As the fire of Fennan City became more and more intense, both sides were killed, and the war fell into a stalemate, the Eastern Wei army kept using catapults, throwing boulders into the city, slamming the main gate of Fennan City, and the walls were concave into the gaps, and the Western Wei defenders were constantly smashed into flesh and mud on the city, broken corpses, boulders and bright red blood blended together, crying, scolding and the roar of the boulder roaring down, which made people tremble and frightened, and there were already many young soldiers who were driven crazy by this scene, and kept crying and shouting in the city, Some were even so frightened that they wanted to flee, but they were cut off by the Overseers behind them.

In the gate tower of Fennan City, Li Muzheng, a famous general of the Western Wei Dynasty, watched solemnly as the soldiers in the city were constantly being stoned to death, and some young soldiers who were crazy and wanted to retreat were cut off by the overseers, but there was no wave on their faces, and they looked at the Eastern Wei battle array that was arrayed under the city without moving.

Yuwen Dao next to him couldn't bear it, and said to Li Mu: "Xianqing, at present, the enemy army is only throwing boulders, and it is some distance away from my city, I will see if I let the sons and daughters withdraw first and continue to add casualties on the city." ”

Li Mu shook his head and said: "Hmph, this is just the beginning, the enemy's siege was frustrated a few days ago, and today it will be even more violent. ”

Hearing this, Director Yuwen said: "Alas, I also know this, but watching the sons and daughters being harvested like this, it is really not a taste in my heart." ”

Looking at Yuwendao, Li Mu showed a sneer of disdain in his eyes, for Yuwendao, this nephew of Yuwentai, he felt that Yuwendao did not have a trace of Yuwentai's heroic nature, indecisive, and was not a qualified general, maybe more suitable for governing government affairs.

Since the defeat of Bishan, Yuwentai predicted that Gao Huan would definitely lead the army to counterattack the Western Wei, but the Western Wei was currently lacking in troops and could not confront head-on at all, so he could only set up three lines of defense to block the counteroffensive of the Eastern Wei, the first line of defense was the jade wall guarded by Wei Xiaokuan, and the second line was Li Mu, but Yuwentai arranged his nephew Yuwendao in the second line of defense just in case, in order to be safe, after all, the third line of defense is Tongguan and Chang'an, and Yuwentai can't help but be vigilant.

Of course, he understands Yu Wentai's thoughts, in such troubled times as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, loyalty and righteousness are a fart in front of personal interests. Not only for him, but even Wei Xiaokuan and Yuwentai of Yubi City also sent their nephew Yuwen Hu to assist, nominally to assist in learning, but in fact they came over as a supervisor.

Li Mu sighed, didn't think much about it at the moment, looked into the distance with his eyes earnestly, the Eastern Wei Dynasty stopped throwing boulders, but arranged archers and giant ballistas to shoot non-stop, and at the same time Li Mu also noticed that the people were actually at the forefront, it must be the Eastern Wei army in order to reduce casualties to drive the people as targets, he couldn't help but be angry, this is hurting the heavens and peace.

This plan is still Gao Yang came up with, it turned out that the attack a few days ago suffered heavy casualties, especially there was a trench under the city of Fennan, every time the Eastern Wei army used sandbags to fill the road, and after retreating, it was destroyed by the defenders out of the city, and when the Eastern Wei iron cavalry rushed over, the enemy retreated back into the city, so angry that he was furious, and scolded his mother directly at Fennan City.

In the end, Gao Yang came up with a poisonous plan, which was to capture all the people around him, and let the people fill the trenches every time, and the soldiers lined up to drive the people to walk in front until the trenches were filled.

Although it is a little insidious and ruthless, if the current army attacking Fennan suffers too many casualties, it will not be able to hold the offensive of the Western Wei reinforcements in the future, and the form will become more dangerous.

Duan Shao and Qi Lianmeng and other generals were very appreciative of this plan, especially Qi Lianmeng arrested all the people within a radius of 100 miles in one day, and happily invited credit in front of Duan Shao and Gao Yang: "Duan Shuai, second son, this is the people within a radius of 100 miles, I have captured them all." ”

Duan Shao frowned after hearing this: "Nonsense, all the women and the elderly are released, men under the age of 14 and over 50 are also released, and the others are driven by labor." ”

Gao Yang approvingly added: "In order to stimulate the hope of the people, if you fill in the trenches twice, you can go home freely to prevent the people from rioting, and at the same time drive the elite labor force in the territory of the enemy army, and the rest is the burden of the elderly and children. ”

In the distance, the drums of the Eastern Wei position vibrate, and I saw the infantry holding broadswords and shields, driving the people, carrying sandbags and rushing to the trenches, this scene angered the Western Wei defenders in the city, after all, many people were the people under the rule of the Western Wei, and some were even related to them.

