Now it is impossible for the Han army to transfer Deng County.

The Shu army outside the city is not blind or foolish, and when they see the Han army withdrawing, how can they not intercept it.

Relying on the city defense, the Han army still has the strength to fight, out of the city, without the assistance of the city wall, and the Shu army to do a head-to-head confrontation, that is to kill themselves.

Moreover, Bao Yong, the captain of Si Li, was already rushing to Deng County, the purpose was to transport the grain hoarded in Deng County to Hongnong, and now Liu Xiuruo retreated to Deng County, which was equivalent to leading the Shu soldiers to Deng County, and at that time, it was even people with food, and they were trapped by the Shu army.

Therefore, the Han army in the mountain capital city could not be transferred to Deng County, and they could not be transferred either.

Liu Xiu was like a mirror in his heart, he looked at Jiang Shiyun, who proposed to transfer Deng County, didn't say anything, turned around and walked to the inner end of the city gate tower, and sat down on a mat.

Luo You stepped forward, handed him a piece of sauce meat and a piece of dry food, and said, "Your Majesty, eat some!" ”

Liu Xiu looked at it, only took the dry food, broke half of it, and returned the remaining half to Luo You, and then drank water while gnawing on the hard dry food.

Jiang Shiyun refused to give up and walked up to Liu Xiu again, and said: "Your Majesty, now in the Shandu City, there is no food, medicine and myrrh, and even arrows, rolling wood, and stones are going to run out, and if this continues, the whole army will have to die in the Shandu City!" ”

Liu Xiu swallowed the dry food in his mouth, looked at Jiang Shiyun, and asked, "Do you know how to fight?" ”

Jiang Shiyun was speechless when asked, and after a moment of silence, she said: "Although the courtiers don't know how to fight, they also know that the mountain capital city can't hold it at all!" ”

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it!"

Liu Xiu said expressionlessly: "On the battlefield, many times you know that you can't do it!" ”

Jiang Shiyun was about to speak, but Luo You couldn't help but say: "Imperial Doctor Jiang thinks that after the soldiers of our army leave the city, can they get rid of the pursuit of the enemy, if they can't get rid of it, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army, do you bear this responsibility?" ”

Hearing Luo You's questioning, Jiang Shiyun's face changed, lowered his head, and pondered.

Liu Xiu ate half of the dry food in his hand, and then sat cross-legged, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Time passed minute by minute, inside and outside the city, it was quiet, and there was no life.

When it was ugly, that is, at one o'clock in the morning, Liu Xiu, who was meditating cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from the couch.

Luo You's sleep was very light, and the slightest sound was enough to wake her up.

She opened her eyes and saw that Liu Xiu was up, she hurriedly got up and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty?" ”

Liu Xiu said in a low voice: "I need to select a hundred elites, go outside the city, and collect crossbow arrows!" ”

Luo You thought for a while and said: "There are spies of the Shu army outside the city, and once the city gate is opened, it will inevitably be discovered by the spies of the Shu army." ”

"You don't have to open the gates!"

As he spoke, Liu Xiu's gaze fell on the rope in the corner.

Luo You followed Liu Xiu's line of sight and immediately understood what he meant, she hurriedly said, "The maid will go with Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Xiu hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.

Liu Xiu and Luo You went out of the city gate, summoned a school captain, and asked him to select a hundred strong and follow him out of the city to collect crossbow arrows.

The lieutenant took the order, and it was more than half an hour before he returned, bringing with him a hundred 'strong'.

The youngest of these 100 so-called 'strong' soldiers is also in their early forties, and the difference between them and other soldiers is that they are quite strong, and they do not have any colors on their bodies.

Liu Xiu glanced at it and smiled bitterly secretly, he had fought for so many years, whether it was his own side or the enemy, it was the first time he had seen such a 'strong' person.

He nodded, gathered all the hundred 'strong' to his front, and said, "Wait a minute, you will follow me from the top of the city to the outside of the city, collect arrows, and don't speak, and try not to make a sound, do you understand?" ”

Everyone nodded in unison and whispered, "Understood, Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Xiu was no longer verbose, he picked up a rope, tied one of the ends to his waist, tied it strongly, he went to check Luo You beside him, pulled the rope around her waist hard, no problem, and walked to a soldier next to him to check it carefully.

When everyone tied the ropes, many Han soldiers came over with their waists bent and sat on the ground one by one, all of them were six or seven people pulling a rope.

Liu Xiu and the others touched the darkness, and with the help of ropes, they slid down from the city little by little.

After a short time, the crowd descended to the bottom of the city walls.

Then, Liu Xiu and others untied the rope around their waists and looked for arrows everywhere under the city.

Soon, a soldier found a large basket of crossbow arrows on the back of the corpse of a Han soldier.

He was a Han soldier who went out of the city to collect crossbow arrows during the day and was shot by the Shu cavalry.

The Han soldiers untied the bamboo basket on the back of their comrade, tied it to the rope, and then pulled the rope hard.

The Han soldiers at the head of the city received the prompt and immediately pulled the rope and dragged the basket of crossbow arrows to the head of the city.

In the dark, Liu Xiu searched faster, and it didn't take long, and he had already sent three baskets of crossbow arrows to the city.

As a basket of crossbow arrows was pulled up, the Han army at the head of the city was all smiling, originally their arrows were not much left, but now they finally have some confidence, and also have the capital to continue to fight with the enemy.

Just when Liu Xiu and other hundred Han soldiers were sending a basket of crossbow arrows to the city, suddenly, Liu Xiu heard the sound of horses' hooves clattering rapidly.

He stiffened, raised his arm, and said in a low voice, "Stop!" ”

Everyone present was frozen one by one as if they had been pointed.

