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The rebel soldiers outside the city howled like crazy, their eyes looked at the city wall, bloodthirsty, and at this moment, the Han army in the city naturally did not fail to touch it a little.

Looking at the dense rebels outside the city, after hearing that after Huang Sui ordered the rebels to break the city, the whole army could slaughter the city desperately, a middle-aged man at the head of the city suddenly became short of breath, and scolded Huang Sui for leading the thief army for being unreasonable, how dare he brazenly say that they were oppressed and revolted.

After a series of battles in the city, there are only more than 3,000 county soldiers left, if it were not for the help of the private soldiers, slaves of the big clan, and the strong men recruited in the city, it is difficult to say whether it can be defended until now. However, even so, there are only more than 4,000 miscellaneous soldiers now, and the most fatal thing is that now after several conscriptions in the city, there are no more strong men to requisition, that is to say, when the nearly 10,000 people in the city are completely consumed by the rebels, then it is only a matter of time before Shu County falls.

"My lord, can Shu County be saved?" After the middle-aged man finished scolding, he asked the old man with gray hair in armor next to him with sorrowful words, looking very respectful.

This old man is not a person, it is Lu Kang, the current county guard of Lujiang, and the middle-aged man is Lu Kang's eldest son, Lu, who specially accompanied him to Lujiang because he was worried that his father would have an accident. However, Lu Qiren's ability is limited, if it weren't for Lu Kang's filial piety, he would have driven this eldest son out of the city a long time ago, and caused chaos everywhere.

Glancing at his eldest son, Lu Kang didn't speak, but in his heart he despised his son's qi cultivation kung fu, so this thing was nonsense, no wonder he had achieved nothing so far. Then Lu Kang paused and looked at the rebels outside the city for a long time, and then said: "Don't worry, stupid, Huang Sui is a wolf with ambition, and there is no way to slaughter today, and he will have no animals in the future." I see that the rebel army is in this formation, it is difficult to last long, if you defend it, you will be able to win. Ordered the army, after the city was broken, it was difficult for the soldiers and civilians in the city to survive, and now the city is also dead, and the surrender is also dead, and the country is dead. ”

Because Lu Kang's words were said to his eldest son, who was a little unsuccessful, in fact, it meant to teach a lesson, and the children of the family like to use the past to discuss the present, and borrow examples as a lesson to teach the younger generations, and this time Lu Kang is no exception. He first used a proverb in "Zuo Biography" to describe the wolf ambition, after all, he is a wolf, and those who destroy human nature and have no way will be punished by God to warn himself of this eldest son. Later, he changed to a sentence that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted when they were against Qin, to describe the current situation, and admonished the soldiers and people in the city that after the rebels broke the city, they would slaughter the city, so that they should not have superfluous illusions and have other thoughts, anyway, it is better to die for the affairs of the country wholeheartedly.

After hearing this, Lu hesitated, and had something to say in his heart, but he didn't say it in the end, so he had to say "no" softly, and then he bowed and left. In fact, in his heart, the sentence he wanted to say was that there was really any hope for this Shuxian county seat?

After all, there are only nearly 10,000 people in the city, and even if some old and weak Ding Zhuang in the city are pulled into the city, it is estimated that there are only more than 10,000 people, how can this little force withstand the siege of nearly 100,000 rebels outside the city? Of course, even though some of the nearly 100,000 rebels outside the city may be old and weak soldiers, and their combat power is very low, but conservatively calculated, Huang Sui also has about 50,000 strong men available, which is too strong compared to the defense force in Shu County.

In fact, this can't be blamed on others, after all, the states and counties in the interior of the Han Dynasty have few standing soldiers, and coupled with the sparse population of the southern states and counties, Lu Kang led Shu County to defend the city with soldiers and civilians so far, and there are more than 10,000 people killed in the city in the city, and now it is not easy for Shu County to gather 10,000 people to defend the city, I am afraid that if you really want to put together the old and weak men in the city, it is estimated that there are no 10,000 people.

Since Emperor Guangwu ordered the provincial soldiers of all prefectures and counties in the world to reduce their political strength in order to recuperate and restore their national strength, the standing soldiers in various places have actually been reduced by not much, and some of them are because there are rebellions in the places under their jurisdiction, so they gradually recruit soldiers, which seems to be too much.

At this time, except for the border prefectures and counties, because there were frequent wars, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers in each county, most of the inland prefectures and counties were in the land of one county, and there were only a few thousand soldiers in one county, and only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in one state.

