On the fourth day of the new year, a cold wave hit the entire territory of Jiangnan Road from north to south, not only the temperature dropped rapidly, but also the howling north wind mixed with rain and snow like knives and arrows, which seemed to be able to freeze everything here.

But even such a bad weather still could not stop the Wu army's attack on Changshu City, every day there were still horns on this side, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the besieging army took turns to attack, not giving the defenders any respite at all.

The only difference is that the focus of their attack has changed from the south gate to the other three gates in the past few days, and it seems that even they feel that the south gate of Changshu is not easy to attack, so they pick other places to attack first. But in fact, in Sun Tu's opinion, this is completely the clever part of the enemy generals, they are trying to consume the arrows, arrows, wood, stones and other weapons in the city to defend the city more quickly, and at the same time prevent the defenders from transferring the weapons of other city gates to the southern city.

Because as long as the other three sides are under attack, the defenders will not dare to take it lightly, even if they know that the situation at the south gate is more tense, but just in case, they can only pretend not to know. And this is especially evident here in the Huainan Army at the North Gate.

In fact, when it comes to the allocation of various weapons, the Huainan Army is far above the other three gates. After all, they are defending one door with the whole army, and the main force of the previous battle has always been the Shandong army, so their consumption is naturally the least. But even so, the entire Huainan army was still in a hurry in the face of the offensive of the Wu army, and the situation was frequent, and it was killed by the enemy several times, and the enemy was repelled after desperate and vicious battles. In such a situation, not to mention the division of weapons to support the other three gates, Peng Yongzhen sent people to the city several times to ask for help, hoping that Sun Tu could send soldiers and horses to help them.

For such a clumsy performance of the Huainan army, Sun Tu didn't know what to say, so he could only rush to comfort them in person, and instructed them to deploy defenses according to the characteristics of a section of the north gate city wall, which could be regarded as temporarily stabilizing the position.

But soon, new problems arose. Because the city walls had not been repaired before, coupled with the hard fighting for several days, finally in a battle on the evening of the fourth day of the new year, one of the sections of the city wall of the north gate suddenly collapsed, and the enemy quickly seized the opportunity, a team of thousands of people actually killed directly into the city, and immediately killed the defenders below by surprise, seeing that this side could not hold on.

When the news of this fateful news reached Sun Tu, he was patrolling the east gate and calming the hearts of the army. Because in these few days, the Wu army continued to storm the east gate, although in the stubborn resistance of Song Jiang and others repelled the enemy, but the defenders of the east gate also suffered heavy losses, nearly 500 dead, light and serious wounded closer to 1,000 people, and several of the original Liangshan leaders died here, the blow to morale is not insignificant.

In order to prevent these Liangshan troops, who may not be convinced of themselves, suddenly rebelled, Sun Tu has recently put a lot of thoughts on this side, and at this time he personally went to the city to express condolences and calm the army's heart: "You are all examples in my Shandong army, I believe that as long as our three armies are united, this Changshu city will be able to defend to the end, and not let the enemy enter the city!" ”

After saying some encouraging words to the ordinary soldiers, Sun Tu called Song Jiang, Wu Yong and the others who were pale again: "The loss is so big this time, can you still hold on?" If you really can't stand it, I can let the reserves in the city guard the west gate for you, and you can go to the city to rest for a while. ”

Wu Yongshu was silent, but Song Jiang glared at him and said in a dumb throat: "Tsuba, at this time, you don't have to test our brother anymore." Since the defeat and submission to the imperial court, I, Song Jiang, have never thought about rebellion again. Although we lost a lot of brothers this time, we also killed many rebels, which is not a loss. The brothers have already expressed their position, we will defend the West Gate, not to disgrace the Shandong army, and to kill more thieves to avenge the dead brothers! ”

"Sun Chan, our biggest problem now is that we can't supply weapons, especially arrows or something, if you can transfer some over, Ximen will be able to hold on!" Wu Yong also put forward his own requirements.

But in exchange for Sun Tu's wry smile: "I don't know what our problem is." But this is not enough to satisfy the armies, now not only your east gate, but also the west gate and south gate defenders are also short of arrows and stones, each time you can only dare to release arrows after putting the enemy closer, so it also greatly increases the risk of defending the city. ”

When the two of them heard this, they sighed again, and they didn't know what to say for a while. Originally, this bitter battle was unexpected, so it is reasonable that there will be problems with weapons logistics. Song Jiang said with a bitter face: "This is really difficult, even if the brothers fight to the death and do not retreat, they are flesh and blood after all." The rebels are far superior to us, and they are more active, as long as they get them close to the city, we will do our best, this is not an option after all. ”

"yes, we really have to think of a way to break their near-city offensive." Sun Tu also said with embarrassment, but he couldn't come up with any way for a while.

