Zhang Fan has always been a very self-aware person, whether it is in this life or in the previous life, whether it is a high-ranking official in this life, or an ordinary life in the previous life.

Although Wang Meng and the other subordinates had not known Zhang Fan for a long time, they also knew that Zhang Fan was not a pretentious person, but now, in such a situation where the enemy was like a great enemy and the enemy could rush to the city tower at any time, several people looked at Zhang Fan, with strange expressions on their faces.

In the final analysis, it is no wonder that there are a few people, mainly Zhang Fan's current outfit, which really makes these people who have been in contact with Zhang Fan for a long time feel very weird.

Today's Zhang Fan, with black hair still tied on his head with a hairpin, looks like a literati and ink writer, and he is also wearing a very formal court dress, showing the extraordinary nature of his identity, but below, the thing he is now holding in his hand is the reason why everyone is stunned.

"You...... What are you doing, now those Fusang soldiers can rush up at any time, you don't go to the front to help, watch what I do here," Zhang Fan said with a little humility in the eyes of these people.

"My lord, you are the superior of the lowly ranks, and you are the commander of our side in this battle," Wang Meng clenched his fists and said, "If the lord orders the lowly rank and others to step forward to kill the enemy, the lowly rank and others should be ordered to step forward, but the lord always needs someone to protect here,"

"Okay, then leave one person to protect me," Zhang Fan was very happy, looked at the few subordinates standing in front of him, and immediately said, "Just Liang Chao, you stay, and the others will go up to kill the enemy for me,...... Why, the enemy is about to attack, you guys should go quickly, what are you still staring at me here?"

“…… My lord...... "Wang Meng didn't know how to speak," ...... I don't know what the adults are going to do with a knife in their hands."

Zhang Fan listened to his words, raised the slightly heavy knife in his hand, looked at it, but he didn't know what to say for a while, and after a long time, he said with a wry smile: "...... This is naturally self-defense, do you think that I will not have any self-knowledge, and rush forward to fight the enemy army desperately,"

Hearing Zhang Fan say this, everyone thought about it, especially Wang Meng, he followed Zhang Fan for the earliest and longest time, and he also went to the battlefield with Zhang Fan to resist the Ming Dynasty, which was the most powerful enemy Tartar since the founding of the country, knowing that Zhang Fan was definitely not a master who was afraid of death, but he also knew that Zhang Fan knew that he was not good at force, and he would never go forward to make trouble for others, but ......

"My lord, please put on some armor," Wang Meng hurriedly said this, immediately turned around and drew his sword, and walked to the edge of the castle tower.

The "merry" time was over, and now the people of the city could hear the words of the Fuso people under the city, it was very noisy, but the whole tower was very quiet, except for the incessant roar of the defending generals, and the constant sound of cannons and bowstrings being stretched and loosened, no one else said anything.

"Lord Supervisor, it's too dangerous to come out again," Zhang Fan looked at Wan Zhong's very nervous appearance on the side, and said, "It's very dangerous here, there will be blade collision and bloodshed soon, Zhang Fan, as the main general of this battle, has no reason to retreat, but Lord Supervisor doesn't have to be like this, you can retreat from the city tower,"

"What did Lord Zhang say," Wan Zhong immediately retorted righteously, although he still showed a lot of worry and panic on his face, but the application was very solemn, not like it was deliberately contrived, but when he thought that his life was at stake, it would be useless to do this appearance, "This matter has a lot to do with me, since Your Majesty and the imperial court appointed the slave maid to supervise the army this time, then the slave and maid categorically have no reason to retreat, at this time it is the key to life and death, not only to defend this Yangzhou City, It is also for the hundreds of thousands of people in the city, the slaves and maids are poor, and they have entered the palace since they were young, but they have also read and learned words in the palace, and they know etiquette, righteousness and shame, how can they do such a shameless thing, Lord Zhang still don't mention it again,"

After saying this, Zhang Fan was not consoling, but just looked at Wan Zhong with a smile and nodded, it was not that he did not feel emotion in his heart, after all, it was indeed very difficult for a eunuch to say such a thing at the moment when the enemy was about to rush forward, but at this time, there was no time for him to sigh in his heart.

"My lord," Liang Chao said in his ear while helping Zhang Fan quickly ship a simple piece of armor, with a serious look on his face, "Please forgive me for being rude, if the Fusang soldiers attack the city tower, don't rush over with a knife in your hand, this kind of thing has also seen a lot of humble duties, but the adults are now dressed like this, so that people can see at a glance that you are the main general of our side in this battle, I think there will be many Fusang soldiers coming to the adult's side, and the humble duty will definitely protect the adult thoroughly, The same is true for Wang Qianhu, them,"

After listening to Liang Chao's words, Zhang Fan looked ahead, and sure enough, although Wang Meng and other of his subordinates had already walked to the edge of the city tower after listening to his orders, ready to meet the enemy, but the position where several of them were standing was also in front of Zhang Fan, it seemed that although these people listened to Zhang Fan's words and wanted to step forward to kill the enemy, they were most concerned about Zhang Fan's safety.

