The siege of the city day and night is endless, more than 100 trebuchets lined up outside the Dongqing Gate are constantly throwing stones, and more than 100 pounds of stones are falling on the city wall like raindrops.

As the boulders fell, the city wall began to crumble little by little, and the green bricks on the surface were first smashed and turned into dust, and then the rammed earth under the green bricks was exposed......

Lotte organized the siege soldiers into six squads to maintain the catapult drop, and the two shifts were responsible for eight hours of rotation, and when the catapult broke, it was immediately pulled aside and replaced with a new one in order to form a superior blow to the city wall.

In the Tang Dynasty, the ancients built the city wall or rammed earth for the wall or adobe to build the wall, and after the Tang Dynasty, the brick-making technology was developed, and the method of brick-wrapping began to be used to build the city wall, that is, the outer layer was filled with loess with green bricks, so that the rammed earth wall built in this way was much stronger. However, in the Tang and Song dynasties, bricks were still relatively valuable and could not be widely used, and only a few important cities or fortresses could build such brick and mud walls.

The continuous attack made the soldiers of this section of the city wall near Dongqingmen feel that their feet were shaking, and they watched the official army attacking the city with cool artillery but there was no way to support it, and even the section of the city wall attacked by the official army was being cut down at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Looking at the city wall that had obviously been cut down a few feet, Fang Qifo was even more worried and helpless, and had the intention to send troops from Chongxin Gate and Changshan Gate to burn the trebuchet of the Song army, but when he thought that there were only 20,000 horses under his command, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops outside the city, he immediately gave up this idea.

Fang La retreated, Lotte is not anxious, Fang La will immediately kill back to Hangzhou after gathering soldiers and collecting grain and grass, whether it can break the city quickly is very important, but if the whole army tries its best to attack the city, after spending great effort to break the city, the heavy loss is also the consequence that he cannot bear, otherwise the losses of his subordinates are too heavy, how to face Fang La's attack on Hangzhou after the restoration of the Yuan.

It is more and more important to burn the food and grass of the army in the city, and Lotte is becoming more and more anxious.

For two days and two nights, the city wall was smashed uninterruptedly, and the stones piled up inside and outside the city wall were several zhang high, if they continued to pile up, sooner or later, one day would be level with the increasingly low city wall, so that the Song army did not even need a ladder to attack the city, which made Fang Qifo more and more anxious, and had to deploy all the reserve machines to defend the city near this section of the city wall, to deal with the attacks that the imperial court officials and soldiers might launch at any time.

In the past two days, Lotte has also climbed high and looked far away every day, looking at the city of Hangzhou from the gem mountain by the West Lake, looking forward to the fire of the city's righteous army's grain production.

To capture Hangzhou, Lotte can use fire to attack, no need to use Kong Ming lanterns, just throw cans of fire oil into Hangzhou City, shoot a rocket, and the wooden city houses in Hangzhou City will immediately ignite a skyrocket, turning Hangzhou into a sea of fire, and the righteous army will naturally collapse itself.

Hangzhou has already experienced a war to burn the city, the people have been miserable enough, if you come again, the people do not know how much to suffer, and their parents, who were once in charge of Hangzhou government affairs, do not know what kind of infamy to bear. Because of this, what was originally a simple thing has become complicated.

At first, Lotte didn't care, thinking that the people of the city were burying the pot to make rice, but I thought it was wrong, Hangzhou City was besieged for nearly 20 days, and the people of the city still had a few families with food, at most the righteous army lit the fire to cook porridge and soldiers to fill the hunger.

I was very happy that the eyes of heaven emitted light, and I saw that the original curling green smoke became thicker, and as time passed, it finally turned into billowing black smoke and rushed into the sky......

Huang Kanzhen ran over in a hurry and shouted loudly: "Master Hou, look at the direction is the granary of the city rebellion army!" ”

Lotte's face was already full of smiles.

