Digging tunnels is a professional and technical job, not everyone can do it, if there are no professionals to operate, digging a hole is equivalent to burying yourself alive, but today with Niu Datong, things are much easier, Gao Huaiyuan ordered people to strictly seal the news, and immediately began to prepare all kinds of things for Niu Datong to use, and began to work in a big tent in the camp west of Chuzhou City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ.

In order to prevent Li Quanjun in the city from discovering in advance that the Song army was digging tunnels, Gao Huaiyuan specially ordered the troops not to relax, continued to attack repeatedly, and continued to violently fire flat cannons to bombard the city wall with throwing cars, so that the falling cannons effectively interfered with Li Quanjun's monitoring of the ground.

Gao Huaiyuan attached great importance to them, gave them the best tools possible, prepared sufficient pickaxes, shovels, wood and other materials for them to use, and also transferred a battalion of people to carry the wind for them and transport the excavated soil and rock.

This operation is very secretive, the place where the tunnel is dug is strictly martial law, idle people are not allowed to enter, the excavated soil and stone are directly tiled to the ground, and then the excavated soil and stone are more, so they simply put it in a bag, let the siege soldiers carry it to the city, fill in the moat, in short, the action is fast and hidden, even the Song army knows not many people, let alone Li Quan's generals in Chuzhou City.

In the three days when the Song army began to dig tunnels, the Song army attacked the city very fiercely, a large number of Song troops took turns to fight, holding half of the ships to resist the arrows, bravely and repeatedly rushed to the city wall of Chuzhou City, all kinds of catapults were even more powerful, and the stones were smashed into the city wall of Chuzhou City like a torrential rain.

Li Quan suddenly felt the huge pressure of the Song army in the city, and had to personally go to the city to command to resist the onslaught of the Song army, these days his life is very difficult, because his army in the city has begun to appear unstable, and even some soldiers took advantage of the night to decorate the city with ropes, and the phenomenon of collective escape, especially Yang Miaozhen's previous subordinates were the most serious, since Li Quan broke with Yang Miaozhen that day, the subordinates led by Yang Miaozhen were enraged, A leader named Zhang Wu launched a mutiny on the third day when the Song army began to attack Chuzhou City, trying to seize the south gate and open the city gate to welcome the Song army into the city.

So Li Quan is very nervous these days, on the one hand, he has to constantly resist the siege of the Song army, and on the other hand, he has to constantly guard against someone in the city to rebel, in short, after ten days, Li Quan has lost weight twice, and his eye circles have become dark due to lack of sleep, just like a national treasure panda, and he walks a little fluttering.

This is not counting, although he has a lot of soldiers and horses, but crowded in the city, there are only one or two thousand people who really obey his command, and although there is no change in those people now, as long as they are sent to the city to guard, they will not be able to work, as long as they are hit by the Song army's artillery, these people will either find a place to hide, or run towards the city in a swarm, and they can't be counted on at all.

For this reason, Li Fu also sent a team of supervisors to supervise the battle at the head of the city, as long as someone retreats from the battle, it is a knife in the head, which is effective at first, but then there are more people killed, but it arouses the resistance of those generals, don't look at them to resist the attack of the Song army, but they can work together to deal with the supervision team, the supervision team has knives, they also have, and they also have long weapons, spears, shuttle guns and other things, the supervision team wants to cut people, they and the supervision team to cut people, the result is that the supervision team did not cut them over, They let go of a group of people from the Supervisor Team, so that the Supervisor Team didn't have to worry about working for the past two days, they turned a blind eye and thought about it, anyway, everyone was trying to eat, and they couldn't kill their own people!

This result is directly led to the lack of Li Quan's available troops, and the soldiers and horses under his command are less than 20,000 people, in addition to the main defense of the city, he also has to send out a considerable number of people to monitor those soldiers and horses who are not his descendants, and if you are not careful, these people mutinied in the city.

Speaking of which, he had a lot of soldiers and horses in the city, but Li Quan was stunned that he did not have the troops to go out of the city to assault, but secretly sent 2,000 cavalry from the city on one night in the first few days to Yancheng to support Liu Qingfu.

