Chapter 247: Difficult Battle to Defend the City
Sheng Jin looked at the scene in front of him and was a little worried.
Half a month ago, under his steady and steady strategy, everything was developing in a good direction.
Even he thought he was winning.
But it wasn't until now that he realized that he had underestimated Li Huai'an after all.
He originally thought that the rebels were just a group of displaced people, unorganized and undisciplined, and Li Huai'an could train them to be like this, and they could already be regarded as outstanding people.
But who would have thought that he not only knows how to train soldiers, but also understands the art of war!
The previous repeated victories have always been that he is showing weakness to the enemy!
After Sheng Jin relaxed his vigilance and led his troops out of the city to pursue, Li Huai'an began to show his fangs.
In just one ambush, the Jiaozhou army was defeated, and even more than 3,000 people were beheaded.
This is simply impossible in a war between the rebels and the regular army!
But Li Huai'an was stunned and did it!
It was also that defeat that made Sheng Jin realize that he was by no means Li Huai'an's opponent in the field, and his strength was to defend the city!
So since then, Sheng Jin has begun his career of defending the city.
No matter how much the rebels outside the city shouted, they would never step out of the city gates.
Seeing Sheng Jin's posture, Li Huaian also understood that the same strategy would be difficult to work again.
He simply no longer showed weakness to the enemy, but let go of his hands and feet and personally commanded the siege.
After Li Huai'an personally commanded the siege of the city, the pressure on Sheng Jin doubled, and thousands of soldiers killed in the city almost every day, and the wear and tear of the city walls increased day by day.
To this day, it is even time to break through the gates.
In a trance, Sheng Jin recalled the last time he sent a battle report to the imperial court.
He even brazenly said that Li Huai'an was vulnerable and that the rebellion was about to be quelled.
Looking at the scene in front of him again, Sheng Jin almost wanted to give himself a big mouth.
"Soldiers, guard the city gate, and you must not let these thieves cross the thunder pool!" Sheng Jin could no longer care about the literati style, so he directly put on his armor, picked up his sword, walked up to the city wall, and shouted beside the soldiers defending the city.
His ability to lead troops into battle is indeed inferior to Li Huai'an, but... He dared to lead by example!
These days, whenever the defense of the city reaches the most critical time, he will be like today, wearing armor and holding a sword, and personally go to the city wall to defend it.
The soldiers would then be encouraged to work together to push the rebels back.
Sure enough, when Sheng Jin, who was wearing armor, appeared on the city wall, the surrounding soldiers shot arrows as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, harvesting the lives of the rebels under the city wall.
Seeing this, Sheng Jin's hanging heart settled down slightly.
However, the next moment, an arrow came and nailed straight into the wall of the city that was only a foot away from him.
Seeing this, Sheng Jin couldn't help but gasp.
He is different from those scholars and doctors in the court, he has a certain amount of martial arts, and he can be worth half a military general on the battlefield.
This is also where he dares to go to the battlefield in person!
After all, no one stipulates that civil officials must be powerless, right?
And being able to live on the battlefield for so long shows that his martial arts are not bad.
But just now, he didn't even hear the slightest sound, and the arrow had already arrived in front of him.
If the arrow hadn't missed, he thought he wouldn't have been able to react.
It shows that this arrow is amazingly fast!
It also shows that the archer who shot this arrow has amazing arm strength!
Sheng Jin stretched out his head and looked down, and found that about sixty paces away, a black shadow was bending his bow and arrows, aiming at him.
What's even more terrifying is that there are many dark shadows around him doing the same thing.
Obviously, that arrow just now came from one of them!
Can... That's sixty paces away, or shoot from the bottom up!
You can even within a foot of yourself!
Such a person, even in the regular army, can only be called a marksman?
If you temper it, you can be a little general!
Can... This is not a regular army, this is a rebel army made up of displaced people!
Unorganized, undisciplined, loose and loose.
Why can there be so many marksmen in such a bunch of people?
But the next moment, Sheng Jin didn't have time to think.
Because...... The rain of arrows is coming.
Arrows flickering from the sky like meteors.
Sheng Jin didn't have time to appreciate this beauty, but the alarm bell sounded in his heart, and he immediately squatted down and curled up in the dead corner on the edge of the city wall.
Whoosh!
The next moment, a rain of arrows fell from the sky and fell densely on the city walls.
Puff puff!
The sound of sharp blades entering the flesh was heard, and many of the defenders of the city were shot dead on the spot, and then their bodies lost their inertia and fell straight down the city wall.
Because he was hiding in a dead corner under the city wall, Sheng Jin was undamaged except for some gray faces.
But even so, his face quickly became difficult to look at.
He felt that this rebel army was... It's not like a rebel army, but it's better than their regular army.
The leader of the rebel army knows how to train his troops and command the army, and he can only parry him, and he has no ability to fight back.
But why, can so many marksmen be found in a team of homeless people who can't have enough to eat?
With these marksmen, he Sheng Jin will no longer dare to show his head on the city wall, and the danger of the rest of the city defenders will also be greatly increased.
Originally, I only needed to bend my bow and shoot an arrow downward, but now I have to be careful that an arrow flies up below and shoots myself to death, who is to reason with this?
Sheng Jin was thinking, why didn't there be these marksmen before, only today? Could it be Li Huai'an's killer again?
Gan!
Why can a poor country that is so remote that it can no longer be remote, can have such a tricky character?
For a moment, Sheng Jin's face was extremely pale, but even so, he still struggled to stand up, bent over, tried to avoid the enemy's sight, and carefully moved backwards.
He knew that if he didn't stand up to boost his morale, he was afraid that his side would soon lose this battle to defend the wall.
After returning to the safe area, Sheng Jin spoke: "Soldiers, you must hold on!" ”
"Ben Zhizhou has already written a report to the imperial court, and reinforcements will arrive soon!"
"As long as we hold on, victory will be ours!"
"When the time comes, these rebels under the city walls will be the credit of you and me!"
"With such a great merit, whether it is a promotion or a promotion, what is the problem?"
"In a word, as long as you can hold on, after the rebellion is quelled, you will have what you want!"
Sheng Jin admitted that he was suspected of painting cakes.
But if you don't draw cakes at this time, I'm afraid you won't even have the opportunity to eat cakes in the future.
Sheng Jin's speech is still very incendiary, but in the face of absolute strength, it is still a drop in the bucket.
This time, Li Huai'an seems to be determined to die, whether it is the strength of the siege or the number of people, it is far beyond the past!