"Wait, the Flying Eagle sent a message to Dana, let him continue to attack Nantian Fort, the offensive can be slowed down, but the defenders of Nantian Fort can't be idle!" Princess Tuzhen gave another order.

"Yes, princess!"

Two moments later, Princess Tuzhen left 500 people to garrison Da'e Mountain Fort, and took the remaining 4,000 people to advance in the direction of Tunqi Mountain as fast as possible.

After noon, there was an eagle whistle in the sky above the Rouran Army camp outside the Nantian Fort, and an eagle with wings spread and hovering flapped its wings and landed in the camp.

Rou Ran Xiaoshuai, who received the message from the flying eagle, walked quickly to the big tent and reported to the sleeping Da Na on his chest: "Dashuai, Princess Tuzhen has sent a letter!" ”

Da Na, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and got up, and asked energetically, "What did the princess say?" ”

Xiao Shuai reported: "The princess said that she has broken through Da'e Mountain, let Da Shuai continue to attack Nantian Fort, the offensive can be slowed down, but the defenders can't be idle!" ”

Although the commander of this army is his Dana, Princess Tuzhen does not have any official position in the army, but Dana does not dare to disrespect Princess Tuzhen at all, he knows too well the means of this princess, and he is remembered by this princess, and he doesn't know how to die.

Just like the last time Shelun left Princess Tuzhen's father and daughter to lead the army to invade the south alone, at that time, Princess Tuzhen actually had time to lead the army to Tunqi Mountain to defend Shelun's retreat, but she ran away with the remaining 3,000 people, leaving an empty Shengle City, and blocked Shelun and nearly 10,000 horses so that the Wei army was blocked south of Tunqi Mountain so that the whole army was annihilated.

"Understood, the princess asked me to continue to attack Nantian Fort is to let me contain the forces of Nantian Fort here, so that they can't return to the Jinling camp, the princess is only afraid that she is leading the army to pounce on the business camp at this moment!"

After speaking, Dana got up and shouted loudly: "Order the army to assemble and prepare to attack the city!" ”

"Yes!"

"Woo-woo-woo-" The camp soon sounded the sound of a rallying horn.

Half an hour later, the Rouran army approached the Nantian Fort and began to set up a military formation.

"Dangdangdang······" The alarm bell immediately sounded on the tower of Nantianbao City, and the soldiers who were resting picked up their weapons and shields and stood up to face the outside of the city wall.

The soldiers began to light fires and boil water, and the soldiers who were collecting stones and cutting wood heard the alarm bells, and they also threw down stones and wood and hurried back to the camp to stand by, ready to fight.

Today's first wave of attacks began, but Zhao Junsheng found that the number of people in this wave of attacks was small, the distance between people was relatively wide, and he was also a lot more careful when charging, especially those Rouran soldiers, who held leather shields in front of them and hid behind the slaves.

As the Rouran soldiers drove the slaves up the hill, the more Zhao Junsheng looked at it, the more wrong it became, the Rouran soldiers did not look very fierce in the rear, which caused the slaves to charge not actively, and some people picked up the shields scattered on the ground in the process of charging and blocked them in front of them, and immediately lay on the ground when they saw a bow and arrow shot down on the city wall, a bit like grinding foreign workers.

"Why does it look like a feint?" Zhao Junsheng muttered in his heart, he seemed to think of something, "Could it be that the news delivered to Princess Tuzhen has played a role?" ”

Sitting on horseback, he saw such a siege, and he was a little angry, not angry that his own people could not do their work, but angry that the defenders on the city wall could shoot arrows at his soldiers and slaves at will, but his men could not shoot arrows at the city wall, because his archers were completely suppressed by the defenders on the city wall with bows and arrows before they could reach range, and they were shot with their heads.

"Dashuai, are you not satisfied with such an attack?" A handsome man next to him asked.

Da Na said angrily: "Ben Shuai is really angry that the defenders can shoot arrows at our sons, but our sons can't shoot arrows at them, we are too bad!" ”

Xiao Shuai said helplessly: "Da Shuai, this is also a matter of methods, who made Wei Jun stand tall?" ”

A shaman next to him said at this time: "It is not difficult for the marshal to let our sons also shoot arrows at the Wei army."

Dana immediately asked, "What is the shaman's method?" Come on! ”

The shaman pointed to the foot of the mountain in front of him and said: "The great marshal only needs to send people to cut down trees and build a high platform at the foot of the mountain, the height of the high platform is higher than the wall of Nantian Fort, our sons can shoot arrows at them when they climb up, and they can also suppress them, which should be very beneficial for the siege, they have no bows and arrows to damage our sons and daughters who are besieging the city, and we will have more sons and daughters to climb, even if we build a human wall, we can climb up!" ”

Xiao Shuai next to him immediately echoed: "Yes, Dashuai, although Princess Tuzhen asked you to feint to attack Nantian Fort, you only need to contain the defenders of Nantian Fort, but if you break through Nantian Fort, wouldn't it be a great achievement?" I'm afraid that the princess will also be impressed with you, right? ”

Dana's eyes lit up when he heard this, and his expression was happy, and he immediately ordered loudly: "Come, send two hundred slaves to cut down trees and build a high platform at the foot of the mountain!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Although the Rouran people only worked but did not contribute to the attack, only Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan saw it, and the others did not know the actual situation, and the defenders did not dare to be careless at all, and they all paid full attention and went all out.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the attack still did not stop, but the casualties of the Rouran people were not large, and the defenders did not lose at all, but the equipment and materials defending the city had a lot of consumption.

