Chapter 70: Persuasion
When he was woken up by his own soldiers, Liu Yu was salivating in the inner room of the West Gate Tower and dreaming, and the woman's face in the dream was already a little blurred, like a sunset, like a pheasant slave, and Su Wei, how could it be, Liu Yu was frightened by his own thoughts.
"Taishou, please look, there's a fire in the north." Liu Yu, who was dressed up, looked in the direction of his soldiers' fingers, and sure enough, behind the stretching stone mountain, a black smoke rose into the sky, although the distance was a little far, but it was still very clear under the blue sky and white clouds.
Liu Yu knew that this was Jiang's success, it was early in the morning, and they had been guarding all night yesterday, so it must have been a surprise attack launched in the morning. It's just that since he can see it, the Tartars outside the city must also know, thinking of this, Liu Yu hurriedly entered the house to dress, and ordered his soldiers to prepare horses, he wanted to rush to the north gate.
Originally, the golden pheasant slave was sleeping soundly on the low couch, but Liu Yu didn't plan to wake her up, but just put a felt on her. But when he got on his horse and was about to set off, he found that Lori in military uniform had already run down the tower with her eyes rubbed, and this vigilance was really what a qualified guard should have.
"Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve." When Liu Yu took the pheasant slave and hurriedly walked up to the north gate tower, the guard Yuan Hong was holding a telescope and looking outside the city.
Liu Yu didn't bother him, and also raised the telescope in his hand, only to find that he was counting the Tartar scouts within his line of sight, and the twelve people counted the two captains, which happened to be the two gangs counted by the Song people. Looking at the direction of their search, it was towards the road that Jiang Cai had passed.
The Tartars reacted so quickly, Liu Yu was shocked, if these people were allowed to find out the whereabouts of Jiang Caibu, the tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry outside the city would definitely pounce, once they were blocked from entering the city, they would have no way to retreat. In front of the river, Zhenjiang Prefecture around Jiankang and even farther Changzhou have fallen, this more than 1,000 lonely soldiers, how to be good.
exchanged glances with Yuan Hong on the side, and Liu Yu knew that he had also thought of this layer. What should I do, Liu Yu's mind turned around, and he led the army out of the city to answer it, no, this is in the hands of the Tartars, but
"Taishou doesn't have to be busy, the Tartars may not know the details, otherwise they wouldn't have sent just such a few people. I just saw that no one came from the back road, which means that this group of people is already all the scouts of the Tartars in this area, and a certain person is still a little hard-working, and is willing to lead a team of cavalry out of the city, cut off the back road of this team of Tartars, and must annihilate them completely. ”
Yuan Hong's words made Liu Yu come back to his senses, and he thought about it, Tartar didn't have a walkie-talkie, even if he found out the news, he couldn't pass it back immediately, as long as the twelve people couldn't go back. Thinking of this, he turned his head and ordered the golden pheasant slave to hand over more than 20 of his own soldiers to Yuan Hong and allow him to act cheaply.
Now Liu Yu's heart is very chaotic, and his confident actions yesterday suddenly made him feel extremely dangerous, and now he has to catch up with one of his own generals. Several times he wanted to open his mouth to call Yuan Hong, who was walking down the city tower, back, but reason reminded him that he could only do this, and at this moment he realized that it was not easy to be a decision-maker.
After waiting for a while, Yuan Hong turned his head to look at the city tower, Liu Yu nodded at him, indicating that the Tartar had gone far away, and he ordered to open the outer gate and chase after the Tartar with more than 20 horsemen.
Having made a decision, there is nothing to regret, Liu Yu shook his head and put aside those negative feelings, and looked at Yuan Hong's small team until they gradually disappeared. Suddenly heard a sound in the air, yes, he listened attentively, this is the sound of the horn, coming from the direction of the south gate, Liu Yu's heart suddenly became nervous, did the tartar move?
"The report is too guarded, the Tartars are outside the south gate! The number of people is very large. After listening to this, Liu Yu walked downstairs with the inseparable golden pheasant slave and galloped towards the south gate.
Ascending the tower of the south gate, Liu Yu found that not only Jin Ming, but also Liu Shiyong, the guard of Longguang Gate, had also arrived. He gave Liu Shiyong an inquiring look, and Liu Shiyong shook his head silently, meaning that there were no enemies assembled outside the West Gate.
"Is that person Boyan?" Jin Ming held the binoculars and muttered, Liu Yu stretched out the mirror to look, a big man stood in the middle of the Tartar army array, the top was decorated with gold, and the red sun swallowing the sky was painted on it.
Around him, several huge phalanxes of foot soldiers stretched out, and at the outermost periphery were columns of Tartar cavalry. Liu Yu didn't understand what they wanted to do, whether they were attacking the city, but they didn't bring any equipment, and they didn't just do it once a few days ago. This kind of thing is the most shocking for the first time, and if you do it a few more times, the sergeants defending the city will no longer feel it, anyway, there are just a lot of people.
