Qu Yi was commanding the soldiers from the front. A bandit rushed to the top of the city. Qu Yi stabbed him with a sword and pushed him off the ladder. Qu Yi's body was stained with a lot of blood and there was a scar on his face.
The officials of the Qin State, whether they were civil servants or military generals, each had their own skills. After the war started, civil servants such as county guards and magistrates had to temporarily act as battlefield commanders. They also needed to go into battle to kill the enemy. In the court meeting of the Warring States Period, you can't defeat me, and I can't defeat you. The final decision-making method is to take action. Whoever wins will listen to whoever wins. Without any force value, you really can't suppress people.
After Qu Yi killed another person, the enemy's offensive stopped, and the soldiers on the city wall began to repair it. They also cleaned up the corpses and sent his own people down, while the enemy's were thrown directly.
"County Governor Qu." Ziyou shouted.
Qu Yi wiped the blood on his face and said to Ziyou with a smile.
"Over the years of dealing with government affairs, my swordsmanship has fallen behind. I have just killed a few people and I can no longer hold on."
"County Governor Qu was joking. He didn't show any fatigue when he killed the enemy just now. How is the situation now?" Ziyou asked with a smile.
"This is already the third attack. Although the opponent does not have large-scale siege weapons, they still have homemade ladders, and these people are used to climbing up and down Shushan Mountain. They can climb up with a rope. At the top of the city, if the ropes were not easy to untie, we might not be able to carry it," Qu Yi said.
He originally thought that this was a group of rabble, but the Yu Yuan guards among them opened his eyes. Although the other party did not know any cooperative tactics, they could not bear the high personal force value. One Yu Yuan guard could fight against four fully armed soldiers. Soldiers.
Although the Yuyuan guards don't sound very powerful, the soldiers who can wear armor are already elite, and the soldiers who are fully armed are even more elite among the elites. And these Yuyuan guards are facing four people with bare arms without any protection. The soldiers, still in this kind of critical battle, are enough to see the strength of the opponent.
"If we hold on for a while longer, Lieutenant Sima should be returning with his troops to support us," Ziyou said.
"Well, how is the situation in the city?" Qu Yi asked.
"It has been taken care of. Chen Shu is being guarded over there. As for the remaining chambers of commerce and the big families, there will be no problem with the joint efforts of the soldiers and the Sima family, the Li family, and the Ba family chamber of commerce." Ziyou. said.
Mo Ya brought up the tied Chen Shu. Looking at the humiliated Chen Shu, a trace of sympathy flashed in Qu Yi's eyes. Although his previous contact with Chen Shu was mostly in acting, Chen Shu's various banquets and delicious food and wine really eased his homesickness, and Qu Yi still felt a little grateful to Chen Shu in his heart.
"How can a beautiful woman like you be a thief?" Qu Yi lamented. Chen Shu, as the head of the Chen family, one of the four major families in Chengdu, has extremely high knowledge and ambitions, but he has fallen down and become a rebellious traitor. The great Chen family has been brought into a place of eternal destruction.
Ziyou looked at Chen Shu and shook his head. He had a different view. Chen Shu himself was a person with evil intentions. What he did in daily life was just to create a good image for himself. He was not worthy of the beauty. In the word, beauties do not refer to beauties, but to gentlemen with knowledge and lofty aspirations. Unfortunately, Chen Shu is not such a person.
"How are you going to deal with him?" Qu Yi asked.
"To be executed in public, one is to give the people an explanation, and the other is to scare the monkeys and show those who have the same ideas what will happen to them, so that they can put away these ideas," Ziyou said.
Qu Yi didn't say anything. He felt that this was the best way for Chen Shu to die. It was like being beheaded or executed with cruel punishment after being tortured. What Qu Yi didn't know was that Chen Shu had already experienced something more painful than death. matter.
Below the city, the third elder looked at his subordinates who retreated back again, and an unknown fire arose in their hearts. He pulled out the sword at his waist and cut off the flagpole on the side with one sword.
"What is Chen Shu doing? He should have launched a rebellion in the city at this time!" the third elder roared.
The guards on the side did not dare to speak. The leaders of each tribe's battle looked at the roaring third elders and the Chengdu city that had been unable to be conquered for a long time. They were already planning to retreat. Although they were not the main force in the siege just now, they also lost a lot of people. People, their people are not Yu Yuan's guards, let alone facing four fully armed Qin soldiers, even two of them may not be able to defeat them.
"Third Elder, our tribe has suffered heavy losses. Please forgive us for not being able to participate in the next siege battle." said a representative of the tribe. He is the largest tribe in Shushan Mountain besides the Shilan tribe, the Cancong tribe. The ancestor of Cancong was the legendary founding king of the ancient Shu Kingdom, Cancong. Cancong taught the Shu people how to mulch silkworms and weave cloth, and this is how Shu silk came into being.
Cancong led the tribe to establish the ancient Shu Kingdom. After Cancong's Shu kingdom lasted for five generations, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, after Cancong was defeated by other tribes, the descendants of Cancong fled to Yao and Jiao respectively. A melee began in Shu, and finally the rise of Yufu ended the war. The man is the descendant of Silkworm Cong who fled to Shushan.
