Chapter 131: Heaven Is Not Beautiful
(Sunday, but I still can't rest, poor thing!) Tell you a recipe for diarrhea, my mother gave it to me! Three tablets of berberine, one tablet of vitamin B1, six tablets of yeast, and two tablets of oxytetracycline, taken twice in a row, the treatment of diarrhea is simply wonderful! Hey! Yesterday I felt like I was going to die on the toilet, and today I am alive again! )
After the dark clouds in the sky were held for two days, a heavy rain finally came unexpectedly, and suddenly the attack of the Xingtian Army was suspended, and the raindrops of beans first fell like a point shot, and then they were sprinkled on the ground like machine gun fire, and when the raindrops just fell on the dry land, it would stir up a cloud of dust, so that the air was filled with a fishy smell of loess, and the rain that fell on the ground instantly soaked into the land, and soon the whole earth was soaked with rain, and there was no longer a little dust. In just a moment, the torrential rain began to whip this long-arid land like a whip, and instantly turned everyone into chickens, but it finally dissipated a lot of the sultry heat, making people feel a little cool.
The outside of Lijiazhuang suddenly became a piece of mud, and the sound of artillery that had been sounding intermittently for two days finally stopped, Xiao Tianjian looked at the sky helplessly, wiped the rain on his face, and ordered to go down to collect troops and return to the camp.
Under the village wall of Lijiazhuang, there are a lot of long ladders that have fallen horizontally, some of which have been burned black, and are still smoking in the rain, which shows that this day has happened this time.
"Damn thief! It's raining heavily at this time, isn't this sincerely right for us? As soon as he returned to Xiao Tianjian's tent, Yan Chongxi took off the iron helmet on his head and scolded.
Several other people also scolded, scolding God for not helping the Xingtian Army.
"This Li Jiazhuang is really strong! It seems that we are still a little contemptuous! Xiao Tianjian also took off the iron helmet, took the cloth handed to him by the iron head and wiped the rain on his face, his hair has grown a lot in the past six months, but it is still not enough to coil up, and it is scattered on the shoulders, which looks a little weird, but the people under him are used to his hairstyle, but no one thinks it is strange, Xiao Tianjian dropped the cotton cloth that wiped his face, and said to the officers in the tent after sitting down.
"Indeed it is! I thought that after exposing the old bottom of the Li family this time, those Zhuang Ding villagers would not give their lives to the Li family, but now it seems that they still don't want us to break the Zhuangzi! Today, more than a dozen of my brothers were killed and wounded, and I didn't expect them to fight back so fiercely! Damn it! I really can't figure out why these things are working so hard for the Li family! Yan Chongxi sat on a bench depressed and spoke.
"I also suffered more than a dozen casualties among my men, most of my grandmother's were scalded by boiling oil, it seems that it is not easy to get it!" Zhao Erdonkey finally spoke.
On the first day, after filling in a ditch, the Xingtian Army began to launch a strong attack the next day, but it didn't happen that the Zhuang Ding of Lijiazhuang was like taking an aphrodisiac, and the counterattack was very fierce, and the Xingtian Army took turns to fight, set up a cloud ladder and attacked several times, and were all repelled by the people of Lijiazhuang, and at the end of this day, the Xingtian Army killed more than 30 brothers, and injured more than 40 of them, of which there were seven or eight seriously injured, and it was estimated that it would not survive this night, so after the rain and the troops, the morale of the Xingtian Army was a little low.
"It's really unfortunate, the fire attack we originally prepared for Lijiazhuang seems to be temporarily useless! But don't be discouraged, it is impossible for us to do everything smoothly in this world, before we came, we expected that Lijiazhuang would not be easy to fight, after all, there are wives and children of the villagers in this village, they will not easily believe that we will not harm them after breaking the village, and the Li family will also reward Zhuang Ding Xiangyong this time, so it may not be easy to break through Lijiazhuang in a short period of time! When we fought Fanjiabao at the beginning, didn't it take four days to take Fanjiabao? Lijiazhuang is much stronger than Fanjiabao, if we take Lijiabao in two days, it will be really strange! Mencius has clouds, the heavens will descend on the people, must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, empty their bodies, we just encountered a rain, so depressed, doesn't it make people laugh? Xiao Tianjian took a sip of herbal tea and said to them with a smile indifferently.
After everyone listened, they nodded one after another, they were all rough people, and there were few literate people, so naturally they would not understand the meaning of what Xiao Tianjian said about Mencius at the end, but they could generally understand that Xiao Tianjian was encouraging them, thinking about their angry appearance just now, they were all a little embarrassed, and the expression on their faces relaxed.
"But there's no way to go on like this! We have limited food stockpiles, and our subordinates have summed it up just now, and the grain and grass we brought this time is only enough for us to use for another four days, and if we can't beat Lijiazhuang within four days, we will withdraw our troops and go back! You have to think of a way to do it! Jin Fuzi finally couldn't help but stand up and said to Xiao Tianjian with a worried face.
"Huh! I know! But the sky is not beautiful! This rain couldn't have come at a better time! But you don't have to worry, the plan is in the sky, although the thief God does not help, but we can't be discouraged, you each go to your brothers, cheer up the brothers, as long as the rain slows down tomorrow, we will continue to fight, although we have to attack Lijiazhuang to talk about some strategies, but we can't all expect everything to be tricky, we want the Xingtian Army to be brave and good at fighting, the right to take Lijiazhuang this time to practice!
