Nearly two months passed in a flash, and gradually it was autumn, just as Guo Song judged, Zhu Zhu's attack on Songcheng County was obviously top-heavy, and after the siege weapons arrived, Zhu Zhu's army immediately launched a stormy and crazy attack on Songcheng County.

However, the Flying Bear Guard had a sharp weapon to defend the city, fire oil and a strong bow to defend the city, these two weapons played a huge important role, and the attack for more than ten days in a row, hundreds of siege ladders were burned, and more than 30,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, but the city was still not captured.

Zhu Zhu's army began to obviously lack stamina, from a large-scale siege to a small-scale siege, but there was still no effect, which really made Zhu Jun very frustrated.

At the time of the third watch, an army of 3,000 people quietly approached the city, and the main commander of this army was Xiao Bai, the second son of Xiao Wanding, Xiao Bai is currently serving as the general of Hu Benwei, and his father Xiao Wanding, as the commander, has not been able to capture Songcheng County, and has lost nearly 30,000 soldiers, which is extremely stressful.

Xiao Bai saw it in his eyes, so he wanted to help his father, but without his father's consent, he secretly led 3,000 troops to prepare for a night attack on Songcheng County.

Xiao Bai has always been an archer trainer of the Zhengzhou militia, responsible for training the militia soldiers to shoot arrows, and has no experience in leading troops to fight, let alone siege the city, he thought that he could take the city at night, and he did take it for granted.

The city was very quiet, and the soldiers patrolling back and forth could not be seen, it was estimated that it was a siege for half a month, and the Flying Bear Guard soldiers were also exhausted and were sleeping.

Xiao Bai was secretly happy in his heart, and he shouted in a low voice: "Three hundred forwards!" ”

Three hundred soldiers carried three siege ladders and quickly approached the city wall, which was the easternmost part of the northern wall, and the east wall was turned the corner, which was far from the city gate and should be the weakest point of defense.

Three siege ladders gently leaned against the city wall, and three hundred soldiers quickly climbed up the siege ladder, Xiao Bai finally couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and rushed up with a spear, and several personal soldiers did not hold him, so they ran up in a hurry.

At this moment, the city suddenly burst into flames, and countless soldiers appeared, and they all fired arrows downward, and the arrows rained down like a storm at the soldiers on the three siege ladders, and the soldiers were hit by arrows one after another, and fell down screaming.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen barrels of fire oil were smashed head-on, and several rockets were fired, and the flames were 'boom!' The ground burned, and more than a hundred soldiers were set ablaze by the fire, and they were caught in a sea of fire, and they were burned so that they wept and ran in all directions.

Xiao Bai was so angry that he swung his sword and shouted: "Don't retreat, rush up for me!" ”

Just then, a wolf-toothed arrow 'whoosh!' The ground shot head-on, Xiao Bai couldn't dodge, the arrow hit his face, Xiao Bai screamed, and fell on his back.

His own soldiers were so anxious that they shouted: "General! Checkmate! ”

The main general was hit by an arrow, the soldiers retreated one after another, and the three siege ladders were also swallowed up by fire, and in this night sneak attack, they lost more than 200 people, including the main general Xiao Bai was also seriously injured by an arrow.

At the gate of the camp, Xiao Wanding heard that his son was seriously injured by an arrow, and he was so shocked that he didn't even wear shoes, so he rushed out barefoot.

"Where is my son?"

He pushed away the soldiers and rushed forward, two military doctors were nervously fetching arrows for Xiao Bai, and one of the military doctors looked up and shook his head at Xiao Wanding, meaning that it was difficult to save him.

Looking at his son whose face was covered in blood on the stretcher, Xiao Wanding's legs weakened, "Plop!" He fell to his knees and wept bitterly.

At this time, the two military doctors stood up and sighed lowly, they really couldn't save it, the injury was too serious, and Xiao Bai had already lost his breath.

The generals persuaded Xiao Wanding one after another, Xiao Wanding wiped away his tears, and saw the arrow at a glance, it turned out to be a wolf's tooth arrow shot from a bow, not a defender's arrow and crossbow arrow, apparently someone aimed at his son to shoot this arrow.

"Who shot the arrow?" Xiao Wanding asked through gritted teeth.

"General, there are words on the shaft of the arrow!"

Xiao Wanding picked up the arrow and looked closely, under the firelight, there were two words engraved on the shaft of the arrow, 'Qiu Pai'.

"Who is Qiu Pai?" Xiao Wanding asked, he had not been the general of Tiger Benwei for a long time, and he didn't know much about Flying Bear Guard.

But the generals all know that the general Huang An said: "This person is the third son of Qiu Jingzhong, brave and good at fighting, and skilled in archery, it is said that Zhang Tingan died under his arrow." ”

"It turned out to be him!"

Xiao Wanding narrowed his eyes, flashed his extremely hateful gaze, and said slowly: "Catch him, I must dig out his heart and liver with my own hands and pay tribute to my son!" ”

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The death of his son actually aroused Xiao Wanding's monstrous anger, but he did not order a large-scale siege, not because he didn't want to attack the city, but because their siege ladder had been exhausted and there were no siege weapons.

Zhu Zhu is not in good health, he has returned to the capital first, and handed over the important task of exterminating Qiu Jingzhong to Xiao Wanding and Li Ji, and the staff Wei Feng found a severed hand corpse that resembles Liu Sigu in the suburbs of Chenliu County, and most of his body was also eaten by wild dogs, so he couldn't show Zhu Jun.

Zhu Jun immediately appointed Wei Feng as the new military division and replaced Liu Sigu, but Wei Feng's ability could not be compared with Liu Sigu, Liu Sigu made hundreds of siege ladders in a month, while Wei Feng spent two months and did not even build fifty siege ladders.

