The moon shines on the top of the city, and the cold moon shines so sad.

The cold moonlight shone on the top of Zhuozhou city, reflecting the mess and damage of the land. The large area of ​​the city walls above were destroyed by stones, and there were traces left by blood splattering everywhere. The outside of the city wall was covered with potholes and charred scars after burning, and countless corpses were stacked below, including the Liao army and many of the ever-winning army.

This was the eighth day after the Liao army launched a fierce attack on Zhuozhou City. After several days of hard fighting and defense, the damage to this northern city was far greater than expected. Especially on the sixth day, after the Liao army broke the troops and completely filled the moat outside the city, their threat to the city wall became even greater.

Because from then on, the crash that had been blocked several feet away and the Lu Gongbuk, which was specially used to destroy the lower section of the city wall, were finally used. After several bloody battles, the northern city wall was almost destroyed by the Liao army. It was a pity that the defenders used fire attacks in time to stabilize the situation.

But even so, the defenders still paid a huge price. Almost half of the city wall was attacked by the Liao army, and they were defended by the deathly bloody battle. The several arrow towers that were originally standing there became ruins because of the battle. The number of casualties of the ever-winning army increased sharply, resulting in only half of the total strength of the warriors, and 600% of them were fighting with injuries.

Of course, the situation of the Liao army was not much better. Such fierce battles caused even more serious damage to the siege side. More than half of the 50,000 troops were injured and half of the siege weapons prepared before were almost destroyed. Now only crossbows and ropes are left. After the eight-day offensive and defensive battle, both sides can be said to be both defeated and the situation is not optimistic.

Even though he was as warlike as iron Wuduo, he was now worried. When he looked at the Zhuozhou City that was still standing in front, he was frowning. At this moment, he even whispered to Xiao Gan: "King Xi, can our momentum of siege slow down? According to the information we obtained before, the food and grass in Zhuozhou City had already been in short supply. Maybe as long as he was besieged for a period of time, he could win without a fight."

Xiao Bei, another confidant general of Xiao Gan, also agreed and said, "Prince, Tiewuduo is right. We really can't afford to suffer greater casualties. If this continues, even if we can quickly take Zhuozhou this time, with our situation, we will not be able to support the main force of the King's troops of the South Court."

Xiao Gan's face was also extremely ugly. The performance of the Zhuozhou defenders this time was indeed too unexpected. Both the defense methods and the soldiers' fighting were far beyond his expectations. But at this time, he was like a gambler who pushed everything on the stage. He had no freedom to leave. He could only say with red eyes: "Speed ​​battle and quick victory of Zhuozhou is the only opportunity for us to reverse the battle situation in the south. I didn't believe it before, but now it seems that the reinforcements of the Song people will arrive soon. Once they really arrive, we will be completely defeated. Do you dare to gamble this?"

This immediately made several subordinates say something wrong. Yes, the reason why they rushed to attack the city was because they were worried that Zhuozhou would fall into the hands of the Song army. If they dragged it down, it would be extremely unfavorable for them. Continuing to attack the city would inevitably have even more casualties, but they could not be delayed, but what should we do?

"The current strategy is to use some other means. The situation of the defenders in the city should be even worse than that of ours. We can take advantage of their shortage of military rations to make them civil unrest!" Xiao Gan quickly calmed down and slowly expressed his own strategy: "Come on, come and prepare some white silk cloth, and prepare some pens and ink. I want to write a letter to the defenders inside to tell them what kind of death situation they are in!"

While the Liao army was busy outside the city, Sun Tu was walking slowly at the damaged western city head under the escort of more than a dozen personal soldiers. Like the north, the city walls here were much damaged, and several of them were even shaky, as if they could fall into pieces at any time. It was precisely because of this during the day that Sun Tu cared very much, even at night, he had to come and see it clearly to ensure that he was safe.

At this moment, when the soldiers guarding the city saw him coming, they all subconsciously saluted him, but they really treated this outsider as their boss. This was the morale of the army that Sun Tu had won over the past few days. It was precisely because of him who led the Qingzhou army to run back and forth between the east and west sides that they helped the Changsheng army to safely defend to this day. However, the price was that the elite Qingzhou army had suffered great casualties, and there were only 200 people who could fight now, and even Lu Da Huarong was injured. Now only Wu Song and Fan Qi were still following.

When walking to a corner, Wu Song suddenly whispered: "General, I discovered something earlier. Some generals in the Changsheng Army seemed to be more hostile to us, which always makes people feel a little uneasy."

