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The general's order cast a solemn color on the entire Xigaogang camp.Liu Changshi shouldered the task of delivering food and assisting Yuantang in guarding the camp, so he never returned to the city.

Yuan Tang reorganized the reinforcements brought by Liu Changshi, and let everyone return to the sentry post.

Yuan Tang called Liu Changshi to stop, and asked: "Changshi Liubu, I have one more thing to ask Changshi, has Neishi returned to the city yet?"

Liu Changshi showed a little worry, and said, "Not yet."

"How did it take so long?" Yuan Tang stood up from the couch.

Liu Changshi was taken aback by his reaction, and thought that Yuan Tang was Feng Cong's companion and had a close relationship with Feng Cong, so he should be worried. He said, "Don't worry about joining the army. In Tao County, when there is heavy rain on the road, it is common to go back and forth for ten days, and now that the Yichi people are surrounding the city, guarding the various passages outside Baiyu, it is better for His Highness to stay in Titao than to return to Baiyu."

Yuan Tang had forgotten that the rain had delayed the journey these days. As Liu Changshi said, now that Bai Yu was fighting, it might be better if Feng Cong didn't come back.

After being intercepted by several waves of Yichi people, Liu Changshi transported less than one-third of the food to Xigaogang. However, the people Liu Changshi brought were also besieged in Xigaogang, and the number of people eating was twice as large as before.

As a last resort, Yuan Tang ordered everyone in the camp to reduce their rations by half. Even so, the Xigaogang camp could not last long. When the Yichi people learned that the reinforcements from the city had entered Xigaogang, they sent twice as many soldiers to attack the camp.

Yuan Tang led people out of the camp to drive them away twice, but he didn't dare to send people out of the camp rashly again. The soldiers couldn't get enough to eat, and they couldn't fight against Yi Chi who were more than their own. Going out again would be tantamount to death.

To defend the camp, at least people have to be alive. According to Liu Changshi, the outside of Baiyu City is now under heavy siege. Looking back from Xigaogang, you can see that there are troops mobilized outside the west gate from time to time, and people from the camp will send people to the city to ask for food. , were blocked by righteous red soldiers, and never returned.

Seeing that the Xigaogang camp had run out of ammunition and food, the Yi Red Army outside seemed to see that the west camp was at the end of its crossbow, and stepped up their offensive. Within two or three days, thousands of soldiers were sent to besiege the camp, and a group of people were smashed down the city wall. Another batch climbed up one after the other, as if they were determined to exhaust the Xiying camp and not let the camp breathe for a moment.

As soon as the camp wall was raised, the previously prepared stones and wood were exhausted, so the soil in the camp was dug and transported to the wall, overlapping with the corpses of the dead, and the camp wall was built layer by layer.

As the food was running out, Yuan Tang had no choice but to kill the few war horses in the camp, share the food among the people, turn over all the turf in the camp, and eat juicy grass to satisfy their hunger.

After days of heavy rain, the small river surged after the camp, and the water flowed continuously into the camp. The terrain of the camp was originally good for drainage, but due to the excavation of soil and walls, there were potholes everywhere, and the whole camp was soaked in ponds by the river.

At this time, the soldiers on the wall discovered that the Yichi people were still adding reinforcements, and the black crowd continued to fill in the isolated island-like camp.

Yuantang dodged the rain of arrows and gravel, and entered the tower on the camp wall covered in muddy water. The tower was half collapsed by the stones thrown by the Yichi people a few days ago, and the water column poured down from the open half of the roof. , The army account had to be moved here.

Yuan De said: "Where did these Yichi people come from? They can't stop killing them!" He was also covered in mud and blood, and the original color of the armor on his body could no longer be seen.

After a while, Liu Changshi also hid in. According to Liu Changshi, it took another seven days to bring people into the West Camp. During these seven days, they lived extremely hard. They couldn't eat enough and couldn't sleep. When the attack comes, no one dares to sleep.

"It can't be done," Yuan Tang said, "if this continues, all of us will be trapped to death in the camp."

Liu Changshi said: "Jianjun wants to abandon the camp and flee!"

Yuan Tang was impatient: "It's not that I want to escape, but that Xiying can't hold on."

Liu Changshi's face turned pale, and his breath was vain: "The general ordered me to stand firm."

Yuan Tang said: "There is no way to defend. What's the point of continuing to defend? Everyone has nothing to eat. Even if the Yichi people don't attack, they will starve to death."

"Why did Yuan Canjun say such dejected words!" Liu Changshi said.

Yuan Tang was hungry and cold, and his temper couldn't be suppressed. He said: "There is no news from the person sent out to beg for food. We can't get in touch with the city. Xiying was originally the defense base of Baiyu City, and now we can't retreat." Red soldiers can't go out of the camp, so what's the use of staying in the camp?"

Yuan Tang said this because he was in a hurry, and didn't care what he said. Yuan De frowned when he heard this, and Hei Hu opened his eyes slightly, meeting Yuan De's eyes.

"The grain storage period is approaching, and the general will send someone to deliver food to the camp," Liu Changshi said, "The military government didn't receive a request for help from the army last time, so they sent me to support it. The general has a purpose in letting the army stand firm. Self-assertion ruined the general's plan to retreat from the enemy."

Yuan Tang said, "Didn't I ask for help last time in the city?" The deadline for delivering food last time was not yet up, and Yuan Tang thought that General Su sent Liu Changshi to deliver food when he received his request for help. If not, it would be a little strange up.

Did General Su really have other arrangements?

Yuan De said, "Ah Lang, don't you think there are too many Yichi people around outside?"

