But Ling Xiao didn't dare to act rashly. Because if the loss cannot be minimized and the city is captured, then even if the city is defeated, it will not be able to stop the reinforcements later, and at that time, this war will be meaningless to Ling Xiao and Moon City, and even the gains outweigh the losses.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Mid-Mountain City can't hold out, if the rear reinforcements arrive, our army will either fall into a state of entrapment, or we can only retreat to Moon City, do you have any good ideas?"

Ling Xiao couldn't think of any quick and effective way by himself, so he simply gathered his subordinates and ministers to discuss. It's always good to brainstorm, and even if you don't have a good idea, you might be able to give yourself a little inspiration by discussing it.

"Although the enemy troops in the middle of the mountain city are all recruits, there are 30,000 men after all! If it is hard-hitting, even if the soldiers of our army have the advantage of the armor, it is impossible to defeat them in a short time!" the defender unceremoniously stated his opinion.

The implication is that if you don't want to fight slowly, then only a surprise plan will work.

"Let's let the city lord introduce the situation of the enemy army first!" Ling Xiao looked at the generals who did not completely agree with the opinions of the guards, so they prepared to let the guards in charge of the intelligence in the army introduce the situation of the enemy and us.

"No!" the general commanded, and he knew that what he had just said was too direct.

"The enemy army will be the lord of the city in the middle of the mountain, this person is mediocre in ability, but he is still a little self-aware, after seeing that our army is stationed on the border, he gave up the original plan of attack, but retreated to the city of the mountain, the city is quite far from the foot of the mountain, but it just holds the road to the south, there are not many equipment to defend the wall, but after many days of reinforcement, the city defense has been compared to the ordinary city! plus the 30,000 defenders in the city, it is still quite difficult to conquer it immediately! In addition, the city can ask for help from the neighboring cities at any time. So no matter what, we have to sweep the joy as soon as possible!" said the guard slowly.

As soon as the guard general finished analyzing the situation, the next general now expressed his opinion.

"Haha! What's so difficult about this, we are full of siege equipment this time. My lord, please give Lao Zhang 5,000 troops, and within three days, he will defeat that half-mountain city to meet your lord!" "Lao Zhang hates to listen to pre-battle analysis or something, and he didn't pay much attention to the words of the guards just now, but I heard that the half-mountain city is very strong. And he felt that Moon City had changed a lot, and his military strength had increased by several grades, and it was no longer the fish belly army of the past, so he immediately asked for battle excitedly.

"Old Zhang Xiu wants to make trouble, didn't you hear what you just said that the terrain of the mid-mountain city is dangerous! If you can take 5,000 troops to capture it, where can you use such a troublesome discussion!" Ling Xiao reprimanded.

Although this Lao Zhang is more than brave, he likes to go on a rampage, injuring 1,000 enemies and injuring 800 himself. But when he said this, he suddenly had a little inspiration in his head.

Hearing Ling Xiao's reprimand, Lao Zhang immediately fell silent. For this adult who single-handedly changed Moon City, Lao Zhang was both respectful and afraid.

"If it's a wooden village, we can still attack it with fire, this half-mountain city is a stone village, but it's quite troublesome!" said the guard, touching his short beard.

"If the time is not too urgent, we can intercept the messenger calling for help in Mid-Levels City, and pretend to be reinforcements to deceive the gate of the wall!" someone said. Although the generals of Moon City are now inflated in self-confidence and eager to try, they don't have much combat experience after all, and in the final analysis, they are all defending the city's army, and compared to the combat troops, the strategy and strategy are far from the same.

"No! From here to the neighboring city, even if you ride alone, it will take seven or eight days to go back and forth. The army will never be able to arrive in ten days!, while our other fronts can only hold out for another five or six days at most!" the defender vetoed.

Ling Xiao looked at everyone in the seat, only the Moon City Lord looked unsurprised or displeased.

"City Lord, do you have a good plan?"

The strategy and strategy of the Moon City Lord are good, but he has little actual combat experience, after all, his Moon City is perennially weak, even he can't find a good place to show it, if it weren't for Ling Xiao, it can be seen that he has been guarding Moon City for so many years with his ability, so he can be said to be the object that Ling Xiao wants to focus on.

"Hehe, my lord, although it is difficult to attack such a walled city directly, it is by no means impossible!" said the Moon City Lord with a smile.

"What is the city lord's plan, come quickly!" Ling Xiao said with a smile.

I also thought of it just now, and I didn't expect that the City Lord of Moon City had already come up with a plan in such a short period of time.

"Siege warfare is generally either a strong attack or a sneak attack, and the easiest way to sneak attack a defended city is to dig a tunnel......"

"I'm afraid it's a little difficult! Even if the mountain can be easily hollowed out, then the half-mountain city will not be unguarded against this most basic thing!" someone interrupted.

"Hehe! There are many dirt mountains in this area, so it shouldn't be very difficult to dig! As for being prepared, what does it matter, as long as the city wall is destroyed, even if he knows, he can't do anything......," the Moon City Lord smiled.

"Good plan!" Moon City City Lord's words were interrupted by the defenders again, "He besieged the city on the mountain and retreated, although he blocked the attack of the catapults, but it also brought himself great trouble! If it is a wooden village, it is nothing, his stone village, as long as the adjacent part of the city wall is hollowed out, the city wall will inevitably collapse! This plan is feasible!"

After listening to the guard's explanation, everyone understood it and expressed their admiration for the city lord of Moon City.

Seeing that Ling Xiao was just smiling and nodding, without the slightest surprise, the Moon City Lord knew that he had actually come up with such a plan a long time ago. A trace of pride immediately gathered in my heart.

