Section 511 Weiyuan Offensive and Defensive Battle (3)
. "Kill~" shouted, and the soldiers rushed to the moat under Weiyuan City with arrows at the top of the city, and threw the sack full of soil into the moat.
After three days of defeat in the battle, Long Shouren suddenly woke up as if he had opened his mind. If you can fight one-on-one, I can fight one group. So, the coalition began a fierce attack on Weiyuan City. As for Ye Kaihuai's fight, I blocked your door and refused to let you come out. Let's see how you fight one-on-one with me.
It is not as easy as a lie to break through Weiyuan City, which was prepared for a long time. The first thing the coalition forces have to solve is the moat surrounding Weiyuan. The moat with a width of eight meters is the first obstacle to the coalition forces' attack. In order to solve this obstacle, Long Shouren specially formed a river-filling team, and the task is to fill the moat of Weiyuan City.
In the two days since the establishment of the Hehe Team, the number of casualties has exceeded 2,000. Feng Yangjun is not a fool, he will watch you fill the river. In addition, at night, Weiyuan City can clearly see the movements outside the city with the help of a bronze mirror. The Hehe Team's tasks in the past two days can be said to be filled out with human lives.
"It's too slow. At their speed, when will it take to fill the moat?" Long Shouren, who was watching, complained dissatisfied.
After hearing this, Wen Rui couldn't help but speak up for the Tianhe Team and said: "Your Majesty, the Tianhe Team has worked very hard. It is rare to be able to fill half of the moat at the east gate of Weiyuan City under the attack of Feng Yang's army."
Long Shouren glanced at Wen Rui when he heard this and said nothing. Just as Wen Rui estimated, since the argument with Long Shouren that day, Long Shouren began to alienate himself increasingly, and no longer ask for his opinions when he had something to do. Instead, he began to favor a child from a noble family named Zhang Chengzhi. He would take him with him wherever he went. In the past, the people he brought were Wen Rui.
Seeing that Long Shouren just glanced at him and turned his head away, Wen Rui sighed in his heart and lowered his head without saying a word. A handsome man standing next to Long Shouren showed a smug smile on his lips.
When Yin Wu saw him, he immediately wanted to have an attack. Fortunately, his brother Yin Hong was quick-witted and quickly pressed Yin Wu's shoulder without silence, and used his eyes to signal Yin Wu not to act rashly. Seeing that his brother took action, Yin Wu had to be honest, but his eyes were still very unhappy and stared at Zhang Chengzhi standing next to Long Shouren.
Zhang Chengzhi, a child of a noble family whose family background has declined. The reason why he appears here is that his sister was fortunate to become Long Shouren's pillow, which made him enter Long Shouren's sight. The other is that he gave birth to a good face, and was good at catering to his superiors. He flattered Long Shouren to make his body and mind comfortable.
Who doesn't want to be right forever? But when Wen Rui was by his side before, if he was wrong, Wen Rui would definitely find a way to point it out to him. Although the method is relatively tactful, it is always unpleasant to be accused of making mistakes. But now, Zhang Chengzhi in front of him is obviously a talent he has been looking for but has not found. With this idea, Long Shouren would certainly bring Zhang Chengzhi by his side, and deliberately alienated Wen Rui, who is already arrogant in his eyes.
Don't think that I can't do anything without you.
"Come here, let me tell the general of the river-filling team that I will not fill the moat at the East City Gate before dark, so I will use him to fill the moat in Weiyuan."
"Abide by the order." The personal guards around him went to the commander-in-chief of the river team to convey Long Shouren's oral order.
Wen Rui frowned and wanted to speak, but his eyes glanced at Yin Hong, who was not far away, shaking his head slightly at him. Wen Rui thought about it, sighed secretly in his heart, and gave up the way of pleading for the generals of the He River Commander. He understood that he was now an existence equivalent to a plague, and Long Shouren seemed to be against him. He would do the opposite of anything he said. If he pleaded for others, he might not be sure that those who could have lived would be killed in the end.
Chen Qi, the general of the Hehe Team, felt a chill when he heard the order from Long Shouren to order people. He was also an old man next to Long Shouren. He has been serving as a guard by the eldest prince since Long Shouren was still the eldest prince. He didn't expect that he would be today.
