For three consecutive days, Lai Daqian couldn't hold back his temper, and there were more than 3,000 casualties in the three days of siege, even if the emperor gave power to Lai Daqian, Lai Daqian did not dare to carry out the siege deployment before.

Emperor Tuoba Jian saw that the casualties were so heavy, and the generals did not even be able to attack the city wall, which made him very angry, and immediately ordered the whole army to besiege Longcheng on all sides, and the soldiers who attacked the city were rotated one after another, not giving the Yan army a chance to breathe.

The Yan army is responsible for defending the city and commanding the general Zhendong, Shang Shuling, and Yingchuan Gong Guo Sheng, and he is currently the only one who is qualified to be responsible for the defense of the whole city.

The veteran is worthy of being a veteran, and his arrangement and deployment of troops have defended the four walls so that not a single fly can fly in.

After attacking for two days in a row, the Wei army lost 1,500 men again, and Tuoba Jian was a little unable to hold on, according to this kind of casualties, these tens of thousands of horses would not last long and would be exhausted.

It just so happened that Tuoba Qiu and Tuoba Qi returned to the camp with the soldiers and horses that attacked Qianghugu, and Tuoba Jian's troops available for siege doubled.

Tuoba Jian doesn't want the war to be protracted, this is very consuming national strength, he wants a quick battle, but a quick battle will definitely lose a lot of troops, but Tuoba Jian doesn't care about this, he wants to break through Dragon City before the weather turns cool before October, occupy the entire territory of Beiyan, end the war, and then return to the court.

Therefore, he summoned his ministers and generals to discuss and decide, with all his forces, to besiege Longcheng from all sides, day and night, and strive to break the city within three days.

This kind of siege is very strong, the siege of the generals wave after wave of rotation, do not give the Yan army at the head of the city a chance to breathe, can only be exhausted, because the city defense handover requires a process, once the change of defense of the generals can not be in place in time or are not familiar with the rhythm of the Wei army's siege, it is likely to be attacked by the Wei army on the city wall.

After two days of this terrible siege, the corpses under the walls were piled up, and the four walls of the Dragon City had long been stained reddish-brown with blood.

In the afternoon of that day, Tuoba Jian only left more than 3,000 people from the Tiger Army, 4,000 people from the Yunzhong Army and 3,000 people from the baggage battalion around the palace, and all the other soldiers and horses were sent by him to attack the city, and Zhao Junsheng's Youzhou Army and Hua Mulan's Right Wing Army were also attacking the southern city wall.

Zhu Xiuzhi felt embarrassed and proposed to Emperor Tuoba Jian to send 3,000 infantry of the Yunzhong Army to participate in the siege, leaving only 1,000 cavalry.

Tuoba Jian thought about it for a moment and agreed, but also sent two thousand tiger troops to attack the city.

That night, Zhu Xiuzhi took advantage of the darkness to quietly come to Mao Xiuzhi's camp, and the two talked secretly in the tent for two moments, but in the end they broke up unhappily.

After Zhu Xiuzhi left Mao Xiuzhi's camp, an hour later, Guo Yi found Zhao Junsheng, who was commanding the night siege.

"General, there is a secret report from his subordinates that he has to report separately, and the stakes are very high!"

Hearing this, Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to the generals behind him, and the generals all retreated.

"Anyway, there's no one else here, what's going on?"

Guo Yi stepped forward and whispered a few words in Zhao Junsheng's ear, and Zhao Junsheng's face changed greatly when he heard it.

After a full cup of tea, Zhao Junsheng accepted the authenticity of the news and asked, "How many people still know at this time?" ”

"Only the inside line and subordinates around Mao Xiuzhi!"

Zhao Junsheng commanded in a deep voice: "Don't reveal it to others again, even Mulan!" You go down first, keep watching, and report as soon as there is news! ”

"Yes, General!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, "Come on, go find Mao Xiuzhi!" ”

The siege continued, this was the last day of Tuoba Jian's strong attack plan, and if the city could not be broken today, Tuoba Jian planned to change the siege method or change the commander of the general.

In the tent of the camp of the baggage soldiers, Mao Xiuzhi frowned, and walked around the tent with an anxious expression.

This is a pro-soldier who walked in and hugged his fists to report: "Fu Jun, Zhao Envoy Jun sent someone to invite you over!" ”

"Oh? What did Zhao Envoy Jun do to call this mansion over? ”

"The villain is not clear".

Mao Xiuzhi thought for a while and ordered his own soldiers: "Pass the order to all the lieutenants, during the period when the government is not in the camp, without the order of the government, no matter what happens, you are not allowed to act rashly!" ”

"Yes!"

Mao Xiuzhi followed the messenger to the rear of the siege battlefield outside the southern wall of Longcheng, where Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan were riding horses and watching the soldiers roar and climb under the city wall and on the siege ladder.

Mao Xiuzhi immediately stepped forward and arched his hand: "The lower official visited the envoy, I don't know what the envoy ordered to call the lower official to come?" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "I don't have any orders, I just asked you to come over and want to listen to your opinions and opinions on siege, I know that you have rich experience in this area in the past, you don't want to hide your secrets!" ”

When Mao Xiu heard this, he seemed to let go of a very important thing in his heart, and he was greatly relieved, and he hurriedly agreed: "The lower officials must know everything and say everything!" ”

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Camp in the Clouds.

In the open space of the camp, the only remaining 1,000 men and horses were assembled, and all of them were cavalry, which was Zhu Xiuzhi's last hole card.

Everyone held torches in their left hands, and a few of them stood quietly beside their horses with weapons.

