In the city of Gaimu, black ashes were flying in the air like snow.

When Gai Suwen rushed outside the granary, the corners of her mouth began to twitch.

There are fire points in the upper, middle and lower parts of each granary.

Burn thoroughly.

The water-stuffed copper jars around the granary have been chiseled through, and the remaining little water inside is not as good as a urination.

Just looking at the recent rescue situation of the granary, there was less than 10% of the useful food that could be rescued from it.

Judging from the signs of arson, this is not something that a few people can accomplish in a sneaky and hasty manner.

Has a group of practitioners already sneaked into Gaimu City?

A very dark-faced Goryeo general rudely pushed away several sergeants who were in trouble and appeared behind Gasuwen. He quickly reported, "There is no problem with those wells."

Hearing that there was no problem with the water source in the city, Gai Suwen breathed a little relieved, "Switch to your personal soldiers, and all the water is in and out by your people, with five hundred steps as the boundary."

The extremely dark-faced Goryeo general responded and quickly turned around and left.

His mood was obviously extremely bad, and two sergeants who were unable to avoid were knocked to the ground by him.

"All food in the homes of non-combatants is handed over and distributed uniformly."

"All personnel in the city are not allowed to go out unless they are dispatched by the military. Those who violate the order shall be killed."

Gai Suwen turned around and headed towards the Gai Mu City Watchtower, and issued two military orders at the same time.

When he stood on the observation deck, he looked down at the fields under Gaimu City, looked at the military camp of Duke Pei Guo's army, and looked at the soldiers who were busy like ants around the wooden cart, a young and energetic general behind him couldn't help but say coldly, "General, the Tang people are too cunning. When the two armies are fighting, why should we keep our promise? Please let me lead thousands of troops..."

"If this is the case, I will be trapped by Duke Pei and Gu Shiwu."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Gassuvin.

Gai Suwen took a deep breath, his eyes flashed with hatred, "Duke Pei would not think it would be a good idea to transport two Jingguans back. Generals like him would not care about the heads of the Sui Dynasty in the past. What he cared about was his military power, how many cities could be seized from us. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had always wanted to use troops to us, but could not find a suitable reason. If he could find the reason to use troops to us, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and he would have benefited.

The efforts to weaken the Pei family's military power will be gone. For such interests, the emperor and the Duke of Pei will definitely feel that it is worth losing thousands of soldiers. I am very happy to play this game with him, because only he really dares to attack the city, we will not find an excuse to use troops by them. If there are large troops now besieging the city, our food and grass will be burned, which will naturally be extremely unfavorable to us, but only ten days, this impact will be minimal for us..."

No one interrupted him, but when he spoke, his voice suddenly came to an abrupt end.

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The generals following him suddenly widened their eyes in disbelief.

A group of cavalrymen were quickly passing out of the south gate at this time. With the faint sound of disputes and loud shouts coming from the vague sounds, the majestic war horses spread their hooves and ran towards the passage of the Hunhe River Valley.

The extremely dark general appeared again in everyone's shocked sight. When he was still dozens of steps away from the observation deck, he screamed in anger: "Wen Hexuan directly led the cavalry to abandon the city. He spread rumors in the city, saying that General, you have done unnecessary things for your own personal grudge and provoked the Tang army to attack the city. He said that your gambling battle was like a joke, playing with the lives of soldiers, and it was against the king's orders. He said that you are no longer qualified to be the commander of Gaimu City. He wants to meet the king and tell your faults bluntly!"

Have you been in a rebellion before the fight started?

Gai Suwen and the generals behind him suddenly turned pale.

Especially the young generals behind him, looking at the cavalry running outside the city, fire almost spit out of his eyes.

"With such a rapid conflict, the cavalry escaped from the city, how could he react so quickly with his ability! Wen Hexuan must have colluded with Pei long ago. Maybe they set fire to the granary!" A general named Fu Yutao shouted sternly.

Gassuvin remained silent.

However, Wen Hexuan only commanded three thousand cavalry troops, which did not have a great impact on defending the city.

The most important thing now is to calm the morale of the army in the city and no such incidents will occur.

He slowly raised his head and was about to make an order. At this moment, the horse's hooves sounded like thunder, but the quarantine officer Jie Shihuan rushed to the observation deck with a ferocious face, "General! Wen Hexuan and his group of people tied up the people in the arcade and took all the arrows of the Kuzang away."

"What!"

This time, not only the generals behind Gasuwen roared, but even Gasuwen changed his face.

"Wen Hexuan, this dog!" The general with a very dark face was called Heichixu. Heichi was also a big family in the Liaodong area. At this time, he looked at the cavalry and even had the urge to send a message out to make people intercept Wen Hexuan along the way.

But Wen Hexuan is nothing, but the Wen family is not easy to mess with.

Gasuwen's mouth twitched.

There are five hundred arrow troops in the city. Each arrow troops only have ten arrows on weekdays, and they are not armor-piercing arrows.

This means that if the Tang army attacked the city head-on, the arrow troops in the city would probably not be able to do a long-range killing role at all, and could only watch the Tang army rush to the city.

Heichixu came to his senses immediately.

"I'll go see the ordnance on the city wall!"

He used his true energy and turned around and began to sprint wildly.

If there is any problem with the weapons such as Maimu and the City Guard Crossbow, that would be really fucked.

Seeing the tiger general under his command so angry, Gai Suwen couldn't help but speak, "Everyone is calm. Even if there are many problems now, the number of soldiers and horses that the other party can use to attack the city is probably at most three thousand soldiers. Don't make it seem like we are three thousand and the other party has 30,000."

Hei Chi Xu took a deep breath.

