Flowing fire in July, clothing in September. (

It is already more than half of October, and the first snow has begun to fall in the eastern capital at this time, but the weather in Nanzhong is still like spring; You need to wear two or three clothes in the morning and evening, but at noon you can go out with just one dress.

On the night of October 15, the moonlight sprinkled like mercury on the mountains outside the Ironclad Fort.

In the middle of the moon, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded from the north of the coalition camp.

"Is this the arrival of the King of Nanzhong? After all, he didn't keep his promise that day. Su You had this guess in his heart, and after a while, a scout came to report, and sure enough, it was Jian Guoming who came to the moon.

It turned out that as early as seven or eight days ago, Su You led two thousand soldiers to rush out of Lincang City and force back Duan Ruqi's army to send back to Dali. He inquired again and again, and learned that the 50,000 troops led by Showa and Biyun had not yet arrived at the Burmese Ning Pass, and he immediately became energetic.

Su You retreated twenty times the enemy with 2,000 people, this is really terrifying, right? At that time, if the coalition army had arrived in Lincang City at that time, would they not properly crush the rebels?

With this thought, Jian Guoming can no longer sit still in Dali; After a day of hard work, he finally led four or five hundred guards to rush to Lincang City. Along the way, there was exciting news from the front, so the footsteps of Jian Guoming were also very fast, and the road of more than 1,000 miles was completed in only five or six days.

After Fu Guoming led the escort to the coalition camp, Ji Guozhao and Biyun and others stepped forward to greet him.

At this moment, Jian Guoming was naturally grateful to his sister Biyun for going on his behalf, even if he was usually unpleasant, he looked very comfortable at this time. As soon as he was in a happy mood, he immediately promised a reward to the soldiers around him, and the camp was boiling for a while.

It's a little regrettable that Ji Guoming didn't see Su You come out with his people, but it's clear when you think about it.

After all, Su You is considered to be the envoy of the kingdom, and this is the time for him to boost his morale, if Su You comes out, what kind of face should he treat him?

Thinking about the past when he asked Ken to bring a message to the Great Sui Imperial Court to ask for canonization, Jian Guoming couldn't help frowning, presumably if Su You didn't appear now, it would also give him more opportunities to establish an image in front of his subordinates.

Thinking about his thoughts, Jian Guoming, accompanied by Biyun, involuntarily walked towards Su You's camp.

Jian Guozhao used to be in cahoots with Duan Ruqi, and at that time he was still thinking about restricting Jian Guoming and not allowing him to have too much contact with Su You; But after seeing Su You's endless methods, he finally had certain scruples about both Guo Ming and him.

Besides, even if Jian Guoming and Su You have any conspiracy and tricks, can they still yin themselves?

After some self-comfort, Fu Guozhao silently went back to his camp to find news, and Ji Guoming went to the door of Su You's camp tent, and ordered someone to report the news of his visit according to etiquette, and Su You then led Wang Dynasty Mahan and others to greet him.

It was expected by Su You to come to visit Guo Ming at night, but at this time, Su You still bowed to him in a vain manner, and praised in his mouth, "I heard just now that the king came to the front line to condole, and the soldiers were all high-spirited. ”

"It's okay!" Jian Guoming made a gesture of support, and after stepping into Su You's tent, he sighed and said, "Speaking of which, I also want to thank the envoy, Duan Ruqi's thorn in the eye is really"

Su You nodded, and immediately excused himself, "The stability of Nanzhong is not only the will of the king, but also the will of my Great Sui, I don't know what kind of result the king wants to see?" ”

Su You's words are obviously aimed at tomorrow's war.

How can you not know? When even responded, "Of course, of course, I want Duan Ruqi to give an explanation to the people of Nanzhong, give me an explanation!" ”

Jian Guoming's thoughts about Duan Ruqi are eager to pick off his skin, but how can such words be declared?

Duan Ruqi's brazen rebellion is an unrighteous act, if he takes the opportunity to destroy the Duan clan, then where is his humanity?

What's more, it's not in your basic interests at all.

As Su You said earlier, the triangle is the most stable existence, if the Duan clan disappears from Nanzhong, there will be two forces left in this land, and one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.

When the time comes, it is inevitable that his own side will still be eaten by the side of Ji Guozhao.

If Duan Ruqi was left behind, Guo Guozhao would not be desperate to fight with him; Because the snipe and the clam compete, the fisherman profits, and they fight each other, and in the end, it is the third party that benefits.

Su You nodded, indicating that he understood.

After the two talked for a while, Su You expressed his desire to have a piece of land to recuperate after the war, and Fu Guoming happily agreed.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, the coalition forces buried the pot and cooked rice.

After the sun came out, in addition to the 15,000 defenders who were still standing outside the three gates, the remaining 35,000 soldiers of the coalition army had been arrayed.

After Fu Guozhao ordered the troops, he gave up his body, which was regarded as selling face to say a few words to Ji Guoming to boost morale.

