In less than half an hour, the first batch of false thieves, with more than 2,000 people, were killed and wounded.

After a rough count, the total casualties of the county army so far are about 130 people, and the elite of the black tiger thieves sent is only a single case, and the casualty ratio between the enemy and us is close to fifteen to one, which is a beautiful and exaggerated number, even in the siege warfare since ancient times, it is quite rare.

In addition to the factor that the county army occupies the advantage of the city wall, it can only be said that those pseudo-thieves are too weak, have no fighting spirit, and have no training, but were forced by the green forest thieves and came up to die in vain.

Although the county guards were also very weak, most of them were peasants, and after only a few days of drill, with the advantage of the city wall, the county army still achieved an overwhelming advantage in this battle where they were weaker.

And more importantly, these county guards have been fully tempered, compared to half an hour ago, these people have become more and more handy, they once showed trepidation and uneasiness, at this moment they are like those black tiger thief pawns, with confidence and contempt for the enemy on their faces - it can be seen that the county guards are imitating the old pawns of the black tiger thief, and I think the latter left a deep impression on them.

This is good, it means that these county pawns are metamorphosing, gradually metamorphosing towards old pawns.

But considering the physical strength of these county guards, and wanting to take this opportunity to train another group of county guards, so when the green forest thieves outside the city sent another 2,000-strong pseudo-thief army, Zhao Yu also rotated the county guards who had defended the city so far and replaced them with another group of county guards.

When the two groups of county guards handed over their posts, the previous group of county guards who guarded the city admonished and encouraged them to take over their robes with a 'senior'-like attitude.

"Be calm, be calm."

"Remember to keep your eyes ahead, and if a false thief jumps on the wall, don't panic, Black Tiger...... The brothers of the Black Tiger Village will make up for the defense in time to kill the false thieves who jumped on the city wall. ”

"Listen to the commanders of the chiefs, including the sergeant commanders on the side of the Black Tiger Village brothers......"

"The enemy is weak, as long as you don't panic and follow the command, you can get along safely......"

Looking at these 'seniors' admonishing and encouraging themselves and others, the new soldiers of the county army who came to change their guards looked at each other, after all, both sides were actually the same group of county soldiers, and the difference was only that the other party had experienced less than half an hour of siege warfare.

Looking at these 'seniors' who had changed a lot compared to half an hour ago, the new soldiers of the county army who came to change their guard lowered their posture and nodded in response - they should indeed respect these 'seniors', after all, the other party was the winner of the round of defending the city.

Moreover, the encouragement and motivation of these 'seniors' also greatly inspired the new soldiers of the county army who came to change the guard.

After all, in half an hour, more than 2,000 pseudo-thieves who came to attack the city were killed and wounded, and these 'seniors' who had no battlefield experience like them only paid about 130 casualties, and the vast majority of them still survived, and they lived to this moment, inspiring and motivating them with the attitude of their predecessors, doesn't this mean that they, the 'juniors', can also survive in the next battle to defend the city?

Thinking of this, the morale of the new soldiers of the county army who changed the guard was greatly boosted, and they were much better than their 'predecessors' at the beginning.

At this time, on the city wall, Ma Gai, Ishihara, Chen Gui and others were also tirelessly repeating this point to boost morale as much as possible.

"Don't panic, don't be afraid. Panic and fear will only cost you your life...... The brethren who have just defended the city, they have slain two thousand of their soldiers and have won, and they can and you may ......."

"Be bold, don't cower, not only will you miss the opportunity to kill the enemy, but will also make you hesitate under the enemy's attack, this hesitation is enough to kill you......"

"Think of your loved ones in the city and fight for them!"

"Firm will, firmly believe that we can finally defend Kunyang, so that the thief army outside the city will not succeed!"

"Wow!"

Under the encouragement of Ma Gai, Ishihara, Chen Gui and others, the new soldiers of the county army who changed their guards shouted in unison.

At this time, the second group of 2,000 pseudo-thieves who were rushed to death had been forced by the Green Forest Thieves 'Inspector Team' to attack with despair.

I have to say that if the previous batch of pseudo-thieves still had a little hope of breaking through the city wall, then this group of pseudo-thieves can only be said to be completely desperate.

I saw these pseudo-thieves dragging and running towards the city wall—they said they were running, but in fact they were not even walking quickly, as if they were just trying to delay their lives.

