As soon as Xiong Kaiyuan heard that Gao Shiming asked him to go out of the city, he even had the mind to kneel down and beg for mercy for this eunuch, the thieves are not those Qiu Ba, they can be bullied, that is to say that if they kill someone, they will kill people. Since experiencing the fiasco of the defense of Gaoyang, he has become frightened when he smells the thieves, and he can't muster the slightest courage.

The group of people kept going, followed Li Xin to the south wall of Yanghe Acropolis, Gao Shiming's heart palpitated, the huge momentum really frightened him, standing next to Li Xin at the moment, a heart settled down a lot, after all, Li Xin can fight some tough battles, this is already registered in the imperial court, even his trip is not also to reward his great victory over the Tartars?

Gao Shiming still refused to give up, and asked Xiong Kaiyuan to go out of the city to ask for help, but Xiong Kaiyuan refused to go out of the city alive or dead, and finally was forced to be in a hurry, so he had to put on a posture that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, either kill him now, or let him stay in the city.

The two of them were endlessly entangled and bickering, Gao Shiming lost the shelf of the lieutenant envoy, and Xiong Kaiyuan lost the official authority of the prefect. Li Xin didn't have time to persuade the two of them, he took advantage of the fact that before the thieves arrived, he divided the army in the city into three parts, used as two echelons, one in front and one in the back, the first echelon was mainly composed of nearly 1,000 epidemic prevention pickets, and the second echelon, that is, the reserve, was composed of the left battalion of the spear and Xiong Kaiyuan's guards.

This is not that Li Xin intends to preserve his strength, but considering that the pickets are familiar with the situation in their hometown and can better exert their combat effectiveness, and the guards of the Lancer Left Battalion and Xiong Kaiyuan have just arrived, and the two teams have many contradictions and doubts, and it is still unknown whether they can work together to resist the enemy.

Li Xin personally went to the prison to bring Mao Weizhang out, this man in his forties in northern Jin didn't dare to look directly at Li Xin, he was ready to carry the black pot and lead people to suffer, because he knew that even if he told the truth of the facts, no one would make the decision for him.

But Li Xin's words made Mao Weizhang so surprised that he couldn't even speak.

"The pickets have always been led by you, and now the shape is urgent, hurry up to the city and prepare for the war!"

"Big, sir......"

Mao Weizhang didn't understand what Li Xin meant by letting him prepare for war, so he hesitated, not knowing what to do.

Li Xin didn't have the kung fu to talk to him, "The thieves are approaching Yang Hewei immediately, and they will let you take the pickets to defend the city and make the merit for your crimes!" ”

After speaking, Li Xin no longer paid attention to Mao Weizhang, and took his own soldiers to the city to collect gunpowder, without gunpowder Heisenberg's artillery would be useless, just a pile of scrap iron. After running around, there was very little gunpowder collected, and it was enough to fire more than a dozen cannons.

Li Xin was finally worried about the situation in the city, and hurried to the south gate, and when he was halfway there, he met a group of people who were also heading towards the south gate, and the scale was dozens of people. Seeing that the outfit was not a picket, this made him suddenly feel alert in his heart, and immediately ordered someone to come forward for interrogation.

It turned out that it was Yang Hewei who commanded Qiu Liangcun to organize the family to prepare to go to the city to assist in the battle, Li Xinxin said, this guy is well-informed, since he has this heart, let them go, one more person will have more strength.

After all, in Gao Shiming's narrative, there are tens of thousands of thieves, nearly 100,000, and Yang Hewei is a small city, but I don't know how long it can withstand it. Thinking of this, Li Xin felt unbelievable, tens of thousands of six-thief armies left the city without fighting, but came to a small border town like Yanghewei, which was really strange.

When they arrived at the south gate, they saw Heisenberg commanding his artillery unit, busy up and down, and this cargo actually carried several four-pounder guns up the city wall.

Just as I wanted to ask him if the gunpowder was enough to shoot a few cannons, he suddenly heard the soldiers in the city shouting: "The thieves are coming, the thieves are coming......

This is terrible, Li Xin didn't care about anything else, and directly asked Heisenberg to put down the cannon in his hand, and hurried to the city to manipulate the cannon that had been prepared, and he found someone else to complete the rest of the work.

I could only hear the mountains outside the city shouting like a tsunami, and the sound was like the sea from far to near, one Lang was higher than the other, and there were no tens of thousands of people who would never have this momentum. But then, a cannon rang out, as if splitting the momentum of this Lang higher than a Lang, and the whole shouting was actually suffocated.

This made Li Xin feel very strange, and he also reassured himself a little, indicating that the morale of the thieves outside the city was not as strong as the momentum. He took a few steps up to the city, leaned against the female wall and looked out, only to see that on the flat river, which was already black and white, the thieves were rushing to Yang Hewei like a sea.

No matter how strange it is, Li Xin finally believed the fact that the thieves were coming, although it was not as exaggerated as Gao Shiming said, there were nearly 100,000 people, but there should still be 30,000 or 40,000 people. Yang and Weidang still have the strength to fight.

