On this day, Wei Xiao received a letter from General Qingying's Shegui from Yongliang, in which he briefly talked about the situation of the battle with the Chongyue Department in recent days.

It is to the effect that the Chongyue army saw that it could not be attacked for a long time with a stone bed crossbow bow, so it built a soil mountain in the outer city, and wanted to attack the city condescendingly, and he ordered people to increase the height of the city tower, which was always higher than the enemy's earth mountain, so that Chongyue could not succeed, Chongyue was very angry and made people bind the book on the arrow, and an arrow was shot into the city, and Shigui took down the letter and looked at it, and saw a line of words written on it: "Zong Er binds the building to the sky, I will definitely wear the city to take Er!"

On the second day, Chongyue changed his siege tactics and adopted the "solitary method", concentrating his forces to attack the city, day and night, while secretly digging eight tunnels under the city, trying to lead to the city. After hearing where the enemy was digging the tunnel, Shegui sent people to dig a long ditch to cut off the tunnel of the Chongyue army, and sent troops to garrison it, and when the Chongyue army dug the tunnel, they were killed one by one. Once it is found that there is a Chongyue army entering, the firewood will be stuffed into the tunnel, and the fire will be burned, and the cowhide bag will be used to blow the wind, the fire is thick, and the enemy army will be burned out of anxiety and miserable.

On the third day, Chongyue changed his tactics again and ordered people to create a kind of "attack car", which hit the city wall with gravity, and destroyed it wherever it went. He ordered people to make a curtain out of cloth, and then opened it in its direction, and the attacking car hit it, and the cloth was suspended in the air, and the impact force was immediately dissipated, and the city wall was not damaged at all.

Seeing this, Chongyue immediately ordered his men to tie dry pine branches and hemp stalks to long poles, pour anointing oil to light the fire, and burn the tent, and the fire continued, so that the city tower could be burned together. He ordered the sergeant to tie the sharp knife to the long pole, and when the fire pole attacked, he raised the hook knife to cut it, and cut off all the pine branches and hemp stalks that were being ignited.

Chongyue attacked the city for three days in a row, with nearly 10,000 casualties among the soldiers, and he tried his best to defeat it, so he cursed outside the city for several days, intending to provoke the general to lead the army into battle.

After reading the letter, a smile appeared in Wei Xiao's eyes: "I knew that although Shi Gui was silent, he was brilliant and extraordinary, even if he was as cunning as a fox like Chongyue, he couldn't fight him." ”

At that moment, he took up the pen and wrote a letter, which contained only a few words, and was tied to the pigeon's leg and sent out.

Then he swept his fingers lightly over the arch of his brow, pondering for a moment.

Everything is expected. So, what's next?

While he was thinking about it, the guards went back and forth, saying that most of the people in the city had been resettled out of the city, and that twenty-three out of ten had not yet moved out.

Wei Xiao said: "Urge the remaining people in the city to speed up their relocation, only bring thin and soft, heavier things don't have to be moved, money and things outside the body are always lifeless." In addition, some soldiers were arranged to escort them along the way to Ti Ying, where it was safer. ”

Guan Hu listened to what he said, but he didn't dare to ask more.

Wei Xiao also ordered Guan Gu to dig five wells in the city.

The caretaker was puzzled: "In such a cold winter, even if there is water underground, I am afraid that the water flow will also freeze and cannot come out, what are you doing digging this well?"

Wei Xiao said: "I have my own use, you just have to arrange someone to dig it." ”

The caregiver took the order and left.

Wei Xiao got up and came to the back hall, Bai Qianyu had a needlework bamboo basket on his lap, and he was looking down to sew something with a needle. Shamrock helped her with the colored threads.

Wei Xiao walked over and said with a smile: "When did you learn to embroider?" stretched out one hand and wanted to take it to see, but Bai Qianyu snatched it away, hid it behind him, and said mysteriously: "If you don't show it, it won't work if you see it!"

"Be careful not to tie your hands. Wei Xiao admonished: "You haven't learned this thing, it's not as good as the embroidery girls here - why don't you ask them to make it for you?"