Even, a considerable number of them are looking left and right, looking for an opportunity to escape from the battlefield.

And in fact, they did.

No, when there were still two arrows away from the Kunyang City Wall, deserters appeared among the two thousand pseudo-thieves, and about dozens of people took the lead in fleeing to one side, trying to escape from this battlefield.

However, on their flanks there was a small group of green forest thieves leader Chao Leopard led people to block, seeing these pseudo-thieves fleeing in a cowardly fight, Chao Leopard and his green forest thieves unceremoniously sacrificed butcher knives, one after another, killing the dozens of guys who tried to escape.

This is not the first time they have slaughtered people on their own side today, in fact, in the siege battle just now, when the first group of puppet thieves fled out of despair, Chao Leopard and Liu Lai, the leader of another small group of green forest thieves, each led people to intercept them, slaughtered many people, and finally forced the 2,000 puppet thieves to be killed by the county army.

It is no exaggeration to say that Ma Gai, the lieutenant of Kunyang County, kept claiming to have defeated 2,000 enemies, but in fact, the 2,000 pseudo-thieves, Chao Bao and Liu Lai, at least helped the county guards kill more than 200 people, and forcibly stopped the rout with threats.

However, this time, this trick didn't work, because the destruction of the previous group of 2,000 pseudo-thieves made the second batch of pseudo-thieves completely recognize the ugly face of the green forest thieves, and realized their dilemma of 'attacking the city or dying, and escaping or dying'.

If it were a group of bloody people, I am afraid that this group would have rebelled a long time ago, but those pseudo-thieves have lost the courage to resist under the long-term oppression of the green forest thieves.

Of course, the real reason is because they don't know how many people will fight against the Green Forest Thieves.

Therefore, those who wanted to survive only thought of escaping, and then were killed by the Overseers of the Green Forest Thieves.

"Unbelievable ......"

On the city gate tower in Kunyang, Li Xu, the county magistrate, witnessed the 'atrocities' of the green forest thieves Chao Leopard, Liu Lai and others, and was shocked that these people were merciless to their own people, and did not hesitate to sacrifice butcher knives.

What shocked him even more was that the pseudo-thieves, who were obviously as many as two thousand people, did not dare to resist the Green Forest Thief Supervision Team with a total of only four or five hundred people, and could only approach the city wall of Kunyang County with despair under the threat and intimidation of the latter, and walked towards his dead end step by step.

"I'll just say these people are useless."

Wang Qing also noticed this, and with his arms crossed, he tilted his head and glanced at Chen Mo, obviously alluding to the fact that Chen Mo had recruited a group of more than 100 pseudo-thieves in Jiuhu Village.

Regarding Wang Qing's complaints, Chen Mo didn't care, and said with a smile: "We not only need brave brothers, but also labor. …… It's also good to co-opt those people and tell them to move things. ”

Wang Qing shrugged his shoulders disapprenously: "Anyway, you are the Grand Commander, you have the final say." ”

Chen Mo shook his head slightly, and then turned his head to Zhao Yu, Liu Bi, Li Xu and the others and said, "It seems that in this second round of siege, the enemy army has already lost half of it......"

Not to mention Zhao Yu, even Liu Bi and Li Xu, who don't understand the affairs of conquest, will not object to Chen Mo's point of view at this moment, after all, they can also see that the group of pseudo-thieves outside the city is on the verge of collapse, and there is a possibility of biting the green forest thieves at any time - but for some reason they haven't done so for a long time.

"One less to take the lead." Zhao Yu shook his head and said, "The dragons have no leader, which is probably what I mean by this." ”

Liu Bi and Li Xu were stunned, and then nodded in unison.

They also thought that Zhao Yu was right: those pseudo-thieves did not dare to resist the Green Forest Thieves, probably because of the lack of a leader to take the lead.

Mention of the chief......

Li Xu couldn't help but glance at Zhao Yu from the side.

Then again, he Kunyang has a strong and far-sighted leader, and will this make him Kunyang survive this catastrophe?

Li Xu wasn't sure about this, but he hoped that the leader of the black tiger thieves would be able to do it.

At this time, Zhao Yu naturally didn't know that Li Xu, the county prince, had high hopes for him, and at this moment, his main energy was focused on the 10,000 rebel troops outside the city.

