May 27, early morning, Qingcheng County, Qingcheng County.

Xiao Rugui stood on the tower of the South Gate and calmly looked at the Jingren army that had assembled out of the camp again, hanging with his left hand and pressing his right hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist.

The soldiers on the watchtower held up the Qianli Realm and carefully observed the movement, with drumsticks beside them, there was no need to wake up the sleeping crowd at this time, the drummers were no longer as flustered as they were at the beginning, and the bloody battles always made people grow so fast that the opponents were invisibly shocked.

Xiao Rugui has not closed his eyes for three days, or he has not had a good rest since the Jingren began to attack the city, even if almost all Ding Zhuang in the city is mobilized, he is still in a huge shortage of troops, and the defeat of losing the city and losing ground one after another is shrouded in the hearts of almost everyone.

The south gate is the direction of the Jing army's key attack, all those who are wearing armor around Xiao Rugui can now be called wounded soldiers, and the number is less than one-tenth, more and more people are transferred to the city and then carried down by batches, and now the city defense battalion has become the absolute main force, they hold spears and straight knives in their hands, and the crossbows on their waists are all new things for them, they have never touched them, and they are wearing iron armor that is not so fitting in the robes of the dead in battle, which are criss-crossed with traces, and they can't take care of bad luck at this time.

Deng Jishen, the assassin of Huizhou, personally took a group of Ding Zhuang to carry the hot buns up and distribute them one by one, and the sergeant with his eyes closed opened his eyes, took the buns and Qing Shui and ate them in a big gulp.

Xiao Rugui walked over and asked, "Lord Deng, did you find Jingren's fine work in the city last night?" ”

Deng Jishen nodded and said: "Yes, there have been nine batches before and after, we have arrested a total of three people and killed twenty-two people, I don't know how many more." ”

"Jingren's meticulous work is really fierce, the grain depot was almost burned last night, but fortunately, a few wounded soldiers who withdrew were desperately guarded, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable."

Xiao Rugui nodded and said: "Indeed, I don't know how many people there are, and the city has been strictly inspected twice and it is still endless, and this method is also clever." ”

Deng Jishen didn't answer, he wanted to go through a thousand miles and look ahead, the Jingren army was still leaving the camp, the camp of hundreds of thousands of people seemed noisy, and there were people there early in the morning crying wolves so that Qingcheng County could hear it.

"General Xiao, how is the situation of our army?"

Xiao Rugui smiled bitterly: "It's not optimistic, the loss of the soldiers has exceeded fifty percent, and the rest are all wounded, the city defense battalion has become the main force since yesterday, and more than 4,000 people are lost in one day, and the smaller half is still yesterday, the attack of the Jingren is not as fierce as at the beginning, as for Ding Zhuang, the loss is even greater." ”

Deng Jishen leaned forward again and asked in a suppressed voice: "General Xiao, you tell the truth to this official, how long can this Qingcheng County be defended like this?" ”

Xiao Rugui turned his head to look at Deng Jishen and asked, "Lord Deng asked what is this doing?" ”

Deng Jishen hurriedly explained: "General Xiao, don't misunderstand, where does the official come from to retreat now, even if he finally keeps the hat of the official of Qingcheng County, he will definitely not be able to keep it, His Majesty will not be able to tolerate me if he doesn't kill me, nearly half of the 18 counties of Huizhou have become enemies, is this situation possible General Xiao is still worried that the official will leave his relatives and run away?" Where can they go? ”

Xiao Rugui tightened his grip on the handle of the knife after hearing this, how could he be, he was still alive now, it was nothing more than earning a life for his relatives and his own bloodline, and losing the city and land was a big crime, if he still ran away, the angry emperor was likely to pack up the whole family and send it to the underworld.

"How much grain is still in the city?"

"It's enough for 800,000 people in the city to eat for two months, but this morning, the official slaughtered the last dozen sheep, otherwise the soldiers are working hard to defend the city, and there is no meat, so where can they use the knife."

Xiao Rugui asked puzzledly: "Ben will remember that when wartime rationing was implemented, the grain storage was far more than two months. ”

Deng Jishen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "That's right, but a lot of grain has been purchased by large households, and later the official strictly ordered the ration to be registered, and no grain can be claimed by people, and the division of areas is not allowed to move around at will, and dozens of people were ruthlessly killed, which stabilized the situation, otherwise it would not last for two months." ”

Xiao Rugui angrily smashed his fist on the battlements: "These gangs of filthy people, it's all this time, don't they understand that if the city is broken and the jade is burned?" At this time, it is difficult to make a fortune in the country, and it is simply not human. ”

"General Xiao don't be angry, this official doesn't know, but these people have a complicated relationship between the DPRK and China, and you and I can't mess with it."

Xiao Rugui sulked, but he also knew that as long as it didn't reach the point where the fish died and the net was broken, he would never be able to force it to any extent.

Suddenly, the drums behind him sounded, and Yasuto had already assembled and the forward began to move.

The soldier who was gnawing on the bun stuffed the uneaten bun into his mouth fiercely, and put the extra bun in his arms casually, picked up the guy and stood up, the bow and crossbow were wound, and they all looked serious and quite elite.

"General Xiao take care. This Qingcheng County has to ask General Xiao. ”

Xiao Rugui replied with a salute and said: "Lord Deng is serious, it's just a matter of duty, as long as the general is still planting the Zheng Ziqi on the head of this city, but Lord Deng, it is now an extraordinary time, although the losses of the Jing army are far greater than ours, but the number of Jing troops is still far superior to our army." ”

"I understand! Don't worry, General Xiao, if the city is broken, there will be nothing, you, my wife, children, and the people of this city. ”

"Lord Deng, please be here." After saying that, he bowed heavily.

