"What did you say?" Huang still didn't hear clearly, "Help me blow the ashes out of my eyes first." With-Dream- . lā ．”

Ge Liang rolled his yellow eyelids, blew lightly, and said, "Then let's stand back a little bit, and go see how the tunnel is dug first." ”

Huang shed some tears, his eyes were better, and he had to ask clearly: "What did you just say?" ”

The joke said that the second time was boring, Ge Liang changed his words: "According to the records in the history books, when Yuan Shaoguandu fought Cao Cao, he built a mountain of earth and let the sergeants shoot the enemy soldiers in Cao's camp with arrows. Cao Cao made a catapult to fight back. Later, Yuan Shao sent people to dig tunnels, and Cao Cao dug a ditch in the camp and waited, and when the enemy dug a deep ditch, the tunnel was exposed. ”

Huang looked at the enemy wall in the distance and replied, "The enemy's catapults are useless now, but we can't attack them from this far." Tunnel? Are you saying they're going to dig tunnels to intercept our guys? ”

"I guess so." Ge Liang said as he walked, "According to the record of Zhao Weiluo, when Zhuge Liang attacked Chencang City, he wanted to pile up soil mountains and climb the city directly, and the guard Hao Zhao raised the city wall and built another city wall inside. You see, isn't the enemy raising the walls now? He also said that Zhuge Liang was digging a tunnel, and Hao Zhao dug a trench around the city to intercept it. Anyway, in this era, these are almost the means of attack and defense. ”

The two of them walked to the entrance of the tunnel, which was behind the mountain of dirt, completely avoiding the sight of the defenders of the city, and the excavated earth was directly sent to the catapult to be thrown.

"How's the digging?" Ge Liang asked the team rate who was supervising the work.

The team leader looked at the rope coiled at the entrance of the tunnel, and there were still several turns, and replied, "I will probably have to dig for two or three days." We'll definitely speed things up. ”

It turned out that the night before, they took advantage of the darkness to pull the rope and touched the enemy's city wall, and calculated the distance from here to the city wall, and now the front end of the rope is at the front of the tunnel, how long is left, that is, the distance between the tunnel and the city wall above.

Ge Liang expressed his satisfaction: "Okay, continue to dig, don't be in a hurry, anyway, this dirt mountain has to be piled up for several days to be high enough, pay attention to the direction when digging the tunnel, don't dig wrong, then the distance is wrong." ”

Huang looked at Tushan: "Actually, you don't need to pile it too high, when the sun first comes out in the morning, the water vapor on the ground evaporates, and it is easy to form an updraft." ”

Ge Liang hurriedly shook his head and said: "Don't be in a hurry, pile higher, pile bigger, otherwise the aura is insufficient, the pressure on the enemy is not big enough, and you can't scare the enemy." ”

Huang also shook his head: "I think it's time to tamp the soil and stone a little bit, it can't be so loose, how can people go up then?" ”

After two days, the throwing of earth and rocks outside the city stopped, and a large number of sergeants, carrying sacks or planks, began to strengthen the soft surface of the hill, leveling the top of the spike, and transporting some timber to beat there.

"Father, Father! The enemy is about to start fortifying on the top of the dirt mountain, and they are about to frame the catapult to the top of the mountain! Cao Tai's eyes were red and swollen, and he had been observing the enemy situation on the city wall, and when he found that the situation had changed, he hurried to report to Cao Ren.

Cao Ren, who had fallen asleep late last night, was preparing to have breakfast at this time, and when he heard this, he immediately threw down his job and ran up the city wall.

The walls of the defenders were also built to the old height, and they were relatively strong, because most of the materials used were brought from the demolition of tiles and walls in the city, and they were not easy to collapse.

