Datang New Order

After Lu Long's army failed in the first battle, they continued to attack the city at the risk of huge casualties.After the cloud chariot was destroyed, archery towers, catapults, and door-slamming chariots were used continuously, but none of them had much effect.Arrow towers and catapults can only suppress the defenders at the top of the city, but they are unable to solve the problem; the door-slamming car is not effective at rushing the door, because the defenders completely blocked the city gate.After the door rush car broke the wooden door in half, it found that there was a huge stone behind the door, and it was still impossible to enter, so it had to be withdrawn in the end.

Li Chengzhong watched the attack of the catapults. More than a dozen huge wooden arms threw stones towards the top of the city, but most of them were not accurate. The outside is of no use at all.A few lucky stones hit the city wall, but they only splashed the stones and had no effect.Fortunately, a few stones were thrown on the top of the city and knocked down a few Wei Bo soldiers, but the probability of this is not one in a hundred.Moreover, the stones that can be thrown are not large, the largest one is only about the size of a human head, if it is larger, it will damage the catapult itself.Li Chengzhong shook his head while looking at it, this thing is far from being as easy to use as imagined.

After the cloud chariot was destroyed, Lu Longjun couldn't replenish it in time, so he had to use the method of wooden ladder ants to climb the city.The defenders in the city are very tenacious and have amazing fighting power.According to the few brothers who were able to retreat after attacking the top of the city, two kinds of people on the top of the city are the most difficult to deal with. One is the Wei Bo soldiers with bright silver guns, and the other is the big axemen of the Bian army in green shirts.When they fight, they don't care about life and death, they don't retreat at all, they rush up desperately, even if the spear and ax in their hands are dropped, they will rush forward to hit with their bodies and bite with their teeth, it is really difficult to entangle.

In the past few days, Li Chengzhong has never had the chance to climb to the top of the city. He pushed the door-slamming car, guarded the wooden ladder, and saw the brothers around him fall one by one, but there was nothing he could do.The battle was fierce, and at this point, he was completely integrated into it, and he didn't even have any thoughts of sneaking around, playing tricks, or saving his life. Not only did he feel the same for the deaths of his brothers around him, but also the fierce battle of the swordsmen behind him. Let him dare not take half a step back.

Fortunately, with God's blessing, Li Chengzhong didn't suffer any serious injuries, the most on his body were just scratches, which were caused by him dodging bows and arrows according to the tactical action of dodging bullets in the army in his previous life.Jiang Miao, who was always taught by precepts and deeds next to him, was lucky to be preserved.To repeat the old saying, Li Chengzhong really wanted to spread this method to the whole army, but the difficulty was even greater.The reason is simple, too ugly.According to the words of the team officer Zhang Zhongyan, that is, "How is it proper to roll and crawl?"

Therefore, after a series of fierce attacks on Weizhou, the army began to besiege the city for a long time.

After going through such a difficult battle, Li Chengzhong was still a little uncomfortable with the sudden absence of war. The most common thing everyone did was to look at the forest of swords and guns on the top of the city through the wooden fence of the military village, and the After the flames of war were blackened, several banners still stood upright in the wind.

There were about thirty brothers left in Youdu, so they were not divided into groups. During the meal, everyone sat around together, talking without saying a word.Seeing that everyone was frowning, Zhang Zhongyan and a few veterans talked about the interesting stories about serving as soldiers in Shanbei, or about the past when the general beat the Jin army to the ground. The chat became lively, everyone My son's heart also slowly eased up.

After the atmosphere became lively, everyone enthusiastically began to offer advice and suggestions on how to invade Weizhou.Li Chengzhong thought hard about the various tactics known to the troops before crossing, and felt that they were very unreliable. Without him, hot weapons and cold weapons are different.He began to recall some plots in war movies again, frowning and thinking about various terms of warfare, such as protracted warfare and guerrilla warfare, well, these belong to the strategic level, so it is not appropriate to put them here; there are also sparrow warfare, tunnel warfare... think Thinking about it, he muttered something in his mouth, and kept chanting.

Jiang Miao's eyes lit up and asked, "Li Lang, what are you talking about? Sparrow war? Tunnel war? What is sparrow war? Can sparrows fight? Is tunnel war digging tunnels? This is a good idea."

Dutou Zhang Zhongyan patted himself on the head after hearing this, and said loudly: "Li Lang is right, tunnel warfare is feasible! Our commander-in-chief was... well, the commander-in-chief was very good at this, maybe we will dig tunnels !"

Marshal Liu Rengong used to be a good digger of graves before his debut. He was very good at authentic techniques, and all veterans knew it.After leading the army, he used authentic tactics in the battles with the Khitan people in the north of the mountain and the Jin army in the east of the river, and the results were obvious.It's just that Liu Rengong was ashamed to mention the business he was engaged in back then, and Zhang Zhongyan also refrained from talking about it, but he was a little more certain about whether his general would use authentic tactics to attack Weizhou.

This kind of tactics at the level of tactics cannot be controlled and understood by a few low-level soldiers, and everyone will give up after talking about it for a few words.But after some time, the conjecture that Lu Longjun attacked the city with authentic tactics was confirmed.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Chengzhong and Jiang Miao were recruited into the Chinese army's great stronghold, and they came with hundreds of brothers who were still able to see at night in the fifth battalion of healthy soldiers.When he came to the open space behind a large tent, Li Chengzhong suddenly discovered that there was a hole in the ground that slanted downward, allowing three people to climb down side by side.

At dusk, thousands of soldiers gathered around the open space one after another. Hundreds of them were neatly dressed, wearing armor, and the swords in their hands were of good quality. Sturdy spirit.Li Chengzhong listened to the introduction of the veterans on the side, these are the general's yamen army.

