Chapter 70: The Siege 3

The Qin camp tent to the north of Chen Ying was full of firelight, and the Wei army camp to the west was also bright, with battle flags trembling, figures shaking, and the neighing of horses, and even the angry shouts of military leaders. The drowsiness of the generals and county guards of the Chu army on the city wall had long been gone, and the heralds ran around like headless flies, and the county guards stood with spears, breathing gradually and coarsely at the same time, they touched the hundred soldiers on their chests, and then thought of those witches who saved lives and helped the wounded.

When Chang Jiang informed Xiong Jing that the Qin army wanted to attack the city, Lian Po was already standing on the north city wall, and when he saw him coming, the soldiers immediately made a decision. Unlike Chen Bu, Chen Bu often beats drums and gathers generals and issues military orders in the Sima Mansion in the city, while Lian Po likes to gather generals on the city wall to discuss matters, and he tries his best to let more soldiers see him, even if the enemy troops under the city will see him.

After looking around the Qin camp in the city, Lian Po retreated from the front tower of the urn city to the city tower at the rear, as soon as he sat down, he was pretending to sleep, when Chen Bu rushed over, he opened his eyes when he heard the sound of footsteps, staring at Chen Bu with a clear gaze, with surprise.

"General, the Qin army's camp moved but did not attack the city, and the general thought it was a fraud." Chen Bu had already gone around before he came.

It has been more than half an hour since the sudden fire in the Qin military camp to now, and if the city is attacked, it will be attacked a long time ago.

This is indeed a bit weird, Lian Po nodded and ordered him to leave and right: "Order the artillery to quickly fire shells to detect the enemy's situation." ”

"Order the artillery to fire quickly to detect the enemy." There were artillery officers in the military tent, and the order was transmitted to the city in the form of lights. After receiving the order, the city burned into flames, and red fire bombs were thrown over the city wall and fell 200 paces away from the city. After the firelight started, the open space outside the city was white, except for the dim silhouettes of a few corridors.

"Again!" Lian Po, who felt more and more wrong, drank heavily. "The western, eastern, and southern cities also fired firebombs to probe the enemy."

'Bang......' continued firebombs were dropped outside the city, but there was still no sign of the enemy, and then the rest of the cities replied with signal lights, "There is no enemy in the city."

"Is there something wrong with the ground?" Lian Po asked again, this is to listen to the enemy's digging tunnels, although there is underground water a few feet below Chen Ying, but he is still not only lazy, but also has to ask how to listen every day.

"General, it's no different from listening to the ground." The military leaders around him went in a hurry, and returned in a hurry.

"It's different." Everything seemed normal, and Lian Po's brows furrowed even tighter.

When the defenders were full of ammunition, the banks of the lake two miles away from the eastern city were full of black and oppressive Qin troops, and they were covered with dirt and filled in the impassable section of the road where the transit car could not pass. The lake was very soft when the water receded, and after filling it with earth, it was covered with wooden planks, and a five-mile-long and four-zhang wide avenue slowly stretched out to the narrow mouth of the lake that connected the chasm.

On the carriage next to the road, Li Xin stood with his sword, looked at the fire bomb thrown by Chen Ying and laughed, and the deputy general An Qi next to him heard it and said: "Lian Po's servant must be panicked at the head of the city, who would have thought that the general would cut off the waterway in Chen Cheng overnight." ”

"The general is wise, knowing that the East Lake will dry up at the end of the year, once the waterway is cut off, killing King Jing will be a sure victory." Another sycophant lieutenant. "The last general only wishes that the general will be made a marquis as soon as possible."

"The last general only wishes that the general will be made a marquis as soon as possible." There was a cadre of generals standing under the car, and the exception was a common man.

