Old Summer was carried into the backyard of the city guard's mansion. He immediately woke up and smiled at Li Jiangyao and others who were standing by.
"Dad Samour, are you okay?" Looking at Samur who was covered in blood and pale, Li Jiangyao couldn't help but said in surprise: "Didn't you say you were just pretending? How could it be so serious?"
Ma Mu complained: "In accordance with Lord Shen's instructions, I arranged for Lao Sa and the others to go out of the city to perform a cruel trick. It was fine at first, just pretend to be injured, but I didn't expect this old guy actually insisted on pretending to be real and insisted on letting him His men slashed his arms and thighs several times to make it so scary. Samour, are you really desperate for your life?!"
Samor chuckled: "It's okay. It's just a few flesh wounds. Sir, as the saying goes, a soldier never tires of deceit. Those who have been doing business for many years have a pair of thieves' eyes. If they don't show their sincerity, I'm afraid I won't be able to scare them. Na."
Li Jiangyao felt slightly apologetic: "Dad Samour, I'm really making things difficult for you. I feel really bad about deceiving everyone like this."
"Sir, what are you talking about?" Samor struggled to sit up from the stretcher: "Others can't understand the tricks played by the Turkic ghosts, but they can't deceive me, Samor. They can now sell them to the people in the city. , just want to sow discord, so that they can conquer Metasequoia City. But there are a lot of soft bones in this city. I heard that they can save their lives and escape faster than rabbits. It is better for me to scare those bastards than to scare the Turks and people. It’s better to be a slave under Geerhan’s sword.”
With the help of Samoor and the others, Shen Lie's counterintuitive plan immediately worked wonders.
The previous groups of business travelers who left the city had all left safely at this time. It was absolutely impossible for them to return to Metasequoia to expose Summer's ruse. But those who still stayed in the city did not have the courage to go out of the city and try it for themselves.
Even if some people with shrewd minds and keen eyesight saw something strange, they did not dare to question it easily, because they were afraid that Captain Li would get angry and order his subordinates to drive them all out of the Metasequoia, just in case what Summer said was true. It's all true, then you'll regret it.
Therefore, the current main mood of the merchants and people in Metasequoia City is not suspicion, but anger.
That's often the case.
When there is no hope, people will be pessimistic, depressed, and lose their fighting spirit; but if they have hope, and then it is shattered in an instant, people will suddenly feel an inexplicable anger.
This anger, fueled by extreme disappointment, is often doubled back on the one who promised hope in the first place.
This is the current situation. The anger of the whole city of Metasequoia fell without any suspense or reservation on the heads of those Turks who "failed to keep their word".
Large caravans traveling on the trade routes in Western Xinjiang are often equipped with a certain size of armed guards, that is, private soldiers of the trading houses, for the safety of the merchants. Now seeing that there is no hope of escape, the big bosses can no longer suppress the anger in their hearts. They send their guards to the city guard's house to sign up for orders, request to join the city defense force, and beat up the unfaithful gang of turtles outside the city!
The logic behind this is simple and straightforward.
Now listen to what the Turks say, if you leave Metasequoia, you are very likely to become the next Samour, but if you don't leave the city at this time, everyone will die after the city is broken.
In this case, it is better to risk everything. If you want to survive, the only hope is to defend the city.
With the enthusiastic participation of merchants as an example, people in the city also began to sign up enthusiastically.
Rather than waiting for death, it is better to fight for your life.
Use desperate measures to save your life. This is the biggest joke that war plays on mankind, and it is also an eternal truth.
Overnight, tens of thousands of people in Metasequoia City applied to join the army, and Li Jiangyao and the others were stunned.
After careful selection by Lin Feng and Du Jian, the city guard retained nearly 4,000 qualified people, and the rest were all assigned to Ma Mu as civilian husbands.
Among the four thousand recruits, more than half were caravan guards. They were either from armies of various countries or disciples of sects in the martial arts world. They were all veterans with extremely strong combat effectiveness. The remaining half are also young men with strong physiques. Although they were not from the military, the people of Xijiang Guimo had always been tough, so everyone looked like they could fight twice.
