Gu Nanxi’s clear shout was like a dragon’s roar.

A hundred crossbowmen behind the parapet lifted up the straw mats, and the sound of the crossbow triggers shook the crows off the eaves.

The first wave of arrows was dense and overwhelming.

Song Shoujie was fearless and rushed towards the corner tower with sword in hand, but saw Gu Nanxi lightly knocking on the arrow nest.

Twenty crossbows were suddenly pushed out from the soldier hiding cave.

Song Shoujie was horrified.

This is a bed crossbow!

Look at this crossbow, its bow arm is as long as two and a half people. It should be the most powerful equipment of the Great Zhou army, the three-bow crossbow!

How could Gu Nanxi have this? !

Gu Nanxi said loudly: "I think General Song is familiar with the crossbow. My crossbow has been modified. The iron feather arrow is 1.2 meters long and the arrowhead has blood groove barbs. In addition, it can also be tied with explosive packs. The range is 1,500 steps and can shoot through the triple iron gate!"

Four soldiers shook the capstan, and the iron hook bit the bowstring, making a crisp sound.

In just a hundred breaths, the crossbow was strung.

Song Shoujie felt a chill in his heart. He originally thought that Gu Nanxi was bluffing and exaggerating.

However, it takes half an incense stick to string up the three-bow crossbow of the Great Zhou, but Gu Nanxi's crossbow only takes a hundred breaths!

Could it be that what Gu Nanxi said was true?

The triple-bow crossbow can fire seven giant arrows at the same time, and each giant arrow is longer than a person!

Gu Nanxi gave Song Shoujie one last chance to regret: "Life is precious. During a siege, my crossbow pierced through five heavily armored soldiers and the remaining force was still there. The soldiers called it "piercing corpses like candied haws." The same is true for heavily armored soldiers, not to mention that you are only wearing leather armor?"

The soldiers behind Song Shoujie were somewhat shaken.

The heavy armored soldiers can be said to be the most elite among the armies of the Great Zhou and the Tatars.

Even though the Great Zhou was so wealthy, if they wanted to gather all the strength of the Great Zhou to support heavy armored soldiers, they could only support 20,000 at most.

If you want to raise heavy cavalry, 10,000 is the maximum.

In front of the crossbow, the heavily armored soldiers are nothing but paper, let alone myself?

If seven giant arrows were fired at the same time, each arrow could hit ten people. Only four crossbows would be enough to kill all of his people!

However, Gu Nanxi has twenty such crossbows!

In other words, only one round is needed to decide life or death!

"General Song, these are crossbows! There are twenty of them!"

"Let alone escaping from the city, even surviving such an attack is nothing but a pipe dream!"

"Sir, as long as you have the green mountains, you will never be short of firewood. If you die in Hezhong Prefecture, it will be a huge blow to our brothers in Jinghu North Road!"

"Sir, it is easy to be brave and die for the cause, but it is difficult to live with humiliation! For the sake of our brothers and the Great Zhou, please live strong!"

No matter how nice the words were, the essence of the matter was that the soldiers were frightened by the crossbows and retreated.

Song Shoujie sighed, "It's the timing, it's the fate! The timing is not on my side! If I had come a step earlier, the situation wouldn't be like this! Guangde Prefecture has misled me! This villain has misled me!"

Song Shoujie threw his weapon to the ground, his face full of humiliation: "Duke Yun, this battle is not because I am weak, but because there are many people holding me back! If we fight on the water, it is not certain who will win or lose!"

Gu Nanxi winked at Li Mingde, and Li Mingde hurriedly led his men down the city wall, confiscated weapons, and accepted the surrendered soldiers.

Song Shoujie had surrendered, so Gu Nanxi was naturally willing to be more generous and say something nice: "General Song is right! Regarding naval warfare, I still have a lot of experience to ask General Song for advice. Come on, invite General Song to the mansion for a banquet, so that we can have a good exchange."

