A few years ago, it was also this season, and in the territory of Bayang, Qingzhou, there was already goose feather snow.

In the low and undulating hills around the dark village, 5,000 soldiers spread out layer by layer. Xu Ruyu stood on the sentry tower, wearing brown light armor, pressing the saber with his right knife, looking at the dense soldiers outside the sentry tower with a calm expression, and a few strands of long hair were blown messily by the north wind.

Ji Kailai walked briskly from a distance, a worried look on his face. Xu Ruyu thought to himself: I still can't hold my breath, when Zhang Xu, Gu Mingshan and I were besieged in the Old Man's Peak together, they were much calmer than him. He walked down the watchtower, walked over and asked him, "What's the matter?" ”

"My lord, why did you let Feng Yuan guard the gate from afar?"

Xu Ruyu was unhappy with his straightforward questioning, and it was inconvenient to reprimand him in front of everyone, so he said in a deep voice: "What's wrong? Thinking of what he was worried about, his face sank, and he said, "I can trust General Feng, don't say much." ”

Ji Kailai's words that he was about to blurt out were rejected by Xu Ruyu's words, and he was slightly stunned, only then did he remember that he said such words at this time, for fear of shaking the hearts of the army, he walked a few steps forward, walked to Xu Ruyu's approach, and was about to whisper the worry in his heart, but saw Feng Yuanyuan walking out of the corner with a few personal soldiers.

Secretly said that the village is not big, the sound is louder, and the front village can hear the conversation of the back village. Ji Kailai saw Feng Yuanyuan coming over with a black face, and thought: Most of the words just now fell in his ears.

"Lord, do you want people to rush out to report the news?" Feng Yuanyuan said calmly.

"No need, such a big movement of the Twelve Kou Alliance, I think it has already spread all over Qingjiang Mansion."

"The lord did not leave the village yesterday to go to Qingjiangyi as planned because he was stranded in the village, I'm afraid both sides don't know. It turned out that the thieves were just seizing the village, but now there has been no movement in the past half a day, I am afraid that I will see the lord in the village and change the battle plan...... "Thinking of a few months ago, I was still the so-called "thief", and I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Xu Ruyu said awe-inspiringly: "It is inevitable to sacrifice in battle, but no one can be sacrificed. Regardless of whether I am in the secret village or not, I hope that both the defenders of Xuancheng and the soldiers who have returned to Qingjiangyi can make correct judgments. However, looking at the current situation, there will be no reinforcements arriving within three days, and General Feng still needs to be prepared in his heart. ”

"What, Beiling Fort is only forty miles away from here, and Ulenburg is only thirty miles away from here. The Suwei camp and Xuancheng Buying that go deep into Qingjiangyi are only eighty miles away from here, although they are all mountain roads, but they can also reach here in a day and night. Ji Kailai was a little flustered.

Feng Yuanyuan looked at him with a little contempt, and thought: If he came to guard the village, he would naturally not survive for three days. At first, I was a little worried about Xu Ruyu's stay in the village, but now I am glad again. Secretly said that there are no troops around the village, and only 500 soldiers can be supported at the same time, with Xu Ruyu here, morale will not collapse, and it is barely possible to insist on three days.

Feng Yuanyuan secretly chewed on Xu Ruyu's sentence "No one can be sacrificed", and understood Xu Ruyu's intention of not sending people to break through and ask for help.

If the defenders of Xuancheng and the Qingyan army who returned to Qingjiangyi came to the rescue regardless of all the consequences, it would be better for Xu Ruyu to break through alone.

