In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Guozhu Xiao was resting in the tent under Luan Mountain, when suddenly, a guard shouted: "Lord Taishi has arrived." ”

Without waiting for Xiao Shi to answer, Ju Gu had already broken into the camp tent, Xiao Shi saw that Ju Gu was in a hurry and looked anxious, so he asked with a smile: "Lord Ju Gu, why do you have time to come to me?" ”

Jugu didn't answer, but asked in a panic: "Where is the prince!" What about the prince of Wu! ”

"Guarding the back."

"Quick! Hurry back to the city! ”

"Juya-sama, why is that?"

"The Wu army is about to attack the city!"

Xiao Shi was incredulous, "Impossible, right? The crown prince and the main general of Wu were captured, and even the right vanguard was captured, who else dared to attack the city? ”

"Zhang Xun! General Wu Guo who just arrived yesterday! I went to negotiate with him early this morning, and I wanted to help him analyze the situation and identify the stakes, but who knew that this guy turned out to be a stunned young man who didn't even have any hair, and he didn't understand bullshit! Before I could say a few words, he was going to cut off my head! The knives are all on the neck! If it weren't for the plea of others, I'm afraid my head would have moved! ”

"Oh? Is there such a person? Didn't he know that both Prince You and General Huang had been captured? ”

"He just arrived at the front today and doesn't know anything!"

Xiao Yu frowned, shook his head and said, "No, it's impossible for him not to know." ”

Juya looked frightened, "How could it be impossible?!" He said it himself, he just arrived at the front today! If he knew about it, where would he dare to fool around like this?! The key is that guy is a stunned young man, he can do anything stupid! General Xiao! Listen to me, you must quickly transfer the prince of Wu to Wanqiu City! Now Wanqiu is empty, in case that Zhang Xunzhen leads people to attack the city, the king will be in danger! ”

"Hehe, Lord Taishi, have you ever thought that General Zhang may be lying to you?"

"Lie to me? What do you mean?! ”

"He must have known about the prince's capture, but he just lied to you that he didn't know, maybe the purpose of this is to get you to transfer the prince back to the city."

"How is that possible?! If the prince of Wu Guo has three longs and two shorts, won't he Zhang Xun die?! ”

"Lord Taishi, don't worry, listen to me first. What if this Zhang Xun is the son of Wu Guo? Now that the war is in chaos, he took the opportunity to kill the prince, and when the time comes, he will say that our Chen Guo did it. In that way, Zhang Xunke made a great contribution to his master. Next, the prince of Wu attacked us in the name of revenge, and then naturally became the new crown prince. Lord Taishi, think about it, could it be like this? ”

Hearing this, Jugu seemed to understand something, and he paced back and forth, still puzzled, "But...... What if a city is attacked? Wanqiu doesn't have many troops! ”

Xiao Shi said with a smile: "Lord Jugu, don't worry, even if they really attack the city, they won't be able to attack it." Lord Taishi can send someone to reconnoiter and see how many people Zhang Xun has there, I estimate that there are more than 1,000 people left, and more than 1,000 people want to capture Wanqiu? Hehe, it's categorically not enough. ”

"But, General Xiao, they can transfer troops from Baji County."

Xiao Shi suddenly laughed out loud: "Hahahaha! He categorically can't bring in a single soldier! I have sent people to pour poison into all the wells in Baji and other four counties, and this poison will cause severe fever and diarrhea for half a month, and during this half month, let alone fighting, it will be difficult to even work in the fields. ”

"Oh? Does General Xiao have this arrangement? ”

"Hmph, Lord Taishi, just rest assured, as long as the prince of Wu is in my hands, we are already invincible."

"Good...... Good...... So, what are General Xiao's plans now? ”

"Stick to it and wait for it to happen."

"Okay, just hold on, don't attack." Ju Gu muttered in his mouth, and suddenly he remembered one more thing, so he asked: "General Xiao, when I came to the barracks just now, I found that the camp of the Wu army was close at hand, only a few hundred steps away from our army, what was going on?" ”

"After Huang Yun was captured, the 4,000 army of Wu originally withdrew from the ten-mile camp, but this morning it suddenly marched towards Luanshan, and then camped a stone's throw away from our army, I estimate that someone has taken over the Wu army's troops."

"Oh...... That's the case, so why did the Wu army suddenly advance? ”

Xiao Shi said disdainfully: "There is no reason, this is originally a normal practice, and it is simply stupid and cowardly to retreat ten miles before, and the only benefit is to escape faster." Like now, the two armies are close to each other to contain our army and respond to our army's actions in a timely manner, hehe, Wu Guo finally sent a person with some ability. ”

"Okay, General Xiao, I will return to Wanqiu to report the situation to the king, and ask General Xiao to strictly guard the prince of Wu, and the life and death of Chen Guo will count on the general." After saying that, Jugu bowed deeply to Xiao Se.

"Lord Taishi, please rest assured." Xiao Shi replied.

Soon, dusk fell again, and there was silence outside Wanqiu City.

Zhang Xun walked out of the camp tent, looked at the siege equipment parts stacked in the camp, and said to Jieyin: "Order the whole army to march to Wanqiu City after dinner." ”

"General, although the equipment has been completed, the six hundred brothers have been exhausted from their work since last night."

