When evening fell, the Chu scouts climbed high and looked far away, and under the glow, they saw the thick smoke billowing in Shangqiu City, and immediately reported the news to the King of Chu.

The king of Chu looked at the ministers all over the world, and sighed: "Those who indulge in ink are good at guarding, and with the old and weak in the city, they can hold today's onslaught, but there are changes in the city, but they can't control it." ”

"You can know that the city wall is solid, but if the wall is unstable, it will be useless after all."

He didn't even think about whether there was fraud in the city.

One is that I didn't expect it.

Second, if this is the case, the city is still as usual, which is unimaginable after all. I'm afraid that I will feel that I have no mental strength in my heart, which is unbearable.

Chu Sima said: "If so, can you still storm tomorrow?" It's just that there has been no news messenger yet, could it be that Song Zhi Dayin and others have failed? ”

King Chu smiled: "I'm afraid it's like this." But in the end, there was chaos in the city. Continuing the onslaught tomorrow should be enough to force the city to surrender. The granary in Shangqiu City was burned, and there were changes in the city, even if Mo Zhai's skills in defending the city were unparalleled, what could he do? ”

Although he was laughing, the king of Chu also knew that his time to attack the city every day was really limited.

If he doesn't attack today, he has no choice but to do it.

If the attack is reorganized, it will have to rest for more than an hour, and the reorganization will be completed before the siege can be carried out, and it will not be long before evening.

Once the sky is dark, it would be better if you attacked it in one go.

If they can't attack it, with their understanding of the ink man's habit of defending the city these days, they will inevitably take advantage of the chaos of the army to launch a counterattack.

It's not that the king of Chu didn't think of using deception to kill those elite soldiers who went out of the city to fight back.

However, although this plan is beautiful and simple, it is extremely difficult to implement.

Those who fought back only fought back about a hundred paces away, and then they would stop and wait for orders.

If it is really chaotic, take advantage of the situation and attack. If you don't hold down the position, immediately retreat as a team.

In the eyes of the King of Chu, those people should be the elite of the Mo family.

The orders are orderly, the advance and retreat are orderly, the martial arts are superb, not afraid of death, and the formation is tight.

Even if the Chu army is chaotic, as long as the whistle sounds, it will immediately pause, and it will never take another step forward.

This kind of tight organization made the king of Chu extremely envious, although his subordinates had a wide range of cars, but it was difficult to do this.

If you want to deceive these people here, the team that can deceive and immediately counterattack a hundred steps back is the Che Guang elite.

However, there are not many Cheguang elites, and the number of sieges is too small, if you mix the rest of the soldiers to attack together, you are afraid that when you are defeated, you will be pushed and scattered by the rest of the soldiers.

The king of Chu didn't know the word organization, but if he knew, he would definitely feel that the counterattack was also a task that required extremely high organizational power to complete.

It seems simple, but there are not many elites in the world who can do this under this situation.

Thinking of this, the King of Chu sighed: "It's a pity that there will be a night, if the sun is long, as long as there is one more day, Shangqiu City will inevitably be breached." ”

"Although there is chaos in the city tonight, as long as the situation can be controlled, it will be as usual after three days, and then we can only besiege but not attack, waiting for the Song people to surrender."

"The order goes down, rest tonight, rest early, and continue the siege early tomorrow morning."

Right Yin said: "Now the soldiers are tired, they can't attack the city for days, and they are shocked by the Mo family's methods, they can use it for three more days at most, and if they can't win in three days, then there is only one way to besiege the city." ”

King Chu said: "It's okay, it's a wide range of scouts, if the Jin people send troops, they will know immediately." The Song people were powerless, even though those disciples of the Mo family were not afraid of death, but their numbers were scarce. If the Mo family has 3,000 disciples, where can they still be besieged? ”

"If there are 3,000 disciples of the Mo family, who can stop them in the field?"

As soon as he asked, the nobles present were also speechless, they had really seen the elite of the Mo family who had gone out of the city in an organized way to fight back in the past few days, and they only thought that if these people were fighting on foot, unless they hedged with chariots, they really couldn't resist it.

The King of Chu looked at the thick smoke that could be faintly seen in Shangqiu City, and sighed: "Although there is a plan, but the Mo family doesn't need so many soldiers to guard the city. ”

"Even if there is collusion between the inside and outside, it still can't break the city outside, if the people of the Mo family can help guard the Yuguan Beam and break into the Sanjin Han Land, why should I worry?"

Everyone didn't speak, but only sent people to give orders, and reserved some elites in front of the battle.

Soon after dark, there was still fire in Shangqiu City.

Suddenly, the drums of the city were loud, and it seemed that someone had broken down the city wall and was about to fight back.

The people on guard in front of the Chu people hurriedly shouted, and the soldiers who had just fallen asleep were woken up one after another, prepared weapons, strictly guarded the camp and barracks, and fired crossbows and bows fiercely, and hurriedly reported the news to the king of Chu.

At the forefront, there was a young general who had desperately moved forward to see that it was a straw man, and when he saw this matter today, he had doubts in his heart.

It's just that there was no order at this time, and he thought about making meritorious deeds, so he said to a few people: "I guess that the one on the city wall must be a straw man." ”

"The king has an order, eat and rest early today, and tomorrow you must take Shangqiu. The ink man is cunning, and I am afraid that he is also worried that we will attack the city tomorrow, so he reuses his old skills and does not let us rest. ”

"Is there a warrior who would like to follow me to the city wall and get to know the truth?"

