"Kill~"

Although the main generals on both sides reacted differently, the battlefield was cruel after all, even if the morale was exhausted, but the rebel army after these simple exercises for a while, after all, there was some progress, and there were constantly siege ladders on the wall, this time in order to be able to break through the sealing well as soon as possible, Xie Qi has put a lot of real elites into the battlefield to be responsible for the head.

In the past, most of these rebel elites were born as bandits, and they were strong and strong enough, and they were well-equipped, which caused great trouble to the officers and soldiers of the sealed well.

An elite rebel army stepped on the city wall with a shield, the shield in his hand fiercely separated the spear stabbed by an officer, jumped down, the war knife in his hand flashed in the sun, flashed the cold light, an officer and soldier was directly chopped off by him with a knife, and the two officers and soldiers next to him hurriedly raised their knives to remedy, two knives at the same time slashed at the person, one was cut on the shoulder, and the other was directly stabbed through the stomach.

The elite of the rebel army was also brave, and seeing that he couldn't survive, he frantically threw the war knife in his hand directly, piercing the chest of the oncoming officer.

Although he was killed in battle, he also tore a gap, and at least three rebel soldiers rushed up after him, fighting with the officers and soldiers who rushed around, firmly blocking the small place with his body, so that more robes behind him rushed up, seeing that this area was about to be lost, but he heard a loud shout from behind: "All give a certain dodge!"

On the city wall, Wang Hai's tower-like body rushed over like a tank, and with his roar, the surrounding officials and soldiers subconsciously got out of the way, and many people only felt that the black shadow flashed in front of them, followed by a strong wind blowing, which made people's faces hurt.

"Puff~"

"Bang~"

Before the rebel army who had just gained a foothold had time to react, they were knocked out by a violent force, but Wang Hai was in a hurry, so he directly picked up the stone used to defend the city and threw it directly.

Wang Hai stepped forward with two iron halberds, and a rebel thief who had just emerged was split into the head by Wang Hai's halberd, and then pushed out the siege ladder that was on the top of the city wall with an iron halberd, and then looked back at the stunned soldiers and said: "What do you see! Don't you kill the enemy for me, do you want to die!?"

Everyone has never seen such a murderous person, after beating a fierce spirit, but the morale has soared, such a brave man is on their side, how can they be afraid, and they let out a roar in unison.

Wang Hai naturally didn't understand why his morale was scolded by himself, but he was in no mood to pay attention to it at this time, he was ordered by Jiang Weak, he walked the city wall, and once he found that the enemy army was attacking him, he immediately came to the rescue, as for the rest, he didn't bother to pay attention to it.

At this time, Jiang Weak did not continue to stay on the city wall to observe the war, although there was no result yet, but he had already deduced the general direction of this war in his heart, so he now needed to arrange his second step plan, maybe the rebel army could not even break the city wall, but everything was not considered a victory, first a defeat, if conditions permitted, Jiang Weak would definitely leave enough for himself.

"Lord, will you shake the morale of the army when you leave the front line at this time?" After seeing that there was no one around, Dong Ping expressed his worries, after all, although Jiang Weak was only a county commander before, but now he is the backbone of this city, and it is easy to shake the morale of the army when Jiang Weak leaves at this time.

"I've made it clear before, this is not a battle for the court, let alone a fight for me, where to go, they make their own decisions, if it is so easy to shake the morale of the army, I will consider breaking through, after all, in the final analysis, I am just a well sealing order. Jiang Qiao sneered, although he had been mentally prepared for the methods of the imperial court or the emperor, he was still a little unhappy when it came to the end.

"Then I'll wait ...... now"

"Go and prepare the second line of defense. Jiang Qiao said indifferently.

"Second line of defense?" Dong Ping looked at Jiang Wan with a blank expression: "Didn't the lord say ......?"

Didn't you say that you were going to break through? Why is there a second line of defense? This wall has not been broken yet.

"If the army's heart is shaken, I will naturally break through, but this second line of defense is not that the wall will be broken, but the hearts of the people. ”

"People's hearts?" Dong Ping was even more dazed.

"If you are Xie Qi and you can't break the city by storming, what should you do?" Jiang Qiao looked at Dong Ping and patiently explained.

"Retreat or ......" Dong Ping was halfway through speaking, and suddenly realized that if the city could not be broken by storming, then I am afraid that the next step would be to use conspiracy.

