Mu Tianbo hurriedly looked outside the city and found that the rebels on Dongshan Mountain were cutting down trees to build ladders. Many cavalry and elephant soldiers were circling the city, obviously planning to attack the city. Mu Tianbo was not panicked about this, because Wan's only idea of the troops was It was impossible to destroy the city, but he saw an opportunity!
He wanted to send people out to report the situation while the rebels were busy preparing for war. This was a dangerous move, but he had to do it now.
Wan led five thousand soldiers and horses to surround the city of Kunming, which was nine miles in circumference. Of course, the main soldiers and horses were concentrated near the city gate. It would be extremely difficult for the city to send people secretly to report the news. There were few people left the city. They would be captured unless a large force came out from the city gates to cover them. However, there were only two thousand soldiers and horses in the city. They had to guard the six gates separately. If the number of people was small, it would be like giving away their lives. They all gathered in one place and rushed out. It was very likely that the messengers who reported the message would be sent. After going out, the other doors were directly broken down by the rebels!
But now Mu Tianbo thinks that the opportunity has come. The rebels are logging wood and building carts on the mountains outside the city. They have used most of their troops such as ladders and other siege equipment, but there are only a few people blocking the gate below the city. If they don't leave now, how long will it take? Therefore, twenty-eight death squads were drawn from the army and asked to go out of the city to ask for help.
There are six city gates in Kunming City. To the west is the Dianchi Lake and you will be blocked with no way to escape. To the east is the mountain that is the base camp of the rebels and there is no way to go. There are only the north gate and the south gate. Mu Tianbo decided to go north. The gate serves as the breakthrough point, and five hundred soldiers are entangled to prepare to rush through the north gate to cover the death squads from leaving the city. Of course, these twenty-eight people will not be concentrated in one place. When the north gate launches an attack, they will break out from all directions of the city wall by falling to the ground with ropes. , at that time, the rebels' attention must be on the north gate. The defense in other places is weak, and they have a high chance of breaking out.
The operation started at midnight!
Most of the rebels outside the city were busy on the mountain. Suddenly, they heard several loud noises. The officers and soldiers fired artillery at the top of the city, blasting at the rebels outside the city. At the same time, the south gate and the north gate opened wide and they rushed out. Hundreds of officers and soldiers!
A sneer appeared on the corner of Wan's mouth on Dongshan Mountain. Mu Tianbo really couldn't hold back his anger, but all of this was within his own calculations!
The rebels outside the city knew very well that the officers and soldiers who rushed out were certainly not just fighting, they wanted to break out and ask for help!
What a beautiful thought!
The rebels immediately rushed from all over to encircle them, with cavalry, elephants, infantry, muskets, knives and forks all thrown at them. The cannons hidden in the dark also began to bombard the city gate, blocking the two gates with officers and soldiers rushing out to fight!
It really works! Mu Tianbo, who was watching the battle on the top of the city, saw the two soldiers and horses rushing out of the city attracting the firepower of the rebels outside the city. He immediately ordered the scattered death squads to go down to the city to break out. Soon these people got down from the city and were about to cross the water. shore……
The moat is a circle. It traps the enemy and also traps oneself!
If the officers and soldiers want to fight out, they must go out through a bridge, but the outside of the bridge has been blocked by the rebels! It didn't take much troops to block the two bridges. He also had more troops patrolling the moat outside the city, so many of the death squads were shot dead in the water before they even got ashore.
The fighting was very intense and short-lived. There were too few officers and soldiers to fight out. If it wasn't for the fire suppression from the city head when they retreated, they almost lost the city gate! And the heads of the twenty-eight death squads were quickly hung on trees outside the city by the rebels as a demonstration!
Facts have proved that there is no problem in defending the city due to the shortage of troops, but if he wants to break out, he overthinks it, and Wan has already left a backup force to guard against him, so that the breakout battle ends in failure and more than a hundred people die!
Mu Tianbo was so angry that his face turned blue, and he whipped Sha Dingzhou more than a dozen times. The guy didn't moan, but laughed loudly: "My son, if you just let me go, we can still live in peace, otherwise the beating will continue." Well, you must be the one who suffers!"
The days are like a year, both in the city and outside seem to be calm but in fact they are restless, but no one takes the initiative to let go. Unknowingly, the sky has darkened, and Sha Dingzhou and Tang Jianjia, who have been hanging for a day, are hungry and thirsty. What's more terrible is that the whole body was tied up and the blood flow was blocked. The whole body was swollen and turned black and blue. It was very scary. The two of them couldn't bear to moan.
