Then Lu Lian began to get busy.

All kinds of materials for defending the city were continuously moved to the city wall, rolling wood, rolling stones, ropes, firewood, and then a large amount of water, a large amount of oil, Lu Lian also ordered people to find a lot of oil cloth to prepare on the city wall, and ordered people to bury many large vats at the foot of the inner city wall.

The soldiers defending the city were divided into many groups, and the gates and granaries were heavily guarded, and it was almost impossible to wander around the granaries as before.

These things are very cumbersome to say, and they are doubly cumbersome to do, so in Hulugu's opinion, Lu Lian should exhaust her mental strength just because she is busy preparing for the defense of the city, and she really can't think of a reason why she can appear frequently in the streets and alleys of the city.

…… But the rumors of this are rising.

In order to make sure that every civilian who stayed in the city had a place to live, General Xiao Lu sent many small officials and gongcao to walk the streets and alleys, tent by tent, tent by tent to inquire about their names and places of origin, and then try to get those fellow villagers together and take care of each other.

After hearing such news, Hulu Gu was silent for a long time.

"No one knows us here, and no one will live in it, so why is my brother so worried?"

When Wu Jiu asked in such a puzzled way, the little leader of the Hun cavalry glanced at him coldly.

"That's what she had in mind, to find out who no one recognized."

The Hun man's face was completely puzzled, so that he had to make his words clearer.

"Think about it, before she entered the city, the city was like a sieve, coming and going at will, and any kind of person could come, how would she investigate?" Hulugu said, "If she is strictly investigated and held accountable one by one, people will inevitably be panicked." ”

When defending the city, morale is an extremely important thing, if the soldiers and civilians in the city are united, even if it is an earthen city, it can be impregnable. And Lu Lian not only wanted to investigate the spies who got in, but also wanted to appease the people, so he came up with such a method.

Qiancheng is not a big city, and most of the people who enter the city are people from nearby counties and counties, and there are no displaced people from afar. The peasants have been socializing all their lives in the nearby villages, so as long as they are brought together, if there are living faces, it will not be long before the flaws can be revealed in the conversation.

Wu Jiu thought about it for a while and understood, and was shocked for a moment, "If that's the case, aren't we going to be exposed?!" ”

"What's the hurry," said the fox deer girl, "you have forgotten that we have spoken to you." ”

But he remembered that you owed him a handwritten letter.

There are almost no people from the plains in the city, before Tian Kai and Yuan Shao attacked each other, the plains were very desolate, and later Yuan Tan occupied the plains, and recruited many Qingzhou people who survived with difficulty as soldiers, so the identity of Hulugu is indeed a little strange.

But fortunately, after this matter was reported to You Heng, the young civil official really showed a trace of guilt after thinking about it.

"I remember this man, he did come a long time ago, and I told him that I would arrange for his family to go to the theater city," he said to the young general, "how can he be so timid that he has not come to look for me for such a long time?" ”

"Civilians don't know whether what you said is sincere or whim, it's really no wonder they," Lu Lian comforted him a few words, "In addition to checking your origins, you also have to send people to clean up the traitors in the city as much as possible, and you also have to clean the streets, sweep them more frequently, and transport those filth to the city." ”

You Heng's eyes widened in bewilderment, "What's the use of transporting it to the city?" ”

“…… You don't care about this," Lu Lian skipped the topic and moved on to the next thing, "Also, requisition and send people, give them three liters of corn every day, teach them to practice defending the city if they are stronger, and ask them to carry materials back and forth in the second class, regardless of men and women, but choose from those poor people first." ”

"Yes."

This is how Hulugu saw Lu Lian with her own eyes.

As a citizen, he followed the team in a decent manner, and when he was about to deliver some supplies to the city, he passed by the female general.

She wore a half-worn leather armor and a gray burqa, she was about in her early twenties, thin and ordinary-looking, except for a heavy sword behind her back, which was indeed a few points longer than the Han sword, she did not look like a swordsman at all, more like a young man who could be seen everywhere in the streets, and there was no anxiety or anxiety about the strong enemies under the city, nor was she confident or complacent. She just walked while listening intently to the Gong Cao next to her report to her, about the improvement of the law and order situation in the city, and other trivial things.

If she hadn't seen such a person with her own eyes, Hulugu would not have believed that the legendary "Lu Lian" looked like this. The woman he imagined should be the most typical goose egg face of Han beauties, with willow eyebrows, skin like snow, and a pair of beautiful eyes that can breathe people's hearts, which is not only the speculation of many Hun cavalrymen in private, but also the speculation of those soldiers in the Jizhou army.

Only such a woman will be pampered by Liu Bei, what a normal inference for the boring and boring life in the army.

But based only on everything he had seen since he entered the Thousand Vehicles, and everything he had witnessed on the banks of that river, Lu Lian was not such a person. Fox Deer Gu thought that he would not want such a lover.

But he would admit that he could accept such a commander-in-chief—and she certainly had such qualifications.

He wanted to inform his chiefs of all this in the city, which included a lot of important information that overturned his original prediction, but Lu Lian kept the gates of the city very tight, and he also watched it very strictly, not only could the people in the city not leave the city at will, but these people could not walk around the city walls at will without being watched.

