After Urkanha sent the siege plan to the various ministries separately, no one took the initiative to stand up and say that the task would be completed. Have we walked nine hundred and ninety-nine steps, and we are only one step away? ”

The ministries could only reluctantly respond, and when Uzhrai saw this, he forcibly sent tasks to each department, but did not arrange for the Tatars alone.

Li Gaotu thought that his task was the last, and he was worried that the Wuhuan people would stuff the most difficult bones to him, but he didn't think that when the meeting was over, Wuhuan still didn't assign him a task, and hurriedly asked the reason. Wuri Ralai pretended to forget, saying that today he learned that the 3,000 defenders of Mucheng were preparing to go north to reinforce Jincheng, and the task of the Tatars was to block the 3,000 Han army.

Li Gaotu couldn't cry and laugh and said that my 100,000 Tartar herdsmen faced 3,000 Han troops, which was really overkill. Uri Ralai smiled and said, "Do you still have the ability to recover the wooden city?" What the Uzi can't do, you Tartars can't do either, so it's better to do a sniper mission, which is safer.

The leaders of the tribes immediately laughed, and Ligaotu's face turned blue and red for a while, and his anger was provoked, and he immediately said that what the Uzi people couldn't do, the Tartars might not be able to do it. Li Gaotu naturally knew that the Uzi people were defeated and the city of Mucheng, but it was the incompetence of the Uzi people, and if it was replaced by the Tatars, they would have conquered the wooden city a long time ago.

"Ligaotu, you can't even beat the Uzi, can you still beat Mucheng?" The leader of the Songru people, Wokoa, coaxed, "Have you forgotten that a dozen of your Uzi generals were too frightened to raise their heads by Hairati alone? ”

Rigotto's subordinates were furious, and they all glared at Wokoya, who laughed and didn't care, these yellow-skinned and small-eyed Tartars could only scream and jump, and they had no ability at all.

Wuri Ralai smiled faintly and said Anyone can brag about it, but can you guarantee to conquer Mucheng Seeing the suspicion in everyone's eyes, Ligaotu stood up and patted his chest and said, I dare to guarantee that I will definitely take Mucheng within a month, otherwise I will see you when I raise my head.

Wokoya laughed, and the rest of the people laughed too.

But Uri Rai slapped the table and said, "Okay, we are waiting for your good news." ”

Li Gaotu got up and left, his strength Gaotu is not so stupid, he will be hot-headed when provoked, he knows that this Jincheng city is strong, there is enough food and there is no shortage of water, especially the defenders are brave and tenacious, hundreds of thousands of troops have been attacking for eight months, and if they continue to fight, their family will be gone.

What's more, once Jincheng is conquered, the gold, silver, treasure, and grain slaves in the city will definitely be snatched away by the Wuhuan people - they have done this in Water City, Fire City, and Tucheng before, instead of making wedding clothes for the Wuhuan people, it is better to go south to attack Mucheng. Although Mucheng is not as tall as Jincheng, I heard that Mucheng used to be the guard of the Qinglong Army, and must have stored a large amount of grain, grass, gold and silver.

So the Tatars took advantage of the situation and marched south, through the long desert meadows, to the wooden city where the Uzi had been defeated. By the time the Tartars arrived at the ruins of Roland, the Scouts of Wooden City had already learned that the entire Wooden City had prepared for defense.

There are no mountains and passes, no rivers and lakes, only undulating mounds and deserts, and the woods that can be seen occasionally, so the area around the wooden castle can be said to be a plain that is easy to attack and difficult to defend.

The 100,000-strong army of Ligao Tu went south, and the wind, sand and dust kicked up by the horses' hooves were enough to shake the sky, and people were stunned to see the smoke billowing in the distance, and then saw the army of Tartar towers covering the sky and the sun, and their hearts sank involuntarily. The team of 50,000 Uzi people can still see the tail, and the team of 100,000 Tartars can't see the tail of the team, and they only feel as if there are enemies between heaven and earth, and the enemies are endless.

After half a month, Inuyi went south to besiege the city again, and the defenders of Mucheng did not choose to fight in the field and still maintained the defense of the city. From ancient times to the present, the siege war in the cold weapon is definitely the most tragic battle, the defending side relies on the geographical advantage to bring huge casualties to the siege troops, and the casualty ratio is often more than ten to one or dozens to one. On the plains, even if the high combat effectiveness could make up for the shortcomings of the small number of troops and the lack of cavalry, Zhang Xiaowu could not afford the huge price paid by the defenders of Mucheng.

An army of 100,000 is enough to surround the entire wooden city, and the Tatars also prepare a cavalry of 30,000 as a mobile force, even if the defenders of the wooden city break through at this time, these 30,000 cavalry will cause great damage to the defenders.

"Tartars...... The Tartars went south to do a great job. Zhang Xiaozuo sat on the city gate tower, looked at the enemy army covering the sky, touched his chin and smiled slightly, and said to himself: "I want to see what you are capable of." ”

However, after the siege of the Tartar Tower, they did not immediately attack, but only shot a letter of surrender into the city, saying that if the defenders of the wooden city surrendered, the Tartars would canonize Zhang Xiaowu as the general of the south and take charge of the army in the north and south of the city, and the wooden city would not be damaged in any way, and the army of 500,000 Tartars would also treat the people well.

"Half a million?" Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said: "I'm afraid they don't know how terrible the baggage of the 500,000 army is, these people brag and don't make drafts." ”

The sun was a little hot, Zhang Xiaowu took off his helmet, beads of sweat left behind, he noticed that the armor and clothes of the Tatars seemed to be heavier than him, and couldn't help but say, "These people ...... Isn't it hot? ”

Xiao Kai smiled: "Even if it's hot, they can't help it, they are dressed in clothes, how can we have winter clothes and summer clothes." ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled evilly and joked: "There is a lack of water around Mucheng, and the biggest water source outside the city today is only because of the melting of ice and snow last year, two lakes were formed in the east and west, and they will definitely use these two lakes." Ladies and gentlemen, there are poisonous plants such as croton in the city, let's bring them a delicious croton soup. ”

The generals laughed, but the poisoning of crotons was not realistic, and there were some crotons in the city pharmacies, but they were only very few. However, after Wu Song told Wang Xiaojian about this matter as a joke, Wang Xiaojian immediately said: "If it is said that poisoning, we have a poisonous lady, and she is full of poison." ”

This poisonous lady's name is Tao Zhiruo, she is the young valley master of Yaowang Valley in Shouzhou, Lingnan, and her father Tao Sihai is known as the poison king, but I don't know who she offended and was secretly killed. Two years ago, Tao Zhiruo came to the Central Plains from Lingnan in order to track down the murderer, looking for enemies everywhere in the Central Plains. A few months ago, Tao Zhiruo was captured by someone and happened to be rescued by Zhu Wushuang, who was three years old when Tao Zhiruo Dazhu Wushuang was three years old, so he recognized Zhu Wushuang as his godsister. Zhu Wushuang got the order of his father-in-law, so he took his godsister to the Daizhou Beggar Gang Branch to join the righteous army to help the Mucheng Han army.

Tao Zhiruo's martial arts are average, but he has won the true legend of the poison king with poison technology, and the last time he poisoned Cao Yan, he used her poison. After Tao Zhiruo listened to the request, he volunteered to accept the military order, and was ready to poison the dog himself.