Thirty miles west of Sveron Castle is the camp of the Xiongnu Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Ma Li walked around the big tent of the Chinese army, the casualties of the continuous siege infantry on this day were very large, but they were never able to enter the city, the army of the Eastern Roman Empire resisted very stubbornly, for several days, the army was blocked under the castle and could not move an inch, he was a little anxious to catch fire.

At this time, a battalion commander reported outside: "General, Sims, the commander of the siege battalion, is here!" ”

"Come in!"

The person who came walked into the big tent and saluted Ma Li and said, "General, do you have something to do with your subordinates?" ”

Ma Li nodded and asked, "Isn't there a blast in your siege camp?" Do you want to use explosives to blow the gates of that castle open? ”

Sims shook his head and said: "The general doesn't know, on the first day of the siege, his subordinates personally went to the city gate to see the castle gate, the city gate is made of very thick wood, and the texture of the wood is very hard, and there is a layer of copper wrapped around it, our siege camp siege vehicle hit hundreds of times and there is nothing to do with it, it is not afraid of fire, and his subordinates also thought about blowing it up with an explosion, but on the third day, when I knocked the siege vehicle into the city gate, I saw the hole in the city gate, The army of the Eastern Empire has blocked the hole in the city gate with a large number of bricks and stones, even if we blow up the city gate, we are helpless against the bricks and stones blocked inside, and because there is something behind it, I am afraid that even the city gate will not be able to blow up! ”

After hearing this, Ma Li formed a deep Sichuan character shape on his forehead, "So you siege camp has no way to take this city gate?" ”

Sims lowered his head in shame and said, "General, my subordinates are incompetent. Please, general! ”

Ma Li wanted to get angry, but he also knew that this couldn't be Sims, and he couldn't think of a way himself. How can you put the blame on the voice of your subordinates?

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the big tent, and after a while, a cavalryman was seen reporting to Ma Li at the gate of the big tent: "General Qiyu, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has come down, and the Fifth Division of the Second Army is with him, and now it has reached Harman, fifty miles away!" ”

"What?" Mari was stunned, and then said loudly: "Quickly notify a few division commanders to go with me to greet me!" ”

"Yes. Checkmate! ”

When Ma Li met the army of Qin Dong, the army of Qin Dong had already advanced to thirty miles, and the speed of the march was very fast. Now that the weather is hot, even if it is slowly swallowed, it is roasted under the sun, so it is better to speed up the march.

"The last general, Ma Li, led the commanders of the Eastern Expeditionary Army to greet His Royal Highness the Regent!" The horse and a group of generals quickly dismounted to pay respects.

Qin Dong glanced at Ma Li coldly, and spit out: "Go back to the camp first." Tell the hordes to move on! ”

The herald quickly conveyed the order. The units of the Fifth Division marched forward again, leaving only dust behind the large army.

In less than half an hour, the army arrived at the camp, Qin Dong stopped his horse, jumped off his horse and threw the reins of the war horse to the attendants, and then led by Ma Li and others to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Without waiting for the general to enter the big tent, Qin Dong, who had just walked to the door of the big tent of the Chinese army, stopped and turned around and said, "Ma Li come in with me, everyone else is waiting outside!" ”

The generals all looked at each other. Ma Li suddenly felt the pressure and didn't know why Qin Dong was here. But he hurriedly followed into the big tent.

Qin Dong walked to the main seat and sat down and looked at Ma Li, for two minutes, these two minutes made Ma Li sweat, he thought that Qin Dong would be furious, but Qin Dong sighed: "Alas, it seems that it was my mistake to let you lead the army to the east this time!" ”

Ma Li panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "The king, the last general is incompetent, and the king has disappointed, please punish the king!" ”

"Smack" Qin raised his hand and slapped the deputy on the seat and said angrily, "Do you think I'm disappointed that you haven't captured Sveron Castle for so long?" If you think so, you are wrong, there are not no victorious generals in this world, but it is not as many cabbages as you want, who can guarantee that you will not lose the battle? Which general can guarantee that his offensive will not be thwarted? No one dares to pat their chests and assure you, what annoys you is that your camp is only thirty miles away from Sveron Castle, and you have taken all the commanders of the Eastern Expeditionary Army to meet me dozens of miles away, do I need you to greet me? If, during the time you were greeting me, the army of the Eastern Empire in Sveron Castle suddenly came out of the city to kill, and your battalion did not even have a person in charge, do you know what the consequences were? ”

Ma Li was stunned when he heard this, and then thought that if it really happened as Qin Dong said, he was afraid that he would be defeated by the Eastern Empire, thinking about it, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his face turned pale, and his entire upper body was prostrate on the ground, and said: "The king, the last general knows his mistake and is willing to accept the king's punishment!" ”

"Hmph, of course I want to punish you, so that you can have a longer memory!" Qin Dong snorted coldly, and then said: "But now that you are still the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, curing your crime will demoralize the army, so I will write it down for you for the time being, and I will settle accounts with you after the end of this Eastern Expeditionary War!" ”

"Yes, King!"

