"Husband! Father! Son! ……”

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"Ahh Xu Mo woke up from his sleep and sat up, just now he dreamed of his wife, daughter and parents who had long since passed away. Xu Mo wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, and found that he was covered with cold sweat and cold.

His head was groggy, as if he had a thousand pounds, his head was splitting, his mouth was dry, he shook his head, rubbed his face vigorously, and Xu Mo felt a little sober. He slowly remembered some clips of himself drinking with Long Yang, smiled bitterly, and checked the state of the characters in the soul mark, and there was even a red drunken state.

Xu Mo climbed out of bed and found a person lying on the low table in the room, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Dinah. Suddenly remembered that after he was drunk, it seemed that Dinah and the palace guards helped him into the room. Walking to the side of the low table and pouring all the tea in the teacup into his stomach, Xu Mo finally felt no longer so thirsty.

Looking at the sleeping Dinah, Xu Mo picked up a piece of brocade from the bed and gently draped it over her. Looking out the window, it was still late at night, but Xu Mo was no longer sleepy, so he sat cross-legged on the side of the low table and slowly thought about his next plan......

"Huh?" Dinah woke up slowly, touched the brocade draped on her body, and found that it was already dark, and she was the only one in the room, so she quickly got up and went out. After going out, I found that in the yard in front of the house, Xu Mo was practicing boxing shirtless, sweat shining in the sun.

"Are you awake? Go wash your face, Long Yang sent someone to call us just now, it seems that Yang Guo has stopped fighting for a few days, and today it will start attacking the city again! Xu Mo said with a smile.

"Oh! I...... I'll go. Dinah saw Xu Mo walking towards her with her upper body, her face flushed slightly, and she hurriedly responded.

When Xu Mo and Dina climbed to the top of Jiang Cheng under the leadership of the guards, they found that the battle had just ended. Hundreds of corpses lay under the city walls, and the army of the Yang Kingdom in the distance receded like a tide. The soldiers of Jiang Guo at the head of the city were carrying the corpses of their companions below, and Xu Mo and Dina were taken aback at a cursory glance.

"Brother K, there are only more than 100 corpses of Yang Guo's soldiers under the city wall, and Jiang Guo is only defending the city, and seventy or eighty soldiers have died, so the proportion of this exchange is too high!" Dinah said in surprise.

"It's not high, the soldiers of Yang State are all young and veterans, if you look at these soldiers of Jiang State, less than half of them are young and strong, and the rest are old and weak, it seems that the defeat two years ago has not affected Jiang Guo to this day." Xu Mo pondered for a moment and continued: "However, today's battle is a bit strange! ”

"Strange?" Dinah asked, confused.

Xu Mo nodded, thought for a while, and said:

"Hmmm! Even the wounded soldiers, Yang Guo had at least a few hundred casualties in today's battle, which was already a huge consumption for Yang Guo, who had less than 10,000 soldiers. There is no replenishment in Jiangcheng, there is no rescue outside, as long as the grain and grass in Yang Guo are enough, he can consume all the grain and grass in Jiangcheng by besieging the city, and then he can take Jiangcheng without blood. If you want to attack, then you should attack the city continuously, instead of stopping for a few days and attacking only once, as you are doing now. ”

While the two were talking, Long Yang came from a distance at the head of the city with a few heavily armored guards, and after seeing Xu Mo and Dinah, he was very happy and shouted loudly: "Brother Nie Li, Miss Wenwen!" ”

"Prince!" Xu Mo gave Long Yang a look.

"Brother Nie Li, why be polite!" Long Yang feigned anger.

"Don't waste your courtesy!" Nie Li smiled and said, "Prince, how many soldiers and grain and grass are there in the city!" ”

Long Yang frowned, sighed, and said softly: "Don't dare to hide from Brother Nie Li, there are still 3,000 soldiers left in the city, of which about 1,000 are Qingqiang, and if you are a veteran, plus my personal guards are less than 400 people, the grain and grass can still support about half a year." ”

Xu Mo nodded, Jiang Cheng's strength was basically the same as his estimate. Based on his observation of Yang's [***] team on the Jiangcheng Plain, if Jiangcheng's guard strength was less than 3,000, he was afraid that it would have fallen in the first few days of Yang's siege. If there are 1,000 more young people, then Long Yang is afraid that he will not shrink into the city and blindly defend, at least it is good to organize a few small troops to go out of the city to disturb.

As for the situation of grain and grass, it was better than Xu Mo's expectations, which was also related to the fact that he had attacked the Yang State scout cavalry on the Jiangcheng Plain in the early stage, spreading rumors that Jiang Guo had looted villages, which greatly reduced the number of Jiang State civilians entering Jiang City for refuge. Otherwise, let alone half a year, Jiang Cheng will not be able to support it for three or four months, and the people in Jiang Cheng will only be afraid of eating for Yi Zi.

"The prince estimates how long the grain and grass of the Yang Kingdom can support!" Xu Mo asked softly.

