Hit, be sure to hit!

With 80,000 people out, it is impossible to go back like this.

But how to fight, is a question.

The two of them were at a loss, the defenders of Jinan had completely sealed the city gate, and if they did not destroy all the defenders, it would be impossible for them to enter Jinan City.

It was still a lack of sufficient preparation in the early stage, if after taking Yidu Mansion, he quickly sent hundreds of people to pretend to be ordinary people into Jinan City, maybe the battle situation would not be the result it is now.

But this is already the case, how to fight this game has become a big stone in the hearts of Yao Chang and Luo Cong.

In the end, the two did not discuss any good results, but they also had some ideas.

So the left government and the right government worked together to convene all the rulers to discuss the destruction of the city.

A fiasco has demoralized the commanders, and they have completely lost their previous pride.

"Did a small defeat defeat defeat you? If we take Jinan, we all have food to eat, and if we can't take Jinan, we all have to go hungry. Not only are we hungry, but we can't take Jinan, and when the golden dog sends troops south, we all have to die. At that time, he was forced to die and killed by the golden dog, and now he fights desperately once, takes Jinan City, and gets a chance to live, which choice is better? Yao Chang asked loudly.

The generals were speechless, they had never fought such a fierce battle.

"This battle must be won no matter what! Jinan City must be taken! Who has objections? Yao Chang then glanced at the generals.

There was silence in the camp for a moment, and then someone dared to ask: "My lord, we can't attack the city at all, they have tung oil, as soon as the brothers arrive in the city, they pour oil and set fire, how can we get close?" Also, our siege ladders have been burned, and even if there is no tung oil on the city, we will not be able to climb the city walls. ”

As soon as this theory came out, seeing that Yao Chang and Luo Cong were speechless, the generals immediately began to respond, talking about each other.

"Be quiet!" Luo Cong spoke.

The camp soon fell silent, and the generals focused their attention on the rulers of the left and right prefectures.

I only heard Luo Cong say: "It is not necessary to attack Jinan City by force, if the attack fails, we will not ask our brothers to fight with their lives." Now we have a solution, let's discuss it together. Since it is difficult to attack the city, I might as well take the initiative to retreat, take retreat as advance, lure the defenders of the city out of the city, and then annihilate them, and when the troops in the city are weak, I will take Jinan City in one fell swoop! ”

"Retreat as advance? They are not stupid, how can they come out. Someone whispered.

"We have 60,000 people, and we can attack the surrounding states and counties, except for Jinan City, within a radius of two hundred miles, who is our opponent? After capturing those places, will the golden dogs in Jinan City be indifferent? For some slightly larger cities, we can surround but not fight, let them go to ask for reinforcements, if Jinan City sends troops to rescue, we can annihilate the reinforcements, if Jinan City does not rescue, we can fight for the cities besieged by us to belong to the Shandong Righteous Army. When all the cities around Jinan City were attached to the Shandong Righteous Army, Jinan was a lonely city. ”

Luo Cong paused for a moment, and then continued: "A lonely city, even if they have more grain and grass in reserve, how long will it be enough for 100,000 people to eat? There is no food and grass reinforcements outside, they will eventually open the city, and by that time, Jinan will be ours! ”

"My lord, they have a lot of food stored in the city, we don't retreat, they won't come out, they have sealed the city gates, just to consume with us, we are outside the city, they are in the city, how can we win?" Someone immediately questioned it.

"Yes, what if we delay here for too long, the city can't be defeated, and other places send troops to fight us? I heard that the Golden Dog has an army of two or three hundred thousand in Zhending Mansion hundreds of miles away! ”

"Yes, I've heard that, too. Either we should hurry up and take Jinan City, or we should retreat and defend the city well, the longer it drags on, the worse it will be for us. ”

"They sealed the city gates, hid in the city and didn't come out, and our siege ladder was gone, and if we dragged it on, we couldn't win."

..........

All of a sudden, there was a lot of discussion.

It's nothing more than that, you can't win, you can't fight, it's better to retreat quickly.

"I just said, Jinan City must be taken!" Yao Chang's voice was raised, and his sharp gaze swept over everyone.

Then he said: "Since everyone thinks that it is not good for us to drag it out, then I have another way to break the city and dig a tunnel into the city!" ”

"Digging tunnels?" The crowd was shocked.

"The moat is so deep and there is so much water, how can you dig a tunnel? If the tunnel does not collapse, it will be drowned. After a moment's thought, someone immediately raised objections.

"Let's not talk about how to dig, I just ask you, can you dig tunnels to enter the city? How to dig, we will find a way later, and then discuss in detail. Without waiting for everyone to discuss, Yao Chang immediately spoke out to stop him.

"Can digging tunnels attack Jinan City?" Everyone was silent, and Yao Chang asked again.

The words fell, and a detailed map of Jinan City was displayed in front of everyone.

"We have the map of Jinan City in hand, as long as the tunnel can enter the city, our people can enter the city, and when the time comes, Jinan City will be broken!" As he spoke, Yao Chang raised the map in his hand.

