After nearly an hour of attacking and defending the city walls and gates, the sky was full of corpses and retreated! After two consecutive defeats and spending most of the day, the small Huaxian County was still standing, and the thief army couldn't help but be moved. Seeing that it was getting late, and it was no longer possible to fight today, the thieves had no choice but to withdraw their troops and retreat a few miles back to camp.

The defenders in the city finally breathed a sigh of relief, the county commander of Huaxian County was so excited that he almost peed his pants, and the hundred households wearing two layers of fish scale armor were also so happy that they rolled on the ground, in fact, he wanted to get up and cheer, but the two layers of fish scale armor were too heavy, and he could only roll on the ground!

Li Qingshui stood on top of the city wall, looking at the retreating thief army like a tide, and also breathed a long sigh of relief, only then did he realize that his back was completely soaked, and it was all sweat. Although he thinks he has backbone, he thinks he is a big husband, but he can't change the fact that he is a beginner calf, the first time he encountered this level of war, his heart can be said to be tormented, standing on the city wall has been worried about whether there will be a stray arrow to kill him, fortunately his luck is not bad, but no arrow fell on his body, of course, this is not only a luck factor, and the crossbowmen completely suppressed the enemy archers also have a certain relationship.

Xu Renjie walked around the city triumphantly, showed off in front of everyone, and asked, "Amazing, right?" Our crossbowmen in Whitewater are awesome, aren't they? Hahahahaha......ha

In fact, his crossbowmen are indeed brilliant, and they are a well-deserved core combat force in this battle. Many big people in Luochuan Li Panlong, Pucheng, and Huaxian all admired Xu Renjie so much, and they were going to praise him a few words, but he himself came up and asked first, which completely destroyed the image at once, making everyone laugh embarrassedly, but no one said anything like admiring Your Excellency's cleverness.

Li Qingshui stood on the city wall for a long time, until his legs stopped flashing, he only went to the city wall, looked down, and saw that the city wall was full of corpses. As far as the eye can see, there are nearly a thousand corpses, most of them are in a miserable state, many of them are still burning at the corners of their clothes, and the black smoke wafts to the city wall with a stench.

Li Qingshui shook his head and said, "This ...... Alas...... These thieves won't sweep the battlefield before they leave......"

The two armies of the Gulai were engaged in battles and allowed the enemy to sweep in front of the battle. In order to lay the soldiers who died in battle. This is also a kind of etiquette between countries. But the Liukou are not a country, they have no battlefield etiquette, and a large number of corpses under the city are actually thrown there.

"some people. Get these bodies out and bury them. "The county magistrate of Huaxian County hurriedly ordered, this is his county seat, Li Qingshui and the others are all guest soldiers, and other guest soldiers will help you defend the city, if you still have to help collect the corpse. That is, the master is not sensible.

Under the command of the county commander of Huaxian County, a large group of villagers bravely went out of the city and began to clean up the corpses of the enemy soldiers, pick up the things that were still worth a few small cents on them, gather them together, and then carry the slick corpses to a distance, dig a pit and bury them. Others went to collect the arrows that had been stuck in the ground and carried them back to the city for the next time they defended the city.

Then it's time to mend the gates. Two new door panels, which had been prepared long ago, were brought over and placed firmly at the gates, and stones were put behind them...... Make the gates tight.

Xu Renjie doesn't like these trivial and complicated work, and he can't take care of it. He inspected the city a few times and ordered more torches to be set up to reduce the blind spots that could not be covered by the lights, so as to prevent the thieves from touching the city in the middle of the night. Walked a few laps. I saw a large group of people slapping around Li Qingshui, and their mouths were full of nonsense about singing merits.

"Master Li is young and promising. It is indeed a generation of talents. ”

"Lord Li prepared a thousand strong crossbows long before the thieves came, and this mind and vision are really extraordinary......

"Master Li's ability to train soldiers is really an eye-opener for my generation."

Li Qingshui was surrounded by this group of people in the middle of the fart, his face looked very embarrassed, if this thousand crossbowmen were really prepared by him, maybe he would be able to accept it happily, but this is a false name that he took over in order to carry the black pot, and people praised him, but he knew that it was not him, so he had to support him, which was really painful.

Xu Renjie watched with schadenfreude as Li Qingshui was slapped red-faced, and couldn't help but hold back a smile and swiped past him.

