The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 28
After the 1000 Tengjia soldiers were wiped out, only less than [-] soldiers and horses remained in Sanmiao.At this time, Uncle Wu knew that if Guirui was not captured quickly, reinforcements from Yushan would arrive, and Sanmiao would be in a desperate situation.At this time, the south and east walls of Guirui had been destroyed. Uncle Wu calculated that although Guirui, under the command of Shun, repelled two fierce attacks by Sanmiao, most of the population was also lost.He believed that there were less than [-] adult males available to Guirui at this time. Although the Sanmiao soldiers suffered heavy losses, it should be easy to surround a dilapidated Guirui city guarded by only [-] males.

He told the leader of Sanmiao You Miao about his thoughts, and planned to launch a third siege.But after all the rattan armored soldiers died, You Miao had already lost his vigor.

"You also said at the beginning that it only takes 1 people to capture Guirui. Now we have lost more than 4 yuan and have not captured Guirui. The remaining [-] people are all the troops of our Sanmiao. They are exhausted. We're really screwed."

Hearing Mrs. Miao's words, Uncle Wu laughed.

"Why does the leader build up the ambition of others and destroy his prestige? Not to mention that our military strength is more than twenty times that of the Huayi Alliance, it is more than enough to destroy them, and I still have a trump card that is useless. Leader, don't worry, we will launch another offensive tonight , will definitely be able to capture Guirui."

"Three days ago you also said that you would be able to break through the city with a sneak attack by rattan armored soldiers, but in the end you were attacked by fire, and all the armor was killed. In my opinion, it is better for us to retreat."

Seeing that some elders of San Miao supported the leader's words one after another, Uncle Wu knew that everyone was afraid.

"I heard that Gun is coming north with reinforcements from Yushan. If we retreat to the south, we will meet Gun and be wiped out by Gun. If we retreat to the north, it is Beidi's territory, and we won't be able to stay for long. , to the west and to the east, that is the territory of the Huayi Alliance. We will go deep alone, and it will be a dead end. For the current plan, we can only advance but not retreat. Now there are less than a thousand guards in Guirui City. Before the reinforcements arrive, we launch a surprise attack, and we will surely capture Emperor Yao and Gaotao, as long as we capture them, the world will be ours."

Under Uncle Wu's persuasion, the elders of Sanmiao were persuaded again and supported the third siege, so the Miao clan had no choice but to agree.

On the evening of the fifth day of the siege, Uncle Wu went into battle in person and led the remaining [-] soldiers of Sanmiao to attack Guirui for the third time.

At this time, almost all the middle-aged men in Guirui City had died, and the rest were old and weak women and children.Almost everyone knew that if the reinforcements did not arrive, Guirui City would be occupied by San Miao, and the people in the city might be slaughtered.Even so, Little Xingxing organized these women and children and asked them to guard the city wall.

The battle started again in the middle of the night. The first wave of Sanmiao's attack was relatively small, only more than 1000 people, just wanting to test the reality.Little Xingxing organized the women to fight back with stones, repelling the first wave of attacks within a few strokes.Although the women cheered loudly when they saw that they had repelled the enemy, Little Xingxing knew that the Miao family's attack was just a feint. They were actually testing the strength of the soldiers defending the city. Not only are there no adult soldiers, there are even few weapons left.

Little Xingxing suspects that the second wave of attack will be more than ten times the strength of the first wave.Sure enough, after the first wave was repelled, within half an hour, San Miao launched a second wave of attack. After they climbed the long ladder and climbed the city wall, they did not attack the defenders on the city wall, but only used shields to protect them. Watching the soldiers climbing the wall.The women defending the city threw stones at them, causing them little harm.

Little Xingxing was frightened, apparently these soldiers had learned to be smart this time, and he was gathering on the tower, waiting for a final battle.Little Xingxing knew that if he persisted, he would only cause more fearless casualties, so he quickly ordered the women guarding the city wall to retreat below the city wall, which basically meant that Little Xingxing gave up on defending the city.

