Hu Meng has been besieging the town of Shema for more than a month since the beginning of October, and today has just entered the wax moon, and the sky has begun to slowly drift with snowflakes after several days of haze, and winter has once again descended on this land, as if he wants to make up for all the frost rage that was not released last year in the next few days.

Liu Zhilan kept breathing at his bare hands that were exposed to the air, and the white steam that kept gushing out of his mouth hit the cold hands and quickly liquefied into water droplets, and then under the mutual rubbing of his hands, with the temperature that had finally accumulated on his skin, he returned to the air.

Liu Zhilan has a habit of freezing his hands in winter, although it is not serious, but it still causes him a lot of inconvenience, at this time the little finger of his right hand has begun to reddened and itchy, if it is not protected, it will not be long before it will deteriorate into chilblains.

"General, I heard an old man in my hometown say that when you freeze your hands, wipe them with snow water, and it will be much better." A personal guard standing behind him couldn't help but say out loud that the so-called pro-soldiers, that is, the commander's eating, drinking, and Lazar are all within the scope of their duties, so this sentence does not seem abrupt.

"Remedies, huh?" Liu Zhilan smiled indifferently, and started a routine with the guards behind him as if chatting, and forgot the discomfort in his hands for a while.

"General, when will reinforcements arrive?" A casual question sounded from several people, causing the soldiers who were watching the movement outside the city next to them to turn their heads, after all, this question is not only related to the survival of Shema Town, but also related to the life and death of everyone in Shema Town.

Liu Zhilan, who was talking about sexuality, was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "According to the distance, it is estimated that it will be fast, and you must believe that our Lord Qianzong, with him out of the horse, it is impossible not to call reinforcements!" ”

"Why?" A soldier squeezed forward and asked curiously.

Liu Zhilan stretched out his hand and patted the other party's helmet, knocked down the brim of his hat, covered his eyes, and scolded with a smile: "Is this what you should ask?" Worry about it all day long, and eat less meat at night. ”

The little soldier retreated with a sad face, causing a burst of laughter around him, and when the laughter passed, Liu Zhilan said with a straight face: "Brothers, I am here to assure you that the reinforcements will definitely come, but we can't think about this now, because as long as the reinforcements do not arrive for a moment, the burden of this Shema Town will still have to be borne by us, so we can't think about when the reinforcements will arrive, because that will make us feel lax in our hearts, as long as we relax in our hearts, our combat effectiveness will decline, our combat effectiveness will decline, The town of Nashema would become dangerous. ”

Liu Zhilan's voice became louder and louder, and in the end, he almost shouted, "You just need to know that there are enough reserves of grain and grass in this Xiema Town, even if we are besieged until this time next year, we can still have white rice and large pieces of meat as we do now, we just need to hold the weapons in our hands and destroy all the enemies who try to enter the city in vain, and that's it!" Enough! Finish! ”

A morale boost without a rehearsal was completed on the city wall of Xiema Town, and the soldiers shouted one after another, and Qiu Xin, who was still inspecting with Zhu Ziming on the east city wall, was also slightly shocked by the scene in front of him, and looked at Zhu Ziming at each other, and they all saw the praise and appreciation between each other.

As for the Humeng camp, the people who were planning the next attack in the tent of the commander Temuter walked out of the tent with the commander, and saw that the morale of the Yan soldiers in the city was suddenly so high, and they asked the soldiers who were originally observing the situation outside, and the answers they got obviously made these senior generals slightly relieved.

As long as it is not for the Yan army to come to help, there is nothing else to worry about, and this time it will definitely be able to take Xiema Town.

The generals returned to the big tent one after another, continuing the discussion of the plan that had not yet ended, and at the end of the walk, Temuter couldn't help but look back at the towering wall of Shema Town in the distance, and frowned secretly.

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At this time, on the wasteland fifty miles away from the town of Shema, a group of cavalry had just rushed from a distance, and joined the cavalry group that was overwhelming in the rear.

"How?" Without waiting for Song Tao to report, Yan Wuji hurriedly asked, but this made Zhang Erhu, who was behind him, frown slightly.

Song Tao gasped, clenched his fists and said:

"The town of Shema is still firmly in our hands, and before leaving, Humeng did not attack the town of Shema, which was a surprise, so we did not arrest and interrogate people, and the specific casualties on both sides are not yet clear."

For this information, it is decent, and there are no bright spots, but if you think about it carefully, its highlight is also here, Zhang Erhu has to admire Song Tao's delicate thoughts.

If it is replaced by ordinary people, in order to obtain more accurate intelligence data, people will definitely be arrested and interrogated, which is no problem when the two armies are facing each other in peacetime, but it is not suitable for their current situation, after all, they are going to be a surprise army, and they will rush into the town of Shema when Hu Meng is defenseless, if they are discovered, they have guarded, and then they want to rush in, it will be very difficult.

Without waiting for Yan Wuji to continue to ask, Song Tao said again: "I met two teams of Humeng scouts along the way, but they were all bypassed by us, according to the estimation of subordinates, the reconnaissance range of Humeng scouts is thirty miles outside Xiema Town, and there are about six teams on each side?" ”

"Oh? How do you know this? Zhang Erhu was obviously interested in this, and couldn't help but ask out loud.

