Song Yan saw the Chennian token, listened to Wen Daya's request, groaned slightly, and said to Wen Daya: "Please wait a while, I will go back to the room and change into military clothes before sending you to the city gate." ”

He turned around and went back to his room, and after a long while, he came out dressed again, and personally sent Wen Daya and the sparrow to the north city gate. The sparrow was silent all the way, and Wen Daya was also speechless. It wasn't until the heavy city gate was pushed open by the soldiers, and Wen Daya sent the sparrow outside the city, that he whispered, "Take care." ”

The sparrow didn't speak, just sat on his horse and hugged his fist towards Wen Daya, then turned the horse's head and headed north.

Song Yan stood on top of the city tower, watching her back disappear little by little, and finally disappeared into the vast night. He had received a secret report from his eyeliner and learned the reason why the sparrow had left the city overnight, and he thought that there was such a pungent woman in the world, who dared to admit his heart in public, and went out of the city overnight to pursue his love. He chuckled and shook his head, then turned and went down the tower.

Two days later, the spies reported that He Ze led a large army from the west, and the momentum was violent, and it was less than a hundred miles away from Yiping City. Chen Nian was in the army, and when he heard this, he asked the spy how many soldiers and horses the enemy had, and the spy replied: "The villain stood on the top of the mountain and looked closely, and saw that the enemy camp was very wide, with many banners and order, and there were at least thirty or forty thousand people in the situation. ”

Chen Nian frowned slightly, waved his hand to send the spy away, and then turned his head and said to Song Yan: "Why are there so many people left." Could it be that your prince couldn't stop He Ze? ”

Due to poor communication, Song Yan didn't have news of Feng Junyang for a long time, he groaned a little and replied: "It should have been encountered, otherwise He Ze should not be these people since he came with the army." ”

"You can't fight him and divide them into two ways." Chen Nian was puzzled, she thought for a moment, but then smiled again, and said, "No matter what he does, we just close the city gate." What your prince has also explained, that is, He Ze escaped his ambush, and he will be here in half a month at most, and there is no need for us to fight. ”

Song Yan nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

The two of them gathered the generals in the army and gathered several leaders of Yizhai to make detailed arrangements for defending the city, and said that Feng Junyang's army was behind He Ze and would come to help in less than half a month. When everyone heard the news, they suddenly felt reassured, and they went down to act.

On the third day, He Ze's vanguard cavalry arrived outside Yiping City, shouting and cursing under the city for a long time, trying to provoke the defending army to fight. Chen Nian ordered everyone not to pay attention to it, and let them scold it. It wasn't until after noon that the vanguard army of the Nahe family was scolding under the city that their mouths were dry and their throats were on fire, that someone on the city wall answered, but they raised their voices and asked them: "You have been shouting for a long time, but you are thirsty." Do you want to drink saliva. ”

As soon as the words were spoken, someone carried some water to the city wall and poured it down the outer wall. Don't say that He Jiajun can't drink it, even if he can drink it, how dare he drink this water. Everyone was so angry that they tore open their throats and scolded loudly. The city wall, which didn't want to be silent forever, responded this time.

The city shouted, "If you have a seed, come out and fight with us." ”

The city responded: "If you have a kind, come up, and the lord is waiting for you here." ”

The city scolded again: "The grandchildren are all held in the city, do you want to be the king." ”

The city replied, "The eight kings are all crawling under the city, do you want to be grandchildren?" ”

The two sides come and go, scolding happily. After listening to it for a while, it turned out that the scolding skills of the people in the city were even higher, obviously they were scolded by people blocking the door, but their morale was high, and they had no intention of flinching.

Chen Nian had been sitting on the city wall, smiling and listening, and from time to time he would give a few words to the soldiers who scolded back. Wen Daya even found some mung beans out of nowhere, boiled mung bean soup to clear the heat and relieve the heat, and sent it to the city wall, shouting loudly: "Mung bean soup is here, everyone come and moisten your throat, rest, take a breath and scold again." ”

Song Yan was speechless, the corners of his mouth twitched, he never imagined that Chen Nian was so childish, and he could fight with others in this kind of thing, so he deliberately picked the man with a thick voice from the army and stood on the city wall to scold those people below.

The people on the city wall have mung bean soup to moisten their throats, but those people under the city don't have such good treatment. Seeing that those people in the city supported their waists with one hand, held cold soup with the other, and scolded a few words, they lowered their heads and drank a mouthful of moistened throat, and the people in the city were so angry that they almost wanted to vomit blood. The vanguard who led the army heard that this battle of words was over, and in desperation, he could only withdraw his troops, lead the army to retreat to a safe place, and set up camp.

Chen Nian saw that they had indeed withdrawn, so he put back the smile on his face, carefully inspected the city walls, and told everyone to be vigilant at night, and then said to Song Yan in a deep voice: "This is just the beginning, the days are still long, you and I don't want to spend time here, take turns staring at the city wall." ”

Song Yan saw her laughing and scolding appearance today, and saw her become so serious and serious, only sighing at the magic of creation. Such a woman who looks like a country and a city can pretend to be stupid, play badly, play ruthlessly, and pretend to be soft, she is really scheming and cheeky. At this moment, he was already impressed by her, so he only responded: "The last general obeys the general's arrangement." ”

Chen Nian nodded, and asked Song Yan to stay on the city wall first, and he went back to the city guard. When no one was around, she secretly instructed Wen Daya: "You have hidden some gold on your body these days, I will send you and Silly Da away when I find an opportunity, and go north, if Lu Xiao can receive the news of the spirit sparrow, he should pick you up at Yanci Mountain." ”

Wen Daya should go down and prepare without mentioning it. Chen Nian freshened up, and then fell asleep. As soon as it was dawn the next day, a herald hurriedly came to report that a detachment of men and horses, numbering about several hundred, had come from the north, and collided with Heze's vanguard cavalry, and the two sides fought.

