Chapter 81: Away from the Root Tea

At the north gate of Xiyang City, the fireballs in the sky flew wildly, and Gaiting dodged left and right: "This Qinglu is too rich, and it actually smashed it for most of the day." ”

Below, the black crows, dense tofu squares, one hundred and twenty enemy squares, strong crossbowmen in the front, firearms behind the back, and then light cavalry escorting siege engines, as well as fifteen zhang high siege arrow towers, rope chain giant arrows. The Chinese army is in the center of the array, but behind it are heavy armor soldiers.

Xia Man didn't know anything about the marching formation, but he also saw that the enemy's array was well organized, and the attack and defense were measured.

At this time, the accuracy of the fire-throwing machine has been adjusted, and the bombardment of the city edge is concentrated, and the guards are injured more and more, and the soldiers are stupidly standing here and being burned, so they asked the north gate commander Tang Di: "Why don't you let the soldiers hide, and the whole pestle is waiting on the city wall to eat the fireball!"

Tang Di didn't know Xia Man, but the people in the rivers and lakes, her eyes were poisonous, seeing that she was dressed simply, and her makeup was a little haggard, but she couldn't hide her heroic posture and extravagance, even Gaiting was respectful to her, she must not be an ordinary person, so she didn't dare to slack off, and replied: "They have the important task of defending the city, and they can't leave without permission, in case the enemy attacks the city, who will defend in a hurry?"

Why are all these people pig's heads? The overwhelming fireballs fell down, and their lives were gone, and they were still guarding a fart city. Of course, she is a girl after all, and these foul words can only be scolded in her stomach, so she has to endure her anger and explain: "General Tangdi, you see, the firearms are three miles away from the city gate, and the enemy siege troops are one and a half miles away from the city gate, and it takes them at least a quarter of an hour to come over and climb the city by ladder, so long, even if they go to the center of the city to transfer troops to defend the city, they can catch up, not to mention that we just let the soldiers hide at the foot of the wall to avoid long-range attacks." ”

Tang Di scratched his head, feeling still unstable in his heart: "When they find out that they are attacking the city, the soldiers hurriedly climb up, the city ladder is too crowded, and the reaction time is still too short, how can you judge that they are ready to attack the city?"

Xia Man pointed to the fireball in the sky: "If the fireball stops, it means that they are preparing to attack the city, and when the time comes, they will definitely use bows and arrows as cover for the city, if you are still not at ease, you can leave a hundred observers to ambush at the edge of the city, go quickly, don't let the soldiers make senseless sacrifices!"

Some people can understand the simple truth at a glance, and some people will not be able to figure it out for the rest of their lives, and the gap in the middle will be the pattern! Three stinkers are worth one Zhuge Liang, this sentence is wrong, just like a million people standing on the roof of a house and a person standing on the peak, who can see more and see far? It is not the number of people who decides, but the pattern.

Tang Di still hesitated, and Gai Ting roared: "Prince Xiao listens to her, the little princess tells me, you just do it!"

Tang Di called the herald and ordered to withdraw the soldiers from the city and go down to rest, Xia Man had never seen a big battle after all, and her idea of protecting the soldiers was right, but her judgment was wrong.

By the time the long-range firethrowers stopped, the siege formation had reached the foot of the city. Fortunately, the observers found out in advance. Xia Man stuck out his tongue, commanded blindly, almost made a mistake, and said to Tang Di apologetically: "General, my judgment was wrong, I apologize to you!"

Tang Di held the red flag and issued a 55-degree archery angle flag to the archers behind the city, and 2,000 arrows, like flying locusts, shot into the air, bypassed the city wall, and shot at the opponent's bow and arrow position!

Tang Di ordered the shield of the hand-to-hand combat team to be surrounded and protected, and pushed the echelon to prepare, before he said to Xia Man: "Little princess, your idea is right, but you have no battlefield experience. ”

The enemy death squad, with their shields on their heads, had advanced to the front of the moat, erected more than 100 ladders, and Tang Di sacrificed the green flag, a group of 12 people, carrying the ladder and pestle, braving dense arrow locusts, and pushed the ladder down, and many soldiers holding the pestle were injured by arrows.

