When Li Yanzhao stood on top of the city tower in Changning County, he saw a bright torch in the distance, forming a bright line of troops in the sky, pressing straight towards the lonely low city under his feet step by step. That kind of oppression, Li Yanzhao believes that people who have not experienced it will never be able to imagine it.

Even if it is to abandon conquest, fighting, and death. Just when a black line of troops appeared in the sky, slowly approaching the city under his feet, that kind of neat pace and solemn atmosphere were enough to make anyone face it when they accelerated the secretion of adrenaline, and even had fear and fear, and even wanted to desperately abandon the weapon in their hands and stick to the duty of the land under their feet to turn around and flee.

Ren County Ling didn't care much, he directly took a few steps up to the city tower and stood side by side with Li Yanzhao, and then, his pupils also reflected the same shocking scene as Li Yanzhao's eyes.

The two of them were relatively silent, just stared quietly at the line of troops coming from afar, and gradually walked with neat steps, and people shouted and neighed, and slowly came. Finally, they stood a stone's throw away from the city. The fire burning in the eyes of the enemy soldiers seemed to be able to engulf the city under their feet.

Li Yanzhao slowly retracted the shock in his heart. At present, the thousands of thieves who are a stone's throw away from the city seem to be mighty and staggered. However, Li Yanzhao repeatedly reminded himself in his heart that they were already at the end of their crossbows.

There is no baggage, and the backup is cut off. The lone army is deep, no matter from which point of view, the fate of the destruction of this thief army is already doomed. Li Yanzhao looked at them, and he could see that many of the thieves and soldiers under the city also looked up at him. Li Yanzhao is full of ambition, today, this small county town of Changning, and the more than 6,000 thieves besieging the city under the county seat, perhaps, will become him - this humble pawn from later generations, in this fashion and unknown origin, is enough to praise the achievements of a hundred generations!

I heard that the thieves were coming to attack the city, and that they had arrived at the city. The many thieves and their dependents in the city of Urn all looked anxious, concerned, and uneasy, and they all spoke nonsense, looking at everyone they could see with pleading looks.

Li Yanzhao heard that many of the thieves' dependents in the urn city were talking nonsense, so he turned his head to face the county commander on his side, and said, "Among the officials of your county under the jurisdiction of the Ming Mansion, are there people who are proficient in Hu language?" Presumably, Guixian County is located in the land of the river, and has a lot of dealings with the Hu tribe on weekdays, so there should be such talents, right? ”

Ren County Ling looked a little embarrassed, and said: "But it was the official's negligence." After speaking, he instructed the defenders on the city wall: "Go to the county government and invite the scribe Zhao." The defender clenched his fists and took the order, but he turned and went down the city, and trotted away in a puff of smoke.

With just a stick of incense, the defender was already leading a young official who looked to be thirty years old, and hurried up to the city. Seeing this person's arrival, Ren County Ling hurriedly ordered: "Scribe Zhao, the urn city is full of the families of the thief army outside the city. There is no one here who knows Hu language, so I will trouble you a lot. ”

Zhao scribe took the order and went, went to the city under the urn, communicated with the families of the thieves, looked at his expression, but said a word to appease the families of the thieves, and then he went up to the city and told the county commander of the city what the families of the thieves in the city said.

When the families of the thieves heard that they had arrived outside the city, and knew that their families were among them, they begged the county to let them go up to the castle, and they wanted to talk to their relatives.

Zhao Shuzhi conveyed the meaning of the families of the thieves under the city, and then the county commander thought about it and agreed to let the families of the thieves go up to the city tower. However, he still kept an eye on it, and asked Li Yanzhao to order half of the cavalry to be transferred to the city tower, and the other half to stand in the urn city and firmly guard the city gate. Li Yanzhao readily agreed and did what he said.

Suddenly, the families of those thieves learned that the county decree allowed them to go up to the city tower and meet their relatives, and they were all extremely excited to rush up to the city tower. Under Li Yanzhao's order, half of the cavalry of the Guangwu army also came up to the city tower. The already narrow city tower was filled with more than 200 people in an instant.

