Yingdu.

Lian Po looked at the majestic city in front of him, with an old face as if he was thinking.

In front of Lian Po, thousands of Zhao troops were making roars like mountains and seas, like a black and red tide, constantly spreading towards the huge walls of Yingdu City, hoping to completely swallow the city.

But there is no doubt that the people of Chu will not sit still and wait for death.

As the capital of Chu, Yingdu has a history of hundreds of years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the spiritual totem in the hearts of the people of Chu.

As long as Yingdu is still there, the State of Chu will not perish!

Although the Zhao army has swept the world over the years and has long been famous, nearly half of the people have escaped from the city of Yingdu before Lian Po's troops arrived.

But the problem is that not every Chu person is so afraid of death, nor is there no Chu person willing to sacrifice his life for his country.

In addition, Li Yuan, the Chu imperial eunuch in Yingdu City, obviously understood what kind of ending he would be after the city was destroyed, so the imperial eunuch almost made a desperate bet and suppressed all the power he could use just to seize Yingdu.

In order to confuse the military and civilians in the city, Li Yuan even made people publicize it in the city, saying that once the Zhao people broke the city, they would kill all the men in the city who were higher than the wheels, and then demote all the remaining children and women to slaves and take them to mining thousands of miles away in the Western Regions.

Under such many measures, the Chu army and civilians in Yingdu were finally successfully aroused such a desire to survive with the same hatred of the enemy, and they resisted the Zhao army's attack very fiercely.

At this moment, in front of General Lian Po, a Zhao army's ladder was pushed away from the city by the Chu army above the city. The long cloud ladder drew an arc in the air and landed heavily. Many Zhao troops on it fell into the smoke and dust, and corresponding to it was the cheers coming from the city.

But the cheers above the city did not last long, and soon turned into waves of exclamations.

"Drill the sky, hide!"

Thunders roared from the sky under the throw of Zhao army's catapult, and landed on the top of Yingdu City and inside the city.

Amid the banging explosion, bursts of smoke rose from the head of Yingdu City, occasionally accompanied by the screams of Chu soldiers.

Not every thunderclap is so accurate. Several thunderclap accidentally landed under the city, accidentally injured many Zhao army soldiers.

But whether it was the Zhao army's siege soldiers or the Chu army and civilians defending the city, both sides were fighting hard, as if these thunders did not exist at all.

In general, after nearly two months of besieging Yingdu City, the Zhao army still did not make much progress.

"This Chu man is indeed brave and deserves to be known as the Southern Barbarians." Le Cheng, the deputy general standing beside Lian Po, couldn't help but sigh.

The arrogance of the Chu people has always been very famous. After all, this is a country that dared to become kings when they were just a weak country and was on par with the powerful Zhou emperor. It is also a country that dared to express its intention to win the Central Plains. It is also a tenacious country that has been long-standing setbacks but has never given up.

Lian Po nodded and said in a deep voice: "The Chu State can stand here for eight hundred years, which is naturally unique."

As a general in charge, Lian Po was naturally very confident in his heart, but this did not mean that this hot-tempered veteran general would not take the enemy seriously.

Since the defeat of Gao Tang, although Lian Po is still popular, the situation of underestimating the enemy will not appear in this old general at all.

But when Lian Po led his army to the city of Yingdu, the old general realized that he seemed to have underestimated the people of Chu.

Originally, Lian Po thought he would easily break through the city and incorporate the capital of Ying into the territory of Zhao State.

According to the information submitted by Hu Yiwei before, Li Yuan had mobilized almost all the troops he could mobilize to Yingdu. This means that as long as Yingdu can be captured, the western half of Chu controlled by Li Yuan would be occupied by the Zhao army at the speed of the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

However, the facts were somewhat beyond Lian Po's expectations. The Chu people not only did not defeat very quickly, but instead showed an extremely tenacious spirit of resistance. Even though the siege had been two months, the Zhao army still showed no sign of success.

When Lian Po thought of this, he felt quite unhappy.

Because just a few days ago, Lian Po had just obtained information that Pang Qian, who attacked the three major families, successfully caused great panic in the core hinterland of the three major families by using Sima Shang's naval army to raid Wucheng.

Although Sima Shang's troops were relatively limited and the three major families were very vigilant, which led to Wu Cheng not being attacked by Sima Shang's surprise attack, after learning the news, the three major families still had to give up the Yangtze River defense line and began to retreat southward.

In this way, the Zhao Army led by Pang Xuan was able to cross the Yangtze River in a swagger and head towards Wucheng.

Since the information was first transmitted back to Handan from Pang Xian, and then sent it to Lian Po by Yu Xin from Handan quickly, the news that Lian Po learned was actually a month ago.

It has been a month since then. What is the result of the battle between Pang Qian? Could it be that he has already broken through Wucheng and celebrated in Wucheng's palace?

If that is true, then how can General Lian Po have the face!

Lian Po's face was as deep as water, and was about to say something, but suddenly his eyes narrowed and he locked onto a master Zhao State who was rushing towards him.

The master craftsman of Zhao came to Lian Po, first bowed to Lian Po, and then said happily to Lian Po: "Report to General, all the thunderstorms have been buried and ready to detonate!"

Lian Po was immediately overjoyed when he heard this.

Although the Zhao army is now able to use the thunder to bomb the city wall, since the wall of Yingdu is also a city wall that has been tested by trenchers, such bombing does not have much effect.

If you want to explode the city wall, you can only use the initial approach, which is to lay hundreds or thousands of thunders under the city wall, and then detonate them all at once, thus breaking the city wall and attacking Yingdu.

The old general yelled and said with a loud voice: "Then what are you waiting for? Quickly blow open this damn city wall for me!"

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