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Zhao Junsheng shook his head with a smile and said, "I think they can only last for an hour at most!"

What Zhao Junsheng said was grounded and judged. The defenders in Linyi would not have thought that the Yellow River would be frozen by heavy snow last night.

Therefore, their preparations were not sufficient, and the materials for defending the city were seriously insufficient; secondly, the defenders underestimated the siege combat effectiveness of the Qian army; third, the Qian army had large siege equipment, but the Liu Song army of the Southern Dynasty did not have much countermeasure Fourth, the dry army does not feel comfortable fighting in the ice and snow. In order to end the battle, they must attack the city with all their strength.

Hua Mulan shook her head: "One hour? It's too short, they are not Wei Jun!"

"How about a bet?" Zhao Junsheng asked with a smile.

"What bet?" Hua Mulan asked.

"If the defenders of the Southern Dynasty can persist for more than an hour, I will lose, and I will wash your feet tonight; if they can't last for an hour, then you will lose, and you have to wash my feet!"

When the surrounding soldiers and staff officers heard Zhao Junsheng put forward such a bet, they couldn't help but twitched their mouths. They wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

Many people complained in their hearts, you are also a king after all, can you be more majestic in front of women?Can you stop being so unreasonable?

Hua Mulan smiled and agreed: "Okay, I'll bet with you!"

On the outer wall of the city wall and on the siege ladders, there were constantly siege soldiers being shot down by the defenders, but the troops invested by the siege army were too dense. The Southern Dynasty soldiers who were originally good at defending the city had never experienced such a dense and intense attack before The siege tactics were completely suppressed in terms of long-distance. After less than an hour, the defenders couldn't hold on. A large number of siege soldiers rushed up the city wall and fought desperately with the defenders.

Seeing this posture, Hua Mulan knew that she was doomed.

Sure enough, it only took half an hour for the siege army to occupy the north city gate tower and a large section of the city wall. The defenders couldn't stand it anymore and were beaten back.

"Look, my lord, the defenders have surrendered!"

Chapter 623 Night Blindness

On the way from Linyi City to Zhu'a City, at nightfall, the Qianjun set up camp at the foot of a leeward hill.

After breaking through Linyi City, the Gan army did not stay in Linyi City for long. The army only rested for an hour before setting off, and even most of the soldiers and horses did not enter the city.

In the handsome tent, Zhao Junsheng sat on a horse and leaned against the wooden pillars supporting the tent, put his feet in a wooden basin to soak in hot water, closed his eyes and looked enjoying himself very much.

Willing to admit defeat, Hua Mulan washed Zhao Junsheng's feet, and seeing the look on his face, she couldn't help but say, "Look at you like that, are you trying to scare me?"

"Don't dare!" Zhao Junsheng quickly opened his eyes, turned his head and glanced at his son, who was sitting on the camp bed and playing with toys he had made such as building blocks, a pony carriage, and a wooden carved horse.

"I want to wash your feet, but you won't let me!" Zhao Junsheng said eagerly.

Hua Mulan blushed when she heard that, "Pfft, your mind is not clean!"

The two soldiers brought food, and the food was hard pancakes. Compared with the dry food eaten by the soldiers, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan were much happier eating, but in order not to trouble the cook, Zhao Junsheng didn't ask them to make it fresh , Only boiled a pot of broth.

A pot of broth and a few sheets of pancakes are placed on a small table. Both Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan are martial arts practitioners, and they need much more food than ordinary people. In addition to pancakes and broth, there is also a pack of Sauce beef, about three catties.

Hua Mulan went to the table and tore off a small piece of pancake, put some broth in a small bowl, broke the torn pancake into small soup bowl, stirred it into batter, and reported to her son Come over and put it on the pony beside him, and feed him with a small wooden spoon.

While feeding the children, Hua Mulan ate pancakes by herself, and asked, "Brother Junsheng, do you think Gao Xu can reach Zhu'a today, can he take down Zhu'a City?"

Zhao Junsheng gnawed on pancakes and said: "There should be no problem in reaching Zhu'a City. As for whether we can capture it or not, it depends on his ability, but we have to trust him."

Although it is just a small county, if the defenders are prepared, it would be foolish to attack without a large number of siege equipment.

When Gao Xu led his army to Zhu'a City, he brought siege equipment, but it was almost dark when he arrived.

