Chapter Seven: The Drum Horn Moves Xin'an

After Qin Jin took charge of Xin'an, he sent out more than a dozen sentinels within ten miles east of Xin'an Guancheng, and every two people were in a group, once the enemy situation was discovered, they would ignite wolf dung, and after the wolf smoke rose, they could see it clearly even if they were ten miles away.

Seeing the wolf smoke rising suddenly, knowing that there must be rebels coming, and the enemy situation was unknown, Qin Jin finally gritted his teeth and ordered: "Withdraw to the county seat!"

Before leaving, Qi Bihe spat at Feldspar Township fiercely.

"I don't know what to do, sooner or later, there will be a time when you will regret it!"

Qin Jin still fantasized at this time that the enemy army that came to attack was just a small group of men and horses in the vanguard, after all, according to the normal marching speed, it took two days to go from Luoyang to Xin'an, and the cavalry was one day, even if An Lushan, who had stolen Luoyang, sent a large army, it was impossible to arrive in Xin'an so quickly.

Therefore, he also planned to organize people to move the people east of Guancheng to the west of Guancheng once again once the enemy situation was not critical. However, Qin Jin soon found that this idea had failed, standing on the not high city wall of Xin'an, judging from the black military flags waving all over the sky, the size of the rebel army was at least above several thousand.

The time to come is always coming, Qin Jin stabilized his mind.

"Where is Chen Si?"

Chen Si is Chen Qianli's ranking, and people who are more closely related in the Tang Dynasty will be called by their surnames, and Qin Jin naturally follows the customs of the villagers, neither calling him by his name, nor calling him Xiao Chen, or Qianli, as in his previous life.

"Let's go down here!"

Chen Qianli promised!

"Go and carry the dozen or so cauldrons that were prepared yesterday to the city, put firewood on the stove to boil water, and boil the water!"

On the other hand, Qi Bihe commanded the more than 1,000 people raised in the city to carry the fire oil and rolling wood and stones up the city wall, seeing that the big war was about to break out, after the bloody battle in the school field and the last attack by the soldiers, Qin Jin was no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning, his brain was running rapidly, calculating everything that might happen.

"Shaofujun, that group is back again!"

A lieutenant suddenly came out of the crowd. Qin Jin didn't react for a while, "Who? Who is coming back?" Then he immediately reacted, who else could there be in the group of people in the mouth of the official, of course, Feng Changqing.

"Where are they, bring them over quickly!" Then Qin Jin said again: "No, lead the way, I'll go see them!"

Seeing Qin Jin's attitude, the official coughed dryly: "Shaofujun previously ordered that no one should be allowed to enter the city without a county court official document, and they, they are now blocked by the subordinates outside the west gate......"

This assistant official is the unlucky guy Feng Changqing tied up when they left, Qin Jin glanced at him, and said in his heart that this guy is not small, and the communiqué is not counted, and even the imperial doctor and the dignified envoy dare to be embarrassed.

In fact, Qin Jin underestimated the backbone of the Tang people, unlike the officialdom after the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was full of servile faces, even if the ministers under the Zhongshu Sect, there were also people who dared to question and criticize in white. In fact, there is nothing wrong with taking this official's actions seriously, and the county court did issue an order that no one should enter the city without an official document issued by the county court. Therefore, even if he knows the identity of the other party, there is nothing wrong with blocking it.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of killing, but when I saw that a group of foot soldiers suddenly rushed out of the Kusaka woodland northeast of Guancheng, they rushed to a place where they could stop. At this time, there are already sharp-eyed eyebrows.

"It's the rebels of Changshi Township!"

Qin Jin's temples jumped suddenly, and when he looked carefully at the city, he saw a tall strong man taking the lead and shouting, but it was not real because of the distance. Obviously, some of these people had served in the Tang army, knew the range of the heavy crossbows in the army, and faced a group of "rebels" who knew the battle formation and were also Tang people. Qin Jin secretly shouted that it was not good, the appearance of these people might seriously hit the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

At present, the soldiers in the city are divided into two parts, one is the unity army trained as an "elite", and after selection and expansion, the scale has reached 600 people. The second is Ding Zhuang, who only does simple training, and all men who have reached the age of eighteen in the county are all sent to defend the city. Originally, according to the register, a maximum of 8,000 people could be levied, but due to the rush of the period, there were less than 3,000 Ding Zhuang available in the city at present.

The morale of the united soldiers is okay, but those Ding Zhuang have no fighting spirit, but Qin Jin doesn't even have the bottom.

When they learned that it was the rebellious people of Changshi Township who had just let go of the first to kill outside the city, the united soldiers who had gone out of the city with Qin and Jin were all indignant, and the soldiers who were born in Changshi Township in the army also beat drums in their hearts.

Qin Jin roughly estimated that there were about six or seven hundred "chaotic people" in Changshi Township, which looked scary, and had no substantial impact on the city's defense except for hitting the morale of the defenders in the city. Just as he was thinking about it, his brows suddenly twisted, and the chaotic people outside the city seemed to have no fear, and directly entered within four hundred steps of the southwest city wall.

And this range is the range of the Tang army's crossbow, which shows how arrogant the rebels are. Qin Jin's hand clenched into a fist in the sleeve of his robe, and then suddenly stretched out, and every time he silently recited a number in his heart, he pressed a finger.

It wasn't until all five fingers were put down that Qin Jin suddenly broke off and shouted: "Kick the crossbowman and prepare!"

After the order was given, there was a sudden silence on the city wall, and there was clearly resistance in people's eyes, but no one opened their mouths to stop them. The reason is very simple, Shaofujun has given them enough opportunities before, but these people are stubborn and dare to take the initiative to attack Xin'an County, even if some people are related to the people in Changshi Township, there is no reason to intercede for them.

