Cao Rui, Dong Wei, and Li Xin grew up in a village.

More than half a year ago, the defeated official army and the rebels that followed it easily wiped out the small village of only a few dozen families at the foot of the mountain.

Three playful teenagers went up the mountain to cuddle grass and hunt rabbits, but they escaped without doubt becoming orphans.

There was not a trace of living creature in the devastated villages, and the broken men and naked women were all bloodstained.

Poultry and livestock are all gone, and it is even more impossible to keep the grain, if there is not some food in the village, I am afraid that what is left by the earthen stove may not be the remains of livestock......

Cao Rui was the oldest, and after crying and burying the villagers, he grabbed his partner who was still bowing his head and sobbing after indiscriminately stuffing the little half of the bloodshot hare, and came to the south without looking back.

When crossing the river, Cao Rui, who had more eyes than others, eavesdropped on the conversation of the neatly dressed teenagers on the boat. After crossing the river and entering the boundary of Shengzhou, he groped all the way to find the recruiting point set up by Xu Chen, and became a recruit under Xu Chen in a daze.

Cao Rui is no stranger to these things about being a soldier, especially recruitment.

At the beginning, the one-legged corpse outside his own earthen house had the most scars, and his broken wrist was still clutching a knife full of gaps.

The gap is very new, and it is obvious that it has just been left.

Of course, Cao Rui knew this, because the knife had been wiped and polished by his father countless times......

Cao Rui's father was also a recruiter.

At this moment, under the city wall of Fuzhou City, stroking this knife full of gaps in his hand, Cao Rui did not feel the slightest blood from above, but was full of thick ridicule.

"After all, I can't escape such a fate!"

Cao Rui is very clever and very thoughtful, although he can't talk about his ambitions, but he has made up his mind since he was a child and doesn't want to live a life like his own Lao Tzu.

After more than ten years of hard work, I lost a leg, but in the end, I only got a dozen or so big money, as well as the broken knife in my hand.

What's the use?

However, the creation made people, and the former plan was destroyed by the chaotic army that appeared in the sky.

Cao Rui, who was hungry and cold, finally embarked on the path of his own Laozi.

However, the military camp he was in was completely different from the military camp he heard from his own Lao Tzu's flickering words.

Not only did he eat well and live well, but he also had a husband who came to teach him to read and write.

Such days once made Cao Rui sleepless at night, just holding a clean futon in a daze in the middle of the night.

He was afraid to go to sleep because he didn't want to wake up.

But when he finally accepted this qiē, the young general who brought him this qiē and always had a gentle smiling face suddenly disappeared!

Originally, Cao Rui didn't want to believe this, but the words were terrifying, and the shattered sounds that sounded in the middle of the night countless times were becoming more and more unsuppressed.

The clever Cao Rui understands what these increasingly popular discussions represent.

He was anxious, but he didn't get involved.

Because he is not only clever, but also cautious!

Thinking about it in hindsight, these rare characteristics were actually taught by Lao Tzu, who he once despised him.

However, it was precisely because of caution that Cao Rui, who was reluctant to come forward, did not stand up decisively on the day when the young general who had disappeared returned.

"If you had stood up then, maybe you would have been able to stand in the back now, right?"

Cao Rui muttered in a low voice with a bitter smile on his face.

His partner Dong Wei, who was standing on the side, listened to his muttering, then tilted his head slightly, and asked quietly: "What stand up? The city is about to be attacked, where else are you going to stand?"

Cao Rui glanced at the corner of his eyes, but his once thin bamboo pole-like partner jumped like a jointed in the past half a year, and suddenly he was even taller than himself!

Looking at his partner's hard-trained muscles, Cao Rui couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's a pity! Such a big guy may have to explain here today......

Cao Rui shook his head slightly and didn't say anything.

Li Xin, the partner on the other side, looked over mysteriously and asked in a low voice, "Why is the general so anxious for us to attack the city today?"

Cao Rui also didn't answer, Li Xin is also clever, but his mind is a little worse after all, and the instructor always hollows out his mind and is lazy when he is in class.

Unlike myself, who is full of ambition, after reading and reading, I have read a few books that I heard were written by the young general himself, storybooks, and storybooks about the Three Kingdoms!

Now that I think about it, my group of people was not firm enough at the beginning, and later they saw something that was obviously not something ordinary people could do.

What good will happen to subordinates who know the secret of the lord but have different intentions?

If you can live today, there is naturally a way to live, if you die......

There's no need to survive either!

Cao Rui was full of sorrow, but at this moment, Ling Feng, the rebel general standing on the wall of Fuzhou, had a stomach full of doubts.

"What are they doing here?"

Ling Feng said this to He Yun on the side.

