Blocking the city gates with debris is just an expedient measure with no way, and if you encounter an army that is skilled in siege, the difference between doing it and not doing it is not very big. However, the Jiangnan Dao Jiedu Army had nothing to do with it, and a ram collided countless times, and it did not shake the thin Shanyin County Gate for half a minute, but the dozen or so big men who carried the hammer were exhausted and lay on your ground and couldn't stop panting.

Zhao Chengxiao saw it and said to Qiu Yizhi: "Why are these armies so useless? If the adults had a few hundred more men in their hands, and they opened the door and rushed out now, wouldn't they be able to kill them to a great defeat? ”

The Han Central Forbidden Army is strong and the local Jiedu Army is weak, which is a custom since the founding of the country, involving the military foundation of the empire, Qiu Yizhi said it inconveniently, so he smiled and said: "If they are strong, how can we talk about cool things here?" ”

Before Qiu Yizhi's words fell, he heard a personal soldier shouting: "My lord, look down, it seems that the officers and soldiers are going to set fire to the door!" ”

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly poked his head out of the city wall and looked down, and saw a large number of officers and soldiers carrying firewood and grass to pile them under the city gate. The officers and soldiers were outnumbered, and after a while, a mountain of firewood had been piled up at the gate of the city. I also saw a few small officers who looked like hundreds of households and thousands of generals, and threw the torches lit in their hands on the firewood mountain.

After a while, a thick smoke rose from the gate of Shanyin County, and then there was a "crackling" sound when the firewood was burning.

The city wall of Sanyin County was not tall, and the heat wave brought by the thick smoke and flames continued to gush upward, so that Qiu Yizhi and the others could no longer deal with it safely, and they hurriedly ran down from the city wall.

Zhao Chengxiao saw that a trace of fire also came out from the inside of the city gate, and hurriedly asked: "My lord, it seems that the fire outside the city is very large, do you want to take water to extinguish the fire immediately, so that the city gate can support for a little longer?" ”

Qiu Yizhi thought for a while and said, "No need to extinguish the fire." Since the officers and soldiers want to set fire to the city, then we can help them. You go to the city and find some flammable things like tung oil, quilts, asphalt, etc., and put a fire in them. This fire should be ten times larger than the outside, but it is necessary to see how the officers and soldiers cross the fire? ”

When Zhao Chengxiao heard this, he couldn't help but high-five and laughed: "My lord is really good!" Why can't I think of it? ”

After that, he led a dozen of his brothers to collect quilts, pillows, lamp oil, firewood, paint, charcoal, and all other flammable things from the surrounding houses, and piled them under the city gate like the officials and soldiers outside the city.

The bandit-born soldiers didn't think the fire was big enough, so they collected more flammable materials from the city and threw them into the fire, so the fire expanded even more, and the entire city gate was swallowed up at once.

Fearing that the fire would get out of control and burn down the entire county town of San'in, Qiu Yizhi hurriedly stopped his soldiers and told them to return to the prison cell and prepare for strict defense.

Although there were 8,000 people in the official army, they were blocked by the fire and did not enter the county town of Shanyin from morning to night.

The officers and soldiers did not have the ability to fight at night, and when they saw the sun set, they went back to the camp to repair.

So the whole day was delayed by Qiu Yizhi again.

However, under the current situation of the great enemy, Qiu Yizhi did not dare to relax at all. He pondered over and over again in his cell, thinking that with his eighteen personal soldiers, he would not be able to resist the army of eight thousand no matter what. What's more, the "Great Highness" Zheng Xin is unknown, and he doesn't know when he will be able to reach Jiangnan, and even if he does, the angry Yin Chengliang may not withdraw his troops immediately.

