The late autumn morning was slightly cool. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But Yuan Su's army under Xiapi City was ready to go, and the first round to attack the city was the 10,000 military horses under Lei Bo. As soon as Yuan Chonghuan pointed the flag, the horn of the siege had already sounded.

10,000 soldiers, set up a ladder, and charged down Picheng. Before they could reach the city wall, the archers on the Xiapi city wall began to fire thousands of arrows, and the arrows all over the sky made the soldiers who rushed to the front fall one after another. The soldiers behind were undaunted, and continued to rush forward, and when they were close to the city wall, they quickly erected the ladder, and the soldiers rushed up one after another, and climbed up.

On the city wall, the soldiers who defended the city, under the order of Chen Jinnan, began to pour fire oil on the ladder, and then shot down with rockets, for a time the ladder and the Yuan soldiers on the ladder were on fire, some fell from mid-air in fright, fell into the crowd of Yuan soldiers below, and ignited the surrounding soldiers, for a while, under the city wall, the flames soared to the sky, and it took a long time to extinguish.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers behind continued to follow, and set up the ladder again, this time Chen Jinnan did not order to continue to burn with fire, but let the soldiers defending the city lift huge stones and wood, along the ladder, smashed down, for a time Yuan soldiers wailed to the sky, stumps and broken arms were all over the ground. Those who were lucky enough to climb to the city wall were also killed one by one by You Junda with the soldiers.

In less than two hours of attack, Yuan Bing lost more than 3,000 people, and seeing that the strong attack could not be carried out and morale was low, Yuan Chonghuan decisively ordered the troops to retreat. Yuan Chonghuan blushed, looked at Lei Bo who came back with a gray face, did not say a word, and then asked Chen Lan's 10,000 soldiers to continue to attack the city.

The sounds of fighting, shouting, and wailing filled the entire Xiapi City inside and outside. Yuan Chonghuan stood there, watching the soldiers march forward bravely, and then fall to the ground one by one, the corners of his mouth suddenly twitched. He closed his eyes and didn't look again.

After nearly an hour, Lei Bo suddenly came to Yuan Chonghuan's side, knelt down and begged: "General, withdraw the troops first!" The casualties of the soldiers are too great! ”

Yuan Chonghuan slowly opened his eyes, looked into the distance, and then looked at Lei Bo in front of him, "Do you know now whether Xiapi City is difficult to attack?" ”

Lei Bo let out a long sigh and slammed his head deep on the ground, "The last general knows that he is wrong!" ”

"Mingjin retreats!"

With a loud sound of gold, the day's siege battle of Xiapi came to an end temporarily.

Lei Bo and Chen Lan gathered their respective teams to treat the wounded, and they were busy for a long time before they were summoned by Yuan Chonghuan to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Yuan Chonghuan saw the two of them coming, and hurriedly got up and greeted them, "The two generals have worked hard!" This siege is thanks to the efforts of the two generals! ”

Lei Bo and Chen Lan felt guilty in their hearts, so they had to kneel down and ask for guilt, "Please forgive the general, I was offended a lot yesterday, but now that I think about it, I feel very guilty." ”

Yuan Chonghuan helped the two of them up and hurriedly said: "Don't say this, the old saying goes: It is okay to die at the end of the day, since we know that it is difficult to attack Xiapi, we should work together to break Xiapi!" ”

Lei Bo suddenly raised his head and said worriedly: "Chao Wen Dao is going to die, and the general wants to kill me?" ”

Yuan Chonghuan laughed and grabbed Lei Bo's hand, "General Lei is too worried, I summoned the two generals here to break the matter." I have a plan that can defeat an army of 100,000, but this plan needs to be done carefully, and the two generals need to cooperate separately to succeed. ”

Lei Bo Chen Lan was overjoyed when he heard this, and said in unison: "I am willing to listen to the general's dispatch!" ”

Yuan Chonghuan called the two to his side and whispered his plan, the two of them were very excited after hearing it, and said in unison again: "The general's plan is wonderful, he has already had this plan, why bother attacking like this today, there are too many losses and generals, and Your Majesty will still have a whisper when you go back." ”

