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On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, Wang Shu, Minister of War of the Zhou State, and Wugong, Governor of Jinghu South Road, led an army of 70,000 to Caizhou.

After the experimental attack was frustrated that day, the Zhou army found a high place to camp outside the city, and at the same time began to dig trenches eastward, with the intention of diverting the Ru River to flood the city.

As a base area in Huaibei, Caizhou has the most adequate grassroots mobilization and year-round war preparations.

All villages outside the city are connected to each other by tunnels, extending in all directions.

Seeing that the Zhou army did not attack urgently, Guo Tao'er, who was weak outside the city, did not choose to confront the Zhou army head-on immediately, and began to contact the paramilitary forces of each village and field to coordinate actions and increase the chance of victory.

Anyway, the matter of digging trenches and diverting water cannot be accomplished in three to five days.

Unexpectedly, just one day later, the Zhou army suddenly gathered 20,000 infantry at dusk on the third day of the twelfth lunar month and stormed the southeastern sides of Caizhou.

Zhang Bao, who had already joined the main force of Guo Tao'er's troops, thought that the Zhou army's sudden change of siege to a strong attack must be related to the situation in Tokyo.

Sure enough, at 1 hour of the twelfth lunar month, the Huaibei Army received the Tokyo Battle Report, which was updated every six hours. At 1 hour of the twelfth lunar month, the Jinxia Allied Forces and the main force of King Qi Guoqin's Army launched a decisive battle four miles east of the city.

There were fifty-eight volunteers from various places in the Tokyo Defense War, and the battlefield stretched nearly a hundred miles. In such a large-scale battle, it was impossible to hide the real-time military information from spies from all sides.

Zhang Bao's prediction was correct. Wang Shu and Wu Gong learned that the decisive battle under Tokyo City had begun, so they hurriedly attacked Caizhou.

In the two people's inertial thinking, the Qi army faced nearly 300,000 Jinxia coalition forces, and the former had no chance of winning.

This is also the underlying logic behind Zhou's daring to attack Huaibei, but the decisive battle means that the Jinxia coalition is about to win. By then, the Jinxia army has taken Tokyo. What if they covet Qi's Huaibei again and send their troops south to capture the wealthy Caizhou?

When the time comes, if the three kingdoms of Zhou, Jin and Xia work together to capture Caizhou, how much of the leftovers will Zhou get with the strong and arrogant style of the Jin people?
If they want to monopolize Huaibei, the Zhou army must capture Caizhou before the Jin Xia army goes south, so that they can argue with the Jin Xia army based on the established facts.

With this consensus, Zhou Jun no longer ignored the threats from Guo Tao'er and others behind him and attacked the city fiercely.

In the middle of Youshi, the Zhou army outside the city took the lead in attacking the city head with crossbows and stone-throwing artillery carts with a range of up to a thousand steps. Before the appearance of the thunder cannon, the thousand-step crossbows and artillery carts were the most powerful siege weapons in the contemporary era. device.

After the first round of salvos, it did cause some casualties on the city.

But then, there was a counterattack from the sky thunder cannon at the top of the city. The bed crossbows and artillery carts, which were also heavy and difficult to move, were bombarded into powder one after another.

But Zhou's army was not all mediocre. Upon seeing this, they withdrew their crossbows and cannons and hid them. They did not move and assemble them again until it became dark.

The bed crossbow is also called the three-bow bed crossbow or the eight-oxen crossbow. The arrows use hard wood as the shaft and iron pieces as the feathers.

The artillery cart is a catapult. Although these two objects are not as powerful as the sky thunder cannon, neither the arrow shaft nor the stone has a tail flame after being fired.

As a result, the city's sky-thunder artillery artillerymen could not judge the positions of crossbows and artillery carriages through ballistic trajectories in the dark.

The Tianlei Cannon and artillery turned their fury towards the infantry. If there was a concentration of infantry under the city, a dense burst of projectiles would hit them, smashing the formation to pieces.

As a result, the Zhou army, which was eager to launch a group charge, was unable to complete its assembly.

At the end of Xu Shi, Wu Gong, the governor of Jinghu South Road, ordered the entire army to extinguish their torches and assemble in the dark, and then they rushed to the gate of Caizhou City.

Not to mention the combat power of the Zhou army, but simply in terms of keenness on the battlefield and grasp of the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and ourselves, he is not inferior to the Jinxia generals.

A fierce and brutal attack and defense of the city wall began.

The sound of killing at the top of the city was loud, and the city was no longer as lively and prosperous as it used to be.

Since the curfew was implemented on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, travel is only allowed between 6 o'clock in the day and 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, both businesses and homes are closed.