As soon as the ladder fell, another sword and shield soldier lifted it up and continued to stand on the city wall. The enemy was numerous, the arrows were like locusts, the casualties of the Xiyang soldiers increased sharply, many of the push echelons were no longer able to push away the cloud ladder, Tang Di crossed the green and yellow flags, and the close guards hiding in the shield formation immediately abandoned their knives and replenished the push echelon.

At this time, the enemy's slogan of "victory, victory" shook the sky, the enemy array was separated, and dozens of giant arrow carts aimed at the wall battlements, "suddenly" shot chain arrows, two in a group, tightly fastened to the edge of the city. A strange group of soldiers in the enemy army, two of them carrying a plank and laying it on a chain. More than ten zhang high siege arrow tower, hung with archers, "Yo he, he" slowly moved to the city wall, five thirty-foot attack vehicles, but also slowly approached the city gate.

The battle damage kept flying over, looking at the shocking battlefield in front of him, Xia Man felt trembling in his heart, and asked Tang Di: "How many soldiers and horses do you have on hand?" Tang Di sacrificed the gray flag, commanded the stone team to prepare, and replied: "12,000, 6,000 on the city wall, 2,000 archers, 4,000 in the logistics to replenish the materials, at present, less than 10,000, more than half of the materials are consumed, but just from the material team to transfer 2,000 to replenish, fortify the city and defend it, there are not many soldiers, but the material manpower is even more insufficient!"

Xia Man called Gaiting: "Send someone to the central city and transfer the people to the material transport team!"

Tang Di said: "They currently have four means of attacking the city: ladders, cableways, attack vehicles, siege arrow towers, do not need skills to deal with ladders, you can deal with brute force, cableways are not difficult, you can use fire to attack, the attack car has a way to deal with it the day before yesterday, the most difficult is these dozens of siege arrow towers!"

These dozens of arrow towers, as high as the city tower, three layers of archers above, nine layers below to hide the city soldiers, basically offset the advantage of the city wall condescending, can be attacked with the wall archers, not only for the ladder, siege ropeway, attack car as a cover, can also approach the direct siege of the city, if not solved, the north gate will be broken sooner or later, what to do?

Xia Man pondered for a long time, and said to Gai Ting: "Immediately gather the eagle driving water ghost soldiers from last night, see how many people are left, prepare fish oil and burning nitro, and we will solve this batch of siege arrow towers!"

Ordered Tang Di to draw out 300 soldiers to assist, Gai Ting took a lot of effort to find more than 60 people, the battlefield was chaotic, and it had to be like this, Xia Man and Gai Ting led the men and horses, returned to the grain collection area in the central part of the city, and counted out seventy giant eagles who were only not injured, Xia Man ordered the fresh meat to be fed, and said to them in the ancient bird language: "Eagle, do me another favor, and then you go back to Vulture Peak to rest!"

The eagles already regarded her as an old friend, nodded in agreement, Gai Ting instructed the water ghost team to bring ignition fuel, Xia Man simply taught the soldiers to talk to the eagles about "up, down, release, run" a few words of ancient bird language, and then led the hastily formed giant eagle team to kill from a high altitude to the battlefield!

The Qingshu army had never seen this kind of air raid tactics, and they were stunned for a while, like ducks hearing thunder, staring at this group of behemoths in the air in amazement, not knowing how to respond.

The commander on the platform, Gao An, shouted in panic: "Quick, bow... Archers, strong... Crossbowman, aim... Aiming for the air... Medium, hit... Bird hunting!"

The flag commander, the war drum officer, and the trumpeter were all at a loss: "General Gao, no... No... "Gao An was still calm: "Command the troops to pass quickly, shoot and kill the enemy in the air!"

The herald has not yet run to the strong crossbow array, fuel, fish oil has been poured on the siege arrow tower, two hundred catties of fish oil, flowing down from the top layer, the arrow arrow in the air is shot in, the arrow tower is suddenly on fire, burning from the top, slowly staining down, the arrow tower is narrow, the archers and siege soldiers have nowhere to escape, the burning soldier can not bear the pain, jumping down from a height of more than ten zhang, although the arrow tower is only slowly burning, but it is also finished!

The first wave had a good effect, more than 20 were burned, many soldiers were not familiar with the control, and they were crooked, Xia Man recalled Ying'er in a voice: "Let's have another wave!"

