After listening to Chen Fuliang's reply brought back by Wang Qi, Li Jiancheng basically had no expression on his face, and he didn't speak for a long time, Li Xiuning's face that hadn't been washed for a few days was full of calculating expressions, but the other two insiders Wang Changhuan and Sun Hua showed joy and said happily: "Okay!" The general really had a clever plan, it seems that Chen Yingliang's thief has already believed that we will not be able to hold out for a few days, and will not launch another strong attack. ”

Li Xiuning didn't dare to draw conclusions lightly, and repeatedly interrogated the details of Wang Jue's meeting with Chen Fuliang, until no flaws were found, Li Xiuning nodded lightly and said: "Father's clever plan should have been successful, otherwise, Chen Yingliang's thieves would not have stepped up their construction of fortifications in the north of Yongfeng Cangcheng, and they have never stopped." ”

"Father's clever plan has been successful?" Li Jiancheng asked, shook his head and said: "I'm afraid not necessarily, Brother Ying Liangxian is extremely smart and uses troops well, it is difficult to say whether he will plan or not, and we can't take anything lightly." ”

"It's not to be taken lightly." Li Xiuning nodded, and said: "Brother, as in the previous three days, we will give drinking water in rations, and strictly guard it day and night, and in another five or six days, we will double the distribution of drinking water to the soldiers, and announce our real water storage situation, boost the morale of the army, and meet the attack of the officers and troops." ”

Li Jiancheng accepted Li Xiuning's construction, and ordered: "The three of you take turns to lead the army to guard the city defense, change every four hours, closely monitor the movement under the mountain, and report to me immediately if there is any abnormality." ”

Li Xiuning, Wang Changhuan and Sun Hua promised to continue to take turns guarding the city defenses that were not strong enough in accordance with Li Jiancheng's requirements, and at the same time continued to closely monitor the various movements of the Sui army camp under the mountain. The rebel decision-makers were even more secretly happy in their hearts, but they still didn't dare to relax too much.

As the sky got dark, the main camp of the Sui army was as calm and tranquil as ever, but a number of bonfires were lit on the interception positions in the north that were far larger than usual, and the rotational auxiliaries continued to build fortifications overnight. For this situation, Li Jiancheng made an arrangement to strengthen the monitoring of the movements of the Sui army in the north, and at the same time did not dare to take the Sui army camp in the south lightly, and still arranged a large number of sentry posts to monitor at all times.

The decision-making level of the rebel army headed by Li Jiancheng did not relax at all, but after all, the war was fought by soldiers, and when there were generals to monitor and inspect, the rebel soldiers were indeed loyal to their duties and did not appear to be careless, but with the passage of time and the gradual deepening of the night, the rebel soldiers gradually relaxed. Especially after the fourth watch, because they never noticed any movement in the Sui army camp, because the senior rebel generals ended their inspections, and because of normal physiological needs, the thirsty and sleepy rebel soldiers began to nap, and many soldiers even fell asleep directly on the arrow stacks.

At this time, in the afternoon, the Sui army Liu Heimin, who had already started to rest in advance, began to act, and fifty selected good hands came forward with flying claw ropes, led by Liu Heimin's brother Liu Shishan, and took advantage of the night to touch the south gate of Yongfeng Cangcheng first, followed by Liu Heimin personally led by three thousand Sui troops, carrying four trench bridge cars, fifty flying ladders and a large number of shovel tools, silently following and following, in order to avoid making unexpected sounds, not only every Sui soldier had a small pebble in his mouth, He also lifted the four trench bridge cars directly and marched - fortunately, the trench bridge cars were not too heavy, and the Sui soldiers had a lot of manpower, so they took turns to carry the vehicles forward, which was not too slow.

The hastily built Yongfeng Cangcheng did not have time to build the Jue Cave to illuminate the movement under the city, and the night of the thirtieth lunar calendar was a moonless night, which greatly facilitated the stealth approach of the Sui army, the vanguard led by Liu Shishan has been touched to the edge of the trench of Cangcheng, and the groggy rebel soldiers still have not found out that the Sui army is coming, Liu Shishan is secretly happy in his heart, while sending a safety signal to the back, he led the forward to slip down the trench, climbed to the opposite side of the trench with flying claws, crawled over the antlers lightly, and silently touched the dark place lurking under the city.

