vrcanaries Chapter 121: Defending the City, a Great Plan
Chapter 121: Defending the City, a Great Plan
As the heart-protecting mirror shattered, the long sword in Zong Yanli's hand was unsheathed. The long sword suddenly penetrated Wu Jian'an's armor and stabbed into his abdomen.
Zong Yanli never imagined that the person lying in the coffin was indeed Wu Jian'an.
but……
"Kill! Outside Donglong City, a strange army suddenly appeared. Shao Weiyi, who was wearing a linen shirt, suddenly tore off the shirt. Under the shirt, he was wearing soft armor. He pulled out a short blade from his long boots and trousers, and rushed forward with bloodshot eyes.
Zong Yanli covered her aching heart. If it weren't for the heart-protecting mirror, Wu Jian'an's shot would have been enough to seriously injure her.
She looked up at the old veteran who was kneeling on the ground, her eyes full of complicated expressions.
Rather than being angry about being tricked and ambushed, she was more in disbelief. She stepped forward and stood in front of Wu Jian'an and said, "You have done so much for the State of Jin, Grand Tutor Wu. I admire you very much."
The life force in Wu Jian'an's eyes faded, and he moved his pale mouth and spat out large mouthfuls of dirty blood. The last cardiotonic pill had drained all his life force.
He looked at Zong Yanli and pulled the corners of his mouth to reveal an extremely happy smile, as if he had finally got what he wanted.
As he wished, he died on the battlefield!
The life gradually disappeared from his cloudy eyes. Wu Jian'an looked up at the sky, and finally fell to his knees on the ground with his eyes open, completely dead.
With such a passionate and resolute attitude, he swallowed the cardiotonic, put on his military armor again, and asked to be put into the coffin, simply because he did not want to die on his sickbed.
"Okay, okay..." Zong Yanli smiled for no reason, walked forward, stretched out her hand to pull out the long knife that stabbed into Wu Jian'an's chest, and then bent down and grabbed Wu Jian'an's head. The old general in her hand was as light as a dry bone.
"Jin State has deceived me like this! Why should I be loyal to you?"
Swish-!
The pitch-black long knife suddenly slashed across, and Zong Yanli cut off Wu Jian'an's head with a fierce look in his eyes. He raised the head in his hand and said to the Jin army: "Hang the enemy's head on the military flag! I will not return home until the Jin army is destroyed!"
"Kill!!!" The loud shouts vented the soldiers' anger.
Their righteousness is mocked and their kindness is laughed at.
Zong Yanli's move made Shao Weiyi and other generals feel a dull pain in their hearts. They stared at the head held high by Zong Yanli with red eyes. As early as when Wu Jian'an strongly requested to set up this plan, he had already told them the possible final outcome.
But seeing this scene with my own eyes, the unignorable grief and collapse were hard to suppress.
That's their general!
Shao Weiyi angrily overturned the Wu army soldiers who were approaching him. In this surprise attack and fight, neither side gained any advantage. Shao Weiyi even won a small victory due to the negligence of the Wu army.
They didn't have much time to grieve and had to ride back to the city and retreat again.
"Teacher!" Shao Weiyi burst into tears because he failed to bring back Wu Jian'an's body. The eight-foot-tall man cried like a child while holding the long spear that his teacher used when he was alive.
"The great general sacrificed his life to feed the enemy. Such loyalty and heroism will be recorded in the history!" All the generals in the tent said with tears in their eyes and choked with sobs.
"General Shao, please don't be sad. The soldiers still need you!"
"General Shao, please accept my condolences..."
There was a mournful atmosphere in Donglong City. Zong Yanli of the Wu army took off his armor and tore off the white cloth wrapped around his chest. His chest was bruised and purple from a severe blow, which was very scary.
Even with a heart-protection mirror, it cannot stop the gravity of the impact.
She took out the medicinal wine and rubbed it against her heart to dissolve it. The dull pain made her frown. After the warmth in her palms and the medicinal wine dissipated, she put on her clothes and armor again. She lowered her eyes and looked at the broken heartguard, feeling a little heartbroken.
This was her coming-of-age gift from her father.
"General?" Wen Nian's voice came from outside the tent.
"Yes." Zong Yanli carefully put away the broken heart-protecting mirror, stood up and walked out of the tent. She looked up at Wen Nian's slightly worried eyes. She raised her chin slightly and said, "I'm fine. How is Gao Feilin's injury?"
Wu Jian'an attacked with all her strength, and Gao Feilin was injured while blocking the knife for her.
Wen Nian pursed his lips and stared at Zong Yanli, as if trying to read something from her eyes. He lowered his eyes and whispered, "The military doctor is treating her injuries. She should be fine."
Wen Nian frowned and said, "The force of Wu Jian'an's heavy blow fell on the general. Is the general really okay?"
Zong Yanli nodded and sighed a little, "Fortunately, the heart-protecting mirror my father gave me blocked it, but it's a pity that the heart-protecting mirror has been broken..."
"Treasures are hard to find. Once we break into the Jin imperial city, I will find another treasure to replace it." Zong Yanli narrowed his eyes, his tone revealing an indescribable determination.
"Yes." Wen Nian breathed a sigh of relief and quickly leaned over to respond.
While the two were talking, Long Feiguang, Dong Haoqiang and others came over. Seeing Zong Yanli standing there peacefully, their faces suddenly became solemn.
Even Long Feiguang, who had always been willing to stay and be loyal to Zong Yanli because of his third brother Gongsun Pu, was impressed and bowed today, saying with great admiration: "General, you are so righteous, I respect you!"
Long Feiguang is a man who values loyalty and righteousness the most. Everyone under the White Eagle Army is a loyal and righteous man. This time when Zong Yanli was fighting against the Jin Army, he was still able to do so. Just praising him for his righteousness would be an understatement. When the old general died, the troops withdrew to attend the funeral, and let the enemy general's coffin pass by.
