call out……

A rain of arrows came without warning, and a large area of ​​Han soldiers on the city tower fell down instantly.

"Be careful, Your Majesty!"

More than a dozen guards following Li Xiaoyao immediately supported the shield in their hands and flashed forward to protect him.

The arrow hit the shield and made a jingling explosion.

Li Xiaoyao frowned slightly, and he still overestimated Nangong Yue's influence on the Chu army.

But it’s right to think about it. Who can convince a teenage girl?

Thinking of Nangong Yue, Li Xiaoyao thought of himself again. If he had no strong trump card, he would probably not be able to conquer even Ye Hongyuan.

To a certain extent, he is somewhat similar to Nangong Yue.

Li Xiaoyao, begged by the guards, came to the red pavilion in the middle of the city tower to temporarily avoid the rain of arrows.

The Han soldiers on the city tower also quickly reacted, and Guo Hu personally commanded the army of bows and crossbows on the city to counterattack.

Rows of dense crossbow arrows stabbed the Chu archers camp at the speed of breaking through the air.

"Uncle, that kind of bow and arrow is called a crossbow, which is a new weapon of the Han army. Its range and power are several times that of bow and arrow." Nangong Yue pointed to the crossbow soldiers on the city wall and introduced to Wu Qingshan beside him.

Wu Qingshan glanced at the archers camp in front of him, and at this time, a group of soldiers had already fallen.

He frowned and said with a serious expression: "As you said before, if Li Cheng is really occupied by Li Xiaoyao's 180,000 troops, then at this moment, our retreat has been cut off. If the army wants to return to Chu, it must take a detour."

"Yeah!" Nangong Yue nodded and said with a serious expression: "Uncle, there is really not much time left for us. You have to make up your mind quickly."

Wu Qingshan frowned and pondered.

Nangong Yue walked up to him and said with a frown: "Uncle, if all these 200,000 troops are buried here, then there will be no more elite troops in our Chu State, which can stop Li Xiaoyao from entering the capital!"

"Uncle..." Nangong Yue shouted anxiously.

Wu Qingshan raised his head and said with a firm face: "Even so, we cannot act rashly now. If I suddenly lead a hundred thousand troops to retreat at this time, it will inevitably cause panic among the entire Chu army camp. So, let's wait until the evening!"

Nangong Yue looked at Wu Qingshan and nodded: "Uncle Wu is more considerate."

Wu Qingshan turned his head slightly and said seriously: "Transfer the order, the army will maintain its offensive formation and launch an attack on Xuancheng."

"No!" The messenger behind him replied and left.

"Uncle? Are you?" Nangong Yue frowned.

"Since it's a siege, I have to do something." Wu Qingshan held his hands and his eyes were sharply turned to the city tower in the distance.

The rain of arrows had passed, and the Chu army under the city rushed over like ants, and their bodies gradually magnified in Li Xiaoyao's eyes.

The dozen guards beside him had removed their shields and stood on both sides of him.

Li Xiaoyao looked at the old and weak soldiers on the city tower and made up his mind to make a secret decision that after the war, the first thing he had to do was to reorganize the army and carry out reforms.

In various countries, there is an unwritten rule that old and weak soldiers are often arranged on the front line to act as cannon fodder.

The elite troops in the city are in the rear, and no one will understand them unless they have to.

Because they are the last line of defense for a country, and the destruction of the elite forces also symbolizes the destruction of the country.

At this time, a young man dressed in gray plainclothes and holding a black token ran up from the city wall.

He came to Li Xiaoyao and muttered a few words. Then, Li Xiaoyao's face darkened, he walked out of the Hongting, glanced at the battlefield where corpses were everywhere, and turned around with a serious expression and walked down the city tower.

In the living room of the Xiaoyao Prince's Mansion, Liu Guodong, the prime minister who was sent by Li Xiaoyao to envoy Zhao State, was lying on a simple stretcher dyingly.

Li Xiaoyao came to him a few steps and said with a cold expression: "What do you say to King Zhao?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, the Zhao army has arrived at Hengcheng. Calculate the time and it should be about to reach the capital." Liu Guodong said in a pale face and said in a whisper.

"Don't there be Qin and Han people in Hengcheng? Are there still 100,000 border troops? Can't they all be decorated?" Li Xiaoyao said glaringly.

"Your Majesty, the Qin and Han people did not resist at all, but led their troops into the capital." Liu Guodong replied.

"Qin and Han people." Li Xiaoyao clenched his fists and said coldly, "When I return to Beijing, I must peel his skin."

Afterwards, Li Xiaoyao looked at Liu Guodong and said, "Who hurt you so much?"

"Your Majesty, the old man has let you down." Liu Guodong turned around, with tears in his turbid eyes.

"Your Majesty, it was fought by a border general from Zhao State. They drove us out of Zhao State." The members of the secret guards on the side replied.

"So, you didn't even meet King Zhao?" Li Xiaoyao asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The young man in the secret guard nodded and said aggrievedly: "We were humiliated as soon as we entered the border of Zhao, and then we were beaten up by them for no reason. If the general had not said that the two countries were fighting and the envoys came, we might not have come back with the Prime Minister."

"Okay! Very good!" Li Xiaoyao's eyes became colder, and then he said, "You can take Liu Guodong down to recuperate first."

"No!" Several secret guards nodded. Then, they carried the stretcher toward the living room.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty, and the old minister has let you down..." Liu Guodong kept shouting on the way.

Li Xiaoyao walked to the main seat, sat down, frowned.

This Nangong Yue is really a broom star. Just after she said that, it really became a reality.

The Zhao army invaded, probably because it had planned for a premeditated approach.

Now, the 20,000 black-armored cavalry arranged outside the outskirts of the capital should have received their orders, entered the capital and joined Guo Da to fully control the capital.

At this time, Qin and Hanmin led 100,000 border troops in Hengcheng suddenly entered the capital, and they would definitely be blocked outside the capital, and then the Zhao army pursued them.

Li Xiaoyao dared not think about it anymore. People like Qin and Hanmin really dared to do treason.

"Go and call Ye Hongyuan." Li Xiaoyao said.

"No!" the guard standing beside him replied.

"The State of Chu is within reach? Did you give up like that?" Li Xiaoyao murmured to himself.

Did everything I carefully planned was wasted because of Zhao's troops?

He gritted his teeth and punched him hard on the tea table beside him.

Several guards beside him were so shocked that they knelt on the ground.

The cooked duck wanted to fly, but Li Xiaoyao was unwilling to accept it.
Chapter completed!