Chapter 56 Chapter Eleven

The carriage stopped. When Zhao Ya was feeling sorry for herself and feeling ashamed, Wu Zhuo climbed into the carriage and loosened the rope for her. After she moved her arms and legs, Wu Zhuo ordered her to get out of the car. Zhao Ya recognized that this was a dense forest not far from Wujia Castle, and in panic, several people came out from behind the tree, and the leader was Xiang Shaolong who had been betrayed by her.Zhao Ya's legs went limp, she sat down on the ground, tears welled up in her eyes, she was speechless. Xiang Shaolong pushed the person beside him, causing him to fall on Zhao Ya's side, and said with a sneer, "Let you two adulterers and adulterers be opposites with the same fate."

Qi Yu said in a trembling voice: "Don't kill me, the uncle has promised." His cowardice made even Zhao Ya feel contemptuous and disgusted. This good-looking man usually looks indomitable and powerful, but he is so timid and incompetent, especially when he stands with Xiang Shaolong, compared with the latter's heroism who disregards life and death, there is a world of difference. At this time, even Zhao Ya suspected that she was infatuated by ghosts and fell in love with such a person. Zhao Ya reluctantly stood up, and said sadly: "Shaolong! I'm sorry for you, and I'm not worthy of you, kill me!"

Xiang Shaolong looked up to the sky with a long laugh, and said coldly, "I don't want you, a whore, to stain Xiang's sword. Remember? I once said that anyone who wants to kill himself will have to pay a heavy price. Now I will prove it to you, call your brother Wang and Zhao Mu to come!" Zhao Ya was stunned and said, "Aren't you going to escape?" Xiang Shaolong smiled mysteriously: "Of course! I'm leaving now. With Zhu Ji, I can already confess to King Qin." The sound of hooves sounded in the distance. Xiang Shaolong showed a look of surprise, and shouted: "Too bad! I found out."

Wu Zhuo also panicked and said: "I don't have time to go, let's go back to the castle first." Zhao Ya watched the man who had given her a taste of true love leave with tearful eyes, and the regret she felt bit her heart like a poisonous snake. Qi Yuxi next to him shouted: "Look! Zhao Bing is here, we are saved!" Zhao Ya's eyes darkened and she passed out. ◇◇◇◇◇◇ Xiang Shaolong and the others completed their great success, and returned triumphantly amidst the cheers of the Wujia soldiers, passed the large suspension bridge, and charged into the castle. Wu Zhiji greeted her in person in the square, while Xiao Pan hid behind Wu Tingfang and Zhao Qian in military uniform, watching the "mother" Zhu Ji, who had returned to her original appearance, enter the castle and get off.

At this time, Zhu Ji only saw Xiao Pan in her eyes, and she ran towards Xiao Pan with an unconcealable, sincere and touching expression of ecstasy. Xiao Pan also cried and ran out, and threw herself into her arms. The two mother and son hugged each other and cried. After ten years of separation, the flesh and blood that she had been thinking about day and night fell into her arms again, how could she not cry. Xiao Pan thought of her biological mother because of this "mother", and cried harder and more sincerely than Zhu Ji, pouring out the accumulated anger like a torrent. Wu Shiji came to Zhu Ji's mother and son, and said emotionally: "Ma'am, this should be a happy time."

The horn sounded, indicating that Zhao Jun had approached the fort. Zhu Ji raised her pretty face, looked at Wu Shi with her eyes that were red and swollen from crying, and said, "Our mother and son have today, all thanks to Master Wu's kindness and generosity, I don't want to say grateful words, as long as our mother and son live in Qin Dynasty for a day The country can still speak, so we must keep your Wu family rich and prosperous, and your children and grandchildren will prosper." She had already heard that Wu Zhiji and Bao died together to cover their heroic behavior of escaping, so she took out rare words from the bottom of her heart.

Tears welled up in Wushi's eyes, and he laughed loudly: "With Madam's words, Wushi's smile is as good as nine springs." Fearing that the night would be full of dreams, Xiao Yuetan urged, "Ma'am! We are leaving immediately." Wu Yingyuan and Jing Jun's elite soldiers, together with Xiao Yuetan and his 30 best men, protected their mother and child, and bid farewell to Zhao Qian with Xiang Shaolong, went to the back house, naturally sneaked into the city through the tunnel Outside, join up with Tuxian's troops. Xiang Shaolong, Wu Zhuo, Teng Yi and others stayed behind, without these few generals, how could they resist Zhao's army, which was more than ten times larger in number and had endless backup.

