Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 219

On the top of the city, flying stones kept flying.

Captain Qiu led Xu Zhiqiong and Tao Huayuan into the tower.

The lieutenant's surname was Qiu, and his name was Qiu Leigang. He served Xu Zhiqiong and Tao Huayuan each a bowl of broth. Tao Huayuan refused to drink it, but Xu Zhiqiong drank it.

This bowl of soup must be drunk, which is the minimum respect for these fighters.

Captain Qiu poked the fire, said: "Today is lucky, I can have some meat to eat, this group of Maocha dare not come up easily, usually they just throw stones, we can't catch anything."

Maocha is a scornful name given to Tunu by soldiers in the north, because Tunu people have lush hair and look like wild animals, so they call them Maocha.

Xu Zhiqiong said: "This tower is very special, we never saw it when we went up to the top of the tower."

Qiu Xiaowei smiled, and said with a little bit of satisfaction: "This was built by Li Fusheng, a famous craftsman in Yongzhou. Not only can it be invisible, but the gate tower can also move. Walk casually on the city wall. After a while, the stone stops. I will let you see it." one look."

Xu Zhiqiong asked again: "You waited for Tu Nu to attack the top of the city before taking action, just to earn some food?"

Qiu Xiaowei shook his head and said: "Food comes second. The main reason is that we have no arrows, no darts, no flying spears, no more stones, and Mao Sha can't reach the top of the city, so we can't shoot.
These Maoshas have also learned to be treacherous recently. They often send a dozen people to attack the city. A group of us rushed out, but we were beaten by their trebuchets. It was not worth it, so now Maosha has to send out a hundred people If they start again, if they send more than a dozen people, it won't be too late to clean up after they enter the city.
Of course, the food that should be earned must be earned. The brothers have not had enough to eat for several days. "

Xu Zhiqiong said: "How long have you been out of food?"

"In twenty-six days, we ate everything we could eat. We're doing better here. There's not much food in Yangjiao Pass to the west. They've been hungry for longer."

Xu Zhiqiong said in surprise: "Is there still a checkpoint in the west?"

Qiu Xiaowei nodded and said: "Yes! There are three major dangerous passes in Yongzhou that have not been lost. This is the Iron Wolf Pass in the east, the Shuanghu Pass in the middle, and the Yangjiao Pass in the east. The brakes were not taken down, but the city of Yongzhou was lost."

Tao Huayuan knew something about military affairs, and asked from the side: "I just saw that there are enemy troops on the north side of your pass, and there are enemy troops on the south side of your pass. We are facing enemies from the front and rear. What's the use of defending here?"

Tao Huayuan was right. The function of the pass is to cut off the road. If the enemy troops have already bypassed the pass and formed a situation of encirclement on both sides, the pass will indeed lose its value, and there is no point in defending the pass.

Qiu Xiaowei shook his head and said: "Those Maochas in the south are bypassed from the mountain. Together, there are only more than [-] people, and the Maochas in the north have [-] people. If we let them pass, Luzhou will be over. , Mao Sha can hit the capital,

With these three dangers in the way, their army can't pass, their weapons can't pass, and their food and grass can't pass through. The five thousand maosha in the south can only grab food everywhere. When our Daxuan army comes, we can chop them into meat sauce . "

No wonder the battle report said that Tunu had no food and was not in a hurry to go south to attack Luzhou.

Xu Zhiqiong wondered at first, why did Tunu prepare so hastily for such a large-scale war?Even the supply of food and grass is not enough.

Only now did Xu Zhiqiong know that Luzhou was not beaten because the three major dangers in Yongzhou were not lost.

A group of bloody sons defended the dangerous pass with their flesh and blood, and also defended the Daxuan country.

Speaking of the Daxuan Army, Qiu Xiaowei was silent for a long time: "Are you two from Luzhou?"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "We come from the capital."

"The capital city!" Qiu Xiaowei said with joy on his muddy face, "I'm just saying, you have the tooth plate of Lantern Lang, and she has the tooth plate of Yin Yang Division. Have you sent troops?"

Xu Zhiqiong was too embarrassed to speak.

How to say?
Said that more than [-] people were sent to you?
"The army is still being called up, and within [-] days at the most, one hundred thousand troops will definitely arrive in Luzhou." This is the best answer Xu Zhiqiong can give.

