Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 251 Frustration
After all, Lu Lin has always been a governor and has never encountered such a situation.

Chen Yunsheng sat in the main seat, looking quite calm and confident. He looked at Lu Lin and said:

"Lord Lu, in this critical situation, you and I should cooperate sincerely and overcome the difficulties together, right?"

After hearing this, Lu Lin nodded immediately and said without hesitation:

"Yes Yes!"

Chen Yunsheng said:

"Look, I asked you to transfer the kerosene to me before, but you obstructed me and the kerosene was burned. You don't want this to be spread, right?"

Lu Lin's face trembled a few times, but he still maintained a trace of vigilance in his heart:
"My Lord, what do you want to do?"

Chen Yunsheng said calmly:
"The war situation is changing rapidly, and the opportunity for war is fleeting, so you hand over the governor's seal."

Lu Lin was shocked and said:

“No, I can’t!!”

At this time, another spy reported urgently:

"The enemy at the west gate has an insider, and the gate has been breached! At least two thousand enemy cavalry have entered the city!!"

Upon hearing the bad news, Lu Lin's face suddenly turned pale and he sat down on the ground. Then he waved his hands and turned away.

However, something was seen dropped on the ground. The guard nearby walked up and picked it up, and saw that it was the seal of the governor.

A sarcastic smile appeared on Chen Yunsheng's lips, then he waved his hand and asked someone to take the seal away.

It was easy for Lu Lin to hand over this thing, but it would be extremely difficult to get it back.

At this time, the guard who had been standing nearby for quite some time came forward and presented a military report:

"My lord, the gate has been lowered. The enemy troops entering the city have been cut into two parts. The front and rear can't take care of each other. The ambush troops in the city have been activated. Arrows are raining down. It's a one-sided massacre."

Then, someone else came running over and said loudly:
"Good news! We shot dead the general Che Jun of Khotan, Zhe Xiong, and captured Guli Zha, who was known as the best warrior of Khotan!!"

Chen Yunsheng nodded slightly. This big victory was within his expectations, so his reaction was very calm.

But he also had a strong hidden worry in his heart. After all, he also agreed with what Lao Qi said, that is, the coalition forces came from afar, so they must be sure of victory, and all kinds of means will emerge one after another.

As expected, what you fear will come true. Soon, several guards came in a hurry to report:
"Report! The north gate is under fierce attack by the enemy. The enemy is a group of monsters that look like humans and wolves. They are extremely powerful and can leap like flying. Even the city walls are completely unable to stop them. Judging from their clothing, they look like people from the grasslands."

"Report, Commander Xie, Dong at the North Gate, suddenly fell ill, his mind was in disarray, and he was slashing with a knife."

"Report, the defenders of the North Gate were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. Urgent request for assistance."

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After seeing this series of urgent reports, Chen Yunsheng finally couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up from the armchair, his face livid, and he cursed:
“Waste, waste!!”

The people he was scolding at this time were none other than Commander Dong and Commander Xie.

These two men were none other than those promoted by Chen Yunsheng himself not long ago. They were usually very brave in battle, but they had reckless and violent personalities.

The two ran into trouble as soon as they encountered the surprise attack. Needless to say, they were definitely hit by the enemy's vicious trick.

As an old rival of the Naiman tribe, Chen Yunsheng also knew what the werewolf monster mentioned in the report was. It should be the secret heritage of the Naiman: the Blood Wolf Guard.

A sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he immediately shouted:
"Come here, tell the Black Armor Guards to follow me into battle."

At this time, a middle-aged scholar stood up with a worried look on his face and said:
"My lord, the war has just begun. You are the lord of a city. You must not act rashly. The enemy may have follow-up measures."

This person is also a strategist who has followed Chen Yunsheng for decades. His name is Sima Yun, but he is better at doing things like logistics scheduling.

It was only because the original strategist Xie Desheng died that he took over the position of military strategist.

Chen Yunsheng sighed and said:

"I also know this truth, but the Blood Wolf Guards are no small matter! Bashi Khan has also invested a lot in this attack. If we don't suppress this momentum as soon as possible, it will be difficult to control it!"

