More than a dozen Xianbei people ran back to the army in embarrassment.

Because the defenders at the head of Pingcheng City had already raised their bows and crossbows in their hands and aimed at them.

They don't suspect that the arrows won't be fired at them.

They don't want to put themselves on the hook without a word.

These nearly 60,000 Xianbei people are not the tribe of Heruogu.

After the Xianbei army passed through the Yanmen Pass, the various tribes scattered and wanted to grab a piece of territory in Yanmen County to develop.

He Ruogu took the Heruo tribe with a total population of nearly 100,000 in Zhizhi County, and when he attacked Yanmen Pass before, 40,000 capable warriors also consumed thousands.

Even though Yanmen Pass had been taken, He Ruogu still felt palpitations.

If the defenders of every city are like the 800 soldiers at Yanmen Pass.

Their Xianbei army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and they attacked in rotation without stopping, and only then did they take Yanmen Pass, and they suffered more than 1,000 casualties on the first day.

If every city is like Yanmen Pass, then they don't have to fight.

Fortunately, they can first get supplies in the villages and small towns everywhere, and have a foothold, and then besiege Dai County.

Now the northern part of Dai County has been controlled by He Ruogu.

The Xianbei Alliance, which had been formed before, was now falling apart, with each tribe scattered to find its own territory.

They did not dare to move the territory of the Heruo tribe, so they could only continue to attack the city in the south.

These Xianbei people who attacked Pingcheng were two or three medium-sized tribes united together, intending to capture Pingcheng and garrison Pingcheng together.

The situation of the Xianbei people, the waves of scouts sent by Yan Ren, are almost clear.

This tactic of spreading out the main force and running around directly as a place for oneself is indeed very similar to the tactics of the Xianbei people on the grassland.

But this kind of tactic is placed in the Central Plains, and it is a fatal weakness.

For this battle, Chen Chen felt that Liu Bei could not fail.

Of course, the Taiyuan army did not know the current situation in Pingcheng, and Zhang Fei was still on his way to Pingcheng on horseback.

But the situation in Heijo is not so good right now.

The tens of thousands of Xianbei people surrounded Pingcheng, arrested craftsmen from other places outside the city, and began to urge craftsmen to make siege equipment on the spot.

Of course, they don't understand very well, and the so-called siege equipment is just a simple ladder and a rushing car.

This kind of improvised siege equipment is a disposable tool, and the craftsmen are all coerced, and they are not very careful when doing things.

These tens of thousands of Xianbei people could only surround Pingcheng without attacking it, and besieged it for several days.

Before, they used hundreds of Xianbei rangers to deceive thousands of defenders of Pingcheng out of the city to fight, and now the defenders in this small city, they can almost tell.

It's a small city, and it's only a matter of time before it takes it down.

Even with thousands of people helping, they didn't think that the defenders of Pingcheng would be able to withstand the offensive of their tens of thousands of troops.

The people of Pingcheng are the same enemy.

Because how can the Xianbei people, or the aliens, be merciful to them?

Those of them who grew up in border cities, the ancestors of which family, have never fought bloody battles with the Huns, Xianbei people, and all kinds of alien people.

The blades of the aliens were covered with the blood of their ancestors.

Only fight to the death!

Pingcheng Ling has a big flag in his hand, and he looks old and strong.

The banner in his hand is the military order, which is composed of a defender with a few people in a group, taking turns to guard the city wall, and the rest of the people are collecting all kinds of useful things in the city to assist in defending the city.

The army and the people defend the city together, and the border is also a common thing.

The neighbors all moved, some went to each house to collect feces and urine to boil the gold juice, and some went to the city to find abandoned houses and tear down wood to make rolling log.

Each family also found all kinds of tools and instruments in their homes, and the carpenters in the city made them into handy long-pole weapons.

The Heijo Order also opened the arsenal in the city, and distributed the small amount of armor to the young men in the city.

They will be the main force of the defenders of the City of Peace.

Women and children were gathered together nervously making all kinds of tools for defending the city, simple bows and arrows, and so on.

