Li Duan practiced very hard these two days, because Ruyi assigned him a task before leaving.
According to the agreed time, Nanzhou, Yunzhou and other five states should have fallen into her hands by now. The 20,000 soldiers led by the governor of Nanzhou will attack Cangzhou, which is full of iron barrels, and attack the five states when they retreat. It's really pitiful that they can only run around like motherless children, and what's even more pitiful is that they don't know this yet...
Li Duan is also quite pitiful. After Ruyi left, he completely let go of himself and neglected to practice. Now that Ruyi is coming back soon, he knows that he is anxious.
Last night, Mr. Xu led people deep into the front line and burned the enemy's food and grass. The people in the south of Cangzhou City all moved into the north of Cangzhou City. They couldn't find any food outside.
There are three paths before them.
One is to go back the same way. If the speed is fast, you can return to Nanzhou in about two days. If you can take Nanzhou back from Miss Liu Er, the food crisis can be solved.
The second is to send some people back to forcibly collect food. They wait where they are, and those who will never come back will wait until they starve to death...
The last way is to give it a go and take Cangzhou in one go. The food in Cangzhou city is piled up like a mountain, so they don't have to worry about the food problem anymore.
Wait half a day at most to know which path they chose.
Of course, what Li Yi expects is naturally not to waste a single soldier, a single punishment, or a shell. The second rule, no matter how different the strength of the two armies is, once there is a battle, casualties here will be unavoidable of…
Yang Liuqing had already put on his armor, and looked a little brave, without losing his heroic spirit.
In the past few years, she has completely transformed from the young girl who would only follow Miss Liu Er in the second year of Jinghe to what she is now, the princess of a country, the lord of a country.
"Master." She walked to Li Yi's side and nodded slightly.
This should be the biggest battle she has ever experienced in her life. Li Yi nodded and asked, "Are you nervous?"
She looked up and smiled, and said, "Don't be nervous."
Fearless in the face of danger, Taishan collapsed in front of him without changing his face, worthy of being his nephew, with his three-point demeanor...
Yang Liuqing sat across from him and asked, "After this battle, Master will go back, right?"
Li Yi nodded. He had told Yang Liuqing before that he, Ruyi and the others would leave when they established a firm foothold in the northwest.
After occupying the land of the six states, for a long time to come, what they need is not to continue to attack and fight all the way to the imperial capital of the Wu Kingdom, but to recuperate, gradually erode outwards, and accumulate strength step by step. Stand your ground here.
This time may be one year, or two years. When this stage is over, the next thing is to be invincible...
Of course, everything changes.
It is possible that in the next period of time, the emperor of Wu Kingdom choked to death while eating, fell to death while walking, and was crushed to death by meteorites falling from the sky. It becomes much easier to handle.
Of course, this probability is too small. The emperor of Wu Kingdom has completely become a frightened bird now, hiding in the palace and unable to come out. He has to bring countless guards and imperial troops with him everywhere. Li Yi thought about it carefully and realized that he seemed to have done something stupid.
This has completely disturbed Emperor Wu's imperial conquest. If he comes to conquer Cangzhou in person, Li Yi promises to open the gate of Cangzhou to welcome him...
Unfortunately, in this world, there is no one who sells regret medicine...
Seeing that she seemed to have something to say, Li Yi shook his head and said, "Everything my uncle can do has already been done, and you need to walk the next road by yourself."
"Nephew knows." She nodded, looked at Li Yi, hesitated to speak, at this moment, a general strode into the courtyard, handed over a secret letter, and said loudly: "Your Highness, The enemy army has reached thirty li outside Cangzhou city!"
The fact that they arrived thirty miles away from Cangzhou City so quickly meant that Mr. Xu had burnt their food yesterday and there was not much left, otherwise they wouldn't be in such a hurry.
Li Yi patted her on the shoulder and said, "Go..."
In Cangzhou City, the tense atmosphere for a long time reached its peak at a certain moment.
The people in the city couldn't help but raise their hearts when they saw the rows of soldiers passing through the city.
