Chapter Forty-Seven: Soldiers Descend on the City

In front of the official army, Yang Ao rode his horse and came back like a leisurely stroll.

"Yang Ao, why are you the only one who has returned? Where did the others go? Among the first group of people, a military general frowned and looked at Yang Ao.

"The thieves were alert, reacted quickly, and the strategy of grabbing the door failed, and everyone else was left in the city, and the last general was incompetent, and only brought back the head of Fuji Yingzheng." Yang Ao lazily hugged his fists.

"Ridiculous, it's just a group of grass cobs, how can they kill Fujikata?" When the general heard this, he was dumbfounded: "It's clear that you killed it!" ”

"Captain Li laughed, the last general is also a soldier, how can he make a move on the robe?" Yang Ao shook his head, it was impossible for him to do such a thing as killing Pao Ze.

"With you on your side, why was Fujigata killed?" Captain Li didn't believe that anyone in the thief army could kill Fujikata, even if he was defeated, with Fujikata's ability, it was easy to leave, how could he die there directly?

What's more, there is Yang Ao on the side!

"The last general is incompetent, otherwise how could he not rise for so many years? Besides, in this battle to seize the door, the main general is not the last general, this failed, and the blame should not fall on the last general because the last general fled back. Yang Ao shook his head and said.

"Are you holding a grudge against the general!?" Captain Li stared at Yang Ao.

"How dare you?" Yang Ao shook his head, met Captain Li's gaze and said: "It's just that the last general is really curious, the camp that Captain Li did with me at the beginning, in terms of cultivation, the last general will enter the seventh rank before the captain, in terms of combat merits, there are a lot of seven grades and even six grades killed by the last general, but in the end, you became the captain, I don't know if the last general can ask the captain for a lesson or two, and take a look at his own shortcomings!" ”

"Yang Ao!" Captain Li glared at Yang Ao angrily, looked at him and said, "Do you know where you are now!?" ”

"Enough!" With a heavy drink, the leader of the main general frowned and looked at Yang Ao and said, "Yang Ao, retreat!" ”

"Yes!" Yang Ao clasped his fists at the main general and stepped aside.

"General, he ......" Captain Li opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the main general.

"The big war is coming, Captain Li, do you want to shake the morale of the army?" The general's indifferent gaze fell on Captain Li's face.

The big war is imminent, but the generals of their own country are fighting first, and they are seen as jokes, what do the soldiers around them think?

"The last general will not dare!" Captain Li hurriedly hugged his fists.

"The thief army doesn't seem to have the spirit to protect the city, since it can't take the city gate quickly, let's storm it!" The Lord will look in the direction of the city wall, and will not care much about the failure of the gate.

Guiyi Sect these thieves, on the way to solve a lot of problems, but a group of rabble, even if you can't take advantage of it, in the absence of the city to protect the green spirit, with the elite of the border army, he has the confidence that he can break through the city today.

"Command!" Captain Li agreed, and the other three captains who came with him ordered people to push a stone cart out of the city.

A catapult with a height of three or five zhang slowly came out of the battle under the impetus of the wrestlers, and the officers and soldiers bullied the rebels that they did not have enough means to deal with it, so they directly drove the catapult to a distance of 100 steps outside the city wall.

"Shoot the arrows!" The commander of the capital ordered the rebels defending the city to shoot arrows.

It's just that the rebels lacked training, and although they got 2,000 pairs of bows and arrows after entering the city, they couldn't do it as neatly as the officers and soldiers, and the arrows they shot did not have the effect of a rain of arrows.

Captain Li looked at this scene and sneered in his heart, the rabble is the rabble, today I will ask you to wait to see what the arrow array is!

"Archer, enter!"

At his command, eight hundred burly archers quickly approached the catapult with strong bows on their backs and formed a phalanx.

"Lead!"

Raise your right hand slowly.

"Crunch~"

A strong bow was drawn.

"Put!"

As if to vent his dissatisfaction with Yang Ao, the moment his right hand was chopped, there was a sound of explosion.

"Woo Woo Woo ~ "

Eight hundred sharp arrows swept through the air, tearing the air diagonally towards the sky, merging in the air into a dense rain of arrows, with a roar of death falling from the top.

At best, this could only be regarded as a tentative attack, but the response of the rebels at the head of the city was somewhat unsightly.

The commanders did not know how to respond, some ordered the soldiers to raise their shields to resist, others were at a loss, and many of the rebels reacted to the sharp arrows that broke through the air.

Sharp arrows ruthlessly fell on the city wall, most of them were empty, but there were also many unlucky eggs who were shot by sharp arrows, it was okay to hit the vital point, and there was no pain in walking, but if they did not hit the vital point, then they would suffer, some were shot in the thigh, and some were shot in the arm, in this era of backward medical conditions, this is a fatal injury, and many people can't survive in the end.

