The sky has reached the fourth watch, Shang Xuanyue is coldly glowing with blue light, with a group of stars, listlessly watching the life and breath of all things in the world, seeing too much, it will be numb, and hold on for an hour, you will hand over this errand of taking care of all things to the sun, and you can go to sleep, tonight is safe.

The autumn color is bleak, and the surrounding area of Pucheng is even more withered, a lonely city with a dead atmosphere, standing lonely and lonely in this wilderness, indescribably bleak and lonely. On the city wall, a few big flags shook listlessly, and a small team of soldiers walked on it carelessly, poking their heads out from time to time, looking at the thief camp on the opposite side, and from time to time they let out a burst of emotion.

There is no need to be nervous, because the current performance of the thieves is not to attack the city at all, but to really come up with the method of besieging the city, everyone can rest assured.

Yang Fan lay on the head of the city, and after observing the camp of thieves outside the city for a while, he sat under the women's wall, took off his worn-out helmet, blew off the dust on it with a "snort", and carefully put it beside him.

Although I knew the thief's intentions, after all, it was a time of war, and my mood was not relaxed no matter what, and I was always heavy and unsteady.

According to the regulations of Shangfeng, it is wartime, and all military officers, regardless of their official positions, must be in the city and cannot return home, but how many can really be implemented? Everyone knows the purpose of the thief, so there is no need to suffer this sin at night, you know, this is the weather in October, it is close to winter, the second half of the night is the thief is cold, and the thief can not make a fire to keep warm, afraid that the thief in the dark will give himself an arrow, so those officials, in the first half of the night, will find all kinds of excuses to sneak away quietly.

Yang Fan didn't care about them, and he couldn't care about them, he just insisted on his duty and inspected for a night, and now Yang Fan was exhausted, so he leaned under the women's wall, wrapped his military jacket tightly, and wanted to sleep for a while in a daze.

When Niu Er saw that his brother wanted to rest, he stood up, stretched his waist, and looked out of the city, and then kicked a few thousands of soldiers to get up and take over his brother's patrol task, so that his brother could sleep more at ease, which has been four or five days, and his brother is tired enough.

A few men who were kicked up by the cow stood up in a daze, rubbing their eyes, snorting and stretching, but when they saw the hundred households who were sympathetic to themselves and so on, they all carefully moved lightly, and kept a little distance from Yang Fan, for fear of disturbing the sleep of the adults.

They came together, and other teams began to get up one after another, swearing, noisy, complaining, and making a mess.

At this time, a group of hundreds of households came out of the hot quilt nest at home, or the arms of the little concubine, one by one, picking their teeth and flowers, hooking their shoulders and backs, and walking to the city with a smile.

In the city so early, they were not afraid of Shangguan checking the sentry, but they had something new to see. In these years, there are few literary and artistic activities, and a little bit of excitement can make everyone happy to talk for a few days, not to mention the pomp and circumstance of tens of thousands of horses outside? It's even more exciting, and it's so applauded.

"It's starting, it's starting, look." With a shout that I don't know who it was, all the people rushed to the head of the city together, holding the battlements with both hands, trying to stick out their heads and look out, and some officers also scolded the soldiers in front of the middle: "***, give the general some place to disperse, I want to observe the enemy's situation." ”

Yes, it's the enemy, but it's not to observe, it's to see the excitement, the real excitement, tens of thousands of people performing together, how spectacular is that? Especially standing on this high city wall and looking down, it is even more shocking.

Of course, the shock and fear that began with it have now been completely replaced by the strange.

Yes, here we go.

With the earth-shattering drum sound in the thief army, the originally quiet and quiet camp of the thieves immediately became active and vibrant, one by one in a small tent, after a period of turmoil, there was a string of thieves in neat armor, holding a bright gun, under the leadership of a team leader, shouting trumpets, beating waist drums, and running in a queue to the square in front of the camp, and then the squad mixed into a squadron, the squadron converged into a brigade, and the brigade converged into a phalanx, and then converged into a black and strict ocean.

When the second drum sounds, the big array has been formed, between the third drum sounds, those thieves who stand like knives and cuts, began to sing together, the song is sonorous and loud, listening to it makes people's blood boil, the song is infectious, the lyrics are easy to understand and point to the hearts of the people, so that you can't help but hum for a while, just three or four days later, not only the thieves sang loudly, even the soldiers in the city now, some began to hum, of course, at the beginning, they were beaten and scolded by the official general, but slowly, even the official general, and some began to walk on weekdays, or in their leisure time, humming softly for a few paragraphs.

