"My lord, the brother who went to Daxing City has sent the news back."

Xian Jingyu opened the Chinese military tent and walked in, still holding a letter in his hand.

Wang Xiaolai stretched out his hand: "Take it to me and see." ”

Xian Jingyu handed it over.

Tearing it in his hand, Wang Xiaolai looked at it twice, and he couldn't stop trembling.

He has been besieging Zhao Sui for ten days, and according to his previous situation of emptying Runan, he died of lack of food and water in the city, and within three days, Zhao Sui was in chaos without a fight.

But Zhao Sui was not chaotic, on the contrary, he also maintained enough combat effectiveness.

This made Wang Xiaolai a little suspicious of himself, and at the same time, he complained that he had not made the decision to withdraw his troops and return to Daxing City earlier.

Of course, although there was a fluke in it, I just thought that Zhao Sui was deceiving himself into attacking Daxing City, but when he saw the letter that Xian Jingyu had just given, Wang Xiaolai no longer thought so.

The content of the letter is very clear, Hu Hu led nearly 10,000 disciples and dead soldiers, and has taken the outer city of Daxing City.

Mulan, one of the commanders of the dark guard, was seriously injured and dying, and most of the thousands of Yulin troops defending the city were defeated and could not resist.

And Zhao Liwen, the master of the heavenly list who sat in Daxing City, was also injured by Hu Hu with poison, and he was unlucky, so he could only watch Hu Hu lead the team to rush into the city to burn and loot.

Daxing City is already so critical, how can Wang Xiaolai still sit still?

He stood up, didn't go down for a moment, and instructed Xian Jingyu: "Pass my order, everyone, withdraw the army, and return to Daxing City." ”

Xian Jingyu nodded, turned around and went out to give the order.

As soon as he finished speaking, outside the tent of the Chinese army, he came to listen to all the generals at the root of the wall, and shouted: "Marshal, Zhao Sui has been trapped in Runan City by us, and now, the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way out. As long as it takes three days, no, just two days, two days, you can take Zhao Sui, there is a shortage of food and water in Runan City, and it won't last long. ”

Wang Xiaolai turned his head sharply and was angry: "In three more days, Your Majesty may be in danger!" Okay, I've made up my mind, everyone, drive back to the army and support Daxing City. ”

"Marshal!"

Jin Shichang stepped forward to stop him.

Wang Xiaolai glared at him: "What are you doing!" ”

Jin Shichang took a deep breath: "Marshal, everyone understands your feelings. However, you must also know that if we retreat in a hurry, Zhao Sui's guy will definitely catch up, and they will definitely recapture Xiaoyang, when the time comes, what will General Liu Mianyi do? He still has Zhao Sui's love general Xue Tong in his hands now, and with Zhao Sui's temper, it is impossible to sit idly by! ”

Wang Xiaolai said: "I know, so, Lao Jin, I need you to stay, take a troop, guard in Nanyang, and the situation of the corner of Yanyang City, you can rest assured, Runan is also a lonely city, with Zhao Sui's ability, it is impossible to deal with the two of you at once." As long as you stick to me, you're a great achievement. ”

After those previous events, Jin Shichang was also impressed by Wang Xiaolai, so he lowered his head and said: "Marshal, you really think highly of me, how can I be Zhao Sui's opponent, not to mention, there is also Li Tianxing." ”

Wang Xiaolai didn't care about nonsense: "Just twenty days, within twenty days, I will come back on time." In these twenty days, I will allow you to lose Nanyang, and I will also allow you to lose Xiaoyang, as long as we still have territory in Yuzhou, even if you complete the task. ”

Jin Shichang was stunned for a moment.

Wang Xiaolai yelled: "Can you do it!" ”

Jin Shichang was excited, raised his head and shouted, "Yes." ”

Wang Xiaolai patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, Lao Jin, here, I will hand it over to you, now I still have 100,000 troops in my hands, I will leave you 30,000, with 30,000 soldiers and horses in Lao Liu's hands, just hold any city." ”

Jin Shichang took a deep breath, lowered his head and said: "Don't worry, marshal, as long as I have a breath, I will never let Zhao Sui win a complete victory." ”

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "Okay." ”

As he spoke, Wang Xiaolai raised his head and drank: "Ning Xi Pei Fang, Jia Kang Lei Chong." ”

Four people stepped forward: "Marshal." ”

Wang Xiaolai threw down the four tokens: "You lead the team to suppress the Chinese army forward, give up all baggage, within ten days, I don't care what method you use, at least, you have to show me the outline of Daxing City." ”

The four of them were taken aback when they heard this, and said in their hearts that this is not a human life, you know, from Runan to Daxing City, unless it is a post station dedicated to delivering letters, it has the ability to arrive in ten days, and at such a speed, more than ten horses and horses have to be tired on the road.

