The two men have been stationed under the city for a long time. The Caishi City side fought fiercely, but the Linjiang City side was not allowed to move.
"Are you trying to tempt us to attack?"
Hu Feiyang looked at the empress's handsome flag, puzzled.
Qiu Kuohai said: "It's possible, or the empress is not here at all. I heard that the fighting at Jade Buddha Pass was also fierce."
Xixia is inquiring about Nanliang's situation, and Nanliang is also inquiring about Xixia's situation.
Both sides hope that the other side will make a breakthrough first so that they can benefit.
"How about we give it a try?"
Hu Feiyang suggested, but Qiu Kuohai shook his head and said: "We are ordered by our superiors to only besiege and not attack. If we attack rashly, I'm afraid it will be in vain."
Hu Feiyang sighed: "We two veterans can only watch three juniors make contributions."
Of course he was talking about Xue Ze and the others.
Qiu Kuohai said with a smile: "It's not necessarily a matter of merit or demerit. If you beat him down, it's merit. If you can't beat him, it's a fault."
After several days of siege, one hundred thousand soldiers died under Caishi City.
"Let's go back to camp, drink tea and play chess."
Hu Feiyang shook his head and chuckled. The two generals came with hundreds of thousands of troops, but they could only drink tea and play chess.
The two men turned their horses and were about to leave, when war drums sounded on the city.
The two hurriedly turned around and saw hundreds of birds facing the phoenix's flag, and the empress, Yingfeng and Gongsun Ming were standing on the city.
"Empress!"
Hu Feiyang and Qiu Kuohai exclaimed.
The empress looked down at the two people in the city, smiled slightly and said: "You two are also veterans. You have brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses here. Are you here to pay my respects?"
Just as he said that the Empress might not be here, the Empress came out!
"us..."
Hu Feiyang wanted to say a few words, but Qiu Kuohai pulled him back.
There is nothing to say to the Empress. They are not qualified. If they offend the Empress, both of them will die.
"They ran away?"
Gongsun Ming said in surprise.
A few days ago, he was still very aggressive, looking like he was about to break into the city at any time.
When the empress came, neither of them dared to say anything.
Yingfeng sneered and said, "They know each other!"
The empress smiled and said: "That's all, go back and rest."
Yingfeng said: "Your Majesty, there is still a fierce battle over there in Caishi City, and I want to lead troops to reinforce the princess."
The empress said: "No need, the siege of Caishi City will be lifted when I arrive."
The empress returned to the Commander's Mansion to rest, while Gongsun Ming continued to be vigilant.
When Hu Feiyang and the two returned to the Chinese army's tent, they immediately ordered the army to retreat five miles and station themselves. All troops were on alert to guard against a sneak attack by the empress.
At the same time, the two men immediately compiled a letter and sent it to Jinling.
The urgent report was sent to Jinling and delivered to Li Chengdao.
"The Empress is in Linjiang City!"
Li Chengdao was surprised.
After these days of testing, Li Chengdao was almost certain that the empress was not in Linjiang City.
But now, the empress suddenly appeared again.
"Wang Wei's information is reliable!"
Li Chengdao once suspected that there was something wrong with Wang Wei's line, but now he is sure that Wang Wei is absolutely reliable.
For such a confidential matter, as long as Wang Wei's information is correct, everyone else will be wrong.
The intelligence from the front line was wrong, and so was the Imperial City Department of Yufu State.
"Send an order to Caishi City to stop attacking, only to besiege but not to attack!"
"Send orders to Hu Feiyang and Qiu Kuohai, and the army will retreat ten miles to maintain deterrence!"
Li Chengdao made a prompt decision.
The all-out siege of Caishi City was to determine whether the empress was in Linjiang City. Now that it was confirmed, there was no need to continue the siege, which would only increase casualties.
The purpose of letting Hu Feiyang and Qiu Kuohai continue to station troops to intimidate Xixia was to prevent the empress from leaving.
Zhong Gui immediately sent an order to the front lines.
When the order arrived at Linjiang City, Hu Feiyang and Qiu Kuohai retreated another five miles and stationed only ten miles away.
