The difficult Dongliang City was finally captured by him!

Ying Qian, who received the good news, walked quickly to the end of the north without caring down the east loess plateau, and looked towards Dongliang City.

He was still scolding the wet weather last night, but at this moment, he felt that the moisture after the rain was so comfortable.

"Send the order..."

He ordered the guard behind him and said, "Call Gongsun Zhuang, Gongsun Jia immediately sent troops, one person assisted in the attack of the city, and the other person surrounded the back and intercepted the defeated army of Dongliang."

"Yes!" The guard left hurriedly.

A moment later, the Qin generals Gongsun Zhuang and Gongsun Jia led 20,000 Qin troops to dispatch each. The former went around the north side of Dongliang City and tried to intercept the retreating Dongliang defeated troops, while the latter entered Dongliang City from the southern gate.

Like most cities in the world, Dongliang City is a typical city with the word "Hui". The inner and outer walls divide the entire city into an outer city and an inner city. The outer city is also called Guo, which can be regarded as a place where civilians live. The garrisons in the city also live here on weekdays. The inner city is called a city, which is only for the residence of officials, clans, gentry, aristocrats and other classes.

When Gongsun Jia led his army into the city, one-third of the outer city of Dongliang had fallen. One of the Qin troops that had attacked the city was divided into three, one attacked directly towards the south gate of the inner city, and the other two attacked the outer city gate and the inner city gate on the west and east sides respectively.

But at this moment, the Qin army was unexpectedly blocked. Dongliang City built a block of earth walls near the outer city near the West City Gate and the East City Gate. Relying on these earth walls to resist the buildings in the outer city, blocking the Qin army's offensive, so that Gongsun Jia, who thought that the battle would be ended soon, had not received good news from Gan Xing and Xun Xia.

What's going on?

Dongliang is still resisting?

Gongsun Jia, who was puzzled, immediately found Gan Xing and asked about the situation.

Gan Xing was also confused about this. When he and Xun Xia broke through the outer wall just now, they thought Dongliang had given up resistance. Unexpectedly, after leading the army into the city, they were once again stubbornly resisted by the Dongliang defenders.

A moment later, Xun Xia also came after hearing the news. The three of them decided to attack the West City Gate and the East City Gate respectively, while Gongsun Jia was responsible for attacking the south wall of the inner city.

However, the inner wall of Dongliang is not as fragile as the outer city. Gongsun Jia led 20,000 Qin troops to attack for most of the hour, but there was no effect.

This surprised Gongsun Jia: "Even though our army has broken through the outer wall, why is the morale of the defenders still high?"

His question was actually reversed. He should think about it. The morale of the Dongliang defender was still so high. Why was the Qin army able to break through the exterior wall before?

But unfortunately he didn't expect this level.

It is no wonder. After all, according to common sense, the defending city will never take the initiative to give up the outer city wall and retreat to the city without having enough energy. After all, in the eyes of most people, defending the city means defending the city wall to the death. Once the city wall is broken, there is no possibility of surviving the city.

As for street fighting, it has never happened when siege, but it was all at the last moment when there was no choice. It was unprecedented in planning and premeditated street fighting like Li He, so it is not a problem for Qin generals such as Gongsun Jia to not consider this level.

The only thing Gongsun Jia could do at this time was to urge the Qin army to attack the inner wall on the south side.

Under his order, a Qin army climbed the city to the top of the city while storming on the long ladder, but was immediately hit by the guards on the city wall.

Shi Dongliang Doctor Fan Hu stood on the wall building on the inner wall on the south side, frowned and looked at the Qin army spread all over the streets and alleys of the outer city, and turned to Li He who was standing beside him, saying, "Maybe because of our relationship with abandoning the outer city, the morale of the Qin army has improved. If this continues..."

Li He shook his head and said, "Doctor Fan, don't worry, the soldiers can hold on."

He has been paying attention to the fighting in the inner city walls. As far as he can see, the morale of the Qin army has improved, but the morale of the Dongliang defenders is not weak. Without siege equipment, it is not realistic for the Qin army to attack the inner city in one fell swoop, unless they deliberately abandon the inner gate on the south side.

That's right, the southern inner gate was also under Li He's plan. This was the bait he was going to throw to the Qin army, so that the Qin army would not turn its attention to the other three walls. Of course, there is no need to use it for the time being.

Compared to the battle on the inner wall, he actually cared more about the battle situation between Zhai Hu and Xia Yangjun.

After all, Li He and Fan Hu only need to defend one inner wall, and even if necessary, they can give up the inner wall and the alley in the inner city to resist the Qin army. However, Zhai Hu and Xia Yangjun must take into account both the outer wall and the inner wall in the west and east directions at the same time. If the situation is critical, the two of them will be attacked by the Qin army in three directions: the Qin army attacks the outer wall from outside the city as one, the outer wall from inside the city as two, and the inner wall from inside the city as three.

What Zhai Hu and Xia Yangjun could rely on were the outer city walls and the earth wall built overnight near the inner and outer city gates of the outer city. That's all.

This is also the reason why Li He and Fan Hu had to abandon the inner wall on the south side if necessary: ​​to attract the attention of the Qin army and reduce the pressure in both directions of Zhai Hu and Xia Yangjun.

At this time, Qin general Gongsun Zhuang had also led his army to the north side of Dongliang City.

But when he came here, he found that the city gate on the north side of Dongliang City was closed and had no intention of opening it at all.

Listening to the deafening fighting sounds in the city, Gongsun Zhuang was also confused: Didn’t his Qin army attack the city? Why is Dongliang still resisting?

Frowning and thinking for a moment, he ordered a guard to say, "You go to the city to see what's going on."

"yes!"

