This plain is adjacent to the Yellow River. The residual heat in the water and the ground makes the hot air subside. The cool mountain breeze blows from the mountains in the south, which is refreshing and pleasant.

The top of the mountain is still the same granite boulder that was used to observe the energy last night. Qianqian is sitting next to Ye Qing, monitoring the changes in Guancheng attentively, choosing some useful ones to talk to her husband.

Her eyes were clear and bright, and she had her own understanding. She analyzed: "They bombed continuously and there is no more power to maintain the shield. This shows that the mana loss is very serious."

This is exactly what he expected... Ye Qing smiled and said briefly: "Okay."

"Husband, what's the secret here, why don't you tell me?"

"The art of war is nothing more than destroying the strong with the strong, or destroying the strong with the sharp. It depends on the heart and ears - in fact, I have already said it."

"If you ask me to say it again, I can only say that there was a man named Li Shimin. Some people commented that he was the emperor who was the best at fighting in ancient times."

"This person is the best at destroying sharpness with strength."

"Li Shimin, who is this?" Qianqian was confused. However, there were hundreds of dynasties and thousands of emperors on the earth. It was normal for her to be unable to remember it for a moment. She stopped thinking about it in detail, but kept it in her heart, and prepared to return to the earth again.

Go read it.

After a while, Guo Jia came up and reported a statistical summary: "...all the enemy's 200 trebuchets were destroyed, but all but 500 of our 1,200 trebuchets were destroyed by incoming fire.

There are still one hundred and fifty intact. Most of the other projecting arms and pivots are severely worn and difficult to use anymore, and all the standard stone bullets have been fired. Should they be withdrawn together?"

"Withdraw it. Ask the engineers to dismantle the broken trebuchet on the spot and bring back the core metal parts... There is no need to reassemble them. They will no longer be needed in the future." Ye Qing thought about it and spoke again: "Although it will be used

No, but there are one hundred and fifty aircraft left, continue to attack, be sure to keep these words - continuous."

"Also, we're here tonight, but we can serve some side dishes. The other party has worked hard at night, so let's give them some light."

Qianqian immediately sent a message to the front line. The huge military formation was busy in the light of torches. The assembly line was produced in a standard format. Basically, one or two people in the ten-person team of each trebuchet were involved in the assembly and the order of disassembly was clear.

Everything seemed in order.

On Guancheng, Hu Zhen and several generals watched during the inspection, but they were all silent.

Facing such an army alone, no one knows how long they can hold on... Fortunately, there is still a ten-day time limit and there is still a chance.

"Put on the lights -" Suddenly, this gentle female voice spread throughout the audience.

What is that... Hu Zhen's eyes widened.

Thousands of bright red lanterns were lit, rising from a military formation in the southeast, moving along the southeast wind in mid-air, and the bright red light further illuminated Guancheng...

Ye Qing looked at it from a distance, his eyes narrowed slightly. Historically, Zhuge Liang was only a ten-year-old boy who invented this thing. Of course, it was not called Kongming Lantern at this time, but a sky lantern.

"shoot--"

Arrows rained down like rain, and they continued to suppress Guancheng in the night attack. Half a million allied troops took turns to take up the battle. This fourth round has come to the Jiangdong Army.

Yu Fan had predicted this when he was supervising the production of the arrow tower. At this time, it cannot be said that he was not even willing to shoot arrows, so he could only secretly order the water to be released...

It’s hard to say how effective it will be. The large-scale coverage of an arrow array does not rely on the accuracy of a single arrow. It can only be slightly useful. Just put in as much water as you can - it can be pushed until it is dark at night. Isn’t the accuracy good?

Until I saw thousands of lights floating against the wind in the night sky in front of the formation, my face turned ugly and I said, "Go and find out what happened to these lights."

The head of the magician observed and quickly responded: "It is a kind of paper lantern that uses heat to expand and fly... Uh, there is a mark on the paper. It seems to be produced by Mijia Paper Factory. It says military paper. Keep it dry?"

"Damn it, damn it..." Although Yu Fan didn't know the specific effect of this paper lantern, when he saw this, an ominous feeling came to his heart, as if he saw Ye Qing's sneer expression - this guy must have ruined everything.

All factors have been taken into account

Combined with the two years of papermaking in Yuzhou, it is not clear that all aspects are preparing for Shangluo... maybe even the Queen Mother has been booked long ago

This thought simply chilled my heart, how far I had to prepare for this.

"Check quickly, what's going on with this paper lantern?" Yu Fan roared angrily, feeling at a loss what to do. Ye Qing's endless methods were really terrifying.

hulaoguan

"Go check out the flying lantern." Hu Zhentong roared on Guancheng: "Go quickly!"

Many plans for the coalition forces have been discussed in detail, including the intention to use physical strength to drain the energy of the defenders with the support of spells and large quantities of night fighting materials. It is not difficult to predict.

During the day, the trebuchet array gave the Xiliang Army a surprise. Now at night, I found that the trebuchet unit was gradually declining. I thought I could take a little breather, but I found that the "surprise" had come again.

I saw that at this time, the Xiliang Army also took turns to take the field, but found that the city was at a disadvantage in shooting... The brighter the light on the city, the more obvious the target was, and the contrast between light and dark made it difficult to see outside the city clearly, and the accuracy was greatly reduced.

But...how do these lights fly?

"A secret message came from the other side - this is Liu Bei's new sky lantern."

Hu Zhen covered his forehead with his hands and stared at these red lights in the sky for a while. Then his eyes moved to several nearby sections of city walls and sighed: "Go and invite some real people from Taiping Dao..."

