Chapter 174: Turn!
Seeing this, Liu Mo immediately ordered to shoot back with rockets.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" A rain of fire struck. Strangely, there was no movement outside the city.
Out of curiosity, a Great Xia soldier subconsciously probed to look, and immediately attracted dozens of bows and arrows in response. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and was lucky enough to escape.
"My lord, they cover the planks with raw animal skins, the rockets don't work!"
At this time, Liu Mo noticed the arrows on his helmet, and when he pinched a handful of sweat for him, he wanted to laugh a little.
"Zhao Da, I don't care what method you use, just take a stick of incense to get me a big pot of oil."
"Uncle, is that still the trick?"
Thinking of the terrifying scene where the oil was splashed on the Zhou Dynasty's spy before, Zhao Da had goosebumps all over his body.
"Yes, go quickly!"
Zhao Da was ordered to go.
The Zhou Dynasty army was several times larger than the Bactria defenders, and the suppression of firepower forced the Bactrian soldiers on the city walls not to dare to show their heads.
"My lord, that thing is here."
Liu Mo clearly heard its creaking rolling sound, "Blow the horn!" He ordered.
The soldiers who stood in the aisles of the city gate must be reminded.
Suddenly, the strange thing stopped.
"Liu Mo, Lord Liu, can you be on the city wall?" Outside the city gate, a Zhou Dynasty soldier shouted at the top of his voice.
What does this do? Liu Mo frowned. "If you have something to say, let it go!"
"Please allow me to retrieve the corpses of the soldiers."
"Dreaming!" Liu Mo roared back.
"Lord Liu, this matter is not to be discussed with you!" The Zhou Dynasty soldier said in a cold tone, "My Zhou Dynasty army will arrive in a few days, if you don't know what to do, the day the city is broken, you will slaughter the people of Rongcheng, and no one will be left!" ”
What's more, when I heard this, I knew that it was taught by Yang Yizhi, which seemed simple and rude, but in fact contained too many extraneous meanings.
My Zhou Dynasty just accepted a corpse, and didn't let you surrender, I didn't agree, and I couldn't blame me for slaughtering the city at that time. If you agree, God knows if the other party will cheat halfway, and at the same time, it will be too embarrassing!
"If you want to recover the corpse of the soldier, you can let Yang Yizhi retreat for thirty miles!"
"Brother Liu Xian, I knew that you would say this, and I couldn't complain about being a brother." The soldiers shouted again, "Within three days, the Banyan City will be broken, so that you can do it yourself!" ”
With that, the ghost creaked again, and gradually left the city gate.
Break the city in three days! It means that the large army of the Zhou Dynasty will arrive within three days?
What about our reinforcements? Liu Mo frowned.
The local defenders of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were only 5,600 men, unable to support Rongcheng.
But in addition, the Great Xia Dynasty also has nine important towns to protect the mountains and rivers, and the nearest Jiangyuan Town is only seven days away from Rongcheng, so it stands to reason that it should come faster than the Zhou Dynasty's large army.
Could it be that the Great Xia Emperor is a fool? Cowardly and stupid? This is to give up Jianglin Mansion? Abandon new salt?
Or is it that the eldest prince has a grudge against what happened last time, and the army is actually near Jianglin, and he wants to borrow the hand of the Zhou Dynasty army to get rid of me and then fight a decisive battle with it?
It's possible! But here comes the problem again.
What are the Six Princes doing? Can't tear the eldest prince apart, abandon the pawn to protect the army?
Subconsciously looking around, the Great Xia defenders around him had already lost one-third, and there were more than a hundred wounded, and less than half of the soldiers were able to continue fighting!
Not only that, but they were exhausted by the days of fighting, and the delayed reinforcements led to low morale.
"Brother Liu Xian, what are you in a daze?" Zhu Min, who came to change the guard, patted him on the shoulder.
When Liu Mo reacted, he found that it was already afternoon.
It's been a long time again!