At this time, the rear army led by Liu Heimin has also touched the edge of the trench, Liu Heimin waved his hand to send a signal, by the last darkness before dawn, the Sui soldiers immediately carried the trench bridge car quietly forward, some tall soldiers slipped down the trench first, held the trench bridge car under the ditch to cross the trench, built a temporary bridge on the trench, the knife and axe immediately stepped forward, ambushed on the edge of the antlers to steal the cut, Liu Heimin also immediately notified Liu Shishan with a bird call, and ordered Liu Shishan to go to the city.

The ropes with iron hooks at the front end were thrown on the city wall, and as soon as they hooked up, the Sui army immediately climbed up, and it was at this time that the shouts of the rebel soldiers finally came from the city, "There is movement under the city!" ”

Before the words fell, the first Sui warrior had already rushed up the city wall with a horizontal knife and a rope, and as soon as his feet landed, he immediately swung his knife and slashed people, cutting down two rebel soldiers who were still napping, and then several Sui warriors rushed up the city wall one after another, also with knives in hand, and successively cut down several Sui soldiers who were napping or still rubbing their eyes and yawning.

At the same time, the Sui saber and axe hand also sped up their movements, slashing and slashing the antlers under the thief army's city to resist the horse, racing against time to open the way for the rear army.

The sound of the alarm gong finally sounded on the city of Yongfengcang, and the hysterical shouts of the rebel soldiers, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! The officers and soldiers are coming to attack us! ”

A little late, fifty Sui army masters, including Liu Shishan, had already gone to the city, slashing and killing the rebel soldiers who were caught off guard, while approaching each other and establishing a city wall position. Immediately afterwards, the Sui saber and axe man finally cut the antlers in front of a trench bridge car, let go of the road and continue to chop the antlers next to it, and the Sui soldiers behind immediately carried the flying ladder and strode over the trench, and immediately climbed up when they reached the city.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The officers and soldiers are here! The panicked shouts became louder and louder, more and more, Yongfeng Cangcheng gradually began to boil people, and Wang Changhuan, the rebel general on duty who was monitoring the Sui army's camp at the north gate, also hurriedly rushed over with the army, and the rebel generals on duty at the south gate immediately organized the army to launch a counterattack after the initial panic period, in a vain attempt to drive the Sui soldiers who had stolen the city wall out of the city.

The rebel soldiers who had slackened before dawn were still a little slower to react, and when they launched a counterattack in groups, Liu Heimin's army had already set up more than a dozen flying ladders on the city wall, and more than 200 Sui warriors successfully climbed the city wall, protecting the position space and covering the follow-up companions to land the city safely. At the same time, the Sui saber and axe men had also cut the antlers in front of the four trench bridges and chariots, and more Sui soldiers were able to rush to the city, climb up with the help of climbing weapons, and charge desperately towards the city with a roar.

Seeing that the sneak attack was progressing smoothly, Liu Heimin was overjoyed, and immediately sent out a fireworks signal with his own hands, and the fireworks refined by Yuan Tiangang flew into the air and exploded, blooming beautiful huge flowers, and the Sui army Ma Sanbao Division, which was assembling Hou in the Sui army camp, immediately strode out, carrying more siege weapons and rushing towards Yongfeng Cangcheng. There are also Sui soldiers who are guarding the fence defense line in the north, and under the leadership of the main general Niu Jinda, they rushed to the city wall and threw bows and arrows to the city, feint to contain the rebel forces, and share the pressure on the main battlefield at the south gate.

When the sky was white, the brothers and sisters Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning, who hurriedly got up, finally rushed to the wall of the cang, and what made their faces look like dirt was that not only had three or four hundred Sui soldiers successfully rushed to the city wall, but more Sui soldiers were still climbing upwards endlessly, grabbing more space for positions, and some soldiers had already dug the city wall directly under the city - the newly rammed city wall was not strong enough, and it was definitely possible to be dug through! It is even possible to be poached!

"Up! Give it to me! Li Jiancheng, who has always been steady, was rarely a little hysterical, and roared angrily: "Up! Kill all the officers and soldiers for me! Grab the walls back for me! ”

The rebels' counterattack had already begun, Wang Chang took the lead in a fight to the death with the Sui soldiers, and the reinforcements brought by Li Jiancheng's brothers and sisters also immediately entered the battle, while struggling to go forward to fight, an arrow buttress and an arrow buttress and the Sui army competed for the city wall position, while desperately throwing arrows and smashing stones, preventing the Sui army from continuing to go to the city, so as to delay some of the Sui army's climbing speed, and at the same time, the Sui army's follow-up reinforcements were still on the way up the mountain, although the rebel situation was critical, but there was still hope to beat the Sui army.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiuning breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered to curse the enemy, "Chen Yingliang thief!" Shameless! said that he would let us live, but behind his back, he launched a sneak attack, saying one thing and doing another, on the surface, he has a deep brotherhood with your brother, but in fact, he is more ruthless than anyone else! In this world, how can there be such a despicable and vicious shameless villain? ”