Liu Xiu listened attentively and confirmed that it was the sound of horses' hooves, and the speed of the rush was extremely fast, and he said urgently: "All lie down, don't move." ”

While speaking, Liu Xiu pulled Luo You and took the lead to lie on the ground.

The corpses on the ground were covered one layer after another, and after a whole day of exposure, they already emitted a peculiar smell, and the taste of lying on the corpses was naturally unpleasant.

Luo You was already enduring it, but now lying on a corpse covered in black blood, she almost vomited on the spot.

Liu Xiu noticed her abnormality and held the back of her head, burying her cheeks in her chest.

Smelling the smell of hay on Liu Xiu's body, which was mixed with a faint mint fragrance, Luo You's churning internal organs were finally more comfortable.

When the Han army was all lying down and lying among the many corpses, a team of Shu cavalry galloped over, and each of them held a torch in their hands.

When they were still thirty paces away from the wall, they stopped approaching, but threw their torches in unison.

Smack, smack, smack! One by one, the torches fell in front of the city wall, and seeing that there was no one under the city wall, the Shu cavalry moved sideways in front of the city wall.

Obviously, this team of Shu cavalry came to inspect to see if the Han army had quietly left the city.

Fortunately, Liu Xiu and the others had prepared their equipment in advance, lying motionless among the corpses, and were not seen by the Shu cavalry.

Originally, this group of Shu cavalry had already run over, but after they ran a distance, they turned back again.

One of the cavalrymen pointed to the side of the city wall and said suspiciously: "There seems to be a rope on the wall?" ”

The torches they had just thrown did not fall in front of the city wall, the light of the fire was limited, and they could not see clearly whether there were ropes hanging from the city wall.

The cavalry chiefs led the way towards the city walls.

When they were still twenty paces away from the wall, there was a sudden rain of arrows on the city, and in a series of pops, seven or eight horsemen were shot into hedgehogs by men and horses, including the cavalryman.

The remaining two cavalrymen, their faces changed greatly, and they ran away, but unfortunately they ran out a few steps, and another cavalryman was hit by an arrow in the back, turned off the war horse, and finally only ran a Shu cavalry who was hit by two arrows in the back.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Shu army were either shot or fled, and the Han soldiers lying on the ground and pretending to be dead got up one after another, people invariably breathed a long sigh of relief.

Liu Xiu also pulled Luo You to stand up, and said urgently: "Speed up!" Hurry up and collect the bolts! ”

The people said yes, either to collect the crossbow arrows scattered on the ground, or to pull them from the corpses, and then put bundles of crossbow arrows into baskets and tie them to ropes to remind their comrades at the head of the city to pull them up.

In just half an hour, these 100 Han soldiers collected at least 70,000 or 80,000 crossbow arrows under the city.

Liu Xiu calculated the time, and felt that it was almost over, he walked to a rope, turned around and said, "Okay, that's it, all go back to the city with me!" ”

More than a dozen Han soldiers ran over and stood around Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu looked around and asked, "Why are there just a few of you?"

What about the others? ”

A Han soldier pointed behind him and said, "They went to move the horse corpses, and a few war horses were shot just now, which can be used as military rations!" ”

Liu Xiu frowned secretly, a cavalry patrol, only ran back and rode back, the Shu soldiers will not give up, there will definitely be more people coming to check, if you don't leave now, you won't have a chance to leave! Before he could speak, he saw four Han soldiers dragging a war horse full of crossbow arrows and walking over with difficulty, and one of them said with excitement on his face: "Your Majesty, this war horse is big enough, enough for our team to have a full meal!" ”

Liu Xiu first looked at the dead horse they had dragged over, then looked at the night behind them, gritted his teeth, or ran forward quickly, grabbed the saddle of the war horse, and helped the four Han soldiers drag the dead horse to the bottom of the city wall.

Seeing that His Majesty had helped to move the horses, the other Han soldiers were even more energetic, and they dragged back a total of eight dead horses, each of which was tied with two ropes, and then prompted their companions at the head of the city to drag the dead horses up.

The Han army at the head of the city couldn't see clearly what was going on under the city, but when they pulled the rope, they felt unusually heavy.

When the people pulled the heavy object down to the arrow stack, they were all startled, and it was not a person who was pulled up, but a war horse that died hideously and horribly.

But soon, the people grinned, such a big war horse was enough for them to eat several meals, and even if the horse meat was eaten up, the bones could be boiled into soup.

One by one the war horses were dragged up to the city, and the Han soldiers on the city were also smiling one by one, so excited.

Just when Liu Xiu and the others sent the dead war horses to the city one by one, and they were about to tie the ropes themselves and return to the city wall, the ear chakra heard a chirp, and a flying arrow with fire light flew out of the night, fell from the sky, and was nailed to the ground only ten steps away from the city wall.

This sudden arrow shocked Liu Xiu and the others.

Rocket?

Locate the arrows! Liu Xiu was the first to react, and shouted urgently: "Lie down!" Dodge the arrows—" At the moment when he gave a warning, he heard a constant buzz in the air.

Luo You on the side was still at a loss, his body had already rolled out, and he was dragged by Liu Xiu, and the two rolled on the ground together.

After stopping, Luo You felt her body sinking, and it turned out that Liu Xiu was pressing on her body.

She subconsciously exclaimed, "Your Majesty-" Before the words fell, she heard a crackling sound around her, and the arrows were like hailstones, smashing on the ground, crackling, smashing on the corpses, popping, smashing on the bodies of the Han soldiers, screaming.

Liu Xiu's hands were quick, and he pulled a corpse next to him and covered himself.

After a round of arrows, there was a creepy buzz in the air, the sound of arrows piercing the sky.

The hum descended from the sky and grew sharper and sharper, eventually turning into a scream like a ghost crying wolf.