After finishing the leg of lamb, Zhu Biao took a towel and wiped his hands. He left the table, came to sit in front of Hua Yun, and said again: "Sit down too."

Hua Yun glanced at him, and after all, she didn't dare to sit down, nor did she dare to say anything easily. She stood there like a wooden stake, motionless.

"I know that you have already spread the news that our army has sent civilian men to the front line. But I might as well tell you the truth, this is just a cover, but you believe it, it shows that you are still not good at it. If a fight is really going to start,

How could I send civilian husbands to the front line without any cover-up? Isn't this too naked?

Our army of hundreds of thousands of cavalry is no joke. If we really want to fight, I will first lead the cavalry into Chengbo County. No matter how many troops Dang Shikui has under his command, I will suppress him for a while first.

For this period of time in this world, the people will be strong enough to build all the grain fortresses and military grain cities along the way."

"Of course, it would be more realistic to speak more truthfully. Now that you are in my hands, if you want to survive, you must find everyone you know without missing a beat. I promise to give you a new identity and not reveal your identity.

Let you live well."

The Changfeng Escort Agency had disappeared under the thumb of King Tang. Zhu Biao really didn't understand why the Hua family was so disdainful of King Tang. They would rather destroy their family and career than follow the imperial court.

Zhu Biao was willing to do this because he had already thought about Hua Yun. "I just don't want to see an old person die in front of me. You think about it!" He said it very calmly, as if he was making a deal with someone.

Hua Yun said nothing. He knew very well that what he had to consider was not just himself. He also had to think about his family. Compared with his family, his own life and death and the survival of his other spies were not worth mentioning.

A person with Willpower 63 and Courage 62 is not someone who will die calmly.

Zhu Biao looked at Hua Yun and smiled and said, "You are a smart person. When dealing with smart people, you must speak clearly and openly. I don't want to lie to you. Everything I promised will be paid truthfully."

"Is this a deal like this?"

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Zhu Biao got a piece of important information from Hua Yun. After Dang Shi leader determined the layout of the military strongholds, he would send a team composed of martial arts masters to burn a big fire before the Tang army took action!

This news is far more important than catching Hua Yun's subordinates. Because the party leader sent more than just Hua Yun's team. Zhu Biao eradicated Hua Yun and his men. There are other agents who continue to report to Zhou

The military transmits information.

What Hua Yun said is what is really important, especially the two martial arts masters who led the team. As far as Bozhou is concerned, this is an irresistible force. Unless Dongshi Mountain, where the sect is located in Bozhou, takes action

Cope. But this is obviously impossible.

"Two grand masters lead the team, and without a large number of people, a strong wind can burn the entire military stronghold." The military stronghold was full of wood and could not withstand the destruction of a single grand master in the night wind.

Zhu Biao said seriously to Shangguan Renqing that when he first fought against the Hu people, he led the enemy camp to attack Hu Qi's forage field at night. Hu Qi, who had a comprehensive advantage in terms of military strength, had to be trapped.

The heavy snow watched Zhu Biao leave in victory.

Now, he also has no doubt about the power of two grand masters.

There is no need to say anything about common sense. There are definitely not many martial arts masters. But each of them is amazingly powerful and can better hide their traces. Ansu County's spy has seven military villages, more than 20 grain villages, and military grain cities, so it is impossible to guard against them.

"attack--"

Zhu Biao and Shangguan Renqing looked at each other, and the same two words came out of their mouths.

The wind in Bozhou in early spring was very strong, and no one wanted to think that the equipment they had worked hard to accumulate for a month or two would be turned into a pile of ashes in a fire.

February of the sixth year of Yuanwu.

On the eve of the Han and Tang armies heading south, the Zhou army's city under Chengbo County launched a full-scale attack.

On the battlefield of Xicheng, the Zhou army deployed 120 heavy, medium and light thunderbolt chariots, 300 chariots and crossbows, and 15,000 strong bows and crossbows, which were astonishingly powerful.

Amidst the deafening sound of war drums and the shouts of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, dense arrows and stones rushed into the sky. Like a tsunami, a black whirlwind of stone bullets and arrows and crossbows blew up on the battlefield, shaking the earth and the earth.

Magnificent.

Zhou Jun continued to bombard day and night, and the arrows and stones were like a violent storm, extremely violent.

The war drums were beating wildly all day long, and the low and fierce sound of the drums could resound throughout the entire battlefield and shake the boundless sky.

The battle flag danced wildly, and the flag set off layers of waves, and the waves were magnificent.

The Zhou army, who had rested for two months, was stunned. The spectacular and bloody battlefield made their blood boil. They were like roaring tigers, waving their weapons, shouting and roaring at the top of their lungs, as if they were crazy.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers roared, and hundreds of thousands of civilians roared. The huge shouts merged into rolling waves, and bursts of explosions were heard between the sky and the earth, like mountains collapsing and the earth cracking.

This is a very powerful force. But fortunately, it is not invincible.

The Tang army in the city remained silent and silent.

Dang Shikui frowned.

Wu Jingxian, Zhang Zhongfa, Lei Kun and other generals looked very solemn.

The siege has lasted for more than half a year. Every time they attack Chengbo County, they have made careful preparations in advance. They have failed before. This time, the Zhou army has great hopes, because Zhu Biao joined the battlefield a year ago.

, brought immeasurable changes to the Bozhou war situation.

If the leader of the party, Zhou Jun, wants to remain invincible in this change, he must first capture Chengbo County as a foundation. At best, he can maintain the current boundary. Otherwise, once Zhou Jun is defeated,

The troops are about to return to Pingjiangnan.

