The war continues for a month.
Although Bailou Prefecture and several passes in Liu Prefecture were surrounded by troops and horses mobilized by the Xu Meng Mansion, the battles were clearly no more than thunder. Apart from three or two breezes, the rain was not heavy. On the contrary, it was raining heavily. There has been no news from Tianxi City for more than a full month. Firstly, there are no sentry horses to deliver messages, and secondly, there are no birds to deliver messages. The elders of the Bailou Prefecture and Liuzhou have discussed with each other several times, hesitating again and again, and finally decided to Gritting the bullet, several new groups of troops, numbering nearly ten thousand, were transferred from various places to rescue Tianxiguan. Even if the siege could not be rescued, some sporadic news could still be sent back, so that we could know that this city has been under heavy siege for nearly two months. Is the city still in Liuzhou's hands?
As soon as he left, there was no news, and the people and horses should have arrived in front of Tianxi City. If there was a spy horse to report back, he should have left and returned. However, he gritted his teeth and waited for three days, and still no sentry horse returned. This Tianxi City It seems that it was blocked by people from the west of Liuzhou. People in the city were not allowed to leave, and people outside the city were not allowed to enter. Several clan elders who were stationed in Liuzhou even thought that Tianxi City must be a dead city, and they were afraid that all the troops would have cavalry. This majestic pass has been cut open, and we are heading straight towards the north.
Wu Lu, who was in his 60s, had been tossing and turning for many days. Even though he had not been involved in a war for many years, Wu Lu knew that there were talented people in Xu Meng's mansion, not to mention that others had the upper hand and faced Liu Gu Bailou. As far as the three states are concerned, they can only be cautious and not take the initiative to attack. Therefore, even if the war only reached Liuzhou and Bailouzhou, Wu Lu and the other clan elders roughly guessed that the other places were mostly feint attacks, while Tianxi City must be a forced attack. However, they still did not dare to take risks and misappropriate the guards from other cities.
The war has been going on for many years, and the royal court of Zhengzhang is exhausted. The family fortune accumulated in Liuzhou and Bailouzhou over the years has been greatly reduced, not in terms of money and food, but in terms of manpower. The king of hell refused, not to mention that the three states faced the eight and nine states. Although Dayuan was vast and sparsely populated, the number of troops was still not comparable to that of the Xumeng Mansion.
Therefore, in the past few days, Wu Lu, who was in the old manor of the Liuzhou tribe, had been repeatedly angry and his eye disease had recurred. Even if he drank a lot of Binghuo Qingming tea soup and herbs, he still felt angry and attacked his heart in the middle of the night when no one was around, making it difficult to sleep peacefully. , had been like this for many days, so I had to put on my clothes and sit up in the pine forest outside the clan elder's house, hoping that the still cold and cold wind would clear away the heat inside. When the war broke out, he had not returned home for many years, and now that he was celebrating the new year, Wu Lu only returned home once during the New Year's Eve, and left in a hurry. As for the rest of his mind, he did not put it elsewhere at all. I don't know how much pine ink was used to review the drawings and deduce the enemy's situation. I used several bald pens. I was here with several other clan elders and almost ran out of oil.
"Next time you dare to sigh at night, just come here to sleep. Don't stay in the house, you deserve to freeze to death."
Wu Lu hadn't yet come out of the weird and ridiculous half-dream, but next to him was an old man sitting with a straight waist and abdomen, and his hair was completely white. He didn't look like a clan elder at all. His clothes were neat and old, even worse than ordinary people. .
