Chapter 327

Yan Tuohai looks at Qiu Xu in surprise. Qiu Xu is his nephew's confidant, and Qiu's family supported Yan Wensheng when Qiu lie was alive. He didn't expect that Qiu Xu agreed with Wen Ju's words that he wanted to give up the capital of the country and escape overseas, then attack the sea country and call it Wang Jianzhi.

But Yan Tuohai Yan Tuohai look to Qiu Xu's eyes, but flash a fine light. On the surface, Qiu Xu seems to be a modest scholar, but he knows that Qiu Xu is a ruthless man at the critical moment, just like the four princes of Tianxing who won the throne before. In order to ensure Yan Wensheng's successful accession to the throne, Qiu Xu himself ordered the killing of his other three nephews. He doesn't know how sincere Qiu Xu is when he says this, Or is that a test.

Yan Tuohai thought a little in his heart. He decided that no matter what thoughts Qiu Xu and his confidant Wen Ju had, he would do it according to his heart.

Looking at the stars in the sky, Yan Tuohai showed a trace of perseverance in his eyes and said, "in the past five hundred years, there has never been a day in this star city where there is no royal guard. Now there are only Wang Shang and Ben Shuai left in the royal family. Now Wang Shang is not in the capital, how can I leave."

"My Lord." Wen Ju is worried about Yan Tuohai, but he is not worried about his life. Now the situation of Tianxing war is very clear. As long as Daqian's army besieges the city, and as long as their food and grass can be continuously transported from the country, even if they encircle but do not attack, Zhongxing city will stick to the day when the food is exhausted at most. If Da Qian, regardless of the casualties, attacks by force, star city will be the most optimistic and can persist for about three months.

At that time, the capital city will be destroyed, and Tianxing will perish. Daqian, a clan leader like Qiu Xu, may make use of it to stabilize the situation, but a royal like Yan Tuohai will never come to a good end. Even if he is not killed, he will live under house arrest and surveillance for the rest of his life.

Seeing Wenju's anxious appearance, Yan Tuohai smiles instead, pats Wenju on the shoulder and says, "Wenju, you follow me for many years. I know you are for my good, but I'm Yan's descendant. Guarding Tianxing is my natural mission. I was born and grew up here. Now I'm fighting to death. Even if I die here, it's not a waste of my life. "

"My Lord." There is a tear in Wenju's eyes. Yan Tuohai's words seem to be understated, as if he saw through life and death. But familiar with Wenju, he can still hear the despair and decadence in his words, as well as the determination in his heart.

However, Wen Ju is still a little reluctant. He doesn't want to see Yan Tuohai, who is also a master and friend, die here after being almost exiled to xiyuanze for 20 years. Only when he wanted to continue to exhort, he saw Yan Tuohai waving his hand to him, indicating that he would not go on. He could only swallow the words of exhortation.

When Yan Tuohai saw that Wen Ju stopped talking, he turned to Qiu Xu and said, "Qiu Shuai, I've been with your brother Qiu lie for many years, and you are also the confidant of the king. In this star city, besides Qiu Xiangguo, I can trust you most. I'm responsible for guarding the city. I hope you can appease the families in the city together with Qiu Xiang. I don't expect them to do anything at this time. I just hope they don't make trouble for me before Zhongxing city is attacked by Da Qian. I don't know if you can do it? "

"Don't worry, Duke Wucheng. Qiu Xu will live up to his trust. If anyone dares to make mistakes, I will make them pay the price." Qiu Xu heard a tight heart, Yan Tuohai let him clamp down on the city's nobility, how could it not mention to him.

"That's good. Tomorrow I'll invite Wang Yue to give you and Qiu Xiang a chance." Yan Tuohai took a smile out of his mouth and said, "I'm really sorry to disturb Qiu Shuai's sleep tonight. Now it's past midnight. Qiu Shuai's better go back to rest earlier."

