As the sky darkened, the Dongling army attacking the city suddenly retreated. Only corpses were left on the ground, the smell of blood and earth mixed together, making people's noses sting.
"Shoot fire arrows."
In the ravine under the city wall, following Ma Yi's order, he quickly shot down a row of fire arrows during the break, burning the densely packed corpses in a short time.
Defending a city is a time-consuming and labor-intensive matter. To avoid the occurrence of epidemics, prevention within one's ability is essential.
"Military advisor, it's night, you might as well go and rest for a while." Ma Yi reminded carefully as he walked back to the city gate.
The battle during the day was actually not tragic. At most, it was the civilian army in Dongling, which suffered heavy losses in the battle. Moreover, they didn’t even touch the ravines of Liancheng.
"No rush." Dongfang Jing wrapped his body in a large cloak, but did not relax at all under the light of the torch.
"I thought before that Ling Su would fight at night."
Throughout the ages, night battles involving city sieges have not been uncommon. In this way, not only the attackers suffered battle losses, but the defenders also had almost no time to breathe.
"The little military advisor said before that the more time this takes, the better it will be for us."
"This is natural." Dongfang Jing nodded, "But again, Ling Su is not a fool. He will not attack the city in an upright manner. Instead, he will use all kinds of cunning tricks."
"Military advisor, if the soldiers come to block you, if the water comes and the earth comes to cover you, you are very afraid of him!"
Dongfang Jing didn't answer, and looked far away, looking at the Dongling camp in the distance. He had been thinking about the purpose of Ling Su's attack on the city.
The night ends and the day dawns.
It was only midnight, and not long after, the Dongling Army outside Liancheng was ready again, and the dense civilian camp phalanx began to attack the city pass.
Different from yesterday, this time, behind the civilian camp, there was clearly a phalanx of Dongling shield soldiers. Behind the phalanx of shield soldiers were clearly pushed ladder trucks and city assault vehicles.
At the top of Liancheng City, the sound of beating drums suddenly sounded, startling all the Shu people who were defending. A new round of offensive and defensive battle is about to begin.
…
In the mountains southwest of Liancheng, a long and agile army was carefully moving forward, following the old forests in the mountains.
Click.
Mi Hu, the leader, raised his knife and slashed the head of a hanging tree snake away.
"How far is it?"
"General Mi, I've been to this mountain forest before. It's at least three days' journey away."
Mi Hu frowned. Deep down in his heart, he was somewhat dissatisfied. According to Zuo Shiren's instructions, if he can seize the opportunity to counterattack, he will definitely make a great contribution.
"Everyone obeys the order and continues to march forward as quickly as possible."
Mi Hu didn't dare to be careless. If he accomplished the extraordinary feat of defeating Shu, the position of General Dongling might really fall into his hands. On the left and right, Zuo Shiren still needs to rely on the Shanyue people. Now that Kang Zhu is dead, that Feifu is also dead. The huge Dongling seems to have the highest reputation among the Shanyue people.
"General Mi Hu, did my general say that we will temporarily separate our troops from General Mi Hu's Shanyue Camp here?" At this time, a captain with bright armor walked over cautiously.
"Divide the troops?" Mi Hu was startled when he heard these words, his expression unhappy. Although it was Ling Su's arrangement, this team seemed to have been hidden for a long time. At first glance, it looks more like he is here to grab credit.
"It's what the lord and the military advisor want." Captain Liang Yinjia smiled, "If not, shall I ask for a personal letter from the military advisor?"
Mi Hu frowned and did not refute, but nodded. We were obviously taking a roundabout way together, but could it be that these people just didn't want to go down the mountain?
"I would like to remind you that the mountains to the south of Cangzhou are extremely steep. After passing the mountain pass ahead, it will take at least a month and a half to find another place. By then, all the day lilies will be cold." After a moment of hesitation, Mi Hu reminded him loudly.
