The rain stopped.
The mountains along the Sizhou border have become lush again. Only a large section of it became increasingly scarlet under the glow of the bloody setting sun.
The corpses of fallen soldiers, the mud stream flowing into rivers of blood, and the diffuse smoke made it seem like a purgatory on earth.
"Light more kerosene!"
The puppy Fu stood on the high rock, his face covered with smoke and dust. Even a pair of eyes were bloodshot.
"Fire arrow!"
The mountain road that was only slightly dry finally started to slowly burn with the fire oil thrown down by several bursts of fire arrows. The oil and gas had probably dissipated, so it wasn't burning too much, but there was a strange smell of meat in the air that stung my nose.
"Push the wet curtain!"
Chang Xiao, whose face was also full of dust and smoke, had extremely angry eyes. Seeing that it was getting dark, they were unable to attack the Shu people's position.
Even if only one of the armies at both ends attacks, it will be a great opportunity for victory. But that damn boy from Xishu was actually able to turn the tide and block the attacks from both ends.
Moreover, when he knew that the feint attack last night was useless, Chang Xiao suddenly became even more angry. If he could break into the enemy's position, he would really hang that Xishu boy alive in a mountain stream.
"General Chang, as soon as I get closer, the Shu people will immediately fly with arrows."
"Damn it. General Zheng Bu, what's going on now?"
Zheng Bu was the Beiyu general who attacked at the other end of the mountain road. He belongs to the faction of the old aristocratic family, but compared to the generals of other aristocratic families, he is somewhat brave and strategic.
"Failed to break in. The scouts reported that the Shu people were in the formation and started to build the second long wall."
"Wall, wall again! Are these Shu people all masons?" Chang Xiao suddenly became angry, but after a while, he slowly calmed down.
"No matter how stupid the young general is, he will definitely not use too many broken rice cakes to apply paste. It is impossible to say that the second or even the third course is just a fictitious thing."
After exhaling, Chang Xiao turned his head.
Obviously, the soldiers who sold rice at this time did not get much benefit.
"General Chang, General Shentu has given orders that the rice selling army can temporarily retreat and rest for the time being."
Chang Xiao held the knife and nodded heavily.
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"Strong attack, attack them all, let me attack them all!" At the other end of the mountain road, the approaching Beiyu army, under the command of a Beiyu general, continued to launch strong attacks.
The general's name was Zheng Bu, who was recommended by the old family in this decisive battle with Xi Shu. Today, there are too many victorious factions in the Beiyu Army, and they are naturally unwilling to do so.
Of course, Zheng Bu's ability is not that of a mediocre general.
"General Zheng, it's getting dark!"
"I can see clearly." Zheng Bu gritted his teeth. Even he himself couldn't figure out how this Shu people could be so tough. They were clearly attacking from both sides, but they couldn't get any advantage.
According to his thinking, this time it should be like eating and changing clothes, which should be easy, but he never thought it would be so difficult. Could it be that the young general from Western Shu is a genius descended from heaven?
"General Zheng, do you want to attack at night?"
"Don't retreat, we will waste the people of Shu!" Zheng Bu's face darkened, "It's also true that we can always win. I originally thought we were sure of it, but how could I have known that such a scene has been going on for how many days!"
The military tent at the entrance of the mountain road.
"It's the sixth day." Chang Sheng lowered his head and frowned at the map of the mountain road. Of course he knew that if this continued, he would definitely be able to eat this Shu people.
But the key problem is that it takes too much time, beyond his imagination. Not counting the time for pursuit, but just for the time for the strong attack, it was already the sixth day.
"The disciples of Poison E are well-deserved. The two-wall formation has shaken ancient and modern times... now, it should be called three-wall or four-wall."
Chang Sheng withdrew his gaze and stared ahead for a long time before uttering a sentence.
"Starting tomorrow, in addition to fire attacks, let's start throwing plagues. Remember to ask the military doctors outside to deliver plague medicine as quickly as possible. Send three hundred climbing experts to climb the rocks and throw plagues into the Shu formation."
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"Ahem." Leaning on Gao Yan, Xiaofu Fu covered his mouth and coughed several times. Below him, countless Xishu soldiers were doing the same thing, coughing continuously.
"Be careful, Beiyu people have thrown their bodies into the ground!"
Hundreds of human and animal corpses were continuously thrown from high altitudes into the two blocked walls.
"The mountain road is uneven, and it has been slippery due to rain. I expected that the Beiyu people's siege equipment would not be able to push it forward. But I didn't expect that Chang Sheng would be like this... he threw a plague corpse."
Puppy Fu wiped his face with worried eyes.
"General Shangguan, how are you doing now?"
"General Shangguan is extremely tired... everyone can no longer stand, but they are still defending. Only three thousand of the Xiaer rebels who originally followed to the east wall are dead. General... what should we do?"
"Don't worry, my lord knows the news and has already sent out the army. The more Beiyu troops we attract, the greater my lord's chance of victory will be."
Turning his head, Little Dog Fu glanced in the direction of the river bank. Unfortunately, he was blocked by the darkness and mountains in front of him, so he couldn't see anything clearly.
Xi Shu's real counterattack has yet to come. In this window period, the strategy of holding back the Beiyu people is extremely correct.
"Burn the corpse, burn the plague corpse quickly!"
In the drier area between the two walls, piles of bonfires were quickly lit, and the plague corpses dropped by the Beiyu people were carefully burned with fire.
Unfortunately, the spread of the plague has become an unstoppable trend. The sound of coughing one after another resounded throughout the entire mountain road.
After the medicinal soup was used up, the military doctors in Xishu had no choice but to take grass from the local area and cook it into various grass soups.
"General Han, a hundred scouts who climbed the peak fell down...more than seventy people died."
Puppy Fu was silent for a while.
"How many sets of Beiyu armor have been collected?"
"Less than a thousand troops, the enemy troops outside the wall array are too fierce, they work day and night, and we can't kill them."
"Don't force it, I'll think of something else."
"General Han, do we want to break out?"
"Of course I want it, but the time hasn't come yet." Little Dog Fu comforted him, "Pass the word, the people in Beiyu are attacking the plague. We'll tear up the robe cloth and make it into a face towel. After soaking in urine, we should be able to stop some of them."
General Pi, who listened, held his hands and clasped his fists seriously without any pretense. When life and death are at stake, surviving and defeating the enemy is the only thing you want to think about.
When Pi was about to leave, Little Dog Fu looked around again. It wasn't until he was extremely tired that he leaned against the mountain wall and began to have a little intoxication.
After about half a stick of incense, he woke up quickly, rubbed the fatigue from the corners of his eyes, and continued to stand upright, standing on the high rock, calmly analyzing the Beiyu people's offensive.
He has always believed that, just like his childish innocence, if he has mastered the peerless martial arts, he will help his boss, his teacher, his brother tiger, his relatives and friends, and end this death war. A troubled world with too many people.
The young man held his head high in the night, tenacious and unyielding.
I don't know when, as if inadvertently, when the soldiers of Xishu below looked up and saw this tall and upright figure, they suddenly felt at ease in their hearts.
"Xishu!"
"Xishu——"
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