Ji Guoming looked at the soldiers below, nodded his head to express his satisfaction, and then turned his head to ask Su Youdao beside him, "Envoy, how to fight this battle?" ”

Su You smiled, "I don't know if the king wants to leave a complete Duan clan to guard the main road to defend against the Pu Tribe, or punish Duan Ruqi for the crime of rebellion?" ”

Su You's two choices have extremely high temptation, and after thinking about it, his reason was still covered up by hatred, and he immediately said expressionlessly, "Punish Duan Ruqi!" ”

After saying this, Jian Guoming couldn't help but tremble, if he had said this a month ago, he wouldn't have dared to say it.

Su You got the words of Jian Guoming, and immediately announced to the soldiers below, "Brothers, let go of your hands and feet to fight!" What you have gained is all your own, and I will take nothing! ”

The whole army responded with a bang.

The coalition forces officially attacked the north gate of the ironclad fort

At this time, Duan Ruqi, who had completely reversed black and white, had just fallen asleep.

When the personal guard knocked on the bedroom door, Duan Ruqi couldn't help but be furious and said, "It's disturbing people's dreams early in the morning, can you still make people sleep happily?" ”

The guard stopped tapping on the door, hesitated for a while, and then stubbornly reported, "Daxiangguo, they are ready to attack the city." ”

"Siege?" When Duan Ruqi heard the news, he reflexively sat up, put on his pants, and asked, "Are they finally impatient?" Which gate are they attacking? ”

"Back to Daxiangguo, it's the north gate." The guards outside the door responded truthfully.

"North Gate? Hahaha" When Duan Ruqi heard the news, he couldn't help laughing, the north gate had been blocked with stones by his order as early as that night, and if the enemy wanted to break through the door, it would be more difficult than climbing to the sky.

Despite this, Duan Ruqi still distributed the city guarding equipment evenly to the three city gates, and at this time, the city wall of the north gate was already full of rolling logs and boulders and hundreds of catapults; And that's not even counting the fact that there are more than 700 highly mobile catapults in the city, which can move back and forth between the three gates at will.

After Duan Ruyu washed up briefly, he went to the north gate of the Iron Armor Fort, and at this time, Ruyu and other generals were already standing on top of the city.

Under the city wall, Su You began to show the siege equipment he had made in the past seven or eight days to Nanzhong Wang Jian Guoming and Duan Ruqi and others like his own little toys

Amid the sound of drums and the sound of the sky, the coalition army first introduced the "well railings" with a radius of more than two zhang and a height of more than four zhang, on which stood three armored soldiers, and the railings around the well railings were filled with shields, long and short weapons, and bows and arrows.

Under the well railings, there were fifty soldiers pushing them, and these well railings walked slowly in units of ten.

Behind the well railing, countless crossbowmen are armed with crossbows, ready to suppress the shots on the city wall at any time and support the well railing.

"What is this? Give me the order, attack the catapult, and smash me hard! Duan Ruqi may have read about this kind of thing in a book, but he really hasn't seen these behemoths in reality.

Watching these behemoths slowly approaching the city walls, it must be false to say that the defenders of the Ironclad Fort were not shocked in their hearts.

Fortunately, there are still more than 100 catapults in the city, and more than 500 moving catapults in the city.

Under Duan Ruqi's order, the catapult began the first round of attacks.

Hundreds of watermelon-sized stones flew out of the city walls, but unfortunately, except for a few of the stones thrown by the catapults at the head of the city, which smashed into the well fence of the coalition forces, the rest of the stones were in vain.

On the side of the coalition forces, under Su You's gesture of raising his hand, the second drum sounded immediately.

The soldiers on the fence were pushed forward a short distance, and the soldiers on the fence kept shooting arrows to test the distance, and when the soldiers on the fence finally shot their bows and arrows at the head of the city, the drumming immediately stopped, and the soldiers who pushed the fence also stopped.

The place where the well fence of the coalition forces stood at this time was obviously extremely narrow and obscene.

Coalition soldiers could shoot their bows and arrows at the head of the Ironclad from the well railing, and the soldiers on the Ironclad could shoot them with bows and arrows, but catapults or javelins were of little use other than bows and arrows.

Throwing a javelin at the well fence from the city wall seems a bit far, as is the catapult attacking from inside the city, but the catapult attacking from the top of the castle is too close.

In short, at this distance, the defenders could only greet the soldiers on the well railings of the coalition army with bows and arrows.

In fact, the soldiers at the head of the Iron Armor Fort didn't need Duan Ruqi's orders now, and their bows and arrows rushed out like a tide, pressing the coalition soldiers standing on the well fence to the point that they only had the power to dodge, and they had no ability to fight back.

If it weren't for the soldiers on the well fence wearing heavy armor with strong full-body protection, they would have been completely shot into a honeycomb like the nameless ,——ending in the movie "Hero".