Zhao Xun's march has always been crisp and neat.

After a day's delay, it took a day, and on the morning of the third day, the army of Xiaoguo Army surrounded Liao Tunnel City.

Zhang Qian and Zhang Yu also traveled with the army on the two days, and their guards also drove with them, but the rapid march along the way made the two of them miserable, and they secretly sighed in their hearts that the marching ability of the Xiaoguo army was strong.

After the siege, Zhao Xun did not order an immediate siege, but waited outside the city for two days. Two days later, the forcibly recruited 80,000 people rushed to the city of Liao Tunnel.

"Let them dig a trench outside the four cities, and dig the north gate outside the city gate. If one person is lazy, he will kill ten people, and if ten people are lazy, he will kill a hundred. As long as the trench is dug well, these 80,000 people will die, and it is not a big deal. Of course, or better. Zhao Xun said lightly.

These 80,000 people are the people of several cities around the Liao Tunnel City, after the fall of the Liao Tunnel City, these people also dedicated the city and the Liaodong Army, but with the defeat outside the Changhe City, the seven or eight thousand Liaodong troops who fled back passed on the magic skills of the Xiaoguo Army, the Liaodong Army immediately contracted, and gave up the three small cities around, Zhao Xun immediately sent people to restore the rule of the three cities, and these Su Mo Yan people were naturally taken by Zhao Xun.

Bao Muyang and Zhang Meng's expressions tightened, and they bowed down and said, "My subordinates take orders!" ”

And Zhang Qian and Zhang Yu took a cold breath, the life and death of tens of thousands of people, this Zhao Xun did not take it to heart at all, making them all feel their hearts skip a beat.

Seeing the expressions of the two, Zhao Xun smiled and said: "These people surrendered to me when our army was strong, and the Liaodong army was strong, so they immediately repeated." I want them to know that there are many things that cannot be done. Alas, there are still too few Han people in these places, otherwise how could they have been repeatedly oppressed by the Yan people. ”

"I think this is the reason why the general moved the people into the three eastern mansions."

"Of course, only when there are more people can we have a basis for rule. Except for the Han people, all other races are not credible, at least in times of danger, they are all grass on the wall. ”

"I gave them a chance, they don't know how to cherish it, it's not my desire to kill, it's they who have to go here......" Zhao Xun said lightly.

Guarding the Liao Tunnel City is the Anguo general Yi Lou Weiyang, the Yi Lou clan is the magnate of another clan, the four clans are united, and their clan has not obtained the power of the king, so they will naturally serve in other positions. The new policy system of Liaodong State mostly imitated Yan State. General Anguo is higher than the position of the four generals before and after, he was the commander of the southern expedition, because He Lou Yanzhao is a royal family, so he also participated, and the remnants of the pursuit of the Xiaoguo army were the left general He Lou Yanzhao was responsible, and the result was ......

After hearing of He Lou Yanzhao's defeat, Yi Lou Weiyang was shocked. The reason why they marched south to the Xiaoguo army was because they heard that Zhao Xun's department was besieged by the Su Mo Yan Army, and thought that Zhao Xun's defeat was imminent.

After listening to what the soldier said, Yi Louweiyang had already guessed that Zhao Xun must have invented a new weapon, which led to the defeat of the Su Mo Yan Army. So after discussing with the right general Yang Qi, he immediately sent people to negotiate peace, and at the same time sent the information back to China.

As a result, Yi Lou Weiyang was worried, and Zhao Xun refused to negotiate peace at all, even if they were willing to compensate. What to do? Fall back? That is naturally not possible, not to mention the responsibility of this retreat, that is, the retreat of the army, and it will not let Zhao Xun give up the pursuit.

After Zhao Xun's army besieged the city, Yi Lou Weiyang was very careful to pay attention to Zhao Xun's every move, and also sent to the north for help.

However, Zhao Xun had already cut off the connection between Liao Tunnel City and the outside world, and the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army shot all the distress messengers sent out by Liao Tunnel City on the way.

