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In the early morning of the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Shi Yongxiao, who was sleeping on several bags of grain, was woken up by a bird that fell on his face. When he opened his eyes, he saw that there was a thread in the corner of the grain bag, and a few grains of grain were sprinkled out. Birds know the dangers of approaching humans, but hunger still forces them to come and peck at all costs.

If you count from the attack on the 25th night of the first lunar month, it has been held for three days and four nights now!

Shi Yongxiao carefully calculated the result while carving the result on the handle of his short spear with a knife.

How long will they hold on, this is the question that the soldiers are most worried about, and it is also the problem that Shi Yongxiao is most worried about. It's just that Shi Yongxiao understands that he must not reveal it in front of the soldiers. At most, he carved his worries lightly on the hilt of this spear.

After Shi Yongxiao finished carving, he jumped up from the grain bag and looked into the distance.

Under the gloomy sky, the local rioters were still surrounding the hexagonal block, without the slightest intention of retreating. At the foot of the mountain road leading to the south gate of Jincheng Walled City, the earthen fortress built by the local tyrant is still growing taller and bigger. After observing these days, there were at least one hundred and fifteen thugs in the earthen fortress. There were only three platoons of troops in the Golden Walled City, about one hundred and thirteen.

Even if there are more than 200 guards in the city. But now that the enemy situation is unknown, no one can tell whether the local tyrants will increase their troops to Jinchengzhai, so it is impossible for the brothers in Jinchengzhai to risk attacking to rescue them.

"Oh no, trapped to death!" Shi Yongxiao's heart sank.

Although he had already prepared for this, he still felt a little depressed when the day really came. However, optimistic by nature, he stepped on the grain bag under his feet, and was immediately full of confidence again. As long as you can hold the hexagonal towers under your feet, you can survive for as much time as possible. However, the shortage of water is a big problem.

Zhou Biao, who was piled up with grain bags, withdrew his gaze from afar, and said to Shi Yongxiao, who was high above: "Deputy company commander, the local tyrant didn't know what to do last night!" I think there's still a big battle today! ”

"It's good to come! I'm afraid they won't come! Shi Yongxiao shouted: "Do you see clearly? How many Turbulrs are left? Did you eat this morning? ”

"The casualties of the local rioters have been very high in the past few days. But in addition to the enemy of the earthen fortress, there are still 200 people outside. However, they may not be running out of food. I haven't eaten this morning. ”

While the two were talking, they saw a thug climbing uphill with a rice bucket. The thugs suddenly blew up the pot and ran towards the rice bucket in a swarm. One of the bandits ran too fast and ran in front of the old thief, only to be kicked over by the old thief and punched a few more times. The wind sends the cry, and the crying and begging of the bandits can be faintly heard on the top of the hexagonal tower.

The tyrants eat, and so do the protectors.

Shi Yongxiao sat cross-legged on the grain bag, took a bite of a corn tortilla. Steamed tortillas with salt and steam, although they do not become moldy in the winter, they become as hard as a stone after a long time.

Shi Yongxiao patiently bit the corn residue in his mouth, leaned his neck and took a sip of water, moistening his throat. Now there is plenty of food, but there is no water source. So Shi Yongxiao, like all soldiers, did not rinse his mouth and wash his face for several days. As for bathing, that's even more extravagant.

Hey, this hexagonal block has a lot of benefits, but there are more disadvantages!

For example, there are too few garrisons. A platoon of forty people has already stuffed the inside of the block. If this blockhouse is enlarged and the garrison strength is increased to one company, he can take advantage of the enemy's chaos to make a short attack and catch the enemy by surprise!

For example, there is no water source, no thatched pits. If you don't want to bomb from high altitudes, you can only risk the danger of sneaking out and pulling away in the darkness of the night.

You should write a letter to Shizi and Sister Hong, and ask them to design a larger fortress! Shi Yongxiao was thinking in his heart, but in a blink of an eye, he hesitated again: to build a large bunker, and he didn't know how much silver it would cost!

Shi Yongxiao was thinking nonsense, and Zhou Biao was already reminding him: "Deputy company commander, the local thug has finished eating and is busy working." I guess they're going to attack! ”

"Raise the battle alarm. The old rule, you take a class to guard the first floor. When the enemy is tired, the troops attack. Hmph, let them come as many as they want, and die as many as they want! ”

……

This morning's attack by the local rioters looked very different from the previous days from the beginning.

