Jiangjin Shu, the camp of the Chen army under the darkness of the night was in a mess, the embers were burning in the ruins and broken walls everywhere, the soldiers of the Chen army were cleaning up the mess one by one, several large ships on the bank of the river passed through the dock between those warships that had been mostly sunk, and a group of soldiers walked out of the boats and boarded the land.

In a large tent, Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, was lying on his back on the couch, and several military doctors were carefully helping him treat the wounds on his body.

Chen Shuling looked at the top of the tent expressionlessly and asked Chen how the casualties were, and a general reported in a low voice that there were about 4,000 soldiers killed and burned to death, and 16 warships moored along the river sank.

The losses did not sound very large, the main target of the enemy's attack on Jiangjin was not a large number of casualties, and most of the main warships of the navy were moored at the Fengcheng sandbank and were not affected.

Hearing the loss, Chen Shuling's face still did not change, but when he asked about the grain and grass, the general's voice lowered when he heard this: "Roughly speaking, only." Only about 10% remained. ”

"Woo!" Chen Shuling screamed and sat up from the couch suddenly, the people around him were so frightened that they couldn't kneel on the ground, and a military doctor who was helping Chen Shuling treat the wounds on his face trembled and knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The king, the little one is careless, please spare the king!" ”

"Drag it out and cut it!" Chen Shuling's eyes were red and he roared, and the flesh on his right cheek was blurred and hideous, which was a wound caused by a hidden weapon when he was fighting with the opposing general when the enemy attacked the camp in the middle of the night.

The military doctor cried and was dragged out for a moment before his voice was silenced, and then his bloody head was put on a plate and brought in and placed on the side of the couch, Chen Shuling looked around and pointed to a military doctor and said, "You, come and clean up the wound!" ”

The military doctor just kept kowtowing, saying that the wound was too deep and it was very troublesome to deal with, and he was not skilled enough for fear of hurting the king. Speaking of the back, seeing Chen Shuling's tiger eyes glaring at him, he couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward in fear and picked up the knife scalded with boiling water to clean the wound.

When the enemy attacked the camp, Chen Shuling hurriedly attacked, and his armor was not fully worn, but most of his body was bruised. A few wounds are also very shallow. The only wound on his face is a little tricky: it is likely to heal and leave a scar.

The thing shot by the hidden weapon hit the cheek bone, and it took some effort to remove it, and the injured muscles and muscles were afraid that it would be difficult to fully recover, resulting in 'facial paralysis'.

"It's really impossible to be a lowly person with a lack of skill." Military

"Go on!" After Chen Shuling finished speaking, he lay motionless and let the military doctor treat the wound, and after a while, he asked, "Where are the reinforcements?" ”

Hearing that the general's reply was that the naval reinforcements stationed in Fengcheng had landed, he asked the other party why it took so long to come after they were stationed in the river not far away, and the general explained that the warships moored on the shore of Jiangjin were ordered by the enemy, causing the naval warships in Fengcheng to be unable to dock for a while.

Chen Shuling was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then asked if there were any reinforcements sent from Jiangling, and the general replied that the reinforcements sent by the Jiangling battalion had arrived, and they were delayed because they were attacked halfway.

During the whole conversation, the atmosphere in the tent was full of sweat, but many people did not dare to stretch out their hands to wipe their sweat for fear of accidentally angering the murderous vassal king in front of him. There was nowhere to vent the anger in his heart, and he was about to find fault, but he found that he had not found any handle.

The military doctor was sweating profusely for a long time, and finally took out a lead pill from Chen Shuling's cheek, touched the sweat on his forehead, and carefully applied his cheek with herbs.

After the bandaging was finished, Chen Shuling got up and looked at the military doctor and said, "Very good, what reward do you want?" ”

"This is a matter of humble duty, and I dare not be greedy for merit." Where did the military doctor dare to ask for any reward, he felt that he was lucky to be able to get out of this big tent alive.

"Get out, get out!"

