Scared the six people back, Xu Liang felt a deep sense of weakness, and smiled bitterly at Dai Yingying: "The soldier is afraid of death, how can this battle be fought." ”

Dai Yingying vigilantly looked at the stray arrows that kept flying from the city, swept her forehead, and said: "This town, if you can keep it, you can keep it, if you can't keep it, you can leave, what's the big deal." ”

Xu Liang looked at her, shook his head and said, "You don't understand." ”

The magistrates of the Ming Dynasty have the responsibility of guarding the land, and if the city is lost, the magistrates will be held accountable, and they will be dismissed at least and killed at worst. Xu Liang knows this very well, and more importantly, he has no way out. Affected by the sudden death of Xizong, Xu Liang was unable to transfer his uncle Huang Weizhong out of Shaanxi in the short term. What's more, Xu Liang's county government backyard stored a huge amount of money just obtained, and the property dug up from King Han's courtyard was worth more than 100,000 taels.

Xu Liang also has his own little abacus. Shaanxi is located in the northwest, and the emperor is far away. The people are fierce and fierce, and there are many thieves, he used to only think about self-preservation, but now he suddenly has more than 100,000 taels of silver in his hand, which inevitably breeds other ideas.

But if this idea is to be realized, it is necessary to defend the original city in front of you in advance. If you keep it, you will have money, food and horses in the future, and you will no longer have to look at people's faces all the time. If you can't hold it, that qiē will become a bubble.

When Xu Liang was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a heart-pounding voice from the city.

"Xianggong, Xianggong!"

Xu Liang followed the sound suddenly, and saw his wife, Feng Suqin, holding a blue cloth package in her hand, was walking along the steps towards the city, followed by her cousin Feng Min'er.

Xu Liang was so frightened that his soul flew away, rushed down, rushed to Feng Suqin and shouted, "What are you doing here!" Don't die! Go back! ”

Feng Suqin was frightened by Xu Liang's fierce appearance, and said with a package: "Concubine, when the concubine was sorting out those things, she found a set of armor and a silver silk soft armor on that bronze statue, and the armor was sent to Ziren by Min'er, and I will send you the soft armor......"

Xu Liang scolded: "What soft armor! How dangerous it is here, you just let the iron head send it, and you can run it yourself! As he spoke, he took the package in Feng Suqin's hand, pushed her down the steps, and urged: "Go back quickly, go back quickly." ”

Feng Suqin's tears rolled in her eyes, and she turned back as she walked forward: "Then you have to be careful." ”

"Got it, got it. Let's go. ”

Feng Suqin turned her head, wiped her eyes, and suddenly turned back to Dai Yingying beside Xu Liang and shouted, "Miss Dai! ”

Dai Yingying looked at her suspiciously.

Feng Suqin looked at Dai Yingying, her expression was complicated, and she said, "Xianggong...... It's up to you! ”

Dai Yingying was stunned, nodded, waved her hand and said, "Don't worry...... Madam. ”

Feng Suqin joined Feng Min'er and returned to the county yali step by step.

Xu Liang opened the package, and unfolded the inside was indeed a vest made of silver wire, shining with silver light, the outer two layers were woven from thin silver wires, and the inner layer felt like silk cloth. Xu Liang shook his head and was about to rewrap it. Dai Yingying suddenly said, "Xu Liang, you better put it on." ”

Xu Liang said with a smile: "I don't pinch the knife to go up and cut the enemy, this soft armor is quite heavy, so don't wear it." ”

Dai Yingying said seriously: "The knife and gun have no eyes, so let's wear insurance." ”

Xu Liang thought about it, and then put this silver silk soft armor inside the official robe as he said.

At this time, Director He brought more than a dozen young men and three doctors from the city to treat the wounded. The shouting of killing in the city has gradually stopped. The thieves under the city also left five or six hundred corpses behind and retreated.

Xu Liang climbed the city tower and looked down at the city, and saw at a glance that three broken long ladders under the city fell to the ground, and more than a dozen people were lying on the ladders. "More than 200 soldiers were killed, nearly 100 were wounded, and nearly half of the archers were lost. Another wave of thieves will attack, and we are afraid that we will not be able to suppress it. ”

Xu Liang nodded, thought for a while, and said, "There are not many arrows in the city, so you have to save some of them." After a while, the fight broke out again, and the soldiers were told to shoot arrows at the leaders of the thieves. Let's use more stones and bricks, but fortunately we have enough bricks stored in our city. ”

Xu Liang in the city is not happy, and the leader of the thieves outside the city, Yizhangqing, is also sad. The leader, Wang Hu, reported to Yizhangqing in annoyance: "General, it's not that the soldiers don't need to die, it's really that damn Zhenyuan County Commander is too lacking in morality. And his walls were heightened. Our longest ladder is still a cut away from the city. This battle can't be fought. ”

Yizhang Qing can also see clearly behind the formation, and several times the long ladder has been stretched over, but the length is still a little different, and it can't reach the city, and he was stabbed down by the Ming army's spear in the city.

