"The enemy wants to flood the city with water."

Standing on the city wall, Gao Gong saw a ditch outside the city overnight, and knew that the defenders of the siege were going to flood the city with water.

The location of Yecheng is a normal city, surrounded by mountains and rivers, which is good. However, the proximity to Zhangshui is quite deadly during the flood season.

Chutian already had the experience of flooding Shouchun City with water, so he led the water to flood Yecheng again, and he was familiar with the road.

There is no shortage of strangers who are good at mathematics and engineering in the Chu Tianjun, and there are many people, so overnight, they dug a trench that is zhang deep, and during the day, there are also Xiang Yong digging.

The water attack will deal a heavy blow to the morale of the defenders of Yecheng.

"General Han, you have an elite cavalry in your hand, which can make two cavalry out of the city to make a feint, and then personally lead the cavalry to concentrate the main force to attack one of the trenches."

After all, Gao Gong was able to write and martial arts, and in the face of Chutian's upcoming water attack, he did not sit still, but actively attacked.

Zhao Longliu's cavalry general, Han Baohu, guarded Yecheng in order to defend actively, and Han Baohu came in handy at this time.

Under the command of Gao Gong, two gates were opened, and cavalrymen armed with horned bows rushed out of the gates.

The villagers and soldiers who were digging the trench couldn't help but be shocked.

"Gao Gong, as Zhao Long's trusted Minister of the Interior, is one level higher than the trial after all."

Chu Tian rode a war horse, on the periphery of Yecheng, observing the cavalry attacking the trenches out of the city.

Using the cover of night to quickly open a trench to encircle Yecheng, after all, it is a big project, and it has not yet completely formed an encirclement.

According to Chutian's plan, it must be at least two zhang deep and two zhang wide to completely surround the Yecheng defenders.

Fang Xuanling said: "Liang Hongyu has already led the crossbowmen to ambush, and at the same time, there is also the shooting battalion led by Tai Shici. ”

"For the trenches that were attacked, Xiang Yong immediately retreated, and as for the trenches that were not attacked, continue to dig the trenches."

Chu Tian was indifferent to Gao Gong's attack.

While fighting, digging ditches.

The cavalry soldiers of Yecheng divided into two routes, attacked the trench, and used the mobility of the cavalry to throw a rain of arrows at the village warriors who were digging the trenches, and many village warriors and soldiers were shot.

Carrying shovels, shovels, and carts, the townsfolk hurriedly crawled out of the trench and fled in a panic. Excavated earth was piled up on the edge of the trench. The trench was one zhang wide, and it was difficult for the cavalry to cross it.

Gao Gong and Shen Pei watched nervously from the city wall as the cavalry expelled the villagers who were digging trenches.

It is difficult to escape after all, so Gao Gong has to attack actively.

Those who are really good at defending the city will not seal the city gates. On the contrary, the well-connected gates were used as a weapon to attack the besieging parties. Defenders can gather forces at any of the gates and then surprise out of the city to make the besieging side defenseless.

Han Baohu, a cavalry general, gathered more than 1,000 elite cavalry at one of the city gates to destroy the trenches.

"Open the gates! Soldiers, kill the enemy with me! ”

Han Baohu picked up a spear, immediately speared, and led more than 1,000 cavalry to attack out of the city!

As a fierce general in the early Sui Dynasty, Han Baohu is actually a tiger general, but he has been suppressed by Chutian's army, so he has never had much eye-catching performance.

This time, Gao Gong handed over the task of going out of the city to destroy the trenches to Han Baohu, and prevented Chutian's army from leading Zhangshui to Yecheng as much as possible.

The Zhangshui in the flood season will be a disaster for Yecheng, which is on low ground.

Instead of directly attacking the most dangerous North City Gate, Han Baohu went out of the East City Gate and attacked the soldiers and village warriors who were digging a trench outside the East City Gate!

Thousands of angular bows were fired in a volley, and the soldiers and villagers in the trenches of the eastern city fell.

The rest of the men, led by the petty leader, escaped from the trenches, climbed over the piles of dirt, and ran away.

Han Baohu shot four arrows in succession, killing four soldiers, including a low-ranking officer who commanded Xiang Yong to dig a trench.

"Push the dirt they dug into the trench!"

Under the command of Han Baohu, a team of cavalry dismounted, wanting to fill in the trench before Zhangshui arrived.

Suddenly, a group of Jianyan crossbowmen emerged from behind the pile of dirt, and one by one they aimed their crossbows at the dismounted cavalry.

Obviously, the Jianyan crossbowmen were ambushed here at night, like hunters, patiently waiting for the soldiers at the city gate to come out of the city to attack.