"This..." The two Taoist priests responsible for protection and emergency contact hesitated.

Originally, the mana blessing of the Guancheng Formation would have an advantage, but this was completely offset by cluster attacks such as Ye Huolei, oil tanks, and stone bombs. This forced the Taoist priests of Taiping Dao to enter the battlefield in advance. Later, they received a secret report and reinforced it again.

The city wall was protected from water attacks, which consumed a lot of mana throughout the day, but the coalition's mana power was consumed very little, and Liu Bei's direct line did not play at all.

At this time, they looked at each other and couldn't help but shake their heads: "The imbalance of mana reserves is already very dangerous. How can we give up recovery time to consume it? If this continues, the situation will worsen..."

"I know you need to rest and recover your mana, but please be sure to send a small force to drive away these sky lanterns. Otherwise, the arrow array will be suppressed and dispersed, and Liu Bei will dare to directly attack the city with his army."

Hu Zhen pointed to the ladder trucks standing in the darkness in the distance: "He has prepared everything, understand? This possibility must be blocked at this time."

After a while, a strong wind blew through, eventually blowing thousands of sky lanterns across the city. Everyone just breathed a sigh of relief when another gust of wind blew these lanterns back, and another wave of arrows rained down so that no one in the city dared to stand up.

, one by one the crossbowmen hid in the archery tower...

The envoy who arrived in a hurry felt his heart sink. The worst mana consumption situation had begun. The enemy's core intention was finally revealed - to drain the mana of the defenders' magician group and then launch a surprise attack.

"Isn't it Yu Fan who is attacking now?" Sun Zhenren lowered his voice: "Can you..."

"It's useless, it's just a gust of wind. If this doesn't work, the princes will question it, and Ye Qing will take the opportunity to turn against him directly."

The special envoy shook his head and glanced at Yu Fan, whose face was ashen in front of the battle in the distance: "Although these people on the ground have their own plans to stab us, they also pay attention to the timing of their stabbings and will not be stupid enough to take chestnuts from the fire for us."

On a distant hill, Ye Qing stretched out his hand and caressed Qianqian's supple waist. He also looked at the group of lights and the rain of arrows, and concluded: "...anything about stabbing and plotting, when we have the strength, we can't do it.

On the table, unless the governor, Yu Fan has decided to take a risk... Well, maybe he dares to take risks when he is alone, but with the governor, haha... Having more people is not a good thing, everyone is afraid of the snipe and the clam fighting, and the fisherman will benefit.

"

Qianqian pursed her lips and smiled, looking back at her husband, her eyes filled with water: "My husband is not afraid."

"I'm afraid too...I just concentrate on doing my own thing." Ye Qing smiled and kissed her cheek.

"Don't make trouble, this is outside..." Qianqian's face turned red. She didn't suppress her temperament, but she inevitably felt shy in front of others.

She was about to ask which option to choose next, when she suddenly looked back.

On the quiet mountain road, a serious-looking middle-aged man came up with Xun You. A team of white-eared soldiers on duty came forward to inquire. They stared at the stranger and looked back to ask for instructions from their lord.

The middle-aged man was a little hesitant, but when he glanced around and saw Ye Qing making out with his wife in public, he frowned and turned around and left: "How unbecoming is this? Isn't this the appearance of a master?"

Xun You, however, had an informal temperament and pulled him back, laughing: "My lord, I was reminiscing with Tian Yuanhao about the past. We were saying that we couldn't agree on one thing, so I asked my lord to judge."

Tian Yuanhao... Tian Feng, this guy has been under house arrest. Wouldn't he rather die than surrender?

Ye Qing laughed. The judgment was just a pretense. The Xun family had a long history with some aristocratic families in Hebei. This Xun You could be considered a deliberate introduction.

Tian Feng, Zi Yuanhao, a Julu man.

Tian Feng was born with intelligence since he was a child. When he was young, he lost his relatives and mourned. Although the mourning time had passed, he smiled without showing his teeth, so he was highly regarded by his neighbors. Moreover, Tian Feng was knowledgeable and talented, and was very famous in Jizhou. He was initially regarded by Tai

When the Wei Mansion was recruited, he was recommended as a talented person, and was later selected as a censor. He was resentful that eunuchs were in power and good ministers were killed, so he abandoned his official position and returned home.

Soon, he became the subordinate of Han Fu, the Mu of Jizhou. He was unsuccessful because of his integrity. Yuan Shao heard about Tian Feng's reputation and brought valuable gifts. He humbly recruited Tian Feng and appointed him as his assistant. He trusted and valued him very much.

However, he was still an upright person. He made many suggestions to Yuan Shao but were not accepted.

Feng was killed by Yuan Shao.

Looking at it at this time, I saw that this man had some yellowish aura, but he was upright and had an upright character. This kind of ministers often have difficulty in ending well. Ye Qing thought about it and said with a smile: "Now that Yuan Hao is here, what can you teach me?

"

Tian Feng showed no appreciation. He straightened his neck and stared at Ye Qing, and suddenly said: "The public death period is coming."

As soon as he said this, Xundu couldn't help but change his color slightly.

Ye Qing pointed at him and said to Xun with a smile: "Look at this guy, it's a good thing to be upright, but he gets it wrong when he opens his mouth. I heard that Yuan Shao is not happy, there is a reason."

Xun said: "Yes, even to my father, I cannot speak like this, let alone my lord, but his courage is rare."

Ye Qing smiled: "Extremely yes, extremely yes."
Chapter completed!