Li Zhongshun, along with his subordinate Qin Weimen, could go home to protect their families. However, Cai Dao suggested that Li Zhongshun could gather their family members and hide in his friendly home together.

As a home of prisoners, it will certainly not be a target for rebels and thugs.

That way, there's less pressure on them when they're defending.

For the reconnaissance battalion team, Cai Dao's time was very tight, and for Cai Dao, the time was even tighter. Because of his own side, he was exposed in advance, so he had to speed up his troops now, and he had to push his troops to the root of the imperial city before all the forbidden troops of the Da Viet Kingdom in Thang Long City were assembled.

Fortunately, with Li Zhongshun's communication, Cai Dao's 3,000 soldiers can be temporarily repaired for a period of time, and those disarmed Dayue soldiers obediently obeyed Cai Dao's orders under the sword, and are desperately building fortifications in front of the north.

Of course, there is no such thing as cement.

Cai Dao used one of the simplest and most effective methods - digging trenches.

Every fifty meters wide, a ditch was dug across the entire road out of the city, one meter wide and one meter deep. Now, the short shovel is in the hands of these soldiers, and they are allowed to build the fortifications of the north gate for the Song army.

After the construction of these trenches, it is not just a trench, but the excavated soil is also piled up in front of the trench, and after compacting and repairing, it immediately becomes a breastwork.

These two obstacles will further hinder the counteroffensive of the Da Viet troops.

Naturally, there are some risks involved, and short shovels can also be turned into weapons.

However, a few ways to deal with it came to mind.

The first is to tie the feet of a small group of soldiers with a heavy cable.

The short shovel wasn't too sharp to easily cut the cable that tied one of their feet in a short period of time.

Second, when digging a trench, it is necessary to take steps from far to near to start digging.

The trenches and breastworks dug in front of them naturally became obstacles to the escape of the soldiers themselves.

Behind them were a small group of archers and axemen, keeping an eye on their every move.

While digging the trench, there was really a small group of relatively united troops who wanted to take the opportunity to escape from here. It's a pity that the knife and axe men under Cai Dao who guard the captives are too cruel, and after discovering it, they go up and cut melons and vegetables as if they were slaughtered. It took a lot of effort to kill them all. Even the archers with bows and arrows were stunned.

These knife and axe hands were orphans specially recruited by Cai Dao from Yongzhou in the war of aggression against the Song Dynasty of the Great Yue Kingdom, and they naturally hated the people of the Great Yue Kingdom. If Cai Dao hadn't suppressed them all the time, I don't know how many people they would have killed along the way. Some of them have already killed people and become a little perverted. actually ate the heart and liver of the team leader alive on the spot.

This kind of scene is not to mention the surrender of the Great Yue Kingdom, even if the Song army itself is called, they are so afraid that they can't do it.

This was just a small episode, but it was this small episode that completely shocked the surrenderers. Therefore, the fortifications were built very smoothly.

Due to the large number of soldiers, it took them less than half an hour to build three miles of fortifications.

For this result, Cai Dao is naturally very satisfied.

At this time, the side doors on both sides of the east gate have also been taken. According to the original plan, Zhi Kerou led 2,000 soldiers to guard the east gate on the north side, and Shi Ernai also led 2,000 soldiers to guard the east gate on the south side.

Zhe Kerou was there, and after digging the fortifications, he led 5,000 soldiers to reinforce the direction of the north gate.

However, Xie Feibao directly returned to the east gate with 3,000 soldiers, which was not only Cai Dao's order, but also out of trust in Shi Ernai's own ability.

This time, Cai Dao knew that he had brought a little less soldiers and horses, and in the face of such a situation, he was a little stretched.

If Cai Dao's first method was followed, 35,000 soldiers and horses would be sufficient.

After Xie Feibao led the people back, he immediately ate a fragrant breakfast, and after the three thousand soldiers repaired for a while, they immediately followed.

It was Pan Lin who stayed at the north gate to guard the city gate, and Cai Dao only left him five hundred soldiers. Although the number of people is a little smaller, because Cai Daozhi is rushing on the opposite side, the pressure in the direction of the east gate is the smallest. And those soldiers, Cai Dao did not treat them badly, everyone gave them a coarse noodle nest, and after a night of hot soup, they were locked in the camp with their hands and feet tied.

And Cai Dao took Cao Bao and led 3,000 soldiers from the east gate directly to the direction of the imperial city. The city of this era was basically a square layout, and you could go directly to the imperial city along the central axis. There are really not many strange cities like Bianliang City. Anyway, the city of Thang Long City was built unconventionally.

The two brothers, Liu Daojing and Liu Daoyang, each led 500 men from the flanks on both sides to the center, and their main task was not to stop the enemy, but to set fire everywhere. This is because the reconnaissance team in Cai Dao's direction already has another task, so the two brothers can only lead people to complete this task.

And Xie Feibao led five hundred elite troops and kept following behind the large army. As soon as a large force encounters an enemy, they quickly detour back to the enemy's rear. Cai Dao was just preparing to attack the Dayue forbidden army that came to counterattack on both sides.

Sure enough, in the entire Thang Long City, the forbidden army troops in the direction of the east gate were the fastest to react.

The little colonel of the dark sentry was really fast, and he had quickly contacted the Janissary troops stationed nearby to regain the lost city gates.

But who would have thought that the commanders of the nearest few troops and all the adjutant generals in the barracks were not there, and the pawns guarding the gate of the camp did not know anything at all. In fact, these generals all went to drink flower wine. And although this little colonel is a pro-army directly under the emperor, he himself does not have any right to mobilize troops.

Helpless, he could only find his immediate boss nearby, named Wu Yanjiao, and report the whole matter to him.

At the beginning, Wu Grievance Fake naturally wouldn't believe the fantasy that his subordinates said this.

Since the founding of the country, the Great Yue Kingdom has conquered all directions and has countless enemies. But there is not a single country that is really capable of attacking Thang Long City with an army. Even in the vast territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the 300,000 Great Song forbidden army led by Ge Guo Kui defeated the army of the Great Yue Kingdom at the Fuliang River.