Ye Heng looked at Gao Lang, moved by his words, and said: "The soldiers and civilians in Pingcheng are indeed admirable, they are the most ordinary people, but they are doing the most extraordinary things, it is really a great blessing in life to be able to get in touch with this city!"

"Thank you for the approval of the city lord! Those who remain in Pingcheng now are all bloody people, no matter men, women, or children, none of them will be afraid of death! Those who are afraid of death and fear have long left Pingcheng, and there are also some women, children and children who have been forcibly sent away by us, and these people who refuse to leave have long put life and death aside. Therefore, we have nothing to fear, if anyone is alive, Pingcheng will definitely be defended, if Pingcheng is breached, this must be an empty city!" Gao Lang said heroically and proudly.

"Don't worry, we will definitely be able to defend Pingcheng!" Ye Heng said categorically.

"Hahahaha, the city lord is right, we will definitely be able to defend Pingcheng!" Gao Lang laughed.

"Let's eat something for the two adults, this is just made in the room, you eat it while it's hot!" At this time, a fair-looking girl with a fair face ran up to the city with a piece of blue food to deliver lunch to the soldiers in the city.

"Thank you, girl, city lord, what do you want to eat, she has a lot of variety in this basket!" Gao Lang asked.

Ye Heng walked over and took two cakes casually, and saw that the girl was the girl he had seen in the room in the morning, and said to her with a smile: "Thank you, be careful on the road, pay attention to safety." ”

The girl looked at Ye Heng and smiled, and when she saw Ye Heng and Gao Lang taking the food, the girl nodded to the two and immediately walked towards the others.

"Be careful!"

Ye Heng suddenly roared, and shot the big bow in his hand towards the girl, only to hear the two sounds of "ding, dangchang", and a sharp arrow was hit by Ye Heng on the ground. The arrow almost hit the girl's head, and when she reacted, her face turned pale with fright, and she immediately squatted on the ground, holding the basket with both hands and trembling.

Ye Heng walked over and squatted beside her, looked up and down, and said softly: "Are you okay?" It's too dangerous here, you go down and send it, and leave it to me here." ”

The girl raised her head and looked at Ye Heng, with tears in her clear eyes, she barely showed a smile, and said, "I'm fine, I'm just a little afraid." Thank you for saving your life, eat quickly, I'll bring food to the others. After speaking, he was about to get up, but was stopped by Ye Heng.

"You wait here for a while, and I'll bring the food to everyone for you. Ye Heng took the basket from the girl's hand and said softly to her.

After the girl let go of the basket, she saw Ye Heng sending it to the soldiers, and looked at his back sitting on the ground, biting her lip and clenching her fists. Encountering the situation just now, for an ordinary girl who was on the verge of life and death for the first time, how could she not be afraid? Maybe her brain was blank at that time, but when she thought about it afterwards, she must have palpitations.

"Girl, don't go up to the city wall in the future, it's too dangerous here. Gao Lang ate the food sent by the girl and reminded her kindly.

"I'll pay attention!" the girl said stubbornly, stood up from the ground, patted the soil on her body, and watched Ye Heng walk towards her with an empty basket.

"You go back, and we'll go down and get it ourselves." Ye Heng said to the girl.

"Thank you, city lord, you should be careful when fighting in the city. The girl whispered, took Lanzi and hurried down the city wall.

"City Lord, this is the people of our Pingcheng, in order to let us have a mouthful of hot food, risk our lives to send it to us, even if it is for them, we must defend the city!" Gao Lang looked at the girl's back and said with emotion.

"You're right!" Ye Heng nodded in agreement.

The girl's affair was just a small episode in the whole battle, and the soldiers of Heijo gulped down the food between the battles, picked up arms and continued to fight the rebels. The battle continued until the sun went down, and Han Kaiyuan still did not order the withdrawal of troops.

This was a battle of great consumption, and the tenacity of the defenders of Pingcheng was completely beyond Han Kaiyuan's expectations, and at the end of this day, the losses of the rebels besieging the city on all sides exceeded 10,000!

"The army from all sides continues to attack, and the generals of all armies are ordered to come to the camp of the Chinese army to discuss matters!" Han Kaiyuan looked at Pingcheng, which was still unconquerable, and ordered angrily and loudly, then turned around and went back to the camp tent to wait.

The generals from the other three directions soon came to the tent, and as soon as they entered, they all stood respectfully in the tent, and they did not dare to take a breath. Everyone knows that Han Dashuai must be in a very bad mood now, and if anyone accidentally says the wrong thing, he will definitely take the opportunity to vent his anger, and it is light to scold a few words, if he can't control the fire and deal with it by military law, it will be too wronged!3800

"It's about to get dark, but we still haven't attacked Pingcheng, I know, it's not that everyone doesn't do their best, but the enemy is too stubborn to defend, and this is not to blame. Now everyone is discussing whether there is a good way to conquer Pingcheng. Han Kaiyuan held back his anger and adjusted his mood for a while, and after the other generals came, he said as calmly as possible.

"Dashuai, if we don't besiege and not attack, we have already diverted the river outside, there is not enough water source, and it won't be long before Pingcheng will be self-defeating. One of the generals suggested.

Han Kaiyuan immediately shook his hand and said, "No, we don't have that much time! Shangfeng gave me only three days, and I already said in the morning that I would use one day to attack Pingcheng." This method doesn't work, change it again!"

