Early in the morning of March 26, all the three major battalions of the Southern Tang Dynasty under Fuzhou Zicheng were dispatched, but their trajectory appeared very strange:

The army of 70,000 was divided into ten teams, eight of which randomly selected eight points around the sub-city, making the appearance of attacking the city with all their might; Twelve large and small trebuchets that were originally erected on the outer city of Fuzhou were transported, but they were not placed in the middle of the Gongchen Gate in the south, but concentrated in the southwest corner of the Qisheng Gate in the east of the south city, which is really incomprehensible.

Qian Hongyi, the envoy of Zhangwu Jiedu and the assassin of Fuzhou, stood on the tower of Gongchen Gate and observed for a long time, pondering the intentions of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but he had to arrange the troops with the cloth:

Two hundred and fifty men were sent to each of the attack points of the Southern Tang Dynasty at the corresponding city wall, and five hundred men were sent to wait at the west corner. Because he was afraid that his soldiers would not be able to work or mutiny, Qian Hongyi sent his own guards to command or supervise the team everywhere.

At three o'clock, Nan Tang chose the exact same time as yesterday to launch an attack. However, the soldiers of the ten attack points only shouted in unison for a while, but they did not immediately attack the city, and the trebuchet in the southwest corner took the lead.

Twelve trebuchets were in front and the latter behind, like twelve slow-moving giants, bending down, pulling, and throwing at the head of the city at the same time. The stones flipped and rolled in the air with a dull thud as they smashed against the battlements of the southwest corner.

Special soldier Zhao Zanting temporarily served as the commander-in-chief of the trebuchet, and he nervously observed the landing point of each stone, and quickly marked the notebook in his hand. After the first round of stone throwing, Zhao Zanting hurriedly ran over, commanded the three trebuchets outside to adjust the angle of the stone throwing slightly, and asked one of the trebuchets to lower the height.

Soon, under the great attention of the soldiers above and below the city, the second round of stone throwing began, and the strange sound of stones smashed one after another on the top section of the city wall, where the stone was thrown, the wall bricks were suddenly shattered into powder, the cracks extended from the middle to the sides, and the city wall made a "crunch" moan like a wounded giant.

At the end of the second round of stone throwing, before the dust and smoke at the head of the city wall had dissipated, two loud noises of "boom boom" were heard, and the upper end of the entire city wall suddenly collapsed, sucking in the dust above and spitting it out with greater strength.

The two groups of Tang soldiers who had been waiting behind the trebuchet immediately shouted in unison, the soldiers in the first two rows pierced the giant shield into the earth, and the two thousand archers were divided into four groups on the left and right, taking turns to shoot arrows, and the dense arrows suppressed all the defending soldiers on the city at once.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, countless Southern Tang soldiers with huge shields passed through the middle passage of the archers, quickly ran to the root of the collapsed city wall, first threw the small bag of soil in their hands there, and then raised the shield high, and instantly built a house-shaped shield array under the city wall that led directly to the rear. Under the shield house, a steady stream of Southern Tang soldiers quickly replenished it, lined up in four columns, and then passed from hand to hand, throwing bags of soil at the base of the city wall.

This scene confirmed the truth that the mountain was built up of earth and rock, but in a short quarter of an hour, the southern soldiers had already built a slightly steep slope at the base of the city wall, and the front end of the shield house was also rising, and it was about to touch the most recess of the collapsed city wall.

Just when the Fuzhou soldiers at the head of the city felt that the arrow array outside the city was a little sparse, and when they wanted to raise their heads to fight again, they found that the shields of the Southern Tang soldiers had been handed in at the collapsed place, and the guards who supervised the battle nearby shouted: "Impact! Kill! While urging the Fuzhou soldiers around him to attack.

The Fuzhou soldiers closest to the collapse were a little hesitant to move forward, and when they were only two meters away from the shield, the shield in the front row of the Southern Tang soldiers suddenly moved, Su Guanghai, Chen Wenshan, Kang Renjie, Yang Kuai, and Chen Hansheng rushed to the Fuzhou soldiers in five directions.