It's finally not stupid yet.

Jiang Wan nodded helplessly, if it was Qian Fei, I am afraid that he would be able to understand his intentions without saying it himself.

The rebel army is weak as a whole, but since Xie Qi wants to storm Fengjing, he will definitely send the best soldiers in his hands to seize the first opportunity, otherwise, Xie Qi will not have any chance of winning, at the beginning, Jiang Qi has already stood in Xie Qi's position to calculate how to fight this battle.

Therefore, Jiang Wan sent Wang Hai, Yeluqi and all the people around him who could be sent out at the beginning, this first day must be the most difficult day, as long as this first day survives, the rebel army's morale will be gone, and the loss of a large number of elites will not only make Xie Qi feel distressed, but also greatly reduce the offensive of the rebel army the next day, and then, all Xie Qi can think of is probably the only means to start from the inside of the well.

It's old-fashioned, but it's also a very difficult method to guard against.

"What is the lord going to do?" Dong Ping looked at Jiang Wan, and he also felt the trickiness of this matter.

"In troubled times, you should use the heavy code! Send someone to send invitations to the heads of the provinces, and set up a banquet in the prime minister's mansion tonight, and the grace has passed!" Jiang Qiao's eyes flashed with a touch of coldness that he had never had on weekdays.

"Wow!" A chill surged up from his back, Dong Ping had followed Jiang Weak for so long, it was the first time he felt this kind of chill from this lord, and after a stirring spirit, he hurriedly gave up his hand and agreed, did not dare to ask more, and left in a hurry.

"Attack, attack, attack me!" The day is getting westerly, seeing that the sky has slowly darkened, but after attacking for a day, although the Fengjing City is in danger, it has never been able to break through, but the rebel army has gradually weakened with more and more elite losses.

Ten times the number of troops, plus all the elite rebel aphars in the area of Xie Guo have been put into it, but they are still unable to break through the defense of Fengjing, obviously they are about to break the city several times, but Fengjing City is like this sunset, an indomitable warrior stands there, and he is about to be knocked down again and again, but there is always an indescribable perseverance that makes these defenders and soldiers forget their lives to block the strong offensive, and finally fail.

If it was a one-sided suppression from the beginning, Xie Qi would not be so uncomfortable, but every time, he felt that he was only one step away from breaking the city, and with more force, the well could be broken, but it couldn't be broken, this result made Xie Qi unacceptable.

"Qu Shuai, our soldiers can't hold it anymore!" Several rebel generals gathered around Xie Qi and begged bitterly: "We have already occupied seven counties, and this Xie country will be ours sooner or later, so why bother to fight with Najiang for a while?"

Doesn't this mean that he is not as weak as that Jiang!

Xie Qi stared at his red eyes, he had always thought that he was just because of his background, unlike the rebel leaders who sat down with those disciples who were not even considered poor, if it weren't for his family, he might not be able to get ahead in the imperial court, and he would not be worse than anyone else.

But since he met Jiang Weak, all his self-confidence was shattered by Jiang Weak, except for the hasty incident that made Jiang Weak trapped for a short time, he was almost always pressed by Jiang Weak, which made him very uncomfortable, especially the rebel army, those who were looked down on by him in the past established meritorious deeds one by one, only he, was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the leader of the rebel army, and did something in this place of thanksgiving, but he was first captured by the government, and after getting out of trouble, he lost the important land of sealing the well, which hoarded a lot of baggage, so that Xie Qi could not raise his head in front of others.

Now that he has the advantage of troops, he is not allowed to enter an inch outside the city of Fengjing by Jiang Qiao, which makes Xie Qi's heart even more uncomfortable, even if he has seen that he wants to break the city today, he still stubbornly ignores everyone's opposition and attacks the city again.

The rebel army, which had not eaten for a day and had exhausted its physical strength, naturally failed to meet Xie Qi's expectations, and was once again driven down from the city wall by the official army in vain, even faster than the previous rout, if it weren't for the fact that the defenders had already exhausted a lot of physical strength because of the killing for a day, I am afraid that Wang Hai and Fang Yue, who were in charge of the command at this moment, had already issued an order to send troops to pursue the victory.

At the head of the city, looking at the rebel army that receded like a tide, whether it was the soldiers defending the city or Fang Yue, Wang Hai and others, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief silently, the rebel army's offensive today was extremely fierce, they were really worried that they would not be able to hold it in the end, but even so, thinking that they would encounter such a fierce attack tomorrow, everyone felt as if they were pressing a boulder in their hearts, and after setting up the manpower on duty at night, several generals hurried back to the county government to report the situation to Jiang Qiao.

