"Since this is the case, it will be up to the prime minister. Zhao Jiong nodded and said, "If he is willing to submit to the court, how can I be stingy with a false name that says Shuo Fang Jie Du envoy." He spoke easily, but he was worried about the title of this feudal town in his heart, and waved his hand to Zhao Pu to draft an edict.

Lanzhou, Xiao Jiu has been staying in the city tower for a month, the lanterns and torches are shining on the left and near at night, and the four city walls are equipped with additional manpower to guard against the Song army stealing the city at night, and the city is fiercely fighting, and the soldiers of the Jinfan Battalion patrol according to their swords to prevent the residents of the city from rebelling.

Since the siege of the Song army, Xiao Jiu immediately selected five thousand households who were good at archery in the city, and a sergeant of the baggage battalion led ten households to the city to defend the city. As a last resort, Xiao Jiu, the three hundred sergeants of the craftsman battalion, did not dare to be dispatched, and thousands of workers and slaves heard the wind from nowhere, and they have been a little unstable in recent days, and Cai Jian also kept suggesting that they should simply arm these barbarians and let them out of the city to kill the Song army.

"According to our ears and eyes among the slaves, many of these Hu people used to shoot arrows on horseback, but after staying in the craftsman's camp for a long time, their unruly temperament has also worn out most of them, and as long as we promise them that they will give them the status of Lanzhou shade or even sergeant after this battle, most of them are still willing to fight for us. Cai Jian suggested. Although the number of Song troops besieging the city is not large, the bow and crossbow equipment they carry are very powerful, and the strong men available in the city have lost a lot in recent days, and they can no longer be replenished.

"At this time, we should be cautious, although many of the laborers and slaves who were captured in the artisan camp were brave, but they did not form a rank, and suddenly pulled out, not to mention the problem of rebellion, it was very easy to mess up the position, but to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of. Le Yangfu, the captain of the Jincheng battalion, said, "Our army has few soldiers, if these workers and slaves are not eliminated, they will not be able to be subdued after they are released, and they will burn, kill and loot together inside and outside the city, I am afraid it will be a disaster." ”

In the past few days of defending the city, the Jincheng battalion, which was originally a little lonely in the army, and the two battalions of baggage and craftsmanship that stayed behind have a lot of close relationship, and Xiao Jiu, who stayed in Lanzhou, was originally a Shu person, which also made the Jincheng battalion feel quite close. Xiao Jiu is in charge of the overall situation and is personally responsible for the four city walls, Le Yang Fu leads the Jincheng battalion sergeant to be responsible for the security in the city, and Cai Jian is responsible for managing the craftsmen and slaves, building repair equipment, and distributing heavy grain and grass.

"This is easy, we only pick out those tribal warriors who have dependents in the craftsman camp, these people are concerned about the safety of their families, and they will not take risks to rebel. Cai Jian retorted, feeling secretly a little ashamed in his heart, taking charge of the craftsman's camp, especially after enriching thousands of slaves, his mind gradually darkened a lot. This is probably a common mental illness among prison guards.

"In this way, Captain Cai selects the trusted and usable tribal warriors in the camp, selects five hundred people to train first, and if the outside forces are tight in the future, they will be supplemented in ten-person units. Xiao Jiu said in a deep voice, the captains of the three battalions left behind are all Han Chinese, and their precautionary psychology against the Hu clan is one more layer than that of captains like Xin Gu and Yu Fu Renliang, and the ability to control the warriors of the tribe is also weaker, so they can only split the warriors among the slaves into ten-person teams first.

"If Captain Xin is here, he will probably set up a battalion of dead soldiers like the 'Luoluo River' under An Lushan as a sharp knife to counterattack the Song people. Xiao Jiu thought secretly in his heart, "There is also good news to inform the two of you, Lord Wu defeated the 30,000 allied forces of the Great Song Dynasty and Dangxiang and Tubo under the city of Liangzhou, and the army is besieging Lingzhou, and on the condition of emulating the martyrdom of the Cai clan and the Fuzhou Zhe clan, peace talks with the imperial court." Xiao Jiu's words were a little regretful, Guasha, Gansu and Liangling six states, thousands of miles away, tens of thousands of elite soldiers, groups of healthy horses, and the people dared to fight, in these five generations of troubled times, it is the foundation of the king and the emperor.

The lieutenants deliberated in the castle tower and did not disperse until late at night. Xiao Jiu looked at the lanterns of the Song army camp in the distance, sighed, and did not take off the iron armor, and slept on a woolen blanket next to the handsome position. The stench of boiling gold juice and severed limbs in the cool night breeze was more than every sound outside, and his wrinkled forehead trembled twice, and his hand tightened on the hilt of his sword.

In Lanzhou City, a child's cry of "Wow~" woke up countless people who couldn't sleep calmly, "Cry again, throw you into the barracks outside the city." With the mother's intimidation, the crying stopped abruptly.

"Grandma, don't be afraid, Daddy will definitely come back, and take the bravest sergeant with him to kill these cowards outside the city. Yu Fuhaishan raised his eyebrows, although the fifteen-year-old military family had some children on his face, he was about the same height as an ordinary man, wearing a short coat repurposed from Yu Furen's old military robe, which was about the same as the strong man guarding the city, and he also held a horizontal knife in his hand, trying to imitate Yu Furen's expression to comfort his mother Ouyang.

"Grandma is not afraid. Ouyang stroked the top of his head, "Before your father came back, there were still two men in the Yu Fu family to protect him." As she spoke, she looked at her youngest son Yu Fu Yanping, who was sleeping soundly in the futon, with pity.

"Grandma, will Lord Wu lead troops to defeat these Song people?" seemed to realize that he was always a child in the eyes of Grandma, Yu Fuhaishan was a little apprehensive, and even revealed the anxiety in his heart. At this time, it is like the troubled times of the Warring States, fighting for the city, killing the city, fighting for the land, and killing the wilderness. It is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child, who has been exposed to it since he was a child, and knows the cruelty of war.

Ouyang smiled lovingly, gently opened the window a crack, and pointed to a lantern hanging high on the flagpole of a large mansion in the distance, which stood out on this roof. "See that lantern?" asked Ouyang Shi. "See. Yu Fuhaishan nodded. "That is the abode of the Mistress, who is with us. Lord Wu will definitely return to his division to rescue Lanzhou. Ouyang replied affirmatively. Since the siege of Lanzhou City, the dependents of high-ranking officers have known that the main force of the army in the city is thousands of miles away, and it is almost impossible to return to the aid smoothly due to the heavy barriers of the various feudal forces of the Song State, so only the dependents of Wu Yingying himself are also in the city, and everyone lives and dies together. Since Wu Yingying entered Lanzhou, he has led everyone to do many earth-shattering things, and the sergeant's family members saw that Huang Wen also stayed in the city, and they were willing to believe that the Lanzhou army could also create miracles this time.