He realized how tired he was, and I needed to sleep for a while, even for two hours.
"Go back and rest, leave it to the eldest brother here!" Zhu Min said.
"If Yang Yizhi has any new moves, remember to wake me up." Liu Mo told him.
"Definitely!"
Liu Mo hugged Zhu Min, then turned to leave.
As soon as he lay up straight in his narrow bed, he fell asleep.
Dreams, strange and amorphous, full of strange voices, cries and shouts, and low, loud horns, monotonous bass that hovered in the air.
When he woke up, outside the window, it was dark, and Zhao Da was standing in front of him. "Uncle, General Zhu asked you to go over immediately."
In a daze, his first thought was, it won't be lost, right? He rubbed his eyes and asked uneasily, "What's the matter?" ”
"Good news!" Zhao Da told him excitedly.
"Reinforcements are coming?"
Zhao Da shook his head, "Uncle, you'll know when you go!" ”
Put on your shoes, be led by Zhao Da's oil lamp, and come to the room where Zhu Min is.
"Brother Xian, come and see what this is?" Zhu Min said as he showed him the pigeon in his hand.
"Pigeon !!" Liu Mo reacted immediately.
"Haha, that's right! I've been here a lot before, but I've been shot down by the debris outside the city! Zhu Min smiled, "Just count it as the biggest, you see, this arrow is so accurate, it will become a pot of broth!" ”
Liu Mo was in no mood to laugh, "Is there any news of reinforcements?" ”
"Absolutely!" After speaking, Zhu Min handed a crumpled piece of letter to Liu Mo.
I see! The big stone fell in Liu Mo's heart.
According to the information on the stationery, Liu Mo learned.
The 10,000 reinforcements from Jiangyuan Town could reach Rongcheng in two days at most, and the news was also sent with flying pigeons, but unfortunately, all the carrier pigeons were defeated by the Zhou Dynasty troops stationed outside Rongcheng.
Yang Yizhi said that Banyan City would be broken within three days, and he must have found out the news.
"Haha, virtuous brother, I finally saw the moon when the clouds opened."
See the moonlight? Liu Mo's face sank, "Brother Zhu, it's too early to speak?" He said in a cold tone, "The next two days will be the most difficult moment!" ”
Rongcheng is such a strategic location, and it is also the first major city on the border between the Zhou Dynasty and Great Xia. Capture this city, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, how could Yang Yizhi give up easily!
"Come one to kill one, come two to kill a pair, I'm afraid he's a bird!"
Liu Mo sneered, you said lightly.
Suddenly, a bold idea flashed through his mind.
"Brother Zhu, when you came to Rongcheng, you also brought carrier pigeons, right?"
"It's natural, why do you ask?" Zhu Min was surprised.
"Because I have a crazy plan!" Liu Mo told him.
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Three days later, at midnight, it rained heavily in the sky of Banyan City, and the sky was pitch black, and the dreary air foreshadowed the coming storm.
Suddenly, a dazzling light pierced the clouds, and the fangs of lightning pierced the hills to the east, and at that moment, Liu Mo saw the nightmare of the day below.
The ground outside the city walls was crowded with black figures, some short and stocky, some tall, wearing helmets and armed with spears and swords.
According to a rough estimate, at least 10,000 Zhou Dynasty soldiers lined up neatly. Liu Mo knew that this was not all, there were more Zhou Dynasty soldiers in the distance who were ready to go as reserves!
Lightning rolled in the air, and the downpour fell mercilessly.
Liu Mo and Zhu Min stood on the city wall, and they couldn't help but be shocked when they saw such a scene.
"Did you see it, the miscellaneous surnamed Yang!" Zhu Min pointed ahead.
Liu Moding saw that Yang Yizhi was riding on a white war horse, and he was lightly armed tonight, with a layer of shiny copper scales covered in black chain mail, and his weapon was a spear.
After seeing Liu Mo, he raised his spear and pointed it, as if to say, "Brother Xian, wait for me!" ”