see the gentleman

Under the continuous heavy impact, the connection between the city gate and the city wall has already made a toothsome loosening sound, as if it is on the verge of falling, and another impact will collapse.

Jiang Chong was instructing the people in the city to push out the cannons that had been hidden under the city walls to avoid artillery fire and were covered by sandbags and tarpaulins. The muzzle was raised to aim at the rear beam army outside the city, and then began to fill the cannonballs.

Bai Chen looked down from the tower, and saw that Duan Pihuan's car was located a little further back from the central army. This position was quite scheming, and it was a position that neither arrow feathers nor shells could reach.

There is no other way, Bai Chen thought with some regret: Duan Pihuan knows how to save his life much better than his father.

The city wall was already falling down with ashes, and if they let them beat like this, the city gate would really collapse.

Duan Pihuan was holding the cyclops in his hand. Seeing the progress of the siege ahead, he frowned, and his face was a bit irritable: "Why haven't you broken the city yet?"

"Return to Your Majesty," a general accompanying him hurriedly said, "Jiaocheng's city defenses were originally the most fortified among the four cities, but after the arrival of Bai, they continued to strengthen them, and the city walls alone became one foot higher. many."

We really can't blame them for their ineffective siege.

Duan Pihuan was really distracted, but he had to calm down and asked, "How long will the barrel cool down?"

The man didn't dare to say any more words that would make Duan Pihuan angry again, so he nodded sharply and said, "It will be soon."

"How fast is it! Do you think they don't have cannons?! Just let you smash into his door?!"

The veins on Duan Pihuan's forehead exploded, and he yelled at people. The innocent general who was scolded bloody had no choice but to act as a punching bag for the angry lord.

After scolding, Duan Pihuan was still furious, but there was nothing he could do. With a livid face, he raised his mirror and looked up the tower, just in time to see Bai Chen's figure, and the other party was also looking at him.

Even though they were far away, Bai Chen didn't wear any glasses, but he accurately located him. Duan Pihuan even saw Bai Chen nodding slightly in his direction, as if greeting him very politely.

Then Bai Chen raised his hand and waved it down.

That's a solid commanding gesture.

Then Duan Pihuan saw several shells fired from the city, falling into the crowd and exploding one after another.The white light caused by the explosion caused Duan Pihuan to cover his eyes subconsciously, but the strong shock and aftermath made his feet shake. He immediately reached out to support the shaft of the car, and fell off the car without shame.

The large army in front was blown apart by the sudden explosion. After Duan Pihuan stood still, he had no time to scold people. He quickly issued several instructions. Covering the siege personnel from being injured by random arrows, the catapults that followed continued to smash on the tower, and the next one was counted as one.The rear team quickly gathered and retreated to avoid the opponent's shelling range.

If so, the explosions one after another are enough to make people suffer.

Compared with the fierceness of the back beam just now, this time it is all down.

Duan Pihuan was furious, and shouted: "Has the fucking cooled down yet?"

Before the words fell completely, another stream of shells was fired in the city, causing Duan Pihuan's face to twitch and his veins to twitch violently.

When the bombing in the city was almost done, Duan Pihuan started to fire again. The two sides came and went, and the sky and the earth were bombarded with thunderbolts, and the New Year's movement could be heard hundreds of miles away.

When the cannonballs on both sides were almost squandered, Bai Chen finally opened the crumbling city gate again, and a large number of people rushed out, fighting with Duan Pihuan's army.

From daytime to dusk, Duan Pihuan was still unable to break through into the city, and his own casualties were tens of thousands. This can be said to be at a disadvantage for the attacking party, but if it continues, the situation will become even worse at night. Unable to grasp, and secondly, the loss is too great.

Duan Pihuan didn't even know why there were so many people in this broken city, it seemed like an endless stream, if it wasn't for Bai Chen's desperate efforts to use all his people on Shou Jiao City, or Bai Chen was actually hiding it at all. In terms of strength, after the civil strife in the Sheng Dynasty, there are still far more people who can fight than he expected.

If it was the latter, it would be a lame joke for Duan Pihuan to take advantage of others' danger, and Bai Chen might just wait for him to deliver the food to his door.

The planning and planning are all done before the battle, and once you are in the battle, you rely on the belief that you will win.The battlefield is changing rapidly. If the commander has doubts about his decision-making, the army will be invincible if the morale of the army is scattered.

Duan Pihuan gritted his teeth, and the momentary wavering was quickly waved away from his mind by himself.

He naturally didn't believe that Sheng Chao was so riddled with holes that he could really bring tens of thousands more to him. He was sure that Bai Chen was at the end of his rope. Retreat first, then grind slowly.

Duan Pihuan folded his wings and protected the Chinese army to retreat all the way.

At this time, the twilight was close and the sky was already dark. Duan Pihuan retreated to the edge of the water, and saw the fire on the other side of the water, like a long fire dragon.

Unable to react for a moment, he frowned subconsciously: "What's the matter, who told them not to guard the camp and come here?"

When he took a look through the mirror of the people beside him, he realized that something was wrong. The people on the other side of the river were not his people, and the clothes and battle flags turned out to be people from Shengchao!Moreover, the number of people seemed to be quite a lot. Just the heavy flames along the river and the forest behind them already showed how many people the opponent had.

