Things were unusual, and Shen Caijie truthfully reported the news to King Hong.

Women have always been weak, and King Hong didn't care about Shen Caijie's proposal to remind him to be careful of the female soldiers of Yanling, he thought that the news of the guards must be wrong. What big things can a group of women can do, it's just some palace maids that Sima Hongyan found it fun and recruited to accompany them, and they are not a threat.

The heavy losses of the navy this time were actually negligent in taking precautions, and all the elite forces of Dongning were concentrated on the four city gates, which allowed the Yanling people to take advantage of the loopholes. However, they can't attack the city if they destroy the navy, and if they don't have a navy, at most they will lack naval support, and they will have no impact on the main city of Dongning. Besides, the ship can be rebuilt if it is gone, which is not a big deal.

Although King Hong is distressed that hundreds of warships have been destroyed, he is not too sad for this matter, as long as he guards the city gate and blocks the Yanling people out of the door, it will not be long before the Yanling people will withdraw their troops because of the lack of food and grass, and then the opportunity for his own counterattack will come, which is the focus of King Hong's attention.

King Hong didn't care, but Shen Caijie didn't dare to ignore it, but there was no good countermeasure for a while, so he could only ask everyone to be more careful and pay attention to precautions.

A few days after the destruction of the warship, the Yanling people disappeared again, and the spies sent by King Hong were also clueless and could not find a clue, so King Hong lost his temper several times and replaced the two leaders.

Shen Caijie couldn't help but secretly admire, he really couldn't understand what method Sima Hongyan used, how could he let hundreds of thousands of troops disappear out of thin air? It's been a day or two, it's been so many days, and the spies have searched everywhere, but they can't find any trace of them. Sima Hongyan's ability is really amazing!

Since they are hiding, they just don't want their opponents to know what they are doing. King Hong and Shen Caijie both knew that the day when the Yanling army appeared, that is, the day they would not die.

Sima Hongyan didn't let them wait too long, and two days later, King Hong received news that the Yanling army had appeared at the north gate and had begun to attack the city.

King Hong didn't expect the Yanling army to attack the farthest north gate, no wonder there was no trace of the Yanling army for so many days, it turned out that they went around in a big circle to attack the farthest city gate. King Hong immediately came to Shen Caijie to discuss, and Shen Caijie didn't understand why the Yanling army was so reluctant to seek the near and far, but since the battle line was so long, it was inevitable that it would not be able to fight for a long time, so Shen Caijie suggested sending reinforcements immediately.

There is no sea power, and the soldiers can only be short-handed when they come to the city. The combat capability of the Yanling army has improved by leaps and bounds, King Hong did not dare to be careless, and had already sent a group of reinforcements before, and at this time 50,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched to support again, and most of the elite archers were dispatched this time, which was bound to stop the Yanling army outside the city gate.

If the four city gates of Dongning are compared with each other, the north gate is the weakest, because it is the deepest city gate in Dongning, and it is impossible for the general army to bypass the two defensive lines to attack, so the construction and maintenance of the city wall and city gate are also the least valued.

Now Sima Hongyan deliberately went around in a big circle to attack here, and King Hong thought that this move was both clever and risky. The clever thing is that the north gate is the weakest and the easiest to breach, which is a weakness in Dongning's defense. And the risk lies in the fact that the Yanling army is deep into the dangerous place, and if it cannot be resolved quickly, there will inevitably be problems in the supply of grain and grass. Moreover, once Dongning sent troops from the east gate to outflank the back road, the Yanling army would face the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy. At that time, there is no need to beat them, as long as their food routes are cut off and they are trapped, and within a few days there will be no food in the army, and no matter how many people and horses there are, they will become fish and meat on the board and be slaughtered by others.

In the past, King Hong guarded the east gate because the other city gates were supported by sea fleets, so the elite cavalry and infantry were concentrated at the east gate. Now that the sea power has been destroyed, and several other city gates have also lost their support, if they rely on troops alone, the defenders of other city gates will inevitably not be able to compare with the Yanling army, so they must transfer troops to support.

According to the soldiers of the North Gate, the offensive of the Yanling army was particularly fierce, especially the heavy shield and heavy armor of the Yanling army, which made the protection of the Yanling army extremely solid, and the ordinary archers could not help them at all, if it were not for the defenders to set fire to the defense, they might have been broken through the city wall by the Yanling army. Moreover, the archers of the Yanling army are also very powerful, their bows and arrows are not only shot far, but also very accurate, after an offensive and defensive battle, the casualties of the defending Dongning soldiers are much more than the attacking Yanling army.

King Hong didn't expect that the combat ability of the Yanling army was stronger than imagined, and he couldn't help but worry, so he sent elite soldiers to support the defense while transferring cavalry to prepare to go out of the east gate to copy their back road.

However, Shen Caijie was more cautious, and he persuaded King Hong that maybe the attack at the north gate was a bait, not the main force of the Yanling army, and if he rashly sent troops, he might fall into a trap. For the sake of safety, only send elite reinforcements, as long as you can hold it, don't go out of the city easily.

What the military advisor said was not unreasonable, and King Hong did not send cavalry according to his words.

Who knew that late that night, there was an urgent military situation from the West City Gate, saying that there was a siege of the Yanling army, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the defenders of Dongning suffered heavy casualties.