"Scream louder, let that witch hear you!" Mu Tianbo roared angrily, and Sha Dingzhou said viciously: "If I die, you should know the consequences!"
"You thief, don't worry, you will die first no matter what! Go to the Palace of Hell to realize your dream of eternal greatness." Wu Zhaoyuan also came to splash water: "It doesn't matter if your witch breaks the city, then you He’s dead too and has nothing to do with you!”
Sha Dingzhou said nothing and only moaned.
It was getting dark, and firelights lit up everywhere outside the city. Mu Tianbo stared at all this in a daze. This was the most difficult thing he had encountered since he ascended the throne. He was usually very confident, but at this time he was helpless, making it ridiculous for the governor and his gang. People are equally powerless and can only sigh and shake their heads.
Who said that, Wu Wenying suddenly had an idea!
If you can't rush out during the day, you can't do it at night. With black lights and blind eyes, people are sent down to the city to cross the water. They don't believe that the thieves can still surround the city hand in hand. As soon as Mu Tianbo heard this, he took out thirty more suicide squads, let the fire on the city wall go out to cover their whereabouts, and ordered them to secretly go down to the city to break out. With the cover of night, they were very confident!
Unexpectedly, as soon as they were ready, the fire outside the city suddenly became much brighter. It could be seen that many rebels were walking back and forth along the moat to patrol. Wan, the witch, was so smart. She knew what Mu Tianbo was going to do when she saw the fire at the top of the city dimming suddenly. .
If the first plan failed, there would be no second plan. Mu Tianbo and others were not to mention depressed. Wu Zhaoyuan could only comfort himself. Those inside could not go out to report the news, but those outside should have discovered something!
Not to mention that there is Wuding County fifty miles to the north of Kunming City and Anning County a hundred miles to the west of the city. Even the front lines attacking Yuanmou will receive the latest military reports every day. Once these people find out that Kunming City is besieged, they will immediately notify the frontline coalition forces to return. Soldier.
But this was just a self-comfort. Wu Zhaoyuan and others knew very well in their hearts that since the Wan family could guard against breakouts from inside, how could they not guard against outside investigations? Presumably, the ten-mile radius around Kunming was controlled at this time. Ordinary people were prohibited from approaching, and the front line was informed. They probably killed the people as soon as they entered the realm. If the front line didn't get news for a day or two, they wouldn't have sent back the army. At most, they would have sent a few more people to see what was going on, but with this little people coming over Nine times out of ten, they will dig a hole and bury them again. Only after ten and a half days without anyone coming back from the front line can it be possible to mobilize the army to return to Kunming. But will it be too late by then?
Of course, there are no absolutes in the world. Although it is a self-comfort, everyone still holds on to a glimmer of hope and possibility, just in case someone slips through the net and escapes!
People will always have some vague and unrealistic illusions when they are in trouble.
People in the city were like ants on a hot pot, and people outside the city were suffering too. Looking at the hanging Sha Dingzhou on the top of the city, Wan's heart felt like a knife. She knew that no one could survive three days, but Mu Tianbo was like She was so cruel that she wanted to hang him alive. If Sha Dingzhou was really dead, what would be the point of conquering Kunming City by herself, so she had to take measures quickly!
It was late at night, and Mu Tianbo couldn't hold on any longer, but he did not go back to his hometown to rest. Instead, he made bunks in the tower, including Wu Zhaoyuan and others. .
Mu Tianbo had a dream, a nightmare! He dreamed that Wan's men had invaded, and they were killing and looting in the city without committing crimes. The whole city of Kunming was filled with the sound of fighting and screams. The sound was something he had never heard before... This made him wake up suddenly and break out in a cold sweat. But suddenly I realized that it was not a dream, there was really noisy fighting outside.
Have the thieves broken in? Mu Tianbo was so frightened that he lay down and rushed out, but was stopped by his personal attendant: "Don't panic, Your Majesty, the thief tried to climb up the wall from the small east gate in the dark and was discovered and was repulsed..."
It turns out that Wan Hao Po is also anxious! Mu Tianbo breathed a sigh of relief. Wan's move was obviously to rescue Sha Dingzhou.
She can't last much longer!
But how long can I hold on?
The opponent's reinforcements can arrive in three days at most, oh no, they can arrive in two days. At that time, tens of thousands of people besieging the city will be a big trouble!
It seems that we have no choice but to delay the attack!
