Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 59 fierce battle
Speaking of which, Di Dang, the general of the Great Jin Kingdom, can be regarded as an old acquaintance of Xiao Lian.During Xiao Lian's ten years in the frontier, he fought against Di Dang no less than a hundred times. Of course, Xiao Lian won the majority.Even so, Xiao Lian had to admit that Di Dang was a ruthless man and an opponent that could not be underestimated.

Both of them have become the commanders of the army step by step from small soldiers, and now they fight again, and the two countries have reached the point of life and death.

At this time, Di Dang was leading the most elite 5 soldiers of the Dajin Kingdom, marching towards Yibei City under the cover of night.Di Dang was confident in this battle. Even if the opponent was Xiao Lian, it would be difficult to make complete preparations within five or six days under the circumstances of internal and external troubles, and as far as he knew, Xiao Lian's army had at most [-] people.

What he wanted was to win the few with the more, and catch Xiao Lian by surprise.

Recalling every time he fought against Xiao Lian in the past, Di Dang felt a strong sense of unwillingness. He was not inferior to Xiao Lian in terms of skill, but he was defeated by Xiao Lian every time!This makes Di Dang's desire to conquer Da Ling and Xiao Lian even more eager. This battle is the best time for him to prove himself.

The ugly time is about to pass, and there is only a bleak bright moon hanging in the sky. Di Dang looked at the Yibei City Gate where the defenses were lax and there were only a few guards patrolling. Lord Nian, I forgot how to fight a war.

But soon, Di Dang's smile froze on his face.

I saw that the city wall, which was still deserted just now, was instantly ignited with countless fires the moment the Dajin army reached within range, and the dark sky was illuminated like daylight.

Di Dang took a closer look and saw that the city wall was densely packed with archers, and each of them had gunpowder arrows in their hands!
No, they found out!
"Array! Array! Defend! Defend!" Di Dang roared wildly. As soon as his words fell, those gunpowder arrows flew towards them densely like raindrops.

Those soldiers who quickly raised their shields were saved from death, but most of them were shot by gunpowder arrows and burned to death before they could react, and those who were dragged by the people next to them for help ended up being caught on fire. The entire Daikin array was in chaos.

Di Dang's eyes were burning. He raised his head and saw Xiao Lian looking down at him from the city wall, still with that annoying face.

"Xiao Lian, you are so insidious!" Di Dang pointed at Xiao Lian and cursed.

Xiao Lian sneered: "In terms of insidiousness, this general is no match for Master Di who wants to launch a night attack."

"Death is imminent, so it's okay to make you proud, this Yibei City, I, Di Dang, will be determined!"

"That depends on whether General Di has the ability."

Di Dang yelled at the soldiers: "Calm down! Act according to the original plan!"

At this time, the soldiers of Dajin had calmed down from the initial embarrassment. The remaining soldiers quickly divided into several columns, took ladders to attack the city wall, and smashed the city gate with a battering hammer. Suddenly, a huge impact sounded through the sky.

This wave of gunpowder arrows damaged Daikin's strength by nearly [-] troops, but it was still far from defeating Daikin.Xiao Lian was not in a hurry, he was waiting for an opportunity.

The siege ladder was built on the city wall, and swarms of Dajin soldiers rushed towards the city wall like locusts.Daling's gunpowder and arrows were limited, so the archers had to keep shooting at the soldiers on the ladder, but they couldn't hold back Dajin's surging attack, and they were quickly overwhelmed.

Di Dang stood at the foot of the city, smug, bent on 5 horses, and wanted to be an enemy of his [-] troops?It's simply overwhelming!

However, when every ladder was almost full of Daikin soldiers, Xiao Lian narrowed his eyes and ordered: "Fireball!"

Di Dang's scalp tightened, and he immediately realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted: "Everyone! Back ten miles!"

The Dajin soldiers who hadn't climbed the ladder retreated quickly, but the soldiers hanging on the ladder were not so lucky.

They were forced to face the huge fireball that Xiao Lian specially prepared for them. The fireball rolled over the people, and wherever it went, there were screams all over the place. For a moment, the soldiers on the ladder seemed to be disconnected. The beads fell down one by one.

After a dozen fireballs were thrown from under the city wall in turn, there were not many soldiers left on the siege ladder.

Di Dang was furious: "Let me go forward! The first person to climb the city will receive a reward of 1000 taels! The second person to ascend the city will be rewarded with a reward of 500 taels! The third person to ascend the city will be rewarded with a reward of 200 taels!"

