The bulky behemoth of the rebels has been pushed to the city, and hundreds of soldiers in the car have fired crossbows in unison, and in an instant, arrows rain down, shooting wildly into the city!

Sima Shu was calm and calm, and commanded the soldiers to aim the catapult at the giant chariot and bombard the body with thousands of stone projectiles. Although the huge chariot was hard, it could not withstand the bombardment of stone bullets, and the hundreds of soldiers on the chariot suddenly became confused, and there was a cry of ghosts and wolves.

Li Te, Zu Yue, Fu Hong, Yao Gezhong, Li Xiong and others also led the defenders to constantly command various types of defense equipment, nailed to the city wall, and never retreated half a step.

With the "crunching" of the crossbow carts in the defense of the city, the crossbow arrows like spears swished towards the rebel soldiers under the city, and each crossbow arrow always carried away a burst of screams. The rebel soldiers looked up at the city in horror as they quickly ducked to the side. But the speed of a man could not match that of a lightning-fast crossbow, and it fired specifically at the place where the siege soldiers were concentrated.

The battle soon reached a stalemate, and the soldiers defending the city had long since put life and death on the line. The two sides involved in the battle forgot about their fears and numbly and stiffly repeated the same actions over and over again, throwing instruments, pulling winches, throwing stones......

The wailing of the people around him, and the pieces of flesh and blood flying around, seemed to be nothing.

The defenders of the Tiger Prison closed and shouted and persevered, barely curbing the momentum of the enemy's siege.

This already made Sima Shu worried, but he didn't know that the customs were suddenly in chaos. A soldier hurried up to the city and said, "Your Highness, many people say that there is a strange sound suddenly coming from the ground in front of the house and behind the house. ”

Sima Shu frowned, he didn't believe that there was any evil, this was probably the rebels' annihilation. Waiting for the rebels to attack the city a little later, Sima Shu waved his hand and said to Li Teh and the others nearby: "You guys keep an eye on it here, as soon as the enemy comes up, smash it down with rolling stones, shoot it back with random arrows, don't be stingy with arrows and stones!" There were many arrows and rubble in the city, and the enemy threw them in. We will give it back to them as they are, so that they too can taste what it is like to rain arrows and arrows! ”

When Li Te heard this, he shouted: "Okay, I will tell those dogs that there is no return!" ”

Then Sima Shu took several personal soldiers and followed the people to the back of a dilapidated house. Behind the house is a vegetable garden with a large watering tank. The people pointed to the big water tank from afar, and said in a panic: "That strange sound came from under the water tank!" ”

Several pro-soldiers drew their sabers and guarded Sima Shu's left and right, but Sima Shu deliberately smiled: "Don't be nervous, even if it's a demon, this palace will call it dead without a place to bury!" ”

Under the frightened gaze of the people, Sima Shu was unusually calm, walked to the water tank, bent down and put his ear to the side of the water tank to listen carefully. Sure enough, I heard "crunch, crunch" like the sound of churning the ground. Sima Shu listened for a while, suddenly came to his senses, and sneered: "Sima Yue and Sima Yan, the two old thieves, are playing this trick, and this palace will definitely make you look good!" ”

Sima said nothing, ordered the people to come over, and said loudly: "This is a bad idea that those rebellious ministers and thieves outside the city came up with. They thought that during the siege, we would relax our patrols and try to dig tunnels and sneak into the city. Don't panic, everyone can hear the movement underground by covering the vat with leather and listening carefully. If there is no leather, you can hear it if you cover the vat directly in the ground. If there is any trouble, hurry up and report it to the palace! ”

When the people heard this, they were thunderous with joy, and they all hurried home.

Sima Shu thought for a while, and then said to the guards: "You hurry up and inform the generals of each battalion to dig a few deep pits near the city gate, and bury two large leather vats in each pit, listen to the sound of these two vats, determine the direction and position of the enemy, and be sure to block the rebel soldiers in the tunnels and prevent them from appearing!" ”

Sure enough, as Sima Shu expected, it turned out that the king of the East China Sea was attacking the city on a large scale, and at the same time sending people to dig tunnels, wanting to cover the sound of digging with earth-shattering shouts and killing, and sneaked into the tiger prison while taking advantage of the chaos.

Fortunately, Sima Shu discovered the mystery and immediately instructed the people to dig a ditch along the city wall in the city and fill the ditch with water. As long as the tunnel is dug into the city, once the ditch is opened to the city, the water will pour into the tunnel, drowning all the people.

If there is a tunnel dug deep and you are lucky enough to cross the ditch, there will always be a time to outcrop. Sima Shu also ordered every house in the city to put a large water tank and other detective things, once he heard that there was an abnormal situation underground, he would report to the defending generals in time, and at the same time ask people to boil water, and as soon as the defending generals and soldiers arrived, they would sprinkle boiling hot water from the mouth of the tunnel that had just emerged.

As a result, after a few rounds, there was a lot of gain. The rebel soldiers could not perform in the narrow tunnels, either stabbing through the ditch and being flooded, or being waited for by hot oil and hot water, so there were no two fates: one was drowned by the water, and the other was flooded by the soldiers guarding the cave in the city, all of them were scalded to death, and almost no one was spared.

Recently, the rebels under the command of the King of the East China Sea launched a fierce attack on the Tiger Prison Pass, and this is the fifth day. Seeing that more than 2,000 people had been killed or injured in the city in just five days, Sima Shu was greatly worried.

