Invincible Iron Army 31, Leisurely Southern City Defense Book Flag

  Liu Jiao was busy dealing with military affairs, and the urgent military news from all over the place made her overwhelmed. Dongcheng, Xicheng, and Beicheng frequently sent emergency reports to her, requesting reinforcements. Liu Jiao each time dispatched some reinforcements to the places that came to report emergencies, until she had no more troops to send.

  Liu Jiao jiao inspected the northern, eastern and western cities, discovering that the military had suffered heavy losses in battle, with many soldiers injured, and the situation was not optimistic. Du Lin said to her from behind: "I have been in Youyang for so many years, but I have never encountered such a severe situation as today."

  Many of the Jin soldiers were wounded, with blood seeping through their bandages. Some had already fallen in battle, but due to the urgency of the situation, they hadn't been carried away. The Xiongnu soldiers continued to attack from above, some stationed below the city walls firing arrows upwards to suppress the Jin army's long-range firepower. Some soldiers were hit by arrows as soon as they appeared. Du Lin said to Liu Jiao, "The enemy is coming too quickly, we're not prepared enough, and even our arrows are running out." Liu Jiao was momentarily worried, but her face didn't reveal it, so as not to affect the morale of the troops.

  The Xiongnu soldiers, under the cover of the lower fire, used ladders to climb up continuously. From time to time, some soldiers climbed onto the city wall and fought with the Jin army, making the entire city precarious.

  Du Lin's face was cold and stern, his heart filled with worry. After Liu Jiao Jiao made a round of inspection on the city wall, he returned to his own mansion, thinking to himself that he had never fought in a battle before, fortunately Du Lin, Wang Xue Li, and Qian Xue Gui were all experienced generals who held up the entire defense of the city wall.

  Liu Jiao suddenly thought that the southern city was under tremendous pressure, as it was the main direction of the Xiongnu's attack. Why hadn't they sent anyone to ask for help? So she hastily ordered her soldiers to escort her to the southern city to take a look. She thought that the defensive fortifications in the southern city were simple and the soldiers were new recruits without combat experience, so the situation must be very grim.

  Liu Jiao Jiao and Zhao Xiang Qian, Sun Zhi Cheng arrived at the southern city, only to find that the soldiers were extremely idle, with specialized chefs frying food in oil for the defending soldiers. This lax situation made Liu Jiao Jiao extremely angry, and he immediately ordered the soldiers: "Call your commander over."

  Wang An came before Liu Jiao, and immediately said with excitement: "Thank you, Governor, for taking the time to come to our defense zone despite your busy schedule, risking being pierced by ten thousand arrows and facing a fatal danger." Zhao Xiangqian said: "Why is your defense so lax? If the Huns attack you, you will all die! If this place falls, Yu Yang will also be captured. Do you understand?" Wang An shook his head and said: "I don't understand." Zhao Xiangqian said: "You..." Wang An said: "Please, Governor, take a look down below." Zhao Xiangqian immediately stretched out his head, then quickly pulled it back in. Suddenly, a dense rain of arrows flew up from the bottom of the city wall. If Zhao Xiangqian had acted any slower, he would have undoubtedly been hit by an arrow.

  Wang An said, "Your temper is too impatient, I haven't finished speaking yet. If we don't take good defensive measures and recklessly stick our heads out, it will be very dangerous." Zhao Xiangqian pointed at Wang An's atmosphere and said, "You're fooling me, I won't forgive you." Wang An ignored him and asked, "What did you see?" Zhao Xiangqian replied, "The Huns' soldiers." Wang An asked, "Anything else?" Zhao Xiangqian replied, "There are also arrows." Wang An said, "Didn't you see the dense Huns soldiers falling down under the city wall?" Zhao Xiangqian replied, "I didn't notice."

  Wang An said: "How can you do this? Come and take a look again", Zhao Xiangqian rolled his eyes at him and said: "Do you want to murder me?", Wang An said: "I don't dare", Zhao Xiangqian thought to himself, do you think I'm an idiot?, he stretched out his face again. Just now when he stretched out his face, a good guy, nearly 10,000 soldiers shot arrows at him.

  Liu Jiao was puzzled and asked, "The defenses of other cities are almost exhausted, why is it so leisurely here? The soldiers are eating tightly." Wang An said, "Don't insult me, we fought bravely and fiercely against the Xiongnu here, and only after a hard-won victory did we repel the enemy army and dispel their arrogance. We are not easy to mess with!" Liu Jiao rolled her eyes and thought to herself, "Who would believe this?" Wang An became somewhat anxious and said to Liu Jiao, "Look down below, the number of enemy soldiers we killed is huge, that's how we repelled the enemy's attack." Liu Jiao rolled her eyes again and thought to herself, "Here we go again, does he think I'm a fool?"

  Wang An told them about the process, originally in the morning, the enemy army began to gather under the city, preparing to attack the city, hoping to open a gap here and rush into the city of Yu Yang. The Righteous King of Xiongnu was confident, and his soldiers were also full of confidence, thinking that taking down this city was just a matter of time.

