Chapter 617: Attack Tonight
Zhao Shu's death became a thorn in Zhao Zhen's heart, he felt very uncomfortable, he obviously let go of the fifth brother, but he still had to be his enemy, in fact, he thought about how to deal with the fifth brother next time, but Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie directly helped him kill him, and he was infamous for killing his brother from then on, but now he can't care about this, and it is important to deal with Wan Yan A Shilan with all his strength.
The next day in the blink of an eye.
Murong Xu saw in the city that the Dajing army began to uproot the camp, and there seemed to be signs of retreat.
Wan Yan A Shilan sent someone to send a reply to Miyagi, saying that he had agreed to Daqing's request for an armistice and was about to withdraw his troops, hoping that the emperor would do what was written in the surrender letter and not play tricks.
Concubine Shu and the others couldn't believe it, Wan Yan A Shilan obviously saw that the surrender letter was a peace proposal, and Taiwei Gao was by his side, so he actually turned a blind eye to this.
Zhao Anren touched his head and couldn't figure it out.
"Concubine Niangniang, Xiao Wang thinks that it must be our reinforcements that have arrived, Wan Yan A Shilan judged the situation, he just wants to withdraw as soon as possible, even if we don't write a peace agreement, but a book ordering him to retire, maybe he will agree."
Because of yesterday's witty performance to the envoys of the Dajing Kingdom, Concubine Shu brought Zhao Anren here to discuss state affairs together, another reason is that Zhao Heng has not shown up for so long, which will inevitably cause discussions, and let Zhao Anren pretend to sit here, so as to stabilize the morale of the army.
Xia Zixi shook his head.
"Little prince, you are too naïve, this is absolutely impossible, the reason why Wan Yan A Shilan compromised must be for a reason, if we don't figure it out, we will definitely suffer."
Liang Jianyu is also on Xia Zixi's side.
"Yes, people who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries, we are willing to worry more, and we can't worry about it, because we are just this palace city, and there is no way back."
Zhao Anren shrugged helplessly, he felt that Wan Yan Ah Shilan was helpless, he couldn't even take the projectile land of Zongzheng Mansion, he must be very depressed now, and at the moment the Dajing army had no other good strategy except to attack.
Seeing that everyone couldn't think of anything, Concubine Shu waved her hand.
"Forget it, let's take a step at a time, it's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided!"
In the next two days, Wan Yan A Shilan really commanded the army to move outside the city, but he did not let go of Zongzheng Mansion, he had to send people to attack several times every night, Zongzheng Mansion's bows and arrows were slowly consumed, and they were almost exhausted, Yue'er buried the gunpowder in the ground, covered it with gravel, as long as Wan Yan A Shilan dared to send cavalry to attack, she simply ignited gunpowder to blow him up.
This made Wan Yan A Shilan a little suspicious of Taiwei Gao's words, didn't he say that there was no gunpowder in Zongzheng's mansion, why did he keep exploding?
But what gave Wan Yan and Shilan the most headache in the past two days was not that she couldn't pull out the nail of Zongzheng Mansion, but Yu Yuanxiang's second brother Xiong Zhang.
Xiong Zhang is an interesting person, he does not appear during the day, as soon as he suddenly kills out at night, he circles around the windy city, beats gongs and drums to beat the southeast, northwest and northwest gates one by one, as long as Wan Yan A Shilan sends an army out, he will turn around and flee, if there are few people, he comes up to chop melons and vegetables, Wan Yan A Shilan is unbearable, simply move all the garrisons outside the city to the city, Xiong Zhang comes again He only greets with a bow and arrow, and never fights with him.
In the blink of an eye, on the third day, Wan Yan A Shilan's army had withdrawn half, leaving only a large military camp in the south, east, and northwest gates, and the speed of his withdrawal was not too slow, only two days, leaving a large open space outside the palace.
Yue'er was secretly worried in Zongzheng Mansion, she didn't know what conditions the palace had negotiated with Wan Yan and Ah Shilan, if it was a traitorous treaty like the transfer of land, it would never be acceptable.
Hu San made a lot of fireworks bombs with gunpowder, and as soon as it was dark, he fired a few into the sky, but there was no response from outside the city, I don't know if they didn't have fireworks bombs, or if they had another plan not to respond.
