Cangzhou beacon fire

Chapter 14
Three days later, Fengshui City was sunny.

The [-]-yue army in the city was already ready to go, and Zhong Lin stood on the tower, gazing into the distance.

Xia Houyin, who was beside him, had a serious face and didn't make a sound.

At this time, a cloud of dust was approaching from the north and the west, and Zhong Lin knew that it was the return of the scouts.

The scouts who came back from the west arrived at the city first: "Report, there is dust and smoke in the black wood forest in the west, and the specific enemy situation cannot be detected."

Zhong Lin did not respond, he was waiting for the northern scouts to arrive.

After the northern scouts arrived, they immediately reported the military situation: "Report, Qi Sheng from Enshui City in the north is leading an army of [-] yuan and [-] yuan troops heading here, and it is expected to arrive in two hours."

Xia Houyin was a little worried, and stepped forward and said: "General, how could there be enemy troops in the west? Fan Yi's troops are all restrained in the territory to deal with the bandits, so it is impossible to appear here."

"Hmph, it's just a bluff."

"Don't be careless, if it's really Fan Yi's army, it will be troublesome." Xia Houyin's character is still more cautious.

Zhong Lin waved his hand towards the city, signaling to the scouts to probe again, and then sneered, "If Fan Yi really comes, we will guard Fengshui City, and we won't be afraid of their joining forces!" There are only [-] troops in total, and there are [-] troops in Fengshui City, so defending the city is not a problem at all.

At noon, with the scorching sun in the sky, Zhong Lin and Xia Houyin returned to the city tower after having lunch.

The dust and smoke in the west was becoming more and more obvious, Xia Houyin couldn't help being startled, such a big dust and smoke, there really was a large army coming.

"General, it seems that Fan Yi's troops are really here!" Xia Houyin said.

Zhong Lin was still calm, and said to himself: "Don't worry, it's better if Fan Yi's troops come, and clean up at once, and there will be no obstacles for us to take back Jinxi."

At this time, another scout from the north galloped back, and shouted loudly at the foot of the city: "Qi Sheng's army stopped at fifty li, and did not advance any further."

Zhong Lin frowned, years of battlefield intuition reminded him that something was wrong.

Seeing Zhong Lin's brows furrowed, Xia Houyin shouted to the scouts below the city: "Go and scout again!"

The cavalry had to rein in their horses and run north again.

The dust and smoke from the west rose all over the sky, and Zhong Lin's expression on the tower gradually became ugly.

When the troops from the west came ten miles away, Zhong Lin's calm expression had long since disappeared, replaced by a serious and tense expression.

"It seems that there aren't many cavalry?" Xia Houyin asked doubtfully as he shaded the sun with his hands.

Zhong Lin's face changed drastically. He frowned and looked at the enemy troops approaching the city to the west. He could vaguely see the phantom in the dust and smoke. The cavalry on horseback must be higher than the infantry. However, the dust and smoke The virtual shadows are basically in a line, and there are very few ghost shadows that are higher than it.

How could there be no cavalry?what's the situation?Zhong Lin was thinking hard, pondering various answers in his mind.

After a while, his pupils constricted suddenly, and cold sweat broke out instantly.

"General, what's the matter?" Seeing Zhong Lin's expression, Xia Houyin stepped forward and asked.

"I'm afraid the enemy coming from the west is not under Sanyuan Fan Yi's department."

The troops to the west stopped ten miles away.

"Brother, in front is Fengshui City of the Sanyuan Army, where food is stored. If you capture him, we will have something to eat!" The only three riders in the army, the middle-aged man with a thin face and narrow eyes on the left came to the middle The leader said sideways.

"Okay! Order the army to attack the city, and if you take this city, you will have a base!" The leader in the middle is about 45 years old, with a big face, broad forehead, and a strong figure. He is the head of the family Rongtai.As soon as he heard that there was food in the city, a ferocious smile appeared on his face.

There are three groups of resistance forces in Sanyuan, all of which are caused by the spread of the plague. Among them, the Asada Army led by Rongtai has the largest force, with more than 3 troops, and then the White Bandit Army of Xiayan, with more than 2 troops. The strength is Qi Jing's Hechi Army, only more than [-].