He Yun, who looked much fatter than two months ago, squinted his eyes, looked at the troops lined up under the city, and was silent for a long time before he said quietly: "It looks like the city is about to be attacked!"

"What? siege?"

Ling Feng had actually had the same thought in his heart, but after seeing the not-so-dense queue under the city, he quickly abandoned this thought.

"Why? Does he have 3,000 men?"

Xu Chen only brought soldiers this time, and the tens of thousands of auxiliaries were all led by Zhou Kang, and they were building near the cliff where Xu Chen had disappeared......

When I came, I took the waterway, and all the turtle boats I used were improvised turtle boats. The function is much less, but the speed is not slow, and the rebels in the state capital along the way have just discovered their traces, and Xu Chen has already appeared under the city of Fuzhou.

He Yun still squinted, looked at Ling Feng lazily, and said lightly: "When Ling Shuai took Fuzhou City, it seems that there were no three thousand people, right?"

"Or does Ling Shuai think this rabble in the city is comparable to them?"

Ling Feng really didn't spend much effort when he took Fuzhou that day, and after more than half a year of "recruitment", there are now more than 20,000 "heroes" in Fuzhou City!

However, Ling Feng was still a qualified general after all, and after carefully looking at the team under the city, the hint of surprise and banter disappeared, and a trace of solemnity appeared between his eyebrows.

"How long have they been standing?"

Ling Feng asked the goalkeeper behind him.

The gatekeeper hurriedly replied, "Since landing, these people have been standing for almost half an hour!"

"It's always been this posture?" Ling Feng asked again.

The gatekeeper nodded.

Ling Feng exhaled a long breath, and after being silent for a long time, he turned his head and asked He Yun, "Where did they come from?"

Under the city tower, Ling Feng recognized the fluttering black flag behind Xu Chen, although the patterns were different, but it was the unified system of the Tang Dynasty.

This shows that this team under the city is undoubtedly an official army. But, where did they come from?

"The officers and troops in the south have been blocked by the military division in Zhangzhou, the naval division of the official army is in Caozhou, and if the Xianxia Ridge in the north is broken, there can't be no one who hasn't fled back, right?

He Yun looked at Ling Feng and couldn't see if the other party was pretending to be stupid, so he just said coldly: "They are from the west!"

Ling Feng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "The gourd is broken?"

"Then why is there no news at all?"

When he said this, Ling Feng kept staring at He Yun again. He Yun glared at him deadly, snorted coldly, and turned his head.

Although it is not the first time that many teenagers have met each other, whether it is the chase on the river that night or Zheng Tai's glimpse of the seaside in Fuzhou some time ago, it is obvious that He Yun has a specific personal impression of them.

In addition, the sailor led by He Yun has been hiding in the shadows, and the information exchange with Yang Xun cannot be specific to his own love life.

Therefore, He Yun is relatively unfamiliar with Xu Chen.

Originally, some specific things could dispel this strangeness, but Xu Chen didn't bring a ballista this time, and the boats floating on the river couldn't see the hideousness on the Yangtze River that day.

"Dashuai, they're attacking!"

With a shout from the gatekeeper, He Yun let go of the worry in his heart and turned his head down to look out of the city.

Three thousand people are not much, but they are quite powerful when they get together, especially the black armor with a strong sense of oppression.

"Oh no! it's a crossbow!"

Ling Feng's kung fu was the highest and his observation was sharp, and when the soldiers under the city were worthy of raising their crossbow arrows, he roared.

Immediately, there was a rush of footsteps on the city wall, and soldiers with long shields stepped forward.

Before the shield could be raised, a series of impacts followed.

The unsteady soldier staggered and fell backwards, and before his companions had time to fill the gap, a rain of locust-like arrows fell in a dense manner, and the gap was wailed for a moment.

"Quick!

The captains began to shout loudly, and the soldiers who followed raised their long shields in twos and threes, blocking the gaps one by one.

However, the never-ending rain of arrows crashed into the shield in his hand like a drum, and in order to stabilize his position, the commander of the defenders could only send a strong man with a famous name.

Like most southern cities, the female walls of Fuzhou City are not tall, far less than the northern border.

There are fewer measures to deal with the rain of arrows, and the price to pay is naturally great!

The rebels defending the city held all the old goods left over from the Fuzhou Zhichong Mansion in their hands.

Speaking of which, there are not many new goods in Fuzhou Zhichong Mansion, which has not heard the sound of soldiers for a hundred years.

These wooden shields, which had been piled up in the warehouse for an unknown amount of time, were gradually weakened by the overwhelming rain of arrows.

The sound of the wood breaking became more and more intense, and one after another, the shield that could not withstand the impact turned into flying debris in the rain of arrows, and by the way, a puff of scarlet blood was splashed, and occasionally mixed with painful wails and angry curses......

"Fuck it, these guys have an endless supply of arrows!"