The next day, the tenth day of October.

Around three o'clock, the rebel general Cao Wu walked out of a private house.

"Fur ......"

Rubbing his hands, which he felt a little cold, he stood outside the room and exhaled.

It was obvious that his exhaled breath had turned white, which meant that the weather was rapidly turning colder, approaching the bitter cold.

At this time, in the courtyard outside the house, more than a dozen rebel soldiers sat around a campfire, holding weapons and wearing armor, and sat and fell asleep.

Although some people were filling the bonfire one after another, looking at the appearance of those soldiers curled up, it was not difficult for Cao Wu to think that the gradually cold weather had posed a certain threat to his soldiers.

"We must take Kunyang as soon as possible, and if it drags on, the situation will be unfavorable to my righteous teacher......

Thinking to himself in his heart, Cao Wu and his guards did not alarm the soldiers who were sleeping in the courtyard, and headed towards the position of South Street.

The day before yesterday and yesterday, two full days, Cao Wu broke through the ten lines of defense in Kunyang in the Nanjie Theater, considering that the defense line set up by the Kunyang side is not exactly in accordance with the standard of 'ten zhang and one wall', so the specific situation is not so accurate, about 120 zhang to 140 zhang.

However, last night's large-scale counterattack by Kunyang's side made Cao Wu lose four lines of defense at once and was forced to retreat about fifty zhang.

In fact, Cao Wu didn't care much about the defeat on the pavement of South Street, after all, the positions of the enemy and us here were very tight, and the difference between advancing fifty zhang or retreating fifty zhang was not very big.

Even, if the situation is good, it is not impossible to break through two or three lines of defense in one go.

What really worries Cao Wu is the 'Mansion Battlefield' on both sides of South Street, the two buildings that have almost been beaten to the point of being riddled with holes are really built by the blood and lives of the righteous soldiers, and every occupied building is sprinkled with the blood of his Changsha righteous soldiers.

And last night, they simultaneously threw away the buildings 50 zhang away in one go, about nine to ten on one side, a total of about 20.

"Qu Jiang."

Cao Wu's guards went to the rear for him, that is, the area of the southern city wall, and asked the soldiers who were cooking soup to get a bowl of broth, so that Cao Wu could eat some dry food on the warm broth.

Similar to the Kunyang guards who gnawed on salt rice balls, the rebel soldiers also began to eat dry food instead.

These dry grains were cooked and dried in advance in the areas of Dingling, Zhaoling, and Yuncheng and then transported to Kunyang.

There is no way, there is a shortage of firewood in the Kunyang area, due to Kunyang County's previous strategy of 'clearing the wilderness', the rebel soldiers can only get wood unless they go to Zhushan Mountain in the west or Dongyi Mountain in the north, but it is not an easy task to do it there, and a large number of people need to be dispatched.

In addition, the weather is getting colder, and the clothes on the soldiers are thin, so they need to bake the fire at night to keep out the cold, so firewood can be saved.

This made it a lot easier for the soldiers who were responsible for burying the pot to cook, and they only needed to cook a pot of broth every day, and the volunteers only needed to soak the dry and hard dry food in the broth, and they could eat a bowl of hot broth and rice.

The taste is not bad, at least Cao Wu thinks it is barely okay.

He stood in front of the position with a bowl, behind the earthen wall, and drank the broth as he watched the enemy position ten feet away.

Suddenly, he shouted to the other side, "Ju Sheng, if you hadn't betrayed the righteous master, you would have been able to drink a bowl of hot broth at this moment." ”

"Huh?"

In the opposite position, Ju Sheng was also eating at this time, and when he heard Cao Wu's shout, his expression was a little stunned.

His friendship with Cao Wu was not good enough to ask each other what they ate when they met in the war.

But Ju Sheng still stood up with the bowl and replied: "But I'm here, and I have the same broth to drink." ”

『……』

Cao Wu frowned slightly, and then said tentatively: "Really? However, I heard that you have started to control rations, so I guess there is not much left, right? ”

Ju Sheng reacted immediately and sneered: "On the contrary, the food in my Kunyang is abundant, and Chief Zhou has received enough food from Yexian, Xiangcheng, Runan and other counties in advance, and it will be more than enough to eat until next year...... Cao Wu, are you my three-year-old child? ”

"Huh."

