The city guard of Fuzhou can be said to be extremely strong. Lin Douyao sighed and said to the officials: "The people at the head of the city are strong, there are no officers and soldiers, and as soon as the thieves arrive, the truth and the truth will be exposed, and then there will be Li Kaiming's army." ”

All the officials were silent, Yang Shiwei shook his head and sighed, but there was a resolute and firm meaning in his eyes. Zheng Liqi has been very busy for a while, his expression is dry, and he already looks indifferent.

Only Chen Dujing's face was still relatively calm, but he kept looking in the direction of Qizhou one after another.

Beneath the city, the cries of the people were heard, which continued and made people feel disturbed.

……

The situation at dawn confirmed Lin Douyao's judgment.

About four hundred to five hundred horsemen appeared on the distant horizon.

At this time, the defenders of the city had just screened the soldiers of the box army and the forbidden army who had fled from defeat, and put these robes in the city, originally intending to continue to let the people in. When the enemy rode closer, the people gathered outside the city panicked and immediately fled to the nearby villages.

The movement in the city alarmed the dignitaries and a small number of military attaches in the city, Lin Douyao and others rushed to the west gate to look, as well as the princes and nobles in the city, such as the Duke of Xinguo, the Marquis of Xinchang, the Marquis of Jingyuan, and the children of the palace, all with horizontal swords or long swords, or holding a sword, rushed to the city to be on guard.

The princes' mansions had actually received a notice, Lin Douyao ordered them to retreat to Fuzhou with King Zhao, and their faces were also gloomy when they went to the city, if they were surrounded by thieves now, it would be quite difficult to transfer...... For these clan nobles, this is naturally bad news.

The appearance of the lords at the head of the city also made people frown.

Tall and good-looking, but all of them are as pale as earth, after King Zhao's defeat, none of the young people in the clan who wanted to ride horses and swords to join the army were gone, and the former words were not ashamed to become a joke.

At this time, they were forced to go to the city, and they were all trembling, calmly resisting the enemy, and the spirit of fighting the thieves with the army and the people could not be seen.

The performance of the nobles of the clan in the city made officials such as Lin Douyao and Yang Shiwei frown, but it was the marquis families including the Marquis of Changwen, and some families with national surnames who had already produced the genealogy of the clan, and the spirit and determination they showed far exceeded that of the princes of the clan.

King Zhao did not go to the city at all, and after the news was transmitted back to Fuzhou one after another, the entire city was full of mourning.

Most of the military attaches of the forbidden army and the Xiang army settled in Fuzhou, and their wives and small families heard that the army was completely wiped out, and many families gathered in Zhao Wang's mansion to inquire about the news, what face did King Zhao have to meet them? On the battlefield, he led his guards to flee first, sold his troops cleanly, and after escaping back to the palace, King Zhao couldn't even get out of the gate, and was completely put under house arrest by the civilian officials. At this moment, there is no need for this prince who abandoned his troops on the battlefield and fled first to go to the city, and give King Zhao a chance to clear his name in vain.

There are more and more crowds on the head of the city, thieves and horsemen are pouring out from the horizon, there seems to be an endless light shrouded in it, last night it was estimated that there were hundreds of horses, and at the end of the hour, near the west gate of Fuzhou and the south gate, there were almost a thousand or so rogue cavalry.

These thieves are very bold, last night they were forced back by Lin Douyao's personal horse, did not dare to pursue, today seems to be revenge, the thieves have divided into dozens of horses and a small group of cavalry, galloping back and forth in the open space outside the city gate, making strange noises in their mouths, and from time to time with bows and arrows, towards the city to make a provocative gesture, causing a period of chaos in the city, these thieves and horses are strange smiles and run away, in case they are injured by the crossbow of the bed at the head of the city.

By noon, the entire western and southern parts of the city were empty. In the usual season, not only local villagers come and go here, but also people in the city will go out of the city to do errands, or visit relatives and friends. There are foreign maritime merchants, local merchant convoys are constantly coming and going, and there are monks who place orders coming and going, and the city gate is unusually prosperous and even congested.

At this time of the day, the whole city gate was deserted, except for the sound of the horses' hooves as the horses ran, the strange cries and intimidations of the riders, and the smoke and dust that flew up into the air.

The tea sheds, wine shops, and some rest carriage and horse shops along the official road were empty, and some riders were tired of running, so they stopped their horses in these places, turned out to eat, and poured the best fine grain on the ground to feed the horses.

When doing these things, those thieves in short arrow robes were casual, and their forms were quite calm, they seemed to have done too many such things, and they did not look at the soldiers and civilians of Fuzhou at the head of the city.

Most of these veterans were born in the northwest, and they were originally from good families, and the good families in the Great Wei Border County were good at riding

It is not unusual, coupled with many years of wandering career, these thieves and horsemen have practiced a superb riding skills and good courage, they dare to eat calmly under the gaze of tens of thousands of people in the city, feeding the horses, is the show of courage and experience.

