The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the defeated soldiers entered the city.

As soon as the drawbridge was lowered, dozens of defeated soldiers immediately hugged Guo Conglong, chased after him, and rushed towards the city gate. A short distance, in a blink of an eye. The gates slowly opened. At the head of the city, torches swayed in the wind, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, reflecting on the faces of the defeated soldiers, revealing surprise, nervousness, suspicion, and so on. All of this is in the eyes of Monk Li, who is looking down from above.

It had not rained for many days, and the ground outside the city gate was very dry, and it was blown by the cold wind all night, and it was frozen hard. Step on it, "bang" sounds.

The defeated soldier at the front raised Guo Conglong, and couldn't wait for the city gates to open, so he squeezed in sideways. The defeated soldiers in the back spontaneously widened the distance between each other, lined up in a fan-shaped formation, and one hundred and ten hands clenched their weapons in unison. Some of the guns were lost on the road, it didn't matter, there were short knives and long swords at their waists.

They bowed forward slightly, their strength gathering on their arms at the same time. There are even many people who involuntarily open their mouths because of their excessive concentration, and it seems that they will burst out at any time to burst out with an earth-shattering cry.

One hundred and ten paces away, the defeated soldiers who were supposed to be in charge of covering were engaged in a fierce battle with the cavalry of the Yuan army, and they seemed to feel the oppression of the atmosphere, and the shouts of the soldiers on both sides suddenly decreased. Further east, not far away, the Yuan army brigade had already galloped to arrive, and the tall military flag jumped into the sight of everyone at the head of the city.

Monk Li said softly: "Open the city gate wider." ”

The mechanism turned, grinding with a screeching sound. In this cold air, it came far away. The shouts of slaughter, which had become low on the battlefield, suddenly rose again, and most of the defeated soldiers in front of the city gates crowded into the city. Guo Conglong was thrown to the ground by them, dozens of people exerted their strength in unison, and the situation changed sharply, and the spear stabbed into the body of the Haidong soldier inside the city gate, and the sword slashed at the body of the red scarf that was blocking the front.

Blood splattered, and broken arms flew.

In the crowd, the little colonel who had answered earlier in the defeated pawn desperately squeezed forward to kill. His mouth that had been open for a long time finally let out an angry roar, and he was angry and shouted, "I am all pawns! Under the order of the commander, those who surrender will not be killed. Dozens of people clamored together: "The gate of Yidu is broken!" ”

On the side of the drawbridge, the fighting battle group stopped in response, whether it was the Yuan army or the men and horses dressed in Haidong, they immediately stopped the fierce battle. Hundreds of people converged to form a stream of iron, some turned their horses back, some went straight with their guns, rubbed shoulders and touched arms, horses' hooves were sudden, like the wind swept away like clouds, and after a moment, they jumped over the suspension bridge and rushed to the city. Hundreds of people shouted in unison: "The commander ordered! Those who descend do not kill. ”

In the distance, thousands of people from the Yuan army brigade rushed the horses to compete for the first, and the Splash Path also went here to kill. They all kept shouting. For a time, outside the city gate, the shouts of the Yuan army were earth-shattering. The guards at the head of the city looked at each other, and the sound was shocked. Monk Li said: "Open the city gate wider." ”

The gates were made of cast iron, and it was not easy to open. Moreover, this is an outer city gate, and when you enter it, it is not the main city, but the urn city. After passing through the urn city, and then passing through the inner city gate, this is considered to be entering the city.

There was no fire in the urn, and there was no light. At first, although the light outside the city gate was weak, after all, it was also a little bright. Suddenly, there was a smear of darkness in front of him, and he broke through the defeated pawn in the door first, and he couldn't adapt to it all of a sudden. However, there is no time for them now, so in a hurry, I can't take care of much, so I simply rely on my intuition, rely on bravery, raise swords and guns at the same time, while slashing and shouting, while running inside.

It's like a bamboo. They met with little resistance. The lead elementary school was ecstatic. The deafening sound of horses' hooves was heard, but it was the hundreds of people on the side of the drawbridge who also rushed in. Yidu is a big city, and the urn city is also very large, enough to accommodate thousands of people. There were hundreds of people inside, empty, and nothing was visible at all. They rushed to the inner gate with all their might.

Hundreds of people were killed, with torches. The Lord will look around in the midst of his busy schedule.

He saw a lot of soldiers wearing Haidong armor lying on the ground, which was expected to be the record of the dozens of defeated soldiers before, but it was also strange, these fallen soldiers had masks on their faces. Moreover, when the horse is stepped on, it is also soft and does not focus. It doesn't look like a human body. He wondered in his heart, picked one up with his spear, the mask fell off, he looked at it, and with a loud cry, "Not good! ”

Where is this soldier? It's a dummy!

