Li Tong hurriedly ordered the sound of gold in the city and ordered the army to withdraw to the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Li Tong retreated in time, under Zhou Cang's rush, he was still killed by Zhou Cang and killed nearly 2,000 soldiers.

When Zhou Cang led his troops to rush to a mile away from the city, he ordered the generals to lead the army to retreat, enter the camp, and ordered miscellaneous servants to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, Zhou Cang lost less than 100 people, destroyed nearly 3,000 enemies, obtained more than 2,000 pairs of high-grade armor, recovered more than 6,000 usable feather arrows, and more than 3,000 weapons such as swords, guns, shields, bows and arrows.

The next day, when it was only noon, Feng Yao arrived with a large army, and at the same time ordered Wei Yan to go to the east gate to station!

After the last defeat, Ji Ling received Feng Yao's order to quickly join forces with Wei Yanjun and stationed outside Langling City.

Langling City is not big, only three miles long on the left and right, but the city wall of Langling is as high as six zhang, which is about two zhang higher than the city wall of Yang'an and other counties, and this height is equivalent to the height of the county seat.

But Langling City also has a weakness, there is no moat outside the city, only a ditch, when the rain is sufficient in summer, there is water in the ditch, now in winter, the water in the ditch has long dried up, in order to not have the lack of moat, Li Tong will build an arrow tower every fifty zhang along the city wall, the arrow tower is two zhang higher than the city wall, and the wall is two zhang higher than the city wall, the arrow tower can live in the inside, and the soldiers who defend the city can almost not go down to the city day and night, and stick to the city wall.

A large number of crossbow machines are arranged on the top of the Langling city wall, and the range can reach one mile, under the defense of this crossbow machine, unless it is Feng Yao's Xiong Guard, relying on the heavy steel shield, it can break through to the foot of the city wall, and the shields of other sword and shield soldiers cannot block the crossbow arrows of the crossbow machine at all.

Above the castle, even if there is a one-person-high female wall, you can see the rocks piled up like a hill from the bottom of the castle! And a rubble bed dedicated to launching these stones! Most of these stones were mined from the nearby mountains and were specially used to defend the enemy from attacking the city!

At the foot of the city wall, a large number of horses were installed, sharpened and sharpened. Root to the outside!

At the city gate, in order to prevent the city gate from being broken, Li Tong ordered people to build a new urn city around the city gate, even if the enemy rushed into the city gate, he would be trapped in a small city wall surrounded by all sides, and he had to break through the inner gate to enter the city. In the process of breaking through the inner gate, the enemy soldiers in the city can be attacked by the archers on the four walls.

It is not feasible to control the water source of Langling, Langling is surrounded by mountains, and the water used in the city is dug more than ten zhang deep, and the underground mountain spring water within dozens of miles is drawn!

After Feng Yao led the army to arrive at the foot of Langling City, after observing it from a distance, he shook his head and said, "It is impossible for Langling to attack hard!" Under a hard attack, even if tens of thousands of people are killed or wounded, it is impossible to take it down! ”

At the same time, Feng Yao was also secretly happy. Fortunately, it has already made a momentum in the siege of Yang'an City, and there is a precedent for Yang'an City, as long as the siege of Langling is sieged on both sides, and the other side is used to use Yang'an's set, it will not be long before civil strife will inevitably occur in Langling City!

Like Yang'an City, Feng Yaoling longbowmen, who had a longer range than the archers, shot into the city the order to surrender and slaughter the city after the city was breached.

Then Feng Yao summoned the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

Ji Ling and Wei Yan are not far apart. It took a short ride to arrive.

"Lord, his subordinates have the trust of the lord! Please deal with it according to military law! Ji Ling saw Feng Yao's face. He fell to his knees and looked sad.

