"It's Lushan in front of you!"

When they saw the walls of Deer Mountain on the horizon from afar, the spirit of the rebels who had been trekking for a week was lifted. The displaced people who followed with difficulty couldn't help but cheer, they could finally rest for a few days.

Although Chen Wu wanted to hurry up and immediately launch an attack on the city, it was already afternoon when it came; Second, although the morale of the rebels was high, they were trained along the way, and their physical fitness was lacking after all. So he announced that the army would camp and rest for the night, and then attack the city the next day.

After getting the news, 40,000 homeless people mustered up their last strength and poured into Lushan City.

Under the guidance of the soldiers of the Volunteer Battalion, more than 40,000 people divided into two torrents and swept along both sides of Lushan to encircle this city of a scale similar to Yicheng.

Under each wall, there are tens of thousands of displaced people.

Looking down from the not-so-high castle of Lushan, I only felt that there were thieves everywhere as far as the eye could see. In particular, the ranks of the displaced people are relatively loose, and they have been spreading for several miles, and it seems that there are more than forty or fifty thousand, even if the number is doubled, people will believe it. The Lushan officials and soldiers at the head of the city, seeing this crowd that seemed to be impossible to kill, turned pale one by one, and their legs trembled.

Although the rolling logs in the armory had been moved to the city two days in advance, even if they could kill and injure hundreds of people, what use could they have for this seemingly endless number of thieves?

As for the militia of more than a thousand people!

It sounds like a lot, but don't forget that Chen Wu uses a four-sided approach. This means that when the direction of the main attack of the rebel army is not clear, the officers and soldiers must also be divided into other city walls. How many people could be on a wall in such a dispersion? What's more, how many of them can really fight?

Comparing the disparity in the number of people dozens or hundreds of times above and below the city head, as well as the sparse and pale officers and soldiers on the city wall, just looking at it gives people a feeling that it is impossible to hold it.

"Recruit, keep recruiting!"

Qian Xianling was already on the verge of madness, and in the face of this desperate disparity in numbers, he had to urgently recruit more vigilantes.

However, even if it has been pulled to the city, those people in the county town know that there are thieves outside, and there is no one who is willing to go to the city to die. Seeing that Lu Baihu from the government came to recruit people in person, he either did not hesitate to harm himself and pretend to be sick, or he hid in advance and refused to apply at all. After all, if you don't have enough weapons, even if you force these inexperienced people to the city, you will only end up dying in vain.

Faced with such a situation, Lu Baihu also had no choice.

The absolute strength is there, and the army of the county town can't be counted on for a while, no matter how you look at it, Lushan is the life of the broken city. His current mind is very simple, if he can last a day, it depends on how much strength the thief army below can use to attack the city.

Early the next morning.

The camp of the rebels began to make a fire early, and the aroma of rice and broth filled the camp. The Volunteer Battalion and the Taiping Battalion, which were waiting for dinner, were fine, and such food had not been interrupted since the capture of Yicheng. The homeless people who followed the road nearby smelled the rich and tempting aroma, and their saliva flowed out.

On the way from Yicheng to Lushan, the rebels did provide them with food for free, but at best they could only eat six or seven percent full, and some old and weak women could eat even less. Originally, the rebels only ate two meals a day, and they had to march ten miles a day, and the little food that ordinary homeless people ate last night had already been digested. At this moment, seeing that the people in the Taiping camp were already feasting, they were hungry and more panicked, and they couldn't wait to pounce on them and replace them.

However, no one dared to do that.

The rules of the rebels are very strict, and if they dare to break into the camp and steal food, they will be killed if they are caught.

These ordinary homeless people could only curse in their hearts with envy and jealousy, while lying on the ground weakly and waiting for the rebel soldiers to finish eating, and then they would be given food to them.

But today, it seems to be a little different!

After the women battalion had cooked their meals, the soldiers of the volunteer battalion arrived with carts. In addition to the usual rations, there was also a basket of cooked rice on the cart. The aroma almost immediately stirred up the homeless.

