“…… Although the thieves are outnumbered, they lack siege equipment, only some siege ladders, as long as we hold today's attack, they must first set up camp, otherwise they will be attacked by our side all the time. However, I have set fire to the nearby woods in Kunyang, and the rebels can only carry wood from farther away, and we have to guard against constant harassment...... How can he be invincible? ”

In front of the city gate tower at the south gate of Kunyang, Zhao Yu spoke in a calm tone, briefly and generally talking about the 'weaknesses' of the enemy army outside the city.

This was not only to comfort officials and county officials such as the county commander Liu Bi and the county commander Li Xu who were frightened by the number of enemy troops outside the city, but also to prove that their arrogant words were not untrue.

His calm tone and logical analysis made Liu Bi, Li Xu and others feel quite relieved to listen to it, and even Shi Yuan and Chen Gui, who still have prejudices against the Black Tiger Thief, have to admit that the words of the leader of the Black Tiger Thief are really reassuring.

"This Zhou Hu, compared to Yang Tong, he is really much more powerful...... I don't know if when my Kunyang officers and soldiers surrounded and suppressed Black Tiger Mountain, he also inspired his thieves like this......

Glancing at Zhou Hu standing not far from him, Ishihara thought secretly in his heart.

Until this moment, he still felt as if he was in a dream—he had never imagined that one day he would actually obey the command of Zhou Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, and fight together to defend Kunyang County.

It's incredible!

Shaking his head slightly, Ishihara calmed down and asked out loud: "What does Leader Zhou mean that the thief army will attack the city immediately without repairs?" ”

Zhao Yu turned his head and glanced at Shi Yuan, and answered the question in the latter's heart: "Dingling County is not very far away from my Kunyang, and the physical consumption of the thief army outside the city is not serious, and there is still the power to attack the city." Considering that those rebel armies all carry long ladders for siege of the city, if I am the general of the rebel army, I will also try to attack the city immediately, and take advantage of the superiority in strength to capture the city in one fell swoop. On the contrary, if it drags on for a long time, it will be beneficial to my Kunyang. …… I'm sure the rebel generals outside the city should know this. ”

After a pause, Zhao Yu added: "Most of them will send people to persuade them to surrender, which can not only deter us and others, but also allow the thief army outside the city to take the opportunity to take a breath......

Before he finished speaking, he saw Ma Gai talking to Nunu outside the city, "They have sent someone." ”

Everyone was amazed, and they all looked out of the city, and sure enough, they saw a small group of people slowly coming towards the city wall.

There were about a dozen people in this group, and they looked like they were not rebels, but like green forest thieves.

I saw this group of green forest thieves come to a place about an arrow away from the Kunyang city wall, and shouted towards the city wall with a loud voice: "Listen to the people in the city, quickly open the city gate and surrender, otherwise, if you break through the city, all the soldiers and civilians in the city will be killed......

"Haha, that's right." Niu Heng beside Zhao Yu grinned.

I don't know if it was infected by the laughter of this rammed goods, and the people watching on the city wall couldn't help but laugh softly, even if it was Liu Xianling and Li Xiancheng, who were shocked, there were a few smiles on their faces.

At this time, he saw Zhao Yu staring at the group of green forest thieves outside the city who persuaded him to surrender, and calmly ordered: "Shoot them." ”

Ishihara was a little surprised by the decisiveness of the leader of the black tiger thieves, but still put forward his own judgment: "This distance, I'm afraid it's difficult. ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Yu said calmly: "It's also good to scare and scare them." ”

"Yes!"

Ishihara nodded, and immediately ordered the county officials near the castle gate tower to shoot at the group of green forest thieves with bows and crossbows.

After only a few swishing sounds, dozens of arrows were fired from the city gate tower, which frightened the green forest thieves into retreating a dozen ways - in fact, even if they did not retreat, the arrows shot from the city gate tower would have been difficult to hit them.

"Hahaha-"

"Hah, a bunch of rats."

On the west wall of the city gate tower, there was a sudden burst of laughter.

Zhao Yu and the others turned their heads in surprise, and then saw Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Liu Tu, Le Gui and others walking towards this side.

Seeing this group of black tiger thieves wrapped in black scarves, Ishihara's eyes flashed with a hint of discoloration, but he didn't say anything.

Because he knew very well that if the thief army outside the city really launched an offensive against him Kunyang County immediately, then in the battle to defend the city, they needed these black tiger thieves - after all, compared to these black tiger thieves, his Kunyang County army had too many inexperienced newcomers, although these were after a short period of training, but whether they could be used as a force to defend the city, even Ishihara had no bottom in his heart.

"Coming?"

Zhao Yu greeted Chen Mo, Wang Qing and the others with a smile.

