After Ma Shao made up his mind to break through, he seemed to immediately restore the dignity of King Zhennan, with no more fear or doubt on his face. But when he raised his legs and walked towards the back house, he hesitated for a moment, and then turned to Lahuduo and said: "You go to the back house to call Lao Zhang and Tuobuhua... and the barbarians come out, so I won't go in!"

"Your Highness, the princess and other princes... I understand!" Lahuduo was surprised and asked after hearing this. But when he looked at Tuohuan's gloomy face, he immediately understood the master's thoughts. He wanted to break through alone. In order not to arouse other people's suspicion, he decided to only bring his three legitimate sons with him, and the others became abandoned sons.

Tuo Huan immediately asked the Zha to recall it, and ordered him to impose martial law on the main street of Yangzhou City, and no one was allowed to go to the street. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the military generals, he only said that it was to prevent the enemy from breaking through the city, in order to facilitate the cavalry to carry out counterattacks, so as to prevent the pavilion from being trampled on by pedestrians and injure innocent people. Then, he transferred the three thousand-man teams of Qiexue to the royal palace in the name of fighting in person, and was personally led by Lahuduo. At the same time, he ordered the three heavy cavalry teams of thousands of people in the city to be transferred to the east gate.

"See Father!" Tuohuan had just passed the order, and Rahuduo led three princes to him and saluted him.

"No gifts, please go and wear armor quickly, go to the stable to choose a good horse, and stand by in front of the hall!" Tuo Huan waved his hand and asked them to give orders without gifts.

"Father, is it the Southern Army going to break the city?" The three of them were suddenly summoned, and they were puzzled by the strange order again. The eldest son Lao Zhang asked in confusion.

"Don't you always want to go into battle to kill the enemy. Today the enemy will continue to attack the city. My father wants to take you to see the real battle formation. Later, your brothers will lead a team of thousands of people to follow my father to defeat the enemy!" Tuo Huan glanced at his three sons' still tender faces and tried hard to make himself look at peace.

"Yes, my son will definitely live up to what he hopes!" The three of them looked at each other, all facing joy, and saluted them together.

"What is your Highness planning?" Rahudo asked someone to lead the three princes to go down to the palace to choose the horses and weapons, and he asked instead.

"We break through the east gate and first use heavy cavalry to break through the defense line of the Song army. I am leading the light cavalry out of the city, then turning to the northeast to meet with Tulidu, and then heading north to Huai'an, and then asking the court for emergency!" Tuo Huan said.

"Your Highness's arrangement is very, but what name do we leave the city? If we break through rashly, it will inevitably cause chaos. At that time, the defenders everywhere will flee, and we can't leave even if we want to leave!" Lahuduo took off his battle robe for Tuhuan and put on a layer of iron armor and asked. He had no objection to the direction of his master's breakthrough. The north city's offensive was fierce, and it was obviously not suitable to leave the city. The south city was too close to the riverside, and even if it successfully broke out from the city, it would be easy to be surrounded by the Song army and forced to the riverside, which was not the right way. Outside the west gate there was a canal, with many rivers, which was not conducive to the galloping of war horses. Only outside the east gate was relatively flat and there were fewer rivers. At the same time, the Tulidu troops were also cruising outside, so they could be used as a helping.

"The enemy's attack is fierce at the moment. I want to lead the army out of the east gate to the enemy's backbone to harass the enemy, and at the same time defeat the enemy's attacking to relieve the pressure on the northern city!" Tuo Huan had already thought of the reasons for leaving the city, and it was not easy to arouse others' suspicion.

"Your Highness is heroic!" Lahuduo nodded in his heart. Tuohuan is still very talented, but his fate is not good, and his mind is useless. At the moment of crisis, he gave up his wife and children and huge wealth without hesitation and decided to break through, which shows his ruthlessness. In fact, he was still worried in his heart, that is, whether they could break through the blockade line built by the Song army's firearms, but his determination was settled, so he didn't dare to say more and obey the orders.

‘Boom, boom!’ At this time, two muffled sounds came from the north of the city, the sound was not as loud as before, but everyone felt a trembling under their feet.

"Report to Your Highness, the enemy buried gunpowder under the city wall and blew down the corner of the north city. The soldiers on the city were killed and injured!" Someone came in and reported at a moment.

"Lingbadu ordered all infantry and Ding Zhuang to go to the city to repair the city, and to block the enemy outside the city, tell him that he would lead the troops to reinforce!" Seeing the soldiers coming to deliver the letter, he was covered in dust and bleeding from the ears and noses, Tuohuan knew the power of this blast. The city had been blasted several times, and he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand another heavy blow. He patted the messenger's shoulder and said.

"The Right Prime Minister also asks His Highness to send troops quickly, otherwise the Northern City will be difficult to support!" The messenger was excited and said.

"I know, let me tell the Right Prime Minister to arrive later!" Tuo Huan nodded, but a ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, secretly cursing that if Ma Shao hadn't lie about military affairs, he would not have misjudged the situation, which would have made it difficult for him to deal with today's situation.