Zhu Xiuzhi's face was solemn, his eyes flashed with cold light, and at this time, several fast horses galloped over, and the leader was Zhu Xiuzhi's deputy general Xing Huaiming, followed by a few personal soldiers, wasn't he attacking the city with three thousand infantry? Why did you run back without permission?

Xing Huaiming rode his horse and galloped to Zhu Xiuzhi's side, clasping his fists and saluting: "General, it's too late for the end!" ”

Zhu Xiuzhi nodded and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Xing Huaiming clenched his fists and said: "We have already made contact, but the route has changed slightly!" After speaking, he stepped forward and whispered a few words in Zhu Xiuzhi's ear.

Zhu Xiuzhi nodded after listening: "It's feasible, then Zhao Junsheng owes me a favor, he shouldn't embarrass General Ben!" ”

Xing Huaiming had concerns and said: "General, the favor he owes you has been repaid a few days ago for helping you cover up in front of the emperor, if you ask him for a favor again, I'm afraid it won't work!" ”

Zhu Xiuzhi waved his hand and smiled: "I still have hole cards, he won't embarrass me!" When you go to lead the troops, you must control the soldiers and horses, and act only when you hear the signal, not sooner or later! ”

"Understood! General, this matter is too dangerous, once it fails······ Be sure to take care! ”

Zhu Xiuzhi waved his hand and drove Xing Huaiming back to command the three thousand infantry.

After Xing Huaiming left, Zhu Xiuzhi looked at the thousand cavalry and waved: "Get on the horse!" ”

The generals stuck their long weapons on the ground, stepped on the stirrups and stepped on the horses, and then picked up their weapons, all with resolute faces.

"Brethren!" Zhu Xiuzhi shouted loudly, "It's been four years, it's been four years, we have endured humiliation, suffered discrimination and bullying, and even sacrificed the lives of military Sima Xu Zhuo and more than a thousand brothers in order to wait for this opportunity today!" ”

"Yes, we waited for this opportunity. The Emperor of Wei married his cousin to me in order to envelop me, I tell the truth, my wife and I are very affectionate, as the saying goes, the heart is better than the pillow person, in the past two years, she saw that I had a mind, and asked me repeatedly, but I have not told her, that is, I am worried about leaking Xiong Xi, she is worried about this, and she washes her face with tears all day long, but in order to wait for this opportunity today, I hide it from her! Therefore, I will never let go of this opportunity, whoever wants to stop me, I will kill whom! ”

"At the moment, it is ready to fly, and it has to be sent! We have no way back, grab your knives and guns, and follow me! Zhu Xiuzhi roared and trotted out of the camp gate with a flick of his horse's head.

A thousand cavalrymen lined up in six long columns, followed behind Zhu Xiuzhi, beat their horses and galloped out of the camp.

There are three camps between the Yunzhong army camp and the emperor's palace, the first camp is the baggage camp camp; the second is the camp of the Zongzi Army; The third is the Tiger Army camp.

Zhu Xiuzhi with a thousand cavalry soon arrived outside the baggage camp, which made him a little uneasy in his heart, he had gone to Mao Xiuzhi before, hoping that Mao Xiuzhi could open a passage, but Mao Xiuzhi sternly refused, he had already made up his mind, if Mao Xiuzhi must lead troops to block the way for him and the army under his command, he could only fight hard, because he had no choice, hoping that the strong impact force of the cavalry would be afraid of Mao Xiuzhi's three thousand heavy soldiers.

In the baggage camp, the soldiers inside and outside the camp tent heard a large number of horses' hooves, and the sentries on duty on the arrow tower and lookout post also spotted the cavalry rushing from the Yunzhong army camp.

"These cavalry of the Cloud Army seem to be not good at coming, who are they coming for? Do you want to blow a trumpet to warn? A sentry on the watchtower said to Wu.

The captain observed it, and he couldn't see it clearly in the dark night, and immediately said to the sentry: "There is an order from above, if there is any movement outside the camp, you can't act rashly, just go and tell the news to the lieutenant!" ”

"Yes!"

After getting the report, the lieutenant on duty remembered Mao Xiuzhi's instructions before leaving, and he couldn't act rashly! He ordered several of his subordinates: "Order all departments to be on strict alert, as long as the other side does not attack us, everything will wait and see!" ”

When Zhu Xiuzhi led more than 1,000 cavalry under his command to pass outside the baggage camp, he saw that the wall of the camp was full of soldiers, the cold light of the swords and guns flickered, and the arrows had been wound, but no one led the soldiers to stop him.

Zhu Xiuzhi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, as long as Mao Xiuzhi didn't bring troops out to intercept him, he was already very grateful, which showed that although Mao Xiuzhi did not approve of his move, he did not object.

More than 1,000 cavalry passed outside the baggage camp camp without danger, and the camp of the Zongzi Army was in front, the camp of the Zongzi Army was an empty camp at the moment, and the soldiers and generals were all taken to attack the city, and there were only three or two kittens in the camp, but despite this, these people still found Zhu Xiuzhi and more than 1,000 cavalry under his command who tried to misbehave.

"Stop, who? Stop, don't go any further! "There was a warning sound from the arrow tower next to the camp gate.

"Whoosh whoosh" replied to the sentry with four sharp arrows, and the four soldiers on the arrow towers on both sides fell at the same time.

But there were still people who recognized the identities of Zhu Xiuzhi and the more than 1,000 cavalry under his command, "Oh no, the Yunzhong Army has rebelled, ring the bell to warn!" ”

The sentry on the watchtower in the middle of the camp quickly sounded the alarm: "Dangdangdang······"