The sky on the Loess Plateau gradually brightened, and the wind that had been blowing for several days and nights slowly weakened, not as fierce as yesterday. The yellow dust is not clear, and the line of sight is clear. Looking down from the city fortress of Ji County, the simple camp of the Liukou in the field in the distance can be seen at a glance, and it is clear.

Originally, according to the original situation, at this time, the Liukou camp had begun to be chaotic and noisy, and was drawn to get the pole for today's attack mission, and it should have been eaten and rectified a long time ago, and then a stream of black Yaya's poles slowly opened out of the camp gate, slowly converging into an ocean, and then there was no longer any fancy start to attack the city. However, today, the Liukou rose very late, and the twin city fortresses formed by Jixian County and the opposite warehouse fortress, the main city wall, were already full of soldiers and soldiers, everyone wearing armor and holding soldiers, looking at the location of the Liukou camp with a nervous expression.

The original signatories have become veterans, but another group of newcomers have joined the team defending the city, and those newcomers are guarding their battle positions, and the knuckles of the blades are a little white. The cold wind blew, and even though the face was smeared with oil, it still hurt like a knife. But no one had the leisure to stomp their feet and rub their faces to keep out the cold, and the appearance of scholars and veterans in the battle position was motionless, occasionally moving, and they also swallowed a mouthful of cold saliva nervously.

More than a dozen fires were lit on the city walls, and cauldrons hung from them, and the golden juice was already boiling and smelling unpleasant. There were also generals under the city walls who shouted loudly and ordered, urging the people's auxiliary soldiers to carry more rolling wood, stone arrows, clusters, and crossbow arrows.

A group of archers of the garrison took out the bowstring and crossbow string coated with grease from the bag, carefully wiped the grease, hung it on the bow arm and crossbow arm, and silently adjusted the string force.

In addition to these noises, the soldiers and soldiers on the city wall did not say a word. Everyone was tense.

There are no tall arrow towers on the main city of Ji County, and there are only a few enemy towers that can be filled with beacons. Guangwu took a few captains and a few other generals on an enemy tower. His face tensed as he pressed the battlements, and looked at everything in front of him.

Guangwu's thick eyebrows were raised high, and the murderous aura that had not been seen for a long time overflowed from the tall figure. Several generals behind him were just like him, just staring at the distance in front of them.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and everything seemed clearer and clearer in my sight. However, the Liukou camp still did not have any life, as if it was a dead camp, and such a strange aura made Guangwu uneasy.

"What's the matter, did they all retreat last night?"

Thousands of households in Jixian County squeezed into the crowd, carefully stood beside Guangwu, and observed left and right with their probes.

Guangwu smiled silently and replied in a low voice, "Liukou retreat? Dream, this time I know the old thief Gao Yingxiang's thoughts, he didn't bite us when we broke into the king's expedition to Weinan, and there would be no chance in the future, so how could he give up easily? Look, something must be happening. ”

As he was talking, he heard the sound of a desolate horn sounding from behind Ji County, that is, from the north of Ji County.

Guangwu was startled, frowned and muttered to himself, and wanted to ask the brothers next to him: "What's the matter?" Could it be that the rogues have given up a frontal attack today, but are going to launch a back-to-back attack? ”

Such a judgment made Guangwu secretly frightened, because, if the Liukou really attacked in the north of Ji County, which could not be attacked, then he would face the weakest part of the Ji County guards, the township brave team composed of Du Ruhu and the powerful landlords.

Guangwu knew that Du Ruhu's township courage was the most unstable component of Ji County, and if he really faced a tragic death battle, if Du Ruhu made any mistakes, then Ji County would be in danger.

At this moment, a sergeant hurriedly ran along the city wall through the dense crowd, shouting loudly as he ran: "Old and young masters, let go, urgent military situation, urgent military situation." In the middle of winter, he was already sweating, and when he saw his appearance and heard his anxious shouts, the crowd on the city wall immediately gave way to him and let him go all the way unimpeded.

"Report, Liukou organized a brigade of elites to launch a large-scale attack on the north of Jixian County early this morning."

"What are you afraid of?" Guangwu muttered in a low voice, and then said to the captains beside him: "I'll go to the north to have a look, you assist Lord Qianhu to closely monitor the Liukou camp on the other side, and you can't let the Liukou take the opportunity to sneak attack us." ”

"Yes." Several captains stepped forward together to comply.

The thousand households immediately stepped forward and promised: "Brother Guangwu, rest assured, there is me here, and we are Brother Ding, and I guarantee that nothing goes wrong." ”

Guangwu nodded, didn't say anything, but was just about to start, but immediately whispered to the two captains beside him: "Let the brothers who are resting in rotation form a team and prepare for battle." ”

The captains of the company looked at each other, but immediately turned and ran down the city.