The Xianbei people made siege equipment, and only besieged and did not attack these days.

Pingcheng moved in an orderly manner, Zhuang Xinghe went around to heal the defenders who had been injured before and returned to the city, and Zhou Zhou helped him carry the medicine box on his back.

But this order of preparation was still broken by the noise of the war.

Without sending any scouts for help, the people of Pingcheng could only rely on themselves to protect their homeland.

"Have you started?"

Zhuang Xinghe wiped the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, squatted on the ground to help a young soldier who had been wounded by an arrow to bandage his wounds.

He heard shouts from outside the city, and asked Zhou Zhou behind him without raising his head.

"Seems like so."

Zhou Zhou held a sword in his arms and a medicine box on his back, looking around vigilantly.

If the Xianbei people once invaded the city, she would directly pull Zhuang Xinghe and run away.

"Then let's speed up and give me the medicine box."

Zhuang Xinghe quickly and accurately wrapped the soldier and gently patted him on the shoulder.

The young soldier nodded gratefully to Zhuang Xinghe, turned and moved towards the city wall.

Even if you are injured, you must go resolutely.

He was to defend the city while recuperating from his wounds.

Zhuang Xinghe sighed.

This is the last person who was injured among the soldiers who went out of the city before, help him heal, and Zhuang Xinghe will be fine.

Of course, how many people will be injured after that, Zhuang Xinghe is not clear.

He decided to take Zhou Zhou back to the city wall again.

The city walls are in order, and at the moment of the war, everyone obeys the command, and if the city gate is lost, then they will have no life.

When fighting for one's life, people can always burst out with a lot of miraculous power.

Zhuang Xinghe watched a sturdy woman carrying a stone strip removed from an abandoned house and throwing it straight towards the city, hitting many Xianbei people repeatedly.

Maybe the craftsmen who were captured to make siege equipment for the Xianbei people cut corners, or maybe the materials were too rudimentary.

The ladders and carts used for the siege were not strong, and the defenders on the city walls cut the joints with their knives, and the whole ladder would fall apart.

This led to the fact that there were not many defenders and civilians on the city wall, but this ten-meter-high city wall, Xianbei people just couldn't climb it.

It seems that the form is okay?

Zhuang Xinghe took Zhou Zhou through the crowd guarding the city, looking for the injured and in need of treatment.

A total of more than 2,000 young and strong, can still guard a city wall well, with the Xianbei people's equipment, it is impossible to break the wall of Pingcheng.

But the Xianbei people surrounded Pingcheng.

Although the main Xianbei force was in the west, there were also thousands of Xianbei people preparing to attack the city on the other three sides.

As soon as the battle on the side of the main city gate began, the Xianbei people on the other three sides also began to attack the city when they heard the sound.

The defenders at the main gates had to disperse to the other walls to resist the attack.

For a time, there were only more than 1,000 defenders left at the main city gate, and this was still the situation where some teenagers and old men were also brought up to help defend the city.

Zhuang Xinghe was getting busier and busier, and although Xianbei's arrows did not cause much damage to the defenders on the city wall, there would still be sporadic people who were shot into their bodies by arrows through the obscuration.

Xianbei's offensive was just a test, they didn't expect that such a fragile town would be able to burst out with such a resistance ability.

After a while, he retreated.

Xianbei caused injuries to the defenders on the city wall, most of which were caused by rangers shooting the defenders in the body, and there were not many deaths, but Zhuang Xinghe needed more people to be treated.

Late at night, Zhuang Xinghe was still treating the wounded on the city wall.

He realized that the situation he saw during the day was very good, but it was just the intuitive feeling of a martial artist who did not understand military strategy.

But actually.

The Xianbei people are cunning jackals on the grassland.

Their show of weakness is only to do better damage.

Xianbei's harassing projectiles did not cause many casualties to the defenders.

Although they didn't even climb the city wall, they still caused a lot of trouble for the defenders, and most of the people who defended the city had arrow wounds on their bodies, even if they were not fatal, the bleeding wounds still gave people a kind of psychological pressure.

