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The defenders on the city wall believed that although this person was holding high the banner of Yuyi, he was not necessarily a compatriot and comrade on the side of Yuyi Town, and he could not be let go easily before his identity was confirmed.
Among them, there were also a few guardsmen who seemed to know something in advance. They stood on the high place holding on to the battlements, waving flags and flags, waving greetings, happily talking nonsense, and then ran to the guard to kowtow and beg to open the door. Welcoming people, the words are extremely exciting, with Chinese and Xianbei dialects intertwined.
In order to compromise the opinions of all parties, and it was also the safest decision, the guard decided to put everyone on combat alert first. Everyone aimed their bows and arrows at the outside of the city. With just one order, thousands of arrows would be fired in an instant. Then the guard general personally led two or three elite guardsmen to go and find out.
"Xia Duan Xingang, I just left Huaihuang Town today, and arrived dozens of miles outside Yuyi Town at night. I saw that the enemy had set up many checkpoints, so I had no choice but to plan to take action at night. I didn't expect that I was so cautious, and finally caught them. The way..."
Before he finished speaking, Duan Xingang fell directly from the saddle to the ground. Even though he had habitually performed stress protection actions, the feeling of falling off the horse would never be that wonderful.
"Brother." The guard shouted in confusion: "Are you okay?"
However, after a moment, several Xianbei recruits ran over behind the guard regardless of the dissuasion. They helped the dying Duan Xingang up and cried: "Brother! Big brother!"
"We have won, and I will definitely win..." Duan Xingang kept his right hand on his waist and abdomen, trying to use such a simple method to stop the bleeding injury. However, he only blocked the wound on the front of his body and did not notice it. Blood was dripping on the ground along the injured area on his back, which made him bleed almost all the way.
"We have won. The flags of Yuyi Town have been planted all over Huaihuang and Rouxuan, on the city towers, in the streets, and in the barracks." Duan Xingang took a few steps closer to the guard, then pushed away resolutely. The tribal brother grabbed the guard's arm tightly with his other slightly cleaner hand and continued.
"They, the coalition forces, have lost their most solid backing, and it's time for us to counterattack... cough, cough, cough..."
After talking for a while, Duan Xingang coughed up gurgling blood, and finally fell to the ground in pain due to lack of physical strength.
In his hazy state of consciousness, he unexpectedly realized that he saw a young pheasant girl on the war front.
Her skin was delicate and fair, her hands and feet were small, and her eyes were lively and lively. Even though she was wearing casual clothes at the time, you could tell from her demeanor that this was no ordinary child.
Duan Xingang seemed to suddenly think of something to say. He stretched out his hand to say hello while he was lying on the stretcher. As expected, the girl turned around and agreed, asking: "Brother Duan, please rest first. Let's wait for the military doctor to come!"
"No, no need." Duan Xingang sat up and said, "You must be the Miss Zhao that Mr. Bai once mentioned..."
"Mr. Bai? Do you recognize Bai Feng? How is he doing now!" Zhao Xiaomei was very anxious, but she was afraid that the other party would die from serious injuries, so she didn't dare to bother too much. These coy gestures made her tremble a lot. .
"Miss Zhao, there's no need to bother anyone. I know I won't live long." Duan Xingang's eyes were lowered, and even the simple action of raising his head took a lot of effort.
He raised his head and smiled at the battlement window, and said calmly: "Mr. Bai, he has gone to the next place, and they are all safe. They also said that if they see a girl in Yuyi Town, she is obviously very weak. But you are still willing to stay in a dangerous place, that must be you, Miss Zhao."
"I hope that in the end, I can still see my brothers and sisters without feeling ashamed." After Duan Xingang finished speaking, she silently shed a few tears.
Zhao Xiaomei saw that he was ready to die, so she had no choice but to comply with his wishes, call all his tribe brothers in, and invite the military doctor back.
That night, in this place covered with bloodstains and battle scars, in addition to hearing the "ding-dong" sound of the city wall fortifications being repaired, people nearby could also feel the sobs and tears coming from the hearts of the soldiers in the sad atmosphere. whimper.
The intelligence Duan Xingang risked his life to bring back sounded the clarion call for Yuyi Town to fight back.
The next day, the leading officials and officers in the town gathered together to discuss important matters. Zhao Xiaomei was allowed to participate as an exception because she witnessed the incident with her own eyes. This was the first time in Yuyi Town that a woman participated in a major military decision-making.