As soon as he finished speaking, twenty or thirty people stood up.

One is that this person seemed to carry back a straw man from Shangqiu City last time, and he was brave and strong, which made the King of Chu greatly rewarded, and he was a warrior admired by everyone.

The second is to charge the battle to capture the enemy, itself is also a common means of challenge before the battle, before the city of Pu, Chu three people drove to attack, killed one person and returned, famous all over the world, if you do well today, at least there will be a reward.

The young general who took the lead shouted, so that twenty or thirty warriors jumped out of the camp and leaned forward with their swords.

Before and after, the drums of the Song people's city were even hotter, and the young general looked at it and laughed: "Sure enough, the ink man has no plan but to use this means!" Ladies and gentlemen, take some with me and offer them to the kings! ”

After all, this city is no longer the city full of dogs and tribulus terrestris a month ago, and those bamboo stick traps have also been filled in and cracked by the apprentices with their bodies.

More than 20 people scrambled to get close to the city wall, cut the rope on the straw man, and immediately retreated.

Or those who are brave will shoot an arrow at the head of the city with their bows as a sign of bravery.

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In the tent of the king of Chu, the previous chaotic drum sound made the king of Chu extremely uneasy.

He couldn't figure out the Inkman's routine, so he was worried that the Inkman would fight back at night, so he strictly ordered all armies to defend at night only before setting up camp and lighting a fire.

Just when I didn't know what was going on in the city, a close attendant told the young general that he had captured the Song people and straw people, and the king of Chu praised: "What a warrior too!" Wine! ”

Several close ministers or nobles near the camp tent had also woken up and hurried over, and the king of Chu said: "The ink master has many methods and many wisdoms, but he has never used such a repetitive method. What do you think? ”

Everyone didn't know how to answer, and the king of Chu smiled and said: "There will be chaos in the city, Mo Zhai's art of defending the city has no world in the world, how can it not be the art of siege and the world is unparalleled?" He must know that tomorrow is the most critical time for Shangqiu, so he used this means to make me unable to rest. ”

"If I guess correctly, this matter will be over, and within an hour, the drums at the head of the city will be loud again, but I am afraid that there will be another 'warrior' wall and a night attack!"

Chu Sima was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly said: "The king is smart, and we can't reach it." Now that they have seen through it, they will think that we will think that they will not use similar methods again, but they will use it anyway. When the time comes, we think that there is really a surprise attack, and we must be on guard and cannot rest. ”

"They don't give us a single soldier, so we can't sleep at night, and tomorrow the siege will be slow."

The King of Chu laughed and said, "That's right! Even if the Liuqing in Shangqiu City cannot win, his henchmen will not be willing to die. Mo Zhai knew that these three days were the most critical time. ”

"If these three days can be held, the chaos in the city will subside, and it will be difficult to attack the city again. Therefore, all we have left is these three days! ”

"Secretly send some warriors to the front of the battle, just wait for a moment for the drum in the city to rise again, immediately counterattack, and then capture the straw men of the ink man, tour the three armies, let them sleep peacefully, and go to attack the city with full energy tomorrow morning!"

The King of Chu never thought of the crazy plan of the ink man, because there was no legend of eight hundred breaking tens of thousands in this era.

In the eyes of the King of Chu, there is only one thing that the ink master can do tonight, and that is to constantly harass the Chu army, so that the Chu army cannot rest well, so as to delay tomorrow's siege.

If it is only to achieve this purpose, then neither the real nor the drumming of the city will pose much of a threat.

As long as you can give the soldiers peace of mind and attack tomorrow, tonight will be considered safe.

Even if the Ink Artist might send people out of the city to attack and harass, it would be at most a raid for a while, and the purpose could only be to cause chaos.

As long as the camp is stable and defended with a strong bow, there will be no problem: all the night raids have feared so far is chaos, and absolutely people will think of the crazy ideas that the ink master wants to use.

After the king of Chu gave the order, sure enough, about an hour later, the drum sounded again at the head of the city.

After a while, someone reported back, and sure enough, there were straw men in the city again, and they had been killed by the fire ballista rockets prepared in advance.

The ministers congratulated and praised the wisdom of the king of Chu, which the ministers could not match.

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Inside the city, the elite disciples of the Mo family were resting, and after they had eaten enough, even if there were drums beating outside, these people were still sleeping peacefully.

At midnight, when the moonlight was bright, these elite Mo family and Peixian volunteers were woken up one after another, quietly wearing leather armor and preparing weapons.

Crates of iron gunpowder throwing weapons were transported, and from the time the city was defended to the present, these weapons have been strictly guarded and never used.

The Pei County Volunteers knew about the movement of this thing, and they often heard it when they were training in Pei County.

And those who are strong in martial arts and disciplined are already familiar with the horror of these things, and they also know that this is a weapon to defeat the enemy.

Tonight, this thing is about to explode outside Shangqiu City, and it will become famous all over the world along with the reputation of the ink man.

Moreover, in the future, when defending the city, this thing can also be taken out directly. There are new ways to deal with siege methods such as ant siege and ladder climbing.

The black and swarthy iron bumps were extremely heavy, and there were about a hundred of them who could throw them very far, and they were tall and strong, and most of them were down-and-out men, who had received military training since childhood.

After becoming an ink master, he trained hard for many years in the elite of the city gate.

Measured, well-organized, and disciplined are just the right fit for the use of such weapons.