So after thinking about it, Qiu Yizhi finally called Wei Chi Jiming and said to her: "Ji Ming, the enemy situation is urgent at the moment, and we are outnumbered and weak, and it is difficult to fight against the officers and soldiers. In my opinion, there is only one way to save your life, and you have to do it. I wonder if you'd like to? ”

Yu Chi Ji frowned and said: "Before leaving Beijing, my father asked me to protect my uncle closely, saying that my Wei Chi family and my uncle share life and death, honor and disgrace, and there can be no accidents. Although my uncle's men are not manpowered, they are all elite soldiers, and if there are things for them to handle, they may not be able to succeed. I'd better stay by my uncle's side. ”

Qiu Yizhi shook his head but said: "This thing is very difficult and dangerous, and it is true that only you can do it." If you don't have the pinnacle of light martial arts like you, others will just go and die. ”

After all, Yu Chi Jiming is still a little girl who has not been deeply involved in the world, and when she heard Qiu Yizhi's compliment, she immediately became interested and asked curiously: "What is the matter, you have to let me run?" Uncle might as well talk about it first. ”

Qiu Yizhi heard that Yu Chi Jiming had already agreed halfway, so he reached out and took out an object from his arms and shook it in front of Yu Chi Jiming's eyes.

Yu Chi Jiming looked at it carefully, and saw that this thing was the length of a half-adult's palm, the thickness was more than an inch, and it was carefully wrapped in bright yellow satin, but the weight seemed to be very heavy, so he asked, "Uncle, what is this?" What does it have to do with what my uncle wants me to do? ”

Qiu Yizhi didn't answer her, and carefully opened the satin, revealing a token that had been unknown whether it was pure gold or gold-plated arrows, and on it were written in four egg-sized words in seal: "If I am here"!

I only heard Qiu Yizhi say: "This is the so-called 'Gold Medal Arrow', which was given to me when the emperor left Beijing, and with such a thing, I can exercise military power for the Son of Heaven." I want you to take this thing to Quzhou. ”

"What are you doing in Quzhou?" Yu Chi Jiming asked.

"Don't be in a hurry to ask, wait until I'm done." Qiu Yizhi, "Now there is a large army stationed in Quzhou, and the general Cui Nan who leads the army is the emperor's confidant and favorite general, and he is also very familiar with me. When you go to see him with this 'gold medal order', you will say that I said it, and ask him to immediately send troops to mediate the dispute between me and the Jiedu Army of Jiangnan Province. General Cui will naturally do the rest. ”

Yu Chi Jiming's eyes rolled and said, "It turns out that this is such a trivial matter. It seems that Quzhou is not far from our side, so why do I have to go? ”

Qiu Yizhi saw that the official army could not break through the city gate for a while, so he simply explained what he said, so that Wei Chi Jiming could fully understand the importance of this matter: "This is not something that anyone can do. The first is to get out of the city from the interception of nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers; secondly, it is necessary to travel to and from Quzhou day and night; The third is to risk your life to protect the gold medal in your hand and keep the arrow intact. These three things are simple to say, but they are not necessarily easy, at the moment, only you can do it, no one else can, not even Zhao Chengxiao. ”

Wei Chi Jiming listened, and then realized that what Qiu Yizhi said "only I can do it" was indeed true, so he nodded vigorously and said: "Although this matter is not small, it is not difficult to handle, otherwise I would have set off for Quzhou." ”

Qiu Yizhi lowered his head and pondered for a while: "Okay, it's best to go early and return early." After that, he took out two ingots of silver from his sleeve and handed them to Yu Chi Jiming, "This is a coil, you have to be careful along the way." Especially this 'gold medal order arrow', you have to see General Cui Nan with your own eyes to show it clearly. You are very smart, as for how to verify the identity of General Cui, you don't need me to teach you! ”

Yu Chi Jiming was happy to hear this, and replied casually: "That's nature. A dignified general, the instrument must be extraordinary, not to mention that there are tiger charms and famous posts as evidence, and it is extremely difficult to pretend. ”

Qiu Yizhi heard that what she said was reasonable, so he repeatedly told this "gold medal arrow" not to be lost or damaged, so he let Yu Chi Jiming set off.