"Shut up, what's the use of talking about it now?" Li Jiancheng scolded his sister with a straight face, and then shouted: "Sue the whole army, our drinking water can support at least twenty days, and our main force has also taken Daxing City, and we can come back to rescue us within five days!" Stick to Yongfeng Cang! Give our main force to keep food and grass! ”

After arranging for his own soldiers to spread these true and false mixed news everywhere to stabilize the hearts of the army, Li Jiancheng immediately arranged for people to light wolf smoke in the city and send a warning signal to the outside world, and the soldiers who had been arranged by Li Jiancheng to lurk on the north bank of Weishui saw the signal, and immediately rushed back to the hidden place where the war horse was hidden, and rushed to Pujin Pass to ask Dou Cong for help, so that Dou Cong immediately sent troops south to rescue Yongfeng Cang in accordance with the prior agreement - don't underestimate Li Jiancheng, Liu Heimin, who couldn't be overturned by Li Er's slaughter of the city, was pushed down by him!

At this time, the rebel team relied on the advantage of troops, and had successfully suppressed the momentum of the Sui army's charge, and failed to let the Sui army continue to go to the city in large numbers and expand the position space, and also caused a lot of casualties to the Sui army, but only the city wall position with a width of Zhang still limited the development of the rebels' strength, and could only compete with the Sui army for the position space inch by inch, and the progress could not be fast in any case, and the Sui soldiers could still continue to climb the city under the cover of their comrades in the city to supplement the combat forces, and at the same time, the Sui soldiers under the city also continued to dig the wall. Some Sui soldiers had already dug holes in the walls where they could hide people.

Time is more precious than gold for both sides, if the Sui army in the city can hold on to the main brigade to help, then Yongfengcang is very hopeful, and if the rebel soldiers can preemptively drive the Sui soldiers off the city wall, there is still hope to block the Sui army's attack with a condescending advantage, and keep Yongfengcang, the lifeblood of the Guanzhong battlefield. Both sides are well aware of this, and neither side is willing to make the slightest concession, and the battle on the city wall is far from being described as fierce, only a flesh-and-blood human meat grinder can describe it.

Under the rising sun in the east, hundreds of Sui soldiers struggled to resist the rebel soldiers who were constantly surging left and right like the tide, people were close to each other, knives and axes were stabbed and stabbed, dark red blood flowers were constantly splashing on the ground, and the soldiers on both sides were constantly screaming and lying down and falling, and those who died together abounded, and it was not uncommon for those who rolled down the city wall together to hug each other, and there were countless Sui soldiers who climbed the city wall with simple tools on the wall, and they were as dense as a sugar cube crawling with ants. And not far to the south, there were Sui reinforcements who roared like thunder and strode forward.

If it goes on like this, it is very likely that the tenacious soldiers of the Sui army, who can be supplemented by troops, will hold the position space and hold on until the main force comes to help, but at this critical moment, Li Xiuning proposed to Li Jiancheng a bee-tailed woman's heart, "Brother, cover the battlefield of the city wall with a strong bow and a crossbow, and beat the official army down!" ”

Li Jiancheng hesitated slightly, Li Xiuning saw his brother's thoughts, and shouted, "What are you still doing?" When the main force of the official army rushes up, it will be too late for us to do so! ”

After hesitating for a while, Li Jiancheng finally gritted his teeth and accepted his sister's Jianyi, and ordered the army in the city to concentrate strong bows and crossbows to cover the battlefield of the Sui army's soldiers in the city. After the order was delivered, the density of bows and arrows increased sharply, but although the rebel soldiers aimed their arrows at the target as much as possible, many rebel soldiers and Sui soldiers were shot together, screaming and bleeding, and fell to the ground. The soldiers of the Sui army scolded the rebels for being shameless, but the rebel generals kept yelling, "Go! Above! Rush up! The officials and soldiers have long said that after the city is broken, they will bury us all alive! Anyway, it's death, and there is still a chance to survive if you fight to the end! ”

There are also warriors and fierce generals on the rebel side, knowing that they may be accidentally injured by their own bows and arrows, Wang Changhuan and Ashina Danai and other rebel generals are still in the lead, leading the soldiers to charge endlessly, under their driving and encouragement, the rebel soldiers have mustered up the courage to take risks and charge, desperately fighting with the Sui soldiers in a bloody battle, and gradually regaining the space of the city wall. The number of soldiers of the Sui army was already small, and they were covered by feather arrows, and the casualties increased rapidly, and the rebel soldiers were constantly retreating, and the space for controlling zhì was greatly reduced, and the soldiers of the Sui army under the city were also due to the lack of space, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers who could rush to the city wall.