After all, Song Shoujie was the commander of 50,000 naval forces. Even if he was captured, he still had to be treated with due respect.

We are not like the Tartars, who are enemies for generations, with national hatred and family feuds, and who can't wait to kill each other when they meet.

There is no hatred or grudge between the two sides. It is purely a difference in political ideas and a struggle for power.

Gu Nanxi did not take any drastic measures.

The moon was bright in the sky and the lights were on in the governor's mansion of Hezhong Prefecture.

A banquet was set up in the courtyard, and on top were dishes of freshly made dishes by the kitchen, such as sugar-wrapped gao, Taicang green bamboo shoots, fried yellow sparrow, steamed eggs with dried shrimps, and so on.

Song Shoujie sat at the bottom with a stern face.

He was one of the protagonists of the banquet, but he really couldn't be happy.

It was said that Gu Nanxi deliberately neglected him, and the dishes for the banquet were carefully prepared.

To say that Gu Nanxi values ​​him, the whole party makes people feel uncomfortable.

In the Da Zhou Dynasty, banquets were divided into formal and informal.

It is informal, with dishes served in a continuous stream, old plates not being removed, and plates and bowls piled up on the table.

A formal banquet is to eat new dishes, remove old dishes, pair wine and food, and use wine from rich to full.

Drinking a glass of wine in exchange for a dish is a formal banquet of lower standards.

Drinking a glass of wine in exchange for two dishes represents a banquet of a higher standard.

But Gu Nanxi, the host of this banquet, doesn't drink!

If she doesn't drink, no one will toast her. How can she change the dishes if no one toasts her?

Song Shoujie knew that he was only asking for trouble by insisting on these etiquettes. After all, he was a prisoner, and no one would dare to say anything, let alone neglect him or even throwing him into jail.

But I was captured before the war even started, which is really unwilling!

Song Shoujie lowered his eyebrows and asked softly, "Since we learned that the governor of Hezhong County had left Hezhong Prefecture, we did not dare to delay and immediately took a boat to the north. May I ask when did Duke Yun arrive in Hezhong Prefecture?"

Gu Nanxi peeled an orange and said, "Three or four days earlier than you."

Song Shoujie's face was full of regret. "I didn't even notice after I sent two waves of spies. You used the empty city tactic. It only took you three or four days to organize Hezhong Prefecture like an arm. I have to admire you."

Gu Nanxi swallowed the orange flesh in his mouth and said frankly: "It's not that serious. Your first spy was turned against us. As for the second one, the reason why he didn't see the real situation was because the people queuing at the city gate were our people."

"Xiao! Da! Shan!" Song Shoujie gritted his teeth. He knew that this bastard was unreliable.

He is very clever, but too clever!

Song Shoujie comforted himself that even if Xiao Dashan was not there, three hundred people would be no match for the twenty crossbows, and the final result would not change.

Song Shoujie was somewhat discouraged: "Duke Yun brought so many people to Hezhong Prefecture, but not a single word leaked out. He is really strict in managing the army!"

Gu Nanxi was embarrassed by the compliments: "There aren't that many people, only a few hundred."

Song Shoujie's eyes widened like Niu Ling's: "How is this possible? How can hundreds of people move twenty crossbows?!"

Gu Nanxi's eyes flickered. Li Mingde saw Gu Nanxi's embarrassment and stood up to explain.

"Not that many. The entrance to the hiding cave is so small. You can see the crossbows through the entrance, but they are actually just accessories."

Song Shoujie was numb and stammered, "One of them is already strung up!"

Li Mingde laughed and said, "It's just an empty shell. The governor of Hezhong County is so stingy, how could he spend money to repair and maintain the bed crossbow?"

Song Shoujie's eyes went dark. Although deception is acceptable in war, wasn't Gu Nanxi too wicked? !

Not only are there not that many soldiers, but even the crossbows are just for show!

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