This battle determines how they will survive in the future, and is closely related to their survival.
Thirty miles.
fifteen miles.
ten miles.
five miles.
Five miles outside Cangzhou city.
A lieutenant general looked at a thin line in the distance, which was the city wall of Cangzhou City. He rushed to the front and asked, "General Pang, do you want all the soldiers to repair it first?"
They have traveled for half a day, and the whole army is exhausted. It is really unwise to attack the city at this time.
The best situation is to let the army set up camp for a night when they are 30 miles away from Cangzhou. However, their food and grass have been exhausted, so the delay cannot be too long.
"Repair on the spot for half an hour." The general nodded and said, "Get the siege equipment ready, and attack the city immediately after half an hour!"
"Decree!"
The general turned his horse's head and said loudly: "Repair on the spot, after half an hour, attack the city immediately!"
Five miles away, on the city wall of Cangzhou, Chen Qing held a telescope in his hand and murmured, "Why did you stop..."
General Fan stood beside him, turned his head to look, and asked, "Is the cannon in red ready?"
A person beside him immediately said: "Return to the general, the hundred red cannons have all been loaded!"
General Fan felt relieved, thought for a while, and said, "just in case, let's check again..."
Outside the city, the partial general looked ahead, walked up to the main general, and asked with some doubts: "General Pang, why haven't they moved at all?"
General Pang looked ahead and asked, "How many guards are there in Cangzhou? Do they dare to go out of the city to fight?"
The general nodded and said, "General, the time has come."
General Pang waved his hand: "Siege!"
"Siege!"
"Siege!"
…
The general gave an order, and the army rushed forward.
Five miles!
Three miles!
Two miles!
When the city walls of Cangzhou were clearly visible, Na Pian's expression changed, and he said hurriedly, "General, they haven't left the city yet, and they haven't even pulled up the suspension bridge. Could it be a fraud?"
As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden exclamation in my ear.
"what is that!"
He raised his head and saw countless black spots falling in the barracks.
boom!
boom!
…
Then, there were bursts of loud noises in the ears, mud flew, and wailing was everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, he couldn't even hear the loud noise, only a buzzing remained in his ears.
In the army formation, the war horses neighed, their front hooves were raised, they were in a mess, rampaging, the cavalry fell off the horses, and before they had time to get up, they were trampled...
The entire army array was directly crushed by the loud noise.
The war horses neighed and crashed in fear, and after each loud noise, dozens of people fell down. The fire was accompanied by loud noises, which caught them off guard.
"God's punishment, this is God's punishment..." A general looked up, his eyes full of despair.
This is Jingguo's divine punishment, no, it is enough to overwhelm their army at such a distance, even the divine punishment does not have such power!
"Back, back quickly!"
He just yelled, looked down at the long knife passing through his chest, looked at General Pang in disbelief, tilted his head, and fell silent.
"Disturb the morale of the army, kill it!"
General Na Pang gritted his teeth and said loudly: "This is a long-distance attack. Once they get under the city wall, they will have nothing to do!"
"Siege!"
Following the command of the general, the army's morale quickly stabilized, and they quickly approached the city wall.
The suspension bridge under the city has already been pulled up, and just as they approached, dense stones and logs fell down just as they were going up...
Soldiers approaching the city wall threw sandbags into the moat, and pushed in the corpses of the dead around them. Soon they reached the bottom of the city wall, and what greeted them were rolling stones and wood falling from the sky...
In a short distance of two miles, the 20,000 army has already lost thousands.
However, they can't retreat, they can't attack Cangzhou today, and if they don't get killed by the enemy, they will starve to death.
"Ladder! Take a ladder!"
"Crash, crash and keep up!"
"Archers, archers cover!"
…
Looking at the densely packed crowd below the city wall, Wei Liang waved his hand, and black balls were thrown down from the city wall.
boom! boom! boom!
The deafening noises and the bursting flames wiped out all the enemies under the city wall.
General Na Pang stood in the distance, looking at the majestic city wall, his heart fell into the bottomless abyss.