How many buildings are in the mist

Some soldiers leaned on each other to rest under the city wall. Busy people were constantly walking around them, carrying supplies, arrowheads, tung oil, dung water, stones, and sand.Although the other soldiers were also under the city wall, they were very vigilant, staring at the ground while listening to the shouts of their comrades on the city wall.As long as someone shouts from above, or the soil layer is slightly loosened, it will be chaotic.Sometimes there is whimpering from the ground, sometimes there is nothing.After pulling out the guns, they would pick up the shovels, dig out the corpses of the Yan army in the ground, continue to use them to block the tunnel, and then throw the severed heads out.

Cui Xuanji was sitting under the pergola not far away, covered in blood, scanning his surroundings vigilantly.From time to time, the blacksmith came to report, "My lord! We are ready!" Without turning her head, she said wearily, "Okay, let's go. Move quickly." Then, led by the blacksmith, more than a dozen people held The Heavy Cauldron yelled as he hurried towards the city gate.Cui Xuanji watched them step forward one by one, pouring molten metal on the groove of the temporary iron latch, white smoke rose up, and she seemed to hear a hissing sound amidst the noise.

There are 1 Yan troops outside, plus Zhu Gaozhi's troops, 100 enemy troops are besieging Guangling, which is guarded by [-] people.When the vanguard of the Yan army arrived, they were deceived by the captured Yan army on the tower for a day.But the city gate was still not opened the next day, and the fool knew there was a problem.When Yan Jun's head coach Murong Hu arrived, he got up with Zhu Gaozhi.When Cui Xuanji saw Zhu Gaozhi, he knew that there was nothing to hide, so he took his brother's head with a gun and stood it on the tower for him to see.

It is conceivable that the enemy army rewarded her with a rain of arrows.

Zhu Gaozhi probably died without thinking how she took Guangling back in just two days; what was even more unexpected was how the defenders were ready for the battle within this day.When the rebels pushed over the chariots and ladders that were going to be used by the Yan army to attack the city after crossing the river, the defenders pushed a large number of stones from the city wall and killed the soldiers who operated the first chariot. The tung oil and dung water were poured on Yan Jun who was climbing up the ladder.Stench, screams, black smoke billowing up.The Yan army lost hundreds of people in one morning, and Murong Hu urgently ordered to stop the attack, and shoot arrows first, and then shoot the living people above to death.

As a result, as soon as the arrow was shot, the defenders erected their shields.The shield was wrapped with thick rags and linoleum, and the defenders under the shield not only hid safely, but also giggled.Cui Xuanji glared at them, meaning to let them hold back, if the laughter was heard below, there would be no such free arrows to use!

Yan Jun was deceived again for a while.It wasn't until a Yan army prisoner suddenly ran up the tower and yelled in Xianbei dialect to the outside that the Yan army below knew that they had been fooled and stopped their almost endless shooting.

Cui Xuanji stood up and looked at the handsome Murong Hu and the furious Zhu Gaozhi in the city. She neither planned to negotiate peace nor persuade them to surrender, because she knew she had no capital.But sowing dissension is completely okay, she began to laugh at Zhu Gaozhi, saying that he is not good at leading the team, and he doesn't know anything about the situation in the city, he is a waste at all.These words reached Murong Hu's heart, in front of the huge army, he took a whip and slapped Zhu Gaozhi in the face.

After the beating, Murong Hu said four words to Cui Xuanji in correct Chinese, saying that Kaesong will not be killed.Cui Xuanji also answered in four words, rather than surrender.

Murong Hu laughed and said, "Is it worth sacrificing the lives of so many innocent soldiers for your own fame?"

It seems that this guy is indeed not an idiot, Cui Xuanji thought. "This is not for my own fame, but for the lives of countless people in Jiangzuo."

Murong Hu said: "Why do you always treat my Yan army like a scourge?"