"Everyone has heard His Majesty's oral order. If you don't fill the moat at the East City Gate before dark, I will have to move, as I am a little lonely when I go on the road. "I will take you guys to go on the road with me before I go on the road, because it's a bit lonely when I go on the road alone." Chen Qi said to several of his deputy under him.
Several subordinates looked at each other, stood up and said, "I hope to serve the Lord."
"Okay, let everyone be prepared, each carrying two sacks. This time we will not act in batches and swear to fill that damn moat."
"clear."
"Roar~" Chen Qi carried two sacks on his back and rushed to the moat first. When they rushed into the range of Feng Yang Army archers, the bows and arrows on the top of the city were shot down. People kept getting caught and fell to the ground, but this time because there were too many people, Feng Yang Army archers did not participate much in the attack on the city, so that more than two-thirds of the people rushed to the city.
"Pu~Pu" As the sacks fell into the moat, Chen Qi saw that it was almost done, and raised his hand to greet his subordinates and said, "Retreat~." As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp arrow shot through his throat. Li Sansi on the top of the city put down his bow and arrow and educated his subordinates: "Did you see it? Don't use any clothing in the future, you can't tell who is an official as a reason. Remember, anyone who calls you happily during a war is basically an official, big or small. As long as you kill them, it is equivalent to killing several other soldiers at the same time."
"Sir, sir..." Chen Qi's deputy saw Chen Qi suddenly slumping to the ground with his face facing up, and hurriedly came over from other places. Seeing this, Li Sansi on the top of the city quickly said to the soldiers around him: "Did you see it? Now those who are surrounded by all the officials are also officials. Don't miss this rare opportunity. The time is time to make contributions, and shoot those gangs of groundhogs to death."
"Ahhh" screamed several times, and the deputies surrounding Chen Qi also screamed and fell to the ground. Seeing this, the soldiers around him turned their heads and ran towards the formation before they had time to clean up.
After receiving the news of Chen Qi's death, Long Shouren didn't even blink, but asked with concern whether the moat in Dongcheng had been filled. When he learned that the moat had been filled, Long Shouren smiled with satisfaction and ordered his generals to say, "The whole army is ready. After half an hour, we will start attacking Weiyuan. All the generals need to work hard. Whoever attacks Weiyuan first will be rewarded with a thousand gold medals: whoever takes Ye Kaihuai's head and is named Wanhuhou."
"Your Majesty, what should Chen Qi do?" Wen Rui asked out loud.
"... Since you ask, let's leave Chen Qi's funeral to you." Long Shouren, who was interrupted, replied indifferently. He didn't even want to hear Wen Rui say another sentence.
"... Thank you Your Majesty." Wen Rui lowered his head and retreated back to his original position. All the generals had heard of Long Shouren's attitude towards Wen Rui. Until today, they saw it with their own eyes. The generals were not tomorrow. The former glorious right prime minister has now fallen out of favor. I believe that the right prime minister's position will soon be replaced. For a moment, everyone began to think about it. Fortunately, Wen Rui is usually low-key, and no one wants to take the blame.
"Everyone is going to prepare quickly. I hope I can have breakfast in Weiyuan City tomorrow morning." Long Shouren said to the generals with a smile.
After hearing Long Shouren's words, Wen Rui shook his head secretly, like a night of breaking through Weiyuan, which was like a fool. Tonight, someone could rush to the top of Weiyuan City, so Long Shouren should laugh.
Half an hour later, Long Shouren stood in a chariot in military uniform, and ordered with great enthusiasm: "Attack"
Suddenly, the first siege echelon began to rush towards Weiyuan. The soldiers carried the ladder and rushed towards Weiyuan City with the siege cars. More than 40 well railings were following closely behind, which were slowly moving towards the city gate.
At the top of Weiyuan City, Ye Kaihuai looked at the well railings slowly approaching outside the city, frowned, and said to Long Xingyun beside him: "Xingyun, I'm leaving this place to you. I want to go out of the city to destroy those well railings. If those railings are close to the city wall, it will be detrimental to our guardianship."