As long as the tunnel can be dug through, it will naturally be able to enter the city, and everyone has no objection to this.

But how to dig through the tunnels is a problem.

The moat is two or three zhang deep, four or five zhang wide, the river is full of water, how deep to dig so that it will not collapse and leak, no one knows.

Digging deep, it takes time, and it is not easy to transport soil.

If the digging is shallow, once the moat is dug through, not only will people die, but the tunnels that have been dug with great effort will also be destroyed.

Everyone knows that if the tunnel is dug well, you can sneak into Jinan City, but how to dig it is a headache.

Many people in the camp couldn't say a good way to dig the tunnel, so they could only remain silent and listen to a few other people with flexible brains discussing there.

After a while, some eyebrows were discussed.

Then the discussion ended, except for a few people, the others returned to the camp first, stabilized the mood of the soldiers, and waited for orders.

The few commanders left behind discussed the matter of digging tunnels with Yao Chang and Luo Cong.

After identifying several directions, they discussed in detail the difficulty and feasibility of the implementation of each plan.

After more than two hours of discussion and speculation, a better implementation of the tunnel digging scheme was finally determined, which can perfectly avoid water seepage, water leakage and collapse and other problems.

On the second day, the south of the city, the east and west of the city adjusted the deployment of troops, each transferred two armies to the north of the city, and camped about one mile away from the city wall, preparing for a long-term confrontation with the defenders of Jinan City.

After the camp was set up, the rebels attacked again, and the troops braved the rain of arrows and rushed to the moat with shields and planks.

But that's not all they can do with their attacks.

The moat in front of them was four or five zhang wide, and their location was hundreds of zhang away from the moat passage that had been filled in before, and the city wall before the passage was full of corpses, so they couldn't get close at all.

The moat stood in the way, and if the rebels wanted to continue the siege, they had to pass through the river road.

The rebels stitched together two or three zhang long logs by the moat with shields, and the length reached seven or eight zhang.

Then many rebel soldiers worked together to push the spliced logs into the moat, although the front end could not be erected on the other side of the moat, but the distance from the river bank was not too high, less than a zhang.

After pushing a few logs to the other side of the river, the few logs next to each other can already pass people.

So while the soldiers of the rebel army continued to push logs across the river, some soldiers held shields and stepped on logs to cross the moat four or five zhang wide.

After crossing the river, the rebel soldiers lifted each other, first pushed several people up the moat, and then threw the ropes that tied the front end of the logs.

After another group of rebel soldiers stepped on a log to cross the river and climbed onto the bank of the moat, they shouted, up and down, and on both sides, and a log was quickly pulled up and erected on the bank of the moat.

The defenders of the city also shot arrows to suppress the movement of the rebels under the city at first, but after a while, they stopped their attack.

Because it is a waste to suppress with bows and arrows, there is no siege ladder, and even if the bridge is built under the city, it is impossible for them to climb the city two or three zhang high.

A recent attack on the oil and fire had greatly boosted the confidence of the defenders, and in their opinion, as long as there was enough tung oil in the city, no matter how many people outside the city attacked the city, it was impossible to climb to the top of the city.

Now, the defenders of the city watched the rebels under the city fight to the death, and no one did not think that they were working in vain.

It's useless to go to the city, it's the ability to go to the city, and it's still early for the rebels to go to the city, and the defenders don't worry about it at all.

The rain of arrows on the city stopped, but the rebels under the city did not dare to lower their shields in case the opponent suddenly fired.

Without the bow and arrow in the city, the speed of dragging logs to build bridges is constantly accelerating.

For half a day, twenty logs were erected on both sides of the moat.

In one day, fifty were erected.

In two days, 100 logs flew to frame the moat, and the width of the log together reached 20 zhang.

The logs were then laid horizontally, and in just one day, the bridge was covered with planks.

At the same time, the rebels took earth from the river bank and laid five or six thick layers on the bridge to prevent the defenders of the city from attacking the bridge with fire.

The bridge over the moat was erected, and within a few days, the rebels brought in countless pieces of wood, piled up from the narrow side of the camp to the bridgehead.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the righteous army were in the unobstructed and gentle open space between the camp and Jinan City, and within the sight of the defenders of Jinan City, they made siege equipment without concealment, and hundreds of people started construction at the same time.

Since then, for half a month, on the site where the siege equipment is manufactured, from morning to night, day and night, the noisy sound of axes and chisels has spread all over the city, inside and outside the camp.

The rebels were desperate to hurry up the work and make siege equipment.

The defenders on the city of Jinan were more or less worried when they saw the momentum of the rebels outside the city day and night, but when they saw the blackened corpses and the burned ladders under the city walls, this worry was quickly thrown out of the clouds.

In the eyes of the defenders, even if the rebels built the ladder, what could they do, it was just to burn it again, and it would only cost them some tung oil.

Shandong Righteous Army, four battalions in the southeast, northwest and northwest, in addition to the large battalion in the north, the other three battalions also built siege equipment outside the battalion, but they were not as desperate as the northern battalion, they built during the day and rested at night.