Taking advantage of the fact that the footsteps of the Fuzhou soldiers stopped again, Chen Wenshan took a step back and shouted angrily: "Don't kill those who surrender, otherwise the city will be slaughtered, and there will be no one left alive!" The other elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty who had already rushed up in large numbers also shouted in unison.

After yesterday's shocking drama, and after a night of silence, the invisible huge pressure had already blown the nerves of the Fuzhou soldiers into a balloon that had swelled to a critical point, and Chen Wenshan's words were like a needle, which punctured the balloon at once. A Fuzhou soldier near the collapse took the lead in throwing the knife in his hand to the ground and shouted: "I surrender, don't kill me!" ”

The guard who supervised the battle said angrily: "Zhang Xiaosi, I want to kill your whole family!" ”

Su Guanghai, who had already stopped the knife, roared angrily, threw his shield on the ground, and rushed straight towards the guard. Just like making an appointment in advance, all the Fuzhou soldiers in front of Su Guanghai gave way forward.

Su Guanghai jumped in front of the guard with several arrows, thunderously slashed out his knife, cut off the head of the guard with three swords in succession, and then lifted the bloody head into the air, and roared: "Surrender immediately!" Otherwise, it will end up like him! ”

Although Su Guanghai was over forty years old, his tall body was full of power, and he looked extremely powerful, and the head in his hand shook slightly, ignoring the blood splashed all over his body. A large ball of blood fell on the head of the silent city, and with a soft sound, it immediately shattered the little courage that all the Fuzhou soldiers had left.

"Bang la-" Hundreds of weapons were thrown to the ground, and all the Fuzhou soldiers squatted down with their heads in their hands. A steady stream of Southern Tang soldiers poured into the city, and immediately divided into three ways to break through the city walls and the city on both sides.

Lin Feng had his eyes fixed on the gate tower of Gongchen Gate as early as the moment the city wall collapsed, and sure enough, as he expected, he saw the scene of a group of people hurriedly fleeing from the city gate, and couldn't help sneering: "If you can escape this time, count your Qian Hongyi as a big skill!" ”

The three Tang troops were unstoppable and clamored to move forward, and all the Fuzhou soldiers encountered along the way chose to be unusually unanimous: to surrender on their knees. In particular, the two torrents on the city wall spread to both sides without the slightest obstruction, and every time they passed through an attack point, the attacking soldiers from all over the place, who had been waiting for their hearts, immediately cheered, transported the ladders and siege vehicles to the city wall, and rushed up like ants, and the torrent became more and more huge.

As early as the beginning of the siege, Zheng Yanhua, who had been guarding the Ping Mountain in the north of Zicheng, saw a puff of smoke and dust rising into the air from a distance, and immediately smiled and said, "Brothers, it's time to work!" ”

Dozens of brothers all over the hill took action, leaving one person to rush to the edge of the city wall, urgently shaking a black dragon battle flag in the distance, signaling the brothers outside the city to strengthen their vigilance, and all the remaining fierce men shot together, knocked down a hidden mountain rock, and lined up to quickly dive down.

This is the result of their search last night for most of the night, only this place is only a few meters away from the mountain, and the echo of the mountain stone after knocking is empty, a group of people tossed and studied for a long time, and finally got rid of the mountain stone used as a door.

Zheng Yanhua took a torch, followed the inside of the cave, quickly went down to the T-junction in the mountain, then blew out the torch, and told the brothers to hide.

Moments later, a flurry of footsteps rang out at the southern end of the tunnel, accompanied by low cheers and jumping fire. Zheng Yanhua coughed softly, signaled everyone to be on guard, and hid his body deeper behind a falling rock around the corner.

Soon, the sound of heavy breathing was getting closer and closer, and only a panicked voice was heard shouting: "Go straight out of the city and go straight north!" ”

A group of people were like lost dogs, not paying attention to the sides at all, and running towards the north with their heads bored.

Zheng Yanhua held his breath, his eyes searched for the young man in the middle of the crowd wearing a bright general's uniform, and when he saw the opportunity, his figure suddenly burst out, squeezed through the middle of the two guards, and put a knife on the young man's neck, shouting:

"Qian Hongyi, we have been waiting for a long time!"