Under the hazy light of the fire in the dark night.

Zhuang Xinghe looked at the defenders lying here and there resting on the city wall.

There was a smell of blood on the walls of Pingcheng, it was the blood that flowed from countless wounds, and Zhuang Xinghe felt that he should not be able to cure it.

Faintly, he seemed to hear the crying of a baby in the distance of the city wall.

"Madam, I feel something is wrong, go and see."

Lowering his voice, Zhuang Xinghe didn't want to disturb the surrounding soldiers who were resting and on duty at night, he woke up Zhou Zhou, who had been with him all day, and the two of them lay on the city wall and looked into the distance.

There was a faint flicker of fire in the distance.

There seems to be a small group of Xianbei people approaching.

Not only Zhuang Xinghe, but also the soldiers on duty also saw it, and they called out to the other people who were lying and resting against the city wall, holding torches high, waiting to meet the night attack of the Xianbei people.

But the weird thing is.

As the fire of the Xianbei people approached, the baby's crying became louder and louder.

Until they see clearly.

See clearly......

Everyone clenched their weapons tightly and gritted their teeth, and some people clutched a corner of the city wall with both hands, grinding off their fingertips and blood flowing on the wall.

It was the Xianbei people's execution squad.

They stayed on the walls where the archers could not shoot, but they could see what they had done.

He pinned a family of five to the ground.

It was a family of craftsmen they had captured, a young couple, an old man, and two children, one older and one younger.

The Xianbei man's knife rested on their heads.

The young couple hugged each other, while the old waited for the butcher's knife with his head held high, and only the two children were crying.

The Xianbei people did not directly swing the butcher knife, but untied the rope of the family.

"Run!"

The young craftsman turned around and tried to block the Xianbei people's iron horses, letting his wife run away with the children and the old man.

But his old mother stood by his side.

His young wife, holding the baby in one hand and the child in the other, struggled to get up from the ground and ran towards the city walls.

She wants to leave incense for her husband's house, and she has to run.

Trampling barefoot on the rough ground, her feet dripping with blood as she pierced into the shattered blades of the day's battles.

But she still dragged the child and ran desperately towards the city gate.

Those hundreds of paces.

It is the hope of life.

Her husband was still behind him, ready to stop the Xianbei people who wanted to hunt, but the Xianbei people did not move.

It's just that......

Slowly, he stretched out his bow and aimed at the women and children who ran towards the city gate.

"No!"

The young craftsman faced the Xianbei man's knife and pounced on the Xianbei man who was aiming at his wife, and his old mother followed him to pull the leading Xianbei man's leg.

"Poof!"

The Xianbei man lowered his bow and arrows, drew the knife from his waist, and slashed at the young craftsman's shoulder, the knife embedded in his bones.

The young craftsman did not regret it, he at least ......

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

Before he could rejoice that he had stopped the arrow he had been aiming at, he heard the sound of countless arrows firing.

He looked back in despair.

His wife and children had collapsed in the rain of arrows.

The wife still seemed to hold the two children tightly in her arms, and her body was full of countless arrows, like a hedgehog crawling on the ground.

And his old mother has been trampled under the feet of the Xianbei horse.

With a smile on his face, he didn't breathe.

"Ho!"

He let out a desperate cry from his mouth, and turned his head to fight the Xianbei man with his only remaining hand, but was beheaded in an instant.

His head was thrown into the air, and his torso fell limply.

The Xianbei man licked the blood from his sword, rode his horse to the young woman's body, cut off the head of the older child with his own knife, picked it on the tip of the knife, and held his own knife towards the defenders on the walls of Pingcheng.

"Han people! And that's just the first one! ”

After saying that, he shook off the child's head on the tip of the knife and turned back into the team.

"Bang!"

The defenders on the wall of Pingcheng all burst into tears, such things were really unbearable, and a young man slammed the city wall hard, making a muffled sound, which also hit the hearts of all the defenders on the city wall.

Zhuang Xinghe pursed his lips tightly.

