Sun Shangxiang went on a hunger strike in recent days because she only ate meals prepared by Liu Cong. Liu Cong had to use limited ingredients and condiments to cook various delicacies for Sun Shangxiang in various ways.
Under the pavilion in Sun Shangxiang's courtyard, Liu Cong and Sun Shangxiang sat opposite each other. Behind Sun Shangxiang were two maids.
"How come you cook so many delicious foods?" Sun Shangxiang asked curiously while eating happily.
Liu Cong smiled: "I was taught by an immortal in my dream."
Sun Shangxiang rolled his eyes at him: "Didn't you say that the gentleman is far away from the kitchen? What do you think?"
"The gentleman stayed away from the kitchen. Mencius advised King Xuan of Qi to implement benevolent government. The gentleman stayed away from the kitchen because he couldn't bear to kill."
After saying that, Liu Cong suddenly stared at Sun Shangxiang seriously and said, "Besides, if I can do this and cook for you for the rest of my life, I also think it is a very beautiful thing. It would be great if we could stay in this small courtyard for the rest of our lives.
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Sun Shangxiang's pretty face turned red when he stared at her. After listening to Liu Cong's words, her face turned red. She could only lower her head and not look at him, muttering: "Why are you talking about this..."
Sun Shangxiang had never heard such sweet words before. Liu Cong saw the shy look without any pretense, and couldn't help but said: "Hibiscus comes out of clear water, and it is naturally carved. Xiangxiang, you are so beautiful."
After getting along for a few days, Liu Cong was so shameless that he started calling Sun Shangxiangxiangxiang.
"Lord, Mr. Liu wants to see you." When Liu Cong wanted to flirt with Sun Shangxiang again, Xu Feng came in and reported.
Liu Cong sighed helplessly: "Please come in quickly."
Liu Ba came in and saw Liu Cong and Sun Shangxiang. He was used to Liu Cong running to Sun Shangxiang these days. So now he was looking for Liu Cong and came directly here: "I pay my respects to my lord, and I have met Miss Sun."
Liu Cong nodded: "Zichu, what's the matter?" Men love to show off in front of beautiful women, especially the ones they like.
Normally Liu Cong would definitely tell Liu Ba that this was not necessary, but in front of Sun Shangxiang, he would show his majesty as a master!
Liu Ba continued: "Zhou Yu attacked. Yesterday, Huang Zuzhen came to report that Zhou Yu led an army of 40,000 to surround E County."
Sun Shangxiang trembled when he heard this. Liu Cong glanced at him distressedly and said, "Always pay attention and act according to the plan."
Liu Ba bowed and said, "No," and then left.
"How about I go back now?" Sun Shangxiang raised his head and looked at Liu Cong.
Liu Cong shook his head: "Your brother and Zhou Yu are more passionate about Jiang Xia and their interests. If it was useful for me to let you go back, I would have let you go long ago."
Sun Shangxiang looked at Liu Cong worriedly and said, "Then go back to Xiangyang, okay?"
Liu Cong looked at her worried eyes, full of love and pity, walked to her and asked: "Are you afraid that your brother will catch me?"
Sun Shangxiang said duplicity: "I don't have it."
Liu Cong bent down, held up Sun Shangxiang's face, looked at her blushing face and said: "Fool, don't worry, I will take care of everything, don't worry."
After saying that, he kissed Sun Shangxiang gently on her forehead, then pinched her cheek and left under the stunned eyes of the master and servant.
After Liu Cong left, Yue'er imitated Liu Cong's tone and said: "Hibiscus comes out of clear water, naturally carved and fragrant. You are so beautiful."
Ping'er pinched Sun Shangxiang's face, which had not yet recovered, and said, "Fool, don't worry, I'll take care of everything, don't worry."
The two of them grew up together. They are said to be masters and servants, but in fact they are sisters. This is not the first time that they have been fighting like this.
Sun Shangxiang came back to his senses and said angrily, "You, you guys..."
"Hahaha..." The two of them laughed, stroking their bellies.
Sun Shangxiang said angrily, "Stop laughing. If you laugh again, I'll punish you by depriving you of food."
This trick was indeed effective, and the two of them stopped laughing. In the past few days, they had followed Sun Shangxiang and ate the meals cooked by Liu Cong. They had long been accustomed to it, and they didn't want to eat the same meals again.
