Chapter 2718 Anshi City 3
"How many people are there on the other side?"
The city guard lowered his head and said, "I estimate there are nearly ten thousand people."
General Gao's eyes went dark, and he dismounted and went straight to the city wall to look.
He looked down at the local army formed in square formation, and then saw that the leader was Qibi Heli, and he couldn't help swallowing.
He turned to his deputy general and said, "Hurry and report to the Second Prince that the Jin army is attacking the north gate."
Prince of the Second Year of High School: ...
He was stunned. "How could the Jin army have so many people? They could actually split into two groups?"
Nuosa sighed and said, "Prince, Yanshou surrendered even when his reinforcements numbered 150,000 and the Jin army had only 30,000."
At this time, at the west gate, General Ashina led his men to fight off wave after wave of attacks. The enemy was constantly getting reinforcements, and they lost the twenty feet they had pushed forward. Not only that, they retreated fifty feet. It was because they entered the range of the city tower. The soldiers on the tower kept shooting arrows from top to bottom, which helped to repel their wave of attacks.
The deputy general felt that this was not a solution and said to General Ashina, "General, there are too many of them. This is not a solution."
Xue Gui, who was standing by, had a different opinion. He said, "The key to a soldier's success lies in how he uses him, not in his number."
General Ashina glanced at him and asked, "How do you think we should employ people?"
Xue Gui lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "General, you are deploying your troops very well now. They are taking turns to hold the position. The streets are narrow. No matter how many people there are, they can only bring so many up at a time."
General Ashina shook his head and said, "But our men have been fighting continuously for a whole day and night. Even if we take turns to rest, our energy and physical strength are insufficient. Meanwhile, they have a constant flow of reinforcements. If this continues, even if the city gates are easy to defend but difficult to attack, they will eventually capture them."
It’s just that the other party may have to pay a high price.
General Ashina said, "We can't hold out for much longer. Send someone to urge for reinforcements."
The deputy general and Xue Gui agreed and retreated.
General Ashina looked at Anshi City with a deep gaze.
Manbao walked up and stood with him on the city wall, looking ahead.
Ashina looked at her in surprise, "Why is Lord Zhou here?"
Manbao said: "The wounded have been taken care of, let's take a break."
Doctors get tired too, so of course they need to rest.
Ashina withdrew his gaze and continued to look at the soldiers fighting in front of him. He asked Zhou Man, "Master Zhou, do you have any good ideas?"
"No," Manbao said gloomily, "The difference in numbers between us and the enemy is too great. Unless they have lost their fighting spirit, we can only grind on like this."
"This is a battle of life and death. They must hold on even if they are cowardly. And sometimes there is only a fine line between cowardice and bravery."
Manbao said, "As long as you don't shout about massacring the city and killing prisoners after the attack, cowardice won't turn into bravery."
General Ashina was stunned for a moment and then said, "How could we be so foolish?"
He said, "We are a righteous army. We conquered Goguryeo because, first, it was once part of the Central Plains. Second, the Goguryeo royal family was disrespectful to Your Majesty and neglected the imperial court. Third, they were constantly harassing the border. Fourth, the people under their rule had a hard time. Their leaders were extravagant, and their officials were corrupt..."
In short, they came to accept them as one. Didn’t you see that His Majesty released all the prisoners he could after capturing them?
The area around Liaodong City even used local ethnic minorities as officials, so how could there be a massacre in the city?
Manbao said, "Then make these reasons known to the public and persuade those soldiers that they can serve as soldiers for Goguryeo or for our Great Jin. Our pay is higher and our food is better. If they don't want to serve, they can go home. It's very well-off."
General Ashina thought about it and felt that although this method was a bit ridiculous, he really had no reinforcements available now. There would have to be a truce in the middle anyway, so he might as well have a talk during the truce.
So he passed the message on.
The Goguryeo army launched another wave of attacks. After half an hour, everyone gradually rested and retreated a few steps. With scattered checkpoints in the middle, they advanced another ten steps.
Because these dozen steps were hard-won, they will not retreat too much. Of course, the Jin army cannot retreat too much either. What if they take the opportunity to rush up?
Therefore, both sides held their spears and were on guard against each other. Their men stepped forward to check and quickly dragged their wounded over and sent them to the rear for treatment.
The Jin army would occasionally find wounded Goguryeo soldiers, but they would not take action and would just push them over there.
Goguryeo would also throw the wounded Jin soldiers they had picked up to them.
Everyone tacitly exchanged the wounded soldiers, and then sat down to rest.
Yuan Yi also learned his lesson and knew that it was not good to change the vanguard wave after wave. Therefore, after each wave of attack, he slightly replaced the soldiers following behind, but did not replace them completely, so this side also needed rest.
A small flagman took out some dry food and started to eat it, his hands were still shaking a little, not because of fear, but because of tiredness. He had been participating in the battle since yesterday morning, that is, from early morning until now. He could rest for half an hour every half hour, but he could not really fall asleep.
Maybe because I used too much force, my hands were shaking a little at this time.
He took a bite of his rations, looked at the Goguryeo soldiers not far away, sighed, and asked, "You guys don't eat your rations?"
The Goguryeo soldier glanced at him and did not answer.
Xiaoqi changed his tone and said, "You are not Han Chinese, you are Buyeo people?"
The other party still ignored him, "No way, isn't this Goguryeo? Then you speak Buyeo? You can't be a Mo people, right?"
He awkwardly switched to another language, but it was very awkward, still using curse words, "Your mother, your mother."
The Goguryeo soldiers watched him silently as they heard him chanting "fuck you, fuck you" in various dialects. Manbao came up to give them salt water to prevent them from losing their strength and to check on them. If they were too weak, he would quietly replace them. Hearing this, he couldn't help but curiously repeat a sentence and then asked, "What does this mean?"
A Goguryeo soldier finally couldn't help it. The main reason was that Zhou Man was obviously a girl. It had been dawn for a long time, and everyone knew that there was a beautiful lady in the Jin army who was a doctor and specialized in treating the wounded soldiers of the Jin army.
At this moment, they felt complicated, especially when they saw Zhou Man coming up to bring them water. They couldn't help but reply in Chinese, "Your mother."
Manbao was unhappy, "Why are you cursing?"
Xiaoqi was pleasantly surprised. "You are Han Chinese, brother. Where are you from?"
Then he turned to Zhou Man and said, "Master Zhou, he didn't scold you. Those words just meant 'your mother'."
Manbao: "...Why do you want to learn this sentence? Shouldn't learning dialect start with 'Have you eaten?'?"
Xiaoqi was stunned for a moment and then said, "I don't know. Our general flag taught us."
The general who had been sitting on the side, dazed and resting: ...
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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