Chapter 73: Being teased?◇

◎ After a while, Mu Qingni drank half a gourd of wine before she remembered to ask Zhou Jin:

"By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?

After a while, Mu Qingni drank half a gourd of wine before she remembered to ask Zhou Jin:

"By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Zhou Jin... Uh, thank goodness you asked, otherwise I would have forgotten what I came here for!

Then he put down the wine gourd in his hand and said seriously:

"General, I feel that this isn't a long-term solution. The city's food and supplies are almost gone, and there's still no news from the other guards. We can't rely on them anymore. We have to find a way to save ourselves!"

"Do you have a plan?" Mu Qingni reluctantly put away the wine gourd in her hand and raised her eyes to ask him. She felt that since Zhu Xi's future brother-in-law could immediately determine that reinforcements were not coming, it was not surprising that he had the idea of ​​defeating the enemy.

Zhou Jin: "I think that instead of sitting back and waiting for death, we should take the initiative and attack! Now that the Tatars and the Oirat have come out in full force, their rear defenses must be empty. If we lead our troops to attack their headquarters now, we will definitely be able to hit them with one blow!"

So that's the idea, Mu Qingni sighed:

"You think I haven't thought about this?! We don't even have enough soldiers to defend the city right now, so where would we get the extra manpower to do this?"

"General, we don't necessarily need a lot of soldiers! I feel that although the Tartars and the Oirat have temporarily united to attack our Great Yan, they have been enemies for so many years, and they must be full of differences and vigilance against each other!

As long as we can create the illusion that they are attacking each other, they will definitely become suspicious of each other, and the cooperative relationship will naturally collapse. Then, the crisis in Fuzhou City may be resolved! "

Zhou Jin said as he looked at Mu Qingni with sparkling eyes.

Mu Qingni's eyes suddenly lit up and she said excitedly:

"You mean, we can send people pretending to be Tartars to attack the Oirat base, or pretending to be Oirat people to attack the Tartar base... so that they will become suspicious of each other and cause chaos from within?"

Zhou Jin nodded with a smile, feeling that talking to an intelligent person was a pleasure. She could understand the rest of the sentence as soon as I said the beginning...

…

But soon, the smart man looked over at him, holding his chin with one hand, winking at him, and said to him with a smile:

"Zhou Zongqi, who should we send for such a difficult mission?"

Zhou Jin...

That damned girl, she actually wanted to get rid of him so quickly? He had just given her a good idea, and she turned around and put it on him...

Oh! Forget it, just go ahead and hit him. Since it’s the girl’s birthday today, he won’t bother with her. Anyway, he planned to go alone from the beginning!

So I smiled and replied:

"I am willing to go!!!"

"Good!" Mu Qingni saw that her goal had been achieved. She happily patted the steps and stood up. She gave Zhou Jin a thumbs up and praised him generously, "Mr. Zhou is really brave!"

But then he started to cry about his poverty again,

"But you also know that I only have about 3,000 soldiers left. Although I want to give you more, the situation is right now, and I can't do anything about it..."

Let’s put it this way, I can only give you… um… 500 soldiers at most. Furthermore, I can only hold off the Tartars for 20 days at most. Any more than that, and it all depends on luck!!!”

………

Can they hold out for another twenty days? Zhou Jin thought silently, with 5,000 soldiers, they can hold back the 80,000 Tartar troops for a month, and there will still be 3,000 soldiers left!

He was given 500 soldiers and was told he could hold Fuzhou City for 20 days!?

This girl is really - very capable!

After this battle, no matter whether the Fuzhou city was broken or not, or whether the girl was dead or not, this female general of Dayan would surely leave an admirable mark in the history books of Dayan!

Zhou Jin looked up at the girl in front of him who was about the same age as him. Although her lips were chapped from fatigue and her face was red from the cold, her eyes were still determined. Inexplicably, his heart softened and he said to her gently:

"You don't need to give me 500 soldiers. You should leave more to help you defend the city. I only need 300. Don't worry, I will complete my mission and return within 20 days..."

You... must also strive to live and wait for me to come back..."

Mu Qingni...

Did she drink too much? Or was it just her illusion?

Why did she feel like she was being teased?!?!

………

A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Xi and Zhou Po were called over by Mu Qingni. Mu Qingni told them that she planned to let Zhou Jin lead 300 death squads to launch a surprise attack on the enemy camp!

Then Zhou Jin stepped forward and said to the two of them:

"Apart from waiting for reinforcements, this may be our only way to resolve the siege in Fuzhou City, so I plan to give it a try no matter what!

But we need to pretend to be Tartars and bring someone who can speak Tartar with us. Right now, it seems like you two are the only ones in the entire military camp who can speak Tartar. So, who of you is willing to go with me?!"

Zhou Po, Zhu Xi...

They said in unison:

“I’ll go!”

"Let Brother Po go!"

Zhou Po...

Zhu Xi: "Hehe, Brother Bo, Fuzhou City is now in danger. I must stay and help Sister Qingni protect this city! So, I'll let you take on this difficult task!"