At this time, Guangwu rushed to Beicheng with confidence.

As soon as he arrived in Beicheng, he saw Du Ruhu laughing from a distance, and greeted him with the leader of his cronies: "Why did General Guangwu have time to come?" Is it because we are afraid that our hometown will not help? Then you're underestimating us. ”

Guangwu hurriedly walked a few steps and stepped forward with his fists in his hands and said: "Where is it, there are guards in the north of Jixian County, where am I not at ease?" When the two met and greeted, they were full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm, but everyone didn't know what was going on in their hearts.

While walking towards the city gate, Guangwu pointed at those elite townsmen and said: "Four thousand townsmen, but they are much stronger than those signatories. ”

"Of course, these days, it depends on you and other brothers fighting to the death to protect the family, but we are hiding behind to watch the excitement, it is really worrying, there are Xiangyong who say, is it that General Guangwu does not trust us?"

"What does that mean?" Guangwu pretended to be surprised and stopped: "I still don't plan to use good steel on the blade?" Waiting to use the Xiangyong brothers to turn things around at the most critical time, why did there be such a misunderstanding? ”

Du Ruhu laughed, and said with a smile: "That's what I said to my brother, and everyone's misunderstanding has been eliminated. ”

The two of them joined forces to climb the city and look up. Outside the northern city, teams of rogue knights galloped back and forth at the edge of the range of the city's crossbows, rolling up a cloud of yellow dust. Immediately, the rogue knight shouted loudly, laughed and whistled in the direction of the fortress, and made a gesture of showing off his might.

When Guangwu saw it, he couldn't help frowning secretly, this was a group of troops that he hadn't seen in these battles, strong and strong, full of momentum, and the equipment was very good compared to other poles.

Seeing Guangwu frowning, a sergeant stepped forward and whispered: "This is Gao Yingxiang's old thief's descendants, the number is about 5,000, most of them are Shaanxi men, and most of them are border horse bandits. ”

Guangwu nodded to indicate that he understood.

Take out your own elite soldiers, or the cavalry that is the least suitable for attacking the city, what does Gao Yingxiang want to do?

As he pondered, several more horns sounded, and the Rogue Knight gradually gathered his mount and spread it out to both sides. The yellow dust gradually subsided. After a pause in the neighing of horses, the rustle of thousands of people stepping on the yellow earth, which had become soft, was heard.

In the line of sight, thousands of people who came from the left and right, wearing ragged clothes, pushing shoddy rows of cars, were struggling to move forward. After the row, there are dozens of long ladders carried by some stronger poles. These long ladders are not ladders, and have neither weighted bases nor topmost stacking hooks. Not to mention those high-end goods that have a base to push, and a hanging door on them that can carry more than ten armor soldiers to the head of the city.

These tools are the attacking tools that the Liukou military horses have worked hard to build in the past few days. Everyone has seen more, and they don't feel nervous.

Behind these poor attacking tools, there is the crowd of black oppression. Everyone was so cold that their faces were blue and white, and their expressions were numb. All he held in his hands were hastily cut out of pointed sticks. These students are men and women, old and young. Struggling to move forward on the dry and cold yellow earth, many people froze barefoot, dragging out shocking blood marks.

Gao Yingxiang's personal soldiers and knights rode their horses and galloped back and forth on both sides, shouting loudly, and urging the brigade to move forward. The horsewhip was whirring loudly, and the head and face were whipped at the mouth. No one was sheltered to escape, just numb to bear, moving forward step by step. The black crowd of thousands of people pressed against a large group of boundless banks, and not even a single shout or cry could be heard. Such a sight is enough to make the scalp of the defenders of the city numb!

The city and the countryside are brave, even if they are all born in troubled times and earn their lives all day long, they have long looked down on life and death, especially those homeless men who are supported by Du Ruhu three full meals a day and two stone grain subsidies a year.

Gao Yingxiang didn't care, even if these thousands of people were dead, even if they searched around and drove tens of thousands of people to die again, except for themselves, it was a normal thing for the rest of the people to die like this!

The horn whined again. This time, it was more rogue horses that drove out. Joining this dead and silent battle array made the aura of numbness and death that emanated even more solemn, and that breath permeated the tall Jixian city wall, making those originally invincible villagers colorless one by one.

When Du Ruhu saw the performance of his subordinates, he couldn't help but be angry, this was too embarrassing for himself, although he knew that he would wait for the result of the battle, but these villagers didn't know, those rogues didn't know, but don't really break up at the beginning of the first battle, it would be out of control at that time.

So, he stepped forward and shouted: "Kill the thief and make meritorious service to defend the homeland." ”

This voice frightened the unprepared Guangwu, looking at Du Ruhu and his brother who were jumping up and down, I couldn't help but secretly think, did I misunderstand this guy?