It's the first day of playing. Zuo Xiaowei's attrition exceeded thirty percent, which made the general Zhang Sheng suddenly sad.

There were only 40,000 defenders in the city, but now they have only defended the city for four days, and they have lost 5,000 men and horses.

Moreover, the grain and grass in the city were not sufficient, only enough for half a month. It is also not known when reinforcements will arrive.

Xiao Jingxuan slept on the city tower all night, and as soon as the morning dawned, he had a hasty breakfast and began to make his rounds.

The third team was okay, only losing fifteen people, which was relatively good compared to the other teams.

Zuo Xiaowei has to hold on to the city tower for two more days, and he doesn't know if he can hold on.

As soon as the time arrived, the barbarians attacked again, and the scale of the barbarian attack today was even greater than yesterday.

Xiao Jingxuan glanced at it, there were at least 20,000 people. However, after all, yesterday had already experienced the baptism of war.

The entire Zuo Xiaowei soldiers were not as flustered as yesterday. The sound of fighting soon rang out.

At this time, Xiao Jingxuan was not assigned other jobs, and he had only one task, that is, archery.

At Xiao Jingxuan's feet, there were five quivers. As the arrows were fired, they also took the life of a famous barbarian.

However, archery is too demanding on the body, and with the completion of the feather arrows in the five quivers, Xiao Jingxuan also lost his strength.

So, Xiao Jingxuan began to lift the boulder next to him and threw it towards the enemy on the ladder.

As time passed, the sound of the barbarians collecting their troops sounded again.

Great, hold on again. However, at this time, Zhang Sheng, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, was even more worried.

The adjutant general beside him looked at Zhang Sheng and said, "General, why did you repel the enemy army, and you are still sad?" ”

Zhang Sheng sighed and said: "There are 200,000 barbarians, but now, there are four gates in the east, west, north and south, and only the north gate is attacked, and only more than 10,000 people are sent to attack the city each time. The enemy's plan is not small. ”

After hearing Zhang Sheng's words. The lieutenant also nodded silently.

The days have passed little by little, and now it has been defended for half a month, and Lingzhou City has not yet waited for reinforcements.

But the situation in the city is already very bad. First of all, except for the 4,000 cavalry, which was still fully formed, the rest of the divisions suffered heavy losses.

Moreover, there was a shortage of food and grass in the city, and the food rationing system was implemented in the city, with one meal a day for civilians and two meals a day for soldiers.

Even so, Lingzhou City couldn't hold out for long.

Xiao Jingxuan is no longer the vice president of the team, but transferred to the fourth team as the team leader.

Due to the serious attrition of the various units, the entire left battalion has now been reorganized into two rates, and the number of people has also changed from the previous 4,000 to more than 1,200.

Qin Feng also changed from a team leader to a sentry commander, and then became Xiao Jingxuan's top boss.

There are only about 16,000 people in the city. The castle tower now has two shifts, except for a few soldiers who are responsible for night duty, the rest of the day need to go up to the castle tower. (Except, of course, cavalry.) ）

This has something to do with the fact that the barbarians are not good at night fighting.

On this day, after the battle, they began to return to their accommodations. Now, Xiao Jingxuan lives in a courtyard alone.

Because of the attrition of the battle, there were many places to live in the city, and Xiao Jingxuan was fortunate to get an independent residence in the north of the city.

After arriving at the courtyard, Xiao Jingxuan took out two coarse grain steamed buns, a bowl of porridge, and a small piece of horse meat from the jar he carried.

After putting the things on the table, Xiao Jingxuan sighed and said to the side, "Come out." It's me. ”

I saw a man and a woman coming out of the haystack on the side, both of whom were not very old, the woman was about twelve or thirteen years old, and the man was only seven or eight years old.

I saw the boy happily running to Xiao Jingxuan's side and shouting, "Brother Xiao, you're back." After speaking, he pounced on Xiao Jingxuan.

Xiao Jingxuan held down the young man and said, "Don't, Brother Xiao is dirty, I'll wash and accompany you later." ”

The girl nodded to Xiao Jingxuan and shouted, "Brother Xiao." ”

After saying hello, the girl took the things on the table to the kitchen, added some water and boiled them.

These two people were met when Xiao Jingxuan moved here, and they had only known each other for two days.

The two of them were originally orphans in the city. Seeing that the house was empty, he hid there, although there were guarded cavalry in the city to maintain order. But there are still a lot of ruffians and hooligans in the city.

Especially after the unified distribution of materials, the order in the city became even more chaotic.

These two young boys and girls, walking out into the street, may be cooked.

When Xiao Jingxuan met them, they had been hungry for three days. Now, the three of them seem to be living together.