Sun Shangxiang said slowly: "Sit down and eat with me."
After the two sat down, Sun Shangxiang asked again: "Do you think my brother will hit Jiang Xia? Will he be caught by his brother?"
Yue'er reluctantly let go of the drumstick in her mouth and said, "It shouldn't be possible. Marquis Wu has beaten Jiang Xia several times, but he hasn't beaten him down yet, hasn't he?"
Ping'er bit her chopsticks and said: "That's right, that's right, even if Mr. Liu is really captured by our Jiangdong, Miss, can you just ask him for a favor? The old lady and Wu Hou love you so much, they will definitely not refuse to agree.
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Yue'er bit the chicken leg and said vaguely: "Yes, yes..."
Sun Shangxiang looked at these two foodies and sighed without saying anything else.
In E County, Zhou Yu led 40,000 people to surround E County. The Jiangdong army, with purple flags and armor, looked quite powerful. After resting for a day, Zhou Yu prepared to attack the city the next day.
The city of E County is two feet high (about 6.5 meters). Huang Zu, wearing armor, stood at the top of the city. Looking at the Jiangdong army outside the city, he spat: "Jiangdong army is fighting on land? Haha, I would still be a little afraid if Sun Ce were alive. Now
Well……"
After saying this, Huang Zu still asked Chen Jiu: "How are the preparations going?"
Chen was a general under Huang Zu's command. When he heard Huang Zu's question, he immediately replied: "The rolling logs, stones, and gold juice are all ready. There are 800 soldiers on each of the four walls. The remaining 1,500 people are ready, and 300 people are ready."
I’ll go with the young master to handle the matters assigned by the military advisor.”
Huang Zu nodded: "Yes, how long do you think we can hold it?"
Chen Jiudao: "It depends on the strength of Zhou Yu's attack, but the Jiangdong navy is not good at attacking, maybe we can hold it for ten days and a half, right?"
Huang Zu smiled and said nothing. At this time, Huang She led 200 people to the top of the city, followed by Deng Long and Zhang Wu. Huang Zu was worried about his son's safety, so he sent two generals under his command to protect Huang She.
"Father." Huang She saluted Huang Zu when he saw him.
After Liu Cong beat him up that day, Huang She seemed to be really sensible.
Huang Zu scolded: "Didn't I ask you to do the things assigned by the military advisor? Who asked you to go to the top of the city?"
Huang Zu was still worried about his son's safety. Huang She, who was also wearing armor, looked at the Jiangdong army's formation outside the city. Although he was trembling a little, he still said: "Father, I have finished what the military advisor told me. I want to go to the city to kill the enemy.
I want to make great achievements and bring glory to our family."
It seemed like it was the first day Huang Zu met this son, and he patted his head: "Good boy, follow dad in a moment, be careful."
"Hey." Huang She grinned.
Outside the city, Wu Jun's horn sounded, and more than 30,000 troops had gathered. Huang Gai looked at the head of E County and asked: "Captain, how should we fight?"
Han Dang next to him said: "Of course we captured it in one go."
Zhou Yu chuckled: "Two veteran generals, please be patient. I won't bother you two this time. Let my Jiangdong juniors practice and practice."
After saying that, Zhou Yu's eyes narrowed, "Jiang Qin, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, Ling Tong, Dong Xi, Chen Wu, Pan Zhang."
When several people heard Zhou Yu's call, they immediately rode their horses to the front of the formation and cupped their hands.
Zhou Yu spoke slowly: "Eight of you, each commanding 4,000 people, are divided into two groups of four, and take turns to attack the city! The city must be conquered within one day!"
"No!" The generals took the order and rode away.
At this time, there was no talk of wheel warfare, but Zhou Yu took advantage of his own military strength and made reasonable deployments, basically making full use of the army!
"The two veteran generals each lead 2,000 men. If the enemy forces in the city break through, the pursuit will be left to the two veteran generals!"
Zhou Yu didn't care who was guarding the city in a mere small county. Perhaps in his opinion, such a city guard could not catch his eye.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom! Boom!
As the war drums of the Wu army became more and more urgent, the Wu army began to charge towards the city wall. They pushed cloud carts, well carts, and pulled ladders, and quickly approached the city wall. The soldiers in the rear team, holding crossbows, fired arrows towards the city head!
