Country and Beauty

Zu Ti changed the subject and asked: "Does His Highness Duke of Qin know what my Qin State lacks?"

Xie Fei said honestly: "I am lacking in everything right now, cities, people, talents, soldiers. "It sounds very poor, but at the same time, I am very rich. I have millions of stones of food, millions of gold and a lot of copper."

"Don't you want to take something back from Cheng Xie Li Xiong?" Zu Ti laughed with ill intentions.

Xie Fei nodded straightforwardly.

Zu Ti said: "I'm afraid this is a little difficult. As an emperor, the king of a country, if you were to sign an alliance under the city, cutting off the land and marriage would be a great shame and humiliation. If Li Xiong were to agree to it so casually, then the hearts of the citizens of the country would disperse.

Although it looked to be difficult, Xie Fei could hear the meaning hidden within Zu Ti's words.

Xie Fei asked: "What is the best way for our ancestor to love you?"

Zu Ti replied: "I don't have a good plan, but I do have some tricks up my sleeves."

Xie Fei's spirit was lifted, and he asked: "Ancestor's love, please speak your mind!"

"First, we have to delay. Right now, our army has just surrounded the city. Although the military strength of the established army is not enough, but it has the ability to hold out for a period of time, as long as our army does not attack, it can maintain the huge pressure on the established country, it can consume the will of the citizens of the established country to resist. According to reliable sources, the people in Chengdu are more than three hundred thousand people in the city right now, and the daily consumption of food is an astronomical figure. When people get hungry and pass out, they can lose their mind, and at that time, whatever you want, Li Xiong can only agree to it. "

Zu Ti said slowly, then laughed: "This time, in addition to the meat, dried meat and rations my army brought with us, many citizens were originally moved here from the Qin Province after the army lasted for three months, so Your Highness can actually ask for it big. Now that my Qin State has settled all of the countries in the Western Regions, the population is still only a few in all of the countries, and the population is still only two million people, so our citizens can actually be on par with each other. As long as my Qin State has millions of citizens, it is easy for us to raise a huge army.

As a person of the future, Xie Fei actually understood Zu Ti's intentions. This was called asking for a sky-high price to pay back the money. In his previous life, as a buyer, Xie Fei would occasionally go into a merchant's shop to buy things. He had been killed many times in order to gain some experience. From then on, he would be able to buy things that were both good and cheap. But Xie Fei knew that the merchants were still rich. Wasn't Zu Ti's words just looking at buyers from a merchant's point of view? I'll raise the price and wait for you to cut it. It was just that Xie Fei did not think of it. After all, Xie Fei was not a true merchant.

Xie Fei smiled and said, "I not only want the Liang Prefecture, but also want the three million citizens of Cheng Guo. This way, not only can we ally with the Hunchback Zhao and destroy them, we can also attack the Yan State from the east."

When Xie Fei's request reached Li Xiong's ears, he immediately roared, "You've gone too far! If you want to fight then fight, then fight. Am I, a stately Da Cheng Kingdom, afraid of you, Xie Fei? "

Li Xiong asked Sikong Li Huang: "If I become a soldier and defend the city with my life, how long would the food within the city be able to last?"

Li Huang cupped her fists and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there are still a hundred thousand buckets of food in the city. If we reduce the amount of food we eat, it could last us one and a half months."

Li Xiong nodded, then turned to ask Grand Commandant Li Li: "There are less than ten thousand people defending the city, how long are you able to last against Qin Army?"

Li Li said: "The majority of Qin State are cavalry, cavalry is good at field battles and not siege raids. If the Qin Army does not have any heavy siege machinery, then this humble subject can ensure Chengdu's safety for one month."

Li Xiong's expression slightly improved, and in the end, looked at Fan Changsheng with an inquiring gaze. Prime Minister, can I fight with the Qin Army? "

Fan Changsheng said: "The Chengdu City is very thick, if we want to take down the city, not only ten times the strength, Your Majesty can also issue a declaration of resistance to the entire city, calling for all the soldiers of the various territories to rescue the emperor, and for all the soldiers of the entire country to fight the Qin Army, forty to fifty thousand men."

After hearing this, Li Xiong was full of confidence. He then ordered: "Pass on my orders: To kill a general of Qin Army, one must be rewarded with a hundred thousand silver taels. To kill Xie Fei, one must be rewarded with a thousand silver taels, and to be bestowed with a hundred thousand gold taels.

Li Xiong sent a person to send a letter to Xie Fei. The letter only had one word on it, "Fight!" Its attitude is self-evident. After Xie Fei saw them, he laughed out loud. "Warriors, show us your courage and let Li Xiong and all of the grown men experience the power of our Qin Army Warriors."

The heavy siege mechanical catapult was an indispensable piece of equipment during the ancient war. Although the artillery was powerful, compared to the artillery shell, which shot less, the catapult was different. In the whole world, where wouldn't there be rocks? But the catapult was too heavy to deliver. However, as the Xie Fei of the future, there was no problem with the catapult. Therefore, when Xie Fei was conquering the Western Regions, he formed a team of hundred craftsmen from Institute of Martial Studies with the army. Specialized in the manufacture of throwing machines at any time.