Nodding to Liang Chao, straightening the helmet on his head that he was very unaccustomed to wearing, Zhang Fan's eyes were also solemn.

At this time, there was a strange sound of trumpets from the castle, although the daimyo soldiers here had never fought against the regular army on Fuso Island, and could not understand the meaning of the horn, but now they were also self-taught.

Sure enough, when the Fusang army under the city heard this sound, they immediately gave way to the people carrying the siege ladder, and those who carried the ladder were also ready to lift the ladder.

"The cannon continues to let me go, and the archers withdraw their bows and arrows, draw out your swords, and prepare to meet Lao Tzu," the general of the city also shouted at once.

A flag was played, and the two hundred archers on the two towers in the southeast immediately put down the bows and arrows in their hands that had made their fingers numb, and pulled out the sabers at their waists, and everyone was waiting with a nervous look.

There were many shouts from the bottom of the city, and those who carried the ladder also began to lift the long ladder, and the defenders of the city could see that at the top of the long ladder that was about to be lifted was a Fuso soldier covered in medium and heavy armor, apparently they wanted to rely on this man to maintain the siege ladder so that the people behind could climb up.

Just when everyone in the city was very nervous, there was a sudden rain of arrows from under the city, which was obviously to harass the Ming Jun on the city tower, but it was just ......

"Are these Fusang people crazy," Liang Chao, who was beside Zhang Fan, saw this scene and exclaimed, "Their compatriots are in front, and they dare to shoot arrows, are they all practicing the ability to penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, so they are not afraid of their own people,"

"This is Fusang's army," Zhang Fan said in a calm voice, "In order to achieve their goal, they can break through this Yangzhou City, it can be said that they do everything, the people who release the arrows below will not care whether they will shoot their comrades or not, and the people above who are in the rain of their own arrows do not care about being shot by their own people's arrows,"

"My lord," a person next to him rushed up to the city tower with a roar, came to Zhang Fan and said, "The people recruited from the city to help defend against the enemy have come over, but ...... It's only five hundred,"

Before the war, Zhang Fan had asked his subordinates to go to the city to recruit some people to help defend the city, originally Zhang Fan thought, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, how to say that they can recruit thousands of people, although they can't go into battle to kill the enemy, but throwing stones down can still do this kind of thing, but he didn't expect that there would be so many people.

"I can't care so much," Zhang Fan said hurriedly, "The people who can make knives inside, give them a spare knife, and the rest of the people will come up to the city tower and smash the enemies below the city for me," Zhang Fan pointed to the large and small stones that had already been piled up on the city tower.

"Yes," the man said, and after receiving the order, he hurried down the tower again.

Before he had time to sigh at the greed for life and fear of death of the people in the city, Zhang Fan had already seen the first figure in front of him to appear on the city tower.

"Kill," I don't know who shouted on the castle tower, and the other defenders also shouted, ignoring the rain of arrows that were being fired in front of them, and rushed over.

The first siege ladder happened to be erected on the city tower in front of Zhang Fan, and the Fusang soldier on it waited until the ladder to pull aside, and just when he wanted to stabilize his body and was about to turn over and enter, a pair of hands had already pushed on his body.

It was Wang Meng who rushed forward to push the person, he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the person in front of him had not stabilized his body and retreated from the tower, this push was heavy, and the person who was pushed almost fell down like this, but the arm he held the knife was tightly around the ladder and did not fall.

Wang Meng saw that his push did not work, and hurriedly swung his knife to cut the man's arm, he could see clearly, the person in front of him was wearing heavy armor, if he stabbed the man in the chest, it might not work, so Wang Meng would swing the knife to cut his arm, but he didn't want to fight, the armor on the man's arm was also extremely hard.

Both strokes didn't work, Wang Meng didn't stop at all, his left hand grabbed the man's hand holding the knife and pulled it over, the man's hand holding the ladder was pulled by Wang Meng, and he hurriedly changed his other hand to hold the ladder, and Wang Meng was waiting for this moment, the tip of the knife in his right hand directly checked the man's face, and inserted it from his helmet that did not show much gap, and the man didn't even have time to make a screaming sound, so he fell down.

In the flash of light, Wang Meng has already eliminated an enemy, and in other places on the city tower, the defenders there do not have Wang Meng's skills, and some Fusang soldiers have already stepped on the city tower.