(Thanks to Dameng, Chubby, Hammer S, and Tongle Village for their support)

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The dome is vast, the moonlight is clear, the mountains are outlined, and the four fields are bright. In the distance, there are clusters of bonfires, reflecting faint figures, sometimes the smell of barbecue wafting in the wind, occasionally mixed with faint human voices and neighing. In the meantime, the feeling of desolation and vicissitudes of life is suddenly born as a quilt and the earth as a seat.

And Zhang Fang, who felt all this, did not have half such poetic feelings, because he knew that soon, maybe tomorrow, everything that seemed beautiful would be chopped by the scimitars of the Huns.

Tonight is the fourteenth, and tomorrow is the night of the full moon. The full moon, for the Han people, is lovesickness and reunion; For the Huns, it was the complete opposite, it stood for - war!

The Huns have always followed a primitive, mystical and unique military principle: "Fight when the moon is full, and retreat when the moon is lost".

When the Huns wanted to start a war, they usually chose to attack at the time of a full moon and continued until the moon waned. This is reminiscent of a wolf howling on a full moon night. It seems that the Huns not only used wolves as their criterion in terms of tactics, but also moved closer to wolves in their habits.

Zhang Fang originally wanted the moonlight to be bright, which was not conducive to night attacks and defense, but he didn't expect that the Huns would start a war at the full moon...... I couldn't help but smile bitterly, it seems that God is really fair, giving them a ready-made fortification, and at the same time giving the Huns an opportunity to attack.

It was late at night, but no one was resting around the campfire, everyone was working, and the difference was only in physical and mental work.

There is not much else in the beacon, but there are many earthworks and miscellaneous trees. A large amount of muck, stones, hay, firewood, reeds, etc., which were used to repair the guard wall, were scattered and piled up in the cellar and around it. Although many years have passed, many of them have decayed, but the soil and stones are fine, and the firewood can be used - because most of them are poplar wood.

Hu Yangmu, who "lives without dying for a thousand years, dies without dying for a thousand years". However, it has only been a few decades, so it is naturally not a problem.

Almost everyone has a job to do: stirring the dirt and mending the walls; There are simple traps made and placed all around; There are those who sharpen wooden forks and spears; There are even temporary wooden arrows...... The first weapon for defense is the bow and arrow, and no amount is too much. Of course, in the absence of arrowheads and feathers, the crude arrows made in this way can only be used in emergency situations where there is really no way, and the killing effect is not optimistic.

When it comes to making traps, the Han brothers, Qingyan, Qu Liang and others in Qingxiju are all good hands. They used simple wooden branches and woven straw ropes, combined with digging pits and digging soil, and set one trap after another inside and outside the sheep and horse walls outside the beacon.

The Han brothers whispered while digging a pit.

"If there is a fight tomorrow, you should pay more attention to those two Hu people." Han Jun pouted to Feng Sui and instructed his brother like this.

Han Zhong stopped the wooden shovel in his hand and raised his head from the half-human pit. looked at the second brother in surprise: "You mean Zongba, and Uncle Alimu?" Something is wrong with them? ”

In the entire team, there were only two Hu people: Pu people Zongba and Hu Shang Alimu.

Han Jun said gloomily: "I don't believe them, I don't believe in Hu Ren." ”

"But Uncle Alimu has always been our guide, and Zongba has also risked his life to block the arrows for his son today."

"People's hearts are separated from their bellies, do you know what people think? Once the Huns launched an attack and disaster came, who knows what would happen? In short, you should pay more attention. Han Jun dropped this sentence and continued to dig into the soil.

Han Chong's commotion seems to be reasonable.

Boom! Qu Liang on the other side threw out a wooden shovel, laboriously climbed out of the pit more than one person high, shook off his body of mud, and subconsciously glanced at the starry and firelight gathering place in the distance, and muttered: "Hu Nu...... That's a lot! ”

Qingyan had just set up a crossbow and was passing by with his waist bent, when he heard the words, he turned his head and comforted: "Sixth uncle, the son also said, if we don't fight hard with the Huns, we will hold on for five or six days, and the army of the Han will come to save us." ”

"But can we last five or six days?" Qu Liang's tone was extremely unconfident, full of helplessness, "There is still ...... Can Captain Cao and Guard Deng ask for help? ”

Qing Yan's eyes widened: "Why can't you ask for it?" Childe is here! ”

"Then people have to be willing to believe it!" Qu Liang still didn't say this sentence after all. He has been an honest commoner for half his life, and he has only been to Sanshui at the farthest. And after meeting this son, his whole life was turned upside down and unrecognizable. first fought with the robbers, and then with a grass people, he actually entered and exited the residence of the captain of the agricultural capital, and finally pursued thousands of miles, fought with the Huns, and wiped out a ministry tent...... It was like a dream.

Qu Liang believes that if he tells people about his experience during this period of time, I am afraid that no one will believe it - not that no one believes what happened to him, but that no one dares to believe that the world will be so bold, reckless, and ...... The son of Guisuke who came in chaos.

Two hundred miles away, the Great Han Jiaohe Bitun General Wu has been captained, will he believe it? This is what Qu Liang is most worried about. Even the lowest common people like him understand what the concept of mobilizing the garrison is. If it is in the territory of the Han Dynasty, it is not to even think about it, and there is still some hope for the garrison outside the country. But is there any hope...... Is it good to tie everyone's lives to this hope?

"We can't pin all our hopes on the Jiaohebi garrison." In front of a small fire that no one disturbed, Lin Tianci and Zhang Fang, the two people who decided the fate of everyone, exchanged secret words with each other that could not enter the ears of others.

"I know." Zhang Fang also felt the same way.

"Actually, surrender is the best option." Lin Tianci's next words were even more blunt.

"I know." Zhang put down very calmly.

It's one thing to do what you do, it's another thing to think about it.

"If you can delay it, you can keep it, and you can keep as many people as you can." Zhang Fang also confessed to Lin Tianci, "If you surrender now, many people will die." ”

"Surrender now, at least the son will be fine, but if he fights to the death......" Lin Tianci looked at the beautiful young man in front of him, and suddenly found that compared with the first encounter, the soft outline of the lines has shown a little edges and corners, a little less handsome, but more resolute.

The wind and sand outside the plug can really sharpen people! Not only the state of mind, but also the appearance.

"Surrender without a fight, deliver them into the hands of the Huns, and let them bear the consequences of what I have done...... I don't know what they think, I can't forgive myself for the rest of my life. Zhang Fang exhaled heavily, condensed into a white mist in the cold wind, and was quickly blown away, "Fighting side by side, no matter what the outcome is, we have finally fought, I let them see that I did not abandon them...... Even if I end up dead, crippled, or captured, no one will complain about me. ”

Lin Tianci looked at him deeply: "Before Gongzi, I had never seen real Han nobles, but I always felt that Gongzi was not like those royal nobles, but more like us foreigners." ”

Zhang Fang laughed: "If you are outside the city, you have to be like an outsider, and when you enter Chang'an, you will be like a Chang'an person, which is called following the customs of the country." ”

Lin Tianci smiled, took an arrow according to the customs outside the Saiwai, held one end in one hand, the arrow was aimed at himself, and the arrow feathers were released towards Zhang: "Lin Tianci is willing to fight against strong enemies with the people from Chang'an, and live and die together." If you break this oath, you will shoot like this. ”

Zhang Fang stretched out his hand to hold the tail end of the arrow feather, and said heavily: "If you violate this oath, you will be like this arrow!" ”

Fold both arms hard at the same time, click! The wooden arrow was broken in two.

The arrow is broken, and the oath is made.