Although the first round of the city defense battle has been won, and the second round of the city defense battle is about to be won, considering that the enemy of these two rounds of offensive is just a group of pseudo-thieves, Zhao Yu does not dare to relax at all, after all, for him Kunyang, the real threat is neither those pseudo-thieves nor those green forest thieves, but the 10,000 rebel soldiers.

Only by fending off the rebel attack were they able to relax a little.

"They won't stand still, and if I were the leader of that rebel army, I would have tried to storm the city today...... No, not to try, but to do everything in their power to bring down Kunyang, so that they can not only enter the city and garrison, but also harvest food, otherwise, these rebels will have to send people to cut down the trees and set up camps......

Looking at the 10,000 rebel troops in the distance, Zhao Yu thought secretly in his heart.

Although the rebels in the distance have not moved so far, he believes that the enemy will definitely launch a siege today, and the only question is when these rebels will join the fight.

Suddenly, the pupils in Zhao Yu's eyes shrank.

Because he found that among the rebel sergeants in the distance, nearly sixty percent of the soldiers were sitting on the ground, watching the attack of the green forest thieves while resting and recovering their strength, but at this moment, these soldiers all stood up.

What this means, goes without saying.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu immediately instructed a black tiger thief beside him: "Go and urge Chen Cai and ask him to hurry up and move those shields to the inner side of the city wall......

His tone suddenly became serious, which attracted the attention of everyone on the sidelines.

Chen Mo was the first to react, a pair of tiger eyes glanced at the rebel army in the distance, and asked in a deep voice, "Is the rebel army going to make a move?" ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Yu nodded and said solemnly: "The previous advantage is only temporary, whether we can hold Kunyang depends on whether we can block the rebels outside the city!" ”

With that, he glanced up at the sky and frowned slightly, for he found that there was still at least an hour before dusk.

Holding out for an hour in front of a rebel army of 10,000 men is no easy task.

At the same time, the rebel army in the distance, or Huang Kang, the general of the Changsha New Chu Army, also looked up at the sky.

So far, Huang Kang has been standing still, while sitting and watching the attack of the Green Forest Thieves on Kunyang, while seizing the time to let the soldiers under his command rest and recover their strength, but seeing that the Green Forest Thieves are not attacking the city, and the sky is getting closer and closer to dusk, Huang Kang finally couldn't hold it back.

Because as Zhao Yu said, Huang Kang hopes to break through Kunyang before dusk, otherwise the soldiers of the New Chu Army under his command will have to sleep in the suburbs tonight.

"Song Zan, Chen Lang!" He called out in a deep voice.

Hearing the call, not far from him, two generals in their thirties rode out of the line, pulled their horses to Huang Kang, and saluted with a serious face: "The last general!" ”

I saw Huang Kang raise his hand and point to Kunyang City in the distance, and ordered in a deep voice: "Song Zan, I order you to lead 3,000 people to immediately launch an offensive against Kunyang and take the city before sunset!" ”

The general named Song Zan's face became more serious, and he clenched his fists and responded: "Obey!" ”

"Chen Lang, you bring two thousand crossbowmen to assist Song Zan!"

"Yes!"

The general named Chen Lang also responded with his fists in his fists.

After a while, Song Zan turned his horse and came to the army to which he belonged, and raised his arms and shouted: "The soldiers under my command listen to the order, and General Huang has an order, and he orders us to attack Kunyang and capture the city before sunset!" ”

"Oh! Oh! ”

He commanded 3,000 rebel soldiers, raised their spears in their hands, and shouted in unison.

Seeing this, Song Zan nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand to Kunyang City in the distance, and shouted: "Forward!" ”

With an order, he led his 3,000 Xinchu soldiers to break away from their own formation, and slowly advanced in the direction of Kunyang City with relatively neat steps.

At the same time, Chen Lang, another general under Huang Kang, also led 2,000 crossbowmen from the rear to make a detour to assist Song Zan in attacking Kunyang.

As soon as the 5,000 soldiers of the New Chu Army took action, they were looked at by Zhao Yu, who was always watching them from the Kunyang South City Gatehouse.

Immediately, Zhao Yu's mouth let out a laugh with unknown meaning: "Hey, half of the troops were dispatched at once, and you can really afford us." ”

At this time, the county commander Liu Bi and the county commander Li Xu also noticed the rebel army's actions, and when they saw that the other party had dispatched half of their troops in one breath, the faces of these two turned pale again, and their eyes showed horror.