The common people laughed together, but unfortunately Li Xin couldn't see him in the dark night, and he also wanted to wish Li Xin a marquis as soon as possible, but fear made him speechless. Under the congratulations of the generals, Li Xin laughed and turned his head to look at the common people: "Chen Mu, if the general is a marquis, how can I thank you?" ”

"General, general......" Chen Mu was a little frightened when he heard this. The villain is a lowly person, how dare he be thanked by the general. ”

After the duel that day, Chen Mu was almost slaughtered by Chen, and then heard that Chen Ao was not dead, and finally the legend of the county prince wanted to take the money to buy Jane's person, he was out of a lot of money to buy Jian, after hearing the words, this salted fishmonger had to flee with his family, he did not dare to flee to Yingdu, just wanted to flee to Wei, but was caught by Qin on the way, in order to save his life, he offered a strategy.

"There is kindness for kindness, and there is revenge for revenge." Li Xin no longer looked at him, but at Chen Ying, who was full of fire bullets. "Didn't you want me to let you go? As soon as it was dark, I let you go. I'll send you back to Chencheng in a boat, how about that? ”

"Ahh Chen Mu was so frightened that he fell, he didn't expect Li Xin to release him and put him back to Chen Ying. "The general can't, since the villain has already offered advice, the Chen people will regard me as a mortal enemy, and the villain ......"

"All the nations say that I, the Qin people, have no faith and no righteousness, and I am the same as Rong Di. Profiteering, ignoring relatives and brothers, like the ears of animals. Ben will see that you are a beast, do you know that the waterway is unique, and the whole city will starve to death? "Li Xin is very young, not only young, but also ambitious. Untempered, he still has the straightforwardness and integrity of a young man, he likes Chen Mu's strategy, but he is disgusted by his personality.

"The general spares his life. The general spared his life...... "Chen Mu was so frightened that he had lost his voice, and he kept twitching in front of the wheel. The soldiers next to him lifted him up and dragged him away, while Li Xin looked up at the starry sky.

"Report!" Three hours later, "Report to the general, the ink man has set up a transfer pass." ”

"Great goodness!" The road was finally paved to the mouth of the lake, which was no more than a hundred steps wide, and seventy or eighty turnabouts could be paved through, and the deep water was bridged. Once the bridge is paved to a width of four or five zhang, the bridge is full of Qin troops, and no matter how powerful the Chu army boat division is, it will not be able to open the way.

"Speed frame turn, speed frame turn." Along the newly paved road, one after another turn cars were pushed into the water. After the transfer was opened, it floated on the water, and the soldiers in the water quickly connected the transfers, and a water bridge gradually took shape.

"Plaster, plaster, smear!" Since it is a wooden bridge, it is naturally the most difficult to avoid fire, so the bridge deck should be smeared with silt. With the order, handfuls of silt were fished up from the bottom of the lake and smeared on the bridge deck.

While building a bridge and plastering mud, in less than an hour, the mouth of the lake was cut off, and a column of armor soldiers quickly passed through the Zhuanguan bridge and lined up on the other side of the lake to stand guard. The soldiers who built the bridge did not stop under the supervision of the ink man, more and more turns were pushed into the water, the bridge deck was only one zhang, and by dawn, the bridge deck was already four zhang wide, and more than 10,000 soldiers stood on it. On both sides of the lake, the Qin army is even more numerous, densely packed and you can't see the end at a glance.

"The king, the king......, the Qin army is besieging the city!" Changjiang, the old temple man, was nervous last night, and he panicked in the morning.

"Yes." Xiong Jing rested after writing the quadrant last night, and he hadn't woken up yet. "Didn't the Qin army besiege the city a long time ago?"

"King, Qin Jun......" Chang Jiang's words didn't reach his meaning, and he couldn't wait to slap himself. Great King, last night the Qin army cut off the waterway. ”

"Ahh Xiong Jing was still confused when he heard this, but after a while, he jumped up from the bed, "What words?" The Qin army cut off the waterway?! ”

"Yes! Yes, too! Chang Jiang nodded again and again. The traitor Chen Mu offered advice to the Qin army, saying that in autumn and winter, the mouth of the lake was shallow, so the Qin army erected a bridge at the mouth of the lake, and ...... overnight and overnight."