Chen Nian was a little surprised, so he got up and put it neatly and went to the north city wall to check. Song Yan had already arrived before her, and when he saw her coming, he took two steps back and stood silently to the side to accompany her. Chen Nian looked at it for a moment, and saw that He Zejun's advance and retreat were in a measured manner, and they were quite disciplined, while those people and horses in different attire looked brave, but in fact, they were fighting indiscriminately.

Chen Nian turned his head sideways and asked Song Yan, "Where did these people come from?" ”

Song Yan replied at this time, and said in a deep voice: "The one who came out of the mountains in the north was discovered by He Zejun and sent someone to intercept it, and somehow it started fighting. ”

As he spoke, the team had already shown defeat, and saw a stout man rushing around to rescue his companions, and shouted: "Brothers, let's not entangle with them, hurry up and rush to the city gate, and join forces with the lord of Xie Zhai." ”

Everyone was refreshed when they heard this, and they all broke through to the city. The stout man rushed to the front in front of him, raised his head and shouted to the city: "Go and tell the lord of Xie Zhai that it is Xiong Zhenyu of Heifeng Village in Taihang Mountain, and he specially brought his brothers to help her kill the enemy." ”

Some people who came later also shouted their names, all of which were inconspicuous cottages in Nantaihang. There are many soldiers on the city wall who are from Nantaihang, and soon someone pointed to a flag in the distance and shouted to Chen Nian: "Big boss, that is the flag of the Turning Sky Ridge, and there are their people in it." ”

Later, some people saw the banners of other cottages, and some people recognized the slightly famous owner of the village in the city, and shouted: "Flying tiger." The one who made the double knife was the owner of the lotus village, the double knife Lin Feihu. ”

These people shouted like this, Song Yan frowned slightly when he heard this, and was hesitating whether to open his mouth to reprimand, but Chen Nian turned his head to look at him. Song Yan thought about it for a while, and said to Chen Nian in a deep voice: "The city gate can't be opened, and regardless of the intentions of these people, only He Zejun will chase behind, if the city gate is opened, I'm afraid he will take advantage of the chaos to attack." ”

Chen Nian glanced at him and took two steps closer to him.

Song Yan was a little surprised, and inexplicably a little flustered, although he did not retreat, he subconsciously leaned back slightly, trying to get away from Dechen Nian.

Chen Nian didn't seem to notice his evasion, but leaned over, approached him, lowered his voice, and said lightly in a voice that only he could hear: "Nearly half of my soldiers are bandits in this Taihang Mountain, have you ever thought about how they would react if they saw these people die under the city and didn't save them." ”

Song Yan's eyebrows were beating, and he understood it in a flash, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his body. These mountain bandits are the most brotherly and righteous, and those people under the city come under the banner of rescue, if they close the city gate and do not save them, they will definitely cause turmoil in the hearts of the army. If there is any further deliberate agitation, there may be a danger of bombing the camp.

Song Yan didn't care about avoiding suspicion for a while, and turned his head to look at Chen Nian, "This is He Ze's design." ”

Chen Nian retracted his body, pulled the corners of his mouth shallowly, and mocked: "He dug a good pit, no wonder he was so calm, a few days later than the day I counted, it turned out that he did this." ”

Song Yan was a little strange how He Ze could still make these mountain bandits, but at the moment, he didn't have time to ask him to study this carefully, he only raised his eyes to look at Chen Nian, and asked in a deep voice: "What should I do." ”

Chen Nian lowered his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "What else." Now, knowing that there is a pit in front of me, I can only jump. Prepare, I'll go out of the city to save people. ”

Song Yan flatly refused, "No, absolutely not." ”

The two of them had been talking in a low voice, which had already attracted everyone's attention, but now Song Yan suddenly raised his voice, which made everyone even more suspicious. Chen Nian smiled at everyone, called Song Yan aside alone, and said in a low voice: "This city gate must not be opened, otherwise once it is attacked, it will be difficult to close it again." ”

Song Yan knew this, but he didn't open the city gate to go out, how to save those people outside. He looked at Chen Nian, puzzled, and asked, "Then how to save people." ”

Chen Nian replied, "Hang some ropes down and pull up those who have fled to the city." ”

As soon as Song Yan heard this, he discovered the benefits of this method. The first is to avoid asking people to say that they will not save them when they see death, and the second is to pull people up one by one in this way, which will inevitably not save much, and it is very easy to control, which can prevent them from making trouble. Song Yan has a flexible brain, and although this method is not the best, it is also the most feasible at the moment, but there is no need for Chen Nian to go out of the city to save people in person, if she wants to go out of the city at this time, is she going to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

He raised his eyes to look at Chen Nian, but before he could speak, Chen Nian seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "General Song, don't worry, even if I want to leave, I will never leave those brothers who follow me and the people of the city at this time, and once you leave, you look down on me Xie Chennian too much,"

Song Yan was inevitably a little embarrassed by her thoughts, avoided her gaze, and bowed his hand and said: "General Xie forgive me, the last general has no other meaning, I just think you can't take the risk out of the city,"

Chen Nian said: "Wrong, I have to go, only if I go through the danger and go out of the city to save people, they will believe that I don't open the city gate because I am not greedy for life and afraid of death, but for the sake of everyone's safety,"