Chen Lin hurriedly went out to greet the Xihuashi clan, and now Chen Lin is temporarily living in the county government. Chen Lin and Huang Yan went out to see that there were about more than ten people who looked like scholars outside the mansion, Chen Lin changed his smile and greeted him with a gentle face: "A certain Chen Lin Chen Bozhi, I have neglected you, forgive your sins." "The scholars in Xihua have also heard of Chen Lin's name, and today they also inquired clearly, it was the righteous army led by Chen Lin who attacked Xihua City this time, Chen Lin was not an official at this time, it could only be said to be a righteous army.

Everyone is also from Shilin, hurriedly coaxing the return gift, Chen Lin welcomed everyone into the county government, ordered someone to simply send a banquet to entertain, and the group sat down. Chen Lin raised his glass to everyone and said happily: "Now that Xihua has been subdued and the Yellow Turban thief has been defeated, it is gratifying, come, everyone drink this cup." After finishing it, Chen Lin deliberately sighed again: "Chen's attack this time, the department suffered heavy losses, so I will evacuate Xihua tonight, return to Shangcai, and listen to Lord Yu Taishou's orders." ”

When everyone heard this, they were in a hurry, as soon as Chen Lin left, the Yellow Turban would definitely fight back, last night all the scholars helped to attack and kill the Yellow Turban thieves, Peng Tuo came back from the attack, how could he let go of the Xihua scholars. couldn't help but hurriedly speak: "Lord Chen, you can't go, this time it is not easy to capture Xihua, it must be a great achievement, and you can't easily let the thieves occupy it." That's what everyone said. Chen Lin smiled in his heart, so he was embarrassed: "Chen doesn't want to leave, after all, he finally made this contribution, and he is unwilling, but now Chen is not a thousand, how can he hold on, it is better to evacuate early." ”

The scholars were anxious again: "My lord can't go, I am willing to borrow five hundred slaves to help my lord stick to Xihua, but I will wait for a joint name to show Lord Taishou the merits of my lord." Chen Lin waited for this sentence, but pretended to accept it reluctantly: "This, alas, since you trust Chen so much, how can Chen have the patience to refuse, so Chen will stay, I just hope that you can do your best to help and provide food and grass." "The scholars basically did not dare to go out since Peng Tuo captured Xihua, so they did not know that Xihua had food and grass for Peng Tuo's army of nearly 100,000. Seeing that Chen Lin agreed to stay, everyone was elated, and even promised that there would be enough food and grass.

For a while, the scholars of Xihua actually gathered 4,000 guards and handed them to Chen Lin, saying that they would return after this battle, and Chen Lin also knew that he could not take these people away, but with these thousands of people, Chen Lin had the confidence to stick to Xihua for half a month. There were still many ordinary people in the city, and Chen Lin suffered heavy casualties in this battle, so he ordered Gao Shun to recruit on the spot to replenish the trapped camp. The 4,000 people of the scholar clan were divided into five divisions, Zhang Ba, Cai Yang, Chen Ze, and Lin An each led 600 people to guard the four gates, and they were not allowed to leave the city wall for half a step. Chen Lin himself left 1,600 people in the center to respond, Chen Lin's trapped camp and the cavalry team of 600 people left were only recuperating, the number of cavalry was only 600, but there were still more than 800 horses.

Peng Tuo got that Xihua was captured, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and had to give up his plan to attack Shangcai, and hurriedly ordered He Yi to lead 20,000 people to stay in Zhaoling, and he led Huang Shao, He Man and 60,000 troops back to Xihua. Peng Tuo's march can not be described as fast, and on the second day of Chen Lin's capture of Xihua, Peng Tuo's army arrived at the city of Xihua. The south gate was defended by Lin An with 600 people, and Peng Tuo attacked the south, frightened Lin An, and hurriedly reported to Chen Lin.

Chen Lin hurriedly led 600 people to the southern city, and when he climbed to the top of the city, he saw that there were 50,000 people under the city. In the distance, 30,000 people were busy camping, and 20,000 people lined up to step forward, looking like they were going to attack the city immediately. Chen Lin saw that Peng Tuo was going to fight hard, and he also made a jump, and urgently ordered the other three gates to report the situation, and learned that the other three gates were only thousands of people stationed and were not in a hurry to attack the city, it seems that this Peng Tuo was planning to gather troops to storm the south gate. Chen Lin then ordered 1,000 people in the city to stay 300, and the rest of the 700 to come to the south gate, so that there were 2,000 people in the south city to hold on, and they were not afraid.

At this time, Chen Lin had already collected the cavalry that had been assigned to everyone, and concentrated on six hundred guards, all of whom had gone through several lives and deaths, and were quite powerful. Zhang Ba and the others were only allowed to have cronies ranging from thirty to guards, and they were foot soldiers, except for Huang Yan and Zhou Cang. Sticking to Xihua City, Chen Lin is selfish, as long as he doesn't need his own soldiers and horses, he will never use them, so at this time, the trapped camp and the cavalry guards are recuperating, and the trapped camp is even more busy recruiting.

The 700 people in the city also rushed to the south wall, Chen Lin ordered 1,000 people to rest in the barracks, more than 1,000 people to defend, and the 20,000 people under the city really wanted to attack the city immediately. The 5,000 men were divided into dozens of columns, carrying long ladders and hundreds pushing huge logs, which were crashing and heading for the city gates. Chen Lin ordered the car to be shut down, and the city gate has been blocked from the inside, so you can crash it.

