On the first day of playing, Zuo Xiaowei's attrition exceeded 30%. This situation made General Zhang Sheng suddenly look sad.
There were only 40,000 garrison troops in the city, and they had only been able to defend the city for four days, with a loss of 5,000 men and horses.
Moreover, there is not enough food and grass in the city, only enough for half a month. It is not known when reinforcements will arrive.
Xiao Jingxuan slept on the tower all night. At dawn, he had a hasty breakfast and began to patrol.
The third team was okay, only losing fifteen people, which was relatively good compared to other teams.
Zuo Xiaowei still has to hold on to the tower for two days, and he doesn't know if he can hold on.
Just after Si Shi arrived, the barbarians launched another attack. Compared with yesterday, the scale of the barbarian attack today was even greater.
Xiao Jingxuan glanced at it and saw that there were at least 20,000 people. However, after all, they had experienced the baptism of war yesterday.
The entire Zuo Xiaowei soldiers were not as panicked as yesterday. The sound of fighting soon started.
At this time, Xiao Jingxuan has not been assigned any other tasks. He has only one task, which is archery.
At Xiao Jingxuan's feet, there were five quivers. As each arrow was shot out, it also took away the lives of various barbarians.
However, archery is too demanding on the body. As the five arrows in the quiver were shot, Xiao Jingxuan also lost strength.
So, Jam Hsiao began to lift the boulder next to him and throw it at the enemy on the ladder.
As time passed little by little, the sound of the barbarians withdrawing their troops sounded again.
Great, we defended it again. But at this time, General Zhang Sheng of Zuo Xiaowei was even more worried.
The deputy general next to him looked at Zhang Sheng and said: "General, how come you are still looking so sad after repelling the enemy army?"
Zhang Sheng sighed and said: "There are two hundred thousand barbarians, but now, of the four gates, east, west, north and south, only the north gate is attacked, and only more than 10,000 people are sent to attack the city at a time. It looks like training troops, not siege."
.The enemy’s plans are not trivial.”
After hearing Zhang Sheng's words, the deputy general also nodded silently.
Days passed little by little, and now they have been guarding for half a month, and Lingzhou City has not yet waited for reinforcements.
However, the situation in the city was already very bad. First of all, except for the four thousand cavalry, which were still intact, all other units suffered heavy losses.
Moreover, there was insufficient food and grass in the city, so a food rationing system was implemented in the city, with civilians having one meal a day and soldiers having two meals a day.
Even so, Lingzhou City can't hold on for long.
Xiao Jingxuan is no longer the team deputy, but has been transferred to the fourth team as the team leader.
Due to serious attrition in various departments, the entire Zuoying camp has now been reorganized into two units, and the number of people has increased from the previous four thousand to more than one thousand two hundred.
Qin Feng also changed from team leader to whistle commander, and became Xiao Jingxuan’s immediate boss.
There are currently only more than 16,000 people in the entire city. The city tower now operates in two shifts. Except for a few soldiers who are responsible for night duty, the rest need to go to the city tower during the day. (Of course, except for the cavalry.)
This is related to the fact that the barbarians are not good at night fighting.
On this day, after the battle, they began to return to their residence. Now, Xiao Jingxuan lives alone in a courtyard.
Due to combat attrition, many residences were vacant in the city, and Xiao Jingxuan was fortunate enough to be assigned an independent residence in the north of the city.
After arriving at the yard, Xiao Jingxuan took out two coarse grain steamed buns, a bowl of porridge, and a small piece of horse meat from the jar he carried with him.
After putting the things on the table, Jamel Xiao sighed and said to the side: "Come out. It's me."
I saw two people, a man and a woman, emerging from the haystacks on the side. They were both young, the woman was about twelve or thirteen years old, and the man was only seven or eight years old.
The boy happily ran to Jam Hsiao and shouted: "Brother Xiao, you are back." After saying that, he threw himself on Jam Hsiao.
Xiao Jingxuan held down the young man and said: "No, Brother Xiao is dirty. I will wash up and stay with you later."
The girl nodded to Xiao Jingxuan and called "Brother Xiao."
After saying hello, the girl took the things on the table to the kitchen, added some water and boiled them.
Xiao Jingxuan met these two people when he moved here, and they only knew each other for two days.
The two of them were originally orphans in the city. Seeing that the house was empty, they hid here. Although there were cavalry guards in the city to maintain order, there were still many ruffians making trouble in the city.
Especially after the unified distribution of supplies, the order in the city became even more chaotic.
These two boys and girls would probably be cooked if they walked out onto the street.
When Xiao Jingxuan met them, they had been hungry for three days. Now, the three of them seem to be living together.
