General Yun Chong of the Tiger and Ben Army was covered in blood. He held a sword in his hand and looked at the Turkic soldiers and horses retreating like a tide after hearing the sound of gold foil. He finally relaxed and leaned on the battlements weakly, breathing heavily.
Looking at the auxiliary soldiers who were shuttled back and forth on the city wall carrying wounded soldiers down to the city for treatment, Yunchong waved with difficulty.
"Vice General Yan!"
Yan Gan, the deputy general of the Huben Army who was directing the auxiliary troops to treat the wounded soldiers, heard Yun Chong's feeble cry and ran over quickly.
"General, what are your orders?"
Yun Chong took off the water bag from his waist, opened his mouth and drank heavily, ignoring the blood on his face.
Yun Chong drank all the water in the water bag, and Yun Chong recovered some of his physical strength.
"How many times has this been attacked by the Turkic army?"
"Back to General, this is the sixth time. The Turks' offensive is too fierce. Although their siege equipment is simple, our brothers have limited strength. Facing the enemy's fearless charge, our brothers suffered heavy casualties!"
Listening to Yan Gan's low voice, Yun Chong sighed melancholy and glanced at the setting sun in the west.
"It's been six times. Judging by the weather, the Turks probably won't launch the seventh charge! Send more observers to pay attention to the situation outside the city, and let the slightly injured brothers rest on the spot!"
"Yes! I will retire at the end!"
"Rosima!"
"arrive!"
"Have the battle damage statistics been calculated?"
Sima of the Huben Army nodded sadly: "Today alone, seven thousand brothers have been killed in the battle, and nearly tens of thousands have been seriously injured. The combined strength of our elite battle divisions in the city is still...
....."
"More than thirty-seven thousand people!"
After hearing Yunchong's accurate statement of the number of troops, Sima Luo Zheng nodded sadly.
"Um!"
"Haha... There are more than 300,000 Turkic troops outside the city, but there are only more than 30,000 guards in our city. It seems that our Yunzhou will become the first city to be captured among the six cities in northern Xinjiang.
It’s inevitable!”
Luo Zheng silently closed his weapon, straightened up and glanced at the endless Turkic army outside the city, then slowly leaned on the battlements and slumped down like Yunchong.
"General, six letters have been sent to Ganzhou and Suzhou, and the brothers in the other two guards have shown no sign of helping us in Yunzhou."
"To fight against 300,000 enemy troops alone, we, the Tiger Army, have no choice but to fight to the death. Let us hold on for as long as we can!"
Listening to Luo Zheng's lonely voice, Yun Chong patted Luo Zheng's shoulder with difficulty.
"Good brothers, don't be resentful. Let's also understand the difficulties faced by the brothers from Ganzhou and Suzhou. Once they come out of the city to help us, they will play into the hands of the Turks."
"They are not good at attacking cities. The reason why they gathered their troops and a city is to encircle a certain point for reinforcements and use Yunzhou as a bait to fish them out. It's not that they won't come, but that they can't come. Otherwise, they will really let them have their way.
Already."
"We, the Six Guards of Northern Xinjiang, have been in the same spirit since the founding of Dalong. We are brothers who are indistinguishable from each other. They watch us defend Yunzhou, fighting bloody battles but unable to come to the rescue. They feel even more uncomfortable than us."
"I think of how my great dragon, who used to have millions of soldiers in the past, ended up in a situation where we have no soldiers to use today. We are traitors and harming our country. The sky has no eyes!"
"Ruizong has knowledge under the spring, and he will never die with his eyes in peace!"
"I don't know if we will be lucky enough to see the new soldiers sent by the rear military department before the city is broken."
"I hope Song Shangshu and others can understand our difficulties in northern Xinjiang and send reinforcements in time!"
"Oh, the training was delayed for several months because of the rebellion. Even if the Ministry of War can send it in time, it will be just a mob. How can we stop it..."
"Huhuhu..."
As Luo Zheng was talking, he heard the sound of Yun Chong sleeping soundly. He turned around and saw that Yun Chong had fallen under the battlements and fell into a deep sleep.
Looking at the gradually blackening cloak on Yun Chong's body, and then at the chipped sword, Luo Zheng realized this time that the general had not slept a wink all night and day.
Taking off his relatively clean cloak, Luo Zheng gently put it on Yunchong's body and walked towards the city wall with Wen Ce in hand.
He also wanted to take care of the brothers who were seriously injured and died, so that he could prepare a register and give an explanation to the court and the brothers' families when the war was over.
As the sun set and the moon rose, as Yunchong expected, the Turks outside the city really did not launch the seventh siege.
On the city wall, the Turkic camps outside the city all lit up torches, jumping gently under the bright moonlight, as if a fire spirit was dancing.
If there was no war, this would be such an amazing sight.
In General Yunzhou's mansion, Liu Ying looked at the news from the Lingbi in her hand, her eyebrows furrowed and she kept pacing in the main hall.
The tragedy of the battle in Yunzhou has exceeded Liu Ying's expectation. The Turks' offensive was too fierce, which made Yunzhou, which was already short of troops, even worse.
Lingbi looked at the anxious young lady helplessly from one side.
Killing someone is just a matter of the blink of an eye, but there are more than 300,000 Turkic troops outside the city. Let alone yourself, even an innate master is not enough.
An army of 300,000 is not so easy to say with just one mouth.
"Lingbi, why don't you send some Shadow Killing Guards to help defend the city?"
Lingbi thought for a moment and shook his head: "It's not easy to do. Although the Shadow Killing Guards are as skilled as the clouds, they will only cause chaos in the military formation. Martial arts masters and military formations are completely different concepts."
"Especially if they face a crisis and instinctively use their internal strength, although they can kill the enemy, they will also accidentally injure the Tiger Army under my uncle's command."
"They are from the martial arts world and they don't know what cooperation is."
"I'll just help you when the time comes. What if I can't help but still create more trouble?"
"Let them help defend the city, why not let them assassinate the Turkic Khan and the Turkic generals!"
Liu Ying's eyes lit up, and then she shook her head sadly.
"This is even worse. Assassinating their Khan will only arouse their ferocity. At that time, they will attack the city with anger, but it will be a disservice."
"Do you have any new information about the Shadow Killing Guards in Ganzhou and Suzhou? Do the Xiaoguo Guards and the Huxiang Guards have any plans to help Yunzhou?"
"There is no new information. The last information we received was the one from the day before yesterday. Now the two generals Dongfang Ming and Lu Chengjie are helpless."
"Whether we can leave the city or not is determined by the Turks' calculations. According to the reports from the scouts in the city, a large Turkic army has already made a secret detour to the west. They must be waiting for the other two guards to send troops to help, so as to attack and kill them on the way."
Liu Ying crumpled the note in her hand and threw it hard at the door.
"How did it become like this? At this point, I can only mention it to my husband and let the auxiliary soldiers climb the wall to defend the city. In this situation, it no longer matters whether it is the main battle or the auxiliary soldiers."
"The only way is to defend Yunzhou!"
Lingbi sighed silently.
"Miss, please say something you shouldn't say. Yunzhou is in danger now!"
Lingbi's words were a bit hurtful, but Liu Ying had no intention of refuting because she knew what Lingbi said was the truth.
"Where is the old man? He, the Generalissimo of the Left Army, has disappeared for more than half a month. Yunzhou is already imminent. Why hasn't he come back yet?"
"My servant doesn't know. I heard that the old man told me to look for reinforcements half a month ago, and then he never showed up again!"
Liu Ying frowned: "Reinforcements? Where are the reinforcements now?"