After the immortal disappeared

He Lingchuan closed his eyes and lowered his head silently.

This is not the first comrade he has sent away, and it certainly won't be the last.

They all shed their blood on a foreign land.

…

After the area was cleared, all members of the Broken Knife team were injured to varying degrees.

Because He Lingchuan took the lead, he was in danger the most. He was almost knocked out of the dream twice.

The price was a hole in his ribs and his right ear cut off. In comparison, other skin injuries are nothing to mention.

When Arlo sewed his ear, he hissed in pain.

"What's it called?" Aluo said with a dark face and a piece of cloth wrapped around his forehead, "Can you just rush into such a big dark room?"

"Didn't I want to give you a feint attack?" He Lingchuan grinned, knowing that he was much braver in the soul land than in reality, and his attacks were larger, "Where's Shi Tuo Fen, give me some pain relief!"

Even in Dafang Hu, every battle is a rare trial opportunity. He needs to explore his own fighting style and rhythm.

If you are not brave here, when will you wait?

"Don't use it too much. It's addictive." Arlo said sternly, "You guys have used it too much recently. Just bear with it if you can. It's not like you're going to break your hands or legs."

Fortunately, this kind of clearing battle quickly became sporadic. By the afternoon of the fifth day, the Panlong Army basically controlled the entire Xiqiao capital.

If the red general uses the method of sitting continuously to kill, the speed will be much faster.

This is also a common method used in many siege battles, but it will destroy the favorability of the people.

In the middle, the Xiqiao Palace sent troops out of the city several times, trying to cooperate with these scattered troops inside and outside, but they were all repulsed by the strong wind troops waiting outside the palace.

After several battle losses, Xiqiao Palace did not dare to go out to fight without permission, but stayed behind closed doors.

After all, the number of casualties each time ranged from hundreds to more than 1,1200, but they were unable to break through, so the cost was a bit high.

Just when Hu Yanzhao was living like a year, Xiqiao Palace City was besieged for ten days.

The reinforcements he repeatedly announced to his subjects were not even seen.

The territory promised to him by the Red General was also reduced by one third compared to before.

Hu Yanzhao was upset.

Miyagi City has plenty of food, and there are wells all over the place. In particular, the food reserves are prepared according to the specifications for 3,000 people to hold on for forty days. When his old man built the house according to this rule, a bunch of officials objected, saying it was too wasteful.

Now it seems that the old man is wise.

However, no matter how wise the old man is, he can't resist the fact that now thirteen thousand people have crowded in, which is more than four times the number.

The more people there are, the more food there is to eat.

With so many people crowded in the city and unable to get out, and having to eat and drink all day long, Hu Yanzhao's heart was bleeding.

Worst of all, there was a severe shortage of medication.

There are more than 4,000 wounded people in Miyagi City, more than 900 people are seriously injured, and another 200 to 300 people died in the past few days due to insufficient medicine or improper rescue.

There were complaints in the palace and morale was low.

Moreover, there is another terrible trouble that even the old monarch did not expect:

Human and animal defecation.

There are more than 13,000 people and more than 2,000 war horses. Together they are a manure-making machine at full power.

In the past, Miyagi had a special night incense team that transported them outside the city every day, but now they can't get out.

Hu Yanzhao asked the soldiers to throw their urine down the city gate and attack Panlong's army.

But after more than a dozen people were shot dead, the soldiers were no longer willing to do this.

Risking your life to dump urine is too, too unworthy, not to mention the collection process. It is better to just find a corner in the palace...

Therefore, the smell of blood wafted everywhere in the palace, and mosquitoes and flies were flying everywhere, which accompanied the Xiqiao people's mood all the way down.

Now He Lingchuan was sitting on the roof of a private house with Liu Tiao, Hu Min and others, eating chicken while looking at the palace city not far away.

"All the lights on the city gate tower have gone out." Hu Min said with a smile, "It seems that they have even begun to use oil lamps sparingly."

The Broken Knife team performed well in the Dragon Throat Pass mission. In addition to the normal military merit rewards, He Lingchuan also received two roast chickens a day from the quartermaster for his teammates. We have nothing to do tonight, so we gather together to have a whole chicken feast, with water instead of wine.

The door panel smiled and said: "When the wind direction changes, the stench inside the palace will float outside, and no one will come near. I wonder how the Xiqian people can sleep with excrement on their pillows all day long?"

Willow stretched out his fingers and pinched his waist: "We are eating, why are we talking about such disgusting topics!"

Hu Min also said: "I heard that deserters have jumped out of the palace in the past few days. Some were shot to death on the spot, and a few managed to sneak over and surrender. The Red General asked them to sit in front of the palace gate to eat meat and drink wine. Show it to the people in the city. One of them sat too close, got too carried away with his meal, and was shot again."

Liu Tiao asked him: "You have been joining the Gale Army for the longest time. Did the siege battles last so long in the past?"

"Ah, there are pros and cons." Hu Min thought for a while, "The longest one, we laid siege to the city for more than 40 years before we defeated it."

Liu Tiao said "Oh" and asked no more questions.

He Lingchuan took a bite of the chicken leg. He is the only person here who has participated in the pre-war meeting in Gange Hall, so he basically knows what the red general is planning.

