Qin Lei returned to the Hecheng County Ya with a body of blood and exhaustion, with a bang, he threw the big knife with the blade like a saw in the corner, sat on the threshold of the gate, and kept panting, he has been almost sixty years, the years are not forgiving, and the feeling of being powerless is getting worse day by day, today, in order to protect him, three more pro-soldiers fell in front of him. I took off my helmet and held it in my arms, and strands of gray hair were sticky together.

He has been holding out in Hecheng for half a year, half a year ago, Helanxiong left with the main force of Dongye, the Qin army Li Xinbu suddenly poured out of the upper valley, Daijun was caught off guard, most of the towns were almost drummed down by the Qin army, and after Xiling City, the capital of Daijun, was captured, and Zhao Yong, the county guard, was captured by Li Xinsheng, the situation was even more unbearable, Zhao Yong was captured and surrendered, and after the Qin army escorted Zhao Yong all the way to persuade him to surrender, almost all places in Daijun were occupied by the Qin army.

Qin Lei was stationed in Nanzhang at the time, at the time of the incident, he was reviewing the garrison troops in Hecheng, Hecheng was broken by the Zhao army in the Zilan era, and was slaughtered by the Zhao army because of the resistance, so the people of Hecheng hated the Zhao army the most, and the vast majority of the troops stationed in Hecheng were gathered in Hecheng County after the war, and here, it was also the first line of the county to resist the Zhao State.

Qin Lei did not have time to return to Nanzhang in Hecheng, and the Qin army took Zhao Yong to Nanzhang to persuade him to surrender, and the deputy general who stayed in Nanzhang surrendered after seeing Zhao Yong. The main force of more than 20,000 generations of counties led by Qin Lei disappeared, and more than 20,000 people were all disarmed and left the army after the incident.

Zhao Yong's persuasion to surrender hit a nail in Hecheng, originally thought that a veteran of the Zilan era like Qin Lei would definitely open the city and surrender under his own call, but after seeing Zhao Yong, Qin Lei scolded Zhao Yong for being a soft bone, and lived up to the hard work of the old county guard, not only did not surrender, but put on a posture of fighting with the Qin people to the end.

The Qin army failed to persuade him to surrender, and then launched an attack on Hecheng, but what the Qin army did not expect was that Hecheng was a well-known copper pea that could not be smashed and chewed, and the Qin army had reached 20,000 people at most, but it did not knock on the door of Hecheng, and after heavy casualties, Li Xin left only one army to monitor Hecheng, and led most of the troops to chase Helanxiong.

Of course, Li Xin left and never came back.

Fortunately for Hecheng, because of the last massacre of the Zhao army, the people in Hecheng City were almost killed and wounded, and there were few people left, and after the reconstruction of Hecheng, there were very few people living in the city, because it was rumored that every night, there would be countless souls who died in the streets, wailing. This made Crane City almost a military city, and even a few residents lived dependent on the army, doing chores for the army, or selling something to the army to make ends meet.

With a small population, Hecheng has more adequate food reserves to meet this crisis. This is also the reason why Tsurujo insisted on such a non-existent.

The Qin army left, but Zhao Qi's army came again, after Zhao Qi retreated to Shanggu, he immediately took over Daijun from the retreating Qin army, the Qin people didn't care about whether they could beat Hecheng or not, but Zhao Qi had to get rid of it quickly, so after Li Mingjun led his troops to arrive, the offensive against Hecheng was stronger day by day, which also made Qin Lei's life more and more difficult day by day.

The casualties are worse every day, but the food is less than one day, and the granary is about to turn to the bottom.

A person sat down next to Qin Lei, stretched out his hand and handed him a black bun and a bowl of water. Come, Commander Qin, eat a little and have some strength." The man smiled and said.

Dressed in the official costume of Dahan County, he has long been unable to see the color, his thin face is blue and black, his eyes are deep-set, and he looks like he is in his twenties at most. This is the county order Lu Pavilion sent by the Han State in Hecheng.

"It's not time to make steamed buns today, this was distributed to you yesterday, why didn't you eat it?" Qin Lei looked at the black bun in his hand and asked with a frown.

"Not hungry!" Lu Ting licked his mouth and said.

"Fart, look at your face, you walk shaky, right? Take it and eat it." Qin Lei wanted to stuff the bun back.

Lu Ting shook his head: "Commander Qin, you are the one who wants to fight in battle, you don't eat and have no strength, I'm behind, and I don't use a knife and a stick, I consume very little strength every day, and I am hungry."

"I'm fighting in front, you're coordinating in the rear, it won't be easier than me, how can you not be hungry?" Qin Lei snorted.

Lu Ting smiled, "Commander Qin, I'm the person who is most afraid of death, do you know?"

Qin Lei looked him up and down, "I really haven't seen this."

