"PS: I won't make it up tonight, I have to go through the process again."

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"Report! Traces of Zhou Gongjun were found in the eastern suburbs outside the city, with more than 10,000 soldiers! ”

"Report! The southern suburbs outside the city found traces of Zhong Feijun, with more than 10,000 soldiers! ”

"Report! In the western suburbs outside the city, traces of Xiang Xuan and Yan Xuan's two armies were found, with more than 10,000 soldiers! ”

At midnight on the morning of 15 June, three heralds appeared at the county guard mansion almost simultaneously and informed the county guard Li Min of the news of the arrival of the three rebel armies outside Xuchang City.

Even if it was a character like Li Junshou, he also showed a panicked look on his face at this time, and said to the left and right: "What about Zhou Hu? Where is Zhou Hu?! ”

After a while, someone in the know replied to Li Junshou: "Captain Zhou has gone to the West City Gate to inspect the enemy's situation. …… Do you want to call him? ”

“…… Not necessarily. ”

Although Li Junshou was uneasy, he didn't dare to disturb after all, but just sent someone to the West City Gate to ask if Zhou Hu was sure to defend the city.

At the same time, Zhao Yu was standing in the open space in front of the West City Gate Tower, looking at Xiang Xuanjun and Yan Xuanjun outside the city.

In all fairness, the number of Xiang Xuanjun and Yan Xuan's army outside the city today is not much more than that of the previous few days, the difference is that the two rebel armies today are accompanied by ladder vehicles, siege vehicles and other siege equipment, and they know that they are coming to the real thing.

Just when Zhao Yu was secretly observing the rebels outside the city, there were two people, Wei Shi Hanhe and Liu Jian, who told him about the situation at the south city gate and the east city gate.

It is similar to the west city gate, the Zhong Fei army in the south outside the city, and the Zhou Gong army in the east all carry siege equipment such as ladder cars and rushing cars.

These three rebels appeared at the same time, and the accompanying army all carried siege equipment, so consistent, obviously negotiated in advance, so as to give Xuchang City the greatest impact and deterrence.

"Wang Tao." Zhao Yu shouted in a deep voice.

"Captain, please." Gongcao Shi Wang Tao immediately walked out of the crowd behind Zhao Yu and saluted Zhao Yu.

I saw Zhao Yu staring at the rebels outside the city, and said in a deep voice: "Immediately send someone to divide the one million money from the Governor's Office into three parts, and carry it to the west, south, and east city gate towers!" ”

"Yes."

Wang Gong Cao Shi bowed down and took the order.

"Han He!"

"Yes." Wei Shi Hanhe hurriedly came out of the queue and bowed to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu ordered in a deep voice: "Pass my order, the whole city is strictly prohibited, and the people in the city are not allowed to stay on the main street, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!" …… If you lead another thousand soldiers and keep watch on the main street, and those who violate our prohibitions, or create chaos or spread rumors, will be arrested immediately! ”

"Obey!"

Yu Shi Hanhe hurried away.

"Liu Jian!"

"Humble duty." Wei Shi Liu Jian also hurried out of the ranks.

"You lead 2,000 soldiers, and you are responsible for logistics, and you are responsible for the fire oil needed to defend the city, and the water and rice needed by the soldiers."

"Yes!"

Liu Jian also hurried away.

After a while, many soldiers suddenly poured on the city wall, and it turned out that Tian Qin and Liao Guang had transferred reinforcements from the barracks in the city.

There were probably not as many as two or three thousand of these soldiers who came to help, and they kept pouring up from the stairs on the inner side of the city wall, but even so, there was still a lot of space on the city wall.

"It's so big, Xuchang ......"

Zhao Yu frowned and looked around the city walls on both sides.

According to his visual observation, the west city wall of Xuchang is almost twice the west wall of Kunyang, and for the weak Xuchang, such a long defense line undoubtedly hides more accidents and changes.

What's worse is that the morale of these county guards is generally not high, and most of them are pale, as if they are in despair.

led this group of county guards to defend the city, and even Zhao Yu muttered a little: Can this group of people really hold it?

