"The northern captives are going to attack the city, the northern captives are going to attack the city!" With the sound of horns, the soldiers at the head of the city shouted, and Chen Yan, the assassin of Jiangzhou and the king of Yongjia, who supervised the battle on the spot, ordered the trebuchet to prepare the cannon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Outside the city, the Zhou army erected many trebuchets, and there were also many trebuchets in the city, and a lot of stone bullets weighing dozens of catties had already been prepared.

At this time, it was already afternoon, but the Zhou army had just begun to attack the city, either confident that it would attack the city before sunset, or it was ready for night fighting, Chen Yan knew that trebuchets could fire artillery day and night, so he judged that the Zhou army was planning to attack the city overnight.

It doesn't matter, the city is already ready, you have to fight at night, and you will be alone to the end!

The city is attacked and defended at night, and it is dark all around at night, and the soldiers can't see the enemy clearly, so they can light torches, and they can light torches at will on the top of the city, which is a live target.

Enemy archers can come to the city without lighting torches, and use the shadow reflected in the fire at the city to release cold arrows, and the city is dark, and the archers on the city can not aim at all, in order to avoid this unfavorable situation, the torches of the defending city should be specially dealt with during night battles.

If the torch wants to stick out of the city wall, it is best to add a 'cover' to let the firelight shine down so that the defenders can see the movement under the city, and because there is a 'cover', the firelight cannot reflect the figure on the city wall, which can increase the aiming difficulty of enemy archers outside the city.

There are a lot of preparations to be made for the night battle, and of course Chen Yan can't do it himself, so he plans to let the state Sima Huang Si arrange these things, but the other party has already gone to patrol the city before, so Chen Yan called Xunyang Taishou Lu Zhongrong and instructed him to urge his subordinates to prepare for the night battle.

"King, will the Northern Captives attack the city overnight?"

"Be prepared, even if they don't plan to fight at night, our army must be prepared, as long as they repel the attack of the northern captives and survive the first day, the soldiers will be more calm."

As he was talking, the Zhou army outside the city was already approaching the range of the trebuchets in the city, and seeing that the other party had all kinds of siege equipment, Chen Yan felt a little frightened, and Lu Zhongrong strongly persuaded him to leave the city to avoid accidents.

"Lone can't go, the city is dangerous, of course Lone can go down to avoid danger, but what about other soldiers? Lone must stay at the head of the city, otherwise how can he inspire the army? ”

Chen Yan thought very clearly, instead of hiding in a safe place in the city and waiting for others to bring good news or bad news, it was better to take the risk of supervising the battle in the city, at least the progress of the battle situation could be known as soon as possible, and he didn't want to try the feeling of sitting with his eyes dark and waiting for death.

Seeing that Chen Yan insisted, Lu Zhongrong didn't say much, for some reason, he looked in the direction of the south of the city, and Chen Yan also looked at the south of the city with his movements, and didn't find anything abnormal.

There was originally a bridge on the turbulent water in the southern suburbs of the city, after the fortress was lost in the upper reaches of the turbulent water yesterday, the defenders of the turbulent mouth burned the bridge, if the Zhou army wanted to attack the city from the south of the city, it would be more troublesome, although the water level of the turbulent water was not very deep, but at least it could block the advance speed of the other party.

"Lu Tai..."

Chen Yan didn't finish speaking, but he heard a huge noise from the south of the city, as if something had caused an uproar, Chen Yan felt that something was wrong, and was about to take someone over to take a look, but saw smoke rising from the direction of the south gate.

It was the city tower burning, it seemed that the south of the city had not yet received the attack of the Zhou army, and suddenly there was a fire, either by water, or... Mutiny!

The mutiny may be due to the soldiers' dissatisfaction with the treatment, or the unfair rewards and punishments, or the rebellion against the fact that they have been squeezed too much, and at this moment, the government has just issued money, so it cannot be the above reasons.

'Prevent it, but something happened! Chen Yan was shocked, and immediately led the men along the road on the city wall to the south gate, and he wanted to suppress the mutiny before the rebels opened the door.

Before he ran a few steps, he heard a faint shout from the direction of the south gate: "Open the door!" It's open! ”

The heart felt like he had received a heavy blow, Chen Yan almost fell to the ground, he really couldn't understand why someone would open the door to offer the city if he had already done his part.

It's just that you lost the water battle and the two fortresses outside the city fell, and you were scared!

