The scorching autumn wind shows the ferocity of the autumn tiger.

The tragic battle tells the tragedy of the defense of the city.

Since the arrival of the Xianbei cavalry, it has been half a month, during which the city has been attacked every morning and evening, without stopping.

It was another evening, the sky was dark, and the Xianbei army, which could not break the city, retreated.

"Hey!"

Looking at the Xianbei cavalry that receded like a tide, Gongsun Du couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

For a long time, looking back at the left and right, looking at the broken city wall, I couldn't help but think that if he hadn't done his best, the city would have fallen, and the soldiers under him who shed their blood for this, his heart was even more sad and angry, but more helpless.

"Hey, I don't know what's going on with Tingfang now?"

The tragic appearance of Houcheng made Gongsun Du think of Goguryicheng and Xu Rong.

Houcheng was besieged by 5,000 Xianbei cavalry, but Goguryi was 10,000. After only being attacked for two days in a row, it was almost broken, Yangyi was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of death and could not complete the task assigned by Gongsun Du, so he had to ask Gongsun Du for help.

Gongsun Du received Yangyi's request for help, and after discussing with Xu Rong, he found that the only way was for them to send one person to guard Gao Guli. However, Gongsun Du was worried that if he left, it would affect the morale of the defenders of Houcheng and lose the support of the people, so he finally had to send Xu Rong to support.

After that, I don't know if it was because Xu Rong easily left the city and went to Goguryi to cause major damage to Xianbei, or if there was other reason, originally it was just an attack from the West Gate, but it was changed to a siege on three sides. Well, there are only three gates in the southwest and east of Houcheng, so encircling three sides is equivalent to encircling the entire Houcheng.

Therefore, Gongsun Du never received any news from Goguryi and other cities, so he was inevitably worried.

Shaking his head, throwing away these useless thoughts at the moment, Gongsun Du found that the city wall had been cleaned up, and he was replaced by other soldiers, nodded again, turned around and prepared to leave.

After descending the city wall, Gongsun Du went to visit the seriously wounded soldiers first, as usual, before returning to a separate room in the barracks. As for minor injuries, they are all simply bandaged. There is no way, now the soldiers defending the city have already dropped by more than 2,000 people, and less than 2,000 have been seriously wounded, and nearly 3,000 people have been lost, which can be called a heavy loss.

Soon after, Gongsun Du was still pondering whether to pull some of the young men who had been training for half a month to the city wall to help defend the city, but the soldiers came to report that dinner was ready. I had to put my mind out for a while, and I planned to wait until after dinner.

"Newspaper, enlighten the lord, the soldiers guarding the city have come to report, and some people intend to storm the city gate."

Just after dinner, Gongsun Du was about to go to the city gates to inspect the city, when he received a report from his own soldiers. Speaking of the pro-soldiers, Gongsun Du was able to hold the city for half a month, but it was because of the sacrifice of the pro-soldiers, otherwise the city would have been broken. However, it is precisely for this reason that the pro-soldier team has suffered considerable losses, and now there are only less than 600 people, less than sixty percent.

"What the hell is going on? Go over and take a look. Gongsun Du asked as he got up.

"Back to the lord, before a stick of incense, a large number of people suddenly appeared near the west city gate, intending to get close to the city gate, but they were discovered by the brothers guarding the city and stopped more than ten zhang away from the city gate." The pro-soldier replied.

"Why, then, did the people storm the walls?" Gongsun Du frowned.

"What else can they do if they're not storming the walls?" The pro-soldier subconsciously replied. After speaking, the soldiers came back to their senses, realized that they had actually questioned the lord, and knelt on the ground with a puff, and said, "Lord, little ......"

"Alright, forget it this time." Gongsun Du didn't mean to blame, but sometimes he couldn't help himself, so he could only say so.

On the way to the West City Gate, Gongsun Du kept thinking about what these people were going to do, but until he arrived at the West City Gate, he still didn't think clearly.

"Lord Lieutenant is here, all irrelevant people get out of the way as soon as possible."

The people blocking the road hurriedly retreated to the side, and Gongsun Du, escorted by his own soldiers, walked through the middle. Gongsun Du probably counted, this group of people is tens of thousands of people, if they attack the city wall, with more than 100 people at the city gate now, they can't stop it at all. If you can't stop it, why not do it?

Gongsun Du was puzzled, so he passed through the people and came to the city gate, and shouted, "Whoever is in charge, come out to speak." ”

When even three strong men walked out with their bare hands.