In the face of thieves like ants and locusts, Li Xin has given up the idea of sending the spear battalion out of the city to fight in the field, the thieves rely on nothing more than a large number of people, and they use human lives to fill in the victory, while he takes the route of elite soldiers, and the spear battalion is his treasure, so it is not something he can bear.

Gao Shiming was trembling with fright at the moment, and he couldn't care about forcing Xiong Kaiyuan to go out of the city for help, he didn't care about his face, he confessed to Li Xin, and fled down the city under the pretext of having a headache, out of sight.

Li Xin weighed Yang Hewei's weapons to defend the city, and the only ones with the most lethality at present were those four-pounder cannons and six-pounder cannons, Yang Hewei originally had no cannons, and no gunpowder reserves, even the bows and arrows were almost consumed when they attacked the city last time they attacked the city. Now he is facing a situation where it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, so he has to fight to the death.

Although Xiong Kaiyuan was also afraid of thieves, he still had some courage than Gao Shiming, and after no one forced him to go out of the city to ask for help and die, he immediately shifted his attention to outside the city wall, but the scene in the distance made him wonder.

Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the bottom of the city.

"Look, they've sent someone to negotiate!"

What's going on? Did the thieves attack the city and persuade them to surrender first?

"My lord, do you want to fight?"

Some soldiers had already drawn their bowstrings and shot them at the first order. Mao Weizhang, who was wearing a cloth armor, couldn't be the master, so he looked at Li Xin.

"Let them come."

A dozen horses galloped to the city in an instant, but they saw that the people on the horses were all in tattered clothes, like beggars.

"Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, may I ask if this is Yang Hewei under the rule of General Li of the Three Guards?"

"It's you, my lord, you got one?"

There were soldiers in the city who were quick to speak, and not only answered, but also asked them rhetorically. The response of the thieves under the city was full of joy, "It's even if we find General Li, so we won't leave." ”

What do you mean? Still not leaving? Could it be that he came specifically to trouble Li Xin? Li Xin asked himself if he had nothing to do with the thieves, and he was puzzled for a while.

"Phew! The thieves under the city listened, since they have heard the name of our chief soldier, and dare to come to die, a county king of the Mongolian Han Department was beheaded by our chief soldier a few days ago, are you afraid of a long life? ”

The soldier was quick to speak, and immediately scolded.

"Lords in the city, don't get me wrong, we are not thieves, we are all people fleeing the plague, and we are all good citizens of Shanxi!"

They emphasized that they were natives of Shanxi, and the big guys noticed that they did speak dialects from all over Shanxi. Hearing this, Li Xin already knew in his heart, where is this thief, it is clearly the victims who have left their homes due to the plague.

Xiong Kaiyuan sneered a few times on the side.

"Good people? And I ask you, have you not gathered a crowd to plunder? And the Baiden checkpoint, where are all those soldiers? ”

Li Xin couldn't help but glance at Xiong Kaiyuan, this thing actually knew everything about Yang Hewei's situation, and even the Baideng checkpoint was clear, but he was not a mediocre person.

"This ......"

The city was silent for a while, apparently acquiescing.

Li Xin immediately woke up to the fact that in troubled times, there was only a thin line between disaster victims and thieves, or even no difference. In order to survive, the people who have destroyed their homes face only one way......

The heart that had fallen was hanging again, and how to deal with the tens of thousands of people outside the city who didn't know whether they were disaster victims or thieves was quite tricky.

Xiong Kaiyuan immediately said to Li Xin: "General Li, please quickly order the people under the city to be shot to death, these people must be the leaders, as long as they die, the thieves will inevitably have no worries without Shouyang and Wei." ”

The implication is that the victims of the city are still regarded as thieves.

The voices of the city began to grow anxious.

"Don't let go of the arrows, may I ask who is General Li? We are indeed disaster victims, and we have come all the way to Yang and Wei just to beg for food, and I heard that the general soldier has opened a special place to help us who are homeless......"

Li Xin suddenly realized that they had heard about the victims of Chaoyang Fort and came here.

"We are all people from all over Shanxi, but also forced by the plague to have nowhere to go, and then I heard that the three guards are specially taking in the victims, after the big guy heard about it, he felt that it was better to come to Yang and Wei to try his luck than to die, which became more and more of today's scale."

The voice under the city sighed.

"Speaking of which, there are too many people and there is no restraint, there are indeed places where the king's law has been violated, but the big guys are indeed not thieves, and they dare not rebel, they only ask Mr. Li to eat."

Li Xin listened to this person's words with reason and evidence, and he didn't think he was an ordinary villager.

"I am Li Xin, if filling your stomach is your request, I can answer you now, but you must also do what I ask! And, as long as you do what you are told, I will not only ensure that you will have something to eat, but that you will be able to rebuild your home. ”

"You are Mr. Li? Talking counts? ”

The voice of the city trembled.

"Exactly! In a word, it is difficult to chase the horse! ”

"Good! I believe in General Soldier Li, if you have any orders, we will do it all! ”

The voice of the city did not hesitate for a moment, but agreed to it.

Xiong Kaiyuan gave a thumbs up secretly and whispered on the side: "General Li has a good plan to delay the army, high!" ”