"It's true, I'm really afraid of death, I still have my father and mother at home, and I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, so ah, I'll save the bun for you!" Lu Ting squeaked and laughed: "If you have eaten hard, if you can defend the city, I don't have to die, if you are bored and can't defend the city, then Li Mingjun attacked and slashed my neck with a knife, so I would rather starve to death than be hacked to death by a knife."

Qin Lei looked at this county order who kept saying that he was afraid of death, but he couldn't see a trace of fear in his eyes, some were just indifferent, and couldn't help shaking his head and said: "You are a scholar, it's really not easy to be able to treat death as home!"

"What do you look at death as home, I count on General Qin, you hold the city, I can live a long life!" Lu Ting said: "The current situation is very good, Li Xin is defeated, don't look at Li Mingjun is jumping happily now, when our reinforcements arrive, he promises to run faster than a rabbit."

"That's what I said, but it's really not easy for our reinforcements to come to Hecheng, Zhao Qi will definitely fortify layer by layer, I'm really worried that we won't last a day, by the way, Lu County Order, how much food do we have?"

"Each soldier has one bun a day, and we have five days' worth of food." Lu Ting gave a slap and shook it in front of Qin Lei.

Qin Lei chuckled in his heart, "Isn't there anything else to eat in the city?"

"My county magistrate is really three feet high, not to mention that the people's grain cellar was dug up by me, and even the bark and edible leaves were searched clean." Lu Ting said with a smile: "I guess I will definitely leave my name in Hecheng in the future, and Lu Ting's order will be written in the county chronicles in the future, the sky is three feet high, hahaha!"

Qin Lei didn't speak, he took a big bite of the bun, chewed it in his mouth, chewed and chewed and suddenly snorted, looked down at the bun in his hand, and as a result, a slit was broken in the middle, and there was actually a small piece of meat inside.

"Where did the meat come from?"

Lu Ting's face was red, "I'm really tired today, I actually fell asleep in the corner of the house, I fell asleep and actually had a pain in my face, when I opened my eyes, I found that a mouse was biting me, I was evil to the gall, but I was overjoyed, I picked up this little thing, and then naturally it was roasted, his head has been eaten by me, and it is quite fragrant!"

Qin Lei looked at Lu Ting, the corners of his eyes were a little moist, what was so tired that he fell asleep, he must have fainted from hunger.

"I, if I eat your bun and your meat, I will definitely guard Hecheng, you just watch!" Qin Lei swallowed the meat bun in two bites, stood up, put on his helmet, walked to the weapon rack by the wall, took off a brand-new big knife, and strode towards the outside of the yamen.

In the dead of night, Qin Lei and his clothes were lying on the top of the city tower, looking at the hole on the roof with wide eyes, which was smashed by the stone projectile dropped by Zhao Jun's trebuchet, and the stone had been moved to the city wall and broken into small pieces as a weapon to defend the city, leaving only a big hole on the roof where you could enjoy the starry sky.

The food can still last for the last five days, and the soldiers in the city who can still fight are only in their early two thousands, but there is no news at all where the reinforcements are.

Qin Lei decided to hold out for three more days, and then ate everything he could eat, and then led the army out of the city to break through, how much could he escape. Always leave some fireworks for Hecheng.

Three days, is it possible for reinforcements to come? Qin Lei shook his head, Dongye came from the prairie, and if he wanted to reach Hecheng, he had to pass through the two passes of Xiling and Nanzhang, how difficult it was, even if they could fight, it would not be a matter of a short time, and he would never be able to support it at that time.

Sometimes Qin Lei himself is also thinking, what is he insisting on, even Zhao Yong has surrendered, what is he insisting on? As time passed, with the great victory of the Han army, Qin Lei finally understood the deepest thoughts in his heart. The state of Zhao has been completely finished, the Qin army has suffered a lot of vitality this time, the rise of the Han state has been irresistible, and the surrender of the young lord Zhao Yong is the biggest failure, once the Han army wins, the punishment of the mutineer is merciless, and his own insistence is also to be able to do something for the young lord in the future, right? If you are lucky, you can really survive until you survive, with your own merits this time, how can you exchange Zhao Yong's life, this is the last bit of blood and blood of Zilan County.

He sighed deeply, closed his eyes, sleep, sleep, tomorrow there is a battle, what's the use of thinking about it now?

Qin Lei was awakened by the thunderous sound of banging on the door, he jumped up, opened the door, and outside the door, stood one of his last few personal soldiers.

"Commander, our reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived!" The soldier's face was full of ecstasy, and he jumped and almost shouted to report the news to him.

"What do you say, reinforcements, reinforcements are coming? Is it Li Mingjun's trick to send people to pretend to be reinforcements to get us out of the city?" Qin Lei rushed out, leaned against the battlements, and looked at the Zhao military camp not far away, where the fire was blazing, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, and the sound of horses' hooves like thunder was like knocking on his heart.

"Commander, you see, if it's a pretend, it's so realistic, and besides, Zhao Jun hasn't seen many cavalry for a while, but the attackers seem to be all cavalry!" The pro-soldier said loudly. (To be continued......)