In the fierce battle, Liu Shishan was wounded by a stray arrow, although Liu Shishan was still fighting with injuries, but still could not stop the rebels from advancing step by step, and after the Ma Sanbao army arrived at the battlefield, although a lot of trenches and bridges were quickly paved and put into the flying ladder to attack the city, it was still smashed down by the rebel soldiers with sheep's head stones, and the flying ladder was also knocked over a lot, and the casualties were quite small.

It is expected to recapture the position of the city wall, Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning brothers and sisters began to show joy, and even increased the arrows regardless of accidental injuries, but at this moment, the Sui soldiers under the city gradually broke out cheers, and the cheers became louder and louder, Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning brothers and sisters were shocked to take a closer look, only to find that the Sui army was not bright in the east and bright in the west, and the Sui soldiers who dug the city wall before had dug several deep pits on the newly rammed fragile walls, and the deep pits were still expanding, and there were more Sui soldiers who picked up shovels and hoes to dig the city wall, the rebel feather arrows shot left and right on the city wall, but no matter what, they couldn't make the bow and arrow turn, and they shot into the wall pit and injured the Sui soldiers.

There is no choice, in order to prevent these damned officers and soldiers from digging through or even digging down the rammed earth city wall, Li Jiancheng can only send Sun Hua to lead the army out of the city and kill here to stop the Sui soldiers from digging the city, but this also happens to be the appetite of the Sui army soldiersThe soldiers of the Sui army and their own soldiers killed and smashed together, and Ma Sanbao's army also continued to shoot Sun Huajun with bows and arrows, and also used a trench car to set up a trench on the other side of the city gate, and crossed the moat to kill Sun Huajun's back, and at the same time tried to take the opportunity to seize the city gate.

At this time, after paying a heavy price, the rebel soldiers finally succeeded in driving all the Sui soldiers who had ascended the city off the city wall, forcing Liu Shishan to escape from the city wall with injuries, and successfully recaptured the city wall position, but the main force of the Sui army led by Chen Fuliang himself had already left the camp and was striding to this side, and at the same time, the Sui soldiers had also dug a wall pit more than ten zhang long under the city, and the deepest part was close to five feet, almost half of the city wall had been dug through, and the newly rammed wall also appeared small cracks.

"Brother, if we continue like this, our walls will definitely be dug down!" Li Xiuning issued a warning, and said: "The only way to do this is to send an army out of the city to meet the battle, storm the flanks of the official army, take the opportunity to recapture the position under the city, and protect the city wall!" ”

The city wall will be defeated if it is dug down, this Li Jiancheng knows very well, the left and right are dead, and the dead horse can only be a live horse doctor once, after a little calculation, Li Jiancheng instructed Li Xiuning: "Take your people, go out of the city from the west gate, and go back to attack the flank of the official army, be careful." ”

Li Xiuning shouted the order, led the women's army she relied on to go down in history to attack from the west gate, and rushed back to the flank of Ma Sanbao's army, Li Jiancheng ordered Ashina Danai to withdraw the city wall, assemble at the south gate, just wait for Li Xiuning's army to contain Ma Sanbao, and immediately go out of the city to seize the position under the city.

As soon as Li Xiuning's army came out of the city from the West Gate, Ma Sanbao had already received a report from the Sui army's scouts, guessing the rebels' intentions, Ma Sanbao ordered Zhang Di and Li Yi to lead an army of 3,000 to stay here, and respond to Liu Heimin's army at any time, and he led 2,000 troops to take the initiative to attack to meet Li Xiuning's army.

"Slave of the traitor! The face came to see me, too! This is Li Xiuning's scolding of Ma Sanbao in the battle.

"Treasonous! Ruthless and unrighteous wicked woman! Today your time of death has arrived! This is Ma Sanbao's reply to Li Xiuning.

Between the scolding, the two thousand Sui army led by Ma Sanbao had already fought with the rebels, originally Li Xiuning's soldiers and horses as many as 6,000 people, including many famous generals such as Qiu Xinggong and Xiang Shanzhi, the strength was above the Ma Sanbao army, but soon after the fierce battle began, there was a Sui army behind the rebels. Quickly bring the situation on the battlefield back to equilibrium.

