sinking into sand

Hu Yulu was chosen, and it was Xu Shan who went south to tell Daocheng that he failed to seek help.

Xu Shan has been tortured by him for a long time, and he is already like an obedient puppet, obeying Hu Yulu's words, even if he is asked to lick his shoes, he has not disobeyed in the slightest.Even when he saw his brother's body right in front of him, Xu Shan still had a gentle and obedient look, without any intention of rebelling.

He was selected to go south to report the result of his request for help. It has to be said that Hu Yulu somehow meant to humiliate Zhai Su and everyone in Daocheng.

But now he is the face of the imperial court, so who can do anything to him?

Xu Shan set off from Fengcheng, went south to Daocheng, and was escorted by people from Zhai Su's army.This road is going very smoothly, it can be regarded as day and night.The people in the various camps didn't know what was going on inside Fengcheng, they only saw that they were flying the banner of the Iron Armored Army, so they didn't stop them.

The group arrived all the way around Daocheng. At this time, Pingbeiwei also received news that they were here to help Pingbeiwei persuade him to surrender.So as soon as they entered the boundary of Daocheng, they were picked up by Xiang Feibai.

The people in Daocheng only knew that someone from the Iron Armored Army had arrived, but they didn't know who it was. They also heard that the person who came was directly taken away by Xiang Feibai, so they couldn't help but start to worry again.

"The request for help failed?" Si En asked worriedly, "The ones who came were actually from the imperial court?"

This is undoubtedly the most likely outcome.

Si En counted the surplus of various supplies in the city again, and gradually felt desolate in his heart.

I'm afraid I can't win.

The words swirled on her tongue, but she still didn't say it in the end.

Now that the situation is already extremely difficult, why bother to make things difficult for everyone.

It's just that she didn't say it, and everyone in Daocheng probably knew that this was the most likely result.

Now it is October, and the weather will turn cold in a few days.The outer city walls of Daocheng are already full of traces of sword chopping and gunpowder bombing, the oil in the homes of the people is almost running out, there are mountains of corpses piled up outside the city, and wounded soldiers are everywhere in the city. Injured and can't move now.

The most terrible thing is that the supplies in the city will be eaten up soon.

The collateral effect caused by the lack of supplies is fatal, but within a few days, the passive resistance in the city has become increasingly strong.There was even a fight over food between neighbors.The emotions of the people have also gradually become tired and wandering from the beginning of united will.

"We can't wait for reinforcements, we have to figure out our own way." In the crisis, Ye Wanwan quickly grew into a real leader, and calmly arranged the next thing: "Lin Si and I will go to redeploy again today." The defense and armament at the gate of the city. It is very likely that there will be no fighting tomorrow, if it is not reinforcements, it is the imperial court to persuade them to surrender."

She glanced at the leaders of some other cottages in the house.They fought together for many days, and when one died, others took his place.Some people who were just soldiers are now generals.

"If you want to surrender, tomorrow will be your chance." Ye Wanwan looked at them and said very sincerely: "Ping Beiwei is now being recruited, and maybe he won't kill any more prisoners. Surrender may save his life. If you choose to stay, the outcome will be It is very likely that the city will be destroyed and people will die, how do you choose?"

These people experienced another small attack and defense today, and they are very tired at the moment, and some of them just looked at Ye Wanwan blankly.No one spoke.

Ye Wanwan also knew that it might be too sudden for everyone to choose at this time.So he stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and said, "Don't worry, I'll wait for your reply tomorrow morning."

After all, she went straight out of the government office.

Yu Sha looked at her back and was speechless for a moment, then went to look at Guan Lan, never expecting that he was dozing off against the wall, and suddenly felt a little speechless.

But he was speechless for a while. He knew that Guan Lan was not to blame. He was the most active person among all the people. He had to go to and from the city every day. Too strong to pervert.

So he didn't wake him up, and didn't care if there were still people here.Sitting and rubbing against Guan Lan, she also leaned on Guan Lan.

It was just such a little movement, but Guan Lan was still woken up by him. He blinked his eyes several times, but without moving his head, he glanced at Yu Sha with his eyes, and his voice was a little hoarse when he just woke up: "It's over?" Skirt; [-]_Scatter/Linglu] Leek. [-]`Scatter} Chives

"The meeting is over." Yu Sha replied, thinking that you still remember the meeting, we are all over.

He didn't know if Guan Lan was paying attention to the slander, but Guan Lan sat up, propped himself up, and ordered Yu Sofa with an expression on his face: "Let's go."

"Where are you going?" Yu Sha asked.

Guan Lan didn't return, and directly pulled Yu Sha out the door.

He took Yu Sha around in the streets and alleys. Thanks to his running around these past few days, he is probably the person who is most familiar with the roads of Daocheng in the world.

They walked for a while and came to a river.

Compared with the Lijiang River, this river course is really a ditch.It was full of corpses at first, but after being cleaned up, it didn't flow for a few days, and it turned into a stagnant ditch again.This is to prevent the Pingbei army from using this river to sneak into the city. Before they arrived, the river was blocked by Si En.As a result, after so long, the residents of the city still dumped sewage here, and it stinks long ago.

Seeing that Guan Lan didn't sleep, Yu Sha dragged him to see a stinking ditch, and his speechless speech immediately rose to ten.Turning to look at Guan Lan again, only to find that the disappointment on his face was even greater than his.

Yu Sha: "..."

Yu Sha: "So what on earth are you here for?"

Guan Lan: "I've thought about it for a long time. If I have time, I'll bring you here to wash it. I didn't expect it to stink."

Yu Sha: "..."