Stretch! The sound of many bowstrings sounded. Phew! Then countless arrows flew towards the city!
Huang Zu shouted: "Raise your shield to resist the enemy!"
Huang She stood there watching this scene, his calves trembling, and he stayed there motionless.
Just like someone who was trembling uncontrollably when he gave a speech for the first time, Huang She was on the battlefield for the first time and was frightened.
Huang Zu had quick eyes and quick hands. He kicked him to the ground and lay on top of him. The soldiers around him held up their shields to protect him.
Huang Zu slapped Huang She hard and shouted loudly: "You don't want your life?"
Huang She seemed to wake up from shame: "Father, I..."
Huang Zu patted his son's face and said, "Don't be nervous. It's my first time on the battlefield. My father did it the same way. You have to have quick eyes and quick hands. It's not difficult to kill people with a knife."
After several rounds of arrows, the Wu army had already approached the city wall and descended.
"Put up a ladder!"
"Get on the cloud car!"
"Battering ram, hit the door!"
Huang Zu stood up and looked at Wu Jun who started to climb the city wall, and ordered: "Fight back, fight back!"
"Shoot arrows, roll wood and stones, and pour gold juice!"
The surrounding sergeants put down their shields, picked up their bows and crossbows to fight back, and began to knock down the ladders.
Wu Jun's well cart was also pushed closer. The well cart was almost as high as the city wall. The crossbowmen on the well cart kept firing arrows towards the top of the city!
The most primitive cruelty of mankind's cold weapons attack is vividly reflected at this moment, and people die every moment.
"Ah!" Huang She grabbed a Wu soldier who had climbed up to the top of the city and chopped him off several times with his knife.
"Young Master, well done." Deng Long and Zhang Wu beside them were also covered in blood.
Huang She came back to his senses, looked at the bloody mess in front of him, and began to vomit.
Zhou Yu waved his hand, and the flag bearer behind him waved the flag.
"Ming Jin withdraws his troops!"
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Except for the well chariots, cloud chariots and other siege equipment that were pushed closer to the city wall, the Wu army retreated.
"The Wu army has retreated, Governor, the Wu army has retreated." Chen Zu shouted hoarsely.
Huang Zu looked at Wu Jun who was retreating coldly: "Go and see how our casualties are?"
Chen then went to do statistics and came back in about two seconds: "General, we have more than a thousand dead and more than a thousand injured."
Huang Zu's heart trembled, but on the first day of attacking the city, the casualties were so high?
"Boom!" "Boom!"
The dull horn continued to sound, and the war drum was beaten again.
The second wave of Wu's army, consisting of 16,000 troops, attacked the city again without giving the defenders any chance to breathe.
Huang Zu looked at Wu Jun who was charging towards the city again, sighed, and said helplessly: "Who wants to stay?"
Chen Jiu, Chen Sun, and others all said in unison: "I'll stay!"
Chen scolded: "You all have families, I'm a bachelor, why are you fighting with me?"
Huang Zu looked at this scene and said nothing. He went up to hug Chen Jiu and said, "Brother, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
Chen Jiu grinned: "General, please go back to Jiangxia and report to the young master. Tell him that our sons in Jiangxia have no soft bones!"
Huang Zu stared at him for a long time, patted him on the shoulder, turned around and ordered: "Stay the wounded soldier, while the others wait, follow me and leave!"
Huang Zu led less than 3,000 people straight to the tunnel dug in the county government. At the other end of the tunnel was the woods outside the city, and to the south were the mountains.
According to Pang Tong's strategy, he wanted to escape with as much strength as possible to prepare for future counterattacks. Defending the city was not the focus.
"Dad, there are more than a thousand brothers. They are all injured and they are still fighting on the top of the city. Why do we have to run?" Huang She asked Huang Zu this question for an unknown number of times along the way.
Huang Zu finally came to his senses and yelled at him: "If you don't run, we will all die there. If you run, you can survive and you can take revenge. She'er, please remember this for me. Compassion does not command troops, you
Do you understand? Ah?"
Huang She sat down on the ground and started to cry loudly: "I don't understand, I don't understand. The bodyguard next to me was as old as me, and he died like that."
Huang Zu looked at it coldly and gave Zhang Wu a look. Zhang Wu pulled out the scabbard and knocked Huang Zu out, and everyone picked him up and continued to flee.