Deng Jishen smiled bitterly, and calmly accepted this worship and went down to the city.

The vanguard of the Jing people is dark, but there are still thousands of Zheng people in the front, and there are a lot of Jing soldiers and soldiers in the middle, which is very eye-catching and dazzling.

"Crossbow ready!"

"Catapult ready!"

"Bed crossbow string on the arrow!"

The junior officer shouted hoarsely as he lay at the battlements and stared at the situation in the distance, a correspondence that had been repeated countless times in the course of several days.

The people who cried and shouted fell forward with the long knife dripping blood of the Jing people, and those who fell to the ground were killed on the spot by the Jing army without saying anything, accompanied by a cruel smile, and every time they panicked.

The moat in Qingcheng County had already been filled with dense corpses, but most of the corpses were the corpses of Zheng civilians and wounded soldiers.

Xiao Rugui looked at the siege army step by step, approaching the range of the firing range, and his face was expressionless. From the initial hesitation to the current unmoved.

The marking arrow in front of the city had long been crushed by the corpse, and the experienced officer suddenly gave the order at a certain moment.

"Bed crossbow ready!"

The officer's right hand was raised properly, the green tendons on the back of the tight hand were protruding, and the soldier with the wooden hammer next to him stared at his movements, and his hand unconsciously loosened and clenched tightly.

The crying was continuous, at the beginning they were very hesitant and even miserable to be frightened, the people who died under the city in the past few days were far more than the Jingren soldiers, but what could they do if they couldn't bear it, Qingcheng County was almost broken on the first day, the Jingren soldiers who came to the chrysalis mixed with the people and swung the long knife in their hands to the neck of the soldiers, and at the critical moment, Xiao Rugui personally took his own soldiers to fight to the death.

The soldiers were okay, but it took a night for the soldiers of the city defense battalion and the young men who were transferred to understand a truth, life needs to be exchanged.

Xiao Rugui stood at the head of the city, the straight knife in his hand was dripping blood, and his face and body were like being bathed in blood.

There are only enemies and enemies on the battlefield, and one person who comes in from outside the city will not be able to protect the city. To save them is to kill your own parents, wives and children with your own hands.

So he couldn't bear to be pressed in his heart, and was soon compressed and degenerated into hatred by the casualties and killings of the robe.

So this cry seems to have become an impermanent soul hook in everyone's ears, and behind him are relatives who cannot be abandoned by their families and countries.

Not an inch of land!

The petty officer's right hand finally swung down with a scream.

"Put ~~~"

The striker, who had been waiting for a long time, lifted his waist with both hands, and the wooden hammer jumped over his head until it was vertical, and then smashed down hard, like a roar like thunder, and the roar of Weng broke through the air.

The two-finger-thick arrow spun like a dragon out of the water, and the crowd in the distance crashed into it, and after a few breaths, it was like a dragon entering the water and striking a dozen blood-colored waves, each of which left a deep ravine when the momentum was exhausted.

The crowd was even more panicked, there were at least nearly 200 casualties in this wave, but there were not a few Jingren soldiers, they were far behind enough, and they only needed to drive people away.

The city tried to disperse the crowd with the fear of death, and the city wanted to use the fear of death to drive the crowd, but the people on the city were their own people, and they were far away, so almost everyone chose to move forward, crying and crying forward, as if to arouse the sympathy of the city's robes.

As for the consequences of having someone really sympathize with them, let them go, or even hesitate? No one thought about it, even if the butcher's knife of the Yasushi people almost buried the city in front of them a few days ago.

"Wind!"

The petty officer was roaring again, but this order was obviously a bit redundant, but if he didn't shout out, how could he suppress the hatred and fear in his heart?

A few sturdy soldiers gritted their teeth and turned the winch to the ground, they were the first striking force, the bows and crossbows were out of reach, and the eyes of the whole city seemed to be focused here.

Sweat said that his head and cheeks were dripping down desperately, but no one bothered to wipe it.

A spear-like arrow was secured, and the officer couldn't wait to wave his raised right hand again.

The offense and defense have basically been white-hot from the beginning at this point.

In the Yasujun array, Satake Ono, who was holding a legion fan like a fly swatter, also felt full of pressure.

Ono Satake is also a well-known wise and brave general in Yasukuni, otherwise Michitaro Majikawa would not have handed over the vanguard responsibility to him, and along the way, this was Ono Sachiku's strategy, and the Yasukuni army went very smoothly.

After capturing the entire Wan'an County, Ono Satake led 200,000 Jing troops and 100,000 Hanji coalition troops to Qingcheng County, and patted his chest, promising that he would definitely take the entire Qingcheng County within 20 days and destroy Zheng Guo's Kuilong Mansion.

But when he entered Qingcheng County, he obviously felt that the difficulty of the attack had increased, and the reality gave Ono an unparalleled slap in the face under Qingcheng County.

The meticulous assassins and even the hidden assassins all failed, and all kinds of tricks and methods seemed to be difficult to use, and the chief general of the Zheng army on the opposite side seemed to have a universal prescription to crack at any time. Ono desperately showed off the image of a wise general, but except for the first day, all he gained was defeat and corpses.

Ono, who had a black face, picked up a fly swatter and waved it forward, and a group of Jing soldiers walked up with long knives and wooden shields, screaming.

Ono was a little uneasy in his heart, such a high morale was completely maintained by looting, killing and venting, and now there were not many Zheng women captured in the camp who had been tortured.

At the stall of the stalemate between the two sides, a team of Zheng Juntie cavalry, under the guidance of the sentinel detectives, circled around a large circle and quietly inserted into the rear of the Jing army.

Not much, more than 200 heavily armored iron horsemen.

Zhang Xiyang looked at the Jingjun array in the distance, grinned slightly upward with the grass roots in his mouth, and smiled.