After the thieves' families reached the castle tower, they poked their heads out of the battlements and carefully searched for their relatives among the thieves outside the city. They looked in, but it was hard to discern the faces of the people from an arrow away, and it was dark at the same time, so they opened their mouths and called the names of their relatives repeatedly in the Hu language.

Some of the thieves outside the city are cutting down trees and making ladders. The bald Fu Gu looked at the low city wall in front of him, and his heart suddenly felt disdainful. As soon as the army prepared the ladder, he wanted to blow the horn and break through the vulnerable county town in front of him. However, at this time, I heard a lot of nonsense shouting from the top of the castle tower an arrow away, faintly as if calling the names of some warriors in the tribe.

The bald Fugu came to the front army and looked at the top of the city tower, but he was startled at a glance. The heads of the people on the tower are clearly from their own tribe! It was the old and weak women and children who were left in the camp on the pasture when they set out!

How did they end up here? Many questions repeatedly hit the bald and lonely heart, and he had no way to answer them. He didn't expect that he was powerless to break through the low county city wall in front of him.

With the shouting and shouting from the tower, there was some commotion among the thieves outside the city. Some of the soldiers heard their names being shouted from the tower, and they looked around and saw their relatives. The fatigue of the long journey and the unfavorable war for a long time have become a haze in their hearts. However, at this moment, when they saw their relatives shouting their names from the castle tower, tears of happiness welled up in their eyes. All the gloom before, at this time, was swept away by the happy sunshine that was spontaneously born by seeing relatives.

More and more soldiers heard their names being shouted from above the towers. They stopped what they were doing and looked intently at the tower they were about to attack. Many people saw their loved ones, their wives, their sisters, and even the elders in their families. The thieves under the city burst into tears. There were also many more thieves and soldiers who did not see their relatives on the castle tower, and they were anxious to ask the rest about the whereabouts of their relatives. There was a commotion in the thief army.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao quietly pulled Zhao Shuzhi and Ren County Commander aside, and said to the two officials: "The thief army is now in chaos, and the soldiers have no desire to fight, so there is no need to worry. However, in order to prevent long nights and dreams, the matter of counterinsurgency must be finalized tonight! ”

Ren County Commander and Zhao Shuzhi listened to Li Yanzhao's words and nodded in agreement. Ren County Commander even asked out loud: "What do you think of it, is there a good plan?" ”

Li Yanzhao said: "Now the family members of the thief army are talking to the outside of the city on the city tower, although it has disturbed the hearts of the thief army, but the distance is too far, and everyone keeps talking, I am afraid the effect is really limited, so let's ask Zhao Shuzhi to quiet them for a while, and tell them that as long as their relatives no longer follow the bald hair and orphan help, then they will meet soon." Then I said a word, and Zhao Shuzhi helped to explain what I said to the thief army outside the city in Hu language. Be as loud as possible, and try to hear as many thieves as possible. After speaking, the thief army is likely to collapse on the spot. The most unfortunate thing is that the army has no fighting spirit. The rebellion is tonight! ”

When the two Taishou heard this, their expressions were shocked. Then the scribe Zhao turned around and spoke nonsense to the relatives of the thieves and soldiers on the city tower, and everyone gradually quieted down.

"The generals of the rebellious army outside the city, we are the civil and military officials of Changning County here. You may wonder why your relatives are on top of our castle towers. Please don't panic, although we have found all our relatives, we have protected everyone's relatives. Our army has committed no offense against everyone's relatives. These people on the tower are relatives of some of your generals. After hearing that we told them about the current situation, I insisted on coming voluntarily and advised everyone to change their minds and stop aiding and abusive people and making enemies of the government. ”

Li Yanzhao made a call, and Zhao Shuzhi organized the language, translated it into Hu, and shouted hard outside the city.

Seeing that Scribe Zhao was roaring with red faces, Li Yanzhao smiled awkwardly, and then waited for Scribe Zhao to drink a few mouthfuls of water and take a few breaths before continuing to speak the next paragraph.

