguryeo defenders on the city wall almost unanimously let go of their hands, and the arrow rain fell from the sky.

"Damn! Who put the arrows! ”

When the guard saw it, he immediately roared, and at this time he also saw the situation below, one after another appeared outside the city wall, and quickly approached the city wall, at this time it was no longer a question of who shot the arrow, but to repel the attack of the Han people as soon as possible!

"Listen to me, shoot, release!"

The guards knew very well that the arrows at the ship had no effect at all, and the main threat should be the soldiers from the rear of the ship, so he did not hesitate to order the projectile in order to kill the enemy behind the ship.

"Hot oil, rolling stones, rolling wood ready!"

The guard shouted with a big knife in his hand, and immediately someone moved the stone and the rolling wood from behind, and at this time the warp had rushed to the position below the city wall, and the soldiers in the warp immediately pushed the warp up with a bracket, and the soldiers below began to dig the earth, and the action was very fast, these soldiers had been trained for half an hour before, and they were very dexterous.

On the castle tower, after the rolling logs and rolling stones are ready, the guards do not hesitate to order to throw stones and rolling logs, after the ship is close to the city wall, there will be siege ladders behind the city wall hooked, and then there are soldiers constantly climbing up from below, the guards feel that their broadswords have been hungry and thirsty, as long as the enemy dares to climb the wall, he will cut off all their heads.

Rolling wood, rolling stones fell from above, smashed the ship, if it is just an ordinary wooden ship, it is easy to be smashed by the rolling wood and rolling stones, but these ships are specially made, there are iron plates and other things in them, after rolling down and falling up, just let the top of the ship make a crashing sound, the soldiers below did not suffer any damage, after making sure that they are okay, continue to bury their heads in the digging.

There are three people responsible for digging the soil, and there are people in the back who are responsible for sending the excavated soil to the back, if the person digging in front of the soil is tired, you can also take the shift, although there are some stumbles with the cooperation, but overall the progress is still very fast.

Under the east wall of the new city is a grassy field, the turf is very soft, and it can be easily dug up, but the only trouble is that the city wall is built with soil, and it is almost impossible to dig it out with a shovel, but the soldiers did not compete with the city, but kept digging down, and when they dug for a distance, they began to dig forward, and dug directly under the city wall.

Time passed, and from time to time there were logs and other things falling from the walls, but the ship was unaffected.

The guard frowned and looked at the ship below, not knowing what the Han people were going to do.

"General, are the Han people besieging the city?"

A lieutenant general beside him also frowned and looked down, feeling that the Han people's behavior was very strange, and after approaching the city wall, they did not attack, but let them beat and smash below.

"I don't know, the Han people are good at using stratagems, it may be some conspiracy of the Han people!"

After hearing this, the adjutant general also nodded, in the eyes of Goguryeo, the Han people are very capable of strategy, and they have suffered this kind of loss many times before, but the deputy general looked at the motionless warships below: "General, you can't let these ships be below, the last general is willing to take a thousand soldiers and horses out of the city to drive these ships away!" ”

When the guard general heard this, the whole person was a little moved, it was too dark to see what the Han people were doing below, but if they left it alone, what if the Han people had any conspiracy? But soon the defenders calmed down, and if they opened the city gate rashly now, in case the Han people ambushed the soldiers and horses behind, they would take the opportunity to enter the city at that time.

Thinking of this, the guard couldn't help but sweat: "No, don't open the city gate!" ”

In the general's mansion in the new city, Quan Gai Suwen just fell asleep, during this time he ran from the new city to the royal capital, and then rushed back to the new city from the royal capital, all the way to the road, the whole person is very tired, there are strong enemies outside, Quan Gai Suwen knows very well that he can't fall, as long as he doesn't fall, the new city can be defended!

"Report, General, the Tang Army is attacking from the East Gate!"

Not long after he closed his eyes, Quangai Suwen heard the report of his subordinates winning a big victory outside the door, and instantly woke up and got up from the bed.

"Someone is coming, wearing armor, notify the generals who stay behind, follow me to the east gate to check!"

"Yes!"

Soon, some soldiers brought in Quangai Suwen's armor and began to armor Quangai Suwen, and the herald quickly rushed to the homes of other generals.

Half an hour later, Quangai Suwen came to the East City Gate with a group of generals and reinforcements: "How is the situation?" ”

There was tiredness in Quangai Suwen's eyes, but when he came to the East City Gate, he didn't hear the shouting of killing, and he thought that the Tang army had retreated.

"General, the Han people's ships are still under the city, motionless, I don't know what they do!"

