With the shield cover, the soldiers threw sandbags into the moat quite smoothly. However, a small number of sandbags are tantamount to fine reclamation for the moat.

Moreover, it is impossible for the soldiers on the city wall to see that the Tang army fills its moat. And so, a rain of arrows fell from the sky like flying locusts.

Although soldiers were constantly killed by arrows, this did not affect the progress of filling the moat. Waves of soldiers carried sandbags, protected by shield soldiers, and threw them into the moat.

In any siege battle, in the process of filling the moat, there will be large casualties. And a lot of time will be wasted.

So there are a lot of battles where the besieging side doesn't choose to fill the moat. They will choose to erect pontoon bridges over the moat.

But that didn't help the soldiers pass, while the soldiers were passing through the pontoon. It will be fiercely attacked by soldiers on the city walls.

In addition, Li Tai deliberately explained to Xue Rengui, saying that there might be something strange in the moat. This made Xue Rengui even more reluctant to erect a pontoon bridge.

Peng Tiebao, who was on the city wall, said angrily: "Damn Tang Dynasty barbarians, they actually want to fill the moat." Immediately open the floodgates and wash away the sandbags they threw in. ”

With Peng Tiebao's vitality, Fan Bing began to turn the winch. As the winch slowly turned, a large amount of seawater poured into the moat.

It turned out that the footplate controlled a sluice gate, which was connected to the sea. Usually they accumulate a lot of seawater.

If necessary, if the sluice gates are opened, a large amount of sea water will rush into the moat. If a pontoon bridge is erected, the consequences are even more conceivable.

Even if the pontoon bridge was not erected, sandbags were just thrown into the moat. I was also swept away by this wide and rapid current, and I didn't know where to go.

has been busy for most of the day, but now he is busy, which can't help but make Xue Rengui very anxious. But at the same time, I was secretly glad in my heart.

If Li Tai hadn't reminded himself, it is estimated that he would have chosen to erect a pontoon bridge for convenience. That would be a huge loss.

"Bring me more sandbags and don't throw them into the moat yet. Use them on the banks of the moat to fortify me. Xue Rengui decisively gave the order.

With Xue Rengui's order, the soldiers piled up the sandbags on their bodies by the moat. Slowly, a natural barrier was formed.

The soldiers hid behind sandbags, even the archers on the walls. Don't want to hurt them in the slightest.

While this ensured the safety of the soldiers, it did not allow them to move forward even half a step. But this is only Xue Rengui's first step.

Seeing that the sandbags had reached a certain number, Xue Rengui ordered again to throw the sandbags into the moat.

Because a large number of sandbags are hoarded along the moat, the speed of filling the river is not much faster than before. Slowly the moat, there are always a lot of sandbags.

It is estimated that in a few moments, the moat will be filled with a passage. But at this time, Peng Tiebao ordered the soldiers to stir the winch again. A large amount of seawater poured into the moat again.

Although the number of sandbags this time is much more than before. But in the face of the swift current, he still looked so helpless.

At this time, Li Tai was standing on a high place from a distance, looking at everything that was happening in front of him. Li Tai didn't expect that this moat would have such an effect.

"It seems that if you want to fill this moat, you have to find a way to destroy the winch. Only by making the sluice gate unopen will it be possible to fill the moat. Li Tai said to himself.

"Your Highness, why don't you let me bring my brothers up." Li Tianming, who was beside Li Tai, said to Li Tai.

"There is no need for this now, I believe that Xue Rengui should have a countermeasure. Otherwise, he can't afford it, this should be the four words of Meng Xianchen. Li Tai said after waving his hand to Li Tianming.

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At this time, Peng Tiebao, who was on the city wall, watched the efforts of the Tang army go down the drain again and again, and his mood was extremely happy.

At the same time, Peng Tiebiao had also returned to Shuaitang, and Peng Tiehu and Peng Tiehu left with their troops according to Peng Tiebao's arrangement.

At this time, the division in the control room of the organ was observing the entire battlefield through the lookout. Be ready to activate the trap wall at any time.

But at this moment, the stone door behind him slowly opened. This can't help but be a little strange, which makes the mechanic feel strange.

As soon as he turned around, a throwing knife actually shot him in the center of the eyebrow. He didn't even have time to scream before he fell to the ground.

It turned out that at the moment when the stone gate opened, Luo Huanbian took the armor-piercing technique to the extreme. A small flying knife shot through the crack in the stone gate, directly killing the mechanic.

After Luo Huan entered the control room of the agency, he was stunned by everything in front of him. said to himself: "I always thought that the Gao family's organs were vicious enough. I didn't expect the mechanism here to be even more vicious. ”

Just when Luo Huan sighed, the armor-breaking army beside him spoke: "General, you see that the vanguard army is blocked by the moat. ”

Hearing the words of the armor-breaking army, Luo Huan hurriedly came to the lookout to observe. Everything that happened on the entire battlefield was seen by Luo Huan.

Unfortunately, the control mechanism of this sluice gate is not in this organ room. So Luo Huan was helpless for a while.

But if Xue Rengui can't lead people through the moat, then the matter of occupying the control room of the organ by himself will soon be lost.

At that time, all his efforts were about to be in vain, which couldn't help but make Luo Huan feel extremely nervous. But he was in a hurry and couldn't do anything.

At this time, Xue Rengui was observing this moat. Hopefully, we can find a flaw in it and get through the moat smoothly.

Suddenly, Xue Rengui found that the entire sluice was controlled by two iron locks as thick as the mouth of a bowl. When the winch is stirred, the iron chain is slowly stirred up and the sluice gate is opened.

Xue Rengui felt that as long as these two iron locks could be cut off, then this sluice gate would not be able to be opened again.

So Xue Rengui said to Zhou Qing beside him: "I'll leave it to you here, let the brothers continue to hoard sandbags by the moat." ”

After Xue Rengui finished speaking, he urged the war horse to go directly to the upper reaches of the moat. The target was the two locks of the sluice.

This gate is upstream of the moat and takes advantage of the rising water level at high tide to store large quantities of seawater.

In order to avoid being damaged by enemy troops, this sluice was built on top of the cliff. Trying to break this sluice.

First of all, you have to cross the moat, and then climb the cliff more than three feet high. This is the way to the top of this sluice.

And there are still a large number of soldiers stationed here, so they want to destroy the sluice. It's definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

But in Xue Rengui, he was ready to give it a try. As soon as he mentioned that he sat down on his war horse, he jumped into the moat.

(End of chapter)