Yu Chi Jiming really did a great job, I saw that she chose a slightly higher house on the side of the city wall, climbed the city wall in three leaps and two leaps, observed that there were no officials and soldiers around, and then flew down the city wall and went to Quzhou in the direction of the night.

Seeing this, Qiu Yizhi felt a little relieved, and a sense of sleepiness immediately came up, and Kazui fell asleep.

I slept until almost noon the next day, when Qiu Yizhi woke up. He saw that the hour was not early, so he hurriedly asked Zhao Chengxiao how the movement of the official army was.

Zhao Chengxiao replied truthfully: "The official army did not attack the city yesterday night, and wanted to break into the city gate early this morning. Now it seems that the officers and troops outside the city have stopped attacking, and they don't know what to do. ”

Qiu Yizhi bowed his head and said: "Brother Zhao's handling is very appropriate. It's just that when I encounter an urgent military situation in the future, even if I am told to get up. So he didn't wash and tidy up, but grabbed a baked cake that was placed beside him, and said while eating, "Let's go up to the city wall and have a look!" ”

The officers and troops outside the city seemed to have been replenished, and the number of them had increased considerably, but the ranks were still scattered.

However, it seemed that the officers and soldiers had collected some ladders from the houses outside the city overnight, and hurried to make some overnight to make more than a dozen ladders. Each ladder was carried by a dozen young and strong officers and soldiers, who pushed it up the city wall with their hands and feet.

If Qiu Yizhi had more than a hundred crossbow soldiers of Youyan Dao under his command, and an uncovered attack like an official army, he would be able to repel as many times as he wanted. However, now he only has eighteen personal foot soldiers under his command, and he can't resist it no matter what.

So he pondered for a while, and said to his own soldiers: "This Shanyin city wall can no longer be defended, the disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, and there is nothing to fight in the street fighting, everyone will retreat to the cell with me, as long as they can hold it for two days...... Three days at most! Reinforcements are coming! ”

These soldiers have been born and died with Qiu Yi many times, and they have great trust in him, although Qiu Yizhi's order is actually to put him in a place of death with no way out, but he did not hesitate at all, and trotted down the city wall and went to the cell.

With the help of the ladder on the side of the official army, the progress of the siege has finally accelerated a lot, and more than 100 officers and soldiers have climbed the city wall one after another. When they saw that there were no enemy troops on the city walls, their morale immediately rose, and they shouted that they were about to enter the city and plunder.

However, the officer who led the team was quite military and knew that with only a few improvised ladders, the tens of thousands of troops outside the city could not all enter the city under any circumstances, so he restrained the soldiers who were the first to enter the city to clear the city gates.

These soldiers are accustomed to acting as a prestige on weekdays, and when they heard that they had to do such hard work, they all frowned and were reluctant to do it.

The general who took the lead knew that his immediate boss was also in the ranks, and he was afraid that he would be impeached for delaying the military situation and losing his official hat, so he had no choice but to use both grace and power and persuasion to coax him, and finally let this group of "old soldiers" start to clean up the embers left by a fire at the city gate.

Qiu Yizhi didn't expect the progress of the official army to be so slow, and saw that a small number of soldiers who came into the city were bent on cleaning the city gate but were defenseless, so he ordered a dozen or so personal soldiers under his command and personally led the charge together, and instantly beat the hundred or so officers and soldiers to the ground, and drove them back to the city wall in one fell swoop.

However, although the gate is still not open, more and more officers and soldiers still gradually climb the city wall from the top of the ladder, and by the time of Shen, nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers have entered the county seat of Shanyin.

The disparity between the strength of the enemy and us became more and more huge, and Qiu Yizhi did not want to consume these precious eighteen personal soldiers for this, so he completely gave up the battle plan of attacking and harassing, and re-reinforced the barricades that were originally built with flour bags and rice bags with bricks and wood, waiting for the officers and soldiers to attack.

In this way, another whole day was delayed by Qiu Yizhi.