These people have been in battle for a long time, and they know that there seem to be a lot of soldiers and horses on the head of the city, but they are mainly inexperienced people, and it is very difficult to defend the city, let alone come out of the formation. Moreover, there are very few cavalry in the city, and they dare not go out of the city to invite the attack of these thousand-person thief horsemen, so they have a place outside the city to eat and feed the horses, which seems to be arrogant and bold, but in fact it is as stable as Mount Tai.

Dafu Yang Shiwei slapped the city wall with his palm, his heart was extremely resentful, the previous Qingping world, where the prosperity was, has now become a place where thieves are wreaking havoc at will, and they, the court officials, local officials, dressed in red robes, with fish charms hanging from their waists, seem to be majestic, but they are ridiculed enough by these light and fierce thieves.

What happened next made the soldiers and civilians at the head of the city extremely sad and indignant.

Some thieves began to set fire outside the city, the buildings outside the West Gate that stretched for several miles were instantly ignited, Fuzhou was also quite dry in autumn and winter, after a group of thieves lit the fire, the fire quickly spread, and the entire West Gate was shrouded in fire and smoke.

Some of the villagers who fled were caught in the field by the cavalry, and more than a dozen people were dragged under the city gate by the thieves, and Li Kaiming was determined to take Jianzhou as the foundation this time, and did not kill the people indiscriminately in Jianzhou. But at this time, during the siege of the city, these thieves were murderous, and even took pleasure in killing, after catching the people, they didn't care about the military orders from above, some people were tied behind horses, and dragged directly to the city gate, people were dragged at the beginning of the screams, and then the body was blurred with flesh and blood, and was directly dragged to death.

There are also a few people who were dragged to the city gate a few hundred steps away, a group of thieves rushed forward with horses, it was actually the people as the target of the horses, the cavalry held a long sword, stabbed out one after another, some people stabbed obliquely, they couldn't help shouting and scolding, some thieves actually stabbed the human body, blood splashed up like rain, floating into the air, the thieves who stabbed the people laughed loudly, although hundreds of steps away, they could clearly hear the smug laughter of the thieves, and the screams of the people who were killed.

Yang Shiwei was so angry that he slapped his palm a few times, and the city wall pierced the palm of his hand. The old prefect, who had white eyebrows, turned to Lin Douyao's guard generals, as well as the generals of the Xiang army in the city, and said angrily: "How can we sit back and watch the good people being tortured and killed by thieves, and can you open the city and go out to fight with the thieves?" ”

Under the angry gaze of the old prefect, no military general could agree, and everyone avoided their gaze and did not dare to look at Yang Shiwei.

The thieves not only have many cavalry, but also obviously have excellent riding skills, and are very arrogant and fierce, such an opponent, after gathering, will not easily retreat, it is impossible to force them to retreat with the elite knights, and fight again, I am afraid that how many cavalry will be lost.

After Yang Shiwei spoke, he also knew that he was too angry to lose his words, but the old prefect was quite angry, and turned his eyes to the many officials and gentry in the city.

A large number of people are full of grief and indignation, and under the grief and indignation, there is unconcealed timidity and fear, as well as deep fear.

Once these thieves break through the city, what awaits the soldiers and civilians in the city is really unknown.

When the thieves beheaded the people they caught, the sound of the city rose and fell, and the sound of grief and fear formed a huge wave, and more people flocked to the west of the city, not only the people standing at the head of the city were full of guards, but also more and more people gathered under the city.

Xu Ziwen, who was wearing a green shirt, also went to the city at this time, and after he went to the city, he also saw the situation under the city, watching a group of thieves behead the people outside the city not far from the city gate, the thieves were extremely cruel, and even took the severed head in their hands and threw the circle to play, and then threw it away like a bow...... When he saw this scene, Xu Ziwen also showed a look of horror, obviously thinking of the battlefield that day.

If he escapes late, King Zhao's father and son are likely to end up like this.

Li Gu, who was in a small hat in Tsing Yi, also followed Xu Ziwen to the city, and his face was also complicated.

These thieves in front of him can be said to be the monsters that this person and the Pu family released from the cage single-handedly. He contributed money, food, armor and weapons to help Li Kaiming, if it weren't for this, with the rogue who had just started the incident, he would never be the enemy of more than 10,000 forbidden troops.

Without those refined weapons and armor, it would be impossible to withstand the attack of the forbidden army in the front with the help of the strong men of the people.

This beast was released by him Li Gu single-handedly, and now he has bitten it back, but it has already endangered Li Gu's own life.

"Brother Zhangda?"

"Zhangda is here?"

Xu Ziwen's old prestige is still there, and many noble sons and daughters greet him along the way. Different from the usual Yaji bragging rights, most of these noble children were wearing martial robes at this time, pressing horizontal knives or ritual knives, and their expressions were all panicked, and when they saw Xu Ziwen, their expressions were also complicated...... The defeat of King Zhao caused the prestige of King Zhao's mansion to fall like a cliff, and everyone no longer knew what attitude to use to welcome Xu Ziwen's arrival.

