The artillery fire was intertwined, the arrows and stones were like rain, and from time to time there were clouds of fire and smoke and dust, splashing and steaming at the head of the city of Luodu, and the ground with countless people roaring and shouting shook the mountains, shaking so much that even the snowflakes that were falling could not be hung.

And the blood that flowed down the moat, in the extremely cold weather, did not have time to flow far, and quickly condensed into a series of slippery red ice edges. Then they were knocked out in the battle and shattered under the base of the wall, and the corpses, old and new, that fell down, were refrozen into hard pieces of tiptoe.

The tragic and bloody offensive continued, and the great determination and will from both camps turned the long walls south and east of Lodu into a stage where both sides could do whatever they could. It's just that under all kinds of wits and tactics and tactics that are not lacking in brilliance, it is a meat grinder hell full of blood and tragedy.

Although the walls of Luodu are still strong for the most part, the soldiers guarding him will be tired and old, and they will also be injured and killed. Especially when there are a large number of young and strong soldiers in the city, as a reserve soldier, the casualty rate can be said to be high and restless.

Almost every day, thousands of strong soldiers tirelessly climbed and attacked with casualties, and then, together with the defenders who also had the heart to die, heroically turned into a part of the flesh and blood decoration that was stacked and smeared up and down the city wall.

In a short time, the caves and temporary warehouses under the city walls were filled with all kinds of wounded, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of rancid was so strong that even in cold weather, it could not be concealed.

Most of them are burns and other external wounds caused by firearms, of course, if you are lucky enough to be hit by a cannon, then you don't even have a chance to feel the pain, and you will die happily. Then the plummeting temperature every night can eliminate a group of seriously injured and frail unlucky ghosts.

All it is necessary to lift out those who can't wake up and make room for more others in need.

Thanks to the results of the Qingye Fortified Wall in the previous stage and the warehousing of the last autumn harvest on the Heluo Plain, although the small people in the city have been struggling with hunger and cold for a long time, there is still no shortage of supply and use as a sequence of defending the city.

Even if they were forcibly conscripted, there were a few spoonfuls of bean paste or a piece of chestnut rice cake.

But all kinds of despair and pessimism are still in the inconspicuous corners, slowly breeding, and then become a part of those undercurrents.

After all, most of them are the lowest level of the army's huge violent machine, but they don't have the unashamed view and vision of those in power, and the inexplicable city government that seems to be in their hands, what they can see on weekdays is just the tragic casualties and exhaustion that don't know the end.

Under the corner of the northern city wall, some ragged people searched for something along the shallow ditch with long poles, and finally found a few bottles floating in the waterway in the mud and debris, and disappeared again into the deserted city.

Soon after, a silk book that had been tossed and turned several times was finally sent to the water gate in the north of the city - Guangding Gate, and Chen Xianyuan, who had been stunned for a long time, was in the hands of Chen Xianyuan, and then this thing together with the seal on it turned into ashes in the brazier, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The Caocheng Canal, the largest tributary of Luodu through the city, leads directly to the city from north to south from Baiyacang in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and flows into the city under the Guangding Gate.

Therefore, it is also one of the places where the Yellow River sailors and Caoying enter and exit, and the wharves and berths are located. It belonged to the key places of heavy defense of the Northern Dynasties, but this is already in the past.

With that, both the sailors and the Cao army had no room for movement, and they were either cut off from the outside, or abandoned the ship and landed on the shore and became one of the defenders of the infantry battle. Chen Xianyuan's subordinate leader is one of them.

As a protégé and one of the new promotions in the army, he should not have made such a disobedient idea. But before the disaster of destruction that can be seen with one's own eyes comes, there are still very few people who can still stand still.

Now that the lock of the eight passes is about to be broken, and in this situation where they are trapped in the city and do not know the way forward, except for the few who follow the Zhang family with the most determination and have no way out, many people have more or less come up with other ideas, but there is no way out and a chance to be the first.

Chen Xianyuan is one of the few who have the best disguise, and he has to consider seeking a way to survive himself and even keep his wealth and prosperity for himself and his relatives in the city, and to try and contact some strange elements in the army.

But he was still quite cautious about staying out of the matter, and let one of his cronies stand in the foreground, until a certain arrested activist confirmed a certain guarantee and condition outside the city, and then he really stood on the stage and personally handled these deadly deeds.

However, the great regent's dictatorship for many years has accumulated great power and involvement, so that he is still a little indecisive before taking a key step, and the name and background of many years of business are still not so easy to turn his back, or he needs to wait for the price and sell on a better condition.