Song Tao looked at Yan Wuji, and when he saw the other party nodding, he hugged his fist at Zhang Erhu and replied: "General Zhang, this is according to the law summarized by our scout team when we did field experiments, we captured ten rabbits in an area, and then we marked these ten rabbits and released them in this area, and then we will catch them after more than a month, and according to the number of marked rabbits caught this time, we can roughly know how many rabbits there are in this group." ”

Zhang Erhu's eyes lit up, "This is a very interesting thing." ”

Yan Wuji nodded and smiled, "If General Zhang is interested in these, we can communicate more in the future, and the interesting things in the scout camp are more than this." ”

"It must be, hahahaha." Zhang Erhu agreed with a smile on his face, how could he not know that this was Yan Wuji deliberately showing favor to him, this alone made him instantly feel that he was reluctant to be the second-in-command under Yan Wuji, you must know that in the future, Yan Wuji will sit in his father's position, if he Zhang Erhu can still be the second-in-command, it will already be a complete merit.

No matter how bad it is, this is also the capital that he bragged about to others in the future, "That Yan Shuai back then took the initiative to show favor to us." ”

After gossiping, Yan Wuji shook his head in the direction of Xiema Town in the north, and pointed with a horsewhip in his hand, "Song Tao, lead your people to leave all the Humeng scouts who are blocking the road in front of you, can you do it?" ”

Song Tao's body sitting on horseback stood tall and tall, and said loudly: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and took the seven or eight elite soldiers behind him, personally selected by him in the cavalry camp, and galloped away.

Looking at Song Tao, who was gradually moving away, Yan Wuji ordered again: "The whole army, keep in formation, move towards the position of Xiema Town, and move quickly!" ”

After all, there are still fifty miles, and maintaining formation and physical strength is the key, which even Yan Wuji, who has never been a cavalryman, knows very well.

And Zhang Erhu behind him also breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that the second generation of the official in front of him wanted the whole army to start charging from here, and before he ran to the city of Xiema, these five thousand elite cavalry must have all become five thousand tired soldiers, and they had no strength to move, let alone fight with the well-cultivated Humeng cavalry.

The snow had been getting heavier and heavier since the afternoon, and the soil on the ground had begun to become wet, and in some places it had even begun to become muddy, and in a high-pitched sound of horns, the soldiers in Humont's camp began to pour out from the camp gate like ants, and formed an offensive formation in an orderly manner under the organization of the various ministers.

"Here we go again...... Zhu Ziming looked at the approaching "ants" under the city wall with some headache, this month's battle, although it failed to make the enemy enter the city half a step, but the price paid was also very obvious.

Half of the brothers were already lying in the hospital hall in the city, or in the Zhongyi Hall, but fortunately, the morale of the soldiers did not fall because of this, but became more and more courageous, so in the face of the still huge number of Hu Meng's troops outside the city, Zhu Ziming's heart did not have much fear.

Bed crossbows, bows and arrows, tung oil rolling wood, everything was carried out in an orderly order, and from time to time soldiers were hit by stray arrows shot up from outside the city, but as long as it was not critical, they all endured the pain, broke the arrows, and continued to persevere.

A bright light on the left city wall attracted Zhu Ziming's attention, although it was very faint, it still made Zhu Ziming's heart beat faster.

Sure enough, one after another flashes of bright light flashed, with different colors, but at the end of each bright light, it was the end of the life of a Yan soldier.

"That's a group of fucking Extreme Martial Cultivators!" Zhu Ziming roared angrily in his heart, "All the archers listen to the order, target the No. 5 crossbow position on the left side of the city wall, and release the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! ”

A group of extremely martial cultivators dressed in Humeng military uniforms mixed in the siege troops, and as soon as they approached, they used their terrifying strength to gain an overwhelming advantage over the Yan soldiers at the head of the wall, until Zhu Ziming found out, those Humeng people who were agile and had extremely martial protection had already climbed the wall and launched a grass-mowing slaughter.

At this time, in the camp outside the east city wall, Temuter looked at the city head with flickering swords from a distance through the fence, and couldn't help but secretly spit out turbidity, and then a wild laugh came out of his mouth, as if he wanted to vent all the depression of the past month.

This team of Extreme Martial Cultivators is a special force that has just arrived from the royal court to help in the battle, and there are not many of them, only twenty people, but it is these twenty people who have become the key to breaking the city.

You must know that in front of the Extreme Martial Cultivators, ordinary people are like babies over the age of 1, who want to be destroyed but only raise their hands, and at this time, these twenty Extreme Martial Cultivators are like wolves jumping into the flock, swooping left and biting, acting recklessly.

Qiu Xin, who rushed to hear the news, saw that half of the city wall had fallen into the hands of the Humeng people, and hurriedly commanded the reserve team to come forward to support, and dozens of archers poured arrows in their pockets at the Humeng soldiers above under the city, and he himself took the guards to personally guard the city gate, if the city gate was opened, it was really powerless.

Zhu Ziming gradually retreated under the protection of his personal guards, and the sword qi slashed out by those people was even more fierce than ordinary arrows, and ordinary shields couldn't even stand it.

Seeing that the eastern city wall was about to be lost, the red-eyed Zhu Ziming tightened the blade in his hand, and suddenly roared wildly and rushed towards the group of extreme martial arts cultivators.