For a whole day, the officers and soldiers were blocked at the door of the house and pointed their noses and scolded, not to mention how many fires the thieves had, and finally it was dark that the time had come to retaliate against the officers and soldiers, so the momentum came.

Wang Yien led 2,000 cavalry to sweep away the officers and soldiers outside the city as they did yesterday, and then blocked the south gate of Tongling and scolded, and behind him Yuan Sanzhong led 5,000 soldiers and horses to kill the mighty rush, this time it was not empty-handed, but also brought dozens of stone throwers.

As Chang Yu expected, tonight they are going to do something big!

But what is Chang Yu doing, not as Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu, the two lewd guys said, are in double cultivation, but he is really sleeping, let him have too much energy, but he has to ask about everything these days when he goes south, so he feels tired from overwork, so he rests early.

As for the thief army to do something, Wu Sangui and Ma Ke are in charge, no matter how they do it, they can't make big waves, so they sleep without scruples.

However, some people couldn't hold their breath, and they heard a bang outside in a daze, and then Qiao Sanxiu's roar: "What are you going to do with the night demon?" ”

"The city is full of war, he is still sleeping......" Su Jing's voice was a little impatient, Chang Yu sat up with a snort, and got out of bed and walked to the outside room with a helpless face, Su Jing was blocked by Qiao Sanxiu and was about to rush inside, and when Chang Yu came out, he immediately said: "The thief army is attacking the city, you are still sleeping."

Chang Yu ignored her, walked to the outside of the courtyard with his hands behind his back, his brows immediately furrowed, and he could faintly hear the sound of fighting, and when he raised his eyes to look at the city wall, he saw that from time to time there were fires whistling and flashing, some fell to the city, and some fell into the city, igniting the houses, and the thieves actually used fireballs to attack......

"Walk the water, walk the water, ......" The east of the county government suddenly shouted, Chang Yu rubbed on a tree in the yard and looked up, and saw that a house not far east of the county government was ignited by a fireball thrown into the city by the thief army, and when he was about to let his hand go to help put out the fire, a fireball swished into the courtyard, and smashed a water tank in the corner of the wall with a clang, and the fireball was not extinguished, Qiao Sanxiu stepped forward with an arrow to extinguish the fire with soil: "This is poured with fire oil......

Chang Yu jumped down, walked to the fireball and kicked it, looking up at the firelight that crossed the sky from time to time: "The thief is not small today!" ”

"It's not small, it's just angry" Li Muxian trotted in at this time, pointed to the head of the city and said: "There are at least forty or fifty stone throwers outside, as small as the bowl mouth and as big as the bucket-like stones that rain down on the city, and there are many fireballs flying all over the sky, almost hitting the door car and the siege ladder!" ”

Chang Yu looked at him in a panic: "Then he scared the Taoist and ran down?" ”

Hey, Li Muxian stroked his beard and was slightly embarrassed: "It's not enough to scare the poor road away, but after all, it's a dangerous place to watch the excitement, and it's not good to stay for a long time!" ”

"Wu Sangui and Ma Ke are still in the city, right?" Chang Yu smiled slightly, and Li Muxian snorted: "There is also Wang Tizhong, Wei Guogong and Lu Daqi are all here, let's shoot back with a bow and arrows, but the other party has a lot of guys...... It's a bit unbearable! ”

Chang Yu snorted: "Throw more stones and less arrows, as long as the thief army doesn't attack the city, there is no need to fight them to the death!" ”

Wu Sangui also said the same, Li Muxian nodded: "But Poor Dao is a little puzzled, why didn't Bai Wang attack the city directly?" ”

"Maybe he was not prepared, maybe he felt that the time had not come, but Ben Du felt that the most important thing was that he was not sure now, because he knew that once he started to attack the city, there would be no way back, and if he couldn't break the city, he could only defeat the Chizhou Mansion."

Li Muxian understands in seconds, the siege is the price of killing a hundred enemies and losing a thousand or even thousands, if Bai Wang wants to attack the city, he must be fully prepared and achieved overnight, if his siege is unfavorable, he will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and he is even unable to defend the southern road, so he can only let the officers and soldiers drive straight in!

"So this is his trial attack or shouting to give himself courage?" Li Muxian figured out that the joints were not as tense as before.

Chang Yu nodded: "Since he wants to encircle Wei and save Zhao, this siege will not drag on for too long, at most three days" said and raised the corners of his mouth: "It's just that three days later, he will still attack a p, and if he can hold his position, it will be regarded as burning high incense."

