"After tonight, it's been forty days!" On the smoke-filled city wall, Ma Zhou, who was dressed in broken armor, leaned against the city wall with residual warmth, looked up at the blue sky above his head, and said softly,

Ma Zhou, who was originally just a scholar, was forced to put on heavy armor, picked up a sword, and stabbed the sword into the enemy's chest again and again.

This kind of thing used to be extremely disgusted with Confucian scholars like Ma Zhou, who had read the books of sages and sages, but now they have become accustomed to it.

The sudden war has completely transformed Ma Zhou, becoming calm and resolute, and even in the face of a siege of more than 20,000 rebels for more than a month, he can still calmly command the battle when the next rebel army attacks the city.

This may be a kind of life experience for Ma Zhou, but the process is a little cruel!

"Master Hou, will he come?" The person next to Ma Zhou was Liu Cheng, at this moment, hearing Ma Zhou's sigh, Liu Cheng lowered his head and wiped the steel knife, and sighed slightly.

This person who was directly kicked out of the hundred cavalry by Li Er because Zhao Chen left Chang'an back then, is now the regimental training envoy of Nanfuzhou, and the person responsible for confronting Feng Huo's rebels head-on this time is Liu Cheng.

Although Liu Cheng injured one leg, however, in the face of the fierce offensive of the rebels, this guy still broke out with amazing combat effectiveness.

"Yes!" Liu Cheng's voice fell, and before Ma Zhou on the side could speak, he heard a person's voice and said with great certainty: "I can tell you two for sure, it will be in this day or two." Brother Chen will definitely appear! ”

With the man's words. Ma Zhou and Liu Cheng raised their heads at the same time. I saw a person wearing a new type of armor and striding towards the two of them.

A swarthy face, walking with a dragon, and on the left cheek of this man, there is an ugly scar, like a centipede, crawling on the face, which is shocking to look at.

And this person is naturally none other than others. It was not long ago that he left Chang'an and came to Lingnan's Cheng Chumo!

I don't know, Cheng Chumo has been a little unlucky recently, anyway, he just arrived in Lingnan, and then he encountered the rebellion of Feng Huo and others, so he naturally picked up the steel knife.

"Chu Mo, why are you up?" Seeing Cheng Chumo striding over. Ma Zhou suddenly said with some resentment: "It's not been long since I lay down..."

"It's fine!" Cheng Chumo waved his hand at Ma Zhou, and when he spoke, he had already come to Ma Zhou's side and said, "I can't sleep." I was just thinking about things outside the city..."

"Sit down and say..."As soon as Cheng Chu was talking about business, Ma Zhou also got up and patted the place beside him. said to Cheng Chumo: "Chumo, have you thought of any good strategies to break the enemy?" ”

"It's not a good idea!" Cheng Chu sat down beside Ma Zhou silently. chuckled at Ma Zhou, and then. He lowered his head and drew a simple map of the outside of the city on the ground, and said without raising his head: "When I was lying down, I was thinking, can I take someone out of the city again..."

"No way!" Ma Zhou thought that Cheng Chumo was going to say something, however, he didn't expect Cheng Chumo to say something like this as soon as he opened his mouth, and before Cheng Chumo finished speaking, he had already interrupted Cheng Chumo's words first, and his tone was resolutely opposed.

Cheng Chumo wanted to take people out of the city to attack Feng Huo's military camp, this was not the first time Cheng Chumo had done so, the most recent one was the day before yesterday, but unfortunately, every time he went out, he retreated in a fiasco.

Speaking of which, Ma Zhou's official position is higher than Cheng Chumo's, but he can't stand Cheng Chumo's identity, so the first few times, Ma Zhou was not a tough opponent of Cheng Chumo's sneak attack.

But this time, as soon as he heard that Cheng Chumo was going to take people out of the city again, his attitude suddenly hardened!

"Gotta try!" Ma Zhou's attitude was very resolute, no matter what Cheng Chumo said, he resolutely refused to agree, helplessly, Cheng Chumo sat there a little decadently, looked at Ma Zhou and said, "We can't just do it!" ”

Seeing Ma Zhou and Liu Cheng, after suddenly hearing his words, they fell silent, and Cheng Chumo suddenly raised his head slightly.

Looking at the soldiers of Nanfuzhou, who were lying around them, lying down and taking time to rest, he sighed and said: "In the past few days, Feng Huo's old thief's siege of the city has become more and more fierce, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to defend this city!" ”

Whether it is defending the city or besieging the city, it is consumed with materials and human lives, especially the side defending the city, once it is besieged, it is equivalent to starting a war of attrition.

The longer it is besieged, the more astonishing the consumption of materials, food, equipment, and human lives, and Nanfu has been besieged for nearly forty days.

In these forty days, the reason why the entire Nanfu Prefecture was able to survive was that in addition to the strong city of Nanfuzhou, it was that a lot of materials were hoarded in the city.

It's just that it's been almost forty days now, and no matter how much supplies there are, they can't withstand such losses, especially gasoline, when Zhao Chen left, he left a lot of them in Nanfuzhou.