A cadre of people waited for the amnesty to crawl out of the tent, Chen Shuling summoned a general with a gloomy face: "Go, straighten out the soldiers and horses, and send troops in the coming day!" ”……

At noon the next day, outside Gangneung West Fortress. Countless human trebuchets kept throwing stones at the city, pulling the trebuchets to the people of Jiangling Dongcheng and the surrounding villages who were captured by Chen Jun. Under the supervision of the whip-wielding soldiers, he struggled to pull the hemp rope and pull the throwing rod to throw the stones.

"Lazy guy pull it quickly, dare to be lazy and cut you again!"

From time to time, there were cries from all over the human trebuchet, the people were whipped by the leather whip, forced to helplessly pull the trebuchet to throw stones to the city of their own country, the horn sounded continuously, the trebuchet stopped moving one after another, and then the Chen army, which had arrived under the city, began a new wave of siege.

Dense ladders on the city wall that had been damaged in many places, countless Chen army soldiers ants attached to it, countless Chen soldiers were smashed by the defenders and their heads were broken and blood flowed down the ladders, countless ladders were overturned and the soldiers above fell, but more soldiers did not want to die on the ladders to continue to climb the city.

Everyone saw the sky-high fire of Jiang Jinshu last night, although the generals tried their best to block the news and release the words to cause a slight loss, but everyone was not a fool Just by looking at the red half of the sky, they knew that the grain and grass were about to be burned.

Therefore, after the generals sent the overseer team today, the soldiers of the Chen army knew that if they could not capture Jiangling today, there would be only two ways to die: die during the siege of the city or die under the sword of the overseer.

The soldiers of the Chen army have no way to retreat, and the Zhou army defending the city has no way to retreat, the Liang army, which was originally the main force defending the city, has been lost, and now the only ones who can fight are them, the Zhou army of the Jiangling Governor's Mansion.

In the south of the city, under a half-collapsed arrow tower, Cui Junzheng, deputy governor of the Jiangling Governor's Office, anxiously mobilized the exhausted 'fire brigade' to plug the leaks everywhere, and the city gates around were blocked, and no one expected to go out of the city to assist the impossible reinforcements to flank the Chen army.

Half a month of defending the city exhausted the original prepared rolling wood and arrows, they even demolished the brick houses in the city and used bricks as weapons, the young and strong people were recruited to assist in defending the city, and the old and weak women and children who could still walk around were also recruited to help take care of the wounded.

Even if they repelled the attack of the Chen army today, the defenders don't know if they can withstand tomorrow's attack, and they hold on for half a month, so that the Chen army suffers heavy casualties, so after the city is broken, what awaits them will be the most cruel revenge.

An adjutant general ran anxiously along the city wall to report to Cui Jun: "Deputy Chief, the defenders of the Western Wall can't stand it!" ”

"If you can't stand it, you have to top it, let Li Jun lead the guards to block it!" Cui Jun shouted loudly. The firefighting team had just been sent elsewhere, and he wanted to transfer troops, but there were no troops to transfer.

"Master Li and several other building owners have been killed. There are fewer and fewer brothers. They. ”

"Everyone and Ben will go and kill the enemy!" Cui Jun set off without hesitation and led the guards to the west of the city.

The Jiangling Governor's Office was the only one of the Great Zhou governors with a deputy governor, because the Jiangling Governor's Office was a special one: it undertook the task of monitoring and protecting the Liang State, a subject state of the Great Zhou.

The duty of the governor of Jiangling is to monitor the monarchs and ministers of Liang, and the duty of the deputy governor is to protect Liang, so according to the division of labor, when the Chen army attacked Jiangling half a month ago, the governor of Jiangling, He Ba Zhonghua, led his troops to 'escort' the Liang emperor Xiao Yue, members of the royal family, and ministers to take refuge in Jinan City, ten miles north of Jiangling, while Cui Jun, the deputy governor, led the Zhou army in Xicheng to assist the Liang army to resist the besieging Chen army.

Over the past 20 years, the Chen army has attacked Jiangling several times, and finally they have been repulsed, that is, there is the support of the Jiangling Governor's Office of the Great Zhou of the Liang State and the troops of the surrounding states, and the Chen army that came to attack, but now the Xiangzhou and Anzhou Governor's Mansions, which could have become reinforcements, have rebelled and have no hope.