Although Lijiazhuang resisted fiercely today, most of the people on the wall of the village were the cronies of the Li family, but they were just fighting the trapped beasts, so let's concentrate on a one-point onslaught, and after consuming these cronies of Lijiazhuang, I don't believe that the people of Lijiazhuang can hold out for a few more days! As long as the rain decreases tomorrow, we will continue to attack, this time Lao Tzu personally took you up, I don't believe it, we are hundreds of men, even a section of the village wall can not be gnawed!
By the way, Shi Ran, did the brothers sent to Huangyang County and Fengxiang Mansion send back any news today? Is there any movement on either side? Xiao Tianjian's face was very calm, and he calmly cheered up the people in the tent, and then asked Shi Ran by name about the scout.
Shi Ran immediately got up and replied, "Back to the plate!" The brothers sent have already sent back the news, the gate of Wangyang County is closed, not a single soldier has been sent at all, and there is no movement on the side of Fengxiang Mansion, it seems that they do not plan to send troops to save Lijiazhuang! ”
"That's good! As long as the officers and soldiers don't interfere in this matter, it won't be a big problem, although this rain is not small, but I estimate that it won't rain for too long, big guy, take a good rest, as long as the rain stops, let's do it immediately, you all go down to rest first! The brethren are tired today! After rounding the brethren, rest early, too! "Anyway, because of this rain, everything had to be temporarily stopped, and Xiao Tianjian just thought it was God who let them rest, and waved his hand to let these people retreat.
Yan Chongxi and the others nodded, and then got up and retreated, after a fierce battle this day, everyone was not lightly tired, the Xingtian Army was still not long in the army, although the morale was high, but after all, the training time was still short, and the ability to attack the fortifications was limited.
Looking at the back of them leaving, Xiao Tianjian also frowned, this rain was indeed very unfortunate, it had a great impact on their offensive operations, and the originally planned things had to be stopped, so they could only wait for the heavy rain to stop before starting the attack.
This rain is indeed very timely for Li Jiazhuang, when seeing that the Xingtian army began to retreat, Li Wangjin and his cronies finally breathed a long sigh of relief, this day of fierce fighting, they were under very great pressure, in fact, as Xiao Tianjian said, they are really limited, the morale of the Zhuang Ding villagers in the Zhuangzi is low, and even some people resist passively, so that when the Xingtian army attacks Zhuangzi today, it is very difficult for Li Wangjin to deploy manpower.
Seeing that the morale of the people in the Zhuangzi was not high, after Li Fengtian learned the news, he simply asked his family to directly take out a few boxes of silver, put them in the Zhuangmen, and cash the bounty on the spot, which finally mobilized some morale, resisted the onslaught of the Xingtian Army for a day, and caused a lot of casualties to the Xingtian Army.
When the heavy rain poured down in the afternoon, the Li family finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Wangjin sat down on the wall of the village, holding the arrow wound under his ribs with his hand for a while.
They prayed that the rain would not stop, and that it would be consumed until the Xingtian Army's food was exhausted and receded on its own, and now they had given up the idea of counting on the Huangyang Zhixian and Fengxiang Mansion to send troops to help them, they could only count on themselves to withstand the attack of the Xingtian Army, if they could not withstand the attack of the Xingtian Army, then they had only a dead end.
God really didn't take much care of the Xingtian Army this time, this rain was two days in a row, and the rain was very heavy, as if to pay off the debt owed for nearly a year, and such a heavy rain was indeed a test for the Xingtian Army, although they seized a batch of military tents from the officers and soldiers, but most of these military tents were also dilapidated, heavy rain outside, light rain inside the tent, so that the soldiers and generals could hardly rest, like soaking in muddy water.
And this heavy rain also caused them to collect dry firewood, cooking only rice and grain is not enough, at least there must be something to raise the fire, although they have a batch of firewood here, but such a heavy rain, still wet a lot of firewood, so that let the firehead soldiers cook is a problem.
In this way, it also affected the morale of the soldiers, and many people were a little depressed, and the morale of the rainbow weakened a lot when they first came.
Xiao Tianjian did not stop patrolling the camp for the past two days, and vacated the big tent where he lived, and let it be used by Lu Langzhong to place the wounded, he simply squeezed together with some soldiers, and lived in a tent with a leaky rain, and the drill could not be carried out in such a heavy rain, so Xiao Tianjian simply let each company organize itself to discuss in the tent, according to the experience of his previous life, at times like this, it is the time when the army is most prone to problems, and the generals are very irritable, and the morale is even worse. Rather than letting them rest and have nothing to do, it is better to organize them to study, which can effectively prevent them from having nothing to do, and he doesn't want to wait for the rain to stop and let his subordinates become a plate of scattered sand again.
As for what to learn, it is also a problem, Xiao Tianjian can't go to chat with all the soldiers one by one, so he waved his hand and let a few of his officers watch it by themselves, and it is okay to have a bittersweet meeting, and it is okay to take out the battle examples they have encountered before and discuss it, in short, as long as the soldiers are not allowed to herd sheep.