Wei Bingyue had breakfast, and everyone arrived. He didn't have time to explain why he, who was only twenty years old, presided over the proceedings when the city was full of stars. He just calmly said the arrangement in his heart: "The enemy army does not know when it will come, it should be soon, so we have to act immediately." Fill your quivers, feed your horses, sharpen your swords, and fill them with oil. ”

Little by little, he arranged the deployment of the various city gates, and whoever named him was ordered to go. In the end, only he and Wei Yangyang were left in the hall. Wei Yang said: "What about me? Wei Bingyue looked at his little sister, who was only thirteen years old, and said, "You take someone to collect some wood and pile it behind the gates of each city gate." Wei Yangyang hesitated and asked, "You want to burn the city gate?" ”

Wei Bingyue nodded: "Yes, if we all die, we can't keep Haixi, and we will never leave it to the water devil." If you burn the city, you can burn it for a few days and nights, leaving time for reinforcements. Wei Yangyang nodded and took the order. Reinforcements, will they arrive? Haixi was originally a border city, and every family was used to fighting. So Wei Bingyue gave an order, and the whole city began to act.

Wei Bingyue didn't dare to relax at all, he walked to every city gate, checked the preparations for battle, and adjusted the number of defenders. But he found that 3,000 people at each gate was too few. He said to Wei Binggong: "You go and call up the fire head army, the grain transport army, and even the old people, put armor on me, and stand here, even if you are full, every city gate must gather enough for me to have 6,000 people." Of course, the more the merrier. It's better to have someone fill the castle tower for me! ”

Wei Bingyan didn't dare to ask more, so he took the order and left, and he sent people to inform him from door to door that as long as there were men in the family, they would go up to the age of fifty and down to the age of thirteen. But even so, it is still too far from the "stuffing" that Wei Bingyue said.

Men from every household put on their armours and marched to the castle towers, while women had to take care of the wounded, make rations, gather wood, and transport arrows.

When fighting, you can't always eat hot rice, so the military rations that the Weijia army eats on weekdays are actually flour and water, rolled into a big circle, put in the fire, and dried it, which is called "pasting cakes". The weather in Haixi is dry, and this pastry will not be bad if it is left for a few months, so one of the major scenes when the Weijiajun goes out is that everyone wraps three or five pastry cakes with a burden, and carries them behind them, as if they are carrying a big pot lid. But although this paste cake is easy to preserve, it is very unpalatable, as hard as a stone, sometimes when the water is broken, it is really impossible to bite it, when eating it is afraid that it will break its teeth, and when swallowing it is afraid that it will cut its throat.

There is a joke among the Haixi people: even if the knife is curled against the enemy, the stone is thrown away, and if you pick up the cake and throw it at the enemy, you can smash him half to death. Even if it is so unpalatable, not everyone can eat it, only soldiers who go into battle to kill the enemy can eat this white flour cake, the logistics army eats white flour and black flour mixed cakes, and the elderly, children and women who do not go to the battlefield eat black flour cakes made of pure black flour.

Wei Bingyue ordered that all the white noodles in the city be distributed to the families of the soldiers participating in the battle to make pastries. When the soldiers' mothers, wives, and daughters were ready, they were sent to the tower, and each of them was given three for six days' rations. But firewood is needed to bake cakes, and now there is no way to go out of the city to the mountains to cut wood, and all the wood that can be used in the city, including door panels, tables, and horse troughs, has been removed and burned as firewood.

So when Wei Yangyang went to collect firewood, he couldn't find anything. Naturally, the wood in people's homes should be given priority to burning firewood for the soldiers to use as rations. She walked around the city a few times, and was so worried that she longed to cut off her hair and use it as firewood. Seeing that everyone was splitting the door panel, she also ran home, went to her bedroom, took out a knife, and slashed the door three times and twice. The maid was startled and hurriedly went to tell Mrs. Wei.

When Mrs. Wei arrived, she saw her precious daughter cutting her bed with a knife, muttering as she cut back, "What kind of wood is this bed made of, why is it so hard?" Mrs. Wei hurriedly drank her: "What are you doing?" Wei Yangyang turned around and said angrily: "A-Niang, I want to collect some wood and pile it under the eight city towers, but the wood in the whole city has been taken to burn the fire and bake cakes, what should I do?" The bed couldn't be cut again. Mrs. Wei couldn't help but laugh and said, "This is made of ash, and you have to use a saw to see it." Wei Yangyang hurriedly said: "Oh, then I'll go find a saw, do you have it at home?" Mrs. Wei grabbed her and said, "This knife can't be cut, so it's naturally not easy to burn." It's useless for you to take it apart. ”

Wei Yangyang shouted anxiously: "Then what should I do?" It's not enough. Mrs. Wei thought for a moment and said, "You have torn down the door and the window anyway, and if it is not enough, take my dresser too." Wei Yangyang knew that the dresser was the thing that his mother used to marry when she got married, so he said, "That's not good." Mrs. Wei gently pinched her ears with her fingernails and said, "You also know that it is not good?" The whole city is preparing for war, and our Wei family naturally can't be left behind, forget it, just toss it and take it. ”

Wei Yangyang said "um", and really went to her mother's room, and carried the dresser and a few jewelry boxes away.

