The Changzhou army is full of tricks, and actually dug a deep trench on the inside of the city gate, and that place has been torn up several times, who can realize this? I think it was a tunnel dug in advance, and it took a few days to dig a deep trench, but it was only limited by the inertia of thinking that it was not in a hurry to respond temporarily. Coupled with the fact that the back road was covered by trebuchets, it was difficult for the troops to maintain their formation. Of the 3,000 men who attacked the Right Army, nearly 2,000 were lost.

At this time, Wu Yuejun gathered in the barracks outside the east gate of Luocheng to hold a military meeting.

Liang Zhengrui, the commander of the Right Direct Army, suggested: "Now our army has been attacking Changzhou for more than a month, but the Changzhou army still has spare strength, but the number of our army besieging the city is insufficient, so that the Changzhou army has a lot of spare strength to plot against our army in the city." I implore General Ding to ask our lord to send reinforcements again, or ask the Yangzhou army in Runzhou to abandon Yangzhou first and join forces to attack Changzhou. ”

Ding Deyu really complained in his heart. I want to invite Ma Zhong to come to Changzhou, and it is estimated that Ma Zhong will invite me to Runzhou in turn. But if you want Qian Yu to send troops again, I'm afraid you will have to repeat it. Ding Deyu wanted to ask Suzhou for some people, but the Zhongwu Jiedu made Qian Hong say that the villagers of the Tang Dynasty today are also the villagers of the Song Dynasty tomorrow. It made Ding Deyu wake up and dare not drive soldiers to the surrounding countryside to arrest people at will.

Lu Zhiyong, the commander of Xiangdu, was also injured by rubble and broke an arm, which will endure the pain to participate in the military meeting. Said: "Our department has recently attacked the city wall, and we have also observed that the Changzhou army defending the city is a soldier, and there are no young and strong people to participate in the battle. From this point of view, the Changzhou army still has great spare strength. ”

Xiong Yuanjia, the commander of the Left Direct Army, also said: "If the Changzhou army still has spare strength, but never destroys the siege road of our army, there are also suspicious points, or there are traps from the city wall." ”

Ding Deyu will naturally not be swayed by these words, but if there is no good rhetoric, I am afraid that everyone will not be able to contribute. If it becomes a siege, this Changzhou city will be attacked for half a year, and I am afraid that Jinling City will be taken down.

At this time, Du Pu, the commander of the Shangzhi Army, said: "The art of war is cloudy, the virtual is real, and the real is virtual." Changzhou Assassin Shi Yu Wancheng is so difficult to deal with, how can he not use the people? In the case of trebuchets yesterday, a hundred trebuchets are almost the same, and 5,000 people will always need them, right? Isn't it a lot of money to build so many trebuchets? Therefore, I think that the Changzhou army makes our army feel that there is spare strength, so that our army can slow down the siege, it may be the strategy of the old man Yu Wancheng! ”

Ding Deyu's eyes lit up, Du Pu was right, the key was that Du Pu's statement was to his liking. "General Du is right! Doesn't this Changzhou army just want us to slow down the offensive? If we slow down, we will fall prey to their schemes. ”

Xiong Yuanjia was directly appetizing, what he and Lu Zhiyong meant was that if Wu Yuejun continued to attack at such a fast pace, he might fall into the calculation of the Changzhou army. However, Du Pu misinterpreted the meaning of the two into the plan of the Changzhou army, which was to make Wu Yuejun dare not attack quickly.

Du Pu had a different mind, Ding Deyu found the allies, and the military discussion continued, and he returned to the old road.

Compared with the left and right straight armies, the upper straight army is the number army built later, although the upper straight also has the foundation of the eight capital soldiers, but it is not as good as the left and right straight. However, the number of soldiers in the upper army was larger, while the left and right direct armies had 5,000 more men. Now that the left and right troops have lost their troops, it is the time for the upper and right troops to vent their evil anger.

Du Pu said that he wanted to ask for battle, and said that the city wall of Luocheng was not conducive to attacking, and the so-called feint attack was actually harassment, so it was better to concentrate the troops, and suggested that 5,000 people from the left and right sides should be drawn to help the army. Before, the Shangzhi army also sent 5,000 soldiers to the left and right, and at this time, the Shangzhi army was the main attack, requiring the left and right to send 5,000 each, which was actually regarded as the errand of attacking the outer city.

