Everyone took turns eating while being on guard. The second batch was just halfway through eating, and Luo Zhao changed his new force and rushed back again. Lord Guo also replaced the reserves here, and a vicious battle between the two sides happened again.

Guo Beizhao couldn't rest, because his father was in the hall, and Guo Beizhao had already made up his mind not to die or retreat. He shouted to his men, "Brothers, our reinforcements from Xizhou will arrive in two hours, and I will kill them with you in the middle of the night!" ”

The people's spirits were lifted when they heard this, and the shouts of killing became high-pitched again.

According to Guo Xiaoke's estimate, the Xizhou reinforcements should have arrived at the Lüguang Pavilion, and if there is resistance in the Lüguang Pavilion, then the four hundred or so people here will have to support for another one or two hours. Fortunately, the walls of the Yanqi Palace's mansion are high and thick, and his own people have a favorable location. Otherwise, even if another 400 men were added, there would not be much left of the battle at this point.

Guo Xiaoke thought of this and commanded loudly, "Someone! Go to the back hall of the palace, immediately go and boil a few pots of boiling water, and find something to bring to the wall. One of his men answered and went quickly.

In the middle of the night, both sides reached the end of their crossbows, and the shouting stopped. Luo Zhao stood on the opposite side of the street, rushed at the wall and shouted at Tang Bing, "If you don't hand over Guo Xiaoke, do you all have to die here with him?" If there is no wife and children at home, why bother to throw your life here! ”

One of the guards at the wall scolded, "If you have the guts, come closer, and let me kill you with an arrow." And Luo Zhao heard it as if he hadn't heard it, so he pretended to listen with his ears sideways, "There is no movement outside the city...... Eighty percent of the Tang army will not come. Those who know the times are junjie, and I can't see that you are all dead-hearted, so don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless! ”

There was no one behind the wall for a long time, Luo Zhao thought that he had a plan, cleared his throat and waited to strike while the iron was hot to say a few more words, but who knew that fourteen or five sergeants with bows and arrows flashed out at the same time behind the battlements on the wall of the palace courtyard. Shot the arrows at the place where Luo Zhao was!

It happened suddenly, and Luo Zhao didn't expect it for half a minute. Seeing that in mid-air, fourteen or five carved arrows flew towards him in unison, and there was no way to hide within ten feet of his side, Luo Zhao waved the saber in his hand and tried his best to pull away the arrows.

But his left shoulder had already been shot by Guo Zhizhao once, and at this time there was only one good hand left. Turning back and forth, he was hit by another arrow in the old wound in his left shoulder, and the horse under him was also struck twice in the chest. The pain made the front hooves rise high, and Luo Zhao was thrown off the horse and fell heavily to the ground.

Someone else laughed at the wall, "If your grandfather's ears are not quiet again, he will shoot you in the right shoulder." Amidst a rough laugh on the wall, a few of Luo Zhao's men ran over. Lift him up and heal his wounds.

The opposing main general was wounded twice, and his morale fell, and the attack slowed down slightly. Taking advantage of this gap, Guo Xiaoke called the edict to come closer, and saw that the eldest son was already covered in blood, Guo Xiaoke asked him to sit down and rest, and said to him slowly, "Maybe we have to plan for the worst." ”

Guo Zhizhao's body trembled slightly when he heard this, how could he not know the meaning of his father's words? Extrapolated by time. Reinforcements, if not a hasty march, should have arrived. But there was no movement outside the city.

Guo Zhizhao looked at his father and said firmly. "As long as I'm here, I won't let them step into this courtyard even half a step!"

Guo Xiaoke pondered for a long time, and said with some regret, "I have vaguely thought of whose head is the fault of the matter...... It's for the sake of the Father's carelessness! If the reinforcements don't arrive after dawn, I want you to take the ones you can go and try your best to break out. ”

Guo Zhizhao wanted to speak again. I heard a few terrible screams from outside the west wall, and then someone on the wall laughed, "Are you rats?" I don't enter the door, but I come to make a hole! ”

It turned out to be Tang Jun, who was napping against the wall, and suddenly heard the sound of chiseling the wall outside the wall. Quietly told the wall to lean down and look down, just in time to see six or seven enemies taking advantage of the chaos to dig holes outside the wall. So a pot of boiling water prepared in advance was poured down.

After failing to make a plan, Luo Zhao changed his tactics again. It turned out that he was still worried that the Tang army would really come to help, and he just wanted to quickly solve the Guo family and his son to get rid of their worries. But after such a long mastiff battle between the two sides, there was no shadow of the Tang Army outside the city, so he was a little relieved. The heart said that the two soldiers in Xizhou were trapped here, so how could they order the troops to be moved? It seems that he is overly worried.