"Okay! The city lord's plan is very good! Lao Zhang listens to the order!"

"The last general!"

"Let you take the soldiers to preside over this operation, the tunnel does not need to be dug into the wall, just hollow out the part of the adjacent city wall, and then temporarily support it with a small number of branches!"

"No!"

Ling Xiao asked everyone a few more words about other situations, and then specifically arranged the future attack on the village.

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Ling Xiao directly set up camp at the foot of Mid-Levels City, and did not begin to attack him.

The city lord of Banshan City saw that Ling Xiao's army did not attack, so he was happy. He really didn't expect Ling Xiao to dig tunnels to attack, because as we all know, mountains are not easy to be hollowed out, even if there are no hard rocks, ordinary hard mud is definitely much more solid than flat ground, and ordinary digging tools are unlikely to dig it easily. Therefore, after ordering the soldiers to continuously strengthen the city wall, the city lord of Banshan City hid in the village and drank wine with confidence, and did not even send a single spinner. Attack, then let's wait for reinforcements from the rear to come.

Ling Xiao is the most prepared in terms of siege equipment, not only a large number of catapults, ladders and other conventional equipment, but also the tools used to dig tunnels, all of which have been specially designed and manufactured by the iron-smelting workshop. Not to mention ordinary hard mud, even hard rock can easily chisel through it.

The luck of Mid-Levels City is really bad enough, the mountain he chose, unfortunately, is really a dirt mountain. Ling Xiao was originally going to let 80 million soldiers take turns to start digging the mountain, but now after only one day and one night of excavation, under the rotation of professional siege soldiers and ordinary soldiers, more than a dozen tunnels leading to the walled city of Lejiao have been successfully excavated. Moreover, the dedicated excavation soldiers saw that it was still early, and they even dug an empty passage along the city wall.

The day before coming to the Mid-Levels City Army, Ling Xiao finally took his soldiers into an attack formation.

The city lord of Mid-Levels City, who got the news, hurriedly ran out of his camp tent and prepared to personally command the defense.

Although I don't know why Ling Xiaojun didn't attack on the first day, but now that the attack has begun, the fool also knows that it can't be pretentious.

After the sound of the three drums, Ling Xiao rode a war horse, wearing Lingxi armor, and appeared in front of the whole army.

Ling Xiao looked at the tall but chaotic walled city on the hillside in the distance, and laughed in his heart, even if there was no tunnel, a heavy attack could knock down this chaotic city wall. He pointed his whip at the wall and prepared to say a few words to boost morale.

"Quick! Roll the wood, fall rocks!"

Ling Xiao was just about to say a few words, but the mid-mountain city over there thought that Ling Xiao was preparing to attack, and hurriedly ordered the defenders to attack.

"Boom ......"

"Boom la la ......"

Something happened that made Ling Xiao stunned.

Originally, he was going to make a speech and then let the catapults of the rear army bombard the middle ground. At that time, use the deferred effect bracket set up inside, and directly bring down the bracket behind that has been pulled out of the main support wood, so that you can bring down the city wall without directly attacking. When the collapse was over, Ling Xiao's infantry launched an attack on the panicked enemy troops.

Where did you think that now the side that is on the defensives will be the first to attack, no, you can't say offense, you should say defense.

The consequence of this action in Mid-Levels City is that those rolling giant trees and stones can still roll down the mountain one by one at first, but as the number increases and the speed increases, the support below finally can't bear it.

With the loud bang just now, the entire hillside collapsed at once.

Originally, if it was according to Ling Xiao's arrangement, the collapse should have come slowly, in that case, the people on the city wall who reacted faster might still be able to escape. Now this action of Mid-Levels City has made the collapse complete in an instant, and the people on the city wall only have time to see that the ground is sinking, and they all crash, and all of them fall down with the chaotic city wall.

Ling Xiaojun below was stunned for a while, and he couldn't imagine that there was such a good thing. Ling Xiao immediately and decisively ordered:

"All the troops are attacking!"

"Kill ......"

Fifteen thousand soldiers, led by many fierce generals, bypassed the main landslide and launched an attack on the walled city, which was no longer in shape.

Within a few hours, the battle was over.

The enemy commander of the city was crushed under the city wall at the beginning of the collapse, and by the time Ling Xiao's soldiers finally dug him out, he was already dead. Of the 30,000 enemy troops, there were thousands of them crushed under the city wall alone, and the rest of the soldiers were already stupid when they saw such a situation, and when Ling Xiao led the army to attack, they still had the heart to fight, those who surrendered, those who fled, and those who fled, almost no decent resistance. In the end, in addition to surrendering more than 10,000 people, nearly 10,000 people ran away, and less than a third of the enemy troops died.

Ling Xiao didn't send anyone to pursue, he didn't have time to care about these stragglers now.

That night, he took some of these surrendered enemy troops and incorporated them into his own troops, and handed over the rest to the defenders, so that he could reorganize them as quickly as possible.

At dawn the next day, Ling Xiao gathered his troops, collected the materials and armaments obtained from this battle, and prepared to go to Moon City to prepare for the follow-up battle to defend the city.

Moon City is located in the desert area, and it is the base camp of Ling Xiao, both the weather and the location are far more suitable for retreat than Mid-Mountain City, and the materials and military supplies gained this time are enough for Moon City to fight a protracted war for half a year to a year, moreover, because of the familiarity with Moon City, it is easier to set up ambushes around Moon City, now, it is not the time to confront King Kun, before that, what you have to do is two words, attack the city and plunder the wall!