Cui Dalang put a reclining chair on top of the dock fort. It is placed next to the strong crossbow at the top of the fort, which is a strong crossbow that has been eliminated by the army, and can fire three strong crossbows at a time. Such a powerful crossbow, with two on top of the dock fort, is the most threatening offensive weapon in the dock fort.

Tensions on the border have been going on for some time, and all the civilians in the area have been evacuated, as well as the remaining people who have volunteered to stay and have been in the army.

There are many people who are willing to stay, but this dock fort can only accommodate a maximum of one hundred and fifty people. The rest must be left. Because Cui Dalang used to be a sentry officer when he was a soldier, he naturally became the commander of this dock fort.

The danger of staying, everyone here is well aware. The probability of dying far outweighs the chance of survival, because they will truly become islands in the middle of the sea. No one knows how long they will hold out. But these people still chose to stay.

The people who stay in the dock fort have two characteristics.

The first one is a person who immigrated from the mainland. These people basically belong to one big family, and in the interior they have other brothers and nephews, and in order to expand the family business, they have separated from the big family and carved out on the border. For some of them, the imperial court promised that everything they had now would remain inherited by their families after the war, if they died in battle. Of course, if they die heroically, their families will also receive a generous compensation. This compensation far exceeded the imperial court's compensation for soldiers killed in battle.

The second type of people are those Yi people who have just been attached to the imperial court. These people had not long been granted the Tang Dynasty household loans, and the whole family was still in a state of abject poverty, and these people volunteered to stay, and their families would immediately receive a large sum of money and a hundred acres of fertile land that had been compensated to their families after the war.

In fact, it is to exchange a human life for these riches.

For many wealthy families, it is naturally unwilling, but for these people, it is a way to quickly change the fate of the family.

Unlike most people here, although Cui Dalang also likes these compensations, what prompted him to stay was more that he felt that he had a responsibility to defend the current Datang.

He is a native of Yizhou, and his family used to be in abject poverty. He and his brother Erlang, including their parents, were tenants of the landlord, and they worked hard all year round, living worse than cattle and horses, but at the end of the year, they still found that they had nothing, and even filling their stomachs was a luxury.

Families like theirs are the most afraid of getting sick. Because of illness, it means that they have no hope of even surviving like this.

But I'm really afraid of what's coming. Cui Da's father collapsed due to overwork, and when the family fell into despair, a savior fell from the sky. An organization called Yixing Society approached Cui Dalang. At that time, Cui Dalang thought that this was some kind of gangster organization, but in order to save his father, he still joined it without hesitation.

Then, his life was fundamentally reversed.

In the following days, Cui Dalang followed the Yixing Society and began secret activities in Yizhou, until he completely overthrew the rule of Wang Feng, the envoy of Jiedu, and brought Yizhou under the rule of Li Ze, the envoy of Wuwei Jiedu and the current prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, Cui Dalang, who was in his early thirties, joined the army again.

It was that year that he finally found his wife.

In the past few years, many people who had the same experience as Cui Dalang fell on the battlefield, but he was lucky to survive and became a sentry officer.

But when he joined the army, he was finally older. When the new military service system came out, Cui Dalang had to quit the army because of his age.

And in the past few years, his family has also changed a lot.

Finally, my parents don't have to work hard, they just need to raise chickens and ducks at home and grow a vegetable garden. Their family has more than 100 acres of good land. Erlang also married a wife, and the entire Cui family branched out, and there were four in the third generation.

It was at this time that the imperial court issued another border extension order.

Cui Dalang gave all the family business in Yizhou to Erlang, and then took his wife and children to Pingzhou. In just a few years here, he has a bigger family business than when he was in Yizhou.

However, Zhang Zhongwu is coming again.

This made Cui Dalang very angry.

As a person who has lived in the border for a long time, and is a member of the Yixing Society, and a former soldier, he is very concerned about those people opposite. Compared with the people under the rule of King Liao, Cui Dalang felt that he was simply too happy.

He didn't want to go back to the precarious days of the past.

In the same way, he didn't want his fellow citizens to live in those days.

As a member of Yixing Society, under the education of Yixing Society for many years, unconsciously, Cui Dalang has developed an ambition to help the world, the worries of the people of the world, and the joy of the people of the world.

