Chapter 721: Raise your head and look at the bright moon
Xiao Siwen was depressed, and the Bai family left with Yanyan.
Yan Yan stayed in Bai's room, lying on the table without saying a word, her eyes staring blankly at the candle flame, and she looked pitiful and listless. Bai was about to persuade her to go to sleep, but she heard Yan Yan muttering, "I'm afraid, but I don't dare to tell my father." I heard that there are heads flying in the sky all day long in the city......"
"That's a rumor, don't be afraid." Bai Shi hurriedly said with relief.
Those Khitan people are really hateful in Youzhou, but not all Khitan people are so hateful, just like the little lady Yanyan in front of her, the Bai family usually feels that this little lady is very close to her, and now she is even more sympathetic to her...... The Khitan people are arrogant and strong, but the strong have their own strong hands, and when the war is chaotic, who can live in peace?
Bai's own heart was also uneasy, and his face was pale.
She sat down at the dresser and looked down to see her baldness. She hates this hairstyle so much! Now not only do I hate it, but I also feel that it will bring disaster, look at this scene, if the Zhou army enters the city, the soldiers are in chaos, will they kill themselves as Khitan women?!
Bai didn't say anything, prepared a pair of scissors, and planned to cut his hair as soon as Youzhou City was broken. It is better to be a nun than to be buried for the Khitans. Of course, she didn't want to be killed as a Khitan woman, she was first arrested by the Khitan people, and now she was going to be treated as an enemy by the Zhou people, wouldn't she be wronged?
She looked at Yan Yan again, and said in her heart that Yan Yan was the daughter of the king of the Southern Courtyard, and her status was noble, but it was not her turn to worry about it.
Bai sat there, very frightened, not knowing where to go. Many years have passed, her home was originally in Zhuozhou, Zhuozhou was once slaughtered, and after several vicissitudes, the Lu family is definitely gone......
There is nothing more tragic than this, being forced into slavery and servant, and when one day they are free, they find that there is nowhere to go.
…… The situation in Youzhou City affects everyone's hearts. The person who can't let go of it the most is its current owner, Xiao Siwen.
"Raise your head to look at the bright moon, bow your head and think of your hometown." Xiao Siwen looked lost, looked at the moon in the night sky outside the carved window alone, and muttered a poem.
The breeze poured in, turning the books and files on the table with a "whooshing" sound, and tonight was indescribably bleak, as if his mind could not be calmed down for a long time.
The country, the family, the individual, all kinds of feelings come to my heart.
Back then, the Khitan people were just a feudal state in the northeast of the Tang Dynasty, and their ancestors had developed several times to have today's huge territory...... As soon as Xiao Siwen deduced the serious consequences after the Battle of Youzhou, he couldn't help but feel sad!
and his life's ambitions and personal future, which are now even darker.
It is impossible for Xiao Siwen to surrender, the Xiao family is second only to the royal family since the founding of the Liao family, and as the most prominent person in the Xiao family today, he can't afford to lose that face!
He thought of death, and he apologized for his sins with death!
But what is Lao Tzu's crime? All sins are but being imposed on others and carrying them on their behalf, and even if he dies, he will not be able to bear them.
Xiao Siwen calmed down and understood this matter: the root cause lies in the power infighting in Daliao for many years, which has not been sorted out, no wonder there is a certain person; The biggest sin in recent times is that the people in power in Beijing lack a long-term vision, and they are wrong again and again!
Xiao Siwen paced to the window and looked out of the window, his eyes seemed to pass through Youzhou City and cast him farther away.
He can't afford to take on such a big responsibility...... The situation of Da Liao has been weak for so many years, and the situation is getting worse day by day, and only one person can shoulder all such responsibilities: Emperor Da Liao! He must be a faint king, a tyrant, and a sinner who has been stinking for thousands of years, and it is precisely because Yelu Jing is in power that Da Liao will enter such a situation!
