Chapter 666 It’s Still Too Late
The old lady was reluctant to let her beloved baby go to the battlefield, so she started crying, making a fuss, and even threatening to hang herself.
Li Shaoyan was unmoved: "Grandma, I leave my son in your care."
He has completed the mission of carrying on the family line. Now, he wants to avenge himself!
Li Aotian certainly had no objection. Although Li Shaoyan was arrogant, he had indeed been strengthening his muscles in the army in recent years. Among the younger generation, Li Shaoyan was one of the best and would not be a drag!
On the day of departure, the young emperor came in person to see them off and boost morale.
"My dear, I am in Kyoto, waiting for your triumphant return!"
"I will definitely fulfill your mission!"
After completing a set of procedures, Li Aotian urged everyone to hurry up. He had a sense of urgency in his heart, and always felt that if he walked too slowly, he might not be able to save Anwu County!
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Anwu County, under the city wall, in the military tent.
Li Mingde picked up the brush, scratched his head, and wanted to write a manifesto.
However, when he needed the book, he regretted not having written enough. He wrote several articles, but was not satisfied with any of them. He felt that he could not express the grievances and helplessness of his godmother.
Gu Nanxi walked over and took the brush from Li Mingde's hand: "Why are you making so much trouble? Go to bed early, we still have to attack the city tomorrow."
"Ah, the fight starts tomorrow? What should I do? Should I practice how to challenge first?"
From ancient times to the present, when a war breaks out, both sides will send out a few people to curse each other. The harsher the curses, the higher the morale of one side.
To be honest, Li Mingde had never experienced such a scene before.
Gu Nanxi’s principle is that if you can take action, don’t force it. Yunzhou soldiers do not need to rely on verbal battles to boost morale.
The soldiers in Yunzhou were so eager to make progress that just one sentence, "Return to Yunzhou before the New Year and use Guangde Prefecture as a gift to the people of Yunzhou," could stimulate the soldiers to rush forward.
"No, let's not waste that time."
Li Mingde was a little unwilling: "We have to write a manifesto to tell the world that we have a legitimate reason to start the war."
Gu Nanxi yawned: "The whole world is fighting the disaster. It's hard to even live happily. How can they pay attention to this?"
Li Mingde reminded: "There are also those noble families!"
They looked down on their godmother to begin with, and she was also overbearing in her treatment of the aristocratic families.
If my godmother doesn't give a legitimate reason for going south to Guangde Prefecture this time, I'm afraid she will be scolded to death by these people and those scholars!
Gu Nanxi was puzzled: "If I write it, won't they scold me?"
Li Mingde was stuck: "Well, I still curse."
"Why bother with them? When I enter the pass, there will be great scholars to debate for me!"
These words touched Li Mingde's heart, and his eyes were full of stars.
At dawn, golden sunlight pierced through the thick clouds and shone onto the earth, and horns sounded in the camp.
The county lieutenant who had been guarding the city wall looked hurriedly into the distance, wishing he could lean his whole body out.
"It's Duke Yun!" The county magistrate widened his eyes.
He never expected that it would be Duke Yun who led the troops himself.
The county magistrate turned to look at the county lieutenant, who swallowed and his teeth chattered.
When the other guards on the city wall heard this, they seemed to have lost their souls and could not even hold their weapons steadily.
After a long while, the county lieutenant wiped his face and shouted, "That's not Duke Yun! They are deliberately plotting to disrupt our military's morale!"
The county magistrate met the county lieutenant's eyes and understood instantly.
No matter whether he is the real Duke of Yun or not, at this moment, he must not be!
If they knew that it was Duke Yun who was leading the troops personally, the morale that they had worked so hard to build up would collapse in an instant.
Gu Nanxi didn't care about all that. Instead, he gathered the soldiers and lined up outside the city. The cold wind was whistling and the flags were fluttering.
The air was filled with a solemn and murderous atmosphere, and the birds were silent.
Gu Nanxi raised his hand and waved it vigorously.
The war drums sounded and the archers fired a volley of shots.
With a clang, the arrow flew out, drew a parabola in the air, and then fell towards the city wall.
The rain of arrows from the sky was like migratory birds, blocking the sky completely.
The county lieutenant grabbed the county magistrate and hid together.
"This round must be rockets. They are usually used to set fire to haystacks or houses on city walls. But we don't have to worry. In the heavy snow in winter, houses can't be set on fire."
The county lieutenant was secretly wondering, is this person really the Duke of Yun? Why waste arrows when he knew that the rockets would not be effective in this situation?
Is Yunzhou so wealthy?
As if to confirm the county lieutenant's words, many rockets landed on the city wall and stuck in the snow. The sparks were extinguished, and only thin wisps of black smoke emerged.
When the soldiers who were hiding together saw this, they felt relieved.
He fights wars so dogmatically, he is definitely not the Duke of Yun who is a military genius!
The county lieutenant became more confident: "They came in a hurry, so they definitely didn't have time to bring catapults. The walls of our Anwu County are strong, and we will definitely be able to hold on!"
The county magistrate was very happy when he heard this.
At first, the government wanted to use strange rocks to build landscapes, but the rocks from Taihu Lake were too big to pass through the city gates.
In order to complete the task, a part of Kyoto's city gate was demolished. After the Taihu rocks were transported, Kyoto sent more stones to repair the city gate.
There were too many stones to use up, so Anwu County bought the remaining stones at a low price and used them to reinforce the city wall.
The stones used for Kyoto's city walls are naturally very hard.
Anwu County is not as big as Kyoto, but with these stones used to build the city walls, people have more confidence in defending the county.
"Let's not show up yet and consume more of their arrows."
Everyone was convinced and nodded repeatedly.
However, bang bang bang!
With sudden loud explosions, the city walls shook continuously as if a dragon was turning over.
"Help!"
"What's going on?"
The soldiers were in a panic and couldn't find the source of the explosion.
Finally, it was the county lieutenant who discovered that the explosions were actually caused by rockets!
"How is that possible?"
The county lieutenant saw with his own eyes a rocket hit the raft, instantly blowing a hole in it.
The black gravel almost splashed onto the county lieutenant.
It turned out that among the rockets in the sky there were some quivers loaded with gunpowder.
The appearance of the rocket launcher made the soldiers defending the city dare not show their heads at all.
This was a battle they had never fought before, and the enemy seemed to have magical weapons to help them.
The thunder god and the lightning god struck the city wall so hard that it fell into pieces.
Before they could recover from the shock, Gu Nanxi squeezed the horse's belly hard and said, "Charge!"
The white horse neighed and galloped towards the city gate like lightning.
The city gate of Anwu County had been blasted with a hole by a rocket launcher and was on the verge of collapse.
While running, Gu Nanxi took off the musket hanging on his back, raised it, and aimed at the flag fluttering in the wind on the city wall.
Bang!
The bullet shot through the flagpole with a click at a speed that ordinary people could not see clearly, and the huge flag fell down with a loud bang.
The soldiers defending the city, who were already in a panic, saw the general's flag fall and their morale collapsed instantly.
No one cared about their duties anymore. Even the supervisors did not have the courage to take up arms to fight. They fled down the city wall like dumplings.
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