Chapter 91: To Live

After two more days of entering the mountain road, the elite soldiers led by Zhiyu hid in the jungle, in order to avoid disturbing the birds in the mountain forest, they were frightened and flew up, thus arousing the vigilance of the defenders.

Therefore, under the old saying that the bird rises and the one who rises is Fuye, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom did not dare to approach the walled city located at the exit of the mountain forest on a large scale. Some of the elite soldiers quietly lowered the sound of their own walking, and the soles of their boots rustled on the fallen leaves.

The soldiers guarding the city also recently received news from above, saying that the Jin army was about to come out of the mountains and forests recently. Scouts who have recently visited the forest have also reported signs of human activity, but it is uncertain whether they were left behind by hunters. It wasn't until after looking at the footprints that it was determined that it was the standard in the army, and it was determined that it was left by the scouts of the Jin Kingdom.

"Brother Scout said that he recently discovered the traces of the Jin army, and it seems that the Jin army is coming from us." A soldier on duty said.

"But the above only sent some people to us, because it is not certain whether the Jin scouts who appeared here are the suspicious tactics of the Jin State."

"Then if the Jin Kingdom really attacks here, then we don't have enough manpower! I haven't had a wife yet, and I don't want to die like this. ”

When the defending soldiers were discussing in groups, an officer with five big and three rough came out and rebuked the soldiers, "Don't shout, when you are a soldier eats food, you must know that this is a job that loses your head." Now if you want to run away, don't blame Lao Tzu for cutting you! ”

After seeing their commander speak, the soldiers regained their posts.

During the day, everything was normal, and the scouts sent out did not return on time, casting a shadow over the defenders.

The scouts usually returned on time, and these scouts did not return until it was time for dinner, and the officer on duty had to send another pair of scouts outside, and these scouts went out for several hours without returning.

"It seems that the Jin army has surrounded here, and the scouts who went out should have been solved by the other party, and everyone was ordered to take turns on duty tonight, I have a hunch that these Jin troops will attack tonight." The prefect on duty in the walled city issued an order for a vigil.

The defenders on the city walls raised their torches and looked at the trees in the distance, and the shadows of these trees appeared in the light of the moon pass like monsters with fangs and claws.

"Tonight is the night of our life and death, tell the brothers to survive tonight, our reinforcements are coming." The prefect, who was patrolling the city walls, said to his lieutenant beside him.

"Sir, will our reinforcements really arrive tomorrow?"

"I don't know, but as long as we give our brothers hope to live, we'll survive tonight."

The Jin army, which had secretly surrounded the walled city, had been waiting for the order of the young lord Zhiyu. At this moment, the Jin army is like a wild wolf that hunts hedgehogs, hiding in the jungle and preparing to make a surprise move.

"Young master, these defenders are like frightened birds when they see that the scouts who went out did not come back on time, why should we keep waiting and not doing anything?" A general beside him asked puzzled.

"What I learned from my previous hunting with my father is that the best way to hunt is to keep the prey in panic for a long time, and the best time is to wait until the prey is panicked." Zhiyu remembered that a few years ago, his father took him to hunt in the hunting ground outside Quwo City.

The surrounding generals didn't dare to disturb the young master who was in the meeting, and after a short reminiscence of the past, Ji-woo finally made up his mind.

"Prepare to attack, after tonight, I will completely take this walled city, we must ensure the suddenness of the attack when we raid Yanzhou, if we leak the news, we will become fish on the chopping block." Ji-woo gave the order to attack.

In the darkness of the night, a large number of black shadows began to move, and countless people rushed out of the surrounding mountains and forests.

"Enemy attack! Archers fire their arrows after the enemy crosses the first row of torches outside the camp gates! "The commander stationed in the walled city is also a veteran with a lot of experience.

When the Jin soldiers crossed the first row of torches outside the camp gate, the archers guarding the city wall drew their bowstrings and shot at the Jin soldiers.

The feathered arrows in the dark night had little accuracy to speak of, and hundreds of feathered arrows only hit less than a hundred people.

And the archers of the Jin Kingdom began to suppress in the direction of the city, and the galloping archers raised their longbows and raised their feather arrows to shoot at the Yanzhou soldiers.

The Jin army, which came over the mountains and mountains, was unable to carry siege equipment, so they had to build simple siege ladders in the mountains and forests. There are still leaves on these ladders that have not yet fallen off.

Seeing that the Jin army outside was getting closer and closer, these Yanzhou soldiers guarding the city picked up their spears and stabbed at the Jin soldiers who were climbing. The soldiers who climbed the ladder deftly dodged the spears that protruded from the battlements, after all, these soldiers were elite and naturally knew how to fight on the battlefield.

"Bah, how can these Jin soldiers be like monkeys, the spear can barely stab them." The pikemen on the walls became more and more annoyed, and the more they hurried, the less they could stab the soldiers who were climbing.

"Take the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone out, I don't believe I can't smash them down, brothers, greet these turtle grandsons from the Jin Kingdom." An officer dressed as a hundred-hundred-household ordered his soldiers to smash the climbing soldiers with rolling logs and thunder stones.

After the defenders repelled several groups of soldiers' attacks, the reserves of the walled city were quickly exhausted.

These elites of the Jin Kingdom finally climbed the city wall with the siege ladder, the defenders of both sides fought together, and the big swords, long spears, sharp blades and short swords fought on the city wall, and the walled city was not very large, so the soldiers defending the city could barely maintain the battle line.

As the gaps in the walls grew, the defenders became increasingly difficult to support. After the city wall was lost, the defenders were forced to retreat to the camp, but in fact, the defenders could no longer support the battle.

There was no point in holding on to the camp and fighting, but what these Jin soldiers wanted was a surprise attack, and once these people were captured, they would definitely need to send some men to guard them. The Jin army, which was already small in strength, could not allocate a part of its men to take care of the prisoners.

It would be even more impossible to let these captives go, and if they were released, the news would be leaked. Therefore, the only thing that awaits these defenders is death, and since the other party does not leave a mouth to live, then he has to fight for his own life.

Although the Yanzhou soldiers who retreated to the camp were not as good as the Jin soldiers in terms of training and experience, the combat effectiveness shown by these people in order to survive still made the elites of the Jin Kingdom pay a huge price for not moving forward.

Seeing their brothers fall one by one, the remaining defenders wailed and frantically like wounded beasts.

Just when the defenders were about to run out of support, a trumpet beat through the night sky.