He reined in his horse's head and waited for him to shout to his men to retreat. The brigade of the Yuan army in the rear has arrived. More than 1,000 people, all of them cavalry, raised the reins, shouted and screamed, and rushed to the urn city. The front and back are crowded. Not to mention retreating immediately, the Yuan pawn was a little behind, and it was crowded, and in such a situation, I was afraid that I couldn't even turn around. The front pawn also found an abnormality and ran backwards; The pawn behind didn't know the details and pushed forward. Bumped into each other and became a mess. A few Kong Ming lanterns flew by leisurely in the sky.

The city walls on both sides of the urn city are full of fire.

More than 1,000 Yuan soldiers heard that some people laughed loudly. First the colonel, then the soldiers, quieted down in waves. They looked up. I saw the head of the urn city wall, two or three people standing in the wind. The one in the middle, dressed in white with wide sleeves, a hand-cranked folding fan, a square scarf covering his head, and his eyebrows are sparse. There are many people in the Yuan Army who know him, and they shouted one after another: "Hong Jixun! ”

"Chahan old thief, first cut the river to disrupt our army. After defeat, he deceived my city. Do you expect this three-year-old child to carve insects and insects, so you want to open the gate of my Yidu? But I don't underestimate that there is no one in my city! Hong Jixun closed the folding fan, pointed to the urn city, asked left and right, and said, "Where is my Haidong Tiger?" ”

From the south and north ends of the city wall, two teams of soldiers held bows and arrows, and fished out opposite each other. There are also battlements on the walls of the urn. At each battlement, there is one person standing. After a while, around the Yuan army, thousands of archers were stationed. With Hong Jixun's command, the archers opened their bows and arrows, and firmly aimed at the city.

The Yuan army turned around and ran towards the city gate. It's late. The gates are closed. There is no way to heaven and no door to the earth.

More than 1,000 soldiers, mostly cavalry, galloped on horseback. Or look up and lose color, or look down for cover. There were brave ones who wielded spears and shouted and cursed, and there were those who were cowardly, trembling so much that they fell down their horses. The chief general who led the army and the colonel who entered the urn city all closed their eyes, looked miserable, and thought: "My life is over." After waiting for a long time, I only heard that there was chaos in the city, but I didn't see Hong Jixun release arrows.

Hong Jixun sighed and said, "When you enter me, life and death are in my thoughts." In my opinion, they are all Hu Lu, and killing them is like slaughtering pigs and dogs. Nothing to be pitied. It's just that my lord is lenient and benevolent, and he specially explained: God has the virtue of a good life. Those who wish to surrender can dismount and disarm. ”

Those who can be selected by Chahan to enter the city of fraud are all light deaths. Although death is imminent, it is inevitable that there will be cowardice, but it is basically impossible to make them surrender under the supervision of the robe and the main general. Hong Jixun asked three times in a row, but no one paid attention. Many pawns with bows and arrows instead stretched out their bows and arrows and shot them at the head of the city. It's really tough and not afraid of death.

Hong Jixun sneered: "Stubborn." He waved his hand and said, "Set fire." ”

Only then did the Yuan army discover that in the corners of the city wall, a lot of firewood, grass, and grease had been piled up. The task of the Haidong archers at the head of the wall is not to shoot the enemy, but to shoot firewood, grass, and grease. They all use rockets, and then they are cast in three places. In the blink of an eye, all the firewood and grass were ignited. The smoke is smoky.

The fire was ignited, and hundreds of foot soldiers came out of the city wall, all carrying firewood and oil, and poured them down. It also fuels the fire. In the urn city, the fire was raging suddenly. The man was frightened. Some were burned to death, and some were trampled to death.

Many of them were wearing two layers of heavy armor, and they were so hot that they could not take it off, and they cried out in pain. Often after a few calls, they are annihilated, and most of them are burned to death. The deaths are horrific. Black smoke billowed into the sky. And on top of this tragic scene in the world, the Kong Ming lantern made of three taels of white fine paper is fluttering, leisurely, and swaying the night sky.

Monk Li closed the city gate, lifted it up, and instructed the soldiers to remind them and take precautions, in case Chahan took the opportunity to raise the main force and suddenly attack the city. After arranging all this, he also came to the wall of the urn.

