In addition, when you dig a tunnel, you must leave ventilation holes, otherwise people will not be suffocated in it, right?
It's winter now, and the white air coming out of the vents is so thick that it can be seen from a mile away!
Once discovered by the defenders, it will be in vain, because there are ways to deal with it. The simplest one is to smash it with a catapult or bombard it with cannons. No matter how strong the tunnel is, it will collapse. Not to mention it's not strong yet...
Of course, you can also attack by force, but the damage will be very heavy, because Baisha City is three times stronger than Wolong Pass!
Lin Yue and the others conducted a sand table drill based on the city's defense situation, and concluded that if they captured the city, they would suffer casualties of at least 30,000 brothers.
This is just a drill. If it were an actual battle, there would probably be more casualties!
The city wall is five feet high and six feet wide. It is made of green stone bricks and glutinous rice mortar and lime. Coupled with a thick layer of ice armor on the outside, Zhang Mingyuan said that it would take at least one hundred to make a hole. The cannonballs must hit the wall within a one-foot radius continuously.
After all, the power of current artillery is still quite limited.
In fact, the Yanyun County Arsenal has now developed more powerful artillery, but it has not yet equipped the entire army...
"If it doesn't work, let's mobilize more heavenly troops and send a suicide squad into the city to see if we can storm the city gate?" Lin Yue thought about it and felt that if he wanted to attack by force, there must be quite a lot of heavenly troops to assist him. .
But Baisha City is a very wicked place. It is in the middle of the wind. The wind blowing above the city is not the southeast, northwest, but a whirlwind!
When a hot air balloon sent for reconnaissance flew over the city, it was suddenly swept out of control by a cyclone and fell directly into the city!
The reason why they did not mobilize more space troops to participate in the battle was mainly due to weather reasons, because the spherical material of hot air balloons is not suitable for freezing. It is easy to crack in extremely cold weather, and the wind is too strong. No, it's very easy to get out of control.
It is extremely cold weather now, and the wind from the northwest is extremely strong. The wind blows like a knife on your face even when you are standing on the ground. What would it be like if you were in mid-air?
No matter how thick the leather jacket is, it can be blown through, and the control system of the hot air balloon is extremely sophisticated. It is very inconvenient to wear gloves. If you use bare hands, you will be frozen in just one stick of incense. You dare not go out during the day. , it gets colder at night...
"It's not impossible to do this, but the chance of success is really too small, and even if we mobilize a hundred hot air balloons, we only have one chance to take action..." Xiao Chen hesitated, because the heavenly army is really not suitable for such a situation. Fighting in climatic conditions.
While everyone was discussing, suddenly Yuan Kaishan rushed in and without saying a word, he knelt down directly in front of Xiao Chen.
"What are you doing to open a mountain?" Xiao Chen was startled, "Get up and talk!"
"Master Hou, I'm afraid Kaishan has to go into the city!" Yuan Kaishan said, "Just now we went out on patrol and met a few people who came out of the city a few days ago. An acquaintance among them said that my mother is going to In the city... I was already disloyal to the emperor before I opened the mountain, but I can't be unfilial anymore!"
"Ah?" Xiao Chen was surprised, "Is there such a thing? Is it true?"
"It's absolutely true, that person is still a distant relative of mine. He saw with his own eyes that my mother was arrested and taken to the city... Duan Fengnian must have known that I had surrendered to the commander, so he took my mother... Commander, the founder of the mountain has been How can I be so frightened when I am over eighty years old? I don’t know whether I will live or die at this moment, and Kaishan is extremely anxious!"
"Kaishan, you must not go into the city at this time." Xiao Chen sighed, "Otherwise, not only will you die, but I will also have no protection..."
"Then at least we, mother and son, can die together. I have made up my mind. I am here to say goodbye to the master. If the commander does not allow me to go, I will kill myself in front of the hall immediately!" Yuan Kaishan said, drawing a knife across his neck.
"Kaishan, you can't do this." Xiao Chen said hurriedly, "Don't worry, let's discuss it in the long run, and I will find a way..."
"Kaishan's heart is with my mother now, and she's like an arrow to return home, but she has no intention of making any plans!" After Yuan Kaishan said this, he quickly walked out with his knife in hand, mounted his horse and galloped away.
"Oh, Kaishan is over!" Xiao Chen and others hurriedly chased after him, shouting loudly together, but Yuan Kaishan turned a deaf ear and raced faster, reaching the bottom of the city in an instant.
"Hey, who do I think is so brave and dares to break through alone? Haha, isn't this General Yuan Kaishan? I heard that you have surrendered to Li Qiu, and you came to see me to kill me. Are you here to be a lobbyist?" Duan Fengnian, who was at the top of the city, saw clearly that it was Yuan Kaishan who was coming, and sneered and made sarcastic remarks.
"Your Majesty, Kaishan has come here to die with no regrets!" Yuan Kaishan dismounted and knelt in the snow, "I just ask Your Majesty, for the sake of a little kindness from the past, to be merciful and spare Gaotang's mother!"
"Hahaha!" Duan Fengnian raised his head and laughed, but there was no smile in his eyes. "My king, I didn't know that you, Yuan Kaishan, and I still have feelings for each other? My king, I treat you well, but what about you? Such a generous reward is really embarrassing for me, but it doesn’t matter, since you are willing to come back, I can’t turn you away, come on, pull him up!”
Duan Fengnian waved his hand, and a big basket immediately hung down from the city.
"Kaishan, don't go up, come back quickly!" Duan Qiyun had just arrived after hearing the news. When he saw Yuan Kaishan was about to step onto the basket with one foot, he couldn't help shouting.
"Kaishan, don't be confused. If you go up there, my mother will die!" Xiao Chen shouted.
Yuan Kaishan hesitated slightly, but still stepped into the basket, and the people above him immediately pulled him up quickly.
As soon as his feet hit the ground, he was kicked over by someone, tied up and carried in front of Duan Fengnian.
"Your Majesty, Kaishan is willing to be chopped into pieces. I just ask Your Majesty to let my mother live!" Yuan Kaishan kowtowed to Duan Fengnian repeatedly, and his forehead was instantly bloody.
"Haha, since you, Yuan Kaishan, are so stubborn, then I will help you. Come on, take off his clothes and chop him into pieces with a thousand knives, so that those thieves can see what will happen if you betray me. !" Duan Fengnian said and suddenly laughed again, "But if you die, your mother will have to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person. It would be pitiful. I think it is better to send her on her way first and let you be filial to her. Bar!"
"Duan Fengnian, you..." When Yuan Kaishan heard this, his liver and gallbladder were shattered, and his eyes were about to burst!
After a while, two soldiers picked up Yuan Kaishan's white-haired old lady and threw her directly in front of Yuan Kaishan. The poor old lady was frightened and was already dying. At this moment, she saw her son naked and tied up and kneeling. In front of him, he fainted before he even had time to shout.
"Yuan Kaishan, you unfaithful, unjust and unfilial bitch! Open your eyes and see clearly, you are the one who killed your mother... Come on, chop her down!" Duan Fengnian gave an order, and a soldier waved his hand. He cut off the old lady's head with a knife and threw it directly to the city...