Before the attack began, the leader of the Tyrant gathered his men and shouted with his sword. Then a bandit was escorted out and knelt on the ground. The leader snapped, his sword fell, and his head rolled away. The bright red blood line spurting from the neck of the little bandit can also be seen from a hundred steps away.

"This is a murder flag!"

Zhou Biao said with a calm face: "If you kill someone and sacrifice the flag, the local tyrant will fight hard!" Deputy company commander, I'll take the second shift down! ”

Shi Yongxiao patted Zhou Biao on the shoulder: "They want to work hard, and we will work hard!" Be smart, don't rush into action! ”

"Yes!"

With a loud shout from the leader, more than 200 local thugs all howled and rushed up. Each of them was carrying a bundle of things, and when they rushed into fifty steps, Shi Yongxiao could see clearly that it was a bundle of firewood or withered grass.

The thugs are going to set fire to the building!

Shi Yongxiao yelled and ordered: "Raise the gun, release!" ”

The gun that had been prepared for a long time was raised twice, and two puffs of white smoke were spewed. A local thug was obviously stunned, his legs slowly weakened, and he knelt on the ground expressionlessly. The other thug was about shot and ran backwards crying. But in the blink of an eye, he was beheaded by the bandit leader who pressed the formation.

As the local rioters approached, the three-eyed gun on the third floor of the watchtower also fired. But this thing, with its short range, is not accurate, so it can only be better than nothing.

"Prepare the powder jar!"

Seeing the local thugs rushing to the hexagonal block, Shi Yongxiao shouted and threw down the big killing weapon they had prepared. The powder canister is not endless, throwing one is one less, and it is necessary to wait for the enemy hedgehog to gather under the pill to exert the maximum lethal effect.

But it was too late.

More than 200 local thugs just threw the firewood and grass in their arms or on their backs under the tower, and immediately fled back. In the blink of an eye, the hexagonal watchtower was full of dead branches and grass, more than one person high.

Oops!

Shi Yongxiao was shocked.

At that moment, a flaming torch tumbled and flew towards the hexagonal tower. The flames that emerged from it grew bigger and bigger in the eyes of the guards, and finally turned into a raging fire.

……

Wang Xingwu and the deputy captain Zhou Changzhong left Jincheng Walled, according to Wang Xingwu's instructions before leaving, Deng Wenxing, the deputy supervisor of the brigade and the enlightened gentry of Yilong, became the supreme commander of Jincheng Walled, and the person who assisted him in commanding was Sheng Ying, the squadron leader of the fourth squadron.

Sheng Ying is a native of Pengshan, in his thirties, studied in a private school for several years, and opened a small business of fragrant wax money paper in the city. When the "Remove the Five Worms" movement broke out, he happened to ship in Shuangliu County. Li Jia, the magistrate of Shuangliu County, closed the city gate in time, blocked the rioters outside the city, and also locked Sheng Ying in the city. When martial law was lifted, he returned to Pengshan to see that his home had burned down, there was nothing left, and his family was nowhere to be found.

He first served in the first company, and was assigned to three battalions and three companies in Songlin Mountain. In the Battle of Changping Mountain, Sheng Ying performed extremely bravely. Due to the heavy casualties of the third company, Sheng Ying was directly promoted from deputy squad leader to platoon commander after the war. The third company was expanded in Jincheng Walled, and he naturally became the squadron leader.

The local rioters attacked the Jincheng Walled City, and at first they attacked the county seat, and they didn't care about the watchtower under the South Gate City. However, when the watchtower sounded the warning, the local rioters realized that if they did not take the hexagonal tower, they could not form any threat to the Jincheng Walled with high mountains and steep cliffs, nor could they complete the containment of the defenders of the Jincheng Wall, so the attack of the local rioters on the Jincheng Walled City finally evolved into a dead knock on the watchtower at the foot of the mountain. And Sheng Ying, who was supposed to be the protagonist of the offensive and defensive battle, became a spectator standing at the city gate and watching the scenery.

The Nanzhai Gate, which stands high on the top of the mountain, does not have a city gate tower. Even standing behind the low fortress, you can still clearly see the winding mountain road up the mountain and the lonely watchtower at the foot of the mountain.

Sheng Ying, who was accompanying Deng Wenxing, had a face as gloomy as the sky.

