Chapter 32 Victory
Through the vision of the golden eagle, Hu Li saw that the defenders of Tunliu City were basically all concentrated in the West Gate, probably seeing that Hu Li did not attack the other three gates at all, so the Tunliu guards only left 500 people in each of the other three gates in case of accidents, so Tunliu West Gate concentrated 28,500 defenders, and also called on nearly 10,000 people to carry the materials to defend the city in this city with a population of more than 80,000.
With 70,000 Changshan troops to capture this city, which reached nearly 40,000 defenders after adding nearly 10,000 people, and the defenders had sufficient equipment and grain and grass, relying on the simple siege equipment that Hu Li scavenged from the counties of Shangdang County, Hu Li himself thought that it was basically impossible. When Hu Li was now May 20, and the moonlight at night was getting darker and darker, Hu Li had an idea in his heart.
After the army rested for a day, Hu Li asked the troops to make a large number of wooden shields, wooden ladders and thick wooden planks during the day, and at night took advantage of the night to brave the arrows with wooden shields and arrows to level the moat outside the city, and the tun guards who did not dare to go out of the city to fight saw that the lethality of bows and arrows was very low at night, so they had to burn the planks and wooden ladders with fire oil, after five days of night moat fighting, the fire oil of the defenders in the city was basically consumed, and the Changshan army who participated in laying the planks was also burned to death and burned more than 500 people.
On the night of May 26, after Hu Li once again asked the soldiers to level the moat with wooden shields, the garrisons who had exhausted the fire oil could only do nothing to watch the advantages of the moat being wiped out by the Changshan army little by little. After leveling the moat, Hu Li let the soldiers rest, and they were relieved to see that Hu Li did not take the opportunity to attack the city, and it was only two hours at night.
At about four o'clock in the morning, after seeing through the golden eagle that the soldiers defending the city were basically asleep, Hu Li took Zhao Yun, Zhang Jaw, Gao Lan, three heavily armed brown bears and a thousand hoplites armed to the teeth to sneak to the northwest corner of the city wall along the shadow of the city wall.
After doing all this, Hu Li released two elephants from the pet space in the incredible shock of everyone, which are two of the three four-meter-high and ten-ton elephants that Hu Li brought back from Yizhou, but the baggage on the elephant's back has long been taken out by Hu Li and put into the camp, and now on the back of the elephant is a five-meter-high wooden platform with steps that Hu Li ordered the soldiers to make in the past five days. The elephant's height of four meters and the platform on its back are five meters, which is already beyond the eight-meter-high city wall of Tunliu City.
Before everyone came to their senses, Hu Li controlled three big brown bears to reach the Tunliu city wall through the platform on the elephant's body, and controlled the movement to kill the five sleeping soldiers in the northwest corner of the city wall, Hu Li softly beckoned Zhao Yun, Zhang Jaw, and Gao Ran, who were the first to come to their senses, and then the 1,000 heavy armored infantry, after the night patrol soldiers found that the situation was wrong, the heavy armored infantry had already come up more than 100 people, and the night patrol soldiers rushed to Hu Li and others after making a terrible alarm, trying to force Hu Li and others to go down the city, But where is the heavily armed Xiong Da opponent in the forefront, holding a six-meter-long iron rod Xiong Da dancing iron rod and a bear led more than a hundred heavy infantry to rush towards the city gate tower, while Hu Li released the third elephant in the pet space in the city wall, and went down to the city wall through the same platform on the back of the third elephant, followed by Zhao Yun, Gao Lan, Zhang Jaw, Xiong Er and Cuihua, taking advantage of the defenders' attention to be attracted by the battle on the city, Hu Li and others touched near the city gate, Let Xiong Er and Cuihua hold the city gate, Hu Li, Zhao Yun, Gao Lan, and Zhang Jaw killed the soldiers at the city gate, opened the city gate and lowered the drawbridge.
As early as the beginning of the battle for the city wall, 70,000 Changshan soldiers who advanced towards the Tunliu City quickly entered the city through the suspension bridge, and killed the Tunliu guards who were rapidly coming to the city, the battle lasted until the end of the evening, the Changshan soldiers were killed and seriously injured a total of more than 3,000 people, slightly injured more than 5,000 people, a total of more than 9,000 people were annihilated by the Tun Liu's defenders, and nearly 20,000 people were captured.
Through the vision of the golden eagle, Hu Li saw that the Tun Liushou would escape from the north gate, and Hu Li, who felt that the Tun Liushou would still be useful, informed the cavalry cruising between Tunliu and Huguan through the letter eagle that the Tunliu guard would be captured alive, and Zhao Yun, who was worried that the guard would escape, also rode a red rabbit horse and took his domesticated goshawk to chase north from the West Gate single-handedly.
At noon the next day, when Hu Li woke up from the drunkenness of the previous night's celebration banquet, Zhao Yun and a thousand cavalry escorted the fleeing Tunliu general and his family and hundreds of embarrassed and discarded soldiers back to Tunliu City. After reporting to understand, Hu Li learned that if it wasn't for Zhao Yun single-handedly chasing after him, and let the tun guard escape, it turned out that when he received the order conveyed by Hu Li through the letter eagle, the cavalry commander sent five thousand cavalry to pursue the tun liu general in five ways, one of which finally chased the tun liu guard, but the tun liu general found that the situation was not good, so he changed his outfit with a subordinate of a similar figure to himself, and fled on horseback alone. The night was dark, and the Changshan wolf rider didn't notice that anyone had fled in the chaos, so after killing the pro-soldiers who resisted, he escorted the fake Tunliu generals and their families and the surrendered pro-soldiers back to Tunliu City. And when Zhao Yun detoured to the north and joined the Changshan wolf horse, he briefly interrogated the fake Tun Linger General, and the sharp-eyed Zhao Yun suddenly found the clues revealed by the impostor, and learned that the real Tun Linger Guard had fled to the north on horseback alone for nearly an hour. Zhao Yun, who made a quick decision, stepped on the red rabbit horse and chased north, and finally found the real Tunliu guard in the early morning through the vision of the goshawk, and finally caught up with the tunliu guard after an hour with the foot strength of the red rabbit horse, and Zhao Yun, who subdued him in one round, escorted him back to Tunliu County, and when he was about to enter Tunliu City, he joined the Changshan wolf rider who was slow to travel because of escorting his family.
After learning what happened, Hu Li looked at Zhao Yun with gratitude, but Zhao Yun waved his hand disapprenosingly and said: "Zijin, the second uncle hasn't slept all night, now go and rest first, and these captives will be handed over to you for disposal." Zhao Yun silently supported Hu Li in this way, and Hu Li secretly made up his mind in his heart that he must treat Zhao Yun and Zhao Yu and all the brothers in Zhaojia Village well.