Volume 5 War and Peace Chapter 23 The Siege of Fuzhou

Let me tell you what tragedy, comedy and farce are. It is said that there is a man who loved swimming since he was a child. His lifelong ideal is to stand on the podium of the Olympic Games. After 10 years of hard training, he finally mastered the skilled skills, understood the key points of movement, and applied for the qualification with confidence. He found out that he had learned drought swimming for so many years, which was a tragedy. When he was about to give up on himself, news suddenly came that the Olympic Committee agreed to list drought swimming as one of the official competitions, which was a comedy. Then the farce was - this guy drowned during the competition...

This is what I have encountered today: a arrogant sword god. In the face of danger, he stood up, shouldered morality, and his chivalrous spirit reflected his kindness, turning the tide. He was such a hero, and he was almost squeezed down the city tower and fell to death...

In short, my battle was successful. Although Shi Cundao was a little worried at first when he heard the word "Long Live", he soon felt relieved. In extraordinary times, both soldiers and the people needed a backbone and a hero. Even Zhu Xiaofeng was present, he would not have any objection.

According to Shi Cundao's expectation, Dan Tailang would not take any action for at least three days. After this defeat, the Heijis army lost countless siege equipment, which could not be damaged. However, from the perspective of morale, he should also have some rest. However, his idea was soon proved wrong. Just around the night, the war drums outside the city sounded again, only three hours apart from the daytime! Li Jian initially thought it was a trick of suspicion, and when he used the lights of the city gate to see countless opposite him.

When the ladder was already erected, I had no choice but to blew the assembly call. At that time, I had already taken a nap. I heard that the enemy attacked the city again and walked out of the door yawning. I couldn't help but feel a little confused: Dan Tailang seemed to attack completely regardless of casualties. This seemed particularly abnormal for a mature and steadfast marshal. Although the attack at night took some convenience for the Heigis people, it was obviously a bad move to launch the human sea tactic before there was no effective solution!

During the meal, countless bright lights were floating in the sky towards the city gate, and there were faint shouts of killing. It seemed that the enemy's offensive was not weaker than in the day. I leaned against the door frame and hesitated. I didn't know if I should go to the city to fight again. I had used sword energy once during the day. With such a short time, I didn't know if I could summon it. At this time, Shi Cundao sent someone to convey his message, meaning that I would not have to worry about the battle outside the city to continue sleeping. I understood his concern very well. He was afraid that I would abuse the sword energy and end up drying up. Moreover, this battle would take a long time. It was impossible for me to rescue the siege every time. He deliberately wanted to take out the defenders and practice. I thought that this was indeed impossible, so I had to agree.

But it is conceivable that I couldn't fall asleep that night. The soldiers were born and died at the top of the city, while their heroes were hiding in the house to sleep? This psychological pressure made me jump from under the bed as if I was burned by fire. As soon as I left the house, Zhang Shilei and the others had been waiting there for a long time...

I came down the city tower and saw that it was already in a mess. Before the torches of the soldiers guarding the city had time to be put out, the storms on the city were filled with feather arrows, and the wounded were carried down and arranged in a row at the foot of the city, but the order was still in place. Li Jian was personally directing the battle. I walked up to the city, and the soldiers gave in. When they learned that the sword god was coming again, Hong Liejun immediately cheered again. No one had any complaints. In their opinion, it seemed that it was natural for me to defend the city to make me sleep all night. I felt guilty and came to Li Jian to climb up and look up from afar, and saw the Heijis army under the city.

It was like corpses were everywhere, but the attack was still ongoing. The soldiers carrying the ladder tried in an orderly manner the city's bearing capacity. After a team was dispersed, they retreated and reintegrated and continued to attack. Both the attacking and defense were anxious and tenacious, and the inside and outside of the city wall were exaggerated with a breath of death. When I stood at the top of the city, the Heijis army seemed to be shocked, and the offensive weakened significantly. Hong Lie's morale was greatly boosted. After a fierce shot, the city was finally cleared out a safe area of ​​100 meters. The soldiers could take a break for a while.

