The county seat of Changchuan.

Twilight clouds of smoke and smoke clouds, the sun on the distant hills has not yet completely set. The remnant sun is like blood, and the sunset with gold edges is reflected on the river outside the city, and the entire county is like a golden veil like cicada wings.

Leaning against the wall, holding a long sword, wearing cowhide armor, and covered in blood, Zhang Xian, the guard general of Changchuan, was quietly looking at the slowly retreating army in the distance, and his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when he looked back at the soldiers staggering on the city wall, his face was suddenly full of grief and indignation.

The thieves have been attacking Changchuan County for two days in a row, but fortunately, the city wall of Changchuan County is strong, and the people work together to prevent the city from being breached.

However, there are many thieves, and they do everything they can, and Changchuan County has almost been attacked by thieves from afar several times.

However, fortunately, the soldiers in Changchuan County were brave and good at fighting, relying on the advantage of geographical advantages, and condescendingly repelled many slave soldiers. Rao is like this, and the defenders of Changchuan County still suffered heavy losses.

As soon as he thought of his subordinates who had died in battle, Zhang Xi hated the enemy troops outside the city.

After the enemy forces outside the city attacked the county several times without success, but suffered heavy losses, they began to capture the people who were hiding everywhere and had not had time to escape, and used the people as a human wall to cover themselves and raid under the city wall.

Looking at the panicked people who were pushed and climbed up the city wall, how could the defenders of Changchuan succeed? It was only when the coerced people fled from the city that they began to hold back the enemy forces that followed.

What is hateful is that those scattered thieves actually pretended to be fleeing people to hide in it, and after climbing the city wall, they began to assassinate the unsuspecting Qin soldiers, and for a time there was chaos on the city wall, and the soldiers on the city wall suffered heavy losses.

Thinking of the soldiers who were injured by the enemy's sneak attack and jumped under the city wall with the enemy in order to keep the defense line of the city tower, Zhang Xian's heart was like a knife.

Those are still new recruits who have just enlisted in the army, and Zhang Xi still remembers that there is a newly grown child who vowed to be a general before enlisting in the army to protect Chen Cang. It's a pity that they are all gone now, buried in the piles of corpses under the city walls.

The old Qin people are all iron-clad men, and they joined the army to make meritorious contributions and defend the Qin State. Now that he has died in vain under the enemy's conspiracy and tricks, as a commander-in-chief, how can Zhang Raid not be angry? How can you not be sad?

Looking back at the soldiers beside him, Zhang Xi couldn't remember how many times the person next to him had been replaced, and he didn't know how long he could hold out.

The walls were littered with mutilated corpses, broken halberds, and scattered rolling stones, and teams of soldiers were killed in enemy attacks again and again with arrows coming from outside the city, and the replacements put on the armor of their fallen comrades, and then continued to fight against the thieves who climbed the walls.

How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yu cultivated, repair my spear.

With bloody swords, arrows flying everywhere, and low fighting, the old city wall of Changchuan Ancient was once again soaked in blood, and there was a tragic atmosphere.

However, thanks to the strong support of the people of Changchuan County, the defense line formed by more than 3,000 soldiers in Changchuan was not broken by the army of tens of thousands of thieves.

"General, the thieves of the other walls have retreated."

Zhang Xun listened to the advice of the soldiers around him, and then he took his eyes away from the retreating enemy troops in the distance, and looked back at the tired and blood-stained soldiers in front of him, and his heart suddenly ached.

Especially looking at his left arm, which had long been cut off and was now wrapped in a coarse cloth, and the blood that had leached from the wound had long since been scarred, Zhang Xi patted his shoulder with his hand, his eyes were hot, and he said: "Good job, good job...".

"Thanks to the military doctors in the army, I was lucky not to die. Hahaha, my mother is still waiting for me to earn military merits and go back, so that my dead father can see that his son is not a bad seed", I saw the soldier with an ordinary face, smiling and showing his teeth, and said hehe.

"Your mother will be proud of you, and the people of Chencang will be proud of you", Zhang Xi pretended to laugh after hearing it.

The situation where a sergeant should have stepped down to repair after being wounded had to climb the wall again was a daily occurrence.

Seeing all this, Zhang Xi was helpless. The continuous attacks of the enemy army greatly increased the casualties of the defenders who had occupied the position, but the thieves who came to attack could not see the end at a glance.

General, where are you? Changchuan was about to lose his hand, and Zhang Xi kept thinking in his heart.

The old Qin people can only die standing up, and will never live on their knees, if the city is broken, then even if he Zhang Raid dies in battle, he will die in the head of Changchuan City, and he will never let the thieves step into the county seat when he is alive.

However, fortunately, the people of Changchuan have basically been evacuated, and even if the battle is defeated, it will not affect the innocent people.

The sun, which had just been hanging on the side of the mountain, had completely sunk into the earth. Heaven and earth were suddenly shrouded in a loneliness and desolation that could not be seen.

The crumbling county town of Changchuan finally survived again.

Outside the city, by the river, the day attacked the camp of the Changchuan army.

"Big brother, we just need to hold on a little longer, and we can take this ruined city," a rough man drinking rice wine and wearing a cyan samurai costume and bronze armor complained to another big man in similar clothes.