Knowing that Sanyuan Fanyi's suppressing army is coming soon, the three groups of rogues merged into one after negotiation, Rongtai with the largest number of people will be the leader, and Xiayan Qijing will be the second and third leader, collectively known as the Qianhe Rebel Army.

The head of the family, Rongtai, was just a butcher. The plague spread, and the officials in the city did not give medicine to cure the disease, and they did not open warehouses to donate food. In desperation, he led the crowd to kill the officials and robbed the city, and opened warehouses to release grain. medicine to cure disease.

This time the disease was cured, but the name of the rebellion was confirmed. Later, when the sick people heard that Rongtai had medicine and food, they all gathered here. Of course, there were also some who were dissatisfied with Sanyuan. They came forward to seek refuge, and then merged with Xiayan Qi Jing's three ways. After coming and going, an armed force rose up. Later, Fan Yi's army came to attack, they were defeated, and they abandoned the city and fled.

Because the equipment of the Qianhe army was too different from that of the Sanyuan army, they had been suppressed and beaten by the regular army led by Fan Yi. In the situation of being chased and intercepted by multiple roads, they had to retreat all the way to the east, and they arrived at Fengshui City.

To the north, Qi Sheng's Sanyuan Army stood by and waited for orders. Qi Sheng looked at the screams of killing outside Fengshui City, and said with a sneer: "Yan Yu's move is really terrific. He ordered the whole army to set up camp and start cooking. It’s not over so soon.”

At this time, Xia Houyin was organizing the Yue army to defend the city on the tower, while Zhong Lin on the side was thinking about countermeasures. One hundred thousand bandits were in front, Qi Sheng's [-] army in the north and Fan Yi's [-] army in the west were waiting.

"To drive away the tigers and devour the wolves, and to reap the benefits of being a fisherman, I never thought that there would be such an actuarial person in the Three Yuan Kingdom." Zhong Lin said to himself, he knew that there was no way out at this time, except to stick to it or stick to it.

Although the rogues had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, their armor was poor and their weapons were poor, and they did not have large siege equipment. Apart from crude bows and arrows, the siege methods were dozens of long siege ladders.
The rogues who swarmed up rushed to the bottom of the city, and the long ladder was hung on the wall, and then the soldiers climbed up the ladder first with their knives.

This simple and crude method of siege is extremely inefficient, and it is only possible to break through the city when the strength of the troops is extremely disparate. For Fengshui City, which has an army of [-] Yue, the threat is not great. The real threat is the rear. Two-way three-yuan army.

Zhong Lin picked up a sharp arrow from the ground that was shot up by the bandits from the city. The arrowhead was rough and small, obviously to save iron and stone. The arrow feathers were not feathers, but leaves or willow grass.

After looking at it for a while, Zhong Lin threw away the sharp arrow: "No wonder he was driven here by Fan Yi's [-] army."

The archers on the city took turns shooting down the city, and the pikemen guarded the position of the city wall where the gangsters hung on the long ladder. Once a gangster came up, he would be stabbed immediately.

On the long ladder, a steady stream of rogues climbed up, and a steady stream of rogues fell from above.

Those who fall down die, and those who climb up are uncertain. The battlefield is like this. Life is so insignificant that it is not as good as an ant.

The bloody and brutal siege battle soon came to an end. The corpses piled up under the city, and the survivors fled back to the headquarters in a panic.

More than half of the [-] siege troops were killed or injured, and Rong Tai panicked. Why is this small border town so tenacious?

Xia Yan and Qi Jing, the second and third leaders on both sides, were also ashen-faced.

At this moment, a rogue lieutenant general who could read a few words walked up to Rongtai and said, "Master, it doesn't seem right, the three-character flag is not hung on the city."

Rong Tai froze for a moment, looked up at the flag with the Chinese character Yue hanging high above the tower of Fengshui City, looked at it for a long time and looked at Xia Yan, the second master next to him, and said, "That...how do you write the three characters?"

When Xia Yan was asked this question, his old face turned black, and Rong Tai turned a blank look and said: "I don't know how to write one, why don't you ask me three?"

Rong Tai looked helplessly at the lieutenant again.

The deputy general gestured: "Three horizontal lines."

"It's really not three horizontal lines, so what's the word on it?"

The lieutenant general looked at the word Yue on the flag and studied it for a long time, and said with a look of embarrassment: "I don't know this word either..."

(End of this chapter)