Behind the hundreds of weeping women and children were thousands of rebels, looking up ladders, with large knives in hand, their eyes blood-red, like thousands of wolves that saw their prey, their faces full of excitement and a desire to kill.

The crossbowmen at the head of the city all looked at Li Feng with a blank look, and what was even worse was that some of the strong men who fled from outside the city and entered the city found that their wives and sisters were among these people, and they immediately cried bitterly, and they almost screamed.

Li Feng's heart was also a mess, before he knew it, these people had walked less than two hundred steps away from the city wall, he picked up his iron tire bow from behind, mounted an arrow and shot it, landed more than fifty steps away, and shouted loudly: "Don't take another step forward, otherwise we will release the arrow!" Although this arrow was still more than a hundred steps away from the crowd, it also frightened the women to stop.

In the barbarians holding these women and children, a leader shouted: "Li Tingshi, you have to see clearly, these are all you Han people, and your nephew is also inside, if you release arrows, it will be these people who will be killed first, are you willing to do it?!"

Taking advantage of Li Feng's momentary speech, the leader commanded his subordinates to punch and kick those women and children for a while, pushing them to continue to move forward. And Li Bao, who was walking in the front, was held by the neck with knives by two barbarians, his face was tense, and he walked forward step by step, and he would soon be sixty or seventy steps away from the city.

Li Feng's face was full of tears, he had no children under his knees, this Li Bao was the only descendant of the Li family, and he usually treated him like his own son, but now this Li Bao became a hostage when the barbarian army used to attack the city, on one side there were thousands of people in the city, and on the other hand, there were women and children and his nephew. What to choose. Let Li Feng's heart be like a knife. Several times I wanted to open my mouth and give the order to release the arrow, but the words came to my mouth but I couldn't say it.

Li Bao under the city suddenly shouted: "Uncle, leave me alone, release the arrows quickly!" Let the barbarians enter the city, and none of them will survive, hurry!" The two barbarians holding him couldn't understand Chinese, and they were stunned for a while, making him shout so much in one go. But the leader in the back reacted, and immediately spoke crooked barbarians, and the two barbarians woke up like a dream, and beat Li Bao for a while, and the crowd below became chaotic.

With a wave of his hand, the barbarian army that was hiding behind the crowd rushed forward like a tide, and soon mingled with the women and children, and the dozen or so barbarians running fast at the front were less than thirty paces away from the city.

Li Feng gritted his teeth and roared, "Release the arrows, release the arrows." Hurry up and release the arrows!"

A pro-soldier beside him hurriedly said: "Thorn Shi, where are the villagers and your nephew still down there!"

Li Feng's eyes were red. shouted: "Even if you give up these hundreds of people, you can't harm thousands of people in the whole city, and you can release arrows!" As he spoke, he put on his bow with an arrow, and shot an arrow out, directly shooting a brute who was running in front of him.

More than 100 crossbow arrows kept firing at the city, and the people at the city head also poured down stones, rolling wood and boiling water.

Several ladders were erected on the wall, and they were quickly pushed away by the soldiers defending the city with long lances, and fell down again with a few barbarians who had climbed halfway.

The barbarians under the city took the short crossbows and blow arrows in their hands, and fired at the city wall, but the arrows used by the barbarians were mostly bamboo, and there were no tail wings to stabilize dìng, and the distance was extremely short, most of them only flew up half and fell, not only did not kill the defenders at the head of the city, but also pierced a lot of people who were climbing the wall, these arrows were all poisoned, and the barbarians who were hit by the arrows often only scolded two sentences and the wounds turned black, and began to fester, and they threw away their weapons and grabbed their itchy and painful arrows, making their hands full of black poisonous blood.

After attacking like this for half an hour, the barbarians were defeated again after dropping more than four hundred corpses, and the women and children were dragged back to their own positions by the wolf-like barbarians.