Bai Wang didn't think so, at this time, he was holding a clairvoyant mirror on the high ridge and looking at the firelight flying on Tongling City in the distance, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became stronger and stronger, he believed that there would be no peace in the city tonight, which also solved the hatred during the day.

But it doesn't matter!

The important thing is that he has decided to take the initiative to attack and besiege the city in three days, because his logistics and reinforcements are about to arrive, and he even brought two cannons!

How long can this small Tongling City hold out under the siege of the army and the heavy artillery bombardment, as for the iron cavalry advantage that the officers and soldiers rely on, he has already thought of a way to deal with it!

The little eunuch is here, as long as Tongling is broken, and then he goes north, and the crisis in Anqing is solved, this is Bai Wang's wishful thinking, and it is also his bet.

If the siege is unfavorable, this checkpoint to Chizhou Mansion is also difficult to defend, once the officers and soldiers approach Chizhou, he will be nervous at both ends, and the situation will become extremely dangerous in the future!

Therefore, Tongling has become extremely important, it is related to the future situation, this battle can only be won and not lost, and the final bottom line is to hold this level even if the city cannot be broken!

Just when Wang Yien and Yuan Sanzhong were tossing in Hutian Haidi outside Tongling City, the main army of Li Yan and Huang Degong on the West Changjiang Road finally advanced to the outside of Anqing City, and tens of thousands of troops gathered on the shore of Linghu Lake, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Zhang Qingzhen and others greeted Li Yan in person, who would have thought that a former thief army staff would play a pivotal role in the wind and water in the camp of officers and soldiers!

The generals gave Li Yan face like this, firstly, because he had a great friendship with Chang Yu and was the commander of the Western Road, and secondly, Li Yan was indeed a very talented general, who had teamed up with the little eunuch to strategize and kill Li Zicheng's dozens of army Tartars in Gyeonggi and fled in embarrassment!

This is also the reason why the generals obey him, otherwise no one else will be able to suppress the scene here, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, and which of those lords is a fuel-efficient lamp!

Li Yan also praised Gao Jie and the three of them, and their three people lost a lot of money in order to open the way, this merit should be remembered, but Huang Degong on the side sneered at it with a disapproving face, and everyone also regarded it as invisible, everyone knew that he and Gao Jie did not deal with each other.

"We have been observing for two days, this Anqing city has a thick wall, south of the Yangtze River, north of Yiling Lake, nowhere to Chen soldiers, can only attack from the east and west, but both of these have urn cities, and there are several artillery pieces in the city, but we have no heavy artillery, only dozens of tiger squat cannons and Zhankou general cannons left by the Shenji battalion, which have little effect on the siege of the city, to be honest, it takes a lot of effort to break the city, this Anqing City is not easy to fight." Liu Zeqing frowned and introduced the conversation into the topic.

"I have not had time to observe when I first arrived, and I am not good at attacking the city, although I am in command, but the siege still needs more work, everyone" Li Yan is very humble, but he is also honest, compared with Gao Jie and others, his battlefield experience is still insufficient: "But there is one thing I have decided that the reward is impartial, and I will report to the overseer first, and then to the court."

The generals were pleased, if others said this, they might not believe it, but Li Yan was just and said that he could achieve two bowls of water evenly, even if he was good friends with Huang Degong, it was also official in military affairs.

"Li Shuai doesn't have to be modest, you are no worse than any of the big guys in terms of military merits, you have contributed a lot to the defense of Gyeonggi, and the absolute genuineness of the pillar country appointed by the emperor!" Liu Liangzuo complimented, and then changed the topic: "Although we are also battle-hardened, we may not be as good as Li Shuai in siege!" ”

Everyone nodded, Li Yan shook his head with a wry smile, this is actually a bit of a revelation of his shortcomings, but it is also a fact, the generals used to suppress bandits mostly chasing the thief army and rarely fighting siege battles, on the other hand, Li Yan followed Li Zicheng but attacked the city everywhere and plundered the land, he was a staff member who had never eaten pigs and seen pigs go, and he had theoretical knowledge reserves for siege.

"I'm not humble, I really just learned some dealer tricks from the little overseer, but as the old saying goes, three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, as long as we work together, we will be able to break the city in one fell swoop" Li Yan said that everyone laughed, and they all made plans, and it was very lively for a while.

Prepare for a two-front war!