This made Sun Tu pause slightly: "This is reasonable. After all, they are in danger now, and in their opinion, all this is thanks to us. Because if they had not surrendered to our Song Dynasty, there would be no need to kill the Liao army so fiercely now."

"There are also military rations in the city. I'm afraid they will be completely eaten up tomorrow, but what should we do next..." Fan Qi also looked worried and added. After pausing, he said: "By the way, General Sun, you said more than half a month ago that reinforcements will arrive soon, why are they still missing today? According to reason, they should have arrived long ago."

This is indeed an extremely uneasy question. You must know that the Changsheng Army was convinced by Sun Tu and eventually became determined to fight the Liao army to the death because they believed that the Song army reinforcements would arrive in time. But now, so long has passed, and they suffered heavy casualties, but the promised reinforcements have not arrived yet. This will naturally make people feel deceived by Sun Tu, and they feel extremely dissatisfied and even hostile towards him.

"As long as the time is right, our reinforcements will naturally arrive." Sun Tu said something unpredictable and profound, "As for the hostility of the soldiers of the Changsheng Army, I also felt it, but as long as Dong Kuang still believes in us, it will not be a big problem."

"I'm afraid, even Dong Kuang may not be able to suppress these people forever. You know, after all, he has just seized military power and his authority has been established, but his grace has not been under the tree. It is hard to guarantee that some people will have a strange intention." Fan Qi still looked worried: "And the Liao army will not miss this opportunity, maybe..."

At this point, a whoosh suddenly came from outside the city below, which shocked several people to quickly draw their swords and dodge. Wu Song quickly slashed out with a knife, and cut it into two pieces of the arrow that was shot to the top of the city. As the arrow landed, they found that the arrow had no arrows and was wrapped in a roll of cloth.

"It's a silk book." Sun Tu immediately raised his eyebrows and bent down to pick up the letter that was shot in from outside. After unfolding it, his subordinates brought the torch to him to facilitate him to read the contents. I saw that the upper half of the silk book was written in Khitan, but fortunately the lower half was still Chinese characters, so that people would not be confused about the contents.

But after Sun Tu quickly swept over the text above, his eyebrows were locked up quickly: "I really let you talk. The Liao people also saw the various problems in my Zhuozhou City and have already started to attack my heart."

Wu Song and Fan Qi hurriedly came up to take a look, and then they knew what was written on it. In fact, this letter can also be called a flyer. The content is very simple, which points out the fact that Zhuozhou is now over and the Changsheng Army is in a desperate situation. Then, the old things are mentioned again, so that the Changsheng Army can immediately open the city and surrender, and they will be spared from death.

And this thing is powerful. The target of it is not General Dong Kuang, but every ordinary soldier in the army told them to survive, so they should open the city quickly, otherwise when the military rations are exhausted, they will have no way to die. And it also pointed out that the Song people were not trustworthy, and the Song State was just using them to drag down the elite troops of the Great Liao and create conditions for the war ahead.

It can be said that this letter includes persuasion, threats, provocation and other means, which is enough to make the morale of the ever-winning army unstable, especially in the current difficult environment, the soldiers will do things that are more beneficial to them because of uneasiness.

"No! Since we can all receive such a letter here, other locations in the city will inevitably be indispensable. The attacker is the best for attacking the enemy. The Liao people's scheming is really powerful." Sun Tu's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly turned around: "I have to go to see Dong Kuang quickly and discuss with him a countermeasure. Even if this thing cannot be rebelled by the generals, it will greatly dampen the morale of the defenders and make it difficult for everyone to be single-minded!" As he spoke, he had already quickly returned and walked down the broken stairs.

Just as they came down, they saw a team coming quickly. When they got closer, they saw Yu Wanyao greeting him with a serious expression: "General Sun is here, so I'm asking me to find him. General Dong is sending people everywhere to look for you, saying that there is something big about it..."

"But because of this Liao people's silk book?" Sun Tu hurriedly took two steps forward and asked with the silk book in his hand.

"Why have you also got this thing that disrupts our morale?" Yu Wanyao's face changed slightly, and then nodded again: "It is precisely because of this that there is also the problem of shortage of food and grass in the city. Now General Dong is busy dealing with it, and he has a big headache. Please ask General Sun to follow me quickly."

"Okay, please lead the way for General Yu." Sun Tu nodded immediately without thinking too much, and then gave Wu Song a wink. The latter turned around immediately and disappeared into the darkness.

When Sun Tu followed Yu Wanyao to the garrison palace in the city, it was already three o'clock. But the lights were still bright, and there were many generals of the ever-victorious army standing in the courtyard, as if they were waiting for something, but they didn't see Dong Kuang.
Chapter completed!