Chapter 342 A hard night

Chapter 342 A hard night

On the night of the battle, King Donghai woke up with the image of a corpse falling from the sky still in his mind. He sat up suddenly, stretched out his hands to push, but he was stunned, and he was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

He was sitting on the bed, wearing clean clothes, with unbearable pain in several places on his body, as if he had been injured, but he was not dead, he could still breathe, think, and still feel fear and joy.

"I'm not dead?"

"You are dead, this is the underworld." A cold voice said.

Donghai King was startled, turned his head to look, and saw Cui Teng, who was covered in blood, staring at him with a serious face, and was even more shocked.

"We're all dead, let's go, go see the King of Hell with me, or reincarnate as soon as possible." Cui Teng lowered his voice, making it even more gloomy.

Donghai King is not that stupid, only a little dizzy when he first woke up, and now he is fully awake. Looking at the clean bedding and clothes, he knows that this is his bedroom in Daiwang's mansion, and it is definitely not hell, but he is still frightened. Another layer of cold sweat broke out on his body, "Go away! Go to hell, I won't follow."

"Haha." Cui Teng laughed. He didn't even change his armor to visit the King of the East Sea, but when his cousin woke up, he couldn't help but joke, "Go drink!"

After Cui Teng left, the anger of the East Sea King calmed down, and he slowly moved to the bedside, wanting to go down to see if everything was normal, just put on his shoes, but when he saw the emperor sitting in the corner, he was stunned, " His Majesty……"

Han Ruzi stood up, "Have a good rest, I'll call someone."

"Thank you, how long have I... Your Majesty?"

"It didn't take long." Han Ruzi didn't change his clothes, smiled at King Xiangdonghai, and walked out.

"Your Majesty..." The East Sea King has something to say, but he doesn't know what to say, "Is the city guarded?"

"Well, hold on for the time being. King Youxian of the Xiongnu is mobilizing his army. Now he is less than twenty miles away from the city. Maybe he will attack the city tonight."

"He must be pissed off."

Han Ruzi nodded, walked out of the room, let the entourage of the East Sea King go in, and went to meet the general outside by himself, he still had a lot of things to do.

Jincheng was not breached at last, but suffered heavy losses and nearly half of the casualties. After the reinforcements were brought in, the strength of the defenders did not increase, but decreased. The army led by Feng Shili also retreated very hard, and was pursued by the angry Huns all the time. The situation is unknown.

The Su Wei army who came to rescue the car suffered especially heavy losses. There were more than 2,000 people when they came, and only 700 or 800 people entered the city alive. the forerunner of man.

Of course, Han Ruzi wouldn't blame him. Without this support army, King Youxian would still find excuses to attack the city, and he got a lot of outside news from Cai Xinghai, which was very important to him.

"I really don't understand what Yang Feng was thinking, but... actually..." Cai Xinghai couldn't go on. He heard about the situation in the capital on the march, and he didn't have the opportunity to question Yang Feng face to face.

Yang Feng chose not only one, but two heirs to the throne. Among them, the King of England was still in the hands of the rebels. Although the matter was never officially made public, many people heard about it and felt puzzled and even angry. Cai Xinghai is one of them.

However, Han Ruzi immediately understood the purpose of this move. As a result, Da Chanyu could not attack the city and kill the emperor. The living emperor could attract reinforcements, and the dead emperor was worthless, and he would let Da Chu establish a new emperor.

As for making the British King one of the options, one is to divide the Huns and the Qi rebels, and the other is to not give the ministers the opportunity to take the opportunity to cause chaos-even if someone wants to quickly change the emperor, because there are two choices and cannot unify the forces.

"Don't doubt Yang Gong, there is nothing wrong with what he did." Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief, the situation was still critical, but there was a little wiggle room.

Cai Xinghai was injured in many places. Seeing that the emperor was so calm, he also calmed down and kowtowed to retire.

"When General Chao is buried, I will be there in person," Han Ruzi reminded.

"Yes." Cai Xinghai stepped back.

Chao Hua was not a general with extraordinary ability, nor did he perform extraordinary feats, but he and the fishermen and soldiers in Jingnan were of great significance to the emperor, and Han Ruzi had to bury him in person.

Fan Zangshan saved his life, but his injuries were so severe that he could no longer command the defense of the city. Han Ruzi went to the bed to comfort him, and then summoned the surviving generals to arrange the defense of the city.

If the Huns really recklessly launched an attack tonight, Jincheng was powerless to defend, there were too few soldiers, and they were extremely tired, Han Ruzi could only let the soldiers who did not participate in the war at the time get on the top of the city, with more flags and more earth and stone equipment. I hope Able to frighten the Huns.

Most of these soldiers are civilians, and their biggest role is to bluff.

The surviving veterans are all rested.

The accompanying civilians also lined up in the streets to fight, but they had no chance to leave the city. At this time, they acted as generals guarding the city, supervising the soldiers at the front of the city.

Han Ruzi himself did not rest, and took a dozen guards to patrol around. More than 30 guards squeezed out of the city gate during the day and caught up with the battle. Most of them came back. The loss was not serious, but it had no effect on the situation. The confrontation between the two armies is indeed not the time for them to play their role.

