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Chapter 206 The plan to break the city
Li Tong urgently ordered the sound of golden sounds in the city, and ordered the army to withdraw from the city.

Although Li Tong retreated in time, Zhou Cang still killed nearly [-] soldiers under Zhou Cang's charge.

When Zhou Cang led his troops to one mile away from the city, he ordered the generals to retreat and enter the camp, and ordered the servants to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, Zhou Cang lost less than [-] people, wiped out nearly [-] enemies, obtained more than [-] pairs of high-quality armor, recovered more than [-] usable feathers and arrows, and more than [-] weapons such as knives, guns, shields, bows and arrows.

The next day, at noon, Feng Yao led the army to arrive, and at the same time ordered Wei Yan to station at the east gate!

After the last big defeat, Ji Ling received Feng Yao's order, and soon joined forces with Wei Yan's army and stationed outside Langling City.

Langling City is not big, only three miles long from left to right, but the city wall of Langling is six feet high, which is about two feet higher than the walls of Yang'an and other counties, which is comparable to the height of the county town.

But Langling City also has a weakness. There is no moat outside the city, only a ditch. When there is enough rain in summer, there is water in the ditch. Now in winter, the water in the ditch has long since dried up. An archery tower was built every fifty feet of the city wall, and the archery tower was two feet higher than the city wall, and two feet more protruding than the city wall. People could live in the archery tower, and the soldiers guarding the city could hardly go down the city day and night. city ​​wall.

There are a large number of crossbows on the top of the Langling city wall, with a range of one mile. Under the defense of these crossbows, unless it is Feng Yao's Xiongwei army, relying on heavy steel shields, they can rush to the foot of the city wall. The shields of the soldiers can't stop the crossbow bolts of the crossbow machine at all.

On the top of the city, even through the one-person-high female wall, you can see the piles of stones piled up like hills from the bottom of the city!And a riprap bed dedicated to launching these stones!Most of these stones were picked from the nearby mountains, and they were specially used to defend the city from the enemy's siege!
At the foot of the city wall, a large number of repelling horses were installed, with sharp thorns, all facing outward!

At the city gate, in order to prevent the city gate from being broken, Li Tong ordered people to build a new urn around the city gate. Even if the enemy rushed into the city gate, they would be trapped in a small wall surrounded by four sides Within the period, the inner gate must be broken through to enter the city, and in the process of breaking through the inner gate, the enemy soldiers in the urn city can be attacked by the archers on the four walls.

It is not feasible to control the water source of Langling. Langling is surrounded by mountains, and the city uses deep wells dug tens of feet deep to draw water from underground mountain springs within a range of tens of miles!
After Feng Yao led the army to Langling City, he observed it from a distance, then shook his head and said, "Langling is impossible to attack hard! Under a hard attack, even if there are tens of thousands of casualties, it is impossible to attack!"

At the same time, Feng Yao also secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, he had already created momentum in the attack on Yang'an City, and there was a precedent for Yang'an City. As long as he surrounded Langling and attacked the city on both sides, and used Yang'an at the same time, it wouldn't take long. Civil unrest is bound to happen!

Just like Yang'an City, Feng Yaoling's longbowmen, who had a longer range than shortbowmen, shot the surrender and massacre orders into the city after breaking the city.

Then Feng Yao called all the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

Ji Ling and Wei Yan were not far apart, and they arrived in a short while on horseback.

"My lord, this subordinate has entrusted me with my lord's trust! Please deal with me according to the military law!" Ji Ling knelt down when he saw Feng Yao, with a sad expression on his face.

Feng Yaoling Ji Lingqi said, "It's not your fault, Li Tong is too cunning!"

Ji Ling offered a plan: "My lord, after these few days, I have been thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy, and I think there is a way to destroy this city!"

"Although the city of Langling is tall and strong, it doesn't have a moat! If you dig a tunnel, you may suddenly enter the city!"

"That's a good plan!" Feng Yao praised, "Yang Wu, send an order to let the military servants start preparing a set of tools and prepare to dig the tunnel secretly, but it must be concealed so that the enemy will not find out!"

