At about six o'clock, the scouts sent another news that the rebels were less than 20 miles away from Guangxin City, and they arrived at Guangxin City at the earliest. As the news spread, the atmosphere in the city was unprecedentedly tense, shops were closed, people were closed, and only porridge shacks in the streets and alleys were still open.

At about seven or eight o'clock in the afternoon, the most popular group of scouts released to the west withdrew into the city, and without asking, standing on the tower, they could clearly see with the naked eye the dark and dreary area five or six miles away.

When they were about three miles away, the Black Turbans sent a horse to the city, but the crossbowmen did not have the order to release their arrows, so they did not shoot them. After the visitor casually threw down a wooden box, he immediately evacuated as quickly as possible.

Jiang Min asked the door to open the door and take the wooden box, opened it and saw that it was a letter of persuasion written in silk cloth, which was in line with everyone's expectations. After reading it, Jiang Min burned it and scolded casually:

"Qin Han'er, dare to do this!"

From this, it can be seen that this letter was written by Qin Han himself to persuade Jiang Min to surrender. It's just that Bai Liyan doesn't understand, Qin Han and Jiang Min have such a big feud, can it be effective to write a letter to persuade them to surrender, or rather, Qin Han knows that it is useless, so he just wants to humiliate him, but he has been friends for more than 20 years, is it necessary to humiliate an old man?

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) couldn't help but ask Luo Songting:

"Mr. Luo, Qin Han personally persuaded him to surrender, which is a little strange."

"Hehe, General Wei thinks that I Guangxin why I want to expand the army."

Bai Liyan was stunned for a moment, this sound like an answer to the question, but after thinking about it, thinking of the tone and scene when Jiang Min left him alone to speak in the morning, Bai Liyan suddenly realized:

"Could it be that Qin Han wants to make Jiang Gong's handle public?"

Luo Songting didn't answer, and Bai Liyan didn't ask, obviously this was a tacit acquiescence. And it can also be known that what Chen Yunfeng revealed before was by no means the core news of Guangxin, otherwise Qin Han would not dare to use it to blackmail Jiang Min to surrender.

It must be Jiang Min who has done a lot of preparatory work in preparation for the rebellion against King Xian, especially colluding with Zhiguo in secret, if these news are known to King Xian, then it will not be a question of cutting the seal or not cutting the seal in the future, it is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and once and for all to get rid of Jiang Min's lineage.

It is precisely because the inside story is too sensational, once it is made public, King Xian will kill Jiang Min. Thinking of this, Bai Liyan couldn't help but feel a chill down her spine, thinking that this trip to the muddy waters was getting more and more muddy, and when Luo Songting designed to tie him up on the thief ship with marriage, it was also to prevent today.

After the rebels stopped three miles away, they successively made a detour to the south of the city, and arrived outside the east of the city at about four o'clock, but did not send troops to the port outside the north of the city, but only surrounded the three gates.

The north gate is actually only about one hundred and fifty steps away from the seaside port, and within the range of strong crossbows and car crossbows, it does not make any sense to send troops to surround them. On the contrary, if the city is going to go out of the city through the north gate, the rebels can kill them at any time, and it is obvious that their own people cannot fire arrows at their own people who are out of the city in a melee.

However, Bailiyan thought that if he wanted to garrison troops on the seaside of the north gate without being disturbed, and cut off the sea passage, it was not impossible to build a stilt house and a water village, and the archers on the stilt house could also be placed within a hundred steps of the stilt house to the south, but it was difficult for the people on the shore to pose a big threat to the stilt house and the water village in the sea.

Of course, with the current technical capabilities, it is obviously unrealistic to build a stilt house in the sea.

After the rebels besieged the city, they contracted and surrounded the city in a step-by-step manner, and began to descend the village, and the crossbowmen went out two hundred paces away from the city wall to cover the camp of the infantry army, and introduced ready-made large equipment such as cart crossbows and bed crossbows.