Hearing the words of the guard, Quangai Suwen looked down, and immediately someone threw a torch down, and with the help of the torch, he could clearly see that there were some ships scattered below, clinging to the city wall.

"Other than that, didn't the Tang army attack the city?"

The guard shook his head: "No, the Han people have always been like this!" ”

After hearing this, Quan Gai Suwen frowned: "Strange, what is Tang Jun going to do?" ”

After taking a closer look at the ship below, Quan Gai Suwen seemed to hear a strange sound, turned his ear and listened for a while, and frowned: "There seems to be some strange sound, did you hear it?" ”

Several generals listened sideways, and finally shook their heads: "I didn't hear it!" ”

"Didn't you hear that?"

Quan Gai Suwen listened for a while as if he heard something, and immediately spoke: "Let everyone be quiet!" ”

"Yes!"

"All silent!"

Soon there was no sound on the city wall, and at this time, the rustling sound of digging the city wall under the city kept coming, and the surrounding generals heard it clearly, and many generals immediately understood what was happening.

"Go and get someone to find a water tank and put it under the city, quick!"

"Yes!"

Soon a soldier ran downstairs and brought a large water tank to a nearby residential area.

"Fill it with water!"

"Yes!"

After the water was full, Quangai Suwen stared at the ripples that kept appearing on the water tank: "The Tang army is digging a tunnel, and if you want to dig a passage, you can drill directly into the city!" ”

Hearing Quan Gai Suwen's words, all the generals were stunned for a moment, none of them thought of the problem here.

"What about the general? Do you want me to lead someone to kill the Tang army below now! ”

Quangai Suwen shook his head: "No, there must be an ambush for the Tang army, if you open the city gate now, it will be in the hands of the Tang army, there must be a large army waiting behind them, as long as the door is opened, the army will immediately cover up!" ”

Hearing Quan Gai Suwen's words, everyone closed their mouths, but Quan Gai Suwen thought for a moment: "But the east gate can't be opened, you can hang a few soldiers from the south gate and sneak around to see if there is a big army behind!" ”

"Liu Meng!"

"General!"

"You take a few guards to hang down from the south gate and investigate the situation!"

"Yes!"

The Goguryeo general named Liu Meng was immediately ordered to leave, and most of the Goguryeo people had similar names to those of the Central Plains, and even some surnames could only be used by nobles.

Liu Meng led people to the south gate, sat in the hanging basket and came up from the city wall, and then quickly touched the position of the east gate, after turning the corner, he did not walk directly over, but went around, found an open space, lay on the ground and carefully groped forward, and stopped after roughly climbing a mile.

Because he saw the soldiers and horses of the Yu Tang Empire, he saw that less than two miles away from the East City Gate, a group of Yu Tang Empire soldiers were sitting on the ground, there were a lot of them, Liu Meng couldn't see how many people there were at all, if it weren't for some Yu Tang Empire soldiers chatting in a low voice, Liu Meng might not be able to find out.

"The Han people are really cunning!"

After Liu Meng saw it, he had a rough idea in his heart, and began to crawl back silently, and after leaving a certain distance, he quickly got up and ran towards the south gate quickly, he needed to report the news to the general quickly, so as not to fall for the tricks of the Han people.

Zhang Liao and Xu Rong sat cross-legged on the ground, chatting without a word, and suddenly a soldier ran over from the side and reported cautiously: "General, just now there were a few Goguryeo spies to investigate the situation of our army!" ”

"Are you gone?"

"It's gone!"

"Well, I know, continue to be vigilant, and report something immediately!"

"Whoa!"

After watching the soldiers leave, Xu Rong's face showed a smile and looked at Zhang Liao: "It seems that the Goguryeo people have discovered us, now there is no need to worry that the Goguryeo people will jump over the wall and attack our shipper!" ”

Hearing Xu Rong's words, Zhang Liao nodded: "Indeed, Quangai Suwen's character is suspicious, hahaha, but he can't let his guard down, let the cavalry prepare, and once the city gate is opened, pretend to take the city!" ”

"Hmm!"

Soon Liu Meng came to the south of the city in a circle, and after matching the code and password, he sat on the hanging basket, and after entering the city, he rushed to the position of the east city gate non-stop.

"General, the last general is back!"

Seeing Liu Meng coming back, Quangai Suwen immediately greeted him: "How is the situation?" ”

Liu Meng took a deep breath, calmed his violently beating heart, and said: "The general is like a god, as the general expected, less than two miles away from the east city gate, the Tang army has a large army to hide, and there are many cavalry, as long as we open the city gate, they will immediately cover up and seize the city gate!" ”

"Sure enough!"

Izumi Gai Suwen clenched his fists and began to think about countermeasures!