Xie Fei asked Ran Zhan to send out 5000 cavalrymen to help the hundred craftsmen to build the catapult. In just two days of time. Just over a hundred catapults were produced.

On the 12th day of the 312th lunar month, the Qin Army officially launched her first assault on Chengdu.

Outside the north gate of Chengdu, Xie Fei, Ma Hun and the rest of the generals were already in a position to attack the city. One by one, stone throwing trucks were set up and the soldiers were lined up orderly. Xie Fei was dressed in military uniform and stood at the very front of the convoy. Behind him, there was a line of generals, who were staring closely at Li Li, Fan Changsheng, Fan Changsheng and the rest who were standing on the city gate tower. Xie Fei turned to Beigong Chun and said, "Start your attack. Destroy the last bit of resistance from the soldiers and order the cavalry to line up and fire at the defenders on the city walls. As long as there is one soldier on the city wall, no close combat is allowed. "

Beigong Chun said to the standard-bearer behind him: "Pass my order, the entire army will attack the city!" Upon receiving the orders, the standard-bearer started to wave the flag in his hand, giving orders to the surrounding Qin Army s.

In the Qin Army's camp, cavalry were split into two flanks, with the infantry in the middle. After receiving the order, they started to shout together, and the shouts resonated throughout the world, shooting up to the clouds. Just then, Xie Fei led the generals and retreated to the center of the army. They climbed up to a watchtower set up on the ground and looked around.

A hundred catapults were pushed out, each of them operated by five men, who had tacitly prepared everything, and the cavalry had rushed up, escorting the guards at the sides of the hundred catapults. As soon as the enemy left the city, they would be struck head-on with arrows.

On the tower at the north gate of Chengdu, Li Li, Li Huang, Fan Changsheng and the rest saw how the Qin Army was about to attack the city, their hearts were all at a loss, they did not know what to do.

Li Li Li had a worried look on his face, seeing that the Qin Army outside the city was neatly organized and the soldiers were all ready to attack, he sighed: "The enemy forces are powerful, and have heavy siege equipment, looks like the Qin Army is preparing to attack forcefully this time. Last night, the north gate guard general Luo Di was killed, and the soldiers' morale was somewhat low. Even the drawbridge was destroyed, which made the defense of the north gate much weaker. Prime Minister Fan, what do you think we should do now? "

"There's no other way but to persevere!" Fan Changsheng said.

Li Huang said: "Or … You can surrender now! "

Hearing Li Huang's words, Li Li and Fan Changsheng both turned their necks at the same time and looked at Li Huang with a shocked expression.

Li Huang sneered, then said indifferently: "The Qin Army used their weak military strength to attack the countries of the Western Regions, and took half a year to stabilize the 50 countries of the Western Regions. Although the Western Regions is a small country, but you have to know, which country's military strength do the Northern Huns have to compete with to become a big country? Even if all the countries of the Western Regions joined forces, they would still be unable to stop the attacks of the Qin Army. Now that they had become the main force of the army and were defeated in Qin, how could there be a third of the army of a hundred thousand? "Chengdu is surrounded and attacked from all sides. How long can Chengdu last?"

Li Li's expression was dark, but his heart was secretly calculating where to go. Fan Changsheng said: "Master Sikong, the both of us have been deeply indebted to His Majesty. We should repay each other with a drop of water. Right now, it is time for us to repay His Majesty, how can you say these words?"

"A wise man submits to the circumstances. I am only giving my opinion. All of you have thought for His Majesty, but since when has His Majesty thought for you? " Li Huang said.

"Shut up!" "You unscrupulous person..." Fan Changsheng shouted in anger.

"Be careful!" Li Li suddenly pounced forward, pouncing Fan Changsheng and Li Huang onto the ground. The moment they fell, the three of them simultaneously felt the city walls shake, and stone fragments flew everywhere. Li Huang was nothing, but Fan Changsheng was currently close to his eighties years old, so this fall was nothing to him, and almost took his life.

Immediately after, violent collisions occurred again and again. Large rocks were thrown at them by Qin Army's catapult, the big rocks smashing into the city walls would either shatter into pieces or create holes in the city walls. The soldiers defending on the city wall did not dare to raise their heads. Facing the Qin Army's fierce offensive, they could only hold on.

Li Huang's head and body were covered in stone chips. As she crawled backwards, she scolded, "Grandmother, what a bear! Why are Qin Army's attacks so fierce, as if he was crazy and wanted to attack at one place … "

"Attack one place?" Hearing Li Huang's words, Fan Changsheng repeated it with a questioning tone, and then his face suddenly changed, and he shouted, "Not good! Quick, get the soldiers to prepare to repair the wall. If we were to attack one place, it will definitely cause one side of the wall to collapse. We need to prepare to defend. "

"Prime Minister Fan is right. In my opinion, the Qin Army would not recklessly attack and would first smash the city walls before attacking them. We should immediately repair the city walls." Li Li said.