He has been a ranger for so many years, and he has seen and heard of cruelty.

But today, he was inexplicably trembling in his heart, looking at the corpses of the family of five, he didn't know what to say.

But they didn't wait for them to recover.

There were more and more fires on Xianbei's side, and it seemed that many squads were moving towards the city gate.

"I said, this is just the first one!"

The Xianbei man who had just attacked smugly shouted at the defenders on the city wall.

Only then did they see what the firelight was shining on.

It's a family, and it's all people from the villages and towns around Heijo.

They did not enter the city, and the moment the Xianbei army came, they were all taken into custody and kept as slaves.

How many households are there?

Zhuang Xinghe didn't know, to say the least, there were hundreds or thousands of people.

Is this the Xianbei people going to use executions to deter the people of Pingcheng with their conscience in front of Pingcheng?

Zhuang Xinghe thinks not.

"They're here to get us out of the city to save people."

Heijo Ling took off his helmet and said this, his voice already trembling.

He is also a father, a husband, and a son, and he is also a Han man made of meat.

He served the classics of history, learned the six arts of the gentleman, returned to his hometown to guard the country, and today his white hair is stationed in Pingcheng.

He had no way of watching these people being slaughtered before his eyes.

But behind him, there are more people waiting for him to protect.

The population of Pingcheng was less than 10,000, and most of the population went to the city wall to help defend the city.

He served as a flat city order.

Now we are in a dilemma.

"We can't get out of town."

He opened his mouth tremblingly, he felt that he should be worthy of the people of Heijo behind him, but he also decided, after this battle, he threw himself into Heijo to apologize to these innocent people who died in front of him.

"Yes!"

There were young sergeants who couldn't stand it and wanted to argue with the peace city order.

"I said we weren't allowed to go out of town!"

The always gentle Heijo Ling, with white hair scattered in the air, his eyes dimmed, and he roared loudly.

That embarrassed and fierce look, like a male lion in his twilight years.

"I want to save people more than you do! But we must not go out of the city! Out of the city, what should the people of Pingcheng do? When? Yes! ”

Heijo Ling lost his usual elegance, grabbed the armor of the sergeants around him, and the droplets splashed, mixed with tears and left in his mouth, extremely bitter.

Zhuang Xinghe stood quietly.

He didn't say anything, nor did he look at the Han compatriots who had been escorted far away from the city wall.

He was looking up at the stars.

The stars in the night sky are beautiful.

But why can't this world be as beautiful and peaceful as this starry sky?

Why is there all this cruelty, why are there all these heart-wrenching things?

Zhuang Xinghe hadn't figured it out before, even if he was one of the group of rangers who boasted of developing their individual monomers to the extreme, traveled all over the mountains and rivers in China, and saw all the rivers and lakes and enmities, he didn't understand this problem.

So he chose seclusion, and he also chose a remote place.

But today, he may have come to his senses.

He lowered his head and looked at the body of the young woman with the child in her arms.

The cruelty of this earthly victory over hell made his heart cut like a knife.

Because he is a Han Chinese.

He suddenly felt the difference, for the first time he felt the insolvability of a foreigner, and for the first time after the seclusion, he regenerated his hatred.

This time, it wasn't for anyone around him.

After all.

At this scene in life, why are you indignant.

Don't seek the next life, don't come with sorrow.

"I'm going to save someone."

Zhou Zhou took his hand and said softly.

Compared with Zhuang Xinghe, she likes to be happy and revenge, and she already wants to go down to save people by herself, even if she knows that she may not be able to save many people, but if she doesn't do it, she will have trouble sleeping every week.

"You stay here, I'll come when I go."

Zhou Zhou picked up his double swords, smiled softly at Zhuang Xinghe, and raised his hand to gently brush his long forehead hair that was blown up by the night wind.

"I'll go with you."

Zhuang Xinghe suddenly laughed.

He felt as if he was about to do something amazing.

It seems that this incident can solve my doubts and find the meaning of my life.

"Okay."