Cui Jun looked back in horror when he heard the sound of the east wall, and found that the east wall had waved more and more Chen Jun flags, and their cheers quickly spread to arouse the morale of the besieging comrades everywhere.

"Break the city. Break the city! The shouts of the tide sounded among the Chen army, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians defending the city plummeted instantly.

"Deputy Chief, it's impossible to do anything, hurry up!" A subordinate general said with a pale face that they had fought against several times their own enemy troops for half a month without reinforcements, and they were already loyal to their duties, and if they delayed any longer, they would not even be able to seize the last chance to escape.

"Don't retreat, beat the drums, and fight with the thief!" Cui Jun took off the scarf and threw it to the ground, "Where can the people of the city retreat, we should live and die with Jiangling!" ”

The mournful drums rang out, beating one after another in the hearts of the soldiers and civilians who were about to exhaust the city. They mustered up their last courage to face the Chen army who were pouring into the city from all directions to make a final effort.

The fall of the city will not end well even if they dodge the first few rounds of killing, and the Chen army will not be able to stay for long when they capture Jiangling, and when the imperial army counterattacks, they will move the people of the city to Jiangnan. When the time comes, everyone will be uprooted and even reduced to slavery and suffer for the rest of their lives.

The resistance of the defenders only temporarily stuck to the offensive of the Chen army, and the Chen soldiers suffered huge casualties but still attacked frantically, and finally exchanged the heavy casualties for the defenders' counterattack and gained a firm foothold in the city.

"Kill, capture the city and plunder it for three days, and the woman still has money in front of you!" At the head of the city, a Chen army general brandished a saber and shouted loudly to stimulate the soldiers' fighting spirit, and a feathered arrow flew towards the middle of the gate and shot him over, but more Chen soldiers continued to rush forward with red eyes.

Cui Jun threw down the strong bow in his hand, drew his saber and rushed towards them, and more than a dozen subordinates also gathered around the boss to carry out a decisive assault, they gave up the opportunity to escape and die in Jiangling City with Lord Lang.

The trilogy and the Lang lord are both prosperous and the loss, and the Lang lord has made up his mind to die, so they have no reason to survive alone, only to blame the will of heaven.

The enemy army is large, and if you block a knife, there will be three knives to cut over, so the troops did not choose to block but relied on the sleeve armor on their bodies to resist so as to free up their hands to cut people, and they burned their last lives in a tragic way of exchanging one life for two lives or even three lives.

Suddenly there was a continuous sound of horns in the north, and the defenders who had been in a desperate situation heard the sound in disbelief, only to see the flag on the horizon of the north like a sea under a large black tide is rushing towards Gangneung, and the huge word 'Zhou' can be vaguely seen on the big flag fluttering in the wind.

The smoke and dust were billowing out, and several cavalry were galloping before the black tide like several sharp knives whistling at them, and the already desperate defenders of the city cried with joy when they saw such a military situation: "Reinforcements, reinforcements are coming!" ”

Reinforcements are just around the corner, and everyone, men and women, young and old, once again muster up the courage to fight Chen Jun hand-to-hand with everything that can be used as a weapon, they have been holding out for half a month, as long as they hold on for a while, they can be rescued!

Outside Jiangling City, next to the big tent of Chen Jun's Chinese army, Fan Meng, the deputy marshal of Chen Jun, looked at the army that he judged to be very likely but did not want to appear, sighed, and then nodded to the side: "Yuan Yin, it's up to you." ”

Xiao Maha, the general of the right guard, who was draped all over, saluted solemnly, and then rode on his war horse and galloped away to the outside of the camp, where the cavalry and infantry who had been waiting for a long time were ready to go.

This is the only reserve of Chen's army after excluding the siege troops, which gathered all the cavalry and the most elite infantry, their mission is to prevent the enemy army that attacked Jiangjin Shu last night, since the other party attacked Jiangjin Shu, then the next hand must be to support Jiangling City.

The grain and grass were burned, so the Chen army could no longer fight for a long time, and in the face of the enemy army that was about to come but did not know how many troops they had, they chose to advance, and the capture of Jiangling City was just around the corner, so the generals of the Chen army decided to fight hard. (To be continued.) )