The night was deep, the time gradually came to the time of the third watch, the harassment and attack of the Sui army from the beginning of the first watch finally died down, the outside of Hefei began to become dead and silent, the defenders of the city head who were exhausted by the harassment fell asleep, for ten days in a row, they had developed a habit, the Sui army's daily harassment of the three watches ended, and then the defenders seized the time to sleep, as soon as the morning dawned, the daytime harassment of the Sui army will begin again.

But Du Fuwei could not sleep, he was a very sensitive person, for some reason, there was an ominous feeling that always haunted him tonight, making him restless and difficult to rest, and as soon as the harassment of the Sui army ended, he came to inspect the city with a team of guards.

Wang Xiongdan, the guard on duty tonight, hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and Du Fuwei asked, "Is there no movement outside?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, the harassment of the Sui army has stopped, and there is no movement outside."

Du Fuwei nodded, he walked to the city wall and stared at the moat outside, the moat was sparkling and the river was wide, and on the other side were sparsely moored dozens of small boats, the boats were far away from the city wall, neither trebuchets nor bows and arrows could shoot them.

Although Du Fuwei's uneasy feeling in his heart was still strong, the situation outside the city was no different from usual, he let go of his heart slightly, glanced back at Wang Xiongdan, and saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, so he smiled and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it!" ”

"Your Highness, can you guard the city in two groups of soldiers at night?"

"Why?"

Wang Xiongtan looked at the sleeping soldiers, and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness also saw it, the harassment of the Sui army ended at the third watch, and the soldiers were exhausted and fell asleep one after another. ”

Du Fuwei didn't take it to heart, and smiled: "With the watchtower watching, you can find out the enemy situation in time, and they can wake up when they fall asleep." ”

"It's not that they're worried about this, but they're too tired, their physical strength is declining, and the effect of defending the city will be greatly weakened."

Du Fuwei thought about it, this was indeed a problem, and he nodded, "Okay! Tomorrow we will discuss it, and as you said, we will defend the city in two or three groups at night. ”

At this moment, a soldier suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Your Highness, what is that?" ”

Du Fuwei turned his head and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, only to see a huge huge ship appear at the mouth of the Weishui River in the south in the distance, which was heading towards the city, and someone seemed to be pulling fiber by the river, Du Fuwei was taken aback, and at this moment, the alarm bell on the head of the city was 'dang! While! While! When it sounded, Wang Xiongdan was so anxious that he shouted: "Get up! If there is an enemy, get up! ”

The soldiers woke up from their slumber and stood up tiredly, and many of them continued to doze off on their stomachs on the top of the city.

Du Fuwei stared at the big ship that was about to enter the moat, although he could only see an outline in the night, but from the outline, he could judge that this was actually a big ship of 3,000 stones, and he was shocked in his heart, the water could actually sail into the 3,000 stone warship, completely subverting his previous conclusion.

Du Fuwei suddenly realized that something was wrong, this was the Sui army was about to attack the city, he was full of excitement, and shouted: "Order the whole army to go to the city, the enemy army is going to attack the city!" ”

The rumbling war drums suddenly sounded at the head of Hefei City, Hefei City was mobilized, 100,000 Jianghuai Army soldiers entered their own defensive front, especially along the Xiaoyaojin River is deployed 30,000 heavy soldiers, commanded by Fu Gongyou, there is no city wall in this area, and the Sui army can directly enter the city from here.

At the head of the city, a group of soldiers were running, almost half of the soldiers were responsible for operating trebuchets and stone cannons, thousands of trebuchets and stone cannons creaked apart, and tens of thousands of crossbowmen opened their bows and arrows, waiting for battle.

Hundreds of warships appeared in the canal outside the city, and soldiers began to shoot arrows at the head of the city on the warships, and under the instigation of the Sui army, a large-scale counterattack on the head of the city began, and the dense boulders rose into the air, flew out of the city, and smashed into the Sui warships in the moat, making a loud bang.

And the rockets of the crossbowmen of the Jianghuai army are even more spectacular, the overwhelming rockets are fired at the big ships on the opposite side, and the firelight illuminates the entire moat, several thousand-stone warships were unfortunately smashed by boulders and slowly sank to the bottom of the river, while the other two warships were ignited by rockets and began to burn violently on the river, and the soldiers jumped into the water from the big boats and swam desperately to the shore.

