Chapter 1318 Borrowing Arrows
For a whole day and night, the enemy harassed and launched feint attacks day and night.
Occasionally, the enemy would shoot a round of arrows at the top of the city wall, creating more pressure on them and making it difficult for them to figure out when the enemy would actually start attacking the city.
However, the enemy was not stupid and they only shot about a thousand arrows at most each time.
The enemy must have noticed that they were short of arrows and were unwilling to send them more.
The enemy's continued feint attacks and harassment did cause some trouble for the defenders.
The noise made by thousands of enemy soldiers could not be that small. Even if the soldiers who were taking turns to rest covered their ears, they would still be disturbed.
However, Yu Shizhong and his men were just a bit troublesome.
Every night they replaced the 6,000 troops led by Lu Xing, and during the day they let the remnants of the defeated army continue to defend the city, and they deliberately made the soldiers defending the city look exhausted.
Including Yu Shizhong himself, he also took shifts with Lu Xing.
Although Yu Shizhong and Lu Xing both had extensive experience in leading troops in battle, they were unable to judge when the enemy would actually launch a siege.
What they can do now is to try their best to ensure that the soldiers defending the city maintain their combat effectiveness and are not dragged down by the enemy's strategy of tiring the enemy.
At night, Lu Xing led his troops to change guard again.
Their men were also wrapped in bloody strips of cloth to confuse the enemy.
Lu Xing also led people to move some straw men made of weeds onto the city wall.
These straw men were wrapped in a layer of clothes and had leather hoods on their heads.
Placed in a dark place, they look like residents helping to defend the city.
With the help of these straw men, their soldiers can also take a short break when the enemy is in a commotion.
Even if you can't sleep, it's good to close your eyes and rest.
Yu Shizhong came over and looked at the straw man that Lu Xing brought. He praised him, "Excellent craftsmanship! It really looks like the real thing!"
Lu Xing laughed, "It would look even more like him if he wore armor!"
"Forget it! We don't have so much armor to put on these straw men." Yu Shizhong shook his head and smiled.
Although their soldiers took turns to rest, they all wore armor while resting.
They don't have so much armor to waste on straw men now.
"It's not a good idea to keep dragging it out like this! Should we do something?"
Lu Xing smacked his lips and made faces as he asked Yu Shizhong.
"You f*cking thought you were leading the Bloody Shirt Army?"
Yu Shizhong laughed and scolded: "If we lead these people out of the city to do something now, it will be easy to get ourselves into trouble!"
vote?
He wants to do something too!
If the Blood-Clothed Army were here, he wouldn't have suffered this kind of bullying.
But now, they are leading the Sakya and Guiyi Army.
Not to mention compared with the Blood Clothes Army, even compared with the Northern Palace Army, these people's combat effectiveness is a level lower.
They don't have the capital to go out of the city and do something now.
"Not leaving the city!"
Lu Xing grinned and said, "What I mean is, we should take advantage of the enemy's feint to shoot a small number of arrows, and then push these straw men out for the enemy to shoot!"
"uh-huh?"
Yu Shizhong's eyes suddenly lit up, "This is a good idea! Let's do it!"
"What if the enemy fired rockets?" Tang Zhao reminded.
"It doesn't matter!"
Yu Shizhong smiled nonchalantly and said, "If the enemy sees that we are using straw men to defend the city, we might be able to make them think that our troops are extremely short and launch an attack in advance."
Anyway, it is beneficial to them whether the enemy sees through it or not.
However, these straw men need to be arranged carefully.
They would only make a profit if they shot ten arrows and let the enemy shoot twenty arrows back.
Otherwise, they would be wasting precious arrows!
After a brief discussion, they began to set up.
After completing the arrangements, Yu Shizhong handed over the follow-up matters to Lu Xing and went back to rest.
Lu Xing had also been fighting along the way, so he didn't need to worry about Lu Xing's abilities.
In the second half of the night, Lu Xing had some people extinguish some torches.
When the enemy army feinted an attack again, Lu Xing immediately ordered his men to start shooting arrows.
"Whizzing……"
As soon as their hundreds of people shot hundreds of arrows, the enemy immediately launched a counterattack.
In an instant, a rain of arrows shot towards the straw man in the shadow.
A scarecrow next to Lu Xing was shot directly into a hedgehog.
"what……"
Lu Xing, who was hiding behind the battlements, let out a shrill scream, and the soldiers nearby gave him strange looks.
"Look at that shit! Scream!"
Lu Xing glared at them, screamed again, and knocked the straw man down.
Looking at the arrows on the straw man, Lu Xing was overjoyed.
There's something going on!
This business is a sure win!
At this moment, Lu Xing just wanted to shout: Let the rain of arrows come more violently!
However, Lu Xing's wish did not come true.
After a few rounds of arrows, the enemy stopped shooting.
Lu Xing quickly ordered his men to pull the arrows out of the straw man, and then stood it up again, intending to wait for the enemy to make a feint attack and then shoot arrows again to attract the enemy to counterattack.
……
"Order the feinting troops to return fire appropriately. There's no need to waste arrows!"
After receiving the news that the feint attack force was attacked, Qinpu immediately gave orders.
At this moment, we cannot send too many arrows to the enemy.
Otherwise, those arrows will become the enemy's weapons for defending the city.
After the messenger left, Qinpu closed his eyes and began to think again.
Judging from the news sent back by the feint attack troops, their feint attack was quite effective and the enemy was indeed exhausted by them.
The enemy began to fight back with arrows, obviously unable to bear the torment they were causing.
If the weather wasn't getting colder day by day, he would have wanted to stay awake for a few more days.
If they wait until the enemy troops are completely exhausted and then attack the city, the casualties will be much smaller.
"Ugh……"
After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Qinpu let out a helpless sigh.
It’s all that bastard Kalon’s fault!
If that bastard had agreed to join forces with him earlier, they would have defeated the enemy in the front line long ago, and would not have dragged on until this awkward period of time.
Even if it was half a month earlier, he wouldn't be in such a dilemma as he is now.
Hopefully the attack at dawn will go more smoothly!
Otherwise, no matter how reluctant he was, he had to withdraw his troops.
Chimp shook his head and slowly opened his eyes.
He could have rested.
But the siege would begin at dawn, and he simply couldn't sleep now.
Originally, he thought he would be confident in attacking the city with an army of 100,000.
But he always felt vaguely uneasy.
Ultimately, it was because Yu Shizhong led his troops to break through under such circumstances.
A general who can lead his troops to break out under such circumstances is definitely not easy to deal with.
"call……"
Qinpu exhaled a long breath, slowly opened his eyes, picked up the oil lamp and walked to the map hanging in the tent, thinking silently in his heart.
He has received accurate information from the Daqian court that Yun Zheng has defeated the Li Dynasty.
As expected, Yun Zheng’s next target is Xiqu.
I don’t know what the situation is with the Guifang side.
If the Guifang could cause some trouble for Yun Zheng and cause chaos in the Northwest Protectorate, they might be able to slow down Yun Zheng's attack on Xiqu and seize the time to quell the internal rebellion.
If the Guifang cannot be relied upon, Xiqu will probably not have an easy time next year...
