"You are not a harrier, but you are also one of the few warriors in the clan, and your fathers sent you to Tongwan City, which means that you are a warrior in their eyes that represents the honor and bravery of the family, and they believe that you will not dishonor the glory and pride of your ancestors. But the old man tells you that if you want to live up to their expectations, you have to go into battle and kill the enemy. You must be able to endure the hardships that ordinary people can't endure, and you must be able to do things that ordinary people can't do. The army is far away, and the city now needs you to defend it, and since Helian Khan built it, she has never been captured, and no one has ever broken through him from the outside, no matter how strong the enemy may be. Three hundred years ago, there was a coward named Liang Shidu, who was frightened in front of the enemy and handed over this strong city in the world to others, are you such cowards? ”

The old body of King Arrow walked around the city wall, shouting at the defenders of the city as he walked, and at this moment the old man did not seem to see the slightest trace of time, and the gray beard seemed to only add a little power to him, and as far as the eye could see, even the thinnest soldier involuntarily straightened his chest, and no one wanted to be looked down upon in front of this legendary old man.

"Will the enemy attack the city at night?"

A childish voice asked.

King Aro stopped, turned his face to look at the location where the voice came from, his cold gaze swirled over the young warrior's body, and asked, "What's your name?" ""Tuoba Light Sequence—"

"It's the three cubs of the Yi Ping family......" A gentle smile appeared on King Luo's face.

"When your father followed me to guard the Qingling Gate, he was even younger than you are now, but he is not as easy to ask rap as you!"

Tuoba Guangxu lowered his head in shame, but unexpectedly heard King Luo say: "It's not a bad thing for young people to think more. Use your brains more to win more battles. You can't be a true warrior with great strength alone. You're good, better than your dad! ”

Tuoba Guangxu raised his head in surprise, but listened to King A Luo say: "If it is an ordinary enemy, there is no need to defend the city at night, the soldiers of the Han people are blind at night, and they can't walk without lighting torches." If we had lit torches, we would have seen them on the city walls, ten miles away. ”

He paused and said, "But." This attack is not an ordinary enemy army, it is the thief Li Wenge, who had plundered Yinzhou last year, this thief's soldiers are all fierce soldiers, not only dare to touch the black road, but also dare to touch the black siege city, Yinzhou is how lost. Although my Xia State is much stronger than the Silver State, I can't take it lightly. The thieves had the courage to attack the city at night. Don't we have the courage to defend the city at night? ”

As he spoke, a pivotal strode along the wide wall.

King Ah Luo recognized him at a glance as the guard of the northern city wall, and his heart was shocked, and he asked sharply, "How dare you leave your post without permission?" ”

But the cardinal ming was not afraid, and saluted and said: "Uncle, there is movement outside the northern city, it is very strange, we dare not open the city gate at night to check, so we have come to report to our uncle." ”

King Arrow was stunned. Some incredulously asked, "North?" ”

"It's the north!" Na Shuming replied with a wry smile.

This time, all the elites in the city were taken away by Tuoba Yi Yin, and King Luo only had more than 800 temporarily recruited soldiers left. These soldiers were organized into five pillars, two of which were placed in the southern city and one in the northern city, which supervised the inspection of the eastern and western walls, and two of which were placed in the middle of the city. Monitor and watch over those members of the Seal family who may be in trouble at any time.

King Luo's deployment is very normal, after all, Li Wenge's base is in the south, and it is most natural for him to come out from the plains in the south to attack Xiazhou. In fact, King Luo did not think that Li Wenge would directly attack Tongwancheng, Li Wenge only had 1,000 soldiers in his hands, and the most likely and safest way to use troops was to plunder several ethnic gathering areas in the south of Xiazhou, although the warning time of Tongwancheng was very short. But it wasn't caught off guard. Turn. If Li Wenge made a detour to attack Tongwancheng from the north, he would not only have to climb hundreds of miles in the Qiwu Mountains. I have to cross the Wuding River twice, detour such a long way, and cross the river, the physical strength of the soldiers has already been consumed, how can I still attack the city and fight?

But there was a strange movement in the north.

King Aro stood at the head of the city, listening intently to the movement of the city.

There were a lot of people breathing, and King Aro judged that there were at least a hundred people under the city to make a gasp of this magnitude.

And then there is the sound of a metal object touching the ground.

It is the sound of a large number of metal objects coming into contact with the ground.

There are enemies outside the city, this is already certain, and there is no need for their own people to sneak down to the city quietly.

At night, in order to prevent the target from being exposed, there were no lanterns and torches on the castle, and the soldiers defending the city basically moved on the city wall with their memories under the dim moonlight.

If you light a torch at this time, you will undoubtedly become a target for the enemy.

But King Aro didn't hesitate, he needed to find out what the enemy forces were doing outside the city.