The war drums of the Sui army also sounded, and the rumbling war drums sounded in the east of the city, the water depth in the east of the city is wide, especially suitable for large warships to sail, and the training wall built by the Sui army for the siege of the city is completely imitating the east city.

Zhang Xuan and a group of civil and military generals stood on a 3,000 big ship, looking at the Sui army attacking the city from afar, at this time, 300 large and small wars were all in place, and there were as many as 80 3,000 stone warships alone. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Start attacking!" ”

The drums on the shore suddenly became dense, and in the drums, the warships moved closer to the city, and the dense rockets crossed the river, and the boulders were overwhelming, and the warships were hit by the boulders, and the debris flew wildly, and the masts broke, or were shot by the rockets, igniting clusters of flames, but more boulders fell into the water, and splashed one by one.

Finally, a warship approached the city wall, and the Sui army and the Jianghuai soldiers launched a fierce battle, and the fierce battle between the two sides gradually entered the white heat.

"Dashuai, the other party is also fully prepared!"

Zhang Xuan nodded, the Jianghuai army defending the city attacked from afar and defended closely, the battle was very orderly, and the soldiers at the head of the city were very brave, this should be Du Fuwei's direct personal guard, and the victory or defeat was in tonight's battle.

Jang Hyun turned around and ordered, "Three warships attack!" ”

I saw three huge three-thousand-stone warships slowly sailing out of the darkness and heading towards the south side of Dongcheng, everyone was paying attention to these three big ships, because they had been specially modified, and the pontoon bridge could be directly connected to the hull, and they were the real siege weapons of the Sui army.

In the first big ship led by Qin, Qin held a sledgehammer in his hand, he was already holding back his strength in his heart, his eyes were staring at the city wall fiercely, the humiliation in his chest had turned into a monstrous fighting spirit, he must wash away the shame of not being good at attacking the city.

At this time, soldiers on warships had begun to attack the head of the city, fighting the enemy at the head of the city, but these were only sporadic breakthroughs, and did not pose a real threat to the city's defenses.

Standing on the tower, Du Fuwei shouted to the soldiers to fight, and he kept shouting, "Trebuchets are not allowed to be fired at the same time, they must be fired in turn!" ”

"Quickly transfer a thousand spear troops from the city to support the northeast of the city wall, go quickly!"

Du Fuwei shouted sweaty, he had already felt the sharpness of the Sui soldiers, more than 100 people could fight with hundreds or even thousands of their own soldiers when they climbed to the top of the city, if the city was really breached, his army could not resist the attack of the Sui army no matter what, and defeat would be inevitable.

At this moment, a soldier rushed to make an urgent report: "Your Highness, there are three strange ships, not afraid of stone cannons and rockets!" ”

Du Fuwei was taken aback, and hurriedly ran to the head of the city, only to see three large misty ships appear fifty paces away, slightly bloated compared to other warships. A boulder was shot out, and it was fifty paces away, but a dull loud noise was faintly heard, and the warship was not damaged in the slightest, and the rockets were fired at the big ships, but they were never able to ignite the three big ships.

"Your Highness, it seems to be covered with a layer of cowhide!" A general shouted pointing to the hull.

Du Fuwei gasped, he seemed to realize something, and hurriedly ordered: "Let General Wang come here immediately!" ”

Stone cannons and rockets have no effect on the three skinned ships, the first 3,000 stone ship slammed against the city wall, the four-story ship tower was even higher than the city wall, three hundred Sui soldiers shot arrows from the top of the city, arrows rained, dozens of defenders fell in response, Du Fuwei was also almost hit by an arrow, he turned around and ran towards the city tower, shouting: "Let Wang Xiongdan lead the army over!" ”

The rain of arrows of the Sui soldiers rushed open a passage, and a two-zhang iron plate fell from the big ship and smashed on the battlements, and suddenly the gravel was splashed, and the giant hook at the front end of the iron plate firmly hooked the city bricks, at this time, dozens of soldiers defending the city were killed, Qin rushed up with a roar, and rushed up with a sledgehammer in his hand, and the sledgehammer swung and smashed over more than 20 soldiers in a row.

At this time, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came, and only a cold drink was heard, "Sui will be rampant, see my Wang Xiong's birthday to meet you!" ”

'Woo-' There was a wind sound, and a large knife from the plate door slashed towards Qin Yong. (To be continued.) )