Step on a branch

Chapter 316 Blood Is Slowly Cold

The letter of persuasion to surrender has been sent, and the words that should be shouted are also shouted to the soldiers on the city. Feng Zhong waved his hand, and the army retreated in an orderly manner.

Lin Fan drove the horse and walked beside Feng Zhong.

General Feng stroked his beard and asked Lin Fan, "In your opinion, how long will it take for Yu Bai to figure it out?"

Lin Fan smiled and said, "If he's a jerk, he'll burn the letter when he goes back, and he'll fight us to the end."

When Feng Zhong heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry.

This kid is really...

Talk to him seriously, but he made a joke.

Having said that, it was precisely because of Lin Fan's temperament that he was calm in the face of danger just before the battle, and he didn't even try to hide from the flying arrows coming towards him.

Joking aside, Lin Fan also answered Feng Zhong's question seriously.

"Yu Bai won't be too twisted," Lin Fan said. "If he was a screwed-up brain, Li Jie wouldn't write a letter to persuade him to surrender."

"That's true." Feng Zhong agreed with this.

It really doesn't make sense, what is Li Jie doing with all his energy?
Tell them directly that if you don't enter the Yubai oil salt, there is no other way but to smash it to death, and that's fine.

"In my opinion, half a month at most," Lin Fan explained seeing Feng Zhong looking at him, "According to the information we got earlier, the Xiliang court only wanted to stay in their small capital, and it was not important to rescue Xizhou City." Positive, no matter how passionate Yu Bo is, he will inevitably be disappointed if he waits for rescue.”

After hearing this, Feng Zhong took it for granted.

If he was a general defending the city, facing the enemy's approaching the city and the imperial court's disregard, he would become irritable and then discouraged.

The blood is slowly cooling.

Looking at a friend's persuasion letter today, and looking at it in a predicament some time later, the experience and feelings are completely different.

"Ban Yue, is it too late..." Feng Zhong muttered.

After all, it is an important city like Xizhou, and it is already a very good result to win it with less bloodshed and less sacrifice within half a month.

However, they still have imperial edicts on their heads.

Who wouldn't want to be faster, faster?
However, I really hope that Yu Bai will open the city gates and hand over the city to Da Zhou with the words "Li Jie is right", "the villain in the court is annoying", and "I quit". Also too naive.

How can there be such a good thing in the world?

Feng Zhong and Lin Fan said: "We still follow the previous plan and spend more time outside Xizhou City in the past few days to put enough pressure on them."

Lin Fan agreed.

Leading the troops back to the garrison, Mao Gu'an greeted him.

"I haven't found the whereabouts of Commander Miao," General Mao said. "I asked the Xiliang soldiers who were captured, but he wasn't among them. The body that was collected before didn't seem to be that big. I guess it was a person who was afraid of death." Yes, when I saw that the situation was not good, I turned around and ran away."

Lin Fan was not surprised by this result.

That Governor Miao has a dark heart, how could he advance and retreat with Su Zhi?

He is only afraid that he cannot run fast enough.

On the other side, in Xizhou City, in the mansion, Yu Bai was seriously reading Li Jie's personal letter.

He regarded this letter as a distress letter from Li Jie to him.

The persuasion to capitulate is only superficial. In order to deceive the Zhou people, there must be some tricks in it, hiding Li Jie's true thoughts.

Hide?

Canao?

Before and after?

Yu Bai flipped through several pieces of letter paper countless times.

On the desk, the tea was already cold, but Yu Bai still got nothing.

Could this really be a letter of persuasion?

Thinking of this, anger surged into my heart instantly.

Li Jie, how could he do this!
Li Jie knows exactly how important Xizhou City is.

And after successive defeats, Xizhou will also be in turmoil. Li Jie must know how difficult it is for Yu Bai to defend the city.

However, Li Jie still gave him a "fatal blow" at this time.

The words that Lin Fan yelled before under the city brought much impact to the soldiers, and as the news was uploaded from the city wall to other defenders, and then spread throughout the entire Xizhou City, the impact also spread. go.

How can this be kept!
Yu Bai was so angry that his whole body was trembling, his eyes almost burned holes in the letter paper.

From beginning to end, he gritted his teeth and read Li Jie's letter.

While reading, while cursing.

After reading it for the third time, Yu Bo couldn't stop cursing, his shoulders and fingers were still trembling violently.

In Li Jie's letter, he read helplessness, sadness, and pain.

When he stopped reading the letter with "resentment", the emotions in Li Jie's words, like streams flowing into small rivers and then into large rivers, rolled towards him.

Just because he is a good friend, Yu Bai knows Li Jie very well, so he can understand the struggle after each word.

The melted ink on the letter is Li Jie's tears and Li Jie's blood!

孽 孽!
Those villains in the court are really guilty!

He actually forced a loyal man like Li Jie into despair about the future of Daliang.

Your Majesty, how could your Majesty let those villains...

Yu Bai thumped the desk heavily.

The soldiers guarding outside heard the commotion inside and raised their voice in fright, "General, what happened?"

Yu Bai tightly clenched his fists, suppressed his temper, and said, "Is there any news from Beijing?"

The soldier said: "Not yet."

Yu Bai put the letter back into the envelope, stuffed it in front of his chest, and strode out: "Let's go up to the city wall and have a look."

Dark night.

No cloud or moon, just a few faint stars.

On the city wall, the brazier is burning brightly.

Yu Bai looked in the direction of the Zhou camp, and the brazier and torches outlined the entire camp.

The camp is large enough to see the strength of the Zhou people.

Yu Bai circled around the west wall again, facing the capital.

You can't see the capital here, and the only thing you can enter is a large area of ​​black.

Just as he was about to turn around, suddenly, something moved in his sight.

Yu Bai stared wide-eyed, and searched in the dark earnestly, only to see a fast horse heading straight for Xizhou City.

"Look quickly," Yu Bai said joyfully, pointing at the horse, "there must be news from Beijing."

On the city wall, the defenders all looked at the horse when they heard the sound.

The horse was getting closer and closer to the city wall, and then the man on the horse lit a torch, and he waved it to signal.

Confirming that it was his own, Yu Bai ordered the guards to open the city gate.

The gate of the city was only opened a crack, and when the people entered the city one at a time, it was quickly closed again.

Yu Bai followed the steps, hurriedly descended the city wall, and saw someone coming by the city gate: "What should I say?"

"The emperor asked the general to guard Xizhou City and try his best to stop the speed of the Zhou people's westward advance," the man said, "the longer the stop, the better."

These few sentences are high-sounding nonsense.

Yu Bo asked again: "When will there be reinforcements? Who in Beijing will lead troops to rescue? Is there anyone to cut off the supplies of the Zhou people?"

These issues, he wrote clearly in the letter.

The man was weeping.

This expression has already given Yu Bai the answer.

"Do you really want me to stand firm in Beijing?" Yu Bai asked with a trembling voice.

The man said: "Yes, yes, we will dispatch as soon as possible..."

Yu Bai stomped his feet heavily.

Schedule ASAP.

I'm afraid that he has eaten all the food and grass in Xizhou City, and he hasn't dispatched the capital city yet!
　There are more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)