However, compared to the worries of Fang Yue and others, Jiang Weak was completely relieved, he knew the characteristics of the rebel army better than others, to put it bluntly, it was a blow, if this drum could not break through the sealed well, then the shortcomings of the rebel army's weak follow-up would gradually be revealed, at that time, the offensive of the rebel army would only be weaker and weaker day by day, and when the rebel army was unable to attack the sealed well again, it would be the day when Jiang Weak counterattacked.

In contrast, Jiang Qiao is more concerned about the defense line of people's hearts.

That night, Jiang Weak held a banquet in the Prime Minister's Mansion and invited the big families in the city on the grounds of defeating the rebels, but what Jiang Wan said made the big families in the city silent, because Jiang Weak's request this time had touched their roots.

"Fu Jun, what does this have to do with defeating that rebel traitor?" In the silent and embarrassing atmosphere, in the end, it was Zhang Yu who took the lead in breaking the strange atmosphere, stood up, and asked Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan asked the rich households in the city to take out the grain stored at home to help the people, in fact, Jiang Wan had already mentioned this before, although everyone resisted, but they also did according to Jiang Qiao's wishes, at least on the surface, each family took out some food to help the people in the city.

It's just that this time, Jiang Weak has a hard request, asking each family to come up with at least a thousand stones of grain, even if the people present are all wealthy households of Xie Guo, they were also shocked by Jiang Weak's request, this thousand stones is not a small amount, if it is used to support the army, they can understand, but now it is used to help the people, which makes them unable to understand and recognize.

"It's important. Jiang Wan said solemnly: "You should know that the rebels suddenly rose up that night, and although we worked together to drive away its main force, there were still many remnants scattered in this Fengjing City. ”

Jiang Wan looked at the people: "They are hiding in the people, most of them are people who seal the well, there is no way to find out, and now there is a war, many people have broken their homes overnight, these people are hungry all day, and they are very easy to be instigated, and now we are afraid to resist foreign enemies, it is already difficult, and we are not able to supervise the security of the city, once these hungry and dizzy people are instigated, it is easy to make trouble, and when the time comes, it will be the enemy on the back, and you need to know that no matter how strong the city wall is, it will not be able to stop the internal attack, so the official hopes that these people will be pacified first." ”

Looking at the faces of Zhang Gou and the others, Jiang Miao smiled and said: "Of course, it's not for nothing, once people are full and have nothing to do, they will also cause trouble, we can't give them the opportunity to cause trouble, weak hope, gather these homeless people, select their strong and responsible for patrolling the streets and alleys, temporarily integrate them according to the Han military system, and set up temporary military posts at all levels, first, to strengthen the security in the city, and secondly, when necessary, you can also go to the city to assist in the battle." ”

"In addition, from tomorrow, the closure of the well, the implementation of a curfew, no one is allowed to go out at night, but there are night travelers, if there is no official warrant, they will be regarded as thieves, regardless of identity, immediately detained, in addition to the establishment of sentry posts in various alleys, the closure of the well and the supervision of the whole city, the closure of the people of the well, more than five people, as a misdemeanor, immediately detained, recalcitrant beheaded!"

Jiang Qiao's face gradually became solemn, his eyes moved away from Zhang Xuan's face, and he looked at everyone: "However, if it is to be implemented, it is not enough to complete it with only the two warehouses of official grain promised by the imperial court. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but gasp, Zheng Yu looked at Jiang and said weakly: "The harshness of this law of the prince is probably ......."

Jiang Wan waved his hand and interrupted: "In troubled times, we should use heavy canons, this is the autumn of the survival of the well, weak dare not have any negligence, besides, this method is aimed at preventing people's hearts, and it is also a temporary bullet pressure, only for a while, not for a lifetime, after the power of the rebels is lifted, it will restore the law of the past, don't worry!"

Zhang Wei sighed, nodded and said, "So far, as Fujun said, Zhang is willing to help Fujun." ”

"Thank you!" Jiang Wan nodded, clasped his fists and looked at everyone.

Zhang Yu had spoken, and although the gentry of Fengjing were unwilling, they also knew the importance of this matter, so they could only nod their heads and accept it.