The ballista was destroyed, and the thunderbolt on the opposite side was still frantically throwing boulders, smashing Yuan Shao's front village to pieces.

In desperation, Yuan Shao had no choice but to abandon the front village, and ordered the battalion to retreat more than 100 steps back and retreat beyond the range of the thunderbolt car.

suffered big losses at the hands of Lu Zhi one after another, Yuan Shao was furious, and asked the subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

The judge made another plan and said, "Since it can't be done on the ground, why doesn't the lord make some articles underground?" ”

"Underground?"

The judge nodded, he grabbed a handful of soil from the inside of the tent, and said: "The soil in Henan is soft and easy to excavate, so it is better to dig a tunnel that leads directly to the center of Guandu Dazhai." When the tunnel was dug into a recreation, more than 1,000 dead soldiers took advantage of the night to riot, directly took the big tent of the Chinese army, and burned its grain. Our army will again take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack from the periphery, and the battle will be decided in one fell swoop. ”

Yuan Shao stroked his palms and laughed, "According to Zhengnan's plan, Lu Zigan's death is not far away!" Then Zhonglang was ordered to handle the excavation of the tunnel.

Yuan Shao attached great importance to the excavation of the tunnel, and sent someone to inquire about the progress of the project every half an hour. The superiors attached great importance to the subordinates and naturally worked hard, Tao Sheng supervised the work day and night, digging dozens of steps a day, and the tunnel soon broke through the walled gate of the surface church and penetrated deep into the interior of the church's official camp.

As mentioned above, there is a special branch of the church army called "Wangzi". Most of the people who became watchers were people with excellent eyesight, and the church was assisted by telescopes to make them lookouts in the army to observe the movements of enemy troops and measure the distance between them.

In addition to the "Wangzi", there is also a special class of troops in the church army, called "Tingzi". The so-called "listening" refers to some people in the army who have outstanding ear skills, and use their powerful hearing to detect the enemy's situation, so as to prepare for the enemy first.

Lu Zhi's army now has a large number of "listeners" who are on duty day and night in turns, responsible for monitoring the movements of the enemy. Among these many "listeners", there is a person named "Thin Monkey". This thin monkey was originally an orphan - nameless and surnameless, he was lonely since he was a child, wandering around in Yanzhou, living by begging, others saw that he looked thin like an ape, so he gave him the nickname "thin monkey", and after a long time, "thin monkey thin monkey" was called, and it became his name.

When Skinny Monkey was 16 years old, Luan Yi brought the Church of Our Lady to Yanzhou and helped many poor people in Yanzhou. Skinny monkeys are among them. He not only received new clothes and relief food in the church, but also obtained the right to cultivate more than 50 acres of holy land for free for one year, and married a daughter-in-law the next year with the help of a priest.

So, in gratitude for the great kindness of the Church, he joined the Holy Church army and became a guard in front of the Basilica of Our Lady. When he first joined the church army, he was very useless because he was short and small, he could not carry a shield and his gun was unstable. Just as the lieutenant was about to withdraw him from the barracks, someone came to the door and said that he had excellent hearing and that he was to be trained to be a listener.

As it is written, "Our Lady closes a door for a man and opens a window at the same time." "The skinny monkey is not physically good, but he has surprisingly good hearing, and he quickly trains to become an outstanding listener in the church army. He has made great contributions in many battles in the past, including a third-class meritorious service and a bronze cross awarded by Luan Yi himself.

Until now, the thin monkey still dreams of the loving expression on the face of the sect leader on the day the medal was awarded......

On this day, the skinny monkey returned to his tent to sleep after his daily duty (i.e., the day shift) as usual. He has a habit of sleeping, not pillowing high, but pillowing a hollow leather pillow with a copper frame as the bone and cowhide on the outside. This kind of pillow was created by the sect leader, and the name is: Listening pillow - nicknamed gourd. It is actually a device specially equipped for the auditor, and its structure is somewhat similar to that of a stethoscope. When there is a movement of the surrounding army, the cowhide and bronze bone on the ear pillow will resonate with the earth, so as to broaden the hearing range of the ear and detect the military situation in advance.

As a prop, the listener is generally used when he is on duty, and he still uses a straw pillow to sleep on weekdays. And out of a strong sense of responsibility, the thin monkey is accustomed to carrying it all the time, and even sleeps with a "listening pillow" to sleep, and puts his ears against the cowhide to fall into a dream, just dreaming of the plot of Luan Yi awarding him a medal, but there is an empty sound of metal knocking in his ears. He immediately realized that there was an enemy, and Gu Lu got up from the couch and recalled carefully, the sound should be near the northern wall, but when he went out to check the wall, it was quiet, and there was nothing abnormal. He took out the listening pillow and listened to it for a while, the voice was still there, and he couldn't help but wonder, "It's strange, where did the sound come from?" ”

He lay down and listened for a while, the sound of the air still ringing non-stop, he pondered for a while before guessing that the sound came from the ground, and immediately reported this place to Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong knew that the matter was big, so he invited all the "listeners" to listen. As a result, all "listeners" indicated that they did not hear any unusual movements.

In the face of the doubts of his peers, the thin monkey insisted on his own opinion and guaranteed with his life that there would definitely be abnormal movements underground.

Huang Zhong saw that the thin monkey swore so much, and immediately reported the matter to Lu Zhi and Xu Shu.

