As night fell, a dark shadow appeared beyond the horizon of the lower capital. One of the soldiers rubbed his eyes, stared at the dark figure, and wondered, "Hey, what is that?" ”

The soldier's words immediately attracted the attention of the other soldiers, and one by one they leaned on tiptoe and leaned out of the battlement, as if they could see more clearly.

It was originally a small black dot, but in the blink of an eye, it was already the size of a palm, followed by the size of a person's head, and soon they saw that the black shadow was long behind it, like a snake, and then it was getting longer and bigger.

When the soldiers saw this, their eyes suddenly widened and they looked frightened.

"Yan Jun, Yan Jun is coming, Yan Jun is coming."

The screams of those soldiers were suddenly like sparks falling into a boiling oil pot, and the head of the capital immediately panicked.

"Woo woo"

The sound of the horn spread throughout the lower capital, and at this time, the lower capital was boiling, and countless people rushed to the city wall, coming and going.

Huang Chengzhong and Zhou Ru have been preparing since they knew that the Yan army was coming, and they kept rolling logs and stones moving up the city wall. There are also many cauldrons on the city wall, and the pots are full of oil, and there is a fire burning at the bottom of the pot, and the oil in the pot is boiling.

The two of them stood at the head of the city and looked out of the city, where the Yan army, which had only some dark shadows, could already see the silhouette of each soldier at this time.

The long dragon continued endlessly, until an hour, and then I saw the tail of the long dragon, and it seemed that there were more than 10,000 people to say less.

Seeing this, Huang Chengzhong and Zhou Ru glanced at each other, and they both saw the bitterness in each other's pupils.

At this time, there was a panic, the four gates were closed, and soon there were many people standing on the city wall, and if you looked closely, those were a mixture of soldiers and people, except for a small number of soldiers, the city wall was actually people wearing all kinds of clothes.

Although all the weapons stored in the city were turned over and given to the people who defended the city, this amount was far from meeting the demand, and less than 10% of the people were allocated weapons.

The other people had to find weapons on their own, and as a result, the weapons in the hands of the people were also varied, some were armed with long knives, some were axes, hoes, kitchen knives, and some were holding a stone in their hands, and they looked nervously outside the city.

In the camp of the Yan army, the Yan general Lejian rode a high-headed horse, and when he saw the city being brightly lit and the four gates were closed, he knew that the lower capital had already known the news that they were going to attack the lower capital, and it was impossible to suddenly attack the Zhao army and be caught off guard.

"Order, the whole army to stop advancing and set up camp on the spot." Rakuma commanded.

The herald beside Le Jian immediately let go of his voice and shouted: "The general has an order, the whole army will stop advancing and set up camp on the spot." ”

The Yan army immediately stopped advancing, dispersed in an instant, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, they set up tents and tents, and patrolled all around, everything was in order.

"General, why don't we attack the lower capital? According to the spies, there are not many soldiers in Xiadu, as long as we work hard, we can take Xiadu. A maid next to the room will bow his hand.

"We are only the vanguard troops, and we don't have siege equipment, how can we attack the city?" Le Jian Dao.

Le Jian thought for a while and said: "But what you said is also right, everyone is here, the person who comes is a guest, and he doesn't give anyone a gift, which is also a bit deliberate." ”

"Gongsun Sheng."

"The end will be." Which maid just now immediately bowed his head and said.

"You go and order your department, and go and give me a meeting gift." Lejian looked at the city head of the torch shining in the lower capital, although he said that he was giving gifts, but his tone was very cold.

Gongsun Sheng suddenly looked at him for a while, his face was overjoyed, and he responded loudly: "The last general will take the order." ”

Gongsun Sheng took a few steps back with his fists clenched, and strode towards his headquarters, and after a while, he heard his voice calling for soldiers and shouting generals.

But fortunately, the Yan army did not attack when they came to Xiadu, but stopped a mile away from Xiadu, apparently preparing to set up camp somewhere.

In this way, Zhao Guoqingzhuang, who was already nervous, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief one by one, just don't attack.

The outside of the city was already bright with torches, and countless Yan troops camped not far from the outside of the city under the light of torches.