At this moment, Zhao Yu could only hope for the one million money to see if he could mobilize the morale of these county soldiers and turn them into 'brave men'.

A moment later, the rebels in the distance outside the city were about to finish their formation, and at this time, a soldier carried the box full of money to the city gatehouse.

"It's too slow!"

Zhao Yu frowned secretly.

However, when he saw that several gongcao led by Wang Tao were all sweating, he finally couldn't hold back and didn't get angry.

In fact, he also understands that Wang Tao and others are already very fast.

"Pour out all the copper coins in the box and pile them in one place." Zhao Yu ordered in a deep voice.

Gongcao Shi Wang Tao glanced at Zhao Yu in astonishment, and hurriedly ordered those servants: "Quick! According to what Zhou Duwei said, pour out the money from the box of Li......"

Whoop -

Under Zhao Yu's order, the famous soldier dumped all the money in a wooden box in front of the city gate tower, and a small mountain was piled up in a short time.

One million dollars was divided into three parts, each of which was about 330,000 yuan, and intuitively, this amount was still quite impactful, and it immediately attracted the attention of those nearby county officials.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Yu looked around at the soldiers on the city wall and shouted, "Have you seen this money?" This is the money that Zhou asked Li Junshou to reward you and other soldiers. ”

As he spoke, he ordered again: "In my name, inform the whole army that anyone who goes up to the city wall to defend today will be rewarded with a hundred yuan, and in addition, if you kill a rebel, you will be rewarded with another ten yuan, and there is no upper limit!" ”

After that, he turned to look at the prince and his wife, and gestured, "What are you still doing in a daze?" ”

"Yes!"

Only then did Wang Yan react, and personally ran on the city wall, shouting: "Captain Zhou has an order, the soldiers who go to the city wall to participate in the defense today, as long as they stick to their posts and fight hard to kill the enemy, each person will be rewarded with 100 yuan, and if one rebel is killed, the reward will be 10 yuan, and there will be no cap." Zhou Duwei has an order......"

When Wang Yan was running to tell each other, Gong Cao Shuzuo Feng Ji, who was standing behind Zhao Yu, also immediately recorded Zhao Yu's order.

In just a moment, the cheers of the soldiers resounded on the western wall.

Some people even shouted, "Long live the county keeper!" Long live Zhou Duwei! ”

These cheers gradually converged into a tidal wave.

Under this wave of cheers, Shi Chenlang, the county guard, and Gong Cao, who joined the army, looked at each other.

The two of them made a calculation in their hearts.

At this moment, there are about two thousand guards on the west city wall - of course, this amount of strength is not enough to resist the rebels, Chen Lang and Xun Yi estimate that today's west city wall will use at least five or six thousand people, after all, it will be rotated.

According to the calculation of 6,000 people, the western, southern, and eastern walls are 18,000 soldiers, and each soldier is rewarded with 100,000 yuan, which is 1,800,000 yuan......

Good fellow, a few days ago, Li Junshou gave him a million dollars as a reward for his soldiers, but today, as soon as that Zhou Commander opened his mouth, he not only immediately spent the million money, but even owed 800,000 yuan......

Sadly, this does not include the additional reward of 'ten pennies for killing one'.

Although there must be brave men under the heavy reward, this heavy reward is inevitably too heavy, right?

This hasn't even been a war, and millions of dollars have been spent, and if this war lasts for days, tens, or dozens of days, then what's the point?

However, listening to the cheers of the county guards on the west city wall, Chen Lang and Xun Yi did not squeak in any interest.

After all, they also understand that the most important thing at the moment is to block the offensive of the rebels outside the city, and it is the most unacceptable situation to spend some money and be attacked by the rebels into the city.

A moment later, the Marquis of the Gate returned to the city gate tower out of breath and surrendered to Zhao Yu in a hoarse voice.