But with an army of 70,000, you can't equip everyone with mounts, can you?

Seeing the four of them hesitating, Wang Xiaolai glared and raised his eyebrows: "What, there is a difficulty?" ”

The four gritted their teeth: "No." ”

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "Okay, go and prepare to go." ”

Then, Wang Xiaolai raised his head again and said, "Ning Shiguang and Shen Xiping." ”

The two looked at each other, then came up and clasped their fists.

Wang Xiaolai said: "Shen Xiping, you take an army to be the pioneer, no matter how any fork in the road along the way, just move forward, trample the farmland to note, after the war, I will accompany you, don't worry about the filled lake, I will dig, there is a mountain forest spring, there is no need to go around, directly bulldoze over!" ”

Rao is Shen Xiping still felt a little embarrassed to do this: "My lord, in this way, even if we rush back to Daxing City, the sergeant will not have much strength." ”

"It's up to you, you just have to do it."

Shen Xiping had no choice but to sigh: "Obey." ”

Wang Xiaolai instructed Ning Shiguang again: "Lao Ning, you pick out the brothers who know how to water, requisition the boats of nearby states and counties, go up the river along the river, and join me at the wharf twenty miles outside Daxing City." ”

Ning Shiguang was shocked: "Marshal, going upstream, how can there be such a speed?" ”

Wang Xiaolai stared at Ning Shiguang faintly.

Ning Shiguang was helpless, so he could only nod: "Okay, okay, the last general understands." ”

Wang Xiaolai waved his hand: "Let's go down." ”

Everyone retired, and when they went out, they all glanced at Wang Xiaolai, and they all sighed in their hearts, saying that the marshal was almost crazy.

After they left, Wang Xiaolai pressed his hands on the sand table, clutched the grit in the sand table, and gritted his teeth: "Zhao Sui, you'd better pray that Your Majesty is okay, otherwise, I'll let you know what cruelty is." ”

···

There is no need for Wang Xiao to show him, Zhao Sui is now in Runan City, and he already knows what cruelty is.

There was a serious shortage of food and water in the city, which was already known when I entered the city.

Water is still easy to do, digging the ground and opening wells, and collecting dew for water, can be solved.

But in terms of food, there was really no way, and the bark of the rats in the city was cleaned in three days, and it lasted for another two days, and it was really unbearable, so there were many deserters.

For these deserters who escaped and could not be captured, Li Tianxing said a way, using human flesh as food.

At first, the soldiers were very resistant to eating their colleagues to fill their stomachs, but after tasting the taste of human flesh, they became out of control.

These rebels are not worried about how Wang Xiaolai's troops will build the city wall every day, what they think about is how to frame their comrades-in-arms as deserters, and then wait for a piece of meat from their comrades-in-arms at night.

That is, in ten days, Wang Xiaolai only had one attack at the beginning, and there was no action other than that, but, even so, the 50,000 troops that had been recruited into Runan before had been reduced by half.

How much of this was used as military rations, no one dared to think.

You just need to know that these rebels who survived dared to eat the flesh of their comrades, it is enough. For those who dare not eat, and those who do not want to eat, have become food.

"Lord Wang! Rajah! ”

The five anti-kings, including Zhao Sui, were discussing the issue of food, and in front of them, a large cauldron was set up, and in the pot, the human feet that had been slaughtered for three days were boiled.

A pair of red-eyed spies rushed in and knelt down, shouting, "Lord Wang, the troops have withdrawn outside the city!" ”

Several anti-kings, who were originally in a state of weakness and even a little disgusted with themselves, raised their heads when they heard the words and stood up with a swipe: "Really? ”

The spy glanced at the human leg in the pot and swallowed his saliva, and then nodded: "Really, Wang Xiaolai has withdrawn his troops, and the large army is retreating in the direction of Daxing City, Lord Wang, our opportunity has come." ”

Zhao Sui laughed, raised his leg and kicked over the hot soup pot: "Okay, this king has finally waited!" Command the whole army, line up, and prepare to attack! ”