"Mr. Deng!" Sheng Ying said to Deng Wenxing: "Even the soldiers can't stand it anymore, they all hope that Mr. Deng will allow them to go out of the city to meet the enemy!" ”

"Including Company Commander Sheng?"

As soon as Deng Wenxing asked rhetorically, Sheng Ying immediately understood: The reason for the soldiers of the whole company was useless here for Deng Wenxing. He suppressed the anger in his heart, and changed his words.

"Mr. Deng, Deputy Company Commander Shi is a young cadre who has been named and rewarded by the prince! During the Battle of Changping Mountain, Shi Yunxiao was still a new staff officer, and Commander Chen and Luo Jianjun adopted his plan of surprise attack around the enemy's back, which led to the final victory of Changping Mountain. Later, Shi Yunxiao generously pushed the credit and gave the credit to Liu Gongzi, so Liu Gongzi was transferred to the General Staff. I asked Shi Yunxiao why he pushed the gong? When he said goodbye to his teacher, Mr. Tian told them to be down-to-earth and start from practical things......

Sheng Ying is threatening Deng Wenxing with Shi Yunxiao's background: Although Shi Yunxiao is only a young man who has not been a soldier for a long time, he is the same as Luo Jianjun, he is a student taught by Tian Qian, that is to say, he is a general of the Hou Party, a talented person valued by the prince, and his future prospects are unlimited. If you throw Shi Yunxiao's life in the Golden Walled City, you be careful of the future reckoning!

At the same time, Sheng Ying was also reminding Deng Wenxing: If you talk about military age and qualifications, you are not as good as Shi Yunxiao. Don't take the arrows of the Wang team, you really think you are a character! I think that when Lao Tzu drove into Yilong City, you gentry were starving to death, all of them pitiful......

Although Sheng Ying said heavy words, Deng Wenxing's white and blue face was still unwavering. He put his hands behind his back, looked at the watchtower under the mountain, and shook his head slightly:

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: The art of war: the method of using soldiers, ten rules to surround it, five to attack it, and multiple times to divide it. The enemy can fight, if there is little, he can escape, and if he is not, he can avoid it. You now have only three platoons of 120 men in your hands, and you don't have enough troops to attack. We are guarding the Jincheng Walled City, which is to guard the back road of the Jaden Alliance, and to guard the granary of the army to the north! Now there has been no movement in the shaking of the Seven Star Village in the east, once I wait out of the city and am invincible, and the shaking of the sky suddenly kills, then the Golden City Walled City will be dangerous! Therefore, before leaving, the Wang brigade repeatedly told the supervising army that they must not easily go out of the city to fight! ”

Sheng Ying's request to send troops was repeatedly rejected by Deng Wenxing, and his anger was unsettled, and his words were no longer serious: "The more than 200 people in the city guard team are not soldiers?" They can only eat white rice? Sitting back and watching the robe live and die like this, this is not the style of our caravan! ”

"Could it be that holding the prison army hostage and disobeying orders is the style of the caravan?"

Deng Wenxing turned around in an instant, and a pair of eyes forced Sheng Ying.

"The city guards are all leftovers among the hungry people in the city, either old and weak or sick and disabled, so it is okay for them to sit on the city wall and throw stones, how can they go out of the city to fight? In the hexagonal block, in addition to Shi Yunxiao, there is Zhou Biao, the clansman of Zhou Changzhong, Deng Enda, the nephew of the contemptible clan, and Li Sheng, the wife and brother of the contemptible people. Guards, who has no relatives or friends in the city? You say that I sit back and watch the life and death of the robe, what is the reason? Although the contemptible people did not participate in the battle of Changping Mountain, they also went to the battle formation and threw bricks and stones! Since the contemptible people are the prisoners, they must fulfill their duties and live up to the high expectations of the world! When the Wang brigade left, he clearly authorized the supervision army to command and defend the city, and the supervision army also recommended you to command, but the Wang brigade did not allow it! You know these things! ”

Deng Wenxing's thin body seemed to contain infinite energy, erupting towards Sheng Ying.

Sheng Ying also regretted it a little, after all, Deng Wenxing was the deputy supervisor of the battalion and his boss.

However, before he could speak his words, the soldiers of the city exclaimed:

Look, hexagonal towers are on fire!

The raging fire has engulfed the unyielding watchtower. In the eyes of Deng Wenxing, Sheng Ying and the soldiers in the city, there was only a pillar of smoke that rushed into the sky.

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