The north gate was tightened, and the west gate was also attacked, and it was still late at night. Within a day, the Yanling army actually launched an attack on the two city gates, and King Hong and Shen Caijie were made a little concerned by Sima Hongyan's strange deployment. However, they responded immediately, and another 50,000 horses were dispatched to support.

Shen Caijie told King Hong that this was probably Sima Hongyan's plan to divide his troops, and she attacked two city gates in a row, probably in order to weaken the elite of the east gate. It's late at night, and I don't know how many Yanling troops there are at the West Gate, so I just need to defend it until dawn.

At the same time, for the sake of safety, the east gate and the south gate have strengthened precautions, and there may be where the main force of Yanling will appear.

This night, King Hong was terrified, lest the news of the city gate be breached. Since the Yanling army disappeared, King Hong felt that he had always been led by Sima Hongyan, but he still hadn't even figured out what Sima Hongyan wanted to do, this feeling made him very uncomfortable, and his heart had always been uneasy, and he hadn't slept well for several days.

The battle reports came one after another, and the fierce battles between the west and north gates continued, and the casualties were always high in Dongning. However, so many defenders did not die in vain, and the Yanling army has always been blocked out of the city and has not been able to attack it. It seems that although Yan Ling defended tightly and suffered fewer casualties, his excessive focus on defense also slowed down the efficiency of their attack.

For five or six days, the battle between the two city gates in the northwest has not stopped, and the Yanling army has been continuously attacking these two places without sleep, and the north gate has almost been lost several times.

King Hong realized that Sima Hongyan was using the advantage of Yanling's armament to consume Dongning's troops, because King Hong never dared to send troops to attack, so the grain and grass in the rear of Yanling could be transported to the front line one after another, and he went freely under King Hong's nose.

Another day passed, Simon was in a hurry, the defenders had been fighting for several days, and they were tired of men and horses, and now they were holding on. On the contrary, the Yanling army became more and more courageous, and did not retreat, and the defeat was immediately made up for the wave, and the Yanling soldiers who climbed under the city wall to the top of the city were never broken.

In an emergency, King Hong sent another 50,000 elite soldiers to the West Gate to support.

After so many days, except for the two northwest gates, which are lively, there has been no movement at the east gate and the south gate. The more this is the case, the more King Hong does not dare to relax his vigilance in these two places. For a while, King Hong began to be a little anxious and in a dilemma.

Dongning's cavalry is very strong, but now there is no place to use it, and they dare not send it out, for fear of being ambushed, this battle made King Hong extremely aggrieved.

There have been dozens of spies sent out to investigate the two Yanling Army in the northwest, and all of them have gone and never returned. King Hong didn't know where the main force of Yanling was, so he didn't dare to rashly let the cavalry go out.

The battle outside the city had already made Lan Shengwen in the imperial city feel panicked, and he sent people to inquire about the battle situation many times, and urged King Hong to come up with a way to defeat the enemy as soon as possible. But King Hong is also very helpless, Sima Hongyan uses soldiers to come out of nowhere, false and real, true and false, until now King Hong doesn't know where Sima Hongyan is, how to talk about the way to defeat the enemy? In the end, King Hong decided to hand over the east gate to Shen Caijie temporarily, and he wanted to rush to the north gate to personally supervise the battle.

From the east gate to the north gate, it also took several days to go non-stop, and King Hong rushed to the north gate battlefield with almost no sleep, so he rushed to the north gate battlefield at the fastest speed.

Climb the city tower and take a look, only to see the dense Yanling soldiers under the city wall, organizing the attack in an orderly manner, under the city wall are all soldiers holding heavy shields, lined up in a tight shield array, bows and arrows can not cause any damage to the enemy at all. Even the infantry who climbed the ladder were protected by shields, and all the bows and arrows fired at them were deflected by shields or heavy armor, and only when they approached the city could they be stabbed with spears or directly hit the head of the city by the defenders on the wall.

However, the Yanling army under the city set up human cushions under the wall, and all the soldiers who were pushed down were caught by them with shields, and those soldiers who were caught didn't seem to be injured, and they could continue to rush up when they got up.

King Hong was shocked, falling from such a high place, he couldn't fall to his death, this is simply a fantasy. The other party was still wearing heavy armor, and I really don't know how they did such a bizarre thing.

And the defenders on the city wall were not so lucky, under the dense shields under the city, there were many archers hidden, from time to time from the gaps in the shields to shoot cold arrows, as long as the defenders on the city wall dared to show their heads, they would immediately be shot by bows and arrows.

King Hong calculated, his defenders killed five or six people, and only one or two people on the other side would be injured, no wonder he had asked for help many times before, and how many people were not enough to fill in after such a fight.

Moreover, King Hong also found that the Yanling soldiers besieging the city were constantly rotating, attacking alternately, and the tired and injured people would be replaced immediately and replaced by the new force. King Hong looked into the distance, and the Yanling army was continuous, and there were at least 100,000 people who could be seen.

"Damn it!" King Hong couldn't help but scold: "We actually lost in the soldier's equipment!" ”

Seeing it with his own eyes, King Hong knew how well-equipped the Yanling soldiers were. The armor they wore was something King Hong had never seen before, covering almost every soldier tightly, revealing only two eyes. Their shields are also very peculiar, almost standing more than half a person tall, and the soldiers can hide their whole body behind the shield with a slight bow. In addition, there is a small notch on the right side of each shield, which can be used to set up spears when attacking in formation, and from where archers can fire bows and arrows when raising protection, which is really ingenious and practical.