But this time, with the confirmation of the change of hands of Heyang Bridge Pass, it became the last straw that overwhelmed his psychological defense. If he doesn't do something about it, it is estimated that there will be no conditions for such a first offering.

I am here to protect more of the people in the city, he said in a self-hypnotic comfort, and then formally issued an order to one of the cronies gathered around him, wearing armor.

However, with the strength and resources at Chen Xianyuan's disposal, even if he wants to do something in Kaicheng, it is not an easy task, and since the siege began,

In order to guard against possible capitulationist tendencies and covert opportunists, in such a critical place of entry and exit, several different subordinate units are combined, constituting some kind of means of mutual restraint and supervision.

However, because the north was not the focus of the southern army's attack, there were only a few ranger police posts, so the composition of the defenders was relatively simple, except for a part of the Cao army led by him, there was only one unity soldier from the north bank of Weizhou.

But he still didn't dare to take it lightly, he didn't untie his armor at night, and he conscientiously adhered to his job and didn't dare to slack off.

In fact, the only people who knew what he was secretly planning were a few cronies around him who were born in the guards, and then there were only a few people who were indirectly conspiring in the army through his subordinates.

For this decision, he had already installed them to secretly occupy and control some key points in the name of strengthening the city's defenses, which finally came in handy.

Then, after several hours of anxious waiting, until the wind and snow rose again in the dark of the night, a number of fires were lit on the empty and deep city as a signal.

After a suffocating wait and delay, almost disappointed, the silent surface of the river seemed to come alive in the darkness, and something rushed in like a budding beast, rushing in with the small sound of the river flowing.

Then, Chen Xianyuan found that this was not his illusion, it was a wooden raft full of unknown materials, slowly swimming down, and then crashing into the grid behind the opening of the Water Gate Cave in a dull manner, making some kind of stamping sound.

Then, the surging light of the fire suddenly steamed up on the iron-cast grid, and in an instant it illuminated a large part of the city wall, and swept away the darkness and coldness that had accumulated beneath the city.

It was actually a strategy to set fire to attack, Chen Xianyuan suddenly realized, but since he had reached this point, he had no way to turn back, because he had already taken this cronie to lock those soldiers who might be unstable in the barracks, and in a short time, no matter how big the movement was, he would not be able to rush out.

However, he can instruct his subordinates to open the water city gate, but there is no way to prevent the iron sluice gate that is directly inserted into the bottom of the river behind the water gate, because the sluice gate is locked from the inside, and the key to open the gate is directly in the hands of the generalissimo of Ouchi, which is also one of the insurance measures to prevent these defenders from attacking and engaging the enemy without authorization.

Not long after, in the midst of the flames and water vapor, the grid gradually melted and weakened, and under the heavy impact, it broke a large half of the gap, and slowly sank into the river with the lower half of the section

Along the burned water gate, followed by embers and sparks, the first to rush in from the wooden sign is a man with a discounted narwhal flag and light armor. However, it was one of the few sailors in the Southern Army, and they quickly scattered and climbed up, occupying the commanding heights and passages on both sides of the Water Gate.

By the way, Chen Xianyuan and his subordinates, who had been waiting for a long time, were invited to the side to rest, and then a large group of figures appeared on the surface of the Water Gate River made of wooden rows and nails, and swarmed towards the city along this temporary smooth road.

"Nankee has entered the city......"

When Lingbao Gong, who got the news, got up overnight, hurriedly dressed in military uniforms and climbed to the head of the Imperial City, looking in the direction of the North City,

I saw that in the dark night of wind and snow, with the faint sound of shouting and killing, the fire dragon gathered in the direction of the north of the city, which made people have an illusion that it was not real enough

"Panic what."

He seemed to encourage himself, and he seemed to be loudly relieved, "Everyone does his duty......

"It's just a corner of the northern city......"

"We also have Yuanbi City, Hanjiacang City, and East Jiacheng City......"

"Nancheng Guo is also under control......"

He quickly made a decision based on his prior ignorance.

"Order the Lingsheng Jiejun and Chenwei Army to self-Xuanrenmen, Tianwu Qianwei and Fenwei to defend from Guangdingmen, and quickly send troops to attack thieves"

"The Yaqian infantry army fortified in Zhufang north of Broken Pond, and by the way, the situation was ...... to be discovered."

It wasn't that he hadn't anticipated the worst-case scenarios and countermeasures, including the possibility of being pushed into a certain front after a bitter battle, but he wasn't particularly panicked. But he never expected that day and night defense, it was such a simple strategy to open a breakthrough in Beicheng.

Therefore, in the general direction of arrangement, it was a little unprepared.