However, in this nearly forty-day defensive battle, it was already overstretched!

And this is also the reason why Cheng Chumo has gone out of the city many times and is eager to sneak attack Feng Huo, because Nanfu can no longer withstand such losses!

"I can hold on for a while!" Hearing Cheng Chumo's words, Ma Zhou was silent for a while, and finally raised his head, looked at Cheng Chumo and said: "You also said just now, Master Hou will definitely rush to Nanfuzhou in the next few days, so as long as we hold on for another day or two, we will see the sun!" ”

"yes!" Liu Cheng, who was on the side, heard Ma Zhou's words, and also persuaded him: "The matter of sneak attack out of the city is too risky, Sima is right, as long as we survive another day or two, we will definitely wait for Hou Ye!" ”

"Fuck it!" Cheng Chumo also knew in his heart that the risk of a sneak attack out of the city was huge, especially when it had already aroused the vigilance of Feng Huo and others, if the sneak attack was successful, the chance was simply too small.

At this time, after listening to the words of Ma Zhou and Liu Cheng again, Cheng Chumo suddenly stood up a little irritably, scolded in his mouth, turned around and walked towards the defensive line he was responsible for.

And just then, Cheng Chumo had just left, and it was only half an hour before a muffled sound of copper drums came from the rebel camp outside the city.

There was a quiet moment in the city and below, and the muffled sound of the brass drum resounded like a muffled thunder under the entire sky.

"Get up, it's almost time to get up!" As soon as the sound of the copper drum came, Cheng Chumo, who was originally lying in place, suddenly turned over from the ground, pulled out the steel knife at his waist, waved it, and yelled at the soldiers around him.

In fact, there is no need for Cheng to roar silently, at this time, as long as everyone who hears the sound of the copper drum gets up at the first time, carries the weapon in his hand, and rushes to his own position.

The battlefield that had just calmed down, at this moment, with the sudden beating of the copper drum, it was like a war machine, and it instantly started running at high speed.

All the soldiers rushed to their respective positions as soon as possible, with blank expressions on their faces, as if they had long been accustomed to such things, without the slightest panic.

"Go down, all the irrelevant people are evacuated!" At this moment, Ma Zhou was standing at the main gate, looking out of the city, buying the rebels who were coming in formation, hissing and shouting, ordering all the people who had just come up to transport supplies and equipment to evacuate.

"Crossbowmen ready!" The atmosphere on the city began to become solidified, and the aura of slaughter quickly spread at this moment, as the rebels approached.

Liu Cheng waved the steel knife in his hand and stood not far from Ma Zhou, hissing and roaring.

With Liu Cheng's roar, the sound of sour teeth sounded on the city wall, and all the crossbowmen pulled out the bowstrings in their hands, aiming the cold arrows at the rebels who were slowly approaching below.

"Trebuchet ready!" The crossbowmen on the city wall were ready, and Ma Zhou, who was standing tall, suddenly turned around and shouted an order to the Xiyuan Elder who was in charge of the trebuchet under the city.

"Ready!" Hearing Ma Zhou's order above the city, the Elder Xiyuan below said to Ma Zhou in a loud voice, and when he turned around, he ordered to the wingmen and soldiers beside him.

A total of five trebuchets, after hearing the elder's order, more than 20 wingmen and warriors immediately quickly pulled the winch, the sour teeth pierced the 'squeak', and the huge cement stone eggs were filled into the balls.

The rebels outside the city have been slowly coming towards the city of Nanfuzhou, and the siege team of tens of thousands of people is divided into three echelons.

The two or three thousand people at the front of the line, carrying the ladder of the siege city, with a round shield on their heads, used the steel knife in their hands to keep beating the round shield, and made a 'shout' sound in their mouths.

In the second echelon, they were pushing high wooden frames, on which stood rebels with bows and arrows, and below were four huge wooden wheels, carrying them, approaching the city.

The brass drum shook in the fields outside the city, and with the muffled thunderous sound of the drum, the speed of the rebels began to increase.

"Ready~" Ma Zhou's right hand was slowly raised, seeing that the distance of the rebels was getting closer and closer, and when the distance was getting closer and closer, he suddenly put his hand down and roared: "Release!" ”

"Put!" Ma Zhou's voice fell, and below the city, Elder Xiyuan, who had been staring at Ma Zhou, turned around suddenly, followed Ma Zhou's example, waved his hand violently, and shouted loudly.

With a sound of 'bang~', as Elder Xi'an's words fell, a wingman soldier next to the trebuchet suddenly raised the wooden stick in his hand, roared angrily in his mouth, and smashed it on the trebuchet's bracket.

The wooden stick smashed down hard, accompanied by a huge tremor, and with a 'boom', the cement stone egg that was placed in the ball was thrown out violently, roaring over the heads of Ma Zhou and the others, and heading straight for the rebels outside the city.

"Put!"

"Put!"

"Put!"

“……”

Ma Zhou's calm and calm orders came from above the city one by one, and with Ma Zhou's order, the five trebuchets below, at this moment, like five monsters, roared madly, throwing stone eggs one by one out of the city. (To be continued.) )