Yu Nu bit her lip and said seriously: "I don't want to leave, I will stay with you here."
Wei Wuji waved Yu Nu over, smelling of alcohol: "Do you know the consequences of being with me?"
"Slave is not afraid of death." Yunu snuggled next to the young prince and murmured.
One winter, she was supposed to die, but the young prince saved her. She has made money for so many years.
Wei Wuji summoned the five school officials and asked them to escort A Niang quietly out of the city to Luoyang at night. Now that A Niang was unconscious, everyone in the house obeyed his orders.
At night.
Wei Wuji drank and had fun all night long.
At the last moment of the carnival, Wei Wuji heard the news that the enemy was attacking the city.
In the dark hours before dawn, the rebels formally attacked the city.
The firelight illuminated half of Jinling City.
Yunu stood nervously behind the young prince, but Wei Wuji's face was relaxed and comfortable. He stretched out his arms, his eyebrows were elegant, and he was unparalleledly handsome.
"Good jade slave, please wear armor for me."
"I'm going to the battlefield."
After Wei Wuji put on his armor, he took the Qianqiu Sword and stepped out of the room.
Chapter 276 (During the Battle of Jinling)
The siege battle of the swarms of ants attached to Sophora japonica has officially begun.
Zhou Xu was riding on his horse, looking at the soldiers attacking the city in front with an indifferent expression. They were the remaining defeated generals he had deliberately left behind. After the great victory in several outlying strongholds in Stone City and Xinlin Village, these prisoners served as The siege vanguard depleted Jinling's defense. At the same time, soldiers and horses from Guangling and Xuanzhou were also rushing here to attack Jinling. He had to capture the city before Wei Yanshan's reinforcements arrived.
I hope Jin Ben will not disappoint him.
The Youzi King's flag buzzed in the air.
In the night, the city of Jinling was crowded with people. As a defender of the city, the prefect of Jinling looked at the Youqi rebels below with dejection and fear. The number of rebels exceeded his imagination, and the waving military flag seemed to be invisible at a glance. There are enemies everywhere in the darkness.
As a defender, no matter which crenel is breached, it will be a crack that cannot be repaired. What's more, Jinling City has been at peace for a long time, and the soldiers fighting in the city are simply not as good as the Youzhou Army. Seeing that the first loss was heavy, the Jinling Prefect Ordered on the city wall: "Launch!"
The city walls are covered with crossbows.
After a wave of ejaculation, the pressure suddenly decreased, and the Jinling Prefect breathed a sigh of relief. He put his hands tremblingly on the city wall, only hearing the buzzing in the air. The Jinling Prefect raised his head, the firelight among the rebels swayed, several high platforms were looming, and a huge bed The crossbow was aimed at them, and countless crossbow arrows were shot out. The dense iron arrows made the Jinling prefect think they were locusts passing through in the year of great disaster.
"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow!" Jinling Prefect shouted tremblingly: "Prepare the trebuchet!"
The arsenal of Jinling City is sufficient, which is the only confidence of Jinling Prefect, but judging from the first battle, the rebels' arsenal is also very sufficient.
The rebels' trebuchets were also attacking them. Instead of throwing stones, they used the rumored divine punishment.
"Is this heaven's punishment?" Wei Wuji arrived at the top of the city at some unknown time. He stood next to the Jinling prefect and looked up at the black balls of different sizes that whizzed past in the air and exploded. The fire roared and the hot iron ball inside The temperature can even melt armor. There are iron pieces hidden in those balls. Once they explode, flesh and blood will fly everywhere.
When the prefect of Jinling saw the young prince, he was surprised and said: "Little prince, why are you here?"
"This is also my city, and I also have the responsibility to defend the city." Wei Wuji said, "I have brought all the officers and lieutenants of the palace to the city wall to guard Jinling with me."
For a moment, the prefect of Jinling felt that he could not recognize this young prince with a bad temper. It was clear that not long ago, he had abandoned Guangling City.
But the war situation was urgent and he could not allow him to think too much. Soon, a new wave of attacks was coming.
Zhou Xu returned to the central army tent and found that his daughter, who was clamoring to join the army, was not in the tent. He called Xia He and asked, "Where did Qingxue go?" He remembered that when he left, his daughter was still deep inside the tent. sleep.
The Chinese army's tent is the safest place here and is the center guarded by tens of thousands of people.