When Mrs. Wei saw her jewelry, she casually collapsed on the stool. I don't know if I'm happy or worried, but I'm happy that she also knows to leave a stool for herself; What I'm worried about is that such a girl, who will dare to come to the door to say kiss in the future.

Wei Bingyue was patrolling the city tower, and a woman came to deliver the pasted cakes that had just been made. The woman was talking to Wei Binggong and said, "Official, are you standing on the city tower and having white flour cakes to eat, and I can't do it?" Wei Binggong said: "Then how can it be done, we only need men, not women." The woman said, "Yesterday Miss Wei came to my house and asked if there was any wood, isn't she also a woman?" Wei Bingyan is still young, and he doesn't like to talk on weekdays, and when he was asked by this woman, he was speechless for a while.

Wei Bingyue stepped forward and asked, "Didn't your man come?" The woman looked at him, very handsome, and wearing the silver fish-scale armor of a general, she must be the Langjun of the Wei family, she blushed, and said, "My man died in battle, and my son is still too young, and the family eats black noodles every day." My hometown of Ganzhou County, my father is a martial arts man, I have also learned some kung fu since I was a child, and I still have my man's armor at home, can you let me come, change a few white flour cakes, for my son to eat? ”

She is a foreigner, a man died in battle, and it is not easy to live here, and she helps to transport grain and grass on weekdays to earn some silver.

Wei Bingyue thought about it, he didn't expect these old, weak, sick and disabled people to have any combat effectiveness, he just needed someone to stand here, it was a man or a woman, what was the difference? What's more, as soon as the armor is worn, the enemy can't see the men and women. So he nodded and said to Wei Bingqi: "If someone is like her, she can play with knives and sticks, and if you have armor at home, you can come if you want to." The woman was very happy, bowed to Wei Bingyue again and again, and thanked her repeatedly.

Three white flour cakes for six days. After six days, I don't know what the situation will be, so everyone, move fast!

In just two days, everything Wei Bingyue ordered was ready. In the past two days, he barely closed his eyes, inspecting the various city gates in every detail, he didn't know if there were reinforcements, and he didn't know if he could hold the city, but he must not retreat. The reputation of the Wei family for a hundred years is all on him at this moment.

On June 22, in the bedroom, Mrs. Wei. Wei Yang said: "Ah Niang, the left arm is still too wide here, you can tie it tighter for me." Because she had rushed back from Bibo City, she didn't have time to go to the Blue Camp to get her armor, so Mrs. Wei had to modify the golden general soldier fish scale armor left by her grandfather Wei Guanying overnight so that she could wear it. Mrs. Wei only has this one biological daughter, and she is only thirteen years old, but when the whole city is coexisting and dying, the children and grandchildren born by the concubines have to go to guard the city tower, even if she is reluctant, how can she not allow Wei Yangyang to go? So she didn't want to fake others, but stayed up all night, stitching and revising the family heirloom armor.

Wei Yangyang saw her thoughts and said, "A-Niang, this is also a good thing, isn't it?" Otherwise, I wouldn't have had a chance to go home for a few days. She stayed in the Blue Camp all the year round, and only came back once in a while, because she was good at disguising people, so she left every time she came, and hardly lived at home. Mrs. Wei nodded: "Yes, I have been living for five days, more than in the previous year." She picked up the armor on her left arm and said, "It's changed, you can try it." ”

At this time, there was a noisy noise in the yard. In Wei Yangyang's life, his favorite thing to do is to watch the excitement. She immediately rushed out of the room and ran to the front door of the Wei Mansion.

When she passed, she only saw her ninth uncle Wei Guanxiong scolding Wei Bingyue: "You little rabbit cub dare not let your master go?" I'll see if I don't kill you bunny! After speaking, he raised his right hand to fan it, and Wei Bingyue's left cheek was slapped heavily, and it became red and swollen. Then, he began to look for a handy guy, it seems that there is more than just a palm, he really wants to beat Wei Bingyue. The people who came with him hurriedly pulled him and tried to stop him from messing around.