The Thunder Heavenly King stood behind the formation and looked at the towering city wall of Guangxin, and said to Qin Han on the side:

"It's really strange, there is neither a moat nor a moat, but there is a suspension bridge in Guangxin City, Qin Caidong, why haven't I heard you talk about this before."

"Uh...... This ......" Qin Han was also dizzy, and after only a few days of leaving, Guangxin actually installed the suspension bridge.

Thunder pointed to the out-of-place platform on the city gate and said:

"Qin Caidong, what is the use of that horizontal platform at the head of Guangxin City?"

"Hengtai?" Qin Han took a look, and indeed found that there was a horizontal platform directly above the city gate, but he was sure that there was no one more than ten days ago: "Before Qin left, he didn't find this horizontal platform, it must be Wei Xian." ”

"Wei Xian's method of defending the city is very strong, and it is rumored that Yongxing City is densely covered with new city defenses, which was created when he held Yin Yang City, but this is also the law he created to defend the city."

"This man is perverse and deviant, and it's hard to say that there are no strange behaviors."

"Weird moves? Hmph, according to this heavenly king, there is quite a mystery in it. However, the city wall of Guangxin is more majestic than the capital of the Sun Kingdom, Qin Caidong, and you also have a share of the credit. ”

Qin Han's expression froze, and he snorted:

"Hehe, sooner or later it will also be the royal capital of the Heavenly King, and it is good to be stronger."

"Really!"

Thunder questioned, a cold light flashed in his eyes, Qin Han's heart was edged, and he hurriedly said:

"Heavenly King, the Guangxin city wall is actually not without dead holes, and it is still easy to attack."

"Oh, there is still a dead hole in such a strong city, Qin Caidong is not at a loss for old scheming, let's talk quickly, what is the mystery in the end."

"This Guangxin city was an adobe wall in the early years, and it was covered with bricks after an expansion. The first bricks were gray stone bricks, the texture was relatively inferior, and then repeated overhauls were gradually replaced with today's gray bricks.

Qin has participated in the repair three times in the past 20 years, of which the south city wall was supervised by Qin, so at the beginning of the supervision, Qin secretly foreshadowed the south city wall. Grass ash was added when the stone bricks were fired, so the city wall in the south of the city looked very hard, but in fact it was extremely brittle, and it would definitely collapse under the heavy stone bombardment. ”

"Then how can you hide it from Jiang Min and the others?"

"This is actually very simple, the stone bricks with grass gray for a year or two have no flaws, only after the wind and rain and the years have passed, can we see the accumulation of time and time. Moreover, these stone bricks are mostly concentrated on both sides of the city gate, which is the strongest part of the city wall, so it is not easy to find. ”

"I see......"

Thunder glanced sideways, and the look of disdain behind the mask was even heavier.

After a while, the 10,000 commanders came to report in a Zhiguo accent:

"Respect the Heavenly King, the army is not well encamped, and the last general asks to send someone to cut down the wood."

Hearing the slow progress of the news, the face of the thunder behind the mask sank, and he asked.

"Why is this!"

"The trees within ten miles of Guangxin City have been cut down, and there are no trees to cut down, so we can only go to other places to cut trees."

After the Black Turban Army set up camp, they found that not only did they have no wood for camping, but even the weeds had been burned, and now it was a problem to eat.

Thunder suddenly felt incredible, even if there was a fire more than ten days ago, it would not be possible to burn all the big trees within a radius of more than ten miles.

"Qin Caidong, do you know about this?"

Qin Han said embarrassedly:

"Two years ago, Wei Xian used fire arrays to exterminate locusts, so Guangxin cut down trees on a large scale, and in the past two years, it has been warned, so the timber within a radius of more than ten miles of Guangxin's city has been exhausted, and it is necessary to go farther to have a forest."

Thunder's face was silent and silent, and his heart was unhappy.