Long Xingyun, who knew the seriousness of the matter, was not pretentious. He took Ye Kaihuai's sword and told him: "Okay, be careful."
"I know. Sansi follows me. Siliu, stay and help the military advisor defend the city."
"I will understand. Sense and protect the adults." Chen Siliu agreed and reminded Li Sansi.
"Don't worry." Li Sansi agreed, followed Ye Kaihuai and got off the city wall.
As the city gate opened, Ye Kaihuai led five thousand fully armed cavalry out of the city. As soon as he left the city, Feng Yang's cavalry set out a charge arrow and rushed directly to the anti-Ye coalition infantry who were pushing the siege cart.
In an instant, the infantry formation of the Anti-Ye Alliance was torn apart by Feng Yang's cavalry. Feng Yang's cavalry, led by Ye Kaihuai, rushed straight to the well behind the infantry formation without stopping.
"Stop them, their target is our well railing." A clever way of seeing the intention of Feng Yang's cavalry, he shouted loudly. Unfortunately, infantry alone could not stop the cavalry running at high speed. Feng Yang's cavalry quickly arrived less than twenty meters away from the well railing. However, the remaining twenty meters distance was not easy to break through. The more than forty well railings were densely packed with people.
"Light the fire-driven objects, shoot arrows and nail them to the well railings." Ye Kaihuai shouted to his opponent. Feng Yang's cavalry immediately began to act, and the outsiders were still fighting, while the cavalry on the inside began to wrap the fire-driven objects that were originally intended to ignite the well railings on the arrows as Ye Kaihuai said. After igniting them, they shot them to different well railings.
The wooden well railing was lit up immediately, and the generals under the well railing quickly shouted to ask their subordinates to put out the fire soon. But how to save them? The Feng Yang cavalry was too immoral and even shot arrows on the waist of the well railing.
In order to suppress the bows and arrows at the head of Weiyuan City, the average height of these more than 40 wells reached twenty-five meters. The places where these wells caught fire were more than ten meters above the ground. This location made ordinary soldiers unable to watch the hard work, but the wells that had no use were slowly burned out from the middle and fell to the ground.
"Beautiful dry ground" Long Xingyun said to Ye Kaihuai with a smile.
"Is that a little bit. What's going on? Did the coalition forces just siege the city?"
"No. The noise you left the city just now was so loud that the soldiers who were originally going to attack the city were paying attention to you, and we had nothing to do here."
"Is that so? I didn't expect that I was so charming?"
"Of course it's big. Your uncle is very generous this time. He has ordered the first to attack Weiyuan to reward the daughter of Qiang Wanhu who takes down your head." Long Xingyun said with a smile.
"Oh, is that right? I didn't expect that I'm so valuable now."
"Sir, stop joking. The enemy is sieging the city." Chen Siliu, who is responsible for monitoring the movements of the army outside the city, shouted loudly to Long Xingyun and Ye Kaihuai.
"Since the city has been sieged, we will let them know how powerful Feng Yang's army is." Ye Kaihuai rushed to the top of the city, snatched the bow and arrow from Li Sansi's hand, and aimed at the highest commander of the first echelon of the siege. The general riding a horse was located under a red flag.
With a "swish", the sharp arrow left the string. Immediately afterwards, the red flag slowly landed on the ground, covering the general under his command.
"Sir, mighty," Li Sansi shouted.
Ye Kaihuai smiled at the soldiers around him with a reserved smile and returned the bow and arrow in his hand to Li Sansi. Long Xingyun came to him and asked quietly, "Are you aiming at the big flag just now?"
Ye Kaihuai rolled his eyes when he heard this, ignoring Long Xingyun.
Long Xingyun immediately understood as soon as he saw that the arrow just now must have been confused. As expected, Ye Kaihuai muttered in a low voice: "Strange, I was clearly aiming at the main general, how could he shoot the flag down?"
The city was already in chaos, and before the battle began, the big banner on his side was shot to the ground. This caused a certain blow to the soldiers' already lack of morale.
"Beat the Drum" Nangong Mu, the chief general who had just climbed out of the banner, ordered in anger.