Combined with the performance of Yuan Jun's repeated defeats in the past few days, Lu Zhi and Xu Shu also felt that Yuan Shao was likely to use the trick of digging tunnels in order to break through their own solid defense line. Thinking of this, Lu Zhi was shocked into a cold sweat. As the so-called Jiancheng was destroyed in it, if it weren't for the thin monkey to find out in advance, it would really be a big deal for Yuan Shao to dig up to the center of Dazhai. So he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly discussed the countermeasures. For the tunnel, the most effective way to deal with it is undoubtedly to set up an ambush at the entrance of the tunnel, wait for the Yuan army to break through the ground, attack it in groups, and wipe it out.

However, relying on the hearing of the thin monkey alone, he could not hear the direction of Yuan Shao's tunnel. In other words, you can't detect the location of the other party's tunnel entrance. In fact, to be more precise, even Yuan Jun, who was underground, didn't know where their tunnel mouth was, and they were digging purely in one direction, roughly digging the corresponding distance. I guess it's almost there, and then dig into the ground. Therefore, the method of guarding the tunnel entrance obviously does not work, so another method can only be used, that is, digging a horizontal deep ditch on the north side of the inner village to intercept Yuan Shao's tunnel.

Lu Zhi knew that time was pressing, so he immediately organized people to start work overnight. Compared with the tunnel, the amount of work of the deep ditch is much smaller, and it only took one day and night to complete a deep ditch more than one zhang deep.

At this time, Yuan Jun's tunnel was also in the final stage. In this dark night when he couldn't see his fingers, Tao Sheng held a knife in one hand and a fire in the other, and bent over in the tunnel to direct the soldiers to dig the soil. At this time, in order to avoid making too much noise in the tunnel, he ordered that the soldiers were forbidden to use shovels to dig the earth, and instead used wooden shovels and hands to dig. The soil in Henan is soft, and the project is very smooth, and at this speed, it will not take half an hour to dig into the camp of the Chinese army in the church Guandu.

He secretly made a wish that the exit to the tunnel would be hidden in a hidden place that the Church guards could not discover. That way, he and his dead men could dig out of the ground and kill people and set fires everywhere without even noticing. Of course, it would be better if the hole was dug skillfully enough to go straight to the big tent of Lu Zhi's army, so that Lu Zhi could easily be killed, and Lu Zhi would die and the army of the Holy Mother of God would collapse without a fight.

It's just a pity that it's almost impossible. They can't accurately grasp the location of the hole, they are completely relying on estimation to dig, and no one knows where the hole will be.

After thinking about it, a soldier came to report to Tao Sheng, saying that according to the measurement, the tunnel was about to enter the military village in the church.

Tao Sheng was overjoyed and ordered the diggers to turn around and dig upwards instead. At the same time, more than 1,000 dead soldiers behind him took up arms and were ready to fight at any time.

The tunnel suddenly became eerily quiet, and the soldier in charge of digging the soil was cautious, one after another, digging lightly and lightly, and then knocking the excavated soil into the basket and passing it behind him, until it reached the entrance, and lined up outside the cave.

Soldiers also placed wooden pillars on both sides of the newly dug tunnels to increase the load-bearing.

The wooden shovel continued to dig, and after dozens of slashes, it made an ethereal sound.

Tao Sheng knew that the hole had been dug. He immediately pushed the digger to the ground, and shrunk down to the mouth of the cave to listen. There was silence outside the cave, and there was no noise except for the wind, proving that the people on the other side of the church had not noticed them. He let out a long breath and waved his hand at the dead man behind him, and took the lead in the cave with a long knife in his hand.

However, as soon as he walked out of the cave, he realized that something was wrong, and instead of mountains of grain and grass and tightly connected tents, he was faced with a deep ravine. He was now standing in the middle of a trench surrounded by hay, brimstone, and other flammable materials.

Countless church guards stood on the edge above the ravine, staring at him like fools. As one of the church generals gave the order, "Shoot the arrows!" A dense stream of rockets slashed at him and set him up as a sieve on the spot.

The rocket then ignited the sulfur and hay, and some of the poisonous weeds that would emit poisonous smoke when ignited, and the poisonous smoke poured into the tunnel, making the Yuan soldiers dizzy, and their legs were weak, and they couldn't run. In just one stick of incense, thousands of Yuan soldiers were put down by the poisonous smoke and died foaming at the mouth.

It is a pity that this group of dead soldiers of the Yuan army spent four days and nights working day and night to dig out the tunnel, but in the end it became their mausoleum.

Yuan Shao didn't know that all the dead soldiers he sent died in the self-dug "grave". At this time, he was standing on the high wall of Dazhai, silently waiting for the moment when the church official crossed the center of Dazhai with the 30,000 pioneers who were ready to go.

At the third watch, there was chaos in the church village, and the flames soared into the sky.

Yuan Shao also said that it was Tao Sheng's success. Immediately ordered the thunder drum to march. The drum beat, the army came out together, lit the torch and went straight to Guandu Dazhai. has been fighting more than 200 steps, and the church Dazhai is already close at hand, but he has not encountered even a trace of resistance.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed, thinking that there was a great chaos in the church and he couldn't care about the gate of the village, but when he was infinitely happy, he heard a rapid gong sound.