Chapter 9: Sleepless

The night patrol on the city wall watched all this in amazement: a dozen people who did not know whether they were alive or dead, sitting on the ground around the fire, a few broken pottery bowls passed between a pair of rough big hands, you drank one sip and one sip, talking and laughing loudly unscrupulously, completely ignoring the little bit of enemy fire outside the city that seemed to spread endlessly to the end of the world!

It's a death anyway.

If you want to open it, you will let it go.

Like all wine venues, when he was slightly drunk, some people began to brag: "Shi Qian was the first to rush that day, of course he took advantage!" I'm in the back row, and I've only picked up the two of you who have left. Next time I attack, I want to be the leader, Shi Touer, I may not lose to you! ”

The other continued: "What are you talking about, you prisoner! Look at the forehead, today in front of the commander of the military order, the next attack forehead cut eight - at least six! ”

The third accosted: "Don't! Dashuai, you must not let him rush forward, you see this guy ugly like this, you have to scare all the thieves away! I won't be able to catch it then......"

Hahaha......

The laughter was heard far away in the night sky.

Unconsciously, the rough laughter dispelled the fear in everyone's hearts and the dark clouds that hung over the city.

The night sky is like a wash, and the stars are extraordinarily bright!

The prefect of Song Mingyi, who was full of worries, although he lay down early, tossed and turned on the bed and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. As soon as I was confused, I heard my family patting the window and shouting that the master was not good and handsome and crazy. hurriedly dressed up, didn't even command the sedan chair, and hurriedly trotted all the way over.

Three or two steps up to the head of the city, seeing this scene, he hurriedly said: "Virtuous brother! How can you ...... the enemy at the moment?" he said and stomped his feet, unable to continue.

Sun Jie squinted at Song Mingyi with slanted half-drunk eyes, and asked rhetorically: "According to my brother's opinion, what should I do?" ”

Song Mingyi: "This ...... We should be ready for war! ”

Sun Jie: "The enemy surrounds but does not fight, we have more than half a month, and we should almost run out of food, right?" How to prepare? ”

Song Mingyi was angry and anxious: "Virtuous brother! Handsome! You...... How can such military intelligence be credible...... You, you ......"

Sun Jie smiled self-deprecatingly: "Big brother, save your tongue!" According to the order of the Cao Governor, most of the autumn grain has been sent to the provincial government. When the thieves approached, the eldest brother opened four more doors and included tens of thousands of old and young people on the outskirts of the city. The crops that have not been harvested have been burned to the ground in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of thieves, and it was my brother and I who personally led people to set fires, and who in the city does not know about this? ”

Song Mingyi distinguished: "We save food, when the fighters eat dry, and the idle people eat thin, we can always persevere." ”

Sun Jie: "Dare to ask the eldest brother, the gruel is full of food every day, and the enemy surrounds us for a month, but we can certainly hold on." What about two months? What about three months? What about half a year? The children are too hungry to lift their knives, so what should we do? When the grass roots, bark, rats and finches are eaten up, and people cannibalize each other, what should you and I do? ”

Without waiting for Song Mingyi to answer, Sun Jie continued to press: "You and I can definitely tie ourselves to the enemy and seek mercy to the death, look at the Jingguan outside the West Gate, do you think the thieves will let go of the old and young in this city?" ”

Sun Jie's words are like an awl, poking straight into people's hearts.

Song Mingyi's angry eyes gradually dimmed and fell silent.

Sun Jie borrowed the power of wine and simply ordered: "Pass the order down and open the grain depot!" Tonight, brothers add wine and food! From now on, a full meal! When the food is finished, our grandfathers will open the city to meet the enemy and kill his mother! ”

Governor Song bowed his head and was silent. After a while, he sighed and said gloomily: "What the virtuous brother said is true." Anyway, the official also wants to get drunk today! Immediately afterwards, his spirits perked up, and he looked directly at Sun Jie: "When facing the enemy, this official will never kill himself, when he and his virtuous brother kill the enemy side by side, and fight this skin, how can he pull him a half back!" ”

Sun Jie slapped Song Mingyi on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "Big brother is so daring!" Sun is a hero, and the eldest brother reads the book of sages, and he is a heroic and righteous person, and he can die side by side with his eldest brother, which is enough to comfort his life! Brother salutes the eldest brother with a bowl, eldest brother please! ”

The faintly aching shoulder made Song Mingyi instantly understand life and death, and completely let go of the prestige of the Han official he usually held, lifted the hem of the big red official robe, sat side by side with Sun Jie, took the wine bowl, and drank it with a bang......

Drunk, anxious, fearful, worried...... All of them were thrown out of the clouds.

