Bring the whole war back to Nanming

Chapter 57 Self-reliance
"Retreat! Retreat quickly! Crossbowmen cover! Quick!"

The surviving Tartar Niu Lu panicked and ordered the Tartar soldiers to retreat.

It turns out that the barbarians' bows and arrows are so evil that they are more powerful than their fire guns.If you can't fight, retreat first!
The Tartars retreated like a tide to the north bank of the moat river, and the Avalon sisters took the opportunity to cover them up. The blue magic arrows were all seen from the city wall to the south bank of the moat river. Countless Tartar corpses were more or less stuck with a few broken arrows. Arrow A, most of them were shot in the back, and died in a miserable state.

Fang Xiaobai sat leaning against the blood-soaked sandbag, and a strong sense of exhaustion filled his whole body.

After Boris cleaned the battlefield, his face was so gloomy that it was about to drip water.

"My lord, the statistics of the battle results in the morning, do you want to hear it?"

"Come on, I'm prepared."

Boris lowered his head and said softly: "Our army killed more than [-] people and injured [-], of which [-] were seriously injured and [-] were slightly injured. Because of the barbarian trebuchets, many soldiers could only find some broken limbs and arms. Some casualties cannot be counted."

"I know that it's a good thing to survive, Boris, take care of the wounded and dead soldiers, and the casualties in the next few days will only be greater than today."

Standing up, holding Boris' shoulders, Fang Xiaobai struggled to get up: "The sun is about to set, let the cooking squad come up and distribute dinner to the soldiers, if you die, you have to eat enough before going to die, right?"

With a forced smile, he signaled Boris to leave.He spread his hands on the sandbags and quietly looked in the direction of the Tatar camp.

Countless flags were flying in the distance and tents were standing there. He could not clearly see the deployment of Tatar troops and shook his head mockingly.

"Sir, the food is here! I just met Shi Kefa, and he asked me to tell you that there is not enough food in Yangzhou City, and the food allocated to us can only eat two meals per person."

Boris handed the lunch box in his hand to Fang Xiaobai, opened the lunch box, picked up a piece of fish, put it in his mouth and said vaguely.

Fang Xiaobai shook his head: "These literati are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they will only favor one another when encountering troubles. We are working hard on the front line, but they are good, and they have reduced military rations. Any shortage of food is fake. As the door of Nanjing, It is impossible for Yangzhou City to lack food."

"My lord, I don't think it matters. We have our own military rations, which are not bad from Shi Kefa."

Boris took a few mouthfuls and ate the food in the lunch box, his one-eyed eyes were full of disdain.

"You're right, we rely on ourselves, even if Shi Kefa doesn't give us anything, we can still fight. How can you eat so fast!"

Fang Xiaobai looked at Boris's lunch box. It was smooth inside, with only a little oil stain left. Then he looked at his own lunch box. It was full of food, but not a single bite was touched.

"Wait for me. I'll take you to Skofana after dinner. It's not easy to continue fighting like this. Most of our soldiers don't know how to use artillery. We have to let him send some technical troops."

"Yes!"

After swallowing the delicious dinner, Fang Xiaobai took off his heavy armor without taking a break, dragged Boris into the city and ran into the city.

He didn't have to worry about the Tatars attacking at night. After all, everyone would be hungry. Fighting hungry, the soldiers would not resist, and they couldn't stop them from being lazy.

In the city of Yangzhou, the common people carried the wounded, repaired the city walls, and went back and forth between the city walls. What's more, they carried all kinds of weapons and shields and rushed to the east, west and south to replenish personnel.

Fang Xiaobai and Boris did not ride horses, carefully avoiding the rushing crowd, and finally arrived at Shi Kefa's location. However, they were stopped by the guard, saying that he wanted to go in and report.

They are not unreasonable people, they will notify them as soon as they are notified, and it will be done later.It never occurred to me that within a minute after the guard went in, he came out and told them that Shi Kefa was busy and had no time to pay attention to them.

Fang Xiaobai saw at a glance that the guards were perfunctory with him, so he pushed away the guards who were blocking them and broke into the lobby.

"My lord! I said, you can't go in, brothers and sisters!"

Dozens of guards drew their swords and shot at Fang Xiaobai and their bodies with murderous aura.

Depend on!As for?The knife is bright, I really have something to do with Shi Kefa.

Boris touched Fang Xiaobai lightly, signaling him to be calm: "My lord, it may be that we are not wearing official uniforms."

Uh... I looked down at my attire. The battle was fierce before, so I didn't pay attention to what I was wearing. I only had an undershirt worn by ordinary people on my body. No wonder the guards would be perfunctory.

"Brother, I'm sorry just now, please go and inform Master Shi again, just say that Fang Xiaobai wants to see him."

Fang Xiaobai lowered his posture and admitted his mistake. The guard's expression improved a lot, but his attitude was still firm: "I told you, Mr. Shi is very busy and has no time to see you."

Yes, don't eat soft and hard.Fang Xiaobai took a deep look at the guard, remembering his appearance, and asked, "What's your name?"

"Master, do you deserve to know my name?" The guard didn't say anything, and the robe beside him pushed back.

The rune sword of Midden collar in Boris's hand appeared in his right hand, the master humiliated his ministers to death, and they would not speak well unless they knew how powerful they were.

"Forget it, since Mr. Shi is really busy, I won't bother you anymore, Boris, let's go."

Boris couldn't believe that Fang Xiaobai actually relented. Is this still the Fang Xiaobai he knew?
In a dazed effort, Fang Xiaobai walked a distance, and he hurried to catch up: "My lord, why just forget about it? They obviously..."

Fang Xiaobai was helpless: "Oh, I know what you want to say. You have to know that all the defenders of Yangzhou City are like grasshoppers on a rope. If you had a conflict with them just now, they would be criticized, and even Shi Kefa would take advantage of it. Detain me, since Shi Kefa is unreliable, let’s find someone ourselves.”

"How to find it?"

"Practical training!"

"What?"

On the way back, Fang Xiaobai taught Boris a lesson: how to practice deception.

He grabbed a commoner holding a dung fork: "My fellow, where are you going?"

"Oh, where else can I go? The east gate has been beaten into a mess. The dead have piled up on the city wall. I'm going to die."

The people seemed a little nervous, trembling when they spoke.

Fang Xiaobai asked back: "You don't have to go, are you forced to go?"

"Young man, it's easy for you to say that. There are one hundred thousand Tatars outside the city. If the city is destroyed, you, me, and they all have to die. For the sake of my wife and children, I'm afraid I have to do it."

As soon as Fang Xiaobai heard that there was something interesting, he said temptingly: "Anyway, I'm going to die, why don't I go to the north gate, I heard that the north gate invites people to shoot cannons, so I don't have to go up and kill the tartars myself."

"What, there is such a good thing, don't lie to me!" The people were full of disbelief, but the expression was intriguing.

Fang Xiaobai decided to add fuel to the fire: "I have a friend who works as an errand at the North Gate. He told me, don't you believe it? I'll take you there, but I'll just have to ask more people. I guess they won't want you."

"Okay! I'll believe you once! Zhang Wazi! Don't run there, go with Uncle, hey, hey! Li Goudan, call your brother and come with me..."

Hundreds of ignorant people agreed to join the North Gate Artillery Corps under his persuasion and returned to the North Gate with them.

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