"Stand back!"

Han Baohu's expression was distorted, the light cavalry was not very well equipped, and he was subjected to a strong crossbow salvo at close range, you can imagine the consequences!

"Shoot the arrows!"

Liang Hongyu appeared from behind the mound, and thousands of powerful crossbows fired in a salvo!

The Jianyan crossbowman pulled the trigger of the strong crossbow, and one after another sharp crossbow arrows shot out, making a sound that broke through the air, covering Han Capture Tiger's cavalry!

Han Baohu waved the spear in his hand to resist the dense rain of arrows, and from time to time crossbow arrows were picked up by Han Baohu.

Thousands of strong crossbows were fired at the head, which was extremely powerful, like hail, and Han Baohu's heart guard was even shot by a crossbow arrow. Although this heart shield was the strongest defensive in Han Baohu's armor, and it failed to break the armor, the crossbow arrow knocked the heart guard into a dent, and the impact made Han Baohu's body slightly shocked.

Han Baohu was able to block the first round of arrow rain with his personal martial arts and sophisticated equipment, but the light cavalry under his command became a target for arrows, and at least hundreds of people were nailed to death by strong crossbows!

Liang Hongyu's Jianyan crossbowman, even if he does not have a divine arm bow, is already a high-level soldier among the crossbowmen, basically as long as he shoots the light cavalry, even if the light cavalry does not die, it basically loses its combat effectiveness because of serious injuries.

The rest of the cavalry followed Han Baohu to retreat, and the second row of Jianyan crossbowmen took over the first row, and once again shot thousands of crossbow arrows, killing hundreds of light cavalry.

Han Baohu was hit by an arrow in the armor behind him and almost fell to the ground.

He fled back to the city with his cavalry.

Liang Hongyu frowned slightly when she saw the amazing speed at which Han Baohu had escaped.

She held an infantry crossbow in her hand, and the second crossbow arrow that hit Han Capture Tiger was shot by her.

Han Baohu's armor is of extremely high quality, and ordinary crossbow arrows can't shoot him.

The damage of the infantry crossbow has little to do with the force of the general. Unlike bows, the lethality of an infantry crossbow is provided by machinery.

"The enemy cavalry attacked from the east gate, and this time Ziyuan guessed it."

When Chutian heard that there was a battle in Dongcheng, Liang Hongyu, who had been in ambush for a long time, defeated the enemy cavalry and beheaded two hundred, so Liang Hongyu was commended.

Not long ago, several of his advisers made bets on which direction the main force of the enemy cavalry would go out of the city to destroy the trenches. Fang Xuanling, Xun You, Cao Di, and Xu You each chose a direction, and Xu You said it.

In fact, it is just a simple pleasure among men, and the result has nothing to do with the intelligence of the counselor......

However, after Xu Youmeng, he was quite complacent.

Fang Xuanling and Xun You are both relatively low-key strategists, Fang Xuanling will only act secretly to improve his status in Chutian's forces, such as supporting Xia Liang to become Chutian's main room and obtain political returns.

Xun You has a low-key personality, concentrates on being a strategist, and doesn't like to be in the limelight.

Cao Di's personality is a little straightforward, but not very high-profile.

In contrast, Xu You wanted to be in the limelight, and Fang Xuanling and Xun You also sold him a face.

Chutian not only ambushed the crossbowmen in the eastern city, but also ambushed the shooting battalion in the northern city, but Liang Hongyu's luck was better, so he achieved the result.

After repelling Han Baohu, Gao Gong still did not give up, but constantly sent cavalry to attack.

Chutian patrolled and protected with cavalry and crossbowmen, and the two sides fought from time to time, each with its own losses. The trenches are still expanding.

The Four Tigers of the Northern Army and the Second General of Jingbei led Xiang Yong to dig the riverbed on the edge of Zhangshui and lead it all the way to Yecheng.

This small project alarmed Liu Bei, who was stationed in Handan, and Liu Bei once again sent Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others south to attack the garrison in Zhangshui.

The white-robed army fought hard, and Chutian dispatched the five colonels of the Northern Army, the Tiger Ben Army, the Holy Maiden Legion, and the Knight Legion to the north to repel Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and protect the earthen dam.

The battle between the two sides lasted for a long time, and the four tigers of the Northern Army, who were in full swing, personally participated in the excavation of the riverbed, and finally led the villagers to dig the riverbed.

The last step is to destroy the dam and let the water pour into the riverbed and storm Yecheng!

Gao Gong and the judges, as well as the defenders of Yecheng, had already felt that the river was coming, the ground was trembling, and the tumbling water was coming!