Xiong Yuanjia and Liang Zhengrui were annoyed, but after weighing the pros and cons, they also agreed.

But when Du Pu led the direct army into the battlefield, Du Pu regretted it. The reason is that after the trebuchet of the Changzhou army was threatened twice, there was no need to continue to hide, and the two piers in the north and south were blocked immediately. It was often the Shangzhi army that rushed to the wall from the pier, and the stone bullets of the Changzhou army arrived on the pier, cutting off the replenishment channel of the follow-up forces of the Wu Yue army. Without backup, the vanguard of the Wu and Yue army at the head of the city would be difficult to support, and under the counterattack of the superior forces and weapons of the Changzhou army, they could only retreat in embarrassment.

The fight was a stalemate. Du Pu also ordered people to attack the east gate, and also used trench cars, cave carts and filled in the ditch in the east gate tower, but in the small square in the city, there were blackened blood stains everywhere, so that no one was willing to rush again.

Du Pu pondered and pondered, but decided to give full play to the advantages of Wu Yue's large number of soldiers and expand the scale of the battlefield. The first is to make 5,000 left straight soldiers and horses to attack the North Pole Gate, and the second is to make 5,000 right straight back horses to attack the new southeast city wall. These two places are sandwiched between two city walls, and of course they are not easy to fight. However, the Changzhou army did not have many troops here, and it took only three days for the left and right armies to build a military base here as a starting position.

By the middle of January, the battlefield was divided into five places on the front of Changzhou's outer subcity, and the Changzhou army's strength was also stretched, and the people had to be mobilized to join the defense of the city.

At this time, the Ning Guojun, which had been holding back in the city for nearly two months, began to mobilize before the war.

In the past two months, Ning Guojun has not been without work. Most of the civil work was done by the soldiers of Ningguo who dressed as people's husbands. In advance, dig a trench on the inside of the city wall, lay long wood and then lay bricks and stones on it, and then it becomes a trench overnight. Ning Guojun also participated in some battles, such as the neat throwing of crossbow arrows in the small square, which was also the handiwork of Ning Guojun. In addition, cleaning up the corpses and wounded in the small square in the city was also carried by the soldiers of Ningguo, who had never fought before. Especially when the trebuchet was powerful, many soldiers of the Ning Guojun who came to carry the corpses vomited in the face of the corpses that were smashed into mud, and it was said that they would not be able to eat one day. However, after such training, when the recruits go to the battlefield again, there will be no such gaffes that lead to unnecessary casualties.

Today, nearly 30,000 Wu Yue troops have gathered in Luocheng, forming four main camps. The nearly 10,000 Wu Yue troops outside Luocheng were violently attacked by the Changzhou army on the one hand, and on the other hand, they went to the city from the four gates of Luocheng, which was not only inconvenient, but also more likely to be dispersed by the rout troops driven out of the city. And Li Congyi's plan was to use more than 10,000 Ningguo troops to defeat the 30,000 Wu Yue troops in Luocheng in one fell swoop, so that Wu Yue's army would withdraw from the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

After a month and a half of tug-of-war, Wu Yue's army dispersed the siege forces, and this fighter appeared. However, seeing that although Wu Yuejun was tired at this time, his fighting spirit had not fallen, and whether to wait or not to wait needed Li Congyi to weigh it. Now that the historical process has changed slightly, there is no new news from Runzhou, but Li Congyi really can't wait any longer. Moreover, the Changzhou army also suffered heavy casualties, and some generals increasingly hoped that the Ning army would send some men, such as crossbowmen, to participate in the defense of the city. Seeing that Li Congyi was worried about the wounded prisoners, let Wu Yuejun know the existence of Ning Guojun, then it would not be sold.

Du Pu didn't know that a catastrophe was coming, but he reported to Ding Deyu that the Changzhou army had let the people participate in the defense of the city, and the combat power had declined.

Ding Deyu was also excited, and immediately said to the battalion commander Shi Jingshan: "You bring hundreds of people, and try to attack them too!" Shi Jingshan was one of the three battalion commanders brought by Ding Deyu, and immediately selected a hundred people from the battalion, and there were also three people wearing iron armor, so he chose a road.