Seeing this, Yi Louweiyang couldn't, so he had to send another messenger to negotiate peace. His purpose was to wait for the domestic handling of the matter, and he could not run away at will without a military order. Now that all the tribes have joined together to establish a country, and each wants to take each other's seat, if he runs away without a military order, then his position will definitely run into the hands of the other tribe. If you die in battle, the position will naturally still be in the clan and will be taken over by the same clan.

"Emissary? Let them go, I'm not a vegetable seller here! Sue them, and any more messengers will be killed! "I heard that the messenger was coming again, but Zhao Xun didn't see it, so he drove it away. On the contrary, he vigorously ordered the seventy or eighty thousand people to dig a trench and seal the four gates.

These people are not lazy, and as a result, thousands of people were killed, and the others no longer dared to be clever, and they only regretted it in their hearts, they knew that it would be like this, and they should not have taken the city and dedicated it to the Liaodong Army in the first place.

Seeing Zhao Xun's attitude, Yi Lou Weiyang made up his mind to meet this Zhao Xun for a while. Liao Tunnel City is a frontier city, extremely difficult to attack, there are 30,000 Liaodong Kingdom and 20,000 Jing Ya troops in the city, and 50,000 Jing Ya people are young and strong. He was not very afraid of the 50,000 Liaodong Kingdom attacking the city outside the city.

"General! They seem to be digging tunnels! ”

The officer defending the city passed on the information of the Xiaoguo army outside the city.

Sure enough, under the early morning sun, many people were working hard in front of the north, constantly plucking up the soil with a spade, and their figures were originally very tall, and then they gradually shrank into the land. The dirt around him was piled higher and higher.

Sure enough, Zhao Xun's people were digging trenches, but they saw that the trenches began to extend from seventy or eighty zhang away, and extended to the outside of the north gate, like countless ropes, to firmly entangle Tongcheng. And the other four gates also came to the news that the Xiaoguo army sent the people to dig trenches, and unlike the north gate, the other three gates were all dug horizontally, wide and deep.

Outside the north, about thirty feet away, there were large piles of dirt, and behind the mounds, there were many people working.

"Doesn't it look like an authentic city? No, he probably would. ”

Yi Lou Weiyang frowned and said, but just in case, he still ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels in the city to cut off all the passages of the Xiaoguo army's entry into the city, and at the same time, dig multiple wells in the city to reconnoiter the location of the Xiaoguo army's tunnels, and destroy the tunnels of the Xiaoguo army at any time.

"Come on, attack me, talk about their bottom!" Elo Weiyang said coldly.

"Chirp!"

The large crossbow machines that originally belonged to the Xiaoguo Army at the head of the city were constantly whistling, firing one crossbow arrow after another.

The long crossbow arrows, with a piercing sound of breaking through the air, shot fiercely at the ground fifty or sixty feet away, and then there was no sound, and the soft earth soon buried them, revealing only the short shafts of the arrows. Often, a hand is quietly stretched out from behind the mound, pulling up the crossbow arrows, and then gathering them to give them to their own crossbow troops for recycling.

"Trebuchet!" Elo Weiyang shouted in a muffled voice.

The trebuchets on the head of the city also threw a dense number of stone projectiles, hoping to smash the enemy to pieces.

The spinning stone projectiles kept flying in the sky, and the black shadows grew bigger and bigger, and finally all fell into the soft soil, splashing a thin layer of dust. Similarly, after a while, behind the mound, a pair of hands will appear to dig the stone projectiles out of the loose soil, pat the dirt on them, and send them to their own trebuchet troops for recycling.

This kind of trench is not afraid of a straight line attack at all, and hides inside. Except for the unfortunate ones, the chance of damage is very small, only a few arrows hit the trench, but the crooked trench firmly blocked the arrowheads, and the arrows could only be nailed to the wall. As for the stone bullets, none of the ten could hit the trench, and occasionally they landed in the trench, but only hit the dirt. Under the order of the Xiaoguo sergeant, the digging pit was easily collected and handed over to his own ranged troops.