Zhou Ru stood at the head of the city, looking at the dense Yan army camp tent, so unscrupulously set up camp, not afraid of them taking the initiative to attack, catching them off guard, not wanting to look at the people on his side, and then look at the Yan army outside, suddenly his heart broke out in a cold sweat, although they have more people here than the Yan army, but they are all real soldiers! It's not like the people on their side.

Take the initiative? Just think about it, if you really go out, what difference can there be between sending you to death.

"Lao Huang! Look at this..."Zhou Ru said.

Huang Chengzhong also looked at the Yan army outside the city, and said with a sigh of relief: "Old Zhou, it seems that the Yan army will not attack tonight." ”

Zhou Ru did not relax when he heard this, but said bitterly: "I won't attack tonight, so what about tomorrow?" The Yan army is violent, can it be defended? ”

Zhou Ru couldn't help but say frustrating words, but when he saw Yan Jun, that aura of slaughter, at first glance, he was an elite who had experienced a hundred battles, and then looked at the people on his side, all of them were a little afraid, and many of them didn't even have a decent weapon.

"Why hasn't General Zhao Yi come over yet! The Yan army has already arrived in the city, why hasn't he come yet. Zhou was walking around the city in a hurry.

Now that he has mobilized the whole city, countless young men have crowded into the city, and the addition of hundreds of people has filled the city wall with people. But these are ordinary people! The fight is almost the same, the war is not a joke, and many people don't even have a decent weapon, how can they resist the attack of the Yan army? Now he only hopes that Zhao Yi can bring the elite soldiers over, after all, the soldiers are still reliable in the war, but the place where Zhao Yi is stationed is not very far! Why hasn't it been so long?

Huang Chengzhong's face was a little ugly, and he stepped forward and said, "I'm afraid that Zhao Yi won't come." ”

"What? Huang County Lieutenant, what's going on? Zhou Ru asked in a low voice.

Huang Chengzhong's face was a little ugly and said: "Today, I saw that Zhao Yi had not been in a company for a long time, so I sent soldiers to take a look, and I went to the temporary station of the bandit army, but it turned out that the building was empty. ”

"What?" When Zhou Ru heard the news, his eyes suddenly darkened, and he was about to go down to the island.

Huang Chengzhong's eyes were quick, and he immediately supported Zhou Ru, shook Zhou Ru nervously a few times, and said, "Lord Zhou, are you okay?" You can't be fine! I can't do without you! ”

Huang Chengzhong is really nervous, he and Zhou Ru have cooperated for many years, one manages the civil and the other manages the military, the two have cooperated for many years, if it had fallen before, it would have fallen but now, the people guarding the city wall are basically the people of the lower capital, these people don't know him Huang Chengzhong very much! If Zhou Ru fell at this time, then these people would definitely panic, and there would be no need for the Yan army to attack at that time, and the lower capital would be broken.

"How can this be, Zhao Yi, as a general of Zhao State, commanding a thousand elites, how can he escape without a fight." Zhou Ru seemed to have aged a lot, looking tired, I don't know if it was an illusion, I felt that his gray hair was even more.

"Zhao Yi, this guy is greedy for life and afraid of death, I see that this guy has already made up his mind to escape when he knew that Yan Jun is coming, I knew that this guy would be like this, I should have detained him at that time." Huang Chengzhong said viciously.

Zhou Ru's eyes were a little dim, originally they were not very sure that they were defending the city even if they had Zhao Yi, a thousand people, but now that Zhao Yi actually led people to run away, it was even more hopeless.

"Old Zhou! You're going to hold on! Now I can't live without you, and the people can't live without you! Huang Chengzhong said very sincerely.

"Yes, I still need to be lowered, I can't fall." Zhou Ru regained a glimmer of brilliance in his eyes and forcibly stood up.

At this moment, there was a noise outside the city.

"Knock Knock"

A loud drum beat suddenly came from outside, neat and loud and very regular.

"Woo woo~" Then there was a horn sound.

Huang Chengzhong's face changed, and he no longer cared about Zhou Xiang, and immediately stood at the head of the city and looked outside the city, only to see that the Yan army's camp had been set up, and a group of Yan soldiers came out of the Yan army's camp like an ant colony, and gathered outside the range of bows and arrows.

Huang Chengzhong was shocked, and then roared angrily: "The Yan army is about to attack, all prepare for battle, and the archers are ready." ”