In the midst of the clattering sound, strings of copper coins slipped from the boxes to the ground, the hemp ropes broke, and a thousand coins were scattered, jingling and rolling in all directions, several of which rolled down the stairs, during which many people bent down to pick them up, but they could not pick them up. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"There is no faith in the north! Don't be deceived by your lies! ”

"Under the river embankment and river embankment in Huangzhou, how many corpses of the people of Chen State are buried, do you want your family to die of exhaustion in Zhou State!"

"The defense of the city of Huangkou is strong, the equipment and materials for defending the city are readily available, the stock of grain and grass is abundant, as long as everyone works together, the northern captives will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and the troops are outside the city of Huangkou, and they cannot enter the city to do whatever they want!"

"Reinforcements will arrive in a few days! Everybody grit your teeth and keep going! ”

At the head of the city, Chen Yan, the king of Jiangzhou and Yongjia, was boosting morale, and he ordered people to carry out all the money and silk in the state treasury, and carried them up to the city to distribute them to the soldiers defending the city and the young people, and ordered people to set up a cauldron and cook soup to distribute to everyone to warm their bodies.

This kind of morale-boosting behavior is very costly, and hoarseness to boost morale is also very hurtful, and the reason why Chen Yan is so desperate is because it will be too late if he doesn't do it again.

In only two days, the forts in the west and south of the city were captured by the Zhou army, and the naval army was completely lost.

There are 12 counties in Jiangzhou, and Xunyang County is located in the state of Huangkou, which is located on the west bank of Pengli Lake; The east shore of Pengli Lake is Taiyuan County, and the county governs Pengze; The southern part of Xunyang County is Yuzhang County, and its county governance is Nanchang; The south side of Taiyuan County is Poyang County, and its county governance is Poyang.

The only ones who can reinforce Huangkou in the near future are the Chen army in Pengze, Nanchang, and Poyang, and Pengze, the county governor of Taiyuan County, is the closest to Huangkou, and the land distance between them is only a hundred miles, just one more lake, but even if Peng Ze's reinforcements set off at this time, it will take at least two days to reach Huangkou.

Peng Ze, like Huangkou, is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and is very vulnerable to the attack of the Zhou State from the river, if Peng Ze's garrison leaves the city to the west for reinforcements, it is likely to be intercepted by Zhou soldiers who landed by boat halfway.

The Peng Ze reinforcements in the east did not have time to reinforce, so Poyang, which was at least 200 miles away by water in the southeast, had no time to reinforce its reinforcements, and Yuzhang County in the south of Huangkou, which was 245 miles away from Huangkou, was also too late to reinforce.

Chen Yan regretted a little why he didn't gather the garrisons of these three counties to Huangkou in advance, but no one could have imagined that the Zhou army's attack would be so fast: the day before yesterday, Xunyang Village in the west of the city was attacked; Yesterday, the fort on the southern outskirts of the river also fell.

The Zhou army was under the city, and many trebuchets were erected outside the city within half a day, as dense as the woods, Chen Yan felt that his scalp was numb when he looked at the city, and the defeated soldiers who were released back near noon brought bad news, and the Zhou soldiers did not live outside the city and shouted to surrender.

The morale of the soldiers defending the city became more and more depressed, Chen Yan only felt frightened in his eyes, things had deteriorated to the point where he had not thought of it at all three days ago.

On the orders of his father, he went to Jiangzhou to take up his post and urged the soldiers to defend against the northern and southern invaders, Chen Yan was self-aware, and did not think that once the northern captives invaded the south, he would be able to command the army to defeat them, so he only thought about resisting step by step, and finally took Sangluozhou as a corner to defend the city and delay the time as much as possible.

If the other party wants to enter the city of Huankou, it will take at least more than a month, and Chen Yan feels that Huankou does not dare to say that he will defend the first half of the year, but at least he can hold it for more than a month, so that the northern captives will suffer heavy casualties outside the city, and then retreat in the face of difficulties.

The result? The one-legged bronze man easily approached the city, and he was about to attack the city, and it was very likely to break the city in a few days!

