Chapter 70 No Reinforcements◇
◎ Meanwhile, in Fuzhou City, the first siege was about to begin! Mu Qingni was riding...◎
At this time in Fuzhou City, the first siege was about to begin!
Mu Qingni was riding a fast horse, inspecting the four gates in turn. Every time she arrived at a place, she would stand on the city wall to encourage the soldiers.
"Everyone, rest assured. Our Fuzhou City has strong walls and sufficient food and grass. No matter how many Tartars come, we don't have to be afraid!
Besides, even if the Tartars were numerous, there would only be a few hundred of them able to reach the city gates to attack. Even if there were more, they wouldn't be able to fit in. As long as we hold our composure and destroy them wave by wave, no matter how many they are, they won't be enough for us to defeat!"
Mu Qingni, holding a long sword and wearing black armor, shouted loudly to the soldiers under the city wall:
"Our Fuzhou Guard soldiers are brave in battle and have strict discipline. They are all excellent! In no way are they inferior to the other guards!
But why should we always be subordinates to the other guards? Why should we be looked down upon by them?! Isn't it because our Fuzhou Guard has never experienced the baptism of war?!
Today, we will use the Tartar soldiers outside the city to raise our eyebrows and vent our anger!
As long as we can hold this city, if they dare to speak so disrespectfully again, we'll have the confidence to spit in their faces! Tell them we once stopped a hundred thousand Tartar soldiers with only five thousand men!
Do you have the confidence to join me in creating this grand event? "
“Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!”
The soldiers below were all passionate men. No matter whether they were veterans or new recruits, they were all excited by Mu Qingni's words and responded in unison!
"Good! Behind us, we have not only the people of Dayan, but also our parents, relatives, sisters and brothers!
"To protect our parents from being slaughtered and our sisters from being insulted, let us defend Fuzhou City together today!" Mu Qingni shouted again.
The soldiers below also responded in unison:
"Defend Fuzhou City!"
"Defend Fuzhou City!"
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The soldiers' voices were so loud and clear that they were deafening. The people in the city felt relieved after hearing them.
In addition to the 5,400 officers and soldiers guarding the city, there were nearly 5,000 civilians in Fuzhou City. Because the Tartars came too suddenly, all of them were trapped in the city except for the dozens of signalmen urgently sent by Mu Qingni.
The people in the city were naturally in a panic, but after working on the border for so many years, everyone knew what would happen to the people in the city after the city was conquered by the Tartars.
Therefore, after a brief period of panic, some people stood up and took the lead in delivering food and clothing to the soldiers defending the city...
Among them was Zhou Luo, who was currently purchasing furs in Fuzhou City with Zhou Gong and others. Some time ago, Zhou Luo discovered that the fur trade was extremely profitable. The profit from selling a fur from Liaodong to Kyoto could be increased fivefold!
Although his current status does not allow him to leave Liaodong and engage in this lucrative business, he can still make a lot of money as a middleman. Therefore, he has been asking his vendors to help him purchase furs in the past few days.
Two days ago, Zhou Luo brought Zhou Gong and several vendors under his command to Fuzhou City, intending to sell the furs they had purchased in previous months before the New Year. As a result, they encountered the Tartar siege of the city.
As the grandson of Lord Zhou and the son of Zhou Zelin, Zhou Luo was influenced by his family and had a very high political sensitivity. When others encountered the siege of the city by the Tartars, their first reaction was to feel scared and call it bad luck, like Zhou Gong, but his first reaction was that his chance to become famous had come!
Therefore, he immediately took the hundreds of furs he had purchased to the Fuzhou Wei camp and donated them to his brother Zhou Po.
Zhou Po naturally put his brother's name at the top of the donor list, even though his brother was the second one to come.