As soon as he arrived, he smelled a strong smell of barbecue, sniffled, and looked into the city. Rao is that he has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he doesn't feel unbearable. The name of the Buddha, who had not been recited for many years, involuntarily slipped out, and he said, "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south." He is a fierce general who leads the army, he has no calculation of killing, and he has also pit the surrender army on the battlefield, but at this time, such a sentence actually came out, at first glance, it seems to make people laugh. Thinking about it, you can see the tragedy of the burning of the Yuan army in the urn city. Hong Jixun's face was fine.

"Lord Hong. What about the lord? ”

"It's just a trivial matter, why do you want to work with your father-in-law?"

Monk Li had a puzzle and asked: "It's strange, the person who came from the Tartars, I have also seen it carefully, and it is clearly Guo Conglong." I don't know, the lord is not in the city, but how can he be sure that this must be used by the Tartars? ”

"The Yuan army is tens of thousands of people, what is the difficulty in finding someone who looks similar to General Guo? And the black light is blind, there is no need to look like seven or eight percent, there is one three or four percent, a little disguise, it is enough to deceive us. It's a pity that the person he found only had the appearance of General Guo, not General Guo's god.

"Who is General Guo? Jia Yong will also! Caught in the heavy siege of the Yuan army, he failed to break through and returned to the city. How will you be like a woman, begging you to open the gates of the city again and again? Moreover, you ask where the continuation of the chapter is. They only said that they were killed, but they did not see the body. How could General Guo not know that the status of Xu Pingzhang was important. Even if Xu Pingzhang is really dead, he will definitely not let it go, and will definitely snatch his body back. Even if you can't get it back, I won't say a word about it in my reply to you. Therefore, this Guo Conglong must be disguised for the Yuan army. ”

Monk Li praised and said: "The lord knows people, and he knows things like a god." The end will be admired. He also asked, "Our army sent General Guo out of the city, which was only decided yesterday." But how can Chahan be a prophet? What about this fake Guo Conglong who was arranged in advance? ”

"General Li, you have the responsibility to defend the city, and you must not take it lightly. And to go to the southeast, you can't do it unless you are brave. There are only a few generals available to the lord. It is not surprising that Chahan was able to anticipate it. ”

"I see." Monk Li looked up at the sky and asked, "If the fire burns, it will burn." Why is the Hung Ming lantern cast? ”

Hong Jixun opened the folding fan, his attitude was idle, and he smiled: "Without it." Say hello to Chahan. "It's better to say hello than to demonstrate. He counted the lamps and asked, "Can the general see the words under the lamp?" "Monk Li saw it earlier. Under several Kong Ming lanterns, there is a text panel hanging from each. The writing is very large, and it is clearly visible in the firelight. But he didn't know it, and asked, "I don't know what is written?" ”

"The lord has an order, and the three armies at the head of the city are ordered to call together." Hong Jixun put one hand behind him, pointed to the text panel with the other, read it out word by word, and said, "Li Chahan stole chickens and rice, and the old man lost his wife and soldiers." He paused, smiled and continued, "Horizontal criticism: Thank you for your kindness." ”

There were more than 1,000 yuan soldiers in the urn city, and no one surrendered. The fire burned until dawn. The smell of meat wafted away with the wind, and it could be smelled in Yuanying, more than ten miles away.

The next day, after the fire was extinguished, Monk Li ordered someone to clean up the corpse of the pawn, take off the armor, and take away the weapon, whether it can be used or not, at least it is an iron weapon, which can be changed to defend the city. And he cut off all the heads of all the corpses and hung them at the head of the city, and threw the rest of the torso outside the city, collected the wild dogs in the city, released them, and tore them to eat them.

The Kong Ming lantern has not yet fallen, sending away the night, ushering in the morning sun, still floating above the city. Deng She's move not only greatly boosted the morale of the three armies, but also correspondingly aroused the anger of Chahan. Of course, maybe he wasn't angry, but in the face of this situation, he had to express himself.

On that day, he sent four or five brave teams to brave the arrows and stones of Haidong, crossed the moat with a flying bridge, and desperately snatched back the bodies of the fallen soldiers. You can't let them go and let the wild dogs eat them. Too demoralizing.

And from the afternoon, the Yuan army significantly accelerated the pace of piling up earth mountains. He also used elite soldiers to secretly dig tunnels in the camp.

Siege method, as early as the Warring States period a thousand years ago, Mozi summarized it into twelve types in the chapter "Preparing for the City Gate". "Hole" and "hole" are two of them. "Moat" is to accumulate soil for the mountain, climb high and hit. "Hole", that is, digging tunnels, "burrowing into the soil", in order to damage the enemy city. These two methods are often used in the attack on fortified cities and great cities.

