Chapter 224: Fierce Battle
After a pause, the eunuch swallowed a mouthful of spit with difficulty, looked up at the blade that was close at hand, and then said: "So after that, the villain put on his dragon robe and fled north of the city······ The generals also knew what happened after that. ”
"You're pretty loyal." Li Xinchen sneered and put away the knife, "Go, escort him over there and pull all the prisoners over!" ”
"No!" Chen Zhishen hurriedly responded.
And Pei Zilie also ordered: "Send more people, even if you scrape the ground three feet of this Ji Nancheng, you must find out Xiao Yue for Lao Tzu!" ”
Watching the generals go down separately, Li Xinchen gently rubbed his chin: "We really underestimated Xiao Yue." Boqing, is there anyone still staring outside the city? ”
Xiao Shilian nodded: "Don't worry about this, the gaps in the north of the city have been guarded, so if Xiao Yue wants to go from the north, he will definitely be caught by us." ”
And Pei Zilie also said in a deep voice: "When we entered the city before, there were people left in the other three directions, so we don't have to worry about Xiao Yue having the ability to run out." ”
"In other words, this Xiao Yue can only be in the city." Li Xinchen exhaled lightly, and his eyes swept over the surrounding imperial relatives of Xiliang, "Get these people into the substance alone, and ask what Xiao Yue's physical signs are, and we can arrest people." ”
"Alone?" Xiao Shilian looked at it in amazement.
Li Xinchen spread his hands: "Who knows if these guys will tell the truth, so it's better to ask a few more, and don't be polite to them, these pampered guys are also the urine, no different from the eunuch, I can't say that the courage is not as big as the eunuch." ”
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Gangneung Fortress.
"Boom!" The boulder thrown by the trebuchet smashed heavily on the city wall, and the entire Gangneung city wall shook slightly under the impact of the stone.
The arrival of this big stone seemed to be a new signal, and more stones roared through the air, like large and small raindrops, densely smashing all over the city wall. One of the stones hit the Tibetan tower on the city gate.
Although Gangneung Fortress is also one of the strongest cities in the world, and the roof of the Tibetan Soldier Tower is also supported by heavy thick wood, even the strongest big wood will inevitably have problems under the continuous impact of stones thrown by trebuchets.
I don't know how many stones hit the Tibetan Tower, but it was just the place where it was smashed before the Tower, and suddenly the entire tower shook violently, and the tiles fell loudly, and many even hit their own people.
"Quick, you escort the manager out!" A general dressed in Northern Zhou armor kicked open the door of the Tibetan military tower and shouted anxiously.
Several stones of different sizes directly hit the window on the second floor of the city tower, breaking the window hard, and the stones that rushed into the city tower were unabated and raging in the city tower, and the screams of the soldiers on the upper floor could already be heard at this time.
Several guards carried a gray-haired old man out of the building quickly, followed by the crossbowmen who also hurried out.
However, the outside was obviously not safer than the inside of the building, the stone projectiles thrown by Nan Chen's trebuchet and the arrows fired by the bow and crossbow were overlapping, and the soldiers on the city wall shouted to and fro.
Arrows fell, stones were struck, and blood flowed through the cracks in the bricks of the walls, but apparently the defenders were accustomed to the sight before them, and went straight around the corpses of their comrades and continued on.
A few arrows whizzed towards the guard general who was shouting loudly with his sword, and before he could come back to his senses, the arrows had already pierced through his armor one after another. Before the Northern Zhou general could say a word, he fell to his knees weakly, barely supporting himself with his knife, but more arrows soon shot him into a hedgehog.
"Protect the Governor of the Lower City!" Several generals and the lord of the battle led the shield bearers to run over in a panic, barely blocking the arrows and stones, and the castle tower behind was finally unbearable under the continuous smashing of countless stones.
Looking back at the commander of the guards who had fallen to the ground after being hit by an arrow, and then at the corpses scattered all over the city wall, the gray-haired old man sighed deeply and let the guards carry him down the city.
This old man is the head of Jiangling in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the veteran Lu Teng.
As a veteran general who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, Lu Teng is actually reluctant to return to Jiangling City.
After all, this Jiangling City belongs to the Western Liang and not the Northern Zhou, although he is the governor of Jiangling, but there are not many Northern Zhou people under his command who really obey his words, and that Xiao Yue is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he has to deal with him with a full twelve points of spirit.
Second, although Lu Teng did not expect that Nan Chen would directly turn his sword and gun and shift his focus from Huaibei to Jingxiang in just a few months, he also knew that although Jiangling City was strong and had sufficient grain and grass, it was only a lonely city after all.
In particular, the main forces of the Northern Zhou Dynasty successively went north to crusade against the Turks, and in a sense, Jiangling was not only an isolated city, but also an isolated city that was destined to have no support.
So Lu Teng didn't want to come, because coming here was no different from sending him to death for him who was already old.
But Lu Teng also knew that Yuwen Yong did not have a better choice, although now it seems that the Northern Zhou Dynasty is full of talents, but Lu Teng can also see that there are too many dirty things between the generals of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and even between Yang Jian, Wei Xiaokuan and other famous generals and Yuwen Yong, there are some inexplicable contradictions, which has somewhat become the reason why Yu Wenyong does not dare to let them lead the troops.
Therefore, Lu Teng is the only person who can be used by Yuwen Yong. And it was precisely because he knew that this young male lord was not as high-spirited as he looked, so Lu Teng agreed to this errand. As an old minister, he has paid too much effort for the Yuwen clan, and now that His Majesty needs him, of course Lu Teng has no way to refuse.
It's just that standing on the wall of Jiangling at this moment today, looking at the fierceness of the fierce battle, Lu Teng didn't know whether to regret or sigh in his heart.
The fierceness of the attack of the Nanchen army has exceeded Lu Teng's imagination, in the three directions of the east and west of the city, the Nanchen army, which is several times larger than the defenders, has launched a huge formation, there is no main attack and feint, Fan Yi who is in charge of the west, Lu Guangda who is in charge of the south and Xiao Maha who is personally sitting in the east of the city, are attacking the city at all costs.
Trebuchet, lathe, crossbow······ Nan Chen seems to have taken out all his family resources, and what he did was to take this Jiangling City as quickly as possible.
And the situation in Jiangling City, Lu Teng knows it well. The army was small, the people were panicked, and more importantly, even the emperor was gone.
Thinking of Xiao Yue, Lu Teng subconsciously glanced in the direction of the north of the city.
He didn't know if his decision to let Xiao Yue leave early was right, and all he could pray now was that Xiao Yue could escape.
As long as Xiao Yue is still there, the Northern Zhou can still kill Jiangling again under the pretext of helping Xiliang, and the morality of the entire Jingxiang battle situation is still in their hands, otherwise even the army will be nameless at that time!