Li Jian wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with relief: "Di Zai, you are here at the right time."

I said inexplicably: "Why are Heijis's grandsons so tight?"

Li Jian said: "The siege battle is actually the heart of the people. Dan Tai Lang did this just to show that he had the determination to take down Xinzhou. He attacked day and night, hoping that our people would change after a long time."

I said, "The question is why does he think he can get it?"

After only a moment of conversation, drums sounded again in Heigis' army. This time the attack echelon was more neat than ever before. There were even dozens of siege towers in the queue. They were defeated during the day and now they put this kind of thing out to demonstrate. I said angrily: "Damn, this is called me!"

The two armies fought again, but this time the soldiers on both sides were a little absent-minded. That was because - they were all looking at me intentionally or unintentionally. There was no doubt that as long as I stood in the sky, the battle would become unsurprising. So not only did the Heijis soldiers passively wait for me to show their power, but Hong Liejun was also waiting for my performance.

But I only had a bitter smile in my heart. When I used to fight with people or needed sword energy, there was a buffer. Even if I had a life-and-death duel with Wei Wuji that day, it was not as urgent as today. At this moment, the lives of tens of thousands of people were all tied to the front line. My sword energy did not come at the moment. Besides, I didn’t even have the excuse to take time to warm up in front of everyone. At this moment, I was wise in a hurry and said to Li Jian: "Three Grandpa, I want to ask you for some tricks."

Li Jian wondered: "This...is probably not the time now?"

"It's the time!" As I said that, I didn't care about Li Jian's confusion and surprise, I started fighting with him in front of me. This made the soldiers on both sides confused. It was obvious that the battle was on the side, why did the two coaches of Xinzhou City fall on the top of the city and compare with martial arts?

Seeing that the soldiers were confused, I forced a smile and said, "What should you do, Old General Li and I will give you a blow to cheer you up!" As I said that, my subordinates were not slow at all and stepped up their attack on Li Jian.

Since I learned the Buddha's Light, I have always been in trouble with others. However, the sword magic skills and the Buddha's Light are both ways to attack. My attack immediately exposed all my ignorant truth. Li Jian was also a master of swordsman level throughout his life. He was more than enough to deal with my level. He saw that my moves were vulgar and thin, and he was almost surprised when he counterattacked. However, even so, he was at a disadvantage immediately as soon as he counterattacked. Moreover, the more exquisite his moves, the more he was restricted. He guessed in his heart that he was probably because I was a junior, so he showed weakness everywhere. So he suddenly realized that in the end, my moves were ugly no matter how ugly they were, in Li Jian's opinion, were all profound and amazing...

We fought for more than 30 moves. Li Jian hit him with one punch. I suddenly flew up and floated up in the air. My sword energy finally didn't disappoint. Finally, I forced me to catch another group of people. Li Jian was stunned and raised his head and said wildly, "Where can I beat you?"

I laughed and floated over the head of Heigis army under the city, and said with my hands behind my back: "Do you still want to come?"

The soldiers of Hegis looked at each other and looked back together. At this time, the sound of gongs came from behind at the right time, so the guys threw away the things at hand and ran back with sighs. The defenders on the city couldn't help laughing loudly when they saw this funny scene.

I chopped the things left by the Hegis soldiers and flew onto the wall. I was very prescient in shouting at the crowd who wanted to rush over to congratulate me: "Don't come here!"...

Shi Cundao also came after hearing the news, his face mixed with joy and sorrow, and pulled me aside and whispered: "You used sword energy again? Can you still hold on?"

I sighed and said, "I will raise it after eating two more bowls of rice. We can kill many people less."

Shi Cundao sighed: "It's just that you have suffered."

Before we could say anything, someone handed over a handwritten letter from Puqixiong. Shi Cundao opened it and glanced at me, and I asked, "What's the matter?"

Shi Cundao said: "Lao Pu wants people to me."

"Who?"