When Li Mu saw that none of the archers in the city had shot arrows, he let the people approach the ditch, and immediately walked out of the city tower and shouted angrily: "If you don't shoot arrows again, you will be executed for violating military law, and I will order you to carry out the order immediately." ”

One of them couldn't bear to say: "General, but the city is full of our ordinary people, and I can't do it." ”

Li Mu glanced at Zheng Zheng coldly, suddenly drew his knife and swung it down, cutting off Zheng Zheng's neck with a knife, and a head flew up, rolling aside, staring at the incredible death, this move directly suppressed the surrounding soldiers.

Li Mu coldly ordered: "All archers, shoot arrows immediately, and those who dare to disobey orders will end up like him." ”

In the end, the Western Wei archers in the city had to shoot arrows at the people below, falling like raindrops, and the people were wearing thin linen clothes, which could not cover such a dense and powerful bow and arrow, and suddenly let out a burst of screams, and people kept falling to the ground with arrows.

The people who were driven away couldn't help but tremble when they saw this, and quickly threw the sandbags on their backs, and wanted to retreat, but they were stopped by the Eastern Wei soldiers in the formation with their shields, and then the soldiers in the front row stood up and stabbed the long lance, and immediately stabbed the people close to the battle array, and the blood flowed down from the lance, and the pierced people clung to the lance with their bloodstained hands, as if they would die as soon as they let go, but they were soon knocked down by the soldiers with their shields again, and pulled out the lance, leaving only the people who fell to the ground unwillingly stared at their eyes and died.

Zhang Xiaoniu, who had just gotten married, wanted to go back, but was grabbed by a pair of big hands and pulled him back, with so much strength that he almost knocked him down. Zhang Xiaoniu looked angrily, but it was his father Zhang Daniu, and he couldn't help but feel a little calmer. I saw Zhang Daniu scolding his son in a low voice: "Why don't you quickly turn around and move forward slowly, I want to be stabbed to death by the soldiers behind me." ”

Zhang Xiaoniu obediently carried the sandbag on his back, followed behind his father, and slowly paced forward, only to see Zhang Daniu looking at this thin son and saying: "Follow behind the father, wait until you get to the ditch, quickly throw down the sandbag and retreat, listen to the father's command, do you know?"

Zhang Xiaoniu was so frightened that he couldn't speak, but he nodded vigorously and followed his father's pace, and when he was about to reach the trench, he saw Zhang Daniu shouting: "Hurry up and throw down the sandbag and run back." After saying that, he threw down his sandbag, and by the way, he snatched the sandbag from his son's hand, threw it into the trench, took his son's little hand and ran back, letting the bow and arrow whizz in their ears, and from time to time someone fell down from the arrow, crying and scolding his mother.

Retreating to the edge of the battle formation, the soldiers on the side gave him a chip and asked him to rest on the side, preparing for the next wave of action, the father and son sat on the ground and gasped, especially Zhang Xiaoniu, the whole person seemed to be about to collapse, his arms and feet were in hot pain, he didn't know if he would have such good luck next time. Just when he was melancholy, Zhang Daniu on the side stuffed the chips into his hand and said lightly: "Son, take the chips and go home, and leave the rest to your father." ”

Zhang Xiaoniu looked at his father in surprise, and quickly refused: "Father, how can this be done, you will be very dangerous!" ”

Zhang Daniu sighed, touched his head, and kindly instructed: "It's okay, for the father has great strength, hard life, not easy to die, but you, the age is still young, the skeleton has not yet grown, next time there may not be this luck, rather than the two of us to try our luck, it is better to hand it over to the father, you take the chips home, take good care of your mother and a few younger brothers and sisters, do you know!" Zhang Daniu said, his voice raised a little behind him, and his eyes stared at Zhang Xiaoniu seriously.

Zhang Xiaoniu didn't dare to disobey his father's words, so he had to kneel in front of his father with tears in his eyes and said: "Father, the child has written it down, the child must take good care of his mother and several younger brothers and sisters, and you must come back safely." As he spoke, he couldn't help crying.

Zhang Daniu sighed, just touched Zhang Xiaoniu's head, and muttered: "Idiot! ”

The Eastern Wei soldiers behind began to urge the resting crowd, Zhang Daniu pushed his son back, and walked forward to receive the task, leaving only Zhang Xiaoniu, who was holding two chips in his hand, staring blankly at his father's back, tears flowing down his cheeks.

This is the last time Zhang Xiaoniu saw his father's back.

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On the lookout, Gao Yang looked at this scene, his heart was very sad, and he sighed: "If you can use this kind of poisonous plan, you don't need it, otherwise you will definitely be sent to hell after death." ”

Murong Shisu disagreed, and said nonchalantly: "General, don't have the kindness of a woman, after all, if you don't do this, many soldiers in our army will die, these are all brothers who were born and died with us, and besides, the enemy and the people will die when they die, and it will be beneficial to my Great Wei Baili and no harm." Although He Ba Shiwen next to him did not speak, looking at his expression, he felt that Murong Shisu was right.

Gao Yang did not refute the two subordinates, after all, human life in this era is like a mustard, for him who came over in the era of peace, he felt that this move was very cruel, but in the eyes of others, this kind of action is normal, the war is so cruel, sometimes in order to motivate the soldiers, he also ordered the slaughter of the city.