"Wars have been going on for years, and it is common to have trouble sleeping and eating. However, among the old men of the Liuzhou tribe, you, Wu Lu, are young. Most of the others are already in their sixties like me. They will become even more useless if they lose both energy and blood. If you, Wu Lu, fall, , who should take the lead in Liuzhou affairs? Could it be that I, an old man who has been around for seventy years, will support you?" The person who came here is the longest-serving elder in the Liuzhou clan's mansion. He has been in the clan since the world was in chaos. In the old pavilion, no one dared to call him alive after having lived for nearly a year, and only dared to call him "Gu". However, this old man never had any airs, and because of his rare age, he liked to play with flowers, grass, and dogs. Ying, sometimes even Wu Lu felt that this old man should be younger than him. Now he sat with Wu Lu in the pine forest, picked up a glass of plain wine, and managed to satisfy his greed.
Sometimes I have to admit that the reputation of martial arts is not necessarily good, but compared to the literati who are not skilled in martial arts and are not diligent, their bodies and bones are much tougher. The old and young warriors, relying on the strength of the Great Yuan outside the Great Wall, the cold wind blows out the porcelain solid body. , the Great Yuan Dynasty has been in chaos for many years, and they are still struggling to hold on, but looking at the energy and spirit now, I don’t know how much better than Wu Lu, and they even have the leisure to drink and play eagle, and show off to others that they have caught it with their own hands, and they have survived. Seven-day bald falcon.
Wu Lu had always known ancient temperaments. Instead of finding the sarcastic words of this extremely senior old man very irritating, he actually felt that his heartstrings were relaxed for a moment. He was temporarily freed from the thought of trouble caused by everything, but he still sighed softly. Two breaths.
"If I could steal two skills from ancient times, I would rather live ten years less. I can get in and out as quickly as I can. I don't think about trivial things when I drink, but I can concentrate on big things when I think about them. But I am still indecisive, and I am still not used to being in the world. Living in troubled times.”
And what responded to Wu Lu was just a wine jar.
Gu Gu has never liked drinking plain wine. He often felt that the taste was too clear and watery, and there was not much to recommend it. However, he was afraid that drinking would cause trouble, so he had to drink plain wine instead. He handed the wine jar and rolled his eyes.
"Do your best to fulfill the destiny of the people. Even if you die in this mansion, the Xumeng Mansion will appreciate your righteousness and withdraw the troops? Whether it can be accomplished or not is not in the hands of others, just do your best to satisfy the destiny of the destiny. I think you are more familiar with this principle than me. But just like on the scale that measures victory and defeat, if you add a little more effort, if you get sick from overwork or die in the house with your legs stretched out, it will not be as good as a steady flow of water."
The sound of horse hooves echoed through the cool night.
The two of them turned around at the same time, and what they saw was a captain covered in blood. He almost fell off his horse and was still rolling towards him. Fortunately, the two men hurriedly stepped forward to help the captain, otherwise he would not have been able to reach the mansion with his stumbling steps.
The school captain was one of the soldiers from Liuzhou who were dispatched to Tianxi City. He was dressed in bloody clothes and his armor was already badly damaged. He struggled to get up and took out a letter from his waist and handed it to the two people in front of him. He drank it with ancient Ti Lai Su wine. Next, take a few breaths and then speak urgently.
Tianxi City defended the city with less than 10,000 soldiers. In the first few days of the attack, more than half of the city was destroyed. Later, the old, young, women and children in the city replenished the city, holding grass and hanging armor, and they were able to withstand the subsequent half-month offensive. It was especially brutal. At present, the city There were less than a hundred men over the age of twelve left. The old man in his fifties volunteered to climb up the city to resist the enemy, but he had already lost 40% of his power. There should have been a messenger passage between the two mountains behind Tianxi City. However, over the course of dozens of battles, the city lacked manpower and the city gate was lost several times. People stepped on the city and cut off the access route behind the city. Until now, Tianxi City has only half of the south of the city. Outside the city, the northern city has been captured, so no one can enter the city, and no one can leave the city. It is no different from the same dead city.
