It was Li Xin'er, Qingyun'er, and Ziyun'er who came. The news of the imperial court's attack on Shu has long been known. After Li Mi returned to Chengdu, he informed Li Xin'er and others of the news, and then hurriedly mobilized troops and horses. Li Xin'er convened the ladies for a family meeting, and decided to help with Qingyun'er and Ziyun'er, who knew martial arts. At this time, Wang Yuan's soldiers and horses had not returned, and there were not many soldiers and horses in Shudi, so he had to make a contribution. Although Lan Xinhui and Gao Moyan were extremely opposed, Li Xin'er was an eldest woman, and her temperament was not easy to be convinced, so she forcibly made this decision.

"Mrs. Sun is well guarded." Li Xin'er, Qingyun'er, and Ziyun'er hurriedly returned the gift.

"It's not the right time for the three ladies to come, so I humbly implore the three ladies to leave Ningzhou quickly." Sun Weisheng got straight to the point.

"What? Did you just come and drive us away? What about General Li? I will go to him and sue you. Li Xin'er crossed her waist and said.

"Oh, you don't know, the old general is still in a coma, and his life and death are uncertain. We don't have time to take care of him, because the city is already in danger. We are going to live and die with the city, the arrival of the three ladies, it is difficult to protect the lowly position, please leave quickly, the lowly duty cannot bear this responsibility. Sun Weisheng was anxious, and spoke very directly.

"I see, is the city about to break? Two sisters, it seems that we have come at the right time. Li Xin'er looked at the head of the city and said.

Qingyun'er and Ziyun'er nodded at the same time.

"Oh, please, let's go." Sun Weisheng wanted to cry without tears.

Li Xin'er looked at him and said, "Sun Taishou, we are here to help you kill the enemy, and we don't need your protection." The good things we brought to you are now just right now. Hurry up and unload the truck. ”

"......" Sun Weisheng didn't know what to say, he didn't need anything good now. What is the use of giving yourself a mountain of gold and silver treasures? But Li Xin'er turned around and drove towards the cart, and he could only follow. When she came to a big car, Li Xin'er waved her hand and ordered someone to lift the cloth, revealing a large wooden box.

Li Xin'er got into the car, pulled out the long sword on her waist and pried open the box with her own hands, and said to Sun Weisheng: "Come and see." ”

Sun Weisheng frowned, jumped into the cart and looked into the box, but saw that the box was a pile of unkempt withered grass, and there was nothing. When she was stunned, Li Xin'er stretched out her hand to remove the messy grass, but saw one hand ** lying in the grass, exuding a cold metal smell.

"It's ...... Grenade. Play? ”

"You still know the goods. This is the latest batch to be made, only 600 pieces, but it should be enough to deal with the siege. It's a rarity, and if you're lucky, you wouldn't have been able to touch it, but now you can use it to kill the enemy yourself. Will it work? Do I want to teach you? ”

Sun Weisheng was speechless, his mouth was open with excitement, and his nose was purring and panting as he stared at the grenades. Bullet eyes shine. Grenade. How could he not know the power of the bullet and the method of use? After the successful development of the hand, there was a secret meeting of high-ranking officers and officers in the Shence Army to demonstrate and promote, and he participated in its meeting. See for yourself the power and usefulness of the bullet. But this thing is far from Chengdu, which can promote the whole army, and it can only be equipped with Wang Yuan's personal guard cavalry, so he Sun Weisheng has never used it personally, but he didn't expect that Mrs. Dashuai actually brought such a killing weapon to come.

"What are you doing? Why don't you unload the car and take it to kill the enemy? The city seems to be in chaos, and it is really about to be broken. Li Xin'er frowned.

Sun Weisheng woke up like a dream, jumped out of the car and quickly ordered someone to unload the equipment. Li Xin'er, Qingyun'er, and Ziyun'er had already rushed to the city wall with more than 100 people. The next moment, the new force began to slaughter at the top of the city. Although Li Xin'er is far from Gongsun Lan's martial arts, he is also a master of martial arts, and these ordinary soldiers are not opponents at all. Coupled with Qingyun'er and Ziyun'er and these retinues with a little martial arts behind them, they quickly emptied the enemy troops on the city wall within a range of dozens of steps.