Moreover, the thieves are still killing people outside the city, and the horse team runs far to the northeast, Fuzhou City is more than 20 miles wide, the east is bordered by the Min River and the near sea, and to the south is the boundary of Quanzhou, and several Quanzhou counties can be connected from the sea road and mountain road.

If it is cut off to the Min River, the seaside, and the official road, then the capital city of Nuoda will fall into a heavy siege, and everyone can only live and die with the city of Fucheng.

In the chaos, Xu Ziwen was surrounded by Chen Jingzhong, Chen Jingfu, Xu Gongda and other noble children, Chen Man and others were in the same place with Chen Dujing, Lin Douyao and others, everyone could only frown and watch the situation of the enemy cavalry raging under the city and had nothing to do.

There were a few timid noble children, their faces were pale, like leaves in the wind, and when they saw the thieves throwing their heads as balls, they finally couldn't help but lie on the head of the city and retched.

"It doesn't have to be this way." Xu Ziwen's face was also pale, but he said comfortingly: "The thieves deliberately did this to shake the morale of the army and the people in our city...... The city of Fucheng is high and dangerous, and it is not easy to break the city. ”

"If Brother Zhangda can stay in the state city, the younger brother will believe in his brother's ......" A retching young man raised his face and sneered: "Brother Zhangda, father and son, ruined my 80,000 army on Fujian Road, seeing that the thieves are coming, for the prince not to fall into the hands of thieves, Lin Shuaichen will send His Royal Highness King Zhao out even if he loses his guards...... I also said I was leaving, but now it may not be. ”

"Xu Mingguang, what nonsense are you talking about." When Chen Jingzhong heard this, he was immediately furious, pointed at the noble young man and scolded: "You dare to talk to Brother Zhang Da like this now? ”

"What's not to dare?" Xu Mingguang sneered: "His Royal Highness King Zhao miserably harmed the people of Fuzhou, tens of thousands of troops were thrown away by his father and son, and fled first, shame ancestors, can't you say?" ”

"Above the battle array, the soldiers are in danger." Chen Jingzhong scolded: "Victory or defeat are possible, and the famous generals of the ancient times have also lost battles, you say that His Royal Highness King Zhao can't succeed, just replace you?" ”

"I can't either." Xu Mingguang raised his neck and said, "King Zhongshan will definitely do it." ”

Chen Jingzhong was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "King Zhongshan? Xu Zixian just bullied those thieves, and he shrank his eggs if he was a real thief, you said he could do it, but you told me where he is now? It's not that he's shrinking in Qizhou or the Eastern Domain, or it's Penghu, watching the thieves slaughter the clan's relatives and the military and civilians here, you say that he can fight, even if it's true. He is not a hero who resolves the people, he doesn't even care about the clan, he is a bear. ”

Chen Jingzhong was full of resentment towards Xu Zixian, and he left no room to speak, and before that, when Xu Zixian led the iron into Fuzhou, his father Chen Man had already decided to withdraw from Zhao Wangfu, who expected that the next thing would be the Jianzhou rebellion, King Zhao was ordered to lead the troops, Xu Zixian fully retreated, and Chen Man's father and son hurriedly attached themselves to King Zhao...... Xu Zixian has not appeared until now, obviously he has done a comprehensive contraction, and Chen Jingzhong dares to do so. Of course, it was also because he saw that the thieves and cavalry were rampant, and his mind was a little abnormal, otherwise he would insult the prince of the country in public like this, even if Xiao Zan knew about it, he would have to be impeached, but the hearts of the people at the head of the city were fluctuating, and no one came forward to compare with this person.

Xu Ziwen's face sank like water, and he looked at the surrounding situation, at this time, the enemy cavalry outside the city was gradually gathering again, and the enemy cavalry in the northeast in the distance was also gradually withdrawn.

"Isn't that right?" Xu Ziwen blurted out and said, "Do they want to use cavalry to break the city?" ”

The cavalry gathered more and more, from all directions there were thieves and light horsemen pouring out, gradually gathered together, a large number of cavalry on the horseback vertically and horizontally, the horse's hooves flying, when gathering, plus the high raised horizontal knife or long sword, the cold light is dotted, the sound is extremely terrifying.

The people at the head of the city, including the officials, are all discolored, are the thieves and others are so fierce that they want more than 1,000 light horsemen to cut down trees on the spot as a ladder, and use the method of ant attachment to attack the city?

The enemy cavalry gradually gathered, and some people who looked like generals in hats gathered, and these bandit generals shouted loudly, as if they were discussing some urgent military situation.

Lin Douyao suddenly said loudly: "The enemy situation must be repeated, what will it be?" Well, what could it be? ”

Everyone was at a loss, from the scattering of the enemy horses to the regrouping, of course, there was an accident, but at this moment, what kind of accident will happen?