Zhou Po grumbled inwardly: "Do you think I can't see what you're thinking?! You sound so righteous, but the real reason you're reluctant to leave is because A-Yu is also in town..."

But looking at Zhu Xi's increasingly calm face, Zhou Po still said, "Okay!"

He patted Zhu Xi's shoulder and said:

"Ah Xi, when your eldest brother was seriously ill, I went to see him once. He told me that you were the one he was most worried about, but now... you've grown up!"

…

The commando team set out in the early morning, and this trip was full of dangers. Before the departure time, Zhou Po went to see his younger brother Zhou Luo, and Zhou Jin also went to see his sister Zhou Yu.

When Zhou Yu heard that his brother was going to attack the Tartar base camp, and even Zhou Po and Zhou Dai were going with him, he said nothing and went straight to the space to move out half of the twenty or so boxes of compressed biscuits stored there. He removed the outer packaging of each with scissors, then went to the small courtyard to find a few bundles, wrapped the compressed biscuits that had been removed from the outer packaging in several bundles, and handed them to his brother one by one. He also gave him several large packages of ecstasy and some knife wound medicine that he had prepared some time ago, and then instructed:

"Brother, I guess you won't have much chance to enter the space during this journey. You, cousin Bo, and cousin Dai should each carry some of these cookies for the soldiers to eat on the road. If cousin Bo and cousin Dai ask where these cookies came from, just tell them that I bought them before the Tartars besieged the city. I originally wanted to buy more to give to the villagers as gifts during the New Year, but I didn't expect to use them now.

There are also a few packets of Ecstasy. Each of you should take one packet and use it when you are in danger."

"Well," Zhou Jin took the bundle and instructed Zhou Yu:

"You should also pay attention to your safety. I have asked Zhou Po to tell Luo Ge'er and the others to protect you and not leave your side. I think they will bring people here soon.

And Zhu Xi, I originally wanted to let that kid Zhu Xi follow me to attack the Tartars, so that if something happens I can take care of him, or find a way to send him away first, but he refused to agree and insisted on staying to defend the city.

I think he has made a lot of progress in the past two years...

Ayu, if the city is truly breached, save as many as you can! I'll also do my best to protect Zhou Po and Zhou Dai.

As for the secrets of our space, whether they can be kept or not, we’ll talk about it later!"

"Okay!" Zhou Yu knew that his brother meant for her to take Zhou Luo, Zhu Xi and others into the space in case the city was broken, so he nodded to show that he understood.

Zhou Jin asked again, "Have you been home these past two days? Are mother and the others still not here?"

During this period, Zhou Jin and Zhou Yu took advantage of their rest time to return to Taohua Village several times, but when they returned, everyone in Taohua Village had already gone into the mountains, so they didn't know where Zheng and the others had gone.

Zhou Yu: "Yes, I did, but the house is still empty. This time I went to the cellar to take a look and found that the potatoes were gone too."

"That's good. The food, quilts, and potatoes are all gone. That means they've found a place to hide!"

Zhou Jin felt relieved after hearing this. He gave Zhou Yu a few more instructions before leaving with several large bags of compressed biscuits and love potions.

At dawn that night, he led three hundred soldiers down the city wall under cover of darkness, carefully avoiding the Tartar camp and climbing up Mount Taibai...

He planned to follow the traces left by the Tartars when they crossed Taibai Mountain and go directly to the Tartar base camp.

Meanwhile, Zhou Yu was also extremely busy dealing with the increasing number of wounded soldiers...

…

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and there were only a few thousand soldiers left in Fuzhou City. Even the men in the city had taken the swords of the dead and wounded soldiers to help guard the city gates.

Zhu Xi even brought a hundred or so soldiers and civilians to guard the east gate of Qifuzhou City, replacing Lu Qianhu and others who had suffered the most casualties...

Five days passed in the blink of an eye...

During this period, she had contributed all the compressed biscuits in Zhou Yu's space...

By now, there wasn't a single grain of food left in the entire city. All the war horses had been killed and eaten, not even Uncle Wang's donkey had been spared...

Two days later, even the rats in the city and the bark on the trees had been cooked and eaten. Of the soldiers and civilians defending the city, only about 600 people were left who could fight...

…

In fact, the Tatars outside the city are also having a hard time now. All the food within a hundred miles of Fuzhou City has been looted by them. Half a month ago, they could no longer find food. Now many wounded soldiers, the elderly and the weak have starved to death. In order to grab the last rations, the Tatars and the Oirat have fought several internal battles!

The only reason they were still cooperating was because they were hoping to break through Fuzhou City so they could continue advancing and seize food and money!

But they never expected that Fuzhou City would hold out for so long. It was like a stubborn rock, and no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't pry it open! Every time you thought you could break through it today, it would just stand up again!

But both sides knew that even if they persisted, the city was already at the end of its rope and would soon be destroyed...

That's why the Tartars outside the city refused to give up and would rather risk starving some of their soldiers to death than not stop attacking the city...

………

Finally, on the nineteenth day after Zhou Jin left, the south gate of Fuzhou City was breached!!! Seeing this, the thousands of other Tartars from all over the place also rushed towards the south gate...

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