It is difficult to ascend the rice and return to the Yamatai Palace.

He conveyed Cao Shuo's response to the female officials who were waiting for Himiko.

The female officer returned to the backyard of the palace.

Entering one of the rooms, the female officer said to the place where the beaded curtain was draped: "Queen, Nansheng Mi has returned." ”

"Did he say how the King of Huainan was willing to withdraw his troops?" A woman's voice came from behind the beaded curtain.

Listening to the voice, this woman is not old, at most about twenty years old.

"King Huainan is still as difficult as before." The lady said, "He said that he had to go to bed with the queen before he would withdraw from the army." ”

The woman behind the beaded curtain was silent.

After a long silence, her voice came from behind the bead curtain: "Send an order, let all countries send reinforcements, and the city will go all out to resist the king of Huainan." ”

The female officer stepped back.

Outside the city, Cao Jun's barracks and catapults are still in full swing.

Standing on the edge of the barracks, Cao Shuo crossed his waist and looked at the wooden city wall in the distance.

"Childe." Frustration walked up from behind.

Glancing back, Cao Shuo smiled slightly: "Does the frustrated prince still have doubts?" I don't understand why I have to hit the clouds? ”

"Yes." "Although I don't understand, I don't plan to ask again. ”

"Why?" Cao Shuo asked.

"The reason is simple." Frustrated professor said: "What Childe decided must be reasonable, if Childe refuses to say, no matter how much I ask, I can't ask why." ”

"The only thing I can say is that the people of Izumo don't know how to be grateful, instead of being nice to them and teaching them a lot of things, it's better to destroy them directly, and save the Central Plains from bringing disaster in the future." Cao Shuo said: "As for why I think so, there is no need for Fu Gong to know. Just know that what I'm saying won't be false. ”

Fu Zhu really didn't ask any more, he just asked Cao Shuo, "When is Childe going to start tricking Izumo's woman into going to the Central Plains?" ”

"Grab it first." Cao Shuo said: "How much can you grab, what Fu Gong said before is right, it's useless to ask for it if it's too old." We take all the women away, and we always have to leave some comfort for the cloud people. Anyway, the people of Izumo are not picky eaters in this regard, and they should be grateful to Dade if they are left with some holes to use. ”

Frustrated with black lines.

Many times, Cao Shuo still behaves politely, which makes people feel his son-in-law demeanor.

However, there were times when Cao Shuo spoke even more rudely than the people in the market.

At this time, Cao Shuo was purely a cheeky face.

"Himiko will never be willing to let the castle be breached." "She'll definitely ask for help, and Izumo still has thirty small countries......"

"Multiple scouts." Cao Shuo said: "Find out if there are any enemy troops coming to help, as long as there are those who dare to come to support, immediately send troops to destroy them." ”

Frustrated, he replied and said to Cao Shuo: "Gongzi only brought more than 12,000 people, but the method of using soldiers is like bringing a million troops. With such a use of soldiers, even I don't have the courage to do so. ”

"Because our opponents are too weak." Cao Shuo said with a smile: "Fighting with a group of opponents who have not yet been civilized, does Duke Fu think that I still have to have reservations?" ”

"That's what Childe said." Frustrated and answered, and conveyed Cao Shuo's order.

The capital of Yamatai was besieged, and indeed several Izumo soldiers and horses came to help, but they were all intercepted and killed by Cao's army.

Several reinforcements were wiped out by Cao's army, and the kingdom never dared to send troops to come again, and Yamatai became an isolated country.

The catapults were built one by one, and the soldiers of Cao Jun carried cans of oil to the catapults.

Standing behind Cao Shuo, Huang Zhong said with some doubts: "It is said that Himiko has evil arts, but I haven't seen her use it until now......"

"Sorcery?" Cao Shuo grinned and asked Huang Zhong, "Does General Huang know about Yu Ji and Zuo Ci?" ”

"I've heard of it." Huang Zhong said: "It is said that Gongzi asked them to refine the elixir in Bagong Mountain, but I have never met with them. ”

"If General Huang wants to see them, I can recommend them when they return to Shouchun." Cao Shuo said: "The two of them were also rumored to be gods earlier, and the people regarded them as immortals. After seeing me, they didn't have any immortal arts, all they could do was to refine some pills and use some tricks. ”

Looking at the city wall of Yamatai, Cao Shuo said: "I don't deny that there will be evil arts in this world, and it makes sense if it exists, not necessarily all rumors are false." But I can be sure that Himiko doesn't have any spells at all, and she's just like Yu Ji, Zuo Ci and others, using some tricks to make the people of Izumo think she has spells. ”

"According to Childe, she's a female liar?" Huang Zhong was stunned.

"General Huang's sentence sums it up well." Cao Shuo grinned and patted his arm: "The catapult has been prepared, and I also ask the general to assemble the sharpshooter battalion, let the soldiers prepare the rockets, and once the catapult stops firing, immediately fire arrows at the city wall." ”

Huang Zhong responded with a fist.

He has 100% belief in Cao Shuo's statement.

As he said before, if Himiko really had the ability, he would have used it when the Izumo army was fighting with the Cao army, and he would not have watched the Cao army besiege the city until now.

Ordered to convene the Marksman Battalion, Huang Zhong stood in front of the soldiers.

Every soldier of the sharpshooter battalion had oil-stained sackcloth tied to his arrows.

The catapults were also ready to fire clay pots full of oil at the city walls.

"Pass the order down, catapult projection." Cao Shuo gave the order to attack.

With the sound of horns, more than a dozen catapults, under the control of Cao Jun, projected clay pots into the walls of the capital city of Yamatai.

The clay pot tumbled in mid-air, flew towards the city wall, and slammed into it, splashing oil everywhere.

Looking at the wooden city wall splashed with oil, Cao Shuo said to the frustrated people on the side: "I found that the Izumo people are really strange, and they actually want to resist the attack of the army when they build such a city wall. Don't they know that a single fire can burn the walls to the ground, and it is impossible to leave even a single intact piece of wood? ”

"Izumo is different from Nakahara after all." "Compared to the Central Plains, the people of Izumo are still a little stupid. The construction of such a wall is enough to withstand the attack of the enemy army. Of course, the premise is that they don't meet Childe, nor any of the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains. ”

Tanks of oil smashed on the walls, and soon the walls made of wood were soaked in oil.

When the last tank of oil smashed against the walls and added some grease to the wood, the catapult stopped.

Huang Zhong, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted: "Marksman battalion, ignite the fire!" ”

Five hundred soldiers of the Marksman Battalion spread their longbows and set up linen arrows on the bowstrings, and several Cao soldiers with torches ran past their array, one by one setting the arrows on fire.