Chapter 33: Recapture Ding'an City
A new set of cotton clothes and military uniforms was placed on a low stool at the foot of the bed, and a new pair of cotton shoes were placed on the floor. Grabbed his clothes and quickly put them on, passed through a screen in the middle of the tent, and as soon as he reached the tent and lifted the curtain, Armin immediately appeared in front of him.
"Master Mo, you're awake."
"Amin, you've been guarding outside?" Mo Li raised her hand to block out the dazzling sunlight.
"Hmm."
Mo Li wanted to ask who helped her take off her clothes, but after thinking about it, she still didn't ask, in case Ah Ming didn't know anything, she would be embarrassed to ask. But casually asked, "What time is it?" Mo Li wanted to ask who helped her take off her clothes, but after thinking about it, she still didn't ask, in case Ah Ming didn't know anything, she would be embarrassed to ask. But casually asked, "What time is it?" ”
"It's late."
"It's all this time, why didn't you call me earlier!" Mo Li pulled Ah Ming's sleeve and wanted to leave, "Hurry up, let's go to Jingyang City, I don't know how busy Mu Qingyun and they are." ”
Ah Ming didn't move, and said in a low voice: "The master let you have a good rest, the wounded soldiers in Jingyang City have been dealt with, and Mu Gongzi has returned to the camp." ”
"Oh," Mo Li let go of the hand holding Amin, "then you can't sleep until the sun rises." ”
"Young Master Mo must be hungry, I'll go get some food." Even if Ah Ming didn't have a strong internal force, he could clearly hear the rumble of Mo Li's stomach.
Mo Li touched her stomach embarrassedly, she hadn't eaten for almost twelve hours, and she was really hungry.
After eating, Mo Li returned to the tent, she got up in a hurry just now, and she didn't have time to take a closer look, but now she found that the tent was divided in half by the screen, and there was only one bed in it where she slept before. In addition to the bed outside, there was also a table with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which she knew and was usually used by Murong Chu. There was also the tea set on the small square table next to it, the small red clay stove on the ground, and the steaming copper kettle on it, which were also the ones they used before.
"Woke up?" As soon as the tent lit up, Murong Chu's tall figure walked in, "Then make some tea and drink it, my mouth has dried up when I talk to those people since the morning." ”
"When the general is deliberating, no one even cares about the tea?" Mo Li asked as she began to make tea.
"Yes, yes, but that can't be called tea." Murong Chu put the cloak on the back of the chair and sat down at the small square table, "I'm used to drinking the tea you made, and now it's boring to drink anything else." ”
Mo Li poured the tea, scalded the cup with hot water, and poured another cup in front of Murong Chu: "General, last night...... I...... Who ......"
"I took your clothes off last night." Murong Chu said calmly.
Mo Li twitched the corner of his mouth: "You...... You ......"
"The clothes were broken, and there were blood stains on them, even on the cotton clothes, so they were thrown away." Murong Chu's tone was calm, as if he was saying that today was good.
Mo Li's tongue is knotted, she has always been dressed as a man, if she is too entangled in taking off her clothes, it will be easier for people to be ambiguous. Forget it, I'm still wearing underwear anyway, and I even wore a bikini in my last life, so it's nothing remarkable.
Thinking of this, he felt a lot calmer, and put on a smiling face: "It's really troublesome General, just wake me up in the future, and I'll change my clothes myself." ”
Murong Chu didn't answer, took a sip of tea before saying, "The army will be pulled out in the near future, so you will live here in the next two days, and you don't have to go to Qingyun's side." ”
And live in a big tent with him? Mo Li wanted to refute, but Murong Chu seemed to have guessed her thoughts, and then said, "I didn't prepare a tent for you alone, could it be that you want to live with Mu Qingyun or other soldiers?" ”
"No, I never thought that way." Mo Li hurriedly laughed, "I am the general's guard, of course I have to live with the general, so it is convenient to serve." ”
After two days of deployment, the army began to advance towards Ding'an City. Ding'an and Jingyang are only more than 200 miles, and the Hu people retreated to Ding'an after being driven away three days ago. The goal of the 100,000-strong army of the Great Zhou was to recapture the cities of Ding'an and Jingshui and drive the Hu people back to the northwest desert.
For the 100,000 people to recapture the two cities occupied by the 200,000 army, the prison army Cui Jianghai did not approve, in his words, it was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, but Murong Chu did not care about it.
Although the Hu people gathered 200,000 horses, these 200,000 people came from the three tribes alone, and they themselves formed their own factions, and the commanders of the three parties all had their own hearts and minds, and their faces and hearts were not in harmony, which greatly reduced the overall combat effectiveness of the army. The capture of Ding'an and Jingshui has consumed 10% of the troops, and when attacking Jingyang, it was rushed to the Great Zhou reinforcements in time to cut nearly 10% of the troops, and now only 160,000 horses are left.
When the army approached Ding'an City, the Hu people concentrated the remaining two-thirds of their forces. The vanguard officer Sun Han went to fight the enemy and curse the array, and the Hu people immediately sent two generals to lead the men and horses out of the city to meet the enemy.
In fact, Sun Han was just making a feint to hold back most of the Hu people's troops, but in fact, Murong Chu had already deployed a large army to surround Ding'an City like an iron bucket. At the same time, he sent Eleven to lead the dark guards to Jingshui City, and Eleven had only one task, to kill the main general who guarded Jingshui. Immediately, he sent his deputy general Shao Liangping to lead 30,000 elites to bypass Ding'an and go straight to Jingshui.
After the Hu people fought for three days and lost several generals, they closed the gate of Ding'an City and never sent people out to fight again. Cui Jianghai, the supervising army, came to Murong Chu happily and asked him to immediately lead his troops to attack the city.
Murong Chu didn't even give him a straight look, only lost a sentence: When the time comes, he will naturally attack the city.
In the past few days, Mo Li has been following Mu Qingyun to deal with the wounded soldiers carried down from the battlefield, and Ah Ming has followed her inseparably, reminding her in a low voice from time to time that her master has told her to pay attention to rest. Mo Li is just a deaf ear, what to do. Ah Ming was helpless, he couldn't forcibly knock Mo Li unconscious, but he couldn't help but listen to his master's words, so he could only continue to be flies in her ears.
In the early morning of the next day, a bloody human head inexplicably appeared on the Hu people's banner at the head of Ding'an City, and the head of the main general of Jingshui City scared the Hu people a lot. Not to mention who killed the person, being able to quietly hang the head of the person on the flagpole on the heavily guarded city head is enough to make the Hu people in the whole city tremble.
The corners of Murong Chu's lips hooked slightly, and he gave an order: Siege!
The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty pounced on Ding'an City like fierce tigers. The bed crossbows used to attack the city were aimed at the city walls and shot long arrows, and the soldiers set up ladders under the cover of the long arrows, and the warriors rushed upwards.
The Hu people in the city began to shoot arrows to meet them, probably before they woke up from the shock, the arrows were like scattered sand, completely losing their due attack power.