Chapter 871 Moth and Fire(1/2)
The Hubu Mountain, which is a rugged with Xuzhou City, has been captured by Guan Ming.
The fall of Xuzhou seems to be today.
Guan Ming and Tong Yuanwei did not expect this battle to go so smoothly. They were like two wild dogs. They saw a person who fell to the ground with injuries. At first, they just stretched their noses and shook their wet tips and smelled them. When they were sure that this person really couldn't get up, they began to rush up and bite them and eat them wildly.
There was a sound of fighting everywhere, and Xuzhou's various cities guarding equipment, including arrows and gunpowder, were insufficient.
The troops who defended the city suffered serious losses and were no longer enough to defend the city walls. People who benefited from the new policy demolished their houses and stood on the city wall to help defend the city.
After being exploited for several years, the people finally drove Guan Ming away, then they divided the land, reduced taxes, and issued relief. They thought their lives would be better soon.
They hope to cultivate after spring. As long as they work harder and have a harvest, they can add a new piece of clothing that they have not found in a long time and give their children a meal of meat they have been greedy for a long time.
In this world, it is difficult for people to struggle to survive. This small wish seems a bit extravagant. As soon as the wish is born, it will be wiped out by the war.
They could only turn this unwillingness into roars.
"Push!"
More than a dozen people worked together to push a huge wooden beam downwards and hit a group of servants...
Inside the city wall on the east side, Zuo Mingjing was taking a group of officials to transport wood to treat the wounded.
She no longer had her usual quiet appearance, and her tone was much faster when she spoke.
"Quickly, send these woods over..."
Zuo Mingjing looked back and saw another group of wounded soldiers being sent down from the city wall. Suddenly, another rain of arrows hit. Min Zhuang, who was transporting the wounded soldiers, screamed a few times, hid under the city wall for a while before continuing to run.
After this rain of arrows, the group of people killed four people. Two stretchers were left and no one carried them. The wounded soldiers were lying on them and howled.
"Let's go carry it."
Zuo Mingjing said quickly. She didn't care about anything else for the moment. She ran to a stretcher without waiting for someone to quickly run, reached out to hold the bar, looked up and saw that Dong Xiaowan was coming from the other side.
"quick……"
Dong Xiaowan was weak and could not bear the stretcher for a while, so she had to support it. The two women tried their best to push it into the city.
Hearing another slaughter in the city, the next wave of arrows hit again. The two had to move the stretcher to the wall to avoid it for a while.
The wandering arrow kept falling into the city. A guard running up from behind was shot by an arrow on the shoulder, and blood splattered on Dong Xiaowan's face. She was so scared that tears flowed in her eyes, and she forced herself to help herself.
"Don't be afraid." Zuo Mingjing said, "After a while, we will rush over."
She turned to the two guards who followed her and said, "You carry that wounded."
"But……"
"No, but... go quickly!"
Zuo Mingjing and Dong Xiaowan struggled to pull the stretcher and wanted to leave, but there was another loud bang, as if a huge rock hit the city wall, and broken bricks kept falling.
Dong Xiaowan fell down, and Zuo Mingjing was also taken to the ground while holding the stretcher. Looking at the city wall, she was afraid that the stray arrow would fall down again, and her face was instantly a little frightened.
"Quick! Protect the adults."
Gu Hengbo reacted very quickly on the other side and ordered several Minzhuang to put down the wood and carry the stretcher away. She happened to arrive and help Zuo Mingjing and Dong Xiaowan up and pull them away.
There was another bang, and a big rock hit the inside of the city wall, splashing a cloud of dust and falling down with a bang.
Zuo Mingjing didn't look back and was busy directing people to continue transporting wood. She only patted Gu Hengbo and Dong Xiaowan on the shoulders after she had time.
Then, she said to the injured guard just now: "Don't worry, you go and rest first, you don't have to tell what happened just now."
While busy, Gu Hengbo looked at the guard's face was nervous and thought that this was probably sent by the Duke to protect Lord Zuo. Lord Zuo must be afraid that they would be punished, so he said, "Don't say it out." It made people envious.
Seeing a fast horse coming from the south again, he shouted at the Dongcheng City Tower: "Hurry! The Nancheng is in emergency, quickly dispatch people to help prevent..."
The guard of Dongcheng was impatient, probably a soldier from the Qin family, shouted: "Damn it, how could I have anyone to be transferred?!"
After hearing this, Zuo Mingjing ordered Minzhuang to transport the wood as soon as possible and take his men to Nancheng.
She hurried to halfway through the run, and suddenly saw the people in front of her neighing, and then suddenly heard cheers in the south city.
Just as I was shocked, I suspected that the Nancheng had been broken, but someone heard someone shouting: "The Duke is here... The Duke is recovering from his injury and goes to battle himself..."
Zuo Mingjing quickly accelerated his pace and turned around the streets and alleys. He saw a group of people rushing forward, and Wang Xiao was the leader.
She stopped and stood by the street. Looking up, she saw that Wang Xiao’s face was no longer as weak as before. She wore a tassel hairpin, a crown and jade, a dragon cloud robe on her shoulders, a purple gold python belt, and a majestic armor.
"You've lost weight again..." she thought to herself.
Due to her identity, she rarely took the initiative to see him, and more often she looked at him from a distance like she pretended to be a chance encounter.