"Brothers of the rebel army outside the city! As civil and military officials in Changning, we can't bear to see you being deceived and making enemies of us, so that we have to face you with swords. Now the counterinsurgency king who came from Gu Zang is close to this place, and he will come in a few days. The three counties of Guangwu, Xiping, and Jinxing also organized tens of thousands of horses, but if everyone did not listen to the advice and insisted on going their own way, in desperation, in order to rule the peaceful life of the people, they could only endure the pain and thunder the means to everyone. I'm sure you don't want to see that happen, just like us. Now that the government is benevolent, seeing that you have no means of living, so you have started trouble, and have decided to forgive you for the mistakes of the thieves. Gu Zang's envoy has issued a strict order: 'Only do the first evil, and never ask about it.' 'If everyone abandons the darkness and turns to the light, fights back, captures or kills the first evil bald hair and orphan, the government will also give a reward and give official treatment to the children. From now on, wouldn't it be nice for the family to live without worry, and eat all day long? ”

Zhao Shuzhi translated this sentence into Hu and shouted hard outside the city. The thief army outside the city heard this, and there was a commotion in the array.

"And one more sentence. ' Don't try to storm the city in order to save your family, if you wait to attack the city, our civil and military officials in Changning County can only self-immolate the whole city with their full names. At that time, it may be difficult to protect your families, please forgive me. ’”

The bald Fugu outside the city was shouting and shouting to the soldiers under his command: "Fool, if you break through this city, you can save your family." Before the words fell, I heard the scribe Zhao on the top of the city tower roaring again: "If you and others attack the city, the civil and military generals of our county will set themselves on fire in order to save their full names, and it will be difficult to protect your and other dependents at that time." Suddenly, the bald hair was like dead ashes. However, after a while, his eyes suddenly widened and his blood surged. He saw with his own eyes that several bound people had come up from the city tower, and when he fixed his eyes, it was his three wives and concubines and two sons!

The voice of the scribe Zhao in the city sounded again: "Look, the family of the first offender who was bald and orphaned has been taken down, and even Gu Zang cannot forgive such a big crime." However, we have always treated the families of ordinary soldiers and generals of the rebellious army with courtesy, and have always distinguished them from the families of the first criminals. ”

The bald Fu Gu looked at his family fixedly in the city, listening to the words of the scribe Zhao on the city tower, and couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of old blood.

Seeing that Zhao Shuzhi finished speaking, all the thieves and dependents in the city shouted in Hu again. Hearing the words of his relatives, the hearts of those soldiers were shaken.

A young soldier listened to the call of the city, whose woman was his mother. He listened to his mother's call and couldn't help but burst into tears. The mother and son talked a lot of words from each other. However, the voices above the tower were too loud for the young soldier to hear clearly.

After an unknown amount of time, the young soldier finally made up his mind, dropped his weapon, and rushed straight towards the tower, with only one firm belief in his heart: to rush to the bottom of the castle tower and have a good word with his mother. Then he left, and never followed the rebellious tribal leader again.

Li Yanzhao saw a soldier rushing out of the enemy formation and rushed straight to the city tower. Seeing that the defenders around him were nervously stretching their bows and arrows, he hurriedly said something to stop him: "Stop, don't let go of the arrows!" When the soldiers around him heard Li Yanzhao's words, they put down their bows and arrows one after another.

However, the defenders on Li Yanzhao's side put down the bows and arrows in their hands, and the thief sergeant who rushed to the city tower alone still did not escape his fate.

An arrow rang out from the enemy formation, and it went straight through the body of the young soldier who was running. He ran a few steps, struggled a few times, and finally fell to the ground unwillingly, and when he fell, his eyes were still trying to lift up, looking at the familiar face of the kind woman on the castle tower...... Then he closed his eyes.

Seeing her son shot in front of her eyes, the woman on the tower stood for a moment, and then burst into tears.

In the thief army, the arrow was none other than the bald Fugu himself.

The bald hair looked hideous, he looked at the young soldier who had fallen under the tower of the opposite city, and then shouted with red eyes: "Who else? Who else? "Whoever betrays me will end up like that - death!

The hideous bald man had never noticed that the people around him, these former subordinates, and the lambs in these tribes who had bowed down to him in the past, had gradually turned cold when they looked at him at this time.