After a while, the girl came to the yard with three bowls of porridge. In order to save money, the porridge was divided into two meals. Water was added to the porridge, and the coarse-grain steamed buns were torn into pieces and cooked together.
The porridge is sprinkled with a little minced horse meat. It looks a bit ugly, but this kind of food is considered very good in Lingzhou City today.
How can ordinary captains in the army receive such treatment? Only Xiao Jingxuan, who has outstanding military achievements, is given an extra steamed bun and a piece of horse meat every day.
After the three of them had eaten, the girl handed a set of clean clothes to Xiao Jingxuan and said, "Brother Xiao, please change your clothes. I will wash the dirty clothes later."
Xiao Jingxuan did not refuse, took clean clothes to the room and changed into them. Then he handed the dirty clothes to the girl.
Although the girl was polite to Xiao Jingxuan, Xiao Jingxuan could see that the girl was very defensive about him.
But Jamel Xiao didn’t care, since he didn’t want anything anyway. After changing his clothes, Jamel Xiao played with the boy for a while.
After the boy got tired of playing, Xiao Jingxuan came to the woodshed, picked up the shovel and started digging.
The girl walked up to Jam Hsiao and showed a puzzled expression about Jam Hsiao's behavior.
Seeing the girl standing by the door, Xiao Jingxuan thought for a while and said: "The war situation is a bit bad. Lingzhou will fall at any time. According to the way the barbarians are doing things, the city will be massacred. At that time, we will just rely on fate."
Jam Hsiao said, but his hands did not stop. He soon dug a deep hole. After digging, Jam Hsiao made various disguises on it to cover up the traces.
Then I moved the excess soil under the trees in the yard and did some covering up.
After doing this, Xiao Jingxuan was a little tired, so he sat on the stone bench in the yard and rested for a while.
Seeing that the girl was still aside, Xiao Jingxuan said: "Why don't you go and rest, are you scared?"
The girl shook her head and said, "Are you coming tomorrow?"
Xiao Jingxuan thought for a while and said: "Well, I don't know. There are not many people in the defenders now, but the barbarians are not injured. I don't know."
The girl said expressionlessly: "The tunnels are of no use. If the barbarians capture Lingzhou City, Zhi'er and I will starve to death without them killing us."
Xiao Jingxuan sighed, thought for a while and said: "I will try to come back tomorrow and bring you some food. Then you can settle down with your destiny."
After saying that, he went back to his room and fell asleep. Just when Xiao Jingxuan was about to fall asleep, he only heard the door "click" and make a sound.
Just when Xiao Jingxuan was alert, thinking that a thief was coming, he saw the person lying next to Xiao Jingxuan.
Although the room was dark, Xiao Jingxuan still knew who was next to him.
Xiao Jingxuan frowned and said: "Get out."
The girl obviously did not expect Xiao Jingxuan to chase people away. She was stunned for a while and then said nervously: "I volunteered."
Xiao Jingxuan half sat up and said: "I respect the relationship between your siblings, and I don't deny that I have a crush on you. However, I don't want to become someone I hate."
At this time, the girl was no longer nervous and asked: "What kind of person do you hate?"
Xiao Jingxuan looked at the girl and said: "I don't know either, but I know that if I do something, I will look down on myself."
The girl looked at Xiao Jingxuan, even though she could only see a black shadow now, she felt extremely relieved. The girl thought for a moment and said, "My name is Cui Yingxue, and my brother's name is Cui Jingshan."
After saying that, the girl got up and went out.
Hearing the girl's introduction, Xiao Jingxuan was still a little excited. After living here for three days, he finally knew the girl's name.
Early the next morning, Xiao Jingxuan returned to the tower and went into battle to kill the enemy. Today's situation was even worse.
First of all, the feather arrows are gone, the boulders are gone, and all the houses in the city close to the city wall that can be demolished have been demolished.
Even in the afternoon, if the heroic cavalry had not climbed up the building, Lingzhou City would have been destroyed.
After the enemy retreated, Xiao Jingxuan looked around and saw that there were a lot less people.
After a while, a military doctor came over to bandage Xiao Jingxuan’s wound. It was really dangerous, Xiao Jingxuan was stabbed five times on his body.
Although luckily the vital points were avoided, the wounds were very deep. The military doctor applied medicine to Xiao Jingxuan and briefly bandaged it. As for whether it would work, I had to leave it to fate.
Maybe it was because of serious attrition. In the evening, Xiao Jingxuan not only got four steamed buns, but also a large piece of horse meat, and the porridge was also very generous.
Xiao Jingxuan carried these things to the small courtyard where he lived with difficulty. This chapter has been completed!