The people were forced by the thieves to fill the city with earth, and in the blink of an eye they had piled up a slope several feet high under the city walls, and if they continued at this rate, the thieves would soon be able to rush up the city.

The defenders of the city are from the local security team and the three guards are half each, the three guards have always been accustomed to orders and prohibitions, and they are still calm and calm, but the people of the city who protect the territory and the people of the people are beginning to be impatient, and they are buzzing in private, but because of the high position of Li Xinzhen's captive marquis, no one dares to speak out loudly.

"If this continues, the thieves will break the city......"

"I don't know what General Hou Ye is thinking? Is it just because it is the local people of the hometown, so they let it go? ”

"What else can it be, the officials of the imperial court are afraid of killing the people, infamy, and causing trouble......"

"Shhh......hhhh

These words came into Li Xin's ears, of course he could understand the thoughts of the people in the city, although there was not much left of his own property after the looting of the fifth battalion of the revolutionary left, and the old and young were also driven out of the city, but after all, there was still a family shelf, if these thieves who were eager for revenge were allowed to break the city, then what kind of doom would await them, the result was self-evident. Therefore, these people are resolutely advocating fighting back.

"The marquis of the town, please be considerate of the people, these, these are all coercion......"

An old voice came from behind Li Xin, and even if he didn't look back, he could hear who else could there be besides Zhang Fangyan. Sympathetic to the people, in a word, do you want to let the thieves' plans succeed?

It is said that the clothes are majestic and powerful, since Zhang Fangyan was reactivated by the emperor, the resignation of the old man on his body is gradually fading, and the shadow of the ministry has gradually recovered, and now he is really intervening in how he defends the city.

Li Xin only asked Zhang Fangyan to sit in the enemy building, and only needed to watch the battle and help the battle. The old man is willing to obediently obey, claiming that he will bow and fulfill his responsibilities as an official, although he is old, but when the thieves come, they will fill in this old bone.

Seeing Zhang Fangyan's stubbornness, Li Xin also ignored him, and instead asked people to find kraft paper rolled into many trumpet-shaped leather paper buckets, and then selected a dozen loud voices to shout to the city in unison.

"Fathers and villagers under the city, the government has a law, from the thief to behead, the general sympathizes with you is coerced by thieves, if you evacuate at this time to open the city wall twenty steps away, you are still the people of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, otherwise you will be ......punished as a thief."

The repeated shouting in the city seemed to have an effect, and some of the people hesitated, but the people behind the team moved a little slowly, and the thieves, in order to deter the people, actually raised their knives and cut off the heads of more than a dozen people in a row, so that the people did not dare to rub anymore. When someone arrived at the city, he finally couldn't help but be resentful, and shouted to the city: "Official, it's not that we don't want to, it's that if we move slowly, we will die... The government and the government, shouldn't they protect the territory and the people, why bother to let us ordinary people be rats in the bellows? ”

Li Xin, who was standing in the city, did not change his face, but in his heart, he was at war with heaven and man. Zhang Fangyan whispered in his ears again, "Listen, wouldn't it be blushing to let the people accuse like this?" As a Ming official, you can't keep the people peaceful, but you want the people to die, how can you bear it? ”

Zhang Fangyan pointed at Li Xin's order to shout at the people in the city, but Li Xin said coldly: "Li Xin, as a military general of the Ming Dynasty, only needs to kill and decide, but being close to the people is the duty of the temples and princes, right?" Now that the thieves have attacked my Daming City, those who have orders and do not retreat are all the enemies of my name..."

Zhang Fangyan was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Li Xin to have such sharp teeth, so he was speechless for a while. It's not that he can't argue with Li Xin, but Li Xin's words hit the nail on the head, and the people of the world are not happy, isn't it the responsibility of these temples and princes? In the end, what qualifications do you have to accuse a military general who only knows how to defend the land and fight?

"Master Hou, the villain Li Shuangcai was ordered to go to the city to change the defense..."

Li Shuangcai's arrival broke the tense atmosphere between Li Xin and Zhang Fangyan, and the soldiers were still shouting in vain towards the city with all their might. The people of the city still carried bags of earth and stones to fill the city. In just a few moments, the slope of the earth under the city was several feet higher.

Li Xin glanced at Li Shuangcai coldly, the security team he led, after a few simple drills, can roughly use a weapon to defend the city, but it cannot be used as the main force, the reason why he asked people to pull all the security teams in the city to the head of the city is to prevent the urgent situation of insufficient manpower when the thieves and ants are attached to the city.

"Very good, let your troops line up in the city and be on standby at any time..."

After Li Shuangcai responded to the order, he turned to Zhang Fangyan and said: "The villain has a sentence that should not be said, if you let the rebellious people under the city go and help the thieves attack the city wall, has the elder ever thought that under the slaughter of the city, how many innocent law-abiding people will die because of their rebellion?" If the elder wants to deal with the Hou properly, why not directly order instructions? ”

"You... This ........."