On the street, there were only groups of young men patrolling under the leadership of the government officials. Occasionally, stone balls fired from artillery carts crossed the city wall and fell into people's houses in the city. The young men nearby would rush over to rescue people from collapsed houses as soon as possible. come out.

In the entire Caizhou City, the place where Qingzhuang inspected most frequently was the street outside the Prince's Mansion in Sajin Alley.

Since Caizhou was besieged on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, Qin Shengwen, the militia platoon leader of the Iron Smelting Institute, and Zhao Congyi, the Zhaojiazhuang militia platoon leader, have barely moved an inch away from the palace.

Even under such strict protection, Weng Bingding, the steward of the palace's front house and a retired soldier, and Wang En, the coachman, still felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.

Under the command of the two men, the doors of all the palaces were temporarily sealed, and the guards stationed at the house did not remove their armor day and night.

The palace wall of the palace was also divided into eight defense zones by Weng Bingding, and every ten people were responsible for one area. The palace was almost arranged into a camp.

It is not unreasonable for Weng and Wang to be so cautious in attacking and defending the city. No one dares to say that the defending side is in an invincible position.

Sometimes a city that looks impregnable may suddenly be breached somewhere in just a quarter of an hour, and then the defense line collapses.

If that happens, it will be the time for Weng, Wang and others to fight to the death.

After all, the King of Chu was not here, and even Commander Shen, who usually guarded the palace, was not here. The prince's family, women and children were entrusted to them and to the people of the city.

On the wall of the front house, Weng Bingding, who had not slept for two days and nights, put a handful of dry tea leaves into his mouth. After chewing it carefully, he was slightly refreshed by the slightly bitter taste.

On the side, old friend Wang En was carefully wiping the crossbow arrowheads.

Amidst the continuous sound of cannons, Weng Bingding looked at the brightly lit city for a moment, then suddenly sighed and said, "I wonder how the prince is doing in Tokyo."

Wang En looked at the crossbow arrows at the starlight. He seemed to be very satisfied with the sharpness of the crossbow arrows. He then said, "What's wrong? Did you also believe that Zhou Jun's lies?"

The so-called lies are naturally what the letter sent into the city by the Zhou army said: "The fake king of Qi and Chu is dead, and the family members of the fake king are captured and presented to the great Zhou Dynasty for the title of marquis."

Weng Bingding sneered at this and said: "Bah, I believe him! It's just..."

The old man turned his head and looked deep into the back house, and then continued: "It's just that Lady Cai has been struggling for two days. If it continues like this."

The old man didn't say the next words, but Wang En knew what he was talking about. He couldn't help but look back and said, "Young man, walk slowly and don't say unlucky words."

Two days ago, on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, Cai Hua suddenly began to have labor pains, perhaps because of the tense atmosphere caused by the Zhou army's siege.

The palace has experienced several births of female family members, so it has prepared various preparations for this.

In the beginning, Yunong gave birth to a daughter smoothly, and Ayu did not suffer much in the middle of her life. Even the princess gave birth to twins, and it only took one day of hard work.

But when she arrived at Cai Hua, she still couldn't give birth smoothly after two days of pain.

In this case, Cai Hua is almost half-stepped into the gate of hell.

When it comes to the willpower of the royal family members, Cai Hua ranks first, not even Mao'er can compare with her.

But tonight, Cai Hua, who had been groaning in pain for two days, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
At the beginning of Haishi, Qingpu Garden.

The maid and her mother-in-law were carrying hot water in and out, with nervous expressions on their faces.

Just as Yu Nong, who had just put Rao'er to sleep, walked into the courtyard, she heard a curse coming from the bedroom on the second floor, "Grandma's legs. It hurts me to death. I won't give birth anymore. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu."

This is already the Nth time Yu Nong has come to Qingpu Garden in the past two days. Hearing that Sister Cai cried out in pain, she still scolded her vigorously. Yu Nong almost laughed and couldn't help but walk faster.

When Yu Nong went upstairs and entered the bedroom, he was startled just by looking at Cai Hua, and almost burst into tears. When he came to visit Sister Cai at noon, she was still fine.

But after just a few hours, Cai Hua's face was flushed, her lips were white, and she was sweating profusely, which not only wet her hair, but even soaked the entire pillow. Mao'er, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, saw Yu Nong come in and didn't bother to talk to her. He still held Cai Hua's hand tightly and said, "Don't be discouraged! Try harder!"

"It hurts, oh, oh, oh, oh."

