Shen Yiwei walked into the hall lightly, knelt on the ground, and said respectfully: "Back to the Holy Heaven, there are several wells in the city that have suddenly dried up. ”

"Well water is running out?" Dingwu frowned, "What's the matter?" ”

Shen Yiwei lowered his head, "These depleted wells are all close to the city wall, and the people were still using the clean water in the wells yesterday, but this morning, the well water has dropped rapidly, and not long ago, the well water of several wells was all dried up. ”

"In one day, the well will run dry?" Dingwu was stunned for a moment, but he also felt that this matter was extremely strange, and his brows were locked.

This is, of course, a vision, and a very bad sign.

Xuanyuan Shao was also a little surprised, and asked Shenyiwei: "But someone deliberately sabotaged the city?" ”

He naturally remembered that the disciples of the Heart Sect of Lady Liuli may still be in the city now, these people are incompatible with the Qin State, and now is the very time, maybe these disciples of the Heart Sect are already acting in secret, deliberately destroying the facilities in the city, making the Wuping Mansion City, which was already in chaos, even more chaotic.

Shenyi Wei raised his head slightly and said, "We have sent people to search around the city, but we have not found the whereabouts of those people yet. If they want to destroy the water, they may be able to poison the well, but they will never be able to pump it out. According to our investigation, the well water began to drop early this morning, and no one paid attention to it at the beginning, but the water level fell very fast, and there was a well that someone saw the well water sink to the bottom of the well! ”

Xuanyuan Shao's lips moved, his eyebrows locked tighter, and at this moment, he heard a burst of laughter, turned his head to look, but saw that it was Dingwu laughing loudly.

"Holy!"

"Xuanyuan, why do you think the well water is running out?" Dingwu asked Xuanyuan Shao with a smile.

Xuanyuan Shao saw Dingwu's eyebrows stretched, but he hadn't figured it out for a while, he naturally couldn't say that this was a warning from the sky, but a great bad omen, indicating that the city of Wuping Mansion was more auspicious.

"Tursh will soon be attacking the city, and they will be swarming in no time today and tomorrow." Dingwu quickly smiled and said coldly: "I just said that I won't let the people wait too long, maybe!" He didn't continue, but stood up, walked slowly to the door of the hall, put his hands behind his back, and looked up at the sky, at this time the sky was already a little dim, although there was still a period of time before dusk, but the winter in the north was less days and longer nights, and before dusk, the sky was already a little dark, Xuanyuan Shao followed Dingwu's side, and then heard Dingwu continue: "Maybe this is their last attack." ”

"The Holy Lord is saying that this is their last attack?" Xuanyuan Shao asked.

A sneer appeared on Dingwu's lips, and instead of answering, he asked, "Xuanyuan, haven't you figured out why the well water in the city is running out?" ”

"Please also ask the Holy Majesty to make it clear!"

"It wasn't a natural disaster, it was a man-made disaster." Dingwu said slowly: "It's just that it's not that there are people in the city who destroy it, if I don't guess wrong, it's a means of barbarians." ”

"Barbarians?"

Dingwu glanced at Xuanyuan Shao: "Since the last time the barbarians failed to attack the city, they have not launched an attack, and they have been making siege weapons outside the city with great fanfare, I thought they were waiting for the siege weapons to be made, and then concentrate their forces to launch an offensive, but now it seems that these barbarians are also cunning, they deliberately use the manufacture of siege weapons to attract our attention, but there is a great conspiracy behind it." ”

Xuanyuan Shao had been frowning and thinking, and at this time, his body suddenly shook, as if he had just woken up, and said in a deep voice: "Holy Lord, are they going to dig tunnels?" ”

"Not bad." Dingwu said: "Mingli is making siege weapons, but in fact, secretly he sent people to dig tunnels, wanting to steal into the city from underground, and when the time comes, while we are defending the city, they enter the city from the tunnels. ”

After all, Xuanyuan Shao is also a shrewd person, and he has already understood the strangeness: "They have already dug the city wall, but they have dug through the underground water source, which has caused the well water to drop or even dry up!" ”

Dingwu sneered: "Fortunately, the depletion of the well water has given us a wake-up call, otherwise I really didn't expect them to take advantage of this trick." Tu Shi has even come up with this move, and this attack must be with all his might. The barbarian alliance is a tribal alliance, and I guess that the previous siege failed, and there will definitely be contradictions between the barbarian tribes, they have lost their troops and lost their generals, and there is a shortage of logistics, so it is impossible to support it for too long. If the siege fails this time, even if Tushi still wants to fight, the other tribes will not continue to follow him, so as long as he can hold it this time, Wuping Mansion City can be temporarily turned into a disaster. ”

Xuanyuan Shao bowed slightly, but there was no joy at all.

He knew very well that if this was really the last attack of the barbarians, then this attack would be the last fight of the other party, and they would not be willing to withdraw their troops, and they would definitely launch the last round of offensive at any cost, and this last round of offensive would be unprecedentedly ferocious.