Yang Wu led the order to deliver the order, and the generals discussed for a while, Wei Yanjin said: "Our army will not attack for a few days, which may arouse Li Tong's suspicion. Why don't we take advantage of these days to build more high-rise buildings and cars. And the catapult, if the tunnel plan fails, you can immediately use these siege equipment to forcibly attack the city!"

Feng Yao nodded: "Mr. Wen, you are quite right. Our army not only needs to build a large number of these siege equipment, but also let the city know about it and create a coercive pressure in the city. Otherwise, the people in the city will think that we have nothing to do and cannot break the city! "

"My lord! I have a plan!" Xu Chu cupped his hands.

"Well, Zhongkang, please tell me!" Feng Yao nodded and smiled, encouraging Xu Chu.

"My subordinates have heard that the lord used to use flying claws to attack Puyang City with more than a dozen people. Now my tiger guards are all agile men. Why don't we wait until after dark to sneak up on the city wall with flying claws, and then Kill the city gate defenders, open the city gates, and welcome the army into the city!" Xu Chu said.

At this time Zhou Cang interjected: "My lord, I observed secretly last night that Li Tong indeed has a way of defending the city, and the horse face outside the city wall is very unfavorable for sneak attack!"

Feng Yao combined the scene he observed during the day, imagined it for a while, and said: "Zhongkang, keep this strategy first, and if the time is right, you can try it, but I guess the possibility of successfully approaching the city wall is very low, and even if you climb up Going up the city wall, the enemy will definitely find out that Li Tong has a large number of soldiers stationed in the city, and the Tiger Guards are not good at defending, so it is easy to cause a lot of damage! Unless it is a last resort, I don't want our army to be damaged at all!"

Xu Chu sighed, feeling powerless and unable to use it, he picked up his wine glass and took a sip.

Dai Ling also cupped his hands and said, "My lord, why don't I let Xiong Wei, my leader, smash open the city gate head-on with a ram!"

"Well! But don't be in a hurry right now, let's order chaos in the city, and wait to see if the tunnel can succeed, and if it succeeds, try the plan of attacking the city gate head-on!" Feng Yao said, using Xiongwei's all-steel shield, if the defense Properly, it is indeed possible to rush to the vicinity of the city gate.

Dai Ling's point should be.

Xu Shu also spoke at this time, and said, "Master, I think Lang Ling's reaction is a bit abnormal!"

"How do you say that?" Feng Yao asked anxiously.

Xu Shu stroked his beard, frowned, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "My army is nearly [-], while Li Tong only has [-] defenders in Langling. The army broke through with a destructive momentum, but Li Tong did not panic at all! There must be a reason for this!"

Xu Shu's reminder made the generals think that it was indeed a bit abnormal. No matter how difficult it is to attack Langling, it is impossible to keep defending it forever. One day it will be breached. As soon as you do it, you will starve to death!
If there is no support, Li Tong's best choice is to lead soldiers and take money and food to join other forces!

But now Li Tong wants to defend Langling to the death?
"Is the military advisor worried about Yingchuan Xunyou?" Zhou Cang asked.

Xu Shu smiled and looked over at Feng Yao without answering.

Feng Yao nodded, praised Xu Shu secretly, and said: "The military commander's worry is not unreasonable. Yuan Fu, Yingchuan and Xunyou are indeed threats to us, but if only Xunyou is not enough to fear, I have secretly ordered Chen Shuzhi to do it." Prepare, and at the same time send an order to Chen Guoxiang to make preparations, as soon as Xun You leads the troops out of Yingchuan, Chen Shuzhi will send troops to block them, and at the same time Chen Guoxiang will take the opportunity to attack Yingchuan!"

"I'm worried about Liu Biao in Jingzhou! If Liu Biao leads troops to attack Yuzhou, I'm afraid we will fall into a bitter battle with Liu Biao! At the same time, once Liu Bei in Xuzhou develops and grows in the rear, it will be us Therefore, this battle of Langling should be fought quickly, not for a long time, and our army must not be dragged here!"

(End of this chapter)