The night breeze of early autumn blows through the streets and alleys of the city with a slight coolness, the once prosperous city of the city has long been full of devastation, and the war for half a month has made this city full of wounded soldiers, and the people are also panicked, and they don't know when they can wait for the arrival of the dragon's reinforcements. When the night wind blew on the city wall several feet high, the sound of the wind was heard, as if thousands of troops and horses were passing by. The soldiers guarding the city wall were already exhausted, but they were still vigilantly watching the Ji State tent outside the city wall.

The camp of the Ji Kingdom was stationed a hundred miles away from the city wall, and it was impossible to see the camp of the Ji Kingdom from such a night.

At this time, the eyes are far less sensitive than the ears, so every soldier guarding the city wall will prick up a pair of ears to carefully distinguish whether there is a collision of armor and weapons in addition to the sound of the wind this night, so as to distinguish whether there are soldiers of the Thistle Kingdom attacking the city.

A patrol walked by with their heads held high, "Watch out for the guards, and strengthen the vigilance." They shouted as they walked for a while to warn the guards not to doze off.

After the patrol passed, five or six more people came.

"General Qin is here. A soldier shouted in surprise.

The soldiers defending the city hurriedly stood in line.

Among the five or six people who came over, there was a thin and tall person in a cloth robe, but it was Qin Yuan.

"The soldiers have worked hard. ”

He walked lightly and said to the soldiers on either side.

"The general has worked hard. The soldiers replied, each eye looking eagerly at their young general. Only this general was the only one who survived Liu Yi's arrows.

Qin Yuan also looked at these young soldiers in front of him carefully, and knew in his heart that tomorrow these people would die on this city wall, and this is war, it can make death just in front of him, in an instant.

But he had no choice, all he could do was wait for reinforcements to arrive, so that he could lead his army out of the city to fight to the death with the army of the Ji Kingdom outside the wall, and only by ending the war as soon as possible could the death rate be reduced.

"When will the general's reinforcements arrive?" asked a soldier standing on the far right of the queue softly.

After Qin Yuan's gaze swept over a row of soldiers, he looked at the face of the soldier who was questioning, this was a young man who was not very old, with fatigue but also fortitude between his eyebrows and eyes, he was dressed in tattered armor, messy buns, and gauze tied around his arms.

He approached the young soldier and reached out to help him straighten the messy hair on his forehead.

"How old are you?"

"Fourteen," the soldier replied.

"How can you join the army before you are old?"

"I came to join the army on behalf of my brother, and when I was recruiting, my brother fell off a cliff while hunting and injured his leg, and I really wanted to be a soldier. The young soldier replied softly.

"Why do you like to be a soldier?" Qin Yuan asked.

"I have been hunting in the mountains with my father and brother since I was a child, although I am young, but I have hunting skills, I have hunted tigers, and the people in the village say that if I am a soldier, I will definitely be a general. ”

The more the young soldier spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice couldn't help but rise.

"Well, what about now? Do you still want to be a soldier?"

Qin Yuan stretched out his hand and pointed under the city wall, "Death is just around the corner, aren't you afraid?" there was no emotion in his voice.

"Don't be afraid!"

The boy replied without thinking, a pair of dark eyes shining in the night.

"I just want to be a soldier, I want to fight, I want to go out of the city and fight face-to-face with those soldiers in the country of Ji, so nested in the city, I don't know when it will end, I don't feel good. There was a complaint in the boy's voice.

"Even if I die tomorrow, I am willing to fight them face to face. ”

At the end he added.

Qin Yuan was silent for a while, patted the young man's shoulder, his eyes swept over the tired faces of each soldier, and said in a deep voice: "Patience in war is precisely the most able test of a soldier's perseverance and wisdom. Now what we have to do is to defend the city, we must defend until the reinforcements arrive, and then we will attack, and we will only win and not lose. His voice was not loud but firm.

"Swear to defend the dragon to the death and defend the city of granting. ”

One of the soldiers shouted in a low and resolute voice, and all the soldiers shouted along. The voice was deep but powerful.

Suddenly, a soldier not far away shouted: "The people of the Ji Kingdom have attacked the city." ”

In less than an instant, the soldiers standing in a line dispersed to their respective positions.

Looking down the city wall from the battlement, it was dark and lonely, and nothing could be seen. While they were hesitating, two or three soldiers ran not far away, and they shouted as they ran, "Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming." There was joy, excitement and weeping in the shouting.

"What, reinforcements are coming. In an instant, the walls were like a frying pan, and all the soldiers followed the shout.

Qin Yuan also looked at the voice suspiciously.

After a while, the three soldiers ran in front of Qin Yuan.

"General, general, reinforcements from Dalong are coming. As he spoke, he handed a few arrows in his hand to Qin Yuan.

Qin Yuan took the arrow and looked at it carefully through the torch raised by the soldier next to him.

These are three ordinary iron arrows, the arrows are wrapped in cloth, and a line of small words is engraved on the arrow rods, "Reinforcements will arrive in five days." ”

Qin Yuan's heart was a little excited, for more than a month, dozens of generals in Juyong Pass at Kudu Pass died under Liu Yi's arrows. And if he hadn't had his sister's hair entangled in the heart guard on his chest, Liu Yi's arrow would have died on the spot.

Now that the city has been trapped for twenty-three days, the grain and grass in the city are clean, and the soldiers have already strangled their stomachs to defend the city. The most important thing is that because of the loss of the dry ferry and Juyong Pass, it is difficult for these aggressive dragon soldiers to accept.

All kinds of enterprising emotions were transmitted in the army, they thought that there was only one Liu Yi in the Ji Kingdom, but his soldiers were vulnerable, and Liu Yi was not very powerful, but the generals of Dalong were not brave and wise enough, so they resisted the orders of the reinforcements from the time to defend the city of Zhiye.

But he knew that one Liu Yi could withstand thousands of troops.

And the only person that Dalong can compete with is the King of Ningjun of Yanlong, and what he is looking forward to at this time is that Dalong can get the assistance of this King of Yanlong, so Liu Yi is not afraid.

Steady in his heart, he said to the lieutenant general who followed: "Passing this arrow to every soldier tomorrow, such a skill is not something that ordinary people can achieve, and in such a dark night, through the encirclement of the army of the Ji Kingdom, it can be transmitted in such a way, it can be seen that my Dalong's army will win." Let the soldiers endure for another five days, and as soon as the reinforcements arrive, they can go out of the city to fight the country of thistle. ”

"Yes. The lieutenant took the iron arrow and agreed.

The next day, the army of the Ji Kingdom launched a more powerful siege tactic, and the soldiers of Dalong defended the city desperately, which was extremely difficult.

"General, the army of the Ji Kingdom may have known the information that reinforcements were coming, and launched such a powerful offensive, I am afraid that it will not be easy to defend in the past five days. ”

A deputy general on the city wall said to Qin Yuan with a worried expression.

The morning sun shone golden light on the city walls, and after colliding with the blood of the warriors, there was an indescribable tragedy.

"Hold on for five days no matter what. ”