"My lord, the southerly side of the wall has been dug up by the Eastern Turks." A soldier trotted all the way over and said to Zhuang Fudi.

"Take twenty men and go and fix the collapsed place. Throw all the stones you can at me, and kill all the Turks who want to climb through that gap to the wall. In any case, the Turks must not be allowed to climb the city walls! Zhuang Fudi wrote something casually on the paper on the side, and then said to the soldiers who came to report the news.

Seeing the soldier leading the order, Li Wen tilted his head and asked Zhuang Fudi, "How many of us still have us?" ”

"Today, there are nearly 700 casualties in one day. There weren't many dead, only seventy or eighty. All the rest were injured and incapacitated. All the soldiers were lightly wounded and could not get out of the line of fire, and according to the statistics I have counted so far, more than 500 of the wounded and sick that we sent to medical treatment a few days ago were able to return to continue fighting. The rest is either dead or maimed. Let me see the specifics. Zhuang Fudi said that he took the account book in front of him in his hand and looked through it carefully, and then continued to say to Li Wen: "South, north and west, there are a thousand soldiers on each of the three walls. You know, they must not move. Now there are less than 2,000 people on the eastern wall to resist the Turkic attack, and most of the 2,000 are wounded, so the situation is a little unoptimistic. ”

"In other words, our only chance to turn the tables now is the Xue Ju army outside the city that we don't even know the specific location?" Li Wen looked at Zhuang Fudi and said a little jokingly.

"That was before, I said I didn't know where they were, but now it's different, last night they sent me news that they had arrived at the place I had assigned him to find, and that they were ready to attack the Turks." Zhuang Fudi looked at Li Wen and said word by word.

"Message for you? If I'm not mistaken, we are now surrounded by Turkic armies in the county town of Wuwei County. In this case, even a bird can't fly in, how did Xue Jujun outside the city get in touch with you? Li Wen said with some curiosity.

"Believe it or not, I've gotten news from them anyway. And the ability of the military lords in our army is far better than you think, but it is really whimsical that a few tens of thousands of Turks want to block their route into the city. Zhuang Fudi said to Li Wen with a smile.

"I don't care what you think, anyway, I'll definitely be the first to slip away after the city breaks. But if you are willing to risk your life to fight, then I will naturally accompany you to the end, when will we go out? Li Wen straightened out the clothes on his body for a while, and then stood up and said to Zhuang Fudi.

"You, just wait until the Turkic camp is on fire and the formation of the Turkic attack outside the city is chaotic. You are taking advantage of the chaos from the city gates, and you will kill as many Turks as you can. Zhuang Fudi also stood up and said to Li Wen.

"It's as simple as that?" Li Wen couldn't believe his ears, so he asked.

"It's as simple as that." Zhuang Fudi nodded to Li Wen and said.

"Alright, then I'll wait for you to send someone to inform me. But if you deliberately send me out of the city to die, I won't let you go, hahaha. After Li Wen finished speaking, he walked out of Zhuang Fudi's command post with a laugh, and went down the city wall to find the team he had assembled earlier.

Zhuang Fudi walked out of the command post under the protection of his subordinates and went to the city wall to check the battle situation on the battlefield. At this time, there were already several Turkic siege ladders hanging on the battlements of the city wall, and the Turks under the city were not afraid of death to raise their shields to climb up the ladders. The defenders of the city braved the rain of arrows thrown by the Turks below the city, and threw all the heavy objects that could hurt people down the ladder. As for the racket prepared in advance, it was already exhausted at this time, and even if there were still some remaining reserves in the city, it was too late to transport them to the city at this time. Moreover, the loss of the clap rod is not only damaged when slapping the siege ladder, but also the loss caused by the Turks under the city who shot down the city wall with arrows when the defending soldiers held the clapper to slap the ladder.

However, this was inevitable, and when the pole was damaged, the defenders on the walls had to throw all kinds of rolling logs and stones down the ladder. However, there was a time when these defensive equipment were exhausted, but fortunately, there were still many building materials piled up on the city wall to repair the damage of the city wall, and these building materials became the defensive weapons of the defending soldiers against the Turks who tried to climb the city wall.

Zhuang Fudi found the commander-in-chief who was in charge of the defense of the city wall at this time, hid with him under the shed with hard planks as a roof, and said to him: "How long can you hold on?" What is the loss of materials for the defense of the city? ”

The commander ripped off an arrow embedded in his armor, threw it on the ground, turned his head and said to Zhuang Fudi: "Back to the chief of staff, the personnel defending on our city wall are still sufficient. But to tell you the truth, we're almost out of the weapons we can use to kill the Turks at range. If this stalemate continues, it will only be a matter of time before the Turks climb the walls and engage in melee combat with us. ”

"Okay, I got it. Let your men hold on a little longer, and the generous gifts I have prepared for the Turks are almost ready, and it will be clear for a while and a half. Zhuang Fudi nodded and said to the commander in front of him.

At this moment, the sound of a heavy object breaking through the sky came from the sky in the distance. Then a black shadow flashed in front of Zhuang Fudi's eyes and slammed into the ground outside the window, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust. In this situation, Zhuang Fudi was so shocked that he stood up directly, looked out blankly with his hand on the battlements, and muttered in his mouth:

"Damn, didn't the garrison of the Great Wall say that they had destroyed all the Turkic trebuchets? Where the hell did that come from? ”

In order to stabilize the morale of the soldiers in the city, the commander next to him stood up, pointed to the landing point of the stone bullet outside and said to the soldiers next to him: "Haha! The Turkic barbarians outside the city don't turn our stone throwers, and now they start hurting their own people with those things. ”

But before the commander's words could be heard, another stone projectile flew through the city walls and smashed into the city's houses. The soldiers who were waiting to reinforce the casualties of the defenders in the city rushed forward one after another to rummage through the rubble without waiting for their commander's order.

(End of chapter)