Feng Yao ordered Ji Lingqi and said, "It's not your fault, it's Li Tong who is too cunning!" ”

Ji Ling offered a plan: "My lord, after these few days, my subordinates will think hard about how to destroy the enemy. Think there's a plan to break the city! ”

"Although the city of Langling is high and strong, there is no moat! If you dig a tunnel, you may be able to suddenly enter the city! ”

"That's a good plan!" Feng Yao praised, "Yang Wu, pass the order down, let the miscellaneous officers in the army start to prepare a tool." Prepare to dig tunnels in secret, but be sure to hide them so that the enemy doesn't find out! ”

Yang Wu led the order to pass the order, and the generals discussed for a while, Wei Yanjin said: "If our army does not attack in the past few days, it may arouse Li Tong's suspicions, it is better to take advantage of these days to build more high-level building carts and catapults, and if the tunnel plan fails, you can immediately use these siege equipment to forcibly attack the city!" ”

Feng Yao nodded: "Wen Chang, you are very right, our army not only has to build a large number of these siege equipment, but also let the city also know that it will form a coercion in the city, otherwise the people in the city will think that we have nothing to do and will not be able to break the city!" ”

"My lord! I have a plan! Xu Chu arched his hand.

"Well, Zhongkang, please speak!" Feng Yao nodded and smiled, encouraging Xu Chu.

"My subordinates have heard that the lord has been caught by flying, and more than a dozen people have broken through Puyang City, and now my tiger guards are also agile people, it is better to wait for it to get dark, use flying claws to secretly climb the city wall, and then kill the city gate defenders, open the city gate, and welcome the army into the city!" Xu Chu said.

At this time, Zhou Cang interjected: "Lord, I secretly observed last night that Li Tong did have a set of guards in the city, and the horse face outside the city wall was very unfavorable for sneak attacks!" ”

Feng Yao imagined it in combination with the scene he observed during the day, and said: "Zhong Kang, this strategy is reserved for now, and if the time is right, you can try it, but I estimate that the probability of successfully sneaking close to the city wall is very low, and even if you climb the city wall, it will definitely make the enemy army find out that Li Tong has a large number of soldiers and horses stationed in the city, and the tiger guard is not good at defense, so it is easy to cause a lot of damage!" I don't want our army to be fundamentally damaged until the last resort! ”

Xu Chu sighed, hated and had nowhere to go, and took a sip of the wine glass.

Dai Ling also arched his hand and said: "Lord, why don't you let me lead Xiong Wei and hit the city gate head-on with a rushing car!" ”

"Hmmm! But don't be in a hurry at the moment, let the city be in chaos, and then wait to see if the tunnel can succeed, and if it can succeed, try the plan of attacking the city gate head-on! Feng Yaodao, with Xiong Wei's all-steel shield, if the defense is done properly, it can indeed rush head-on near the city gate.

Dailing point should be.

Xu Shu also spoke at this time, and said, "Lord, I think Lang Ling's reaction is a little abnormal!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Feng Yao asked anxiously.

Xu Shu stroked his beard, frowned, groaned, and said slowly: "My army is nearly 50,000, and Li Tong only has 15,000 defenders in Langling, and the two cities of Wufang and Yang'an have been broken through by our army one after another, but Li Tong did not panic in the slightest!" There must be a reason for this! ”

Xu Shu's reminder, the generals thought about it, it is indeed a bit abnormal, no matter how difficult it is to attack Langling, it is impossible to keep it all the time, and one day it will be broken, even if it is not attacked, it will only besiege the city for half a year, and the food in the city will be exhausted, and the hungry will starve to death!

If there is no reliance, Li Tong's best choice is to take the soldiers and the money and food to join other forces!

But now Li Tong actually wants to defend Langling?

"Is the military advisor worried about Yingchuan Xunyou?" Zhou Cang asked.

Xu Shu smiled, did not answer, but looked at Feng Yao.

Feng Yao nodded, secretly praised Xu Shu, and said: "The military advisor's worries are not unreasonable, Yuanfu, Yingchuan Xun You is indeed our threat, but if it is just Xun You is not enough to be afraid, I have secretly ordered Chen Shuzhi to prepare, and at the same time ordered Chen Guoxiang to make preparations, as long as Xun You leads the troops out of Yingchuan, Chen Shuzhi will send troops to block it, and at the same time, Chen Guoxiang will also take the opportunity to attack Yingchuan!" ”

"I'm worried about Jingzhou Liu Biao! If Liu Biao leads the troops to attack my Yuzhou, I am afraid that we will fall into a bitter battle with Liu Biao! At the same time, once the rear of Xuzhou Liu Bei develops and grows, it will be a big rival for us! Therefore, this battle of Langling should be fought quickly, not for a long time, and our army must not be dragged here! (To be continued.) )