Chapter 23: The Siege of Fuzhou
Let me tell you what tragedy, comedy, and farce are. After 10 years of hard training, he finally mastered the skills and comprehended the essentials of the movements, and confidently applied for the qualification, only to find out that he had learned dry swimming for so many years, which was a tragedy. Just as he was about to give up on himself, news came that the Olympic Committee had agreed to include dry swimming as one of the official competitions, which was a comedy. And then the farce was - the thing drowned during the game...... What happened to me today is like this: an invincible sword god, he stepped forward in times of crisis, shouldered morality with iron shoulders, chivalrous bones, and turned the tide in the fall, such a hero, and then was almost squeezed off the city tower and fell to his death...... In short, my battle was still successful, although Shi Cundao was a little worried at first when he heard the words "long live", but he was soon relieved, in extraordinary times, both soldiers and people need a backbone, a hero, even if Zhu Xiaofeng is present, there should be no opinion.
According to Shi Cundao's prediction, Tang Tailang would not act again for at least three days, and after suffering this defeat, the Heggis army lost countless siege equipment, not to mention that it hurt its vitality, but from the perspective of morale, it should also take a rest, but his idea was quickly proven wrong - around the ugly hour that night, the war drums outside the city sounded again, and it was only three hours after the day! Li Jian thought it was a suspicious plan at first, when he saw through the lights of the city gate that countless ladders had been erected on the opposite side, he had no choice but to blow the assembly call, at that time I had already taken a nap, and heard that the enemy army was attacking the city again, yawning and walking outside the door, I couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in my heart: Lan Tailang seemed to attack completely regardless of casualties, which was particularly abnormal for an old and serious marshal, although the night attack was a bit convenient for the Heggis, However, before there is an effective plan, launching the crowd tactics in vain is obviously a bad move!
At the time of the meal, the sky in the direction of the city gate was already filled with countless bright lights, and at the same time, there was a faint shout of killing, and it seemed that the enemy's offensive was no weaker than during the day. I leaned on the door frame and hesitated, I didn't know if I should go to the city again to fight, I had already used the sword qi once during the day, I didn't know if I could summon it after such a short time, at this time Shi Cundao sent someone to convey his message, which meant that I didn't care about the battle outside the city and continued to sleep, his worries I understood very well, he was afraid that I would abuse the sword qi and eventually run out of oil, and this battle would take a long time, it was impossible to rely on me to break the siege every time, he deliberately wanted to take out the defenders and practice and practice, I thought it was really impossible to do it, so I had to agree.
But as you can imagine, I couldn't sleep at all this night, the soldiers were born and died at the head of the city, and their heroes hid in the house to sleep? This kind of psychological pressure made me jump from under the bed as soon as I was on fire, and as soon as I got out of the house, Zhang Shilei and they were already waiting there...... I came to the city tower, saw that this place was already a mess, the torches of the soldiers defending the city had not had time to extinguish, the pheasants at the head of the city were full of feather arrows, the wounded were carried down and placed in a row at the foot of the city, but the order was quite orderly, Li Jian was personally commanding the battle, I walked up the steps to the city, the soldiers gave way, and learned that the sword god was coming again, the Hong Liejun suddenly cheered again, no one had the slightest complaint, in their opinion, it seemed that they were desperately defending the city in exchange for me to sleep peacefully was a matter of course, I was full of guilt, Came to Li Jian's side and climbed high and looked into the distance, and saw that the Hegis army under the city was also full of corpses, but the attack was still ongoing, the soldiers carrying the ladder were orderly testing the bearing capacity of the city, even if a team was scattered, even if it retreated, it continued to attack after reintegration, both the attacking and defending sides were scorched and tenacious, and the inside and outside of the city wall were rendered with a breath of death, I went to the head of the city like this, the Heggis army seemed to have been shaken, the offensive was obviously weakened a lot, and the morale of the Honglie army was greatly boosted, After a fierce shot, the city was finally cleared out of a safe area with a radius of 100 meters, and the soldiers could take a break for a while.