"The grass people meet the captain."

"Three strong men, please." Gongsun Du raised his hand and said.

"Captain Xie."

"I wonder if the three of you can tell Ben why he is here? You must know that when Xianbei is attacking the city, there is a suspicion of spies in attacking the city wall! ”

The three strong men were startled, and hurriedly bowed down again: "Lord Captain Mingjian, we are not spies, and we have no intention of attacking the city wall!" ”

"Hmm." Gongsun Du nodded and said, "That being the case, tell me who you are?" Why are you here? ”

The strong man in the middle replied: "Back to Lord Captain, we are the people in the city who were trained by the soldiers under Lord Captain more than ten days ago. I came here today, first, I heard that the soldiers under my lordship suffered a lot of losses and wanted to help defend the city; Second, we heard that the city wall was seriously damaged, and in order to prevent it from being taken advantage of by foreign races, we hope to help repair the city wall. ”

Gongsun Du's eyes flashed away, such a major military event was actually known by outsiders, and it was hard to guarantee that it would not be known to the Xianbei army outside the city.

"Really? Heard? Heard? Listen to whom? Where did you hear about it? ”

Gongsun Du's voice was very flat, without the slightest breath. But that's it, the three strong men didn't know why their hearts trembled, as if they had fallen into an evil spirit.

However, it was only a tremble, and then the strong man in the middle replied: "Lord Hui, the former is from the adults who trained us, and the latter is the speculation of my father. ”

"Oh?" Gongsun Du's heart became more and more tight, and it was better to train these young and strong soldiers to say that they were his subordinates, and it was normal to know that they had suffered heavy losses; But if an unknown person can deduce that the walls are badly damaged, then it is a big problem.

Before, Gongsun Du still felt that although Xianbei could see the current situation of the city wall, but these people were aliens, even if they saw it with their own eyes, they didn't understand how damaged the city was, and it should be safe, but now it seems that it may not be necessarily.

After a slight pause, a murderous intent flashed in Gongsun Du's eyes, and asked: "Ling Zun can have this insight, I think it is not an ordinary person, at this time, Xianbei is coming, it is the time to employ people, you might as well introduce it to this general!" How about contributing to the defense of the waiting city? ”

"My father, Zhao Lun, was originally a craftsman under Lord Taishou, but because he was ostracized by others, he had to retire." The strong man didn't hear anything else, and without thinking much about it, he replied, "My father has long heard of the prestige of the school captain, and at this critical moment, the school captain will recruit him, and my father must be obedient. ”

After thinking about it again, he continued: "Lord Captain, why don't the grass people go back and find their father now?" ”

Gongsun Du waved his hand and said, "It's too slow for you to go back, tell Ben where your home is, and Ben will take care of it." ”

"Yes, Captain." The strong man answered, and told Gongsun Du the location of his home. Then Gongsun Du made a look and asked his own soldiers to go to find someone.

"You wait here for the time being, wait for Lingzun to arrive, and then talk about other things after the inspection."

After speaking, Gongsun Du went up to the city wall and went to inspect. Xianbei has had a night attack in the past half a month, so he can't afford not to pay attention to it. After a circle, the soldiers who kept vigil alternated light and dark, once someone attacked at night, there was no possibility of not being discovered, and Gongsun Du was relieved to go down the city wall.

As soon as I got off the city wall, I heard the soldiers say: "Lord, Zhao Lun brought it." ”

"Well, let him come over and talk." Gongsun Du received a hint from his own soldiers, and knew that Zhao Lun had no problem, so he nodded and said. Truth be told, if this man had the ability to repair the walls, it was really what he needed now.

"Grass people Zhao Lun pays a visit to Lord Captain." Zhao Lun bowed.

"Get up, please!" Gongsun Du stretched out his hand to help Zhao Lun and said, "Dare to ask the old man if he can repair the city wall?" ”

Zhao Lun took advantage of the situation, and then replied: "Back to the words of the captain, the grass people have learned the art of the master craftsman of the Tiangong Division, and they are slightly the same for repairing the city wall. ”

"Good!" Gongsun Du was overjoyed, and the role of the city wall was greater than that of one or two thousand recruits.

"Thank you, Lord for your grace!" Zhao Lun saluted and said, "It is a blessing for the people of Houcheng to be able to sit in Houcheng by Lord Lieutenant. However, as the people of Houcheng, on the occasion of Xianbei's large-scale attack, I wonder if the adults will allow the dog and others to do their best? ”