The scale of the melee gradually expanded, Li Xiuning's side had just entangled Ma Sanbao, Li Jiancheng immediately ordered to put down the suspension bridge, let Ashina Danai lead the army to attack, Chen Fuliang's old department in the county Zhang Di and Li Yi were worried that Liu Heimin could not support it, and immediately led the army to catch it, and the rebels led by Ashina Danai fought fiercely on the suspension bridge, and at the same time crossed the trench to reinforce Liu Heimin, the south to the west of Yongfengcang were full of shouting and killing the earth, and the fierce battle was like hemp.

Relying on the tenacious battles of Liu Heimin, Ma Sanbao and Niu Jinda's armies, and the precious time gained with blood and lives, Chen Fuliang finally led the main force of the Sui army to the Yongfengcang battlefield, and saw the Sui soldiers who were digging hard in the deep pits of the city wall, and saw the rebel soldiers who were forced to go out of the city to fight, Chen Fuliang nodded with great satisfaction. But when he saw the corpses of the Sui soldiers under the city wall and in the moats, as well as the walls stained dark red by the blood of the Sui soldiers, and the arrow stacks dripping with blood, Chen Fuliang cried and mourned again, and muttered: "That's why I hate siege battles the most, the casualties are too great!" As a result, small cracks appeared in the body.

"Brother, if we continue like this, our walls will definitely be dug down!" Li Xiuning issued a warning, and said: "The only way to do this is to send an army out of the city to meet the battle, storm the flanks of the official army, take the opportunity to recapture the position under the city, and protect the city wall!" ”

The city wall will be defeated if it is dug down, this Li Jiancheng knows very well, the left and right are dead, and the dead horse can only be a live horse doctor once, after a little calculation, Li Jiancheng instructed Li Xiuning: "Take your people, go out of the city from the west gate, and go back to attack the flank of the official army, be careful." ”

Li Xiuning shouted the order, led the women's army she relied on to go down in history to attack from the west gate, and rushed back to the flank of Ma Sanbao's army, Li Jiancheng ordered Ashina Danai to withdraw the city wall, assemble at the south gate, just wait for Li Xiuning's army to contain Ma Sanbao, and immediately go out of the city to seize the position under the city.

As soon as Li Xiuning's army came out of the city from the West Gate, Ma Sanbao had already received a report from the Sui army's scouts, guessing the rebels' intentions, Ma Sanbao ordered Zhang Di and Li Yi to lead an army of 3,000 to stay here, and respond to Liu Heimin's army at any time, and he led 2,000 troops to take the initiative to attack to meet Li Xiuning's army.

"Slave of the traitor! The face came to see me, too! This is Li Xiuning's scolding of Ma Sanbao in the battle.

"Treasonous! Ruthless and unrighteous wicked woman! Today your time of death has arrived! This is Ma Sanbao's reply to Li Xiuning.

Between the scolding, the two thousand Sui army led by Ma Sanbao had already fought with the rebels, originally Li Xiuning's soldiers and horses as many as 6,000 people, including many famous generals such as Qiu Xinggong and Xiang Shanzhi, the strength was above the Ma Sanbao army, but soon after the fierce battle began, there was a Sui army behind the rebels. Quickly bring the situation on the battlefield back to equilibrium.

The scale of the melee gradually expanded, Li Xiuning's side had just entangled Ma Sanbao, Li Jiancheng immediately ordered to put down the suspension bridge, let Ashina Danai lead the army to attack, Chen Fuliang's old department in the county Zhang Di and Li Yi were worried that Liu Heimin could not support it, and immediately led the army to catch it, and the rebels led by Ashina Danai fought fiercely on the suspension bridge, and at the same time crossed the trench to reinforce Liu Heimin, the south to the west of Yongfengcang were full of shouting and killing the earth, and the fierce battle was like hemp.

Relying on the tenacious battles of Liu Heimin, Ma Sanbao and Niu Jinda's armies, and the precious time gained with blood and lives, Chen Fuliang finally led the main force of the Sui army to the Yongfengcang battlefield, and saw the Sui soldiers who were digging hard in the deep pits of the city wall, and saw the rebel soldiers who were forced to go out of the city to fight, Chen Fuliang nodded with great satisfaction. But when he saw the corpses of the Sui soldiers under the city wall and in the moats, as well as the walls stained dark red by the blood of the Sui soldiers, and the arrow stacks dripping with blood, Chen Fuliang cried and mourned again, and muttered: "That's why I hate siege battles the most, the casualties are too great!" ”