Prime Minister

Chapter 722
Because there was no news from Xiangzi City, Lintao City felt as if it was facing a formidable enemy. The soldiers and horses in the city were dispatched frequently, and groups of soldiers on the top of the city were patrolling the city.

Inside the White Tiger Festival Hall in Lintao City, there is also a murderous atmosphere.

Although Zhang Yue and Wang Shao are not here, the White Tiger Festival Hall is still guarded by the soldiers of the Economic and Strategic Division. stop.

Seeing this, Xing Shu, the magistrate of Lintao County, brought several civil servants to appease Gao Zunyu's soldiers, but all of these soldiers were very angry. The chief of soldiers and horses dispatches, and the White Tiger Festival Hall is no exception.

Xing Shu tried his best to comfort him with a lost smile.

In the festival hall, Gao Zunyu saw Zhang Yue's seal letter first showing an expression of disbelief, after a pause, he immediately reacted and said: "Employee Jinglue dares to leave the seal letter, what you are doing is desperate!"

At this time, Cai Yanqing said: "The envoy once told the old man about this matter. He was worried that the soldiers and horses were out, and he was not in the department. No one could command the military. For example, the high-level general manager also learned from practice, and it was difficult to control the generals. Therefore, he awarded the seal letter. In Sili, it is a stopgap measure."

Lu Shengqing took a step forward, only two steps away from Gao Zunyu, and said aggressively: "Director Gao, now that Shuai Cao has said the same thing, you won't refute it!"

The rest of them were concerned about the status of Gao Zunyu's relatives and did not dare to make mistakes. Only Lu Shengqing showed the posture of turning his face if there was a big disagreement, which made Gao Zunyu's forehead sweat.

After all, this White Tiger Festival Hall is not Gao Zunyu's territory.

Cai Yanqing said: "This matter will be guaranteed by the old man. Afterwards, I will go to the government to plead guilty. Immediately order Zhang Shouyue to immediately send [-] troops to rescue Xiangzi City! What does Director Gao think?"

Gao Zunyu rolled his eyes, he was just greedy for merit and wanted to clear up his responsibilities, there was no need to offend so many people.

He said: "Since this is the case, Gao has nothing to say, but Gao still said that, if you insist on sending troops, I will not stop them, but if Xixia comes to attack, you will bear all the consequences yourself!"

After speaking, Gao Zunyu flicked his sleeves and left the Baihu Festival Hall.

And Zhang Yue, who was in Xiangzi City, was also in danger.

Overnight, there were [-] to [-] more fan troops outside Xiangzi City. Zhang Yue watched so many fan troops surround the city, like a lone boat surrounded by a vast ocean.

At this moment, his scalp was also numb.

Li Kui boarded the city wall and said to Zhang Yue: "Teacher, although there are many Fanjun troops, they don't have sharp weapons to attack the city. Don't worry. As long as our army is united and sticks to the city, we will surely be able to wait for the reinforcements to arrive."

Seeing Li Kui's calmness, Zhang Yue also felt relieved that the other party had grown a lot from his experience as a defeated general to now.

However, as a dignified economic envoy, he was surrounded by tens of thousands of soldiers, and he was really embarrassed.

While speaking, Fan Jun set fire under the city, and then Fan Jun anointed the arrows with oil to ignite the fire and shot into the city from all sides.

Zhang Yuean said it was not good, and ordered the soldiers to put out the fire.

Xiangzi City is full of slab houses covered with thatch, which are easy to burn after being exposed to fire.Song Jun also saw his tricks, after scolding the foreigners who were running around like headless chickens.The soldiers splashed water on the felt blanket carried by the army and covered it on the roof, successfully preventing the Fan army from setting fire to the city.

At the same time, the Song army also installed various flying cannons on the top of the city and attacked the Fan army below the city, causing many casualties to the Fan army. The two armies fought for a day, and the Fan army retreated when it was dark.