Cui Xuanji sneered and said: "Occupying my homeland and slaughtering my Guizhou head, what is it if it's not an evil beast? You Yan army wants to put on clothes and pretend to be human, first ask the 140 people who were slaughtered in Xiapi {[-]} answer Promise!"

There was a moment of silence between the two armies, Murong Hu stopped talking and rode away.Cui Xuanji glanced back quickly. There was still filth boiled in the cauldron. The soldiers were busy arranging the arrows they had just collected. She whispered to the captain next to her: "Command, get ready, follow the instructions." The second set of plans is to ensure that the wooden sticks are distributed in place. Then, you go to check whether the poisoned arrows are ready."

At dusk, Yan Jun continued to set up the ladder and rolled out a bigger car.It's just that they viciously drove the rebel army led by Zhu Gaozhi to the front, and the soldiers of the Yan army followed behind.Cui Xuanji thought early in the morning that the Yan army was extremely shameless, and it must be so, so he distributed some wooden sticks to the guarding soldiers. When the rebels came up, they put them in and knocked them unconscious, and then used the gap behind them to quickly stab the Yan army soldiers to death.After blocking the wave in this way, the Yan army changed tactics again, and began to step forward with a rebel army and a Yan army.Cui Xuanji took the lead and began to shout: "Zhu's army surrenders and will not be killed!" Sure enough, some rebels came up and turned around and pushed the Yan army behind them down.

Seeing this, Murong Hu became very angry and ordered to shoot arrows, killing all those who were not from the Yan army on the city wall.Cui Xuanji hurriedly pulled up a rebel in front of him, and there were already screams under the city wall.She later learned that after the remaining Zhu family rebels were disarmed, they were driven to the riverside by the Yan army, killed and pushed into the river.Zhu Gaozhi and several of his subordinates who survived were tied up and brought to Murong Hu's side, and became consultants and guides whose heads could move at any time.

Under the cover of random arrows—perhaps also intimidation—the Yan army desperately climbed up the city. Because the number was superior, the defenders could not resist, and hand-to-hand combat broke out on the city wall soon.Although the Habayashi soldiers were excellent in martial arts, they hadn't rested for a long time, their physical strength was exhausted, and the battle was very anxious.Cui Xuanji and several captains of Habayashi took the lead, fighting a bloody road to overthrow the ladder by virtue of their personal abilities.Suddenly there was a shout from the defenders at the city gate, and the city gate was about to be smashed by a car!

When Cui Xuanji heard the news, he hacked to death the Yan Bing who had just come up in front of him with one knife, and then quickly cut off the iron chains that hooked the ladder to the tower.Ignoring the pain in her palm, she picked up the bow and arrow and rushed to a place where she could see the city gate, aiming at the chariot and firing the arrow.

The bowstring is full, and the flying arrows are almost hidden in the night.Whoosh, whoosh, because she couldn't see clearly, she fired twenty arrows in a row to kill the seven people beside the car.The last arrow had just been released, because standing on the protruding position of the city wall, the sharp-eyed Yan Jun under the city wall spotted her.With a loud cry, arrows from all directions flew towards her.She dodged backwards, but was still shot by three arrows in her left shoulder and right calf.

After dark, the Yan army temporarily stopped attacking and retreated to rest.The rushing car did a lot of damage to the city gate. Everyone was desperately reinforcing the city gate with wooden boards. A school lieutenant suddenly had an idea and said that the iron bolt groove was still in the warehouse, but the bolt was gone.Cui Xuanji asked him to go to the city to collect all the available solid metals, bring a blacksmith with him, and cast a door bolt as quickly as possible.

The military doctor rushed up, pulled out the arrow for her, and simply bandaged her.While enduring the pain, she confessed to the people around her, asked the soldiers to change their guards, and took care to hide in a safe place to rest.The poison was poured into the cauldron on the city wall, reminding the soldiers to dip their weapons in it.

