After Liu Ce and more than 100 others entered the second earthen wall defense line, they were already exhausted, their faces were as black as coal, and despite the eyes of everyone, Liu Ce went straight to a well, fetched a bucket of water and poured it on himself desperately to relieve the burning skin.

Liu Ce threw away the bucket and sat on the ground, watching the remaining soldiers scramble in front of the well to grab the bucket, not knowing what to say.

The defenders in front of the second earthen wall looked at the raging fire in front of them, and their faces were shocked, especially several commanders, who had already felt that the first layer of the earthen wall was attacked by the thieves and the Chinese, so the troops they listed were also broken through as quickly as the soldiers on the first earthen wall, but now Liu Ce's lifeless combat method actually blocked the crazy advance of tens of thousands of thieves, giving himself a breathing time, and he didn't know what to say......

"I said brothers," seeing that everyone was struggling in front of the well, Liu Ce cleared his throat, which was a little smoky, and said, "There may be a tough battle later, if you want to live, just listen to me, you can't fight like this again." ”

More than 100 soldiers who escaped death from the first line of defense looked back at Liu Ce, only to see Liu Ce continue: "I know that your martial arts are extraordinary, and you don't fight against those thieves and hungry people, even against the elite of the thieves, but there are too many of them. ”

Everyone thought about it and felt that it made sense, there was really no way to face the seven or eight homeless people who pounced on them, so they could only resist with their bravery or brute strength.

"So what do you say?" Han Feng, who had escaped death among the thieves and the fire, asked.

glanced at Han Feng, his face was smoked like Zhang Fei, he couldn't see any expression clearly, only a pair of eyes were bloodshot, and it seemed that he was still in the pain of bereavement. Nodding to Han Feng, Liu Ce continued: "I have an idea, everyone must be twisted into a rope to resist the enemy together. ”

Then he picked up a piece of wood from the side, drew a few lines on the ground, and everyone gradually gathered around Liu Ce to watch the simple graphics on the ground.

"There are several columns of guns, several people in each column, and the sword and shield hands are interspersed in the middle of each column, everyone only needs to stare at the enemy in front of them, and kill one by one, as for the thieves who attack sideways, you can only trust your teammates next to you, and the sword and shield hands can make up for the leaks and cut down the enemies who rush from the gap......"

A series of thoughts came out of Liu Ce's mouth, and it suddenly subverted this group of men who licked blood at the knife all year round. Commanders and generals have never said such thoughtful tactics, only said that fighting depends on blood, and using powerful force to make the opponent afraid and desperate until death, and being killed by the enemy can only show that their martial arts are not at home......

But the young man in front of him, who was only 18 years old, actually had this unique idea, and he couldn't adapt to it for a while, but his life was almost saved by him, although this fire also burned a lot of his own people, but he was able to keep hundreds of thousands of thieves out of the fort and let himself retreat safely to the second earthen wall, which is enough to prove that this guy is not simple.

"Well, will you believe me once?" After speaking, Liu Ce raised his head and asked? Everyone looked at each other, thinking about the feasibility of his strategy......

"That would keep us alive, wouldn't it?" Finally, one of the soldiers objected, after all, what he said also represented the hearts of the people.

Glancing at the soldier, Liu Ce looked at the crowd again: "No." ”

As soon as they heard this answer, many of the men snorted coldly, they would still die after a long time, so what's the use of saying so much.

"But it will allow you to live longer, and you will have a chance to escape!" Liu Ce said word by word. Of course, he knew that the current tactics would not help the whole war, the thieves would eventually capture the Houtu Fort, and many people would die, and this tactical array Liu Ce was only adapted from the description of ancient Chinese and foreign wars on the Internet in his previous life, and whether it had any effect still needs to be confirmed in actual combat, not to mention that this group of soldiers has not undergone systematic training in this area at all, and it is unknown how much combat effectiveness they can exert.

"If you believe me, just make a statement, and if you don't believe me, go and join the defenders yourself." Liu Ce threw away the wooden strip in his hand and clapped his hands, there were 137 people in front of him, as long as half of them agreed, then this set of strategies could be implemented, otherwise it was better to find an opportunity to run away by yourself.

Some people left one after another, and they couldn't accept Liu Ce's novel way of fighting, or the traditional belief that personal martial arts were the best means to save their lives. In the end, 103 people were willing to choose to believe Liu Ce, but it was death anyway, so it was better to simply fight......

Seeing that there were still many people who chose to stay, Liu Ce finally exhaled and said to them: "I just observed the terrain and look over there. "Looking at the direction of Liu Ce's point, I saw that there was a roadway not far from the third line of defense that could barely accommodate 6 people to pass through, where it was the best place to block the thieves, in addition, I changed the formation, the sword and shield hand was a column of five people, divided into 3 columns, each column was interspersed with a row of pikemen, the responsibility of the sword and shield hand is to block the group of thieves, the pikemen took the opportunity to stab the thief in front of the knife and shield man, remember that you only need to take care of the thief in front of you, and the rest must trust your comrades around you......"

After the order was completed, Liu Ce and the others got up and briefly trained everyone on how to line up, fortunately, although this group of soldiers had not been systematically trained, they had also been in the army for a long time, and such a simple arrangement was learned in a short time. Then Liu Ce led everyone towards the alley, preparing for a new wave of fighting......