When it was time to hold the lamps, there was a slight disturbance outside, a passage was divided among the troops, and a group of generals squeezed in through the passage.All the sergeants got up one after another, bowed and saluted, and called "Marshal!" in their mouths, all of them seemed extremely excited.

I saw one of the middle-aged generals with long beards come out more and more, with bright silver armor on his body and a long sword hanging from his waist, he turned around to greet all the soldiers, and said "bring wine", and a general beside him Go up and pass a bag of wine.

Marshal Liu Rengong held the wine bag, was silent for a moment, and said: "Everyone is a good boy from Yandi, following a certain family's southern expedition, throwing their heads and blood, and not hesitating their lives! The war has been unfavorable these days, and the brothers have suffered a lot. Seriously, Ren Gong... feel ashamed of everyone!"

The hearts of all the sergeants warmed up, and they all opened their mouths and said:

"Where is the handsome!"

"Why did the commander-in-chief say such a thing!"

"Willing to follow the Commander-in-Chief's Southern Expedition!"

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for being promoted and getting rich!"

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Liu Rengong paused, and then said: "The world is full of strife today, and there are many lords vying for the throne. A certain family is helpless. If you don't want to make progress, within a few years, when someone else comes to your door, I, the son of Yandi, can only be mermaid and be slaughtered." That’s why a certain family launched a [-]-strong southern expedition, and only by taking the land of Wei Bo can we plan for the future of you brothers. Brothers are willing to follow XX, and XX is deeply impressed.”

"You are welcome!"

"Although the commander-in-chief issues orders, order the flag to go, and some people are willing to die!"

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Liu Rengong nodded, pointed at Weizhou city, and raised his voice: "My Lu Long army defeated Beizhou in the first battle, and then surrounded Weizhou with soldiers. Who is trapped in the city by us now? It is the Wei Boya soldier who is known as the world's elite! Bianjun Ge Congzhou and He Delun, who are known to be invincible across the Central Plains! In a battle tonight, I wonder if you brothers will dare to fight to the death with these opponents who are known as the world's elite? I wonder if everyone can let some night stay in Wei Bo's Jiedu Mansion?"

"Don't worry, Commander! I will risk my life to let Commander stay overnight in Weizhou!"

"What a broken elite! In front of our Yanzhao disciples, they are just like shit!"

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Li Chengzhong was also agitated by Liu Rengong's words, he pushed forward in the crowd on his toes, and shouted loudly: "I heard that Luo Shaowei's little lady is very beautiful, I would like to warm the bed with you!" Luo Shaowei's The little lady is famous for her beauty in the land of Hebei, and even Li Chengzhong heard about it, and at the moment his blood boiled, he shouted out, which immediately made all the soldiers burst into laughter.

Liu Rengong was also amused, turned his head with a smile, and said to Li Chengzhong: "Then thank you, brothers. Come and serve wine!" The generals who surrounded Liu Rengong threw out more than a dozen wine bags, and were surrounded by others. The sergeant picked it up, and everyone passed it on, each person took a sip, and quickly drank up the wine bag.Li Chengzhong also took a big gulp. To be honest, the wine wasn't very good, but in this situation, no matter how bad the wine is, it's delicious!

After drinking, Liu Rengong waved his hand: "Luo Guerrilla! A certain family is waiting for you here!"

The general behind him bowed to receive his orders, and went into the tunnel first, followed by the Ya'nei army's elite file in.

Liu Rengong stood guard at the side of the tunnel, watching the hundreds of yamen soldiers enter the tunnel, and went down to pat the sergeants on the shoulders one by one.All the sergeants entered generously without looking back.

After the Ya Nei army had entered, there were hundreds of children from Shanbei, but Li Chengzhong's camp of healthy soldiers was the third batch. At this time, they were waiting for orders at the tunnel entrance, and continued to advance after the front entered Weizhou.At the same time, Liu Rengong issued an order at the entrance of the tunnel, inspected Ba Duqi and Yin Hulu and waited outside the city to rob the city at any time.

I don't know how long it has passed, but there is a loud shout in the city, and the lights on the top of the city are brightly lit, under the light of the fire, there are many swords and guns, and the banners are dense.Liu Rengong's expression changed, he stared at the Weizhou city for a long time, spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell backwards, all the generals rushed to support him.I only heard Liu Rengong coughing and yelling: "Hurry up...cough...have someone withdraw...cough..."

All the generals hurriedly ordered people to enter the tunnel to pass orders, and at the same time went to invite doctors to come for diagnosis and treatment.The firelight reflected on the side of the tunnel entrance, and also on the faces of all the soldiers. Everyone's complexions were not good, and they were pale under the firelight.

The brothers from the Fifth Camp of Jianzu who were waiting at the entrance of the tunnel were silent, they all stared at the city's hair in a daze, and Li Chengzhong's heart sank to the bottom of the valley, he opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

After a while, dozens of soldiers covered in mud rushed out of the tunnel, and one of them cried loudly: "It's over! Water, the tunnel is full of water, our people are all over!" This voice finally broke the camp. There was silence in the middle of the tunnel, and there was a sudden commotion beside the tunnel. Some people were crying, some were coughing loudly, some were exclaiming, and some kept asking "what's the matter".

Li Chengzhong also scrambled to help the brothers who climbed up one after another in the tunnel, feeling anxious in his heart.Everyone waited expectantly by the tunnel for a full night, and in the end less than a hundred people came back!Thousands of Ya'nei soldiers and children from Shanbei who entered the tunnel were buried in it, never to see the sun.

In May of that year, Lu Long's army dug a tunnel to attack the city, and the Weizhou defenders led the river to irrigate it.