"Let the brothers hold on, tonight is crucial."

"However, how can our army be so tired and have the combat strength to attack the city? And it's still a night siege? ”

"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements, go and give orders."

"Whoa."

"Wait, let the soldiers cook five times as much."

"What does the general mean that one soldier used to have one fire, and now one soldier has five fires?"

Zhang Xun nodded and said, "That's right, go do it." ”

"Whoa!"

In the second half of the night, in Wanqiu City, the worried Jugu had just fallen asleep, when suddenly an attendant ran into the house in a panic and said in a panic: "My lord! Oh no! ”

Jugu was woken up and asked sleepily, "What's the matter?" ”

"The people of Wu are ready to attack the city!"

Jugu was frightened into a cold sweat, and suddenly fell asleep, he hurriedly got dressed, took his attendants and rushed towards the city wall. Jugu panted and climbed up the city tower, looked down at the city by the firelight, and was suddenly shocked, only to see a hundred steps away from the city, eighteen huge building cars were slowly driving towards the city gate. The huge boom was earth-shattering and terrifying.

There are four floors in this building car, the body is higher than the city wall, each floor is about six zhang square, each floor can stand on more than 30 or 40 people, a building car can transport at least 150 people to the city wall at a time, and the building car is also nailed with wooden planks around it, which can protect against arrow shooting.

Seeing the building car slowly approaching the city wall, Jugu shouted loudly: "Where are the guards?!" ”

At this time, a tall, burly, armored middle-aged general responded: "Mo Hua is here." ”

Ju Gu asked: "The soldiers of the Wu army are pressing the realm, and you don't even know it!" ”

Mo Hua explained: "Lord Taishi, every move of the Wu army is under the control of our army. They marched to the gate of our city after dinner, and I thought they were just planning to garrison the city, but who expected that they had just arrived at the city, and they were preparing to attack the city non-stop! And these eighteen building cars seem to have been conjured up, and they suddenly appeared! Our army did not find out at all before! ”

"How many people are there in the Wu army!?"

Mo Hua replied, "Five thousand! ”

"Impossible! There is absolutely no way they can have so many people! ”

"At nightfall, the scouts came back and reported that the number of Wu troops burying pots and cooking suddenly increased to five times, which may be a significant increase in troops, at first I didn't believe it, but now! Taishi-sama see for yourself! 5,000 is just a little more! Mo Hua pointed to the position of the Wu army under the city and said.

Ju Gu leaned against the city wall, leaned over and looked down, and suddenly gasped. I saw that behind the eighteen building cars, the smoke and dust raised by the troops as they marched were shrouded in dense torches, and the firelight swayed in the wind, almost lighting up the night.

Mo Hua knew that his troops were insufficient, so he hurriedly asked: "Lord Taishi! There were not enough troops in the city to defend against the attack of 5,000 men. My lord, didn't we capture the prince of Wu? We just need to tie the prince of Wu to the city gate, and there will be nothing to worry about! ”

Jugu thumped his chest and scolded: "Eh! Xiao took the wrong country! Mistaken country! What will not dare to attack the city! What will not increase the troops! It's all fart! Fart! ”

"What? General Xiao didn't transfer the prince of Wu to the city? ”

"Hey! I'm! Jugu hurriedly took out a piece of runes from his arms, and the words "Taishi Ling" were engraved on the runes, and Jugu handed the runes to the attendants and said, "Go to Luanshan!" Take this and show it to Xiao She! Tell him that Wu has increased its troops by 5,000 and is already in the city! Make sure he takes the prince to the city! Fast! ”

"Whoa!" The attendant took the rune and immediately took the order.

Mo Hua was depressed in his heart and sighed: "General Xiao is young in the end, although he is talented, but sometimes he is inevitably arbitrary. ”

Jugu said angrily: "I can only defend it now!" ”

With that, Juya snatched a bow from a crossbowman, invaded the fire oil with the arrow, lit it, and shot it with all his strength, only to see the rocket streak across the sky like a meteor and stick to the baffle at the front of the building.

However, after only a short moment, the light on the rocket gradually dimmed, and the flame was quickly extinguished.

Mo Hua shook his head and said: "It's useless, we've tried to use rockets, but we can't light them at all, and it is estimated that the baffles are all soaked in water." ”

"Hey, I can only resign myself to fate, I hope Xiao Xi will transfer the prince of Wu as soon as possible."

Mo Hua clasped his hands and said loudly: "Lord Taishi, the last general has mobilized all the troops in the city, and more than a thousand people have now gathered. The soldiers were in full array, waiting for the Wu army to attack. The city is in the people! The city is ruined! ”

"The city is in the people! The city is ruined! The city is in the people! The city is ruined! Chen Guo soldiers shouted one after another.

At this time, the rumbling under the city stopped abruptly, and the eighteen building cars stopped at the same time. Just when the soldiers of Chen Guo did not know why, the earth-shattering sound of war drums suddenly came from the top floor of the building, and each war drum was accompanied by the earth-shattering roar of the soldiers of Wu State.

It seems that the big war is already on the verge of breaking out. The soldiers of the Chen State gathered on the city wall, and they stretched out their swords and drew their longbows, preparing for a desperate battle. Although they had long regarded death as home, the sight in front of them still frightened them, after all, they were too few in the face of an army of five thousand.