Xu Ruyu didn't like the panic that came out, and patiently explained to him: "Secretly said that the village was wedged into the center of the Twelve Kou League, and the Twelve Kou League, which was originally connected in one piece, was divided into two areas, and there were about 7,000 Kou soldiers in the seven families on the west side, but they were in collusion with the Sanlujiang bandits on the Qingjiang River, except for the people guarding the village, the Kou soldiers who could be called should be about 8,000 to 9,000. Now, 5,000 of them were surrounded outside the wall, and the remaining 3,000 to 4,000 had come somewhere in the southwestern hills, ready to ambush reinforcements in the direction of Xuancheng. ”

"But to the west of the village, there are only 5,000 people in the Twelve Kou League, and there are more than 6,000 people in the Qingyan Army who have returned to Qingjiangyi......"

Liang Bao and Ming Xi were originally fighting on the outside line, and the 5,000 bandits were not enough to fight a decisive battle with the 6,000 soldiers of the Qingyan Army, but it was not difficult to delay the Qingyan Army for a few minutes among the hills of 80 miles.

Xu Ruyu saw that Ji Kailai's mind was taken away by the enemy, and staying here to lead the army would only add to the disadvantage, and said: "General Ji, I have a password to help me go back to Xuancheng to convey, you break through to Xuancheng now, and the thieves will not stop you." ”

Ji Kailai thought to himself: The thief hopes that he will send someone back here to ask for help, so he will naturally not stop him, and then he thought about it: if the accident is wrong, the surname is not lost in vain. He hesitated for a while, looked up and saw Xu Ruyu's sharp gaze, which seemed to see through what he was thinking, panicked, and stammered: "The end... The last general will definitely bring reinforcements to break the siege. ”

Xu Ruyu smiled and said: "The three thousand troops of Baiyi are only helping to defend Xuancheng, and the real call requires the joint signature of the seven leaders in Wuling Mountain, and it is too late for a while, so there will be no army available in Xuancheng." You go back, tell Meng Yi and Shao Haitang, let them use things cheaply, don't think of me. ”

Looking at the figure of Ji Kailai who rushed out of the encirclement and disappeared behind that low hill, Xu Ruyu looked at Feng Yuanyuan behind him and said: "Donghai County is north, and by this time, the north wind has already cut people. In the next half a month, the big river will be frozen, and the warships can operate in the waters south of Huaishui Surabaya, and only the iron cavalry and foot soldiers can really compete in the north. ”

Feng Yuanyuan didn't know the intention of Xu Ruyu to say this suddenly, and was silent.

Xu Ruyu continued: "Forty-five years, my father and a hundred refugees were slaughtered by Yi Hanwen in Bayang City, the year before last, although I assassinated Yi Zhouwu Decheng, in fact, I helped Yi Hanwen seize the power of Qingzhou County, Yi Chongwu is now only based on a corner of the sea in Delai Prefecture, it seems that the war in Qingzhou will end after the beginning of spring next year. ”

Feng Yuanyuan vaguely guessed Xu Ruyu's intentions, but still did not answer.

"My father once told me a saying, he said: People are the most easily deceived, clinging to their beliefs, but causing others to be harmed. Hatred is the most persistent, and it is also the most easily deceived people, and my father only commanded me when he was dying: Don't think about revenge. ”

"The father-in-law of the lord is a famous man in the world, and he doesn't dare to expect to be able to match his mind."

Xu Ruyu saw that he politely refused his explanation, sighed secretly, and didn't say anything anymore.

It began to rain, the raindrops jumped on the stone wall, and in an instant, the head and face were splashed, and the grass could not stand up, and in a moment the body was mostly wet, through the north wind, and the biting cold.

In addition to Feng Yuanyuan's 200 black warrior battalions, the remaining 600 people in the village are the sergeants of the second battalion of the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion, which is composed of soldiers from the original village, and it has been less than a month since the reorganization, and it is still a new army. Xu Ruyu didn't dare to be careless, handed over the defense of the walled gate and the front walled wall to Feng Yuanyuan, and led more than ten guards to check on other places. I saw many soldiers of the New Army retreating from the wall and hiding under the eaves to avoid the rain. When the officers and men of the new army saw Xu Ruyu coming, they returned to the wall to form a team, and the queue was untidy in a hurry.