But at this moment, another piece of good news came:

"Report!!!! The Seventh Young Master showed up at the North Gate in time and led his men to repel the monsters. The situation has now stabilized."

Chen Yunsheng let out a long sigh and sat back on the armchair.

Sima Yun was of course relieved, and he felt his palms were full of cold sweat.

After receiving the on-site military report a while later, the two men realized that the battle was unexpectedly easy.

Sima Yun asked curiously:

"The Seventh Young Master led his men to rush up and threw a lit smoke bomb onto the city wall."

"After smelling the yellowish smoke, the Blood Wolf Guards went crazy and indiscriminately attacked everyone around them, including their own people."

"I don't know what the smoke bomb is made of, but it can have such a magical effect. If this thing can be popularized, the entire Naiman tribe will lose an arm."

Chen Yunsheng sighed and said:
"Since Old Seven became Master Ming's disciple, I don't know much about him. Besides, he has always been a loner and doesn't get along well with any of his brothers and sisters."

***
The raging fire illuminated the north gate of Sansheng City.

There had just been a bloody battle here, but the war was clearly over.

One after another, twisted, hunched, headless corpses were thrown down from the city wall, spewing blood. Most of the owners of these corpses were the Blood Wolf War Guards who had attacked earlier.
Their heads were cut off so that they could be used to claim military merits in the future. Such elite troops would certainly be able to obtain greater military merits, so the soldiers on the city wall were talking and laughing in low voices, and their morale was very high.

However, this also caused the Naiman warriors to be extremely angry. Many of them were extremely irritable, holding their knives and shouting, and their expressions were certainly not very civilized.

Of course, they were all far away from the city wall, because many guys had wanted to get close to the city wall to shoot arrows, and then they were killed accurately!

Bashi Khan, who was watching this scene from a distance, had no expression on his face, but he felt like vomiting blood. You know, those who can receive blood shamanism must be elite young men, and although men who have undergone witchcraft transformation can recover afterwards, their lifespan will be greatly reduced.

If you are a young person, you can still live for ten years, but if you are in your prime, you can only live for one to three years.

The only good news is that the children born to women who were impregnated by these people during this period will be born with wolf blood, but most of them will die young and have difficulty reaching adulthood.

But those who survive will become Bashi Khan's sharpest fangs: the last line of defense around him, Tianlangdu.

There were only about thirty warriors in this group, but even if there were thousands of troops, they could protect Bashi Khan and break out of the siege. There were even martial saint-level masters who came to assassinate Bashi Khan, but they also died under the siege of Tianlangdu.

Of course, it is not easy to replenish Tianlangdu, which is equivalent to the second life of Bashi Khan. Even if one person dies, it will be heartbreaking.

Seeing that the raids by the Naiman tribe and Khotan had completely failed, the state teacher of Cheming State said simply:

"I will act as agreed, but I will have to wait until midnight."

At this time, Gong Tianwu was also looking over here from the top of the city. To him, the enemies in front of him were just traitors and were not worth worrying about.

As for the smoke that drove the Blood Wolf Guards crazy before - haha, it was just a decoy.

What is the real reason?
It's just the medicinal powder prepared by Old Sang.

There is an idiom called "wolfs and wolves are in cahoots with each other". Of course, the wolf monster beside Gong Tianwu knows everything about the wolf monster.

For fifty sheep, the old monster Bei Li sold out all the secrets of the wolf clan.

And strictly speaking, the powder prepared by Mr. Sang is harmless. Yes! It is harmless!

For a real wolf demon, after smelling this powder, it would be as if it had taken stimulants, howling and its fighting power would be doubled.

However, for these humans who had only just become half-demons, the effect of this powder was too strong. It amplified their murderous intent, bloodthirstiness, and madness to the extreme, directly destroying their sanity.

***
When the sun shone down the next morning,
The piercing sound of blasting horns and the desolate sound of trumpets rang out on the battlefield.

The tripartite coalition forces retreated like a tide, leaving behind corpses and wounded soldiers, as well as a large number of destroyed siege equipment.

The battle that night was indeed extremely fierce, especially at midnight, when the national teacher actually sacrificed a large number of human beings, and then used evil magic to build a bridge of bones, which directly connected to the city wall from below.