Seeing the rain of arrows shooting at the Fan family one after another, including the second son with developed limbs and a simple mind, the old husband Fan Changming was heartbroken and stomped his feet again and again.

"This unsuccessful thing, five hundred disciples of the Fan family, was defeated by him like this!"

Du Mo looked coldly at this old Han man who was beating his hands, and his heart was full of contempt, just because he still wanted to use this person, so he spared his life. Every warrior in the Tongluo tribe is extremely expensive, and it is just right to use these defected Han people as ants to attack the city.

"The old thing should cry a few times, and quickly use your identity as a husband to send all the villagers to the front!"

Du Mo is from Tiele and Luobu, and his Chinese language is not good, and a few blunt words made Fan Changming hold back all his tears, because he smelled a hint of danger from this Hu man's words. But he was powerless to resist any orders from this Hu man.

Before surrendering to the enemy, in order to make it look like he had a lot of chips, Fan Changming summoned all Ding Zhuang from Changshi Township who were over 18 years old and under 60 years old, and gathered together about nearly 3,000 people.

As the largest township in Xin'an County, Fan Changming, as a township husband, uses this as his capital to have the qualifications to dialogue with the county magistrate. In the same way, he can also use this to fall to An Lushan and complete what Cui Anshi will never be able to do.

Hundreds of crossbows were fired in a salvo at the head of Xin'an City, killing hundreds of people in just three rounds, and Fan Changming's second son, Fan Zhonglong, was hit by an arrow in the buttocks on the way to retreat in a panic. This arrow was shot deep into the bone, and he almost fainted immediately from the pain, if it weren't for the help of his fellow villagers who dragged him back, I am afraid that he would have been shot into a hedgehog.

"Why let us take the lead and we won't go!"

Fan Changming was coaxed and deceived, and he also promised to reward each household with half a cent, so that he brought out the adult Dingkou in the township. Therefore, except for the children of the Fan family, there are not many of these people who are willing to risk their lives to attack the city.

Under Fan Changming's repeated requests, the strong men quickly expressed their dissatisfaction.

"I don't want that half-run money, I want to go home......"

"Yes, I don't need any money......

Du Mo looked at these Han people who were chirping like birds, and they didn't seem to buy the old man's account very much, so he glanced at the iron guard beside him. The Iron Guard immediately understood, drew his saber, ran to the crowd, pulled out a few of the most active, and rubbed them on the ground a few times, blood splattered, and heads rolled off.

Mo Mo viciously threatened: "Whoever dares to resist again, even your children and family members will be cut down!" As soon as the words fell, he bent his bow and pulled arrows with the Luo soldiers, as long as these people made any changes, they would all be shot and killed!

The words of the general are better than the hundred words of the old man Fan Changming, and the strong men finally realized that this half-run money is far from being easy as they imagined, and they are afraid that they will not even have their lives. At this time, someone remembered the words of the county lieutenant Qin Jin, who seemed to be his mother-in-law, and couldn't help but regret it.

"I knew that this was the end, so it was better to follow the county lieutenant ......"

Thousands of Zhuang Ding of Changshi Township, who were driven to Xin'an County, cursed the Hu people while running forward with the machinery of the fellow villagers around them.

"Here we are, here we go again!"

There was another exclamation on the city of Xin'an! It had just shot back hundreds of chaotic people, but then two or three thousand people rushed out and rushed straight to the city wall.

The crossbowmen had sore arms because they fired the crossbow three times, and even if it was a kick-assisted crossbow, it was the limit for one person to open ten times in a row, and three times had already used up one-third of their strength. Everyone looked at Qin Jin in unison, waiting for his order.

Qin Jin's face was grim, without a trace of hesitation, and he resolutely ordered: "All crossbowmen are ready, fifty steps to ** attack!"

Five or six hundred men may not be a threat to the walls, but two or three thousand are quite different. The Xin'an city wall was no more than two feet high, and for the sake of prudence, and in order to increase the hit rate, the firing distance was shortened to fifty paces.

400 steps, 300 steps, 200 steps, 70 steps......

These villagers, armed with machetes and axes, carried the soldiers and stuffed them with ladders, like countless ants and moved forward in despair, and then forward.

Seeing that these ant soldiers were about to step into the range of fifty steps of heavy crossbow shooting, Qin Jin suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

"Crossbowman pauses shooting!" I said a word, and everyone shouted in unison. Although everyone didn't understand Qin Jin's intentions, they all agreed with a bang.

"Fathers and elders under the city!"

"A certain county lieutenant!"

"I want to live!"

"Drop the weapon!"

"Allow you to climb the city!"

Thousands of voices in unison, clearly spread out, the frightened ant soldiers have lost the ability to think, hearing that it is Qin Shaofu shouting at them, where are they willing to hesitate, most of them threw away the machetes and axes in their hands, ready to climb up to the city, away from those soldiers and ghosts. The bloody stimulation has made these people temporarily forget the safety of their families, and only want to enter Xin'an County as soon as possible, as if they will get out of the hell of Abi when they get there.

On the edge of the woodland a few miles east of Xin'an, the leader of the Tongluo tribe immediately slashed at him, but when he saw that some of the ant soldiers had already climbed up to the top of the city, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, and the lives of these Han people were still of some use. But soon he felt that something was wrong, the ant soldiers who had landed on the city did not seem to be fighting with the defenders, and the previous mechanical shouts of killing gradually faded away.

Dumo, who realized that there was a problem, suddenly shouted: "Mingjin, withdraw the troops!"

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