The first person to come was actually a wealthy businessman from Fuzhou City. Even during the years when Liaodong was in turmoil, Fuzhou City remained safe and sound. This wealthy businessman felt at ease to set up his second home here. Fuzhou City now houses not only most of his wealth, but also himself and his several beautiful concubines. Once the city is broken, he will be finished!
And his old wife, who he left behind in his hometown, would probably be overjoyed!
Therefore, the wealthy businessman brought ten carts of food and fodder to comfort the officers and soldiers defending the city early in the morning, and instructed Zhou Po to ensure that all officers and soldiers were well fed and well-drinking so that they would have the strength to fight. If there was not enough food, he could donate more!
Zhou Po naturally expressed his sincere gratitude for his action! However, since the Fuzhou Guards were now serving as two soldiers, and Zhou Po was now in charge of registration and reception, Zhou Po naturally used the backdoor for his younger brother and openly put Zhou Luo's name ahead of the wealthy businessman. Before Zhou Luo left, he secretly stuffed a dozen long swords from Curry into the car he had come in.
"You must protect yourself. If the city is breached, don't worry about anything else. The most important thing is to save your own life."
Before Zhou Luo left, Zhou Po whispered something in his ear.
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After leaving his brother's place, Zhou Luo brought Zhou Gong, who had come with him to Fuzhou and was trapped with him, and several of his trusted subordinates, along with other civilians, to help transport stones and logs needed for the defense of the city to the soldiers...
Led by these people, the rest of the people also followed suit.
After all, the city is surrounded and there is no way to run away. Since everyone is now in the same boat, helping the soldiers defending the city is also helping themselves.
Zhou Yu joined the military medical team along with a dozen doctors in the city.
Together with the military doctors under her junior master's command, they were divided into four teams by her junior master's uncle. Each team was mainly responsible for a city gate. If the soldiers guarding the city gate were injured, they could immediately go up and provide treatment.
With the addition of these people, the soldiers defending the city suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. They only needed to hold the city gate or the city wall every day. Almost anyone would be there to deliver anything they needed, even the toilet.
In this way, with the joint efforts of all officials and civilians, the first day of the city defense battle ended with their absolute victory. The morale of the officers and soldiers was unprecedentedly high, especially when they saw the newly arrived General Mu fighting on the front line with them and fighting bravely, they were full of confidence in this city defense battle.
Everyone thought that as long as they held out for three or four days, reinforcements would naturally arrive. However, only Mu Qingni knew that, let alone three or four days, even thirty or forty days might not bring reinforcements.
Because, none of the messengers sent to the other three guards for help have returned yet! In other words, the situation she feared most might have become a reality.
The other three guards may have really been held back by the Tartars!
"Sister Qingni, drink a bowl of broth quickly, and then take a rest for a while!"
Zhu Xi brought in a bowl of meat soup for Mu Qingni. As he handed it to her, he said that his sister Qingni had not slept a wink for a whole day and night.
Mu Qingni pinched her forehead and said "hmm". She took the bowl from Zhu Xi's hand and said to him,
"Ah Xi, I'll send a few people to escort you out of the city tonight..."
"I won't leave. Now you and all the soldiers are fighting for my Zhu family. As a descendant of the Zhu family, I should fight with you. How can I retreat in the face of danger?!" Zhu Xi immediately refused.
"Ah Xi! War is no joke, and given the current situation, if you don't leave now, you really won't be able to leave! I promised the emperor that I would protect you, how could I let you get stuck here?
Don't be so stubborn now! If you can't bear to leave your A-Yu, you can take her with you! My personal guards have fought with me for many years and will definitely protect you!"
Mu Qingni said with a serious face.
"Sister Qingni, it's for my A-Yu that I won't leave."
Zhu Xi also replied with a serious face:
"My Ayu is the kind of person who dared to fight the Tartars to save a driver she had only known for a few months and had barely spoken to. Even now, she is working with other doctors to treat the wounded soldiers...
If I ran away, wouldn't I be even more ashamed in front of her, unable to hold my head up?! How could I ever dream of ever being worthy of her?!