The position of the defenders behind the second earthen wall is almost one floor higher than the first earthen wall, and at this time, if there are tools to defend the city such as rolling stones and woods, then it can bring great damage to the thieves' attack, but unfortunately the flag regiment has not prepared anything at all. There are no necessary fortifications, just relying on this section of abandoned earthen walls to forcibly open the defense line, if it were not for Liu Ce's fire attack strategy, I am afraid that another wave of thieves will be directly conquered, and the commander-in-chief of this defense line, Dong Lun, looked at the scene filled with black smoke, and was afraid for a while. He is completely a civilian in the barracks, relying on military merits and a few of the few to curry favor with Zhu Song and Zong Sheng to have today's status, originally thought that this time it was just the same ordinary as the previous few times to return to the camp, but he didn't expect that hundreds of thousands of thieves in the direction of Liuzhou gathered here to attack Gaoyang, and he was very likely to explain here, but he was not afraid of death, that is, he still had an old mother and wife and children at home who were afraid that no one would take care of him, and the Great Zhou royal family was extremely mean to his grassroots class, although he is now a generalOn the surface, it seems that there are as many generals at the same level as the Shi clan, but the invisible treatment behind it is a huge gap, and the families of the Shi generals who died in the war can get up to 700 taels of silver and 500 stone of grain and countless welfare pensions, even if they are disabled, they can get ten months of silver and ten stone of grain subsidies per month; And a grassroots general who died in battle can only get a pension of 75 taels and 120 stone wheat at most, and may be deducted most of them halfway through, and he is disabled and has nothing, and at most he will be paid silver and discharged from the army in March. Even in normal life, the children of the scholar clan have a residence arranged by the royal family, and those who are unwilling to live can receive an additional 10 taels of silver per month, and you must know that a subordinate battalion counselor is only 20 taels of silver a month...... The more Dong Lun thought about it, the more angry he became, but he could only attribute it all to the destiny of heaven, who let his life be bad and not be born in a family of scholars? No matter how hard you try, you are just a high-level cannon fodder recognized by the Great Zhou royal family, and you can give it up at any time.

"My lord, the statistics are up, there are 1,257 people in the Deng Zi battalion, a total of 277 soldiers who have withdrawn into the defense line, and all the generals and commanders have been killed, and the remaining 37 of them are too seriously injured, I'm afraid I can't stand it, do you see if it's ......" An official whispered to Dong Lun to report the data of the soldiers after withdrawing into the earthen wall, his eyes revealed a murderous intent, and he made a move to wipe his neck.

"You can do this, pay attention to the secret points to do, at this time, you must not shake the morale of the army, and ruin the big thing." Dong Lun waved his hand and whispered, he now tried his best to be ruthless and move closer to the generals of the Shi clan, only in this way could he be appreciated by the above, and go further......

In the corner of the crowd, a thin soldier was sitting on the ground with a waist knife, his face was full of smoke marks, and he was now gulping down the water bag handed by a veteran soldier in front of him, and only after drinking the empty water bag did he retract his head. This person is Xu Hui, who was so frightened that he peed his pants on the battlefield, and the person in front of him was none other than the old armor commander who had been in the same camp for two months - Zeng Yan.

Zeng Yan was still the same old look, smoking dry cigarettes, and there was a trace of white gas coming out of the cigarette stick, but it was not the same as the inferior tobacco in the past, exuding a smell similar to Liu Ce's coffee in his previous life, which was not unpleasant at all. He just looked at Xu Hui in front of him, but there was a rare love in his eyes.

"Thank you, Captain A." Xu Hui handed the water bag to Zeng Yanyan, but he didn't take it, just waved his hand and said, "You can keep it." After speaking, he smoked a cigarette and stopped talking, just squinting at Xu Hui. He took a deep breath for a long time, spit out a cloud, then knocked on the cigarette pot, poured out the cigarette residue, and put it in the cigarette pouch for another round of pounding.

"If my son were still alive, he would be as old as you, but unfortunately when he was three years old, there was a drought in the village, and everyone in the family starved to death except me." Zeng Yan seemed to be silent in his memories, and said a wordless without a head.

"Captain A, I ......" Xu Hui didn't know how to reply, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to comfort this 42-year-old old Captain A who looked like he was in his 50s.

Zeng Yan smiled: "Stinky boy, I have noticed you since you came to the camp, I wonder if you are so timid, how can you still have the courage to be a soldier?" I heard the conversation between you and Liu Ce that night, to be honest, I don't believe your rhetoric, and I don't think I will believe you in that kid Liu Ce, your lies are full of loopholes, except for the bear in Feng Chou Nian, who believes it?"

"Captain A, you...... This ......" Xu Hui was at a loss, if it weren't for the blackening of the smoke and the fact that his face was red, he would have been embarrassed on the spot. "You don't have to say, I don't care where you're from." Zeng Yan put his hand heavily on Xu Hui's shoulder, "Wait for the thieves to rush up and you follow me, as long as I still have breath, I will keep you alive." After speaking, he took out the fire sickle and the cigarette gun full of tobacco, and hung the cigarette holder while playing the fire sickle and muttered, "The best tobacco, but I spent two months to buy it, and I may not be able to smoke it if I don't enjoy it today." ”