In less than a quarter of an hour, three waves of dropping, dozens of siege arrow towers were all finished, they dived in the air, and ran away after throwing, and those strong crossbowmen couldn't react at all. There were zero casualties in the Eagle Residence, and Xia Man was so happy that he patted the Eagle Wings: "Good Eagle Child, are you tired? If you are not tired, we will simply destroy all the siege engines of the other three gates!"

Giant Eagle "Hehehe" Zhile: "We can fly eight thousand miles in one go, this distance is not enough to warm up!"

Xia Man didn't stop, it didn't take half a day, to destroy the heavy siege weapons of the three gates, this method of aerial killing, not only made the enemy frightened, but also completely desperate in their hearts, Lian Xu Cang and Xiao Rui were not only happy, but also extremely shocked: What kind of battle is this? Hundreds of thousands of people are fighting, but a little girl can change the situation of the battle in an instant!

Baipo is still powerful, although the heavy siege engines are destroyed, and the light siege engines are left, the offensive is still fierce, but he has never seen an air raid, and he suspects that there is a god and man to help him, and the generals are panicked.

The soldiers of Xiyang, inspired by this earth-shattering tactic, greatly boosted their morale, and Qing Shu saw that the army's spirit was frustrated, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, plus there was no heavy equipment to assist, the casualties were bound to be very large, so they had to order it back!

The vigorous battlefield returns to silence in the setting sun. Xia Man returned to the North Gate Tower, and she released all the eagles as promised, allowing them to return to the Vulture Peak habitat to recuperate.

Tang Di ordered to clean up the battlefield, but he spread the gauze felt on the north gate tower, put on the tea table, snacks, and stood beside him respectfully, seeing Xia Man coming, he strode to kneel in front of him, kowtowed three times, Xia Man hurriedly helped him up: "You guys are really strange, why do you always worship me? I am a princess, but I don't like to kowtow and kneel at every turn!"

The soup dripped, "Haha" and said with a smile: "You are the princess of Shangbang, you should bow down to you, but I didn't offend you this morning, this is to apologize to you, and I want to thank you for the people and soldiers of Xiyang! Come on, please princess taste my tea art!"

As he spoke, he helped Xia Man to sit down on the top, and at this time, the voice of the city ladder Xu Cang came: "General Tang's tea art is a must, I also drank it once when I first came, and I will never forget it! It's rare that you are willing to show your hand today, we can catch up!"

Xu Cang and Xiao Rui led the generals to the city to hug, Tang Di hurriedly led them into the seat, and the generals were all beaming and standing on both sides.

Tang Di said: "A superior tea art, need good mountains, good water, good tea and good friendly mood, today's tea, is the world's best, I have always wanted to invite friends who understand tea to taste together, the past three years that have a good mood, so put it aside, it is rare to collect all five good today, take it out and enjoy it!"

"Why don't you just drink some tea? Look at what you said, what kind of tea is so expensive?"

Tang Di smiled proudly and said: "This tea is my family's ancestral treasure, hidden for thousands of years, I don't know what its name is, because it is not this earthly thing, so the ancestors gave it a name called Ligen Tea!"

Xu Cang laughed: "The tea of thousands of years has been moldy and smeared, can you still drink it?" Tang Di took out a small gourd jar with a gloomy atmosphere, which turned out to be carved in ancient Xuan characters, Xu Cang recognized the seal carving, and read it out: "It's hard to leave, there is no root, I can't give up, I can give up." The inscription is: Heaven and Earth Spell Master!"

What do you mean, Xia Man was confused: "Why do the ancients always like to play dumb, and the net people who pretend to be ghosts can't guess, so they make a mystery!"

"This seems to be a verse, and it seems to be a mantra, I can't see through it, is the Heaven and Earth Spell Master a person? Or does it refer to this sentence?"

Tang Di opened the tea can, a refreshing tea fragrance instantly moistened the whole body, he was careful, like touching the baby's face, took out a piece from it, put it in the bowl, soaked it directly in water, and poured it into the cup.

Xu Cang was surprised: "Such a simple brewing method, is it also a tea art?" Tang Di said: "Simplicity is the way, good tea doesn't need too many twists and turns!"