Besides, I, Zhu Xi, am no longer the coward who would flee in panic when encountering the Tartars! !
Sister Qingni, please let me stay. I will definitely be able to help you!"
Zhu Xi was determined to attain enlightenment.
Looking at the determined young man in front of her, who did not seem to be impulsive, Mu Qingni thought with relief that her efforts over the past two years had not been in vain. This boy had finally become a man after being taught by her. So she patted his shoulder and said:
"good!"
If she stayed, she could stay! At worst, if the city fell, the emperor would lose a grandson, and Mu Qingni would also lose her life! Her mother was already dead, so there was nothing left to explain. Could the emperor still go to the underworld to ask her for an explanation? ! !
Mu Qingni thought carelessly.
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Mu Qingni only slept for two hours that night. In the second half of the night, almost dawn, one of the dozen or so messengers who had gone out to ask for help from the other guards finally came back. It was Zhou Dai.
Zhou Dai was secretly pulled into the city with a rope from a secret place outside the west city gate by someone Zhou Jin had specially left behind. After Zhou Jin received the news, he immediately rushed over with Zhou Yu...
After Zhou Dai saw Zhou Jin, he forced himself to tell him the information he had discovered, and then he fainted.
Zhou Yu hurried forward to check on him and saw that he was just exhausted and had no other injuries. He thought he would be fine after some rest. The brother and sister then felt relieved.
Zhou Yu stayed to look after him, and Zhou Jin went straight to Mu Qingni's tent.
“They really are all surrounded.”
Mu Qingni only said this silently after hearing the news brought by Zhou Jin. Zhou Jin knew that she must have expected that the other guards would also be surrounded...
"In my opinion, it's better to keep this news secret for now." Zhou Jin sighed.
Upon hearing this, Mu Qingni couldn't help but glance at him and asked, "Did you expect this too?"
Zhou Jin nodded...
Then the two of them sighed in unison, looked at each other, and laughed bitterly in unison...
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It turned out that after Zhou Dai was sent out to deliver a letter the morning before yesterday, he and the other messengers in his squad had headed straight for Yangningwei. However, before they even reached Yangningwei, they saw the surrounding civilians fleeing in all directions. Upon asking around, they learned that Yangningwei had been surrounded by the Tartars half a day before Fuzhouwei, and that the Tartars were currently burning, looting, and collecting food and fodder in the surrounding villages and towns...
Before Zhou Dai and his companions could discuss what to do next, they heard the people around them shouting, "The Tartars are coming!" and were then dispersed by the chaotic crowd.
After Zhou Dai searched for several people in vain, he gritted his teeth and rode to Wanzhou Guard, which was closest to Yangning Guard. Before coming, Zhou Jin had already instructed him not to get close to the place when he arrived, but to just scout from the periphery. If there was any change, he should withdraw immediately and not move forward again.
Therefore, Zhou Dai did not go too far forward. The information he obtained was the same as that of Yangning Guard. Wanzhou Guard had also been besieged by more than 30,000 Tartars!
Zhou Dai didn't dare stay any longer after seeing this, and hurried back to report the news...
As a result, not long after running out of the Wanzhou Guard area, he ran into a soldier who was on his way to scout the other guards. However, when he ran into him, the soldier was already dying, lying on the side of the road, with several arrows hanging from his body...
I just told him that Yizhouwei and Liaoyang Commandery were also surrounded by the Tartars and that there would be no reinforcements for Fuzhou City, and then I died!
Zhou Dai could only hastily cover his body with snow and continue to gallop towards Fuzhouwei...
As a result, when he was still about 10 to 20 miles away from Fuzhouwei, his horse collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion from the long journey. Zhou Dai had no choice but to run...
Zhou Dai ran the second half of the journey, which was why he was exhausted. But when he returned, he discovered that of the dozen or so messengers he had sent out, only he had returned...
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