Chi Erhan did not respond at all. Shi Kun on the left slowly turned his head and looked at Huang Dahong calmly.

This gaze made Huang Dahong feel a little... being looked down upon.

Huang Dahong was filled with blood for no reason and said loudly: "We have been in Xuyi City for more than 20 days. We sent people to ask for help seven times but no news... If the prince wants reinforcements, even if he sends troops from Hangzhou Prefecture, it should be... General Chi, let's do our best! All the blood should be shed... retreat, don't let them... they all die here!"

After saying that, Huang Dahong burst into tears and he burst into tears.

"Have you tried your best?" Chi Erhan turned his head slowly. He looked at Huang Dahong, then turned around suddenly, facing the soldiers who were still breathing in the distance, and shouted, "Have we tried our best?"

When the soldiers heard the sound, they all looked in the direction of Chi Erhan and the other two, and they were silent.

Chi Erhan shouted: "Some people say that we have done our best and should retreat. We cannot die here... But I don't agree! When we set off, the general repeatedly instructed that Sizhou is the place I must take! If we have Sizhou, we will get Fengyang, lose Sizhou, Yangzhou, and Huai'an will never have peace... But today, we are still facing each other across the river from Sizhou in Xuyi... Are we going to do our best?"

The soldiers on the city wall were still silent, so quiet that the needle could be heard, and even the cry of the wounded soldiers was no longer heard.

Chi Erhan suddenly turned sideways, pointed at the figure of the enemy who had retreated from the distance below the city, and shouted: "The enemy is also dying. They are more dead than us, but they have not stopped attacking, are we going to retreat?"

"If we don't go to war,

The enemy uses a knife,

Kill us,

He also pointed his finger at our corpse and said,

look?

This is a slave!”

Someone suddenly started chanting? The sound gradually became louder from low.

More and more soldiers join this chant.

Slowly? The chanting sounds on the city walls are deafening.

Morale?     Suddenly rising.

Chi Erhan slowly turned around, looked at Huang Dahong and said, "You? Do you do your best?"

Huang Dahong's face was red, and he said angrily: "If it is death? Only then can he do his best... the general is willing to die! But? The person is dead, and the city still cannot be defended. If that is the case, why should we die for death... take a step back? Reorganize the troops and fight again? What's wrong?"

Chi Erhan suddenly sighed and said, "Huang Dahong, you are also a man who has been on the battlefield for a long time. When you know... the reason for the defeat is like a mountain. When you retreat? Where can you resign to the point of resigning? Hengyang? Gaoyou? Or Jiangdu? Not to mention how the prince considered it, just talk about how many defenders there are in Yangzhou Prefecture? The enemy rushed to the Yangtze River with the momentum of breaking the city. I am afraid that they will rush to the edge of the Yangtze River in one breath... By then, the people of Yangzhou will be slaughtered by the enemy? Those souls will ask you... General Huang, have you tried your best?"

Huang Dahong's face changed a lot? He stomped his feet hard? He didn't make any sound again.

"Report to General? The enemy is attacking!"

With this sound, countless heads rushed towards the battlements.

But this is a consistent offensive and defensive duel, and the enemies under the city are several times higher than me, so how can we stop them by relying solely on courage and determination?

At this time, perhaps as Huang Dahong said, Xuyi City may not be able to hold on for much time.

....

Actually not.

This attack by the Qing army was a feint.

Xuyi City was temporarily defended under the tenacious resistance of the defenders.

As the main general of attacking Xuyi, Bai Yintu was very upset at this time.

It was not that he had no confidence in breaking Xuyi, but that the bandits in the old county behind him were harassing him.

Several bandits emerged from somewhere, and they were striking the reinforcements and supplies coming from Fengyang City without knowing where they were.

At the beginning, the Baiyintu didn't care, or even thought it was not known.

In his opinion, these bandits were nothing more than some refugees gathered in the surrounding prefectures. They asked them to grab the spot and Bai Yintu didn't want to be distracted.

But things were not what he thought. The harassment of bandits, from the beginning, more than ten people, dozens, hundreds, and hundreds of people.

The destructive power this produced was already quite large, making Baiyintu feel pain.

Baiyintu has sent people to encircle and suppress the enemy three times, and the more troops are sent, the more and more. From the beginning, there are dozens of cavalry teams to the third time, there are already three hundred cavalrymen.

But what was helpless was that as soon as the Qing cavalry arrived, the bandits retreated.

If it is an ordinary area, the cavalry can chase after it, but the Huai River turns here. These bandits obviously had prepared for a long time and arranged retreating ferries by the river.

As soon as the Qing cavalry appeared, they retreated to the river and boarded the boat and left.

No matter how powerful a cavalry is, it cannot be crossed when encountering water, right?

The Qing cavalry could only be by the river, looking at the enemy and sighing.

This time, Ajige made a great decision to break through Xuyi, open up a stalemate on the battlefield, and leave a breath for his own movement.

He sent his Han army with the Blue Inlaid Banner and White Inlaid Banner, a total of 8,000 people to reinforce the direction of Sizhou.

But the army arrived in Sizhou smoothly, but the subsequent food and supplies were left behind.

It’s so worrying to be the one who encircled and suppressed the bandits, or ignored them and conquered Xuyi City first?

Originally, the Being of the Yintu was trying to take the latter, but after he beat him, he understood that this method was not advisable.

Although the enemy troops in Xuyi City were not large, they had been defending for more than twenty days with the strong city wall and firearms that the Qing army could not match. The Qing army attacked the city wall dozens of times, but were driven down by the defenders.

Obviously, it is impossible to win quickly, even if the real gold and silver of the Inlaid Blue Banner and the Inlaid White Banner Han Army sent by Ajige now.

What's more, the Baiyintu could not imagine that if the Han army under its command sent the blue flag and white flag to the city wall and was destroyed, would Azig throw his head under the horse's hooves like a melon and trample it?

The sacrificial map was even more intolerant, and the supply that was already stretched was robbed by bandits in the old county.

So Wu Yintu made up his mind to first eliminate the rear, eliminate the bandits and then attack Xuyi.

So in fact, this wave of attacking Xuyi City was just a feint attack, stopping as soon as possible.

....

Liu Fang has been living a very comfortable life these days.

You can do whatever you want and do whatever you want.

At this time, he was "generals" with his subordinates. He was actually Liu's subordinates when he was in charge of the inspection department. He had already had military positions. It was right. He would not avoid being a relative of his own people. He could use his own people easily!

He was surrounded by the generals under his command, drinking in a large bonfire, eating meat in large bowls, and enjoying meat in large pieces. His life was full of joy.

He felt that the murder and robbery were getting more and more excited, and what made him even more happy was that this kind of battle was too far from the bloody level of the two previous fights on the hillside outside Hengyang Town.

He even said shamelessly to the generals, is there anything more interesting in this world than robbing under the order?

The countless robbery of the enemy's transportation team gave Liu Fang and Hengyang Guard enough "training" opportunities. This kind of training is the actual robbery training these days.
Chapter completed!