But at present, the situation is still not optimistic. The defense of Chengbo County City is far stronger than they imagined. In the past two months, the Tang Army in the city did not wait.

There are also long-range weapons on Chengbo City, but they are limited to bed crossbows. All Thunderbolt Chariots are deployed in the city. To cross the high city wall, even the heavy Thunderbolt Chariots can only reach the range of crossbows.

It can't reach the thunderbolt chariot of the Zhou army outside the city, let alone the bed crossbow with a long range. That thing is better than the thunderbolt chariot.

So Shi Yuan dug a moat two hundred steps away from the city wall. Five moats were dug every ten steps. In previous battles, these five moats had long been filled in by the Zhou army.

In the middle of the month, Shi Yuan ignored the roughness of the ground and spent great efforts to dig three more protective trenches within a hundred steps of the city wall, and at the same time built three sheep and horse walls.

The range of a hundred steps is not only the effective shooting range of the Thunderbolt Chariot in the city. It can also be easily covered by bows and crossbows.

The moat is about five steps (about 7 meters) wide and three steps (about 4 meters) deep. Bamboo thorns and wooden thorns of different lengths are laid in the moat. There are three such moats, each with a

There was a wall of sheep and horses. The Zhou army wanted to successfully attack the moat under the fierce fire of the Tang army. It cost a lot.

After the three moats is the moat. The moat is about five feet wide. Naturally, several sections were filled in when the Zhou army attacked the city. Now that it has been dredged again, it is also an obstacle that is difficult for the Zhou army to overcome.

But the only good thing is that Chengbo County City is an inner urn, and the urn city is inside. Compared with the convex outer urn city, the Zhou army had a little better life.

Otherwise, it would be a thorny problem just to coordinate the moat with the urn city, and to send equipment such as wells and carts to the wall.

And in one winter, no one knows how many houses were demolished in Chengbo County. Not only did they repair and improve the city walls that were originally damaged in the siege, but they also built a large number of horse faces and towers on the city walls.

The strong city defense became even stronger.

The horse face protrudes from the outside of the city wall and is integrated with the city wall. The defenders can shoot from a high position to eliminate the enemy troops in the blind spots under the city. There is also an open space for the soldiers to rest on the horse face, which is capped with masonry logs and is directly hit by stone bullets.

Even if it hits two or three, it won't collapse. It's not like Chengbo County didn't have such defensive facilities before, but after all, Chengbo County is not a frontier fortress or a big border city. There are not many of them, but now they are densely packed.

The project of building the horse face was obviously a bit bigger. The Tang army followed normal defense methods and built a large number of towers and watchtowers on the city wall.

It can only be said that Shi Yuan used the winter truce to re-arm the somewhat dilapidated city defenses with stronger weapons.

This is the protective facility of Chengbo that Zhou Jun can see at present. In the city, Tang Jun must have built more blocking facilities, but the leader of the party cannot see it. The difficulty of attacking Chengbo city made Zhou Jun all the way up and down.

There is a sense of powerlessness and frustration.

Countless stones and arrows rained down on the city wall.

The towers at the top of the city wall suffered heavy losses due to the ravages of stones and arrows. Several watchtowers were directly destroyed by stone bombs. Countless stone bullets and arrows almost submerged the city wall.

Of course, the counterattacks of the bed crossbows at the head of the city also brought considerable losses to the Zhou army.

Taking Ximen's case as an example, sixteen of the Thunderbolt chariots were destroyed by the arrows. As for the shield chariots blocking the front of the Thunderbolt chariot formation, under the cover of the fire crossbows, no fewer than fifty were destroyed.

The losses on both sides were disproportionate. This is the biggest difference between the capped fort and the open-air fort.

After three days of fierce bombardment, Dang Shikui officially issued the order to storm.

The main force of the Zhou army was concentrated at the west gate. Hundreds of heavy thunderbolt chariots were mobilized in front of the formation. The densely packed crossbowmen filled the open space in front of the city like a surge. Arrows denser than raindrops covered every part of the entire city wall.

A corner.

The defenders could only hide in the tower and fight back in front of the horses. Although they were condescending and had a farther range than their opponents' crossbows. But how wide could the city wall be and how many people could stand on it?

When Dang Shigui launched a fierce attack regardless of casualties, the tens of thousands of Zhou army's crossbowmen were enough to annihilate the entire city wall with arrows and crossbows. With the help of bed crossbows, the Zhou army took the lead with six to seven hundred shield vehicles.

The cover and crossbowmen also suffered huge losses.

Ansu County,

Zhu Biao and Shangguan Renqing sat together again.

"If the leader of the party could infer from Hua Yun's 'disappearance' that the information would be leaked, he would take action first and stage an attack to lure our army into taking the bait. In other words, he would send spies like Hua Yun himself.

He just pretended to be confused and offered advice, and I really convinced him."

On the map hanging in front of Zhu Biao, everyone can clearly see from it that even though the main force of the Zhou army is attacking Chengbo City, the fifteen counties north of Chengbo County are firmly in the hands of the Zhou army

.

As a result, if the Tang army goes south to rescue or break the siege of Chengbo, there are only two options available.

The first is to "gnaw" from city to city, all the way to the county. The second is to send cavalry deep into the hinterland of Chengbo County to contain the attacking Zhou army. But at that time, the fifteen county cities will become

The fifteen strong strongholds and the counties and towns that are connected to each other will turn into tough iron ropes. When the party leader holding one end of the iron rope pulls the iron rope closer, it will turn into a tight network.

, tightly bound to the cavalry of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

No matter how confident Zhu Biao is in his elite men, he is unwilling to lead his troops into that situation. However, the first method is too slow, and the Tang army will suffer heavy losses in the end.
To be continued...