The fierce offensive of the rebels naturally did not only occur in the southern city wall, in fact, the western city wall and the eastern city wall were also facing a huge threat, which made the soldiers Liao Guang and Tian Qin not dare to relax at all.

"The rebels have taken the city!"

"Support! We need support! ”

For a while, there was chaos on the western city wall, and Liao Guang, who served as a soldier, was so anxious that he held down the sword on his waist, but he was helpless.

Just like Zhao Yu praised, Liao Guang is still a relatively bloody general, and in the face of such a crisis, his first thought was not to panic, but to be eager to go on the field in person to stabilize the situation.

But reason told him that even if he led his guards into battle in person, they would not be able to stop the rebels' powerful offensive.

He had to find a way to boost morale.

"Send reinforcements! Tell the follow-up team to go up the walls! ”

After gritting his teeth, Liao Guang gave an order with hatred.

At the sound of the order, thousands of county soldiers and soldiers immediately climbed the city wall along the steps on the inner side of the city wall, squeezing the already small foothold on the city wall, and in this way, it also slowed down the rebels' expansion of their occupation on the city wall.

But how to improve the morale of the soldiers and repel the group of rebel soldiers who have stormed the city walls?

Just when Liao Guang was in a hurry, suddenly a Gong Cao official rushed to the front of the city gate tower under the protection of two soldiers and rushed in front of him.

I saw that the meritorious official didn't care about the dignity on weekdays, and came to Liao Guang with a shield, and shouted loudly: "Liao Shiguan, Zhou Duwei has an order......

"What?"

Due to the noisy fighting shouts on the battlefield, although Liao Guang saw the comer, he couldn't listen to what the other party was saying.

"Captain Zhou has an order!"

"What?"

"I said that Leader Zhou has an order!"

"What did Captain Zhou say?"

After several failed exchanges, the Gong Cao official almost put his mouth to Liao Guang's ear, and shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "Zhou Duwei has an order, an additional reward of one million yuan for the southern city wall, as long as the soldiers in the city stick to it and repel the rebels, they can share this reward!" ”

The order could not have come at a better time.

Liao Guang couldn't care that his head was shouted by the Gong Cao official, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

He immediately ordered his guards to spread the order throughout the city.

"Captain Zhou has an order, and another one million dollars will be rewarded to the southern city wall, and those who will not retreat can share the reward money when they are to repel the rebels!"

"Captain Zhou has an order, and another one million dollars will be rewarded to the southern city wall, and those who will not retreat can share the reward money when they are to repel the rebels!"

……

Liao Guang's guards struggled to advance on the crowded city walls, shouting at the top of their voices, even if their voices were broken, they would not stop.

"Fight with them!"

"Kill them and share the reward!"

More and more of the Xuchang soldiers on the city wall shouted.

I have to say that in the case of a short meeting, the soldiers on both sides fought with momentum.

Although the rebel soldiers had the upper hand in momentum at first, when both sides were red-eyed, even the long-weakened Xuchang soldiers would erupt with amazing lethality because of hatred and other emotions, prompting them to sacrifice their lives and even die with the enemy.

Of course, this mood comes and goes away quickly, and if the casualties of the county pawn are too large, then this 'revenge' mood will immediately disappear and turn into a large-scale rout.

On the other hand, if the soldiers can be given an additional incentive when they have this emotion, so that the whole army can unite and advance and retreat together, then the feeling of revenge will spread under the extra force.

Just like the current southern city wall, there is this incredible scene, as long as it is the place where Liao Guang's guards passed, the morale of the guards in the city is greatly boosted, they changed their previous retreat, and in turn forced those rebel soldiers who attacked the city, and gradually compressed the latter's foothold space.

"Avenge the brothers who died in battle!"

"Kill them, and share the reward!"

The convergence of these two beliefs, which had prompted the soldiers to hold on to this day, caused the whole army to abandon the idea of 'retreating', clenching their weapons in their hands, and bravely - no, it should be said to be mad to rush towards the rebels.

The rebel soldiers on the opposite side immediately felt that these Xuchang soldiers had become stronger and more desperate.

Eventually, one of the rebels' stronghold was breached, and the small number of rebel soldiers who had initially attacked the walls held their positions here, trying to force the surrounding commanders to retreat so that their followers could gain a foothold on the walls.

Just a few dozen breaths ago, these rebel soldiers were still expanding outward step by step, but after the county soldiers in the city erupted with an astonishing momentum, they were actually defeated by those county soldiers.

"Don't retreat! Don't go back! ”

"Onward! Advance! ”

One of the rebel commanders shouted in anger, and even killed the enemy with his own soldiers, trying to stop the increasingly crazy county soldiers, but unfortunately, with the morale of the two sides almost tied, the county army finally crushed them by virtue of their absolute superiority in numbers.

"Ahh

"Ahh

In the panic shouting, individual rebel soldiers were forced to the dead corners of the city wall, or screamed and were hacked to the ground by the county soldiers, or made frightened noises, panicked and tried to jump over the wall to escape.

And in the end, after the bang, most of the rebel soldiers who tried to jump off the city wall to escape for their lives fell to their deaths under the city, and they didn't see it.

"Attack! Attack it! ”

Outside the walls of this 'stronghold', on a ladder cart, a rebel soldier watched his own soldiers on the city wall being slaughtered by the county army, and his eyes were split, and he loudly urged the soldiers from the side.