◇◇◇◇◇◇ Zhao Jun did not immediately attack the castle, but only set up defenses outside. The garrison inside and outside Handan City kept rushing to reinforce and transport all kinds of siege tools. It was not until the third day that the entire encirclement was completed. This is exactly what Xiang Shaolong and others longed for, that is to keep Zhao Jun here so that Zhu Ji and the others can escape back to Xianyang safely. The most exciting part of the whole plan is that the people of Zhao thought that Ying Zheng was still in their hands, so they didn't care much about other people escaping. As long as they broke through the castle and killed all the Wu family members, they would be satisfied.

Xiang Shaolong showed up on the city wall from time to time, and specially arranged for Wu Shiji and Wu Tingfang to show up at the city tower, so that Zhao people would not suspect that they had hidden plots. On the night of the third day, the Wu family soldiers who were in charge of monitoring the four tunnels that could only lead to the dense forest outside the fort discovered that Zhao soldiers had sneaked in, and hurriedly threw the firewood soaked in fat into the tunnel, and then blown it with a blower to blow the firewood that was about to arrive. After Zhao Bing smoked hundreds of people to death, he sealed the tunnel with stones.

Over there, King Zhao was so angry that he sent people to the city to yell at him early in the morning.Xiang Shaolong was very interested, it was the first time he had seen such meaningless "swearing at the city". Without saying a word, Teng Yi took out his special strong bow, and while Zhao people were stunned, he shot the loud scolding expert off his horse with one arrow. It's several feet away. The Wujia soldiers cheered loudly. Zhao Bing was silent. Suddenly another person charged forward on horseback, this time he learned his lesson, he stopped his horse a thousand paces away, shouted to the castle and said: "Xiang Shaolong, Your Majesty wants to talk to you."