For example, Fuquan needs to guard against Xianbei and other Hu people in Youzhou, and needs to guard against Qiang Hu in Yizhou, and the population of these two states is also large, so the counties under these two states have relatively more standing soldiers and horses. And this Lujiang River itself is located in the border of Yangzhou, which has a small population in the Han Dynasty, and it is in the south where there are few wars, how many soldiers can there be?

Before Lu Kang took office as the Taishou of Lujiang, there were only about 4,000 standing soldiers in the county, which was also the main reason why Huang Sui turned to attack Lujiang after attacking Jiangxia, and the main reason why the former Lujiang Taishou was invincible was because there were too few soldiers available in the county itself.

Of course, the Han court transferred the former Lujiang Taishou, who had a bad reputation and took a lot of corruption and bribes, and replaced it with Lu Kang, who was known for his righteousness and martyrdom and had a reputation for honesty and integrity, in addition to his lack of ability to subdue the traitors, most of them were also out of the need to maintain the hearts of the people.

Watching his eldest son leave and ordering the armies for himself, Lu Kang was also helpless in his heart, in fact, he also had some doubts in his heart about whether the city could be defended today. After all, there are too many rebels outside the city, and for siege and defense battles, in the absence of foreign aid, in the final analysis, they are just fighting for troops, and whoever can hold on will be victorious.

The county seat of Shuxian County, which he guarded, obviously did not have any advantage in terms of strength compared with the rebels under the opposite city. However, so what, he Lu Kang is a courtier of the Han Dynasty, and he should be the ruler of the king, loyal to the king, no matter what, he only dies in the battle, but he will not surrender, just like the sentence he quoted "Wait for death?" Death of the country is the same", anyway, he will die for the affairs of the country, this sentence is not only said to the soldiers in the city, but also to himself.

Even if he can't defend this city, he Lu Kang has to insist, it's a big deal that before the people in the city are slaughtered by traitors, he will die to serve the country. He Lu Kang is inspirational to keep the festival, keep the festival of honesty and integrity, and keep the festival of the courtiers, if the city is broken today, it is the time for him Lu Kang to keep the festival to the death, and he will do his best for the Han Dynasty, and then die.

Just when Lu Kang was still thinking about it, the horn of the rebels attacking under the city sounded violently, passionate and long, dispersing his thoughts, because it meant that the rebels were about to attack again.

In the vast and vast field, the rebels were in units of 100 people and 1,000 people, and the tide generally poured into the three city gates of the county seat of Shuxian County.

"The traitors are coming, what should I do......" At this time, on the tower of the south gate of Shu County, some soldiers shouted at the top of the city, causing a commotion in the city.

"Shut up! And then there are loud noisers, slash! Seeing this, Lu Kang shouted without hesitation, although he has always been known as a scribe, but this does not mean that he does not know about military affairs, for this group of young men who have just gone to the city, only Wei can make them obedient. Moreover, now is the critical moment of defending the city, and it is also the time when the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the most fearful of disturbing the morale of the army, if those frightened young men are allowed to shout, it is easy to cause a wind of turmoil in the army, and it is impossible to say that there will be weak-willed soldiers who will flee or even surrender, causing an avalanche or even a mutiny danger in the army, so he cannot be unguarded.

As a group of Lu Kang's cronies and soldiers waved their swords and shouted, the Han army in the city finally quieted down and looked at the city, because the rebels' cold offensive was coming again, and it was about to reach the vicinity of the moat that they had spent countless lives to fill in.

Looking at the city from afar, the dense rebel soldiers shouted to each other and came to the south gate, Lu Kang walked to the city wall, leaned on the city wall, and opened his arms and encouraged loudly: "The city is a chaotic thief's ear, and the armor is not strong, how can it compete with my Han Heavenly Soldiers?" The kings have been guarding for many days, they have not occupied the city, I have been stabbed by the history of the handbook, the reinforcements will come soon, this Kang and the kings guard the city gate, I hope you will encourage you! ”

Words in the future, the city tower was suddenly quiet, although many soldiers speculated that Taishou had already said that he didn't know how many times that there were reinforcements was false, and the state and county did not have too many soldiers and horses to rescue them, but they still didn't ask, and chose to believe it. No why, just because Lu Kang is willing to guard the city gate with them, with such a leading official here, even if they know that they are dead, what can they do? If the rebels want to break the city, they must step on their corpses to enter the city, otherwise, this Shu County is their grave.

"Beat the drums!"

Seeing that the rebels were getting closer and closer, as Lu Kang shouted, the thunderous rumbling war drums soared into the sky in an instant, and with the sound of the drums, the Han army on the city gate knew that the real moment of life and death was coming.