The movement in the south of the city not only gave Chen Yan a head start, but even the defenders and young men at the head of the city were dumbfounded, they didn't expect the turn of the situation to be so unexpected, and many people looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Has someone opened the door to dedicate the city? So what's the fight?

"Quick, go to the south gate immediately, close the door, close the door!!"

Chen Yan shouted hoarsely, shook off the hand of the guards supporting him, pulled out his saber and beckoned the soldiers to rush to the south gate with him, and just took a few steps before he realized that something was wrong: except for the palace guards, few people followed him.

He stopped, saw that most of the soldiers were standing still, and secretly said something bad in his heart, and asked with luck: "You... What are you doing in a daze? The northern captives are about to enter the city, and they are still stunned what to do! ”

Seeing Xunyang Taishou Lu Zhongrong follow, Chen Yan shouted loudly: "Lu Taishou!" Call them for reinforcements at the South Gate at once! ”

"My lord, this has come to this..."

"What has come to this! If the south gate is closed, the northern captives will not be able to enter, and it is delusional for them to capture the mouth! ”

Lu Zhongrong looked at Chen Yan with a complicated expression, and then said with a wry smile: "King! The matter has come to this point, and the next official... There is nothing that can be done! ”

"You... You... You, you're going to surrender?! ”

Chen Yan looked at the soldiers in front of him, his heart was like a knife, he couldn't understand why this kind of thing happened, Huangkou still had the power to protect himself, as long as everyone worked together, at least there was a chance to wait for the reinforcements to arrive.

He has already taken out all the money and silk to motivate the morale of the army, and everything that should be done has been done, and as a result, the result...

His chest was full of resentment, and he didn't know where to start with a thousand words, Chen Yan looked at the indifferent soldiers and generals at the head of the city, his eyes were red, and then he roared loudly: "You want to surrender, why do you still have the face to receive the reward!" ”

"Coward! Traitorous cowards! You'd rather surrender to the North as a dog than fight bloodily to be a man! ”

Many soldiers bowed their heads silently when they heard this, and no one opened their mouths to refute them, because the other party was right, and the truth was this, but even if they didn't think about themselves, they had to think about their families.

The one-legged bronze man is very cruel, but it is said that he is very trustworthy, since he said that he would slaughter the city if he resisted, he would definitely slaughter the city, and since he said that he could save his family if he surrendered, then as long as the soldiers surrendered, the family could be saved.

No one is willing to surrender on their knees, but the premise is that they can fight, and in the current situation, can the officers and soldiers beat the northern captives?

Can't beat it.

Caishan, Sangluozhou, and Xunyangzhai are all down in one day, how long can Huangkou be guarded?

If you can't beat it, what else can you say?

The sound of horses' hooves started, Chen Yan followed the prestige, and found that a large number of Zhou cavalry outside the city galloped, swept across the southwest corner of the city, and galloped towards the south gate of the city.

"Arrows, arrows!"

No one moved, the archers behind the female wall were silent, Chen Yan saw this and swung his knife to cut, those archers didn't dare to resist but kept retreating, seeing that there was no way to retreat, they clenched the saber at their waists.

"King! King! It's got to this point, don't struggle! ”

Lu Zhongrong rushed forward and grabbed Chen Yan's arm, and after some fighting, the knife rolled to the ground, and Lu Zhongrong was kicked to the ground by Chen Yan.

"Lu Zhongrong! You ungrateful traitor! ”

Chen Yan roared, the hairpin on his head fell off and his cloak was scattered, and he grabbed the guard's saber and was about to step forward to cut Lu Zhongrong, but he was held by the old man and failed to move forward half a step, looking at the soldiers around him who gave up resistance and were about to surrender, the young Chen Yan couldn't bear it and then cried:

"Coward! Coward! I can't wait for cowards to be swordsman! ”

Wearing a cloak, crying and laughing, Chen Yan screamed and scolded hoarsely, and the old attendant hugged him and cried desperately: "The matter has come to this, king, be decent, be decent..."

"Decent? Decent... I, Chen Yan, as the prince of Da Chen, will never surrender like a coward! ”

Chen Yan muttered to himself, and then he was about to swing his knife to kill himself, but he was taken down by the attendants: "Why is the king so bothered!" This has come to this, please save your useful body..."

The master and servant hugged their heads and cried, and the soldiers around them turned their heads, and Lu Zhongrong, who got up in embarrassment, sighed when he saw this, and motioned for his deputy to come forward: "Go, open the west gate too..."