When the third drum sounded, the whole army was silent, and there was not a single thief who was idle. Then one or more thieves came out and stood in front of the phalanx to say something, and then, in a chorus of waist drums, the thieves divided into a group and drove directly to the city gate, and the others began to jog around the barracks with neat steps.

At the beginning, when everyone first saw this, even the guards who were alarmed had a kind of joy.

Although the thief's barracks are divided into four, just looking at the barracks in front of him, the circumference is four or five miles, if the thief finishes this lap, he won't be tired and vomit blood? This is still an overestimated situation, if it is replaced by these brave soldiers of their own country, maybe they can run to death, and the rest is only to collapse to the ground and stick out their tongues.

So, the young garrison decided to seize the rare opportunity, and after the thieves ran and vomited blood, the whole army was killed, and the thieves could be destroyed in one battle.

But after the rectification was completed here, the thief had just finished running a lap, and when he looked at it again, the situation almost shocked everyone's jaws.

The thieves ran five miles in helmets and armor, but the formation was not chaotic, and no one was left behind, and there was no reduction in speed.

At this time, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they were at a loss, but everyone smacked their tongues and exclaimed in their hearts, is this still a thief? Is this still the way it should be? Are all of them made of iron?

After running a lap, it's time to rest, as a result, the group of thieves don't need to rest at all, but in a team, holding a gun, in the open space in front of the barracks, all at once, with the sound of waist drums, endless assassinations, the action is monotonous and lethargic, even more outrageous, some people of insight saw the thieves do this, and couldn't help laughing: "Who said that the thieves trained the army well?" Just this dull action, if you really want to go to the battlefield, isn't that a death? Just because of this, you want to defeat us? Dream on. As soon as this person of insight said, everyone immediately relaxed, and the original little fear and exclamation flew to the clouds, put down the swords and guns one by one, and lay on the head of the city, really relaxed to look lively.

After practicing a monotonous action in the morning, which made everyone drowsy and boring, some people began to give up the big drama and talk about their songs with relish.

But after a while, a mouth-watering scent slowly permeated the city along the listless north wind of autumn.

Looking at the source of the fragrance, the behavior of the thieves is simply outrageous - just in front of the barracks, twelve people in a circle, around the big wooden barrels sent by the fairies in white, eating breakfast vigorously, the sharp eyes suddenly exclaimed: "God, they eat potato stew, there are few potatoes and more meat." ”

In fact, there is no need for him to report it, and the thief's place to eat is not far from here, as long as it is not presbyopia, anyone can see it.

It's potato stew, and it looks like it's enough, and there's a big white steamed bun, which also depends on enough, this, it's really terrible.

Only when Shangfeng asked himself to cooperate with the officials and officials to go to the countryside to urge taxes, everyone could eat two full meals, and the rewards they shared had to be taken home, and they would raise a litter of old and young, not to mention meat, and even the broth didn't know what it looked like, and those young people might not even know what cooked meat looked like.

However, it is absolutely unrealistic for thieves to eat meat every day, even those landlords and rich families are not so extravagant, this must be a thief's strategy, so vicious, how can this be? How can this be?

In the face of the long soldiers, the garrison shouted at his subordinates and drove them back with whips, not to hear or to look.

After a whip, the soldiers reluctantly and reluctantly turned their heads, and the morale of the army fell to the bottom.

Next, I don't know why, after the thief finished eating, he didn't follow his habit, he went back to sleep with his head covered, but he didn't know why, he actually fought, this is terrible, thousands of people in front of the city, cannibalism vigorously, the scene was absolutely shocking.

Seeing groups of thieves fighting each other, the young guard trembled with excitement, opportunity, God-given opportunity. When the thieves are defeated and killed, as soon as our army comes out, it must be a great victory for ploughing and sweeping the holes.

At this time, this huge change also alarmed the deputy garrison and the county lord, and the two of them hurriedly ran up to the city, and they were also stunned by the huge change outside.

"My lord, let me lead the troops to rush out, take advantage of the thief's civil strife, and kill him without returning." All the young generals stepped forward together and asked for battle, which was actually the highest official in the city.

At that time, Liu Guoxiao, the county honor, was also attracted by this huge opportunity, taking advantage of the thieves' fire, just to settle the situation in a war, at that time, he didn't want foreign aid, just a war to destroy the thief, what a great merit, even if it was a large share to the governor of the government, then he was already soaring and famous.

So, Liu Guoxiao's face was full of blood and waved his hand to the thousands of households around him, as well as those generals who were eager to try, and said loudly: "Generals-"

"Wait." A low shout interrupted the order of Liu Guoxiao, the county honor, and everyone frowned, looking at which bastard was the one who prevented everyone from being promoted to an official position and making a fortune and making military achievements.

It's Zhang Cunmeng, the one who knows the thief best.