Volume 1 Chapter 858 Shoutong Prefecture
For two days, the water of the Tonghui River in the north city of Tongzhou has been flooding outward.
The water passed through the city gate, and the Tongzhou New City at this moment has gradually become a water city.
The few old and weak women and children could only hide in the high fire to cook, but soon, there was not even a dry firewood in the city.
People began to tear down houses to maintain.
The old city was blocked with sacks by Guan Dayao, and although the city was unreachably flooded, the situation was much better than that of the new city, and at least people could walk on the ground with muddy water.
On the fourth day, the walls of the northern city began to collapse due to flooding.
A gap more than ten zhang long appeared, and the river outside the city rushed into the city like a galloping wild horse.
Still in the city, the people have long been transferred to the old city, and they have survived.
The seven-story lighthouse had been submerged to the third floor at this time, and Cao Baihu on the city wall saw that the northern city would definitely not be able to hold it, so he took people to retreat to the old city on a small raft made of door panels.
Meng En, who was outside the city, was overjoyed when he saw the gap in the city wall.
"Ten thousand households, the city wall has collapsed!"
When I heard that the city wall had finally collapsed, I was overjoyed: "Wei Ting is really ridiculous, such an important Cangcheng in Tongzhou, the earthen wall has fallen into disrepair to the point where it collapsed in a few days, go, you take someone to Caoku by boat and transport all the grain out for me!" ”
Meng En crossed his hand, turned around and walked out of the tent.
When he arrived at the east gate with his men, he was almost laughed at by the straw men in the city.
"This defender of the city still knows the truth and the truth, if it weren't for his ambition to get these grains and grasses, I might have been bluffed by these straw men and didn't dare to approach easily!" Meng En said secretly in his heart.
When he carefully led people into the city through the gap, the new city of Tongzhou at this time had become a country.
When they arrived at Caocang in the northern city, Meng En almost scolded his mother.
It turned out that at this time, the Caocang had long been emptied by the defenders in the city, and only some rice husks and hamster corpses were floating in it.
In fact, when he entered the city easily, Meng En guessed that there was such a possibility.
But he was betting on the incompetence of the officials of the Wei State.
In fact, it still disappointed him.
When he slipped out of the city to report the matter, I replied with a smile: "Don't care, the food is not in the new city, then it is naturally in the old city." Anyway, the person we are looking for has not yet appeared, so there is no hurry! ”
"The siege equipment is almost finished these days, and it will start tomorrow...... Besiege! ”
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That night, Guan Dayao was still complacent about emptying all the grain in the new city.
Who knew that the next day, the deadly one came.
Early in the morning, the Tatars approached Tongzhou with a variety of siege equipment, and more than 10,000 horses surrounded the entire Tongzhou city wall on three sides.
The huge arrow tower was pulled by oxen to a distance of two hundred paces from the city wall and stopped.
A group of Tatars stood on an arrow tower higher than the city wall and shot arrows at the wall.
There are not many arrow towers, and the platform is not big, but the worst thing is that Guan Dayao and they have no means to restrain these arrow towers.
They lacked firearms, bows and crossbows, and even wood and stone.
For a whole morning, the Tatar arrows pressed the city as if they didn't want money.
The Cao army and the people didn't dare to raise their heads at all, so they could only erect a limited number of door panels, and check the movement outside the city after clinging to the door panels.
Until noon, the Tatars continued to shoot arrows, and there was no intention of the ladder ants attaching themselves or breaking through the gates.
Finally both sides had some dry food, and the Tatars soon came up again.
"What the hell do these Tatars mean, shit?" was completely passively beaten, which made Guan Dayao's spirit highly tense, and his expression was full of worry.
One of his subordinates said: "My lord, how do I feel that the Tatars have been stalling for time? ”
"They don't seem to be targeting us!"
Guan Dayao was not a fool, and scolded and said, "Damn, they were addicted to playing outside Tongzhou last time?" ”
At this moment, the sound of the horn sounded, and Guan Dayao was suddenly startled, the enemy was about to attack the city.
This time the Tatars are really preparing to attack the city.
They pushed the siege logs and countless ladders towards the east gate of Tongzhou.
"Quan Teniang pay attention, the captives are attacking!"
Officers at all levels scolded and drove people up to the city with their feet.
The vast majority of them are trembling civilians.
The enemy's arrow towers increased the frequency of their firing, and the people who could not hide from the city were soon killed and wounded.
Seeing that more than a dozen people fell on the head of the city at every turn, Guan Dayao's eyes turned red.
He also knew that at this time, Don't be stingy anymore, and immediately ordered all the archers to return fire with rockets.
Unfortunately, these rockets hardly hit the turret, and even if one or two lucky ones were stuck in the turret, the Tatars seemed to have been prepared, and the fire was quickly extinguished.
"Boom!" The loud crash under the east gate startled everyone on the city wall.
Guan Dayao's face turned pale, and he muttered to himself: "Dog, this time it's over, this time it's over, I don't even have a few knives in my hand, what are you doing with others?" ”
Although he thought so in his heart, he still cheered up and said: "Quick, pour gold juice down the city, damn, hurry!" ”
"Pay attention to the pushers, there are ladders that come up and push them down for me, just according to what Lao Tzu taught, how Lao Tzu taught you how to do it!"
At this life-and-death juncture, everyone knew that as long as the Tatars entered the city, their next fate could only be described as "miserable".
The general said that the men would kill all these barbarians, or take them to the bitter cold outside the fortress to be slaved by the Tatars, and the women would either be humiliated and killed, or they would be taken captive to the steppe and become the women of these barbarians, and these barbarians and even brothers would have a woman together.
Thinking of this, in order not to die, in order to keep their women from being ravaged, everyone in the city mustered up the courage at this moment and struggled to do their own thing, for fear that because of one of their mistakes, the entire city would suffer.
Altarma stood not far away, watching his men and horses rush up the walls like a tidal wave.
The sound of fighting and shouting is endless.
Zhao Quanxi said: "Wanhu, this Tongzhou will soon fall into the city, congratulations to Wanhu!" ”
I looked at the bale quietly, and then turned to look at Dongcheng again.
At this time, if you stand outside the city and look at the east city, you can find that countless cloud ladders are erected on the city wall.
The Tatars were surging towards the low walls under the onslaught of the defenders.
"My lord, I can't stand it! There were so many Tatars that in just one morning we ran out of everything we had prepared. ”
Guan Dayao's face was bruised by a flowing arrow, and he said with a bloody face: "If you don't go to the city to demolish the house, you still have to report to me?" ”
The man lowered his eyebrows and cried with a sad face: "Everything that can be demolished nearby is almost demolished." ”
"It's too late to go far!"
Guan Dayao was completely crazy: "Then tell everyone that I have to fight with the dog, anyway, I don't want to drink the wind, eat the snow and herd the sheep!" ”
At this moment, suddenly, the horn outside the city sounded again.
Guan Dayao scolded: "Grass, your mother, are you still coming?" ”