Li Feng's face was covered with sweat, and he let out a long breath, and an officer beside him was making a report: "Lord Assassin Shi, this time the sergeants on the city have died seventeen, the people have died thirty-four, the wounded soldiers and civilians have more than sixty, and more than a dozen have been hit by poisoned arrows, and they have been carried down for rescue." ”

Li Feng is most concerned about the crossbow arrows: "What is the loss of bows and crossbows, and how many arrows are left?" ”

The officer's voice turned from the excitement just now to a low one: "Eleven more crossbows have been broken in this battle, and more than twenty seem to be dying, and more than a thousand arrows have been used, and there are less than seven thousand. ”

Li Feng sighed and said, "It's hard work." With a wave of his hand, the officer stepped back, and he looked at the defeated enemy in the distance, his eyes full of complicated expressions.

Zhou Shiju watched his subordinates fartish and urine again, retreated with a wolf howl, turned his head to Ren Zhuo, and said angrily: "Ren Sima, you said that this move will definitely capture the city, but now?" ”

Ren Gui shook his head: "Zhou Shuai, your subordinates are too stupid, push people to a place fifty or sixty steps away from the city wall and start to attack, of course there is no problem for the enemy to shoot your siege troops at this time, so the role of the human shield will not work at all, but it is not that my idea is not successful." ”

He said and pointed to the city wall in the distance: "Look at this small Donghengzhou, there is not even a moat, and the city wall is only two zhang high, even if you can climb it with a rope, the people above splash some boiling water, throw a few stones and can't climb up, your subordinates are really lacking a little ruthless!"

Zhou Shiju was on fire in his belly, and roared when he heard this: "Ren Sima, don't you have long eyes, my subordinates don't wear iron armor and leather armor like you Han people, and can defend against swords, even if you are Ren Sima, let you not wear clothes, I scald you with boiling water, can you stand it?" ”

Ren Gui's eyes rolled, he knew that Zhou Shiju had died a lot of his subordinates at this time, and he was distressed, don't mess with him with this kind of fire, so Ren Gui touched his beard and said: "Zhou Shuai, try again, this time push the hostages under the city wall, see if they dare to pour hot water, and also, we have been climbing the wall these days, and we haven't made any fuss about this city gate, in fact, we can also think of a way." ”

Zhou Shiju glanced at the city gate in the distance and muttered: "When you Han people attacked the city, it seemed that you made a big log to hit the city gate, right?" ”

Ren Gui laughed: "Zhou Shuai is right, that is called Chongche, when our Han army attacked the city, there was a wheel below that could be pushed through, and the top was topped, covered with cooked cowhide, and the bows and arrows and stones used to defend the city head, as long as you hit the city gate, you don't need to climb the wall." ”

As soon as Zhou Shiju heard that he didn't need to climb the wall, he laughed: "Okay, there are high mountains and dense forests around here anyway, and today I will cut down trees overnight, do the rushing car you said, and tie my nephew surnamed Li to the roof of the rushing car early in the morning three days later, see if he dares to shoot!"

Ren Gui secretly said in his heart: Damn, this barbarian is more ruthless than Lao Tzu, and he can think of this trick. But there was a smile on his face: "Also, when attacking the city, it's best to wrap the brothers who rushed in front with some cooked cowhide, bedding or something, even if it can't compare to the armor, you can guard against it." By the way, the crossbows of the Sui army are said to be able to shoot up to a hundred paces away, but in the battle just now, I saw that they could shoot sixty or seventy steps, it seems that the battle has been worn out badly these days, and the speed of the crossbow arrows at the head of the city has also slowed down a lot. ”

Zhou Shiju shouted at one of his subordinates beside him: "Didn't you hear what we just said, hurry up and tell these defeated troops to cut wood, grandma, fighting is grinding foreign workers, and if you don't work, you will cut wood for Lao Tzu if you lose the battle in the future!"

Li Feng looked at the enemy position on the opposite side from the top of the city, and the defeated army that had retreated and was lying all over the ground was whipped from the ground by several leaders, and reluctantly walked towards the woods in the mountains behind. A few soldiers around him smiled and said, "Haha, if these barbarians lose the battle, they will go back to the mountains to be monkeys!"

Li Feng frowned, a bad premonition appeared in his heart, he thought about it, and shouted in a deep voice: "Quick, go and make hundreds of earthen bags, and completely block the city gate for me." I'm afraid these bandits are going to be tools to attack the city!" (To be continued......)

PS: The next chapter will be updated tomorrow at 8 o'clock in the morning