The guards responded and it took half an hour to return to Gongsun Zhuang, and reported to him with his fists: "Report to General, I met General Jia. According to General Jia, Dongliang is still resisting..."

Gongsun Zhuang said blankly: "Didn't you attacked?"

The guard replied: "The inner city has not been broken yet... At present, General Jia is leading his army to attack the inner wall, while General Gan and Xun are attacking the east and west sides..."

Gongsun Zhuang frowned deeply when he heard this.

However, he had no good idea. First, there were enough Qin troops attacking the outer city and he did not need to lead his army to help; second, he was ordered to intercept the withdrawn troops of Dongliang here. Without Ying Qian's order, he did not dare to lead the army to leave without authorization.

The only thing he could do was wait, waiting for Gongsun Jia, Gan Xing and Xun Xiaji in the city to break through the inner city as soon as possible and force the defenders in the city to abandon the city and flee.

Just as he was waiting hard, the news that his Qin army was blocked in the city also spread to the commander's tent of the East Loess Plateau, and to Ying Qian, who was standing on the high slope and looking at the battle situation.

Ying Qian felt incredible about this: "What? Have you encountered an obstacle? Didn't you attack the city?"

He also asked the same question as Gongsun Zhuang.

Seeing this, the messenger who came to report the news could only explain respectfully: "Reporting to General Qian, our army did invade Dongliang, but Dongliang fought to the death with his inner wall, which caused our army to be unable to attack the inner city..."

Ying Qian, who thought he would be able to conquer Dongliang immediately, was angry and angry when he heard the news.

He was angry that he had just received the good news of breaking the city, but he had such a mistake again; he was angry that the Shaoliang people were so stubborn that even if the Qin army broke through the outer wall, he refused to admit his failure and was still fighting stubbornly.

If we cannot slaughter all the people in Dongliang City after this battle, it will not be enough to calm our anger.

"Prepare the chariot!"

With a angrily shout, Ying Qian walked down the loess plateau with an angry face.

The left and right guards did not dare to neglect and quickly prepared Ying Qian's car under the northern slope of the loess plateau.

Ying Qian angrily boarded the chariot and ordered the coachman to take him to Dongliang.

In a short while, the Qin prince came outside Dongliang City. At this time, most of the Qin army had already attacked the outer city, and the south city gate was empty. Amid the salutes of the soldiers on duty, Ying Qian got off the chariot, quickly climbed to the South City Gate Tower, and stood on the city wall to look into the city.

According to his careful observation, the melee in the city at this moment can be roughly divided into three areas, namely the inner wall on the south side, the inner and outer city gates on the west side, and the inner and outer city gates on the east side.

Although there were tens of thousands of Qin troops attacking the city, far more than the Dongliang defenders, the complex streets and alleys in the city made it impossible for the Qin army to launch a large-scale attack and could only attack in batches. Ten% of the army had only one or two percent of them fighting against the Dongliang defenders, and most of the others could only squeeze behind and stare blankly, helpless.

Seeing this scene, Ying Qian felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. After all, this situation seemed to be right in front of him. It was not unbelievable that the Qin army had ever attacked the city. If you insist on saying that something was wrong, it was just the Dongliang defender. At the moment when the outer wall was broken, this group of defenders could resist with high morale, which was simply incredible!

Not long after, Qin general Miao Lin hurried over and saw Ying Qian standing near the city gate tower to watch the battle situation in the city. He hurriedly stepped forward and explained: "Ship Qian, I heard that our army had entered the city before, but then I heard that the battle situation was in full swing, so I came to visit the truth."

"Um."

Ying Qian nodded, not blaming Miao Lin for leaving the task of supervising the construction of siege equipment to explore the situation of the battle. First, the Qin army had already invaded the city, so there was no need to rush to build siege equipment. Second, the battle has reached this point, and he gradually couldn't understand it. He happened to talk to Miao Lin about the situation of the battle and see what the hell was doing in Dongliang.

So, Ying Qian told Miao Lin what he knew. While listening to Ying Qian talk about the battle situation, Miao Lin carefully observed the battle situation in the city. After Ying Qian finished telling, he hesitated and said: "Shishou Qian, is it possible... Dongliang deliberately abandoned the exterior wall?"

"Hmm?" Ying Qian was stunned when she heard this, as if she had grasped some point, and frowned and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Miao Lin thought about it for a moment and explained hesitantly: "This is also the speculation of the last general... But only in this way can we explain why the guards in the city still had high morale after Dongliang fell on one side of the exterior wall, and were not affected at all."

After a pause, he added: "As for why Dongliang did this, I guess it might be because of the siege equipment built by our army... The opponent thought that it would not be possible for our army to build more siege equipment to attack the city, so he simply abandoned a city wall and let our army enter the city. Look, the narrow streets and alleys in the city are not conducive to the passage of siege equipment, let alone use these siege equipment to attack the inner city."

Ying Qian looked into the city in the direction Miao Lin pointed out. Sure enough, he saw that the situation in the city was as Miao Lin said, which was not conducive to the passage of siege weapons, unless he demolished some of the houses and buildings in the outer city.

"You make sense..."

He nodded slightly, Ying Qian looked at the inner city wall with a deep face: "Shaoliang's courage and courage are worthy of praise, but... he deliberately let our army into the city? Humph, he really looked down on me, Qin!"

As he said that, he nodded and said coldly, "Okay, since Dongliang wants to resist stubbornly, then I, the Qin army, will accompany me! I think they can resist stubbornly... I will send an order to ask Gongsun Zhuang to continue to station in the northern suburbs to prevent Dongliang from abandoning the city and fleeing. The rest of the troops will fight for me to attack!"

"yes!"
Chapter completed!