In fact, Wei Feng can't be completely blamed for his incompetence, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, the craftsmen of the ordnance supervisor were all transferred back to Luoyang by Zhu Zhu to build a large trebuchet and stone cannon defensive weapons, Chen Liu only had a dozen craftsmen left, no money and no materials, of course, he couldn't build a siege ladder, in fact, there was another subjective reason, the siege casualties were too large, and Zhu Zhu didn't want to attack the city very much.

Without siege weapons, the offensive and defensive sides began to enter the stage of stalemate, which is also the last move in the siege war, the two sides are fighting for food, fighting for morale, only waiting for the food in the city to run out, and finally cannibalism, they will surrender.

Since ancient times, this has been the most brutal way to siege a city, trapping the opponent to death.

It was the beginning of October, and on this morning, a fleet of more than 100 tankers, which were carrying supplies to the besieging soldiers, was slowly sailing down the Bianhe River.

Hundreds of slender men on the shore pulled the ropes and walked forward with difficulty.

The main general of the escort fleet is called Miao Changxiu, who is Xiao Wanding's nephew, after Xiao Bai was killed, Miao Changxiu, who was originally the general of Zhonglang, took over the post of General Hu Benwei, and served as the chief general of the rear army, in charge of logistics.

Miao Changxiu also belongs to the category of 'one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven', he was originally just the young proprietor of a wine shop in Zhengzhou, he didn't know a single big character, and followed a group of scoundrels all day long, his cousin became the queen, and he naturally ascended to heaven, and was named the general of the Tiger Benwei Zhonglang, which is because he is illiterate, if he is literate, he would have been named a general.

Miao Changxiu stood at the bow of the main ship, looking at the situation around him, and his mood was really unhappy.

The originally rich Songzhou was already dilapidated and desolate, and there was no one in the three hundred miles around Songcheng County, and those who could escape to Yanzhou had already run out, and they really couldn't go, so they either entered Songcheng County or left far away.

There are no people, no houses, no trees, as if the vitality is cut off, this depressing feeling makes Miao Changxiu scold all the way.

"What's there to fight for in this place where birds don't, even the wild dogs have run out, I don't understand why the Son of Heaven has to want this Songzhou, just let Qiu Jingzhong occupy it, and see how they starve to death!"

Several boatmen next to him smiled bitterly, the general didn't know where he got so much resentment, and he kept scolding along the way.

At this time, a soldier came running and said, "General, those two deserters are dead!" ”

They caught more than 20 deserters the day before yesterday, these deserters couldn't find anything to eat, they were so hungry that they ran to the river to catch fish, but they were caught by Miao Changxiu's men.

Miao Changxiu was about to drag them back to be beheaded in public, but two of them fell ill, with fever and diarrhea, because they drank unclean water from the puddle.

Miao Changxiu frowned, and said unhappily: "What do you still ask me to do about this kind of thing?" Throw away the corpse and rinse the cabin with water. ”

"Obey!" The soldier turned and ran.

The fleet walked for another two hours, and saw the military camp in front, Miao Changxiu finally breathed a sigh of relief, there was no one to see along the way, but he was suffocated.

The flotilla sailed into the army along the artificially dug trenches, and when they heard that the supplies had arrived, the soldiers rushed out to check on the supplies, as if they were celebrating a holiday, and they all hoped that there would be wine and meat, and that it would be better to bring in a boatload of women.

Xiao Wanding also came out, his son had been killed for nearly a month, and he didn't seem to be able to get rid of the pain of his son's death, he kept his face tight all day long, and he couldn't see a trace of a smile.

"General, come and give orders!"

Miao Changxiu was also a little afraid of his uncle, but he was the main general of grain transportation, so he couldn't dodge, so he had to step forward.

"Here's the grain list!" Miao Changxiu handed a list to Xiao Wanding.

Xiao Wanding looked at the list, and immediately said dissatisfied: "Why is there only 20,000 stone of grain, I have an army of 100,000 here, and each person can only have two buckets of grain, enough for the soldiers to eat for a few days?" How did Wei Feng become a military advisor? ”

He didn't like the military master Wei Feng in the first place, but now he was full of anger, "I don't want this food, you transport it all back!" ”

Miao Changxiu said with embarrassment: "Wei Junshi said that he will soon arrange another batch of grain to come, mainly because the Son of Heaven returned to Beijing and took away a lot of ships, and there are not enough ships, so he can only transport so much." ”

"Nonsense!"

Xiao Wanding said angrily: "I actually put the responsibility on the Son of Heaven, it has been two months since the Son of Heaven returned to Beijing, does it take two months to leave from Chen to Luoyang?" It is clear that he was not thoughtful, and he found that there were not enough ships to transport food, and this kind of person is also worthy of being called a military advisor, and I want to impeach him! ”

Miao Changxiu was helpless, and said: "There is another matter, the last general caught more than 20 deserters on the road, I escorted them all back, please deal with the general!" ”

Xiao Wanding hated deserters the most, and he immediately shouted: "Behead all the deserters and hang them in front of the camp to show the public!" ”

More than two dozen deserters were dragged out of the cabin by the wolf-like military soldiers, escorted down and beheaded.

Xiao Wanding's face softened slightly, and he said to his nephew Miao Changxiu: "You have worked hard all the way, go down to rest first, and change to another group of soldiers to carry food!" ”

"Retire from your duties!"

Miao Changxiu led his subordinates back to the camp to rest.

The sergeants began to carry the food supplies, and the porters and boatmen were also arranged to rest in several large tents, ready to set off for Chen Liu's food delivery the next day.