When he was young, Sikong Nan led the army to the city to take over the defense, and Bailiyan (Wei Xian) sat under the wall exhausted, and said weakly:

"Most of the rebels will not attack the city today, but the rebels are still thirty paces away, and their stone artillery carts and bed crossbows will not give up, after you lead the Leopard Tao battalion to take over the south gate, immediately clean up the corpses and count the casualties, collect weapons, and rush to repair and strengthen the city wall and turtle fort, so that the soldiers continue to hide in the fortifications to avoid the rebels. You get the idea. ”

"The last general obeys!"

"In addition......" Baili Yan lowered his voice and motioned for Sikong Nan to come closer and speak: "In addition, the middle section of the city wall of the south city wall gate was built by the traitor Qin Han, and there is fraud in it, yesterday the rebels dug the corner of the wall for a day and night, and they may have been injured, so be sure to make the soldiers cautious, if there is any abnormality, order the soldiers to withdraw from the middle section of the city wall, so as not to expand the casualties and hurt their lives!" ”

Hearing this, Sikong Nan was taken aback.

"There is such a thing!"

Bai Liyan nodded:

"Be cautious and careful, immediately send someone down the city wall to investigate the situation, and plan for the worst!"

After explaining in detail to Sikong Nan, Bai Liyan then went to the camp in the south of the city to rest. In the whole morning after that, the rebels did not launch a decent offensive again, and the bombardment of stone artillery wagons and bed crossbows did not resume until the afternoon, which shows that the rebels suffered a lot of casualties last night.

At the end of the afternoon, there was a hurried call from sleep, and Bai Liyan subconsciously reached out and touched the knife in response:

"What's the matter?"

"General Wei, Mr. Luo from the Guangxin Mansion has arrived." Protector Road.

"Got it, go get a basin for me."

"No!"

Bailiyan held her forehead, still dizzy, and she could faintly hear the sound of shouting and killing in her ears. When he was young, the guards brought a basin of cold water, and he rubbed a wet towel to wipe his face, and the feeling of dizziness was immediately swept away. Then he asked:

"When will the rebels start the siege of the city!"

"Back to the general, the rebels have not attacked the city since the end of the day."

"Not a siege?" Bai Liyan was surprised, and then thought that it should not be the guards who lied, it should be her own auditory hallucinations. Thinking of this, he continued: "Where is Mr. Luo now? ”

"Patrolling the battalion for our casualties."

"Oh......"

Bai Liyan threw down the wet wipes, picked up the tea bowl on the table and drank two sips, and then limped to the school yard again. After yesterday's fighting, casualties increased dramatically, and tents were temporarily erected on the school grounds to house the wounded.

Luo Songting was patrolling the wounded camp, and the two met unexpectedly:

"Mr. Luo, how is the enemy situation outside the East Gate?"

"The rebels have been wounded, and I am afraid that they will not be able to attack again in the past two days."

"But the casualties of our army are really not small, only our pioneer battalion and the baggage battalion have more than 1,500 people killed, and more than 6,000 wounded, can we still achieve the goal of using the Jin army to consume the rebels!"

"More than half of our army is new, so it is not surprising that there are such casualties. However, the strength of the rebels was so strong that Luo never expected it, and the casualties of Ximen last night reached more than 6,000 people. ”

Luo Songting's initial plan was to nail the rebel army of 100,000 to Guangxin at a relatively small cost of casualties, so that after the Jin army captured Pucheng, the rebels would draw fewer troops to attack Pucheng, so that the main force of the rebels would be divided into two, and there would be no absolute strength to capture any city in Pucheng and Guangxin.

Now it's good, the rebels have only been attacking the city for a day and night, and Guangxin has suffered more than 15,000 casualties, of course, the rebels may have higher casualties and a higher casualty rate.

But if it goes on like this, not only can it not achieve the goal of using the Jin army to consume the strength of the rebels, but it will become the Xian army and the rebels under the city, and the Jin army will take advantage.

"Then what about the future, how does Mr. Luo plan to deal with it."

"The rebels were created by our army this time, and their plan to draw troops from outside the city to besiege Pucheng has failed, so that the rebels will not dare to raise troops to storm Guangxin, but will besiege it for a long time, and at the same time secretly intensify the destruction of the south gate wall. Therefore, in the next few days, General Wei had to be careful that the rebels attacked the southern city and secretly dug the corners. ”

"Mr. Luo is saying that after the rebels collapsed the South Gate, they wanted to forcibly win Guangxin!"

"Exactly, yesterday our army took advantage of it, but it also exposed the weakness of our army's new soldiers, the rebels are all old soldiers, our army can defend the city, if it is a frontal battle, the rebels rush into the city, the consequences will be unimaginable."

According to Luo Songting's judgment, after the rebels suffered losses yesterday, they would not dare to attack Guangxin again, but at the same time, they also discovered the weakness of the Guangxin army's serious lack of combat strength, and it is very likely to change the siege of the city to destroy the city wall, try every means to collapse the south gate city wall and then storm it, take advantage of more than half of the recruits of the Guangxin army, lack of weapons, and the Achilles heel of the frontal hand-to-hand combat is far inferior to the rebels, do frontal hand-to-hand combat, and defeat the Guangxin defenders with absolute combat effectiveness.

At the same time, it did not affect the original plan of the rebels to continue to lure the Jin army to capture Pucheng and then implement the counter-encirclement.