When the remaining [-] Dajin soldiers heard the words, they immediately climbed up the ladder again as if they had been spayed with chicken blood. They would die anyway, what if the bounty fell on their own heads?
"I'm the first, I'm the first!" One of the Dajin soldiers avoided the wall of the city and stood on the wall.

Before Di Dang under the city had time to appreciate the dancing soldier, with a "呵", the soldier's head was chopped off from behind, thrown from the city wall, and rolled far away.

Xiao Lian's blood-stained face was exposed behind the decapitated body. He raised the sword at his waist and said, "If you are not afraid of death, come up."

Seeing that the Daling soldiers guarding the city wall also suffered a lot of casualties, but the ladder was also completely destroyed, Di Dang gave Xiao Lian a vicious look, and ordered, "Bump the city gate with all your might!"

Dajin has lost nearly [-] soldiers. If there is no quick battle, Di Dang's dream will be shattered.

Di Dang assembled his troops, held up a battering ram, and desperately slammed into the gate of Yibei City.

"Bang - bang - bang -" the sound sounded like thunder from the sky.

According to Xiao Lian's instructions, the city gate was filled with sandbags, but no amount of sandbags could withstand such a violent impact. Soon, a crack appeared on the solid city gate.

"Continue to hit hard! The first three to rush into the city will get a prize as usual!"

The soldiers worked harder.

"Boom—" With a loud noise, the gate of Yibei City fell down!

Di Dang looked at the empty city gate and the sandbags stacked on the ground, and smiled contemptuously: "Xiao Lian, that's all you have."

Dajin soldiers rushed into the city like crazy!At this time, whoever runs fast will get 1000 taels, a full 1000 taels!You don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life!
"I go first!"

"It's obviously me first! Get out of the way!"

"Thorn-"

The Dajin soldiers, who were still arguing over who should come first, suddenly fell silent.

Di Dang, who was standing not far away, suddenly felt strange, so he took a closer look.

I saw that the soldier's body was actually divided into two halves!

"There's a trap! Stop!" Di Dang yelled to stop him from behind, but it was useless. Those soldiers thought someone was making up a lie to delay their time, so they ignored it at all.

"Stab - sting - sting -"

It was not until more and more people who rushed into the city gate were cut into half alive that the soldiers behind realized what had happened.

The gate of the city was actually densely covered with silver threads, which could cut people into flesh in an instant!

"Xiao Lian, you are so vicious!" Di Dang couldn't help but cursed again, but it was useless, and no amount of cursing would bring back the dead soldier's life.

Di Dang ordered people to carefully clean up those spider-like silver threads, and it took nearly half an hour. At this time, the east was bright, and Dajinlian hadn't entered the gate of Yibei City all night long!What a shame!
After experiencing gunpowder arrows, fireballs and silver threads, Di Dang led the [-] soldiers who had managed to survive, and walked cautiously towards the city.

Di Dang was worried that there were other ambushes in the city, so he ordered people to watch carefully ahead.

According to the style of the Dajin army, after entering the city, it must be looted, but the strange thing is that this Yibei city is so empty that there is not even a single person in sight, let alone gold, silver and jewelry.

What's even weirder, what about the soldiers guarding the city just now?What about Xiao Lian?Where did they go, why not stop them?

Until the army reached the southernmost open space for sacrifices in the city, they saw Xiao Lian standing on a high platform.

"Xiao Lian, what kind of tricks are you playing?" Di Dang felt a faint uneasiness in his heart.

Xiao Lian on the high platform smiled and said, "It's indeed some small tricks, but as long as it's easy to use."

As Xiao Lian said, he opened the flare in his hand, and with a "bang", the flare exploded into a flower in the air.

Di Dang's intuition was not good, he wanted to leave here, but he found that this open space is easy to enter, but the passage to exit is very narrow, it is difficult for the [-] troops to evacuate in a short time.

However, the voice from not far away made his scalp tingle.

"Boom-rumble--"

"General, it's not good! It's a mountain torrent!" The spy who was looking for information at the front screamed back at this moment.

"Quick retreat!!!" Di Dang turned his horse's head and was about to leave, but how could they escape the mountain torrent?

The mountain torrent was like a huge red beast with a bloody pot in its mouth, galloping down the mountain, pointing directly at the Dajin army, while Xiao Lian stood on the high platform with his arms around him, as if he was watching a good show.

The flood rushed towards the Dajin army mercilessly. Because it came so fast and fiercely, many people had already been swept away before they had time to react. Under the protection of several personal guards, Di Dang stepped on the body of the soldiers to forcefully cross the crowd, towards Run wildly at the exit.