"The Duke of Wucheng is the pillar of the stars. He should take care of himself. Qiu Xu left first." Qiu Xu smell speech toward Yan Tuohai arch hand, no drag mud and water turned away. Just when he passed Tianxing Liguo Ding, he stepped slightly, and then quickened his pace to the palace gate.

"My Lord, the river is broken. We have no chance of winning just because the king is alone in the city. Why should we persist?" See Qiu Xu go far, the text moment can no longer restrain in the heart doubt, open the mouth to say. Although Yan Tuohai has just given a speech in front of Qiu Xu, his understanding of Yan Tuohai is definitely not the real idea in his heart, because he knows that Yan Tuohai is definitely not a pedantic person who wants to die for Tianxing.

"Wenju, you have just said the reason. Now, in the situation we are facing, there are not many choices we can make. Lu que is the one who made the layout of this battle. Outside the city, there are old generals like Gu Huairen and Shen Zhang who are good at military strategy. Do you think they can't guess? "

"This ~" Wen Ju's heart trembled when he heard that, just as Yan Tuohai said, they didn't have many choices. Even if Lu que didn't have time to respond to the military news because of the high mountain and the long road, Gu Huairen and Shen Zhang outside the city were famous generals. They couldn't have thought of this. After thinking about it for a while, Wen Ju said, "Sir, even if they think about it, as long as we break through the encirclement eastward before the arrival of Yulin and Fengxiang, as long as we arrange it properly, the forces outside the city will not stop us."

Yan Tuohai heard the speech and shook his head noncommittally. "Since they can think of it, they will make arrangements. Maybe as you said, with the big army outside the city, we will be able to rush out. What about after the breakout? Did you forget Gu Qingcheng who pursued us all the way after we retreated from Huangyan river? She is now outside the city, but since Daqian's army came to Wangji, have you seen the Wolves under the command of the wolf king? If we break through and are blocked by wolves, have you ever thought about how to deal with it? You know, that's the wolf pack that forced Qiu Xu to retreat at the mouth of the river. "

Wen Ju was shocked when he heard that Da Qian had never seen the wolf pack since he came to Wangdu, which made him subconsciously ignore the existence of the wolf pack. Now they don't know where Gu Qingcheng had arranged the wolf pack. Just as Yan Tuohai said, if they were blocked by the wolf pack after breaking through the siege, their way of death is definitely better than sticking to star city, It's much more miserable. But what they didn't know was that the wolves led by the white wolf king had already crossed the Huangyan river. On the way to the North Bank of the Dan River, they were not outside the star city.

"If you don't think carefully, please blame the king." Wen Ju is a bit ashamed and gives a deep gift to Yan Tuohai. He is a counsellor, but he has such an oversight. No matter what.

"All right." Yan Tuohai raised Wen Ju up and said, "you and I have known each other for many years. Although they are masters and followers, they are brothers of paoze. Now it's time. Don't say such things."

"My Lord." Wen Ju was moved by Wen Yan's words. Although Yan Tuohai had been trusting him for so many years, it was the first time that Yan Tuohai sincerely said such words.

"It's past midnight, and there are many things to do tomorrow. Go back first. I want to be alone." Yan Tuohai waved his hand and said.

"Nuo ~" Wen Ju looks at Yan Tuohai with some worry. He looks at the stars in the sky again. He sighs in his heart and turns away.

After Wen Ju left, Yan Tuohai found a comfortable posture, just sat on the ground and looked up at the vast starry sky, as if he wanted to integrate himself into the night. He didn't know how long later, Yan Tuohai murmured, "the northern stars are as bright as a moment. The brightest general star is either Lu Chun or Lu que, But where is my general star? "

In the twinkling of an eye, three days later, what Yan Tuohai and Qiu Xu didn't expect was that the thunder army, who had not moved outside the city before, unexpectedly began to attack the city beyond their expectation. The flying stone bullets really made them nervous for a while. But then they found out that the Da Qian army outside the city had no intention of sending troops to attack the city wall except to bombard the city wall with a catapult. When they couldn't figure out why Gu Huairen and Shen Zhang did this, they were also relieved.

