"Gentlemen, join me in witnessing the glory of the Sun Banner in the sun!"

In the end, Zhang Chao ended with such a sentence, and the whole speech, which lasted for several hours, ended with thunderous cheers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was a very successful speech, and when he stood in the square and begged for the help of every citizen of Shurima and called out their names, everyone boiled over, and their morale and blood were thoroughly aroused.

It's like standing on the street as a common man, working 9 to 5, or even 6 to 9 every day, living a mediocre life, thinking that you are not valued by anyone, and only to have the Secretary of Defense call your name accurately in his speech and ask you for help in person, and almost no one can resist such a simple and crude method of soliciting people's hearts.

Even those who are not called by name, when they see their neighbors, whom they despise or disdain, or who think that people of the same rank are able to proudly declare their honor, how can they be resigned to being left behind?

People have a herd mentality, and people in this era are not as philistine as later generations, they don't scatter eagles when they don't see rabbits, and they don't do anything that is not beneficial, so the driving effect is very obvious.

Moreover, Zhang Chao called them the saviors of Shurima, not to boast of their high merits, but to recognize their power for the first time.

The citizens of Shurima, who had a strong centripetal force and regarded glory as their life, quickly agreed to his request, and many of the citizens had their own weapons and shields that their fathers had used in their service, and they spontaneously organized themselves and gathered under Zhang Chao's command.

Some of the women in the men's house wept bitterly and kept them: "There will be others who will defend the city for you, and if the enemy can't get in, don't go!"

Ignoring this, the man said, "If everyone has this thought, then who else will defend the city?"

Some fierce women beat and scolded their husbands, who had always been cowardly: "You loser, my mother has suffered all her life with you, and has endured the eyes of all the neighbors, how mean this city is to us, and now you casually go to war with people - to protect this Shurima, who has never shown friendship to us!?"

The man silently took the woman's hand away and said seriously: "The marshal knows me, and he asks for my help." ”

"How could he know you!" the woman screamed, "You're just a street sweeper, how could he know you!

The man smiled: "Even if he doesn't know me, even if I'm just a street sweeper, I will protect this city!"

The woman couldn't believe it, "Why?!"

The man shook his head, only to feel that he had finally straightened his back once.

He said firmly, "Because I am a Shurima!"

The woman stopped talking, and finally she burst into tears and hugged the man, her lips trembling, and she wanted to say a thousand words, but in the end she only said four words: "Come back alive." ”

Such scenes appear in all corners of Shurima, as Zhang Chao believes, this is a city full of vitality and the atmosphere of a great country.

"You have obtained a militia of eight thousand six hundred and seventy-two Shurima conscripts. ”

In addition, there is also a surprise, there are hundreds of veterans in Shurima who are retired, but still able to fight and experienced, and have a better will to fight than ordinary recruits, and they even have complete sets of armor weapons at home, which is a powerful force that is better than the city guards.

"You have obtained eight hundred and seventy-two veterans of Shurima. ”

In this way, Zhang Chao's current strength in his hands has temporarily reached nearly 15,000 people, which sounds like a lot, but even half of them may not be able to be really useful.

Zhang Chao thought that such strength was still insufficient, so he simply rode on the iron-armored war horse and beckoned a royal knight behind him to follow him to the gathering area of the nobles.

"You each go to the houses of the great nobles in the city, and order them to hand over all the private soldiers in their hands for the time being, even the people at the bottom have contributed, and these people don't want to sit in the back and watch the play. ”

When Zhang Chao walked out of their mansion under the angry eyes of those big nobles, Zhang Chao obtained a full 5,000 noble private soldiers with outstanding personal strength and good at small-scale battles.

Except for the most stupid nobles and those who believed that they were in collusion with the Gessatai, almost all the nobles surrendered their private soldiers.

As for those fools, he directly punished them with death, and by the way, he made an example of the monkeys, and forcibly deprived them of the slave guards they had as death squads.

There are also those foreign merchants, who also "donated" most of the guards and mercenaries, which were hired by Zhang Chao with money, on the one hand, in order to avoid these merchants from colluding with the Gesates, on the other hand, they got a large number of soldiers, although most of these people belong to the wall grass and are not trustworthy, but in the case of defending the city, with the military judges and the warlords, they have no choice at all, they can only fight to the death, and the narrow city walls make them unable to rout at all.

Zhang Chao's movements were so fast that they could not form a group to resist his orders, and soon the city was formed, and all the armed groups that threatened him were absorbed by him.

At the same time, he opened the treasury and armed the soldiers.

However, just as he had finished doing these things, the adjutant sent a signal that the enemy was about to attack, and the raptor knights hovering in the sky also began a large-scale survey, and Zhang Chao immediately led people to climb the city wall and began to arm the defense.

The terrain around Shurima is flat and open, and it can be seen at a glance, so it is extremely difficult for the Gesathai to sneak attack, so they can only attack head-on, or rely on a large force feint to contain his main force, and then through the strategy of attacking the east and west, with a small force to capture the city, in order to avoid this situation, he specially mixed more than 800 veterans and 3,000 conscripted militia, which was mixed with 1,000 city guards as a link, forming a mobile force with a certain combat effectiveness as a reserve.

The rest were put on the wall by him, which was attacked by the enemy.

The enemy was like a tide, like the ocean, pushing rudimentary shield carts and ladders that had not even cut the branches of the trees towards the city walls.

"This is nothing more than a tentative feint, and you are here to command the frontal defense. Zhang Chao handed over the task to the adjutant, and he went into hiding.

He wanted to yin the birds of prey knights, these people gathered together, only hovering in the distance, not looking at the slightest inward momentum, let alone approaching the city wall to observe the reality inside as Zhang Chao said.

This made Zhang Chao feel a little uneasy, these raptor knights seemed to have a high status among the Gesa Tai, and the work of those scouts was too dangerous, perhaps because they were not as close as Zhang Chao expected to reconnoitre, and this also meant that the other party already knew something about the reality in Shurima City, so they immediately launched an attack after making a batch of siege engines.

Therefore, these raptor knights will definitely use as a hammer to hit Shurima's defenders fiercely when the battle is at its fiercest, so as to directly defeat Zhang Chao's side, and even if this group of people does not move, just hovering in the sky needs to involve most of Zhang Chao's attention, which makes some bed crossbows defending the city, and the marksmen must always pay attention to their movements, which invisibly reduces the pressure on the siege troops.

"This Gesathai is also well versed in anvil and hammer tactics. Zhang Chao muttered to himself as he walked into a tower at the city gate, but as soon as he entered, he heard a loud bang in his ears, followed by a whistling stone projectile that crashed through the tower window, sending the head of a soldier who was wielding a bed crossbow flying.