Chapter 727 Outside Feiyan City
While Zhou Xu was busy studying the truth and making hot air balloons, Xie Liancheng and his friends in Xianyang City had received two consecutive letters from Long Aotian via carrier pigeons.
Needless to say, the content is enough to make you cry.
According to Yan Sheng's original request, all homing pigeons were controlled by the imperial court. Privately raising homing pigeons was considered a crime tantamount to treason.
Now that Xianyang City has been occupied by them and Liu Jiefang has also declared his allegiance, it is naturally impossible for anyone to send any message to Long Aotian.
Long Aotian, who still doesn't know that Xianyang City has fallen, is guarding the little food in Feiyan City. The pressure on him is increasing with each passing day.
Although the carrier pigeon letter sent from Xianyang City mentioned that food and supplies were being prepared for them.
But after waiting for a long time in vain, Long Aotian had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue sending letters by carrier pigeon.
In response to this situation, Xie Liancheng followed Zhou Xu's arrangement and comforted him by saying, "We are already preparing food. Now is a special period. It is not easy to prepare food. You have to be more understanding."
This excuse was useful. Twelve days passed in the blink of an eye. It would take a large army about eight or nine days to travel from Xianyang City to Feiyan City.
If we assume nine days from the time when Long Aotian delivered the first letter for help, it would take almost twenty-one days for their large force to reach the outskirts of Feiyan City.
On top of the half-month deadline, they extended it by almost a week to ensure that Feiyan City would be basically out of ammunition and food by the time they arrived.
After making this plan, Zhou Chongshan and his team were ready to set off.
Xie Liancheng originally wanted to go with them, but was stopped by Zhou Xu who sent a letter via carrier pigeon.
Xianyang City needs a general to be in charge.
The number of troops they now have is relatively limited. In order to quickly expand their forces, while occupying Xianyang City, they also incorporated the 1,000 garrison troops in Xianyang City.
When the Xianzhen Camp led by Zhou Chongshan set out for Feiyan City, there was no guarantee that something bad would happen to the newly recruited 1,000 soldiers if no one was there to keep them under control.
And the best candidate is undoubtedly Jie Liancheng!
His title of great general and the prestige he had accumulated in the army were still very useful at this time.
After the death of the original Xianyang City garrison commander, with Jie Liancheng guarding the place, who would dare to cause trouble with the 1,000 soldiers under him? In addition to the Xianzhen Camp, the troops heading to Feiyan City also included crossbow troops and a logistics team to escort supplies.
If they have to take action at that time, they will need crossbow troops to break down the city gate.
Otherwise, the enemy would be guarding the city wall, and even the 300-man trap camp led by Zhou Chongshan would be unable to do anything to them.
With the crossbow troops and logistics team, the Xianzhen Camp maintained a steady pace on the journey.
Taking the condition of the troops into consideration, they stopped to rest for a day before arriving at Feiyan City. It was exactly the ninth day when they arrived near Feiyan City.
"The main force will rest here first. Select a small team and follow me to get closer and take a look at the situation!"
After the order was issued, Zhou Chongshan led a cavalry team consisting of thirty iron cavalrymen to the outskirts of Feiyan City.
Noticing the cavalry team that appeared outside the city, figures soon began to run on the wall of Feiyan City, and at the same time, the sound of trumpets was heard.
Hearing the horn, Zhou Chongshan raised his hand and signaled the cavalry to stop approaching.
They had considered pretending to be enemy troops and sneaking in, just like they did when they took over Xianyang City.
But then I thought, it’s not necessary.
If you pretend to be an enemy soldier and are discovered, the risk will be even greater.
If we really want to fight, we might as well just use a three-bow crossbow to blow up the city gate, rush in and kill everyone indiscriminately. It will only take a moment.
The reason why this tactic was used before was mainly because Xie Liancheng’s wife and children were in the city.
If they launched an attack on the city directly, they would be afraid that the opposing defenders would harm their wives and children, so they would sneak in first. This is different from the current situation.
Judging from the enemy's current situation, it is clear that they have not lost their combat capability, so let's just delay it a little longer.
At the same time, in Feiyan City, Long Aotian, who heard the horn, climbed onto the top of the wall as soon as possible.
Looking at the troops that appeared on the outskirts of Feiyan City, Long Aotian frowned.
If it was a supply troop coming from Xianyang City, they could just come closer and identify themselves. There was no need to stop so far away.
Under this premise, the other party has not approached, but has not left either, which can only mean one thing.
That means the troops coming here are not theirs! [Could it be that the bandits from Xishan City or Anling City bypassed Xianyang City and came here? ]
[It's unlikely. It's too risky to bypass Xianyang City. What's the purpose of bypassing Xianyang City, the capital, and coming to Feiyan City? ]
[From the perspective of those bandits, Xianyang, as the capital, should be far more important than my small border town.]
[In this case, there is only one conclusion, Xianyang City has fallen, and the troops outside the city are the enemy! ]
Now that he thought about it, the previous reply from Xianyang City was clearly an attempt to delay time. Realizing this, Long Aotian's face changed on the spot.
“Damn it!”
I couldn't help but utter a few curses.
Since Xianyang City had already fallen into the hands of the enemy, there was a high probability that his pigeon letter would also fall into the hands of the enemy.
In other words, the enemy already knew that they didn't have much food left in the city, so they were not in a hurry to launch an offensive and were just waiting for them to destroy themselves!
After realizing this, Long Aotian's expression couldn't help but look ugly.
In order to obtain food supplies faster, the content of the letter he sent by pigeon was indeed exaggerated and tragic.
But after holding out to this point, his Feiyan City's food supply was completely exhausted, and it would only take two days for it to last. He couldn't afford to continue wasting time with the enemy.
Thinking of this, Long Aotian spoke with a gloomy face...
"Pass on my order, gather your troops and follow me out of the city to meet the enemy!"
Long Aotian, who issued this order, had a tone of gritted teeth in his voice.
In his opinion, the bandits outside the city had made a wrong calculation.
Unlike the other three border cities, Feiyan City is connected to the most important grassland in their country, which can produce war horses. The war horses for the domestic cavalry are all provided by the horse farm in Feiyan City.
This also meant that Feiyan City had deployed a hundred cavalrymen in addition to the regular garrison troops! Relying on the advantage of the cavalrymen, the main force was still behind, and Long Aotian, who was riding a warhorse, had already led his hundred cavalrymen and galloped all the way towards the thirty cavalrymen led by Zhou Chongshan.
Zhou Chongshan and his men already knew the level of the opposing cavalry, but in a cavalry-to-cavalry situation, the size of the cavalry was also very important.
They only have thirty cavalry now, while the enemy is estimated to have a hundred cavalry.
Although they could fight head-on, there was no guarantee that there would be no casualties on their side. Zhou Chongshan, who did not want to let the Xianzhen Camp suffer casualties because of his arrogant and reckless behavior, pulled the reins in his hand and prepared to lead the team to retreat.
Seeing this, Long Aotian, who was charging at them, became anxious and quickly spurred his horse to charge out alone, shouting as he charged...
"You coward! I, Long Aotian, am here! Do you dare to fight me?!"
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