Li Duan practiced very diligently these past two days because Ruyi assigned him a task before leaving.
According to the agreed time, Nanzhou, Yunzhou and other five states should have fallen into her hands by now. The 20,000 soldiers led by the governor of Nanzhou will advance to attack Cangzhou, which is full of iron barrels, and retreat to attack the five states.
It's really pitiful that they can only run around like motherless children. What's even more pitiable is that they don't know this yet...
Li Duan is also quite pitiful. After Ruyi left, he completely let himself go and neglected to practice. Now that Ruyi is coming back, he knows how to be anxious.
Mr. Xu led his people deep into the front line last night and burned the enemy's food and grass. All the people south of Cangzhou City moved to the north of Cangzhou City. They could not find much food outside.
There were three paths before them.
The first is to return to the original route. If you go quickly, you can return to Nanzhou in about two days. If you can take Nanzhou back from Miss Liu Er, the food crisis can be solved.
The second is to send some people back to collect food by force. They wait where they are, waiting for those who will never come back to starve to death...
The last way is to give it a go and conquer Cangzhou in one go. There are mountains of food in Cangzhou City, so they naturally don't have to worry about food problems anymore.
It only takes half a day at most to find out which path they chose.
Of course, what Li Yi expects is not to waste a single soldier, not to waste a single natural punishment, and not to waste a cannonball. No matter how disparate the strength of the two armies is, once they fight, casualties on both sides are inevitable.
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Yang Liuqing has put on armor and looks a little brave, without losing his heroic spirit.
In the past few years, she has completely transformed from the young girl who only followed Miss Liu Er in the second year of Jinghe to what she is now, a princess and the lord of a country.
"Uncle." She walked to Li Yi and nodded slightly.
This should be the biggest battle she has ever experienced in her life. Li Yi nodded and asked, "Are you nervous?"
She raised her head, smiled, and said, "I'm not nervous."
He is not afraid in the face of danger, and his face does not change even when Mount Tai collapses in front of him. He is worthy of being his nephew, and he has three points of demeanor...
Yang Liuqing sat opposite him and asked: "After this battle, will the master go back?"
Li Yi nodded. He had told Yang Liuqing before that he, Ruyi and the others would leave once they had established a firm foothold in the northwest.
After occupying the land of the six states, what they need for the next long period of time is not to continue to attack and fight all the way to the imperial capital of Wu Kingdom, but to recuperate, gradually eat away at the outside, and then accumulate strength step by step.
Get a foothold here.
This time may be one year, or it may be two years. When this stage is over, the next step will be invincible...
Of course, everything is subject to change.
It is possible that in the next period of time, the Emperor of Wu Kingdom would choke to death while eating, fall to death while walking, or be crushed to death by a meteorite falling from the sky. In this way, as the only orthodox member of the Wu Kingdom royal family, things would not work for her.
It becomes much easier to handle.
Of course, this probability is too small. Emperor Wu has now completely become a frightened bird, hiding in the palace and unable to come out. He has to bring countless guards and forbidden troops with him wherever he goes. Even if several masters join forces, they can't do anything to him -
-Li Yi thought about it carefully and realized that he seemed to have done something stupid.
This disturbed Emperor Wu's personal expedition. If he came to conquer Cangzhou in person, Li Yi promised to open the gates of Cangzhou to welcome him...
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in this world...
Seeing that she seemed to have something to say, Li Yi shook his head and said, "Everything that my uncle can do has been done. You need to walk the next road by yourself."
"My nephew knows." She nodded, looked at Li Yi, and hesitated to speak. At this moment, a general strode into the courtyard, handed over a secret letter, and said loudly: "Your Highness,
The enemy troops have reached thirty miles outside Cangzhou City!"
Arriving thirty miles away from Cangzhou City so quickly means that Mr. Xu burned their food yesterday and there was not much left, otherwise they would not be in such a hurry.
Li Yi patted her shoulder and said, "Go ahead..."
In Cangzhou City, the tense atmosphere that had been tense for a long time reached its peak at a certain moment.
The people in the city couldn't help but feel excited as they looked at the rows of soldiers passing through the city.
