Zhou Shiju's eyebrows moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Ren Sima, what plan do you have?" ”

Ren Gui glanced at the city in the distance, and said while thinking: "The city of Donghengzhou is not strong, and there are not many defenders, the reason why it cannot be attacked for a long time is that this city is too small, although we have more than 10,000 people, but at the same time there are only three or four thousand people who can rush up, and the people behind can only stare dryly." ”

Zhou Shiju stomped his feet hatefully: "I only hate that our army does not have the kind of bow and arrow like your Han people, you can shoot the arrow in an arc from afar, we slang people use more blow arrows and soft crossbows, can only shoot directly, and the distance is only more than 20 steps, the enemy army at the head of the city can not be suppressed, in turn I have to watch them shoot us with arrows, just now the siege of the city, my people did not even set up a ladder to the head of the city, dozens of them died, no wonder the brothers fled." ”

Ren Gui sneered in his heart: As the main general, he was reluctant to kill even deserters, and he had to find reasons for his subordinates to flee for their lives. These barbarians don't know what the war is, the army is not an army, it will not be like a general, it is just that they rely on more people to fight indiscriminately, and fortunately they did not meet the main force of the Sui army, otherwise no matter how many people there are, they will have to finish it, look at the fact that even Donghengzhou can't be captured here, and Wang Zhongxuan's siege of Panyu City is even more impossible.

But Ren Gui didn't dare to say it, so he could only nod his head: "Yes, but the bowstrings of the Sui people are mostly made of animal tendons, and the toughness and strength are excellent, and the Dong people of Zhou Shuai live in the deep mountains, so it's not strange that there is no such thing, my plan is to escort the people caught in the surrounding villages over, drive them to the city, and use these people as shields." Look at whether the people in the city dare to release arrows!"

When Zhou Shi occupied Sixing City a while ago, the people in the city fled, but the people in the nearby villages were relatively slow to get news. I don't know if the barbarians raise troops, and when they see these barbarians with broken hair and tattoos, it's too late to leave, those tribes of Zhou Shiju have always been oppressed by the corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the Han people, and this time they have the opportunity to turn over and counterattack, and they are not merciless, and the old and weak Han and men are almost killed. Only a few children were left ready to be slaves in the future, and hundreds of women were left to cook and wash during the day and make props for venting their desires at night.

Such is the case with tribal vendetta among the barbarians. Tribes often fought against each other for hunting grounds, and after attacking other tribes, they often snatched children as slaves and enriched them when they grew up, while women were snatched as reproductive tools. With a strong uncivilized primitive atmosphere. And this time in the attack on Donghengzhou City, the women who were captured were also brought over three or four hundred, plus the Han women and children who were recently robbed near Donghengzhou, and now there are four or five hundred people on hand.

When Zhou Shiju heard this strategy, he immediately laughed: "Yes, Ren Sima, your plan is good, let the women and children of the Han people walk in front." Let's see if they dare to shoot arrows again, there are many of us. As long as the ladder can be built on the city wall, as long as our warriors can attack the city, then this small Donghengzhou City is ours!"

Ren Gui sneered: "Zhou Shuai, I heard that this assassin Li Feng's relatives were also caught outside the city, but is there such a thing?" ”

A smile flashed in Zhou Shiju's eyes: "Yes, Ren Sima, then Li Feng is a local, his nephew is looking at the Li family's ancestral house in the village, he didn't have time to run, he caught me, because of this guy's relationship with Li Feng, so I didn't kill him, listening to what you said, it can come in handy!"

Ren Gui's eyes lit up: "Okay, then put Li Feng's nephew in the front, tie it up with hundreds of women, and line up outside the gate of this West City, Zhou Shuai and your people will follow behind, and when they get to the city, they will set up a ladder to see if they dare to release arrows!" The number of hostages is not large, so it is better to concentrate on attacking this one door. ”

Li Feng is a middle-aged man in his forties, his father has done Yitong in Nanchen, and his family lives in Donghengzhou, Lingnan, when the history of Donghengzhou has been five or six years, when Nanchen perished last year, Li Feng wanted to hold on to the city, but later his direct boss, Lingnan Governor Wang Yong announced that all the states and counties in the Lingnan area surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, plus Chen Shubao's armistice edict, Li Feng had to obediently open the city and surrender.

