Chapter 60: Unexpected Reinforcements

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The people in the city, including Gong Zhi, were all terrified when they heard that Lu Meng had taken Lingling so quickly and came to Wuling. I gathered all the civil and military generals in the city in my council hall to discuss, because before Liu Bei and Shu transferred Chen Zhi and Huo Jun, two more capable generals, and now the only civil officials in Wuling City who can come up with ideas are Gong Zhi and Pan Rui, and the generals are only some low-level generals who I can't name.

Naturally, the topic of the meeting revolved around the question of how to fight in the face of the future Wu army. Gong Zhi, who has always been timid, suggested sticking to the county seat as he did when I was going to save Lingling, saying that as long as he held on until the reinforcements from central Sichuan arrived, the Wu soldiers would retreat by themselves. Pan Rui also had the same opinion as him, and said that Lu Su could not support for too long under the attack of General Guan, thinking that soon the Wu army would retreat. As for the little generals who led the troops, they all lowered their heads and did not speak, and when I asked them for their opinions, they all said that what Gong Zhi and Pan Rui said was reasonable, and it was better to defend the city.

I know that if the generals in the army don't support it before going out of the city to fight, then basically going out of the city to fight will be in vain. The closest and closest example to the present is when Liu Bei came to fight Wuling, Wuling was too guarded by Jin Xuan to fight, but his subordinates felt that they couldn't fight, and Jin Xuan had to be strong, and the result was that after the battle failed, Gong Zhi closed the city gate and could only die outside.

I only had a little impression of Pan Rui when I was reading the book, because he had too few roles under Liu Bei, so I used to regard him as an old minister of Wu State. Later, when I played a game by chance, I suddenly found that this guy was actually in Liu Bei's camp, and I searched for him curiously, only to learn that he was only an inconspicuous official when he was under Liu Bei, and later Guan Yu was defeated by the sneak attack of Eastern Wu, and when the Wu army attacked Wuling, he also surrendered with the other officials, and completely met the requirement that Kong Ming had said to Liu Bei that "Gou Quan's life is in troubled times".

With Gong Zhi and Pan Rui, two masters of current affairs, sitting in the formation, plus Zheng Liang, the only one I can use to charge into battle, was asked to leave by Liu Bei, I think I really can't defend the city. So the next thing is to start discussing the defense of Wuling City, fortunately, Wuling City, as a county town, can be regarded as a city with thick walls, after carrying out a targeted division of labor, I also think Gong Zhi's words are actually not unreasonable, now the military strength in the city is indeed limited, not to mention the lack of fierce generals who can lead the troops, these military forces are not even under my full control.

There is a good saying, it is called to stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, I still have a long way to go in the future, don't just be arrested by Dongwu as soon as I was sealed as a general of Pingxi, then this joke will be a big joke.

Not long after, the soldiers of Eastern Wu arrived at the city of Wuling. Lu Meng, this guy repeated his old tricks, and actually sent someone to persuade me to surrender. Seeing that the messenger looked arrogant, I was angry, and I ordered someone to drag this guy out and behead him, but Gong Zhi pulled me alive and said that I couldn't provoke Wu Jun. I thought about it, but I still had this breath to come true, so I ordered a wooden frame to be erected at the head of the city, and the messenger was tied to it in the same way as a cross, and he was neither beaten nor cursed, nor let him bask in the sun, but he was specially ordered to put up a simple cloth hut on this cross to protect him from the sun, and to give him water to drink when he was thirsty, and something to eat when he was hungry.

And I stood beside him, commanding the soldiers defending the city to confront the Wu army under the city.

The generals of the Wu army under the city were so angry that they were all asking Lü Meng for battle, but they didn't expect Lü Meng to immediately order the siege of the city, but sent another messenger to ask me to put back the envoy who came before. I also accepted this envoy generously, but this time I didn't tie him to the cross and keep him with the previous messenger, but just greeted him with a bowl of tea and asked him to go back and tell Lu Meng that I will not kill his envoy, when he will retreat, I will release him again, if he wants to attack the city, I will not care if he accidentally injures this messenger.