Xu Ruyu walked along the walled wall with a calm face, and ordered half of the people to go down the wall to avoid the rain, and half of the people to defend the wall.

Luo Xiaohu said in a low voice: "Such a heavy rain is not conducive to attacking the village, why not let more people go down to the village to take shelter from the rain?" ”

Xu Ruyu frowned, and said: "Looking at the heavy rain is more unfavorable to the attacker, but in this case, it is not conducive to us a lot, and the energy loss is the greatest in the heavy rain, and the thieves have five thousand to take turns attacking the village, but we can't change people to rest." Especially in such a heavy rain, drenched for a few hours, ordinary people will inevitably get seriously ill. ”

At this time, the whistle sounded at the gate of the wall, and the sergeant began to scratch. Xu Ruyu hurried back to the gate of the village, only to see a person walking from the enemy camp in the heavy rain.

The man shouted here through the rain curtain: "I am Kang Zhanshan, the left capital of the Twelve Kou League, and I am specially ordered by the commander of the alliance to send the war book to General Qingfeng." The words came out, and the voice echoed in the heavy rain, quite imposing.

Xu Ruyu looked sideways at Feng Yuanyuan and said, "When did the bandits become popular?" He turned his face to Kang Zhanshan in front of the gate and said, "The people of Yuejun are not ashamed of Kou, but your name is too straightforward. You tell your so-called alliance marshal that he is not qualified to give me a war letter, and I, Xu Ruyu, will stand on this wall, and let him attack it. ”

Everyone applauded, and Feng Yuanyuan was also emboldened by Xu Ruyu's words.

In addition to the unfavorable attack on the back cliff, the Kou soldiers besieged the secret village from three sides at the same time.

The top of the walled wall is less than five feet wide, borrowing the terrain, two zhang high, and it can be regarded as a dangerous village in the hilly area.

The heavy rain poured over, and the slope outside the wall was even more slippery, and the soldiers hiding behind the high shield approached step by step with a ladder, and from time to time someone slipped and fell, and the defenders on the wall lost no time in shooting a shower of arrows. In the heavy rain, the bowstring was slack, the arrow power was insufficient, and even the leather armor could not penetrate the long-range shot from a hundred paces.

Xu Ruyu ordered to stop the long-range shooting and quietly watched the Kou soldiers approaching. A pile of fires rose on the wall, but it could not drive away the chill that was damp all over. Xu Ruyu knew that even if he repelled the enemy's attack, the soldiers defending the village would inevitably fall seriously ill.

When the soldiers approached the foot of the wall, the rolling stones and huge trees on the wall smashed down one after another, and dozens of soldiers immediately blurred their flesh and blood, and the soldiers retreated slightly, and the blood on the dozens of bloody corpses was diluted by the heavy rain in a moment, leaving only a mass of flesh and white flesh. Xu Ruyu frowned slightly, although the defenders on the wall had just been incorporated into the Qingyan Army, they were used to seeing this situation when they were in the village, clinging to the female wall, waiting for the soldiers to attack.

The Kou soldiers attacked again, not too close, and immediately retreated when they saw the rolling stones and trees smashed on the wall, and the corpses left under the wall were far less than the first time.

The enemy's offensive did not appear to be continuous and ferocious at first, but only entangled the soldiers on the wall. In the fierce battle, it was not enough to feel anything, but the gap between the battles made everyone feel cold and cold.

Xu Ruyu ordered more people to go down the wall to take shelter from the rain, leaving only 200 defenders on the three walls of the wall, which was 400 paces long. The moment the rain stops is the moment when the enemy launches a Lingli offensive. But Xu Ruyu is more worried. After some temptation, the enemy should understand that he has only two generals and has to defend three walls. The rain is slippery, and the cliff climb behind is even more dangerous, but you can't be careless.