Because Yan Tuohai and Qiu Xu both know that the stone bombs launched by the catapult seem to be shocking, but it is absolutely not a overnight effort to collapse the wall which has been strengthened and repaired for more than 500 years, unless Daqian can transport the thunderbolt car which can throw thousands of stone bombs. So they ordered half of the soldiers to stay above the city wall, and the rest to retreat to the bottom of the city. After they let the soldiers stay on the city wall to avoid, they let go of their lofty heart.

"Wenju, you're right. They really retreated." At sunset, Yan Tuohai could not help but feel relieved when he saw the catapult slowly receding under the escort of cavalry. Although it did not do much harm to the heavy and solid wall of Zhongxing City, it was inevitable that it was frightening. What Yan Tuohai was most afraid of was that the enemy outside the city used the catapult to throw stone bullets around the clock, In this way, the morale of the army and the physical strength of the soldiers in the city will be greatly consumed. If a mistake is caught by the other party, they may launch a night attack and forcibly seize the city.

"My ministers carefully calculated that today, more than 3000 stone bombs were thrown outside the city, and more than a dozen stone catapults were damaged due to overuse. Such an offensive will not last long." Although Wen Ju said that, his face was very dignified, because he didn't want to understand why Huairen and Shen Zhang, the commander of the thunder army outside the city, wanted to do so just to attack the morale and determination of the army in the city? Looking back on Gu Huairen and Shen Zhang's series of achievements since they joined the army of Da Qian, Wen Ju always feels that things are not so simple.

"Wenju, what do you want to do when you say they just drop stone bombs and don't send troops to attack the city?" Obviously Yan Tuohai also thought of this, his face is not good-looking.

"It should be to test our defensive arrangement and to attack our confidence in defending the city. However, Daqian people are crafty. We have to guard against them, sir. I want to watch the night myself tonight. " Wen Ju thought about it and said that he didn't really want to go to Lei Jun, so he was not sure.

"Well, it's hard for you tonight." Yan Tuohai thought about it and nodded. He always felt that something was wrong, but since ancient times, there were only several ways to attack the fortified city, either relying on the military force, or waving the army to attack, or using internal and external cooperation, or sneaking attack. In Yan Tuohai, Gu Huairen and Shen Zhang are likely to use a catapult to attack the city in the daytime, just to attract their attention, and then launch a night attack. If Wen Ju does not propose to lead the army to watch the night, he will do the same, or he will be worried.

At this time, ten miles away from the Star City, Gu Huairen and Shen Zhang were also watching the star city with the last touch of red glow before sunset.

"Shen Xiandi, we threw more than 3000 stone bullets into Zhongxing city one day. Although it did not cause much damage to the city wall, it also destroyed more than 20 arrow towers and more than ten virgin walls. What do you think of Yan Tuohai, Qiu Xu and others in the city now?" Gu Huairen said in a relaxed tone.

"They'll think we're going to test during the day and prepare to attack at night." Shen Zhang also said with a smile.

"In that case, we will give them a play as they wish. Are you ready?" Gu Huairen looked at a catapult passing by and asked.

"Don't worry, Gu Xiang. I've told you everything." Shen Zhang nodded.

"That's good." Gu Huairen showed a smile.

As the sun sets and the stars move, the time has come to midnight. On the wall, he just heard the three bangs, stretched out his sour body, glared at his bloodshot eyes, and looked out of the city without blinking. The move of running to Lei Jun during the day always made him feel that it was wrong. But apart from the attack at night, he couldn't think of any other possibility. That's why he wanted Yan Tuohai to ask for his order to watch the night.

"Wenjun division, have a drink of hot water. Although we are in the south of Xinjiang, it's a bit cold this evening." Just when Wen Ju tried to get rid of his fatigue by mobilizing his Qi and blood, a man wearing a captain's armor came over with a steaming porcelain bowl.

