Chapter XXIII: Reinforcements

Someone once said that the saddest thing in life is to despair or give up on yourself in the face of adversity. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info So in the face of complete adversity, how can we use our own flesh and blood to build a strong Great Wall and leave more fire for future generations, but not everyone can have the courage to do extremely great things.

When the rat walked out of Shancheng, he looked at Shancheng, which was tall but looked a little old, and looked at it with great eyes, but did not see the figure of Qiu Laohu, so he knelt down in their direction, bowed three times, and then got up suddenly, and took more than 300 people in Shancheng to quietly identify the direction and leave while there was no interception by the Tuyuhun army around.

"General, the south gate found a team of several hundred people in Shancheng, and it is judged that it should be the people who have withdrawn from Shancheng!" A scout quickly reported the relevant situation to Xiao Xintian.

"General, why don't you let your subordinates arrest that group of people?" A general next to him leaned over and asked in a low voice.

Xiao Xintian pondered for a moment, shook his hand, stared at Shancheng in front of him, which was already crumbling, and said disdainfully: "Don't worry about those people, our goal is to capture Shancheng." All the people will rest for half an hour, and launch a full-scale attack on Shancheng after sunset, and this time they must take Shancheng in one fell swoop! ”

"Yes, General!" The adjutant general on the side ordered to go down and assign tasks.

Xiao Xintian raised his head and looked at Shancheng not far away, only to see the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the city wall, falling a faint orange-red, like slowly flowing blood, quietly setting off layers of waves on the dilapidated city wall. On the open ground between Shancheng and his camp, the corpses that had not yet had time to be collected were exposed to the sky, and the severed arms and legs were all over the battlefield as if they had been torn apart from their bodies by life and then discarded casually.

On several tattered flags, countless small holes have made the original "Xiao" character difficult to see clearly, and it is planted obliquely on the ground, being sunset, dragging a long shadow behind it.

Thinking of the team of 20,000 people when he came out, now there are less than 10,000 left, Xiao Xintian is very annoyed in his heart. He has been fighting with Shancheng with a tepid attitude, on the one hand, he wants to borrow the other party's training troops, and on the other hand, he is not reducing the opponent's troops. Because Shancheng is too far away from the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, and there are not enough support forces nearby to form horns with it, there are too few ways and channels to replenish troops. As long as you can slowly grind away part of Shancheng's troops like boiling a frog in warm water, then when you really attack Shancheng, the resistance you will encounter on your side will be reduced.

Xiao Xintian's original idea was very beautiful, and when he was really doing it, he realized that he had thrown half of the people in, just forcing the other party to send the people in the city up, but now he hasn't even broken the gate of Shancheng!

"Autumn Tiger, it seems that you want to fight to the death!" Xiao Xintian squinted his eyes and looked at Shancheng, thinking that the other party would transfer the people in the city, and said to himself.

Qiu Laohu stood at the head of the city, letting the evening breeze blow the tattered armor on his body, looking at the enemy who was preparing in full swing not far away, his hands on the city wall grabbed the rough wall even harder, and the green tendons on his hands burst out.

"Xiao Xintian, let's see who can have the last laugh!"

Time always flies, and when the first star appears on the horizon, the sun sets.

Xiao Xintian waved his hand, and more than 10,000 soldiers behind him roared and attacked in the direction of Shancheng.

"Archer prepare!" Qiu Laohu roared angrily on the crutches that the mouse had made for him, watching the enemy enter the attack range: "Release the arrows!" ”

The burning clouds on the horizon burned the open ground in front of the city gate into a bright red, and the two strong armies made the final blow posture, the black torrent rode up on horseback, and the Tang army defending the city steadily held the enemy out of their own defensive circle.

Suddenly, the shouts were like bursts of rocks piercing through the air, and the waves crashed against the rocks on the shore, making a huge crashing sound.

The mouse turned to look in the direction of Shancheng, and saw that there was a fire in the sky over there, reflecting the night, and there seemed to be angry tearing and miserable cries from the wind.

The stars are like yesterday, the road ahead is long, the mice can only recognize the few stars in the sky, with a group of people, identify the direction of Chang'an, and leave.

Under the same vast night sky, a cold night wind blew a thin layer of sand on the ground, revealing a few green grasses, and a black piece of earth was revealed under the grass.

"How long will it take to get to Shancheng?" Cheng Chumo sat on the horse and asked as a white chess piece.

"It's coming!" White's eyes were like eagles, vigilant to the desolate earth at night, and he replied casually.

Since arranging for the rats to come to Shancheng, Baiqi's heart has been unstable, especially after seeing Tuyuhun's envoy running to Chang'an like a victorious rooster to negotiate peace under the attention of everyone in Liangzhou City, Baiqi's whole person is even worse, he began to worry about the situation in Shancheng, once the situation over there is unfavorable for his side, then it will be possible to put the rats in danger. So he began to grind with Zhang Daliang, and finally borrowed two thousand Liangzhou guards from him, except for the group of people who were still fooling the Tianzhu King in the territory of Tuyuhun, everyone followed him, and rushed towards Shancheng before dawn on the third morning after the mouse left.

Under the vast night, the blue sky high above, the desolate vast field, and the shadows of the rolling tall mountains in the darkness in the distance were embedded on the edge of the night, and the coolness blew from afar, making the white chess pieces in the hurry couldn't help coughing.

"Huh?" White raised his head and saw a team in the darkness in the distance walking towards them, and White immediately sent someone to touch it: "Go and see who is the person over there?" ”

A Cloudbreaker soldier came out of the group, nodded to White, and rode quickly to meet him.

"Who's coming, dismount?" There was a low roar from the dark team, and then the dark team stopped, and someone pulled out their weapons and looked nervously at the people in the dark.

When the soldiers of the Cloud Breaking Army who were going forward heard the other party's voice, they were stunned for a moment, with a surprised expression on their faces, and then quickly turned into joy: "Is it a mouse, Kuroko!" ”

There was a "huh" sound from the dark team, and then I saw the mouse come out of the darkness, looked at the sunspot in front of him, laughed and walked over, and hit the sunspot on the shoulder with a hard fist, shaking the latter a few times.

"I've finally looked forward to you! What about Hou Ye? The mouse looked at the mouse expectantly.

"Later, I'll be there in a moment!"

ps: Tomorrow's three watches...... (To be continued.) )