"Chief Cancong, all of us have suffered losses. If you rashly let your tribe withdraw from the siege, wouldn't it be appropriate? Moreover, there are only at most five thousand defenders in Chengdu. I did a rough calculation just now, and there are only a few defenders on the city wall. There are less than three thousand defenders, and the remaining two thousand should be maintaining order in the city. With just one attack, we can take Chengdu." The third elder said while suppressing his anger.
The prestige of the Cancong tribe in Shu Mountain is extremely high, even higher than that of the Shilan tribe. Half of the tribes attacking the city this time are affiliated tribes of the Cancong tribe. If the Cancong tribe is angered, the other party will be angry. He took his men and left directly. Let alone conquer Chengdu, the Qin army attacked, but he could not resist it with only the bandits and Yu Yuanhu under his command.
"Before, you said that you had people in the city who could lead thousands of people to launch a rebellion, but now? There is no movement in the city. As far as I know, there are 30,000 defenders in the city. Even if you lure out 25,000 people, there will still be no Do you think you can contain the opponent's 25,000 people with two thousand people? Do you think all the people under you are ancestor gods?" The leader of Cancong patted the table and stood up.
The Cancong tribe was originally unwilling to participate in this siege, but the third elder promised them too many benefits, and only said that they would help defend the city until the Chu army arrived, so the Cancong leader asked them to The leader led the Cancong clan and the affiliated tribes to participate. After all, this kind of thing that does not contribute much but can still get high rewards is not done in vain.
But when they arrived in Chengdu, the third elder asked them to attack the city together. He thought about how he couldn't justify not helping with so many things, so he agreed. He originally thought that Chengdu would be easily conquered, but it had already been conquered. The city has been attacked three times. A total of two hundred people from the Cancong tribe came. Now fifty people are dead, and there are even more people from the affiliated tribes. For the sake of his own tribe and the loyalty of the tribes he accepted, the leader of Cancong refused to attack. city.
"Leader Cancong, please be patient. I'm sure I can capture the city with one more attack. This time, all my men and Yu Yuan's guards will be dispatched. How about being the main attacker?" The third elder gritted his teeth and looked at the wavering tribal leader. they said.
Now the Third Elder has no way out. Shushan Yuyuan knows that he led his tribe to attack Chengdu. If he can defeat it, it will be fine. If he cannot defeat it, Yu Yuan's guards and the Shilan tribe will suffer heavy losses. If he goes back, he will only be held accountable on the spot. He was thrown into Yuyuan to fend for himself.
Hearing what the third elder said, these tribal leaders began to hesitate. If they left in such an anticlimactic manner, it would be difficult for them to explain themselves when they returned to the tribe. Many tribesmen died and returned empty-handed, and their position as leader was unstable. However, Everyone is worried that they still won't be able to win Chengdu this time.
These leaders wavered one by one, and finally looked at the leader of Silkworm Cong. The leader of Cancong was also hesitant at this moment. He did not want to go back empty-handed. Looking at the gazes of the tribal leaders around him, the leader of Cancong nodded and said
"Since the third elder has said this, we have come to this point where we don't care about the feelings between us." The leader of Cancong said, "Since the third elder has given all his wealth, we can't hide it. Now we are making rice." , take over Chengdu in one fell swoop after dinner."
"Okay, I know that the leader of Cancong is not a ruthless person." The third elder said with a smile.
The other tribal leaders also said good things and said that they would stay, as if the alliance that was about to be broken just now was just a dream. After all the leaders left, the third elder smashed the table in anger.
"Sir, do we really want everyone to go up?" the guard asked worriedly. The remaining people are their die-hard elites. If they all go up, they will suffer heavy losses even if they take Chengdu City. , it’s not certain who will have the final say in Chengdu then?
"What else? If we don't suppress them, believe it or not, the others will return to Shushan immediately. By then, we alone will not be able to capture Chengdu." The third elder slumped on his chair and said.
"What on earth is Chen Shu doing?" the third elder shouted angrily. Now he wanted to arrest Chen Shu immediately and interrogate him carefully, asking him why he hadn't started a rebellion in the city yet, but with the thick city wall blocking him, he couldn't arrest him either. Go to Chen Shu.
"Perhaps the head of the Chen family has been delayed. After all, there are still many Qin troops and wealthy families in the city." The guard said with relief.
"I hope he can launch a rebellion in time. If he hasn't launched a rebellion when we attack the city, I will be the first to settle the score with him when the city is broken." The third elder said coldly.
The guard said nothing. The third elder sighed helplessly and waved his hand to signal the guard to go down.
With the arrival of noon, the smoke from the cooking stoves rises. Both the attackers and the defenders are eating the food in the bowl desperately, because this bowl of rice may be their last meal in this life. They Especially treasure it.
Sorry, brothers 227 can’t go out, the reason is unknown.
(End of chapter)
