Chapter 218: Defending the City (I)
When Wu Yueya woke up, she found that she was wearing a new cloak, sat up from the plank, rolled the cloak onto her back, and saw Chu Er, who was sleeping peacefully next to the plank, and covered Chu Er with a red cloak.
Shaking his drowsy head, he looked out of the tent door of the medical camp, it was still early, and the pale red of the setting sun sneaked a shadow into the tent door.
Wu Yueya saw a teenage girl, who was holding a wooden basin with sticky ointment residues, walked into the camp tent with some blushing, lowered her head and came to the side of the medicine jar, put down the wooden basin, and picked up a medicine jar, no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't open the lid.
Wu Yueya stepped forward lightly and asked, "Do you need help?" ”
The little girl looked up at the strange woman in white, and buried her eyes in her bangs, "Hmm! ”
Wu Yueya helped the other party uncover the lid, made a soft bang, looked back at Chu'er who was turning over, fortunately did not wake up the people, and then poured the liquid ointment into the wooden basin.
The little girl secretly observed the cautious appearance of the woman in white, and asked in a low voice, "Are you the servant of the princess who protects the country?" ”
With a snorting voice, with the innocent tone of a little girl, Wu Yueya looked up at the girl, "Well, what's your name?" ”
"My name is Cuicui, I came to the medical camp with my father to help, I can only do chores, my father said that women don't need to study medicine, just marry directly when they grow up." The little girl sighed, stirred the ointment that was slowly poured into the wooden basin with a wooden spoon, and said her heart in confusion.
"Why are you sighing?" Wu Yueya finished pouring the ointment, turned to open another medicine jar, and continued to pour.
"I don't know, is it good to be a servant of the princess? Is the princess good? I heard that the saints have run away, and the princess of the protector is still commanding the sergeants to stick to Chang'an and fight with the rebels, so she wants to become a woman like the princess! Cuicui stopped what she was doing, revealing her face from her neat bangs, her eyes shining brightly.
Wu Yueya showed a bright smile, and just said proudly, "Cuicui, you have to be yourself, don't always think about being someone else!" Do you like medicine? ”
"I like it, but my father doesn't let me learn, and I don't have to worry about getting sick anymore after learning medical skills!" Cuicui said innocently, picking up the wooden basin and preparing to leave.
"That's good," Wu Yueya also stood up, watching the little girl leave, birth, old age, sickness and death are the only ways in life, studying medicine does not mean that you can end all kinds of weird diseases in the world, but you can treat yourself and others.
Firmly remember the little girl's name, find the doctor in charge of the medical camp, and ask her to accept Cuicui as a disciple.
Then slowly walked towards the city wall, walked over the stone ladder dozens of meters high, Wu Yueya stood on the city wall, with a telescope in her hand, looking towards the Hu military camp in the distance, a large number of war horses galloped around the camp tent, there were three layers of archers inside, and you could see the Hu craftsmen who were sorting out the ladder, according to this situation, Wu Yueya guessed that it was likely to attack the city at night.
Orders were given to increase patrols and put lanterns on wooden stakes extending outside the walls at night to illuminate the surroundings and prevent attacks.
After returning to the camp and waiting for Chu'er to wake up, the sunset had already set, and he rode on a war horse and headed towards the West Market, but in half an hour, he arrived at the West Market, which had not yet closed, and had dinner in the Journey to the West Restaurant, and saw Taibai, Liang Zixin, Zhang Heng, and gathered a large number of cadres of the Black Armor Army.
The restaurant was closed at this time, but several tables in the building were put together, and everyone was sitting around.
There are six lanterns on the table, stretching the shadows of the crowd to the wall, and the cracks in the doors and windows can bring in the excitement outside.
"Taibai, how is the garrison in the south of the city arranged?" Wu Yueya asked eagerly, and the recurring arrow wound on her arm ached faintly.
"Princess, everything has been arranged, 10,000 black-armored troops, 5,000 bad people, 100,000 militiamen who volunteered to sacrifice their lives for the country, these are all fighting forces to defend the city!" Li Bai stood up and handed the detailed scroll to the princess, Shen Shen was a little tired, these days he must do everything personally, deal with the problems of the people's army, appease the emotions of the people, arrest traitors and eliminate the secret sons of the Hu people, although he has long been exhausted, but he does not dare to slack off, the battle situation is urgent, and the people will die if the city is broken.
"Well, then start explaining the situation these days," Wu Yueya began to talk about Hu Cai's combat characteristics and siege equipment after reading the information in the book, "This time it is not a success in dragging down their morale, they would never have thought that there are still people in Chang'an who are willing to defend the city, and they did not expect the strength of the Black Armor Army, success or failure is in one fell swoop tonight, and defending tonight is their end!" ”
"The princess is resourceful, brave and good at fighting, she will definitely be able to hold Chang'an, defeat the rebels, and be famous for etern......ity" Zhang Lian opened his mouth to come, and the beautiful words were endless, and his voice gradually lowered under the strange expressions of everyone, and he realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he shut up directly.
"Even if I keep Chang'an, it's not my credit, it's the result of everyone's efforts, you don't have to exalt me so much!" Wu Yueya eased the atmosphere a little and continued to talk about the next arrangement.
Soon, the half-round moon that was not cold surfaced in the night sky, and the black armor sergeant divided into three teams of 1,000 people, who stayed on the streets of the city with dark torches, led by Lu Ziji, Xie Yimu, Ma Daha and others, ready to help at any time.
Wu Yueya climbed the city wall and saw that many militias composed of ordinary people were moving stones and stakes, and also saw the Hu people's camp lit up in front of him.
Through the binoculars, Wu Yueya could see that the Hu people were dancing around the bonfire, and there were people like witches praying for them, and when she was surprised, she also asked Taibai next to her, "What are they doing?" Banquets? ”
Li Bai took the binoculars and looked at the Hu people's camp, the whole person tensed, "Princess, it's time to attack the city, they are sacrificing the dead!" ”
"Pass the order, the whole army is ready, the rebels are going to attack the city!" Wu Yueya ordered to her subordinates, and continued to stand at the head of the cold wind wall to watch the enemy's movements.
Li Bai and Zhang Heng and others who received the order immediately went to arrange, the bad guys and militiamen who first landed on the city wall were holding weapons and did not dare to breathe, many people leaned against the wall and looked down condescendingly, like leisure after dinner, such people knew at a glance that they would not live long on the battlefield, and Shao Tianlin, who had been half-squatting against the wall to repair the bow and crossbow, did not say much, he had experienced a lot in the battle of life and death, and he was numb, he remembered that the princess said that equality is everyone's freedom, and he also felt so, men and women so, The same is true on the battlefield, and in the end, it is a wake-up call to the recruits who have not had a sense of crisis in those years.
When the rockets stray past the walls, the night war began.