"Twenty more days?" Captain Qiu's eyes dimmed, "Our general sent out the urgent report a long time ago, why do we have to wait for twenty days..."

Tao Huayuan said: "Isn't it because your chariot general turned his back on you and put you in a trap."

"Nonsense!" Qiu Xiaowei said angrily, "Our Cheqi General is at Shuanghuguan, fighting Mao Cha like us, which bastard made rumors? I killed eighteen generations of his ancestors!"

Tao Huayuan said: "Perhaps your chariot generals have defected to the enemy long ago. You have been trapped in this pass for too long. You may not know what happened outside."

This sentence completely angered Captain Qiu: "You doubt our general, but I haven't doubted you yet? Tell me! How did you get to the top of the city?"

The lieutenant was a smart man, so he kept holding back this question.

He didn't really trust Xu Zhiqiong, but wanted to get a few more words out of Xu Zhiqiong's mouth.

But he was no match for Tao Huayuan after all.

Tao Huayuan was also clichéd, she purposely angered Qiu Xiaowei, and she has been a spy beside the sixth princess for many years, this is her usual method: "We climbed down from the cliff, in your case, yin and yang skills don't seem to work .”

Qiu Xiaowei snorted and said: "It's definitely not going to work, here is our general's Chi You soldier's master seal, no spells are going to work here!
The soldier's seal and our general have the same mind. If General Cheqi surrenders to the enemy, the soldier's seal will be gone, and Mao Sha has already entered! "

Tao Huayuan told Xu Zhiqiong with a reading card: What these people said is true. Chi You's military master seal is a military skill, and it has restraint on the skills of all Taoist cultivators. The slave can only fight hand to hand.

No wonder Tai Bu had to rely on the right hand of Shengke Shuangxing to send Xu Zhiqiong and Tao Huayuan into Iron Wolf Pass.

If there was no Chi You soldier's master seal, as long as Mao Sha sent in a high-quality cultivator, the two hundred soldiers would have been taken away long ago.

Chu Xin did not surrender to the enemy.

Then the problem is coming.

Xu Zhiqiong asked; "The General Cheqi has [-] troops in his hands, why is this battle so embarrassing?"

Captain Qiu said angrily: "Where did you get the [-] troops?
Yongzhou originally had an army of [-], but was caught off guard by Mao Sha, and more than [-] people died in one battle.
Our prefect has never fought a war, so we don’t know how to deal with the situation on the battlefield. After suffering a loss, we want to take revenge, bring a large army and fight desperately with Mao Sha,
Our morale is not high, and we don't have enough armaments. Regardless of whether the court wants armaments or not, after the second battle, more than [-] people will die, and the magistrate will also die.
There are more than [-] people left, wounded, and running. When General Chu comes, there are only more than [-] people in Yongzhou who can fight. General Chu also brought more than [-] people. Sha fought three battles and killed more than [-] Mao Sha before he repelled Mao Sha.

But after these three battles, there were not many of us left. We couldn't defend the whole of Yongzhou. Mao Cha came back, but the reinforcements from the court didn't come. thousand people,

General Chu didn't dare to fight Mao Sha anymore, so he could only guard these three dangerous passes. More than [-] people were divided into one pass, and they carried it to death here for more than a month. We only have more than [-] people left Alright, where did the [-] troops you mentioned come from? "

Xu Zhiqiong lowered his eyes and remembered a joke.

In the secret pavilion, Liang Daguan's family once uttered a bold statement: "I am willing to fight to the death and defend thousands of miles of mountains and rivers together!"

Xu Zhiqiong knew that this was nonsense about Jill, and it was impossible for him to make the slightest sacrifice for Daxuan.

But Xu Zhiqiong didn't expect one thing.

He knew that there was a big difference between the enemy and ourselves, but he watched Yongzhou fall.

In order to get rid of all the people he didn't want to see, he handed over Daxuan's territory to Tunu!
Xu Zhiqiong asked again: "After so many days of fighting, how much food, grass and military equipment has Luzhou sent?"

"Bullshit grain and grass, since the war, I have never seen a grain of grain in Luzhou, nor have I seen an arrowhead in Luzhou."

Xu Zhiqiong gritted his teeth.

