In the distance, next to the sea of sand, under the yellow sand sky, thirty bandits in masks rode fast horses, scattered into a semicircle, and drove a group of people dressed as refugees with horsewhips to the direction of the north city gate of Huangsha County.

Seeing that the team in front of him was stagnant, a horse bandit suddenly shook his hand, raised his slender horsewhip, and landed heavily in the team that was driven by people like cattle, sheep and livestock.

Then the procession began to move again, and the people raised their hands and shouted loudly as they ran towards the city gates.

"Open the door!

"Open the door!"

"Help, help!"

Look at them one by one, they are not clothed, they are covered with wounds, both old and new, and some of them are even suppurated, all of them look pale, as if they have been tortured miserably.

Gu Xuan pulled out the imperial sword at his waist, leaned out, and shouted loudly down: "The person in front stops, if you move forward again, there will be no forgiveness!"

The soldiers on the city tower looked back at Zhu Dachun, who nodded solemnly, and suddenly dozens of bows and arrows poked out of the cracks in the battlements, pointing at the refugees rushing below.

Naturally, the people below also heard the sound, looked up, and were so frightened that they quickly stopped, and then fell to their knees one by one, and began to bow their heads and bow, crying and pleading loudly.

"Open the door!"

"Open the door!"

"Please open the door!"

Gu Xuan turned his head and shouted at Ma Mingze and asked, "Didn't I ask you and Chen Anmin to let the nearby villagers live in the city?"

Ma Mingze lowered his head and replied with some grievances: "Yes, Lord Chen and I did follow your instructions and took people to inform them one by one, so that they all entered the city." ”

"Does the prince suspect that this is a trick they deliberately made to conceal Chen Cang's eyes, a bitter trick?" Jinglong said suddenly, but looking at him like that, he was not asking, he was completely talking to others.

Zhu Dachun, who was standing on the side, frowned, and the old man opened his mouth to say something, but after thinking about it, he still didn't speak.

But the people below were still shouting.

"We are all from Dayao Village!"

"Please, open the door, help us!"

"Please, we are really from Dayao Village!"

Dayao Village is indeed a small village nearby, which is under the jurisdiction of Huangsha County, because there is an official kiln in the village that originated from the previous dynasty and got its name, it is actually not far away, when the Rakshasa clan attacked, because the location was in Youzhou and survived, and there was also a wall outside the village, and the general horse bandits could not attack it, so this time when they were recruited into the city, they were directly rejected by the village chief of Dayao Village.

A young man under Zhu Dachun looked down with an arrow in his hand, and muttered to himself in some surprise: "That kid without clothes seems to be a friend of mine in Dayao Village。。。。。。 ”

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Jinglong.

"Dayao Village was the first to notify the people to move out, and it should have been evacuated to the city a long time ago, how could there be so many people left outside! ”

The young man just wanted to raise his head to argue, but Zhu Dachun on the side shouted loudly: "There is a prince here, what else do you want to say? Isn't it a person from Dayao Village, use your mouth too much? Can you afford to take responsibility if you admit your mistake? Why don't you quickly go over and stand guard! Is there a place for you to speak?"

Zhu Dachun still has a lot of power in front of these young people, and as soon as he blows his beard and glares at him, he frightens the young man and does not dare to refute anymore, obediently puts down the bow and arrow in his hand, holds the spear next to him, and walks to the side helplessly, but he is still slandering in his heart, obviously it is, why don't you let people speak.

Zhu Dachun finished scolding the talkative soldier, turned around and collided with Jinglong's eyes, and the two gave each other a meaningful expression, both nodded and turned around.

Gu Xuan frowned and looked down in place, a little unbearable in his heart.

The reason why he wanted to ask that sentence was actually to let Jinglong say the next words, it really didn't matter if the people below were from Dayao Village, they could only not!

Before having a strong defender, how could the city gate be opened casually, and if a whole team of thirty people rushed in with these people who were not sure whether they were villagers or not, who would bear the consequences? Even if a few people were known and could be sure to be the real people of Liangguo, who could guarantee that the others would be, and who could guarantee that they would not enter with the shadows of the horse bandits?

But then again, if the people below are really all the villagers of Dayao Village, then ordering those who do not open the door is tantamount to directly slaughtering these dozens of innocent people.