"Dong~Dong~Dong~" Accompanied by the intense drum sound, the morale of the coalition soldiers finally rebounded a little. Nangong Ning pulled out his command knife, pointed hard at the direction of Weiyuan City, and ordered loudly: "Siege the City"
The flag was blocked before the fight was started, which would be considered a great humiliation for Nangong Mu. If someone hadn't stopped him, Nangong Mu might have personally led his troops to rush forward at this time.
Not long after the battle started, the coalition soldiers outside the city were attacked by Feng Yang's army in disgrace. This attack did not succeed, not only by hitting the city, but by the ladder on the city. Every time they leaned up, they were inserted from the city wall by Feng Yang's army on the city with a special fork rod, and they were unable to rely on them at all. In addition, they lost the suppression of the well railing, and the archers of Feng Yang's army on the city were simply shooting their soldiers as rabbits.
Looking at the soldiers who were retreating like a tide, Nangong Mu was unwilling to order the army to fight again. Long Shouren, who was located in the rear, sent someone to send an oral order to suspend the offensive and ask Nangong Mu to return to the camp to explain the situation to him.
Nangong Mu is not a stupid person, of course he knows that even if he attacks the city, it will only increase casualties. Now with the steps sent by Long Shouren, Nangong Mu immediately reluctantly took advantage of the situation. At the same time, he also wanted to go back and complain to Long Shouren about the difficulties of siege and take the opportunity to pick himself and his army out of the siege.
"Huh? Why did you withdraw your troops after just one fight?" Ye Kaihuai, who was about to do a big fight, said in wonder.
"Who knows to go? Maybe the siege's head was in the mind and went back to Long Shouren to cry and complain about your shamelessness, right?" Long Xingyun replied casually.
"What did you say? Who is shameless?" Ye Kaihuai asked dissatisfied.
"Eh..." Long Xingyun, who knew that he said the wrong thing, was about to find a reason to make excuses when he saw Qin Yong, who was responsible for guarding the prisoners, walked over, looking as if something was wrong.
"Sir, that Ximen Qing yelled to see you again. He also threatened that if you don't go to see him again, he would go on a hunger strike." Qin Yong stepped forward and said to Ye Kaihuai who was staring at Long Xingyun.
"Let him out. And you tell him that I happened to be curious about how many days it will take for someone to starve to death. Thank you for your contribution to solving my doubts." Ye Kaihuai replied indifferently.
"ah?"
"Ah what? Go quickly"
"Eh..." Qin Yong looked at Long Xingyun in embarrassment. Seeing this, Long Xingyun stepped forward and advised: "Sir, why not go see that Ximen Qing and hear what he wants to say to you? If you talk nonsense, just treat it as passing the time."
"And, what can he say? It's nothing more than his Ximen family who is optimistic about me and wants to support me in unification of Aolong. Then he proposed some exchange conditions to me as a reward for their support."
"No way?" Long Xingyun said in disbelief.
"If you don't believe it? If you don't believe it, let's make a bet. Let's go and see if what he said is similar to what I said?"
“…Okay, what are you betting on?”
"Well... so, if I win, when I return to Fengyang, you have to dress up as a wandering singer and go out of your wife's window to sing to conquer."
"Puff~" Qin Yong and Li Sansi on the side couldn't help laughing out loud.
"You, your idea is really bad. What if you lose?"
"If I lose, I'll go to my wife's window to sing to conquer." Ye Kaihuai said indifferently.
"... Then have you decided to go to which wife's window to sing?"
"Everyone can't be more generous than the other. So do you."
"...Okay, one word is certain. I really look forward to your singing then." Long Xingyun said gritting his teeth.
"Hehe...they are each other. I will definitely find everyone I know at that time."
"Let's see."
"Let's just go and see."
Ye Kaihuai and Long Xingyun walked towards the place where the prisoners were being held. Before leaving, Ye Kaihuai ordered: "Li Sansi, I will leave the safety of the city to you and Chen Siliu."
"I understand." Li Sansi replied loudly. At the same time, he slapped Qin Yong beside him, "What are you still standing there? Come and follow us quickly."
Chapter completed!