At this time, Tian Qin and Liao Guang had also come to the city gate to meet Zhao Yu.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu instructed Tian Qin, Liao Guang, and Wang Ling: "The rebels are attacking Xuchang in three ways, and they must be dominated by Xiang Xuan, there is no doubt that this side of the west city wall will be the direction of the rebels' onslaught, Liao Guang, you are quite bold, I order you to assist Wang Yan again, do you have any objections?" ”

Liao Guang, who was praised by Zhao Yu a little, showed a little stunned on his face, and after reacting, he immediately clenched his fists and said: "Obey orders!" …… There is a lowly position here, and the rebels will never be allowed to attack! ”

"Okay."

Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction and advised: "I will allow you to act cheaply, during which you can discuss with Wang Yan, if you can't make up your mind, send someone to inform me." ”

"Yes!"

Liao Guang clenched his fists and ordered.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu and his entourage immediately followed the city wall to the South City Gate, and the scholar Tian Qin also followed.

When Zhao Yu and his entourage came to the South City Gate Tower, 330,000 money had been piled up in front of the South City Gate Tower.

Zhao Yu repeated his old tricks, ordered someone to pour the 330,000 money on the ground, and at the same time issued an order for rewards.

The soldiers on the south city wall were surprised at first by the boxes full of money, and even more surprised at why the soldiers on the west city wall suddenly cheered, until they heard Zhao Yu's reward order with their own ears, and they couldn't help but cheer.

By the way, the former South Gate Gate Hou Yan Sheng had been dismissed by Zhao Yu before, and the new Gate Hou Xu Ke was promoted by Tian Qin with Zhao Yu's consent, probably for this reason, that Xu Ke was also respectful to Zhao Yu.

After telling Xu Hark to guard the southern city wall, Zhao Yu and his party immediately went to the east city wall.

In front of the East City Gate, Zhao Yu repeated his old tricks again, successfully inspiring the morale of the guards on the east city wall.

The East City Gate is called Song Pre, Zhao Yu saw it when he inspected various city gates a few days ago, probably Zhao Yu was killing chickens and monkeys in the south city wall at that time, this Song Pre was also quite respectful to Zhao Yu, and did not dare to offend at all.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Yu instructed Tian Qindao: "As far as I know, Zhou Gong outside the city here, he is also a fierce general, and I order you to assist again." …… Like Liao Guang, I grant you the power to act cheaply, unless there is something obvious wrong with the rebels, or you can't judge, you can send someone to inform me, and you can decide the rest. ”

"Yes!"

Tian Qin clenched his fists and took his life.

The two fairly good generals Liao Guang and Tian Qin were placed at the west gate and the east gate respectively, naturally out of vigilance against Xiang Xuan and Zhou Gong.

Don't look at Xiang Xuan's limelight during this time, but Zhao Yu also knew that during this period, Zhou Gong captured Yanling silently.

Yanling, that is not a small county, far from Yingyang, Yingyin, Linying and other places comparable, although not as good as Xuchang, but at least it is also a city above medium size.

That Zhou Gong captured Yanling without making a sound, and forced the landing of Yanling County, Cai Cheng and the county lieutenant Tian Ju, Zhao Yu naturally had to pay attention to it.

Woo woo –

Woo woo –

Woo woo –

Outside the west city wall, Xiang Xuanjun took the lead in sounding the horn.

Immediately, Zhong Feijun outside the southern city wall and Zhou Gong outside the eastern city wall also sounded the horn sound of the imminent attack.

At this time, Zhao Yu and his entourage were returning to the south gate along the city wall, and when they heard the battle call, Zhao Yu paused and watched, looking solemnly at the rebels in the east and south directions and starting to move one after another.

"Whether Xuchang can hold it or not depends on today's battle."

Zhao Yu thought secretly in his heart.

He had no doubt that the four rebel generals, Xiang Xuan, Yan Xuan, Zhong Fei, and Zhou Gong, would take the most ferocious offensive today, trying to break Xuchang's morale in one fell swoop.

In other words, this first encounter may be the fiercest and fiercest battle in the entire battle.