The Huns' camp outside the city was brightly lit, as if they were preparing something. Han Ruzi went to the city several times to watch, but he couldn't come up with a good plan.

Cui Teng said that he was going to drink, change into clean armor, eat some food, or come to the emperor. He was not injured, he was alive and kicking, and dismissed the imminent threat, "If the Huns dare to call again, they will kill him. Not a single piece of armor remains."

Han Ruzi did not have such confidence and remained silent.

Meng E, who was behind her, came up and whispered, "When will your majesty let us out of the city?"

Cui Teng didn't understand what the female guard was saying, but Han Ruzi was shocked. Since it was dark, he had looked at the guard behind him three times, but no one noticed, but Meng E had already guessed what he was thinking.

The biggest threat was not the Xiongnu army, but King Youxian. He wanted to attack the city for his own benefit, and to wash away the humiliation of Ji's concubine being kidnapped, he wanted to attack the city and kill him, which seemed to be the easiest way to defend the city.

Han Ruzi shook his head, "No, there is no chance of success."

"The chances are no less than defending the city with all our strength." Meng E glanced back at the guards and continued: "We discussed a plan to use Hua Bin..."

"You?" Han Ruzi asked in surprise.

"Well, we all think that assassinating King Youxian is a feasible plan. Hua Bin brought in ten people from outside the city. We went out of the city with the same number and brought a head, claiming to be His Majesty's, as long as we can enter the tent..."

Han Ruzi still shook his head. King Youxian did not trust the people of Chu, and would never meet a group of Jianghu tourists without any defense. Even Deng Cui, the most "loved", had no chance to approach King Youxian alone.

"Your Majesty will you wait for reinforcements?"

The arrival of Feng Shili's support army is still expected. Now he has retreated all the way, and he can't turn back. As for the other two Chu troops, one is in Mayi City outside the Great Wall, and the other is slowly approaching Yan Kingdom, it is impossible. Come to rescue Jincheng, especially this evening, miracles cannot happen one after another.

A team of Huns went out of the camp and lined up. It seemed that they were in a defensive position. If they really wanted to attack the city, the Huns also had to use tools. They obviously accepted the lesson of the last time, defend first, and then set up siege tools.

"You...you can prepare, but unless the Huns really attack the city, don't act."

"Yes."

Meng E asked the accompanying eunuch for a pen and paper, and asked the emperor to write a letter, she could choose a bodyguard and take away the detained Hua Bin.

The guards were divided into two teams. One team was taken away by Meng E, and the other team was still commanded by Wang He. The only task was to protect the emperor.

It doesn't matter whether Hua Bintong agrees with the plan, he has to follow him out of the city anyway.

The tunnel out of the city has been blocked. Meng E and others can only guard behind the city gate. If necessary, they will open the door immediately and rush out on horseback. As for whether they can gain the trust of the Huns in time, we can only say at that time. That is what they will face. the first test.

Han Ruzi led people down the city. Since he was going to send assassins, it was not suitable for him to show his face at the top of the city.

He stayed in the barracks so that he could get news from the city at any time. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the assassination plan was unfeasible. After the pen, he put it down.

There was no sure-fire plan. Meng E was right. Assassinating King Youxian was no more difficult than simply guarding Jincheng. Every opportunity was counted as one, and it was better than sitting still.

From time to time, news came from the city that the Huns had set up more than a dozen siege devices and sent soldiers to clean up the battlefield. It seemed that they planned to attack the city at dawn. This time, there was no excuse or plan.

In the second half of the night, Cui Teng was so sleepy that he found a tent in the camp to sleep, but Han Ruzi was reading at night. And the strategy, but he can't see it at all, and the experience of Taizu is completely different from this time, and there is no reference.

When the King of the East Sea came, Liu Jie sent him into the emperor's tent without notice.

Glancing at it, the East Sea King asked, "Is Cui Teng here?"

"He went to rest, are you asleep?"

"Well, I really don't understand, this kid Cui Teng is still a living tiger with bloodstains all over his body?"

"The blood was on the body when it was moved, and he didn't have time to participate in the war."

"Hey." King Donghai thought he was a hundred times smarter than Cui Teng, but he didn't expect to be fooled by him, "This guy..."

"He didn't catch up, he didn't intend to avoid the war."

King Donghai believed that Cui Teng was not so slick, but he still sneered, expressing his disbelief, and then said sternly: "The Huns will attack the city at dawn?"

"It seems so."

"Will there be reinforcements?"

Han Ruzi was silent for a moment, "No."

"There is only one way to hold Jincheng."

"Um?"

Han Ruzi thought that the King of the East Sea also thought of assassination, but he said another plan, "to ask Da Shan for help."

Da Shanyu hoped for peace talks, and King Youxian's attack on the city was against his orders, but there was a problem that could not be solved.

"Da Chanyu is not outside the city, and the Huns will not let the messengers pass."

"Fight, and at dawn, the messenger went out of the city with great fanfare, claiming that he wanted to see Da Chanyu, so that the Huns outside the city could see it, and bet that King You Xian would not dare to directly disobey Da Chanyu's order."

"King Youxian dares to attack the city, but dare not kill the messenger?"

"So it's a gamble. King Youxian is angry at the moment, so he has to calm down." King Donghai bit his lip and paused, "I'll go."