No matter how you say it, Zong Yanli's action is enough to be praised by the world. There is no other brave man like him in the world!
"That old villain Wu Jian'an is so hateful!" Dong Haoqiang was relieved to see that Zong Yanli was not injured, and he could not help cursing. They really believed that the enemy's funeral was real, but who knew that the Jin army would do such a despicable thing!
Kuang Xingquan and the others were also both angry and amazed. As a general, Wu Jianan was able to design to such an extent. It was really...
Zong Yanli didn't say much. Wu Jian'an's head was still hanging on our army's flag, so she won after all.
Zong Yanli called everyone to the meeting tent to talk. After everyone sat in the tent, Zong Yanli said, "Wu Jian'an is dead. I think the current commander of Jin State should be Shao Weiyi. Compared with Wu Jian'an, Shao Weiyi is much easier to deal with."
"This man has more courage than strategy." Zong Yanli narrowed his eyes and said, "I originally wanted to persuade him to surrender, but now that Wu Jian'an has been killed in anger, I'm afraid I won't be able to persuade him for a while."
"Generals, please share your best strategies for attacking the city."
……
The generals in the military tent all had their own opinions, and for a while they were unable to decide on a strategy for attacking the city.
It is not difficult to see from this incident that the military strength in Donglong City is weak, and the loss of generals is probably a time when the morale of the army is unstable.
At this time, Zong Yanli did not know that Wu Jian'an, the old fox, had entrusted him with a plan before his death. Perhaps he knew that his student's strategy was not enough to win, so he left a secret plan. When Shao Weiyi opened the secret plan, he saw the first plan.
Letter to the Emperor: The enemy knows the strength of the city and may underestimate us, so we should attack them by surprise and shock them and make them flee.
Seeing this plan, Shao Weiyi did not hesitate at all. He directly selected 2,000 soldiers and while the Wu army was making a fire and cooking, he ordered the 2,000 soldiers to split into several small teams and suddenly rushed out of the city.
Shao Weiyi led the way and charged directly towards the Wu army. Although Zong Yanli had many soldiers under his command, they had no time to prepare for a battle at this time. They were panicked and confused and quickly retreated.
"The Jin army actually launched a surprise attack out of the city!" By the time Zong Yanli reacted, Shao Weiyi had already led a group of soldiers and killed and wounded a large number of our soldiers and retreated back into the city.
"How hateful!" Dong Haoqiang slammed the table in anger.
Zong Yanli frowned and thought deeply. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether Shao Weiyi's attack was a strategic one or a desperate move out of hatred for her for beheading Wu Jian'an.
She raised her hand to appease Dong Haoqiang and others and said, "We will organize our troops tomorrow and attack Donglong."
Everyone stood up immediately after hearing this: "Yes!"
The siege horn sounded.
Shao Weiyi stood on the city wall and commanded the battle. Looking at the huge Wu army attacking, he gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers defending the city to stand firm. The city wall was high and dangerous, and the Jin army was holding on firmly. Zong Yanli failed to break the city after this fierce attack and had to sound the horn to retreat temporarily.
However, Zong Yanli never expected that Shao Weiyi would suddenly open the city gate and launch another surprise attack when the Wu army retreated.
"General, this is not right." Zong Yanli could sense that something was wrong without Gongsun Pu's warning.
"The State of Jin is already in a desperate situation. Could there be any more counselors joining the game?" Zong Yanli really didn't think that Shao Weiyi would come up with such a strategy, and he couldn't help but frowned and said.
"The Jin army's multiple surprise attacks were all unexpected, and they chose the moment when our army was relaxed, which seemed to be intentional." Gongsun Pu leaned over and bowed to Zong Yanli, saying, "General, why don't you cut off their food supply, besiege the city without attacking, and wait until the enemy runs out of ammunition and food before sending a letter of persuasion for surrender."
Zong Yanli adopted Gongsun Pu's strategy and stopped attacking the city.
Shao Weiyi tried to launch another surprise attack several times, but found that he could not gain any benefit from the Wu army, so he knew that this plan had failed.
When we heard that the food supply route was destroyed, the enemy would certainly besiege our army.
There was not much food left in the city. Shao Weiyi had been struggling with the Wu army for more than a month and had almost no food left. If the siege continued, he would face the crisis of starvation.
It was also at this time that Shao Weiyi opened the brocade bag again and saw the second plan Wu Jian'an left for him.
Inscription: Animals can be eaten, and humans can also be eaten.
Shao Weiyi felt cold all over when he saw this, and he could no longer hold back and knelt down crying. It seemed that at this moment he finally understood what his teacher's last words were, in which he was told so solemnly to defend Donglong to the death.
Defend to the death...
The teacher must have anticipated that the enemy would cut off food supplies and besiege the city, hoping to starve them to death.
On the sixtieth day of the siege of Donglong, almost all the livestock in the city had been killed, and all the birds, mice and rats had been caught. The bark of old trees was peeled and the army armor was cooked and eaten.
It was at this time that Zong Yanli ordered his men to set up a boiler outside Donglong City, and to direct the barbecue fans into the city. He also sent soldiers to the city gate every day to lure the enemy into surrender, and to shoot letters of surrender to Shao Weiyi with arrows. Under this double pressure, the generals in Donglong City suffered a lot.
The already unstable morale of the army was further weakened by this. Zhu Kuo and others wavered again and tried to persuade Shao Weiyi to abandon the city and flee eastward.
"Retreating in front of the battle disrupts the morale of the army! Behead them!" Shao Weiyi's eyes were red. He immediately tied up the five people who first instigated the incident, pushed them to the top of the city wall, and beheaded them in front of the Wu army.