Sun Weisheng led hundreds of personal soldiers to fold grenades. The bullet rushed to the city wall, and Sun Weisheng had simply told these people how to use the manpower. But seeing that Sun Weisheng first ripped off a fuse, his smoky hand ** was thrown into the dense enemy army under the city wall.

An earth-shattering roar sounded, and a puff of black smoke rose from the crowd below the city, and the next moment, the soldiers on the attacking and defending sides above and below the city were stunned. At the base of the city wall, at the part where the hand was exploded, more than a dozen soldiers were lying on the ground, and the dense crowd was blown out of a square space, covered with dust and flesh, and green smoke was still rising in the pit.

"Wow, that's fierce." The soldiers defending the city shouted.

"Blow up these bastards, throw them under the wall, don't throw them on the wall." Sun Weisheng shouted.

"Boom, boom." Green smoke rose one by one, blood and flesh flew on the ground, smoke and dust billowed from the ground, and the siege soldiers howled like ghosts and wolves as if they had exploded.

Sun Weisheng and hundreds of hands followed behind Li Xin'er and others, charging along the city wall while throwing my hands under the city. Five or six hundred hands almost blew up the outside of the wall. The soldiers under the city finally couldn't stand it, who had ever seen such a devilish killing weapon? A dozen people were killed and injured in one explosion, and thousands of people were killed and injured in just a few moments. Grenade. When the bullet was dropped, the siege soldiers below also retreated like a tide.

Li Guangbi, who was supervising the battle in the rear, was shocked when his first hand exploded, although from a distance, the black smoke rising up did not seem to be very powerful, but he was keenly aware that something was wrong. Then he had a sense of foreboding as he saw a continuous stream of black smoke rising and a violent explosion coming, and the soldiers fled back like a frying pan.

"What's going on? No withdrawal is permitted. No withdrawal is permitted. Those who retreat die. Li Guangbi yelled.

"Li Shuai, they had to withdraw, they used strange firearms, they blew up a large area, killed and injured thousands of people in a moment, and if they didn't withdraw, the whole army would be wiped out." Someone shouted.

"Strange firearms?" Li Guangbi said dumbfoundedly.

A large number of soldiers and horses fled in rout, and the three thousand soldiers were killed, but they could not prevent the rout of the soldiers and horses. Zheng Qiushan really couldn't look at it, and said coldly: "Li Shuai, do you really want to kill all your own people?" Thousands of people have been killed by your men, and this battle is lost and irretrievable. ”

Li Guangbi scolded angrily, and seeing that the general trend had gone, he had to order the whole army to retreat.

The 36,000 imperial soldiers and horses were all defeated at once, and Li Guangbi, Zheng Qiushan and others hurriedly gathered the soldiers and retreated to the camp.

After the besieging soldiers below the city walls began to flee, the soldiers who attacked the city walls were unlucky, without follow-up reinforcements, and faced with the morale of the defenders who fought back, although they tried their best to resist, they could not escape the fate of being killed. As the sun set, calm returned to the city. The brutal battle, which lasted for several hours, finally came to an end.

There were more than a dozen siege battles a day, and both sides invested as many as 100,000 soldiers and horses. Only more than 6,000 defenders were left in the defending side to fight, with more than 12,000 killed and more than 10,000 wounded. The attackers were even more miserable, with more than half of the 70,000 troops lost and more than 35,000 killed and wounded, but they still failed to capture Ningzhou. Although it was a pyrrhic victory, it was the defenders who won the battle after all.

It's getting dark. Li Xin'er, Qingyun'er, Ziyun'er and others, who had changed into clean clothes, visited Li Mi in a room in the back house of the state government. The moment they saw Li Mi, Li Xin'er and the others were startled, because Li Mi's mouth and eyes were crooked, and her face looked very terrifying.

The military doctor told Li Xin'er and others that the old general had suffered heat stroke and stroke, and half of his body was paralyzed. His condition was still deteriorating, and he had lost the ability to speak. But he is still conscious, can still hear others, and can react.

Sun Weisheng knelt at the head of the bed and held Li Mi's hand, reported the news of repelling the enemy army, and informed Li Mi that the three wives had come to help in the battle, turning the tide of the battle.