"Today's battle is related to the survival of Yangzhou. All the property is taken by the sons, and then follow me to kill the enemy!" Tuo Huan walked to the inner palace behind the hall, opened the door and whispered to the generals gathered here. He also knew that since the things in it could not be taken away, it would be better to reward everyone to inspire morale.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" The generals thanked each other in unison, of course they would not be polite. They led their troops in to get it. They would never care about what is easy to take or take. The inconvenient gold statues and jade Buddha were immediately smashed and dismembered, and then put them in their arms and put them in their luggage. Tuohuan looked at the corners of his mouth and twitched. This was all his own hard work!

"Start and kill the enemy!" Seeing the empty treasury, Tuohuan left the mansion and turned over and shouted. Several sons and generals also got on the horse and shouted in unison, and for a momentum was rising.

"Your Highness, you have no eyes on the battlefield, so be more careful!" When he learned that the prince was going to lead the soldiers and generals in person, the princess also led a group of wives and concubines and a few children to see him off, he kept instructing him.

"Take care for each person!" Looking at the wives and children who stayed in the mansion, Tuohuan felt sad, thinking that he might be a farewell forever, but he knew that this was not a sad time, so he glanced at everyone and said calmly, then he knocked his horse's belly and took the lead in leaving the mansion first...

Zhao Bing has been watching the battle on Bijia Mountain in the north city. He used artillery fire to use cave carts to dig the city foundation and then carry out blasting, but the progress was not as smooth as expected. First of all, the base of the city wall is generally made of stones, and in order to increase stability, it is wider than that of the city wall, so it is not easy to make a hole on it. In addition, the stone thrower in the city, which is difficult to withstand the combo of hundreds of kilograms of stone bullets.

In addition, when life and death are alive, the enemy will fight to the death. They braved the artillery fire to roll the wood and the stones kept throwing the stones from the city, and the most threatening to the cave car was turtle oil. In order to set fire, the cave car used raw cowhide as a tent, and also prepared fire-extinguishing objects such as mud and mops. It is okay to deal with small fires, but it is very difficult to extinguish the oil fires. Moreover, the cave car is made of a wooden structure, and once it is ignited, it is difficult to extinguish it. The strength decreases and cannot withstand the heavy blows of the wood and stones.

Therefore, although the Song army sent more than ten hole cars at a time, less than half of them were able to successfully dig the tunnel and blast them, and there were also many casualties. The Song army also changed its tactics, concentrated artillery bombardment on the city wall, and carried out precise strikes on the stone throwing machine with artillery fire arranged on the artillery. At the same time, a large number of sharpshooters were thrown out to snipe the enemy soldiers on the city wall to reduce the pressure on the city digging engineers.

After adopting targeted measures, the engineers' digging city speed increased and three successful blasts were carried out. However, due to insufficient power, the city wall did not collapse on a large scale. After the enemy risked his life to repair it, it still became an insurmountable obstacle to the Song army's attack. Now, more than two meters and three meters wide tunnels have been dug into a tunnel. The engineers are connecting several holes and cars to form a corridor, and then sending gunpowder to the city through it.

Zhao Bing estimated that this tunnel could hold two thousand kilograms of gunpowder. If it could be successfully detonated, it would be enough to blow up a section of the city wall based on the previous blasts and open up the attack path. At this moment, there was suddenly a fierce sound of gunfire from the east of the city. However, due to the concealment of the city wall, he could not see the battle situation clearly. However, Zhao Bing was not too worried. Although the main attack direction was in the north city, troops were also arranged to defend the other three gates. Even if the enemy broke through, they could not jump down from the city wall and could only come out from the city gate. Therefore, as long as the city gate was blocked with firepower, they could block them in the city.

"Your Majesty, the enemy brigade wants to break through the east gate and rush to the battlefield with heavy cavalry. Due to the lack of artillery, our army was actually broken through the first line of defense by the enemy cavalry. Now retreat to the second line of defense. My subordinates want to draw some troops to support them so as not to be pushed out by the enemy!" Chen Fenglin suddenly went up the mountain from the front command post and hurriedly reported.

"When the city is about to break out, you cannot leave, and the enemy cavalry breaks through the east gate may be a feint, and they cannot draw troops casually. I will lead the baggage regiment to reinforce and make the temporary cavalry regiment ready for interception!" Zhao Bing thought for a while and shook his head. After most of the troops returned to Jiangdong, the remaining troops were actually very difficult to attack the city. Even the land brigade was responsible for blocking the west gate, and his personal guard regiment was also used as a reserve. Since all the established cavalry had been withdrawn, in order to increase mobility, he could only integrate the general, division, cavalry battalion and cavalry team directly under the regiment into a temporary regiment to intercept the enemy's breakthrough.

"Your Majesty can take risks, so you should stay with me!" Chen Fenglin originally wanted His Majesty to command the attack and went to block the enemy troops who broke through, but unexpectedly, he fell and persuaded him again.

"The war is urgent, don't say much. Remember that you have issued a military order. Today, you cannot break the city, but you need military law to be engaged in it!" Zhao Bing said half-seriously and half-sightedly. Then he ordered Tan Fei to gather his team and quickly rushed to the east gate.

"Your Majesty is careful!" Chen Fenglin knew that he could not persuade him anymore, so he could only take the war horse and hold the reins to help His Majesty get on the horse.
Chapter completed!