  They carried the cloud ladder to the south of Guyang and rushed over. Jiang Cai shouted loudly: "Prepare to shoot" The dense arrow rain began to shoot towards the city. Jiang Cai hid behind the city wall, looking at his own soldiers with a bitter smile, thinking that these new soldiers were almost unable to shoot arrows, some of them had poor physical quality, and couldn't even pull open the bow.

  The Xiongnu arrows rained down densely on the city, and the soldiers on the city wall were suppressed, not daring to lift their heads. Jiang Cai's face was full of worry, thinking that if things continued like this, they would definitely not be able to hold out here. Wang An, however, had an air of nonchalance about him, saying to Jiang Cai, "Don't worry, these soldiers are all new to the battlefield, it's only natural that they're not adapting well, don't take it too seriously." Jiang Cai smiled bitterly and said, "We can forgive them, but the Xiongnu will absolutely not spare these new recruits who have just taken to the battlefield. The situation is stronger than people, the soldiers below are facing a dense rain of arrows, we must make preparations, otherwise there's a danger that this place will fall."

  The Xiongnu soldiers rushed to the foot of the city wall, and some had already set up ladders and started climbing up. Jiang Zai was really anxious this time, because once the Xiongnu stepped onto the city wall, they would rush into the city like a swarm of bees, and by then the situation would be out of control. The city of Yu Yang was in danger of falling.

  Wang An said, "Calm down." Jiang Cai anxiously said, "What's there to calm down about? The enemy is already putting their knives to our necks!" Wang An ignored Jiang Cai and said, "Did you eat breakfast? Look at this, I prepared fried dough sticks, fried oil strips, fried potato chips, fried meatballs, and fried fish slices for you. How's that? A rich breakfast, right? Don't worry, every soldier has a portion." Jiang Cai looked at Wang An speechlessly and said, "Brother Wang, can you please stop messing around? If we keep going like this, we'll all die!"

  At this time, some of the Xiongnu soldiers had already climbed to the middle of the city wall. Li Li said to the soldiers: "Quickly use stones to hit them." Wang An stopped Li Li and said: "Don't use stones, stones are very precious, can't afford to waste them." Li Li looked at Wang An silently and said: "Brother Wang, our lives are even more precious."

  At this time, some of the Xiongnu had already climbed up onto the city wall. At this moment, the Jin soldiers suddenly became brave, picked up their weapons and started fiercely attacking the enemy. The Xiongnu did not have much advantage in close combat. Wang An said: "The timing is just right, come on, pour down this oil for me." The soldiers poured all the remaining oil from the explosives down below. In practice, it proved that the harm of gutter oil is huge no matter which time and space it is in. The scalding hot oil instantly killed many Xiongnu soldiers. The remaining Xiongnu soldiers were frightened and immediately fled, leaving only the wounded soldiers rolling around at the foot of the city wall.

  The Xiongnu soldiers wore heavy armor to defend against the Jin arrows, but this heavy armor was instantly rendered useless in front of the scorching hot oil. Many Xiongnu soldiers were burned to death, and many more were injured. Jiang Zai suddenly became excited and cheered loudly, praising Wang An, saying: "Brother Wang is truly a mastermind!" Wang An asked: "Is this a compliment?" Jiang Zai sincerely replied: "This is the greatest compliment! And from my understanding of you, it seems that the Xiongnu's misfortune has not yet ended. You must have even more sinister plans to deal with them." Wang An said: "You know me well, Brother Jiang. Bring fire!" The soldiers threw down torches one after another, and the oil instantly ignited. The injured soldiers on the ground also caught fire, letting out loud cries of agony.

  "Those Xiongnu are really unlucky, they just happened to run into Wang An, thinking this was a soft persimmon that could be pinched at will. This time they've hit steel plate!" Jiang Cai said in his heart.

  The Righteous King pointed at the city wall and shouted loudly, but Wang An had no time to reason with him. He was also scolding a soldier, "Look at you, so careless! You spilled all the fried fish pieces, do you know how much we lost this time?"

  The soldier replied sincerely, "Sorry, if I knew there were fish pieces in the oil, I wouldn't have poured it down. It seems the Xiongnu below are not satisfied with our food."

  Wang An said, "Don't do that again," and then laughed together with the soldier.

  Yu Xianwang is now crying without tears. The oil poured by Wang An not only scalded his soldiers to death, but also burned them to death, and set his siege ladder on fire. The oil splashed onto the dry wood, instantly becoming highly flammable, and in an instant, Yu Xianwang's ladder was burned clean. Yu Xianwang shouted loudly under the city wall, knowing that without the ladder, his plan to capture Poyang in a short time had fallen through.

  Liu Jiao listened to the whole story and suddenly became excited, saying: "We can also use this method to burn down the Xiongnu's cloud ladder. Once they don't have a cloud ladder, they won't be able to break our city." Wang An said: "Good idea, go do it!" Liu Jiao responded with a sound, but immediately felt something was wrong and loudly asked Wang An: "You dare to order me?" Wang An thought to himself: What am I not daring? I even dared to sell you out, and that's not just once. Wang An hastily said: "I misspoke, I'll be careful next time." Liu Jiao, who was in a great mood, didn't mind either, thinking: This time is good, I can defend the Fisherman's City.

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