Even, Liu Bi stammered to Zhao Yu and said: "Zhou, Zhou leader, this ......"

"Don't panic, I expected it."

Zhao Yu opened his mouth to comfort Liu Bi and Li Xu, and then turned his head to Chen Mo and said, "Great Commander, send our people." ”

"The man who sent us? It's a tough battle......

A trace of hesitation flashed in Chen Mo's eyes, obviously he also had selfish intentions, between the Black Tiger Thief and the Kunyang County Army, of course he was more inclined to the former.

But he didn't raise any objections, because he knew that Zhao Yu must have his considerations.

"Okay."

He immediately nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu instructed again: "Unlike the pseudo-thieves of Fang Cai, the rebel army is a regular army, and there must be crossbowmen in the army. In order to defend the city, I have ordered the workshops in the city to hurry up to build a batch of wooden shields, and I have asked Chen Cai to send people to transport them to the inner city wall, and you have let the brothers receive the shields and go up the city wall. ”

"Okay."

Chen Mo nodded, turned around and walked quickly to the stone steps of the city wall not far away, and Wang Qing also followed.

At this time, Zhao Yu summoned two county guards not far away and ordered: "Order everyone at the east and west ends of the city wall, the rebel army has sent troops to attack my Kunyang, and ordered the Black Tigers to hold the city wall, and all the rest of the county troops will retreat to the city, and their vacancies will be filled by the Black Tigers in the city!" …… Hurry up! ”

"Yes!"

The two county officials clasped their fists and saluted, and ran towards the city walls on both sides of the city gate tower, conveying Zhao Yu's orders as they ran.

"Leader Zhou has an order, the main force of the rebellion is about to attack the city, the black tigers hold on to the place, and the rest of the county soldiers immediately retreat to the city, and the black tiger thieves in the city will take over! …… Repeat, the Black Tigers held on to their place, and the county guards immediately retreated to the city! ……”

"Leader Zhou has an order, the main force of the rebellion is about to attack the city, the black tigers hold on to the place, and the rest of the county soldiers immediately retreat to the city, and the black tiger thieves in the city will take over! …… Repeat, the Black Tigers held on to their place, and the county guards immediately retreated to the city! ……”

Hearing this order, there was some commotion on the city walls.

"What?"

"The main rebel army is about to attack the city?"

The county guards, who were still resisting the attack of the puppet thieves, subconsciously looked into the distance outside the city, and sure enough, they saw as many as 5,000 rebel soldiers rushing towards this side.

Don't look at the confidence gained by these county army recruits in the puppet thieves who are besieging the city, but when they see the 5,000 rebel troops marching neatly, they can't help but show horror.

After all, no matter how stupid a person is, he understands that those rebel soldiers with complete armor and the group of false thieves outside the city who don't even have armor at this moment are definitely worlds apart from the enemy.

Thinking of this, they were glad that they had been rotated and did not have to face that terrible enemy.

However, the discerning people among these county soldiers had a different opinion, and when they saw that their companions were glad to remove the city wall, some people immediately scolded them angrily: "You fools, now the city is full of glory and loss, if the rebels break through the city wall, do you think you will be able to live?" ”

This shouting and scolding woke up the county guards who were trying to remove the city wall as soon as possible.

These people thought about it: yes, if the rebels broke through the walls and stormed the city, who would be spared?

"But, but...... Orders for us to get down......"

A county official said in a daze.

Hearing this, the county guard who had just scolded everyone flashed a complicated look on his face, and he stopped talking.

Of course, he understood that the reason why the Zhou leader replaced them was obviously because he felt that they were not enough to stop the rebel army's attack......

"Hurry down!"

There are black tiger thieves who have reminded and urged after killing the enemy.

Hearing this, not to mention that the new soldiers of the county army were red-faced, even the head catchers of the county army such as Shi Yuan, Chen Gui, Yang Kang, and He Feng also felt that their faces were gloomy.

At the moment of the great enemy, the county army has been replaced and replaced with a black tiger thief, what does this mean?

But after hesitating for a moment, Ishihara and the others decided to obey the order, even though they felt that Zhou Hu underestimated his county army.

“…… Let's go down. ”

With some hesitation, Ishihara gave an order to the nearby county officials.

