There had been no offensive outside the city for more than ten days, but the more this happened, the more the defenders on the city walls felt that the clouds were overwhelming.

Zeng Ling remembered what Liu Ge had said about Tang Pidi assisting Xiahou in defending Jizhou City, so he decided to follow suit and had a tent set up on the city wall, and he lived on the city wall.

But at this moment, the state of mind of every soldier in the Jizhou Army must be different from that time.

At that time, although there were few soldiers in Jizhou City, there was a victory to improve morale, and it was not as surrounded on all sides as it is now.

Zeng Ling sat on the city wall and looked up at the moonlight, and suddenly heard someone singing in the city, and in this quiet night, the rough and desolate singing drifted far away.

Many people heard it, and some people got up, walked to the inside of the city wall and looked down, trying to find out who was singing this ballad that almost everyone in Jizhou could know.

"The autumn wind blows in October, and a red lantern is hung on the tree, and if you want to ask what the lantern is, it turns out that it is a tree full of persimmons and red ......"

This song was originally a little cheerful, but when it was sung at this time, it didn't know why it made people's hearts full of sadness.

The persimmons are red in late autumn in October, and the blood in the city is even redder.

Zeng Ling sat there and listened, unconsciously thinking a lot, he got up and walked to the edge of the city wall, holding the battlements and looking out.

"The singer's song is not endless, and the sorrow is increasing. Empty Lang Zhi Branch, strong heartless lamp ......"

Zeng Ling muttered a few words to himself, and suddenly woke up.

He turned his head and ordered, "Go and see who's singing there, and get me the man!" ”

His soldiers were stunned, and they didn't know what the Lord meant, but they immediately turned around and ran out.

A short time later, a veteran who looked to be forty or fifty years old was brought to the city wall, and he looked terrified.

Seeing Zeng Ling, the veteran quickly knelt on the ground.

Zeng Ling said angrily: "Who instigated you to sing sad songs here to disturb the morale of the army? ”

The veteran was startled, and hurriedly explained: "My lord, I was not instigated, this persimmon red is our Jizhou small song, not a sad song, but just now on duty under the city, I looked up and saw that the persimmon on the persimmon tree was red, so I ......"

Zeng Ling snorted: "Xiu wants to deceive me, at this time, the enemy is present, but you are singing such a sad song that disturbs the morale of the army around the soldiers, if no one instigates and directs, how can you do it?" ”

The veteran kowtowed and said, "My lord, I have been in the Jizhou army for more than ten years, my lord, how could I disturb the morale of the army......

At this time, Liu Ge came up from the city, and after seeing this scene, he hurriedly asked what was going on, and someone told him about the matter, Liu Ge stepped forward and persuaded: "My lord, this persimmon red is indeed a small song that everyone in our Jizhou people knows, and he should also be unintentional." ”

"Shut up."

Zeng Ling said: "I just heard this song, and suddenly felt sad, and then I realized that someone is trying to use this method to disturb the hearts of our army, and his heart is sinister, as I expected, this person must be bought by Li Qi or Luo Jing." ”

He waved his hand: "Pull him down and torture him, and you must ask me who instructed me!" ”

Liu Ge said: "My lord, I know him, he has been in the army for more than ten years, and he was there when the adults came to Jizhou. ”

Zeng Ling frowned and looked at Liu Ge and said, "Are you saying that I was wrong?" ”

Liu Ge hurriedly leaned over: "My subordinates don't dare, my lord...... It's better to hand him over to me for interrogation, and I'll ask for clarification. ”

"You?"

Zeng Ling said: "What have you done in the past ten days?" I've heard that you go down to the city every day, just to let your men wander around the city, and you find a place to sleep every day, don't you know to me? ”

Liu Ge raised his head and glanced at Zeng Ling, and quickly lowered his head.