After a while, the girl came to the courtyard with three bowls of porridge. In order to save, the porridge is divided into two meals, water is added to the porridge, and the coarse grain steamed buns are torn up and boiled together.

The porridge was sprinkled with a little horse meat foam. It looks a little ugly, but this kind of food is very good in today's Lingzhou City.

How can the average team in the army have this kind of treatment, only Xiao Jingxuan has outstanding military achievements, and only one more steamed bun and a piece of horse meat are distributed every day.

After the three of them had eaten, the girl took a set of clean clothes and handed it to Xiao Jingxuan and said, "Brother Xiao." You change your clothes, and I'll wash the dirty clothes later. ”

Xiao Jingxuan didn't refuse, and took clean clothes to the room to change into. Then hand the dirty clothes to the maiden.

Although the girl was polite to Xiao Jingxuan, Xiao Jingxuan could see that the girl was very defensive of herself.

But Xiao Jingxuan didn't care, anyway, he didn't want anything. After changing his clothes, Xiao Jingxuan played with the boy for a while.

After the boy was tired of playing, Xiao Jingxuan came to the firewood room, picked up a shovel and dug up.

The girl walked up to Xiao Jingxuan and showed a puzzled expression about Xiao Jingxuan's behavior.

Seeing the girl standing by the door, Xiao Jingxuan thought for a while and said: "The battle situation is a bit bad, Lingzhou will fall at any time, and according to the barbarians' behavior, it is estimated that the city will be slaughtered." When the time comes, let's rely on the destiny of heaven. ”

Xiao Jingxuan said, but his hand didn't stop. Soon a deep pit was dug. After digging, Xiao Jingxuan made all kinds of cover-ups on it to cover up the traces.

The excess dirt is then moved under a tree in the yard. There was some cover-up.

After doing this, Xiao Jingxuan was also a little tired, and sat on the stone bench in the courtyard to rest for a while.

Seeing that the girl was still on the side, Xiao Jingxuan said, "Why don't you go to rest yet, are you afraid?" ”

The girl shook her head and said, "Will you come back tomorrow?" ”

Xiao Jingxuan thought for a while and said, "Uh, I don't know, now there are no more defenders, but the barbarians are not hurting, I don't know." ”

The girl said expressionlessly: "The tunnel is useless, if the barbarians capture Lingzhou City, if they don't need to kill it, Zhi'er and I will starve to death." ”

Xiao Jingxuan sighed, thought for a while and said, "I'll try to come back tomorrow, and I'll bring you a little food, and then you can live your destiny." ”

After saying that, he went back to his room and went to sleep. Just when Xiao Jingxuan was about to fall asleep, he only heard the door "squeak" and sound.

Just when Xiao Jingxuan was alert, thinking that a thief was coming, he saw that the person who came was lying next to Xiao Jingxuan.

Although the room was very dark, Xiao Jingxuan still knew who was beside him.

Xiao Jingxuan frowned and said, "Go out." ”

The girl obviously didn't expect Xiao Jingxuan to drive people away, and was stunned for a while before she said nervously: "I volunteered." ”

Xiao Jingxuan half-sat up and said, "I respect the relationship between your sister and brother, and I don't deny that I have a good impression of you." However, I don't want me to be a person who makes myself annoying. ”

At this point, the girl was not nervous anymore and asked, "What kind of people do you hate?" ”

Xiao Jingxuan looked at the girl and said, "I don't know either, but I know that if I do anything, I will look down on myself." ”

The girl looked at Xiao Jingxuan, even though she could only see a black shadow now, she was extremely relieved. The girl thought for a while and said, "My name is Cui Yingxue, and my brother's name is Cui Jingshan." ”

With that, the girl got up and went out.

Hearing the girl's introduction, Xiao Jingxuan was still a little excited in his heart. After staying here for three days, I finally learned the girl's name.

Early the next morning, Xiao Jingxuan returned to the city tower and went into battle to kill the enemy. Today's situation is even worse.

First of all, the feathered arrows are gone, the boulders are gone, and all the houses in the city near the city walls have been demolished.

Even in the afternoon, if it weren't for the Xiao Guard cavalry to climb the tower, Lingzhou City would have been broken.

After the enemy retreated, Xiao Jingxuan looked around, and there were a lot fewer people.

After a while, a military doctor came over to bandage Xiao Jingxuan's wounds. It's really dangerous, Xiao Jingxuan was slashed five times in a row.

Although fortunately, they all avoided the vital point, but the wounds were very deep. The military doctor gave Xiao Jingxuan medicine and bandaged it briefly. As for whether it will work, I can only resign myself to fate.

Probably because of the severe attrition. In the evening, Xiao Jingxuan not only took four steamed buns, but also a large piece of horse meat, and the amount of porridge was also very large.

Xiao Jingxuan carried these things and came to the courtyard where he lived with difficulty.