Zhou Zhou's bright eyes were reflected by the firelight in the dark night, condensed on Zhuang Xinghe's body.

Because she felt the kind of strength that erupted from Zhuang Xinghe's body.

It seems that his own man.

Far better than yourself.

No wonder he never gets tired.

Covering his mouth and smiling, Zhou Zhou suddenly thought about it.

The two of them suddenly felt extremely relaxed, and the impact of the cruel scene just now on them also faded.

Because at the moment, they are a chivalrous couple.

The chivalrous couple only lives for himself, not for others.

"Mrs. Zhou Ideal, don't you blame me for not telling you?"

Zhuang Xinghe lifted his medicine box, took out his weapon parts from the medicine box, assembled them, and asked Zhou Zhou with his eyes lowered.

"Weird."

He felt his wife's hands caress his face and squeeze it gently.

"But if you say something to coax me, I won't blame me."

Zhou Zhou rubbed her husband's cheek and felt his temperature.

She knew in her heart that this was dangerous, and perhaps this was the last intimate contact.

Zhuang Xinghe put down the assembled weapon, raised his eyes and looked at his wife, and the two of them smirked.

Under the stars in this sky.

On this beacon flat city.

Quietly embraced each other.

Zhuang Xinghe lay in Zhou Zhou's ear and whispered love words.

"The galaxy is hot, you are the ideal of the world."

Zhou Zhou blinked and looked at her husband.

"So when you called me ideal, you were already secretly liking me?"

"Hmm."

"Then I don't blame you, let's go down."

"Okay."

Taking their respective weapons, Zhuang Xinghe and his wife jumped off the city wall.

The surrounding garrison sergeants, and the tearful Pingcheng Order, were all frightened by their movements.

Does this feel that the city is broken and martyred?

The ten-meter-high city wall, if you jump down, you will not necessarily die, but you will definitely break your muscles and bones.

But what was shocking was that the young couple landed safely at the base of the city wall of Pingcheng, carrying their respective weapons, and galloped towards the people who were being escorted.

If Zhou Cang and Dian Wei were here, they would even feel that their running speed might be slightly inferior to that of this couple.

The defenders of the flat castle were clinging to the walls, nervously watching the couple's movements.

They understood that Doctor Zhuang, who was well-known in the city, and his little wife turned out to be legendary knights.

Those famous heroes are all good at killing.

As for saving people, it depends on it.

Pingcheng Ling opened his eyes and watched from afar as Zhuang Xinghe and his wife rushed towards the Xianbei man who was escorting the captives like ants.

The gap is so large that there is no hope for success.

But he still beckoned the soldiers guarding the city, once the people escaped, or Zhuang Xinghe and his wife came back, they must open the city gate and let them come up, and he also asked people to hurry up to prepare the hanging basket, if only the two of them came back, they would use the hanging basket to quickly hang the city wall.

"Ideal, are you afraid?"

The husband and wife are neck and neck, and the distance of hundreds of steps also allows them to talk a few more words.

"This woman hasn't been scared yet."

Zhou Zhou pursed her lips, she regained the feeling she had when she was a ranger, the feeling of being free of Ren Xia, it seemed to be back.

"Then I will stop the Xianbei people, and you will kill the Xianbei people who are escorting their compatriots, cut their shackles, and let them retreat to Pingcheng."

Zhuang Xinghe babbled and explained.

"If I can't stop it, you run with them."

Zhuang Xinghe thought about it and added.

"Fuck off, I'll go to you right away, waiting for me to protect you."

Zhou Zhou gently stabbed Zhuang Xinghe with the scabbard, causing him to run wildly for a moment.

"Whoever dares to hurt you, I will hack him to death."

"I owe you my life! I haven't given you a little village yet! ”

Her words were easy and domineering, but her handsome face was very red.

She still remembered what Zhuang Xinghe said to her inappropriately just now.

The galaxy is hot, you are the ideal of people.

That's a beautiful statement.

If she lives, she will remember it for the rest of her life.

If she dies, she will remember it for the rest of her life.