Nan Chu said coldly: "How about you go and ask him again?"

Sun Yanling's neck shrank, "The general was joking."

Nan Chu snorted, "How could the Regent come here in person? He is clearly deliberately delaying time. I have talked with him for so long, but how could I not know what he is thinking? The reason why I talked with him for so long is that he felt that I believed what he said and felt that my heart was paralyzed, so that our army would attack the city in the future."

Sun Yanling complimented with a full face: "The general is wise, but the villain sighs that he is not as good as he does." His eyes flashed, and it was difficult for outsiders to know what he thought in his heart.

Nan Chu waved his hand to stop him, "Stop talking nonsense, now I have something to tell you to do. Hunta is almost here, that is your master. Take some people to welcome him and let him come here as soon as possible to get along with me."

Sun Yanling was overjoyed. He was not from Nan Chu. Now A Chier was killed again, and he was feeling isolated and helpless, afraid that Nan Chu would find a reason to kill him. Although he would be punished when going to Hunta now, he could at least save his life. So he hurriedly bowed and said, "The villain obeys the order."

Li Dingguo returned to the city and, according to what Nan Chu said to him, went to check the detailed works of the Qing army in the city. Then, by making a promise to spare their wives, children, women and children in their family, they obtained their contact with the Qing army outside the city and their code words.

Afterwards, Li Dingguo ordered the killing of all the adult men in their family, and only spared the women and children as agreed. Then their property was confiscated to recruit people who helped defend the city.

After clearing these fine works, most of the threats in the city will be eliminated.

Li Dingguo gathered the people in the city and took out gold, silver, wine and meat directly, promising to assist those who defend the city to give a reward.

Under the Qing Dynasty, the Han people had a very low status and most of them were very poor. Under the stimulation of heavy rewards, although the people in the city were afraid, many people responded.

Li Dingguo asked someone to pick out four hundred young and strong men from them and distribute weapons to them. At the same time, he recruited five or six hundred people to help transport stones and rolling wood and other guarding tools to the city, so that his soldiers could have enough time to rest.

There were several cannons at the top of the city, but they were broken and they were no longer like that. They might explode at any time. Li Dingguo found several craftsmen to reinforce and repair them, and pressed wooden covers and iron hoops outside.

In this way, even if the chamber is blown up, deaths and injuries can be minimized.

Li Dingguo also found some gunpowder and nearly 100 muskets from the treasury. These muskets were even more broken and almost unusable.

This is also the style of the Qing army in history, and they attach importance to riding and shooting but despised firearms. These cannons and guns are rarely used, and there is basically no maintenance.

Due to the lack of gunpowder, Li Dingguo simply abandoned the muskets and used all the gunpowder to those cannons.

It was dawn, and the people were busy all night and brought all the equipment to the city to the top of the city. The soldiers in the city rested all night and were full of energy.

The fragrance of meat floated on the top of the city, mixed with the laughter of the soldiers.

At this time, a cavalry rushed to the city and shouted loudly to enter the city.

Some soldiers on the city wall recognized it as Du Jianming, opened the city gate and let them enter.

The Qing cavalry immediately chased after him, but was shot back by arrows from the city. Seeing that the other party had entered the city, they patted their horses and left and returned to the camp.

Sun Bao presented Zhou Xian's handwritten letter to Li Dingguo and reported the general situation.

Li Dingguo did not have much expression, so he asked Gao Shilin to prepare some food for them and then take them down to rest.

Sun Bao brought more than a hundred cavalry, but the number was small, but the combat power was quite strong. Li Dingguo did not want to use them for the time being, and put them in the inner city as a reinforcement force.

There was no war in the morning, and the city and the city were very peaceful.

Li Dingguo sent people to conduct some basic training for the newly recruited 400 young men. Their shouts could be heard from afar. The funny and chaotic scenes attracted the soldiers to watch.

After noon, smoke and dust were rolling in the east, Hunta and thousands of Qing troops rushed back.

As a result, the Qing army outside the city had more than 10,000, and there were many elite soldiers.

The troops were several times the defenders in the city, but the two commanders who commanded these Qing troops were full of conflicts.

Hunta accused Nan Chu of watching Xiuyan City fall, and Nan Chu refuted that Hunta led his troops to Tongyuan Fort without authorization to give Li Dingguo the chance to seize the city.

The two had a big quarrel, but they didn't give in to each other and parted ways.

After Sun Yanling's persuasion, Hunta lowered his posture and went to Nan Chu to discuss it carefully. This time, the two barely reached an agreement on the issue of siege.

Hunta successfully took over the control of the Qing army outside the city. Except for the nearly a thousand soldiers directly led by Nan Chu, the other soldiers were under his command.

Sun Yanling reported to Hunta about the situation of the defenders in the city that he obtained. He proposed that Xi Zuo make trouble in the city, and they took advantage of the situation to attack the city and recapture Xiuyan City.

After the Qing generals discussed, Hunta agreed to the construction of Sun Yanling.

Sun Yanling continued to be responsible for making detailed contacts with the city, so that they could set fire in the city at the fourth update, and wait for an opportunity to seize the south gate and welcome the army into the city.

After making the action plan, Hunta ordered the soldiers who participated in the war to go down and rest at night.

Five thousand people were transferred from the original garrison stroke, and the cavalry and soldiers pressed the formation and launched a strong attack towards the east and the north gates, with the main attack direction placed in the north gate.

The reason why there were cavalrymen was there was because Hunta was worried that Li Dingguo would lead the cavalry again.

This time, the siege had a large number of troops and brought enough siege equipment, but the combat power of the soldiers participating in the war was generally not strong. Archers shot volleys, swords and shields attacked the city, and the shouts of killing were shocking the sky and the earth.

Two or three times, the Qing army in Beimen even attacked the city, but was soon driven down by the defenders at the city. The casualties of the defenders were aggravating, but not many.

It was not until the sky was completely dark that the Qing army retreated in the crisp sound of gold.

The roar ran back and forth, shooting feather arrows with letters of persuasion into the city. The drums and trumpets sounded, shaking the nerves of every guard in the city.

Hunta is attacking the heart.

But such tricks had no effect on the old soldiers. They slept against the wall and used those letters of surrender as toilet paper. Only those new soldiers were frightened and did not sleep all night.

At the third update, the drums gradually stopped.

Under the cover of the darkness, Hunta personally led three thousand elite soldiers to quietly walk towards the south gate.

Among the three thousand soldiers, there were one thousand cavalry and two thousand infantrymen. They set up formations two hundred steps away from the city, waiting quietly, staring at Xiuyan City in the distance.

Hunta attracted Sun Yanling and asked softly: "Are you sure?"
Chapter completed!