In order to make up for the lack of preparation for defending the city, Chen Lin asked all the scholars to mobilize the people in the city to help, carry huge trees, boulders, and burn oil and water, and the city was also busy for a while. There are only hundreds of bows and arrows on the wall, and they are still the bows of the city, which are not powerful enough, but it is still possible to shoot arrows from a high position. For a while, those who lifted stones and smashed them down, those who drew bows and arrows, and those who poured hot oil and boiling water down, were very busy. No one dared to show their heads easily, and there were many archers in the city, and even those who smashed stones quickly looked down, and the approximate location retracted, picked up the stones, and threw them down. On the wall behind these men stood a line of men with swords and spears, and when any thief was lucky enough to climb the wall, he would slash and stab them, and destroy the enemy as fast as possible, so that his companions who threw stones and poured hot oil would not be killed.

In this way, one side attacked fiercely, the other side held on, and after five or six days, the city wall was damaged, whether it was Peng Tuo or Chen Lin, both sides were miserable. Peng Tuo was already completely red-eyed, and he didn't care that the siege of the city in five or six days had reduced more than 50,000 people, and he still ordered a fierce attack every day. Chen Lin was even more uncomfortable, originally there were 2,000 people in Nancheng, and nearly 1,000 people went, although he killed ten times the enemy, but Chen Lin knew that the advantage was not in his own.

After the Yellow Turban thieves attacked every day, the people in the city sat on the wall, and from time to time they looked at the people sent by the city to carry the dead bodies, their eyes were blank, and the people under the city were also numb, both sides were obviously exhausted, and at this time it was up to them to see which side could hold on better. Chen Lin went to the city to discuss with the scholars, hoping to provide more meat. That night, the Xihua City Wall burst into applause, and it turned out that everyone had a big piece of fat, which made everyone enthusiastic. Chen Lin looked at the young man who was munching meat, and he didn't know the bottom in his heart, whether he could hold it or not, and now he began to demolish the houses to get wood, and in a few days, he was afraid that Chen Lin and the others could only use knives and guns to fight the thieves face to face, and all the siege equipment was almost used.

Chen Lin, Huang Yan and Zhou Cang walked down the city wall, went to the city, and said to Huang Yan, "Huang Yan, take me to the coffin shop." Huang Yan and Zhou Cang were stunned for a moment, not understanding what Chen Lin was going to do, but they led the way in response. After a while, he came to the only coffin shop in the city, and the man in charge was an old man, who had seen Chen Lin, so as soon as Chen Lin entered the door, the old man greeted him: "Lord Chen, how can the old man do something to help defend the city?" ”

Chen Lin: "Old man, is there a ready-made coffin here?" The old man replied: "Yes, there are several pairs, I don't know who Lord Chen bought it, is it a man or a woman?" Chen Linyu was not shocked: "For yourself." ”

Hearing Chen Lin say this, everyone in the audience was dumbfounded, and Zhou Cang hurriedly said: "The eldest young master is not more than twenty years old, how can he say such bad things." Chen Lin smiled resolutely, didn't answer, ordered the guards to pay the money, and a few people lifted the coffin and went out. Chen Lin walked in front, and several people behind him carried the coffin, which was quite conspicuous, causing countless onlookers to watch and discuss. Chen Lin went straight to the city wall, and everyone in the city looked at Chen Lin silently at this time, and Chen Lin ordered someone to place the coffin on the city wall.

After fiddling, Chen Lin pointed to the coffin and shouted impassionedly to the people guarding the city: "A certain is determined to defend Xihua to the death, protect the majesty of my Han, this is a certain coffin, if a certain person dies on the city wall, this coffin is a certain place to live after death, who dares to fight with a certain person to the last soldier?" Chen Lin's will to die aroused everyone's enthusiasm, Huang Yan and others were full of tears, and took the lead in kneeling down on one knee, clenching their teeth and shouting: "Swear to follow and stick to the death." ”

Chen Lin carried the coffin to the city wall, and the matter of his determination to stick to Xihua City quickly spread throughout the whole process, and thousands of people and sergeants were greatly encouraged by the fighting spirit. The Yellow Turban thieves in the outer city heard a shout from time to time in the city, wondering why the people in the city could still be so high after so many days of fighting, and the morale of the Yellow Turban thieves was greatly hit, and many people began to wonder about the outcome of this battle, is there really only a few thousand people in the city defending the city, can they really attack it, the army has begun to run out of food, can they really get back the food. These doubts are not only ordinary yellow scarves, but even Peng Tuo began to think about something else after seeing the scene on the city wall

Chen Lin's encouragement really worked, in the next three or four days of defending the city, the Yellow Turban thieves did not get any benefit, although there were not many effective defensive equipment such as bows and arrows, but everyone in the city was full of infinite fighting spirit, and would rather hold the enemy and fall off the city wall together, rather than take half a step back. The coffin standing on the city wall gave these soldiers who defended the city infinite courage, even General Chen was not afraid of death, what was he afraid of, General Chen also promised that if the dead in this battle, they would give one or two gold to their relatives, what else is there to worry about.

On this day, Chen Lin and the others obviously felt that the Yellow Turbans attacking the city also had no fighting spirit, not as fierce as before, and retreated at the slightest setback, and even the supervising team behind them sacrificed their lives to kill the retreating Yellow Turbans, and they couldn't stop. Chen Lin looked at Huang Yan and said, "How is Gao Shun's camp now?" Huang Yan: "Gao Shun has now rectified the trapped camp, it has been more than ten days, plus the newly recruited, there are a total of 900 people in the trapped camp, does the eldest young master want the trapped camp to counterattack Peng Tu's army?" ”

Chen Lin: "Yes, hold on for more than ten days, both the enemy and us are exhausted, the camp and the cavalry guards are very comfortable, many people in the city have criticized this, saying that I am maintaining strength, this young master is indeed a little selfish, let Gao Shun go out of the city to fight, win back some face." ”