A gentle voice suddenly sounded: "Qimuge, why did you fall!" A pair of slender hands pulled up Qimuge, who was sitting on the ground.

"Sister, why did you come here!" Wei Qing's voice changed in shock, and Wei Zifu actually came to the city wall.

Wei Zifu smiled gently: "The viewer of the dead country may not necessarily be a man!" As she spoke, she raised her right hand, and she actually held a sword in her hand, and her gentle voice turned sharp, and with a roar of rage, she rushed straight up and killed the Jin army.

Wei Qing roared, swung his sword forward, and followed Wei Zifu closely, with infinite sadness in his heart, knowing that this battle was going to be a battle, but he was afraid that both of them would die in front of the city.

The generals rushed up like beasts of prey, and some of the wounded and still able soldiers struggled to get up and rushed towards the city wall.

Under the east city wall, a piece of flesh and blood is splashed, on the south city, the Han soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, the Jin army has begun to go down the city, and there are also Jin army flags waving on the north city, and it is only a matter of time to see the city broken.

Suddenly, like the roar of ten thousand beasts, the smoke and dust in the city rose heavily, and in the smoke and dust, tens of thousands of people, including men and women, and even old people and children, all of them held sticks in their hands, or held knives and guns, and even those holding kitchen knives, rushed up one by one with blood-red eyes.

Some of these people rushed up the city wall to fight hand-to-hand with the Jin army, and some rushed straight to the east city to join the battle group to plug the gap, one by one like crazy demons, with swords and guns, and even with fists, feet, and mouths.

Wei Qing looked at this scene dumbfounded, and even Wei Zifu was stunned.

Zu Ti hurriedly came, sweating all over his head, and his face was red with excitement: "The people refuse to receive tax silver, they say that they have never seen such a good official, and they want to share life and death with Wei Qingtian!" ”

Wei Qing's nose was a little sour.

These people once ignored and even hostile to the government and the Han army, but how can there be people in the world who are hostile to their parents and officials for no reason, the previous officials could not benefit one party for one term, but hurt the hearts of the people, how can they blame the people for being hostile, now he is just doing his duty as an official, collecting the people's taxes and silver should protect them, can not protect them, the most basic way should be to return the tax silver, this is a very simple and normal thing, but the people think that he has become a good official with this simple practice.

For the people, the officials who can perform their duties normally are good officials, and their "good officials" standards are actually so low that they can't be lower, as long as you can perform your duties normally, the people are willing to share life and death with you, with such kind people, what else can they ask for?

Wei Qingyou looked around, only to see that the situation had changed greatly, and the Han army had added tens of thousands of people out of thin air. Although the weapons are unfavorable, but the number of people plus the city defense, it is enough to offset the Jin army, on the west city, the banner of the Jin army has been pulled out, the south city, the Jin army was forced to retreat step by step, and even fell directly from the city without a way to retreat.

Within a few zhang in front of them, the Han army had resealed the gap with the assistance of the people, and hundreds of people, adults and children, everyone was holding bricks and stones and piles up at the gap in order to seal the gap as soon as possible.

"There is no long wood, there is no long wood!" An old man in his fifties shouted again and again, looking anxious.

Wei Qing strode over: "What do you want to grow wood for?" Wei Qing asked, he felt that the old man's needs should be related to the current situation.

The old man pointed to the gap: "I am a carpenter, and I only need to erect a few long logs here to support the city wall, and then add stone and soil to seal it!" ”

Wei Qing frowned, of course this method is good, but now where to find any long wood on this juncture.

"I have it at home!" A fat man who looked like a rich merchant pointed to a house not far away: "The beams of my new house have several long logs!" ”

The carpenter's eyes widened: "Master Liu, that, that's the house you spent seven thousand taels of silver on!" ”

"Whew!" Master Liu took a sip: "What I have is silver, the house can be rebuilt after it is demolished, and everyone is dead when the Jin Army comes in, can I live alone?" Come with me, demolish the house! ”

With a shout, hundreds of people followed Master Liu to his new house, and after a while, the house fell down with a bang, and in the blink of an eye, several good big nanmu trees had been dragged over.

"Top, go up!" The carpenter shouted again and again.

"Do you still need wood?" Master Liu shouted: "My east wing can also be demolished!" ”

"I don't need to, but now there aren't enough stones!" The carpenter replied.

"Aren't the bricks of my house there? Go move! "Master Liu is very refreshing.

"You don't have to move bricks!" A monk squeezed on the side: "Over there, just a street away, the ground in front of our temple is full of stone slabs, very strong!" ”

"My Buddha is compassionate!" Several people said in unison.

No matter whose house is demolished, I dare not demolish the Buddha's house!

The monk smiled slightly: "What is wrong with the Buddha giving up his life to serve the tiger, cutting his wrists to feed the eagle, and donating a little stone to save sentient beings!" ”

A group of people rushed to the small temple, and after a while, one stone slab after another was piled up to the gap.

The sound of killing gradually died down, the Jin army finally retreated, everyone looked at each other, and the city suddenly fell silent.