Speaking of Yancheng, these days may be the only good news he received, the Song army sent troops to attack Yancheng, fortunately Liu Qingfu fled to Yancheng, took over the defense of Yancheng, and withstood the onslaught of the Song army, but because the soldiers and horses stationed in Yancheng were not the elite under Li Quan, although the number was about the same as the Song army, but the combat effectiveness was extremely poor, Liu Qingfu asked Li Quan for help three times a day, saying that if he did not send rescuers, then Yancheng would be the next Baoying County, Li Quan finally gritted his teeth, From the already not very rich troops, two thousand cavalry were mixed together in each battalion, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Song army outside the city in the second half of the night, sneaking out of Chuzhou City, rushing to attack the Song army in Yancheng, the result was ideal, and finally defeated the Song army attacking Yancheng in one fell swoop, and solved the danger of Yancheng, but the two thousand cavalry he sent out were intercepted by Liu Qingfu in Yancheng, nominally to leave them to help Yancheng defend, in fact, Liu Qingfu had his own plans, wanted to control more strength, if Li Quan failed in Chuzhou, Then he still has the strength to give Song Jun a go.

What made Li Quan even more depressed was the matter of the Flying Tiger Army in the north, Fu Daquan once again waved his army to attack Shuyang, and the Shuyang defenders were sent to Chuzhou like a piece of paper, and asked Li Quan to send troops to the rescue, and what was even more annoying was Zhou Jun of the Flying Tiger Army, not long after he took Pizhou, he sent troops to attack Suqian, and after the rebel general Xia Quan defected to the Song army, he sent troops to attack Sizhou, so that in addition to the direction of Yancheng, the rest of the retreat was cut off, if Chuzhou was lost, then the only place he could go to was Yancheng.

Li Quanxin knew very well that Yancheng was not his territory, it was the place he had just taken from the Southern Song Dynasty court, it could be said that the foundation was unstable, if he fled there, the result could be imagined, he would not hold out for a few days and would be conquered by the Song army, and then the place he could go to could be said to be only by sea, but could the sailors of the Song army let him run away? It's all unknown.

Therefore, Li Quan had to hold on to Chuzhou until the Song army himself had no strength and retreated and pulled down, otherwise, he would die without a place to be buried.

After thinking about this truth, Li made up his mind to desperately keep the city of Chuzhou, and he could not lose Chuzhou no matter what, only in this way could he have the capital to bargain with the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols.

So after learning that the Song army had begun to attack again, he personally climbed the west gate and commanded the attack against the Song army.

This time the Song army's offensive was very sharp, the Song army rushed to the city wall like a tide, accompanied by the Song army's attack was countless cannons and stones were thrown onto the city wall like rain, every stone bullet fell, it would stir up a piece of rotten bricks and rubble, and send out a shock on the city wall.

Fortunately, when Li Quan occupied Chuzhou City, there were a large number of arrows in the treasury in the city, otherwise, after so many days of resistance, they may only be able to pick up the arrows that the Song army shot into the city to resist, and the crossbowmen of the Song army were not to be outdone, arranged outside the city to cover with vertical shields, and kept firing arrows at the head of the city, and the arrows of the two armies staggered in the air, and kept making a sound like locusts flapping their wings. Accompanied by a steady stream of screams from arrows.

The attack of the Song army was very fierce, but it was not chaotic at all, they took out all kinds of siege equipment, nest cars, screen cars, half-cut boats, pointed wooden donkeys, ladder cars, trench bridge cars, folding bridge cars and other various siege equipment that can be used, this is the Song army, the current Jin army and the Mongolian army are afraid that they will not be able to take out such luxurious siege equipment, and many Song troops are attached to the side of these vehicles, pushing them to constantly charge towards the city wall.

Looking down from the city, the originally well-constructed defensive facilities outside the city have already been razed to the ground by the Song army in the first few days of fighting, thousands of people carrying sandbags, one person and one bag are enough to fill the huge horse trap, and even the moat outside the city has been filled by the Song army in this way for several sections, although Li Quanjun made a resolute resistance on the head of the city, and the arrows fell into the Song army like flying locusts, but the Song army held shields and half boats, and the threat that ordinary arrows could pose to these Song troops was very limited.

Therefore, as long as the Song army hides under the shield array and half of the boat, it is difficult to kill them with bows and arrows, and the only thing that can pose a threat to them is only the light catapult, Li Quan was preparing to resist the Song army, he collected a lot of craftsmen in the city, and drove all kinds of catapults for him, and transported them to the city wall for royal guards, anyway, this thing is not high-tech, it is very convenient to manufacture, and there is no shortage of artillery.

At first, the reason why the Song army's attack was frustrated was because of these various catapults in the city, and a large number of Song army's attacks were blocked by Li Quanjun's catapults, and caused a lot of casualties to the Song army.