Sun Jie, who didn't do anything, simply asked the veterans and officers to organize a drinking party separately, tell more battle stories, and eliminate everyone's fears - not afraid of bragging, it doesn't hurt if the cowhide blows up, anyway, when death comes, everyone is happy.

In less than half an hour, the city woke up!

Seeing the prefect and the chief soldier laughing and laughing, you and I drank one cup at a time, and everyone had no scruples. Some officers and veterans relied on their friendship with Sun Jie for many years, and simply ran from the camp tent under the wall to the city wall to join in the fun. At first there were three or five people, then seven or eight, and when the food and wine picks were brought over, more and more people simply ran from the barracks to the city wall one after another, and lit piles of bonfires. Song Mingyi's soap officials also gathered closely.

In addition to the West Gate, East Gate, South Gate, and North Gate, Shen Chenggang, Shi Jingsheng, Shangguan Fei and other generals on each section of the city wall also organized wine bureaus separately according to Sun Jie's orders. Without the presence of the two supreme officials of civil and military affairs, everyone had no scruples, and the degree of excitement was not inferior to that of Sun Jie here.

Like running water, rice wine was poured into one throat after another, and then turned into a series of unscrupulous laughter......

The prefect's soldiers were woken up in the middle of the night by the noise, rubbing their sleepy eyes and robes, and went out to see what was happening. As soon as he reached the top of the city, he was dragged by the soldiers to the fire, and he was poured several bowls of wine in a daze. Don't look at these shoguns who shake three times on weekdays, at first they really couldn't let go, and after a few bowls of wine, some people began to shake their heads and write poems to wish a great victory:

Smoke rises everywhere

The Iron Dragon Spring reflects the frost

Scholars also have great ambitions

Full of longbow to shoot the wolf

"Good!"

Although I don't understand what this goatee is shaking his head and talking about, the literate masters are amazing characters! Besides, it rhymes a lot, so let's call it out first! The master only vaguely remembered that the soldiers applauded, and then saluted with a circle of wine bowls, oh, no, the pestle came, and in a blink of an eye, he held the battlements and spit out...... And then ...... I can't think of anything!

What? Can you make poetry? Will you? In the next non-talent, let's also have a song!

The sunset in the lonely city fights the soldiers

Don't be afraid of all the flags

The man lives up to the three-foot sword

Laughter will stain the clothes with blood

"Okay"!

There was a louder sound of color around the fire here than there was over there......

Hey? Why is this color sound a little provocative?

Well, it's a provocation - the master of the torture name over there was just vomited, and the master of Qian Gu here was already paralyzed by the fire......

The soldiers in the city also went to the city wall to look at Bawang, who was probing his brain, to see what was going on.

Someone hesitated, "Why are they so happy?" ”

Sharp-eyed: "Look, the prefect is also there!" Hey, that goatee who is holding the battlements and vomiting wildly is the adult's criminal master! ”

"Oh, the one who was pinched by Master Shang's nose and poured it wasn't Master Shuqi of the government? Oh, my God! What's going on, adults? ”

A smart person had an idea: "Could it be that the adults got the news that reinforcements are coming?" “

It must be!

The excited lips of the person next to him trembled: "Help...... Reinforcements, reinforcements are coming! “

"Reinforcements are coming?"

"Reinforcements are coming!"

Someone shouted, running all the way, spreading the news quickly.

Reinforcements are coming!

The whole city is boiling!

Men, women, and children finally hope for the news they most want to hear in desperation, and add their own judgments, guesses, and fantasies, and then spread it with a louder voice!

The "good news" took on its wings and flew to every corner of Luzhou City.

When the day was about to dawn, even the beggars who were huddled under the Tugu ancestral corridor on weekdays ran down the street with broken bowls and shouted excitedly: "Lord Jinglu has sent an army of 50,000. Hmph, this is the striker! The Holy Decree is to transfer the elite reinforcements from the nine sides, a full 150,000 army! These thieves in front of them are dying, and it's time for them to come! Hahaha...... "That excited look, as if the king didn't need to beg for food anymore when he arrived."

Hahaha!

Everyone was so excited by the sudden surge of blood in their hearts that they couldn't stay at home anymore, everyone was so excited that they walked on the street, whether they knew each other or not, they first laughed for no reason, celebrated with each other, and then exchanged the "latest news" they heard and thought of......

Well, not everyone - there are some who did not participate in this.

Sun Jie, the chief military officer, Song Mingyi, the prefect, and the soldiers who should have been waiting for him.

When the day was bright, the brave people who climbed the wall found that they were all staggering against the battlements and sleeping on the wall.