Chapter 284: Mixed Blessings

"My lord, it's reinforcements, it's reinforcements coming," Liang Chao yelled, not to mention how happy he was with the expression on his face.

Zhang Fan didn't know how to react to this, just stood there, looking at the scene outside the city that was gradually turning black, listening to the shouts and killings outside the city, just standing there motionless.

Yingyue next to Zhang Fan was also very happy in her heart, although she didn't care about the names of the people and other things related to this battle at all, but Yingyue cared about Zhang Fan, no matter what, as long as Zhang Fan could be happy, she would be happy, just think now, Yingyue understands that there are reinforcements from outside the city, Zhang Fan is naturally happy in her heart, so she is happy with Zhang Fan.

At this moment, Yingyue's hand that was already holding Zhang Fan tightened again, and a smile appeared on her face when she looked at Zhang Fan.

Feeling the change of Yingyue, Zhang Fan also turned his head, although that smile is not uncommon in his daily life, but somehow, at this moment, he feels that Yingyue's smile is the most beautiful he has ever seen, and it is also the most relaxing picture, at this moment, Zhang Fan's previous strength to hold on to the present seems to have disappeared with the arrival of this batch of reinforcements under the city, and in an instant, a tidal wave of fatigue hit him.

Zhang Fan, who originally wanted to be strong, couldn't resist the feeling of sleepiness, and now the crisis here is temporarily resolved, so he can't help but think that he can just sleep like this.

"My lord, something is wrong,"

Just wanted to close his eyes, Zhang Fan, who was standing and falling asleep like this, was suddenly awakened by such a voice again, and the bad feeling in his heart hit his heart again, turned his head and looked at the person who spoke, it was Wang Meng, the feeling in Zhang Fan's heart was even more violent, after all, Wang Meng is not a person who can not be targeted, he has always been very sure of what he says.

"What's wrong, what's wrong," Zhang Fan hurriedly asked, "Isn't it because our reinforcements can't come?"

"No, my lord, it's true that the reinforcements who came to help us," Wang Meng said with a heavy face, "but I always feel that something is wrong.

"Now those who can come to our aid are naturally the subordinates led by General Qi, but this is strange, although it is already dark today, and I can't see the situation in the distance clearly, but General Qi's Qi family army has a lot of firearms in his hands, and my lord has ever heard the sound of gunfire,"

"This ......" Zhang Fan heard Wang Meng say this, and the excitement just now calmed down instantly, since he heard the news that reinforcements were coming, he really hadn't heard a single gunshot.

"Moreover, although the situation in the distance is not clear due to the sky, the movement of the Fusang army under the city can be seen," Wang Meng continued, "Since the rain of arrows just now, the enemy army has indeed been in chaos for a while, but your lord can see that it didn't take long for them to return to their original formation, and only sent more than a thousand people from the formation to meet the enemy,"

"What do you mean......" Zhang Fan could already guess what Wang Meng was going to say, "The rescue that came from outside the city was not General Qi's men, and the number of people was very small,"

"Yes, that's what it means," Wang Meng nodded and said, "Since the enemy army has sent more than a thousand people to meet the enemy, the number of people who want to come over is about the same number."

At this moment, Zhang Fan's mind was a little confused, now the closest to them is also the most likely to arrive now, and there is only Qi Jiguang's army, although it is four or five hours earlier than expected, but it is not incomprehensible, after all, now that the military situation in Yangzhou is urgent, it is normal for Qi Jiguang to order his subordinates to drive over at full speed.

But Wang Meng's analysis just now broke this idea, which made Zhang Fan confused, now in the north, in addition to Qi Jiguang's men and horses, there are only the various military camps that have been defended near the coast of Nanzhili under his orders, and the number of those military camps is almost a thousand people, but Zhang Fan doesn't think that it will be the defending generals somewhere in this place who will lead the troops to rescue him, after all, he gave a death order at the beginning, asking them to be stationed in place tightly, to defend against attacks that may come, and not to leave the defensive place for half a step.

In Zhang Fan's opinion, those people should not disobey their orders and run over to "send them to death".

But who else from the north will come?

Suddenly, Zhang Fan's face changed, and he thought of something.

"Could it be ......" Zhang Fan couldn't believe what he guessed, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt more and more that it was possible, "...... Hai-sama, he ......"

"What do you mean...... Hai Rui," Wang Meng was also stunned by Zhang Fan's idea, he didn't think of Hai Rui before, but he was not optimistic that Hai Rui would come to rescue them, it was not that he underestimated Hai Rui, but that Hai Rui was fighting against those who did not want to die, were not afraid of death, and were extremely crazy in Huai'an Mansion, he could imagine that it was inevitable that Hai Rui led 5,000 men and horses to defeat those Japanese Kou, but he could also guess that Hai Rui faced such a group of people, and if he wanted to win, he would have to pay a heavy price.