"The old king of Xiqiao used the income from the capital for many years to build the palace into an iron barrel, which is truly easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is said that the defensive talisman formations have more than ten layers." He explained to his men, "I really want to If we attack by force, we may have to sacrifice human lives. Therefore, the Red General wants to use siege instead of attack and win victory at the minimum cost."

Is that all? General Hong and Zhong Shengguang are not in a hurry, obviously they have more considerations.

And He Lingchuan also has his own questions:

Why didn't General Red use the Three Corpse Insects in this sneak attack on the West Country?

He heard Hu Min talk about the experience of recapturing Wei City last time. The Baling Army guarding the gate suddenly went crazy and counterattacked his own people. It was obviously the Three Corpse Insects showing their power.

But this raid mission is more important than retaking Wei City. Why are there no traces of the Three Corpse Insects on the battlefield?

This thing is not afraid of Yuanli, and is not even affected by ordinary spells. It is one of the Red General's trump cards.

Why did she still use clumsy and slow methods to besiege and force-land Hu Yanzhao's emperor and ministers?

He Lingchuan had a strange idea:

Is it useless?

He once asked Sun Fuping a question:

Since the Panlong Army blessed by the Dafang Pot is so powerful, why not fight all the way back to the West Luo Kingdom instead of being trapped in the Panlong Wasteland?

Sun Fuping didn't have an answer either.

Instead, the black dragon in the illusion of Panlong Ruins gave them a sentence:

You guys can't take it away. The large square pot is Panlong City, and Panlong City is also a large square pot, which has long been integrated into one. Not to mention humans, even gods cannot take it away.

And the Xixi Kingdom has left the scope of the Panlong Wasteland. Is it because it is beyond the service area, so the three corpse insects coming out of the square pot cannot be brought here?

If General Hong and Zhong Shengguang cannot take away the Dafang Pot, then this trip to Xiqiao...

Thinking about the negotiations between General Red and Hu Yanzhao in the past few days, He Lingchuan always felt a strange sense of violation. She has always been decisive in killing, so when would she give people so many chances?

He Lingchuan frowned.

Five more days.

The Panlong Army did not waste time and had already allocated several troops to occupy the entire territory of Xiqiao to reduce the pressure of fighting in the capital.

During this period, more and more Xili soldiers escaped over the wall of the palace in the capital. They were willing to risk being shot by the governor to escape because there was not enough food in the palace and because of their morale. Feeling depressed and declining, epidemics began to spread within the tall palace walls.

Originally, there was a shortage of medicine in Miyagi City, and now it's even worse. Even if ordinary soldiers are infected with the epidemic, they have no chance of treatment.

It's better to risk death and escape, there is still a glimmer of hope.

After another five days, even Hu Yanzhao himself felt a little confused.

The look the soldiers gave him was completely different from twenty days ago. If there were not some confidants who were protecting him, there would have been a mutiny in the palace.

Suddenly, a horseman rushed towards the city and shouted: "Huyan, come out quickly, your reinforcements are coming!"

The guards guarding the city looked down in excitement, only to see a big man galloping back and forth under the city, holding a long gun high in his hand and carrying a bunch of shaggy heads, at least five or six, with their hair all knotted in knots. one place.

This big man is General Nan Ke.

He shouted seven or eight times until he became impatient. Hu Yanzhao, who looked pale, climbed up to the city gate tower and looked down. He suddenly felt dizzy:

The string of human heads hanging on General Nanke's gun are the generals of the Nanping garrison. From top to bottom, the order is correct.

He has been cheering everyone up in the city, and reinforcements will come sooner or later.

Now the reinforcements have indeed arrived, but not in the way they expected.

With a "dang" sound, the long knife in the hand of a soldier on the city wall fell to the ground, making a loud noise.

No one paid any attention to him.

General Nanke looked at Hu Yanzhao and said with a smile: "We, the Red General, will give you one last chance. If you surrender now, you can still claim your title south of the Lugua River. Otherwise -" he made another move with his spear, "next year today, it will be A day of mourning for all of you!”

Lugua River? Hu Yanzhao's lips trembled a few times.

Now the territory promised to him by the Red General is less than a quarter of the original.

If I had known this, if I had known this...

General Nanke said again: "By the way, since Hu Yanzhao is stubborn, whoever in your city can take his head off and offer it as a reward will be rewarded!"

There was a gasp in the city.

If you cut off Hu Yanzhao's head, not only will you no longer have to be trapped in the city, you won't have to starve, and you won't have to sleep next to the dung heap, but you can also go to the south of the Lugua River to be a Marquis of Ten Thousand Households who can stretch out his hands for food and open his mouth?

Even Hu Yanzhao's few cronies looked at their master with twinkling eyes.

It is really hard to live in the city these past few days, and the new monarch has no means to properly solve it.

Hu Yanzhao felt that everyone's eyes on him were full of malice, like a wolf staring at a sheep, like a cat staring at a fish...

It's like a living person looking at a dead person.

If he reacts slower, these people might be able to tear him alive in the next second.

"Wait..." Hu Yanzhao saw someone in the back row raising a spear and facing him, and without caring about anything else, he shouted hurriedly, "I surrender, I surrender!"

He first shouted "surrender" and was safe.

This guy is very knowledgeable. General Nanke was overjoyed: "Then what are you waiting for? Open the city gate!"