Princess Nankang asked, "Did you return the three counties in Brazil? What would he ask you to help him?"

"He begged me to send troops and pretended to counterattack Nanyang, claiming to be the one who would pass through Wuguan to attack Xianyang."

Princess Nankang knew about Pu Qin's invasion of Dingxi, frowned and said, "Xin Agua is trying to surround Wei and save Zhao."

Huan Meng stretched out his thumb and praised: "The princess is wise!"

"What do you think? Help him or not?"

Huan Meng said, "Although Agua is cunning and coaxing me several times, at least I have a covenant with him. I promised him not to trust him, but I cannot break my trust. This is one of them. Di Qin successively destroyed Xianbei and Jie Hu one after another. Now it is all over the northern part, and only a corner of Dingxi is left, and it is still a fight. If Dingxi is destroyed by Pu Qin, then Pu Mao's momentum will be difficult to control. I will restore the Central Plains and restore the old capital. This is the second thing, so I will still help him."

In addition to two reasons, there is actually a third reason.

Even in the fight against the Yangzhou soldiers and the Yuzhou soldiers, the existence of Xin Er will also be helpful to Huan Meng.

However, these three reasons involved the court and the emperor. Princess Nakang was the princess of the Cheng family, so she could not say this clearly to her.

Even though Huan Meng didn't say it, how could Princess Nankang not know?

Princess Nankang curled her lips and sneered twice, her eyes looked like a sword, and she looked at Huan Meng, saying, "I'm afraid it's more than these two reasons?"

Huan Meng pretended to be confused and said, "Do you have to do other reasons? I dare to ask the princess to make it clear!"

Princess Nankang flirted with her gauze nightgown, turned over and fell asleep, exposed her back and Huan Meng, and said, "Old slave! I don't care whether you have any reasons. Since I have decided to help Agua, then you can do it early. It's best to do it now! It won't be possible for you to go around and let me get into trouble."

Huan Meng heard the dissatisfaction in Princess Nankang's words, so he would not take her words seriously. He really went to handle the matter now. Then he lingered at Xin Er's letter, put down the letter, walked to the bed, gritted his teeth, and said, "I promised tonight, the princess, how could I ruin the princess' mood because of all the official chores!"

Going to the bed, he reached out to hold Princess Nankang.

The next morning, Huan Meng ordered his troops to send troops and wrote a letter to the court.

With Huan Ruo as the main general, several wise men from the governor's office were appointed to assist him, and a total of 10,000 troops were sent. The next day, he set up camp and set up a camp and attacked Nanyang in the north.

...

On the day when Huan Ruo led his troops to set off, Longxi County and Xiangwu City.

That morning, Tang Ai summoned the generals again.

The place where the generals were summoned this time was not in the prefecture, but on the city tower of the East City Wall.

Yesterday, the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, the Qin army continued to attack for three consecutive days.

The traces of Xin'er's troops were rarely found in these days. Only yesterday afternoon when the Qin army attacked the city, Tang Ai and others saw a mysterious armored cavalry appearing far west of the city, but did not attack the Qin army in the west of the city. They just watched from a distance and retreated.

According to the plan, Xin Er first released a rumor, saying that he would join forces with Qu Shuang to attack Murong Zhan and Di Dao to lure Tian Kan to pursue them, but Tian Kan did not pursue them. So Xin Er led his troops back to Xiangwu Zhoujin. The Xuan Armored Cavalry that Tang Ai and others saw yesterday afternoon was sent by Xin Er to the west of Xiangwu City after returning to Xiangwu. The Xuan Armored Cavalry was not the main force, but a "army that lures the enemy". Xin Er's purpose was to lure the Qin soldiers to chase them, but the Qin soldiers were still not deceived and ignored them. Xin Er could not find the fighter's plane, so he had to ask them to retreat.

Tang Ai and others certainly don’t know the details about this.

However, with Tang Ai's intelligence, it is roughly possible to guess Xin Er's dilemma at this time.

Needless to say more.

He only said that Tang Ai summoned all the generals and when they arrived, his eyes fell on Wei Xian and asked, "Medical King, can you still fight?"

Wei Xian had several gauze wrapped around his face and body, and his speech was still leaking. Although his mind was strong, he replied: "Although the injury has not been healed, he can fight!"

"Okay! The Medicine King, you are so brave! Since you are worthy of the battle, the three hundred elite soldiers I picked out in advance have not participated in defending the city these days. They have enough elite animals to raise their own talents, so they have appointed you to ambush the hidden soldiers on the three sides of the wall of the city wall of the city. Today, you will be the main attack."

Wei Xian replied: "Promise!"

Tang Ai turned to Qu Zhang and asked, "Mr. Qu, are all the stone lipids ready?"

Qu Zhang replied: "It's ready!"

Seeing that he was hesitant, Tang Ai asked, "What do you have any doubts?"

Qu Zhang said: "Ming Gong, except for the spare stone fat that is available today, there is not much stone fat left."

Tang Ai waved his fan and said with a smile: "This battle can bring the Qin captains to fear and despair. There is not much stone fat left, so it doesn't matter."

The Qin army surrounded Xiangwu and attacked fiercely day and night, standing on the city tower. Now looking around, there were broken bodies and broken arms around the foot of the city, and the blood dyed the ground black and red. In the distance, the high trenches built by the Qin army and the deep trenches dug. At this moment, the Qin army was preparing to attack the city today. The Qin army, with about 20,000 people, drove from the gate of Gaoli to the west, south and east of Xiangwu City, with flags like forests and drums and horns like thunder. The Qin army in white military uniforms was continuous, like endless, with shocking momentum.