"Qing, it's not that I don't want to attack. It's just that the people above are saying, let's wait a little longer, and wait until the last protagonist appears", listening to his brother's complaints, the boss, who was carrying the fire with a stick, frowned, and then replied with a silent sigh.

"I know, it must be the fun of those old men...", Qing, who took a sip of wine, handed the wine jug in his hand to the eldest brother opposite, and said with a smile on his face.

It turned out that the two people who spoke were mercenaries hired by the slave traders who attacked Chen Cang.

The Pingnan area is located on the border of Qin and Shu, and there are frequent wars, coupled with the chaos of the old clan, which leads to chaos in the Pingnan area, local bandits are rampant, and the people are struggling to make a living.

But for slave traders who made their fortunes by trafficking in human beings, it was a dream paradise.

However, slave traders were only keen on money, not good at attacking cities and plundering land, fighting and killing, and did not trust the so-called family private soldiers, so the free soldiers who catered to this need came into being.

After all, the slave trader claimed to be the heir of Tao Zhugong, and everyone in the world regarded the merchant as a farmer and a businessman, thinking that the merchant was the most cheap, and did not want to see the merchant in power, and was afraid that the merchant would be in power.

But I don't know that the businessman is also ashamed to fall into the power struggle of the court, thinking that Fan Li gave up the phase of the Yue Kingdom and concentrated on business to become a generation of patriarchs. A businessman who is accustomed to all kinds of things in the world does not disdain to get caught up in the power struggle in the court, and only wants to be a pure businessman.

The mercenaries hired by the slave traders this time were far from these, after all, the rabble in the hands of the slave traders, the ragged, scrawny slaves could not break through the county town where the Qin army was stationed.

"Big brother, look...", Qing, who was drinking, gestured in the other direction with his eyes.

I saw the breeze blowing, and the originally simple tent in the distance was blown up. I saw a few young people dressed as members of the Qin family inside, who were holding a few beautiful maids drinking and having fun, and the aroma of wine and meat in the tent was blown out by the wind, which made people reverie.

"Mother's raised, waste things...", the boss who provoked the fat chicken roasted on the fire scolded.

Seeing that the eldest brother, who had always been calm, was angry at this time, Qing, who was drinking a little wine, laughed, picked it up, and said with a wicked smile: "Brother, otherwise we will go over at night and help those noble sons have fun."

"As long as you dare to go, I guarantee that the eldest brother will break your leg immediately", a deep voice instantly came from the side.

"Second brother, third brother, you are back", Qing Wensheng saw Yu Hezai who had just finished patrolling the barracks, and immediately stood up and hurriedly handed over the hot wine.

After taking a sip of hot wine, Yu Hezai, who had just finished patrolling the camp, suddenly felt comfortable, and hurriedly sat down around the fire, staring at a few fat chickens next to him.

"All of them, all of them", Chang handed over the roasted fat chicken.

"It's delicious, it's delicious", the two of them didn't care about the piping hot roast chicken, and immediately gobbled it up, making the green next to them drool.

"Two brothers, how is the army now?".

"Woo, how? Big brother, it's still the same, the east doesn't seem to be very obedient to us", licking the fat on his hands, he tore off a chicken leg and handed it to Qing next to him, and said to Chang.

It turns out that the mercenaries who gathered here also had their own factions.

Because of their superb martial arts, righteousness, never bullying the weak, abiding by the rules, and having a reputation among the mercenaries, most of the mercenaries this time took them as the main ones, and each led a large army of slaves to listen to them.

But where there are rivers and lakes, there are grievances, and not all mercenaries are willing to submit to others.

"Dishonest? Then let them see blood tomorrow", Qing, biting the chicken leg, said with a nonchalant face.

"Fourth, the eldest brother is respected as the leader, don't ruin the prestige of the eldest brother because of personal grievances", Zai, who had not spoken on the side, glanced at Qing and said.

Qing glanced at the third brother Zai, who was silent again, and stopped talking. Qing can joke with the eldest brother and the second brother, but he never dares not to listen to the third brother.

Qing knew that although the third brother did not speak much, he was resourceful and ruthless. The four of their brothers were able to survive in the treacherous and turbulent times, thanks to the wit of the third brother. furthermore

Although he has killed countless people, he is completely small compared to the third brother, and the people who fell into the hands of the third brother have not seen them walk out completely.

"Well, the third brother is right", the eldest brother looked at the three brothers who were speechless, and said a word to end the topic.

After the roasted fat chicken was finished, Chang said to the other three: "Three watches, we will start attacking."

Qing on the side suddenly jumped up happily, he had been trapped in the city for the past few days, and the small fights could no longer satisfy him, he was eager to enter the city, kill and rob on a large scale.

Hearing this, Yu Hezai was suddenly shocked, looked at each other with different expressions, and did not speak.

After all, the three watches attacked the city, and the crumbling Changchuan County would definitely be unprepared at this time, and it would be breached immediately, but this was not in line with the task they accepted.

Otherwise, with their brothers, they would not have let the thousands of people in Changchuan County block their tens of thousands of troops for so long, and they lost more than 10,000 people in vain, Yu Hezai thought in his heart.