"You get up first!" Qin Dong said a word, grabbed the water bag on the table next to him and poured a few mouthfuls into his mouth, which could be regarded as quenching his thirst.

It was a little stuffy in the tent, Qin Dong took off his helmet and put it on the table and asked, "Tell me how you have been attacking the city these days, is this Sveron Castle not made of iron?" ”

"Yes, King!" Ma Li immediately reported the details of the siege of the city these days to Qin Dong.

After hearing this, Qin Dong frowned and said, "Is this city gate really so strong? Can't even explode explosives? ”

"Yes!"

Qin Dong thought for a while and ordered: "Order, the sixteenth division will stay in the camp tomorrow, and the other divisions will go out of the camp with this king to attack the city!" ”

"Yes, King!"

In fact, Qin Dong didn't have a way to break through Sveron Castle in one fell swoop, the previous siege situation was only a certain understanding of the battle report and Ma Li's report, if he wanted to understand the real defensive strength of Sveron Castle, he still thought that he should make a judgment after seeing the siege battle with his own eyes, as for the method of breaking Sveron Castle, he still had to wait until after seeing the siege battle!

The next morning, Qin Dong left the 16th Division, which had been besieging the city during this time, to stay behind, and also let the soldiers of the 16th Division rest, and he took the 4th, 5th, and 17th Divisions to attack the city.

The army of Qin Dong advanced to the city of Sveron Castle, which once again caused the tension of the defenders of the Eastern Empire in the castle and on the city wall, seeing that a tragic siege battle was about to begin, the defenders of the Eastern Empire did not dare to slack off, and urgently issued an order for all departments to hold on, and all kinds of defensive materials were moved to the city wall and the castle.

And the banner of Qin Dong was erected on the high platform in the middle of the Xiongnu army, this situation was immediately discovered by the observation soldiers of the Eastern Empire, and the situation was reported to the guards, which immediately caused a panic, which showed that Qin Dong personally appeared in the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and the impact of this situation on the defenders of the Eastern Empire was huge, and many soldiers were originally going to hold on, but when they heard that Qin Dong was coming, their morale immediately dropped a lot.

The siege formation of the army was quickly set up, and Qin Dong and the others stood on the wooden platform and observed the defense of the castle and the city walls on both sides with binoculars. After a long time, Qin Dong put down the binoculars and said, "Order, let the 17th Division send a battalion to attack the city and test it!" ”

"Yes, King!"

After the order was issued, a battalion of infantry began to attack the city with the help of the siege battalion, the siege ladder, the siege tower and the rushing car together, although the infantry used the shield array to resist the arrows shot from the city wall and the archery hole of the castle, but there were still many people who were killed by the arrows shot from the gap in the shield, and Qin Dong also saw from the telescope that the arrows from the city wall and the castle were sparsely pulled, so he asked: "Did they shoot arrows like this before?" ”

Ma Li replied, "No, my lord, in the previous siege battles, they had fired a much more dense number of arrows!" ”

"So, they don't have a lot of arrows!" Qin Dong said a word and continued to observe.

After the siege infantry jumped on the city wall and jumped on the city wall, they fought with the defending soldiers of the Eastern Empire, and the two sides fought again for the city wall that had already been stained with blood, and people continued to fall from the city wall, and under the city wall, there were constantly Hun infantry climbing up, and the shouts of killing resounded through the world.

Qin Dong found that there was no moat in front of the castle and the city wall, and it stands to reason that the right side of the castle was the Maricha River, and it was completely possible to dig a moat to connect with the Maricha River, and divert water from the Maricha River, but Qin Dong soon found that there was an embankment up to more than ten meters high on the north bank of the Maricha River.

It turns out that the ground of this castle is not high, it is lower than other places, and if the moat is dug, the river is likely to overflow the moat and flood the castle during the flood season.

The siege battle was still going on, Qin Dong touched his chin and shouted: "Come on, send an order to the siege camp, let them dig a cave under the wall on the right side of the castle under the cover of the infantry shield array, go straight to the bottom of the city wall, and pile up the explosives in the cave and detonate it!" ”

Since the gate of the castle cannot be blown open, then blow up the foundation of the city wall, as long as the foundation collapses, the upper part of the city wall will also collapse, and when the time comes, the army will rush into the city, and the castle of Sveron will no longer be able to defend it.

The order was quickly executed, before noon, the siege camp finally dug a large cave under the city wall, stuffed a large amount of black powder explosives into it, and after the preparation was completed, the Hun infantry around the cave were withdrawn, and the lead was ignited, and after half a minute, there was a shocking noise, and I saw a puff of smoke and dust under the city wall on the right side of Sveron Castle, and then the city wall above arched upward, but it soon collapsed, and a huge gap appeared in the entire section of the city wall.

"The warriors of the Great Huns, go into the city with the general!"

"Kill!" A large number of Hun infantry rushed into the city through the gap in the city wall, and Sveron was thus breached, and the city became a pot of porridge, and the townspeople hid in their own homes and did not dare to come out, and the Roman soldiers in the city hurriedly retreated to the east, and the defenders of the castle were completely annihilated after resisting for two hours. (To be continued......)