An hour later, the Yan army attacked again.A cluster of burning arrows flew over, covering a group of engineers with shovels rushing towards the city wall.This time the rain of arrows was much denser than before, and they couldn't be collected. The defenders could only be beaten with shields.The more courageous defenders opened a crack to look at the situation under the city wall, and were killed by arrows.A new wave of casualties began to appear on the city wall. Cui Xuanji asked loudly about the situation above, but the soldiers dared not look down.She wanted to go up and was stopped by the school captain. When she was in a dilemma, there was a sudden killing sound from the side of the city wall, and the Yan army came out from the ground, and hand-to-hand combat broke out.

It turned out that Yan Jun learned from Zhu Gaozhi that there were several tunnels under the city wall. After Zhu Shijing came, these tunnels that were originally used for surprise attacks were sealed, but the fortifications were not done well. Authentic gravel, anti-general army.

It was too late to blame the lieutenants for forgetting this matter, Cui Xuanji could only drag his exhausted and injured body to fight the Yan army in the city.While fighting, go forward to the tunnel, looking for a way to block this place again.After fighting for half an hour, the corpses of the Yan army were strewn all over the ground, and the offensive eased. Cui Xuanji and the defenders immediately threw the corpses of the Yan army down and piled them up to temporarily block the passage.

She was so tired that she couldn't breathe, and her eyelids were clenched. After all, not only did she not close her eyes for two days and two nights, she was also shot by three arrows.However, as the coach, the rest time is not reserved for her.The school lieutenant in charge of logistics dragged her to rest under the awning, saying that it was safe and that she could directly see the city gate, "My lord must not fall down. If my lord falls, we will have no leader!" After she sat down, she was still directing How the soldiers filled the tunnel with sand and how to defend it when going down.

The rain of arrows did not stop until just now, and the sky was about to dawn.Cui Xuanji suspects that the Yan army will exhaust all the supplies prepared for the attack on Jiankang here - thinking about it this way, he feels fortunate rather than anxious.An old man living in the city volunteered to collect arrow clusters.He said that he was old and seriously ill. He was dead anyway, so he might as well serve the country. He still carried an iron pot in his hand, saying that he was carrying it so that he would not be afraid of being shot by an arrow.

Although she agreed to the old man's request, she turned her head and scolded her subordinates: Didn't she tell the people to retreat to the castle on the shore?How did this get out?The lieutenant general had no choice but to say, sir, we escorted them to the place and immediately blocked the mountain road to the pier. I really didn't have time to care about whether someone sneaked back.She listened, sighed, and apologized to the lieutenant general.

From the north gate of Guangling City to Jiangfang Ferry, no matter whether you go east or west, you have to go through the mountain on a mountain road.She is ordering people to go there first to block the narrowest part of the path with rocks, and then leave a group of archers guarding the gate and a large number of oil-soaked flammable felts in the mountain.She ordered these archers, no matter who they heard the order from, they would never support them, in order to set fire to the mountain once they saw the Yan army coming.Now she was sitting under the awning panting, praying that there would be no bad news over there, at least not yet.Let these idiots and beasts suffer enough at the north gate first, and then go around there, so that she can delay for at least a day, and maybe she can wait for the rescue.

The day before yesterday Zhu Shijing had already been escorted back to Jiankang, and only two Habayashi guards went on the same boat.They brought her two pieces of news: the good news and the bad news: the good news is that Guangling is temporarily under the control of the imperial court. The bad news is that Guangling has only 100 people and supplies are limited. She is sure to use this number of people to defend the city for seven days. It is possible to reduce the staff to less than 2000 people.If the court wants to rescue Guangling, it must arrive within ten days.

otherwise?Otherwise, she thought, after crossing the river, she would not know the situation of Jiang Zuo's suppression of the rebellion, so she could only resign herself to fate—even if the court finally decided to abandon Guangling, she would persist until the last moment and wipe out as many Yan troops as possible.

The iron bars were forged, and the arrows began again.Soon there was a shout on the city wall, and the soldiers said, Sir, something is wrong, the Yan army is digging the foundation of the city wall!Cui Xuanji only felt his eyes go dark.