This battle determines how they will survive in the future and is closely related to their survival.
Thirty miles.
Fifteen miles.
Ten miles.
Five miles.
Five miles outside Cangzhou City.
A deputy general looked at a thin line in the distance, which was the city wall of Cangzhou City. He rode to the front and asked: "General Pang, do you want the soldiers to repair it on the spot first?"
They had been traveling for half a day and the entire army was exhausted. It would be unwise to attack the city at this time.
The best case scenario is to have the army camp and recuperate overnight when they are thirty miles away from Cangzhou. However, their food and grass have been exhausted, so they really cannot delay for too long.
"Repair on the spot for half an hour." The general nodded and said, "Prepare the siege equipment and attack the city immediately after half an hour!"
"Got the order!"
The general turned his horse's head and said loudly: "Repair on the spot, and attack the city immediately after half an hour!"
Five miles away, on the Cangzhou city wall, Chen Qing held a telescope in his hand and murmured: "Why did you stop..."
General Fan stood beside him, turned around and asked, "Is the red cannon ready?"
A person next to him immediately said: "Back to the general, one hundred red cannons have been loaded!"
General Fan felt relieved, thought for a while, and said: "Just in case, check again..."
Outside the city, the commander looked ahead, walked up to the general, and asked with some confusion: "General Pang, why aren't they making any movement?"
General Pang looked ahead and asked: "How many guards are there in Cangzhou? Do they dare to go out of the city to fight?"
The general nodded and said, "General, the time has come."
General Pang waved his hand: "Attack the city!"
"Siege the city!"
"Siege the city!"
…
The general gave the order and the army moved forward quickly.
Five miles!
Three miles!
Two miles!
When the city wall of Cangzhou was clearly visible, the general's expression changed and he said hastily: "General, they haven't left the city yet, and haven't even pulled up the suspension bridge. Is there any possibility of fraud?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an exclamation suddenly came from his ears.
"what is that!"
He raised his head and saw countless black spots falling on the military camp.
boom!
boom!
…
Then, there were bursts of loud bangs, mud flying, and wails everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, he couldn't even hear the loud noise, and there was only a buzzing in his ears.
In the military formation, the war horses neighed, raised their front hooves, made a mess, and ran rampant. The cavalry fell off the horse and was trampled before they had time to get up...
The entire military formation was directly overwhelmed by the loud noise.
The war horses neighed and collided in fear. After each loud noise, dozens of people fell down. The fire and the loud noise caught them off guard.
"Heaven's punishment, this is heaven's punishment..." A general looked up, his eyes full of despair.
This is Jingguo's natural punishment. No, from such a distance, it is enough to overwhelm their military formation. Even the natural punishment does not have such power!
"Retreat, retreat quickly!"
He just shouted, looked down at the long knife that passed through his chest, looked at General Pang beside him in disbelief, tilted his head, and became silent.
"If you disturb the morale of the army, you should be killed!"
General Pang gritted his teeth and said loudly: "This is a long-range attack. Once they reach the bottom of the city wall, they will be helpless!"
"Siege the city!"
Following the general's command, the morale of the army quickly stabilized and they quickly approached the city wall.
The suspension bridge under the city had already been pulled up. As soon as they approached, dense stones and wood fell down from the top...
The soldiers approaching the city wall threw sandbags into the moat, and pushed the bodies of the dead people around them in. Soon they reached the bottom of the city wall, and what greeted them were rolling stones and oak trees falling from the sky...
In a short distance of two miles, the 20,000-strong army had already suffered thousands losses.
However, they cannot retreat. If they cannot capture Cangzhou today, they will starve to death if they are not killed by the enemy.
"Ladder! Take the ladder!"
"Crash the car, crash the car and keep up!"
"Archers, archers cover!"
…
Looking at the dense crowd under the city wall below, Wei Liang waved his hand, and black balls were thrown down from the city wall.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Continuous deafening sounds and crackling fires wiped out all the enemies under the city wall.
General Pang stood in the distance, looking at the towering city wall, his heart falling into the bottomless abyss.