The level of speechlessness is slightly reduced. Now water is more scarce than food in the city, and there is not enough to drink, let alone things like washing. No wonder Guan Lan is worried.

However, this level of speechlessness decreased for a while, and it immediately became speechless to himself.Yu Sha looked at the stars in the sky, and said with contempt, Yu Shaomiao, you are too depraved. In general, at such a tense time, Guan Lan still remembers taking a bath, which is enough to make people speechless. What are you comforting about?

Naturally, he couldn't hear these slanders against Guan Lan, and he still regretted his plan to abort.Seeing him like this, Yu Sha still couldn't bear it, and habitually comforted him, "Oh, don't do this, it really can't be done, the city is guarding, let's go to the Wei River to wash. This is a tributary, the river is narrow, and if you go north, there is the main stream of the Wei River Yes, it's definitely better than this."

What he said was almost like coaxing a three-year-old child, but Guan Lan just took this trick, turned his head to look at him, and said with bright eyes: "Then go after the fight, it's settled."

"Well, it's settled." Yu Sha replied.

Guan Lan then stopped thinking about the stinky ditch, stood up holding Yu Sha's hand, squeezed it again, and said, "So we will definitely win, right?"

Yu Sha was taken aback by his question, and then realized what Guan Lan was doing today.

He is reassuring him.

Yu Sha felt a sore nose in an instant, tears fell down his face, and there were two traces on his face, which were not touching at all, rather ugly.Seeing this, Guan Lan thought it was both funny and cute, so she reached out to wipe away his tears, and with her dirty hands, she turned into a cat for Yu Sha.

"That's great." Guan Lan looked at Yu Sha who had been rubbed by him indiscriminately and said, "We have no regrets when we are together."

Yu Sha rubbed his hand for a while, then said, "I don't want to sleep anymore, let's go to the city gate."

To wait for tomorrow's result.

Guan Lan nodded when he heard the words, without even a trace of heaviness on his face, and said, "OK, let's go."

The next day, it was sunny again.

Ye Wanwan didn't sleep almost all night, and she left her tent at dawn.

To her surprise, many people came to her door, almost all the generals and leaders arrived, and Si En stood at the top.

The two of them looked at each other, and did not speak for a long time. After a while, Si En spoke first.

"Yu Sha and the others have already gone to the city gate, let's go too."

She spoke calmly, and didn't mention the surrender that Ye Wanwan said yesterday.The soldiers behind her were the same, with solemn expressions, but no one flinched.

Ye Wanwan suddenly felt a little ashamed again, and she said, "Sorry."

Only then did Si En smile: "What are you talking about, there are so many, let's go. They started fighting early in the morning."

Indeed, the Pingbei Army escorted Xu Shan to the city early in the morning.

People in and out of the city actually knew that what Xu Shan needed to do was actually very simple, that is, shouted before the battle that the reinforcements would not come again and asked them to surrender.

When all the defenders of the city had arrived, Xu Shan was driven out of the Pingbei Army by a cavalryman on horseback.When the cavalryman swung his whip, Xu Shan shivered reflexively.Everyone on the city wall could see this scene clearly.

Among the crowd, only Lin Si recognized Xu Shan. He had a solemn expression, and he didn't know what he was thinking.And the others also saw that Liu Ziyuan and Guo Hengzhi were not the ones who came to persuade them to surrender, and they probably knew that there was no last miracle, and that the appeal for help was indeed a failure.

Xu Shan was driven to the gate of the city, looking a little too thin and frightened, as if he couldn't hold on any longer.

Si En couldn't bear to look any longer, and turned his head first.

The sun was shining brightly, and the weak eyes could hardly see clearly.Those who drove him behind him were still whipping him, telling him to shout to the people at the city gate to persuade him to surrender.

Shout out, persuade to surrender.

Xu Shan raised his head and looked directly at the city gate, almost unable to see where anyone was.

But he knew there was, so he started yelling.

"Reinforcement...reinforcement!!!!"

As soon as he yelled these two words, the cavalry behind him whipped him again. It was a riding whip, and as soon as he whipped it down, blood was seen immediately.

"Speak well." The cavalry forced him, "Don't make trouble."

Xu Shan was just an aide, and tears of pain came out immediately after being whipped.After taking a few breaths, he finally spoke.

"Reinforcement... reinforcements no... no..."

He said that no word several times, but the cavalry behind him thought his voice was low, so he whipped him again.

Severe pain came overlapping, and Xu Shan's forehead broke out with some fine sweat.

However, the whip seemed to have given him some strength. After accumulating for a while, he finally had the strength to speak out, and he shouted loudly with his broken body that had been tortured.

"The reinforcements... no... will arrive in Daocheng soon!!!"

His voice has been distorted because of the treble, it has become extremely thin, and even a little distorted.For a moment, the cavalryman behind him was startled by the sudden burst of power from this weak literati, and he didn't finish him immediately.

So Xu Shan got the chance to say the second sentence.

"Defend the city!!!" Xu Shan's voice was almost hoarse because of the roar: "Weiguo!!!!!!"

Then at the end of this sentence was the sound of Xu Shan's head falling to the ground.

Xu Shan is dead.

Lin Si cried out in extreme pain on the city wall, but no one stopped him, Ye Wanwan's eyes were red, she stopped hesitating and gave orders loudly.

"Fire arrows!"

When Ye Wanwan spoke, the soldiers in the city who vaguely heard Xu Shan's dying words blushed, and rained arrows. The cavalry who came to persuade them to surrender were unprepared and suffered casualties.

"Defend!"

Ye Wanwan looked at the square that had been cleared before her eyes, and gave the order to die, her voice almost squeezed through her teeth.

"Wait for reinforcements to arrive!"