But at night, you can hear a lot of movement in the Fanjun camp. It seems that they are planning to attack the city for the second time.

Zhang Yue and his armor were resting on the top of the city wall, when Zhang Sai found himself and said, "I want to report to Mr. Jinglue, my people just discovered the traces of someone climbing over the wall and entering the city!"

Zhang Yue was immediately alert when he heard this, and Li Kui said, "Have you sneaked into the city already? What should I do? Are we going to clear all the Fanmin in the city from their houses and ask them?"

Zhang Yue stretched out his hand and said: "We don't know the details of the Fan people in the city, how can we ask? What if there is too much movement and the Fan people in the city are turned against us?"

"How is that good?"

Zhang Yue said: "These detailed works must be for internal response when entering the city. They either set fire to the city or seized the city gate. You send people to scatter in the streets tonight. If you see anyone going out on the street tomorrow, you will be killed on the spot regardless of the reason." !"

Zhang Sai said yes, and went to make arrangements immediately.

Zhang Yue continued to take a nap at the top of the city. Since the siege, he had not slept for two days and two nights, but it was strange that he was not sleepy at all.

This principle seems to be that during war, adrenal hormones will be secreted throughout the body, making people tireless and pain-free.

It is said that the famous general who commanded the Battle of Huaihai stayed up for seven days and seven nights.

Zhang Yue was in this state at the moment, so he leaned against the top of the wall as if awake, listening to the movement of the whole city, except for the Song army on the top of the wall.

Like Zhang Yue, they wore blankets and stood guard on the top of the city, occasionally drinking a sip of wine, and keeping their armor with them.

But on the second day, the drums sounded, and Fan Jun surrounded the city on all sides, shooting arrows at the top of the city.

Xi Qi, who was guarding the outer city, immediately lined up his soldiers to the top of the city. After two days of fierce fighting, the Song army also killed or injured hundreds of people.

The Fan army mainly attacked the west of the city, where arrows rained like rain, and Zhang Yue also personally led troops to the west city to supervise the battle.

Fan Jun's arrows were shot so quickly and densely that the Song Jun who was guarding the city could hardly poke their heads out.Zhang Yue was wearing two layers of armor and on the way to the west of the city, he was hit by two arrows. Fortunately, each arrow only pierced through one layer of armor.

Just when Song Jun had nothing to do, Zhang Yue said: "What are you still doing? Take apart the wooden houses under the city, and use the wooden walls to block the arrows!"

After Zhang Yue finished speaking, the soldiers of Song Dynasty immediately demolished the house.

The siding of the slab house was demolished one by one, and the Fanmin who were the owners of the house dared to speak up, and watched Song Jun demolish the house.

After the board wall was removed, it was erected directly on the top of the city to guard the arrows, but the arrows shot by Fan Jun were still fast and fierce.Arrows were continuously nailed to the wall, like a big leather drum being hammered with a hammer.

However, Song Jun's casualties were relatively small.

The two armies fought until noon, when suddenly there was movement in the city.

Zhang Yue ignored the city, but kept staring at the Fanjun outside the city and continued to supervise the battle. After a while, Zhang Sai hurriedly climbed up the city wall from the footpath and said, "The fine work in the city has been solved."

Zhang Yue got up immediately and said, "Take me to have a look."

When Zhang Yue came to the city, he saw more than a dozen corpses lying on his back. He took off the clothes of these people on the spot, and saw that they were all carrying swords and gunpowder.

Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Throw them all to the city!"

Zhang Sai said that he threw all the fine works of the Fan army down from the top of the city, and the morale of the Fan army who attacked the city was greatly depressed after knowing that the internal response had failed.

At this time, the horn sounded outside the city, and Zhang Yue went to the city to look, but saw from the direction of Hezhou, a soldier with the banner of the Song Army was rushing towards Xiangzi City.

The Fan army under the city is in chaos at the moment.

Zhang Yue said to the left and right: "Open the city gate and kill the thief!"

(End of this chapter)