"Of course, the military advisor said so in the letter."
The second time he brought up the title of military advisor, Mi Hu no longer had the intention to dissuade him. In addition, wouldn't it be better if no one took the credit?
"Then we will divide our troops according to the wishes of the military advisor."
"Farewell."
There are more than 20,000 people in Shanyue Camp. Although most of them are young and old, they are enough to do a lot of things.
"Follow the intersection going down the mountain and speed up the march!"
Mi Hu knew that when Zuo Shiren attacked Liancheng, Kang Zhu led his troops in such a roundabout way. Unfortunately, it took too much time and did not play a big role.
"At that time, if I had been allowed to lead the troops, I would have captured Liancheng long ago. Why did we lose so many people in the battle?" Mi Hu sneered, leading more than 20,000 men and horses, and continued marching in the direction of the mountain pass. And go.
…
Bang.
In front of Liancheng, another huge stone fell into the phalanx on the left side of the siege.
"Kill the Shu people and avenge me Dongling Zhongyong——" More than a dozen Dongling generals were in the square, waving their long swords and roaring.
Compared with the previous two days, today's Dongling offensive was even more fierce. Several times, the city ladder has been set up on the city wall.
"Stab, stab!"
On the city wall, one by one, Xi Shu Pi generals were also unwilling to be outdone. He commanded the army that defended the city and kept knocking over the enemy troops who were about to board the city first.
"Pour hot oil!"
Hot fat poured down the wall. Suddenly, the Dongling civilians and soldiers under the city were so hot that they let out heart-piercing screams of pain.
"Fire arrow."
A row of fire arrows shot down, igniting the poured hot oil. More than a hundred Dongling troops were burned and twisted in the sea of fire.
"Damn it, they are all civilians and soldiers. How many people will die in these three days." Ma Yi gritted his teeth. It's not sympathy, he also knows the principle of Ci not to control soldiers, it's just that Zuo Shiren is unhappy.
"Mobilize the civilians under the city and bring up all the objects to defend the city. I, Yuncheng General Ma Yi, will beat up the Dongling Dog today to avenge the Dou brothers!"
Under the command of Ma Yi, the soldiers defending the city were well organized and blocked the attacking Dongling Army from the city gate.
"General Ma, Linggou's ladder truck is approaching!"
"Don't panic." Ma Yi said calmly, and then turned his head unconsciously and looked at the position of his little military advisor.
The little strategist was like a sculpture, motionless.
"Push the rope crossbow!"
"General Ma has an order, push the rope crossbow——"
"Today, I will let you and other mausoleum dogs learn how to defend the city from my little military advisor!"
"Shoot the rope arrow!"
In the west corner of the city, six or seven heavy crossbows took aim and fired the rope arrows "whooshing".
Ta, tap.
Even though three rope arrows were missed, four of them pierced the ladder truck under the city and penetrated three points into the wood.
"What are these Shu people going to do!"
"No, this is an iron rope arrow with a barb left. The Shu people are going to drag down the ladder truck!"
To the west of the city, hundreds of civilians rushed over, and together with the hundreds of soldiers guarding the city, they all grabbed the rope arrows.
"Collapse, collapse -"
Boom.
With a united will, it took about half a stick of incense and the strength of six to seven hundred people to drag the ladder truck that was pushed to the front of the city until it tilted and tipped over, sending up dust and smoke all over the ground.
Dozens of Dongling soldiers on the ladder truck were suddenly crushed into pulp. The Dongling phalanx guarding the rear all paused in their steps, their faces full of horror.
…
On the high ground, Ling Su sighed silently when he saw this scene. He could guess that the lame man still had many ways to deal with the ladder truck as a last resort.
He was suddenly very happy and did not choose to attack directly. Otherwise, the lame man guarding the city would be sure to win even if he faced the Dongling army of 100,000 people.
"In troubled times, it's so scary to have people like Cripple."