When the imperial edict arrived at Caishi City, Xue Ze and the others were launching a new round of attack. Hundreds of thousands of Nanliang soldiers pushed forward with siege vehicles and ladders, and the crossbows and divine arm bows were fired at the same time. The two sides fought fiercely.
Li Xiannan took a sledgehammer and hit the ladder hard. The ladder collapsed and the soldiers on it fell down.
Xue Ze held a hard bow and specialized in shooting Zhou generals; Tong Yuan relied on his strength and climbed up with a shield, followed by the soldiers of Nanliang; Liu Feibai held a long sword and had already climbed up the city wall.
When Di Luoxi saw Liu Feibai coming up, he carried the big spear and killed him. Liu Feibai swung his long sword and quickly took the attack.
Di Luoxi has been in battle for a long time. Although Liu Feibai broke through Emperor Wu, he was no match for Di Luoxi. In addition, the long sword was not as good as the big sword. Di Luoxi took advantage of the weapon and stabbed Liu Feibai with one sword.
, raised his foot and kicked him off the city wall.
Seeing that Tong Yuan was about to climb up, Wu Chuchu picked up a big stone on the ground and smashed it against the shield.
Bang!
The stone hit the shield, but Tong Yuan continued to climb up.
"This guy has great arm strength!"
Wu Chuchu was surprised that such a big stone could not hit the shield.
When Li Xiannan saw Tong Yuan climbing up, he shouted: "Get out of the way!"
Putting down the hammer, Li Xiannan picked up a boulder and smashed it against Tong Yuan's shield.
boom!
Tong Yuan supported the shield with his head and shoulders. Although he was not knocked over by the boulder, the ladder could not withstand the impact and cracked in the middle. Tong Yuan and the soldiers behind him fell together.
"Deserve it!"
Li Xiannan cursed.
call out!
A cold arrow flew towards him, Wu Chuchu quickly raised his knife and swung it away, shouting: "Be careful of the cold arrow!"
Li Xiannan was almost shot, so he pointed at Xue Ze and cursed: "You know how to shoot cold arrows!"
The soldiers of Nanliang kept climbing up, and the soldiers of Zhou Dynasty fought hard.
At the foot of the city, Tong Yuan fell to pieces, got up and retreated.
Dangdangdang...
The war drums of Nanliang stopped, the sound of ringing gold sounded, the flags of the retreating army waved, and Tong Yuan hurriedly called for retreat.
Liu Feibai was kicked off the city wall by Di Luoxi, and felt depressed. He was about to climb back up to take revenge, but saw the army retreating.
"What's going on!"
Back at the military tent, Liu Feibai was very unhappy.
Xue Ze said: "The envoy from Jinling has arrived. The superior ordered us not to attack, but to besiege."
Soon, a eunuch walked in, glanced at the three of them coldly, and said condescendingly: "The superior has issued an order to the three generals Xue Ze, Tong Yuan, and Liu Feibai to besiege Caishi City and not attack. I appreciate this!"
Xue Ze and Tong Yuan bowed and said, "The last general has given orders."
Liu Feibai was very unconvinced.
The eunuch looked at Liu Feibai coldly and smiled sadly: "General Liu still doesn't accept the order?"
Liu Feibai argued: "My father-in-law, after several days of siege, our army lost more than 100,000 people. Seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, the superiors asked us to stop. This..."
The eunuch said angrily: "How dare you resist the order!"
Xue Ze and Tong Yuan looked at Liu Feibai and signaled him not to mess around.
Liu Feibai swallowed his anger and bowed: "The last general has given orders!"
The eunuch coldly walked out of the military tent, and Tong Yuan said: "We are not willing to accept it, but the imperial decree is the imperial decree. How can you quarrel with the father-in-law?"
Xue Ze immediately said: "It's okay, I'll go give the gift and let my father-in-law not talk about this matter."
Xue Ze immediately took the money to bribe the eunuch who delivered the order.
In Quarry City.
Looking at the retreating Nanliang army, Li Xiannan felt strange: "Princess, why did they retreat suddenly?"
While the battle was fierce, Nanliang suddenly withdrew its troops. This was extremely abnormal.
