Yuan Lang saw that Zhen Jiang was deeply liked by his sister-in-law Yuan Liu and nephew Yuan Fengming, and he was really happy in his heart. But the time of gathering is always short, and the time left for Yuan Lang is not very abundant.

"How's the war going on the front?" Yuan Lang walked out of the living room, and saw several colonels waiting outside the door, knowing that they had come to report the military situation to him, but because they had not been transmitted, they were waiting outside the door one by one.

"Back to the lord, the villain came from Dongcheng, after the lord left, General Zhou Liang hurried to repair the collapsed city wall, while treating the wounded, fortunately, the damage was not great, and it has now recovered ten **. In addition, General Zhao Yun sent 3,000 people from the military horses returning to the division to assist in the defense of Dongcheng, and now the gate of Dongcheng can be described as impregnable, and the enemy army has no chance to take advantage of it! ”

One of the junior colonels told Yuan Lang the news he brought, and it could be said that Dongcheng was not under a fierce attack, but Yuan Lang only listened to it and did not say anything more.

"Back to the lord, the villain brought news from Xicheng, Xicheng under the leadership of General Poison and Nongcheng Huang Wenbing, actively resisted, it can be seen that the enemy army is only a containment feint, and it has no impact on Xicheng. In addition, General Zhao Yun dispatched 3,000 soldiers and horses to Xicheng, and Xicheng was guaranteed to be foolproof! ”

The next to report the military situation was the junior colonel who came from Xicheng, Xicheng had the help of the Huang family, with their strength and financial resources, it was a big help, and Yan Liang obviously did not regard Xicheng as a key attack area, so their Xicheng was a relatively easy one.

"Where did you come to report?" Yuan Lang saw that the other junior colonel who had not yet spoken was sweating profusely, and couldn't help but ask him first.

Seeing Yuan Lang ask him, the man hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Lord Qiqi, the villain has just arrived from Beicheng!" ”

"Don't panic, take your time!" Yuan Lang saw that this person was very nervous, so he comforted him.

The little colonel swallowed, and then said, "No! Lord, Beicheng seems to be remote, but it is actually another point of the enemy's key attack! The enemy seems to be focusing on the south city, but they seem to know that it is difficult to attack only the south gate, so in the villain's opinion, they want to attack the north and south and attack the south gate, which is really a bait! Although General Zhao Yun also sent 3,000 troops and horses to reinforce, I am afraid it is far from enough! ”

Hearing this, Yuan Lang couldn't help but be surprised, such an esoteric insight was not something that such an ordinary school in front of him could analyze.

"Who taught you this?" Yuan Lang asked more.

When the little colonel saw Yuan Lang suddenly ask him, he seemed a little distracted, but Yuan Lang was the head of a county and the commander of an army, and his majesty was there, and no one could hide anything under this high pressure.

Sure enough, the little colonel replied hesitantly: "Yes, it was Mr. Guo Tu who told the villain, and repeatedly told him that he couldn't mention it in front of the lord!" ”

"That's right!" Yuan Lang knew that it was Guo Tu who spontaneously assisted in defending Beicheng, it seemed that it was because Guo Tu's teaching center was set up in Beicheng, he had an unshirkable reason, after all, after seeing the truth for a long time, Guo Tu was even a stone, he couldn't watch the people of Beicheng who got along with him day and night suffering, especially when he didn't know when Yuan Lang's army would return, Guo Tu felt more and more how heavy the burden on his shoulders was.

"This matter is very critical, you quickly go back and tell Su Gu, Ben Shuai will then come to guard the north gate, so that he must hold out until the army arrives at all costs!" Yuan Lang first gave an order to the junior colonel in Beicheng, and then asked the last remaining junior colonel, "Are you from Nancheng?" ”

"Back to the lord, the little one is exactly!" The little colonel hurriedly stepped forward and replied to Yuan Lang.

"What's the situation in Nancheng, you can tell Ben Shuai to hear it!" Nancheng is the focus of Yan Liang's attack this time, so Yuan Lang now wants to know the situation there first, because when he returned to the army, he saw that the battle there was very fierce, and it should have reached the point of imminence.

"If you go back to the lord, the situation in Nancheng is not optimistic. The enemy used the largest heavy catapult that the villain had ever seen in his life to bombard the southern city, and the walls of the southern city were also strong, but under the airdrop bombardment of this catapult, it was already unrecognizable, and there were collapses in many places, and the guards of our army also suffered heavy casualties. The enemy's means of attack are not so, they see the opportunity to raise a large army up, the shield soldiers on the ground against the rain of arrows push the rushing cart, and cooperate with several vehicles carrying thousands of enemy troops to break the door, climb the city, the initiative of the city tower has changed hands several times, fortunately, Lord Gong Cao and General Bai Bo resisted to the death, which again and again snatched the initiative back, as of the villain rushed to report to the lord, General Zhao Yun has led an army of more than 10,000 people to rush to reinforcements, and the last enemy battle to the city to temporarily repulse. ”

Nancheng came very clearly, Yuan Lang couldn't help but be a little frightened after hearing this, he knew that Nancheng's offensive was the strongest, but he didn't expect it to be so miserable, if Zhao Yun hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid that Nancheng would have been broken under the crazy attack of the last enemy army.

However, now it seems that the situation in Nancheng is still not optimistic, although Zhao Yun arrived with a large army, but the enemy army has several times his own strength, and Nancheng has been destroyed by most of it, and the geographical advantage is minimal, as long as the enemy's offensive continues, then Zhao Yun and they have no chance to repair the city wall and fortifications.

Yuan Lang originally wanted to transfer Zhao Yun's forces to defend the northern city, but now it seems that this will not work, no matter how strong the enemy army in the northern city is, it is definitely not stronger than the southern city, even if the northern city is held, but as long as the southern gate, the largest gateway of Changshan County is broken, the enemy army will definitely pour into the city like a tide, and Yuan Lang's result is also perish.

So now the problem in front of Yuan Lang is that the southern city must not be lost, and the northern city and even the gateway of the other two cities must not be bad, the total number of enemy troops is far greater than their own, and their fault tolerance rate is also greater than their own, and he Yuan Lang does not have such a good opportunity to face mistakes, he must not make a mistake, otherwise he will face irreparable consequences.

"The messengers of the eastern and western cities listen to the command!" Yuan Lang weighed the urgency of the situation at the gateway of the four cities, and finally came to a conclusion.

"The little ones are here! Please command! ”

The small colonels from the east and west cities who came to report immediately stepped forward to listen to the order.

"This commander ordered you to go back and immediately let the two generals Zhou Liang and Yu Poison draw out 2,000 military horses to gallop to the north city, and ordered these two cities to start recruiting local young and middle-aged people to join the reserve team to go to the city to participate in the defense of the city, remember, you must do enough momentum, so that the enemy army thinks that our army is full of personnel and endless!"

Yuan Lang issued this first military order, and then the junior colonel in the east and west cities did not delay, received Yuan Lang's military order and quickly rushed back to the east and west cities to do Yuan Lang's order to issue work.

As for the remaining colonels in the north and south cities, Yuan Lang said separately: "You go back and tell Yun Shuai and Master Gong Cao, Yuan Mou in the south city will rely on them completely, this commander doesn't want a single soldier from them, and he won't give them a single soldier, they will recruit people on the spot, if the city is broken, this commander will also die with them!" ”8)