Zhongli City's area is actually only half the size of Daoren City, but since the previous dynasty, Zhongli has always been a grain center and a land and water artery of the Southern Dynasty.

Further north of Zhongli City, it was already considered the northern border for the Southern Dynasties.

But for the Northern Wei Dynasty, the vast wilderness between the border cities of those garrisons from Zhongli to the border army of the Southern Dynasty was the fat meat they coveted.

Before the rise of the Northern Wei Dynasty, many homeless people and horse thieves in the north desperately wanted to enter these places to plunder, because a successful raid may be able to make them worry about food and clothing for a year.

Compared with the rest of the surrounding cities, Zhongli City has been arranged as a strategic location although it does not occupy a large area, half of the city is built by the water, the solid stone city wall has been deep into the underwater silt, the city wall by the water is high, and the Huaishui is turbulent, and it is difficult for ordinary naval troops to attack the city from the waterfront side.

So even if Zhongshan Wang Yuanying of the Northern Wei Dynasty repeatedly made surprise troops before, the elite army under Lan Huaigong in Zhongli City had already been transferred away by Lan Huaigong, and the defenders in the city were only thousands, but Zhongshan Wang Yuanying was all in the army, not to mention that there was no particularly powerful navy, not even an ordinary navy.

For the defenders of the Southern Dynasty in Zhongli City, if the water side does not need to be defended by troops, it means that all the troops need to be concentrated on the land side.

In addition, Zhongli was originally a water and land fortress that hoarded grain, grass and ordnance, and the grain, grass and ordnance were extremely sufficient, so in the past when the Northern Wei Dynasty did not have heavy troops, this Zhongli City gave people a sense of solidity.

It was only when a Northern Wei army suddenly appeared, and in the turbulent Huai Shui, it only took a short time to pile up Zhouyu that could accumulate troops, and then communicated with the north bank, and gradually built a bridge to approach the water wall of Zhongli City, and the opinions of the Southern Dynasty soldiers in Zhongli City also diverged.

In the middle of the night, there was a rebellion in the city of Zhongli.

The rebels emerged victorious.

Several of the previous high-ranking generals in the city fell to their knees covered in scars, and the armor of the first general had been removed, leaving only the close-fitting blue robe.

The general was not too badly injured, but his neck and shoulders were pressed by several cold long swords, and with a slight movement, the sharp blades coldly scratched his skin with blood.

"Wang Chaozong, you dare to commit an offense!" the general was extremely angry, and looked up at a young general in black armor with an expressionless face in front of him, and shouted in a cold voice.

The black-armored general he called the Dynasty Sect finally had some expression on his face, and a look of disdain appeared, "Lan Huaigong's subordinates, all of them are such gutless rats?"

"You!"

The general who was pressed to the ground was angry for a while, and in the next moment, he gritted his teeth and said sharply: "Do you know who my uncle is, you dare to disobey the military order here and treat me like this..."

"I'm not even afraid of death, I'm afraid of your uncle?"

Wang Chaozong coldly interrupted the general's words, and then said, "I want to live, so I won't let you escape with people like Lan Huaigong." ”

The two sentences of not being afraid of death and I want to live are obviously in conflict, but at this time, all the Southern Dynasty soldiers gathered around understood what this young general who led the rebellion meant.

If you hold on here, you may die, but if these generals secretly flee with their subordinates, I am afraid that this place will be the same as Sicheng, and the city will collapse quickly, and most of the sergeants who are still kept in the dark will die.

"Hang them on the water to the north and hang them. ”

Wang Chaozong didn't talk nonsense with this general at all, and said coldly to several generals behind him.

"What!"

The generals who were kneeling on the ground screamed in horror.

Even several generals behind him were a little puzzled, and one of them asked softly: "Kill and kill, what are you doing hanging on the north wall?"

"It's not for our own people, it's for those people of the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”

Wang Chaozong raised his head indifferently, he knew that his military order, no matter whether he won or lost this battle, even if he could survive well, he might die because of this incident in the future, but this Southern Dynasty needs some people with such shoulders to take care of things, otherwise it will only be laughed at by those Northern Wei people.

"It's just a fight to the death, not to the death. ”

He took a deep breath and said slowly and coldly, "If you want to take Zhongli easily and happily, that's dreaming." ”

When his voice sounded, the sergeants around him understood it thoroughly.

The appearance of the original highest-ranking generals in the city is not a secret, and those people in the Northern Wei Dynasty must be able to recognize it.

Originally, the top generals in the city were hanged on the north water, and the new Northern Wei army in the Huaishui naturally knew that these people in the city had completely gone out and wanted to defend the city.

"It's also a lot of effort for them to cut down wood and pile up dirt these days, and it's impossible for them to sleep peacefully. I'll recruit some loud voices and bring some drums, and don't want to sleep all night. A bearded general smiled disdainfully.

Knowing the end they were about to face, the few generals who were pressed all screamed loudly and struggled.

Heavy footsteps rang out.

An ordinary sergeant strode forward directly, grabbed the collar of one of the generals, and before this person could react, with a poof, a sharp knife in his hand had pierced the general's chest with deep blood.

The general's eyes widened in disbelief.

His heart and lobes were all pierced, and he wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a sound, and could only watch his blood spurt out of the wound.

"If I remember correctly, you should call Chen Gengnian?" Wang Chaozong's face remained unchanged, but he looked at this ordinary sergeant like a farmer with some surprise, looking at his such simple and skillful methods, he couldn't help but ask, "What did you do before?"

"Kill the pigs. The sergeant bowed to Wang Chaozong and said seriously.

"No wonder. ”

Wang Chaozong Huo Ran was cheerful, and while his brows were loosened, some of the generals behind him burst into laughter.

The laughter is wild and heroic.

The rest of the generals who knelt on the ground didn't know whether they were frightened by the laughter or paralyzed by the dripping blood, and they all fell to the ground with bloodless faces, and were dragged out by a group of sergeants.

Before the tea time, Zhongli City faced the water in the north of the city, and countless chaotic sounds sounded on the city wall.

Some shouted and cursed, and some shouted to kill.

The drums of war sounded.

The Wei army on the water island shot a large number of arrows, which were mixed with some broken stones and flying blades thrown by the ordnance.

Breaking the air and whimpering.

Wang Chaozong patrolled the city with an indifferent face, he and the other generals in the city who thought the same as him at this time, they never thought that in history, the most cruel and large-scale bloody strangulation between the northern dynasty and the southern dynasty would start at this time from the thick night where he was.