Even Qu Zhang, a veteran who has been through the battlefield for a long time, was still shocked when he saw this situation.

Tang Ai, a scholar, was calm and composed, and not just today. Since the city was surrounded, he has been so calm. Qu Zhang couldn't help but admire him in his heart!

Qu Zhang admires Tang Ai, and Wei Xian also admires him.

Tang Ai praised Wei Xian for being a savage, but in Wei Xian's view, Tang Ai was really an savage, not only an savage, but also a savage trick. In fact, it is precisely because of the main generals like Tang Ai that warriors like Wei Xian will become more and more brave as they fight.

His wife Qi Tong, who was sitting by Tang Ai's bed playing the piano, sometimes raised her eyes and looked at Tang Ai in white clothes and feather fan. Like Qu Zhang and Wei Xian, her eyes were full of admiration.

The performances of Qu Zhang, Wei Xian, Qi Tong and others fell into Tang Ai's eyes.

"Am I really not afraid?" While arranging military affairs, this idea passed through Tang Ai's mind.

He thought, "What I seek is not fame, wealth and honor, life and death are like a cloud of misfortune!"

It is said that: "For sacrifice, one will have more ambitions, and dare to change the sun and the moon to a new sky." If a person's pursuit is fame and fortune, and is a personal enjoyment, then when he encounters danger, he will definitely be afraid, timid, and run away from his life; but if a person's pursuit is for ideals and ambitions, then when he encounters danger, he will be determined and indomitable.

Tang Ai's gaze raised, looking out of the city, looking at Qin soldiers who were advancing under the city, with a silk of contempt that was not easy to be noticed, he gently shook the white feather fan and thought to himself: "Although Qin's captains are rampant, why am I afraid!"

At Chen, the Qin army had already completed its formation.

The noisy outside the city became slightly quieter.

The air had not been quiet for too long, and the sound of drums and horns of the central Qin army rang out.

The drum beats range from slow to fast, and the horn sounds range from low to high.

This is Pu Mao’s order to start siege today.

...

When the offensive is together, it is like a rush of overwhelming seas.

Pu Mao climbed to the east highland of the city and watched the battle himself.

In the east and south of the city, large mounds higher than the top of the city were formed. The top of the mound was flat, and more than a thousand Qin army crossbowmen were lined up. With the catapult carts casting stones on the city, more than two thousand Qin army crossbowmen shot arrows on the city. In the siege formations under the city, there were also crossbowmen in each of them, arranged behind the infantry, and at almost the same time, they also shot arrows on the city.

Arrows and stones are like rain.

Or come down from the city or from the opposite side.

In the words of later generations, this can be regarded as a three-dimensional blow.

The guards have great experience in hiding. Some put their shields together to form a shield formation, and people hide under the shield; some lean over to the edge of the mercer and try to curl up as much as possible.

The stones hit the city, and they rolled in a mess, and the stone chips splashed.

Arrows were like locusts, and they were shot densely at the top of the city. The shield was filled with arrows in an instant; the gap between the tiles and bricks on the walls were also filled with falling arrows; more Qin arrows fell on the walls. Sometimes, some guards were shot by arrows, scratched, and slightly injured, and kept silent; those who were shot into the vital points, although the pain was unbearable, most of them gritted their teeth and did not make any sound.

The military officers responsible for guarding each section of the city walls, leaning against arrows and stones, looked outwards, and observed the distance between the Qin army's infantry siege from the city wall.

After about half an hour, the arrows paused.

The Qin infantrymen who were sieging the city advanced to the foot of the city.

Looking downstairs from the east of the city, dozens of drummers gathered here by Tang Ai and Xin Er who set out from Xiangwu, left a group of drum musicians who were given to Xin Er earlier, and at this time, they beat drums and music separately.

The drums and music move.

There is no need to wait for the orders of superior officers. The officers responsible for guarding various sections of the city walls all jumped with their swords and shouted urging their troops: "Come on, fight!"

Xiangwu has been guarding the city for more than a month, and the guards have suffered a lot of casualties. Compared with the first time, the guards at the city are only about three-fifths of the guards at that time. This is the result of the strong energetic people in the city.

Although the number of soldiers has dropped sharply, under Tang Ai's careful care, his morale is still not low.

The guards on the three walls of the East City, South City, and West City either spread out from the shield or jumped up from the squadrons. Some held spears and knives to guard the squadrons, some used various types of guardians, and some called the civilians to come up and carried away the seriously injured and shot to death by arrows.

...

This time, the Qin army attacked the city. The main generals of the Qin army on the east, south and west of the city were Tongshiliang, Zhishenjin and Lu Ming.

The main attack direction is the same as the previous two days, so I chose to go to the south of the city where three or four small sections of the city walls were broken before and after.

Recalling the mood of Pu Mao when he deployed today's siege war last night before the war, Zhi Shenjin cheered up and made a secret decision: "No matter what today, I will also defeat the south of the city! To solve the king's urgent need."

Last night, after deploying today's siege arrangements, Pu Mao said this: "Sweeping the northern land alone, and winning over several capitals, like pulling weak grass. Even when fighting Luoyang and Ye County, it was not as sad as fighting Xiangwu today! Can the small city in Xiangwu stop my royal army? Is it impossible for my great Qin Tianrong to spread the favor in Long?"

Although it seems to be just a feeling, Zhi Shenjin can still hear the meaning of being eager to win.

Four or five cloud ladders were built one after another.

Zhi Shenjin drew his sword in his hand and ordered in a deep voice: "Siege the city!"
Chapter completed!