Xiang Shaolong was amused in his heart, I wouldn't be so stupid as to yell out my throat to answer you. Wu Zhuo who was next to him summoned someone and said with a smile, "It would be nice to humiliate him in public!" Xiang Shaolong understood, and said: "If you tell him to fart, let him do it!" After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but laugh first. Wu Zhuo and Teng Yi couldn't help smiling, it was a rare expression for Teng Yi. The man was stunned for a moment, then drank loudly and said, "If you fart, let it go!" The voice echoed back and forth on the wall. The Wu family laughed loudly, the atmosphere was full of joy, while the Zhao people were extremely indignant.How could the conversation continue? With the sound of war drums, Zhao Jun began to launch a siege battle. The army of the Zhao people who besieged the city, not counting the number of logistics support, had a total strength of more than 30,000 troops, mainly infantry. In Sun Tzu's Art of War "Male and Female Cities", cities are divided into two categories: Castles that live in high places or back against mountains and have good water sources are called "Xiongcheng", which are very difficult to conquer; those that live in low places, Or between two mountains, or backed by valleys, where water and grass are not flourishing, it is called "Mucheng". As long as there is enough strength, it can be broken with one attack. Wujia Castle is a typical "Xiong City". When the city was first built, King Zhao hoped that it would be another stronghold in the city, but it turned out to be a rebel base against himself. So the Zhao people didn't want to attack the city hastily, lest their vitality be seriously injured. At first, they thought that there were problems with the manpower, food and grass in the castle, but when they saw the morale in the castle was like a rainbow, they realized that they were wrong.Originally, all the generals supported the long-term siege strategy, but Xiang Shaolong's words made King Zhao lose his temper and ordered a strong attack. Wujia was the most wealthy in the world, and the forms of the castles were built according to the most stringent standards at that time, so they were solid and rigid.The city wall is thick and high enough to withstand the enemy's upward attack, climbing and impact. The moat is deep and wide, and there are elite Wujia soldiers on the city wall. Therefore, even though the number of Zhao troops is more than ten times larger, they still have not broken the city. Sure, the only advantage is that the Zhao people have unlimited backup, enough to support them in a war of attrition. Although Xiang Shaolong and the others had the convenience of being an authentic traveler, all the stored supplies and food had already been moved here, and the people from the pastures outside the city had to flee to the Qin territory, so they became a lone army. However, their purpose was to guard for a while, so They were all happy, playing a castle attack and defense battle with Zhao Ren in the mood of playing games. Xiang Shaolong looked at Zhao Jun who was holding up his shield, his lineup was at its peak, and couldn't stop approaching, he frowned and said, "Why didn't they cut off the water source of the moat, so they don't have to worry about wading across the river?" Wu Zhuo said with a smile: "Our river is a living river, so we don't need to bring in the river water, because there are springs gushing out from the bottom of the trench, so we can't cut it off." Xiang Shaolong suddenly realized that this is a matter of experience and wisdom. Teng Yi said calmly: "The way to solve it is to dig a tributary to divert the river water, but it will take at least ten days to complete. I guess they are rushing to build a living bridge in the rear, across the river, so as to facilitate the attack on the city." Xiang Shaolong wondered: "Then these people below are just bluffing?" Teng Yi said: "The besieging army is most afraid of siege. They must make some movements, whether it is to exercise their muscles and bones, or as a drill. Only in this way can they maintain their morale." Xiang Shaolong nodded to show that he understands that in war, human psychological factors must not be ignored, it is the same in ancient and modern times. Suddenly Zhao Jun below shouted, rushed forward holding the shield, rushed to the opposite bank of the city river, squatted down, hid behind the shield, thousands of crossbow archers rushed up, hid behind the shield hand, raised the crossbow and fired, For a while, arrows rained down on the wall. Teng Yi shouted an order that all the Wu family fighters hide behind the battlements and there is no need to fight back. Teng Yi shouted in a louder voice than the scolding officer: "Prepare the sand and rocks! The fire fighting team is ready." Before the words were finished, another group of more than 2,000 firearms soldiers rushed out of the enemy's formation, and shot towards the city wall with burning rockets. The siege battle finally kicked off. The two sides attacked each other with arrows and rocks. There were many marks of impact and fire on the outer wall and the top of the city, but they were only superficial scars and did not damage the structure. In one day, the Zhao people had lost more than a thousand people, which can be said to have suffered heavy losses. Until now, Zhao Wang and Zhao Mu still don't understand why the other party is so well prepared in all aspects, because they have been closely monitoring the movement of the Wu family, and they only saw people and supplies moving out of the city, but nothing was brought into the castle. They didn't think of the existence of tunnels, and they can't be blamed for being stupid, firstly, it is almost impossible to build such a long tunnel, and because if there were tunnels, there would be no reason for Xiang Shaolong and others to stay here.Who would have guessed that this is the most critical link in Xiang Shaolong's plan. That night when the news came that the Qin army had violated the border, King Zhao was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he urged his generals to attack the city day and night. On the tenth day, with heavy casualties, the Zhao people finally succeeded in building three temporary wooden bridges across the river, moved ladders to attack the city, and hit the city gate with giant logs. The Wujia warriors fought back with arrows and stone firearms, and used weapons like long hooks to deal with the enemy's attack, and poured a wok of boiling water and oil down. After killing nearly 2,000 enemies, Zhao retreated. There are only three wooden bridges guarding.On the Wu family's side, more than 50 people died and more than 100 people were injured. The wounded were immediately transported out of the city. Only at this time did Shaolong truly feel how little personal strength is in a war, and that was an unpleasant feeling for him. After guarding for the twentieth day, the Zhao people finally succeeded in diverting the river away, and spent another three days filling up the moat with earth and rocks, and the Wujia Castle was on the verge of disappearing. The Zhao people attacked aggressively, pushing the armored chariots that attacked the city through the filled moat. There are various forms of these tanks, the most powerful being the climbing car, the crash car and the flying building. The height of the climbing car is as high as the city wall, so that the enemy can quickly climb the car to climb the city; the crash car carries a solid wood, and continuously and violently hits the city gate and the city wall; Attack the defenders on the wall. The only way to deal with it is to bombard it with boulders.In less than two days, all available boulders were used up, Xiang Shaolong immediately issued an order to retreat. When Zhao Jun entered the city, the whole Wujiabao was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames. Since the houses and trees were covered with kerosene, it was powerless to fight the fire. Seeing the fire burning for ten days, Zhao Ren didn't know what it was like to see the disaster site left with charred remnants and not a single tile, but it would not be a good feeling. More than 8,000 Zhao people were killed and more than 10,000 were injured. The whole country was shocked.The Wu family has always had a good reputation among Zhao's army and people, so King Zhao insisted on forcing them to rebel, so there were complaints all over the place. It wasn't until King Zhao discovered the tunnel leading to the outside of the city from the rubble that he knew that Xiang Shaolong had fallen for it, but it was already a month later. Although Zhao Wang was furious, he could only do nothing. At this time, he also felt a little remorse in his heart, a talent as good as Xiang Shaolong could not be used, and he was given away to the people of Qin for nothing, what is the reason!