Li Jian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with relief: "Di Zai, you came at the right time." ”
I said inexplicably: "Why are these grandsons of Hagis pressed so hard?" ”
Li Jian said: "The siege war is actually the hearts of the people, and the reason why Tailang did this was just to show that he had the determination to take Xinzhou, and he attacked night after night, hoping that our people would change over time." ”
I said, "The question is, why does he think he can take it?" ”
After only a moment of speaking, the drums sounded in the Hegis army again, this time the offensive echelon was more neat than ever before, and even dozens of siege towers appeared in the queue, they were deflated during the day, and now they put this kind of thing out to demonstrate, I said angrily: "Damn, this is the board called me!" ”
The two armies fought again, but this time the soldiers on both sides fought a little absent-mindedly, and that was because they were all looking at me consciously or unconsciously, and there was no doubt that as long as I stood in the sky now, this battle would become no suspense, so not only the soldiers of Hegis were passively waiting for me to exert their might, but also the army of Hong Lie was waiting for my performance.
But I only have a wry smile in my heart, I used to have a buffer when I used to do it with someone or when I needed to use sword qi, even when I said that the life-and-death duel with Wei Wuji was not as urgent as it is today, at this moment, tens of thousands of people's surnames and lives are all tied to the front line, and my sword qi is not just coming, and I don't even have time to warm up in front of everyone's eyes, at this moment, I was in a hurry, and said to Li Jian: "Third grandfather, I want to ask you for a few tricks." ”
Li Jian wondered, "This ...... Now is probably not the time, right? ”
"Now is the time!" Saying that, I don't care about Li Jian's incomprehension and stunned, I flew up and started to fight with him, which can confuse the soldiers on both sides, obviously the big battle is on the side, why did the two commanders of Xinzhou City fall at the head of the city and compare with Wu?
I saw that the soldiers were confused, and reluctantly smiled: "What should you do, General Li and I will dance for you to cheer up!" "Said that his subordinates were not slow at all, and stepped up the attack on Li Jian.
Since I learned the Buddha's light, and people are invincible, but the sword skills and the Buddha's light are the way to preemptive, my rush to attack suddenly exposed this point of ignorance and unskillful old bottom, Li Jianrong Ma has been a master of the sword master level, it was more than enough to deal with my level, he was almost shocked to see my rough moves and the sword qi was thin, but despite this, as long as he carried out a counterattack, he immediately fell behind, and the more subtle his tricks, the more restrained, I guessed in my heart that I was probably showing weakness everywhere because I was a junior, so it suddenly dawned on me that in the end, no matter how ugly my move was, in Li Jian's opinion, it was unfathomable and breathtaking...... The two of us fought for more than 30 moves, Li Jian punched, and I suddenly flew up involuntarily, suspended in mid-air - my sword qi finally did not disappoint, and finally grabbed me again, Li Jian was stunned, raised his head and said wildly: "Where can I win you?" ”
I laughed, floated over the head of the Heggis army under the city, and said with my hands behind my back: "Do you still want to come?" ”
The soldiers of Hagis looked at each other and looked back together, and at the same time there was a sound of gongs behind them, so the fellows threw down what they had and ran back with a sigh. The defenders of the city couldn't help but laugh out loud when they saw this funny scene.
I casually smashed what the Haggis soldiers had left behind, and flew up the wall. Presciently, I shouted at the crowd who wanted to rush over to congratulate me, "Don't come! ”…… Shi Cundao also rushed over when he heard the news, his face was mixed, and he pulled me aside and whispered, "Are you using sword qi again?" Can it still hold up? ”
I sighed and said, "I'll be able to raise myself by eating two more bowls of rice, and we'll be able to kill a lot less." ”
Shi Cundao sighed with emotion: "It's just that I hurt you." ”
Without waiting for us to say anything, someone suddenly handed over a handwritten letter from Pu Qixiong, Shi Cundao opened it and glanced at it, and I asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Shi Cun said: "Lao Pu wants someone from me." ”
"Who?"
