Yecheng.

Wang Hu stood on the top of the city, looking at the dark clouds gradually spreading in the sky with exhaustion. He had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights. In the past two days, the enemy's offensive outside the city was very fierce, and he attacked the city day and night, and he simply did not take human lives seriously.

First, the elderly and women and children consume their physical strength. When they have almost exhausted their physical strength, they will send their strong men to launch a fierce attack. It is a very simple method of siege, but it is very effective for them.

If it hadn't been for the sudden heavy rain last night, causing the moat to soar and break the siege army, the city might have been broken.

After all, the total number of people guarding the city is only 3,000, and there is no reserve force. Even if the city has two sides against the turbulent river, the city wall to be guarded is only two sides. However, it is not easy for three thousand people to defend such a large city.

All of them didn't even have time to rest in the past two days, and they all rely on their willpower and physical fitness to support themselves. They are not robots, and it is God's blessing to be able to hold on for two days under such a fierce attack.

Fortunately, Liu Feng sent his direct black armored army here, and each person was 100% loyal to him. If it were other troops, the city would have been unable to be defended for a long time. Dashi County was the lesson of the past.

With more than 400,000 people in Yecheng, Wang Hu did not want to invite Min Zhuang to defend the city together, but it was not possible.

They had only captured Yecheng for less than half a day. In the eyes of the people in the city, they were no different from the Minshan bandits outside. Forcibly summoning the people to bravely arouse public anger. If they suddenly turn against each other when defending the city, the city would fall directly without defending it.

"The lord should be here soon, right?"

Wang Hu held the long knife at his waist and looked at the sky in the distance, the tents stacked outside the city, without seeing the edge at all.

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Minshan bandit camp.

In a large tent of several feet in a radius of the central army, the muddy ground was covered with thick layers of animal skin blankets, and three braziers were burning in the corners around, driving away the chills in the tent.

On the chair, Cao Yu, the Minshan bandit, sat there. This person had a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and his purple beard was like a halberd. Just sitting there gave people a strong sense of urgency.

Next to Cao Yu, a white-faced young man stood behind him with an expressionless face. The person's appearance was somewhat similar to Cao Yu's. He was Cao Fei, the only son of Cao Yu.

In addition to Cao Fei, there were more than a dozen big men wearing leather armor in the tent, and these big men were all leaders among the Minshan bandits.

Cao Yu was extremely strict in his control, but he would kill people to the heart.

So when he was not speaking, the big tent was silent, and the leaders were sitting in danger, only the sound of fire burning firewood in the brazier.

"A mere three thousand defenders, you have so many of you who have been attacking for two days, but you still can't attack. Do you think my sword is rusted and can't cut your head?"

Cao Yu looked around, his tone full of murderous intent.

"It's not that we can't wait to fight hard, but that we are unusual defenders on the top of the city. Although there are only three thousand people, they are all very brave and extremely brave. Our people attacked the top of the city several times and were all beaten down. In addition, it suddenly started to rain heavily last night, and the river water surged-"

"Hmph, stop me."

Cao Yu groaned.

Everyone in the tent suddenly trembled as if shocked, and did not dare to speak for a while.

"I don't care about the reason. In short, I'll give you two more days to not break the city within two days. I'll come and see you."

"yes."

Even if everyone is not sure at this time, they must agree, otherwise they will really kill people with their character of controlling the plate.

"Okay, let's go down and prepare. First arrange people to rebuild the bridge of the moat, and then continue to attack the city."

After Cao Yu sent the big men out, Cao Fei, who was standing next to him, looked slightly moved, and he wanted to speak but stopped.

"If you want to ask, ask what you want."

"Dad, I don't understand why you are so anxious to attack the city. This will cause a lot of losses to us. Moreover, the people below complained about this kind of siege battle."

Cao Fei asked.

"Hmph, is this what you want to ask, or is it the person below who asked you to ask?"

Cao Yu glanced at his son and continued without waiting for him to explain: "There is a reason why I am so anxious to attack the city."

“What’s the reason?”

"Because in two days, if we don't break the city in front of us, we will run away."

Cao Yu sighed.

"escape?"

Cao Fei's pupils shrank, "Is it because of Liu Zhe?"

"That's right."

Cao Yu's face suddenly became complicated, "Don't you really think that with our strength, you can compete with Liu Zhe's army of more than 100,000, right?"

Cao Fei was silent, and after a while, he asked, "So my father didn't plan to compete with Liu Zhe for Tang Yuan's Mansion at the beginning, but instead took advantage of the fact that Liu Zhe's army did not arrive and plundered it and left?"

"That's right, I'm not stupid. Even Zhuang Rui's 100,000 troops lost. Just because of our mobs, they are not Liu Zhe's opponents. I have figured it out. A few days ago, Chen Sheng sent someone to come to me and wanted me to join them and work together to make major events together. I think this idea is good."

"Dad, even if we want to leave Tang Yuan's Mansion, we don't have to go to Chen Sheng? We have so many people, where can't we go to the world?"

Cao Fei looked unwilling. After all, once he defected to Chen Sheng, he might not be able to be the prince of Minshan, which made him feel relieved.

"What do you know? Do you think your father is willing to join forces with Chen Sheng. Isn't this a forced one? The reason why the court allowed us to let us go was not only because of the invasion of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also restrained most of the troops in the north and the north. Another reason was that the heavy drought had passed. Now that the disaster was over, the north and south transport was reopened, the court could quickly transfer the southern troops through the canal. With our strength, if we encounter the imperial army, there would be no attack at all."

Cao Yu stood up, walked to the map, looked at it and said, "Our rebel army is weak. Only by joining together can we have a chance to gain a glimmer of life under the encirclement of the imperial army."

"Since that's the case, why don't we choose Liu Zhe--"

"He and we are not on the same side. From his style of conduct and the qualities shown by the Black Armored Army, we can see that these people are not like the rebels formed by hungry people, but rather like a regular army. I suspect that the Liu thief was simply a force secretly supported by the Northern Wei."

Cao Yu's brows were deeply locked, "I believe that this old man Zhuang Rui must have noticed it. Maybe he has reported it to the court. I have a premonition that the court must have started to mobilize troops here, which is one of the reasons why I decided to leave Tangyuan's mansion."

Cao Fei breathed a deep breath, "I understand, Dad, I will urge the people below to seize the time to attack the city."

"Well, go ahead, in fact, you don't have to worry too much about the joint venture. We are not much different from Chen Sheng's strength. After the joint venture, I don't know who will take charge of the plate."
Chapter completed!