Cao Ren followed the winding stairs around the high city wall. Cao Tai hurriedly pointed to the dirt mountain outside the city for Cao Ren to see: "Father, look, the enemy is carrying catapult parts to the top of the mountain." You see, those long logs are the firing rods of catapults, right? ”

It seems to be! Cao Ren hurriedly compared the height of his own city wall with the enemy's earth mountain, and felt that his side still had an advantage, so he ordered: "Quickly dismantle our catapult and move it to the top to erect it!" ”

Just when everyone was in a hurry, another sergeant ran up panting and reported: "Oh no, no, someone below accidentally found that there was a vibration underground, it can't be that the enemy is digging a tunnel, right?" ”

"Huh?" Cao Ren was startled, and there was still this matter, and hurriedly said, "Where did you hear it, take me to see it!" ”

A group of men hurried down from the top of the high wall, and followed the sergeant who had told the news to the foot of a wall, where several sergeants were lying with their ears pressed to the ground to listen to the movement underground.

Cao Ren stretched out his hand to stop it, signaling the people who followed him not to move too much, and then walked over lightly: "Is there really someone down there?" ”

Several sergeants hurriedly stood up and saluted Cao Ren while nodding in unison.

Cao Ren felt that he had to verify it himself, so he also leaned down and put his ears to the ground.

The rest of the people who followed followed all of them lay down.

There's movement down there!

Cao Ren looked up at Sitong again and confirmed that it was not interference from the ground nearby.

"I see, no wonder they are reluctant to attack the city on the ground, it turns out that they want to attack by digging tunnels. Thankfully, we found out. Cao Ren breathed a sigh of relief, "Perhaps, the mountains of earth piled up outside the city are all used to attract our attention!" ”

The attendants hurriedly asked, "What then?" ”

"That's it! Yuan Shao used this trick back then, and it was easily cracked by Emperor Wu. Cao Ren comforted everyone, "Take advantage of the timely discovery, quickly ask Chen Jiao to organize everyone to dig a deep ditch along the inner side of the city wall, expose the enemy's tunnel, and then defend the hole. ”

So the defenders hurriedly began another earthwork operation.

Cao Ren asked Chen Jiao to lead the construction, and asked the generals to lead the sergeants to make preparations for the interception, and he climbed to the top of the city again.

As if in response to Cao Ren's judgment of the enemy's offensive, his son Cao Tai once again reported to him that there had been a change in the enemy's earth and mountain outside the city: "Father, father, it seems that the enemy is not setting up a catapult, but setting up some kind of stage or something. ”

Cao Ren saw that a high platform was soon built on the mountain, and in other places, many sergeants were rushing around holding colorful flags, planting colorful flags everywhere.

"Set up a stage?" Cao Ren's eyes widened, and he roared angrily: "Why do you build such a high stage on such a high earth mountain? Just to watch the defenders in our city act? ”

Is it really as I expected, that they are just digging tunnels to raid, and then set up such a high observation platform to see how they break the city tomorrow?

Man Zhong didn't think so: "Seeing that they are planting colorful flags and banners everywhere, they should be building a altar, right?" ”

"Build such a big altar?" Cao Ren blurted out, "Is Liu Bei's father dead, or is Liu Bei dead?" ”

Man Pet was silent, and shook his head helplessly, it seems that Cao Ren has been surrounded for so long, and he is in a hurry, Liu Bei and his father died when Liu Bei was very young, okay?

It's not like you haven't seen an altar of this scale, didn't the emperor of Wei build a bigger altar to worship heaven and earth when he ascended the throne today?

After a while, without having to explain to Manzhong, Cao Ren also knew that it was indeed an altar, because there seemed to be a person wearing a Taoist robe on a high platform and dancing there.

That person was Ge Liang, wielding a wooden sword on the stage at the moment, and there were words in his mouth:

"Who said that Zhuge borrowed the east wind to make it up, I want to borrow the southeast wind today."

"Heavenly Spirit, Earth Spirit, where is the Immortal Gu Manifesting Spirit!"

"Heaven and earth are yellow, and all kinds of gods come to help! Tomorrow morning the sun will be great, and the fairy wind will be borrowed from the southeast ......"