The continuous innovation of weapons has added a lot of morale to the Angolan front, after pulling the wild vegetable porridge, the soldiers carried guns and crossbows and went to the battlefield again, with this strength and the huge lethality of throwing cars, the whole line of Angola actually drove the Shijie cavalry out of the border.

When the battle report came from the last pass and Shi Jie's army retreated beyond the border line, the soldiers did not show joy at first, but hugged and cried with their comrades.

This battle was too difficult to fight, and everyone had lost so much. The comrades-in-arms who had just become familiar with them lost their lives in the war the next day. The once prosperous and peaceful hometown was destroyed by war overnight. Relatives who depend on each other for their lives have lost their news in the upheaval, and their lives and deaths are uncertain.

What supports it is the belief that you can't be a slave to the country and the small hope of living an ordinary life one day.

Shi Jiejun withdrew from the territory of Anguo, and the little flame of hope in his heart burned more and more. The soldiers were no longer crying in their dreams, the strong bodies of the commanders, the busy back of Wang Erya, and Ning Jinyu's accurate information were all showing them that perhaps, they would win.

In the face of Anguo's new weapons and new ways of playing, Shi Jie is also looking for countermeasures.

They captured a group of young men from the fallen Yuguo, Dingguo, and Binguo, and took the old and weak women and children in their families as hostages, threatening them to walk in front of the army, forming a meat shield, and using them to clear the iron thistles and horse rejection piles on the marching road, detect traps, and even detonate bombs.

These people were confiscated of all possible resistance, underfed and clothed, and in the face of the heavily armed Shi Jie army, they had almost no ability to resist, and could only be driven arbitrarily like pigs and dogs. Although there were several riots, they were easily suppressed by the Shijie army.

In this case, many of the country's weapons are greatly ineffective. The two armies faced each other, and there was a group of innocent civilians in the middle, and almost all the explosives and thistles released in advance were wasted. The range of the repeater crossbow and the throwing car attack is limited, and the Steer army can only be exhausted if it can't come.

The two sides formed a confrontation situation, and neither could take the initiative to attack.

In the Annan military camp, King Chilie, Wang Erya, Ning Jinyu and Ning Jincheng were worried about an account book.

The war has been going on for a year, depleting all the food stocks in the Angolan treasury, and the smelting of pig iron cannot keep up with the consumption of the front. Now the soup and water in the soldiers' bowls are the rations saved by the common people tightening their belts, and even the wild vegetables in the mountains have been dug up and sent to the army.

Almost all the young people joined the army, and there were some old and weak people left in the family, and the output in the fields was not good, but in this year, there was a drought in two grain-producing areas, and the harvested grain could hardly support a long war.

The Shijie people don't care about starving everyone in the defeated country, they can take the last grain of grain from the mouths of the common people, but the country can't. King Chilie finally closed the account book and said, "Three months, we can hold out for another three months at most." If there is no turnaround after that, the country will be in danger. ”

Wang Erya was also full of sadness, and only hated that he was not prescient and did not be a military enthusiast, otherwise he made a batch of muskets and broke out all those Shi Jie people. Although she had always been afraid of killing, she now genuinely wanted to beat Achino into a sieve.

Ning Jinyu also had a bitter face. His eyeliner has been out of sight lately, and I don't know if it has been discovered. It's good if a person is gone, but now there is no news at all, which is really strange. Those eyeliners are all one-line connections with him, and they don't know each other's existence, even if one is caught, they shouldn't all disappear so cleanly.

The three of them were speechless for a while, and the scene was so quiet that people panicked. At this time, Ning Jincheng ran in.

"Urgent military situation, urgent military situation!" Ning Jincheng ran out of breath.

The three of them were all nervous, "What happened?" ”

Ning Jincheng didn't breathe, "Shi Jie's army retreated...... Withdrawn...... At least thirty miles. ”

"What?" The three were taken aback. Hua Heng College

It stands to reason that the Shijie army still has the upper hand, how can it take the initiative to retreat?

Ning Jincheng shook his head, Shi Jie's retreat was observed by the sentinels on the high platform, but why they retreated, no one knew.

"And." Ning Jincheng continued: "They only retreated by themselves, and all the strong men who were captured stayed in place, and they didn't see anyone guarding them. ”

The three of them were even more puzzled, the person who was finally arrested, said not to want it? Those people were forced to come here, and if they were not really dispatched by Shi Jiejun, and if they didn't even have guards, they would have been completely abandoned.

After a few days, a new situation occurred, those strong men outside the city did not take care of it, and there was no food, although they were free, but it seemed unrealistic to return to their hometown empty-handed from the confrontation between the two armies, so they shouted under the city and begged the soldiers of Anguo to open the door and let them enter the city.

Don't say that Anguo can't be sure whether there are Shi Jie's spies in the crowd, and with so many mouths, they can't support them when they enter the city. No matter how much the city pleaded, the gate was closed, and not a single crack dared to be opened.

Seeing that there was no hope of entering the city, some people scattered and left, not knowing if they could find a way to live for themselves elsewhere, and some gave up altogether, eating some weeds outside the city all day, living one day at a time, waiting for death to come.

Late one night, there was a knock at the city gate, and at first the soldiers who defended the city thought that it was those displaced people from other countries who wanted to knock on the door and enter the city, so they didn't care, and let the knocking continue for half a night.

A deputy came to patrol the guard, heard the knock on the door, stood behind the door for a moment, furrowed his brows, and asked the soldiers guarding the city beside him, "How long have you been knocking, and you have been knocking like this?" ”

The soldier honestly replied, "I've been knocking for at least two hours, it seems...... It's true that I've always knocked like this, and I don't know who it is, but this time I'm very patient, and I don't shout, I just knock on the door. ”

The lieutenant suddenly realized that something was unusual, and it was probably not as simple as being a homeless person.

He went behind the gate, pressed against it, and asked, "Who are you, and do you have anything to say?" ”

Behind the door was a young man, who heard that someone had finally answered, and said a word to the adjutant general. The adjutant general's face changed, and he left in a hurry and went to the barracks to report.

After a while, a person hurriedly came, it was Ning Jinyu.

He said "knock, knock, knock" five times from inside the gate to the city gate before he spoke, "Is that you?" What's the news? Why did you come out? ”

The man on the other side said: "Something big happened, there is no need to stay over there, let me come in, I want to see Wang Erya." ”

The door was gently pushed open a crack, and a figure flashed in, and the door quickly closed again.

Before dawn, Wang Erya and King Chilie suddenly received a message, asking them to hurry to Ning Jinyu's tent to discuss important matters.

The two hurried to the scene, and saw that in addition to Ning Jinyu, there was another person in the tent, and Wang Erya was very familiar with that person.

"Meng Tianchu! Why are you here? ”