So Luo Zhao decided to slowly get back the humiliation of his two arrows. The hard attack on him did not take advantage, so he adopted the tactic of boiling the eagle. On the one hand, the compound was tightly enclosed, and on the other hand, several groups of people were sent to harass the courtyard wall of the palace compound from time to time, digging the wall and taking ladders for a while, so that the people in the courtyard were always nervous and could not rest.

But it was only implemented a few times before Guo Xiaoke saw through it, and he asked the edict to take most of his subordinates to rest on the spot in the courtyard, and he took a few people to patrol back and forth on the courtyard wall to strictly guard against the enemy's sneak attack.

The two sides went back and forth, and before you knew it, the sky was already bright.

Guo Zhizhao rested for half the night and got up to replace his father. Guo Xiaoke said, "The enemy will attack again in a while, I will bring some people here to resist, you take the rest of the people from Yanqi North City to fall out, and there will be no danger in entering the mountains." ”

Guo Zhizhao listened and said loudly, "I'm not leaving, I'm leaving, let's go together." ”

In normal times, Guo Dudu would have been angry a long time ago. But at this time, he just looked at his son with great pity for a while, but said in the most calm and unemotional tone, "Go, count your subordinates, there are fifty people left in the family who are not only sons, and the others can go." ”

Seeing that Guo Zhizhao still wanted to speak, he added, "Our father and son can't all die here...... You must go out and go back to Xizhou to find out who delayed my order to move troops! Guo waits for Zhao to listen, and then comes out and arranges what should be done according to his father's instructions.

There is no shortage of long ropes in the palace, and Yanqi City is built according to the remaining veins of the Tianshan Mountains, and the terrain is high in the north and low in the south. They can only survive when they go out of the northern city and into the mountains. Seeing Guo waiting's selection, these guards all understood what Lord Guo meant, and no one said a word, everyone knew how short the gap between the big war was.

The noise outside the walls returned, and it seemed that a new offensive was about to begin. Guo Dudu's expression was dazed, and he said, "Everyone, filial piety is incompetent, and it has affected everyone!" See you in the afterlife! ”

"Father, listen! "It turned out that the enemy troops were not attacking, but were shouting and running in one direction. Guo Xiaoke climbed on the roof and watched for a while, then came down and commanded loudly, "The original deployment is invalid!" Embattled! Listen to me! ”

Gao Jun led people to the south of Yanqi City at dawn, and first discussed countermeasures in the woods on the south bank of the Danhe River.

As long as these people pass the light sage, they will be seen at a glance at the head of Yanqi City. If it is in the desert of Pingchuan, these herding teams, together with two hundred regular Tang cavalry, are a rapid shock force that should not be underestimated.

But they were facing a tall city, and they knew it was the same as a joke when they attacked it with cavalry. But Xizhou was so far away from Yanqi, how could he get here so quickly without cavalry?

The sound of the fighting in the city could still be faintly heard in people's ears ten miles away, and you can imagine the intensity of the fighting there. The tall man's mind was spinning rapidly, vetoing one plan after another.

Duan Zhenghai was a little anxious, he thought that Lord Gao had never fought and messed up, so he said, "Lord Gao, there is a great deal in the city, we are not allowed to hesitate, and I will take my men and horses to rush across the river to attack the city." Your people are my back. ”

Master Gao stretched out his hand to stop, "No, we have few people, and we attack the enemy's strengths with too short, how can this work?" ”

Duan Zhenghai said, "But saving soldiers is like fighting a fire, and Lord Guo will be in danger when he is late, how can he delay it any longer." ”

Gao Daren said, "You must know that we arrived here today and are the only people in the whole Xizhou who can rescue Lord Guo. As long as there are 300 of us, there is hope. If you ignore it, rush and slash to kill the past, and let these people fall under Yanqi City, who else will save Guo Dudu? Even if there are still people, let them run here from Xizhou, do you think there is still hope for the people in the city? ”

Attacking the strong with the weak, the only way to find the weakness of the strong is to seize the only opportunity to fight hard. That's all the chips in Master Gao's hand, and he can't be hasty. "Do you smell anything?" Master Gao asked, sniffing.

Feng Zheng and the other two said, "It's the smell of fireworks, wafting from the city." ”

Master Gao said, "You see that this Yanqi city is located in the middle of the mountain, and the daily water in the city can also be used with the help of qanats, but the water consumption is large, and the qanats are not enough. If you are rebellious, you will inevitably accumulate a lot of grain and grass...... This can be used. (To be continued.) )