"The Great Chief." Chen Mo hugged his fist towards Zhao Yu and asked casually, "What's the situation?" ”

"As you can see." Zhao Yu pointed out the outside of the city.

Outside the city, the group of green forest thieves, startled by the arrows, were angrily yelling at the city walls, shouting threatening words such as 'kill them all', presumably to lower the morale of the guards on the walls.

Just being scolded is not the style of the black tiger thief, no, Wang Qing immediately ordered Le Gui: "Le Gui, scold back!" ”

"Yes!"

Le Gui nodded, walked to the edge of the city wall, and scolded loudly at the green forest thieves outside the city: "The thief army outside the city must be rampant!" …… Have you ever seen these hanging heads? If you dare to invade my Kunyang, the head of Le Mou's guarantee will eventually hang here! ”

Hearing this, the green forest thieves outside the city scolded even more fiercely, and on the city wall, in addition to Chen Mo and Wang Qing, who were self-respecting, Liu Tu and other small leaders also joined in the abuse, and even Ishihara's companions Xu Bai and Wang Ping also joined in.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu also ordered Ma Gai, Ishihara and others to ask the county troops on the city wall to join the ranks of scolding.

For a while, the scolding in Kunyang City shook the sky, completely overshadowing a team of green forest thieves outside the city.

Insulting alone is naturally not enough to scold the thief army outside the city to death, but it can relieve the pressure, especially for those new soldiers of the county army who have no previous combat experience.

Soon, the battle was decided, under the chorus of hundreds of black tiger thieves and the county army on the southern city wall of Kunyang, where could the green forest thieves of more than a dozen people outside the city scold, and angrily put down a few cruel words that almost failed to reach the city wall, and then turned around and returned to the main formation.

Kunyang, on the other hand, sent them off with a very humiliating laugh.

Seeing this scene from afar, Huang Kang, the general of the 10,000 Changsha New Chu Army outside Kunyang City, frowned slightly.

In all fairness, Huang Kang actually didn't believe that Kunyang County really said to Zhang Tai and Chao Bao as 'arrogant', he felt that it was just an exaggeration by Zhang Tai and the others to coax Guan Shuo and want to borrow troops to retaliate against Kunyang County.

But at this moment, when he saw the reaction of Kunyang County with his own eyes, he felt that these Kunyang people were really arrogant enough, and they didn't take his 10,000 new Chu troops in their eyes at all.

What the? There are thousands of green forest thieves from Zhang Tai and others on the side? Oh, Huang Kang didn't count this rabble.

In his opinion, the attack on Kunyang still depends on the soldiers under his command after all, and Zhang Tai's group of green forest thieves is at best the icing on the cake, which consumes the morale and physical strength of the army defending the city and county.

At this moment, two green forest thieves hurriedly came, clasped their fists and said, "General Huang, our boss invites you to go over and discuss." ”

『……』

Huang Kang's brows suddenly furrowed even tighter.

He is a general under the command of Guan Shuo, the commander of Changsha Qu Shuai, a general in charge of 10,000 soldiers, what kind of goods is that Zhang Tai, who dares to ask him to go over to discuss?

However, when he thought that Qu Shuai Guan Shuo had instructed him to at least nominally take Zhang Tai's gang of green forest thieves as the leader, Huang Kang suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, nodded and said, "Okay, Huang will go immediately." ”

Not long after, Huang Kang rode to the rear with a few guards and met Zhang Tai and others.

I have to say that this Zhang Tai, as one of the big leaders of the green forest thieves, has a group of small leaders of the green forest thieves under his hands, and he is also good at winning people's hearts. ”

Seeing this, the unhappiness in Huang Kang's heart retreated a little.

The two stood side by side, looking at the Kunyang city wall from afar.

At this time, Zhang Taizheng said to Huang Kang: "General Huang, Kunyang is arrogant, and he treats me and nearly 20,000 other righteous troops as nothing, you see ......."

Seeing Zhang Tai asking for his opinion, Huang Kang snorted secretly in his heart, and secretly said that this Zhang Tai finally knew what was going on.

After snorting secretly, he frowned again and looked at the Kunyang city wall in the distance, nodded after a moment and said, "The soldiers of your and my armies are almost resting, and you can try to attack the city." …… With you in front, I can sweep the battle for the leader. ”

Skimming?

To put it ugly, it is to stand in the back and watch the excitement.

How could Zhang Tai agree to such a thing?