"You." Shi Cundao smiled slightly and said, "The letter said that the Zuo Army has been stationed in Fuzhou. Lao Pu wants you to rush over and discuss with you with military information - he doesn't need to discuss with you about military information. This old guy is polite. I think he has an opinion on me holding you by my side." Speaking of this, Shi Cundao said with a stern expression, "Well, most of the Heijis army has launched a strong attack on Fuzhou. He needs you to go back and help him defend the city. Wulang, you may not be able to rest in a short time..."

I said, "It's not too late, I'll leave now."

"How are you leaving?"

I jumped into the air, and Shi Cundao smiled in surprise and said, "Haha, I'm confused about this, it's good. You can go to Fuzhou as soon as possible to meet him, and make sure that Fuzhou is safe no matter what."

I nodded and flew away in the south where Fuzhou was.

Li Xin Fu and Fuzhou are not close together. Lizhou and Fuzhou are in a corner and are located around Xinzhou. This Fuzhou is located at the southernmost point of the Honglie Empire. It takes half a day to go from Xinzhou to Fuzhou. I flew for about half an hour and saw the gate of Fuzhou. As soon as I fell down, I was shocked. I saw countless Heijis soldiers and horses attacked around the city walls. The defenders on the city fought bravely. In the city, they were in the city.

The noise of horses neighing and bowing outside the city was endless. Fuzhou City was much lower than Xinzhou City, and it seemed that the fortifications were not very neatly built. Heijis' infantry tide rushed to the city, and many people had already followed the ladder to kill the city, which means that the battlefields of both sides had already pressed on the critical point of this line of defense. As long as the Heijis army went further, it would mean that the city defense of Fuzhou City had failed. Next, I would have to fight against the enemy with cruel street battles.

I was shocked to see, and almost subconsciously two sword energy were sent over. The cloud ladders standing on both sides of the city tower were cut off a lot, like a pile of collapsed wheat straw. Many Heijis soldiers fell off the ladder before they could react. The high place fell seriously injured, and the low place was hit by the high place was not much better. For a moment, screams came one after another.

In fact, not only the Heijis soldiers, but even the Hong Lie Army did not understand what was going on. As they fought, they saw the already rushing enemy disappearing from the city wall together, and they had no time to discover me. Although I was the deputy commander of the Left Route Army, I had no chance to cooperate with the soldiers. If such a situation occurred under the city of Xinzhou, 80% of the soldiers in the central army would guess that I was here.

I temporarily resolved the Fuzhou crisis, and it fell on the top of the city. Puqixiong was the one who commanded the battle. Logically speaking, he was a general at the level of deputy marshal. He didn't have to do anything like defending the city, but Hegis had to supervise the battle himself.

As soon as I landed, I asked, "What's the situation?"

Puchixiong said: "Since last evening, Heigis has started to attack the city in large numbers, and the soldiers have been guarding for more than ten hours."

I asked in a low voice, "Can you still hold on?"

Puqixiong said: "It depends on what it says. Without you, you can stay for at most half a month. With you, it will be hard to say."

I was surprised and said, "So Fuzhou cannot be defended in the end?"

Puqixiong looked at the surroundings and lowered his voice, "I can only say this to you-Heijis has an army of 2 million. Do you expect to block so many people from the country with just a mere Fuzhou city?"

I thought about it and murmured, "I haven't thought about the problem so before. What should I do if the city is broken?"

Puqixiong said: "You can only take away as much as you can, and you can't care about the elderly, weak, sick and disabled."

"Then we must keep it."

Puqixiong said: "It was not difficult before, do you know that this letter Li Fu Sancheng was broken in the war against the black."

I said, "I don't know this."

Puqixiong said: "But the soldiers all know that now we are on the first line of defense that has been broken through. No one thinks we can defend for how long we have been waiting to retreat, so people's hearts are floating, which is a taboo in defending the city."

I nodded and said, "I understand, these three are cannon fodder cities, dedicated to retreating." This is the same as the potato mines placed in the first row in Plants vs. Zombies, and I didn't expect it to stick to the end.

