"Song Hao has a clever plan to guard Jiuquan, he doesn't have the courage to fight day and night, and the 100,000 shrunken turtles in the city will come to meet each other as soon as possible."

Although there are not many 500 people, they sing such sarcastic words in unison in the tune of military songs, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, the terrain is flat, and there is no obstacle to absorbing sound waves, so Song Hao and others can also hear it clearly in Jiuquan City.

"Damn it!" Song Hao just scolded with hatred, and then forcibly suppressed his emotions. The difference is that the other drivers, Jun Cheng and others who rushed to the head of the city one after another, and several captains guarding the city, all had ugly faces.

Isn't it ugly? In their opinion, Song Taishou is a good official, and he is also good to them, but this day and night is really too cowardly, and the enemy is clearly bullying people, so he sends so many people, and he doesn't dare to fight, and he loses all the face of the Jiuquan people!

Song Hao turned his head violently, and suddenly saw everyone's expressions, and he was also taken aback!

Many of these people have been following him for nearly 10 years and are very familiar with each other. In the past, in their eyes, Song Hao saw unreserved trust and support, but just now, Song Hao clearly saw suspicion!

Yes, it is doubt, Song Hao's behavior yesterday, although it was cautious and conservative, in order to be perfect. But it also greatly damaged Song Hao's prestige, if it continues like this, once the enemy army comes out like this every day, soon the soldiers in the city will be tired, and the morale will be low, and at that time, there will be doubts about whether they can hold Jiuquan!

Something has to be done!

Anyway, Duan Ye and the others returned to the camp, paid the military order, and then fell asleep, everything in the army had already made a plan, to build a boulder cannon, so that the gunner could recover his feelings, these things don't need to worry about themselves, with Duan Ping and Liu Guo here, this matter will be carried out according to Duan Ye's plan.

It wasn't until the third pole of the day that Duan Ye woke up, and he knew from Duan Ping that this morning, Yang Ying took thousands of people to really attack Jiuquan City, this time he brought a ladder to rush the car, and the whole set of guys was used again, and once someone climbed the city, but in the end he still failed to take Jiuquan City, and calculated that the losses were about seven or eight hundred killed, and more were injured.

However, in the end, there is a difference in combat effectiveness, Lu Guang's army is the elite of a hundred battles, and the garrison of Jiuquan City has not fought many battles after all, although they all have the same hatred of the enemy, but the gap in combat effectiveness is obvious, and the loss of Jiuquan City in this battle is not small.

All this is in the plan, the main task of Lu Guangjun in the past few days is to constantly harass and exhaust the Jiuquan army, and at the same time build a huge stone cannon, and when the boulder artillery team is reformed, it will be the day when Jiuquan City is broken.

In addition, according to the advice of Du Jin and others, Lu Guang also took the order to the mansion, went to the rear team in the starry night, ordered all the cavalry to take away most of the horses, entered the pass without resting, and came directly to Jiuquan to help. Since all the counties west of Jiuquan have been annexed, there are the remaining infantry as escorts, and they are not afraid of anything.

War is the ultimate contest of human wisdom, although Lu Guang's troops are not enough to besiege the city, but also set up camps in all directions, in order to naturally play the role of siege, but in this era, due to the speed of cavalry and infantry, if the people in the city want to break through, I am afraid it is difficult to stop, therefore, Lu Guang specially prepared 3000 elite cavalry, commanded by Lu You, the purpose is to cruise around Jiuquan City, there is only one task, and the soldiers of Jiuquan City are never allowed to set up a large camp outside the city.

Speaking of which, Song Hao also made a big mistake, if he set up a large battalion on the side of Jiuquan City at the beginning, and sent brave generals to garrison, the city and the battalion formed a corner momentum, and the siege of the city would exhaust the battalion, and the attack camp would come to the city to help, so it seemed that he was dividing his own troops, but in fact he was dividing the enemy, if Lu Guang did not have an absolute superiority in troops, it would be difficult to get Jiuquan.

Although Song Hao didn't expect it at the time, it was too late after thinking about it, just when Song Hao sent Xie Batian out of the city with only 1,000 cavalry to try his luck, Lu You's brigade just arrived, and almost all of them were green cavalry.

The two sides slashed for a while, although it was said that Xie Batian was not afraid of death in order to take revenge, but the gap in strength was there, and Lu You was heavy with three shots on his body, and the blood flowed like an infusion, and he finally escaped back, and the cavalry under his command was even more rushed by Lu Guang's elite in a hundred battles, and he barely ran back after relying on the desperate efforts of some veterans.

Back in Jiuquan City, there were only a few people left, only in their early 500s, and most of them were injured. This result greatly shocked the military and civilians of Jiuquan City, especially Song Hao.

Although Song Hao has always believed that the enemy is strong and I am weak, but the regular army of the Great Qin Empire, there is no reason for the gap to the point where it cannot be eliminated, and there is always a way to overcome it with proper tactics.

But this time, Xie Batian's command can't be said to be bad, and the soldiers can't say that they don't fight to the death, although the enemy has a three-to-one advantage, but it won't come to this point, right? According to Xie Batian, the enemy's losses should be within 100 people. And many of them were killed by him.

The cruel reality made Song Hao completely sober, and the confidence that burst out of the previous repulsion of Yang Ying also calmed down, the enemy may not be able to attack the city for a while and a half, but if the field battle is front, the ten thousand people in Jiuquan are not enough for them to fight.

"Batian, this is my fault, I don't blame you, I don't blame you......" Song Hao saw Xie Batian sitting there and let the military doctor heal his injuries, but he still looked sad, and couldn't help but say comfort.

"My lord, don't worry, Xie Batian is not a person who doesn't know what to do, the distinction between public and private is very clear, the little man died in a military uniform in the city, and he died well, the dead are gone, it's useless to think about it, Xie Batian only hopes to assist the adults to defend Jiuquan, keep Liangzhou, and kill as many thieves as possible, so as to avenge the little man!"

"Good!" Song Hao said happily, "It's great that you can have this idea, now the envoy's edict has not yet arrived, but this official has decided that you will be the general of Jiuquanwei, assist this official, and be responsible for the defense of Jiuquan!" ”

"The last general obeys!" Xie Batian sat there, his whole body was held down by the military doctor, so he couldn't salute, Song Hao looked at the vertical and horizontal scars on Xie Batian's body, there were new and old, and the new wounds were still oozing blood from time to time, and he felt uncomfortable.

Why should there be wars in the world? Why can't we live in peace? In the previous ten years of peace in Jiuquan, Jiuquan City was rich in things and people, and business and travel gathered, which can be said to be a paradise on earth, but after this battle, many people have died, and many families have been broken, and when the battle is over, I don't know how many wives will lose their husbands, mothers will lose their sons, and children will lose their fathers, for the sake of the selfish desires of careerists.

At that time, if Jiuquan was guarded, it would also hurt its vitality, and I am afraid that it would not be able to recover in ten years, and if Jiuquan was lost...... Song Hao couldn't imagine the consequences!