To the east of Chen Ying is the lake, and the mouth of the lake is connected to the chasm, which is almost two miles wide, but this is summer, and it is summer when Xiong Jing comes, and it is autumn and winter at this time, and the mouth of the lake that is more than one mile wide is now less than half a mile left.

"Where's the General?" Xiong Jing hurriedly asked after thinking about it.

"The general is asking to see the king in the Ming Hall." The long ginger was served with sorghum juice again, so that Xiong Jing could wash his face. But at this time, there was still time to wash his face, so Xiong Jing put on his clothes and walked out. Chang Jiang hurriedly caught up with a hook and a short sword, and gave Xiong Jing Pei a good look.

"The minister has seen the king." The white-headed Lian Po, the troubled Chen Bu, as well as the Yang Yu, Zhuang Quji, as well as the Red Sword, Ou Tuo, and the Gong Ji of the Artillery Soldiers. The county magistrate Chen Jian also came, and he has stayed at home for the past few months.

"No courtesy." Xiong Jing's nervousness was only temporary, and he was as if he had nothing to do in the face of his ministers. "Zhongqing came to see me early in the morning, what's the matter?"

"Minister," Chen Bu was the most anxious, but the martial general Lian Po was here, and the county prince Chen was here, so he didn't dare to say anything more when he opened his mouth.

"Tell the king, the Qin army cut off my waterway last night." Lian Po said.

"Cut off my waterways?" Xiong Jing smiled, "Those landlubbers can also cut off my waterways, don't believe it." ”

"Tell the king, it is so." Chen Jian's rosacea has been much duller in color in recent months, and his breath is not enough when he speaks. "In autumn and winter, the width of the lake mouth is only 100 steps, and the depth of the water is less than 50 steps, and the Qin army ......"

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing interrupted Chen Jian halfway through listening and asked the general of the boat division, Hongji.

"Your Majesty, as long as my big-winged warboat keeps ramming, the Qin people will break the pass." The red guy had wanted to attack for a long time, but Lian was not allowed.

"What does the Admiral think?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Lian Po again. He believes that Lian Po has Lian Po considerations.

"The Qin army of our army's boat division knew that before the transfer of the bridge, the Qin army had already laid chains." Lian Po said. "The Red General led the boat to attack, but Ranchen was worried that the Qin army would capture the big wing warboat. The weight of the war boat is more than the stone throwing vessel, so the minister has ordered the general to move the trebuchet to the boat. ”

"Your Majesty, this strategy is very slow. For the sake of today's plan, it should be rushed into it with a large-winged warboat. Chen Buyi said. The Qin people still have hundreds of Zhuan Guan at the mouth of the lake, and every hour that passes, the bridge is several feet wide. ”

"How much corn is there in the city?" Chen Bu was anxious, but Xiong Jing was not in a hurry. Last year, when the Qin army was in Chengyang, it was not surprising that the Qin army used copper cables to block the Huaishui, and this year it is not surprising that the mouth of the lake is blocked with copper locks.

"Tell the king," a millet rushed forward, "there are more than 275,000 stones of millet in the city. ”

"How many months can you eat?" Xiong Jing asked again.

"Tell the king, there are forty-three thousand eight hundred and twelve soldiers in the city, and each of them has six stones, two buckets, seven and a half liters. If it is a ginseng diet (2 stones/month), it can be eaten for 3 months and 4 days; If it is four eclipses (1.5 stones/month), it can be eaten for April and five days; If it is five eclipse (1.2 stone/month), it can be eaten for five and six days; If it is six eclipses (1 stone/month), it can be eeclipsed for six months and eight days. "Before the Su Ke came, he calculated the consumption of grain, and at this time the answer was like a stream.

"June and the eighth?" Xiong Jing was completely relieved, and it was April at that time.

"Yes, yes. But ......" Su Ke's next sentence made Xiong Jing's flesh hurt, "Tell the king, there are still more than 2,300 horses in the city......"