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Text Chapter 73 Donglai Taishi Ci

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    The night was already deep, and a bonfire was lit on Xinye Castle.

    Huo Jun and his lieutenants patrolled the city with knives. After so many days of confrontation, the soldiers were exhausted. Except for the sergeant who set up the pot to cook, everyone else leaned against the fire and leaned on the crevices of the city wall to keep warm and take a nap.  Seeing Huo Jun coming, the leading general quickly woke up the sleeping men around him and stood up together to salute Huo Jun.  [bsp; Huo Jun waved his hand, motioning for them to sit down, and then asked: "Why are the brothers so sleepy? If Sun Ce sent his army to attack the city at this time, wouldn't someone have his head chopped off in his dream?"  Cut it?"

    General Pi was stirring the pot with a spoon and said: "It sounds like we should take turns, but the enemy troops have been attacking the city frequently in the past two days, and the brothers have been injured a lot, so the shift schedule has become chaotic. No, I and I  My brothers haven¡¯t been down the city wall for two days.¡±

    Huo Jun frowned and said to the deputy general behind him: "Although Sun Ce's attack on the city was fierce, we were too nervous. Judging from this situation, almost all the soldiers were rushed to the city wall to defend it."

    The lieutenant general shook his head: "General, more and more brothers have been injured and killed in the past two days. We have no time to reorganize the team, and the battalions have poor communication with each other. We only care about the section of the city wall we are guarding, so on the city  It¡¯s unclear who should be on duty.¡±

    Huo Jun pondered for a while and then ordered: "Pass my order and reorganize the order of duty. Every two battalions are a group, divided equally into three teams, one team is defensive, one team is on standby, and one team is resting. Those who should rest  Just have a good rest and don't wander around the city. The defense team and the standby team should be vigilant about enemy raids and sieges outside the city, and at the same time, they must be strict with water and fire to prevent civil strife. There are also arrows, support and stone cannons on the city.  Send extra manpower to guard it.¡±

    The deputy general nodded and waved, and several sergeants bowed to accept the order and ran to each camp to deliver the order.

    The sound of gurgling water rang in my ears, and the fragrance of rice filled the air.  The lieutenant general sniffed and knew that the porridge in the pot was boiling. However, a pot of porridge could be cooked in just a few words. The lieutenant general couldn't help but feel suspicious. He took the wooden spoon for stirring from the hand of the lieutenant general and stirred it in the pot.  When it is stirred up, there is only a handful of rice scattered on the spoon.

    "Is this considered porridge?" The deputy general frowned, "Is this what brothers eat every day?"

    General Pi smiled bitterly and said: "It was a little better a few days ago. It's already good to have some rice soup these days. Last year's harvest was not good, and the food stocks in the city were pitiful. If there is no more food, grass and supplies.  , brothers can really only drink from the northwest wind."

    "Supplies?" Huo Jun sighed, patted the battlements and looked outside the city, "The city has been surrounded by Sun Ce. Even if Xiangyang and Wancheng bring grain and grass over, they have to break the siege first.  Only then can supplies be transported into the city. Besides, Li Yan in Wancheng cannot protect himself now, and those guarding Xiangyang are Cai Zhong and Kuai Yue, a coward and a hypocrite" Having said this, Huo Jun also felt  There was a moment of sadness and another long sigh.

    General Pi also said in a daze, no matter how brave the soldiers were, they could not defend the city on an empty stomach.  Huo Jun patted his shoulder helplessly, untied the knife from his waist, and sat down on the ground.  Huo Jun casually added a piece of firewood to the bottom of the pot and said in a low voice: "It is natural for us to eat the lord's salary and die for the lord. What we are doing now is just to prove our loyalty, but  Please have no regrets in your heart.¡±

    After hearing Huo Jun's words, the sergeants were all silent. The deputy general who had been silent until now came up and said, "General, why don't you break out tomorrow and go to Xiangyang to move reinforcements. Xiangyang is the place where Nanyang County gathers grain."  Therefore, there are tens of thousands of troops stationed there. The defenders of Xiangyang are all elites from Jingzhou. As long as Cai and Kuai are willing to send troops to rescue them, they should be able to break the siege of Xinye. And speaking of it, Kuai Yue and I have met once.  If I go to Xiangyang, I am 70% sure that I can borrow soldiers and food and grass."