Duan Pihuan was dumbfounded for a moment, and after realizing it, he was furious: "How did they get there! Who is guarding the water!"

But it was obviously too late to pursue this at this time, and Ji Heng on the opposite side was still proudly waving the battle flag at him, and the people tied up in front of him, although they couldn't see clearly, were probably the gang of nobles, It's just that now they are all tied up like pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

Although he couldn't hear what he was saying across the river, it was enough to imagine that Daying might be taken over by this group of people who slipped across the river without anyone noticing.

Duan Pihuan's temples twitched, unprecedented anger and fear surged up together, and he instantly realized what kind of situation he was facing.

Before leaving the teacher, the old nest behind him was taken away first, and now he is caught in the middle, a wolf in the front and a tiger in the back, in a dilemma.

And the dense flames on the other side gave him even more pressure - Sheng Chao's troops were much more powerful than he had imagined.

He was indeed wrong in his prediction.

The psychological defense line that was able to support him just now collapsed across the board, and Duan Pihuan shook for a while.

As if he thought it wasn't exciting enough for him, Bai Chen led his men to catch up.

The enemy is in front, and there is a stream of water behind, and it is still the enemy.

Duan Pihuan suddenly felt a sense of desperation - just a moment ago, this was his evaluation of Bai Chen.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, as expected.

Duan Pihuan didn't have time to feel emotional, he turned around and ran upstream, not intending to fight Bai Chen to the death at all.

He is not stupid, this time he lost repeatedly, even the big camp was occupied, this battle has already been lost, and fighting again would be nothing more than death in vain.Besides, even though one of them was occupied, the entire back beam is still his. If he loses this place, he can recuperate and make a comeback in other places.

However, there are enemies on both sides of the river bank. If you cross the river, you may be shot into a sieve by the people on both sides if you are still in the middle of the water. Only Fushan in the upper reaches may be able to barely escape-the group of people is expected to turn over from Fushan to On the other side!

Duan Pihuan scolded his mother while running, and was dragged and beaten by the pursuers from time to time. Scattered pursuers.

After Bai Chen drove the people into the mountain, he lost interest in them. He only deployed defense personnel at the foot of the mountain, and then pulled out his troops and returned to the camp.

And Ji Heng and the 3000 people he brought back also came back, and upon returning, he was praised by Bai Chen: "Your Highness has done a good job this time."

Ji Heng opened his eyes and said in surprise, "Really?"

Bai Chen nodded, and rarely showed a rather gentle smile: "Well, thanks to Your Highness taking down the camp and bringing prisoners, otherwise Duan Pihuan wouldn't have lost all fighting spirit and just ran away like this."

Ji Heng's eyes drifted left and right, and he whispered a little embarrassedly: "Actually, I didn't... I didn't take down the camp. I sneaked around the camp and found that they were actually very well-prepared. The ones I brought There are too few people to take risks, and they are not even close to the camp..."

"Oh?" Bai Chen raised his eyebrows with interest.

Seeing that he didn't intend to make fun of himself, Ji Heng said confidently, "Didn't I bring a group of noble captives who wanted to ask for ransom this time? Among them, two fathers and brothers were in the camp. Ask them to come pick them up in person, and then tie them up."

Speaking of the latter, Ji Heng seemed to feel a little embarrassed that he was not acting candidly enough, and his voice gradually became quieter.

Bai Chen smiled and said, "Your Highness has done a good job."

Ji Heng blinked, not sure if the other party was sincerely praising him, but Bai Chen asked again: "I only gave His Highness 3000 people, but seeing that the whole forest on the other side of the river is full of people, how about your Highness?" Did it?"

"Oh that," Ji Heng seemed to be very satisfied with his masterpiece, and his eyebrows were beaming with joy, "I read it from a book, so it's confusing the real thing. There is a forest on the other side of the river, and it's the most suitable way to use it as a cover-up." Well, some people cut off the branches and lit them back up, and then I stood on the bank of the river with the real 2000 people, and the mountains and plains were filled with people. How about it, did you trick them?"

Seeing his smug little expression, Bai Chen really had the demeanor of that person, so he couldn't help but smiled and nodded: "I got it."

Not only was he deceived, but he was probably deceived deeply.Duan Pihuan may have to come out of the mountains before he realizes that the tens of thousands of troops he is afraid of are actually just a handful of dry branches, and the camp is unscathed—but this is good news for Duan Pihuan .

And even if Duan Pihuan knew that he was cheated, his vitality would be greatly damaged after this battle, and he had to explain to the court, so he probably didn't dare to take any more actions for the time being.

As for the subsequent things, it is not what should be in the letter.

Bai Chen paused, dropped the pen, and picked it up again after a while.

He added a sentence at the end: Bie Qing has been thinking about returning day and night for several months.

The letter flew from Qiaozhou to the capital, and when it came back, there were only two short words in the letter: come back.

Bai Chen looked at those two words, as if seeing that person right in front of him, frowned slightly, as if he couldn't figure out how to treat him, and finally had no choice but to lose his temper and said: Come back.

Just thinking about it for a while, the desire to see that person became even more urgent.

Bai Chen seemed to have no choice but to support himself like this, he supported his forehead slightly, but in the end he couldn't control himself, he laughed silently.