The stalemate continued, and the soldiers of Xu Meng's Mansion also suffered heavy casualties. When they were about to climb the city, they first used thousands of arrows to clear the way, igniting the hoarding of food and grass in the city. Later, due to the fall of the northern city, there was not much food and grass left. When the school captain arrived, he followed the soldiers and killed them outside the city. When the blood-covered road rushed into the head of the southern city, all the remaining people in the city were thin and withered, and dozens of people had died of starvation.
"Thousands of soldiers and horses who were later transferred to Tianxi City rushed into the city. Is it possible that the siege of Tianxi City has not been lifted yet?"
Wu Lu took the letter and looked at it carefully. His hands trembled and he suddenly grabbed the captain's shirt, only to find that there were tears in his eyes on the latter's dirty face.
"Liuzhou sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Tianxi City to gather outside the city. They rushed into the city with all their strength and lost nearly half of it. Although they helped the defender Feng Yuan capture most of the north city, the north road was blocked. The besieging defenders built earth platforms to release the troops every day. The arrows and birds disappeared, and the letter could not be sent out. The city of Tianxi was about to be destroyed, so he had no choice but to order his subordinates to go out to deliver the letter. So he rushed down to the city again, and the students fought through the thousands of troops to cut a bloody path to protect the letter. The general and the remaining troops fought Outside the city of death.”
After hearing this, Wu Lu sat down in a daze, and Gu Gu hurriedly called for someone to take the captain to have his injuries treated. He also let out a long breath.
Whenever there is an attack on Tianxi City, it will be extremely brutal, but I never thought that the Xumeng Mansion would actually mobilize no less than the number of soldiers who besieged the Zhengzhang Royal Court in Guzhou, and they would fight to the death to break through the gate of Tianxi City.
And I have never thought about how Tianxi City, which has several city gates, a vast city and few soldiers, can sustain a scene that lasts longer than the moonlight. Until now, the letter was sent to the Liuzhou clan elder's mansion, and this letter was delivered day and night. It will take three to five days without stopping. Even the ancients don't know if the flag on the west city has changed hands now.
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Every word in the letter is full of tears.
Wu Lu suppressed the sweet taste in his throat and stood up, laughing miserably. Although the Great Yuan Dynasty has been at war for many years, it is a pity that Liuzhou has never been affected by such iron hoof war. Even the clan elders do not know how to resist the overwhelming iron hoof coming northward. They know that Tianxi City is like a chokehold in the eyes of others, and they must attack with heavy troops. However, he had not made up his mind for a long time, so he mobilized soldiers and horses from all over the state to recruit troops and collect food, and spared no effort to rescue. Xu Meng's Mansion led an army several times larger than Tianxi City's to attack, but was stopped in front of the pass for more than a month. However, the Liuzhou clan's old manor neither received any intelligence nor sent troops to help again. How ridiculous.
"Please borrow the seal from Gu Gu."
The old order of the Liuzhou clan, those holding two can command and transport half of the Liuzhou troops and horses, and those with more than three can be equal to the leader of the clan. The various tribes in Liuzhou have never recommended the leader of Liuzhou, so the power is divided into the hands of several elders of the clan. There are checks and balances, and there is no precedent for this even during wartime.
"Whatever you want to do, you have to say it."
"The destruction of Tianxi City will only expose Liuzhou's chest. If they want to swallow Liuzhou, Xumeng Mansion and Eagle Dog may not be able to do so. But if Tianxi City is destroyed now, how can they afford to fight to the death on the city? ??????????????? soldiers and civilians."
"As for Tianxi City, which has not been broken, and Liuzhou's upper and lower states are still full of spirit, since they can defend the city with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and tens of thousands of armored soldiers for more than a month, how can the three states not win against the nine states of the Yuan Dynasty? , Even if you can’t save him, you still have to save him. The old man doesn’t know martial arts, but his skin and flesh can still block the spear.”
An ancient character order fell into Wu Lu's palm. Gu Gu took the letter from Wu Lu's hand, held it in both hands, and left step by step.
The order only weighs two or three pounds, but this letter is as heavy as a mountain.