Metasequoia City's military strength tripled overnight, from less than two thousand to nearly six thousand, with high morale and high fighting spirit.
If Lao Jianhua found out about his plan to drain the fire, which actually greatly increased Li Jiangyao's strength, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.
After three days of waiting, except for the nearly two thousand people who escaped from Metasequoia in the afternoon of the first day, there were no more teams leaving the city.
Lao Jianhua couldn't help but secretly wonder: Could it be that Li Jiangyao and the others really dared to forcibly stop people from escaping? Such an unkind and unwise move will immediately arouse public anger, and Metasequoia City will definitely be unstable.
However, in the past few days, at the top of Metasequoia City, soldiers were coming and going, and there was a lot of people, and it looked like they were preparing for war with all their strength. What's even more strange is that the number of defenders has actually increased significantly.
Lao Jianhua gradually became worried.
After three days of delay, time no longer allowed the coalition forces to delay further. According to the prior arrangements, Loulan and Shule will make big moves in the near future. At the same time, the secret forces hidden in various places in the Ghost Desert of Western Xinjiang will also follow suit. They, the vanguard, must cooperate to attack Chechi King City and contain the Xinjiang Army.
Occupying the King's Court in Chechi is a key link in this battle; and capturing the Metasequoia is an important fulcrum for advancing towards the King's Court.
If this place cannot be captured within three to five days, the subsequent layout will be affected.
If this important city was left on the east-west trade route, it would be very dangerous for the Shengtang's armed forces in Western Xinjiang.
Of course Doron, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, was well aware of the seriousness of it, and he did not dare to delay at all. After three days of rest, the Turkic Iron Pigeon Army and the Ghost Alliance Horse Bandits once again launched an attack on Metasequoia City.
But who knows, it doesn't matter if he doesn't hit him, but he will be shocked if he hits him.
Metasequoia City's defense system is surprisingly strong.
Various arms dealers in the city opened their warehouses and brought high-quality weapons and armor, strong bows and crossbows, sharp arrows, gunpowder and oil, all to the top of the city regardless of risk;
Food merchants were not to be left behind. They sent piles of roasted naan, bacon, barrels of mare's milk, and fine wine to the front line;
The newly recruited fresh troops seemed to have been given a shot of chicken blood, and no one was afraid of death. If Lin Feng hadn't tried his best to stop him, he would have wanted to jump down to the city and fight against the Turks and horse bandits.
With morale like this, the city will be difficult to defeat.
The siege battle lasted for five days and five nights. The coalition troops strictly implemented the wheel warfare method formulated by Lao Jianhua. They were divided into battalions and teams, taking turns to fight, constantly exerting tremendous pressure on the east gate of Metasequoia.
However, this is of no use.
Not only were the Metasequoia defenders not defeated by them, but they became more energetic as they fought. The reason behind this is simple, they are also engaged in wheel warfare.
At this time, the number of troops in the city increased to 6,000. Under Li Jiangyao's arrangement, the soldiers were divided into three groups and took turns defending the east gate. Although their military strength is far inferior to that of the attacking party, the Metasequoia defenders have the advantage of geographical location. They are condescending, waiting for work, and can get better protection and recuperation nearby, and their degree of loss is much smaller than that of the Turks.
After several rounds of fierce fighting, it was the Iron Pigeon Army that was almost defeated first.
Faced with such an unexpected situation, Duolun was on the verge of tears, Lao Jianhua was puzzled, and the two brothers almost doubted their lives together.
At this time, Gerhan brought them good news - Zaire, who had been sent to Metasequoia City before, finally emerged.
The last time the Ghost League attacked Metasequoia City, they suffered a huge setback. The second leader of the Ghost League, Lai Hai, was also captured by mistake. Geerhan decided to temporarily withdraw his troops. Before leaving, he asked his confidant General Zaire to sneak around secretly with his men. Enter the city, try to rescue Lai Hai, and inquire about the news.