"Replying to the prince, the young lady was awakened in the night and found Cui Langjun, and went to the watchtower with him. The Lian family's eldest son was also following the young lady." Xia He said on his knees.
Zhou Xu went out and saw two people at a lookout. The lookout they built in a hurry was very crude. The lookout was higher than the city wall of Jinling. The large siege weapon, a large crossbow, was on the lookout.
It's convenient to shoot from a high position.
Cui Shizi heard the movement below and put down the ladder.
Zhou Xu climbed up to the watchtower. The watchtower was very large. He recruited many civilians to build it day and night. When he first built the watchtower, Jinling didn't think about destroying it. However, the city of Jinling was full of infantry. Once it encountered cavalry, it had shortcomings. It's unobstructed, and this shortcoming is fatal.
"Dad." As soon as Xiao Qingxue saw her father coming, she stopped playing with the Heavenly Punishment in her hand. Her cheeks were white and thin, and she looked gloomy. She stood up and said a blessing to her father.
After grandma disappeared, she became much more well-behaved and quiet.
The trebuchet was closer to Jinling City than the observation tower. After being awakened at night, she thought of the explosives she and her mother had made together, and she began to miss her. Cui Langjun took her to the observation tower and asked Hu Dali to give it to her. I gave you some new products from Youzhou Workshop.
Xiao Qingxue was a little surprised by this sight. The gang of Gongsun family in Youzhou hid the iron pieces around the bomb, wrapping it with an extra layer. Once it exploded, the iron pieces would rotate at high speed and explode. Looking around, not only that, the more the Gongsun family studied, the more they grasped the proportions. In places she didn't know, those technical geeks had made incredible things.
As far as Xiao Qingxue knew, the Gongsun family even improved their trebuchets and changed the old trebuchets into trebuchets. They used waterways to set off with the Beifu Army and took them into the Yangtze River via Chaohu Lake. Got here.
The new trebuchet is more accurate in long-distance projection and is more convenient to move than the trebuchet.
Lian Dalang met with the general. He originally wanted to escort the young lady back to Stone City. Although the general sent someone to pick her up, Lian Dalang thought it would be better to escort the young lady himself. After escorting the young lady to Stone City, the young lady The lady wanted to go to the general again, so of course he was obliged to do so.
Escort means escort to the end.
"What are you doing on the observation deck without sleeping?" Facing his daughter, Zhou Xu's expression softened a little.
"Can't sleep." Xiao Qingxue looked down at her toes: "I'm going out for a walk."
Cui Shizi said: "After all, we are close to the battlefield, so there was some noise at night."
Zhou Xu saw the torn apart Heavenly Punishment and remembered that his wife and daughter did it together. He did not point out his daughter's little thought of missing people after seeing things. He was silent for a while and pretended not to know: "The battlefield is not a fun place, there is nothing to visit. Yes, when Jinling City is destroyed, if you want anything in it, I will give it to you."
Xiao Qingxue wanted A Niang to come back and nothing else. Some of the original flood water flowed here, but would there really be A Niang in Jinling City? If A Niang is not here, then where is she?
Xiao Qingxue looked up at her father and found that his beard had grown longer and the frost on his temples became more obvious.
Xiao Qingxue's eyes turned red and she let out a dull sigh.
"Good boy." Zhou Xu touched his daughter's hair: "Go to sleep."
Xiao Qingxue left.
Zhou Xu looked at Jinling City in the distance with a stern expression.
Before dawn, Lian Dalang returned to his tent. Mo Wanxia came forward to greet him, but saw that his elder brother looked stunned, and couldn't help but ask: "Da Lang, what happened?"
Lian Dalang told what he saw throughout the whole process, and finally said: "The general is very kind to Miss Xiao, this is good."
Mo Wanxia instantly understood the riddle.
Lian Dalang smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest, now I think about my second brother putting eye drops on the young master in front of the lord and taking the initiative to talk about the Xunjiang Lu family. It really didn't scare me to death. How could he be so bold? "
Naturally, when a person is here, there are a thousand good things and many things to think about, but if the person is gone, who can say for sure?
Maybe the general was just feeling sad for a while, so of course the second brother's reckless behavior really frightened Dalang Lian.
"The princess is missing now. We who stand with her need to be more cautious."