As the battle continued, the moat outside had been filled in by the enemy, and there were few bows and arrows left, so the enemy could easily go straight to the bottom of the city, and then launch waves of attacks by hitting wood or ladders. Although the former can still be attacked with fire, or with gold juice boiled from dung and water, it is difficult to deal with this ladder that comes up to the city, and once the enemy is attached to the city and attacked, it is a battle of life and death.

And as the war gets more and more intense, even the gold juice is about to run out, and once the enemy really lets the city gate or city wall open, the consequences can be ......

Just when Sun Tu and the others were frowning and didn't know what to do, someone from below rushed over like a fart: "Sun ...... Sun Chan, something is wrong. The city wall on the other side of the north city has been broken, and my Huainan army is about to be unable to withstand it......"

"What!" Sun Tu was almost so shocked that he jumped up directly, and he didn't care about talking to Song Jiang and them anymore, so he quickly ran down the city and shouted: "Qingzhou Army, follow me to the north to kill the enemy!" Before he could finish speaking, he jumped on his horse, whipped his whip, and rushed as fast as he could toward the north gate.

The more than 200 pro-soldiers who were already waiting below also moved quickly, shouting and shouting and following closely. But Song Jiang and the others were dumbfounded, and it also made the worry in their hearts even heavier: "The north gate was actually broken?" How many days can Changshu hold on to this? ”

It only took one meal to lead Sun Tu to the north gate. What caught the eye was an extremely chaotic scene, a section of the city wall in front had been cracked, and the enemy was constantly rushing in from outside, thus engaging the Huainan army head-on. Although the Huainan army was far superior to the other party in terms of strength, they were all afraid of death, and they were actually killed by the thousands of people who entered the city, and they saw that even the area around the city gate was about to be occupied by the enemy. Seeing this situation, Sun Tu was really angry, and immediately shouted violently, and rushed forward in the lead, and the spear in his hand turned into a dragon in the air, and flew towards the enemy: "Qingzhou Army, kill the enemy!" ”

"Kill, ......" Yue Fei, Tang Feng and the other personal soldiers all rushed and drank, slaughtering like tigers descending from the mountain, bluffing the officers and soldiers of the Huainan Army on their advance route to avoid one after another, making way for a large passage, so that they could quickly kill to the gap.

The pop sound was accompanied by a miserable scream, although there were only about 200 people, but the elite of this Shandong army burst out with a powerful combat power of far more than 1,000 people, and actually killed the enemy at once, and went straight to the front of the big rift to stop castration. Behind them, the bodies of more than five hundred people fell in an instant.

The remaining Wu army finally couldn't resist in the face of the thousands of Huainan troops who were inspired to cover up and kill with all their might, so they could only retreat in embarrassment, but they collided with the robe that was still desperately drilling in, but it disrupted their own positions.

Sun Tu would not let go of such an opportunity and immediately lead people to fight hard. Relying on the heroic performance of the soldiers, they finally completely killed the enemy before dark and held this gap.

It wasn't until the fighting stopped that Peng Yongzhen hurried over under the escort of several personal soldiers. As soon as he saw Sun Tu, he clenched his fists again and again: "This time, thanks to Sun Tu, you brought troops to rescue you in time, otherwise my north gate would have been completely lost." It's just that the walls here are useless, but what should be done? ”

This is really a person who doesn't know what politeness is, and he doesn't think of a way to solve the problem himself, but he throws it to Sun Tu.

If it weren't for the Huainan army to guard the north gate - after all, the Shandong army would no longer be able to divide the men and horses to defend here, even if their tens of thousands of people were useless, they could help more or less - Sun Tu really hated to behead this incompetent guy now to vent his hatred.

In fact, long before the Wu army arrived, he already knew that the defenders of the North Gate had been hiding and responding to their affairs. It's just that I didn't think that they would make things so bad and make a tofu scum project. If it weren't for their timely rescue, I'm afraid that this Changshu would really be lost because of them.

His face changed several times, and Sun Tucai suppressed the anger in his heart a little, and snorted: "What else can I do?" Of course, the city walls have been repaired, do you still need me to say this? ”

"However, the enemy army outside the city is eyeing us, how can we have a chance......"

"It's getting late, they don't dare to fight at night, this is our chance, let people think of repairing the city wall now."

Seeing that Sun Tu's face was not good, Peng Yongzhen didn't dare to say anything, so he hurriedly asked people to find some soldiers who could work as masons to repair the city.

Don't look at the Huainan Army's useless fighting, there are quite a few who can work. Now it's not like everyone didn't take it seriously before, so naturally they worked hard and immediately began to make up the city wall, which is also good.

But soon, the problem arose again, the crack in the wall was too big, and it was not strong enough to rely on stone and yellow mud to build it, and everyone was helpless for a while. A soldier who was good at doing this said with a bitter face: "If there is no reinforcement such as glutinous rice juice, the city wall cannot be built without three or five days." Even if it is repaired, it can easily be attacked by the enemy from the outside......"

As soon as he said this, everyone was really dumbfounded.