"General, we can't attack, if we continue like this, the command will lose our arrows and stone bullets, and the damage to the Xiaoguo army will be very small, and more importantly, most of the people who dig the trenches are the Yan people, and there are only a very small number of Xiaoguo soldiers." The right general Yang Qi frowned and said.

Elo Weiyang also saw it, and immediately stopped insisting, but ordered archers to be sent to keep a close watch on the city walls. In fact, the Xiaoguo army did not make any big moves, they continued to dig trenches, even at night, they did not stop, anyway, the people of the Yan people dug again, there is no need to use it in vain.

The Liaodong army in the city was very cautious, because of the defeat of the Su Mo Yan tribe and the defeat of He Lou Yanzhao, they were told that the Xiaoguo army was definitely not easy to mess with. Although they didn't know why the Xiaoguo Army only dug tunnels, they were extremely vigilant. However, the Xiaoguo army did not do anything, but kept digging trenches, extending the trenches inch by inch to the front of the city wall of Liao Tunnel City.

After digging for three days, the trench was less than twenty zhang away from the north, but the well used by the Liaodong Army in the city for testing had not changed, indicating that the Xiaoguo Army had not really dug the tunnel, which made Yi Lou Weiyang relieved at the same time, but also had an inexplicable worry.

"If you're not digging tunnels, what's the use of digging these trenches?"

The more unknown something is, the easier it is to panic. Now the aimless actions of the Xiaoguo Army have made Yi Lou Weiyang and Yang Qi secretly worried. There was no reply to the domestic information, which cast a shadow on the hearts of the two.

Instinctively, I felt that Zhao Xun's ability was more than that, and he would not do useless work, otherwise he would not have accepted their peace. It's just that Zhao Xun wants to do something, but the two can't think of it.

It was late at night again, and Yi Lou Weiyang and Yang Qi received a report that the Xiaoguo army outside the city had moved, and they immediately rushed to the city tower at the north gate to watch. Sure enough, in the darkness, the two of them saw that the Xiaoguo army seemed to be making a big move, as if they were passing something in the trench, and they could even be seen transporting large crossbows and trebuchets.

Elo Weiyang immediately ordered a counterattack, and the crossbow and trebuchet roared incessantly, but the Xiaoguo army relied on the cover of the crooked trenches, as if they were unaffected. After dawn, the two suddenly realized that outside the northern city, the Xiaoguo Army had concentrated more than seventy large crossbow machines, and more than thirty trebuchets.

"Are they going to move these into the trench?"

"It seems to be!"

"Crossbows, fire, stop them!" Elo Weiyang said coldly.

"Chirp!"

The crossbow machines of the Liaodong Army on the tower of the city kept firing, trying to block the enemy's trenches, but they couldn't do anything at all.

Subsequently, the archers were ordered to release their arrows, but after the arrows were fired at such a long distance, the lethality was not great, and occasionally one or two archers were able to aim at the trenches and fire arrows, one by one killing the targets in the area. But it's also a drop in the bucket.

"General, you can't attack the Xiaoguo Army like this!" Yang Qi said bitterly.

Yi Louweiyang said worriedly: "How can I not know this? But this clearly shows that the Xiaoguo army has a trick, and we can't be indifferent! ”

Yang Qi was also depressed, and Yi Lou Weiyang was right. This Zhao Xun must be more than just digging a trench. If he really figured out how to dig a trench to reduce casualties, it would be a good way, however, no matter how long the trench was dug by the Xiaoguo army, the siege of the city, still had to climb the city wall.

So, what exactly is this to do? Both of them pondered and meditated, but they couldn't guess what Zhao Xun meant. For this reason, the two can only step up their precautions. As long as you keep the city walls, what are you afraid of? This Liao Tunnel City is a strong city, and it is not so easy to break through.

It's not that they didn't think of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder thing, it's just that they didn't think of what this thing would do to the siege. His understanding of the new weapon that emits thunder from the Xiaoguo Army is also tied to the war horse, and it suddenly cracks apart, and some weapons will be ejected in it. In their opinion, this thing does not have much effect. If it weren't for He Lou Yanzhao's coveted heavy armor of the Xiaoguo Army, how could he have been hit so lightly?