Chapter 427: Successful Delay
After being away from Ling Kite for so long, Zhao Hexuan had a good sleep for the first time, he slept deeply, and he had no dreams all night.
"Kill!"
The sound of fighting outside the city resounded in the sky, and the soldiers in the city were all idle, orderly, performing their duties, killing the enemy, guarding the city gate, carrying and preparing materials to defend the city, and the arrows were shot fiercely by the archers standing in rows on the city wall to the opposite Hui army, poof, piercing the bodies of one Hui soldier after another.
The boulder rolled down the city wall, smashing the Hui soldiers who climbed up the city wall along the ladder into meat cakes, Cai Wenxin stood on the city wall and looked at the soldiers sent out outside the city wall to meet the enemy first, and saw that they were on a par with the Hui soldiers who should have come over to attack and test first.
His ears were full of the sound of fighting, Zhao Hexuan woke up instantly, hurriedly got up from the bed, casually put on his clothes and wiped his face, strode towards the city wall, and found Cai Wenxin on the city wall at a glance, strode to his side, and looked at the current battle situation first, seeing that there were only a few thousand soldiers who came to attack the city, he didn't dare to relax, and raised his eyes to find the tens of thousands of Hui soldiers he had seen before.
"This wave of Hui soldiers should have come to attack first, and seeing that our city is well defended, they have already started to flee."
Cai Wenxin occasionally came sideways to dodge the sharp arrows on the city wall shot by the Hui archers, and opened her mouth to Zhao Hexuan, who was understanding the situation next to her, and as soon as the words fell, she saw that the Hui soldiers who were fighting with the kite soldiers of the same age outside the city wall began to flee, and they didn't speak too accurately.
Seeing that the soldiers outside the city wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, Cai Wenxin immediately waved his arms and shouted, there is no need to pursue! The drums of war sounded, the first battle was won, and the return to the city continued to be on guard, preparing to deal with the next siege of the Hui soldiers.
The surviving soldiers outside the city did not forget to simply clean up the battlefield, find the ones who were still alive in the fallen area and send them back to the city, and they did not let go of the arrows and knives that could be used within their sight, and they did not forget to defend the city, and pushed back to the city by the way.
Zhao Hexuan just came and finished a battle for a while, he didn't have a real feeling, and wondered if he was still dreaming, Cai Wenxin instructed the soldiers on the city wall to continue to be on guard, dispatched people to tidy up, turned around to go down the city wall, and saw the obviously happy faces of the soldiers in the city at a glance, but Cai Wenxin and Zhao Hexuan didn't look happy at all.
There are less than 10,000 troops in the city, and in the face of 20,000 people, it takes a lot of planning to successfully defend the city, but it is to repel the Hui soldiers who came to test the surprise attack, and not to repel all the Hui army, what is there to be happy about.
Cai Wenxin puffed up her chest, and shouted in a deep voice into the ears of all the soldiers, shouting out the still grim situation without whitewashing, seeing that all the soldiers in the city received joy, returned to earnest, went down the city wall, prepared a battle report, returned to Lingyu, entered the palace, and entered the prince's mansion.
The prince's mansion has been unprecedentedly quiet recently, and the prince's face has been smiling for many days, stacking several battle reports from the front line, and he is very glad that he listened to King Jing's words before, and sent soldiers to the direction of Hui Yan, led by Cai Wenxin.
Cai Wenxin and Zhao Hexuan joined forces on the front line, facing the fierce offensive of the Hui soldiers, only defending but not attacking, and between battles, the soldiers turned into craftsmen and tried every means to defend this city.
After the Hui soldiers failed to attack the city and retreated, they sent troops out of the city to inquire about the news of the enemy camp, and found out about the carriage that Zhao Hexuan was very concerned about.
How can the prince not be happy, the officials in Huicheng all smiled when they heard the news, praised Cai Wenxin who led the troops, praised Zhao Hexuan who gave advice on the front line, and praised the prince's wise decision, only Cai Wenxin and Zhao Hexuan's family couldn't laugh.
One wave of worries about the sword on the battlefield without eyes, the two lost their lives, and the other wave of sadness Zhao Kuiyuan died in Hui, after all, the matter of Zhao Hexuan and Zhao Kuiyuan was sent back to Ling Kite by the soldiers early to report, together with the battle report.