All the generals looked at each other, today's battle is really not that they don't do their best, everyone knows that if anyone who is lucky enough to work today and can't make a effort, they will really be beheaded! So every general has pulled out the trump card in his hand, it is really the defenders of Pingcheng who are too tightly guarded, and they still can't attack it after a day's time, and every army participating in the siege has suffered great losses.

"Marshal Han, since the normal means of attack are not working, can we change the means?" said one of the generals.

"Oh, General Chen, since you have an idea, whether it is feasible or not, put it aside first, and speak out first. Han Kaiyuan said immediately.

The general surnamed Chen cleared his throat and said: "Marshal, the reason why my 80,000 army can't capture Pingcheng is because they condescendingly occupy a favorable geographical position, if we can remove the terrain that is favorable to them, with the strength of our army, we will definitely be able to set foot on Pingcheng, don't you say?"

"Yes, but how can we remove the terrain that is favorable to them in a short period of time?" Han Kaiyuan immediately asked.

"Normally, it would be enough to bring in sand, gravel and timber and pile them up to turn the high walls into slopes for the army to pass through, but where are we going to find so many materials for a while? We might as well change the materials!" said the general Chen, selling Guan Zi.

"What kind of material do you say happily! What's the matter with such a hung appetite!" said a general who was dissatisfied with the fact that the general looked like a man with a straight temper and could not listen to what others were saying.

Han Kaiyuan immediately stopped the quick-tempered general, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then suddenly stood up and said, "Okay, just do it!"

The impatient general didn't understand what was going on, so he only heard Han Kaiyuan order: "Generals, I will give you half an hour to rest and eat when I go back." In addition, he immediately sent people to bring back all the corpses under the city and transport them to the west of the city, and also sent some soldiers to extend from their own direction to look for trees, and when they found them, they were all sent back to the west of the city, regardless of their size. Go now, you have to act fast!"

Soon after the generals returned, they heard the order to withdraw their troops, and the rebels who were attacking Pingcheng were relieved and retreated to their respective camps as if the tide had receded. Although the various armies took turns during the siege, the physical exhaustion was bearable after a day of attacking, but the mental exhaustion was nowhere to be relieved.

Watching the comrades-in-arms who get along with each other like brothers fall one by one, the living people can do nothing but continue to frantically slash and inflict the same pain on each other! They don't even know whether they can survive or not, and the long-term fighting has numbed their nerves, and they have become killing machines that don't think about anything. At this point, they finally withdrew, and everyone's faces were stiff and expressionless.

The retreating rebels lay down and lay down, with no desire to eat at all. When their generals appeared, they asked who would like to pull the corpses under the city, and many people stood up silently and pushed wooden carts towards the city.

Seeing the rebels besieging the city, the soldiers and civilians of Pingcheng breathed a sigh of relief. From morning to night, they kept blocking the enemy, making them tired, and many of them were directly paralyzed on the ground from exhaustion. Compared with the rebels, the biggest luck of Pingcheng is that the casualties are not too large, after all, they have a way back to retreat, and they can go down to heal after being injured.

"Everyone come to help, take advantage of the rebels' ruts, and hurry up to repair the city wall!" Li Quan shouted from below. After the start of the war, Gao Lang was responsible for commanding the overall situation, and Li Quan sat at the east city gate, constantly dispatching the infantry in his hands to the other three directions, and was also responsible for the deployment of the reserve army in the city, which was very busy. At this time, seeing the rebels retreating, he immediately ran down the city wall and organized people to repair the place damaged by the siege vehicle. Hearing Li Quan's words, the soldiers and civilians in the city immediately took action, because everyone knew that everyone was not only building the city wall, but also escorting their own lives.

"General Gao, what's going on?" Ye Heng kept watching the rebels walk away, but he didn't relax, he still monitored the other party's every move, and soon he noticed the rebels' movements.

Gao Lang was resting in the corner of the wall, and when he heard the sound, he got up and looked in the direction that Ye Heng was pointing. I saw a lot of soldiers pushing wooden carts out of the enemy camp, they did not bring weapons, but walked over slowly.

"City Lord, it's okay!" Gao Lang said in a deep voice, and then immediately ordered, "Order everyone not to move, the rebels are here to take their comrades home!"

After receiving Gao Lang's order, the archers who had originally mounted their bows and arrows immediately put down their weapons and looked at the city with complicated expressions.

As a soldier, no one knows which battle they will die in, and no one knows where they will die. If you die in battle, what will happen to your corpse? The answer is that in everyone's heart, the ideal outcome is to be sent back to their hometown by their comrades-in-arms, and the leaves fall back to their roots; or they will be buried in the ground and buried in a place where they will not be disturbed by others; no one wants their corpses to be in the wilderness and have no place to be buried!

Even if it was the two hostile sides, seeing the other party's soldiers risking their lives to collect the bodies of their comrades, the soldiers of Pingcheng were in awe of them, and the bows and crossbows that they had originally raised were put down, and they watched them come to the city, put a cold corpse on the vehicle, and slowly pushed it away.

The cold wind was whining, the sunset was shining, and the shadow of the soldier pulling the wooden cart was stretched for a long time. Watching them gather and walk back to the camp in the west of the city, Ye Heng had mixed feelings in his heart. Before, he was happy to take revenge, and he never thought about what happened after his death, but now he suddenly asked himself in his heart: "What will happen if I die in battle?"