Hua Mulan saw that the city-guarding equipment stored on the city wall was about to run out, and the handymen were quickly carrying the city-guarding equipment and materials to the city wall, she frowned and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Brother Junsheng, could it be that the purpose of the Rouran people is to consume our city-guarding equipment?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said while observing: "It's not impossible! Hey, what are those people doing? ”

Hua Mulan followed Zhao Junsheng's fingers and looked at it reassuringly, only to see that many slaves were building something out of wood at the foot of the mountain under the supervision of Rouran Bing.

"yes, what are they doing with so much wood?" Mulan was also a little confused.

Zhao Junsheng suddenly thought of something, and his face became extremely solemn, if the Rouran people built a well fence at the bottom of the mountain and sent a large number of archers to face the city wall remotely on the well fence, it would be a big trouble.

Hua Mulan turned her head to look at Zhao Junsheng, and when she saw that his expression was different, she hurriedly asked, "Brother Junsheng, what did you think of?" ”

Zhao Junsheng took a deep breath and said, "I'm worried that they are building a well fence, if that's the case, we're in big trouble!" ”

"Well bar? What is it? Mulan asked curiously.

Zhao Junsheng explained: "The well fence is a tic-tac-toe-shaped siege machine made of wood, which is wide underneath and equipped with wheels, which can be moved; The top is narrow, paved with wooden planks, surrounded by wooden fences, which can carry archers and soldiers, and generally makes it higher than the city wall, and the siege archers can stand on it and condescend to the defenders for long-range suppression, if it is pushed close to the city wall, the siege soldiers at the top can use the wooden bridge to build on the city wall and step on the wooden bridge to rush up the city wall to grab the city, fortunately there is a hillside, they don't want to push the well fence up the hillside, otherwise this Nantian Fort will be dangerous! ”

Hua Mulan listened to Zhao Junsheng's introduction and realized the seriousness of the problem, even if the Rouran people couldn't push the well fence under the city wall, they could still use the well fence to put long-range pressure on the city wall, so that the casualties of the defenders on the city wall would definitely get bigger and bigger.

"Brother Junsheng, how is this good? Isn't there a way to counter them? Mulan's voice was a little eager.

"I can't think of any good way for the time being, if you want to deal with the well fence, the best way is to destroy it, but then you need to get out of the city, but that is basically a life of death!"

After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he saw that Mulan was very anxious, and comforted her: "You don't have to be too anxious, you can always come up with a solution, it's not that they haven't been created, maybe when they build it, we will also think of a way!" ”

Hua Mulan listened to what Zhao Junsheng said, and she could only comfort herself in her heart.

Rouran people stop and stop, stop and stop, even if they stop, the interval between them will not exceed an hour, in short, it will not stop, and when it is dusk, Zhao Junsheng is completely sure that the Rouran people are indeed feintting.

"They are trying to contain the defenders of Nantian Fort!" Zhao Junsheng underestimated in his heart, and secretly thought: "Princess Tuzhen, I hope you don't let me down!" ”

After the Rouran people collected their troops, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan commanded the soldiers to carry down the wounded and comrades who died in battle, and cleaned up the messy arrows, weapons and defense equipment.

Soon after dinner, it was getting dark, and the night was already starting to get a little cold.

The soldiers on duty on the city wall were all wrapped in blankets and lay down side by side to sleep, and some of them could not sleep at first, looking at the stars and moon in the sky and chatting.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan inspected the city wall, arranged emergency warning and defense plans for the night, and then returned to the room on the upper floor of the city to prepare for rest.

At this time, someone knocked on the door, and a voice came from outside the door: "Dutong, subordinate Xue An has something to report!" ”

Zhao Junsheng heard it and said to Mulan: "I'll go out!" ”

"Hmm!"

Zhao Junsheng walked out of the room, the two came to a secluded place, Zhao Junsheng asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Xue Andu beckoned to the side, and a soldier came over and saluted Zhao Junsheng: "Dutong, Captain Cao sent a villain to report to Dutong, in the afternoon, the Jinling camp received a news, Da'e Mountain was broken by Princess Rouran Tuzhen led the army, only a dozen soldiers escaped, one of them did not stop, and ran and killed three horses halfway before running back to the Jinling camp to report the news, and now the entire Jinling camp is in a panic, and the supervising army Gu Bi has sent someone to ask the court for help, and at the same time ask the king of Yongchang to prepare for war!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Princess Tuzhen really did it in Da'e Mountain!" ”

The soldier who reported the news asked again: "Dutong, Captain Cao asked the villain to ask Dutong, if the Rouran army attacks the Jinling camp, where should he go, please show Du Tong!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a moment and said to the two: "Let's go, go down the mountain to the camp!" ”

The three of them soon came to the camp at the foot of the mountain, and Zhao Junsheng walked to the desk in the camp tent to spread out a blank piece of paper, picked up a brush and pondered.

Seeing this, Guo Yi immediately stepped forward to sharpen the ink.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while, took the pen and dipped it in ink, and quickly wrote a letter, and after writing it, he packed it and handed it to the messenger to explain: "You rush back overnight and hand over this letter to Cao Jiao, let him use the secret language to unravel it, and act according to what is written above!" After doing that, immediately retreat to Nantian Fort with everyone! ”