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The officers and soldiers attacked day and night outside the Dongqing Gate, and suddenly the granary caught fire, so that Fang Qifo was hit hard, and he couldn't speak for a long time, and the granary fire was obviously not an accident when he checked the granary, it was someone who deliberately set it on fire, and the granary was poured with fire oil, and the fire was not easy to extinguish after ignition, but it was found that the extinguishing was timely, and now there are only 30,000 or 40,000 catties of grain left, and it is just enough to boil porridge for three days at most, and the grain and grass in Hangzhou City will be cut off after three days.

After the granary fire, the stone bombardment of the eastern youth by the officials and troops in the past few days also ended, and Fang Qifo quickly realized that the siege was just a pretense, and the officers and soldiers were to divert the attention of themselves and the generals, and the real purpose was to cover for the burning of grain and grass.

The granary caught fire, and the generals under the command of the Seven Buddhas of their own side gathered to find a way to deal with it.

For a long time, no one said a word, and the atmosphere in the Shuai Mansion was a little embarrassing and depressing.

Seeing this scene, Fang Qifo became more and more anxious: "Could it be that you all have no choice?" ”

Fan Baishun, the general under his command, arched his hand and said: "Fang Shuai, the last general has something to say, but please don't blame Fang Shuai!" ”

"And speaking of which, whether it's right or wrong, Ben Shuai will not be held accountable, and the enemy is currently brainstorming!" Fang Qifo nodded.

After getting permission, Fan Baishun said directly: "According to the last general, Hangzhou City can't be defended, and the commander should withdraw!"

Fan Baishun's voice fell, Fang Qifo was silent, although his heart knew that what Fan Baishun said was correct, but his heart was really unwilling, he was defeated in two battles and two defeats in the hands of Lotte, this time there will be another big breakthrough and big rout?

When Fang Qifo was thinking, his general Hou Ping arched his hand and said: "Yes, Dashuai, the city is cut off from grain and grass, and it is better to lead the army to break through than to lead the army to break through, after all, it is related to the lives of more than 20,000 brothers. ”

Another general under his command said: "Marshal, the Qiantang River is blocked by the Lotte Mandate Water Army, and our army scouts can't cross the river at all, not only the news of asking for help can't reach Qiantang Jiangnan, but the generals of Jiangnan can't rush to help Hangzhou when they get the news of asking for help, because there are no available boats to cross the river on the Qiantang River, that is, the generals of Jiangnan build boats, and they have to fight fiercely with the imperial navy. ”

"Boss, break through!"

"Yes, Fang Shuai, what the generals said is very reasonable!"

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Immediately, the echo of the voices of the generals under his command rose one after another, obviously all the generals of the righteous army knew that this Hangzhou city could not be defended.

After thinking for a long time, Fang Qifo exhaled a long breath and commanded: "Gather your subordinates and break through at Qingbo Gate tonight!" ”

"Yes!"

The generals under his command answered, and they were busy returning to the barracks to prepare.

"Wait!" Fang Qifo called a group of generals and said: "The matter of retreating tonight, and I don't know about it with my subordinates, the city has been mixed into the imperial court to do it carefully, if the officials and soldiers know, we will be more auspicious." ”

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"Master Hou, Fang Qifo has moved in the city!"

The military tent, Huang Kanjian came in to report.

"What's the situation!" Lotte asked, putting down the book in his hand.

Huang Kan said: "The news that came out of the city just now said that today the Seven Buddhas of Baijian Fang convened all the generals under their command to discuss the matter, and in the evening, Gangliang changed the gruel from the past to dry rice, and at nightfall, he removed all the sandbags blocked in the Qingbo Gate, thinking that he was going to give up Hangzhou and break through from here." ”

The city of Hangzhou is at a sensitive time, and it is obvious that it is not possible to use pigeons to transmit information during the day, and only after nightfall can it be sent out with carrier pigeons.