"Thank you very much." Wen Ju took the porcelain bowl and felt the palm of his hand was hot, but he didn't care. He blew it with his mouth and drank all the hot water in the bowl. He only felt a warm current flowing directly from his throat into his stomach, which made him feel more comfortable.

"Wen Junshi, do you think the Daqian people will attack the city tonight?" The captain took the porcelain bowl from Qiu Xu and handed it to a soldier nearby. He asked curiously.

"I don't know, but it's better to be prepared than not." Wen moment smell speech to see a school Wei one eye to open mouth to say.

"Wen Junshi said that." Xiaowei nodded, then looked at Wenju hesitantly. His lips wriggled for a while, but he didn't make a sound.

"What's the matter? If you have any questions, just ask." Seeing the appearance of the captain, Qiu Xu knew that he must want to say something, but he had scruples in his heart. It's midnight, and it's time for people to feel sleepy. Wen Ju also wants to talk to people and raise her spirits.

"Wen Junshi, don't blame me if I say it." The captain scratched his head.

"Well, go ahead." Wen Ju looked at the young face of the Xiaowei and nodded with a smile.

"Wenjun division, I've heard that Heyan county has also been lost. Now we are left with the lonely city of Wangdu. Do you think we can win?" When the captain said this, he kept peeping at Wen Ju's face, as if for fear that he would be angry.

"Who told you that?" Wen Ju's brows wrinkled when he heard the words, and a trace of killing intention flashed in his eyes. If you want to know the news of He Yan's fall, in order not to shake the morale of the army, it has been ordered to blockade. Now even a small lieutenant in the Army knows it. It's absolutely someone who leaked the news. When Wen Ju said this, his mind flashed with faces. He was wondering who had said it.

"Yes, our general said it." See text moment complexion is not good, the school captain couldn't help swallowing saliva, kowtow said.

"You generals?" Wen Ju was stunned when he heard that the military system of Tianxing was in chaos. There were no less than dozens of generals on duty tonight, and there were only more than ten generals in the south city. For a moment, Wen Ju could not figure out who it was.

"Our general is Qiu Wenye, the son of old Prime Minister Qiu." The captain looked around and whispered.

"Is that him?" Wen Ju was stunned when he heard that he did not expect to be Qiu Wenye. Qiu's brother Qiu Wenhui and Qiu Wenye were both great generals. According to Wen Ju, although Qiu Wenye was not like his brother Qiu Wenhui, he was also a steady man. He did not understand why Qiu Wenye said this to his subordinates. As for how Qiu Wenye got the news, Wen Ju didn't think much about it. His father was the Prime Minister of the dynasty. He couldn't hide such things from him, especially when we need to unite as one.

"Wenjun division, there are people outside the city." The captain, who knew that he had said something wrong, quickly went to one side and pretended to observe the situation outside the city. However, he found that under the starlight several miles away, there seemed to be an army moving. Because he was so far away, he could see the reflection on the armor leaf. He could not help pointing to the outside of the city and shouting to Wenju.

"Ring the bell for warning, adjust the bow and crossbow. Let's put a round of rockets first to see what's going on. Quick." Wen Ju was shocked when he heard the captain's cry. He went to the battlements and looked out of the city. In the night, he could see a group of people approaching the city wall quickly. He called out to the captain.

"No Knowing that the situation was urgent, the captain turned around and left regardless of the military salute.

With Wen Ju's command, the bronze bell in the city tower was rung. The rapid bell not only made the tired soldiers on the city wake up, but also the officials and people who had been sleeping in the city wake up.

A round of rocket in the sky in an arc trajectory, slowly fall, that nearly 10000 burning arrows, instantly the whole city are shining as bright as day. At the edge of the fire, there are about 5000 thunder soldiers, who are divided into several teams, carrying the ladder to climb the city and approaching quickly. Behind them, there is a team of ten thousand soldiers.