"Thank you for saving your life, there is a message below that you may be able to use. A middle-aged man not far from Ye Qing slowly stood up and said.

Perhaps he had fought before he was captured by the barbarians, and the middle-aged man still had obvious scars on his body.

"I don't know what news the strong man has?" Ye Qing asked a little curiously to the middle-aged man who suddenly spoke.

"My lord, I am a person from Linjiang Town, I have been in the army for a few years, and then I became a guard in the Lord's Mansion of Linjiang Town, half a month ago, due to the attack of the barbarians, a large number of people from nearby villages poured into the city. ”

"With the arrival of a large number of people, a disaster also struck, because the Linjiang Town Lord's Mansion did not intervene to manage it, most of the people who had taken refuge slept on the streets, and they were scattered in all corners of the town, and within a few days, someone was found dead on the streets. ”

However, the people in the town didn't pay much attention to it, after all, it was almost winter now, and the temperature had plummeted, and it was common for a few people to freeze to death, but in the past two days, suddenly there were a large number of deaths, and the number of sick people in the town began to increase. ”

"Later, the town's doctor tested the deceased, only to find that all the dead died of the plague, and at this time people realized the seriousness of the matter, but unfortunately at this time, dozens of people in the town had died of the plague, and nearly a thousand people were infected by the plague, and the patients were not concentrated in one place, and it was too late to isolate. ”

"Even the most heavily defended lord's mansion also found out that someone was infected with the plague at this time, and the lord was frightened, and he didn't care about the barbarian iron cavalry swaying outside the city, so he grabbed an officer of the land garrison and told him to guard the city, and then left Linjiang Town with the guards and most of the garrison soldiers. ”

"However, I don't know if it's too bad luck, not long after the lord left the city, he was targeted by a team of five hundred barbarian iron cavalry, even if most of the garrison soldiers were brought out, the entire team was only a thousand people, and some non-combatants were also carried. ”

"The battle was almost one-sided, the barbarians killed the lord and the garrison captain with a single charge, and although the rest of the people also resisted desperately, they were defeated in the end, and I was also injured in the battle and fell unconscious, so I was captured. ”

"When I came to my senses again, I was already in this captive camp, but I knew that the barbarian soldiers who had defeated us were not the ones guarding us. ”

Saying this, the middle-aged man was silent again, his eyes full of sadness.

"I don't know how long you've been captured, or how long have you been away from Linjiang Town?"

The territory area of Linjiang Town is not as large as that of Dongjiang Town, and its population is indeed more than twice that of Dongjiang Town, and the population of Linjiang Town is almost more than 50,000 people.

"My lord, it's been two days since I was taken prisoner, and it's been three days since I left town. ”

"What is the current defense of Linjiang Town?"

"Now there are only four or five hundred defenders, most of them are an army composed of folk villagers, and the combat effectiveness is negligible, and I don't know if it has been broken by the barbarians for three days, if the city is captured, the tens of thousands of people in it will suffer. Hey......"

The former lord of Linjiang Town was a complete miser, never willing to spend money, only thinking about how to get money from the people, the entire territory only had a defense force of 1,000 people, almost all of which were used to guard the lord's mansion, only a small number of soldiers guarded the city gate, even the soldiers who maintained law and order, and it was fortunate that there was no riot * chaos in Linjiang Town.

After sending away the middle-aged man, Ye Qing found other officers to discuss the matter, and as expected, they unanimously agreed to take the opportunity to send troops to occupy Linjiang Town, and now the discussion is the question of how many people and horses need to be brought and who to bring.

According to the military system of the human race, five people are a team with a captain, two troops are a team with a captain, five soldiers are a team with a team, a centurion is set up with two teams of soldiers, and a commander of a thousand is a team with ten centurions.

Ye Qing attacked the barbarians this time, bringing a total of 4,500 people, of which 500 were cavalry, the captain Luo Bin, and the other 4,000 were all foot soldiers, exactly 4,000 people, and the commanders were: Li Xin, Qin Fei, Song Fei, and Song Yu. Among them, Li Xin also continued to serve as the captain of the garrison, commanding all the soldiers.

After some debate, it was finally decided that Qin Fei would lead a team of 1,000 people to escort everyone and supplies back to the territory, and all the remaining soldiers would immediately set off for Linjiang Town.

The barbarian camp is less than three hundred miles away from Linjiang Town, and it takes half a day to arrive by horse. After several seizures, the number of war horses in Ye Qing's hands has approached two thousand, one horse and two people, although the speed of the horse has weakened, but with a break halfway, it also arrived around Linjiang Town early the next morning.

Although Linjiang Town is a town, it is actually comparable to a small city, with a population of nearly 100,000 and nearly 10,000 soldiers at its peak.