Li Mi actually twisted his body when he heard this, and said something vaguely in his mouth, as if he wanted to get up and say thank you.

Li Xin'er's eyes were moist, and she stepped forward and said softly: "The old general must not move, and recuperate well." Ningzhou will definitely be able to hold on. Erlang will be back soon, and General Li must take care of himself. Erlang will definitely want to thank General Li in person. ”

Li Mi snorted, as if she understood Li Xin'er's words, and seemed to be relieved. The people did not dare to stay for a long time, such diseases need to be recuperated, and there is no good medicine to cure. But I don't know if Li Mi can survive this catastrophe.

……

In the hall of the state government, Li Xin'er, Qing Yun'er, Zi Yun'er, Sun Weisheng, Chen Chao, Zhang Kai and others are holding an emergency meeting to study countermeasures. Although today's battle finally held the city and repelled the besiegers. But everyone knew in their hearts that Ningzhou could no longer withstand the next siege.

There are less than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Ningzhou City. That's not all, all the supplies to defend the city at the critical time are gone. The arrows are exhausted, and the rolling wood and stones to defend the city are exhausted, which is the most fatal. Once the other party attacks the city, do you really want to bite with your teeth, kick with your feet, and rely on hand-to-hand combat? And with the disadvantage of numbers, hand-to-hand combat obviously has no chance of winning.

Six hundred grenades brought by Li Xin'er. The bullets were all used up in the afternoon. Although that thing is a big killing weapon, it is a pity that it is consumed too quickly, and the six hundred pieces are all used up with a flick of the hand, and it is the finished product that has been accumulated by the Chengdu Arsenal for nearly a month after it has been in full swing, and it was all thrown away in a short time on the battlefield.

"For the sake of the present...... It's not that I'm saying frustrating, I'm afraid we have to give up Ningzhou, if they attack the city again tonight, Ningzhou will be lost. Mrs. Guo and two wives, Sun Taishou and General Chen. The last general is not cowardice, but now is really the time to decide. Is it really here to live and die with the city, or is it ready to evacuate Chengdu at any time. In a silent atmosphere, Zhang Yan spoke.

Chen Chao frowned and said: "Brother Zhang, we just won this battle, and just now in front of the old general's sickbed, we also said that we would defend the city with all our might, why did you mention the evacuation again?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Brother Chen, it's not that I want to mention it, it's urgent to make a decision now." Now I still have 8,000 soldiers and horses to fight, but they are all exhausted. Now they can only rest and recover, and it is impossible to carry earth and stones to the city. In this case, if the other party attacks again, we will be defeated. ”

Chen Chao smacked his lips and said, "I admit that you are right, but should you just give up Ningzhou?" Then the blood of tens of thousands of our brothers has not been shed in vain. ”

Zhang Xuan was about to say something, but Sun Weisheng waved his hand to stop him. Sun Weisheng arched his hand to Li Xin'er, who was sitting in a chair sipping tea, and said, "Mrs. Guo, please show the three ladies about this matter." What did the three ladies say about advancing and retreating? ”

Li Xin'er put down the teacup and smiled: "We can't do such a big thing." We just came to help, with Sun Taishou and the two generals at their disposal. But then again, we expected it to be bad, but we didn't expect it to be so bad. General Li fell ill, and the soldiers and horses in the city were also killed and wounded so greatly, under the current situation, it was indeed difficult to resist the next attack of the enemy army with these 8,000 soldiers and horses alone. ”

Sun Weisheng said: "However, Mrs. Zeguo means that we are ready to give up Ningzhou?" But the old man wants to defend Ningzhou, this is his wish. ”

Li Xin'er sighed lightly and said: "We all know the old man's thoughts, he is unwilling to give up Ningzhou, that is, he doesn't want Li Guangbi's soldiers and horses to drive straight in, causing the situation of Shudi." But now, I'm afraid it's still people who are the most important. This is what your commanders often say. The gains and losses of one city and one pool are nothing, the most important thing is that people are there. Everyone died here, and their reputation was lost, but they died in vain, which must be disliked by your commander. ”

Everyone thinks that this is exactly Wang Yuan's guiding ideology, people come first, he never likes to be stupid to take people's lives to the full name, he has said more than once, that kind of behavior is stupid. The so-called take a step back and open the sky.