Bai Qianyu raised his head at this time, stretched out a finger, and shook it in front of him: "Other people's embroidery is not effective." ”

"What kind of good thing is it?" Wei Xiao's curiosity was aroused and he sat down beside her: "Or, tell me about your world, why can you come to this world?"

"My world," Bai Qianyu tilted his head and thought about it: "The biggest difference from this world is that there are not so many wars, and there will not be so many deaths." We all cherish peace and know that it is not easy to come by. ”

"What world would people don't want peace? People are of the same mind, but we were born in troubled times!" Wei Xiao was quite emotional, and asked instead: "Then if there is no war, what do you usually do?"

"Work, make money!" Bai Qianyu blinked: "In addition to world peace, my greatest wish is to make a lot of money! Then, travel all over the world, meet many different people, see beautiful scenery that I have never seen, eat a lot of delicious food, and then go home and sleep a lot, lazily sit on the rattan chair on the balcony, bask in the sun, read books, water flowers, cook warm food on the stove, and in the evening, drink under the apricot blossom tree in the yard until the moonlight and dew are cool. ”

"It's as simple as that...... Wei Xiao listened attentively: "On your way to see the world, when you sit on a chair basking in the sun and drinking, do you count me as one?"

Bai Qianyu was stunned, only to feel that his neck was burning, but fortunately, at this time, the clover came over and chirped: "I have to count me as one! And eat food! Eating food and sleeping lazily are the two biggest dreams of my grass life!" It folded its hands and said seriously: "In this world, there is nothing more beautiful than these two things!"

Then he asked Wei Xiao, "Wei Xiao, what is your dream?"

"I ......" As soon as Wei Xiao said a word, he heard the sergeant hurriedly report: "General, the enemy has cut off our water source!"

Wei Xiao hurriedly got up, followed the sergeant out, climbed the city tower, and saw that on the hillside in the northeast corner, there was a group of soldiers of the Hundreds of Moon Clan, holding hoes and shovels in their hands, and they were digging out another river along the water flow on the mountain, and diverted the water that flowed into the city to the outside of the city.

"What should we do, General?" said the sergeant anxiously, "Once the water source is cut off, we will not be able to support it for a few days!"

Guan Gu comforted on the side: "Don't be impatient! General Wei had already expected this, and he had already made a pond to store water, so we can save some use and support it for a few more days." ”

Wei Xiao put his hand on the battlement of the city wall and asked, "Can the well be dug?"

Guan Gu replied: "The digging is dug well, but in the dry season in winter, digging more than ten zhang of the ground, but there is no water." ”

Wei Xiao listened and was silent.

At this moment, Wei Xiao suddenly heard a strong wind "whoosh" next to his ears, and an object shot towards him.

He leaned slightly to the side and grabbed the object with one hand, but it was a black-feathered arrow with a broken arrow.

The arrow was wearing a letter, Wei Xiao took down the letter, looked downstairs in the city, and saw that Murong Chui outside the city had just withdrawn the iron gall bow in his palm, just met his gaze, and smiled at him, the smile seemed to be full of provocativeness, turned the red dancing yang horse under his crotch, and beat the horse away.

Wei Xiao unfolded the letter with one hand, only to see that the paper read: "The water source has been cut off, and the water is dry, there is no water to dig up, there is no city to defend, if you are willing to open the city quickly and surrender, you will not die!"

The bottom is still the following: Murong Chui.

The wind was strong on the castle tower, and the corners of the paper were crumpled.

Wei Xiao crumpled the piece of paper in his palm, and when he opened his palm again, the paper turned into crumbs and flew up in the wind, like white butterflies flying out of his palm, drifting towards the city, and it seemed like a snowfall.

That night, Wei Xiao summoned the generals into the mansion and asked, "You are all Phantom Clan warriors, can you know water system illusions?"

Xiu Rui, the general of the Yi army, replied: "Each of us knows a little, but we are not good at learning, we need to change a little water to water the flowers, change a waterfall or something, but if you want a bigger illusion, you can't." ”

General Yishi Hongyi also said: "And the so-called illusion, the essence is just illusion, these waters are not conjured out of thin air, and you have to borrow water from other places." ”

Wei Xiao nodded and said, "That's enough." ”

Summoned all the generals together, whispered a few words, and all the generals bowed their hands together and said: "Get the order!"