"You." Shi Cundao smiled slightly and said: "The letter said that the left army has been stationed in Fuzhou, and Lao Pu wants you to rush over to discuss the military situation with you - how can he discuss the military situation with you, this old guy said politely, I think eighty percent of me has an opinion on taking you alone." Speaking of this, Shi Cundao said with a dignified expression, "Well, most of the Black Gis Army has also launched a strong attack on Fuzhou, and he needs you to go back to help him defend the city, Goro, I'm afraid you won't be able to rest in a short time......"
I said, "Without further ado, I'll go." ”
"How do you get there?"
As soon as I jumped into the air, Shi Cundao smiled in amazement: "Hehe, I'm confused about this, it's okay, you rush to Fuzhou as soon as possible to join him, no matter what, you have to make sure that Fuzhou is safe." ”
I nodded, looking at the direction of due south where Fuzhou was located.
Li Xin Fu three states are not close to each other, Li Zhou and Fuzhou are located in the corner of Xinzhou, this Fuzhou is in the southernmost part of the Honglie Empire, from Xinzhou to Fuzhou, the fast horse takes half a day, I flew for about half an hour, I have seen the city gate of Fuzhou, to fall down, I can't help but be taken aback, I saw Fuzhou City, the same countless Hegis soldiers and horses around the city wall to attack, the defenders on the city bravely resisted, the people inside and outside the city neighed and the sound of bowstrings was endless. Fuzhou City is much lower than Xinzhou City, it seems that the fortifications are not very neatly repaired, Hejis's infantry rushed to the city like a tide, and many people have already killed the city along the ladder, that is to say, the battlefield of the two sides has pressed the critical point of this defense line, as long as the Hegis army goes further, it means that the city defense of Fuzhou City is invalid, and then the only way to resist the enemy is to carry out brutal street battles.
I was shocked to see, almost subconsciously two sword qi sent over, those ladders standing on both sides of the city tower were suddenly cut off a lot, like a pile of collapsed wheat straw, many Heggis soldiers fell from the ladder before they had time to react to something, the high ones fell into serious injuries, and the low ones were smashed down by the high ones It was not much better, and the screams came one after another for a while.
In fact, not only the Hegis soldiers, but even the Hong Lie Army didn't figure out what was going on, they fought and saw the enemy who had already rushed up and disappeared into the city, and there was no time to find me, although I was the deputy commander of the Left Route Army, but I didn't have the opportunity to cooperate with the soldiers, if such a situation occurred under the city of Shinshu, the soldiers of the Chinese army would guess that I was coming.
I temporarily resolved the Fuzhou crisis, fell on the head of the city, and it was Pu Qixiong who commanded the battle, it stands to reason that he is a general at the level of deputy marshal, and there is no need to do anything like defending the city, but Hegis is attacking fiercely, and he can only personally supervise the battle.
As soon as I landed, I asked, "What's the situation?" ”
Puqixiong said: "Since yesterday evening, Hagis has begun to attack the city on a large scale, and there has been no interruption for a day and a night, and the soldiers have been guarding for more than a dozen hours. ”
I whispered, "Can you still hold it?" ”
Pu Qixiong said: "It depends on how you say it, without you, you can keep it for half a month at most, and it will be difficult to say after you have it." ”
I was surprised: "So Fuzhou can't hold it in the end?" ”
Pu Qixiong looked at the people around him, and lowered his voice: "I can only tell you this-Hegis has an army of 2 million, do you expect to keep so many people out of the country with just one Fuzhou city?" ”
I thought about it too, and muttered: "I haven't thought about the problem like this before, so what will happen to the people once the city is destroyed?" ”
Pu Qixiong said: "You can only take as much as you can take away, and you can't take care of the old, weak, sick and disabled." ”
"Then we must defend it."
Pu Qixiong said: "It was not easy to do it before, do you know that the three cities of this letter and force Fu were all broken in the original war against the black. ”
I said, "I don't know. ”
Pu Qixiong said: "But the soldiers all know that now we are on the first line of defense that has been broken through, and no one thinks that we can hold on for long, and we are all waiting to retreat, so people's hearts are fluctuating, which is a taboo in defending the city." ”
I nodded and said, "I understand, these three are cannon fodder cities, which are specially used to retreat." "It's the same potato mine in the first row in Plants vs. Zombies, and you don't expect it to last until the end.