Most of the rebels in the front row were holding wooden shields the size of door panels, and a few were holding captured Han shields, but most of them were worn out and ran quickly towards the city gate. Countless archers were interspersed, followed by a daredevil's squad carrying ladders, several rows of shieldmen covering on either side, and then a squad of archers, the daring warriors in charge of landing the city were at the end, and the rebels trotted all the way through the moat, which had long been filled with sandbags and corpses, and went straight to the bottom of the city.

At this moment, Lu Kang was extremely calm, he visually measured the distance between the rebel forward soldiers and the city gate, and suddenly his eyes flashed, and the long sword in his hand swung down fiercely, shouting: "Crossbowmen, crossbow arrows......"

The rain of arrows poured down the city wall, as if the dark clouds were pressing down, and the rebels continued to fall to the ground with arrows, howling miserably, but more of them were soldiers who continued to advance regardless of their comrades.

The siege battle has reached this point, these rebel soldiers have already accumulated a lot of siege experience, they know that at this moment, staying or retreating is a certain death, and the arrows in the sky and the military law team behind them will not give them a chance to live at all. If you want to survive, you can only move forward, move forward quickly, climb the tower, and fight with the Han army, which cannot stop without the slightest hesitation, otherwise there will be no way to live.

In the battle to defend the city, the defenders generally have an advantage over the besieging side, because they stand tall and shoot far, and have a condescending offensive bonus in the heat of the day, and the rebels are suffering several rounds of arrows, and the crossbowmen behind them have just entered the range that can counterattack the Han army defending the city.

A rebel commander shouted: "Archer! Shoot arrows! Shoot arrows! Crossbowmen! Shoot fast! Shoot fast! Counterattack! Counterattack... Suppress the Han army's bow and crossbow. ”

In an instant, the rebels had countless arrows rain to the Shuxian city tower to counterattack, but these arrows can only suppress the offensive of the Han army, except for the random arrows, you can be lucky to kill and injure the Han army, most of the arrows did not cause too many casualties to the Han army, only the occasional archery master, can shoot the Han army.

After all, for these rebels born in mud, most of them were farmers who farmed the land before the uprising, and there were few woodcutters in the mountains. And those rebels who were originally farmers, natural archery skills are not very good, and after being forcibly divided into crossbowmen, short-term training can only ensure that their arrows do not miss, as for the accuracy of shooting, it is a bit whimsical.

Beginning; Chu Sima Ziliang gave birth to a son, Yue Jiao. Ziwen said: "Kill!" It's the son also; the sound of a bear and a tiger, and the voice of a jackal; Fei kill; It will be destroyed. As the proverb goes, "The wolf is ambitious; It is a wolf; What can it be? Excerpt from "The Four Years of Zuo Chuan Xuangong"

In July of the first year of the second year, Fa Lu left Yuyang, 900 people tun Daze Township. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are both in charge of the line and are the tun chiefs. It will rain heavily, the road is impassable, and the degree has been lost. If the deadline is lost, the law will be cut. Chen Sheng and Wu Guangnai conspired and said: "If you die now, you will die, and if you make a big plan, you will die, and if you die, will you die in the country?" Excerpt from "Historical Records of the Chen Shi Family"

Lu Kangzi Ji Ning, Wu Jun Wu people also... Kang Shaoshi County, known as a righteous martyr, stabbed Shi Zangju as a Maocai, except for Gao Chengling... With grace and faith as the rule, the thieves also cease, and the state and county are on the table. In the first year of Guanghe, Wuling was moved to Taishou, and Guiyang and Le'an were guarded in two counties, which were called... Huilu ** Huang Sui and others connected more than 100,000 people with Jiangxia Man, conquered the four counties, and worshiped Kang Lujiang Taishou. Kang affirmed the rewards and punishments, broke the stalks, etc., and the rest of the party surrendered. Emperor Jia Qigong, worship Kang Sun Shang for Langzhong.

Emperor Xian ascended the throne, the world was in turmoil, Kangmeng sent filial piety and honest officials to pay tribute to the imperial court, the edict was written, and the loyal and righteous generals were added, and there were 2,000 stones in the ranks. When Yuan Shutun soldiers were in Shouchun, the troops were hungry, and he sent an envoy to ask for a loss of soldiers. Kang is rebellious, closed doors, and internal war preparations, and will be the emperor. Shu was furious and sent Sun Ce Zhengkang to besiege the city several times. Kang stubbornly guarded, and the officials had those who were on vacation first, and they all went back to ambush, and entered the city at dusk. After two years of being attacked by the enemy, the city fell. After a month, he died of illness at the age of seventy. More than 100 people in the clan suffered from starvation, and half of them died. The court was ashamed of its observance, and worshiped Zijun as Langzhong.

Excerpt from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty

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