As for the death of 500 more people, it is simply a matter of numbers for a commander like Tong Guan, as long as the Fangla Rebellion can be quelled as soon as possible, let alone 500 more deaths, even if it is 5,000 or 50,000 people, what is it? But for Zhou Ping, it is a matter of his own life and the cost of neutrality in troubled times, these 500 people are soldiers who have been trained by themselves for a long time, if they are lost here, even if they can be promoted in official positions, it will not be enough to compensate for the loss. Because according to the laws of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were pacification envoys and system envoys above the capital and the general administration, and it was impossible for the military generals to take on major responsibilities in the field, and they would always be deputy positions, and there were no independent personnel and financial rights at all. In this case, if a military general wants to win the battle, the most important thing is to have a good boss, not to mention managing his own forces and creating an independent small kingdom. Even if Tong Guan is kind-hearted and transfers Zhou Pingqian to the seventeenth or eighteenth level, or gives a deputy governor of a certain state to supervise or something, but when Jin Bing goes south and the big tree of the Northern Song Dynasty falls, he is probably not as powerful as a bandit leader.

Zhou Pingzheng's heart was in turmoil, and Chang Zongtian's voice came from his ears: "Speaking of Zhou, you are really prescient to detain you, and you have built this stockade outside the south gate, which can be attacked and defended." As soon as the army arrives, the inside and outside may be able to make a first contribution. If there is no such village, everyone will be blocked in the city, and they can only say that they will make meritorious contributions to others, then there is no hurry! ”

Hearing Chang Zongtian's words, Zhou Ping was even more angry and almost vomited blood, secretly hating why he didn't think clearly earlier, and built this village smartly, making it such a dilemma now. He was pondering how to find a way to persuade Chang Zongtian to agree to retreat to the city, when suddenly the rhythmic sound of war drums sounded in his ears.

"The Manichaean thief is here again! Hum. I'm going to give them a little color to look at today! Chang Zongtian was gearing up, looking like he was going to do a big job.

"Li Bao, you go and mention it to our own people first, so that everyone can be prepared, so as not to be caught off guard!" Zhou Ping said in a low voice: "But you can't let the soldiers below know, understand?" ”

"The villain understands!" Li Bao nodded, walked away quickly, and after about a while, he returned to Zhou Ping's side, wearing two layers of iron armor on his body. Wearing a hood on his head, he holds a long shackle in his hand. With a knife on his waist, looking like he was ready to fight to the death, Zhou Ping couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this, and asked, "Bao." What are you doing? ”

"There is no Li Bao in the army. No Prison! Li Bao said in a low voice: "The life of a certain family was originally saved by prison. Today, I am afraid that the situation is critical, and a certain family will not want this life, but also protect the prison and be well-detained! ”

Zhou Ping heard this. I couldn't help but feel a warm current flowing through my heart, and I reached out and grabbed Li Bao's arm and whispered: "If he can achieve his ambition every day, he will not forget Ah Bao's today!" ”

While the two were talking, Chang Zongtian on the side smiled and said: "I didn't expect these thieves to have grown up, and they know that they have made a big row!" ”

Zhou Ping was taken aback when he heard this, ran to the fence and looked out, only to see more than a thousand Manichi thieves slowly moving towards the gate of the village, unlike yesterday, although these thieves are still in a chaotic formation, but every few rows of people are holding a long row of bamboo and wood to resist the arrows shot in the village, and there is already a little rudimentary form of the army.

"Where did the thieves get the materials, didn't I order the destruction of all the houses and trees within ten miles outside the city?" Zhou Ping shouted sharply.

"Prisoners, Manichae thieves have so many boats and wooden platoons, either dismantled or transported from afar, there are so many bamboo mountains here in the south of the Yangtze River, there are still materials to make these long platoons, this can't be blamed on them!" Chang Zongtian said with a smile: "But if you can block a strong bow and a crossbow with just these rows, it will be too simple!" Come! ”

Chang Zongtian ordered: "Let the Divine Arm Archers go to the sides first, and do not send crossbows, wait until the thief army is close, and then fire a salvo when there is a sound of sound in the middle." Do you understand? ”

"Whoa!" The two newcomers all gave their heads and instructed their men to follow the arrangement. Chang Zongtian turned his head and said with a smile: "Fortunately, there are more than five hundred people, and there are also a hundred divine arm archers among them, all of whom are first-class veterans, and Wang Dutong has really invested a lot of money!" ”

"Big money? Naturally, you have to use fragrant bait to hang a big fish, and it's not him who dies anyway! Zhou Ping scolded on the side, watching the enemy army getting closer and closer, and finally couldn't bear it and whispered: "Chang Yuhou, let's go into the city, there are many Mani thieves, and they will build equipment, so I'm afraid that there will be too many deaths and injuries in this way!" ”

"What are you afraid of!" Chang Zongtian replied nonchalantly: "As soon as the army arrives, the thieves will naturally fall apart, at that time, let's kill it and take out the thief's head, which is naturally a great achievement, this is a rare opportunity in a hundred years!" But you can't give up! ”

"But what if the army doesn't arrive, we'll be finished?" This sentence turned around Zhou Ping's throat a few times, but in the end he still didn't go out, he knew in his heart that Chang Zongtian would not listen to it at this time no matter what, so it was better to endure it first.