"So be it. I suggest that the two brothers, Zhang Xuan and Chen Chao, the two of you escort the three ladies and the old man to go first. I'm here with my soldiers and horses. I promised the old man to guard Ningzhou, and I am also Ningzhou too guarded, I can't go. Sun Weisheng said.

Only then did a few people know that Sun Weisheng's attitude was also to stay here, and he was not willing to give up Ningzhou like this.

"If you stay here with your soldiers and horses, aren't you also waiting for death? Didn't you hear what Mrs. Guo said? The marshal also doesn't like your behavior, you just died here, I'm afraid the marshal won't think you did the right thing. Zhang Xuan frowned and exclaimed.

"The handsome scold me, scold me, I don't mean it's for any fame, it's just that I promised the old man, and I will stay here and keep my promise. I'm just going to be a person who keeps my promise. It's none of your business, and I know you're right. But I can't go. Sun Weisheng said in a deep voice.

"Hey, it's really the same temper as the old man, you still say that the old general has a stubborn temper, I think you are similar to him." Zhang Yan shook his head and sighed.

Chen Chao helped Sun Weisheng, and he also stood on the side of staying to fight to the death, but Zhang Qian and Li Xin'er were embarrassed. Li Xin'er didn't say much, knowing that if she stayed, she would never be so stupid, she made up her mind to leave here with Li Mi and return to Chengdu. She didn't want her son to be without a mother, she was here to kill the enemy, not to die.

But Zhang Yan can't be as simple as Li Xin'er, Sun Weisheng doesn't leave, Chen Chao doesn't leave, he definitely can't go. All he could do was to persuade each other, hoping that the two would change their minds. For a while, the three of them were entangled endlessly, arguing endlessly in order to leave or stay.

Just when the quarrel was so red and thick that no one could convince anyone, suddenly, the deputy general guarding the city suddenly appeared at the door of the yamen in a hurry with a happy face, so that the quarrel in the hall came to an abrupt end.

"Han Laosan, what are you doing? No longer staring at the enemy camp in the city, do you want to be lazy? Sun Weisheng frowned.

"Sun Taishou, two generals, there is movement in the enemy camp. It was as if they were being evacuated overnight. Han Laosan replied loudly in an excited tone.

"Evacuate?" Everyone was stunned, and some were skeptical. Although they have suffered heavy losses to the enemy today, the opponent's troops still have nearly 40,000 troops to fight, they must know that the defenders in the city are already small, how can they evacuate at this time?

Several people immediately got up and rushed to the city wall to look in the direction of the enemy camp, and sure enough, they saw that the long line of torches was marching in a long line for several miles on the way back to the northeast, and the other party was pulling out the camp and leaving.

"This ...... Is it deception? Trick us into letting our guard down? Chen Chao said.

"It's very likely that General Li deceived them twice before, and they probably want to deceive us as well." Zhang Yan said.

"But what is their purpose in deceiving us? We're not going to hunt them down. And, in today's situation, do they need to do that? They could have attacked directly. Sun Weisheng said.

"They may be afraid of the great weapon of destruction we have sacrificed today, they think that our grenades. There are so many bullets, maybe it's because of the difficulty. ”

"Well, quite possibly. In short, we should not take it lightly. Ordered the brothers to rise up and prepare carefully to prevent them from attacking suddenly. ”

……

None of the speculations on the city were clear, and Li Guangbi's soldiers and horses did begin to evacuate overnight, but it was neither a ruse nor a frightened retreat. In fact, immediately after the defeat in the afternoon, Li Guangbi convened a meeting, at which he gave the order to launch another night attack in the evening. He was already red-eyed, and the 80,000 army followed him, although he solved Li Heng and Li Pu and others like a bamboo, but he didn't expect to encounter such fierce resistance in Ningzhou. There are now only more than 50,000 people left in the 80,000-strong army, of which only more than 35,000 can fight, and more than 10,000 wounded soldiers are unable to go to the battlefield at all. Such a loss was difficult for him to accept. Moreover, even after suffering such a huge loss, he still did not take Ningzhou, which was the most uncomfortable for him.

He had already heard the whispers in the barracks, and felt the difference in the generals beside him