When another urgent military report from Jincheng County came back to Guangwu County, Xin Taishou couldn't sit still. He immediately sent a messenger to send this military report asking for help to Gu Zang, and told the messenger that it must not stop and must be delivered as soon as possible.

The vitality of the defenders in Jincheng County was almost exhausted in the crazy and rapid offensive of the Zhao army in the past few days. The city was constantly being reduced every day, and all the people in the city had long since moved away, and now the slightly more spacious houses were almost full of wounded soldiers of the defenders of the Golden City. The number of doctors left in the city was also extremely limited, and it was impossible to fully care for these large numbers of wounded soldiers. Many of the more seriously wounded soldiers were unable to heal and were left to their disposal in empty houses a little further away. The sound of wailing is endless.

Zhang Lang's spirit was almost tense to a limit. He supervised the battle on the tower every day, and he could not sleep well for several days. Often so sleepy that he couldn't support it, he went to the arrow tower and leaned against the rudimentary wall to take a nap. As soon as he heard the sound of the golden drum outside, he immediately turned over and rushed to the outside with his knife. Although the two pontoon bridges upstream are still there, the number of supplies such as arrows and weapons that arrived in Guangwu County is still very pitiful.

Due to the large number of young and strong people recruited into the army, in today's Guangwu County, women, children and old men are all working in the field to take care of agricultural affairs. With a limited number of craftsmen to rush to the weapons and arrows, it is indeed beyond their strength. Most of the remaining crossbowmen in Jincheng County belong to the shooting battalion of the Guangwu Army. Even so, the huge consumption of those arrows could only support them to have a wave of salvos. The crossbow is not as effective as it used to be. And after the arrows are exhausted, these crossbowmen often come forward with their swords to fight. Many veterans of the Shooting Battalion also sacrificed their lives on the walls of Jincheng in this kind of sacrifice of their lives.

Sun Jianxiong looked at the fewer and fewer subordinates under him, and he also sincerely felt a heart-wrenching pain. At the beginning, he came to Jincheng to help with great spirits, and he brought six or seven hundred Guangwu disciples. However, now looking at the disgraced subordinates on the city, there are less than half. Many crossbowmen had their crossbows in their hands in high-intensity battles, but the few remaining craftsmen in the city were unable to repair such a huge loss of weapons, and many crossbowmen used captured enemy crossbows to fight.

All the people in this city have done their best. Many of the seriously wounded in the unattended houses screamed and wailed until their lives came to an end, and when they were found and confirmed dead, they would be carried out of the houses and placed in an open field in the south of the city, where they would be burned with firewood. Zhang Lang was deeply afraid that the corpses of these dead soldiers would not be disposed of well, and that they would cause a plague in the city. Therefore, it is strictly ordered that the remains of the fallen soldiers must be cremated in the south of the city.

In this era, cremation was originally a custom of the Hu people. However, at this time, there was no place in Jincheng County where these bones could be buried, and there were no conditions to send the wounded and remains back to Gwangmu County and other places. Because to do so would mean the loss of a great deal of combat effectiveness. Zhang Lang, who thought about it but didn't have a perfect method, had to tearfully order the bodies of these Pao Ze brothers to be burned. Today, hundreds of bodies are burned every day in the south of the city. The stench of burnt corpses emanated from the cremation was felt in almost every corner of the city.

Zhang Lang, who could no longer endure this desperate situation, sent out the last letter for help on behalf of the more than 3,000 subordinates who were still alive who could not bear this desperate situation.

The camp on the north bank of Jincheng, after Liu Yue sent thousands of troops to repeatedly attack several times, still failed to achieve decisive results after all. Now, Han Ning has also learned a lesson from the previous mistakes and bloodshed. He selected dozens of soldiers with good foot strength from the army and set up sentries along the river lightly. As soon as these sentinels saw the signs of the Zhao army crossing the river, they immediately relayed to report back to the camp. These soldiers are doing their duty. In these days, through the return of these sentinels, Han Ning also led his army to successfully defeat the enemy several times. The Zhao army drowned in the river by the Liangzhou army has no less than a thousand people.

