Chapter 271 The Siege

Old Cheng in the allied forces occupied brass island, still do his archbishop, still have the old Wang City. The problem here is obvious. Lao Cheng did not participate in the resistance at all, but took the initiative to cooperate with the coalition. Just as I had been dissatisfied with him, he had long been dissatisfied with me. Because he wants to expand his religion, and I've been resisting it in every way.

Cheng presumably negotiated with the coalition forces, and then the two sides agreed to use each other to protect the interests of their own needs. To say the least, if Lao Cheng had no choice but to do so, he would be under strict surveillance by the allied forces. It would be impractical for us to send someone to Lao Wangcheng to contact him.

So, I never thought to ask him for help in the first place.

Soon after Li Yunna left, it began to rain, soon light rain to heavy rain. It shook down like a ladybird. After a long battle, we had developed a tacit understanding, and both sides withdrew into the canopy. There was no sign of an attack on either side.

The wind began to blow at night, and by midnight it was howling like a ghost, and a new typhoon had finally arrived on cuckoo Island. From the canopy looking out at the bleak apocalyptic scene. Both sides were left to grapple with the elements. At this time no one dared to take advantage of the "good time" to attack. Because you can't see it, it's raining cats and dogs, and you don't even know who you killed.

When morning came, the wind died down, but the rain continued to fall. When I came out of the canopy, I saw that the outer wall was covered with branches, and the heads of the trees that had not been broken were buried. Coalition troops are working through the rain to repair shelters.

When I got back to the hut, Li Ding and John came with them, their clothes all wet from the rain.

After seating them, I asked, "What, you want a war?"

Several people nodded together.

"Fly brother, now is a good time for us to counterattack. They've got their hands full."

"Yes, chief." John said, "We can take the gate first and control their shortcut into the wall. And eat them up."

"What about you two?" I looked at Wu Wa and Zong Bu.

"I listen to the leader." Wu said expansions.

"I don't know, but I'll be the first to go when it starts."

"Why?" Li Ding wondered: "At this time, do you think you can't play?"

"How?" I replied, "Taking the wall will help. But there are more than 10,000 of them. They can quickly build a road to the higher ground somewhere else. And they will attack the gates. The closest distance between the gate and the inner wall was two kilometers. Once we take the wall, how do we restock? Now we have only about 600 fighters. If we stretch our line, the inner wall will be even more intolerable."

"That's right." John said suddenly, "There are too many of them. Even if we take the city gate, they will soon take us back."

"I think so." Li Ding still disagreed: "Brother Fei, we still have supplies, if we don't take the opportunity to attack them, when our supplies are exhausted, we will be forced to break out of the siege, at that time we really have no way out. In any case, it is a death, rather than early fight for a chance to live."

"Better late than early. No messing around until the typhoon is over." I said, "When the typhoon passes, we'll see when the time is right. If we can, we can go out and do some work."

"How?" Li Ding was interested.

I explained, "They won't be able to get supplies to Cuckoo island in the meantime. There will be a shortage of food. We'll send our men out and burn what's left of their grain. In two days at the most, we shall be ready to strike in force, and then ten of them shall be as strong as one of us. That's where the odds stand."

Several people understand, all feel that such a strategic arrangement is the best policy.

One night later, I was woken up by the noise outside, went out to see, outside the city wall is already a zeguo, because the tribe is a little higher ground, there is no water.

I rode the alpaca around the city wall, but except for a few higher points, all outside was flooded by rain. This situation is completely unexpected to me.

The defenders of the city began to fret.

I quickly called Li Ding and John together.

"Do you understand what's going on?

"They've blocked up our aqueduct." Li Ding said: "Brother Fei, the rain is so heavy that the flood will spread in two or three days."

"I didn't know that." The outer walls are higher than the inner walls, and the waters of the horde cannot flow out, and when the waters flood the horde, we will fall without a fight.

"Fly elder brother, the allied army still has clever person, we have to think of countermeasure quickly." Li Ding urged eagerly.

I nodded. "Here's what I'm thinking. You two take your men and dig a tunnel beyond the city gate. The flood water can be drained away."

"What if they block the tunnel entrance?"

"No more holes will be dug under the walls." "The water will be deep enough by the time you finish digging," I said. The water of our tribe and the water between our inner and outer walls will rush out together, and a great river will break through, destroying even the gates. They can't even stop it. Then the problem of flooding can be solved."

"How about two or three kilometers? I'm afraid I can't finish it in two or three days."

After Li Ding raised this objection, John nodded in agreement.

"There are 200 or so of the horde who can't fight. You take 150 of them and dig the tunnel. It should be all right." I paused and said threateningly, "We're in a situation where, as you know, if we don't finish this job, we're all going to die in the city."

"No problem. Make sure you get the job done." The two men spoke at the same time.

After I told the two of them to get on with it, I told NAT to send men to the other three walls to tell the others I had a plan, so they wouldn't have to worry. If we lose our minds, we'll fail faster.

When they brought us food at noon, the water in the tribe was up to the women's ankles. And the water outside the inner walls is a foot deep. Both sides entered a complete truce, waiting for the flood to work its magic.

Handing me the bowl, I asked, "Is there water in the house?"

Li Wanxue shook his head: "no, we took everyone with bricks to raise the threshold, today's rain again big, can not enter the house, but tomorrow it is difficult to say."

After eating, I arranged for people to start moving the storage materials, all moved to the wall of the canopy. The cooking was moved to the walls. The inside of the house would have been flooded.

By the time the water between the inner and outer walls had risen to more than two feet, the water in the tribe was almost a foot. I sent more men to dig the tunnel. Two hundred men, led by Zombo, walked up and down the four walls, letting the Allies know that we were fortified, and would not dare to make a surprise attack.

In the evening, I went to the southwest corner of the tunnel to see, we use the way of transmission, a basket of soil to bear out, dug out of the soil on the side of the hole, so that the water block outside the hole.

"How deep is it? I asked the man standing at the mouth of the cave.

He shook his head and began to communicate. One question at a time, and it took three or four minutes to transmit the answer. After they had made it through a tunnel five hundred meters long, they divided into four groups and went head to head. Each tunnel was three or four hundred meters long.

I was overjoyed by the news that, at this rate, the tunnel could be dug by tomorrow.

Back on the wall, I saw everyone looking at the outer wall, and there was a lot of noise. A closer look revealed that they were engaging in entertainment. From time to time, he held up chunks of meat to show us off. Our people are watching with envy and pain.