Hangzhou City's Imperial City Division detectives lurked in Fang La's army, the source is naturally accurate, Lotte immediately recruited a group of generals under his command to discuss matters, and ordered people to do a good job of ambush in the area of Fangjiayu, Yuhuang Mountain, and Daci Mountain, and wait for Fang Qifo to lead the army to retreat here to intercept and kill.

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At that time, the Qingbo Gate was slowly opened in the night, and a group of rebels left the Qingbo Gate and headed southwest.

The grain and grass in the city were cut off, Fang Qifo had to lead the troops to break through the city, in Fang Qifo's view, this is the place where the imperial court officials and soldiers are weak, as long as they break through from here, the west of Hangzhou is full of lofty mountains, and the officials and soldiers can no longer help themselves.

As Fang Qifo expected, after leaving the Qingbo Gate, he attacked the official army Rong Village, and when he was caught off guard, the official army was killed and defeated, and they scattered in all directions.

The small victory in front of him is not what Fang Qifo cares about, what Fang Qifo cares about is to quickly lead the troops out to Fangjiayu, only to get more and more Jade Emperor Mountain and Daci Mountain, completely safe.

Led the troops to march in a hurry, and when Fang Qifo just moved forward to Fangjiayu, he only heard the shouts in front of him, and suddenly a torch was lit, and there were already court officials and soldiers in front of him.

Knowing that it was not so simple to break through the encirclement of the official army, a big battle was inevitable, and Fang Qifo led the army to rush towards the official army.

When he was one hundred and ten paces away from the official army, the sound of breaking the air sounded, and a wave of arrows rained down from the sky, enveloping the rushing rebels......

The screams of arrows and the sound of falling to the ground continued, and no one could see the expressions of the wounded or dead rebels in the dark night. The rebels only knew that they were trapped here, and there was only one way to die, and the officers and soldiers were ordered not to let these thieves escape.

The bloody battle continues......

Now these righteous soldiers are different from the righteous army half a month ago, half a month ago, the righteous soldiers were encouraged by Lotte, and heard that the imperial court dealt with the soldiers who made a mess, as long as they laid down their weapons, they would not blame the past, and their minds were shaken and they went home early to farm, and now these righteous soldiers are not hardcore Manichaean believers, but have a deep bitter enmity with the government, how can these people believe in the imperial court, and how can they be willing to be ruled by the imperial court.

The generals and soldiers of the forbidden army, who had not fought with the rebels for more than 20 days, and wanted to make meritorious contributions and wanted to go crazy, had already been fighting with their hands, and the rebels were now fighting against the water, and if they did not die, they would live, and each side wanted to put the other party to death.

The cruelty of the battle in front of him has long surpassed the previous three confrontations between the official army and the righteous army.

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The early morning sun sprinkled on the city of Hangzhou, the people of Hangzhou who got up early had the strength to open their doors, and suddenly saw that the city of Hangzhou had changed, and the soldiers and soldiers who were originally patrolling the streets suddenly raised the banner of the imperial court, and then looked at the head of Hangzhou, the big flag of the city was not the word "square", but the dragon flag representing the Song Dynasty.

What's going on? The people of the entire Hangzhou city were stunned, and there was no movement at night, this Hangzhou city changed the sky, could it be that the righteous army defender Fang Qifo surrendered to the imperial court?

When the people of Hangzhou were stunned, officials and soldiers suddenly beat gongs on the streets, saying that each person in Hangzhou could go to the government to receive two liters of rice for disaster relief......

And such a good thing? The people of the city don't believe it, but they can't help but see, the official army has besieged the city for more than 20 days, many people in Hangzhou City have broken their cooking at home, cats, dogs, sparrows and even rats have been caught to satisfy their hunger, and the people who have not broken their cooking are also planning to spend their days with their fingers crossed, boiling a big pot of gruel for a few or two meters a day to let the whole family hang their lives, but it is just a matter of lingering, and I heard how the government can not be active in releasing grain.

When receiving the grain, I finally saw the notice released by the official dungeon, and the official army regained the city of Hangzhou yesterday.

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