The nights at the beginning of October were slightly cool, with dark clouds in the sky, obscuring the stars and moon, and a dark night covering the land.

On the third watch, there was silence inside and outside the city, only the torch on the city wall was blown by the wind and swayed, making a whirring sound.

Liu Heizi was wearing a suit of armor and holding a war knife in his hand, standing in the north of the city, where the soldiers were moving the corpses and carrying earth and stones to repair the city wall.

Nearly 1,000 people were busy, but no one spoke, and the atmosphere seemed a little depressing and hopeless.

At this time, Liu Heizi stared grimly at a section of the city wall destroyed by the Qing army, which was three zhang wide, and although the soldiers repaired it, the role of the city wall defense was greatly reduced.

Although the food and equipment in the city are quite sufficient, it is not easy to defend the city.

This is not to say how powerful the Qing army outside the city is, but that there is something wrong with the defenders' mental army, and they can't see any hope of victory.

At this time, the city was besieged for more than a month, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the south, not a single soldier came to support, it was completely like giving up on them, even the tall marshal did not send anyone over, so that the defenders had a feeling of being abandoned and no one would come to save them.

In the face of the Qing army, the defenders in the city could not win through their own strength, and they had to rely on external forces to have a chance to win. What about another month, two months? If no one comes to save it, the city will eventually fall, and everyone will die.

In such a situation, the soldiers inevitably felt hopeless, and it was this desperate mood that made Liu Heizi feel uneasy.

At this time, a subordinate general said beside him: "Marshal, count the time, whether it is the south, or the tall marshal, it is time to send troops, why hasn't there been any movement now?" ”

The turtle grandson didn't open which pot made Liu Heizi's face gloomy, but it was difficult to detect his expression in the dark.

"Hehe, don't worry, whether it is the imperial court or my brother Gao, they will not sit idly by and watch the fall of Shangqiu and Xuzhou, they will definitely send troops, but the army needs to be prepared for the expedition, so you don't have to worry." Liu Heizi smiled and reassured, and then said: "But we can't pin all our hopes on them, we must hold the city before we can wait for reinforcements." ”

Liu Heizi remained calm on his face, but his hand was already clenched on the handle of the knife, and he secretly hated it in his heart, and he had scolded Gao Yihuan eight hundred times, "I think that Lao Tzu was just an ordinary rogue, and the turtle grandson of the second year of high school insisted on pulling Lao Tzu to Shandong to provoke the Tartars, so that Lao Tzu offended the Tartars." Now the Tartar has come to the door, the second year of high school on Donkey Day, he doesn't care about Lao Tzu, it's really fucking not authentic! If Guisun doesn't come to save Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu won't let you go. ”

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A few miles away from the city, torches were lit everywhere in the Qing army's camp, and there were torch-lit soldiers patrolling around the camp, and the defense was very tight.

Since the last time he was attacked by Gao Yihuan, Duoduo has strengthened his defense at night to prevent a similar situation from happening again.

Now Dodor could tell people in his chest that no one would want to attack his stronghold.

At this time, outside the big tent of the Chinese army in the camp of the Qing army, there were white armor soldiers with torches standing all around, and the big tent was also brightly lit.

In the cowhide tent, several large wax burned, illuminating the tent, in the center of the bed is a small table, two bare scalps, only three inches of pigtails at the back of the head, men in brocade robes sit on both sides of the table, on the table is a large basin of boiled pork, two daggers are inserted into the pig's head.

These two people are the British king Azig of the Great Qing Kingdom, and the king of Doro County, Duoduo, the two of them cut pork with daggers and stuffed it into the corners of their mouths, while discussing the current battle situation.

Azig put a piece of bloodshot pork into his mouth and chewed it, and after eating it, he said to Duoduo: "Fifteenth brother, the city of Xuzhou is thick and thick, and this king has besieged it for a month, and there are quite a lot of casualties, and there is no possibility of breaking the city in the near future." If the army is stationed in Xuzhou and Shangqiu for a long time, so that Gao Mingheng has time to prepare for war, it will be quite unfavorable to us! ”

Duoduo nodded, "I am also worried about this, if every city is attacked like this, and if we don't reach Nanjing, we will be exhausted!" ”

"That's a good point! This is also the situation that this king is most worried about, the longer we are blocked by Xuzhou, the more fully prepared the south, and the stronger the will to resist. This king sees that we have to change our current way of playing, and we must re-kill the momentum of my Qing Dynasty and fight until the barbarians are frightened, so that they can look at the wind and surrender! Azig looked at Dordor and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't.

In addition to the strength of Gao Jiezhen and Liu Heizi, the main reason is that the Ming army's fear of the Qing army has decreased.

Gao Yihuan killed Man Dahai and sent Kong Youde to Nanjing with a thousand cuts, which somewhat boosted the arrogance of the Ming army.

This made the Ming army not so afraid of the Qing army, and as long as the Ming army dared to fight, even if the combat strength was poor, five or six lives in exchange for the life of a Tartar, the Qing army could not bear this loss.

Duoduo's face was a little unsightly, "What do you mean?" ”

"This king wants to besiege Xuzhou with a deep trench, lock Gao Jie in the city, and then wait for the Huai River to freeze, directly lead the cavalry south, break through the Ming army's Huai River defense line, and then go straight to Yangzhou. If the army can quickly drink the Yangtze River, it will definitely make the barbarians frightened! Azig's face was full of murderous aura, but as soon as the words changed, he was worried: "But the high barbarian is not moving, he must be waiting for some fighter, this king is a little worried, he will outflank this king's back road at a critical moment!" ”

Duoduo smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, Brother Twelve, I've been prepared." If Gao Manzi dares to go out of the mountainous area of southern Henan and run to the eastern Henan Plain, he will be looking for death. I have asked Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming to prepare, as long as the main force of Gao Manzi comes out, the horse army will attack and outflank his back road, and when he is on the plain, our horse army will attack, and he will definitely have no return. ”

Duoduo's face was full of hatred, and he was angry at the mention of Gao Yihuan.

This time, he had already made preparations, and even looked forward to Gao Yihuan coming to save Shangqiu, as long as Gao Yihuan dared to come, he would be able to trap Gao Yihuan with cavalry.

At that time, Geng Zhongming cut off Gao Yihuan's grain route, and then he led the horse army over, Gao Yihuan did not move, he waited for Gao Yihuan to run out of grain and grass, if Gao Yihuan marched, the team would inevitably be scattered, so he used cavalry to assault, not believing that he was undefeated.

Duoduo was thinking about it, but at this time, the curtain was suddenly opened, and He Luo would break in in with a panicked face, "The prince is not good, the camp has been attacked by someone." ”

Duoduo and Azig looked at each other, and Duoduo's face instantly turned hideous, and he couldn't believe that the king's camp was impregnable, how could it be attacked by someone.

"Quick, take the king's armor!" Duoduo got up and let out a loud shout.

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At the head of the city, Liu Heizi saw that the soldiers had repaired the city wall, and was about to turn around and go down to the city, when the blind general next to him suddenly exclaimed, "Dashuai, look at the Tartar camp!" ”

Liu Heizi turned his head to look, and saw that in the dark night sky, several fire meteors swished across and fell into the Qing army camp, and the camp suddenly burst into flames.

"Hahaha~ Brother Gao is here to save Lao Tzu!" When Liu Heizi saw it, he immediately slapped his thigh, and his spirit was instantly lifted.

The soldiers of Liu on the city wall instantly cheered, tall and handsome, benevolent and righteous! They all burst into tears with excitement~

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