However, this time Wang Xiao turned around and caught a glimpse of her. He rode his horse over as soon as he tied the reins. When he saw her face was covered in blood, he frowned.
Wang Xiao glanced at the crowd behind Zuo Mingjing again, and saw that only two of the ten guards he sent were still behind her, and there was a look of displeasure in his eyes.
"The government office still has some official duties, so Lord Zuo will help me with it." He still struggled to speak.
"yes……"
This is not the time to say more. After Wang Xiao said a word, he ran towards the south city.
Before leaving, Wang Xiao glared at the two guards again, scaring the person to the point of being silent...
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Nancheng was the most intense attack, but as soon as Wang Xiaoqi appeared, Guan Ming's soldiers felt a little guilty.
The morale of the defenders was greatly boosted and they tried their best to drive the enemy soldiers who jumped onto the city.
The Duke of the State appeared, the siege of the southern city was temporarily untied, and cheers were heard on the top of the city.
Zhang Duan, who was supervising food inside the city wall, was so angry that he trembled all over.
——Okay, Wang Xiao, I see you are clearly good at this, but you don’t come out earlier. If you come out earlier, Guan Ming might have withdrew his troops. Now that the war has been fighting for so long, Xuzhou is about to be broken. Guan Ming’s eyes are red. What’s the use of your fucking come out?!
I am going to be killed by you. I have been studying hard for a long time in my life and I have been full of knowledge, but you are going to kill me.
Zhang Duan thought he was going to die in Xuzhou, and was extremely sad and angry, but at this time he was also angry. He lifted his official robe and ran to the top of the city and stood straight in front of Wang Xiao.
With a clasped his fists, Zhang Duan said, "The lower official has a few advice to the Duke."
"I know what you want to say, I don't have time to listen." Wang smiled, "Go down and do things and look forward to the long term."
With a wave of his hand, the two personal soldiers behind him stepped forward, raised Zhang Duan and carried the other party aside.
Wang Xiao really knows what Zhang Duan wants to say.
——The battle has reached this point. Even if he appears, Guan Ming is unwilling to retreat easily. Who would have to lose the meat that he is about to get?
But Wang Xiao dared to show up because he knew this, so as not to scare Guan Ming away in advance.
Because of this game of chess, his opponent was Zheng Yuanhua, and only Zheng Yuanhua. As for other people, such as Chen Bao, Guan Ming, Tong Yuanwei, etc., they are just chess pieces.
Although he had not met Zheng Yuanhua this time, he had already talked to each other many times.
"You want to break the Yellow River and flood Shandong?"
"You want to use yourself and the King of Qi as bait to delay my time?"
"Yes, then that's it. Don't rush to break the Yellow River. Let's see if Guan Ming can get rid of me and King Qi. How about it?"
"It's not impossible, but it depends on how many opportunities you can give Guan Ming."
"I can give him a lot of opportunities."
"Put your neck under his knife?"
"Can."
"Crazy, if you don't die, I will still be able to flood Shandong."
"Since I'm going to delay your time, there's a way to stop you."
"Ha, since I can promise you to see it first, there are naturally ways to prevent you from stopping this matter..."
Wang Xiao closed his eyes, as if he could see Zheng Yuanhua sitting in front of him playing chess with him. The old man picked up the black chess and pointed to the two corners of the chessboard.
"Then is Kaifeng, this is Xuzhou."
Zheng Yuanhua finally put the black chess in one corner and said, "This is Guan Ming, I'm surrounded by him. If you dare to eat him, I will eat the big dragon in Kaifeng."
Wang Xiao picked up a white piece, landed it on another corner, and said, "I will guard Kaifeng first."
"I saw it."
Wang Xiao picked up another white chess and gently tapped the black piece that Zheng Yuanhua had just fallen, and a crisp sound happened, as if he was knocking on Guan Ming's head.
"Guan Ming, Guan Ming, you don't have much time..."
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Guan Qingshi was annoyed.
I thought I would definitely be able to conquer Xuzhou today, but I didn't expect that Wang Xiao suddenly appeared in the afternoon. The morale of the Xuzhou defenders was greatly boosted, but he still defeated his plan.
If Wang Xiao came out from the beginning, he might be worried about conspiracy, and it would be possible to wait and see or withdraw the troops.
Now, the battle has reached this point. Xuzhou has become the last of its strength, there are no soldiers or supplies, and it is useless for Wang Xiao to show up. He is not a god. Can he really defend Xuzhou?
That is, Wang Xiao suddenly appears today and can cheer up his morale and intimidate his army's morale. When he attacks the city tomorrow, as long as there is no change, Xuzhou will definitely win!
Guan Ming knew that Dong Yuanwei followed behind his butt and wanted to pick up shit and eat it.
Do you still don’t know what kind of person Tong Yuanwei is? You just want to wait until you fight with Wang Xiao and then pick peaches.
But no matter how clear it is, there is nothing we can do. After Taierzhuang's strength was greatly damaged in the battle, even its territory was lost. What else can we do?
It’s not too late to take the opportunity to strangle Wang Xiao to death first, and then slowly deal with Tong Yuanwei.
Fortunately, Tong Yuanwei is easier to deal with than Wang Xiao. As long as he gets the benefits, he doesn't have to destroy himself.
To be continued...