"Pass on the order of the Heavenly King, all battalions should go to logging quickly, and beware of a sneak attack by the cavalry of the Xian Army."

"No!"

After dark that night, the camp of the Black Turban Army still failed to bury the pot to cook, and still ate dry food and light cakes carried by the soldiers.

The next day, there was a subtle change in front of the two armies, and Bailiyan found that there were more than 20 stone artillery trucks in the rebel camp outside the south of the city overnight.

Different from trebuchets and trebuchets, stone cannon trucks are semi-mobile catapults that are launched by pure manpower, which requires manpower to reset the lever, and also needs to use manpower to pull the lever to throw the stones.

The trebuchet and trebuchet are catapults that rely on the tenacity or counterweight of the rod throwing lever itself to launch the stones, and only need manpower or animal power to reset the lever, without relying on manpower to launch the catapult tools.

Compared with trebuchets and trebuchets, the stone cannon truck is light in weight, simple in structure, easy to carry and transport, and many parts can be made of local materials, almost without complex manufacturing processes, so the firing range is very close, and the firing range is slightly greater than two hundred steps.

The structure of counterweight, lever, or counterweight lever composite trebuchet and trebuchet is complex and heavy, and the period of reassembly after disassembly is long, which is not convenient for transportation, but the range is very long, all three hundred and fifty steps away, and can even be thrown two miles. Theoretically, the larger the size of the mechanical trebuchet, the longer the range, and the longer it takes to assemble and transport.

The stone cannon cart is very easy to identify, that is, a very long wooden pole lying horizontally on a simple wooden frame, Bai Liyan stands on the city tower, and can see clearly from more than a mile away. For the first time, people went to the east and west of the city to inquire about the situation. Only then did it be discovered that in addition to the south of the city, no stone artillery carts were found in the east or west of the city, which means that the rebels concentrated all the stone artillery carts and prepared to storm the south of the city.

"General, the rebels are going to storm the south gate." Su Hong said nervously.

Bai Liyan frowned and said in a deep voice:

"There are ghosts, there must be ghosts!"

Sikong Nan didn't understand what the "ghost" in Bailiyan's mouth meant, so he asked carefully:

"General, what the hell is this broad daylight!"

"You don't understand it. Go, send someone to order the Taishou Mansion and the city government Sima Mansion to immediately collect sacks that can hold half a stone of grain and grass from the whole city, and send someone to inform the department store that the remaining surplus cloth will be sewn into grain bags, and it must be strong, the more the better. ”

"General, why is that?"

"The sack was immediately loaded with soil after the levy, which would have been useful for itself. Just go! ”

"No!"

Stone cannon trucks are usually fired by 10 to 12 people on a rope, and can fire up to 20 pounds of stones, hitting people either dead or injured, and the high-density bombardment of adobe walls is also immediate. The rebels had assembled more than 20 stone artillery wagons outside the city, apparently not to demonstrate.

But what made Bai Liyan puzzled was why the rebels only bombarded the south gate, thinking of Luo Songting's intention to arrange him at the south gate yesterday, now that I think about it, there is obviously a problem here. But could it be that Luo Songting and the Black Turban Army secretly colluded and intended to put him to death?

Just after the hour, hundreds of rebels lined up more than 20 stone artillery carts, pushed more than 200 steps outside the south gate, hid outside the range limit of the bed crossbow, 12 people were a group of fiber ropes, and the other two put the stones into the huge copper spoon at the top of the lever, and when all the loading was completed, the standard-bearer gave an order, and more than 20 stone artillery carts fired a volley.

Bai Liyan looked at more than twenty stones larger than a football, coming towards him along an invisible arc, silently calculating the landing point in his heart, without the slightest intention of dodging.

On the side, Su Hong, Bai He and others immediately hugged their heads and hid under the women's wall, for fear of being killed.

The stones whizzed over the walls at a height of about three meters, and finally climbed over the walls and fell to the ground inside the walls, where they were embedded in the mud.