He smiled bitterly and said to Huang Kang: "With my Green Forest Righteous Army attacking the city alone, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it." …… Let's go together, right? Conquer Kunyang County as soon as possible, and report the good news to Guan Qushuai as soon as possible. ”

“……”

Huang Kang took a deep look at Zhang Tai, who showed a slight smirk, and said after a little thought: "Your people take the lead, let me see the reality of Kunyang, and when the second attack is made, I will send my soldiers to participate in the battle." ”

His tone is irrefutable.

Seeing this, Zhang Tai scolded in his heart, but there was no abnormality on his face, nodded and said, "Okay, good." ”

When the deliberations were over, the two returned to their respective armies.

Seeing Zhang Tai riding back from a distance, the leaders of the small group of green forest thieves such as Chao Leopard surrounded each other and asked about the results of the discussion with Huang Kang.

Zhang Tai pressed his hand to signal everyone to be calm and calm, and then said: "I have discussed it with Huang Kang just now, and he also advocates attacking the city immediately, but he asked me to take the lead and touch the virtual and real ...... of Kunyang County."

Hearing this, the leaders of the small group of green forest thieves were in an uproar.

"Obviously has 10,000 new Chu troops in hand, but he told us to take the lead and told us to die, this guy is easy to calculate."

"At least send people from both sides to ......"

It's no wonder that these little leaders are dissatisfied, after all, everyone has selfish intentions.

You know, fighting is to kill people, although most of these little leaders are hiding behind and calling their brothers to attack the city, but then again, their brothers are also a kind of 'capital', just like Chao Leopard, after he lost half of his brothers, his position among the leaders of the Green Forest Thieves plummeted, if it weren't for Zhang Tai's desire to encircle more Green Forest Rebels, Chao Leopard may have become a marginal figure, and even been swallowed up by other Green Forest Rebels.

Seeing that the little leaders were angry, Zhang Tai pressed his hand and said with relief: "Everyone, everyone, General Huang just wants us to take the lead, not to tell us to die, in the final analysis, it is also very beneficial for them to take this Kunyang County, and he will not ignore it." Once he understands the reality of Kunyang County, he will inevitably send soldiers immediately. ”

At the end, he added: "We can let the 'servants' take the lead." ”

His so-called servants, that is, the 'pseudo-thieves' referred to by Zhao Yu, that is, the strong men who were forcibly captured by the Green Forest Thieves along the way, this group of people succumbed to the Green Forest Thieves, but they were not yet accepted by the Green Forest Thieves, so a dangerous thing like today, it must be to send these people to death.

Even if these people are all dead, whether it is Zhang Tai or the leaders of a small group of green forest thieves such as Chao Leopard, they will not be too distressed - anyway, they are not their own brothers, and they can find a place to arrest them when they are dead.

Sure enough, hearing Zhang Tai say this, the leaders of the green forest thieves nodded in agreement, and said: That's okay!

At Zhang Tai's suggestion, the leaders of these green forest thieves gathered together and made up two teams of 2,000 people each, all of whom were pseudo-thieves who succumbed to them, accounting for about sixty percent of the total number.

I have to say that those pseudo-thieves are indeed unsuccessful, obviously close to twice the number of green forest thieves, but no one dares to take the lead in resisting these green forest thieves, so that today they were sent by these green forest thieves to attack Kunyang County and send them to death.

Considering the fighting spirit of those pseudo-thieves, Zhang Tai also made some arrangements, and he instructed Chao Leopard and Liu Lai, the leader of another small group of green forest thieves: "Ah Leopard, Lai Zi, you two take the brothers to supervise the battle, if the servants are timid, kill them on the spot!" …… Ah Leopard, big brother lends you 300 manpower. ”

"Yes!"

"Thank you, big brother!" Chao Leopard and Liu Lai hugged their fists.

As for directing the group of puppet thieves to attack the city wall, Zhang Tai handed over the matter to his subordinate Xu Jin, a rugged and arrogant-looking leader of the Green Forest Thieves.

And when a total of 4,000 pseudo-thieves lined up their troops, Zhao Yu and others also looked at it from a distance from the city tower.

Don't look at the distance between the two sides, but in general, Zhao Yu and others can still distinguish between the rebel army and the green forest thieves - whether it is weapons and equipment, or the appearance of the army in the array, it is the rebel army, and the green forest thieves are both messy.

And among them, the rebel army of as many as 10,000 is the most interesting to Zhao Yu and others, if this rebel army comes to attack the city, considering that the county army defending the city has almost no combat experience, even Zhao Yu is in a cold sweat.

Unexpectedly, the rebel army of as many as 10,000 people did not move, but gathered two teams of about 2,000 people from the green forest thieves of several thousand people on the side.

Waiting for one of the teams of about 2,000 people to approach the city wall in a disorderly manner, Zhao Yu frowned slightly, because he found that the equipment of this 'army' was too shabby, and the 'soldiers' in the army did not have any armor from head to toe, only a weapon in his hand, a knife, a sword, a spear, and even a spear made of bamboo.

