When Cao Yu walked up to the city tower, Li Su was directing the soldiers and people to carry the ordnance, on the narrow horse track of the city tower, a number of rolling wood stones were piled up every five steps, and a pot of boiling oil was burned every ten steps, and the soldiers took the fire as a unit, and set up a position to meet the enemy between the arrow stacks of the city tower.

Li Su didn't understand these tactics of defending the city, after coming to Xizhou, Li Su sensed that the crisis was approaching, so he kept asking Jiang Quan for advice every day, Jiang Quan did not hide his personal interests, and taught each other, at this moment Li Su commanded, but also had some appearance, Jiang Quan stood beside Li Su, Li Su had some orders that were inappropriate, Jiang Quan whispered a few words in his ear, and Li Su changed the order again.

After Cao Yu went up to the city tower, he saw this scene, and then, Cao Yu couldn't help frowning.

Li Su also saw Cao Yu at this time, and led everyone to step forward to give Cao Yu a salute.

"Three thousand enemy troops?" Cao Yu frowned and asked.

"Yes, according to the scouts who reported the news, 3,000 enemy troops came from the west, less than 100 miles from Xizhou."

"Three thousand,...... It's not much, in the past, there were about three or two thousand so-called bandits who attacked Xizhou, but now that Xizhou has more 1,000 cavalry battalions driven by Li Beijia, Xizhou will not lose. Cao Yu said with a confident expression, and glanced at Li Su with a little meaning.

Li Su smiled, he understood the meaning of this sentence, obviously he had confidence in Xizhou, but in fact, he alluded to the bet he had made with Cao Yu, and said at that time that if the enemy army did not attack on a large scale within two months, Li Su would go back to Chang'an in disgrace.

Now in less than two months, the enemy army has really come, but Cao Yu emphasized at the moment that the enemy army is "not much", and naturally it will not be a "large-scale" attack, so the bet has not been decided until now.

"Yes. Three thousand people is not too many, and Xizhou is impregnable and must have nothing to lose. Li Su also vaguely agreed with the result of the bet. At the moment of the great enemy, all personal grievances have been put aside for the time being, and Li Su does not want to destroy the situation of the same enemy because of this trivial matter.

Cao Yu nodded, relieved that he had successfully settled a gambling account.

Theoretically. Everyone's festival balance is not too much.

Li Su saw that Cao Yu was satisfied, and saluted him again: "The enemy army is coming, and the city defense is in danger, and I also ask Cao Tingshi to return to the mansion to give orders, and the matter of the city defense against the enemy will be handed over to the subordinate officials." ”

This is a bit arrogant to say this, it stands to reason that Li Su should not say it, but Li Su's suspicion is too serious, and the danger of Xizhou also means that his own life is in danger, and he can not defend the city. Relying on the talent of the commander, Li Su would never put his life in the hands of another person, not to mention that this person was not very harmonious with him, and he was treated with enemies, Li Su generally used him to block arrows.

Cao Yu's face changed suddenly, and his eyes immediately became gloomy: "Don't drive Li, defend Xizhou." It's the officer's responsibility! ”

Li Su smiled kindly: "Yes, defend the land and resist the enemy." Everyone is responsible, and it is also the responsibility of the lower officials to defend Xizhou, Cao Tingshi is the first official of Xizhou, the so-called son of a daughter, who can't sit down, and it is difficult to defend the city. If the lower official is unfortunate enough to sacrifice his life for the country, then ask Cao Tingshi to preside over the overall situation......"

Blinking at Cao Yu, Li Su suddenly lowered his voice and smiled: "If the lower officials can't hold Xizhou City, the three provinces will be held accountable." Cao Tingshi also has room for shirk......"

At this point, it is already very straightforward, in order to seize the command of the city defense, Li Su simply took all the responsibility on himself.

Cao Yu's eyes flashed with an unpredictable light, I don't know what to think, I glanced deeply at the soldiers on the road of the city tower, at this time the guard force of Xizhou City was only about two thousand people, half of them were the soldiers of the Xizhou Zhichong Mansion, and half of them were the cavalry soldiers brought by Li Su.

With more than 2,000 people, a fragile rammed earth wall, and a lot of internal and external troubles, it really depends on the will of heaven to face 3,000 wolf-like enemy troops who can defend this city.

Seeing that Cao Yu didn't answer for a long time, Li Su was a little impatient, he had a lot to do, and he didn't have time to talk to Cao Yu, so Li Su's smile remained unchanged, and he asked with a urging smile: "I don't know what Cao Thorn Shi means?" ”

Cao Yu's face changed several times, and he couldn't help but look directly into Li Su's eyes, and then, a layer of cold sweat broke out on Cao Yu's back.

At this moment, Li Su smiled very sweetly and very pleasingly, just looking at his smiling face, it seemed that he was a sunny young man with no scheming, simple and young, but ...... Li Su's eyes!