However, in the past ten years, due to a miser lord, not only the large loss of population, but also the number of garrison soldiers has been reduced to less than 1,000, and finally eighty percent was taken away by the fleeing lord, and now there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled, plus some village warriors, five or six hundred people have been gathered to protect the safety of the town.

However, relying on a patchwork of hundreds of soldiers, Linjiang Town has withstood the attack of hundreds of barbarians for two days.

Under Linjiang Town, hundreds of barbarian cavalry are driving the people of the Terrans to attack the city, these people are captured by the barbarian iron cavalry from nearby villages, because there is no preparation of siege equipment, the barbarians are not ready to climb over the city wall, but continue to drive the people to hit the city gate, they are confident, as long as the city gate is opened, the human race in the town will not be able to resist the charge of the barbarian iron horse.

In a few days and days, I felt that thousands of people had fallen under the city of Linjiang Town, the moat had already been filled, and the city gate that had fallen into disrepair was now crumbling, as if it was about to fall if it was turning.

Gu Cheng is in his thirties, not very tall, with a long face and thick eyebrows, giving people a very loyal feeling.

He was the one who was left in charge of the city by the fleeing lord this time, and three days ago, he was still an inconspicuous captain, not even an officer, but now, he was the highest military commander in the town.

Since the barbarians attacked the city two days ago, he has not slept for a while for two days, he used to command thirty or fifty people was okay, but now he has to be responsible for the security and management of hundreds of people, which has put a lot of pressure on him, and the barbarians outside the city also drove the people of the human race to attack the city, for the safety of tens of thousands of people in the city, he had to ruthlessly order to attack the people who attacked the city, which caused a great shadow on his psychology.

And the rising plague death toll in the city made it even more difficult for him to sleep, and several times he wondered if he had escaped himself.

"If there is no solution to the plague, Linjiang Town will be self-defeating," the middle-aged man muttered to himself.

That's right, in just three days, more than two-thirds of the nearly 50,000 people in Linjiang Town have been infected with the plague, and all the people in the town are panicked and tried to escape from Linjiang Town, but they were discovered and hunted by the surrounded barbarian iron cavalry as soon as they left the city, and after hundreds of people died, they had no intention of escaping from the town.

......

Before the sun came out the next day, Ye Qing led the troops to approach Linjiang Town, and took a short break in the middle to ensure that the troops could maintain their combat effectiveness when they arrived.

It's a pity that there is still a step back, but the town that Ye Qing led the army to arrive in is that the barbarians have already taken advantage of the most fatigued soldiers to break through Linjiang Town in one fell swoop and start a one-sided massacre.

Fortunately, I don't know whose idea it was, obstacles were set up on the main streets of the town, so that the barbarian iron cavalry fought normally in the city and lost its advantage as a cavalry. Only then can the garrison of Linjiang Town rely on the terrain in the city to resist steadily, so as not to fall all at once.

"Woo...... Woohoo. The little leader of the barbarian clan reined in his war horse and looked up, seeing that his men had broken through the city gate for almost half an hour, but they had only advanced nearly a hundred meters in the city, and they were like a swarm of bees. The opponent's bows and arrows were densely shot, and from time to time barbarian soldiers were hit by arrows to the ground, and dozens of people had been lost so far.

Paralyzed, a bunch of waste, it's no different from looking for death.

"Report, my lord, after our soldiers entered the city, they encountered resistance, and the Terran soldiers used the grain and grass in the city to make bunkers to stop our soldiers from advancing. ”

The little leader of the barbarian cavalry hated it, took out his horse whip, whipped the little soldier fiercely, and scolded: "Stupid, you are riding on a war horse to attack the city, aren't you looking for death? There are obstacles, won't you get off your horse and attack the city on foot? ”

"No, sir. ”

The barbarian soldiers followed the instructions of the small leader and abandoned their horses and fought on foot, and the casualties were immediately reduced by a lot.

In order to end the duel as soon as possible, the proud barbarian leader threw all his forces into the street fighting, leaving not even a single sentry scout. He didn't think that there were still Terran soldiers who dared to come to support at this time.

However, it was his carelessness that gave the Ye soldiers the opportunity to quietly approach and surround them, and at the same time bury his own life.

"Rush forward! Kill these barbarian bastards for me!"

At this time, the Ye soldiers had quietly touched the gate of the city, and they were less than a hundred meters away from the barbarian soldiers, which was just right for the infantry to charge.

However, the barbarian soldiers also noticed that a Terran army appeared behind them, and the barbarians who had just dismounted to act as infantry immediately turned on their horses and prepared to charge.

"All soldiers, line up!!"

"Yes!" The three thousand infantry shouted in unison, because the area of the street was narrow, it was inconvenient to spread all the troops, so they only selected hundreds of the most elite soldiers in the army, and every twenty columns, slowly unfolded, lined up in a neat and strict queue and slowly moved forward!