"General, look!" The lieutenant reminded Gao Xu when he was far away.

Gao Xu looked in the direction of Zhu'acheng, and saw many lanterns hanging on the city wall, and some fires were still burning away from the city wall.

"Do you think they will know that we have arrived?" Gao Xu asked.

The deputy general thought for a while and said: "It should be impossible. Even if the main force of our army has already reached the north bank of the Yellow River, Linyi City is still in front of them. Since it snowed last night and the Yellow River froze, we arrived here in only one day." , who can march at our speed? Besides, the reconnaissance posts ahead have not encountered any suspicious enemy spies along the way!"

Gao Xu thought for a while, and then ordered: "Send a few people over there to investigate and see what's going on on the city wall, but don't let the defenders find out!"

"understand!"

A few spies were sent out. They first got off their horses and groped towards the city wall. When they got close, they crawled slowly in the snow and gradually approached the city wall to observe the situation.

About half an hour later, a spy came back and reported to Gao Xu: "General, the brothers took a rough look under the city wall. There were only the voices of sentries on the city wall. They didn't see a large number of defenders, nor did they hear any slight noise on the city wall. There was a loud noise, but during this period of time I saw a patrol passing by, everyone in the patrol was holding a torch, and nothing else was found!"

Gao Xu frowned. The enemy's situation is unknown. If the defenders in Zhu'a City didn't notice their arrival, why did they hang so many lanterns on the walls and light so many fires?Could it be that they are making a big difference, in fact, there are a large number of soldiers and horses ambushing on the city wall?

Gao Xu thought about how long it would take to make a cup of tea. The temperature was getting lower and lower. The infantrymen were standing in the snow and stomping their feet, and the cavalrymen were shivering from the cold wind.

A light flashed in his mind suddenly, he looked at the spy in front of him and asked:

"You just said that everyone on the patrol on the city wall held a torch?"

"Yeah, everyone's carrying torches!"

The deputy general looked at the city wall in the distance and said, "No, there are so many lanterns hanging on the city wall, they don't need everyone to hold a torch, do they?"

Someone nearby said: "Maybe they have too many torches to use up!"

The spy who reported the letter said: "The villain is also puzzled. There are so many lanterns hanging on the city wall. It stands to reason that the patrol team does not need everyone to hold a torch. Isn't it superfluous for them to do this? Isn't it a waste?"

Gao Xu suddenly thought of something, his eyes became brighter and brighter, he turned his head and said to the lieutenant general: "Order, order the craftsmen of the supply team to assemble the two kinds of siege ladders immediately, and today we will attack the city overnight!"

"Siege the city overnight?" The lieutenant jumped in fright, "General, since the defenders are prepared, if we attack the city rashly, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of casualties. It's better to retreat and set up camp, and then attack the city tomorrow morning. Bar!"

Gao Xu shook his head: "No, the king will bring the main force of the army into the city for breakfast tomorrow morning, we can't wait! Do as I say!"

"As ordered!"

The craftsmen only needed to assemble the siege ladders, but it didn't take too much time. It took only half an hour for dozens of siege ladders to be assembled.

"General, the siege ladder is ready, and the [-] infantry of the first attack echelon are also ready to attack the city at any time!" The deputy general reported to Gao Xu.

Gao Xu said to the deputy general: "You stay and lead the army, and this general will go to the front to command!"

"Yes!"

Gao Xu spread out with the first attack echelon and dozens of siege ladders, slowed down and approached the city wall slowly, and when the army entered the range of bows and arrows, he called in dozens of archers with accurate arrows, Order them: "Everyone is responsible for shooting a lantern!"

The archers quickly dispersed, and after a while, the lanterns hanging on the city wall were shot one by one. After the lanterns were shot, the cold wind poured in and blew out the lights, and the lanterns went out one after another.

"Come on, put out the fire!" Gao Xu gave the order with a wave of his hand.

Many soldiers took off their helmets and scooped up the white snow on the ground and ran towards the fires one by one.

When the lanterns were shot and extinguished, the sentry on the city wall was alarmed, and the sentry immediately rang the big bell, "Dangdang..."

"Enemy attack, enemy attack" only yelled twice, and the sound stopped abruptly.

As the fires were extinguished one by one, under Gao Xu's order, a large number of dry army soldiers carried siege ladders, crossed the moat and rushed to the foot of the city wall to set up ladders. forward.