"Little Bean, I'll give you a canned fruit. Take it home and eat it. Once you open it, you can't keep it for more than two days."
"Uncle Chen, there's canned meat. Keep it well."
"Lady Lu, there's canned meat and canned fruit. You have a lot of people, try them."
The arrival of the Winged Knights raised the morale of Songzhou.
The soldiers distributed the canned food brought by the Winged Knights to the people of the city. The dried vegetables and meat floss were left for them to eat.
The people happily took the canned food home to eat. No matter what kind of canned food it was, it was their first time eating it.
The canned hawthorn was sweet and sour. When they ate a hawthorn without seeds, they couldn't bear to swallow it and slowly crushed it with their tongue.
"If Tubo really attacks, the people of the city will have to help transport weapons and make food for the soldiers. There's a gap in the defense of the city wall, so the people will go up and block it."
Sun Renxian and Guo Ziyi walked on the streets of the city, explaining to each other why the canned food was distributed to the people.
Guo Ziyi didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it. Shouldn't the army and the people be like this?
The Winged Knights were in the capital office and were familiar with the terrain. When they ran around, they would help out when they saw people doing work.
When the troops arrived in Songzhou, the people of the capital office would boil water and provide some fodder whenever they saw them.
Sun Renxian said as they walked, "The local people know that once the city is breached, the Tubo people won't let them go. Kneeling and begging for mercy is useless.
They have to let the Tubo people know that even if it's a child, they will bite off a piece of their flesh. Only then will the Tubo people know how to be afraid.
If Songzhou is breached, it means that most of the people in the city are dead. We won't surrender. "
Sun Renxian's tone was flat as if he was talking about a normal matter.
"It'll get better in the future. Li Dongzhu is researching new weapons. Li Dongzhu said that the new weapons can also be used by children."
Guo Ziyi also didn't think much of it. They were fighting.
He mentioned the thing that Li Yi had told him, the gun.
"Is it that explosive bag? Children holding it and charging forward? "Sun Renxian frowned. Perish together with the enemy?
Guo Ziyi smiled and shook his head. "It's not a pack of explosives. It's another type of long-range weapon. There are enough of them. They're bullets, just like arrows.
There were a lot of bullets. The people of Songzhou lay on the battlements and shot down with their guns. No matter how many enemy troops they had, they couldn't charge in.
If a child shoots from the battlements, the enemy can shoot until they can't raise their arms, but the child can still shoot again and again. "
Guo Ziyi, who had seen the power of Li Yi's sniper rifle and how difficult it was to operate it, spoke as an image appeared in his mind.
A group of Songzhou citizens, each with a gun, crouched on top of the city wall to load bullets, stood up to open fire, and crouched down to load bullets again …
The enemy wanted to besiege the city like a swarm of ants. Along the way, people fell in rows.
Sun Renxian looked at Guo Ziyi in astonishment. "Are you bluffing? How can there be such a long-range weapon? "
Guo Ziyi glanced at Fan Fan, or more accurately, the box that Fan Fan was carrying, and a smile appeared on his face.
"I hope there will be a chance to show it to Governor Sun." He retracted his gaze.
Fan Fan lowered his head to look at the box he was carrying, and then vigilantly scanned the surroundings.
This box couldn't be lost. Li Dongzhu had specifically asked him to find an opportunity to kill enemy generals.
Naturally, Sun Renxian also glanced at the box. The box looked very delicate. Could it be something secret?
"Chief Guo, I always hear rumors about the Li Family Zhuangzi in Chang 'an. What does Li Dongzhu look like?"
Sun Renxian touched the stack of coupons through his clothes, curious about Li Yi.
"Young man, 18 this year. He looks very delicate and pretty. He treats people kindly, and his literary talent fluctuates." Guo Ziyi introduced.
"How does it fluctuate?" This was the first time Sun Renxian had heard that literary talent could fluctuate.
"Sometimes he writes poems or essays. Sometimes the style of writing makes scholars vomit." Guo Ziyi chuckled.
Sun Renxian understood. "He has literary talent, but he doesn't usually use it? Does he swear? "
"Don't force him to swear. Once someone makes him swear, that person … will feel worse than death."
Guo Ziyi thought of the officials in Lantian County. They should be working hard at mining.
"Is there anything worse than death?" Sun Renxian thought of someone being locked up and beaten to death every day.
"Yes, he made a report. The officials in Lantian County …" Guo Ziyi told Sun Renxian about mining and making reports.
Including the means to deal with the family members if they wanted to commit suicide. They were tortured like that every day.
Sun Renxian was not involved. When he heard Guo Ziyi's words, he sweated.
"Killing people is just a matter of nodding your head to the ground. Why do they have to do that? How much hatred do they have? "
"The officials in the 20 counties outside Chang 'an listened to the report and worked very hard."
Guo Ziyi looked at it from another angle.
Sun Renxian nodded. "They should work hard."
The troops arrived at the Governor's Office. Most of the Winged Knights went to the barracks. They brought their own tents and set them up.
Everything was calm for the next few days.
The people in the city came to see the commotion from time to time. They wanted to see the Emperor's private army, the Winged Knights.
Some people were preparing for spring plowing. When the weather was warmer and there was enough water in the river, they would soak the land.
In the blink of an eye, it was the 24th of February.
This morning, Guo Ziyi took the Winged Knights to practice archery.
"Woo ~ ~" "Dong dong dong ~ ~ ~" The sound of horns and drums could be heard.
"Gather and prepare to meet the enemy." Guo Ziyi heard a familiar voice and gathered the troops.
The Winged Knights ran to their positions. Some of them observed the wind and prepared to launch the hot air balloon.
They did not do so before because they were afraid that the Tubo people would run away when they saw the hot air balloon.
Since the Tubo army had already arrived, they would not retreat when they saw the hot air balloon.
Some of the Winged Knights ran to the catapults and acted as snipers on the city wall. Some helped to manage the explosives.
The remaining 2,000 Winged Knights mounted their horses and prepared to open the city gates and charge at any time.
The people in the city ran to and fro, transporting rolling wood and stones, as well as large axes and push poles.
The enemy wanted to hang ladders on the city wall and cut off the hooks with axes. The row of people behind the push poles pushed and the ladders fell over.
The reason they used a row of people was because the enemy would have people below to stabilize the ladders. If there were too few people, the ladders would not move.
The women did not care what time it was and started to cook. The older children were responsible for keeping the younger ones from running around.
The entire Songzhou city was in motion. The scouts outside ran around on horses.
When it was almost noon, the Tibetan Army appeared. The cavalry was in front and the scouts were chasing after the Songzhou scouts.
The Songzhou scouts ran down the city wall. The crossbows on the city wall fired at the Tubo scouts. Both sides broke away from contact.
The Songzhou scouts circled around the city and entered from the back.
The Tubo cavalry followed them around the city, as if looking for an opportunity.
A group of 1,000 cavalry came out from the back and charged. The Tubo cavalry retreated and the Songzhou cavalry escorted the scouts back.
The two sides met for the first time and everything was normal.
The Tubo cavalry could not find the slightest loophole and regrouped.
The infantry behind them arrived one after another. The central army arrived. The Tubo general Boba Luo looked up and frowned.
Eight hot air balloons were in the air. There were two on each side of the city wall and three ropes were connected to stabilize them.
The wind blew and the eight balloons tilted in the same direction.
The people on the city wall pulled on the ropes and pulled the hot air balloons back.
The Winged Knights flag on the hot air balloons fluttered. The people in the city held up binoculars to translate.
"There are Winged Knights in the city?" Boba Luo's expression was ugly.
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