Wan Zhihai, who was anxious, had just roared twice, and his voice became hoarse from his throat congestion; He no longer had time to explain much to the gatekeepers, but went up and pushed the gates himself; And the eight city gate officials, seeing that General Wan had already gone into battle in person, had no choice but to follow suit, turned their heads slightly apologetically, and did not dare to look at the close colleague outside the gate......

Before the two gates were completely closed, the rain of arrows like locusts crossing the border was already roaring! The feathered arrows were nailed to the city gates, trembling and making a muffled sound like rain hitting plantains......

There was no doubt that Sentry Xiao Qi, who was only ten steps away from the city gate, was also shrouded by this chaotic array of arrows, and was firmly nailed to the city gate that had just been closed.

In fact, as early as when the arrow was in the vest, Xiao Qi's injury was already incurable.

After the two city gates finally clinged together, Wan Zhihai, who was sweating profusely, turned his head and left, leaving only a general order:

"Stone all the four city bolts to death, and carry the sandbags prepared yesterday to the root of the city wall, ready to seal the city at any time!"

Although the city gate officials had been shocked by the enemy's attack, they reluctantly went their own way after hearing the general order left by Wan Zhihai, and after looking at each other. These people are worthy of being errand workers in important border cities, and the fact that they are now engaged in this kind of combat preparation work shows the results of their long-term training.

As soon as the alarm bell sounded on the upper floor of the north city, the two thousand city guards also moved, and began to line up on the most spacious county yaqian street in the city. When Wan Zhihai arrived here, most of the city guards had just arrived, and the entire front street was in chaos, and the blades in everyone's hands were fighting back and forth, and the sound of ping-pong was extremely irritating.

"Damn, a bunch of headless flies! The longbow team is out, don't crowd here, let me all return to my place, and go to the city to defend against the enemy! Wait, each archer will be accompanied by an auxiliary soldier to help them carry their shields and sandbags to prevent stray arrows from hurting people! Oh yes, after you are free, the auxiliaries will go to fetch a bucket of water to prepare, and be careful of these Mobei rabbit cubs using rockets. ”

When an old soldier with a longbow heard that he was out of the ranks, he replied in a loud voice, "Order", and then turned around and found three other old archers who knew each other, and ordered them to lead people to guard a section of the city wall.

Wan Zhihai saw that the longbow team was ordered to go, and after touching his chin, he pointed to a saber captain who was commanding the soldiers and asked:

"Who are you?"

"General Hui Wan, the last general is the captain who commands the vanguard battalion, general, you can call me Feng Si!"

"Good! Captain Feng, you immediately select eighty brave men from the vanguard camp and arrange for them to go to the city to supervise the battle, so as to prevent the auxiliary soldiers from cowardly fighting the enemy and disturbing the hearts of our army; The rest of the soldiers do not remove their armor and their swords do not leave their bodies, and they are waiting for my orders at any time. ”

After finishing speaking, Wan Zhihai took a few steps towards the county government and shouted in a hoarse voice:

"He New Year? New Year? Fuck me out! ”

As soon as the words fell, a middle-aged man in disheveled clothes ran out in a hurry. This person is the county magistrate of Taining County, named He Xinnian. His father is from Mobei, and his mother is from Zhongshan, Youbei, and his son follows his father's surname and follows the customs of the villagers, and Hexian Ling's father gave him such a festive name.

"I said Wan Datou, do you still let people sleep? Yesterday, Lao Tzu took this fellow villagers to load half a night's sand bag for your city defense camp, and you have just slept for less than two hours, and you are shouting like a chicken and a cat......"

"The Mobei people are here, and now they are outside the city, if you still want to continue sleeping, you can go back to your county office, no one will stop you!"

After finishing speaking, Wan Zhihai turned around and walked in the direction of the moat; And He Xinnian looked at the headless flies all over the street, listened to the constant sound of alarm bells on the city tower, and gave himself a big slap in the face, dispelling the chaos and sleepiness in his mind:

"Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu! Hurry up and call me back for all the three classes, the Mobei barbarians are here! ”

Although He Xinnian has a festive name, he is also a rare and capable official. The talent reserve of Youbei Sanlu is not as good as that of Beiyan, and there are not many civil officials who know how to read and hyphenate, and this He Xinnian has not only read several classics of the sages, but is also proficient in various local dialects of Mobei, so he is very relied on by the former governor Fu Yi.

Originally, Fu Yi planned to train this capable general, so he arranged this person in Taining County. After the situation in Youbei is completely stabilized in the future, he will recommend this person to Emperor Tianyou to take over his position as governor of Zhongshan. But with Fu Yi's unexpected soul breaking in Xilin City, the originally bright future of Lord He has completely turned into a mess.

After he woke himself up with a slap, he immediately ordered dozens of officials in the yamen to start doing things. Outside the city of Taining is the enemy's large-scale pressure, and inside the city wall, it is also a dangerous place. Are there any spies or necessitiens who have infiltrated the common people of the city? Did the Mobei people ambush a private army in the city, preparing to cooperate with the outside world? Among the many merchants, are there any tunnels outside the city? Did anyone take advantage of the chaos to poison and set fire to the wells and granaries in the city?