However, he never thought that they who could still attack the city wall could not attack it at this time, because there were countless county guards on the opposite side who were desperate to stop them.

"The oil is here!"

"The oil is here!" 89 Books

"Great!"

"Smash!"

Bang bang –

Several canisters of fire oil were thrown from the city and smashed on the ladder cart outside the city, and in an instant, several torches were thrown from the city, and the ladder cart was set on fire at once.

For a while, the ladder car was full of fire and black smoke, and the rebel soldiers on the car had no choice but to jump out of the car and flee for their lives.

Seeing this, the county soldiers in the city raised their arms and cheered.

"Hooray!"

"Hooray!"

With this cheer, another 'stronghold' on the city was broken, and countless red-eyed county guards drove down the rebel soldiers who attacked the city wall.

At this time, looking at the entire southern city wall, it seemed that the county guards 'turned defense into attack' and drove a small number of rebels down from the city, which made Liao Guang, a soldier who was watching the battle situation in front of the city gate tower, secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

"Sure enough, there will be a brave man under the heavy reward......

He couldn't help but sigh secretly.

In all fairness, since the outbreak of the Battle of Xuchang last year, he has never seen such an astonishing morale of his Xuchang army erupt, and of course, the price behind it is quite staggering.

If he hadn't miscalculated, today's battle alone would probably cost him a year's household tax in Xuchang City......

Probably more than that.

Even for Liao Guang, who earns 1,000 stone a year and is converted into about 350,000 yuan at today's rice price, it is a rather huge word, more than his ten years of money.

Just a war, just the cost of motivating the soldiers, cost him ten years.

You must know that in the entire Yingchuan County, there are only a few people above him, including the county guard, the county officer, the capital lieutenant, the upper capital lieutenant, and the county guard Changshi, and there are no more than five people in the full fight.

"A guy from a bandit is so 'generous'...... Hey, after this battle, let's see how he explains it to Li Junshou.'"

Glancing at the hill made of copper coins next to him, the corners of Liao Guang's mouth didn't feel a hint of an inexplicable smile, and he imagined in his mind the scene of a certain Zhou Duwei being scolded by Li Junshou and drenched in blood.

While smiling secretly, Liao Guang instructed one of the guards behind him: "Go to the South City Gate Tower and return to Captain Zhou, the situation here is temporarily under control." ”

"Yes."

The guard glanced at Liao Guang, clenched his fists and led away.

If Liao Guang had relaxed his tense nerves a little at this time, then at the rebel camp outside the city, the faces of Xiang Xuan and Yan Xuan were becoming more and more serious.

"More than 3,000 dead and wounded......

Yan Xuan secretly estimated the number of casualties on the battlefield ahead.

Although he had not seen the corpses strewn across the walls, he could roughly estimate his casualties based on the intensity of the siege.

And at present, their intention to capture Xuchang in one go is obviously about to be shattered, the county army defending the city is more tenacious than they predicted, although it is not yet clear that the victory or defeat is not visible, but Yan Xuan has realized that even if they can attack Xuchang today, I am afraid they will have to pay an extremely painful price.

Not long after, the heralds who came from the battlefield in front told Xiang Xuan and Xiang Xuan an astonishing fact: the battle losses of the enemy and us were one to one.

"How so?"

Xiang Xuan's face was full of surprise.

To be sure, in all siege battles, in which the casualties of the attacking army are three times the casualties of the defending city, abound, and nothing new.

But the city of Xuchang in front of him is different, Xuchang's army has been defeated repeatedly in front of his righteous division, and its morale has already fallen to an incredible level, even if there are casualties of one to three in turn, Xiang Xuan will not be surprised.

In fact, he was surprised that Xuchang's army had actually held off the advance of his righteous division—and it was a ferocious attack on three sides.

In the case of being attacked on three sides, the Xuchang army, which had been weak for a long time, actually fought a one-to-one casualty figure with their righteous division?

How is this possible?

Could it be that Zhou Hu was really so powerful that he single-handedly reversed the morale of the Xuchang army?

"No way!"

Xiang Xuan said angrily: "Go check immediately, see what happened, why the morale of the Xuchang army has been so significantly improved!" ”

"Yes!"

After a while, a herald came back to tell the reason: "General Qiqi, the morale of the Xuchang army has increased significantly because Xuchang uses a lot of money to boost morale, and the western city wall facing our army alone is said to be more than one million dollars to be distributed......"

"A million?"

Not to mention Xiang Xuan's solemn face, Yan Xuan also showed a shocked look.

In all fairness, for a general of their rank, a million is not a big amount, but the problem is that this million is not all used to stimulate the morale of the soldiers under their command on the other side, but only refers to today's battle.

In this way, this is quite a large amount.

"Isn't it a city wall that gives out a million dollars a day? Xuchang is so rich? ”

Yan Xuan muttered in shock.

Of course, he would not underestimate the strength of his own soldiers, but if Xuchang really did as he thought, he would give a reward of one million dollars to the soldiers on a city wall every day...... He didn't dare to imagine that his righteous teacher would be able to conquer the city.

"How is that possible?"

Xiang Xuan smiled and said: "If this is the case, if our side attacks from three sides, Xuchang will consume at least three million dollars a day to boost morale, how can it last for a long time......"

He said that, but there was no smile in his eyes.

In case of...... This?