"Subordinate...... Know your mistakes. ”

Zeng Ling pointed to the veteran soldier and instructed: "Drag him down and torture him, if he refuses to speak, he will be killed." ”

"Yes!"

he

His own soldiers answered, dragging the veteran down, and the veteran wailed and begged all the way, but it didn't make sense.

"Liuge."

Zeng Ling looked at Liu Ge and said word by word: "You disappointed me too much, if you are perfunctory like this, then you and your subordinates will go back to the city wall, when the enemy army attacks outside, you and your people will be the first to go up." ”

Liu Ge raised his head again and looked at Zeng Ling, Zeng Ling's eyes glared at him angrily, the eyes of the two people were opposite for a moment, Liu Ge lowered his head and said: "My subordinates will take all the people to check tomorrow, and they will also find people when they dig the ground in the city." ”

Zeng Ling breathed a sigh of relief, his tone softened a lot, he looked at Liu Ge and said, "Now the person I trust the most in the city is you, so leave this matter to you, you don't want to let me down again." ”

Liu Ge answered, feeling complicated for a while, and he didn't want to stay here anymore, so he asked for his resignation.

There was no singing in the city, only the sound of whipping and wailing.

The voice is no longer rough and desolate, but sharp hoarseness, and those who have not experienced it may not understand why the voice can have such a contradictory expression of sharp hoarseness.

Back in the camp under the city, Lyugo pondered for a long, long time in his military tent.

Ten days ago, he met Tang Pidi when he was patrolling the city, and when he was leaving, Tang Pidi's words still popped up in his mind from time to time.

The general has loyalty,

Life and death are irrelevant.

Thousands of lives under his command,

The general cares?

At that time, his answer to Tang Pidi was to give him some more time, he didn't explain it to Tang Pidi, he just wanted to help Master Zeng do something in the end.

If you find Luo Jing, you can find a way to live for Lord Zeng, I don't know how long this road is, but it is the way to live in front of me.

However, at this moment, Liu Ge did not plan to look for it any further.

In the middle of the night, Liu Ge got up and walked out of the military tent, and the soldiers outside the door hurriedly saluted, but he didn't speak, and walked into the night.

On the street, Liu Ge, who was walking forward in silence, suddenly opened his throat and roared, his voice was rough and desolate.

"The autumn wind is blowing in October, and there are red lanterns hanging on the trees, so I want to ask what the lantern is...... It's the tree full of persimmon red. ”

Another ten days.

Since the Yanshan battalion was transferred to the north of the city, more than 20 days have passed, and the Yanshan battalion has built a large number of siege equipment.

Early yesterday morning, Yu Chaozong sent a message to Liu Li in the south of the city, saying that his side had made proper preparations and was scheduled to attack today.

It's already the end of October, and if you don't attack the city, it's going to be winter, how difficult the winter is here in Jizhou, Yu Chaozong knows better than anyone else.

At that time, Liu Li asked the messenger to report back to Yu Chaozong, saying that as long as the Yanshan battalion attacked, the Yuzhou army would also attack at the same time.

October 27, the sky is clear.

Yu Chaozong washed his face and refreshed himself, he didn't sleep long last night, and thought carefully about the siege strategy twice.

After he came out, outside the big tent, on both sides were the generals of the Yanshan battalion who were waiting for him, and everyone bowed down at the same time.

"Chang Dingzhou."

Yu Chaozong said as he walked: "The first formation is handed over to you." ”

Chang Dingzhou, one of the leaders of the Yanshan Battalion, immediately smiled, hugged his fists and said, "Big boss, leave it to me." ”

An hour later, the war drums sounded.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Yanshan battalion began to press towards Jizhou City, and they used everything they could to create countless infantry shields that were one person high, forming a rectangular shield array to move forward.

Behind the shield array, huge siege carts slowly panned forward, and these towers were padded with rolling logs underneath, and moved by rolling logs.

There are dozens of archers on each building cart, and the height of the building cart is higher than the city wall of Jizhou City.

The defending generals on the north side of the city immediately sent someone to inform Zeng Ling, but the people had not yet run to the direction of the south city, and the horn on the south side of the city also sounded.