In the face of the current situation, almost all the middle-aged men in the four southern counties of Liangzhou, Zhouzhi and Wuxing County took up arms and went to the front line, but they were only worthy of holding the Zhao army on the front line of Jincheng. Now, if it weren't for Chen Zhen leading the cavalry to instigate an attack on the Zhao army's grain transportation team, the Zhao army would be able to send more troops to the front line of Jincheng. If this is the case, the Liangzhou soldiers on the north and south banks of the river will have a more difficult time.

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Zhang Mao sat a little sluggishly in the hall of the Assassin's Mansion, and in front of him was the urgent request for reinforcements from Jincheng County. Zhang Mao knew very well that the messenger had come to Jincheng and experienced two days of onslaught by the Zhao army. Although Chen Zhen also sent several good reports of attacking the Zhao army's heavy grain and grass, Zhang Mao deeply felt how powerful the Zhao army's troops were.

They were able to divide their forces to protect their own grain routes, while continuing to increase their forces and launch several rounds of endless fierce attacks on the county towns and large camps on the Jincheng line. However, he could only hand over more than 1,000 people to Chen Zhen and order him to complete the almost impossible task: to force them to withdraw their troops by striking at the logistical supply lines of the Zhao army. Although Chen Zhen still completed this task by raising the Qiang tribe. However, the current situation is still unfavorable for Liangzhou.

Zhang Mao didn't know how much impact he could have on Zhao Jun behind Chen Zhen's successful attack. All he knew was. If you don't want to retreat from the enemy, or bring in reinforcements, then the fall of Jincheng will almost be a matter of time.

Zhang Mao got up, and just wanted to order the Chang Sui around him to go and invite all the subordinate officials to come to discuss the matter, but when he saw a guard coming in front of the hall, he bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "Zhang Envoy, Guangwu envoy and pseudo-Zhao envoy live in the post house, come to pass the word, please face the envoy." ”

When Zhang Mao heard this, he immediately stood up, a little surprised, but quickly calmed down, and he hurriedly said to the guard who reported the matter: "Go to the post house quickly, please come to the messenger!" ”

The guards bowed down to receive the order, then exited the main hall and ran away.

Zhang Mao got up uneasily. This time, Liu Yao sent an envoy first, but he was very suspicious. In terms of the current situation, although Chen Zhen led his troops to make a lot of noise in Longxi, which made it difficult for Zhao Jun's grain and grass to help him recently, but with Zhao Jun's strength, he was still able to deal with it. According to the news that Chen Zhen sent back yesterday, after the Zhao army strengthened its defense of the grain route, the Diqiang tribe that still attacked without authorization had been damaged in Longxi one after another.

Although Chen Zhen also organized several large-scale raids during this period, in the face of the increasingly strengthened garrison of the Zhao army, the raid on the grain route gradually increased the losses, and the gains were far less abundant than before. Those Diqiang tribes, who had no food and clothing, had grabbed enough food and supplies for the winter, and now they were retreating in the face of this increasingly strengthened defense.

And the Jincheng line, not to mention. In the face of the rapid offensive of the Zhao army for several days, the defenders on the front line of Jincheng were already in danger. However, the 3,000 Jinxing army coordinated by Chen Zhen still crossed the mountains in the mountains from Jinxing to Jincheng. The grim situation had already overwhelmed Zhang Mao for a while, but at this time, when he heard that Zhao Jun was coming, Zhang Mao felt an unprecedented relief after being shocked. At present, the battle lines of the two sides are still in a stalemate, and the dispatch of envoys at this time is most likely to discuss peace talks.

When the subordinate officials of the Assassin's Mansion heard the news, the hall that Zhang Envoy Jun used to temporarily receive the pseudo-Zhao envoys was instantly occupied by these subordinate officials. Before the envoys arrived, all the subordinate officials exchanged heads with each other for a while, and this hall, which was still deserted, was very lively at this time.

"The envoy has arrived! ——" The loud report of the attendants immediately interrupted the hustle and bustle in the lobby. All the subordinate officials turned their heads to look at the door, looking at the messenger of Guangwu County, which attracted several high-nosed, broad-eyed, fur-clad and fur-clad Hu people into the lobby......