Li Bingcheng came down from the city wall with a tired body, and in the past five days, Jiannu has left at least more than 2,000 corpses under the city wall of Fengji Fort, and there are corpses everywhere in a small place. His own casualties were not less than 1,000 people, and the heavy arrows of the Eight Banners were still very accurate, and many people were directly shot in the head.

Answering the General Military Mansion, with his understanding of Jiannu, five consecutive days of high-intensity combat, he can stop tonight, and he has not had a good rest for five days and nights, so he has arranged a rotation on duty, ordered the concubines and maidservants to boil hot water, and prepared himself to take a good bath, drink two cups and sleep well.

In the middle of the night, there was a violent knock on the door, coming from the main gate of the Governor's Palace, the old housekeeper opened a crack with sleepy eyes, and Qianhu Honghai said anxiously: "I have seen Steward Li, there is an urgent military situation, I ask to see the marshal, and please make it convenient." ”

"The old man hasn't closed his eyes much for five days, he just drank some wine and fell asleep, urgent, which day is not urgent The old housekeeper glared and said.

"My old man, Jiannu built a new siege vehicle, and took advantage of the darkness to push it directly under the city wall, and is digging inside, this new car is extremely strong, what bows and arrows, firearms, useless, and then the earthen wall will be dug through."

"Bows and arrows and fire guns are not good, don't you know how to use cannons, are the Luzon bronze cannons in your hands burning sticks, stupid, this little will disturb the master's rest. You endured and tried on the city wall for five days and five nights, and you were tired of the adult's body, are you responsible? ”

"Old man, don't you know, the cannon is on the wall, this Jiannu can't hit it when it goes under the wall, the cannon can only be hit from afar, and it's really better to burn the fire stick when it's close."

It's all noisy, in the middle of the night. Li Bingcheng actually didn't fall asleep completely, the night was quiet, and the general soldier's mansion was small, and when he heard the sound of talking in front of him, he put on his clothes and got up, just in time to see this scene.

"Master, why are you up?" said the old butler distressedly.

Li Bingcheng waved his hand, "What's the matter?"

"Back to the adult's words, half an hour ago, Jiannu took advantage of the cloudy day tonight to reach out and lose his five fingers, and built a new siege vehicle, like a small wooden house with ridges, made of hardwood with four wheels inside, and covered with three layers of raw cowhide on the outside, until it was pushed to a place with lights more than ten meters under the city wall. The artillery could no longer be fired, and these houses were directly attached to the city wall and began to dig, and now some have dug half the depth. “

Li Bingcheng was shocked, he had only been away for less than three hours, and such a major event had happened.

"How many cars are there?"

"Eleven of them came up, one almost every few days away, but one after the other until it was dark for an unknown length, and the men were moving and carrying earth inside, and there was no sight to be seen outside, and bows and arrows and firearms could not be destroyed. It has almost become eleven passages for transporting troops. “

Li Bingcheng was dizzy, finished, carelessly lost Jingzhou, and he used a stone thrower to keep throwing burning wood into the dark, if this situation could not be discovered early, as long as he leaned up and pasted the city wall, it was too late to talk about it now. After calming down, he said, "Beat the drums and gather the generals, go to the lobby for a meeting" After speaking, he turned around and went back.

Hong Qianhu hurried to give the order.

Li Bingcheng came to the back house and said to the old housekeeper and Li Xi, the deputy captain of the personal soldiers: "There is no slave in the back mountain, there is a tunnel in the general military mansion that I secretly dug in Fengji Fort for seven years, you take the third lady and the female dependents and the gold and silver in the cellar and hurry up, this city can't be defended."

After explaining the family affairs, Li Bingcheng put on his armor under the service of the maid, and the soldiers in the front yard brought his BMW and were feeding the beans, which was the generals who had gathered in the middle hall. Li Bingcheng didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Everyone, you all know the situation, at this time, only our cavalry will go out and destroy the siege vehicles, if it is destroyed, this city can still be defended, if it can't be destroyed, it can only abandon the city." What do you think? “

The generals are not fools, the current situation, this Fengji Fort is going to be finished nine times out of ten, the silver approved by the imperial court to wrap bricks on the city wall, but it was privately divided, Li Bingcheng came, naturally he would not pay out of his own pocket to repair the city wall, so he has been dealing with it like this, if there are bricks this time, Jiannu is not so easy to dig. Seeing that the big man means leaving, who is against abandoning the city now, the big man asked him to stay and defend the city, but it's a cup. Isn't it the end of the city?

'I'll wait for the handsome man and the horse to be the first to look forward," the generals bowed together.

"Okay, pass the order, all the cavalry immediately get up and put on their armor, and follow me to kill them, destroy the siege vehicles first, if they can't destroy it, directly follow me to attack Jiannu's Chinese army camp, these days Jiannu has been attacking the city with low morale and exhaustion, and will never think that we dare to directly attack their Chinese army camp."

All the generals will give up their hands together "No"

"Chen Liang, you take all the oxen pulling the cart in a row in a row, connect them with long wooden poles and ropes, wrap 100 catties of gunpowder with cowhide, and wrap the outside with waste rusty broken iron filings, iron nails, small pebbles, etc. Ox tail and buttocks are bandaged with fire oil and other fire-causing objects. All the pack horses, donkeys, camels, etc., did the same, and carried the remaining gunpowder near the city wall, and filled the cannons with gunpowder, and when the city was broken, they set it on fire, and blew up all the cannons, leaving not a single one of them to the Jiannu. All the houses and warehouses were sprinkled with fire oil, and if the city was broken, it was set on fire. “

"No"

When all the generals left, he called Li Xin, the commander of the infantry, and looked at Li Xin, Li Bingcheng sighed in his heart. The infantry couldn't go any way.

"Li Xin, I led the cavalry to rush out of the city and destroy the siege vehicles. If we fail and can't come back, you can distribute weapons to all the men in the city and organize them to pile barricades behind the south city wall, and if the city wall is dug through, light the gunpowder bag and throw it into the hole, if it can be blown up, it would be best if it could be blown up, if it can't be blown up, then you will resist layer by layer, and fight with Jiannu."

"Rest assured, my lord, the last general will never fail in his mission."

After waiting for an hour, the walls were constantly shot with arrows and firecrackers. It is estimated that the old housekeeper and the domestic slave soldiers took the female dependents and the donkey to lead the donkey far away. The whole army was ordered to set off.

The stone thrower threw the burning wood together, and the light was illuminated two or three hundred meters away outside the city, Dai Shan opened the wooden window in the siege vehicle and looked at it, he didn't care whether Li Bingcheng ran or not, as long as he took the city, he would have made a great contribution.

The first row of four blocks, on the wooden shelf on the back of the four oxen, was a wooden stake that could be directly erected, wrapped with rags and grease, lit and erected, and a huge torch illuminated the four directions. Then the firecrackers and oil on the tail of the ox were lit, and the frightened mad cow could only rush towards the camp of the Jiannu Chinese army in front like a chain of horses, because it was fixed together. The rows of oxen in the back lit the powder keg fuses and the oxtails in turn, and the oxtails were lit at intervals and rushed out. Behind a field of oxen, two thousand cavalry followed the charge.