This is the serious problem in front of Gu Xuan, open the city gate, once something happens, he can't afford this loss, but if he doesn't open it, he will be the executioner who killed these poor people!

And the people below were still screaming and begging for mercy at this time.

"Please open the door! I'm really a villager from Dayao Village!"

"Please, we're really villagers!"

"Damn it, open the door!

A horse bandit carried a big knife on his shoulder, held the reins and laughed at it: "On the city tower, why can't you even save your own people when they die?"

As he spoke, he took out a bow and arrow from the bag at his feet, and shot an arrow at random, and a villager in front of him, who was still screaming loudly, immediately fell down screaming, and a feathered arrow stuck in his back was still shaking.

The crowd in front of them was suddenly shocked, and they were so frightened that they scattered like headless flies and wanted to escape, but the road behind them was blocked by the horse bandits, and they could only break through the boundaries marked by Gu Xuan.

Zhu Dachun was a little unbearable, and immediately stepped forward to suggest: "Lord Wang, why don't I let the children shoot arrows down, force them back first, and then let's open the door directly, and then take everyone in, and then close it, as long as your hands and feet are fast, there will definitely be no problem, not to mention that there are only thirty horse bandits, as long as we block the city gate, they can't rush in, the old man is still hard, he can guard the door!"

The last sentence was simply using his own life to force Gu Xuan to make a decision.

Before Gu Xuan could speak, Jinglong suddenly turned around when he heard this, stared at the old man in front of him, and said with concern: "Don't say it, if you have three long and two short, this city will not be able to be defended, even if you don't want to think about yourself, you should also think about the people in the city, is the safety of all of them important, or are these dozens of people outside the city important? If there are a few horse bandits mixed in there, and they suddenly attack when they come in, once they can't close the city gate in time, it doesn't matter who bears the consequences, after all, everyone is dead, should they punish the corpses?"

Zhu Dachun didn't refute, just shook his head a little painfully, and then said helplessly: "Just open a small gap in the city gate and let it in one by one, it should be fine." ”

Gu Xuan raised his eyebrows, this is not a good way, just open the city gate a little bit, and let the people outside come in a few by a while, so that even if there are people who sneak in and want to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, they will be wiped out immediately, after all, two fists are hard to beat four hands.

Gu Xuan closed his eyes and began to seriously think about the feasibility of this plan, and the people next to him saw him like this and knew that he was thinking, so they all didn't bother anymore.

The knocks on the door and the cries for help were still coming up, and the thirty horse bandits over there were still provoking loudly, laughing at the people here for not saving them when they saw death.

Gu Xuan opened his eyes suddenly, his eyes were full of determination, and he seemed to have made up his mind.

"This plan is feasible, Zhu Lao stays here to deal with the people on both sides, obeys orders, closes the city gate at any time, I and Uncle Jinglong are guarding the door, opening an opening, and slowly letting people in, once those horse bandits want to break forward, let the soldiers release arrows to force them back, are there enough arrows?"

Zhu Dachun still wanted to argue a few sentences to let him go down to guard the door, after all, he didn't know Gu Xuan's ability, but Gu Xuan just asked again in a deep voice: "Are the arrows enough?"

Zhu Dachun's heart sank, and he nodded helplessly: "I have done a lot of work in the past few days, as long as I hurry up, it will definitely be enough!"

Jinglong held his sword and said anxiously beside him: "Lord Wang, even if you want to save them, then let your subordinates go down, how can you do such a thing, once something happens, how can I explain?"

Ma Mingze, who was following next to him, also persuaded: "Yes, Lord Wang, besides, you were injured before。。。。。。 ”

Gu Xuan waved his arm vigorously twice, and said: "My injury has long been healed, and those who have the ability to defend the city gate without losing it are only me and Uncle Jinglong, relying on one person to defend it, once there is a mistake, as long as a few horse bandits rush in, the leakage will get bigger and bigger, originally we don't have enough manpower, we can't stop people, we can't afford this consequence!"

There is a sense of self-denial to say this, but there are still people who disagree.

"No, you can't go!"

Jinglong even knelt directly in front of Gu Xuan, wanting to stop him, but he didn't think that Gu Xuan had already jumped to the staircase lightly, turned around and said loudly: "The eldest husband was born in heaven and earth, and he can't escape the responsibility, since there are my people below, naturally I should save them!"