On weekdays, the more than 2,000 soldiers in the south of the city guard camp, in addition to arming and fighting, that is, daily training, are also neighbors of Taining County, but the army and the people rarely move back and forth. Therefore, this kind of miscellaneous matter related to the people in the market has to be done by dozens of local snakes under his command!

Tell these illiterate soldiers to check if there are any spies hiding in the city, and if anyone is trying to pass on the news? Or let those captains with high martial arts go door-to-door to search if there are any tunnels and where are the entrances hidden? Although there are not many people in this city, the guards do not know even a single household, and it is as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack to find it.

But if this kind of errand is handed over to Zhu Gui, the head catcher of the third class of the county government, it is really the right temple gate. Although his martial arts are mediocre and his courage is slightly not high, at least for the one-third of an acre of land in Taining County, whether it is the head or the ground, he Zhu Gui is fully familiar. Who's family has more people and less people, whose family has a relative from other places, and a friend from a neighboring village, and so on, all such trivial things are in his head. After so many years of being a headhunter in the frontier, he can still live well until now, not so much because the official knife on his waist is powerful, but because his ability to mix the world is more powerful

As the saying goes, if there is no thief, you can't hook the outside ghosts, and throughout the historical examples, if there is no internal ghost in the siege war, the battle loss ratio between the offensive and defensive sides is at least a huge disparity of more than one to six. Considering that the Mobei people have always only had outstanding cavalry and no large-scale siege equipment, if they want to forcibly break through this small county of Taining, which has a garrison of 2,000 troops, they must start with at least 12,000 troops!

Although Taining County is a small city and few people, it is also a strategic point after all, and the food and materials have long been ready to stop, and they are not afraid of the cavalry relying on high mobility to try to cut off the supply of grain routes. As long as the water source in the city is firmly guarded, then unless the horses under their crotches give birth to wings and can fly over these four not solid walls; Otherwise, as long as these two thousand soldiers work together, they will definitely be able to squeeze every drop of blood out of those Mobei cavalry!

The Shenshi tribe has indeed unified the ASEAN grassland, which is equivalent to occupying half of the Mobei grassland. But even so, they still can't get rid of the inherent stubborn diseases such as the scarcity of Mobei people, the lack of medical treatment, and the low fertility rate and survival rate. In addition, the double lack of craftsmen and casting and smelting processes has also led to a serious lack of weapons and armor. These stubborn diseases, which were unable to be eradicated, were the fundamental problems that led to their inability to march south. No matter how talented the Khan Dynasty Lu of the Shenshi tribe is; But in the face of these problems, which no one has been able to solve completely for thousands of years, can he do a better job than the previous Khan kings?

Soon, Wan Zhihai, the guard general of Taining County, who returned to the camp and was neatly dressed and carrying a big gun, saw this Mobei cavalry attacking the territory on the tower of the north city.

"Feng Si, Da Liuzi, you two come and take a look! These steppe barbarians with no skin and no face, aren't they too fishy to eat a hundred beans? Could it be that they thought that by sending a few hundred rangers, they would be able to capture our Taining County? Is it their war horse in Mobei that has learned to fly? Or do you think that our strong walls and clear fields are too much? Are such people here to siege the city, or are they here to send horses? ”

The big willow of the Guards Battalion and Feng Si of the Pioneer Battalion also laughed out loud after hearing this. These veterans are all the elite of the border army, and they deal with the horse bandits and rogues in the Mobei grassland all the year round. After a long time, the two sides have already been familiar with each other's tactics and offensive intentions, and they have faintly given birth to a tacit understanding!

The other side's rangers shot a rain of arrows, and after hunting and killing the sentry detective Xiao Qi, they quickly turned back their horses' heads and gathered outside the range of the longbow. According to the previous tacit understanding, the two sides should send each other a sharp-toothed person, one standing on the city wall, the other standing outside the range of bows and arrows, pointing at each other's noses, and grandparents and grandmothers scolded first; Then the archers of the two sides fired a few more rounds, and the Mobei cavalry scolded and barge back, and the battle was over.

But today, the master of scolding and fighting in his own house has already drunk a whole pot of throat tea, and the thatched house has also run three times, and the other party's rangers are still gathered in place and have not taken any action; This unexpected move also made all the defenders on the castle tower suspicious.

Whether it is Wan Zhihai, the lord of the city guard, or the chief street master of Taining County, they don't think that these Mobei horse bandits can become civilized if they change their masters; But now they scold but don't scold, beat and don't fight, and retreat and don't retreat, what is the reason?

After hearing the sound of the bells ringing on the other three city towers, all the officials on the city towers fell silent: the behavior of this group of Mobei light riders is really not normal! I don't even play psychological warfare around the city on all sides, is it planning to use my eyes to see if the city wall will collapse?

Just when everyone was puzzled, Zhu Gui, the head catcher of the third class at the entrance of the yamen, dragged three rough men with big ties, and pushed and shoved up the city tower:

"General Wan! Under the orders of my family, I carefully checked the idle people in the city; In a ruined temple in the south of the city, three suspicious people were found! ”