"Yang and Jiang are located in the same plain, and the territory is almost the same, but the labor force is much more than that of Jiang Guo, and in the past few years, the grain storage is about fifty percent more than that of Jiang Guo. However, Yang Guo is currently with a large army abroad, and the country cannot be cultivated without youth for a long time, and it can barely support Jiang Guo for two more months. Long Yang said worriedly.

Will it be two more months? Xu Mo touched his chin, no, I'm afraid that Long Yang's calculation was wrong, he didn't calculate, and he was deceived by rumors to go to the people of the plains of Yang Kingdom.

It is unlikely that the monarch of Yang Guo will slaughter these Jiang people, after all, in addition to the difference between the royal families of Yang and Jiang, the people of the two countries are next to each other and are compatriots with a strip of water. If Yang captured Jiangcheng, then the two countries of Yang and Jiang would merge into one country, and these people would also be the people of Yang in the future.

Counting these people who have lost their grain storage, Yang Guo's grain and grass can only support about half a year. In this case, there is basically no hope of capturing Jiangcheng by besieging the city, but this is the case......

There are still eight days to go before the casting of the magic sword embryo is successful! Xu Mo closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he opened them again, there was already a trace of blood red in his eyes. Taking two steps forward, Xu Mo approached Long Yang's ear and said a few words softly.

When Long Yang heard this, his face changed, he hesitated for a while, and finally nodded, and whispered a few words to the soldiers behind him.

After leaving the city, Dinah, who had been following Xu Mo's side, asked curiously, "Brother K, what did you say to Long Yang just now?" ”

"Dinah, do you remember what I told you the day before yesterday?" Xu Mo didn't answer Dinah, but just asked an inexplicable question.

"The day before yesterday?" Dinah frowned, thought hard for a while, and finally hesitated and said, "Is it for me to stay with you and not leave?" ”

Xu Mo nodded, stopped talking, and took Dinah back to the palace annex.

"Knock knock!" In the middle of the night, there was a knock on Dinah's door. Dinah got up with sleepy eyes, opened the door and saw that it was Xu Mo knocking on the door.

"Brother K, why haven't you slept so late?" Dinah said whims.

"Follow me!" The night was thick, Xu Mo didn't pay attention to Dinah's expression, and just said softly.

Dinah was stunned for a moment, feeling that Xu Mo was looking for herself, not as she imagined, so she couldn't help blushing and silently followed behind Xu Mo. After the two of them left the palace annex, Dinah found that a car had been parked at the entrance of the annex. After the two got into the car, the emperor drove directly towards the palace.

"Brother K, do you want to enter the palace so late? Is something wrong? Dinah asked, surprised.

"It's nothing, it's just that the magic sword is very important, and Long Yang can't always pay attention to it, so he has to ask me to help him take care of it. I'm afraid we'll all have to stay in the palace for the next few days. Xu Mo smiled and felt relieved to Dinah.

"Oh! Isn't that how often you see nightshade? Dinah said happily.

"Don't go looking for nightshade, you can't get too far from me." Xu Mo cautiously reminded again.

"Let me follow you after you, and don't tell me why!" Dinah pouted and muttered reluctantly.

It's not that Dinah is not happy that Xu Mo will make arrangements for her, since she met Xu Mo again in the Fairy Sword Era, the pressure that Dinah had accumulated in her heart has completely disappeared. There is no need to calculate, no need to worry, when encountering things, it is customary to ask Xu Mo's opinion, and then accept the arrangement of the task.

Compared with her previous frightening mission career, Dinah began to enjoy the comfort of her current moment. When I met nightshade in Jiang Country, I was even more aroused by the youthful vitality in my heart. Dinah likes nightshade very much, this innocent and lively girl, can be said to be a landscape in this era of war.

Although she didn't understand why Xu Mo didn't let her go to find Nightshade automatically, Dinah still decided to follow Xu Mo's arrangement. After all, in her impression, the decision Xu Mo made would be proven correct afterwards.

In the palace annex, after Xu Mo and Dinah left, a figure came out from a dark character outside the annex. Watching the car that Xu Mo and Dina were riding in slowly disappear into the night, the figure snorted coldly, looked around for a while, and then walked in the direction of Jiang Cheng, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

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At the same time, the Yang [***] camp outside Jiangcheng City.

"Are you sure?" General Yang Guo, who was at the top, looked at a slender figure in the military tent.

"I will be able to succeed immediately, although I have a lot of soldiers in Yang Guo, although the grain and grass are abundant, I can't consume too much under Jiang Cheng City, otherwise I am afraid that I will follow in the footsteps of Jiang Guo!" The figure hesitated for a moment, then said firmly.

"Thou hast said it right! It's just that the king is extremely dissatisfied with the incident of you in Qiuchi, and if he fails again this time, I am afraid that the general will no longer be able to defend Yu Ru in front of the king! General Yang Guo reminded.

"As long as you can do your best for the country, why don't you regret it!" The figure was shocked and said bitterly.

A fresh breeze blew, and the candles in the tent swayed from side to side, illuminating the faces of the figures in the tent. The emaciated face, the face was blue, and the eyes were gloomy, it was the Yang Ye that Xu Mo had been looking for.

(Ming said the third watch, 8 o'clock, 13:30, 18:30)