This is a good statement.

Even though Wen Hexuan took away three thousand cavalry troops, when it was really at its limit, everyone in the city mobilized, and the available personnel in the city were still above 30,000.

But for some reason, Gai Suwen's words did not make him feel at ease, but instead made him feel that the opponent this time was completely different from the previous opponents.

The granary was burned, the cavalry rebelled, and there were no arrows in the city.

When dusk began to cover this fortress that seemed to be embedded in the mountain, and when looking at the clear soup-like millet soup distributed to the bowl, all the Goryeo soldiers on the city wall looked at the bonfires that lit up in front of the wooden carts, their eyes were completely different from those in the early morning.

A news has been circulated.

The famous Tang Dao Gu Fifteen was at the chariot camp behind the Duke Pei army.

The Battle of Heshawa is a miracle in the history of war, and the generals of Goryeo have also repeatedly studied it.

For ordinary soldiers and low-level generals, the world of those high-level practitioners is far away from them, but they can see the tricks of siege and defending the city.

The conclusions drawn by many Goryeo generals were the same as those drawn by some Tang army generals. Gu Shiwu, the founder of the Heishawa miracle, was able to make a drastic change in Tubo through this battle, and make Zan Zhuo marry the Tang Dynasty, and become an ally of the Tang Dynasty. The most fundamental reason why he achieved the ultimate goal of judging the enemy's commander's mind.

Such a war is difficult to reproduce.

But who can guarantee that it cannot be reproduced?

Duke Pei made a famous general like Gai Suwen agree to such a bet in a few words. Who said that there is no speculation about the Taoist leader of the Tang Dynasty?

Gai Suwen firmly believed that under such a huge gap in military strength, if the army of Duke Pei Guozhe wanted to break through the city of Gaimu, it would only have two possibilities. One possibility was that many powerful practitioners could sneak into Gaimu and appear in front of him.

Another possibility is that the strongest fortress is often breached from the inside, and the Datang Daozhang is also arranged in the city with more internal forces.

In order to deal with these two possibilities, before the twilight began to distribute millet soup, he had completed a series of appointments, not only replaced all important positions in the city with the people he trusted the most, but also restricted all other factions or generals in the general who might express their objections to some mansions in the city.

He formulated a series of measures to ensure that after high-level generals, including himself, were assassinated, the defenders in the city could still operate in an orderly manner and even suppress those generals who might have objections.

He climbed to the lookout again.

He saw the Tang army still carefully counting and sorting out the skulls on the giant wooden carts, showing no sign of siege.

However, the lookout under him seemed to have been cast by the enemy. It seemed that whenever he climbed the lookout, some strange information would always come from the city.

Hei Chixu soon appeared behind him again, then lowered his voice to tell him that there was also a problem with the water source in the city.

...

The biggest reason why Gaimu City was able to stand firm in front of the great army of the Sui Dynasty was not that it was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it was built on the mountain.

Compared with the rest of the fortresses in Goryeo, its most unique feature is that it will never lack water.

The mountain it is against is full of spring veins. Whether it is during the dry or abundant seasons of the river below, the spring water flowing in these spring veins is not affected at all, and can provide an extremely stable large amount of water purification throughout the year.

These large wells deep into the mountains connect to the spring, and the well water drawn out can even be used as a weapon to defend the city in winter.

The warm spring water began to become cold after being led to the city head with bamboo tubes. It poured down along the city body and formed thick ice on the mountain where the enemy attacked the city. The ice edges that kept frozen on the city wall were more effective than squash after being cut off by man.

At this time, midsummer, all the bamboo tubes had been removed, and several wells with a height of 500 steps had been marked as restricted areas, and some miscellaneous woods that blocked their sight had been completely removed.

There is no possibility that someone will sneak in and do things.

However, there was no need to walk down the well along the stone steps, and there was no need to approach the water surface. Gai Suwen and the several generals who were also cultivators who accompanied him had already clearly smelled the corpse-rotten smell that faintly came out of the water.

This is indeed the smell of corpse smell.

Hei Chi Xu looked at Gai Suwen, whose face began to turn pale, and he whispered, for fear that the news would be spread, "I have already asked several people to tie ropes in and see it, and even Jie Zhaoyun has gone down. At the limit he can reach, there is no decayed body hiding, and it must be deeper in the mountain."

Looking at the silent Gai Suwen and his colleagues around him, he added in a cold voice, "The veins of those veins are bent and twisted. If someone puts the corpse down from above, they must be stuck somewhere, and Jie Zhaoyun will definitely be able to see it."

Everyone understands what he means.

If the practitioners who are best at diving and seeing things in the water are sure that the corpse was not put down from the well, then there is only one possibility. They will follow the spring veins elsewhere and put the corpse in.

But no practitioner in the world can pass through the complex springs and send some corpses to places that are enough to pollute these wells.

"How is this possible!"

A general's mentality exploded, "Gu Shiwu is the leader of the Tao, but not a god."

"There is a possibility." Gassuwen took a deep breath, "There are enough people entering the spring vein."

"Unless they are all powerful practitioners, if they want to achieve such an effect, if they hold their breath and enter the depths of the spring veins, even if these people can transport enough corpses in, they will never be able to escape." Hei Chixu shook his head, and looked at the deep well water in front of him, and said, "I don't think they will sacrifice so many practitioners to pollute the water source."

Gassuwen shook his head slowly, "Unless the practitioners entering are dead, and unless someone provides them with some exploration maps of the fountains in advance."

Hei Chi Xu and all the generals present were breathing in a daze. They thought of what was mentioned in the military situation and began to react.
To be continued...