Little Xingxing came to the archery tower at the east gate again, and reported to Emperor Yao, Gao Tao, Cao Muzi, Hou Ji, Qin Bukong and others about the second wave of Sanmiao's attack.

"There are less than 1000 adult men in the city. If we continue to fight, all the people in Guirui City will be killed." Shun looked at Emperor Yao, then at Gaotao, obviously waiting for them to make a decision to retreat.

"When will our reinforcements arrive?"

Emperor Yao asked Houji, but Houji didn't know either.There was a Dongyi soldier who handed Gaotao a letter from Feige sent by Dongbushi.Gao Tao looked at it, his face was very solemn.

"Is the sky going to kill me?"

Everyone didn't know why Gao Tao made such an exclamation, Qin Bukong on the other side quickly said:
"Dong Bushi led the reinforcements to cross the river, but was intercepted by five thousand and three Miao soldiers led by Bo Qiang, who were fighting fiercely on the bank of the Yellow River."

Hearing Qin Bukong's words, everyone felt like a deflated ball.

"Second leaders, in order to prevent you from being captured alive, you'd better put on your soldier's clothes and hide in the crowd to retreat."

Hou Yi indicated that it would be a good idea to let Gao Yao and Emperor Yao change into soldiers' uniforms, but he saw the embarrassment on the faces of Emperor Yao and Gao Tao, and worried that this would be too embarrassing.

"At this time of crisis, I can't take care of so much."

Emperor Yao paced and shook his head.

"No, this is to make the widow abandon the people who protect me. The widow would rather die in battle and live with Guirui than run away."

Listening to Emperor Yao's words, Houyi, Houji, and Cao Muzi all advised Emperor Yao to think twice.

"The most important thing now is to protect you. If you are caught by them, our Huayi Alliance will really be over."

After a lot of persuasion from everyone, including Gao Tao, he also thought that Houyi's words were very reasonable, so he could only temporarily give up Guirui at this time.Finally, Emperor Yao was convinced.Everyone immediately made an evacuation plan.Hou Yi led the remaining [-] imperial guards to protect Emperor Yao and Gao Tao and evacuated from the north gate. Shun and Cao Muzi led the last remnants of the city to break through from the south gate, making Uncle Wu mistakenly think that Shun was going to protect Emperor Yao. He and Gao Tao escaped from the south gate and pursued Shun. This restrained the forces of San Miao and gave Emperor Yao and Gao Tao more time to retreat.

In the middle of the night, Sanmiao launched the final attack. After they occupied the east tower, they opened the city gate, and about [-] Sanmiao soldiers entered Guirui City.This time, the people in the city did not resist, but followed Shun and fled to the south gate, thus creating the illusion that Emperor Yao and Gao Tao also fled to the south gate.

Sure enough, the Sanmiao soldiers told Uncle Wu about this phenomenon, and Uncle Wu believed that Emperor Yao and Gao Tao were hiding among the fleeing crowd, so he quickly mobilized [-] troops to pursue to the south gate.

Shun and Cao Muzi, leading the remnant soldiers and the frightened refugees, flocked to the south gate, followed by five thousand and three Miao soldiers in pursuit.

"Protect the leader, everyone protect the leader."

Shun ran and shouted to attract the attention of the Sanmiao soldiers.Sure enough, most of the Sanmiao soldiers were attracted by Shun and chased towards the south gate.At this time, Emperor Yao boarded the tower of the North Gate and looked towards the south. He saw little lights of fire, like a long dragon.

He sighed deeply.

"My widow, what did you do wrong to make the people of Guirui fall into misery, is it God's will?"

Hou Yi went to Emperor Yao's side and changed him into a soldier's clothes.

"Dijun, it's time to go."

Emperor Yao glanced at the fire in the south again, and together with Hou Yi, he mixed into the imperial guards, opened the gate of the northern city, and disappeared into the night.