However, waiting for them is the Daling soldiers who are waiting for a rabbit.They were at the city gate, waiting for the survivors who were not submerged by the mountain torrent, and then killed them one by one.

Poor Di Dang brought [-] elite soldiers, only less than [-] were left in the end, escorting Di Dang to flee back to the north in a hurry.

"General, do we want to pursue the victory?" Zhang Jun asked.

Xiao Lian shook his head: "No, our goal in this battle is to defend the city, and the poor should not pursue it. The most important thing is to preserve our troops and recharge our batteries for the recapture of the three northern cities."

"The general is wise! The final general understands!"

When Xiao Lian proposed fire attacks, setting traps and diverting mountain torrents, Zhang Jun had to be impressed by his cleverness and wit.

Especially the mountain torrent plan is like a stroke of magic!The terrain of Yibei City is high in the south and low in the north, and there is a mountain at the far south. There is a huge reservoir built on the mountain. When Xiao Lian saw this reservoir, he had the idea of ​​attacking Dajin with water.

It is wonderful to accumulate the water volume of the reservoir to the limit, and then lead the Daikin army here to discharge the flood and release the water!Zhang Jun thought that he couldn't think of such a genius idea.

Since ancient times, it is more difficult to win with less, especially when there is such a disparity in military strength, it is necessary to keep Yibei City and attack the three cities.

Xiao Lian's method really allowed Da Ling to preserve his greatest strength.

It's just that after this battle, Da Ling inevitably lost some soldiers.

At this time, Duan Yanlin was the busiest person in the barracks. There were thousands of wounded soldiers. need.

Duan Yanlin reported the matter to Xiao Lian, Xiao Lian also had a headache because of this, when he arranged for the evacuation of the people in the city, he cared about their safety, but forgot that these things had to be bought from the people when they were used up.

"General Xiao, what should I do? I am a clever woman who can't live without rice. I don't have enough hemostatic rags. How can I heal those wounded soldiers?"

"Doctor Duan, don't worry, I will immediately order someone to go to the city further south to buy it."

"It's too late. This trip will take two days at least. Although winter is over, the night is still cold. If the soldiers in hand catch cold again, whether they can survive is another matter!"

Xiao Lian frowned, what should I do?
At this moment, someone came down to report: "General, that peasant woman is here again!"

Xiao Lian immediately stood up and said, "Please!"

Duan Yanlin looked strange, what kind of peasant woman deserves the general's attention and eagerness?

Until the big-armed peasant woman walked in, Imperial Physician Duan didn't recognize the person in front of her.

"General Xiao, Imperial Physician Duan. The women heard that there is an urgent shortage of cloth strips, stretchers and winter jackets in the army, so I brought them to you."

Duan Yanlin had an unbelievable expression on his face: "You... know me? Why do you have those things? No... who are you?"

Li Ying was amused by Duan Yanlin's series of questions, and this smile revealed her original voice.

Duan Yanlin's eyes widened even wider: "Wang... Princess???"

Li Ying simply lifted off the mask on his face and said, "It's me."

"You...you...you..." Duan Yanlin said for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Xiao Lian was much calmer. He took Li Ying's hand and asked, "Did you get scared last night?"

Li Ying shook his head and said, "No, I believe in you and Da Ling's soldiers, they will definitely win."

Xiao Lian smiled and said, "You have so much confidence in me?"

"Of course, who told you that you are my husband? In my eyes, my husband is omnipotent."

Xiao Lian scratched her nose, and said: "Your husband's tail is going to be raised by your praise."

"By the way, are you injured anywhere?" Li Ying raised Xiao Lian's arm nervously, looking left and right.

"Just here, a little skin injury." Xiao Lian pointed to a sword mark on his forearm.

"Ah!" Li Ying cried out distressedly, "Duan Imperial Physician, quickly get the medicine, I want to give my husband medicine."

Duan Yanlin's face turned red and then pale when he looked at the couple who looked like no one else was around. Doesn't this mean that he doesn't treat himself as an outsider?
He awkwardly hands over the plaster.

"By the way, Imperial Physician Duan, what you want is outside the tent, take it quickly!"

"Thank you, Princess!" Duan Yanlin left Xiao Lian's tent as if he had been pardoned.

When he reached the door, Duan Yanlin stopped suddenly, took out a letter from his sleeve, and asked, "Is this letter..."

Li Ying winked at him and said, "That's right, I gave it to Xian'er."

Then Duan Yanlin took the supplies sent by Li Ying and left with a sudden realization, leaving two people in the camp to share with each other.

(End of this chapter)