1296 The Only Chance

Li Shun and the others muttered and discussed countermeasures, and the city lord Thuram and a group of people couldn't understand a word next to them, so they could only stare at them dryly, and just after a battle to defend the city, this Great Qin delegation suddenly became their backbone, not only did they not panic, but they fought bravely and arrows, although there were only more than a hundred people, they had already repelled the enemy.

Now that the enemy retreated beyond the firing range, the troops should be being discussed, and Thuram slowly recovered from the extreme panic, and constantly issued orders for his subjects and generals to organize civilians and soldiers to prepare stones, bows, arrows, weapons, etc. to strengthen the defense.

"Honorable Envoy, thank you and the soldiers for your help, so that my soldiers did not panic!" When Li Shun and the others stopped talking, Thuram cautiously walked up to thank him.

"Lord of Thuram City, this is just a tentative attack by the enemy, if you don't get along with the enemy as soon as possible, Shaqi City will not be able to hold out for a few days, the current situation is very clear to you, there is not enough food in the city, and if you can't hold out for a few days, these refugees will collapse!" Li Xin turned back to Thuram.

"I know that too, but it's too late to open the city gate and blast these refugees out!" Thuram's skin was twisted and as ugly as bitter melon.

Li Shun's cheek couldn't help twitching and said: "It's definitely not okay to blast out, after all, these are all you Daxia people, and you will be slaughtered or captured by the enemy if you blast out, what we have to do is to come up with a way to repel the enemy as soon as possible, otherwise we will all die, but now I have figured out the origin of these enemies, it is a group of Yueshi people who fled from our Great Qin border, I don't know if you have heard of it?" ”

"Yue's?! I haven't heard of it. Thuram thought for a long time and shook his head.

Li Shun didn't care, he raised his binoculars and glanced at it, handed it to Thuram and said, "The city lord uses my clairvoyant mirror to take a look, and the flag in the middle is a tribal symbol of the Yue clan." ”

"What kind of ...... is this" Looking at the beautifully made item of Huang Chengcheng handed over by Li Shun, Thuram looked at it in front of him suspiciously, and then his fat body couldn't help shaking, and quickly put down the binoculars to look at the enemy's position with his eyes, and raised the binoculars to look again.

"Oh my God, what kind of amazing treasure is this, it can be seen so clearly...... Thuram exclaimed.

"The enemy is very ferocious, and the city of Shaqi will not hold out for long, we cannot sit idly by, we need to look for opportunities to take the initiative and try to completely defeat the enemy before the enemy's reinforcements arrive......"

When Li Shun spoke, Baghila and a group of interpreters were constantly interpreting beside him, and after listening to it, Thuram respectfully returned the telescope to Li Shun and shook his head with an ugly face: "We can only fight three hundred soldiers at the moment, the rest are civilians, bows and arrows are not complete, the other side has more than 3,000 strong soldiers, and they all have war horses, we can't win!" ”

"That's why I said to look for an opportunity, we carry a powerful immortal magic weapon, which can burst out with a thunderous sound when it explodes, and there are no people or animals within a radius of a few zhang, once this weapon is used, the enemy will inevitably panic, and we will go out of the city to attack while the enemy is chaotic, and it will inevitably have a miraculous effect!" Li Shun patiently explained.

However, Thuram obviously didn't believe Li Shun's statement, and even if Li Shun took out a grenade to show him, Thuram was still hesitant and hesitant.

"My lord, don't entangle with this group of barbarians, just break out of the city gate before the enemy attacks us, with Taiyi Shenlei in hand, these Yueshi people will definitely not dare to stop us, as for these people, let them die like this!" Looking at Thuram's face full of disbelief, Captain Qi didn't bother to bother.

"Lord Thuram City, what I said is true, at the moment we can only have a chance to survive if we work together, once Shaqi City is breached, you will be the first to be killed!" Li Shun was still unwilling to give up and continue to persuade.

First, this is indeed a good opportunity, after all, there are at least tens of thousands of people armed in the city, even if each person throws a stone out, he can kill many enemies in the end, not to mention the chaos of the war horses under the disturbance of the Taiyi God and Thunder, plus the more than 300 elite men of the forbidden army and Thuram, everyone has a war horse, and the chance of winning under a rush is still very high.

When he visited Yueshi for the first time, the three hundred forbidden troops escorted dared to compete with the six or seven thousand troops of the Yueshi King, and now there are more than 10,000 people in hand, Li Shun feels that he can save more than 100,000 refugees inside and outside the city.

The most important thing is that the forbidden army is too few, and the chance of escaping smoothly after leaving the city is not too big, after all, there are only twenty Taiyi divine thunders, and it has been two years, whether these divine thunders can be used is still a problem, when he left, Qinghe Hou repeatedly emphasized that this thing can not be damp and cannot be soaked in water, otherwise it will lose its effect, so along the way Li Shun and others have been carefully protecting these grenades, and they are wrapped in oilcloth on weekdays for personal collection, and they will be taken out to bask in the sun to drive away moisture after a few days.

Perhaps, he really shouldn't drink that bottle of Qinghe wine, since he drank Qinghe wine with Antiochus III to show off Daqin's grape wine, Li Shun felt that everything was not going well, and bad luck happened one after another.