Cai Hua, with tears in her eyes, also saw Yu Nong and couldn't help but cursed: "Damn Yu Nong, don't you say it doesn't hurt to give birth to a baby! It hurts me to death."

Cai Sanniang, who was usually 'domineering', was crying like a baby, but no one could laugh.

Yu Nong, who was worried about Sanniang, heard this and said aggrievedly: "Nu Nu, it really doesn't hurt."

"Empress Cai, stop talking! Save your energy."

Doctor Wang saw that Cai Hua was distracted and quickly reminded her.

Cai Hua, who was in so much pain that she was unconscious, could only speak hard, but she still had time to retort to Dr. Wang, "Does talking delay the birth of a child? Ouch, it hurts. It hurts!"

At 2:00 pm, in order to prevent Mao'er and Yunong from involving Cai Hua's energy, Dr. Wang invited the two people outside and talked about Cai Hua's situation in detail. At the moment, Cai Hua was an absolutely advanced first-time mother. There are inherent risks.

Furthermore, the fetus in Cai Hua's belly was in an abnormal position. Even if Wen Po helped correct the position of the fetus, Cai Hua's safety could not be guaranteed.

Although Dr. Wang did not explicitly tell Mao'er to be mentally prepared, she made it clear that Empress Cai would not be as successful as Mao'er and Yunong.

The cat was silent for a long time after hearing this.

It wasn't until the beginning of the afternoon that Cai Hua's voice gradually became lowered.

In addition to the voices of Dr. Wang and Po Wen encouraging Cai Hua to work harder, there were only a few weak shouts from Cai Hua mixed with crying, "I'm going to be in so much pain, call the puppy back, tell him to come over." "

Cai Huan has never been a pretentious person. The fact that she called out to Chen Chu at this moment probably meant that she really couldn't hold on any longer.

Mao'er's eyes heated up, and he quickly wiped the corners of his eyes, then ignored others and walked into the bedroom again.

But they saw Cai Hua lying on the bed, her face turning from flushed to sallow, her mouth and nose dilated, like a dying fish out of the water.

When Yu Nong saw it, she almost burst into tears and hurriedly covered her mouth and ran out.

Mao'er quickly sat on the edge of the bed, held Cai Hua's cold catkin tightly, and opened his mouth to say something, but his nose was sore that he couldn't say anything.

Cai Hua, who was half-conscious, noticed that her hands were wrapped in warmth. She slowly turned her head and looked over. When she saw it was a cat, she cried first, "Little wild cat, I feel so hurt."

"Sister Cai, cheer up! Aren't you going to fight with me for the rest of your life? If you don't pass this level, I will dominate the officials from now on!"

Mao'er said in a joking tone, but before he finished speaking, tears started rolling down his face.

Seeing this, Cai Hua managed to squeeze out a smile, and even raised her hand to wipe the tears on Mao'er's face, and then said in a low voice: "Hey, sister, I'm afraid I won't be able to defeat you while I'm alive. I will only let him die if I die." Only by thinking of me and missing me for a lifetime can I win you once."

This is the aggressive Cai Sanniang. Even at this time, she still doesn't want to admit defeat.

At this moment, Mao'er naturally had no desire to be competitive and just said with tears in her eyes: "Sister, please don't say that. Only when you are here can I be at ease. Only when you are here can I control the officials."

Well, Mao'er admitted to his face that he was not as good as Cai Hua in restraining Chen Chu. Cai Hua couldn't help but smile proudly and looked at the bed curtain. He didn't know what he thought of and gradually fell into a trance.
In the silence, several rumbling cannons suddenly rang out from the top of the city. Cai Hua came back to her senses. Before she spoke, a teardrop came out of the corner of her slender and charming eyes, "Cat, I feel so much pain. I want to see the puppy."

Mao'er felt great sadness in her heart. The official was fighting in Tokyo now, where could he come back?

But she also knew that if Cai Hua, who had been struggling for two days, relaxed now, something big would really happen.

After a few moments of thinking, Mao'er wiped away her tears and quickly walked out of Qingpu Garden, returned to Hanchun Hall, picked up Ji'er, and ran back quickly.

After being away for only a moment, Cai Hua's slightly opened eyes were already slightly dazzled. Doctor Wang was using a needle on her Shixuan point.
Mao'er was so anxious that she quickly placed Ji'er next to Cai Hua and said anxiously: "Ji'er, call my aunt quickly."

Since Ji'er was just a full moon, Cai Hua would often take him back to Qingpu Garden to sleep. The time they spent together was even longer than the time Mao'er, the mother, spent with Ji'er.

Children have the simplest minds, and they will rely on whoever treats them well.