    Huo Jun was silent for a while and said with a wry smile: "That's all we can do now. Ziyi, Xinye's survival depends entirely on you."

    Taishi Ci knelt down and said firmly: "I will live up to the general's trust."

    In the night wind, Huo Jun's general's flag kept rising and falling. Apart from the crackling sound of firewood exploding under the pot, there was only the sound of the whistling wind, making endless noise in the silent night.

    On the second day, facing the early morning breeze, Sun Ce and his horse stood one mile away from Xinye City, with Gan Ning and his troops behind him.  Sun Ce has also been very depressed these days. Since entering Jingzhou, whenever he fought, he encountered generals who were stubborn and famous, such as Wenpin before and Huo Jun at this time.

    Gan Ning spat in the palm of his hand, walked closer to Sun Ce and asked, "My lord, will you continue to besiege and not attack today?"

    A few days after he stormed Xinye, Sun Ce discovered that in addition to hundreds of corpses being dumped under the city every day,In addition, the threat to Xinye is really very limited.  So recently Sun Ce changed his mind and changed from attacking the city to besieging the city.  Sun Ce stroked the handle of the gun in his hand, squinted his eyes and said, "Continue to surround us and don't let anyone out. Xinye is such a small place, I wonder how long the food and grass in the city can sustain it."

    Gan Ning curled his lips and said: "My lord is so kind-hearted. If it were me, and I would just bring a thunder cart and smash it for two days, I would be able to break down the city wall no matter how thick it is."

    Sun Ce glanced at Gan Ning: "When the Thunder Cart knocks down the city wall, it will also destroy the people's hearts. It is easy to repair the city wall, but it is difficult to gather the people's hearts again. Besides, there are other reasons why I didn't bring the Thunder Car over.  Sun Ce paused, "There will definitely be a battle between us and Cao Cao in the future. Jingbei, Shouchun and other places will bear the brunt. I think it's too late to reinforce the city walls, so why are we using cars to smash them?"

    "Isn't it still early?" Gan Ning said with a smile, "Besides, it's still unclear whether Cao Cao can defeat Yuan Shao."

    "It's getting late." Sun Ce said coldly, "Yuan Shao's lackluster people, even if Liu Bei is included, I'm afraid they won't be able to defeat Cao Cao."

    While the two were talking, the city gate of Xinye suddenly opened, and a group of cavalry galloped out like lightning. At the front of the group was a black horse. The warrior on the horse was strong and strong, wearing a black battle coat.  A, holding a war spear in his hand, is none other than Donglai's tiger general Taishi Ci.

    Sun Ce raised his spear and shouted: "Crossbowmen, bows and arrows!"

    Following Sun Ce¡¯s order, a row of crossbowmen neatly drew their horned bows, cocked their arrows, and pointed directly at the group of cavalry rushing out of the city.  Sun Ce's war gun sank, arrows flew out of the bow, and several horses were pierced by arrows in the chest. They howled miserably and fell down, knocking the cavalry on their backs off their horses.  There was another round of volley, more horses were shot down, and the cavalry were shot dead. Only Taishi Ci, who was at the front, deflected the arrows fired at him, and relied on the speed of his horse to come straight towards Sun Ce.

    Sun Ce cheered, clamped his horse's belly, and rode out.  The moment the two horses intersected, Taishi Ci's spear swept across. Sun Ce raised his spear to block, but the huge force from the barrel of the spear almost knocked the spear away from his hand.  Sun Ce reined in his horse, and when he was about to turn around and fight again, he saw that the black horse did not stop at all. After neighing and trampling down an archer who had no time to dodge, it rushed into his own formation like a gust of wind.  among.  Taishi Ci stabbed left and right in the formation, and the soldiers fell to the ground one after another. Unexpectedly, he opened a gap alive.  From that gap, a horse covered in blood escaped from the trap and ran wildly in the direction of Xiangyang.
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