After a few days of bloody battles, Wu Yuejun also figured out the attack rules of the trebuchet, so when attacking, they no longer swarmed up, but divided into several waves, and rushed up in waves at the interval between trebuchets. Of course, sometimes there were cross-projections from the trebuchets of the Changzhou army, but the number of trebuchet salvos decreased, and the threat was greatly reduced due to poor accuracy.

When the military order sounded, Shi Jingshan charged first, this group of more than 30 people, rushed halfway on the road, the city wall was shot with javelin crossbow arrows, Shi Jingshan was also brave, one hand held a shield and flew a javelin, a little short body to hide behind the shield, then heard two flutters, two feather arrows, a crossbow arrow on the shield. However, not everyone had this ability, and five or six people were shot or shot, and they rolled down the tunnel screaming. At the time of three breaths, there were crossbow arrows flying on the city wall, thinking that it was a division of labor and cooperation, one person sent a crossbow, and one person wound it, so that it could be so fast.

Thirty-two men at the time of departure from the pier road, and when they arrived at the head of the city, they endured at least five rounds of crossbow bolts and two rounds of three-bed crossbow fire from the defenders, and lost nearly half of them. At this time, the second group of people also began to rush up, and then the trebuchets of the Changzhou army also began to shoot irregularly. The road and the city wall are not large, and there are too many people to squeeze in. The trebuchets of the Changzhou army are not seeking to kill or injure much now, that is, to make Wu Yue's army unable to gain a foothold at will in the road, so that they cannot arrange crossbowmen behind the road to attack with the sword and shield soldiers. After all, a direct shot is always much more powerful and deterrent than a projectile.

A gun stabbed over, Shi Jingshan blocked it with a shield, and with a knife in his right hand, he sharpened the tip of the gun and scrapped the gun. Then, with a single sword, he cut the fence blocking the wall in two. Another shot stabbed out from inside, this shot was very powerful, pierced the shield, and paused Shi Jingshan's forward figure; Then a soldier rushed in first, and cut down the man with the gun with a knife, and then was slashed in the chest by another Changzhou soldier, the iron armor worked, the man was not dead, and rolled out of the gap, Shi Jingshan also took the opportunity to bully in, a shield blocked a knife and a gun, and then a knife cut down the wooden fence for a year, and then several people rushed into the city wall.

Changzhou soldiers did not panic, a little back, more than a dozen steps away, there are more than ten crossbow arrows shot directly, Shi Jingshan saw the opportunity quickly, a short body dodged, but from the road to the city wall rushed in a few people suffered, was shot down in mid-air, one was hit by two crossbow arrows, directly turned down the wall, rolled down from the side of the road, and saw that it was not alive.

However, the Changzhou soldiers failed to rush up in time, so Shi Jingshan calmly formed a battle formation with a few surrounding soldiers and rushed over. Shi Jingshan shouted, the steel knife flashed, and the long knife in the opponent's soldier's hand was taken out of his hand, and Shi Jingshan's steel knife was cut diagonally, and a big hole was cut in his chest. Seeing Shi Jingshan so brave, several soldiers of the Changzhou army showed horror on their faces and retreated again and again. But the more than ten crossbowmen just now had already thrown away their bows and crossbows at this time, and rushed up with guns, knives and shields. The Changzhou soldiers were in front with shield soldiers, sword soldiers on both sides, and then spearmen were suddenly assassinated behind, and the cooperation was very tacit. Shi Jingshan saw the gap several times, but Shi Jingshan was unwilling to exchange his life for his life, and was forced to retreat by those two spears several times. Shi Jingshan's sharp knife failed to work, and this time it was a stalemate again.

Shi Jingshan saw that more than a dozen Changzhou soldiers with crossbows were approaching in the distance, and he knew that he could not fight any longer, so he immediately retreated back to the road, and retreated with half of the Song soldiers in a vacant position. It's just that as soon as Shi Jingshan retreated from the road, he saw that the wall of the road was open from the inside out, and a big hole was suddenly opened, and then groups of soldiers who took over the team held spears and lined up in a neat queue, and rushed out of the broken hole.