Wei Bingyue saw Wei Yangyang standing behind the tree and glared at her fiercely. Seeing that he couldn't dodge, Wei Yangyang had to jump out and shout: "Ninth Grandpa!" Nine grandmothers. Long time no see. She shouted, it was the person who came, Wei Shuping's ninth uncle and nine aunts. Seeing her, Grandma Nine hurriedly explained: "Your Ninth Grandpa heard that he was going to defend the city, so he had to come, and he had to call Xiaosi over." The little four she said was a half-grown son next to her, and she was her great-grandson, Wei Biansi.

Wei Yangyang asked, "Grandpa Nine and Little Four are also going?" When Grandpa Nine heard her say this, he fried the pot again, and shouted with a cane: "Your father didn't dare to ask this when he came, do you think I'm old?" Can't move? Or do you think I'm scared? You see I don't knock you ghost! Wei Bingyue was afraid that he would hit Wei Yangyang, so he hurriedly stood in front of his sister and said tentatively: "Ninth Grandfather, who of us in Haixi doesn't know that you were brave and single-handedly killed in the enemy's tent when you were young?" However, after all, it is inconvenient for you to ride a horse now, and the fourth child is only ten years old, and I don't need him anymore, right? ”

Grandpa Nine got angry when he heard him speak: "What's wrong? I only have one leg left, I can't ride a horse, but I can't do anything else? I didn't break these two arms, did I? Shall I go and play the drums? Look at my arm, can you beat the drum? Wei Bingyue looked at his two arms that were thicker than his own arms, and had no doubt that he could cut off his neck with one palm, so he had to say: "Okay, okay, Grandpa Nine is going to play the drums, as for the little four, I'm in a hurry to go to Wanfumen, little pomegranate, what do you arrange for the eldest nephew to do." With that, he ran away.

Wei Yangyang is the youngest child in the family, ranking sixteenth, so the family calls her "Little Pomegranate". She was angry, who is this, leave this problem to me, don't you dare to beat me if Grandpa Nine dares to beat you? He is Daddy's uncle, and he even dares to beat Daddy. What can I do?

Grandpa Nine said to his grandson: "Little Four, why is this offspring so stupid?" Your uncle said so, why don't you call your aunt quickly? Xiao Si stepped forward and said to Wei Yangyang, "Little aunt." Wei Yangyang thought for a while and said, "Little Si, when I shoot arrows, you hand my aunt an arrow, okay?" Xiao Si replied honestly: "Okay, I can do whatever my aunt tells me to do." ”

Wei Yangyang said to Grandpa Jiu: "Grandpa Jiu, you go home with Grandma Jiu first, Xiaosi also go back together, change into armor, let's meet in Wanfumen, okay?" When Grandpa Jiu heard her say this, he lost his anger and said, "Okay, I'll let you see if your master can still do it!" ”

After they left, Wei returned to Mrs. Wei and put on his armor. She was afraid that her mother would be sad, so she hurriedly ran out of the door after dressing, and said as she ran: "Auntie, I'm leaving!" ”

When I went out, I saw Wei Bingyue's biological mother, Deng Niangzi, standing at the door with "Meow Woo". That Meow is a Ugin horse, born in the country of Hays. Hayes is a good horse producer, and a good horse is worth thousands of taels of silver. This horse was a trophy of the garrison's battle against the Hays Kingdom, and its whole body was black and shiny, and it was extraordinary. Wei Shuping wanted to keep himself to ride, but he couldn't stand Wei Yangyang's coquettish and noisy, he didn't see his beloved daughter all the year round, and he always felt that he owed her something, so during the New Year, he gave it to Wei Yangyang as a New Year's gift.

She asked, "Lady Deng, why are you here?" Deng Niangzi smiled and said, "I'm not in good health, there's nothing to help, can we give our eldest lady a head office?" After saying that, Deng Niangzi stepped forward and helped her sort out the red tassels on her helmet. Wei Yangyang is still underage, but he is wearing his grandfather's armor, so he looks a little strange.

Deng Niangzi was originally the wife of her father's deputy general, and after the death of the deputy general, Wei Shuping saw that she was a weak woman, lonely and helpless, and she was in pain, so she was accepted as a concubine, and then Wei Bingyue and Wei Binggong were born.

Wei Yangyang said: "Auntie, don't worry, Daddy will bring troops to save us, and the starling brother and fifteenth brother will be fine." Deng Niangzi nodded: "Well, your starling brother has to be strong, as soon as he gets up desperately, he doesn't care about anything, if he doesn't have to work hard as a last resort, you persuade him a little." Wei Yangyang nodded in response. But she didn't have time to think too much, she raised her legs and got on the horse, waved her hand at her mother and Deng Niangzi, and galloped away.