Wu Jingchun is a thief!
Captain Qiu took a sip of soup, looked at Xu Zhiqiong and Tao Huayuan and asked, "Can the army really come in twenty days?"

Tao Huayuan remained silent, Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "The army will definitely come!"

Captain Qiu put down the soup bowl and said, "Then we will wait here until the army arrives!"

A soldier next to him said: "As long as there is a stutter, we will fight Mao Sha to the end!"

Qiu Xiaowei shouted: "What are you talking about! We are Daxuan's men! Even if we don't have this stutter, we will fight Mao Sha to the end!"

Xu Zhiqiong remembered Tai Bu's words.

The hype is endless!

Our blood is still there!
……

Five days later, Yu Shan led his army to Luzhou, earlier than Shengwei Elder Liang Jixiong arrived.

During these five days, the army galloped day and night, the Onmyoji continued to set up magic circles, the sergeants only took a short rest when they shuttled through the magic circles, and did not dare to delay for a moment during the rest of the time.

When they arrived at Luyuan City, the capital of Luzhou, the sergeants didn't even have the strength to set up camp, and they fell asleep in front of the government yamen in a mess.

The magistrate Wu Jingchun welcomed Yu Shan into the government office, with tears in his eyes, he said: "The vanguard has finally arrived, General Yu has worked hard all the way, I don't know where the army is now?"

Wu Jingchun regards this army as the vanguard, and he has reason to think so, Sui Zhi is gathering the army.

Yu Shan was about to explain, but he didn't expect Qiao Shun to say: "What kind of army is there? This is the army!"

Wu Jingchun was shocked when she heard the words: "Qiao Qianhu, don't be joking!"

"Who are you kidding, there are so many people right now..."

Yu Shan hurriedly took the conversation: "Qiao Qianhu is used to being humorous, don't mind, Sui Shilang of the Ministry of War has assembled an army of [-], and it will arrive soon."

Wu Jingchun bowed her head in silence, as if she didn't quite believe Yu Shan's words.

Luzhou Tongzhi (equivalent to the prefect's deputy) Fan Guodong said: "Generals, when Luzhou is at a critical moment, is there still room for jokes? Look at the sergeants you brought here. How can there be any appearance of being ready for battle, and this group of people still wants to fight against the Tunu country? Isn't it like sending sheep to the tiger's mouth?"

Qiao Shungang was furious: "What are you talking about! I have been driving for five days, and I didn't even get a full night's sleep. What's the matter with taking a break? It's your turn to make irresponsible remarks?"

Yu Shan persuaded Qiao Shungang, turned to Wu Jingchun and said, "Prefect Wu, the march has been tough these past few days, and the soldiers will be ready to fight after a day or two of rest!"

"One or two days?" Tongzhi Fan Guodong smiled wryly, "General Yu, I'm afraid I don't have that much time for you to rest. General Negu of the Tunu Kingdom sent a letter, asking Luzhou to deliver [-] shi of grain within three days. If you can't hand it over, you will have to send troops to Luzhou, generals, how should you deal with this matter?"

Yu Shan was surprised when he heard the words: "Fan Tongzhi, you want to give food to Tu Nu?"

"So what if you don't give it? Just relying on Luzhou's soldiers and horses, and looking at General Yu's sergeants, can they stop Tunu's [-] troops?"

"No, absolutely not..."

"General Yu, you have only been in Luzhou for one day. Do you know how the people of Luzhou are living in fear? Do you know how many people died in vain in Yongzhou?" Fan Guodong burst into tears , "I don't care what crime your majesty punishes me, and I don't care about the infamy behind me. Today, I will settle the matter in front of General Yu. First, I will send [-] shi of grain to General Tunu, and ask him to relax for a few days. Sui Shilang brings the army, and then discuss the war!"

Yu Shan looked anxiously at Wu Jingchun and said, "Prefect Wu, what do you mean?"

Wu Jingchun sighed and said, "This residence also has the same intention."

Yu Shan panicked. He knew that the situation in Luzhou was complicated, but he didn't expect to encounter such a problem on the first day.

How can you send food to the enemy?
Why hasn't Elder Shengwei come?
Three days is too short a time, if Elder Shengwei doesn't come again, the situation will be irretrievable.

(End of this chapter)