Murong Xu was guarding the city, he didn't dare to slack off when he saw Wan Yan A Shilan retreating, but redoubled his care for his subordinates, even if the enemy all retreated, he couldn't take it lightly, but the tense nerves of the soldiers had been relaxed, and everyone felt that they were finally going to get through the end.
Murong Qi'er and the female soldiers she trained also guarded the city, taking turns with the soldiers.
On the fifth day of the eighth month, the Dajing army had withdrawn two-thirds from the inner city.
Everyone thought that tomorrow Wan Yan and Ah Shilan would withdraw with the whole army, and some people began to celebrate in groups.
Darkness ends.
Another night is coming.
Today, the clouds were thick in the sky, and the moonlight was obscured, and apart from the lanterns hanging on the palace castle, it was impossible to see anything within a hundred steps.
Outside Miyagi, Soshofu.
There are also two lanterns hanging on the small building of Zongzheng Mansion, which is already dilapidated, the outer wall has almost completely collapsed, only a circle of wall roots remains, and the courtyard is also full of pits and trenches, and there are corpses that have not been cleaned out, which are emitting a foul smell.
At the first watch, more than 800 people sat or stood at the foot of the steps of Zongzheng Mansion, although their clothes were torn and their images were embarrassed, but their eyes were very firm.
There was a lot of food on the steps, as well as wine, which was the last reserve of the Zongzheng Mansion. Tsinghua
Yue'er stood on the steps of Zongzheng Mansion in a black robe, a strand of hair hanging down from her ears, her face was a little haggard, but a pair of dark eyes were still shining.
Liu Jun, Lu Xuan, Hu San and Princess Mandarin Mandarin stood behind Yue'er, Princess Mandarin Mandarin was dressed in a short dress today, but she was wearing a pair of tall cowhide boots on her feet, and she never seemed to have taken off these boots.
Yue'er looked around and smiled faintly.
"Now everyone has a full meal, tonight we will attack!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked and changed.
Someone was surprised: "What, we are attacking tonight and are not staying here?" ”
Yue'er nodded.
"Yes, tonight is our last battle!"
Hu San scratched his scalp, he didn't understand very much, the Dajing army had almost retreated, and now there were no fireworks outside the city to respond, proving that the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and they were attacking at this moment, weren't they looking for death?
"Master Yue, why tonight?"
Yue'er waved her fist.
"Because the moonlight is covered up tonight, this is a chance God has given us!"
"Master Yue, why is this our last battle?"
"Listen, Wan Yan A Shilan has suffered a big loss in our place, with the understanding of this commander, this person is addicted to killing, and never suffers a loss, so he will never give up, even if he withdraws his troops, he will definitely launch a final blow to us before leaving, and now our arrows are about to run out, instead of being beaten here, it is better to take advantage of his defenselessness tonight and attack a battle!"
Liu Jun didn't know what Yue'er was doing when he summoned everyone here, he couldn't help but be startled when he heard that she was making this decision, but then his blood surged, he liked to take risks, and a few days ago at dawn he led people to fight back, and the general of Jiagu suffered heavy losses.
"Commander Envoy, when do you say the Dajing Army will attack?"
"If I don't expect it badly, they will attack on the third watch, so let's eat our stomachs first, and set off on the second watch!"
"Alright, then let's start this last battle!"
Everyone waved their fists, determined to follow Yue'er and fight to the death.
Yue'er looked at Lu Xuan, a little hesitant.
"Lord Fucheng, are you going to fight with us, or are you going to stay here?"
Lu Xuan glanced at the injured soldier, straightened his chest, and clenched his hands into fists.
"The old minister still stays with the soldiers who can't fight!"
Yue'er glanced at Lu Xuan meaningfully.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work!"
Lu Xuan smiled slightly, he knew very well that if the Dajing army attacked, he would lead someone to ignite the last gunpowder in Zongzheng Mansion and die with the enemy.
Yue'er took out three fireworks bombs, which Hu San made two days ago, and she handed them to Lu Xuan.
"Lord Lu, if you want to detonate gunpowder, please light these three fireworks bombs first!"
Yue'er shot a letter to the city three days ago, telling Murong Xu that once she saw three signal flares from Zongzheng Mansion here, she would throw stones at this place desperately, and the effect of these three fireworks bombs was to burn the jade.
Lu Xuan took the fireworks bomb and solemnly put it away.
"Commander Envoy, please rest assured, the old minister will definitely live up to his mission!"
At this time, Princess Mandarin Duck stood up.
"Sister, I'm going to kill the enemy with you!"