Chapter 109 Siege
Chapter 109 Siege
"Ah sneeze~~"
Wei Yu sniffed his nose, wrapped himself in a blanket, and sat beside the charcoal brazier to keep warm.
Others were fine after being wet in the winter rain for three days, but she was wet for just a short while and because she didn't change her clothes in time, she got a fever and a cold for three days.
"Miss Wei, your medicine is ready." Rong Yi came in with the medicine.
Rongyi came back two days ago. He knelt in the rain at the gate for a whole day and night before Atina let him in.
"Are you okay?" Wei Yu asked with concern.
"It's okay. This is what happens every time the Third Prince attacks us. It's just a lot of noise but little action."
Every time? This guy is still a thorn.
"Why did you help me escape?"
Rong Yi was dejected.
Wei Yu smiled and patted her, "If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. It's okay."
"It's because of my mother."
"My mother was actually a woman from Dàngzhèng who was abducted. Because of her beauty, she was offered to the Xiongnu prince of Jiabahui. Afterwards, I was born. My mother wanted to return to Dàngzhèng her entire life, but every time she escaped and was caught, she was beaten and scolded. She died of depression."
"So, I want to help you go back to Da Niang."
"What is Dàmìng like? I heard from the Third Prince that Dàmìng is a land of dense forests, lush green grass, and vast tracts of fertile farmland, where everyone lives and works in peace and contentment."
Rongyi's expression changed, and her eyes were filled with longing for Dati.
"Do you want to go back to Da'an? I can take you there."
There was a flash of light in Rong Yi's eyes for a moment, but then it gradually dimmed.
"No, I have the blood of the Hu people in my body. You Da'e people should dislike me."
It was as if she was born in the Xiongnu and had the blood of Da'an flowing in her veins. Even though she was the daughter of a prince, she was still of lowly status. Only the third prince did not despise her and always treated her as a human being.
Wei Yu knocked on Rong Yi's head. Rong Yi covered his head and looked at Wei Yu blankly.
"I'll really despise you if you do this. Be a straightforward person. What's wrong with having a bit of mixed blood? We'll all be family in the future."
"Yeah." Rong Yi rushed over and almost pushed Wei Yu down.
"Get up quickly, you're crushing me." Wei Yu struggled to push the person away. This love was a bit heavy.
After Rong Yi let go of Wei Yu, she took out the necklace that had been hidden inside her clothes.
It was a silver necklace with a ring in the middle. The ring was very thick and had words on it that Wei Yu could not understand.
"This is a necklace I asked a craftsman to make. It contains a little bit of my mother's ashes."
She touched it cherishingly and said, "I thought that when I could really go to Dawei one day, I would bring this necklace with me, and it would be like taking my mother back with me."
Wei Yu said confidently: "It will definitely work."
"What are you doing?" The person who came in was Si Muchu.
Wei Yu pointed at Si Muzhou, speechless for a moment. "You...you...why are you still here? Didn't I tell you to go back and tell your brother the news?"
She had clearly reminded him to go back before she fell asleep.
It was over. She didn’t even dare to imagine how anxious Si Muzhen would be.
"How can I leave when you're this sick?"
Wei Yu was furious. "You idiot, thank you."
Atina came in with a gloomy face, picked up Wei Yu and walked out.
"what happened?"
Atina did not answer.
People on the road were hurrying and fleeing in all directions.
The soldiers ran towards the city gate with their weapons.
"The enemy is attacking the city. Hurry up and head to the gate. We must guard our gate."
Wei Yu glared at Si Muchu.
Si Muchu knew that he had gotten into trouble, so he lowered his head and said nothing, following Atina silently.
Atina carried Wei Yu up to the city wall.
Si Muchu also stood aside, and as soon as he stood still, a knife was placed on his neck.
The man holding the knife was the burly and indifferent general who had previously shot arrows at him and Si Muzhou.
The man frowned and looked straight ahead, not even glancing at Si Muchu.
Wei Yu saw Si Muzhen riding a big horse and standing in front of the large army, and she waved to Si Muzhen vigorously.
"Stop fighting, let's sit down and have a good chat...ahem...just a chat."
My cold hasn't healed yet, and my throat is itchy and sore from talking loudly, and I'm coughing up tears.
What Si Muchu heard was, "Hurry up and fight, and end it properly..."
Then Wei Yu started crying.
Si Muzhen felt a dull pain in her heart. Was she asking her not to care about her life or death?
Absolutely not.
Si Mu raised his hand, "Stop~~"
Wei Yu nodded in satisfaction. The two of them really understood each other very well.
"Return my queen to me, and I will withdraw my troops. Otherwise, I swear to crush the Xiongnu."
"Reclaim the Queen and crush the Huns~~"
"Reclaim the Queen and crush the Huns~~"
The soldiers echoed enthusiastically.
Wei Yu was speechless. Your emperor clearly didn't mean to reject the second creation.
The gates of Wanbai City opened, and groups of Wanbai City residents, young and old, poured out. They held hands and used their bodies as shields to block Dati's soldiers.
Atina frowned and turned to ask the general who held Si Muzhou hostage, "Moli, what's going on?"
Atina spoke the Turkic language of the Xiongnu people, which Wei Yu could not understand, so Si Muzhou provided her with simultaneous translation.
"You should ask the Third Prince. Aren't you planning to leave us and surrender to Da'an?" Mori's face twisted as he shouted at Atina. "We followed you simply to restore the former glory of the Xiongnu. By doing this, you've chilled the hearts of so many soldiers. Do you deserve the lives of those who died in battle?"
"Today we are going to fight for the Xiongnu, for our Hu people."
