For hundreds of years, why this tactic is extremely rare, and there are almost no successful combat examples, Meng Jiucheng once wondered.

Until now, Meng Jiucheng didn't figure it out, and he didn't want to bother with it anymore. Anyway, it's just to use it well. It is still the Song Dynasty, and it is certain that it will be one step ahead. Moreover, Nanjing City can be successfully blasted by the Taiping Army, and this Rizhao City is nothing.

Every actual combat is a good opportunity to accumulate experience and improve technology. Although the sappers were formed and trained, they still lacked actual combat experience.

After waiting for a long time, the people of the engineering team finally finished the survey and ran back to report the situation to Meng Jiucheng.

"General, the soil is suitable, there is no water above five feet, you can start digging the tunnel." Wang Xie, the captain of the sapper, wiped his sweat, even the soil and mud, and immediately became a flowery face, but he couldn't hide the excitement and excitement in his heart.

Wang Xie's cheekbones were raised, there were some fine wrinkles on his forehead, and his eyes were hidden under thick, drooping eyebrows; His shoulders were lifelikely rounded, his neck was hidden inside, and his head seemed to grow straight out of his chest.

Wang Xie, who was born as a miner, although he looks a little strange, is definitely sturdy, which can be seen from the thick neck exposed.

"How long will it take?" Meng Jiucheng felt that since it was an actual combat drill and increased experience, there was no need to be busy.

Wang Xie thought for a moment and said, "I think it is feasible to be humble, at most three or four days." ”

Meng Jiucheng nodded with a smile and said, "Then let it go, let the auxiliary soldiers dig a trench to approach the city first, and also reduce your workload, speed up the speed of the cave attack, and strive to break the city in five days." ”

Five days to break the city, and it's not a crazy assault, it's definitely an amazing speed. Not only did Wang Zhongfeng and Han Shouzhong find it unbelievable, but it was something that Zhao Tiancheng and others in the city never expected.

As night fell, the moon moved across the dark blue sky, spreading its wings of light around Sunshine City.

Suddenly, the golden drums in the west of the city beat in unison, breaking the silence of the night and causing the defenders' nerves to tense suddenly.

Zhao Tiancheng hurriedly draped neatly, carrying a sword, and ascended to the city to defend against the enemy. However, the expected battle did not happen, and only the figures outside the city could be seen shaking by the moonlight, and the sound of excavation was incessant.

"This is-" Zhao Tiancheng observed for a long time, and said to himself: "Dig a trench to block the city gate, and want to trap our army in the city?" Or follow Zhuge 's plan and sound the golden drum in vain to exhaust our army? ”

Originally, a ditch around the city had been dug outside the city, but the Red Turban Army seemed to feel that it was not enough to be safe, and dug a trench outside the city gate, as if to completely besiege Rizhao City.

Zhao Tiancheng didn't know why, and the enemy was out of range, so he had to wait and see what happened at the head of the city, and ordered the generals defending the city in other directions to be vigilant and not to be negligent.

Thousands of soldiers took turns to work, and soon a circular trench was dug outside the city gate, more than a foot wide but no more than five feet deep. The excavated soil accumulated, slowly forming a sheltering wall.

Later, the direction of construction turned to Rizhao City, and several trenches at a 45-degree angle to the ring ditch zigzagged forward, digging forward at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon crossed with the trench dug by the defenders.

Trenching? The Red Turbans had to fill the trenches in such a strange way, and it did reduce casualties. Zhao Tiancheng seemed to understand a little, and immediately ordered the city to shoot arrows to stop the enemy's movements.

Arrows were fired from the walls, all of them were projectiles, effectively shielded by zigzag trenches, and there was little threat.

The two trenches still stretched forward tenaciously. Breaking through the trench under the city wall, like sharp arrows, stabbing closer and closer to Rizhao City.

The sound of golden drums suddenly sounded in the south of the city, and Zhao Tiancheng, who had been protected by his own soldiers and got off the city wall, suddenly came to his senses. This is the sound of attacking from the east to the west, and the enemy's main attack is in the south of the city. He roared loudly, and hurried to the south of the city with a sentry to take command.

On this day and night, Zhao Tiancheng barely closed his eyes, and the Song army in the city was also disturbed again and again. The sound of the golden drum flickered east and south, and the shouts rushed to kill the north and west, so that they did not know where their opponents were going to attack from.

It was light before the Red Turbans finished their operation. Zhao Tiancheng led several generals to inspect the city defense, and when he saw that the enemy did not seem to be making any progress, he felt that his confidence was still there.

"The enemy wants to break the city with a siege, but that is wishful thinking." Zhao Tiancheng put on a look of contempt, stretched out his hand and pointed outside the city, and said: "The enemy army is arrogant, and he doesn't know the art of war, and he doesn't even understand the siege of the city. It must be known that if the army is dull for a long time, the siege will be bent, and the city will not be pulled out, and the disaster of this attack will also be the disaster. ”

"What your lord says is very true." A person who looked like a master hurriedly echoed: "One is prosperous, then it is declining, and three is exhausted." As long as our army is not intimidated by the enemy's false threat and holds on, the enemy will be overwhelmed and will attack the city, and will suffer heavy casualties in vain. ”

"Your Excellency is wise." Shao Kai also felt that the enemy lacked siege skills, and he had not seen any large-scale siege equipment, he stretched out his finger and pointed outside the city, and said: "The enemy army has only begun to build siege equipment now, which shows that its skills are exhausted. ”

That's right, the Red Turbans outside the city are constantly bringing in wood, a few ladder-like things are placed on the ground at random, and soldiers are also shuttling in and out of the trenches.

Out of town to drive away? This thought flashed through Zhao Tiancheng's mind, but he immediately rejected it. Without the protection of the city walls, a war of attrition was unwilling to be fought by the defenders, who were inferior in their forces.

"Take rest in shifts, strengthen vigilance, and never slacken, so as to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of." Zhao Tiancheng gave a very normal and nonsense order.

"Your Excellency is wise."

"If the adults arrange it properly, there will be no gap for the enemy army."

Zhao Tiancheng was proud in his heart, smiled and waved his hand, and continued to inspect the city defense.

The sound of the golden drum sounded again, and the Red Turban Army continued to make gestures of filling trenches, pulling piles, and attacking the city, sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, sometimes in the south, and sometimes in the north. The other part of the soldiers kept shouting and persuading them to surrender in the trenches outside the city, and carried out psychological disintegration.

Golden drums, feints, shouts, these are not the main purpose, but to cover the sound of tunnel excavation. In the trenches west of the city, the engineering corps was nervously carrying out the earthwork work. Because it is only 200 meters from the city wall, the amount of excavation work can be reduced to a minimum. In the middle of the night last night, they had already started construction, and according to the progress of the project, they added support to increase the load-bearing and avoid collapse, and at the same time took the column as the boundary, the middle part was the excavation section, and the space on both sides was left to transport the slag and constantly fill the deep trench.

Near noon, Zhao Tiancheng finished the city defense inspection, and the accompanying generals dispersed. Guerrilla Shao Kai, escorted by several personal soldiers, rode back to his house.

As soon as he returned to the house and sat down, his wife came to ask for warmth with a stomach, and asked worriedly about the situation in the city.

Shao Kai looked at his wife's bulging belly, his heart was gloomy, and he had to comfort a few words.

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