"Wow······" With a loud rooster singing, the originally quiet city became lively again, although the sky was still pitch black, but because the white snow outside the city reflected the starlight in the sky, people can still see the movement of the Qi army outside the city.

It may be that the siege of the city for several days has consumed too much energy of the Qi army, and the Qi army did not continue to attack the city except for the first half of the night after a long time, but the defenders at the head of the city still did not rest well this night, because with the crowing of the rooster just now, the roosters in Jiaozhou City have been unable to suppress their singing voices, and the chirping of various tones is up and down.

"Damn, what are these roosters crying all day long, isn't this helping the Qi army consume our energy, in my opinion, we should kill all the roosters in Jiaozhou City and cook chicken soup for us to drink!" A young soldier who had just fallen asleep after resting on his shift was woken up by the sound of a rooster crowing, and when he saw that the day had not even risen before the morning star had risen, he couldn't help but curse.

The roosters began to crow at this time, and as was customary, it usually lasted until the sun rose, and was a nightmare for every night of the defending soldiers who were on duty and sleeping brightly.

A captain next to him was also woken up by the sound of chickens crowing one after another, looked at the other robes who were still sleeping, and booed the young soldiers who were still complaining: "You talk a lot, the big guy finally fell asleep, you talk quietly, and it's not easy to drink chicken soup?" As long as you are injured and enter the wounded barracks, you will definitely have chicken soup to drink! ”

"Hehe, Captain Wu, I'm talking about playing, if I enter the wounded barracks just to drink a mouthful of chicken soup, the big guy won't scold me to death in the future!" The soldier who had been complaining before smiled and said that he was actually very envious of the diet of the soldiers in the wounded barracks.

The wounded barracks in the mouth of the young soldiers was set up by Shen Sanshui in order to restore the combat effectiveness of the soldiers defending the city to the greatest extent and to ensure the soldiers' will to fight.

A soldier who has experienced a long period of training and has passed the test of the battle array can be defeated by five recruits and rookies, it can be said that every veteran who has fought is worthy of the cherishing of the generals who lead the troops, and since the morale of the soldiers guarding the city in this wounded battalion has always been relatively high.

In order to allow the wounded soldiers to recover as soon as possible, the wounded soldiers will be provided with enough meat and eggs in the camp every day, and the eggs laid by the hens in the city are basically consumed by the wounded soldiers these days, and the abundant meat has also allowed some of the wounded soldiers to recover their strength in time.

In addition, Shen Sanshui also invited enough doctors to treat the wounded soldiers in the barracks, most of these doctors who treated the wounded were Taoist priests of the Haotian God Sect in the surrounding counties of Jiaozhou City, and a small number of doctors were recruited from the city.

It's just that although the number of doctors is not small, because the Qi army has been attacking the city very urgently in the past few days, there are still often soldiers in the wounded barracks who die of their injuries because they have no time to treat.

Most of the lightly wounded soldiers were treated and placed in the homes of ordinary people in the city to recuperate, and it was really impossible for the soldier to be seriously injured and enter the wounded barracks just to drink a bowl of chicken soup.

Besides, since Shen Sanshui came to Jiaozhou City to take over the defense task of Jiaozhou City, the logistics support of Jiaozhou Thorn Shi Xiao Jing is very good, and the food of the soldiers defending the city is very good, although there is very little chicken soup to drink, but pigs, beef, and mutton are almost every day, although the number is not large, so until now, the will of the soldiers in the city is still relatively high.

With the sound of chickens crowing one after another in the city, the sky gradually brightens, and the morning fog in winter always dissipates at night, especially now that the environmental protection is better, and Jiaozhou City is located in the coastal peninsula with heavier humidity, and it is the junction of plains and mountains, so there will always be some dense fog in the morning.

However, today's dense fog is only close to the ground dozens of meters high, but these fogs are far from being as thick as the sea of clouds, a thin layer, like a silky wisp by the rising sun that has not yet risen to render the colorful looks particularly dreamy and beautiful, from the head of Jiaozhou City from a distance, it seems that the sky is covered with a layer of colorful clouds.

But Shen Sanshui, who was at the head of the city, did not have the mood to look at the scenery, he stood next to the battlements of the city wall and stared at the Qi army camp more than ten miles away in the distance, last night the Qi army unexpectedly did not take advantage of the night to continue the siege, so in the morning he had to see if there was a fire in the Qi army camp.

Because the soldiers in the cold weapon era consumed a lot of physical strength to attack the city, so it was necessary to provide enough food for the soldiers to replenish their physical strength before the attack, so that the food needed to prepare for the tens of thousands of troops must have a great movement, as long as the Qi army camp began to make large-scale fires, then it means that the Qi army is already preparing to cook for the army preparing to attack the city.

This common sense was learned by Shen Sanshui with Qin Lang in the offensive and defensive battles of Qizhou, and in the process of defending Jiaozhou, the Qi army launched many large-scale attacks before there were such signs, and it was for this reason that Shen Sanshui in the city could be fully prepared to detect the situation in advance.

It is now close to the end of October, a few days ago when Dugu Yongye launched his first attack because he did not know that Jiaozhou City had been reinforced, the Qi army suffered a big loss under the light enemy, and since then the Qi army has been very cautious in attacking.

Although he has thwarted many large-scale attacks by Dugu Yongye one after another, in the face of Dugu Yongye's steady attack with a dignified army, the pressure exerted on Shen Sanshui is also increasing.

After all, Shen Sanshui was only a middle-level officer before, and he had not presided over large-scale city defense operations, and he was the same as An Xin, who had already died in the battle of Guan Shuai, and had only seen the city defense battle presided over by Qin Lang in the defense of Jinan City before, and was transferred to Jiaozhou Port for garrison in less than half a year, and he has not encountered any major battles.