At the meeting, the younger sister and her brother Zhao Kuo, whom she had not seen for many days, sat on the left and right sides of her father Zhao Wei. They mainly listened and were occasionally allowed to express their opinions.
First, they had a rough idea of Yuyi Town's current absolute disadvantage under the temporary town general's rhetoric: In the north, there were the Rouran and Six Town coalition forces led by He Batao, the town general of Wuchuan Town, and in the west, there was the small army led by the Heba brothers and sisters. Allied forces are suppressing the border, but Yuyi Town has been trapped for many days. Food and grass are dwindling, and people's hearts are weakening. If they endure another huge defeat, they will completely fall into a situation that is beyond redemption.
Fan Liwu, a retainer of the Zhao family and the teacher of the Zhao brothers and sisters, then stood up and roughly explained the facts about the changes in the enemy's rear. He then asked Zhao Xiaomei: "Did the messenger from Huaihuang Town miss any other important things? Not reported yet?"
"Well." It was the first time in Zhao Xiaomei's life that she was speaking to many powerful people, and she was inevitably hesitant: "He also said that if he saw his brothers and sisters, he hoped he wouldn't feel ashamed..."
After hearing this, Fan Liwu shook his head and secretly scolded: "Miss Zhao, this is a military decision. Please don't bring personal matters here. Every unnecessary word of yours will make the fighter plane disappear."
"I..." Zhao Xiaomei was speechless for a moment. Seeing that everyone around her was looking at her, as if they were looking forward to being embarrassed, she had to endure it first and complained to her brother in a low voice: "Why is this not right? If necessary, these are Brother Duan’s last words!”
"Little sister, don't worry about it. Mr. Fan just wants to frustrate you." After Zhao Kuo said that, he straightened his clothes, stood up and walked to the center of the lobby, taking out the painting by the former Wuchuan Town Assassin and today's assassin. The rubbings of the allied army barracks distribution map left by He Ba Hongyi, the hero of Yuyi Town, continued.
"Now, this map can finally be used!" Zhao Kuo presented the map to Fan Liwu with both hands and said, "Mr. Fan, please explain to you how to break the situation!"
Fan Liwu also took the map with both hands, nodded in agreement, then spread the map and hung it in the air for display, saying: "Sun Tzu said, 'Those who are good at using soldiers will no longer be in the country and will not have enough food for three years. If they use it for the country, because The enemy has enough food, so the army can have enough food. It is an eternal truth that food and grass go first before the troops and horses move. Now that the coalition forces do not know that they have lost the towns of Huaihuang and Rouxuan, they must think that they have sufficient food and grass and that their troops and horses are in order. "
"We can take advantage of our absolute advantage in intelligence and make a 'sound from the east to attack the west'." Fan Liwu pointed to the place on the map where food and grass are distributed, and continued: "From today on, we will issue a recruitment notice and spend a lot of money to recruit brave men. Then there was a rumor that 'our army needs warriors to sneak attack the coalition's granaries and prepare for a life-and-death fight, so we are recruiting troops temporarily.' After seven days, we will send out troops for a night attack in the middle of the night. Apparently we are going to use all our troops to cut off the food and grass. , destroying the retreat, in fact, our army has already assembled most of its forces to rush in from the front of the coalition..."
Zhao Xiaomei felt ashamed when she saw that Fan Liwu had spoken so eloquently. The anger at being scolded by the other party in public disappeared without knowing when, and she quietly rehearsed and pondered this strategy in her heart.
After General Fan Liwu finished describing the general strategy, he asked several people for their opinions, and finally everyone unanimously agreed to hand over the power of life and death in Yuyi Town to the three people of the Zhao family instead of the general.
Zhao Wei, who had been brooding for nearly a morning, finally pretended to ask what his children's opinions were. Zhao Kuo and his younger sister both replied in unison: "If this plan is successful, Yuyi Town can not only break the siege of the coalition forces, but also At one go, we can attack several cities in a row!"
"Okay, since both Nang Zhi and the younger sister have no objections, a man like me who is already in decay will naturally have no objections." After saying that, Zhao Wei stood up and straightened up and walked to the map, stretched out his hand and pointed at the Goddess River, solemnly And solemnly said: "This is the place where our decisive battle will take place."