Captain Fan said, "Grand Commandant, you lead two thousand men to gather some more masons from all over the city. Bring them some more stones and a new one will be quickly built behind the place where the Qin Army used the catapult to throw rocks. I will lead the troops and retreat into the city.

Li Li said, "It's the Prime Minister!"

But Li Huang said at this time: "We can't retreat! You must not retreat, my army's morale is low, if you retreat into the Spirit Orchid City, it would be equivalent to giving up the entire northern gate to the Qin Army. Although the northern gate suspension bridge is destroyed, the city gates are still there.

"Alright then, I'll listen to you. But if the city gates really can't be defended, then we'll have to retreat into the city." Fan Changsheng looked at Li Huang in astonishment. He did not expect Li Huang, who had described the heavens and earth to be so wise and smart, to be so courageous and courageous.

Li Huang nodded his head, "I will defend this door with you. You absolutely cannot let this city gate be broken under our control."

Xie Fei stood on top of the tower and watched as the hundred catapults unceasingly shot rocks at the city walls. Seeing the city walls getting weaker after being hit by the large rocks, he smiled and said, "As long as we continue to persevere like this, within two days, the city walls will definitely be breached!"

One of the scouts quickly came to the bottom of the watchtower where Xie Fei was, raised his head, and cupped his hands: "Reporting to the Duke of Qin, imperial guards's Hong Zhan has an urgent secret letter!"

Xie Fei replied and went down the watchtower, taking Hong Zhan's secret letter from the scout's hands. After opening it and looking through it, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he laughed out loud: "Great, it seems like the Ba Shu Li Clan is about to be annihilated."

Beigong Chun asked: Are we going to defeat the army that invaded the Qin State?

Xie Fei nodded his head: "That is indeed the case, Queen Zhuge has led her troops to place nine palace eight trigrams array s in the Mingyang Pass, to obstruct the enemy for three days, the Military Minister Du Ceng led our Qin Army Heavy Cavalry soldiers and inflicted heavy injuries to Li Qi, and was ambushed by Li Qi outside the Chen Cang Cheng. The army of a hundred thousand only has thirty thousand soldiers left, and nearly half of them are injured."

Most of Qin soldiers's family members were in the Qin State, and if the Qin State did not protect them, they would not have any intention of fighting either. Now that the dangers of the Qin State had been resolved, the morale of the Qin soldiers and the rest were high, they desperately attacked the wall, waiting for a favorable opportunity to come.

Xie Fei said: "What I am most worried about is how many mountains there are. If Li Xiong is smart, he will not care about the gains and losses of our army, and our army will retreat and guard the mountains. Even if our army is strong, we will not be able to do anything in the face of the guerrilla warfare in the mountains. At the moment, our reinforcements from all over the country are coming to Chengdu from the encampment. The formed army must gather their superior forces and defeat our troops in one fell swoop.

Beigong Chun said worriedly: "His Highness Duke of Qin, we only have a troop of forty thousand strong, how can we be a match for Cheng Xie?"

Xie Fei laughed: "The queen has already made a plan, now Du Ceng is leading fifty thousand Qin Army and General Chen An of the East to lead a huge army of close to a hundred thousand to follow Li Qi, and it is now the time for the battle to reach a conclusion."

Muffled sounds of explosions were constantly heard from the north gate of Chengdu. The huge stones that were moving in a beautiful parabola smashed against the wall one after another, causing the soldiers guarding the wall to feel threatened. Afraid of being hit by the huge rocks, they all hid at the top of the stairs. Stone chips flew everywhere as a section of the city wall was smashed deep into the ground. There were over ten soldiers' corpses piled up under the broken stones. The entire city wall was shrouded in smoke. Fan Changsheng and Li Huang were hiding with the soldiers inside the city walls. Looking at the fierce attacks of the Yan Jun soldiers on the wall, everyone's heart was shocked, in their hearts, they felt that their hard work was useless.

"If this goes on, the Qin Army will not need to send troops to attack the city. As long as we constantly destroy the city walls with our catapult, no matter how strong the city walls are, they will be destroyed." Fan Changsheng frowned, and said to Li Huang who was beside him.

Li Huang said: At this point, there is no other good way. If we fight, we might die faster, but if we hold on, we still have a chance of survival. "Now we can only do our best and settle down in peace. If the heavens kill us, we will become a great country. Sigh." The soldiers' morale is down, the Chengdu City Army started to show their fear towards the Qin Army in these two days. "

Fan Changsheng was completely confused by what Li Huang had said, so he asked, "What exactly do you want to say?"

I just want to ask you, once the Qin Army breaks through the wall, would you like to surrender, or would you rather choose to be a martyr? " Li Huang's eyes carried a trace of ridicule.

Fan Changsheng hesitated but he did not reply.