A family is a family, Cai Wenxin and Zhao Hexuan, who have led the troops to stop the Hui army a few more times, also couldn't laugh, and the letter from the support army rushed to support, but now the grain, grass and ammunition in the city have been exhausted, and the city's medicine is also insufficient, and the wounded and soldiers are now fifty-five.
Moreover, the other group of hidden guards who had separated from Zhao Hexuan before, they thought that they had gone to other cities, but in fact, they were not, as if they had already been captured, in the first few cities that were captured by Hui Hexuan's army.
This matter is a trivial matter compared to the war, but it is not for the remaining hidden guards and Zhao Hexuan, the hidden guards have helped Zhao Hexuan a lot, and they came with great difficulty all the way, and it is Cai Wenxi's people.
Zhao Hexuan, Cai Wenxin and the others fell into the predicament that the Hui army could not hold the city if they attacked it again, and the Hui army opposite them was more anxious and irritable than them.
Wei Shengqi personally wrote the real imperial decree sent by someone and placed it in front of them, and the soldiers stood in the barracks, their faces were embarrassed, and they were afraid of obviously, and they didn't dare to open it to see what words were written to reprimand them.
The news that Hui Yan's army could not attack the city here reached Hui Yan, and the imperial decree of Wei Sheng came quickly, and there were no substantive opinions, urging them to hurry up and continue to attack the city.
One after another, the tone of the imperial decree is getting worse and worse with the naked eye, and the imperial decree that obviously reprimands them has two or three seals in their hands, and now it is coming again, the generals really don't want to open it, but they should also think of it, the imperial decrees sent to the military camp are full of displeasure, and it is not worse to face the guards in the palace.
Before, because of the battle report of the successive successful siege of the city by the Hui army, how happy and happy I was, now because of the stagnation of the Hui army, how irritable and angry, how angry.
The ministers even reacted with Wei Sheng, and the stubborn old ministers had to change their views on Wei Sheng because of the successive victories of the Hui army, but the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the opposition from the early dynasty in the council hall disappeared for several days reappeared, which may also be one of the reasons why Wei Sheng's mood is more difficult to control.
Returning to the barracks, where the atmosphere was gloomy for a while, the chief soldier relied on his rude temperament to relieve the siege of the generals in the barracks, and took apart the imperial decree and read it aloud.
"Please make a move, and quickly capture that city, before the arrival of Ling Kite's reinforcements."
The rough voice echoed in the military tent, and a short sentence was said loudly, and the generals were stunned when they heard this, obviously surprised, Wei Shengyu didn't scold them this time!
The surprise took a turn for a moment, and there was a moment of hesitation.
"Didn't you say that Xiaobai was a strong person who didn't need her to appear as a last resort? At present, we have not even hit half of the age kite. ”
The generals looked at each other, the light at the door was blocked, Xiaobai walked into the military tent leisurely, stood in front of them with his chest crossed, indifferently and calmly, incompatible with this battlefield and military camp.
"But I need to play, come from the back of the city to see the situation, but I heard my own name."
The autumn wind howled, blowing off the yellowed leaves in the surrounding forests, I don't know if it has anything to do with the war, and the young kites under the bleak autumn wind have more depression.
The war drums sounded again, the battle flag fluttered, the siege chariot was domineeringly exposed in front of everyone under the haunting of the Hui infantry in front of everyone, the cavalry platoon followed behind the chariot, Cai Wen believed in the city and threw stones, they also cast, the brand new trebuchet stopped behind the archers, the Hui army was still as fierce, and the lineup was more luxurious than before.
It's just that there are a little more changes in front of the battle, and it is clear that a woman is standing with the Hui soldiers on a horse, her dress is still so revealing, and her dress is still very casual, falling into the eyes of everyone on the city wall, all of them are puzzled, why is there an extra girl?
Without allowing them to think too much, the general soldier at the back of the array raised his arms under the sound of drums, and the already rough voice became louder, waving his hand and giving an order.
"Siege!"
The bowstring was loosened, and the prepared trebuchet threw the boulders in an instant, drawing a perfect parabola in the air, and smashing it on the solid city wall with a clatter.
The front row of infantry held their shields and attacked at full speed, Cai Wenxin and Zhao Hexuan had expected the current situation, knowing that the situation in the city could not hold on, but they were not afraid at all but had more fighting spirit, and they were very brave, and they pulled out their long swords and cut down all the oncoming arrow rain, and the big stone that the long sword could not resist was turned over by Zhao Hexuan, setting off gusts of wind, and all rolled back.