Yizhang Qing said: "I'll give you another 3,000 people, and you can try again." ”

When Wang Hu blew the horn and launched a new round of attack, Yizhang Qing beckoned to one of his generals and said: "Go, put away the wooden strips and bamboo poles that can be used in our family team, and build a few lengthened ladders to send to Wang Hu." ”

After the new round of attack began, Xu Liang stood on the edge of the city tower and supervised the battle with a bright machete, like a white-faced killing god, but no soldiers who wanted to escape came to find bad luck. The streets of the city were already full of wounded Ming soldiers, and the three doctors were sweating profusely to bandage people, because they were all arrow wounds, and the severed arrows were piled up in a pile, like a hill.

The Ming army also fought bloodily, seeing that the people around him were hit by arrows from time to time and fell to the ground, the Ming army began to fight back desperately. The thief soldiers under the city rushed forward one by one, died one by one, retreated from one by one, and organized themselves again in the beating and scolding of the thief generals behind, and rushed forward again one by one.

A low trumpet sounded, and the attack stopped.

The Ming soldiers at the head of the city were also exhausted and sat down on the ground to rest. Taking advantage of this gap, Huang Xiancheng organized people to send water and food to the city buckets by bucket, and the soldiers of the Ming army were not too dirty, and they ate it when they caught it. Xu Liang took a tortilla in his hand and took two bites, and Wan Zong came over and said, "My lord, the enemy has already launched two attacks. The subordinates estimated that the next attack would be even more ferocious. ”

Xu Liang swallowed a big mouthful of bread and said, "The so-called one blow, then decline, and three exhaustion." Yizhang Qing has been frustrated twice, and his morale is low, so it must be time to retire soon. ”

"Oh, but I see." The sentinel smiled.

"I don't think so." Dai Yingying on the side suddenly said loudly.

Xu Liang and Wan Wenshan both looked at her. Dai Yingying pointed at the team of thieves under the city and said, "You see, Yizhangqing has moved out several long ladders, I'm afraid I want to play ruthlessly." ”

Xu Liang and Wan Wenshan looked down the city, only to see more than a dozen rogue soldiers carrying five ladders from the back of the rogue team, and then, the horn sounded in the rogue team, the rogue team let out a shout, and the third round of attack began again.

Ten thousand sentinels drew their swords in their hands, walked out of the city tower and shouted: "Prepare for battle!" ”

Xu Liang stared at the five new ladders, and said suspiciously: "How do I see that this ladder has grown?" ”

Dai Yingying stared at it fixedly, nodded and said, "It seems to be a little longer, and there are six people carrying ladders in front, but this time it has been replaced by eight people." Immediately thought of something, glanced at Xu Liang, and both of them understood. Xu Liang shouted left and right: "Pay attention to those ladders, and if you get close, smash them with all your might!" ”

The attack of the thieves was still the same as before, with the shieldmen rushing to the front, the archers hiding under their shields, and when they got closer, they swarmed into the city to buy time for the long ladders behind to be erected.

Xu Liang nervously looked at the long ladder moving under the city. Seeing that one of them was already close to the city wall, it was about to be erected, and the Ming army on the city smashed several rounds without knocking it down, and finally, with a snap, the ladder leaned firmly against the city wall, and the ladder was about a foot long along the battlements.

"Push it down!" Wan Wenshan, who also discovered the situation, shouted and personally led people to rush over. More than a dozen people slashed and pushed, and several more were knocked down by the rain of arrows in the middle, and finally the long ladder was broken, and the long ladder fell to the ground and fell to pieces. The Ming army in the city let out a burst of cheers.

Knock, knock, knock!

Suddenly, a rapid drum beat sounded. The Ming army in the city and the thieves in the city all paused for the source of the drums. Then the thieves burst into a thunderous cheer, and everyone attacked the city like they had been beaten mad. Xu Liang raised his eyes and looked at it, and his face turned pale.

In front of the thief procession, a large drum was erected high, and the leader of the thieves, who had persuaded Liang to surrender, took off his upper clothes, exposed his dark back, and was beating the drum vigorously, and the drum beat from this.

Knock, knock, knock!

Immediately, the trumpets of the thieves also sounded.

Woo -

"Kill—"

"Stepping on the original castle of Zhenyuan!"

The crazy shouts were overwhelming, and the thieves under the city rushed forward as if they were not dying, and the archers did not hide from their shields, and threw arrows at the head of the city while running, and seven or eight long ladders almost reached the head of the town at the same time, and on the long ladders, the thief soldiers with long knives in their mouths grabbed the ladders and quickly climbed up.

The shape shì is extremely critical.

Wan Wenshan's shout was hoarse: "Fight back, fight back!" Chop the ladder! ”

The Ming army was also crazy, and they no longer cared about the arrows that would come at any time, and slashed with knives, pushed with their hands, and stabbed with spears, and tried their best to block the arrival of the thief army.

Under the city, Wang Hu mixed in the attacking team, rushed to the city, and shouted: "Archer, cover!" Then he put the big knife in his hand, and rushed to the foot of a long ladder that had been erected, and climbed up with his hands and feet like an ape.