At the beginning, in the face of the powerful offensive of the Qi army, Shen Sanshui was really busy for a while, but fortunately, at the critical moment, Xiao Jing's chief of guard, Wang Rui, stepped forward and helped come up with a lot of ideas, so he barely defended the city.

Then Xiao Jing transferred all the troops in the city to Shen Sanshui, and constantly mobilized the people in the city to defend the city, so that the strength in Shen Sanshui's hands barely increased to about 15,000 people, and then Xiao Jing continued to conquer the people to defend the city. Dotted Library

Fortunately, Shen Sanshui and Wang Rui stopped Xiao Jing's attempt in time, joking that nothing can be done, now that there are these young and strong militiamen in the city to assist in defending the city, it is enough to disturb the people.

Because the original Jiaozhou City Garrison Captain Li Shun was still seriously injured, although he was no longer in a coma, but it was not possible to command the battle, Wang Rui was only willing to help with ideas and was unwilling to lead the troops to fight, so Shen Sanshui had to insist on defending the city with the soldiers in the city for several days.

But no matter how strong a warrior is steel, it is not possible to sleep, Shen Sanshui has not been able to get enough sleep because he has to take care of all aspects every day, and last night because of the feint attack of the Qi army, Shen Sanshui slept very late, and was woken up by the sound of roosters after sleeping for less than an hour.

Finally, another difficult night passed, Shen Sanshui saw that the Qi army had not yet attacked the city, so he turned around to the side and grabbed a handful of ice and snow and wiped it on his face.

"Captain Shen, you still haven't slept all night!" Shen Sanshui turned his head and saw that it was Wang Rui who had come to the city again, Wang Rui looked at the Qi army camp outside the city and asked, "Brother Shen, what is the movement of the Qi army?" ”

"Brother Wang, after the Qi army feinted in the first half of last night, it didn't launch an attack again, and I haven't seen any smoke rising from the Qi army's camp until now, but it's a little strange!" Shen Sanshui told Wang Rui about the strangeness of Qi Jun.

"Oh? There has been no movement yet? Didn't Dugu Yongye know that in two or three days, the prince would be ready to come for reinforcements at any time? Wang Rui was also a little surprised by Qi Jun's abnormal behavior.

Shen Sanshui sighed and said: "According to the report of the scouts sent out a few days ago, it has snowed more than a foot thick in the entire land of Sanqi, I'm afraid that it will really take seven or eight days for the prince to rush to reinforcements!" ”

Yes! For the first time, Wang Rui regretted persuading Xiao Jing to stay and defend the city, because the climate was different from previous years, which led to a lot of snowfall this year, which was somewhat contrary to his plan to hold on to the city and wait for Wang Yong to arrive, should he take Mr. Xiao and escape quietly?

Shen Sanshui looked outside the city and secretly thought about the intentions of the Qi army, while Wang Rui was thinking about his own plans, and suddenly Shen Sanshui's eyes looked at a camp of the Qi army, and he shouted: "Not good, the Qi army has long been ready to attack the city!" Hurry up and defend the city, soldiers! ”

It turned out that the Qi army prepared all today's food in the gap between providing food for the soldiers in the feint last night, and then used a large vat to store it, stuffed it with charcoal and kept it warm until this morning before it was sent to the besieging soldiers, so that when all the Qi soldiers were ready to attack the city, Shen Sanshui in the city did not know the situation.

It wasn't until the Qi army began to move out a lot of siege equipment from several large tents that Shen Sanshui realized that something was wrong, but at this time, the defenders in the city could only be called to defend these soldiers who stayed at the head of the city.

As for the other militia and Qingqiang, most of them are helping to throw a piece of wood, shoot crossbow arrows or something, if they are used as the main force to fight with the Qi army, I am afraid that it will not be long before the Qi army is dispersed.

This time, the Qi army was fully prepared, not only prepared a warm food for the soldiers besieging the city in advance, but also rushed to build a large number of siege equipment overnight.

Because of the heavy snow, the Qi army deliberately splashed a layer of ice, and as a result, these originally bulky siege equipment moved faster than on the flat ground.

Looking at the arrow tower and the goose cart that were getting closer and closer, Shen Sanshui's face was gloomy and almost dripping, after a few days of fighting, there were only more than 2,000 regular troops in the city, and tens of thousands of militiamen and young men condescended to fight and dip in water, if it was a tough battle with the Qi army that already had large engineering equipment, I am afraid it would be very difficult.

Although the large siege equipment made by the Qi army is not much, it will not take long to capture the city with strong troops, and by that time, the Qi army will really be able to capture Jiaozhou City.

"Huh? What about the king's chief? As soon as Shen Sanshui turned around, Wang Rui disappeared, so he asked the soldier next to him, and the soldier said: "Leader Wang said that he went to the Assassin's Mansion to find Lord Assassin Shi!" ”

Shen Sanshui frowned, it is said that the most important thing at this time is to gather all the troops in the city to defend the city, but Wang Rui quietly left the city and ran to find Xiao Jing to do something!

The Qi army didn't care about those, they were already ready, under the personal leadership of the commander Dugu Yongye, they cheered and pushed the large equipment forward, and countless Qi soldiers even carried the ladder and rushed towards the city wall under the cover of the archers behind them.

With the fierce slashing sound, blood once again stained the city wall, and the blood stains left by the previous battles were once again coated before they disappeared, and the human body kept falling down on the city, both whole and fragmented.

Although the defense line on the city wall seemed to be about to collapse every time, it persevered every time, so that Dugu Yongye, who was a famous general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, also admired the resilience of the defenders.

To show his respect for the defenders, he decided to wait for the city to be captured and kill the general himself!