Although he retired and became an ordinary citizen, the identity of a member of Yixing Club has always accompanied him. Even in such a frontier area, the Yixing Society was still one of the most powerful weapons of the imperial court to rule the frontier. Every month, all the members of the Yixing Society will hold a meeting and the people sent from above will organize them to study.

So this time the big retreat, Cui Dalang stayed without hesitation.

In this dock fort, there are also nine people who also have the status of Yixing members.

As the Tang Dynasty became more and more powerful, it became more and more difficult to join the Yixing Society and become a member. It is simply impossible to join without going through a rigorous assessment and a two-year inspection period.

This time the big retreat is for a more effective counterattack in the future, and to completely solve Zhang Zhongwu, a traitor with a backbone in the back of his head. Regarding the statement of the upper echelons, Cui Dalang is convinced.

And in order to achieve this goal, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his life. He is convinced that his sacrifice will bring a better life for his compatriots and his family.

The wind was cool in the morning, and Cui Dalang, who was barearmed, enjoyed the air with a faint sweet smell in the morning. In the past, at this time, it was the time when he was strolling in his fields with a ploughing ox or a hoe, but now, he had to stand on the top of the dock fort, no longer a hoe in his hand, but a horizontal knife to defend his homeland.

It's a pity that the wheat is still some time away from ripening, and I have to harvest it all early. Thinking that those ears of wheat that were still green and yellow were cut down by his own hands, his heart twitched.

There was a whimpering sound at his feet, and Cui Dalang reached out and touched the big black dog standing beside him, this is the guard dog of the family, and after the family is gone, only this big black dog is left to accompany him.

As a soldier with a lot of combat experience, Cui Dalang knew that the dock fort he was in now was extremely strong, although he only had one hundred and fifty men to defend. The specially designed dock fort can be defended without even one hundred and fifty men.

If you want to take such a dock fort, you must exchange human lives. And what this ratio was, he didn't count himself, maybe ten, maybe more.

From the border to the direction of Jianchang, there are about a hundred such dock forts, scattered on the vast plain, if each such dock fort, the Liao people are willing to take ten times the life of the exchange, then even if all the people defending these dock forts die, it is worth it.

Because if the Liao people continue to fight like this, when they arrive in Jianchang, how many people will be able to fight the main force of the Tang army!

There is plenty of food in the fort, even the meat is very prepared, this time the big retreat, a large number of other animals were slaughtered, salted and stored in the cellar, there is a well in the dock fort, now the only gate to enter and exit has been ordered by Cui Dalang to seal it, one hundred and fifty people, will live and die with this dock fort.

Da Hei suddenly roared low, jumped up, and reached on top of the stack with his two front legs, heading in the direction of Jinzhou, roaring with bared teeth.

Cui Dalang was stunned, but he reacted suddenly. Immediately he felt a whistle from his waist, put it to his mouth, and blew it vigorously.

With a sharp whistle, one after another poured out of the dock fort, some of them rushing out, and they were still wearing iron armor on their bodies.

The people in these dock forts were all vigorously replenished this time, and each of them was issued with a helmet and a half-body plate armor. And these armors and other equipment were originally only equipped by regular armies.

In a few moments, everyone was in place on the dock fort. It didn't take long for everyone to feel the ground tremble, and the Dock seemed to tremble slightly.

Cavalry, a large number of cavalry.

Cui Dalang, who has rich combat experience, immediately understood, but he stopped in his heart, it was impossible for the enemy's cavalry to attack a dock fort like himself.

When the first rays of the sun jumped out from the horizon to illuminate the dock fort, on the horizon, there were finally black-pressed cavalry and fluttering Liao army flags.

I'm afraid there are thousands of riders.

Even though he had expected it in his heart, Cui Dalang still gasped.

The big black dog next to him barked wildly.

Boundless cavalry rushed in.

They didn't pay any attention to the dock fort standing on the ground, but they just divided dozens of horses and galloped to a place not far from the dock fort to keep guard, and the main force rushed through the front of the dock fort like a tide.

When the last cavalry departed, the fort returned to calm.

By this time, the sun had risen high, bathing the Dock Fort in complete sunlight.

"Brothers, it's almost time to fight hard!" Cui Dalang tried to put his tone down as much as possible.