Outside the southwest gate of Pinggang County, there was already a mess, a few wisps of gunpowder smoke floated slowly, it should be a pleasant scenery of spring flowers, but now it has become a gloomy and rolling darkness. Zhou Zhi, the southern governor of the city, was wearing armor, with empty sleeves below the forearm of his left hand, and he stood on the edge of the city tower with a pale face, and when he raised his eyes to look down at the city, he could see at a glance that countless Taiping Road thieves were gathering in a market on the outskirts of the southwest city.

In the morning, the gang of rebels had already launched an attack, and fortunately the county capital was taller and stronger than the ordinary county town, even if the defenders of the city could not take care of it because of the small number of people, and even had many defensive loopholes, they finally barely held on. Up to now, most of the soldiers guarding the southwest gate are resting under the battlements, and their faces are sad, or unkempt and dirty, or scarred, and from a spiritual point of view, they seem to be no different from those rogues and refugees.

At this moment, Zhou Zhi was extremely stunned, and kept muttering in his heart: What an eventful time!

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is not too difficult for Pinggang County to hold the city, and three days ago, the southern governor Wen Chou had already led the remaining men and horses who had gone out to Changcheng to return, and combined with the current strength of the county government, there were two or three thousand troops in general. It's just that despite this, the biggest problem is not the number of troops, after all, the men and horses brought back by Wen Chou are newly defeated, and the impact on morale will even be transmitted to other soldiers in the city. Coupled with the fact that the thief is in full swing, the contrast between the two is clear at a glance. In addition, Xiyang County is also being invaded by Zhang Play rebels, with the current situation of Xiyang County, it is only a matter of time before it is lost, and once Xiyang County is lost, the county capital Pinggang County seems to be in a state of entrapment.

The most terrible thing about people's hearts is still that people's hearts are scattered!

Zhou Zhi is a person from the past, and he knows very well that this is the most important problem of the current priority.

Aside from Zhang Play, Taiping Road openly raised the banner of rebellion, which was a great turmoil across the country. In the final analysis, it was some poor people who did not have enough to eat were forced to rebel. Although Pinggang County has a tall city wall, which can temporarily keep those rebels out, you must know that there are also poor people in the city, even if it is only a few, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be people with such evil intentions as Zhang Wan. As the situation in Youbeiping County becomes more and more serious, it is not certain what these people will think, if internal and external troubles are combined, the consequences will be unimaginable.

At the thought of this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, raised his only right hand and slapped it the battlements.

At this moment, a soldier who rushed up from the city to give an order came to Zhou Zhi with a hasty expression and reported: "Lord Zhou, the thieves are attacking the East City Gate, and Deputy Tian has asked Lord Zhou to send two hundred archers to rush to support. ”

Zhou Zhi was full of annoyance, but his voice was not too fierce and said: "My archers here have all gone to the East City Gate, who will guard the Southwest Gate?" Why didn't the surnamed Tian go to Wen Duwei to ask for someone. ”

The deputy Tian in his mouth is Tian Kai, and since he returned with Wen Chou, he has been assigned to guard the East City Gate in the past few days. He was not dissatisfied with Tian Kai, in fact, he had a little complaint about all the defeated soldiers including Wen Chou, and it was these people who were clamoring to go on the expedition, patting his chest and saying that it was these people who broke the thieves in ten days, but it took fifteen days before and after the attack on Changcheng County, not only did he not break the thieves as scheduled, but also let Taiping Dao rob the grain road and sneak attack the rear.

There were 3,000 elite soldiers at the good end, but they turned into remnants of the defeated army.

The herald looked embarrassed, and said hesitantly: "Lord Tian said, close to here, for the time being, call two hundred archers to resist the enemy!" ”

Zhou Zhi said angrily: "Close to here? Didn't he even imagine that the thieves outside the city were also close to here? ”

The herald was overwhelmed and swallowed into his throat.

After a long time, Zhou Zhi took a deep breath, he turned to the direction outside the city, and carefully looked at the situation in the market not far away, the market was quiet, only the black smoke curled in the air and changed unpredictably. Turning around, he said to the herald in a solemn tone: "Only a hundred paces of archers." Go back and get back to your life, and I'll send someone there later. ”

The herald was sincerely frightened, and hurriedly responded: "Yes, yes, the villain will go." ”

After the herald left, Zhou Zhi ordered a hundred archers to rush to the east gate to help.

Nowadays, the Taiping Road traitors are concentrated on attacking the southwest city gate and the east city gate, although the number of Taiping Road traitors is limited, but they are as if they are being instructed by others, deliberately attacking at the two city gates, constantly consuming the energy of the city garrison. This is very difficult for Zhou Zhi, Wen Chou and others, after all, it is not clear from which gate Taiping Dao will launch a general attack. Of course, there is no other way at the moment, but passive soldiers to block the water and cover the earth. Fortunately, the traitors don't have much siege equipment for the time being, except for some simple wooden ladders and ladders made of tree trunks, which are not easy to seize the castle tower with these tools alone. This is the only place in the city that can be safely located at the moment.