The front gate was led by Feng Yuanyuan and his 200 black warrior battalions, and Xu Ruyu himself sat in the east, which could take care of the Chinese army, but only one left lieutenant led the army in the west. Xu Ruyu sent all his twelve guards to the western wall to help defend it.

Until late at night, when the rain turned light, and the rain was already able to block the wind and rain, Xu Ruyu immediately replaced the soldiers who had been stored in the rainstorm for four hours. After a moment of relaxation, several people couldn't stand the cold to the bone, and planted their heads down the wall. The others also walked on with each other.

Xu Ruyu took the ginger soup handed over by Luo Xiaohu and drank it in one gulp. At a modest cost, the enemy temporarily rendered 200 defenders incapacitated.

In the drizzle, torches are planted all over the inside and outside of the village, illuminating the distance and near as bright as day. The rain swept across the firelight swaying in the cold wind and blew on Xu Ruyu's resolute face.

Countless soldiers poured towards the wall, covered with layers of arrows, and when they got closer, countless rolling stones and trees were discharged.

Most of the soldiers who were replaced drank ginger soup, took off their leather armor and changed into dry clothes, and began to demolish the houses in the village, providing a steady stream of bricks and stones to the wall.

The first soldier was unfortunate to poke his head out in front of Xu Ruyu, he was satisfied with the bounty of the first to attack the wall, and greeted a faint flash of knife light, which was split into two pieces from head to chest. A split corpse fell from mid-air, blood gushing out of the middle.

Xu Ruyu smiled slightly bitterly, it was a last resort to use such a murderous method, he had no time to think about it, the blade was down, his left hand was pressed, and the arm of a rogue was unloaded alive, and blood sprayed Xu Ruyu's face. When the seventeenth Kou soldier was incomplete under Xu Ruyu's knife, a chill surged in the hearts of the attacking Kou soldiers, and no one had the courage to face Xu Ruyu alone who was deeply covered in blood.

The enemy avoided the east of Xu Ruyu's defense and the front of Feng Yuanyuan's defense, and regarded the west as the focus of the attack, in the light of day, the west wall, which was less than 100 steps, was twice broken by the thieves, and each time Feng Yuanyuan led people to the rescue, where the Qingyan Army had already laid down more than 100 people, Xu Ruyu looked at the corpses of the enemy who were piled up under the wall, and the enemy who had nowhere to organize the next attack, and thought: If the battle continues like this, I am afraid that I will not be able to survive three days.

Xu Ruyu turned his head sideways and saw Luo Xiaohu coming up, and said, "Didn't you let you follow the light stream to watch the prisoners there, what did you come up for?" ”

Luo Xiaohu said with a look of grievance: "Qingliu let me come up." ”

Xu Ruyu saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, and beckoned him to come in.

Luo Xiaohu said: "It's a pity that Qingliu said that fifty combat forces are there to guard the prisoners of war, it's better to ......."

Xu Ruyu didn't need him to say it, and he understood what was going on.

Ten days ago, when the Dark Village was breached, more than 360 rogues were captured, and when they had no time to send them back to Xuancheng, they were concentrated in a stone barracks.

Before the war, Feng Yuanyuan, Ji Kailai, and Qingliu all suggested that this group of rogues should be disposed of, if in the fierce battle, the captives were in turmoil, and the village would be broken without attack.

Xu Ruyu did not agree, and as a precaution, he let Qingliu lead fifty elite prisoners of war.

Xu Ruyu returned to the Lishui River Valley, leaving Qingliu by his side, and this time he also asked him to lead the guards to follow him.

Xu Ruyu looked at the crowd in front of the village, and frowned. The group of cobs hugged at the foot of the wall, and the ladder leaned against the wall. Xu Ruyujian's eyebrows were furnished, and he said with determination: "You let Qingliu rip off the clothes of the prisoners of war, and let our people change the wet clothes for the prisoners of war to wear......

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