The fall of Youzhou has reached the extreme of the patience of the whole country of Daliao.
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Half a month later, the moat of Youzhou City was filled in a large section.
After the long roar of the cannons, behind the fence of the Zhou army, the armor "roared", and the infantry slowly moved forward and passed through the siege fortifications.
In front of the crowd, a group of horses galloped over, and people quickly recognized that the emperor Guo Shao was sitting on a big horse in the middle, and they all looked over, and the army shouted and made noise.
Guo Shaolema slowed down, looked back at the tall and thick Youzhou city wall, the bricks of the wall were full of holes, and the female wall above collapsed, but the city wall still stands...... It is impossible to smash through a twenty or thirty-meter-thick earthen wall with a projectile stone alone! In the end, it is necessary to use people to charge and attack until the fighting spirit of the defenders is exhausted. There is no other way.
Guo Shao looked at the men in front of him with some sadness, and his eyes looked over their wind-blown faces in turn. He couldn't help but say: "The ancestors of the Han family cut through thorns and thorns, so that there is a place to cultivate. Our clan settled down in this homeland, fighting for survival and face! I hope that the blood of the soldiers can protect the family and the country and the world, and the peace of the people! ”
The soldiers looked at Guo Shao as if they were looking at a god, and at this time, some people knelt on the ground in a moving manner, and many people knelt down and shouted long live.
After a while, the big drums on the camp in the rear were beating. A military general drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, long live the Great Zhou Emperor!" ”
For a while, the armor soldiers were surging, pushing the ladder like the tide, carrying the ladder forward.
The army braved ballistas and stone bullets to advance to within 100 paces and then stopped advancing. In the rear camp, suddenly, the huge cannon sound of "boom boom boom ......" shook the heavens and the earth.
Rows of white smoke rose from the air. Almost instantly, the second row of artillery fired a salvo, and the ground erupted with fire and smoke.
After a few volleys of artillery, the drums beat loudly and the trumpets sounded vigorously. The men and horses in front of them shouted, and countless people rushed forward frantically in the rain of arrows.
Guo Shao turned his head to look to the south, and the city wall in the distance was filled with black smoke, the ladders and building cars were burning with raging fires, and the igniting arrows in the air were like meteor showers.
Such a siege will cause a large number of casualties every day. But Guo Shao couldn't stop, he couldn't stop people from dying...... Perhaps, compared to the dead and wounded of defeat, as long as the victory can be won, a large number of soldiers' lives have been saved!
Even his throne and his prestige were forged in this countless bloodshed! The strong live, the weak die, and there is no choice.
The siege on all sides continued until dusk, and the whole city of Youzhou was already miserable. The Zhou army retreated to the defensive line, but the matter was not over, a large number of wounded soldiers were carried to the wounded barracks, the sound of ** was faintly heard in the smoke of gunpowder, and more than 200,000 troops seemed to lick their wounds in the remnant sun.
A group of generals hurried to the Chinese army camp, and the former battalion military government will be deployed to continue tomorrow's offensive.
The proceedings continued into the evening. At this time, Qin Shishi, the pro-soldier general beside Guo Shao, suddenly hurriedly walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, walked straight to Guo Shao, bent down, and took out a note, "The Yizhou branch of the Bing Cao Division received a secret performance, Xiao Siwen may have to go out of the city for a decisive battle in the early morning tomorrow?" ”
"A decisive battle?" Guo Shao was stunned for a moment, shouldn't he break through, it's quite good. He was immediately happy, "Xiao Siwen did a good job, it's just a charcoal in the snow." ”
Guo Shao almost had to thank Xiao Siwen, he simply went out of the city to compete for it, how many Zhou soldiers could be saved because of this!
At this moment, another military general came in and saluted on one knee: "Your Majesty, Xiao Siwen sent the messenger out with a hanging basket to write a battle book, and he wants to open a decisive battle with the Great Zhou Army!" ”
There was an immediate uproar in the tent.