For a time, the city wall was filled with terrible screams.

Lu Xuan watched all this happen indifferently, a rabble is a rabble, even if they have been through many battles before, but these people can only fight with the wind, and when they meet the regular army, they have already been exposed in their true form after just a round of temptation.

This is still a tentative attack, and those siege engines are useless.

It's hard to imagine that when those catapults exert their strength, they will not collapse directly.

From the beginning, Lu Xuan didn't expect these rebels to play any role, he was more curious about how Guo Chang would deal with it.

When Lu Xuan looked at Guo Chang, he found that Guo Chang knelt down at some point.

Lifting the official seal above his head with both hands in a lifting posture, he said something in his mouth, and the official seal lit up again with a shiny luster.

Lu Xuan: "......"

If he hadn't known that this world really had extraordinary power, Lu Xuan would have really wanted to go over and kick it twice.

With Guo Chang's chanting, the originally clear sky gradually dimmed.

Lu Xuan looked up at the sky, but saw that the sky was obscured by dark clouds at some point.

Many people also discovered this scene, and looked up at the sky, only to see that in the sky, the snowflakes were falling, which were small at first, but gradually they were getting bigger and bigger, enveloping the entire Sanyang City.

"The Governor is going to freeze the officers and soldiers to death?" Luo Juan asked with some uncertainty.

Guo Chang did not answer, but continued to do so.

In the official formation, the main general frowned at this scene, then turned his head, looked at a Confucian scholar beside him, and asked, "Mr. Sinan, what is this...... Confucian supernatural powers? ”

"This is a Taoist prayer for rain, but it is not the Taoist method, but the luck of Sanyang County." The Confucian shook his head and said with a bit of mockery: "Taoists have always been reluctant to be contaminated with the luck of the imperial court, and they don't want this Zhang Yuqing to come up with this method to replace the green qi of the city, this dynasty's luck is poison for Taoists, and Zhang Yuqing is killing himself." ”

"Praying for rain?" The Lord will frown, he doesn't care about Confucianism and Taoism, he just wants to know what the other party means by doing this? What if it snows?

"General, there's something wrong with this snow!" A lieutenant pointed abruptly to the ground.

"Huh?" Hearing this, the Lord General looked at the captain's point, and after a moment, he frowned and said, "How did this snow melt when it landed?" ”

Now it is a cold winter, Yunzhou is located in the north of Daqian, the winter is already cold, this season is snowing, it is impossible to melt on the ground.

"Not good!" But the Confucian man reacted, looked at the main general, and said, "General, quickly order someone to withdraw the catapult!" ”

"Pass my military order, catapult retreat!" Although the main general didn't know why, he knew that this snow was deceitful when he looked at the other party's expression, and immediately shouted.

But it seems to be too late.

In the sight of the soldiers on both sides, the catapult was slowly sinking, not only the catapult, but also Captain Li and the wrestlers and archers in front, who suddenly found that the ground under their feet was soft.

At first, they didn't feel anything, but soon they found their feet in the ground.

The originally hard pavement turned into a mud swamp at some point.

"Not good!" Captain Li's face also changed, and he said sharply: "Retreat and move the catapult back." ”

However, such a scene not only happened in the front, but the ground under the feet of most of the officers and soldiers behind also began to become soft and muddy, but the farther away from the city, the weaker the effect.

But the catapult closest to the city is sinking deeper and deeper, and the archers and wrestlers can still break free, but each catapult weighs tens of thousands of pounds, in this case, even if those wrestlers desperately want to carry it, they can't move it, but there are many wrestlers who are carried deeper and deeper by the catapult.

Within three hundred paces outside the city, it soon turned into a quagmire, and the slow runners had already sunk into it.

"It could be broken!?" The general motioned for the three armies to retreat while looking at the Confucian scholars.

The Confucian scholar said bitterly: "This is the power of national fortune, if you want to compete, at least you need Confucianism, and you can't ...... it."

Before the five grades, even if Confucianism cultivated Haoran righteousness, it would at most exert some states on its own living individuals, and this kind of range of spells could only be cast without the help of luck when it reached the five grades.

They were now on the march, and he couldn't afford to call on the green spirit of the city dozens of miles away.

After thinking about it, the Confucian scholar said: "But the general doesn't have to worry about this, the thief army does not cultivate benevolence, although it barely gains some luck, but it will not last, as long as the other party gives up casting spells, this swamp will disappear." ”

You don't need any spells, in the climate of Yunzhou, there are no conditions for swamp formation at all, as long as the other party gives up casting spells, it won't be long before the water will freeze.

"Pass my military order, retreat ten miles to the village!" Seeing that the outside of the city had turned into a swamp, the main general was a little helpless, so he could only postpone the siege.