The autumn wind blows the fallen leaves, and autumn is deep.

Especially when you are close to the water, you can feel the chill of the river breeze.

Autumn, throughout the ages, has been a season of conquest and killing, and the autumn officials are the main killing, so this season itself seems to have a bit of killing intent, and outside Fancheng, there are even more large armies, rendering this killing intent to the extreme.

Dai Cai and Chun Yucen were given death orders, and they must break through Fancheng before winter. Whether it was a general like Dai Cai who had been with Li Xinchen for a long time, or a person like Chun Yucen who had just been under Li Xinchen's command for a few days, Li Xinchen's orders were equally effective, and they never doubted that if they didn't do anything well, Li Xinchen would let them go.

Winter is a very vague concept, sometimes it depends on the weather completely, when the cold snap in the north rolls the wind and snow, it generally means that winter is coming. Li Xinchen did not specify a point in time, but the more this is the case, the more Dai Cai and Chun Yucen dare not slack off.

Who can guarantee that God will not change his face one day, and if the army is still trapped in the outer city of Fancheng when the snow falls, then Dai Cai and Chun Yu Cen Ke will be unlucky. Military law is never easy to talk about.

The city defense of Fancheng is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the inner city is only a small half of the size of the outer city, but the city is taller, forming a condescending advantage over the outer city. The city of five miles and the Guo of ten miles, it can be said that Fancheng was built completely according to the most typical fortress standards in ancient times. Grain, grass and equipment were also hoarded in the inner city, which is why when the outer city was breached, the defending generals decisively ordered the defensive line to be contracted.

Maybe there is still a chance to defend the inner city, but directly fighting the enemy in the outer city is really self-defeating.

"Quick!" The warlords shouted loudly from the ruins, and a soldier pushed a huge thunderbolt forward on the muddy road.

Last night's autumn rain not only added a bit of chill, but also made the loess road muddy, after all, it is the scope of Waiguo, and there are some poor people living here on weekdays, so naturally there is no need to repair the road, and now it has also brought a lot of trouble to the attacking Bashu army.

However, fortunately, the soldiers and horses of the Chunyu clan who drove from Huaixi have arrived more than 2,000 people, and many prisoners were captured when they attacked the outer city before, so the labor force is still very sufficient.

The crumbling gates that had been destroyed by the Thunderbolts were simply demolished, leaving a huge gap in the wall so that the Thunderbolts could enter the outer gates from here. It was only seven or eight hundred paces from the outer country to the inner city, and it can be said that the thunderbolt was also throwing bombs on the face of the enemy.

"Set up a bed crossbow here, and the house over there will be demolished directly, and stone bullets will be hoarded!" Dai Cai strode through the busy crowd, and several warriors behind him obeyed the order.

Soon Dai Cai's footsteps stopped, and under a huge thunderbolt cart, a group of laborers were being driven to carry stones, and Dai Cai's eyes fell on one of them.

The muddy and even blood-stained clothes on the body indicate that this is a low-class labor, in other words, a prisoner of war.

seemed to feel that someone was watching him, and the laborer also raised his head and fell on Dai Cai, and also on Luo Yi behind Dai Cai.

However, Luo Yi did not retreat, but grabbed his saber and looked at it without hesitation. Because of the merit of persuading the Zhou people to surrender before, and the fact that he also had the merit of taking the lead when he broke through the Guo outside Fancheng, Luo Yi is now a lieutenant.

Li Xinchen's group is now actually out of the control of the Southern Chen Imperial Court, so below the miscellaneous generals, Li Xinchen's reward is not ambiguous at all. The formation of an army is naturally inseparable from the generals at the grassroots level, so it is reasonable to promote some outstanding battle lords and generals and let them officially enter the level of captains and generals.

And Luo Yi, who went from prisoner of war to lieutenant, is obviously the best among them, Luo Yi doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with his choice, the only regret that he didn't persuade his old boss in the end.

Li Xun stared at Luo Yi tightly at this time, after all, he just sighed, lowered his head, and did not stare angrily as before.

When the Bashu army broke through the outer Guo of Fancheng, Li Xun could already realize that it was only a matter of time before this army could take Fancheng, and even Xiangyang was just a layer of window paper that could be pierced at any time in front of them.

Once Li Xinchen sat in Bashu, Xiangyang and Hanzhong, he already took all the fortresses in the west into his own hands, whether it was to sweep the Jiankang Mansion down the river or to go north to advance Guanzhong, it was not a difficult task for Li Xinchen.

This young man went from having nothing to half of the country, and it only took a short time that he couldn't even think of.

It is conceivable that the huge world will eventually fall into his hands, and it should not take long. In contrast, at this time, Nan Chen could only shrink into a corner, and the civil strife in the Northern Zhou Dynasty was even more endless.

Being a prisoner is not what Li Xun wants to do, and he must think carefully about what he should do next.

At this time, Li Xun felt that his shoulders were warm, and he saw Dai Cai take off his cloak and drape it on Li Xun. He waved his hand unhurriedly, and the guards stepped forward to untie Li Xun's shackles. All captured generals were handcuffed, firstly to prevent them from having any bad thoughts, and secondly, to distinguish their identities.

Looking at Dai Cai with a smile on his face, Li Xun said coldly: "Why, Fancheng is about to be captured, and I feel that this prisoner is useless, and I am ready to kill people?" ”

Dai clapped his hands, made a gesture to sit down, and sat down on a stone next to him. The previous battle of Waiguo was not tragic, but the thunderbolt destroyed enough inside the city, mainly because the Waiguo was full of civilian bungalows and thatched huts, and the stone bullets of the improved thunderbolt could easily crush these houses.

Li Xun was also not polite, and also sat down opposite Dai Cai.

Dai Cai said with a smile: "Look around here, it's in full swing; Look at the city over there, it's lifeless. Now the world is not like this, the Marquis of Hanzhong is determined to forge ahead, and the rest of the people only know how to eat each other! ”

Li Xun frowned, he was not a sharp-toothed person, and these days of hard labor had also smoothed out his last bit of sharpness, so that Li Xun almost had no courage to refute these words. In fact, Dai Cai is also suspected of beautifying Li Xinchen, and the friction between Li Xinchen and Nan Chen is not encroaching on each other, but the two sides are not so excessive.

Of course, Li Xun has to admit that Dai Cai is right in one place, Li Xinchen may be the most enterprising person in the world now.

"Almost." Dai Cai looked at Li Xun and only said four words.