Early in the morning of the second day, when the sergeants of each battalion were still up early to practice martial arts, they suddenly saw the generals coming to each camp and ordered: "Today's military exercise is canceled, the city is cut off from water, General Wei specially invited the young girl of Zhuo Yushan to fly down to the city, pray for water to the sky for our army, all of you who are not on duty in the army, all go to the heart washing hall in the center of the city, watch the water prayer ceremony!"

When all the sergeants heard this, they were all surprised and curious, and they rushed to the center of the city.

I saw that on the ground in front of the Xixin Hall in the city, a high platform has been erected, the platform is circular, and the table is drawn with blue, red, white, and black four-color lines to mark the east, south, west, and north directions, and a long prayer flag for water is set up on each direction, and the flag is also painted with a dragon of four colors: green, red, white, and black.

A slender and graceful witch, wearing a long slanted wizard's hat on her head, dressed in green clothes and plain clothes, holding a long green branch, although in the cold winter, the branch is also green and verdant, the witch wears a totem mask with a wooden plank, covering the upper half of her face, revealing only a pair of eyes, and red lips, along the steps, slowly ascending to the prayer platform.

As soon as her feet stepped on the center of the stage, a burst of ancient music floated in the air out of nowhere, and the young girl danced the dance of praying for water with the ancient music in her hand.

I saw her body spinning, on her bare feet, the golden bell danced with her white jade-like feet, making a burst of crisp and pleasant ringtones, the green girl chanted words in her mouth, while dancing, while on the green, red, white, and black table, looking at the sky and praying, making a posture of praying for water, and muttering in her mouth was:

"The water flows into the rivers, the sea of confluence, the ice and snow of condensation, and the clouds of dispersion. Qi can be condensed into water, water converging into rivers, and hundreds of rivers will eventually return to the sea. It is also vast and subtle, but also majestic and soft, round when it meets the round, and it is square when it meets the square, and it does not draw from the rich, does not care about the poor, and does not change its nature when placed in the gold bottle, and does not change its quality when it is held in wood. Water nourishes all things without fighting, and water benefits all things invisible. The frost falls in the early morning, the breeze rises, the cold winter arrives, and the sky prays for water. Water to, water to!"

The green girl prostrated and worshipped to the east, west, north and south of the four directions, stood up, stood in the center of the stage, the green branch looked at the sky and waved, with her singing "Water to!", a huge water mist floated down in the time and space, the water vapor was thick, people couldn't open their eyes for a while, and in an instant, they saw a dry inside the stage, and there was an underground spring slowly gushing out.

The spring water "goo, goo, goo" gushing more and more, the sergeants all rushed to the well, lying at the mouth of the well to watch, shouting: "The water is coming, the water is coming!" This shout shook the hearts of many soldiers, and countless people were opening their arms and shouting: "The water is coming!" Some people took the lead in dancing a shaking dance, and the excitement of the water was like a contagion, and countless people jumped up with it, and the city was like a carnival.

The nearest person in front of him picked up a bucket of well water, scooped up the well water with a water spoon and tasted it, and suddenly exclaimed: "This well water is so sweet!

Everyone rushed up, snatched the water spoon and tasted it one by one, and said, "This is the spiritual water given to us by God!"

At the mouths of other wells in the city, there was also good news: "The water is coming!

The news of the underground spiritual water gushing out of the well soon spread to the Murong Chui tent opposite.

Murong lowered his eyes and looked at the Zitong City opposite, the cheers shook the sky, even louder than dozens of big drums beating at the same time, he couldn't help but touch his chin, and a pair of crystal eyes flashed with doubt: "This Wei Xiao, what method did he use to ask for spiritual water? Is it really Tianzhu Wei Xiao?"

A cold wind blew outside the tent, and he subconsciously moved his ears that were red from cold, this day, but it was getting colder and colder, and it was becoming more and more difficult to attack the city.