The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 497 Defend the city! (two more)

The news that Chen Guo's army is going to invade Yuegu City has already spread, and the doors and windows of every house are closed

Gu Chengfeng stood on the tower, wandering anxiously watching.

Finally, he waited for a large number of soldiers from Chaoyue Ancient City, but Tang Yueshan and Gu Jiao were not seen among them.

"There are people behind," said a soldier.

Gu Chengfeng told them to rush into the city.

Wave after wave of wounded soldiers came, but Gu Jiao was never seen, and a layer of frost gradually formed between Gu Chengfeng's brows.

Having been with Gu Jiao for so long, how could he fail to guess what Gu Jiao was doing?

According to the usual practice, if there are any wounded, they will be taken back to the city for treatment, but if they die halfway or become permanently disabled, there is nothing to do, but Gu Jiao will not do this.

"You girl..."

Gu Chengfeng clenched his fists, and now he really regretted letting her go to pick up Tang Yueshan. It would be nice if she was allowed to stay here.

No, if she stays behind, the casualties of the soldiers will be much more...

Just when Gu Chengfeng was extremely anxious, the soldier on the side suddenly said: "My lord! Look!"

Gu Chengfeng looked up.

It's Gu Jiao who's back!

She is riding the most handsome and fastest horse, holding the longest and heaviest gun, and rushing all the way!

Tang Yueshan and his soldiers rushed back with her.

And not far behind the group of people, Chen Guo's cavalry was chasing madly.

Chen Guo's army has come to realize that they have been tricked, the reinforcements from the imperial court never arrived, everything is just a few soldiers playing tricks and setting up doubts!

In order to regain their place, more than 4,000 Chen Guo cavalry launched a frenzied pursuit of Gu Jiao and Tang Yueshan's group with the momentum of breaking through mountains and rivers!

On the tower, Cheng Taishou saw this soul-stirring scene, his legs gave way in fright, his body swayed, and he almost hit the wall!

He was shocked and said: "Oh! The army of Chen Guo has arrived! Close the city gate! Close the city gate!"

"Don't close it!" Gu Chengfeng yelled!

Cheng Taishou earnestly persuaded: "My lord! If you don't close it, it will be too late! If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the people in the city! I know that Marshal Tang and another lord are outside, but for them A few lives will cost the lives of the people in the city..."

He was a little bit speechless after that.

Regardless of whether his words are really for the sake of the people in the city or he is greedy for life and afraid of death,

One thing Gu Chengfeng had to admit was that once Chen Guo's cavalry came in, the city gate would never be able to close again.

Chen Guo's army will drive straight in, and the people in the city will suffer from the flames of war, and their lives will be devastated!

But Gu Jiao is still below!

"My lord!" Cheng Taishou looked at Gu Chengfeng choked with sobs.

Gu Chengfeng clenched his fists, his body trembling slightly: "Wait...wait a little longer."

Six hundred steps, five hundred steps, four hundred steps...

Cheng Taishou was very anxious: "My lord! We can't wait any longer! The city gates are not closed all at once!"

The city gates are thick and heavy, and they are all winched. It takes dozens of guards to pull the iron chains at the same time to slowly close them.

One hundred steps.

Gu Chengfeng gritted his teeth: "...close the city gate!"

Cheng Taishou hurriedly said to the guards beside him: "Hurry up! Tell me to close the city gate!"

Dozens of guards guarding the city pulled up the iron cables on the winch, and the winch turned slowly, the city gate began to close, and outside the city gate, the mechanism laid on the moat also began to rise slowly.

Gu Jiao took the lead, her horse was good and she could easily mount it, but she came to an emergency stop in front of the city gate!

She tightened the reins, turned her head and said, "Wounded soldiers go in first!"

Two wounded soldiers rode onto the aircraft bridge which had been raised by one foot.

Immediately afterwards, she let Hu Dongqiang and the archers board the bridge in turn.

When the last archer was on the bridge, the cavalry of Chen Guo launched an attack on them, and arrows shot all over the sky. The archers' horses were hit by arrows, and each of them fell to the ground immediately.

Gu Jiao rode her horse over, leaned out, grabbed the archer and threw him onto the aircraft bridge.

At this time, the machine bridge was half closed, and the horses could not get on it.

"Stop! Everyone stop!" Gu Chengfeng said loudly.

"It can't be stopped!" Cheng Taishou said.

The machine bridge rises faster as it goes to the back, the machine bridge is almost closed, but Gu Jiao and Tang Yueshan are still outside.

While dodging the bows and arrows of Chen Guo's cavalry, Tang Yueshan grabbed Gu Jiao and threw her onto the aircraft bridge!

Everything just happened in a blink of an eye, and when Gu Jiao fell off the plane bridge, the plane bridge closed behind her with a bang!

There is only the last gap left in the city gate.

Gu Jiao rolled quickly and rolled behind the city gate.

Since then, the city gate has also been closed.

Tang Yueshan rode on a steed, held a saber, and looked at the four thousand Chen Guo cavalrymen rushing towards him as if death was at home.

The archery skills of Chen Guo's cavalry are not very good, but if thousands of arrows are fired at once, there will always be a few of them that can shoot Tang Yueshan.

"Let the arrow!"

Arrows shot towards Tangyueshan densely. Tangyueshan didn't have any shield to cover him. He only had a long sword in his hand.

Just when Tang Yueshan was about to be shot into a sieve, a vigorous figure flew down from the sky, hit Tang Yueshan with a whip, and wrapped around Tang Yueshan's waist and abdomen.

"superior!"

Following Gu Chengfeng's order, the soldiers on the tower pulled the rope with all their strength, and pulled the two of them up together!