After walking a few more steps, Luochuan Li Panlong came over: "Xu Yuanwai, this battle is really happy today!" ”

Xu Renjie smiled: "Yes! ”

Li Panlong said with a smile: "If you have fun fighting two battles like this, we can't really be promoted to be officials." ”

Xu Renjie shook his head and said: "Such an enjoyable tough battle, I'm afraid I won't have to fight." ”

"Why?" Li Panlong was a little curious: "Although the thieves were defeated today, they only sent 15,000 people to attack the city, and there are still 70,000 or 80,000 troops that have not moved, this setback can't make them stop, right?" ”

Xu Renjie sighed: "The reason why there are more than 10,000 thieves attacking the east gate today is because they think that this county town is easy to attack, so they send troops to attack at will...... When these thieves go back tonight and think about it carefully, they will give up the idea of storming the east gate and start to use other tactics instead. ”

"What does Xu Yuanwai mean, do thieves want to use tricks?" Li Panlong hurriedly said: "May I ask what strategy they will use?" ”

"The easiest way is to besiege ......" Xu Renjie pointed to the south: "The south side of Huaxian County is backed by a mountain, there is no south gate, but there are three gates, the north gate, the east gate, and the west gate, the thieves will definitely deploy the army tomorrow and launch an attack on these three gates at the same time, so that it is impossible for the defenders in the city to gather on the east city wall to fight them, and the forces must be divided into three parts." However, their siege troops were not affected, and they could still attack with more than 10,000 people per sect. ”

"I see!" Li Panlong was taken aback: "That means that Baishui's crossbowmen must be divided into groups of three hundred people, and each group will be stationed on one side of the city wall, won't this lead to a great reduction in strength?" ”

"That's right, it's no longer possible for us to gather all our strength together to meet the enemy, and the enemy army will no longer be close to 100,000 people piled together, and we will definitely divide our forces into battle." Xu Renjie said with annoyance: "So I'm upset, what I want to fight is a big battle, a magnificent Armageddon where all the armies are put into one battlefield, ah...... When I think about it, my blood is going to flow faster. ”

"Ahem, Xu Yuanwai, wake up...... Wake up...... Now isn't the time to lament for such things, is it? Li Panlong Khan said: "The most important thing now is how to deal with the enemy's division of troops to besiege the city!" Didn't you just say that our defensive forces will be torn into three parts, but the attack of the thief army can still put 10,000 to 20,000 people into each city gate, with such a distribution of troops, then we will definitely not be able to hold the city. ”

"Yes! I can't hold it, so ...... Don't guard those two sides! Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Let's guard the east gate, don't guard the north and west." ”

"Hey......" Li Panlong couldn't stand this guy's indifferent expression.

"Okay, don't worry." Xu Renjie said with a smile: "We are not trapped in a lonely city, you must know that we have troops outside the city to respond." If the thieves dare to divide their troops and make a detour to our north and west, Sect Chief Zhu will make them look good. ”

"Oh, yes, I forgot about the head teacher." Li Panlong suddenly realized-

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang is leading the army to hide in a hill in the northeast of Huaxian, the location of this hill is very special, its southwest is Huaxian, and the north is the winding Wei River, which belongs to the central axis between Huaxian and Weihe, if the thieves want to send an army formation to bypass the northeast corner of Huaxian County and attack the north gate of Huaxian, they must pass under this hill.

It is impossible to go around this hill without passing it, because the back of the hill is the Wei River, unless the thieves have a way to cross the river, go west, and then cross the Wei River back to the south...... It is impossible for anyone to do such a troublesome thing, and Zhu Yuanzhang can come and attack at any time, and the thieves will only die worse when they cross the river.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the top of the mountain, resting with a cold wind.

From time to time, scouts would come up the hill and report to him about the situation in the vicinity.

"Brother Zhu, the thirty-sixth battalion has been defeated, and Huaxian is safe."

"Brother Zhu, the thief army retreated five miles and set up camp."

"Brother Zhu, everything is fine nearby, no trace of the enemy has been found......"

A lot of reports like this have been received, but Zhu Yuanzhang is not satisfied, he is still waiting for the thieves to make further moves, because he knows that the thieves' brains are not so stupid, and they will definitely think of a strategy to divide their troops to attack the city.

Sure enough, after it was completely dark, a scout ran back in the dark and reported: "Zhu Yuanzhang, the 36th battalion took advantage of the night and sent 30,000 thieves to leave the camp. ”

"Ha, sure enough!" Xue Hongqi's spirits perked up, and Desperate Saburo also nodded.

"Fortunately, the brains of the guys Yidougu, the starry sky, the rampaging wolf, and the sweeping king are not completely broken, and they still know how to use tricks. They wanted to take advantage of the darkness to take 30,000 men around the north and west of Huaxian, and when it was dawn tomorrow, they would suddenly besiege the city on three sides and break it in one fell swoop. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly: "Next, it's time for us to calculate." ”

"Desperate San Lang, you lead 3,000 people, just stay on this mountain, if the 36th battalion comes, you just need to hold the mountain to the death and prevent them from passing."

"Sister Xue Hongqi, you lead your Dali men and horses to the northeast to ambush."

"Miao Mei, you lead 3,000 soldiers to the north to ambush."

"The rest of the people follow me to the south to ambush."

"Everyone pay attention, there are only 3,000 people in Desperate Saburo, and it is impossible to withstand 30,000 people on a hill without walls and cliffs, so at the beginning of the battle here, the shouting and killing have just started, and we must shout and kill from all directions...... Not greedy for merit, not pursuit, fighting for the purpose of scaring the 36th battalion away. ”

"Yes!"

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