At his command, a globular object soaked in grease that had been prepared was ignited at the head of the city, and then quickly thrown off the city.

Hiding behind the enemy tower, King Aro stared coldly at the city wall, and the fireball drew an arc and fell under the city, illuminating the figures of several soldiers who were hunched over and holding some kind of tool to perform some kind of movement.

The archers of the Tuoba family at the head of the city had already filled their bows, but without orders, they did not release arrows at these exposed targets.

King Luo's eyes narrowed.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

Two black shadows rushed up from the darkness, seemingly holding something in their hands, raised high, and after a burst of black fog, the fireball was extinguished, and the city was plunged into darkness again.

At that moment, the archers at the head of the city tightened their hands and almost released their arrows.

In the darkness, the soldiers in the city involuntarily looked in the direction of King Arrow, waiting for him to give orders.

But King Aro did not move.

At that moment, many people didn't understand what was happening, but King Arrow did.

It's dirt!

The enemy troops under the boiling city extinguished the fireball and ground fire in the shortest possible time with the earthen baskets that had been prepared long ago.

King Tengaro pondered for a moment. He pointed to the two corners of the wall.

The cardinal of the team led by Wen Na will understand. Immediately go down the enemy building to set up.

After learning much, two identical fireballs were ignited at the same time in the east and west.

At this moment, only to hear the sound of "whoosh" under the city, four crossbow arrows flew diagonally up to the city, nailing back the soldier who was about to throw the fireball in the east, and the fireball fell on the city, causing a small chaos.

The fireball from the east fell, and this time, there was no more prepared earthen basket near the fireball's landing point.

A figure raced towards the fireball that had fallen beneath the city. This time, without waiting for King Aro's order, the city's furious archers loosened their bowstrings and sent arrows.

The head of the city was nine zhang high from the bottom of the city, and the figure was only one zhang away from the city wall, and it was not easy to shoot, but five arrows fired in a volley, and two arrows still hit, and the figure was crooked. Fell crooked under the city, his body was still slowly moving in the direction of the fireball, and the archers who had finished shooting arrows at the head of the city were redrawing their arrows to aim for the reshoot, and the counterattack under the city arrived.

"Whoosh—" Four crossbow arrows came up from due north at a small angle, and no one was killed, but one of them pierced the arm of the archer in the center with the bow outstretched. The archer immediately abandoned his bow and staggered back.

The other four archers were immediately in good spirits, and almost simultaneously aimed their bows and arrows in the direction of the crossbow arrows that had just been fired, and the strings sounded several times. Four arrows were fired.

There was no sound in the distance, and it was clear that all four arrows had missed.

The fireball was too far away from this side for that light to fully illuminate the battlefield outside the city.

The wriggling body to the east finally approached the fireball, and a black mist began to rise around the fireball, and it was the soldier who was fighting the fire with his hand.

The archer was about to attack the stubborn soldier, and King Arrow waved his hand. Stopped the follow-up of the archers.

The fireball under the city was getting smaller and smaller, but there was a hint of confusion on King Luo's face.

Taking advantage of the chaos just now, King Arrow had already seen the situation in front of the city gate.

Dozens of ragged Yanzhou soldiers in infantry armor were digging hard in front of the city gates wielding strange-looking spade-like tools, and on either side of them, along the city walls, dozens of enemy soldiers were on guard with wooden guns in their hands.

In the shimmer, the heads of those digging tools glow with a metallic sheen. It should be a shovel, and King Aluo has never seen a sapper shovel in his life. To be able to understand to this extent is already the limit.

Although it is said that it is clear. King Arrow was even more confused.

What are the enemy forces doing?

In the siege tactics of this era, it is not excluded to dig the city wall, but that does not refer to the solid, thick and tall city of Tongwan City, if you want to dig a gap in the wall of Tongwan City, it is impossible to work without tens of thousands of people at the same time, even if Li Wenge has so many manpower, he is definitely not worthy of tens of thousands of shovels. In this era, iron tools were extremely precious, and tens of thousands of shovels and subways were enough to arm 20,000 to 30,000 infantry.

What's more, the enemy did not dig the city walls, but the ground in front of the city gates.

Could it be that the enemy is trying to dig a passage under the city gate that can rush in?

This is a more likely option than digging up walls.

However, unless the city is full of dead men, this method of warfare is useless.

How could the defenders remain indifferent to the enemy digging tunnels? As long as a hundred people are deployed inside the city gate, once these soldiers digging tunnels dig under the city gate, they will be equivalent to sending themselves into the ghost gate.

Digging tunnels shouldn't be so blatant......

At the very least, it should be dug up a hundred paces away from the city wall, which is not only safer, but also more conducive to secrecy.

What can be done by digging like this?

Digging like this, digging under the city gate is already the limit, and digging any more is to die, and it is impossible for those soldiers not to understand.