At this time, the distance of the Manichaean thieves has reached the range of the archers, with the sound of the team's command, the first row of arrows flew out with a sharp sound, the Manichaeans hurriedly raised the long row, held above their heads, the sound of the arrows hitting the wooden rafts was like a rainstorm, from time to time someone screamed and fell with the arrows, but the Manichaeans still stubbornly approached the gate of the wall.

"Give a signal to let the arrows be released on both sides!" Chang Zongtian ordered, and one of the archers pulled out the Ming Di, put it on the string, pulled the horn bow to the fullest, and relaxed the string diagonally upward, and immediately a sharp sound pierced everyone's eardrums.

Almost at the same time, rain-like crossbow arrows were shot from behind the walls on both sides, and unlike the archers deployed near the walled gates, these divine arm bows were almost all fired flat, and the Manichaeans could not cover the crossbows flying from both sides of their heads, and suddenly fell to pieces, and the living people threw down their heavy long rows and weapons and turned their heads to flee, and they were just caught by the next wave of arrows from the archers, and they fell down immediately. Seeing this scene, the newly arrived reinforcements let out a triumphant cheer. As if in response to the cheers of the defenders, another drum beat was heard from the peasant army in the distance.

"This group of fools, only now do they understand that they can't attack the gate without taking two sharp corners!" Chang Zongtian pointed to the hundreds of enemy soldiers who were approaching a sharp corner protruding from the camp in the distance and smiled: "But is this sharp corner so easy to take down?" Speaking of this, he turned around and smiled at Zhou Ping: "Zhou Prison, don't say anything else, you are indeed a good hand at defending the city, one trap is a trap, others think they have cracked your trick, but they have another trap, fortunately it is not me who is attacking your stockade!" ”

"Chang Yu Hou praised it!" Zhou Ping smiled bitterly: "No matter how many traps I have, I can't kill so many Manichi thieves, there are many of them, sooner or later we can't hold it, with what I can see, this village is still burned, and it is the best strategy to retreat to the city as soon as possible!" ”

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if you keep it for another three or five days!" Chang Zongtian replied nonchalantly: "At that time, the army had already arrived!" ”

In the right corner of the camp, the Manichaeans had approached the walled city, and because of the narrowness of this corner, there was no room for too many soldiers. In order to strengthen the defense, Zhou Ping had people pile up a hill of earth at the interface between the corner and the camp, and built a watchtower on the hill, with the archers of the divine arm on top of it, and threw stones downward, and tied the stakes on the side of the fence, with the pointed ends facing outward. For a time, the Manichaeans crowded around the wooden fence, not allowed to enter, and suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses were piled up on top of each other, and they were gradually piled up as high as the fence. The drums of the peasant army were constantly beating in the main formation, and the newcomers actually stepped on the corpses of their comrades and jumped over the fence to the watchtower on the dirt mountain.

"Xue Liangwu!" Zhou Ping ordered in a deep voice.

"The last general!" Xue Liangwu, who had been waiting for a long time, replied loudly.

"You lead fifty strong men, all in heavy armor, to drive the Manichaean thieves out of the village!"

"No!"

The drums in the garrison camp also rumbled, and with the sound of drums, Xue Liangwu led dozens of strong men in heavy armor, holding pointed shields in one hand and slashing knives in the other, and pounced on the Manichaeans who had climbed over the fence, and the two sides immediately fought on the dirt mountain. The thirty people led by Xue Liangwu were all strong men who had been trained by themselves for several months, they lined up in a dense formation side by side, protected their heads and torsos with shields, pushed the Manichaeans who rushed up to the mountains to the wooden fence, and then slashed with knives, and for a time the flesh and broken limbs flew sideways, although the Manichaeans resisted desperately, the distance between them was too close, there was no room to use weapons at all, and there was no armor and shield, in the face of the organized advance of the Song army, it was almost a one-sided massacre, Constantly on their knees and crying for mercy, the Song soldiers cut them down one by one mercilessly, and finally, the dozens of Manichaeans who crossed the wooden fence were almost completely wiped out. Xue Liangwu didn't care whether he fell to the ground dead or alive, and ordered his subordinates to cut off all their heads and throw them out of the village. After this battle, the morale of the peasant army suddenly dropped, and even the drumming of the main formation stopped.

The peasant army is in its own position.

"Leader Fang, the defenders are too strong, I can't wait to attack!" A bloodied man knelt on the ground, crying loudly, and there were also six or seven people kneeling behind him, all of whom looked embarrassed, all of whom were one of the leaders of the Manichaeans, who had just attacked Tushan and returned undefeated.

Fang Qifei's face was cloudy, and after half a sound, Fang said in a deep voice: "Old Lu, you take your people down to rest first!" ”

"Wait!" Demon King Zheng on the side opened his mouth to interrupt Fang Qifei and said loudly: "Come on, check if there are any injuries on these people's bodies, and where are the injuries!" As soon as he finished speaking, seven or eight strong men rushed up, and without saying anything, they pressed several people on the ground to the ground, checked the scars on their bodies, and after a while, someone shouted: "Tell the leader, these four people have no injuries at all!" (To be continued......)