Zhang Li was afraid of the range of the giant crossbow. After running out of a shot, he continued to retreat far back. When there was no more sound of the crossbow arrows breaking through the air, he calmed down the fear in his heart and turned his head. .
Only then did he notice that only one of the guards who followed him with iron shields was dead. This time, it was really a close call...
"Zhu Su kid!" Feeling the slight wetness in his crotch, Zhang Li's eyes were about to burst. "You act like this, don't you have any sense of propriety, justice or shame at all?"
"Rituals, justice, integrity, and shame are what you should do to others."
"You have abandoned our Chinese clothes and become bandits, plundering the coast of our motherland. How are you any different from traitors and beasts?"
"The only weapons to deal with traitors and beasts are bows, arrows, swords and guns!!"
Zhu Su's voice from the top of the city was still like a loud bell, reaching Zhang Li's mind from afar. Zhang Li was trembling with anger, but he didn't know how to argue.
"As expected, this guy could hear it from the beginning!"
Thinking about it this way, my heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys all ached with anger.
"Attack the city! Attack the city! I swear to capture this little thief!" Zhang Li stomped the ground several times and yelled fiercely.
"Second Young Master, Second Young Master, be steady!" Ma Fengsun rushed over and urged. “The city is high and the pond is deep, but the siege equipment is not ready yet, so we can’t attack by force!”
"You still have to act according to the original strategy... What's more, don't lose your dignity in front of those Japanese people!"
"...Hmph!" Zhang Li turned his head and saw the Oida family warriors over there looking at him with playful expressions. In order not to lose face in front of friendly forces, he had to swallow his breath.
"Mr. Zhang, are you okay?" The short Oida rode a tall horse and ran to Zhang Li and asked,
"Oh, it's Oita-kun." Zhang Li exhaled secretly, turned around and looked like he was in control. "I'm fine, I just deliberately exposed a flaw to arouse that kid's desire to underestimate the enemy. Now, that kid must think that we are all reckless and unscrupulous people..."
"Oh?" Mr. Oita was surprised, "It turns out that Mr. Zhang was acting on purpose!"
"I see, that's it. Is this your Chinese 'art of war'? It's amazing."
"It's so realistic that it almost fooled me, an ally..."
"Haha, if not, how could I have deceived that kid...hehehehe..."
…
How Zhang Ren saved his face in front of the Japanese was not mentioned. He only said that Zhu Su saw Zhang Ren disappearing into the army and stopped talking to him, so he also went down the tower. Zhu Di immediately came up to him, his face flushed with excitement: "Lao Wu, your last words were so encouraging!"
"To deal with this kind of bandit, you really have to scare him! What kind of martial ethics can you tell him!"
"I didn't want to scare him..." Zhu Su regretted everything. "I really want to kill him directly."
"What a pity. I didn't expect this guy to run so fast."
"The two armies are fighting, but they still don't kill the envoy. Your Highness's move is indeed disrespectful."
Ru Taisu and Wei Guan also came forward. Hearing what Ru Taisu said, Zhu Di's face turned dark when he saw Ru Taisu shaking his head again, looking very happy: "...but that talk about thieves, bandits, and beasts is a wonderful talk to boost your energy!"
"If it weren't for the time of war, I would have discussed this and made him think three times!"
"I didn't expect that Yu Shi could be reasonable sometimes!" Zhu Di turned from anger to joy.
"But Zhang Li is as panic-stricken as a bereaved dog, and his morale has been lost. Come to think of it, it shouldn't be anything to worry about, right?" Wei Guan looked at the allied Japanese and Japanese troops outside the city and said in a questioning tone. "Could it be that we will still attack this city?"
"...I guess so." Zhu Su also suppressed the smile on his face. "The soldiers below are still cutting down trees and building strongholds. It seems that their commander is not discouraged by this crisis."
"It seems that they are determined to fight against this city. At least, they have adopted this attitude..."
"Hmph, just a few people want to attack the city? From my perspective, they are all trying to sell their heads..." The second eldest brother, Zhu Cang, sneered and showed off the new idioms he just learned from the Three Kingdoms.
"……yes."
Zhu Su bit his lower lip. Even the second brother knew that attacking the city with so many soldiers was in vain. Why did these people have to do this?
…
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, just two days later in the morning, it was dawn and the coalition forces' attack on the east wall was about to begin.
About a thousand people carrying dozens of newly made simple ladders gathered outside the camp. After the night guard at the city head noticed something strange, he rang the warning bang. Then, amid the sound of bangs, three thousand Suzhou guards who had been waiting in the temporary camp under the city wall immediately swarmed up to the city wall.
"These thieves...have no intention of making things easier for me!" Zhu Su yawned and walked out of the city gate building wearing a large coat. Dawn has always been the best time to attack the city. I didn't dare to relax at all in the past two days, for fear that the bandit army would suddenly attack the city at any time, so I had to stay above the city gate tower for food and accommodation.
In contrast, the other three directions of the city were guarded by the three nominally highest-ranking officials in Suzhou Prefecture at this time, Ru Taisu, Wei Guan, and Yang Lu, to prevent thieves from attacking in the east.
"There are only a thousand people...it is too small to underestimate the city wall of Suzhou." Beside Zhu Su, Zhu Di held the telescope and kept watching the assembled army. Since the beginning of the war, this guy has been extremely excited. He has been up almost all night on the tower for the past two days, but he is still full of energy. "Could the thief want to send cannon fodder to test it first? Why don't these people have any armor?"
"Well, it's hard to see clearly at dawn. Maybe it's just that some of them don't have armor..."
"Maybe he really wants to test it out. After all, Zhang Li may already know about the depletion of Suzhou's armaments." Zhu Su said. Yang Lu was incompetent in running the army, and he had been tricked by Zhang Ren and Chen Hui who pretended to be Taihu water bandits. As a result, the morale of these military households was generally low.
This is also the reason why he forces all the senior officials of Suzhou Prefecture to be on the front line to boost morale. If they stay in the safe rear and command, there is no telling when the morale of these Suzhou Guards soldiers will collapse.
If an advantage turns into a disadvantage, it would be hard to cry.
"If they attack with all their strength in the first wave, it's really hard to say." Zhu Di nodded in agreement. The military appearance of this Suzhou Guard was compared to that of Zhu Su's Wu Wang Wei or even Zhu Peng's Qin Wang Guard. It was in the sky and on earth.
After Zhu Di was used to seeing elite soldiers trained with modern military training methods like Wu Wangwei, he really couldn't understand the lazy military appearance of Suzhou Guard.
"It's coming, it's coming! They are coming with the ladder!" Seeing the thousands of people approaching with the ladder, Zhu Di's expression suddenly became solemn, and he even revealed a bit of excitement before the battle. "At this distance...it's time to let out a hail of arrows!"
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the voice of Qianhu Cao Yuan, who was responsible for guarding this section of the city wall, came from the front: "Prepare for a rain of arrows!"
"put……"
"wait wait wait!"
Cao Yuan was only halfway through saying the word "release" when he heard another sharp interruption from a soldier in front of him.
"Then...that's not a thief...the person carrying the ladder is not a thief..."
"Those people...the villagers in my village! They are my relatives!"
Zhu Su's whole body was shocked. Only then did he notice the faint cry coming from the cool breath of dawn.
(End of chapter)