The Yichi people have already pulled out Dongying, and of course they also want to get rid of the stronghold of Xigaogang, so they launched a fierce attack. No matter how large the Yi Chi army is, why focus on the useless Xiying, even if you want to completely remove this chess piece, you don't need to continue to attack like this.

And this time the Yichi people besieged Bai Yu too fast and too fiercely, as if they wanted to take Bai Yu down as soon as possible, at all costs.

Once in doubt, Yuan Tang felt that everything was a little strange, but he couldn't figure out the reason.

When Yuan De asked such a question, Liu Changshi also showed doubts.

Yuan Tang asked: "Before Chang Shi left the city, what else did the general say besides ordering me to stand firm?"

"No," Liu Changshi said, "When I left the city, Dongying had just been occupied by the Yichi people, and the east of the city was in an emergency. The general only said this and went to the east gate to command the battle."

Everyone was puzzled, and the soldiers suddenly came to report: "Report to join the army, in the city...in the city..."

"What's going on?" Yuan Tang went out in the heavy rain, and everyone in the building followed. The soldier pointed to the turret in the east of Baiyu City in the distance, and said, "The flag on the city has changed."

The rain blocked his sight, Yuan Tang looked in the direction of the soldiers, and the military flag on the turret seemed to have really changed.

The Yichi people lined up in front of the almost filled ditch. In the rain, the end of the lineup could not be seen.

The Yichi soldiers under the wall shouted to the camp: "Listen, Xia people, Baiyu City has been taken by us. The Great Khan restricts you to open the door and surrender before dark today. If you surrender, the Great Khan will not only let you live, but also kill you." Share Yichi's good wine and meat with you, if you resist, when we enter the camp, none of the Xia people will be left behind."

"Junior Xia Jun, listen, our Great Khan has already captured Baiyu City, don't hold back any more. If you surrender, the Great Khan will make you a general and let you stay in Baiyu."

As soon as this remark came out, the soldiers on the camp wall became restless, and Liu Changshi burst into tears when he saw the city gate changing flags. Yuan De and Hei Hu quickly dragged Liu Changshi into the broken building.

The Yichi people threatened to attack the camp before dark, so they no longer sent people to climb the wall, but only sent people to shout outside the door. The soldiers in the camp were shaken. The soldiers fought hard for days, hungry and tired. Now that Baiyu City was lost, the soldiers' morale was suddenly weakened. Some people wanted to open the door and surrender without permission. Yuan De led his own soldiers to stop them, beheaded them under the door, and guarded the door himself. De and Yuantang's soldiers killed those who wanted to surrender, and they had already complained to Yuantang.

When Liu Changshi heard that the city was broken, half of his energy and energy were lost. He sighed with sorrow and sorrow from his chest: "Yuan Canjun, I'll go out later, and then I will be captured and killed by the Yichi thief."

Yuan Tang hurriedly stopped him, saying, "Don't be impulsive."

Liu Changshi said anxiously, "Are you going to surrender?"

Surprised and frightened on the wall, the anger in Yuan Tang's chest was extinguished, but now he calmed down, he grabbed Liu Changshi and said: "How will Chang Shi kill him? Run away, who else will kill the enemy with you."

Liu Changshi said: "Even if I am the only one left, I will fight them to the end." He brushed away Yuan Tang's hand and picked up a long knife on the ground.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yanping still has a backbone, but Yuan Tang had to pour cold water on him: "You were shot to death before you walked out alone."

Liu Changshi said: "Even if you die, you will die for your country. Liu Yanping has no fear. Please Yuan Canjun get out of the way." Holding up the unsheathed saber, he gently flicked and pressed it, and dropped the long knife in his hand.

"Chang Shi, don't worry," Yuan Tang said, "The Yichi people disturb us with their words, just to make us commit suicide, don't fall into their tricks?"

Liu Changshi was panting and leaning against the wet wall, his eyes were finally clear, and he said, "A trick? Could it be that the Yichi people deliberately deceived us."

In desperation, Yuantang spouted nonsense without any basis, so he could only say: "I have [-] defenders in Baiyu City, how could it be easily taken down by others? Lost, there is an inner wall built in the city, and you led people to repair it, Liu Changshi. It is such a big city, and General Su and Sima Junjun are also there. Could it be that Mo Ruwei took the city with a blind eye? The Yichi sent so many people to attack Xiying It’s out of the ordinary.”

In fact, Yuan Tang felt that it was very strange for the Yichi people to send troops to the south this time. They had just repelled the Beicheng army in Yuzhou. A city with strong walls, shouldn't it be planned.

The righteous red people seem to be out in force, the more Yuan Tang thinks about it, the more suspicious he becomes.

Liu Changshi finally calmed down: "Everything is just Yuan Canjun's guess."

Yuan Tang was even more certain: "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. You and I shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the camp, and we must not trust the words of a righteous person."

"What is Yuan Canjun going to do?" Liu Changshi asked.

It happened that Hei Hu and Peng Shen came into the tower, and when they heard Yuan Tang's suspicion, they all looked at Yuan Tang strangely, and Yuan Tang wiped his face subconsciously.

Hei Hu said first: "Joining the army can still keep calm and self-defense at this time, Hei Hu admires it."

Peng Shen said: "Joining the army is wise."

It's not that Yuantang is calmer than those who are used to the battlefield. Liu Changshi, including the soldiers of Qizhou and the soldiers of Yuan's family, all regard Xia as their motherland, or Qizhou as their homeland. Because of her different origins, Tang's empathy is not so strong.

He only knows that he can't die here, he must live on, there are still people he wants to see and things he wants to do, and he can't let these people die here.