"Sir, do you think there's anything wrong with what I just said?" Just then, Qian Boss Liu Zihao, who had just replied to the bandit-suppressing army, had already retreated and looked at Wang Zhizheng beside him and asked.
"Well, yes, that's it. Remember, as long as you can hold back the rebels outside the city, it will be fine no matter what. If you can hold them off until the afternoon, I will ask the court to take credit for you. Nothing else. I dare say that a defensive position is indispensable." Wang Zhizheng encouraged Liu Zihao with a satisfied nod.
"Yes, I am grateful for the cultivation of Lord Guard. I will do my best to fight against the rebels to the end." Liu Zihao couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard that he had merit. He was very excited.
"Well... go ahead!" Wang Zhizheng said with a smile.
At this time, I heard another voice coming from outside the city: "You adults, you want to think about it? Who told you that I am here to discuss with you, and I am here to give orders. After one stick of incense, if you continue to be stubborn, you will not Open the city gates and surrender, and don’t blame our army’s cannons for being ruthless.”
"cannon?"
Hearing this, Liu Zihao couldn't help being shocked.
What is going on in Xiangcheng? If others don't know, how can the defenders like them know? Even if the rebels outside the city just bring ladders to attack the city, they may not be able to defend it. Now that they have brought cannons, how can they defend it?
"Sir, they said they have cannons, what should we do now?" When the suppressed bandit army said this, Liu Zihao did not dare to make any arbitrary claims, so he had to turn around and ask Wang Zhizheng.
"Cannon? It's really troublesome. I didn't expect the rebels to bring this. You try to delay it for a while." Wang Zhizheng replied.
In fact, Wang Zhizheng did not expect that things would develop like this. Although cannons have powerful firepower, they have been expensive since ancient times and are inconvenient to carry. There is not a single artillery piece in Xiangcheng. Who would have thought that this group of rebels could actually carry artillery.
For a while, Wang Zhizheng had no good solution and could only ask Liu Zihao to continue to think of ways to see if he could delay the bandit army's attack on the city. At the same time, he prayed in his heart that the court's reinforcements could arrive quickly.
"No, no, why are we going to use cannons? It's not my decision to surrender. I have to go to my superiors to report it. Give us some time!" All Liu Zihao can think of now is delaying and trying his best. drag.
Don't say you won't surrender, but you have to let the officials above know what you mean. As for finding a superior, it will take some time. As for how long it will take, it's hard to say.
"Well, not bad." After hearing Liu Zihao's words, Wang Zhizheng couldn't help but give him a thumbs up and praised him.
"Since you can't make the decision, why are you talking nonsense here? Now hurry up and find the person who can make the decision." The voice from outside the city made Liu Zihao and Wang Zhizheng feel relieved and smiled slightly.
"Okay, okay. Please wait a minute, sir. I'm going to invite our garrison master over here." Probably because he was afraid that the bandit suppressing troops outside the city would react, Liu Zihao agreed repeatedly.
"Well, if you want to go, hurry up, because after this stick of incense is lit, our army will officially launch artillery to attack the city." At this time, the bandit suppressor who came from outside the city to persuade them to surrender did not know where to take out the gun. I bought an incense stick and a fire stick.
The incense didn't last long, and the most annoying thing was that the bandit suppressor soldier broke off a small section of the incense before lighting it.
"Master, didn't you agree that I would go to our defense? Why did you still order it? And you have to break it?" Liu Zihao looked at his face full of anger, but he had to be cautious and said with a smile.
"Oh, what I want to tell you is, I'm sorry, actually I can't make the decision. Our group leader said that one stick of incense is the time of one stick of incense. The bits that are folded out are just wasted talking to you. Time." The bandit suppressor looked at Liu Zihao with a smile on his face and replied.
"So, if you want to find your defense, go find it quickly. A stick of incense takes a very short time. Otherwise, I look forward to you being able to talk to me after we launch artillery attacks on the city, instead of seeing you being blown up. It looked like a mess of blood and flesh, with limbs flying everywhere.”
After saying that, the bandit suppressor gently blew the incense stick that was not long at all with his mouth, revealing his slightly yellow teeth and smiling happily.
Unbeknownst to others, at first glance, his smile was so bright and sunny, as if he had encountered some great happy event.
However, in the eyes of Liu Zihao and others, even a devil's smile was nothing more than that.
The incense is burning little by little.
Occasionally a breeze blew by, and it seemed to speed up a lot.
At this moment, Liu Zihao felt sweat on his forehead.
"When did the weather get so hot? I didn't feel it just now." Liu Zihao thought to himself after wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Sir, I have become incompetent in my humble position. Just see what you have to do!" The incense was almost half burned, and Liu Zihao felt scared in his heart when he saw the iron barrels and cannons being sent forward by the bandit suppressing troops not far away.
At this time, Wang Zhizheng no longer hid in the female wall, and came to the crenel to look around.
The incense is indeed burning.
Looking down, there were not many rebels outside the city. Wang Zhizheng roughly estimated that it was only two thousand at most.
If the rebels only have this few people to attack the city and direct the defense themselves, they might be able to hold them off for a day and a half.
However, Wang Zhizheng couldn't help but murmur in his heart as he watched the rebels outside the city keep pushing iron barrels of artillery forward on carts.
"Although I have never used artillery, I have seen it. Can such a thin-caliber artillery with such a large gun really fire? Are they afraid that they will not be able to fire the shells and will blow up the hall and kill themselves?"
The "heartless" cannons continued to push forward one after another, and they stopped when they were almost close to the city.
There are about twenty artillery pieces spread out in a row.
Although the barrel of the cannon is not thick, the wide and dark muzzle makes people look intimidating.
"With such a thin gun body, are they really not afraid that this artillery will blow up the church? Or they are just fearless if they don't know, or they also know that it will blow up the church, and they just pulled it out to scare us." For those who have never seen it again. Wang Zhizheng, with the power of the "heartless cannon", had to frown and analyze and think.
The incense is almost burning to its end.
The appearance of "heartless cannons" one after another made the defenders on the city wall frightened. From time to time, someone looked at Wang Zhizheng, who was really frowning, uneasily.
"Master Wang, what is the situation outside the city now?" At some point, the county magistrate Feng Minghe came to Wang Zhizheng and asked.
"Well, Mr. Feng, you're here." Wang Zhizheng said after coming back to his senses.
"Yes, Mr. Wang, what's the situation outside the city now?" Feng Minghe asked anxiously again.
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