A cheer first sounded from under the eastern city wall, and in the blink of an eye, it spread throughout the city, and everyone high-fived and hugged each other, and the excitement was overflowing.

Wei Qing's hand was held with Wei Zifu's hand at some point, Wei Zifu's eyes were full of tears, and he gently patted Wei Qing's hand: "Brother, we won!" ”

Wei Qing nodded: "Sister, it will take time to defend the city, but with such people, we will win!" ”

Bai Buxin gently pulled the corner of Wei Qing's clothes on the side: "General Wei, look at Qimuge!" ”

Wei Qing hurriedly turned around, but Qi Muge was gone.

Bai Buxin pointed forward.

Wei Qing looked forward again, but saw Qi Muge kneeling in the place where the two armies of Fang Cai and Han and Jin were fighting, weeping at the corpses of several Jin troops.

Wei Qing sighed.

It's a tough knot.

For Qimuge, the Jin army is not only a compatriot, but also a big tribe that suppresses their tribe, both invading the Han people and sending them to death, Qimuge's heart must be extremely entangled.

"I'll go and persuade her!" Wei Zifu said softly: "Brother, you are busy with yours, you don't have to worry about our women's affairs!" ”

Wei Qing smiled, knowing that Wei Zifu would be able to appease Deqimuge when he went out, so he went to command the city defense.

It wasn't until the sun sank that Wei Qing ate two mouthfuls of dry food, filled the gaps, rectified the city defense, replenished weapons, saved the wounded, and everyone was busy with this big pile of things, Zu Ti has now become a recruiting officer, and the people in the city enthusiastically signed up to join the army, Zu Ti has no skills, and even has to trot to go to the toilet, in just half a day's effort, he actually recruited 7,000 people to enlist in the army, basically filling the previous battle damage, so that the total strength has recovered to 40,000 people, and the people who have not joined the army are not idle, and they have spontaneously organized themselves and stretcher teams, the grain transport team, the city defense transport team, and the patrol team were set up one by one, and even the children carried the bricks and stones with their immature hands to help.

When the sky was about to be dark, Wei Qing went to the city again to take a look, the Jin army on all sides was digging trenches and building earthen walls, it seemed that the Jin army had repeatedly failed to conquer, suffered heavy losses, and lost a huge cannon, so it was to give up the assault and plan to besiege. Although this is not a good thing, at least it can give the Han army a break for a short time.

Wei Qingshen's body was sore, and he walked back slowly, not far in front, there was a large group of people surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, I don't know what they were doing? Wei Qing frowned and approached, but saw a small platform in the middle of the crowd, Zuo Ci was standing on the platform, and Wei Qing stood still.

He didn't know what Zuo Ci wanted to do?

I saw Zuo Ci solemnly hold a fish high and said to everyone: "The destiny of heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for the destruction, will we break the city and die, the high heaven God has already made a conclusion, everyone see!" ”

After that, he slashed the belly of the fish with a knife, and a small oilcloth bag fell out of the fish's belly, Zuo Ci picked up the oilcloth bag, opened it carefully, and said in his mouth: "This is my incense burning and praying, a special foreshadowing from God of God!" As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his tarpaulin bag and showed it to everyone.

And they all stretched out their heads to look, but they saw a bunch of twisted and turned symbols drawn on the paper, but no one recognized it.

"What's written on this?" Someone in the crowd asked.

Zuo Ci picked up the paper and read slowly: "God bless the self-blessed!" ”

"What does that mean?" People asked.

Zuo Ci smiled and said, "This is the instruction given to us by the God of the High Heavens!" How do we work our own, God will be happy when he sees us working hard, and he will bless us, on the contrary, if we don't work hard, God will not bless us if he looks at us unpleasantly! In other words, as long as we try to defend the city, the city will be able to hold and will not be broken! ”

There was a burst of admiration from the crowd.

Wei Qing quietly retreated and walked towards his residence.

He knew that Zuo Ci was deceiving people, but at this time, there was nothing wrong with deceiving people like this, at least he could calm the hearts of the people and boost their morale, and mentality and morale were the things that were needed most now.

"General Wei!" There was a shout from behind him, and Wei Qing looked back at it, it was Ma Chao.

Ma Chao rubbed his shoulders, frowned and walked up quickly, and said to Wei Qing: "I'm afraid that I will organize manpower to build the city overnight, the east city wall has suffered two cannons, and some places that have not collapsed are also very dangerous, as long as there is an earthquake, the bricks and stones will fall down, if the Ming'er Jin army attacks again, this place will fall, even if it is not attacked, I think these places are about to collapse!" ”

Wei Qing hesitated in his heart, not only were the soldiers exhausted during the day today, but even the people were tired to death, if the city was built overnight, how would they fight tomorrow.

He sighed, "This is really difficult, let's go to the crowd and rest first!" General Ma is also tired! What happened to the shoulder? ”

Ma Chao put down his hand and smiled: "It's not that I'm tired, do you remember that I had a serious illness before?" Since then, every time the sky changes, my shoulder is sore, and I have tried all kinds of things, and now my shoulder is very sore, and I think it will change tomorrow! ”

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