And the only chance to save his life at the moment is to use the Taiyi Divine Thunder to break the enemy's courage, and then have a hearty counterattack like the last time he faced the attack camp, so that he can have a chance to live.

After half an hour of deliberation and preparation, the enemy under the city began to attack the city again.

Launched more than 1,000 people riding war horses to shoot arrows to the city, the soldiers on the city also began to counterattack under the command of the general, the two sides had casualties after a burst of shooting, more than 10 soldiers in the city fell off the city wall with arrows, dozens were injured, and the enemy also suffered more than 100 casualties and retreated again.

The time soon came to noon, under the strong sunshine, the people in the city were dizzy, and the refugees in the city were noisy and frightened, and in the case of hunger and heat, many civilians who assisted the war began to suffer from heat stroke and fell to the ground, and there was a panic on the city wall.

The enemy under the city, after several successive failed attempts to attack, slaughtered cattle and sheep and ate a meal, began to organize an attack again, while the rest of the people began to gather and drive a large number of refugees outside the city to gather in one place, as if carrying stones.

"Master Li is not good, they are going to drive the refugees to carry stones to fill the high ground and storm the city......" Captain Qi put down his binoculars and said anxiously.

The group of members of the mission immediately became nervous.

Driving prisoners of war to storm the city is also an important means of warfare, because it will make the soldiers defending the city throw rats, even if they do not care about the death and injury of their own civilians, they will consume a lot of arrows, this is a very vicious tactic, the princes of the Central Plains have long abandoned this tactic that hurts the peace of the heavens.

"Do you see the city lord of Thuram, the enemy is ready to drive tens of thousands of Great Xia captives to storm your city, how are you going to fight, if you still don't agree to my proposal, we will kill and flee through the city gate, and you and the people in the city are up to you to decide the life and death!" Li Shun turned his head to look at Thuram.

"Choking~" Captain Qi Forbidden Army took out a bright steel knife and put it on Thuram's neck and said viciously: "If you continue to hesitate and delay time, believe it or not, I will kill you now!" ”

In the exclamation of a group of officials, soldiers, and civilians in Shaqi City, Thuram's dark and fat cheeks were covered with sweat rolling down, and he nodded tremblingly and said, "Okay, I promise you!" ”

"Very good, our Great Qin has a saying that those who know the times are handsome, and those who change through the machine are heroes, and there is another saying that the opportunity must not be lost and never come again, I guarantee that the city lord of Thuram will not regret it, quickly order your subordinates to organize civilians, and your elite guards and our soldiers will be the vanguard together, and then open the city gate and rush out together, if you hear the sound of thunder, don't panic, and strive to kill the enemy, this is our only chance to live!" Li Shun instructed Captain Qi to put away his steel knife and pat Thuram on the shoulder to comfort him.

"Yes, yes, I will do everything according to the orders of the envoy!" Thuram probably knew at this time that the patience of Li Shun and the others had been exhausted, and at this time, the soldiers and civilians in the city were all exhausted, if the enemy drove tens of thousands of civilians to participate in the siege, Shaqi City would definitely not last for half a day and would be breached.

The siege of the enemy under the city continued, but more refugees were organized to search for countless stones, and when the order was given, these civilians had to carry the stones under the threat and began to storm and pile them down, as long as a ramp was piled up, the Yueshi people could ride and jump up the city wall, and then it was time to break the city.

And the city is also in full swing preparations, tens of thousands of adult men, rich and poor, all of them have been forcibly organized together, without weapons with sticks and stones, anyway, they must rush out together to kill the enemy later, because the situation outside the city is already clear, once the city is broken, they will also die.

While both inside and outside the city were busy, a group of forbidden troops also commanded the craftsmen of Shaqi City to set up four rudimentary trebuchets on top of the city walls and began to measure the distance with stone projectiles.

From a distance of two hundred zhang, looking at the fist-sized stones that Lala threw in the center of the two armies on the city, the besieging Yue people couldn't help but let out all kinds of crazy ridicule.

"Prepare to attack!"

A burly, tall young leader with a tattoo on his forehead and a shaved scalp drew a great steel sword from his waist and pointed it at the head of the city.

If there are people who are familiar with the Xiongnu here, they must know that this guy is the original Xiongnu prince Mao Dun.

"Shangtaiyi Divine Thunder~"

Seeing that the Yue people under the city had begun to drive the refugees and prepare to attack the city, Li Shun drew his sword and roared.

More than a dozen strong soldiers pressed the trebuchet to the maximum limit, and several Janissaries tied two of the eight grenades together and placed them in the trebuchet's projectile basket.

"Open the gates~"

Captain Qi, who had been prepared, led eighty forbidden troops and three hundred elite guards of Thuram, as well as three hundred elite men with combat experience selected from among the civilians, all of them were wound with crossbows and unsheathed swords and rode on horses to wait at the city gate.

And behind this Captain Qi and the others, there are more than 10,000 adult men in ragged clothes, the people in front of them are holding weapons such as hoes and wooden forks, and many people in the back are holding various long and short wooden sticks and even stones.

Everyone knows that victory or defeat is here, and life and death are also here.

With a rattling and grinding sound, the log gate was quickly pushed open by the soldiers guarding the gate.