Who knows, not long after the southwest city gate had just dispatched a hundred paces of archers to leave, Zhou Zhi was ascending the city tower from the camp under the city, and suddenly heard a burst of shouts in the distance outside the city, and then the soldiers guarding the city tower immediately shouted. He subconsciously quickened his pace, and met the military Sima with a panicked face.

"Are the traitors attacking again?"

"Yes, sir." Jun Sima hurriedly replied.

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but say, three steps and two steps ran up to the city tower, came to the edge of the city wall and looked out.

I saw countless traitors wielding all kinds of weapons, some of which could not even be considered weapons, and charging in the direction of the castle tower with an incomparably angry roar from their throats. The bazaar, where the traitors were hiding, was like an ant's nest, and as if stimulated by something, countless ants swarmed out of it.

"Lord Zhou, look, what's going on today, I just played a round in the morning, and I'm coming here again?" Jun Sima, who was following closely behind Zhou Zhi, said worriedly.

"Hmph, what else can I do, this is going to die. The archers were ready, and all the armor soldiers were on standby behind the city gates. Zhou Zhi's eyebrows frowned, of course he knew that this situation was different from usual, but even if it was different, he still had to deal with it the same.

"Yes." Jun Sima answered, turned around and ran down the city tower quickly.

The camp downstairs in the city had already heard the movement outside the city, and the soldiers in the camp all looked nervous, and they couldn't help but say something. However, there are very few people who really wear heavy armor, and this is still an elite guard drawn from the Taishou Mansion. After receiving the order, these armor soldiers immediately came to the gate of the city gate, lined up in a phalanx, and waited for the battle.

Zhou Zhi walked around the city wall, and sternly encouraged all the soldiers behind the battlements to cheer up.

"Over there, quick, go to a few people."

"All the bows and arrows are ready, hurry, move quickly."

"Open the bow! Get on the arrow! ”

Commanders at all levels shouted in a hasty tone, telling their soldiers to get ready one by one.

After Zhou Zhi turned around, he returned to the top of the steps of the castle tower, which was the highest position in the entire city wall. He looked coldly at the crowd of traitors who were getting closer and closer, and suddenly found that there were more people with bows, crossbows, and torches in the crowd below, and his heart couldn't help but tighten: these people ...... Where did it come from?

In the past few days of fighting, he did not find that the Taiping Road traitors under the city had bows and crossbowmen, at least not as many as now, and the only explanation was that the Taiping Road traitors rushed to bring more reinforcements. But with these poor peasants alone, even if they rushed to the reinforcements, where did the reinforcements get so many bows and crossbows?

Before he could figure out a clue in his mind, there was already a "whooshing" sound of arrows from under the city.

In an instant, dozens of feathered arrows had already reached the head of the city, and two soldiers who had not had time to react quickly fell to the ground on the spot. However, after all, most of the rebels in the city have not been strictly trained, and they don't even know how to get close to the range before firing arrows, so most of the arrows in this first round are crooked, and some have not yet been able to get close to the city wall. Therefore, even if you are shot, it is just a flesh injury, and it doesn't matter.

Several guards hurriedly took out their shields to block Zhou Zhi's left and right, and Zhou Zhi immediately reacted and shouted: "Shield defense, quickly, put up all the shields." ”

A wall of shields was soon erected at the top of the city, blocking the gap between the battlements. The archers hid behind battlements or behind shield walls, staring closely down through the gaps.

Zhou Zhi did not go down the steps, although his position was quite risky, but as a general, he had to observe the situation on the battlefield at all times. He drew his sword in his remaining right hand and cried out loudly, "Archer, prepare." ”

The other commanders passed on Zhou Zhi's words one after another, and bows and arrows were immediately prepared on the entire city wall.

Zhou Zhi watched the rebellion under the city getting closer and closer, and more and more arrows from the other party reached the city, "banging" and hitting the shield together, or occasionally shooting people through the gap. He silently calculated in his heart, from eighty to sixty steps, and from sixty to forty steps, before he shouted again: "Release the arrow." ”

"Quick, release the arrows."

"Shoot, shoot on point."

"Arrows, arrows."

Round after round of arrows fell from the city wall, and more than a dozen traitors with yellow scarves wrapped in their heads were shot down on the spot. But the traitors did not stop, and they trampled on the corpses of their companions, or the bodies that were still screaming, and continued to pour towards the towers, like an uncontrollable flood.

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