As soon as Jia Ding told Li Banghua about the arrival of the anti-thief soldiers in the city, Liang Shiji sent someone to come.

Now the 10,000 troops sent by the provincial government have all been wiped out, and the anti-thief army is coming to the city, and they are still holding high the head of Li Yulong, the commander of Jiangxi Commander, outside the city to show off.

Liang Shiji panicked, now the hearts of the army and the people in the city are unstable, and Liang Shiji is worried that once the anti-thief army attacks the city, Xiajiang County will be taken down in one fell swoop.

Liang Shiji invited Li Banghua to go to the north city wall, and Li Banghua paid homage to the soldiers and once led his troops to repel the attack of Jiannu and held the gate of Beijing.

Liang Shiji, who had no way, could only ask Li Banghua to go up to the city wall to take a look and discuss how to defend the city, as for Peng Ji, the magistrate of Xiajiang, he had already been directly considered by Liang Shiji.

This kind of straw bag is already thankful if you don't stab Lou Zi in the back, and you can talk to him about the plan to defend the city, so isn't it fun!

Li Banghua hurriedly came to the north city wall, and as soon as he got on the city wall, he saw the anti-thief army outside the city.

A young general, armed with a spear and a human head, rode back and forth outside the city, making contemptuous gestures towards the city's defenders as he went.

I saw the young general holding Li Yulong's head with a gun in one hand, a thumbs up with one hand, and then suddenly facing down.

As soon as the brave men in the city and countryside saw the young general's action, they couldn't help but be angry and were about to go down the city wall to fight him on the spot.

Seeing that the thieves under the city were so rampant, on the city wall, Liang Shiji and Li Banghua couldn't help frowning.

"Li Tongzhi was killed, the 10,000 troops of the imperial court were wiped out, at least in a few months, the imperial court will not have a single soldier to come to support, we only have 3,000 townsmen in our hands, how can we withstand the siege of tens of thousands of thieves outside the city, once the Xiajiang River is breached, then Linjiang Mansion, and even Nanchang Mansion..."

"It's not that serious, Nanchang Mansion can't be attacked by thieves, Zhu Wenzheng only had 20,000 horses, and he blocked Chen Youliang's 400,000-strong army for two months.

He is not a thief, but he is only ten thousand people, and it is simply wishful thinking to attack the provincial capital Nanchang. ”

"But Gong Li, what should we do with this Xiajiang now?"

As soon as Liang Shiji's words came out, Li Banghua didn't know how to answer his question.

He once served as a squire in the Ming Army, and he knew a lot about military affairs, and the three thousand township warriors led by Liang Shiji, to be honest, were simply inferior to the officers and soldiers on the northern border, and I don't know how many grades.

On the other hand, the anti-thieves outside the city have a higher combat power than their three thousand village warriors, and the anti-thieves now have an advantage in strength, and they have just won a big victory.

Now the anti-thieves are taking advantage of the morale of the big victory to attack the city, and they are talking, and he Li Banghua really can't come up with a good way to turn the tide now.

Liang Shiji saw that Li Banghua didn't speak, and he knew in his heart that he, the former soldier of the army, was gone.

He couldn't help but grieve in his heart, and said, "Is it true that I, Liang Shiji, am going to be defeated here and be martyred for the country?" ”

Liang Shiji was disheartened, he is sixty-four years old this year, three years older than Li Banghua, since the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, he has repeatedly written to the imperial court but failed to get a response, and finally disheartened, turned to the education industry, teaching for more than 20 years, hundreds of protégés.

It wasn't until the first year of the Apocalypse that he was a high school jinshi, and then he was awarded the title of Xinzhi County, and not long after that, he was transferred to Qingjiang County.

A few years ago, Huguang used troops, and the imperial court ordered to require Jiangxi counties to provide grain, but he had no choice but to work hard.

Chongzhen rebelled in the fifth year, and personally led the villagers to fight out of the city, and finally pacified the Liukou and gave the people of Qingjiang a stable society.

In this life, he can be said to abide by the way of being a minister, the way of a son, and the way of an official.

He was loyal to the emperor's court, filial piety to his father, and even more important to the people, and was deeply loved by the people of Qingjiang.

Liang Shiji would never have thought that the end of his life would actually end in this small Xiajiang County.

Li Banghua saw that Liang Shiji was disheartened, and he couldn't help but feel the same in his heart.

Just as the two of them were about to say something, suddenly the soldiers in the city shouted, "My lord, the thieves have retreated!" ”

"What?"

Liang Shiji and Li Banghua were slightly startled, raised their eyes, and found that the anti-thief army outside the city was indeed slowly retreating.

After the army retreated for three miles, the thieves suddenly stopped again, and then the next scene made everyone in the city immediately despair.

It turned out that the thieves were setting up camp three miles away from the city.

"Mo thief, this is trying to trap me and wait!" Liang Shiji said angrily.

Xiajiang County is on the flat land between the two mountains, go south to the Ganjiang River to Jishui County, and to the north is Xingan County.

The county is surrounded by mountains on both sides, the west side of the mountain is not far from the Ganjiang River, and the east side of the mountain is a lofty mountain.

The thieves directly camped in the south and north cities, which clearly wanted to trap them to death in the small Xiajiang county.

At present, in addition to the more than 3,000 villagers who defend the city, there are also nearly 30,000 people who have entered the city to escape the military disaster.

A small Xiajiang county is crowded with nearly 30,000 people, and these 30,000 people have to eat, drink, and Lazar every day, and within half a month, the people in the city will have to run out of food.

There was limited food in the city, and the people and the villagers who defended the city had to eat and drink water.

There is well water to drink water, but there is nowhere to replenish rice, and if you eat a catty, you will lose a catty.

30,000 people, that's 30,000 mouths to eat!

"Gong Li, this Mo thief is hateful, he actually wants to trap us here!" Liang Shiji gritted his teeth.

Li Banghua frowned, slowly shook his head and said: "There is no solution, this is an unsolvable situation, what is the origin of this Mo thief, how can he be so good in the way of using soldiers, according to the old man's observation, he Mo asked his subordinates but only five or six thousand people, of which there are at least more than a thousand people outside the southern city to confuse us, that is, he only has five thousand people at most to mobilize."

If the old man was him, he would never dare to use 5,000 men and horses to ambush tens of thousands of court officials and soldiers.

Unexpectedly, he didn't ask how to dare to make this strange soldier, and fought a big victory with twice the number of troops, after this battle, this person in Jiangzhong and Jiangbei has no opponent, I am afraid that in less than a year, he will have to sweep the entire Jiangzhong and Jiangbei regions, and then he will become the grass king of Jiangxi, and it will be difficult for the court to destroy him! ”

Liang Shiji knew that what Li Banghua said was right, on the issue of using soldiers, Liang Shiji, who was over the age of six, sighed to himself at Mo Wen.

Even the former soldier admitted that he was not this person's opponent, and he, a small Qingjiang magistrate, was even less of an opponent.

Several officers around heard the words of the two adults, and they couldn't help but bow their heads one after another.

Just when everyone was silent, Li Banghua said, "Come on, prepare a generous gift for me, I want to go out of the city, I want to go for a while, this anti-thief doesn't ask where it is sacred!" ”