"Holy Lord, the barbarians are digging tunnels, and the ministers will take people to find out where the tunnels are now!"

Dingwu had already shook his head and said: "Don't worry, now it may make Sudden Shi change his plan, since they want to make the last fight, I will accompany them to play this last time." He said in a deep voice: "Zhao Zimouse! ”

The god cloth guard was indeed Zhao Zirat of the hundred households, and immediately said: "The minister is here!" ”

"Now you have to take someone to collect water tanks in the city, and then bury half of them under the base of the city wall, with the steel mouth facing up, so that you can find out where the tunnels are from the water tanks." Dingwu said slowly: "Find out where the tunnel is, you will track where the tunnel leads, if the barbarian army attacks the city tonight, they will inevitably sneak into the city from the tunnel, you arrange manpower, and then let these barbarians have no return." ”

Zhao Zirat arched his hand and said: "The minister understands! "For this kind of thing, Shen Yiwei is naturally handy, Dingwu doesn't need to talk about how to deal with it, Zhao Zirat already has a plan in his heart.

Xuanyuan Shao was a little surprised: "The Holy Lord originally knew such a method. ”

Ding Wu said with a smile: "Don't forget, I fought with General Lei back then, and I learned a lot from his old man!" Thinking that Lei Guheng had already died in battle, a trace of gloom crossed his eyes.

Dingwu saw through the tricks of the barbarians, and Tu Shi naturally knew nothing, in his opinion, this move was unaware of the ghosts, and it was the killer weapon of this siege.

If siege weapons once gave him hope of breaking the city, now he has pinned his best hope for breaking the city in a few tunnels.

Tu Shi is a person who is good at playing tricks, although it is stipulated that the tunnel must be dug into the city within ten days, but he has never tried such a siege method, whether the tunnel can really be dug within ten days, even he himself is not sure, and for him, one more day, not only morale will be weakened, even the food will be lost, the sooner the tunnel is dug, the sooner the city can be broken.

Because of this, he issued an order, assigned a large number of captives to dig into a dozen teams, and at the same time to dig in the direction of the city for more than ten days, day and night, in order to stimulate these captives to go all out, Tushi Khan told these people that whoever can dig the tunnel first into the city, not only can all the captives who dig this tunnel be free, but also can be rewarded with gold and silver, if anyone is too slow and falls behind others, they will all be killed.

Those who are fast are free and rewarded, while those who are slow are to be put to death, and the captives have no choice but to dig forward day and night.

Digging tunnels is of course an extremely hard work, in addition to someone in front of the exploration and excavation, the back also needs to transport the excavated soil out of the tunnel, the tunnel is not only deep, but also as spacious as possible, among the captives there are all kinds of talents, in addition to craftsmen and carpenters, there are really some masters who know how to dig tunnels, these people under the heavy reward of the sudden Shi, but also for their own lives, into the tunnel command.

Among the captives, more and more people starved to death, and fortunately, Tushi needed some manpower to make siege weapons, cut and transport timber, and also needed a large number of people to dig underground passages in rotation, so some of the small food was allocated to make some of the captives barely survive.

It's just that in addition to the strong men among the captives, there are also many eunuchs and palace maids, and the barbarians selected strong people to stay and continue to contribute, but almost all the eunuchs and palace maids have starved to death, and many of them were tortured to death by the barbarians.

He thought that it would take ten days or more to dig under the city, but before it was ten days, he had already received the news that two of the tunnels had been dug into the city.

The foundation of the city wall of Wuping Mansion is very deep, when the tunnel is dug to the bottom of the city, it will encounter the foundation of the city wall, which is solid and firm, and it is naturally impossible to pass through, so they can only continue to dig down, dig out a U-shaped tunnel, avoid the foundation of the city wall, but it is precisely because they have encountered the foundation of the city wall, so that they know their excavation progress.

When Tushi Khan learned that the tunnel had been dug through, he was naturally overjoyed.

This time he didn't wait, the last time the siege weapon was made partially, he couldn't wait, so he suffered a big loss.

There are lessons from the past, but Tu Shi is much calmer this time.

This is also because he knows the fact that no matter whether he succeeds or fails, in this move, this is his last chance, once he successfully breaks the city, he will naturally become famous all over the world, but once he fails, the barbarian tribes will never give themselves a second chance.

The last siege failed, the tribes quarreled, many tribes had to withdraw their troops and return to the grassland, Tushi barely suppressed, but he could only promise to launch a final attack, if the attack could not break the city, he could only withdraw his troops.

Because of this, Tushi naturally cherishes the last opportunity very much, and does not dare to launch an offensive easily until the best time.

These days, a lot of siege weapons have been made, although almost all the ladders made before have been burned, but Tu Shi is stubborn that the fuel in the city is only afraid that it has been used up in the last siege war, even if there is still fuel in the city, the number will not be too much, this time the ladders made are more than double the last time, hundreds of ladders have been piled up, with the stone throwing carts placed in the wilderness, which has greatly restored the confidence of Tu Shi to be severely hit last time.