This bridge of bones is so strong that even four cavalrymen can gallop side by side and charge all the way from the ground to the city wall!

Fortunately, the kerosene urgently dispatched by Marquis Zhenbei was of great use, and the two sides launched a very fierce offensive and defensive battle around this evil bridge of bones.

Gong Tianwu also sent out Yang Yun, who had been ready to fight, and asked him to lead a hundred soldiers to join the battle. In such a small-scale battle, Yang Yun, who was armed to the teeth, was like a big boss, and completely formed a dimensionality reduction attack.

At the same time, the coalition forces used the same old trick again and activated the death squads and experts who had been buried in Sansheng City at the most intense moment of the battle.

The intention is very simple, which is to capture the leader first and implement the decapitation tactic.

However, after experiencing many assassination attempts before, both the Governor's Mansion and the Marquis of Zhenbei Mansion were fully prepared. After all, it is painful to think about the pain.

Of course, another reason why the fighting was fierce was that Gong Tianwu did not let his men go all out, and his first goal was to preserve their strength.

Because he is a person with a strong desire for control, he must have sufficient strength in his own hands to avoid being unable to deal with anything uncontrollable.

As for how many people died in the Marquis' Mansion and how much power was lost, Gong Tianwu didn't even blink.

Of course, his behavior also aroused dissatisfaction among other people in the Marquis' Mansion. These people felt that the power in Gong Tianwu's hands was the power of the Marquis' Mansion, and they should use it up at this time.

Faced with these people's indirect attacks and sarcastic remarks, Gong Tianwu chose to ignore them at first, which instead encouraged the group's arrogance.

However, when they became more and more noisy, Gong Tianwu gave direct orders to drag out the one who made the most noise and kill him first, and then killed two stewards, several servants and a maid!
Anyone who dared to come out to obstruct was hacked with knives and shot with arrows without any scruples. Even Chen Feidi was hit in the thigh by an arrow.

You have to know that the identity of the nanny who was killed was different. She was the personal maid that Lady Wang brought as her dowry, and she was Chen Feidi's wet nurse when he was a child.

The five bloody heads were piled up in the courtyard, and even Madam Wang felt horrified instantly. This immediately made the people in the mansion realize what power and tyranny are! !

After calming down, Mrs. Wang immediately understood one thing: the power of the Seventh Brother in front of her had expanded to the point where he could act recklessly, and even the Marquis was helpless.

In such a situation, could Chen Yunsheng order his men to attack his son? Could he afford the consequences of this civil strife?

Chen Yunsheng's biggest obsession is that he has no successor. He is afraid that the title that his ancestors fought for with their lives will be downgraded in his hands. Now that he has a son who can be his arm, he can't even protect him, so how could he suppress him?

After figuring out this matter, Mrs. Wang suddenly looked twenty years older, and all those thoughts of doing evil were gone.

Sure enough, when Chen Yunsheng arrived and witnessed all this, he called Gong Tianwu over and scolded him harshly in front of everyone, and also slapped him twice and kicked him.

then
Of course, there was no more.

It would be enough if you just give him a way out. Are you going to kill your own son just for a few servants?

Of course a father doesn’t need a reason to beat his son, but an old man also doesn’t need a reason to protect his child.

***
The first day of the siege of Sansheng City was the most intense.
But after that, the intensity of the three-party coalition's attack was obviously reduced a lot.
This is because they began to discover a cruel fact:

Can’t shoot!!

I can't even shoot.

The mass-produced Wild Wolf crossbow performed better than expected in the city defense battle.

The defenders already had the advantage of shooting down the enemy from the city walls, not to mention the absolute advantage in power and range?
Therefore, the coalition forces had to endure huge casualties before attacking the city.

According to their internal statistics, the casualty ratio even reached an astonishing 1:8.

The attackers had to sacrifice eight elite warriors to incur the casualty of one crossbowman on the city wall.

What is even more frustrating is that more than 8% of the crossbowmen on the city walls are ordinary soldiers and able-bodied men, while the elite Black Armor Guards of the Marquis' Mansion are watching the show from the rear.

Such a hopeless battle caused the morale and fighting spirit of the three-party coalition forces to decline rapidly.

(End of this chapter)