Knowing that it is a fatal errand, will there be soldiers to carry it out?

The party veteran was puzzled and not only that.

When did the enemy cross the uncertain river? If it is in the daytime, its scouts will not be invisible, and if it is at night, no matter how powerful Li Wenge is. How could a sufficient number of troops be crossed from the north shore to the south without raising torches?

The water of the Wuding River is much shallower than before. Standing in the river, people can barely show their heads.

But that doesn't mean you don't have to raise a torch to wade across the river.

The lights are dark, and there are no boats, and the landlubbers who have never been accustomed to water want to swim over?

That's a fool's dream......

Seven miles north of Tongwan City, there is no fixed river crossing

More than 30 large and small boats that had been tied to the south bank were now lined up across the river, and the boats had been paved with wooden planks, and a soldier stood on each of the two sections of each plank. With only the hazy moonlight and the dots of starlight overhead, the soldiers stumbled and walked, and from time to time someone stumbled. The soldiers standing on either side will then pull a handful at the right time. Ensure that the passage of the column crossing the river is not blocked.

Actually, even if you fall into the river, it's not a big deal!

In the daytime, the scouts of the Tuoba family would have been extremely surprised to see such a scene.

The pontoon bridge, which is made up of boats, is not floating on the river. The bottom of the boats was solidly stranded on the silt at the bottom of the river. Underneath the pontoon, it is already the bottom of the Wuding River.

That is, if a soldier falls into the river at this moment, as long as he holds up his arms. will not drown. The depth of the river is now at best not above the surface of the feet, not even the calves.

Such a shallow river can't drown anyone.

Li Wenge stood on the north bank of the river, listening to the mixed footsteps of the troops and the heavy breathing of the soldiers, and his eyes were calm.

"My lord, cross the river!" Shen Chen, who looked tired, walked over.

"The so-called half-crossing attack refers to the ground at this time, right?" Li Wenge's answer was not what he asked.

"In the art of war, it is said that attacking them in the middle of the river is a tactic that can only be performed in the daytime, taking advantage of the enemy's army to cross the river in a marching army. The attack was launched in an airframe where the military orders were not well communicated and the command structure of the enemy army was further broken up, and the strong enemy was turned into a rabble without command, and then each one was broken. This kind of battle can only be fought in the daytime, otherwise it should not be said to break up the enemy's army formation. In the dark night field battle, the size of the force is as many as 1,000 people, thank God if you don't mess up! Shen Chen retorted disapprovingly.

Li Wenge smiled lightly and did not take the conversation.

"Besides, Gui Zhi's cavalry is all deployed in the northeast, and if an enemy approaches, we can learn of the enemy situation two to three hours in advance, and have enough time to gather our troops and line up. Chaos at night. The more soldiers, the more trouble. The enemy's two or three thousand cavalry is likely to be confused by the two hundred cavalry of our army, who can communicate with each other with their military numbers. Tuoba Yiyin is to be more confident. This kind of battle is still not daring to be fought. ”

Li Wenge glanced at the south bank and said, "There seems to be movement in the direction of Tongwancheng just now?" ”

Shen Chen said disapprerovingly: "Swaggering to dig people's city gates, unless the defenders are all dead, it is inevitable to be discovered!" ”

Li Wenge sighed: "There are only more than 100 people in the hands of the fine seal, in case the defenders go out of the city to fight at night, it will be troublesome!" ”

Shen Chen said expressionlessly: "To fight such a big battle, it is also appropriate to take some risks." But if I am a defender, and I don't know the truth in the night, and I will never open the gates of the city rashly, that is what the enemy wants most. ”

Li Wenge smiled bitterly: "This risk is not small, if it fails, don't say that we can only go around the ten thousand cities, the most terrible thing is that there are only so many things in total, and all the fine seals are brought, and there is no backhand." That thing is a siege weapon, and once it falls into the hands of the enemy, I am afraid that we will be in trouble in the future! ”

Shen Chen pursed his lips disapplauded: "After all, it is still a human being to fight, although that thing is wonderful, it is just a dead thing after all, it's okay to scare and scare people, if you have to rely on that thing to fight a war, is there a so-called famous general in this world?" Li Wenge turned around and glanced at him, and said with a wry smile: "I know you don't believe it, but one day, that thing will end the so-called era of famous generals." ”

Shen Chen was stunned for a moment: "End the era of famous generals? ”

Li Wenge shook his head: "I am not a weaponist, I also believe that no matter how sharp a weapon is, it will eventually be used by people, and talent is the soul of weapons." But you won't understand, the power of that thing, you are still far from seeing, and when you can see it, I am afraid that your perception of the so-called famous generals in your hearts will be completely rewritten......"

He paused and said seriously: "In the future era, whoever can use that thing well will be a famous general; The so-called famous generals of this era, in front of that thing, will soon cease to be famous generals......"