Yuan Chonghuan was silent, and sighed in his heart: "It's not a last resort, there is no need to do this poisonous trick, and the people of Picheng will suffer." ”

Lei Bo Chen Lan stepped back and returned to his tent. Lei Bo saw that Chen Lan still looked worried, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and asked, "General Chen, why do you look like this?" General Pingkou has this plan, and the day of breaking the city is just around the corner. ”

Chen Lan sat down rather depressed, "General Lei, you are a straight person, and you don't know the twists and turns of many things. In fact, General Pingkou already had this plan in his heart, so why didn't he do it early, and let me wait for today's fight to say it. If we are unfortunate enough to die during the siege of the city, I am afraid that when we arrive at the Hades Palace, I don't know that he General Pingkou can break this Picheng so easily. ”

When Lei Bo heard this, his face changed suddenly, "Why did General Chen say this?" ”

"General Pingkou's move is nothing more than because we didn't give him face yesterday, or because he knew about His Majesty's secret performance before. He must have held a grudge against us, and this time he deliberately asked us to forcibly attack the city. If not, then he can make me and others willing to use him; If this plan is carried out again, the city will be broken, and the credit will be close to him. We can only end up with a name of jealousy and harm. ”

Lei Bo thought for a moment and shook his head, "If it is really as General Chen said, I am afraid that this Yuan Chonghuan City Mansion is even deeper than the city wall." ”

"If this plan can be accomplished, we will not make a public announcement; If this plan doesn't work, I'm afraid this guy is really a villain. Chen Lan said worriedly.

Lei Bo patted her on the shoulder, "General Chen, General Yuan's strategy, it should be fine, right?" We will do what he tells us first, and if there is any problem, we will ask him again, so that we don't have to worry too much. ”

From the next day, Yuan Chonghuan ordered Lei Bo to lead troops to attack the city every day, but as long as he could not attack for a while, he immediately retreated; Every two or three hours, troops would be sent to attack, day and night. After attacking repeatedly for many days, the defenders of Xiapi City complained bitterly.

"Mr. Chen, let me go out and kill that guy, so I can't rest well all day long, it's really embarrassing!" After a few days of harassment, You Junda couldn't help it and asked Chen Jinnan for his life.

Chen Jinnan shook his head, "Has General You forgotten what the lord commanded before leaving?" In any case, you are not allowed to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and those who violate it will be killed! This Yuan Chonghuan harassing our army like this is indeed a problem, so from today on, you and I will take turns on duty, each with 2,000 soldiers, and then organize some people to go to the city wall to defend the city, so that he can break his tired army's plan. ”

You Junda nodded, "Mr. Chen, let's go and prepare!" ”

After a few days of attack, although Xiapi City is still as stable as Mount Tai, but the soldiers are injured a lot, fortunately, Sun Simiao made a lot of gold sore medicine in the city, so that the injured soldiers were treated in time, and Sun Simiao's title of medicine king began to spread widely in Xiapi City.

Chen Jinnan walked up to the city wall, looked at the bright lights in the camp tent of Yuan Chonghuan's army in the distance, and thought about Wu Liren, who went to save Tao Qian in Xuzhou, and secretly said to himself in his heart: I swear to defend this city to the death! As long as he guards Xiapi, Yuan Chonghuan's death is not far away.

Although Yuan Chonghuan also noticed Chen Jinnan, the lord of the city at this time, he asked everyone, but no one knew this person. But he already admired Chen Jinnan's ability to defend the city, and he even sighed at Wu Liren's insight.

"If my lord could do this, why should I be afraid of death! It's a pity! ”

Thinking of this, a strange thought suddenly popped up in his mind, "Good birds choose trees to perch, virtuous ministers choose the lord to do things, and when they meet the lord of things, it is not wise to miss the arm!" ”

As soon as he thought of this, he hurriedly knocked on his head, "How could I have such a rebellious idea!" No matter how bad Your Majesty is to me, I can't have a trace of rebellion, how can a husband be a second master? I, Yuan Susheng, am a minister of His Majesty, and I will die as a ghost of His Majesty, and I will not swerve in this life! ”

After speaking, he suddenly drew his sword and slashed off the wooden case beside him, and the corner of the wooden case fell to the ground in an instant, and the flickering candle flame reflected his long back.