And almost at the same moment, hundreds of arrows pierced through the original position of Tangyue Mountain and shot at the city wall!

...

This battle is no longer the life or death of any one person, it is the life and death of the people in the whole city, and it is the blessing and misfortune of the country of Zhao.

In the current national enmity, no matter how great the grievances are, they are all personal grievances.

Gu Chengfeng and Tang Yueshan went down the tower, and saw Gu Jiao who was treating the wounded soldiers in the temporary military tent.

Gu Jiao didn't know that Tang Yueshan was rescued.

The moment she entered the city, the gate was closed.

It was Tang Yueshan who sacrificed his own chance of survival to throw her in, she understood this, but she would not sleep in the emotions it brought.

She quickly entered combat readiness.

Her calmness and determination once again shocked Tang Yueshan.

If he hadn't seen what she had done before, Tang Yueshan might have thought she was an extremely cold-blooded person.

Seeing that she was fine, Tang Yueshan and Gu Chengfeng didn't bother her.

Tang Yueshan took over the defense of Yuegu City. The 2,000 infantry and 500 archers he brought back from Ye City, plus the 5,000 army in the city, totaled 7,500 people, and nearly 600 were injured.

All wounded soldiers request to fight, but they must be evaluated by Gu Jiao, and she thinks they can fight before returning to the team to fight.

In addition, nearly half of the 5,000 troops in Yuegu City were recruited temporarily from the people, and these people would not rush to the front line to die.

Tang Yueshan singled out Lianjiazi with martial arts skills to join the rear camp, and those without martial arts skills stayed on the tower, mainly responsible for assisting ordnance attacks, such as throwing stones.

In addition, weapons and armor are not enough.

Tang Yueshan asked his men to call the blacksmiths in the city and let them forge overnight.

"and many more."

"Marshal Tang, what other orders do you have?"

Tang Yueshan paused, and said to Lieutenant General Li: "Forge one more armor."

Chen Guo's nearly 20,000 troops approached the city, and the vast area was like a giant beast that could engulf Yuegu City at any time.

The doors and windows of the people in the city are closed tightly, and everyone is in danger.

There is not much food and grass in the prefect's mansion. Because there is no garrison, the food and grass are only enough to feed more than two thousand guards. Now that there are five thousand more mouths, the prefect's mansion's granary has become stretched in an instant.

Gu Chengfeng's task is to buy food and grass from the people in the city.

Walk with Mr. Hu.

"Go to the rice store in the city first." Gu Chengfeng said.

Master Hu took Gu Chengfeng to a rice shop near the tower.

The door of the rice and grain store had already been closed, but the boss still dared not close the door when the official came to the door.

"How much rice grain do you have in your shop, sell it all to me." Gu Chengfeng said to the boss.

The boss looked at Gu Chengfeng in surprise.

"Is it gone?" Gu Chengfeng asked.

"Ah... yes, yes!" The boss bit the bullet and handed over the rice in the shop, "Master Guan, that's all there is, there will be no more."

"How much is it together?" Gu Chengfeng said while taking out his money bag.

The boss was startled again, this time he was sure he had heard correctly, the official was really here to buy grain, not...to collect grain.

The boss took out the abacus, tapped it for a while, and said cautiously, "It's five taels of silver."

Gu Chengfeng gave him the money.

Holding the money in his palm, the boss was stunned for a while, unable to recover for a long time.

When Gu Chengfeng went out after buying food, he found that there were some prying heads on the street at some point.

Every household opened a crack in the door, and the people looked at Gu Chengfeng curiously and fearfully.

A little boy who was about the same age as Xiao Qingkong ran out. A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, nor is he afraid of officials.

He came in front of Gu Chengfeng, raised his head, and asked childishly, "Are we going to die? Are you going to run away?"

His mother rushed out, quickly hugged him into her arms, and covered his little mouth.

"My lord, forgive me! My lord, forgive me!" The woman knelt down and kowtowed to Gu Chengfeng to admit her mistake.

"Won't."

A cold and clear voice sounded not too far away.

It was Gu Jiao who brought Hu Dongqiang to the pharmacy in the city to grab herbs.

She stood still in front of Xiaowa and the woman, pointed to Tang Yueshan who was standing guard at the entrance of the tent, and said, "Do you see that man? He is the commander-in-chief of the soldiers and horses of the world, and all the soldiers in Zhao Kingdom obey his orders."

The little baby looked at the burly and straight Tangyue Mountain: "Wow!"

Gu Jiao pointed to Gu Chengfeng again: "There is also him, he is the second young master of the Gu family army. The Gu family army is the most powerful army in Zhao country. They are on their way and will arrive soon."

The little baby looked at Gu Chengfeng who was facing the wind in Yushu again: "Wow!"

Seeing the innocent and adoring eyes of the child, Gu Chengfeng felt complicated and excited. For the first time, he felt the burden on his shoulders. He took a deep breath, as if speaking to the little doll, and also as if addressing the whole street. The people said: "That's right! My elder brother will be here soon! He has brought one hundred thousand Gu family troops! Don't worry, everyone, Yuegu City will be saved! Even if we fight to the last man, we will definitely defend this city!"

Seeing everyone asking why you need a tetanus, um... Actually, I installed the squat machine at home, but accidentally overturned the car. When unpacking, I used a newly bought knife to cut a thin, deep and long finger. The mouth, the amount of bleeding is a bit heavy. Tetanus bacillus is an anaerobic bacteria. Generally, for such a deep and airtight opening, the doctor will recommend an injection to be on the safe side. That kind of open skin is not conducive to the growth of tetanus bacillus.

Today is the injured Fang Fangzai o(╥﹏╥)o