Cao Wu laughed, and then said indifferently to the guards around him: "Sure enough, Kunyang got enough food from other counties in advance, no wonder our army has besieged Kunyang for more than a month, and we have never felt that Kunyang has fallen into the embarrassment of lack of food......

His guard nodded, a look of regret on his face.

But then the guard said: "This is also a good thing, as long as our army captures Kunyang, we can get a large amount of food." ”

"Capture Kunyang...... What?'

Cao Wu didn't say a word, and while silently drinking the broth, he looked at Ju Sheng opposite.

He was suddenly a little curious, curious about Zhou Hu, the leader of the black tiger thieves opposite.

Not to mention anything else, he turned against Zhou Hu and Ju Sheng, and he was full of curiosity about Zhou Hu.

In all fairness, his previous relationship with Ju Sheng was mediocre, and it wasn't until now, as each other's rivals, that he realized how difficult this Ju Sheng really was.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that in terms of commanding operations and boosting morale, Ju Sheng is not inferior to him.

Although it is not clear for the time being whether this Ju Sheng is good at using tricks and strategies, it is certain that Ju Sheng is very solid in terms of his basic abilities as a general.

Such an excellent general defected to the other party, which made Cao Wu feel very pity, and at the same time, Zhou Hu, who was countering Ju Sheng, was full of curiosity - in such an unfavorable situation in Kunyang, how did Zhou Hu make Ju Sheng work for him with all his heart?

If he had the chance, he would have liked to meet that Zhou Hu.

After drinking the broth in three sips, and eating the dry food soaked in the broth with his hands, Cao Wu wiped his hand on the armor casually, and then stretched his arms.

After eating a full stomach, the whole person really warmed up.

In that case, it's time to go on the offensive.

Cao Wu, who seemed to be a little lazy before, immediately changed into a serious look. Please net

On the other side, Ju Sheng obviously also felt the change in the atmosphere, and hurriedly urged his soldiers: "Quick, the rebels on the opposite side are going to attack!" ”

Sure enough, after a stick of incense, Cao Wu led his soldiers to attack.

After two days of fighting, Cao Wu gradually mastered some experience in street fighting, but this did not help his soldiers and Kunyang soldiers to compete for the buildings on both sides of South Street, and his soldiers of Changsha Yishi still had to pay a heavy price to occupy one building after another.

As for the Kunyang pawn on the opposite side, once the defense is broken through, it will immediately retreat, at most, after being forced to sacrifice a few soldiers when the rebels bite their tails, the casualties are not large.

No, after paying more than 200 casualties, Cao Wu's soldiers occupied three or four more buildings.

Not only Cao Wu, as the rebel soldiers launched an offensive one after another after they had their stomachs full, the position recaptured by Kunyang last night fell into the hands of the rebels little by little.

Not counting the casualties on both sides, at least in the battle situation, the initiative is still in the hands of the rebels.

"Report! Our army has captured Willow Lane again! ”

"Report! Our army has captured Cai's house again! ”

"Report! Our army captured the southeast bazaar ......"

"Report ......"

One after another, the good news was sent to the South City Gate Tower one after another, and was sent to Guan Shuo and Chen Miao.

After hearing more than a dozen good news in a row, Guan Shuo snorted coldly and said: "Sure enough, in terms of head-to-head confrontation, Kunyang's guards are not our army's opponents......"

"Don't underestimate the enemy."