"Are you crazy? Open your eyes and look at us. Do we have a chance of winning?" Atina pointed at the huge crowd of Da'e soldiers. "Even if they don't do anything, they can just ride their horses over and crush us."
It was estimated that there were tens of thousands of soldiers, while they had only 20,000 soldiers in Wanbai City, so they were no match for them.
"You spineless creature! The eldest prince is right. I must have been blind to follow a lackey like you."
"It doesn't matter if you surrender, we will resist on our own."
Mori raised his knife and shouted to the people at the city gate, "They want to take our goddess away. We will defend her to the death..."
The people took brooms and hoes and beat and smashed the soldiers.
The soldiers of Dazhen didn't know whether to fight back or not.
Wei Yu didn't expect that Da'e's soldiers actually had humanitarian ideas and would not attack civilians during war.
But Wei Yu didn’t understand why Mori would use such tactics. It seemed that he had to study Sun Tzu’s Art of War carefully when he returned.
"It seems not many soldiers listen to him. He's gambling," Si Muzhou said. "If our Da'an's soldiers injure civilians, then he'll have reason to incite those soldiers to join him in fighting against Da'an."
This is much better than the trick of missing laundry detergent and then finding a large number of dangerous weapons.
In the crowd, several "common people" took out short knives and committed suicide.
The Dangqie soldiers standing in front of the people were all bewildered.
When the people saw the dead bodies, they panicked and shouted, "There are dead bodies! Their soldiers are killing us civilians."
Mori curled his lips, his goal achieved.
"Look, they actually came to kill our people. How could they possibly treat us well? We absolutely cannot surrender. We swear to defend Wanbai City to the death and protect our last bit of glory."
The Hun soldiers were really incited.
In order to boost the morale of the Xiongnu soldiers, he focused his attention on the hostage Si Muzhou.
"Today, I will use the blood of this great prince as a sacrifice. The Xiongnu will surely win~~"
He pulled the knife hand away.
"No~~" Wei Yu screamed heartbreakingly.
Si Muzhou covered his neck with his hands, and the blood from his neck could not be stopped.
"No."
Wei Yu broke free from Atina and ran towards Si Muchu. Just when Wei Yu was about to reach Si Muchu, Mori kicked Si Muchu off the city wall.
Wei Yu fell to the ground and froze. Her mind was blank and tears kept flowing out.
Bai Shuyang quickly came over to catch the falling Si Muzhou, turned his horse around, and headed straight for the Dangyang military camp, "Military doctor~~"
Da'an's soldiers were completely enraged.
Si Muzhen concentrated his energy into his dantian and said, "Let's start the battle."
When the horn sounded, they killed all the Huns, regardless of whether they were civilians or soldiers.
Atina stood on the city wall, hesitating and trying to persuade them to stop, but it was too late.
The sound of cannons, shouts, children crying, begging for mercy...
Wei Yu covered his ears but it was of no use.
"Wei Yu..."
Wei Yu turned his head blankly. He didn't know when Si Muqin had also arrived at the bottom of the city wall.
He smiled and opened his arms to Wei Yu, "Come, come into my arms."
Wei Yu jumped off the more than ten-meter-high city wall without hesitation, as if he had seen a life-saving straw.
Si Muzhen caught Wei Yu steadily and said, "I finally found you."
Si Muzhen led Wei Yu across the battlefield, "Close your eyes, we will be back soon."
Wei Yu turned around on horseback and buried his head in Si Muzhen's chest.
"If you could keep acting like a spoiled child to me like this, I can't even imagine how happy I would be." Si Muzhen said jokingly.
Wei Yu knew that Si Muzhen just wanted to divert his attention.
"drive......"
Wei Yu closed his eyes and his hearing became more sensitive.
The sound of swords clashing against each other became sharper and more piercing.
Wei Yu leaned into Si Mu's arms again.
Suddenly, Si Muzhen let out a muffled groan.
Wei Yu felt something flying across her cheek. She opened her eyes and saw an arrow.
Si Muzhen's left chest was pierced by an arrow.
"Si Muzhen..." Wei Yu's voice was filled with fear and crying.
Si Muzhen quickly adjusted her breathing and said, "I'm fine, don't worry."
The person who shot the arrow was Mori who was standing on the city wall.
Wei Yu looked at Mori viciously. She had never felt such great malice towards someone before. She now hoped that the man named Mori would die immediately.
Si Muzhen fought his way through numerous battles, but when he returned to the military camp, he finally couldn't hold on and collapsed.
Wei Yu desperately supported Si Mu, "Hurry up, find a military doctor, quickly~~"
An older military doctor came out of a large tent, wiping his blood-stained hands with a handkerchief.
He saw Si Muzhen, who had already fallen into a coma, and said angrily, "These two brothers are more troublesome than the other. Hurry and help him in."
Several soldiers helped Si Muzhen into the tent.
Wei Yu saw that there was still a military doctor guarding Si Muchu.
Si Muchu's face was pale and his neck was wrapped in thick bandages.
Bai Shuyang stood guarding Si Muchou with a look of deathly paleness.
After he saw Wei Yu, he said coldly, "I want to massacre the city, do you agree?"
"How is he?"
"It's okay. If it's a little later, the person will be gone. Fortunately..."
But Bai Shuyang couldn't swallow this anger, so he asked again, "Massacre the city?"
Wei Yu exhaled, "Let's do it together."
"You are not used to this kind of scene. It is more appropriate for you to stay in the rear to stabilize the morale of the army. You are our queen."
"I'm going to..."
The two looked at each other for a while, and finally Bai Shuyang gave in and said, "Okay."
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