Pu Qixiong said: "But I also said just now, if you are counted, it may not be possible to hold it in the end." As he spoke, he raised his hand and said in a loud voice, "Soldiers, your left front general and sword god have come to defend the city with us, do you have the confidence not to let the mongrels of Heggis take a step forward?" ”
The soldiers of the city raised their weapons together and shouted: "Yes! ”
In just two days, I have heard too many of these cheers, with every cheer, I feel that the burden on my shoulders is a lot heavier, I am their greatest hope and support, to be honest, this feeling of carrying the life and death of a million people is not good, from now on my every move will be inseparable from these people, even if I drink soup and am choked, it is bound to become the news that shakes the whole army, no wonder those people are not popular when they are looking forward to red, trying their best to win the eyeballs to fight out of position, once they are really popular, they will strictly guard against the paparazzi, in terms of popularity, I now have at least ten Jay Chou...... The Hegis army inexplicably lost a wave of offensive, and soon made the decision to retreat, the commander surrounding Fuzhou City should be Wu Sizhong, and Wu Sizhong is no stranger to my existence, and he obviously understands that this is not a good time to attack.
Looking at the enemy troops retreating like a tidal wave, Pu Qixiong said: "Today's battle is over, and I don't know when the next attack will be - how is the situation on the Shinshu side?" ”
I said, "It's pretty much the same as here, Hegis is being pulled by the tail and I'm just coming from there, and grandpa is under a lot of pressure." ”
Pu Qixiong pressed my shoulder and said, "Stay, Fuzhou needs you." ”
I smiled wryly, "It seems that I am needed now." ”
Pu Qixiong said: "Originally, I was on an errand under the marshal, Xinzhou Fuzhou, the left army of the Chinese army has no difference between you and me, but obviously Fuzhou needs you more, you have also seen, Fuzhou city defense is weak, and the number of defenders in Lizhou and Xinzhou is much more than my left army, and Xinzhou has both marshals in person, these two states will be fine in the short term, but the three states will be lost, if our side is lost, the entire Honglie army will be passive." ”
I said, "Grandpa also told me that Fuzhou can't make mistakes." ”
Pu Qixiong said: "Not only Fuzhou, Lizhou is also the same, when the Hegis attacked the three states of Xinli Fu, the two states were quickly broken, only Xinzhou persisted, but it was useless, Fuzhou Lizhou was lost, the Hejis people surrounded Xinzhou from all directions, cutting off all its supplies, and Xinzhou also became a dead city, the people had no food, and in the end they could only eat and eat, and the city was full of corpses. ”
I shook my head, not knowing what to say.
In this way, as the former general of the left, I temporarily settled in Fuzhou, where the left army was stationed, but this had the advantage that I could meet Shi Dijia and the green calyx again.
Since Shi Donglai made trouble, in fact, many people have known that there are two girls hidden under my command, and later it is almost a well-known secret, but fortunately, Shi Cundao has no time to compare with me, so the two girls stayed, and naturally no one dared to bully them with their identities, but what they saw and heard every day was that little thing in the barracks, which was boring for the girl's family.
The two girls were jumping and jumping when they saw me, and they were very happy, and Stitcha took my hand and said, "Fifth brother, everyone is talking about you now." ”
I laughed and said, "Let's talk about you, you're going to stay like this in the barracks?" ”
Shi Dijia said with a puzzled face: "I haven't thought about it yet, but I don't want to marry the big horse monkey anyway." ”
I smiled and said, "Then you two have to find another place to live, General Pu said that Fuzhou City may be captured at any time, in case I don't have time to take care of you......"
At this time, the green calyx brought two cups of tea and said, "Don't talk about these things yet, the young master is tired and drinks tea for a day." ”
Before I could drink my cup, a soldier suddenly hurried into the camp tent and said breathlessly, "General...... General, Haggis is besieging the city again! ”
A big chapter seems to be repaid, but it seems to owe two more small chapters...... OMG. The last few chapters are all about setting the mood, and it's hard to write and obscure, but it's going to be clear later.
(To be continued)