Puqixiong said, "But I said just now, if you include it, you may be able to defend it or not." As he said that, he raised his hand and said loudly, "Soldiers, your left front general, the Sword God is here to defend the city with us. Do you have the confidence to not let the Heigis bastards go further?"

The soldiers on the city raised their weapons together and shouted, "Yes!"

I have heard too much of this kind of cheer in just two days. With every cheering, I feel that the burden on my shoulders has become much heavier. I am their greatest hope and support. To be honest, this feeling of carrying a million people's life and death is not good. From now on, my every move will be inseparable from these people. Even if I choke on the soup, it will inevitably become news that shocks the entire army. No wonder those people are looking forward to being popular when they are not popular, trying to attract attention and try every means to gain the position. Once it becomes popular, they will strictly guard the paparazzi. In terms of popularity, I am at least ten Jay Chou...

The Heijis army inexplicably lost a wave of offensives and quickly made the decision to withdraw. The commander surrounding Fuzhou City should be Wu Sizhong, and Wu Sizhong is not unfamiliar with my existence. He obviously also understood that this moment was not a good time to attack.

Looking at the enemy troops retreating like a tide, Puqixiong said: "Today, this battle has been completed. I don't know when the next attack will be - what's going on in Xinzhou?"

I said, "It's similar to here. Heigis was pulled by his tail and pressed him step by step. I just came over there, and grandpa was under a lot of pressure."

Puqixiong held my shoulder and said, "Stay here, Fuzhou needs you."

I smiled bitterly and said, "Now it seems that I need me everywhere."

Puqixiong said: "Originally, I was in charge of the marshal. Xinzhou and Fuzhou, the left army in the central army has no distinction between you and me, but obviously Fuzhou needs you more. You have also seen it. Fuzhou’s city defense is weak, and the number of defenders in Lizhou and Xinzhou is much more than our left army. Xinzhou also has a marshal himself in charge. These two states will not be a problem in the short term, but once the three states are damaged, if we lose, the entire Honglie army will be passive."

I said, "Grandpa told me too that there should be no mistakes in Fuzhou."

Puqixiong said: "It's not only Fuzhou, but Lizhou is the same. When Heijis attacked Xinli Fu and the two states were quickly captured. Only Xinzhou persisted, but it was useless. When Fuzhou Lizhou was lost, the Heijis people surrounded Xinzhou from all directions and cut off all its supplies. Xinzhou became a dead city. The people had no food, and in the end they could only change their children and eat, and corpses were everywhere in the city."

I shook my head, not knowing what to say.

In this way, as the left front general, I temporarily settled in Fuzhou where the left army was stationed, but this is a benefit. I can meet Sticha and Lu'e again.

Since Shi Donglai made a fuss, many people have already known that I had two girls hidden under my command, and it was almost a well-known secret later. Fortunately, Shi Cundao didn't have time to be serious with me, so the two girls stayed. Naturally, no one dared to bully them with their identities. However, what they saw and heard every day was the little things in the military camp, which was boring for the girl's family.

When the two girls saw me, they jumped and jumped, and were extremely happy. Sticia took my hand and said, "Fifth Brother, now everyone is talking about you."

I smiled and said, "Let's talk about you, do you plan to stay like this in the military camp?"

Stilja said in a disgrace: "I haven't thought about it yet, but I won't marry a big horse monkey anyway."

I smiled and said seriously: "Then you two have to find another place to live. General Pu said that Fuzhou City may be captured at any time. If I don't have time to take care of you..."

At this time, Luye brought two cups of tea and said, "Don't talk about these things first, the young master will drink tea for a day when he is tired."

Before I could drink it, a soldier suddenly rushed into the camp and said in a pirate in anger: "General... General, Heigis is starting to attack the city again!"

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A big chapter seems to have been paid back, but it seems like I owe two more small chapters... Oh my God. The recent chapters are all for setting off the atmosphere. They are difficult to write and obscure, and they will become clearer later.
Chapter completed!