How much combat effectiveness can such an army have?

From the side, Wang Qing, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, sneered: "Send a group of pseudo-thieves to send them to death? …… These little cubs are too underestimating my Kunyang, right? ”

“……”

Zhao Yu quietly observed the 10,000 rebel troops outside the city, looked at the siege vanguards composed of pseudo-thieves, and said with a smile: "This is a good thing." …… The pseudo-thieves are all strong men captured by the thieves in the green forest, and they are very weak in terms of fighting spirit and strength, so they are just used to train the county army guarding the city. The Grand Commander, the Left Commander, you two take the brothers to check the county army, and respond from the side, let's not seek to kill the enemy, let the county army get familiar with it first. ”

"Okay."

"Okay." Chen Mo and Wang Qing nodded.

Since the thief army was about to attack the city, Ma Gai immediately took Shi Yuan, Chen Gui, Yang Kang, He Feng and other county officials to the city wall on both sides of the city gate tower - fortunately, the thief army outside the city only seemed to attack the southern city wall today, which means that Ma Gai could arrange all the head catchers such as Ishihara on the south city wall.

On the side of the black tiger thief, Chen Mo and Wang Qing also instructed Liu Tu, Le Gui and others to bring people to help, as for the two of them, they temporarily stayed near the city gate tower, unless the battle situation was unfavorable, they did not plan to take it seriously, after all, in a sense, it is the duty of the county army to defend the city, and it is their duty to take the initiative to attack.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, Shi Yuan, who belongs to the Kunyang County Ya, and Xu Bai, who belongs to the Black Tiger Thief, were assigned to the same section of the city wall.

Seeing that there were no other black tiger thief leaders around, Ishihara glanced at the black scarf wrapped around Xu Bai's head, and said cryptically: "I didn't expect to fight side by side in this way." ”

"Huh."

Xu Bai smiled, and immediately, he glanced at the black tiger thieves under his subordinates nearby, and said with emotion: "Yes." …… Thanks to the thieves outside the city. ”

"Haha." Ishihara immediately laughed.

However, he didn't know that Xu Bai's sentence was not a joke, but the truth, after all, if there was no invasion of the rebel army and the green forest thieves, the Kunyang County Pawn and the Black Tiger Thief would still be in an opposing situation, which would make Xu Bai and Wang Ping, who were caught between the two, feel very embarrassed.

After all, the two of them also made a group of friends among the black tiger thieves, such as Liu Tu, who had a heart for the two of them......

While the two of them were chatting, Xu Jin, the leader of Zhang Tai, the leader of the Green Forest Thieves, had already led a team of 2,000 pseudo-thieves, carrying dozens of long ladders to the city wall.

Seeing this, Kunyang County Lieutenant Ma Gai slowly walked on the city wall, encouraging the county guards guarding the city: "Brothers, the thief army outside the city is just a group of rabble, and the brothers of the Black Tiger Village kill them like killing chickens and dogs, but we are the county army, and the city wall of Kunyang should be defended by us." …… Remember, behind you, there are tens of thousands of people in our county, including your old fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, wives and children, once the thief army breaks through the city, they will be slaughtered and humiliated by the thief army! For the sake of your loved ones, for the sake of neighbors, please lend your strength to my horse cover, I will hold the city with you and others, the city is in the people, the city is broken! ”

As soon as the words fell, Le Gui, the little leader of the black tiger thief, interjected: "It should be that people are in the city, and people are also in the dead city!" …… And my Black Tigers! ”

Ma Gai didn't care about Legui's interruption, but nodded approvingly: "Yes, the city of people is also dead!" …… No matter what, the thief army can't capture my Kunyang! …… Gentlemen, fight! ”

"Wow!"

Hundreds of county soldiers and more than 100 black tiger thieves raised their arms and cheered, even some of them had no previous combat experience of the county army, but they were also inspired by Ma Gai to burst into fighting spirit, keeping in mind the belief of 'defending the city wall'.

After all, as Margai said, behind them, there are their relatives.

At the same time, Xu Jin, the leader of the Green Forest thieves outside the city, also issued a death order to the two thousand pseudo-thieves: "Attack!" ”

Different from the high morale of the county guards and the black tiger thieves, the two thousand pseudo-thieves were demoralized, drooping their heads and carrying a long ladder on their shoulders, and rushed towards the city wall of Kunyang with a panicked face.

Seeing this, Ishihara, Chen Gui and other headhunters invariably pointed their weapons outside the city.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Whoosh-"

For a time, countless arrows were shot out of Kunyang City.

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