In their encirclement, a leader-like rebel jumped onto the cart and shouted: "An hour later, the rebels will attack Lushan. Is there a hero who is willing to go up and attack the city? Anyone who signs up, this meal is full. If you can kill people or attack the city, not only will you have food to get, but you will also be given priority in the expansion of the volunteer battalion! ”

If you dare to go up and attack the city, you will have enough to eat!

For homeless people who have been hungry for a week, this temptation is not insignificant. After that, the expansion of the volunteer camp can be prioritized, which is a great temptation. Along the way, the hungry homeless people have made the errand of the volunteer camp a paradise, not only to eat enough, but also to taste the meat. Not to mention the elite Taiping camp, which eats meat after entering. The carts of the rebels pulling livestock are said to have been empty for six or seven carts.

It's just that......

Everyone knows the risk of attacking the city, but it is a fight with the officials and soldiers, and if one of them is not successful, he will die. Although it is good to have food, you have to think about whether it is worth it.

For a moment, these hungry homeless people hesitated.

In the end, the fear of death made the vast majority of them choose to refuse. Just not having enough to eat for a week is not enough for them to risk their lives to fight for a bite to eat. However, more than 40,000 displaced people, so many carts pulled food out, and in the end, they always brought back a few hundred people. Among them, there were many who had hesitated to join the volunteer battalion, but by the time they made up their minds, the rebels had already recruited a full army.

"Give them a full meal, digest the food, and then give each person a bamboo gun."

Chen Wu walked over under the protection of a team of guards, glanced at it roughly, and gave an order.

The ladder used for the siege of the city, the carpenters in the righteous army were prepared on the way here, and they rushed to make a lot of them overnight yesterday. Soon, ten rudimentary-looking ladders were moved to the front of the battle. Those homeless people who held the idea of being a full ghost even if they died, ate their rice one by one, rested for a while, and then held bamboo guns with a tragic face, ready to attack the city.

A small city like Lushan is actually very easy to attack, there is no moat, there are no other towers, urn cities, stone throwers or anything, and the city walls are only four or five meters high.

Out of self-confidence, Chen Wu didn't even set up a stone thrower here.

"The thieves are going to attack the city!"

Seeing hundreds of people holding weapons and carrying ladders to the front of the battle, Qian Xianling, who had little experience and had never seen such a scene, panicked and urged the officers and soldiers to meet the enemy. Lu Baihu was also frightened, and ordered his subordinates to recruit half of the militia groups on the other three city walls, apparently believing that the thief army was preparing to attack from the front.

Soon, loud war drums beat.

The previous drum was no longer enough, and this new drum was removed from outside the Yawai of Yicheng County. The carpenter made a cart and mounted the drum on it. Under the excitement of this drum, more than 1,000 people from the volunteer battalion shouted in unison, and the shouts of killing infected the ordinary homeless people nearby. For a time, the momentum was amazing.

Boosted by this morale, hundreds of death squads summoned by a meal, or "first to the camp" as the Qianyuan Empire said, rushed under the city wall with a ladder in one hand and a bamboo gun in the other, to the rhythm of drums.

"Shoot, shoot!"

At the head of the city, the Qian County Commander repeatedly urged the more than 20 Orions who had been gathered, as well as a team of soldiers in the official army who knew archery, and ordered them to shoot these thieves who were attacking the city.

However, it didn't work out well.

The hunters who were recruited in a hurry were very limited in their accuracy. The attacking rebels were scattered in their positions, and in the process of running, a round of sparse arrows went down, most of them missed, and only a few people were wounded. Moreover, Chen Wu transferred a few wooden shields to protect the infantry battalion to these cannon fodder who had ascended to the camp first, which had more or less effect.

This kind of wooden shield has been improved several times by players in Empire. With a double layer of wood of different materials, a layer of cowhide is sandwiched in the middle, except for the relatively bulky characteristics, the protective effect is far beyond the ordinary wooden shield. The hunters at the head of the city shot three rounds with trembling arms, and only six or seven people were actually killed.

This number is spread out over ten teams of ladders with a total of several hundred people, and it is almost completely invisible.