Nearly 60,000 troops of the three kingdoms of Yi, Xiang and Qi, as well as a group of 5,000 soldiers, gathered outside the city of Kaiqing, before the siege equipment was densely arranged, the soldiers all over the mountains were cutting wood to prepare to build the cloud city, and the war drums of the demonstration came and went.

He Ran and Shi Lang climbed a hill to overlook Kaiqing City, although this city is not as good as Dingyang, but it is far from being comparable to the bell city, the city is high and deep, and the guards are still more than 10,000, which is by no means easy to overcome.

He Ran was the most annoying to attack the city, and felt that it was the most untechnical method of warfare, and it required a high price, so after seeing the opening of the Qing City, he shook his head lightly and said: "I'm afraid the loss under the hard attack will be more than 10,000." ”

Shi Lang said: "Even if it is less than 10,000, it will not be too little, this is the most difficult battle in Vashun, there is no way, the royal city is not broken, and the battle is endless, and if you want to reduce the damage of such a strong city, you can only use the method of piling up soil for a mountain, at least it will take two or three months of effort, and then they will not descend is to make up their minds and the city will be broken, fortunately, we have kung fu, and when the army of the king arrives, we can use this free time to send troops to sweep the northern cities, and turn Kaiqing into a lonely city without any changes." ”

For the siege tactics of "piling up soil into mountains", He Ran no longer stayed in the superficial understanding of the previous life by asking Xiao Xiao for advice and learning from the book of soldiers, and the original non-soldier carried a bag of soil to the city so simple, first of all, to build a lot of cloud cities with the same height as the city tower, threaten the enemy with archers, and then erect several closely arranged wooden walls under the city, and then use wood to build several corridors to the city, until the distance that the rolling wood thunder stone can not be smashed, and the wood used above is to be fireproofed. The method is to boil a kind of glutinous rice crop and mix the mud thick on the surface of the wood, so that the rocket is difficult to penetrate.

The corridor should be built extremely strong, in case it is smashed by a stone-throwing car, and it should be covered with a thick layer of soil, so that even if the city is sprinkled with fire oil, it is not afraid, and then it is transported through the corridor, with the heightening of the soil, and then erect a wooden wall on it, increase the height and widen the corridor, until the height is close to the battlements, several earth mountains at the same time build its engineering amount can be imagined, this method of warfare can only be used when the besieging party has plenty of time and no worries, and at the same time the soil can also be used by the corridor to cover up from below, Dig one or more tunnels leading to the city, so that the defenders are overwhelmed, once the general attacker begins to pile up earth, it means that the victory is in hand, and the city is most likely unable to hold,

While the two were discussing, He Ran suddenly made a gesture of silence and frowned, "Why has the drum stopped." ”

Before Shi Lang could answer, a bell and drum sound came from far away from Kaiqing City, and he stomped his foot and said, "It's broken, King Shun has died." ”

Historically, the war has always paid attention to "etiquette and mourning", although this rule has long been broken, but the benevolent lord still disdains it, after all, it is despised by the world, the situation of the country is very good, naturally there is no need to bear this notoriety, but according to the etiquette to stop the army for three months is undoubtedly to give Shunguo a chance to survive, and when they redeploy to attack again, they will have to pay more price, which is no wonder why Shi Lang is so anxious, King Shun died at an inopportune time,

He Ran was also worried, this kind of thing is not only related to the reputation of Yi Guo and Su Pingjiang, but also affects the back of the people's hearts, he does not dare to make his own decisions, if he withdraws his troops for three months, he is really unwilling,

"Look." Shi Lang looked at him and asked,

He Ran shook his head helplessly, and said: "King Shun has achieved nothing in his life, but this death is a great benefit to the country, and I have no idea, so I can only withdraw my troops." ”

Shi Lang sighed heavily and said, "Since the will of heaven is like this, it can only be like this, and when the envoy who reported the funeral comes, we will withdraw our troops for a hundred miles." ”

He Ran narrowed his eyes and said, "Fanbang doesn't have this rule." ”

Shi Lang was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, and laughed and said: "You still have the wisdom of urgency, I forgot about them in this hurry, Fanbang does not educate from the Central Plains, does not pay attention to these, although they can't point to them to capture Kaiqing City, but sweeping the north is a success, and the total number of soldiers in Shunguo is less than 30,000 soldiers." ”

He Ran smiled evilly: "Look, I still have the foresight, I have to talk to King Fan, otherwise they will have to go to more land than us after being busy for a long time, this is not good, the land north of Kaiqing will score at least half of us." "That's not worth it, I was going to take it all, and it's too much to give them half, uh...... Go tell him, I can't open this mouth. ”

Shi Lang was anxious at the time, glared and said: "You don't think it's good to speak, can I say it, people are going to fight, it's already very good to be able to divide half of us, you are too greedy." ”

He Ran smiled and said, "Don't worry, don't I feel distressed, or ...... Don't let them fight, it's a big deal to spend some effort in wartime, it's hundreds of miles away. ”

"If you have the ability, you can talk to King Fan, there is no shortage of advisers under the account, this matter can still be seen through, I can't think of any excuse to stop them from fighting the northern land."

He Ran rolled his eyes and said, "I shouldn't have counted on you, because I was afraid of provoking my eldest brother, so my wife ran away." ”

Shi Lang really couldn't cry or laugh, shook his head and said: "I really convinced you, and you are still in the mood to laugh when there is such a big trouble all of a sudden." ”

"If crying worked, I would have cried a long time ago, go back to the camp, I have to think carefully about how to tell my brother-in-law." He Ran said as he walked down the mountain,

"Come and see." Shi Lang shouted from behind,

He Ran saw him craned his neck and looked in the direction of Kaiqing City, hurriedly walked back, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the city gate had been opened, and a team of men and horses were galloping out, without any banners, although they were far away, they could also see that most of those people were not wearing armor,

Shi Lang was puzzled: "It doesn't seem that he came to report the funeral, but it seems that he escaped." ”

Under their watchful eyes, there were still people rushing out of the city gates, and they did not form a queue in twos and threes.

Shi Lang glanced at He Ran, He Ran shook his head, saying that he couldn't guess what had happened in the city, Shi Lang immediately made a decision, and ordered the opportunity to seize the south gate, in fact, it was too late to send the order to the front army at this time, because the war drums of the battle sounded in the Yi army, it was undoubtedly Su Ming who reacted immediately when he saw the fighter, Shi Lang passed this military order in order to let Su Ming be bold,

At this moment, the city gate rushed out of a Shun army, slashing and killing the people who escaped in front, chasing out a section to see the Yi army killed, this Shun army quickly retreated, and closed the city gate without waiting for the Yi army to approach, and the city was shot with arrows, and the Yi army immediately retreated back.

He Ran stumbled and said regretfully: "Who escaped here, since you have the ability to break through the city gate, it's good to report early, it's a pity to have such a good opportunity." ”

Shi Lang also felt the same way, "It's rare that Shunren hasn't officially reported the funeral, but it's a pity, okay, let's go and see." ”