Suddenly, there were bursts of cheers in the enemy formation, starting with the Tartar cavalry, to the Han army's foot soldiers, and then to the new annexed army, which shook like a wave, and several sergeants led someone to the front of the formation, holding what seemed to be a banner in their hands.
Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he didn't come to Jiang Cai, but there is no one in Jiankang Mansion, and the migration of Lishui County was personally supervised by Jiang Cai's department, could it be that it is more than a hundred miles, and the Tartars are crazy.
"It's coming." Liu Shiyong's voice came, Liu Yu gathered his mind and looked, and the sergeants led two people with their hands tied and walked towards the city gate, seeing that the tattered clothes on their bodies happened to be one article and one martial arts.
"How many steps?" Liu Yu leaned over to Liu Shiyong and asked in a low voice, Liu Shiyong looked at the few people who were getting closer and closer, and was silent.
"Go, bring up a bed crossbow." Liu Shiyong had just nodded to Liu Yu when he heard Jin Ming put down the telescope in his hand and shouted in a deep voice. The towers of the south gate were more protruding than the walls on both sides, and they were a little higher, dozens of forbidden soldiers carried a three-bow bed crossbow, Jin Ming violently exerted force with both hands, and one person pulled the bowstring to the trigger.
A few people under the city were already very close, and they could clearly see without binoculars, two apparently Han Chinese sergeants each holding a person, holding a banner of the Great Song Dynasty in their hands. Avoiding the deep trench, several people came to the moat, and the sergeants unfurled the flag, only to see the word "Zhu" written on one side and the word "Zhao" on the other.
Looking at the two people who were tied up but had no fear, Liu Yu bit his lower lip speechlessly, he had already guessed the identities of the two, but although they were close at hand, there was no way to go out of the city to rescue. What to do, shoot the sergeant behind with a bed crossbow, and then they can be under the cover of the city soldiers, I don't know if the two of them can swim.
"Pheasant, can you shoot to the other side of the moat?" Liu Yu turned around and asked, the golden pheasant slave stood up and gestured, and shook her head helplessly, her bow was not strong enough, although the accuracy was good, but it could not reach far.
"Let's come on." Liu Shiyong took off the Divine Arm Bow on his back, loaded the crossbow with a "click", he frowned and stretched out, and found that this was almost the limit distance of the Divine Arm Bow.
At the head of the city, a sergeant shoved the prisoner dressed as a scribe, and the man tried to struggle, took a step towards the gate, and opened his mouth to shout.
"It's Liu Taishou in the city, it's Zhao Huaiye, and listen to a certain word" Zhao Huai's eyes swept over several people in the city, fixed on Liu Yu, who was dressed as a Chinese official, and shouted loudly with all his strength.
"If a man dies, he will not surrender." This sentence was not issued by Zhao Huai, but Liu Yu above the city muttered, and when Jin Ming and Liu Shiyong heard Zhao Huai under the city shouting the same words, they all turned their heads and looked at him in surprise, and saw that Liu Yu was already in tears.
Except for the title at the beginning, it was exactly the same as the one contained in the history books, and Liu Yu couldn't help the sourness in his heart. The sergeant behind Zhao Huai obviously didn't expect him to shout like this, and he was stunned for a moment and turned his head to look behind, only to see a Mongolian general stretching out his hand and waving down.
"Shoot the arrows." Liu Yu burst into a shout, Jin Ming stepped on the trigger of the bed crossbow, and the iron arrow flew out like a javelin, but it was still a step too late, and the knives of the two sergeants had already been cut off. The heads of Zhao Huai and the other flew up, bringing out a cloud of blood light, and the huge crossbow arrows grazed the standing corpses, pinning the sergeants behind them to the ground.
Liu Shiyong's divine arm bow was also released almost at the same time, and the black crossbow arrow drilled into the back of another sergeant who tried to turn and escape, and the two of them slowly died on the ground howling miserably.
Looking at the scattered corpses under the city, Liu Yu smashed his fist on the city bricks, is this damn god trying to play himself.
Bo Yan under the golden sword turned his head to look at Lu Wenhuan, who was as earthy as the color of the face beside him, and raised his hand to issue an order to withdraw the troops.
"Old thief! Come and don't be rude, so let's go. Liu Yu, who was bowing his head and feeling nostalgic, heard a loud noise in his ears, and all the generals looked at that voice. I saw that on the horse road on the side of the city, Jiang Cai held a loudspeaker and stood proudly in front of everyone's eyes.
"Bang!" With a thud, the spoon behind the double-ended catapult on the enemy platform on the city wall was pried up, and two spheres connected together flew out in an arc and smashed in front of the Tartar army.
Boyan, who was about to turn around, turned around and rode back, and when he saw those two things, his brows immediately furrowed, these were the heads of two Mongols, tied together with their own braids.