It's a war, it's a war

Slaughter game.

From the moment the war drums and horns sound, human life becomes a tool, and those who lose it do not know it.

One day, two days, three days......

Such an offensive continued, day and night.

The Yanshan battalion has more than 100,000 troops, and it can completely rotate to attack the city and put pressure on the defenders of Jizhou without interruption.

There are still about seventy or eighty miles away from Jizhou City, and Prince Wu's army has stopped here for more than 20 days to rest, and Prince Wu is waiting.

The position where the army stopped was a distance that the scouts of the besieging army could never reach, and even if there were scouts, they would not be able to return.

The army is here, but Prince Wu is not here.

This martial god general, who is well-known in Great Chu, has been fighting outside the city of Jizhou for the past few days, and he only brought a few dozen personal soldiers.

Due north of Jizhou, behind the Yu Chaozong camp, Prince Wu was here, as if he didn't take the hundreds of thousands of Yanshan Battalion Green Eyebrow Army in his eyes at all.

On the hillside, Prince Wu Yang Jiju held his clairvoyance to watch, and this was already the fifth day he had watched the battle.

"Jizhou City is about to be untenable."

Prince Wu slowly exhaled after putting down his clairvoyance, and he had to be a little impressed by this big thief named Yu Chaozong.

Yu Chaozong's offensive was not impatient, every day was within his plan, although the daily consumption of troops was not small, but all the siege tower vehicles had already arrived at the position, no accident, Yu Chaozong would soon order a general attack.

The soldiers of the Yanshan battalion rushed to the city wall with their shield arrays, piling sandbags and dirt under the city, and in five days, the height of the ramp was almost usable.

"Let's go."

Prince Wu handed the clairvoyance to his soldiers, turned around and left.

His subordinates asked, "General, are we going back to the camp?" ”

"It's not."

Prince Wu said as he walked, "Let's go visit Luo Geng." ”

The soldiers were all taken aback, there were only a few dozen of them, and the general went to Luo Geng's Youzhou military camp like this?

"What are you afraid of?"

Prince Wu got on the horse and shook the reins: "I've been out for many days, and I want to eat meat, you go with me to eat meat and drink wine in Luo Geng's army, and take a hot bath by the way." ”

The old man urged his horse and rushed out first.

On the first day of November, the sky is overcast, and it looks like the first snow may be coming soon.

This is the sixth day of the Yanshan battalion and the Yuzhou army attacking Jizhou, and early in the morning, Yang Jiju, the prince of Wu, woke up from a military tent in the Youzhou military camp.

The old man had drunk some wine last night, so he slept well.

He got up and moved a little, and walked outside the big tent door, Luo Geng, the general of Youzhou, was already waiting outside, and when he saw Prince Wu coming out, Luo Geng hurriedly leaned over.

"Meet the prince."

"Why are you so early? You were worse drunk than I was last night. ”

Prince Wu smiled and said, "It seems that you drank with me last night, and you pretended to be drunk when you were drunk." ”

Luo Geng said with a smile: "The lowly duty is indeed slippery, lest I miss today's big event, and the lowly duty secretly spat more than half of the wine last night." ”

Prince Wu laughed and said, "You old guy is really cunning..... Since you are not drunk, then let's go together to see how Yu Chaozong, the big boss of the Yanshan camp, captured the city. ”

As he walked, he said, "Next time you drink, don't be slippery." ”

Luo Geng said: "The next time I drink is a celebration banquet, I will accompany the prince to enjoy myself, and the prince will drink as much as I want." ”

Prince Wu said: "It's not to accompany me." ”

He glanced back at Luo Geng: "Your Majesty is here." ”

Luo Geng's heart was shocked.

Prince Wu said with a smile: "Congratulations to the general in advance, Your Majesty wants to reward you heavily, you just need to know now that Your Majesty's heavy reward is unprecedented, and you are the only one since the founding of Great Chu." ”