Chen Miao shook his head and said: "I listened to the advice of the soldiers below, remove the black scarves in the city, even the 'green scarves' and 'yellow scarves', their strength is like two compared to a month ago...... In this battle, both my Yishi and Kunyang paid heavy casualties, but there was one thing that was very beneficial to Kunyang, that is, in this battle, Kunyang's guards became stronger and stronger. A month ago, the 'Green Turbans' and 'Yellow Turbans' were just a group of civilians with weapons, all relying on 3,000 Nanyang soldiers and nearly 1,000 Black Turbans to repeatedly recover defeats, but now, the 'Green Scarves' and 'Yellow Turbans' have rapidly grown into excellent soldiers, and their strength has directly caught up with the soldiers of our righteous division, and the gap in the strength of the soldiers on both sides has been rapidly narrowed...... What we are facing from the beginning is not just a few thousand guards, but the men of the entire Kunyang! …… There are as many men as there are men in Kunyang, and there are as many soldiers as there are in Kunyang!"

“……”

Guan Shuo wanted to speak and stopped, and then frowned.

In fact, not only Chen Miao was aware of this, but Guan Shuo was also aware of it.

But the question is, what can he do?

Give up the capture of Kunyang and withdraw to Dingling County?

Indeed, he can set fire to the city before withdrawing his troops back to Dingling County, and take revenge on the Kunyang people with the idea of 'even if I can't defeat the city, I will never let the Kunyang people have a better time', but it is still an indisputable fact that his righteous teacher 'was frustrated Kunyang'.

Tens of thousands of righteous teachers have been fighting for more than a month around a small county in Kunyang without fighting, even after breaking through a city wall, they still can't beat it, and finally they can only set fire to the city, retreat to Dingling County for the winter, and then travel a long distance to Daye County in the spring of the next year...... If this kind of thing really happened, what kind of face and confidence did he have to go to Ye County?

You must know that the city wall of Ye County is even higher than Kunyang!

There are more guards in Ye County than in Kunyang!

As for the ambition of 'overthrowing the violent Jin', it has become a joke because of this, not to mention what the morale of the righteous teachers from all walks of life will be, he Changsha righteous teachers will not be able to raise their heads for this.

Therefore, Kunyang must be captured!

Kunyang people must be punished!

He is a volunteer teacher in Changsha, and he must not be defeated in the small county of Kunyang!

Thinking of this, Guan Shuo said viciously: "Tonight, if Zhou Hu still wants to repeat his old tricks and regain the lost territory by night fighting, I will plan and order Liu De and Huang Kang to take the opportunity to capture the east and west city walls, and as soon as the city walls on both sides are broken, Kunyang will be completely finished!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Miao frowned slightly and questioned, "Then what if Zhou Hu doesn't get the trick?" I mean, what if he doesn't move troops from the west and east walls? …… After yesterday, you did not transfer Liu De and Huang Kang to lead the army to attack the city walls on both sides, which can certainly avoid startling the snake, but on the other hand, this move is too heavy, and I suspect that Zhou Hu has guessed your 'plan'......"

"So what?"

Guan Shuo sneered and said: "If he doesn't transfer the guards of the city walls on the east and west sides, he may not have enough troops to counterattack in the entire southern half of the city, and with the rapid advance of our army every day, he will be defeated sooner or later; On the other hand, if he transfers troops tonight, then he will die faster! …… Personally, I would like him to transfer troops, so that I can capture the whole of Kunyang in one fell swoop. ”

Seeing Guan Shuo say this with an optimistic attitude, although Chen Miao still had some concerns, he finally nodded and did not question Guan Shuo's judgment again.

After all, Guan Shuo's point of view does make sense.

Time, in the tug-of-war between Kunyang and the rebels, passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was dusk, and the slanting sunset sprinkled the last rays of afterglow on the city wall.

At this time, Chen Miao came to the inside of the South City Gate Tower and looked down on this incredible county seat.

That Zhou Hu, can you see through Guan Shuo's plan?

Chen Miao is not sure about this.

"Woo-"

Just as he was pondering, a wolf howl suddenly sounded in the city.

Immediately, all parts of the city responded.

Rao is Chen Miao, and he also feels a great pressure at this moment.

"Scattered into wolves, gathered into tigers......"

He whispered to Guan Shuo's evaluation of the Black Tiger Thief, and he suddenly felt that this evaluation seemed to be applicable to other Kunyang pawns as well.

"Uhh

Exhaling slightly, Chen Miao's expression gradually became solemn.

『…… It's about to begin.'"

He said secretly.