Zhang Fangyan opened his mouth and stammered, but he couldn't say a word to refute. As far as the truth is concerned, he had previously proposed to let Li Xin properly deal with the people outside the city, but it was also out of a moment of righteous indignation. If he were to give a perfect way to deal with the four words, there would be no way at all. To put it bluntly, it is still the old habit of cabinet ministers and civil officials to speak casually, but now a scoundrel seized the opportunity and humiliated him heavily. However, is it wrong for Zhang Fangyan to be sympathetic to the people?

Just when Zhang Fangyan was speechless, Li Xin had already resolutely ordered: "Prepare the musket bow and crossbow..."

But the guards who heard the shouting were already giving a final warning, and if they did not evacuate, the defenders of the city would attack indiscriminately. Looking at the dirt slope under the city, it was only delayed for another half an hour, and it actually rose a section fiercely, and I saw that half of the city was already buried. If you go any higher, the swift thief can leap up to the wall.

"Fire..."

Li Xin's voice was not loud, and the flag guard beside him waved the flag fiercely, and the whistle in his mouth was also blown. But when I heard the sound of firecrackers like bamboo tubes popping beans, they came and went. The entire side of the city wall was filled with white gunpowder smoke in an instant, and after three volleys, the thick gunpowder smoke had made it difficult for the city to see each other.

"Report to the general, the 2nd Artillery Battalion is ready to shoot at any time..."

Kong Youde's personal soldiers came to report the news, and Li Xin was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "The cannons will also fire together..."

The city was already filled with gunsmoke, and it was difficult to see, so the only way to give the order was to sound the horn and the herald soldiers at the same time. Soon, the cannon roared loudly, and I heard the howl outside the city, and at the same time, the soldiers in the city burst into cheers.

Li Shuangcai stood beside Li Xin, secretly looking at the Zhenyu Marquis who was similar to himself in front of him, and said in his heart, the firearms under the command of the Zhenyu Marquis were sharp, unheard of, unprecedented, and in terms of this power alone, ordinary swords, guns, crossbows and arrows were not worth mentioning. I'm afraid that half of the rabble outside the city has been frightened by this rumbling gun. At the same time, he was also glad that he was fortunate to have joined the official army, otherwise he would not have carried a cloth bag full of earth and stones to fill the city below.

Suddenly, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the sky, which was still like a wash in the morning, was already overwhelmed by black clouds at some point, and there seemed to be rumbling thunder in the sound of bombardment and cannons. Li Shuangcai suddenly felt a chill on his face, and when he reached out to touch it, it was a cold water stain. It was raining, and as soon as this thought flashed through my mind, the pouring rain came in an instant.

In this way, the muskets and cannons were all silent. The soldiers of the battalions were in a hurry to carry the gunpowder to the sheds that sheltered from the rain, but the rain was like a waterfall, and most of the gunpowder piled up on the city walls was damp and watered.

With the heavy rain, eggs and hailstones crackled on the city, and the soldiers who did not have iron armor and iron helmets on their bodies were hit by the seedlings, and when they hit their heads, they were red and swollen bags, and even their heads were broken and bleeding in the heavy rain.

This is the case in the city, and the thieves in the city should not be able to continue the siege. But soon, Li Shuangcai couldn't believe his eyes. Thousands of people actually braved the heavy rain and hail, and rushed over step by step, carrying the cloth bags filled with earth and stones on their backs.

"No, it can't be...," Li Shuangcai muttered.

The old man Zhang Fangyan's hair and beard were beaten into locks by the rain, and he knew that behind these people rushing up, he didn't know how many people were killed and stood up.

This sudden change in weather exceeded Li Xin's expectations, and the firearms that the Three Guards were best at were unusable, but the heavy rain also stopped the thieves' offensive. But to his surprise, the reclamation continued. Seeing this scene, he calmly ordered: "Prepare the bow and crossbow..."

Long before Li Xin's order, the soldiers in the city had already carried the original bed crossbow arrows in Dongchang Mansion City, and when the military order was given, several soldiers shook the winch with the bowstring rope, and the heavy rain poured and the soldiers of the Three Guards rarely used this kind of bow and crossbow The action was rusty, and they did not buckle the backlash several times, and finally the giant crossbow arrow with the thickness of the forearm was successfully placed on the crossbow bed. As soon as the preparations were completed, a soldier had already smashed the trigger with a sledgehammer, and despite the sound of heavy rain, everyone in the city still heard the sound of heavy bowstrings flicking in the air.

This crossbow was originally a siege weapon, and it was used to defend the city with limited damage, but this deterrent effect should not be underestimated. I saw the giant crossbow arrows shot into the rebellious soldiers like locusts and ants, chopping waves all the way, leaving behind the stumps and broken arms, and the blood gushing out was soon washed clean by the rain.

"Don't..."

Suddenly, Li Shuangcai was excited to pick up the female wall, his face was no longer clear from the rain tears, through the rain curtain he suddenly found that this wave of people who braved the heavy rain and crossbow arrows to rush to the city actually had the fathers and elders of the same village, one of whom was the brother of his mother.

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