Thinking of this, Chen Yan couldn't care about his dry mouth, and shouted to the soldiers and young men who were queuing up to receive the reward, he wanted to boost his morale, and he wanted everyone to 'realize' what kind of tragic scene it would be once the northern captives entered the city.

Men would be taken to the Zhou State to repair river embankments and river embankments until they were exhausted to death, the old, weak, sick and disabled would be killed, children would be sold into slavery, and women would be ravaged to death by the wolf-like Zhou soldiers.

It is useless to say other great truths, only with such sensational statements can the soldiers calm down from their panic, and then distribute the money and even food in the treasury, so that everyone can strengthen their confidence in defending the city.

A soldier took the heavy copper coin, put it in his arms like a treasure, he looked at the king of Yongjia who was talking impassionedly and loudly not far away, and then looked at the trebuchet of the Zhou army like a forest outside the city, his eyes changed and changed, and he stepped aside and became preoccupied.

This young king was a good official, and after his arrival, he even paid all the military salaries he owed before, and distributed food to every soldier, and to tell the truth, everyone was very willing to fight with this king.

But the commander of the Zhou army outside the city is a ferocious one-legged bronze man!

Since Yu Wenwen took office in Huangzhou (Bazhou) of Zhou State, the scourge of Chen Guolai is full of tricks, and the successive defeats over the years have made the Chen soldiers in Jiangzhou have a psychological shadow on the one-legged bronze man.

The one-legged bronze man is very capable of fighting, so everyone continues to arrange various stories of the one-legged bronze man in private, as the so-called three people become tigers, everyone is golden, and the fake stories have been heard too much, and many people who make up stories have begun to believe that they are true.

The one-legged bronze man likes to eat human flesh, likes to rob people's daughters, and likes to draw a knife and cut a river of blood, so since this has already spoken, saying that if Huangkou does not surrender, he will slaughter the city, so the one-legged bronze man who has always said that he will really slaughter the city!

If the one-legged bronze man really wants to slaughter the city, then the whole family will have to die, and if he is dead, he will be treated as a pig by the butcher and cut off the tender meat, so that the one-legged copper man will eat it with boiling water...

Thinking of this, the soldier was excited, and involuntarily trembled, and inadvertently bumped into his companion next to him, and found that the other party was also trembling.

"You... What are you shaking? ”

"You... Look over there..."

Following the direction pointed by their companions, several people looked out of the city, and after looking at it for a while, they couldn't help but feel the urge to urinate.

Outside the city, more than ten carriages slowly moved towards the city, and the carts were all old horses, walking leisurely, but the key was not the horse or the carriage, but the things hanging on the wooden frame on the carriage.

The skeleton, a complete human skeleton, hung from the carriage like a hanged man, swayed with the bumps of the vehicle.

If there was only one skeleton, it would be fine, but there were two or three skeletons hanging on each car, some large and some small, and at the same time, there were more than a dozen carriages pulling so many human skeletons to lean over, in the eyes of the defenders, how terrifying and terrifying.

"Human bones... Eat, eat, eat... Eat, they were all eaten by the one-legged bronze man!! ”

The frightened voice sounded, and a soldier's guess resonated with many people, and a cold sweat broke out instantly, and the words that Zhou Bing shouted outside the city before echoed in everyone's ears again:

Surrender or kill! Home security!

If you refuse to surrender, the whole family will die!

Seeing that Zhou Jun actually took out the human bones to scare people, Chen Yan was very excited, not because he was excited to see the human bones, but because the other party did not confess himself and took out the best incriminating evidence.

"Look, look! Once the Zhou army breaks through the city, it will definitely eat people! Lone is not wrong, Yuwen... The one-legged bronze man will definitely eat people! ”

Chen Yan was so excited that he danced, thinking that the soldiers would be determined to defend as soon as this statement came out, and the old attendants around him had no time to stop it, so they could only watch the king self-defeating.

Looking at the frightened soldiers and young men around him, the old servant lamented in his heart: "King, you still can't figure out what the human heart is...