Of course, I didn't expect Lü Meng to give up the siege for the sake of a messenger, and sure enough, soon after the second messenger returned, Lü Meng's army began the siege battle.

The dense Wu soldiers came out of the formation and resisted the ladder to the city, while the defenders of the city kept shooting arrows downward, cutting down the Wu soldiers close to the city wall with knives. Gong Zhi pulled me back slightly, afraid that I would be shot by an arrow from the city. Unexpectedly, the Wu army's attack was more like a show, our soldiers only shot a few rounds of arrows desperately, and those Wu soldiers dropped the ladder and ran back. After a while, the Wu soldiers reorganized a wave of siege soldiers, but the second attack was not official than the first one, and the ladder that the Wu soldiers resisted was shot away again before they even reached the city wall. In this way, before and after the time of incense, the offensive of the Wu army was completely stopped, I am very strange about this, I don't know what Lu Meng is going to do.

Then something even more strange happened to me, suddenly a cavalryman rode to Lu Meng's horse and turned over and dismounted and said something to him loudly, Lu Meng waved his hand after hearing this, and then Wu Jun began to sing gold and prepare to collect the army. Slowly, the 30,000 army gradually disappeared from my field of vision, and everyone in the city cheered, including me, thinking that Lu Meng was forced by Guan Yu's pressure on Lu Su and had to collect troops to rescue Lu Su. Sentinels were sent to investigate, but the report said that Lü Meng only led the army to retreat ten miles to the east, temporarily set up camp, and did not go far.

Gong Zhi and others said that it was likely that the Wu army was tired from marching and attacking the city again this day, and camped in order to rest and leave tomorrow. Although this explanation is also reasonable, in my heart I still vaguely feel that things are not as simple as Gong Zhi said.

Just when I was puzzled, the west of Wuling City suddenly rolled up with billowing smoke and dust, and it seemed that a military horse was coming. When I got closer, I looked at the costumes of those generals and soldiers, and realized that it was actually the barbarians by the five streams. The two who took the lead, one of them was tall and bearded, and it was Shamoko. And the other, wearing a red helmet and red armor, is heroic, and it is very energetic to look at, which makes people have a desire to conquer, and it is naturally the barbarian beauty Shana.

I haven't seen her for a long time, and Shana is getting more and more beautiful and temperamental. The thought that this could be my daughter-in-law made my heart tickle a little. Shana raised her silver spear at me, saying that they had come to help repel the Wu army, and asked me to open the city gate and let her troops in.

I was about to order my subordinates to open the city, but Gong Zhi stopped me, and he shouted at the city: "The Wu army has not gone far, and it is inconvenient to open the city, so please camp the army outside the city first, and then bring the barbarian king into the city later."

I know Shana's temper, and Gong Zhi clearly shows that he doesn't trust them. But Gong Zhi's words have already come out, although they are not very good, but they are also for the sake of the people in the city, and I have no way to pull these words back, so I can only wait for Shana to attack with a fever.

Sure enough, Shana's face was not good when she heard this, and she directly threw the silver gun in her hand to the ground at once. After dropping the gun, she turned over and got off the horse, and said something to Shamoko, who was also unkind, but without picking up the gun, she walked directly to the city gate.

When she walked to the city, she raised her head and shouted at me: "Zhuge Song, aren't you quite bold? Even a hundred and ten people dare to design to arrest me, how can I now command the soldiers of a county, but I am so timid that I don't even dare to let reinforcements into the city? ”

I was choked up by Shana's words, and when she saw that I had nothing to say, she cried out, "This time I'm alone, and I don't even have a weapon, what are you afraid of?" Hurry up and open the city for me! ”

When I heard Shana say this, I felt like my face was going to burn away, and I wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. I turned around and glared at Gong Zhi fiercely, and sent all my anger to him: "Don't call someone to open the door yet!" ”

Gong Zhi saw that I was angry, and hurriedly gave the order. I came down from the wall, thinking about what to say when I saw Shana and save face. Unexpectedly, after Shana entered the city, she ignored me, let Gong Zhi lead the way, and went directly to my Taishou Mansion.