At that time, in order to calm the hearts of the people in Lingnan, the Sui Dynasty allowed Wei Wei to lead the army into Panyu and serve as the governor of Guangzhou, the officials of other prefectures and counties were almost unchanged, and Li Feng was able to continue to be his assassin of Donghengzhou.

But the speed and intensity of this Lingnan rebellion were beyond everyone's expectations, and Li Feng never dreamed of it, let alone that Wei Wei's 20,000 regular Sui troops in Panyu actually did not block these Lingnan barbarians, plus the news was blocked, until Zhou Shiju's troops occupied Shixing, he woke up like a dream and ordered the defense of Guancheng, and at the same time, he was secretly glad that these barbarians were not attacking his own Donghengzhou, otherwise he was afraid that it would be difficult to protect his head.

It's just that Zhou Shiju stayed in Shixing for a few months, Li Feng also slowly relaxed his vigilance, and some refugees who fled into the city could not rest assured that the crops in the field went home to farm, and even Li Feng's nephew Li Bao was worried that his old house would be occupied, so he thought about going back to guard, but he never thought that these barbarian traitors in Shixing actually ran to Donghengzhou overnight, Li Feng only had time to close the city gate, and the villagers in the nearby ten villages and eight townships could not be notified, and they were all in the hands of traitors.

From the mouths of the villagers who fled into the city later, Li Feng and the people of the whole city knew that these Dong people burned and looted in the villages everywhere, doing all kinds of evil, all the men who ran slower were killed, and the women and children were taken into slavery, so the whole city also knew that if the city was broken, they would never end well, everyone was deadly, even the old men of fifty or sixty years old also went to the city to defend, relying on this breath, but also hard for more than 20 days, everyone fought more and more confidently, and saw some hope for life.

At this time, Li Feng was wearing leather armor, sitting in the gatehouse at the head of the east city, Donghengzhou has not fought in this place for more than two hundred years, Li Feng, who had gone out with his father when he was a teenager, is the most experienced military person in this city, here the south of the city and the west of the city are two swamps, the north of the city is close to the south ridge of the five mountains, there is only a small road leading to the north gate, and the army can not be deployed.

Therefore, in the past few days, the direction of attack of the barbarian army has always been this eastern city, and Li Feng has also mobilized one hundred and fifty of the two hundred crossbow arrows in the arsenal in the city to defend here, if it were not for these crossbow arrows, I am afraid that the city would have already fallen.

In the defense just now, four more crossbow arrows were broken, Li Feng looked at the more than 30 broken crossbows piled up under the city, and he was worried for a while, these crossbows were all old weapons that had been eliminated in the Nanchen army, and they were all about to reach the end of their useful life, so they would be piled up in this kind of local treasury.

In order to confuse the enemy, Li Feng specially ordered fifty crossbowmen to fire alternately in a group, causing uninterrupted crossbow strikes, giving the rebels an illusion that the bow was strong and the crossbow was fast, and the guard force was sufficient.

But in fact, there are less than one hundred and twenty crossbows that can still be used in this West City, and most of the crossbow arrows have been consumed, so it is difficult to hold on for more than ten days according to this view.

Li Feng is thinking about how to survive the next period of time: a decisive battle out of the city? Relying on these 500 weak soldiers to confront more than 10,000 barbarians head-on, that is looking for death! Hold on? The food in the city had become more and more consumed by the sudden influx of thousands of people from the surrounding area, and although it had been distributed in a fixed amount, it would not last for a month, and the crossbow bolts were about to run out. Breakthrough? Let's not talk about whether you can rush out, even if you break out, according to the order of the Great Sui, if you abandon the city and flee, you will be beheaded to thank the fathers and elders of the city. Thinking left and right is a death, Li Feng's head gradually got bigger.

Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the city, there seemed to be some movement under the city, Li Feng frowned, thinking that the enemy army was going to attack the city again, and he didn't know that he would break a few bows and crossbows this time, he straightened his clothes, walked out of the gatehouse, and shouted: "Don't panic!" The crossbowmen are ready, they are still working in three shifts, the crossbow is wound, and the thief is seventy paces away before he is allowed to release the arrow!"

As he spoke, he walked to the mouth of the battlement, and looked outside, and the large tattooed, shirtless barbarian army did not appear, but more than a few hundred unkempt and disheveled women tied together and walked towards the city wall, and the one who walked in the front was his nephew Li Bao! (To be continued......)

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