Chapter 237: Arrangement
Song Xiaochi didn't ask any more, and after getting a few locations in Xisha from Song Lin that might hide the colorful beads and seven-colored shellfish, he immediately went to find Xuanniao.
"Five?" Xuanniao asked with a stiff head rolling his white eyes without the whites of his eyes.
"Well, five." Song Xiaochi asked very calmly: "You won't be unable to fly, right?" Could it be that Ah Xuan has become weaker? β
Xuanniao snorted and glanced at Song Xiaochi with slanted eyes, "Don't think that the radical method will work for me. β
"Okay, I know that our Ah Xuan is the most powerful, and I can see at a glance that I am using the radical method, then Ah Xuan, if you don't eat the radical method, what are you eating?"
"I eat spicy chicken jerky!" Xuanniao breathed out of the dantian and said in a loud voice.
"Uh...... Well, I'll do it right away! Song Xiaochi wanted to fool this section, but now it seems that this bird can't fly without chicken jerky.
Song Xiaochi summoned Coral and Sang Qiuyan and told them to hurry up and make some dried chicken now.
The speed of the Xuanniao is faster than Song Xiaochi dared to imagine and never imagined.
It flew away the next day when dawn was not yet fully bright, and it was still in full swing outside.
After the first wave of the third attack was unsuccessful, the Xisha soldiers returned to rest and launched a second wave of attacks in the evening.
The intensity of the attack and the number of attackers were stronger than the first wave, and at this time, even with an almost genius general like Xie Yan to command this battle, facing an enemy who was much more powerful than himself, and his weapons and battle clothes were completely much more powerful than himself, Shacheng was also on the verge of being breached.
At the beginning, Daning believed that he only had treasures such as the seven-colored stone and the seven-colored shell, so although the development of these two treasures could improve the toughness and strength of weapons and suits, they were only symbolically integrated into a small amount, although it was a small amount, but compared to other weapons and suits that did not add these two treasures, it also had a great advantage.
Most of the colorful stone seven-colored shells were used in jewelry and clothing, but neither the court nor the soldiers of Daning thought that one day, someone would use Daning's advantage to attack them, and their original advantage became a disadvantage.
Xie Yan had even ordered the people who were still in Shacheng to evacuate, and asked people to escort Song Xiaochi and others back to Yunzhou Mansion, but Song Xiaochi and they did not agree, there were still wounded here, and as doctors, they couldn't withdraw first.
The siege and defense of the city were fought from late evening to late at night.
"My lord, I can't stand it!" Guang Haiming was covered with blood, and he didn't know if it was someone else's or his own.
Xie Yan turned around and asked Wen Xiu, "Mr. Wen, how did the people in the city evacuate?" β
Wen Xiu said: "Most of the people have already withdrawn, and those who remain are hard stubble, and they are not willing to withdraw at all, saying that they vow to live and die with Shacheng!"
Xie Yan frowned, did not speak, Guang Haiming hurriedly said: "Isn't this nonsense, those soldiers in Xisha wear battle clothes, even our soldiers' sabers have to be cut three times in a row to cut through, with the kitchen knives and sickles in their hands...... Isn't it simply sent to death? β
Xie Yan said: "It's good to have more people."
"Huh?" Guang Haiming was stunned, "My lord! β
"Where are those people now?" Xie Yan asked.
Wen Xiu said: "It's under the city wall!"
"Well, Mr. Wen went down and instructed them to go to the vegetable market in the north of the city, and on the way to the vegetable market, put water basins and buckets and water tanks according to this arrangement, and then place torches according to this arrangement, and give them some gold and silver, and so on! After arriving at the Beicheng vegetable market, let them divide into four groups, one group in the southeast, one group in the northwest, and arrange it in this way, holding torches and boiling oil in four directions and waiting to listen to the order. β
Xie Yan took out a piece of paper and handed it to Wen Xiu.
Wen Xiu took it out and saw that it was a road map from the North City Gate to the Chengbei Vegetable Market, which was different from the general road map, this map was drawn too finely, not only the route was accurate and detailed, but even the houses and trees next to it were drawn, and even where there was a big stone, there was a well in the house of that family, all of which were drawn one by one.
What's more, it clearly marks where to place a basin full of water, where to light torches, which lanterns in front of the door to point out, and which ones to extinguish.
There is also the Chengbei vegetable market, the Chengbei vegetable market is a special existence in Shacheng, the two prefects of Shacheng are capable and practical, most of the dangerous places in Shacheng have been repaired, only the Chengbei vegetable market, there is no time to repair such a big war, but fortunately, because of the preparation to repair the Chengbei vegetable market, so the shed that is about to fall around the vegetable market has been demolished, and this circle of sheds was originally very close to the houses, and now this is demolished, the Chengbei vegetable market has completely drawn a separation line with the houses.
Although there are also people living in the vegetable market, and there are also houses that do not need to be repaired, it is impossible to lose nothing in such a battle.
"Remember, if there are people in the market, you must let them leave, and you must let them go!" Xie Yan ordered.
Hearing that he wanted to answer, he heard a slightly old voice say, "Master Xie, this official should also go with you!"
"Lord Xu!" Xie Yan gave his hand to the comer, who was an old man in his fifties, with a thin figure and a dark yellow complexion, it was Xu Chengrong, the prefect of Shacheng, who was a good parent official, and when he was watching the battle on the city wall before, he was shot in the shoulder by a stray arrow, and Xie Yan asked him to take him down to bandage.
Xie Yan looked at his shoulder, there was still the original blood stain on his clothes, but it had already coagulated, there was no blood seeping out, and he was not polite, after all, with the help of Xu Chengrong, the parent official, things should go more smoothly.
"Then there is Lord Lao Xu!"
"Lord Xie is too polite, he is the prefect of Shacheng, and when he encountered a strong enemy in Shacheng, he didn't help in any way, he was really ashamed! Now that I can let the old man contribute, the old man will thank Master Xie instead! β
The two highest-ranking civil and military attachΓ©s in Shacheng didn't say much, so they were busy with their own business.
"Tell the soldiers, no matter what, you have to endure another hour!"
Xie Yan said, draw the arrow and aim, shoot!
Guang Haiming was stunned, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, it was dark and he couldn't see anything.
Just after Guang Haiming thought that Xie Yan's arrow did not hit anyone, the enemy generals who were besieging the city below suddenly ran back, and the other young generals looked at each other, this lord will run back, do they still want to attack the city.
The main general didn't speak, and it seemed that he could only attack!
However, the main general ran away, which was a very demoralizing thing, and the soldiers of Xisha were obviously not as brave as before, and the momentum of the siege was much lower than before.
In this way, the pressure on the side of Shacheng to defend the city was suddenly much less.
"My lord, who did you just shoot?" Guang Haiming was curious, he guessed that the reason why the main general of Xisha ran back was definitely not because of cowardice and other reasons, they completely had an advantage, what was there to be timid.
It must be because of Xie Yan's previous arrow!
"What kind of person can make the main general so nervous when he is hit by an arrow?" Xie Yan asked.
"Could it be that he is a big man in Xisha? Is Xisha coming with this time? But didn't the scouts hear about it? Guang Haiming was puzzled.