Shun took the remnant soldiers, women and children in the city, opened the south gate, and fled towards a hill outside the city. Seeing that the soldiers of Sanmiao were about to catch up, Shun stopped. He planned to run to the back and intercept the soldiers of Sanmiao. .But when he ran out of the city gate, he was surprised to find that Sanmiao's soldiers did not catch up, which made him feel scared instead.

"Did Uncle Wu see through that Emperor Yao and Gao Tao are not in the team?"

Thinking that Uncle Wu saw through Shun's intentions and chased Houyi's army northward, and that Emperor Yao and Gao Yao would be in danger of being arrested, Shun couldn't help feeling chills on the back of his neck.He hurriedly rode his horse and ran to the south gate to see what happened.

When he ran to the south gate, he heard a cry of killing, and saw a group of cavalry in red armor charging to kill the Sanmiao soldiers.Those cavalrymen in red iron armor were one by one and ten by one, and the Sanmiao soldiers began to be defeated and retreated eastward.

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

Shun didn't know where the reinforcements of the cavalry in red armor came from, but he knew that the situation might be improving.He quickly rode his horse and ran out of the south gate, ordered the army to kill back to the south gate, and chased the Sanmiao soldiers together with the reinforcements.

When these remnant soldiers, women and children heard that the reinforcements had arrived, they couldn't help being shocked and regained their momentum. More than 2000 people entered Guirui City from the south gate again, and chased the Sanmiao soldiers together with the red armored cavalry.In a short while, more than 4000 Sanmiao soldiers were wiped out, at least 2000 of whom trampled to death in the chaos in Guirui City.

Shun jumped off his horse, took the peach wood sword, and used the sword technique taught by the two immortals Xuansu to shuttle through the crowd. A Sanmiao soldier was stabbed to death by Shun.

"Good swordsmanship."

Shun heard cheers not far away, and with the torch behind him, he saw a burly man in red iron armor riding a black horse, stabbing a Sanmiao soldier with a spear.This person is Danzhu.

Shun couldn't help being surprised, he only had superficial contact with Danzhu, didn't know him well, and thought he was just an ambitious man playing tricks.Unexpectedly, Danzhu showed such a brave and heroic side at this time, just like the legendary God of War.This applause made Shun feel a little more fond of Dan Zhu.

One of the two swung their guns on horseback, and the other swung their swords on the ground. With every move, they killed seven Sanmiao soldiers in a row.

It turned out that these cavalry in red iron armor were the imperial guards led by Dan Zhu himself. They were brave and good at fighting, and they were called red cavalry.Danzhu was not originally an ambitious man, but only under Gun's instigation, he came to Guirui to usurp Shun's leadership.After being punished by Emperor Yao to contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors, Danzhu is indeed constantly introspecting, hoping to make up for his mistakes.

After learning that Emperor Yao was besieged in Guirui, Dan Zhu took [-] red horsemen and went into battle lightly. After five days, he ran thirteen hundred miles from Pingyang to Guirui.When he was about to enter the city of Guirui, the Miao family attacked Guirui for the third time.He originally wanted to lead three hundred red cavalry into Guirui City to rescue Emperor Yao, but seeing that Sanmiao's main force was attacking Guirui City and the camp was empty, he simply attacked Sanmiao's rear camp.

Sure enough, this strategy succeeded. The main force of Sanmiao was attacking Guirui, and the 5000 people behind were unprepared. They were attacked by Danzhu's 3000 red cavalry. After hacking all the way, 2000 people were wiped out. people.Danzhu pursued all the way again, becoming more and more courageous as he fought. After entering the city of Guirui, he joined the two thousand remnants led by Shun.After the two armies joined forces, their momentum was greatly shaken. They chased the defeated Sanmiao soldiers and beheaded more than [-] people.

Wu Bo saw that the third attack on the city failed, and that the barracks was attacked by Danzhu again. His troops were already in a state of disarray. He was afraid that Danzhu would attack the camp again, so he quickly pulled out the camp and retreated another [-] li.

(End of this chapter)