"Fathers, we can't hold it!" Yudong gritted his teeth and said loudly.

Everyone looked at him, and after a deathly silence, someone cried out in despair, "Is it ...... Can we only wait for death? Songcheng, but the city was slaughtered!"

After saying this, everyone whispered, and the woman holding the child could not help but sob.

"Didn't the Shu army say that as long as Kaicheng surrendered, they would spare us?" someone remembered the shouts of the Shu army during the day.

"Phew! That's a thief, surrender to the thief, it's to destroy the Nine Clans!" an old man smacked hard and scolded loudly.

"We can't surrender to the enemy!" Yudong heard these words, and said loudly, "Have you ever thought that if we really surrender Kaicheng, will King Teng keep his word? After the Shu army conquered Qingzhou, from Qingzhou to Runzhou, how many people suffered along the way?"

"Yes, these thieves burned our house, killed the people in our village, and if we didn't run fast, we would have been killed!"

"It's the same in our village, they rush in and kill people when they see them!"

"Yes, my daughter's family was all killed!"

Some people from Qingzhou who fled to Runzhou heard Yudong's words and echoed them.

"Did you hear that? Not only now, I am from Jianchang County, Mingzhou, and last year, in order to extinguish the mouth, King Teng's cousin's village was also killed. King Teng is cruel and unkind, if the gate of Runzhou is opened, how do we know that he will let us go?"

"I said that I couldn't hold it because the Runzhou garrison only had 1,000 people, and there were too few people. Yudong pointed to General Qi and the others beside him, "Do you know how many people there are in the Shu army?" King Teng has at least 10,000 people in Songcheng, and how can he hold it with about 1,000 people?"

"But General Qi said just now, if you can't defend it, you have to defend it! As long as you hold it for three days, maybe it won't take another three days, and the imperial court reinforcements will arrive. When my father was alive, he said that it was a man's duty to kill the enemy for the country. Although I have not joined the army, but at the moment of the great enemy, I am willing to join the army before the battle and defend the city with General Qi to resist the enemy!" Yesterday under the city of Runzhou, he took Zhao Quansheng alone to block the pursuers and save the people.

"Let's follow the uncle to kill the enemy!"

"Yes, there are still us! Rather than wait to die, it is better to fight!"

Qian Chang, Zhong Youxing and others, as well as Guangshengji's shopkeeper, all echoed loudly.

Zhao Quansheng's face was even brighter, as if he had drunk a few catties of spirits, "Uncle, don't forget to take my old Zhao with you! Instead of waiting for death in the city, it is better to go up to the city tower to fight." ”

That's true. Yudong nodded vigorously, looked at everyone and said, "I kill the enemy now, but I actually have selfish intentions." My younger brothers and sisters are all in the city, and if I go up to the city tower to kill one more Shu army, they will be able to have a moment of peace. If reinforcements arrive, they won't have to worry about their lives!"

After hearing Yudong's words, General Qi couldn't help but straighten up in the carriage and bowed, "Yan Dalang is righteous, I deeply admire it." After he finished speaking, he looked at the sky, it was already time, and looking at the black and oppressive crowd, he said loudly, "Everyone go home, after dawn, the Shu army may be about to attack the city!"

"Rather than waiting for death, it's better to fight! I also want to stay and kill the enemy!" In the crowd, a middle-aged man squeezed out and walked in front of Yudong, "Uncle Yan, the little one is a meat seller in the city, and the little one wants to follow you to kill the enemy!"

"Okay, General Qi, why don't we take it?" Yu Dong called out hello to the man, turned his head and asked Qi Shishi.

Qi Shishi nodded naturally, "Killing the enemy will lead to bloodshed!"

"Instead of waiting for death, it's better to fight with them, so that you can die happily. The middle-aged man replied in a thick voice, "Besides, my wife and children are also in the city, just like Yan Dalang, I have to fight for them!"

"Good job!Captain Lu, write down the name of this strong man, and defend the city together after dawn!" Qi Shi turned his head and said to Captain Lu.

"I also want to stay and kill the enemy, and avenge my father and mother!" another man wearing filial piety stepped forward and said loudly.

"I'm going to stay too. ”

"Yes, revenge!

With the two of them taking the lead, more and more people squeezed out of the crowd, and soon, the open space in front of Yudong couldn't stand, and at the end of the long street, more and more young men squeezed over.

There was even a sturdy woman who came to ask, "I killed chickens at home, and I also stayed to kill the enemy, okay?"

"Sister-in-law, the men in the city are not dead yet, let you kill the enemy, where will we men put their faces?" a soldier said loudly to the woman.

"That's it, the matter of defending the city, we have it!" The man who squeezed up to write his name behind him patted his chest vigorously, and said to Captain Lu, "Master Jun, you don't need to help me remember it, anyway, I am one person to feed the whole family!"

When he said this, the woman hurriedly said, "Write down your name, big brother! If you die, as long as I don't die, I will burn some paper money for you when I go back to the Qingming Winter at home!"

"Then I have earned it, thank you, sister-in-law!" said the man, who was glad when he heard this, as if he had received great benefits and glory.

Hearing this here, there are also women and children over there calling Eun Gong and Hero.

"Uncles and sisters-in-law, let go, let go!" Zhao Quansheng and Zhong Youxing asked the women and children to retreat, make room, and let the men who wanted to stay and kill the enemy move forward.

Captain Lu took people with pen and paper and wrote down the names one by one, and soon, a large piece of paper was not enough.

Yudong just wanted someone to get the paper, Ah Sheng hugged a stack of rice paper and squeezed in front of Yudong's horse, "Uncle, the eldest lady asked the little one to send it over." ”

Yudong looked in the direction that Ah Sheng pointed, and at some point, Yuxiu was standing on the corner of the street, wearing a homely coarse cloth dress, just like the one she used to wear when she was working in the fields at home. Seeing Yudong seeing herself, Yuxiu waved again and again, her face full of laughter.

Yesterday, when Yudong decided to go out of the city to save people, and today when Yudong wants to stay and guard the city, Yuxiu is not without a trace of resentment. She felt that her brother valued irrelevant people more than her own blood relatives. But just now, after hearing him say this, Yuxiu's resentment dissipated.

Brother is such a person, honest and upright, very correct in his ideas, and never ambiguous!

What Yudong said just now is all from the heart, regardless of gains and losses. But under his leadership, there are so many people who are willing to stay and defend the city, although there are few defenders in Runzhou, with these people, there is more certainty of defending the city, right?

watched Yudong dismount, beckoned the people to divide into teams, find veterans to take them aside, and talk about the things to pay attention to in the war. Calm and measured, properly arranged, quite commanding momentum.

Yuxiu found out that her brother is not a child anymore.

Looking at the increasingly similar eyebrows and eyes of Yudong and her father Yan Qingshan, she took advantage of the gap to bow her head, she picked up a handkerchief to wipe the moisture oozing from the corners of her eyes. [.]