The news that Jiang Shaoheng would lead more than 30,000 reinforcements to arrive soon spread throughout Xiangyang City, and this shocking news quickly stabilized people's hearts. The same news was soon learned by the Dayong soldiers who were fighting the cadres outside the east gate.

When Yuwen Junping of the East Gate first learned the news, he immediately rushed back to the North Gate to discuss with Wu Daoming without thinking about it. Wu Daoming was also shocked by this news. They didn't expect Lan Jing'an to keep the news so tight, and it seemed that Xia Guo had helped her a lot.

The two of them didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly discussed how to break the city in two days. If the city cannot be broken within two days, then as soon as the reinforcements arrive, if they want to conquer Xiangyang, the difficulty will not increase by a star and a half.

In less than an hour, Lan Jing'an knew the opponent's offensive strategy. Dayong pressed all the men and horses in his hands into the battlefield less than five miles outside the east gate, and all the artillery carts fired at the east gate and the nearby city wall together. This time, Yuwen Junping also used a new artillery cart.

This kind of cannon can be fired continuously, or he got it by accident. I have tried this kind of artillery truck several times before, but the effect is not good, not that it is not far away; Just a few throws, the whole car collapsed. The current artillery truck is still a temporary transformation, and he originally wanted to let the craftsmen improve it in the next few days, but with the current situation, he can't take care of it.

Although the method of throwing stones may seem clumsy, it actually has the highest efficiency. No matter how high and thick Xiangyang is, it can't resist such a dense stone casting, not to mention that Dayong chose the east gate of the city wall with the softest crispness, as long as this uninterrupted stone throwing for more than a day, the east gate and the nearby city wall will not be able to keep.

It's just that there aren't so many stones near the east of Xiangyang City for Dayong to use. Therefore, Yuwen Junping stayed at the east gate to supervise the battle, while Wu Daoming led people to take a large amount of sand and stones from the edge of the Han River.

Lan Jing'an heard that the east gate was in an emergency, so he had to take someone to the east gate in person, and at the same time ordered Pang Tu to go to reinforcements. And Bai Qingfeng is responsible for the security of the other three doors. And Lu Min, who was on the moat, attacked again and returned to the Han River to attack Wu Daoming's part.

The dense slings made it impossible for the cadres to go out to meet the battle, and could only watch the other side recklessly destroy the city walls and gates. Lan Jing was anxious with peace of mind, if he continued like this, if he was torn open by the other party, the entire battle situation would become a one-sided situation.

She hurriedly asked all the generals under her command if they could deal with it. Everyone was also very distressed, although they had faced the attack of artillery carts in other battles before, they had never seen such a dense stone throwing, and they had never seen a gun cart that could throw stones without stopping. Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment.

Pang Tu gritted his teeth and took the initiative to ask: "Either I will take people out from the north gate and attack their flanks." ”

Lan Jing'an frowned and refused stiffly: "If you go out now, you will be sent to death." Yesterday, the opponent's forces were scattered, and you still have the possibility of winning when you go out of the city. But now they're all together, and we're five times more than us. If you take someone out, whether or not you can get them to stop and throw stones, you will have no return. ”

Lan Jing'an looked at Xie Weining, she knew that he had always been resourceful, and she had to turn to him for help. But to her disappointment, he shook his head helplessly. Lan Jing'an didn't give up, and sent people to ask Bai Qingfeng, Lu Min and Zhang Xun to see if there was any way.

Bai Qingfeng and Lu Min didn't have any good ideas, but Zhang Xun, who was appeasing the people in the city, hurried over, saying that he had an idea, but he didn't know if it was feasible. Although Zhang Xun is a civil official, he is still willing to give it a try at a critical moment. He asked if throwing stones would destroy the walls or gates, so he could use a net to cover them.

Before his words fell, the other generals shook their heads in unison. Isn't that a joke? But Lan Jing'an didn't veto it outright, but asked him how he came up with the idea.

Zhang Xun was a little embarrassed, he was not familiar with the equipment of the two armies. He also remembered that if the fruit on the tree fell to the ground, it would be smashed, but if there was a net, it would not be, so he asked if it was possible to catch the stone with the net.

Lan Jing'an was silent after listening to it, Zhang Xun's words were not unreasonable. If there was a layer of net-like stuff around the outer gate of the wall, wouldn't it have damaged the wall? But where can you find such a large net?

A gust of wind blew, and the banner of the cadre army swayed with the wind and fell in Lan Jing'an's eyes. Since the net is not good, what about the cloth? She still remembers that when she was young, she was naughty, climbed the tree to pick apricots, and forced Brother Qingyun to pick fruits under the tree. At that time, Brother Qingyun was caught with his robe.

That warm afternoon resurfaced in Lan Jing'an's mind. That day, the blue luan and the blue kite were also there. She also grinned and smashed the two of them with an apricot. Biluan dodged left and right; And Bi Kite took a towel in front of her, dissolving the power of her apricots.

Eventually, she fell from the tree in order to pick the biggest apricot. It was Brother Qingyun who threw the apricot full of bosom and reached out to catch her. She got up and saw that the apricots were broken, and it was a pity for a long time.

Thinking of the blue kite, she was stunned again. It was Biluan who saw her distracted, and whispered a few times in her ear before she came back to her senses. Lan Jing'an hurriedly said: "Zhang Changshi's words are not unreasonable, although we don't have a net, but what if we use cloth?" ”

Before the others could react, Zhang Xun's eyes lit up, and he stroked his beard and praised: "It's a good idea to overcome rigidity with softness, and the cloth is easy to find." ”

Pang Tu was still confused. Lan Jing'an hurriedly asked people to get some bricks and stones, and took another battle flag. She first asked people to build bricks into the shape of a city wall, and then asked Qiu Shaoze, Sun Wei, Pang Tu and Feng Shen to take turns throwing small stones at the same location of the bricks, and the four of them threw the bricks down in a while.

Lan Jing'an ordered the people to re-build the bricks, and covered the battle flag on the bricks, and pressed two small stones at the bottom two corners of the battle flag, and then ordered the four people to re-throw. This time, the bricks persisted for a lot longer than the last time before they collapsed.

This time, there is no need to say more about Lanjing, everyone intuitively saw the effect. Although Pang Tu still doesn't understand the reason, as long as the method works, it will be done. Lan Jing'an asked Zhang Xun to explain the principle again.

Zhang Xun said carefully: "If we make a curtain out of cloth, and then open it in its direction, throw it into the stone, the cloth is suspended in the air, and the momentum is immediately dissipated, and the city wall is not damaged at all." And even if the opponent then uses the attack car, the effect is similar. If it hits, it will dissipate its strength and ensure the safety of the city gate. ”

After everyone heard this, they were really convinced, and praised the great priest for his talent. Lan Jing'an waved his hand and attributed all his merits to Zhang Xun, if it weren't for his old Jiang Mi, he might not have been able to think of this method.

There was still a lot of cloth in the treasury of Xiangyang, and at this time, Lan Jing ordered Zhang Xun to take it out. At the same time, Zhang Xun organized the women in the city to seize the time to sew all the cloth together to form a huge curtain. Then she ordered Feng Shen to lead people to hang the curtain on the city wall.

Qiu Shaoze, Pang Tu, Sun Wei and Yin Quan braved the attack of throwing stones to force their way out of the city, and their troops were divided into two routes, responsible for pressing the huge stones under the curtain to expand the tension of the curtain. Fortunately, there are huge stones thrown by Dayong everywhere under the city, which facilitates their movements.

Rao was like this, but Qiu Shaoze and others also suffered heavy losses, and half of the troops they brought out were hit by boulders and died outside the city.

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