At this moment, seeing Aunt Cai's face was as golden as paper and her whole body was soaked, Ji'er was so frightened that she cried loudly. She knelt down beside Cai Hua and sobbed: "Mother, mother, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Open your eyes and look at Ji'er."

Under the cries of admiration, Cai Hua's eyes, which had not moved for more than ten breaths, gradually regained their luster. Then he slowly turned his head and saw the little guy crying in tears, showing a faint smile, "Ji'er. "

"Mother, what's wrong with you? Were you frightened by thieves outside the city? Mother, don't be afraid."

Ji'er stretched out her little hand to wipe the sweat from Cai Hua's forehead. Even though she was out of breath from crying, she still quickly pulled out a small wooden sword half a foot long from her waist and said firmly: "Mother, don't be afraid of the city. You are a thief, Ji'er has a sword carved by your father, Ji'er will protect you!"

A little kid, crying with tears on his face, but holding the wooden sword tightly, looking like Aunt Cai's protector.

Cai Hua wanted to laugh, but tears welled up from the corners of her eyes. She gathered some strength and finally said: "My good son is indeed the son of my Chen family. Mom, I have loved you all these years in vain."

At the beginning of the ugly time.

The fighting in the east of Caizhou City was fierce. The Zhou army launched an army charge like crazy, regardless of casualties.

At the ugly moment, about a group of Zhou troops climbed to the top of the city first, and there was a fight on the city.

Under the city, the "Tongshan Middle-aged and Elderly Volunteer Service Team" who had just brought the food over saw this and immediately threw the food away. Rice Spoon strode forward along the road leading to the city.

These dozens of middle-aged and old cannons from the underworld were actually faster than the young and strong people supporting them in the city.

After ascending to the top of the city, Uncle Yang used a pole as a sword and swept down the ladder several Zhou soldiers who had just exposed their heads from behind the wall stacks with one move.

In recent years, Uncle Yao, who has been repeatedly complained by Aunt Yao about being "weak and weak", turned into a macho man, dodged the attacking weapons, rushed forward with a short body, used his shoulders as a hammer, bumped into someone, picked up the person's legs and started dancing. , after knocking over several people, he threw the unlucky Zhou soldier directly down the city.
Oh, it seems that Yao's eldest son, a powerful man, inherited his strange strength from his father.

Aunt Yao did not show off her skills as a woman, and she swung the two iron spoons seemingly without any plan, but she always hit the enemy's head.

However, he saw that after the person in front of him received a blow, his neck disappeared on the spot, and his head was slightly smashed into the chest by Aunt Yao.
Well, Yao’s eldest son’s strange strength is also inherited from his aunt!
Chen Jingyan, who was sitting in the arrow tower, had already drawn the Longquan Sword and ran towards the Zhou army to climb the city. But when he approached, Uncle Yang and others had cleared out dozens of Zhou soldiers.

Tongshan’s old gunman certainly lives up to his reputation!
Chen Jingyan hid behind his shield to protect himself from stray arrows. He couldn't help laughing a few times and spewed out compliments as if they were free of charge.

Uncle Yang pretended to be a master, clapped his hands and went to the city, continuing to deliver food.
However, as soon as Uncle Yang walked to the bottom of the city, he couldn't hold it back after all, and said regretfully to Uncle Yao: "Hey, what a pity! If Brother Shen hadn't gone to Tokyo with Tiedan, he would have seen our skills now! He would have been saved You underestimate our Qifengling’s boxing and kicking skills.”

Uncle Yao smiled honestly and said nothing, but Aunt Yao, holding two iron spoons stained with brains, said worriedly after hearing this: "I don't know what happened to the eldest son and brother Chu."

Regardless of the deep love between husband and wife, or the heart-to-heart connection between mother and son, they are of no use on the battlefield.

On the battlefield, only iron and blood are the truth.

Under the city, the old gunmen who had finished their business started to distribute food to various departments.

When Qin Shengwen and Zhao Congyi came to receive porridge and rice, Aunt Yao knew that they were both relatives of Mao'er and served as guards outside the palace.

The aunt had a very good relationship with the cat, and she loved the house and the cats. When serving rice, she deliberately stirred the iron spoon at the bottom of the rice bucket to get more thick food for them.

After the two of them finished eating and left, Uncle Yang looked at Aunt Yao's two iron spoons thoughtfully. After a while, he hesitated and said: "Member of the Yao family, you just used these iron spoons to open Zhou Jun's head. Have you washed before meals?"

"." Aunt Yao was startled, and then said a little coyly: "Oh, I forgot, they are all their own children, they don't dislike them" (End of Chapter)