Chapter 767

The war is cruel, especially the siege, which can be described as tragic. After Bai Xiaohei led Xiaosan and Xiaohua to destroy the other party's 30 catapults, Fang Tong's heavy siege equipment is only floor vehicles and door bumpers. Although the rear engineers use local materials and speed up the time to manufacture new catapults, But that's just a drop in the bucket for the urgent battle ahead.

Three days later, the third guard replaced the second team to defend the city wall. Because they can rest in shifts, the soldiers are still full of spirit. Moreover, they beat back the enemy for two consecutive days, and the soldiers' momentum is very high. However, the real leadership is not as happy as the soldiers, because after these three days of defensive war, the materials in the city have gradually begun to be insufficient.

It's OK to say that Bai Xiaohei went out to buy a lot of food before the war. It's not a problem for the current number of people in the city to maintain for half a month, but food is only one aspect of materials. Food alone is not enough to support the whole war. The water source in the imperial capital is provided through a river, which flows in from the southeast of the city and then out of the city from the northwest, Both the people and soldiers in the city live on this water.

At first, Bai Xiaohei didn't care about the water source. The main road of the river is very wide, so it's not easy to block it manually. Moreover, because it's early autumn, there is plenty of rain and the water level is rising. If Fang Tong asks someone to block the upstream river, the river may surge and flood. Of course, the city is not afraid, But the rebels stationed outside the city will be in trouble once they encounter a flood, so Bai Xiaohei doesn't believe that Fang Tong will be foolish enough to block the river and cut off the water.

As Bai Xiaohei thought, Fang Tong did not block the river, but this crazy guy did something worse than blocking the river, that is, he threw the bodies of soldiers who died in the past two days into the river. Although there were only hundreds of bodies thrown into the river, the blood of these bodies still dyed the river red, And the most terrible thing is that after soaking for two days, these bodies began to rot and mildew, and the river was completely polluted. All the people who drank it had diarrhea and dizziness. It can be said that the water in the river can no longer be drunk.

In order to solve the problem of drinking water, Bai Xiaohei asked the engineers to dig several wells in the city, but the groundwater is obviously connected with the river, and the well water is also polluted. Although the water is stronger than the river after soil filtration, it can not be drunk directly. It must be boiled before drinking.

In the city, there are 100000 city guards and tens of thousands of people who have nowhere to stay. So many people's wells are not enough to meet their demand for water. However, Bai Xiaohei can only order to control all the water in the city, and the water supplied by each person is limited every day.

Aisha sat on the sandbag, put her hand into her collar and scratched her body. While scratching, she said to Bai Xiaohei, "brother Xiaohei, I'm so itchy! Can you let me take a bath?"

"No! There's not enough water to drink now. How can there be extra water for you to take a bath? It's a special time. Bear it!" Bai Xiaohei glared at Aisha angrily when he heard Aisha's words, and then replied without any discussion.

Hearing Bai Xiaohei's words, Aisha pouted, but she didn't say anything more. She just scratched her body more. Obviously, the girl couldn't stand not taking a bath for several days.

At this time, Bai Yachen ran up from under the city wall. After looking for it, he stopped his eyes on Bai Xiaohei. Of course, Bai Xiaohei also saw Bai Yachen coming up, so he jumped off the sand bag and walked over and asked, "what's the matter with you, Yachen? What's the matter with me?"

Bai Yachen looked around with a strange expression. He was obviously worried about something, and Bai Xiaohei felt that something should have happened when he saw Bai Yachen's expression. He jumped directly on Bai Yachen's shoulder, and then asked in a low voice, "what's the matter?"

After looking around, Bai Yachen whispered to Bai Xiaohei, "brother, things are not good! There are few bows and arrows left, rolling logs and thunder stones are almost exhausted, and there is no fire oil. Although the problem of drinking water can be persisted temporarily, there are not many firewood in the city. Once the firewood is gone, we can't boil water."

"... in terms of bows and arrows, let the blacksmiths in the city hurry to make arrows. When the rolling wood and Thunder Stone are gone, some buildings in the city will be demolished and replaced. The demolished wooden beams and the like will be used to ignite the fire, and the gravel will be transported to the city wall." Bai Xiaohei frowned at Bai Yachen's words, and then whispered after thinking for a while.

"Brother, even so, it won't last long!" Bai Yachen nodded after hearing Bai Xiaohei's order, but the bitterness on her face didn't disappear. The buildings of Tianhua empire are known as the most beautiful of the five empires. Each building uses a lot of ceramics and glass decoration, but because of this, there are few wooden parts of the buildings, Even if you tear down some buildings, you may not be able to get a lot of wood. First of all, these wood should be used to make fire and boil water. The blacksmith shop also needs fire to forge weapons. It also needs fire to make fire and cook. The arrow shaft of bow and arrow also needs wood. Where can you find so much wood?

Of course, Bai Xiaohei knows these things, but there are also some ways he can think of at present. However, Bai Xiaohei sighed, then patted Bai Yachen on the shoulder with his claws and said: "In any case, we should first solve the immediate problems, and then we can talk about the later things. By the way, we must not spread the lack of materials, otherwise it will shake the morale of the army. Go and do it quickly, and dismantle the house from the other side of the city, so as not to be seen by the soldiers."

With a helpless sigh, Bai Yachen didn't say anything more, just nodded, and then turned around and left. Bai Xiaohei didn't return to the sandbag wall after jumping off Bai Yachen's shoulder, but walked along the city wall.

After nearly three days of fighting, the city wall has been full of holes. In particular, the damage caused by the catapult on the first day left large and small depressions on the city wall. In some places, even the ground has cracked. Fortunately, the city wall of the imperial capital is still strong, otherwise it may have collapsed.

Although the city guard had almost no loss in the three-day war, Fang Tong was also damaged enough to divide the army into two groups to attack the city continuously, and this almost continuous attack gave the soldiers guarding the city no rest time at all. Fortunately, Bai Xiaohei divided the defensive forces into three groups to rest in turn, Otherwise, they would have gone crazy in these three days.

It was not easy for Fang Tong to stop the attack, which gave the city guard some time to rest. The soldiers held their weapons and rested against the wall pier behind the city wall. Some were sharpening their knives and others were talking in a low voice. Because they hadn't washed their faces for several days, every soldier was very embarrassed.

Seeing Bai Xiaohei coming, all the soldiers will stand up in panic and salute Bai Xiaohei. After three days of fighting, Bai Xiaohei's status has been unshakable in the hearts of these soldiers. In the hearts of every soldier, Bai Xiaohei exists like the God of war. Every soldier knows that if Bai Xiaohei did not command the war this time, The imperial capital may have been broken long ago, and his tactics of Ma XingKong that day can even be written in history books.