Li Su's eyes were bloodshot, and there was no trace of a smile in them, but a little hideous, smiling at him, but his eyes flashed with a ferocious light like a wolf, as if only when Cao Yu said half a word, he would burst out and devour people, swallowing Cao Yu and his belt bones into his stomach.

Such a look, Cao Yu has never seen it, when the soldiers are approaching the city today, the killing machine in Li Su's eyes is exactly the same as the look in his eyes when he beheaded thirteen prisoners in a row, Cao Yu only felt that his bones were cold, as if a cold wind was blowing into the bone marrow, so cold that he trembled, and his suspicious eyes turned slightly, and then, Cao Yu saw Wang Zhu who was walking like a shadow behind Li Su, just when Cao Yu's eyes turned to Wang Zhuan, Wang Zhu also grinned at him, smiling ugly, but his right hand suddenly stretched out and held the handle that belonged to him alone, Da Mo knife weighing more than 20 catties......

This action made Cao Yu dispel the last trace of doubt in his heart, he now has no doubt that if he dares to say half a word at this moment, Li Su definitely has the courage to dare to behead him on the city tower, this lawless madman, when the current situation of the great enemy is critical, he can do anything!

Cao Yu gritted his teeth, and now he didn't even dare to be silent, because he was afraid of provoking this madman, so he said very sensibly: "In this way, the Xizhou city defense will entrust Li Bei to do the work, this official ...... Back to the stab Shifu, the central dispatch is, Xiang Tian! ”

Xiang Tian, who was behind Cao Yu, froze for a moment, and subconsciously clenched his fists: "The end will be." ”

Cao Yu's voice was getting colder, and he said indifferently: "The soldiers of the Zhichong Mansion all listen to Li Beijia's orders, and those who dare to disobey orders will have the right to be arbitrary." ”

Xiang Tian was in a hurry: "Cao Thorn History, this is not in accordance with the rules, and the end will be ......"

"At the moment of the great enemy, the words of this official are the rules!"

After speaking, Cao Yu glanced at Li Su deeply again, brushed his sleeves and turned to leave.

Li Su smiled and saluted Cao Yu's back: "Congratulations to Cao Tingshi." ”

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After Cao Yu left, on the tower of Xizhou City, both the Zhichong Mansion and the cavalry soldiers all looked at Li Su silently.

Li Su turned around, his smile had changed to a frosty face, and he said slowly to the soldiers: "Everyone has heard it, according to the order of Xizhou Cao Thorn History, now this official will take over the city defense of Xizhou, all the soldiers must obey my orders, and those who dare to disobey the order will be beheaded immediately!" ”

All the soldiers were awe-inspiring, hesitated for a moment, and finally clasped their fists together and shouted: "Obey the general's order!" ”

"Now, prepare for battle and meet the enemy!"

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The first general order was to transfer the reluctant Xiang Tian out of the city tower, and ordered him to clean up the grain, grass and ordnance in the city, until Xiang Tian left the city tower with anger, and a group of soldiers of the Zhichong Mansion lost their main general, and everyone finally put away their disobedience, cheered up and prepared for war in an orderly manner.

It was only at this time that Li Su breathed a sigh of relief.

The city defense has finally been successfully taken over, if Cao Yu refuses to hand over power just now, Li Su may really order him to be chopped up, and he will be investigated by the court in the future, and he can't hand over the city defense to a person he doesn't trust today.

As for Xiang Tian......

Li Su glanced at Jiang Quan, Jiang Quan nodded knowingly, and a cavalry sergeant stepped out and quietly followed behind Xiang Tian.

Well, Xiang Tian is a person, Li Su still can't believe it.

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The enemy came quickly, faster than expected.

An hour later, the end of the desert outside Xizhou Xicheng suddenly lifted the yellow sand, rolling yellow dust, there were three or two small black spots, and then, the small black spots became five, six, hundreds, a stick of incense after an hour, more than 3,000 people riding camels wearing various costumes slowly came out of the yellow sand, until they stopped three miles away from the Xizhou city wall, in the eyes of the soldiers defending the city, three thousand horsemen did not hurry to line up the formation, silent confrontation.

Li Su's eyelids jumped, he turned his head to glance at Jiang Quan, and found that Jiang Quan was also looking at him, and the two made eye contact, both revealing the same meaning.

Just looking at the array of these 3,000 horsemen, and the murderous aura exuded by the entire army in silence, such a formation is definitely not something that ordinary bandits and the like can do, they must be the elite army of a small country in the Western Regions!

Jiang Quan glared angrily, and suddenly hissed and shouted: "The enemy army has arrived, prepare for war!" ”

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PS: I just came home yesterday, I was so tired that I slept a lot, so I rested for the day......

Well, from today, normal update......

By the way, there's one more ...... (To be continued......)