Mo Wanxia said, "That's wrong, Dalang, now is not the time to lie dormant." He shook his head and said, "It is precisely because the princess is missing that we have to express even more clearly that the Lian family is still on the princess's side and has never changed. "
"The letter from Erlang is a letter of submission addressed to the prince."
"Your Majesty hates people who betray you the most. The Princess is just missing temporarily. If those of us who are attached to the Princess break up or switch to others, do you believe that Your Majesty will make the Lian family never prosper?" Mo Wanxia looked at her. Lian Dalang, who could not move his feet, continued: "So, Erlang did the right thing."
"But..." Lian Dalang was worried: "Young master is my lord's only legitimate son after all. If he knows about this, we may not be in good terms in the future."
"Choose one of the two evils. After handing in the certificate of surrender, Dalang, didn't you immediately be promoted to salt and iron and transferred to the long-distance envoy? You are powerful and powerful, and others can't move for a while. The Lian family is much better off in Guangling." Mo Wanxia said: "In my opinion, the young master is not a narrow-minded person. At least Erlang has not suffered any difficulties from Langge."
"Besides, even if we don't expose the Lu family's affairs, others will expose it in front of the lord. If you don't do it, others will do it first. How can you go further than others? You must know that the Zhou family who made suggestions to the lord and returned to Langge instead of looking for the princess My son has lost all his official positions now, and his future is hopeless."
Lian Dalang sighed and continued to wipe his feet: "No wonder people say that officialdom is like a battlefield. If you are not careful, you will be shattered to pieces."
"Miss Xiao, Dalang, please pay more attention to her." Mo Wanxia said.
"Of course I want it." Lian Dalang nodded: "But Mrs. Xiao is in a low mood, so I just come up to her when I have nothing to do, just because I'm worried about displeasing her."
"Anyway, it's always right to spend more time with her." Mo Wanxia said.
Lian Dalang agreed.
At dawn, when the prefect of Jinling saw the battlefield clearly, he staggered and almost fainted from anger.
The city was in a mess. Except for the corpses scattered nearby, most of the crossbow stones they shot from the city wall only knocked down the Youzi military flag and the wooden figures disguised as rebels. Those dummies were painted black in a decent manner. They were tall, dug deep into the soil, and crowded together. The flags were waving in the wind, and it really looked like an army pressing down on the country.
The rebels jeered outside the city, and one of them, Hu Dali, laughed the loudest.
It was dark last night, and the rebels suddenly attacked. They actually just pretended to attack and only sent those prisoners to die.
On their side, they lost a large number of weapons, arrows and crossbows, as well as the prestige of retreating from the enemy in the first battle, and their morale was greatly reduced.
Wei Wuji stared blankly at the scene under the tower.
Then he looked at the middle-aged general, Zhou Xu, the governor of Youzhou.
Zhou Xu turned the horse's head, and the Beifu army cheered the general enthusiastically. He walked through the middle. In just one night, Zhou Xu understood the reality of Jinling City. It was strong on the outside but capable on the inside, and a lamb on the inside.
The thin ice of the Qinhuai River was crushed by iron hoofs.
The cold wind blew in Zhou Xu.
"Lord, what are you thinking about?" Hu Dali caught up with him recklessly.
"Choose an escape route for them." Zhou Xu squinted at the terrain in the distance.
Hu Dali didn't understand at first: "What, someone is running away. Who is it? It can't be those people from Jinling. Where can they escape?"
Cui Shizi had a headache from the noise, so he could only explain: "My lord wants to besiege the city to prevent the people inside from desperately resisting because they see no chance of survival, so we give them an escape route."
"Then prepare an ambush at the necessary place and surround and kill them."
After Hu Dali understood, he silently stayed away from his master.
The lord is really cruel and ruthless.
Chapter 277 (End of the Battle of Jinling)
Five days after the siege of the city, no one was calf deep in the heavy snow in Jinling. The rebels seemed to have delayed their offensive due to the sudden heavy snow. However, the prefect of Jinling did not completely relax. Instead, his frown became more and more intense and his anger grew.
There's been a rumor going around town lately.
There are rumors that the rebels are dealing with the soldiers guarding the city and do not care about the civilians. The southwest part of Jinling City was originally a swamp. A few bold ruffians heard the news and dug a tunnel. Leading to the swamp, run straight away!