This time Metasequoia City was besieged by the coalition forces, and Lin Feng immediately implemented martial law throughout the city. Therefore, Zaire has been unable to contact Geerhan outside.
It was not until the caravan and the people fled the city a few days ago that he finally had the opportunity to send someone to sneak out of the Metasequoia and reconnect with the leader of the alliance, Geerhan.
At the same time, Zaire also joined the garrison with his men, taking advantage of the convenience of standing guard at the South City Gate to secretly exchange news with the horse bandits.
When Duolun and Lao Jianhua learned about this, they immediately became energetic.
The two of them discussed with Gerhan overnight, planning to have Zaire cooperate with the outside world and take advantage of the opportunity to defend the city at night to secretly open the south gate so that the coalition forces could launch a surprise attack.
Although Geerhan had no objection to this, he was still a little panicked in his heart: What the hell...it seemed like it was done like this last time!
Geerhan felt vaguely unsafe about this unoriginal siege routine. The shadow in his heart about the previous cooperation between inside and outside was so great that whenever he heard about the cooperation between inside and outside, or about secretly opening the city gate, his heart couldn't help but feel a dull pain.
However, Gerhan still accepted Doron's instructions and secretly informed Zaire to prepare to implement the plan.
In order to capture Metasequoia, threaten King Chechi's city, and regain the throne that he has longed for, he should still have a little bit of luck. Life is like a casino. If you dare not give it a try, you may not even have the slightest chance of winning.
Unfortunately, history is often surprisingly similar.
The very unstable premonition in Geerhan's heart finally came true - the unlucky Zaire met two fatal nemesis.
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On the night when the Allied Forces Command confirmed the sneak attack plan, Li Jiangyao and Shen Lie, after withdrawing from the East Gate battlefield, went around the other three city gates to inspect the defense preparations.
As soon as the two of them reached the south gate, they happened to encounter the team changing the guard led by Zaire and hurried past them.
Li Jiangyao and Shen Lie stopped almost at the same time, staring at Zaire's retreating back in perfect agreement.
Li Jiangyao murmured: "There seems to be something wrong with this person."
Shen Lie narrowed his eyes and nodded: "There is indeed something wrong."
"Could he be a spy?" Li Jiang looked at Shen Lie from a distance.
Shen Lie asked with interest: "How did you see it?"
Li Jiangyao shook his head: "I don't know. It's just a hunch. The aura on that guy's body doesn't seem quite right."
When Shen Lie heard this, his heart trembled: A great general has extraordinary talents. Many famous generals and masters often have spiritual awareness that ordinary people cannot reach. Perhaps the same is true for the young man in front of me.
He smiled: "Brother, I never rely on my feelings to do anything. There are two reasons why I doubt him."
"There are actually two reasons?" Li Jiangyao said in surprise: "But why can't I even see one?"
Shen Lie patiently introduced: "First, after that person saw us just now, he subconsciously avoided his eyes and his steps became a little panicked. This is Shen's years of experience in handling cases, and he is sure of it."
Hearing this, Li Jiangyao teased: "Brother, experience is a kind of intuition."
Shen Lie did not feel dissatisfied and continued with a smile: "Secondly... I have seen his shadow pattern before."
"Shadow graphics?" Li Jiangyao was slightly startled: "Have you seen his portrait?"
Shen Lie nodded slightly: "It's a coincidence. The Nilin Division's secret stake in Western Xinjiang has been secretly paying attention to a traitor named Qi Ying. All suspicious characters who have had secret contact with him, my men have Detailed records have been kept, and those with a relatively large number of contacts will have their statues made for investigation. The guy just now is one of them."
Hearing this, Li Jiangyao raised his thumb: "Nilin Division is indeed well-deserved, and your brother's photographic memory is equally impressive."
Shen Lie shook his head with an exaggerated expression: "Brother, compared to your attack on the camp in daylight, my little tricks are really useless."
After that, the two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