Dirt Hill can be seen inside the castle. Chahan dug tunnels, and could not be seen in the city.

However, Dunshe is also an expert at digging tunnels. He fought Liaozuo Gaizhou and was able to win by surprise in a quick time, which was the tactic he used. Of course not. In the Haidong Army, Liu Yang is the best at digging tunnels. He worked as a miner. After the Gaizhou War, Deng She allocated him 100 people to specialize in this technique. Therefore, although Liu Yang is not in the city now, there is no shortage of his disciples and protégés in the city. Deng She summoned him to ask for a plan, and he said: "There is only one way to crack the Tartar Trench and the cave attack method, and that is to dig a tunnel." ”

Tsakhan piles up mountains of earth.

The method of dealing with it is similar to that of the wall. Measure the direction from the city, then dig a tunnel to the bottom of the dirt mountain, and hollow it out. Shake its foundations first. Then, the excavation workers supported the surface with wooden pillars and other objects, buried gunpowder, and retreated to the city. Finally, the fuse was ignited, the gunpowder was detonated, and the earth and mountain collapsed. The biggest difficulty of this countermeasure is not in the construction, but in the calculation of the orientation. What should I do if I dig and dig wrong? Or digging too shallow, or digging too deep. Too shallow to be easily spotted; If it's too deep, it may not be able to shake the foundation of the mountain. You have to calculate well to get it right in one hit.

Chahan excavates tunnels.

He dug tunnels and divided them into two tactics. Or, as Deng She broke the state, using tunnels to fall the city wall. Or don't fall into the city walls, and directly enter the city. Warriors enter the city through tunnels, and the inside and outside should be combined, and the city gates should be opened. There are two countermeasures to deal with these two tactics.

A countermeasure to dig a trench in the city. Dig deeper. If Chahan wants to use warriors to enter the city, digging tunnels to the trenches, he will naturally not be able to move forward, and he will definitely be discovered by the guards and guards. Just kill it.

Another countermeasure is to dig a well close to the root of the wall in the direction that Chahan may dig a tunnel, a well in three steps, or a well in five steps. A new clay jar was placed at the bottom of the well, covered with thin cowhide, so that people with intelligent hearing could listen to it. The name of this method is "Listening to the Urn". As long as the enemy digs a tunnel, he will definitely be able to hear it.

In this way, after detecting the specific location of the tunnel, the enemy will dig a tunnel in the opposite direction from the castle to meet him. This is necessary to intercept the enemy's tunnels. At the same time, the cave is built outside the tunnel, and blowers are installed, and pipes are installed to connect their exhaust pipes into the tunnel. And lay forward with the extension of the tunnel.

When the enemy's tunnels are dug up, the caves are burned. In the cave, all the firewood is placed, and poison can also be added. When all the smoke is leaked into the narrow tunnel through the exhaust duct, you can imagine what it will be like. Although there is no fire, it is smoke. In order to prevent the enemy from cutting off and blocking the exhaust pipes, and at the same time to save their own soldiers from the pain of smoking, even plates are often placed in the tunnels.

Even the board, the height and width are in line with the tunnel, which is used to block smoke. On the board, there are small holes, which are convenient for spear stabbing. If the enemy blocks the ventilation duct in front, the defender can use the barrier of the connecting board to release the ventilation duct in the rear. Then the lead plate recedes.

Dunsher adopted these methods of coping.

The wind chill he contracted a while ago was not sufficiently recuperated and rested, although he took a few doses of Wu Yulin's medicine, it did not improve at all, but became more and more serious. Dragging the sick body, he supported himself. The task of commanding and assigning, supervising the Yuan camp and digging tunnels was handed over to Hong Jixun. The task of organizing the people and starting work was handed over to Ji Zongzhou and Luo Lilang.

He also personally went down to the army to select the brave. After the tunnel is dug, it is not only the wind and smoke that can retreat from the enemy, at least, the board needs to be operated by people. Moreover, when the two armies meet, it is inevitable that they will meet each other. There must be brave soldiers to go down into the tunnels to fight. "Short blades are connected", entering the tunnel to fight, and the weapons used are also special. To be short and concise. The task of building weapons is the responsibility of its own ordnance lifting department.

The Haidong and Chahan armies.

First, Deng She took advantage of his unstable foothold and went out of the city to break through. Then Chahan used the city of deception and flooded it with fire. After a battle of wits and courage, it seems that after these two battles, they suddenly died down. For three or four days in a row, there was no further confrontation. However, an underground confrontation that may be more intense, accompanied by the intensive preparations of the two sides, is increasingly imminent and imminent.