He summoned everyone and said, "Although Gu has brought nine thousand people, if it is consumed in the city like this, I am afraid it will not be enough to consume on the battlefield!" Although the young and strong in the city can help defend it, it will not help the general situation. Hongu felt that in order to win, we had to win by surprise. Originally, Lone planned to lure the enemy, but now it seems a little unrealistic. Therefore, Lone intends to lead some elites out of the Tiger Prison and look for opportunities to destroy the enemy! ”

"What His Royal Highness said is not unreasonable, there is an ancestral captain in charge of the pass, plus the elite soldiers and sharp weapons, which is enough to block the rebels. The minister is willing to follow His Highness to the outside of the city to act as a surprise soldier! "Li Tet also knows that sticking to it is never the way out, and although the prince's suggestion is a bit risky, it is a clever plan!

However, at the end, Sima Shu was a little worried: "The rebel army is attacking the Tiger Prison Pass, the situation is critical, if Lone leaves suddenly, it will not be good for others to think that my Sima Xizu is in danger!" ”

Zu Yue smiled slightly: "Your Highness, don't worry, there is a way to deal with this problem." His Royal Highness can entrust the task of defending the city to a lowly position on the grounds that the court has urgent official business to deal with. After everyone gets used to it, His Royal Highness can quietly leave the customs with a few elites. ”

Sima Shu nodded, "Since everyone agrees, this palace has no choice but to do it!" Then he pointed to the west of the city, "After two days, the main palace will go out of the city from the west gate at night, and then make a detour to the south of Songshan, and hide in the mountains to wait, how about it?" ”

Li Teh and Zu Yue said: "The ministers will wait for His Highness's arrangement, and they will choose the opportunity to go out of the city tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Many matters of city defense are not yet perfect, and you can use these two days to make up for it! ”

According to the advice of the ancestors, Sima Shu gradually reduced the number of appearances in the city, and everyone gradually became accustomed to the prince hiding in the city to deal with 'government affairs'.

However, during this time, the rebel offensive did not decrease. The rebels had already determined the military policy, which was to win by quantity and constantly consume the vital strength of the defenders. Use the Xianbei cavalry as a reserve for the army, and at the same time prevent the defenders' cavalry from sneaking up.

In the Tiger Prison Pass, although the defenders had sufficient supplies at the beginning, and sometimes they could use the arrows fired into the city by the rebel army to organize a counterattack, but after all, they could not make ends meet, especially the arrows were consumed very quickly, and the soldiers in the city were very anxious.

Sima Shu groaned slightly, remembering the famous battle of defending the city in history, thinking about it, and said to Zu Yue: "This palace has a way, you can borrow some feather arrows for the city, so that I can go out of the city with confidence!" ”

Zu Yue hurriedly asked the prince for advice, and Sima Shu said: "Captain Zu can order people to tie up thousands of straw men, dress them in black clothes, and use ropes to lower them from the city wall on a moonlit night. The palace calculated that the rebel soldiers did not know the details, and they must compete to send arrows, so that they could borrow feather arrows. If the straw man is played back and forth several times in the city, the enemy will definitely relax, and then the real person will be put down to attack and disturb, and the enemy army will be chaotic. The main palace can also take the opportunity to break out of the city from the west gate! ”

Zu Yue did according to the plan, and sure enough, it was fulfilled, and tens of thousands of arrows were obtained. In the following days, and several times afterward, it was the same, and the enemy laughed unguarded.

Seeing that the time was ripe for a breakthrough, Sima Shu summoned all the generals in the city to discuss, and said: "Now the situation in the Tiger Prison Pass is critical, and it is expected to be difficult to last. Once the Tiger Pass is lost, the neighboring Mengjin will become an isolated city, and Luoyang will be difficult to protect, and our army will abandon its previous achievements. ”

"Therefore, Gu plans to lead General Li Teh and 3,000 elites to hide behind enemy lines, form a fist to find the cracks in the rebels, and then deal a fatal blow to the rebels!"

Everyone already knows the situation in the Tiger Prison, so they also agree with the prince's words. When Sima Shu saw this, he was secretly relieved in his heart, and said with a smile: "I pondered for a long time, the captain of the defending army, Zu Yue, was originally the general of the Tiger Prison Pass, so he stayed to be responsible for guarding the pass, and Li Xiong and Fu Hong stayed to help guard the pass. Xuan Xiu and Yao Gezhong went out with the palace and took on the burden of a surprise attack on the rebels. ”

Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Sima Shu continued: "Gu intends to lead three thousand soldiers, although the number is a little small, but they are all tigers in the army, and they will definitely be ten." At the first opportunity, more than 3,000 of us must ride on horses and step on the company camp, so that the rebels' dozens of miles of camp are useless, and kill our majesty! ”

After the plan was properly discussed, Sima Shu specially instructed that, in order to avoid people's eyes, he notified the 3,000 people to dress up as rebels, and to break out of the city together after being notified.

In the evening, the night is getting darker. After Sima Shu's side was ready to stop, Zu Yue in the east ordered more than a thousand straw men to be hung from the city, but this time it was different from usual, and hundreds of real people were mixed in to continue to harass the rebels. And at the West Gate, Sima Shu wore a brocade robe on his upper body, a tiger hakama on his lower body, and colorful decorated leather boots on his feet, and then put on armor, which was really majestic and dignified!

At this time, the east gate was already shouting and killing, and it turned out that the rebel soldiers saw that there were straw men falling again, and they thought that the old one was coming again, so they didn't care, and laughed loudly! Unexpectedly, those straw men landed, quietly hidden, and actually rushed into the rebel camp.

When the soldiers in the battalion are panicking, where can they resist! Hundreds of death squads were in the rebel barracks as if they were in a no-man's land, and after taking advantage of the situation to enter the camp, they also set fire everywhere, and the smoke flew within dozens of miles, and the flames soared into the sky!

At this time, Sima Shu led the troops to take the opportunity to sneak out of the Tiger Prison! (To be continued.) )