"Pour out all that filth to me!"

Five days later, a fast-moving fleet appeared on the Yangtze River.On the bow of the main ship, Xie Yan led a group of archers to stand.The day Cui Xuanji set off from Jiankang, her victory report was delivered to the imperial court. Six more counties in Wu County surrendered because of Gu Kang's death. He personally took the main force to surround the Gu family's rebels who were hiding in their own fort.Ask the imperial court, should the rebels of the Gu family be alive or dead, all of them or just a few?Feng Zizhang reported the news to Feng Zihuan, and Feng Zihuan wrote in his handwriting: End the battle quickly at any cost. Once you succeed, you immediately rush to take over the Jiankang Guards and cross the river to support Guangling.The imperial decree arrived in her hands that night, and she personally went to the gate of Wubao to announce the news to the young and old of the Gu family, telling them that they had to surrender or die inside, and she had prepared fodder and grease for them, just waiting to be burned.

Gu Su stood on the tower and said to her: "Even if the old man surrenders, it is the crime of the barbarians, so why bother!"

Xie Yan said: "Of course your family belongs to the Yi tribe, but many of those who fought with you didn't want to die. Why don't you do a good deed, let them live, and let those who want to escape escape? Benevolence, justice and mercy!" Gu Su didn't answer, but that night he opened the gate and let many people out, then set Wubao on fire, and his family was buried in the flames.

Xie Yan looked at the blazing fire, and handed over the rest to the lieutenant general. He took a small number of guards and immediately rode northwest to take over the Jiankang Imperial Guard Army.At this moment, she was standing on the bow of the boat, seeing the raging fire on the other side, her heart tightened, and she was terribly worried.It wasn't until the near shore saw that only the forest was on fire, and the city was still safe, that I felt a little relieved.

As soon as she got ashore, she asked Captain Jiang Fang about the current situation, and then divided the troops into three groups, one from the east, one from the east, to support each other, and she led people to the north gate to find Cui Xuanji.Who knew that the gate of Wengcheng {141} was also sealed by iron bars, so she could only climb up the gate tower and smash the wooden boards that sealed the gate above to get through.Just entering the hand-to-hand battle where both sides had already exhausted their strength, the soldiers moved forward to harvest the heads of the Yan army like searching for something.When Xie Yan reached the edge of the city wall, he jumped directly, quickly opened up an open space, and protected Cui Xuanji, who was about to fall to the ground, in the middle.

"You're finally here." Cui Xuanji said in a hoarse voice, Xie Yan stared at Yan Jun in front of him without turning his head, his eyes were so sharp that Yan Jun didn't dare to go forward, "Yes, this is my first Save you for the second time. Say, how can I repay you?"

Cui Xuanji smiled and said, "Let's clean up here first, and then talk about this." Xie Yan agreed, and then the two of them fought out side by side, until the city wall collapsed, and even to the front of the Yan army. Murong Hu's horses were startled.

That night, Murong Hu, who had been unable to attack Guangling for a long time and lost a large number of soldiers, withdrew and left Zhu Gaozhi to them.At this time, there were only less than [-] Guangling defenders left. Cui Xuanji didn't care about his wounds being torn and festered, and insisted on writing a letter to the court himself, although there were only three words on it: The enemy has retreated.

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{140} Fiction.

{141} Wengcheng is a small semicircular or square guard city built outside the city gate (there are also special cases inside the city gate) in order to strengthen the defense of the castle or pass, shaped like an "urn" (small mouth and wide belly Large bottle), hence the name; it was part of the city walls of ancient Chinese cities.

This chapter was written when I visited the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders when I was in Nanjing in early April.It is a very worthwhile place to visit, and a must-see place as a Chinese.When I published this chapter, it was May 5th, the anniversary of the death of Ms. Minnie Vautrin.Ms. Vautrin did a very, very remarkable thing during the Nanjing Massacre. If you see it, I hope you will search for her experience and remember this great American and the brilliance of her humanity.