And at that time, even if Hai Rui wants to play any temper, he must also consider the people he led who have suffered heavy casualties and are very tired, if he brings those people to the rescue again, wouldn't he be killing himself.

However, what he didn't expect was that Zhang Fan would actually say this possibility that he didn't expect, but after Zhang Fan mentioned it, Wang Meng thought about it in his heart, there is really such a possibility, and the possibility is very great.

Zhang Fan didn't think about it so much at all, and hurriedly asked Liang Chao to tell the soldiers in the city to immediately open fire, shoot arrows, in short, attack, no matter what, it will cause some trouble to the Fusang army under the city, so as to help those people and horses who came to the rescue.

"My lord......" Wang Meng didn't know what to say.

"Whether it's Hai Jui's tired army or someone from somewhere else, in short, there are only more than a thousand of them, and we must help them delay," Zhang Fan said, "Otherwise, if the Fusang army under the city rushes up, how can these thousand people who come be able to stop them?"

At this time, the roar of artillery sounded again on the city tower, and the target was in the camp of the Fusang army in front, and the archers on the city tower also began to shoot, although the enemy under the city saw that the distance had just entered the range of the bow and arrow, and there were many arrows in the city that could not be shot, but since Zhang Fan had given the order, and although they did not know that the number of reinforcements was very small, but someone rescued, the morale naturally rose a lot, and one by one seemed to have more strength to come out.

"Give me a signal from the city tower to rush to the north gate," Zhang Fan continued to instruct, "If they can get there, they will immediately ring gold, open the city gate and let them in,"

"This ...... What does Lord Zhang mean by this," Wan Zhong on the side asked very suspiciously, "Now that the enemy is outside the city gate, there are even a thousand enemy troops stationed at the north gate, what if this city gate is opened, they will take advantage of the chaos to attack?"

"Lord Supervisor, if we keep this group of people outside, no matter how we harass the enemy army, it will be useless, and the final result can only be that they are all annihilated," Zhang Fan said very seriously, "If you can let them enter the city, with the help of these thousand people, there will be no problem for this Yangzhou city to hold out until General Qi's army arrives, and besides, is it possible that Lord Supervisor intends to watch those people who came to rescue us die outside the city like this?"

"This ......" Wan Zhong was speechless for a moment, to tell the truth, he was very scared in his heart, but he was only afraid of the city breaking, he always believed in his heart that although there were many enemies outside the city, it was impossible to break through the city in a short time.

But Zhang Fan just said that he wanted to open the door, he was not only scared in his heart, he was simply frightened, and he naturally immediately refused just now.

But what Zhang Fan said later made him unable to say anything against him at all, and regardless of whether Zhang Fan's words just now were his sincere words, or for the scene of so many soldiers and ordinary soldiers on the city tower today, but Wan Zhong simply did not have the right to refuse, if he dared to say anything that he disagreed with, although he now occupies the position of the prison army, Zhang Fan can still ignore his speech, order the city gate to be opened, and when the time comes, If the things he predicted did not happen, after returning to the court in the future, he would be the one who was unlucky.

Zhang Fan didn't have the heart to speculate about what Wan Zhong was thinking at this time, and seeing that Wan Zhong no longer spoke, he had the right to assume that Wan Zhong acquiesced to his words.

Nodding at Wang Meng on the side, Wang Meng immediately turned around and left, and it didn't take long for the city to send a signal.

It didn't take long for the people on the tower to hear clearly, and the shouts of killing outside the city were spreading far away.

"Order the defenders of the north gate, pay attention to the thousand enemy soldiers guarding there, and don't let them get close to the city gate," Zhang Fan ordered again, "And also give me attention, although it is dark today, but it is not to the point where you can't see anything, let them pay attention, don't hit our people, send someone to supervise, tell them, if anyone accidentally injures their own people, they will be punished with ten strokes of the military staff, and at the worst, they will be dealt with by military law, and they will be directly pulled down and beheaded,"

"Obey," Liang Chao, who got the order, quickly went down the city tower, and now the situation was urgent, he grabbed a horse and galloped directly towards the north city gate.

After ordering these things, Zhang Fan felt unusually tired again, it is indeed a good thing that reinforcements are coming, but it is a tired division that has been suffering heavy casualties, and I don't know how many people will die later, it is really a mixed blessing,