Different from Fang Cai's happiness and joy, the county guards lowered their heads and silently walked to the stone steps on the inner side of the city wall, and at the same time, they looked at a black tiger thief with a shield with a complicated expression, quickly passing past them to make up for the vacancy after their evacuation.

"Won't you go down and rest?"

Xu Bai glanced at his companion Ishihara, who was still on the city wall, with a bit of ridicule on his face.

However, at this moment, Ishihara was not in the mood to joke with Xu Bai, and said with a calm face: "I'm still full of energy!" …… The Black Tiger Thief can guard the side of the county army, and I can also guard the side of the Black Tiger Thief. ”

"Death is a matter of face."

Xu Bai chuckled and shook his head.

He knew very well that since the other party said that he could not go down the city wall, even if he found a few people to take him down, he would still climb up.

In fact, there are still many county guards like Ishihara, among them, except for Chen Gui, Yang Kang, He Feng and other headhunters who are hindered by their identity and face, there are about seventy or eighty county guards who have disobeyed the order.

"Why don't you go down? Go down! ”

Liu Tu, the small leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, questioned these county guards with a cold face.

Unexpectedly, someone replied: "Returning to the chief, the city and the city are both prosperous and damaged, if the city wall is breached by the rebels, we will not be spared even if we hide in the city, and we would rather stay in the ......city wall than hide in the city and be afraid."

Liu Tu heard the slight change in color, and scolded in displeasure: "You fuck ...... Do you think my Black Tigers can't hold the city walls? ”

"No!" The county magistrate shook his head and said, "I just hope there are no regrets and resentments!" …… Even if the walls were eventually breached by the rebels. ”

“……”

Liu Tu was slightly moved, and asked in surprise: "Aren't you afraid of death?" ”

The county magistrate replied, "I'm afraid! …… But I'm more afraid of dying in a daze! Once in Yang'an, I became a pawn of the defeated army because of fear, and I could only flee in a hurry with my family, and my mother died on the way, I don't want me, let my family experience similar things again. ”

"Say good." Liu Tu nodded and asked with some respect: "County guard, what is your name?" ”

The county pawn straightened his chest, and Zhengse replied: "Former Yang'an County magistrate, Tang Hong!" ”

"Good!"

Liu Tu nodded with satisfaction, and then said with a straight face: "I appreciate your enlightenment, but the order of the big leader cannot be disobeyed......"

The county official named Tang Hong was about to speak, but at this time, Liu Tu tore off the black scarf on his head, threw it at the former, and said with a smile in his mouth: "Take it, you can temporarily stay on the city wall as my brother of the Black Tiger Clan, and advance and retreat with us!" ”

"It's an honor!"

Tang Hong hesitated slightly, and immediately wrapped the black scarf on his forehead, becoming the first person to wear a county official costume but a black scarf.

Following him, the rest of the county officials who wanted to stay on the city wall followed suit.

Seeing this interesting scene from afar, Xu Bai looked at Shi Yuan, who was the head of the county government, with ill intentions.

As if he had guessed Xu Bai's thoughts, Ishihara preemptively said with a dark face: "I won't bring it, just ask Zhou Hu to ask me for guilt!" ”

Xu Bai couldn't help laughing, and was about to tease Shi Yuan again, but suddenly heard Chen Mo's shout from the distance of the city wall: "The rebel army has reached a mile away, everyone is ready to meet the enemy!" …… Brethren of the Brotherhood who delivered the shields, hurry up to get the shields into everyone's hands! ……”

For a while, an extremely tense atmosphere enveloped the city wall, so that Xu Bai didn't care about joking with Ishihara, holding the wooden shield he had just started, staring at the rebel army approaching outside the city with a serious face.

"This is the crucial battle of the day......" he muttered.

"Hmm."

Receiving a wooden shield from a Brotherhood member who was carrying the shield, Ishihara looked out of the city with a serious expression and said in a deep voice, "He said that he has never really lost, and he will definitely win this time." …… Hopefully he's sure of that. ”

"Who? Says who? Xu Bo turned his head in confusion.

“……”

Ishihara didn't say a word, as if he hadn't heard.

Seeing this, Xu Bai stopped asking, and stared at the rebel army outside the city, but he didn't expect to hear a person's name in his ears at this time.

"Zhou Hu."

“……”

Xu Bai turned his head to look at Ishihara, but saw that the latter had his lips closed tightly and a serious expression, as if the name of the person just now did not pop out of his mouth.