First of all, the Jin army wanted to sit and watch the rebels and the Xian army consume each other, so it was never expected that the rebels would collapse the Guangxin city wall and break through Guangxin in a short time after the Jin army captured Pucheng, so the Jin army could not respond in time after the Guangxin was breached.

At this time, the rebels captured Guangxin, and were able to collect tens of thousands of troops from the city to replenish on the spot, and then counter-encircled the Jin army in Pucheng, forcing the Jin army in Leicheng to rush to Pucheng.

Therefore, the rebels adjusted the existing battle plan, but it still did not affect the development of the entire plan, and the only thing to worry about at the moment was the existence of the south gate wall.

Luo Songting's plan to consume the rebels with the Jin army was based on the division of the rebels and the Guangxin army's defense of the city, and the hand planted by Qin Han was not considered in the overall plan before, but now it has become a key factor in the success or failure of the plan. If the rebels are able to force Guangxin after dividing their forces, all the efforts they have made so far will be meaningless.

At this time, Bai Liyan was worried and said:

"If the rebels attack and damage the city wall with a hole, they will not be able to defend themselves."

"Therefore, Luo intends to build an urn city at the south gate when the rebels are repairing, what does General Wei think?"

"Urn City? There is no such possibility. The south gate is a huge city wall, not to mention that the middle section of the city wall is nearly two miles long, and any digging and collapse is enough to collapse the entire middle section. If you want to build an urn city, it will be huge, and the people, grain and grass will be consumed, not to mention the time and effort to build the urn city, if the rebels are going to collapse the city wall within three days, our army will not be able to have time. ”

At present, the technology of the urn city has matured, but the popularity rate is very low, it is not that there is no money and food to build the urn city, but the city wall itself is a defensive facility, and adding an urn city inside can only make the city wall more threatening, thus increasing the cost of attacking the city.

Nowadays, there are many rebellions in various countries, and if the urn city built by oneself is not only not used to defend against foreign enemies, but becomes the territory of rebels and armed separatists, it will not be a shooting stone in one's own feet.

Therefore, all countries only build urn cities in the border gates and capitals, and it is strictly forbidden to build urn cities in the hinterland, and Guangxin cannot build urn cities without authorization.

The urn city that Luo Songting wants to build is not only to build an urn city that can cover the south gate within the south gate, but to cover the entire city wall of nearly two miles in the middle of the south gate.

In order to achieve the purpose of saving time and effort and reducing manpower and man-hours, the height of the newly repaired urn city is only two zhang, even so, it is almost impossible to complete without a month, and the rebels have a month to dig through the south gate as early as possible.

"This is impossible. Even if 100,000 people are transferred to repair the urn city, it will never be able to build the urn city with a length of three miles within ten days, not to mention that the rebels have a car and a nest car facing each other, and our army will not be discovered by the rebels when they build the urn city. If the rebels find out that our army is building the urn city, it will inevitably accelerate the destruction of the city, and the south gate may have collapsed before the urn city is repaired. ”

"Then General Wei has a better way?"

"Not yet."

"General Wei has no better way, why don't you force the city to repair?"

"Mr. Luo, the rebels besieged the city half a month ago, and after half a month, if the rebels dug a hole in advance, they would have dug to the foot of our army's city wall early, and the rebels attacked the city yesterday and dug the corners of the wall from the ground, the purpose of which was to penetrate the cave and dig through the root of the wall. Don't you think it's too late to repair the urn city now? ”

The first step is to dig a dark tunnel, all the way to the foot of the city wall, and hollow out enough space under the city wall to make the city wall lose the stability of the base, and the second step is to dig from the ground to dig the rammed earth of the wall foundation, so that the city wall loses the support of the ground rammed earth, so that it collapses.

If the city wall is still unusually strong, pine oil can be used to set fire, using the principle of rammed earth compacting, thermal expansion and cold contraction, so that the rammed earth will collapse by itself.

All in all, the rebels dug into the corners of the wall yesterday, which means that the rebels' preliminary work has been completed and they are waiting to dig the wall down.

All kinds of signs that the rebels secretly drew troops last night show that the original intention of the rebels to dig down the city wall should not be to force Guangxin, but to create chaos and military pressure on Guangxin, so that Guangxin has no time to withdraw his troops to save Pucheng or Dingyang.

Now that Luo Songting has disrupted the deployment of the rebels, the rebels outside the city are not able to divide their troops to besiege Pucheng, and at the same time, it is impossible to transfer troops to attack Guangxin, so they can only dig down the city wall and forcibly take Guangxin.

With all the preparations of the rebels completed, it is only now that they think of repairing the urn city, where is it too late.

"It's too late for this matter anyway, Mr. Luo should think of another way."

"Then General Wei has a high opinion?"

"After my on-site investigation, I will make a long-term plan. If nothing else, Wei took his leave. ”

Bai Liyan turned around and left with the guards, Luo Songting shook his head and sighed helplessly:

"The concubine is really stubborn......"

At the beginning of the decision to build the urn city, the Guangxin Mansion posted a notice to recruit people in the city, so at this time, tens of thousands of people went to the north gate to gather and receive equipment.

Bailiyan came to the south gate by car, Sikong Nan sent people in the morning to bear the risk of being shot by the rebels' crossbowmen on the car, and went down to the corner of the outer wall of the city to take a closer look, and dug down more than half a person in the deepest place, and dug more than two feet into the city wall, but did not find that there was a cave underground.

In other words, the rebels did not hollow out the foundation of the city wall in advance, and only dug the corners of the wall yesterday, which made Bailiyan puzzled.