Chapter 247: A difficult battle to defend the city
Sheng Jin looked at the scene in front of him with some worry.
Half a month ago, with his steady and steady strategy, everything was going in a good direction.
Even he himself thought he had a chance to win.
But it wasn't until now that he realized that he had underestimated Li Huai'an after all.
He originally thought that the rebels were just a group of refugees, unorganized and undisciplined. Li Huai'an was able to train them like this, and he was already considered an outstanding person.
But who would have thought that he not only knows how to train soldiers, but also knows the art of war!
He had been victorious in the previous battles because he was just showing weakness to the enemy!
After Sheng Jin relaxed his vigilance and led his troops out of the city to pursue him, Li Huai'an began to show his fangs.
In just one ambush, the Jiaozhou army was defeated and more than 3,000 of them were beheaded.
This is simply impossible in a war between rebels and regular troops!
But Li Huaian did it!
It was also that failure that made Sheng Jin realize that he was no match for Li Huaian in a field battle. His strength lay in defending the city!
So from then on, Sheng Jin began his career in defending the city.
No matter how loud the rebels outside the city clamored, they would never step outside the city gate.
Seeing Sheng Jin's attitude, Li Huai'an also understood that the same strategy might not be effective again.
Simply no longer show weakness to the enemy, but let go and personally direct the siege.
After Li Huai'an personally directed the siege, the pressure on Sheng Jin doubled. Thousands of city defenders were killed almost every day, and the wear and tear on the city walls increased day by day.
To this day, it is even close to breaking through the city gate.
In a daze, Sheng Jin recalled the last battle report he sent to the court.
He even brazenly said that Li Huai'an was vulnerable and the rebellion would soon be over.
Looking at the scene in front of him again, Sheng Jin just wanted to give himself a big mouth.
"Soldiers, guard the city gate, we must not let these rebels get past the enemy!" Sheng Jin no longer cared about his literary character, directly put on his armor, picked up his sword, walked up to the city wall, and shouted beside the soldiers guarding the city.
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His ability to lead troops in battle is indeed not as good as Li Huaian's, but... he dares to take the lead!
These days, whenever the defense of the city comes to its most critical moment, he will go up to the city wall to defend himself, just like today, wearing armor and holding a sword.
Later, the soldiers will be greatly inspired and work together to drive back the rebels.
Sure enough, when Sheng Jin, who was wearing armor, appeared on the city wall, the surrounding soldiers fired arrows as if they were drunk, harvesting the lives of the rebels under the city wall.
Seeing this, Sheng Jin's anxious heart calmed down a little.
However, the next moment, an arrow shot out and nailed the city wall only one foot away from him.
When Sheng Jin saw this, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
He is different from the scholar-bureaucrats in the imperial court. He has certain martial arts skills and can be as good as half a military general on the battlefield.
This is also the reason why he dares to go to the battlefield in person!
After all, no one stipulates that civil servants must be powerless, right?
And being able to survive on the battlefield for so long shows that his martial arts skills are not bad.
But he didn't even hear the slightest sound of the arrow just now, and the arrow had already arrived in front of him.
If the arrow hadn't missed, he thought he wouldn't have been able to react.
This shows that this arrow is incredibly fast!
It also shows that the archer who shot this arrow has amazing arm strength!
Sheng Jin stretched out his head and looked down, and found that about sixty steps away, there was a dark figure with a bow and arrow, aiming at him.
What's even more frightening is that there are many black shadows doing the same action next to him.
Obviously, the arrow just came from one of them!
But...that's a distance of sixty steps, and it's still shooting from bottom to top!
He could actually shoot within one foot of himself!
Such a person, even in the regular army, can be called a marksman, right?
With some practice, you can become a little general!
But...this motherfucker is not a regular army, this is a rebel army composed of refugees!
Unorganized, undisciplined, and loose.
Why can there be so many sharpshooters among such a group of people?
But the next moment, Sheng Jin had no time to think.
Because... the rain of arrows is coming.
Arrows with cold light falling from the sky, like shooting stars.
Sheng Jin had no time to appreciate this beauty, but the alarm sounded in his heart. He immediately squatted down and huddled up in the blind corner at the edge of the city wall.
Whoosh whoosh!
The next moment, arrows rained down from the sky and landed densely on the city wall.
Pffffffffffff!
The sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh was heard, and many city defenders were shot to death on the spot. Then their bodies lost inertia and fell straight down from the city wall.
Since Sheng Jin was hiding in a blind corner under the city wall, apart from being a little disgraced, everything else was intact.
But even so, his face quickly became ugly.
He felt that this group of rebels simply... didn't look like rebels. Instead, they were capable of fighting regular troops who were more capable than them.
The leader of the rebel army was well versed in the art of training and commanding troops, so he was beaten to the point where he could only parry and had no ability to fight back.
But why can a team composed of homeless refugees find so many sharpshooters?
With these sharpshooters, Sheng Jin no longer dares to show his face on the city wall, and the danger of the rest of the city defenders will also be greatly increased.
Normally, you just need to bend your bow and nock an arrow and shoot down. Now you have to be careful about an arrow flying up from below and shoot you to death. Who can explain this?
Sheng Jin was thinking, why didn't these sharpshooters appear before and only appeared today? Could it be Li Huai'an's trump card again?
Gan!
Why can an extremely remote backwater have such a troublesome character?
For a moment, Sheng Jin's face turned extremely ugly, but even so, he still struggled to stand up, bent over, tried his best to avoid the enemy's sight, and moved back carefully.
He knew that if he didn't stand up to boost morale, his side would probably lose this city wall defense battle soon.
After returning to the safe area, Sheng Jin said: "Soldiers, you must hold on!"
"Ben Zhizhou has already written a report to the court, and reinforcements will arrive soon!"
"As long as we hold on, victory will eventually belong to us!"
"When the time comes, the rebels under these city walls will all be the result of you and me!"
"With such great achievements, whether it's a promotion or a salary increase, what's the problem?"
"In a word, as long as you can hold on, after the rebellion subsides, you can have whatever you want!"
Sheng Jin admitted that he was suspected of drawing cakes.
But if I don’t draw a cake at this time, I’m afraid I won’t even have the chance to eat the cake in the future.
Sheng Jin's speech was still very inspiring, but in the face of absolute strength, it was still a drop in the bucket.
This time Li Huai'an seemed to be determined to die, and both the intensity of the siege and the number of people were far greater than before!