Before Yuan Tan attacked the city, the last thing Lu Lian did was to announce to the people in the city that many reinforcements would come.

In Hulugu's opinion alone, he felt that Lu Lian was only trying in vain to boost morale, and did not obtain any substantive information.

It is said that Yuan Tan did not send any more letters into the city, and he was bent on taking the city and draining the blood of Beihai County.

Therefore, this tacit siege began on the fifth day after Lu Lian entered the city.

Yuan Shao was good at attacking the city, so the tiger father had no dog son, and his eldest son also inherited this.

It is not the same as the long ladder imagined by Lu Hangyu, the ladder car on Yuan Tan's side has wheels at the bottom layer, the middle layer is covered with cowhide, and the arrow crossbow is not worn, and the upper layer is not only folded several layers, but also inlaid with a large iron hook at the top to make a hook support.

These heavy and expensive siege equipment were originally intended to be used in the drama city, but even if they had to be used to attack Qiancheng, they were not the things that Yuan Tan took out first.

…… The first to come out were Qingzhou people.

These enraged, screaming and charging Qingzhou people rushed over to burn the antlers in waves, and shot one wave after another, and after the antlers were burned and the shoddy cattle and horse walls were torn down, they began to fill in the trenches and prepare a way for the first dead soldiers in the rear.

It took several days to destroy these simple fortifications outside the city, and the Qingzhou people even tried to bring ladders to try to attack the city, although with little success, they did fill the trench in front of the main gate of Qiancheng Castle - first with earth and stones, then with corpses.

Lu Hangyu noticed that in addition to the Qingzhou people, there were also some Huns, and these Hun infantry were also driven to attack the city, but it was obvious that the morale was particularly bad, and it was not much different from the slaves who were driven out.

The Hun light cavalry was not responsible for the siege, they walked around the city, occasionally shooting two arrows in close range, and as soon as the defenders bent their bows and arrows, they would immediately retreat again.

Regarding this kind of cheap behavior, Lu Hangyu simply ordered to spread a few straw mats at the head of the city, not for anything else, just to keep more cavalry arrows down, this thing can also be recycled.

After the first few days of tentative assault, on the ninth day of the siege, Yuan Tan began a real siege.

The golden drums resounded throughout the land, and they still couldn't hide the screams and shouts! The first dead soldiers put on ox and sheep skins and climbed on the ladder to avoid the rain of arrows, and once the ladder hooked the city, they immediately ripped off their leather clothes and quickly climbed up to the city!

The defenders kept throwing wood and rolling stones, and the collected filth, which were boiled in cauldrons and water, and then poured one pot after another into the city, and poured at the soldiers on the ladder.

So a wave fell like rain, and a wave immediately attached densely like ants!

There are no mountains and rivers to rely on on the left and right of the city, and at this moment it is surrounded by water, and it looks like a lonely boat in the sea from a distance, and it seems that it is a matter of time before it falls.

So such news was reported by the scout Kuaima and sent all the way back to Xiapi.

Liu Bei was a little stunned after seeing the letter, and he didn't seem to have thought that this war could be fought to this point.

But he quickly came to his senses and handed the letter to the scribes beside him.

After everyone passed it on, they looked at each other and looked at the lord carefully.

"How can war be like this?"

"General Xiaolu is not strong enough, it is indeed ......"

"What does the lord think?"

This prince in his thirties, who was born as a ranger, thought for a while.

The thoughts in his heart, these scribes also knew Xue Liang: Xuzhou was still slowly recovering, and there were strong enemies all around, if he really competed with Yuan Tan for Qingzhou, it would inevitably be powerless.

Therefore, Liu Bei also opened his mouth as they thought.

"I'm going to write a letter to Yuan Xiansi," he said, "If we can't help Kong Beihai, then it's okay to give Qingzhou to Yuan Tan." ”

Although it is a little weak, those who know the times are Junjie, and Xuzhou cannot afford to fight such a battle, this is the reality.

Zhang Fei's face changed, several scribes glanced at each other, but when they wanted to nod, Liu Bei continued.

"But the Hanging Fish has followed me all the way here since the plains, and he has to let her come back well."

As if as evidence of this sentence, Liu Bei stood up.

"Yi De and go and reorganize the army, and then distribute weapons to the Danyang soldiers," he said, "and in addition, levy the soldiers of the counties—"

"Lord?!"

Liu Bei was still calm.

"If the little son of the Yuan family is unwilling to listen to a word of advice, I can only hunt Qingzhou with Yuan Benchu."

Chapter 198

As the sun grew darker, the sun shifted toward the vast plain to the west, and the siege was suspended on the opposite side, so that the soldiers could carefully bring back the wounded under the city for treatment, and the defenders on the city walls, presumably to save the materials for the defense, did not continue to throw stones and dung soup down.

Even so, there was a pungent smell wafting from the castle, and the mixture of blood and rancid stench made it impossible to even look at it, and as long as you walked by the female wall, you couldn't help but retch.

But now no one has time to retch against the wall, they still have something to do.

The defenders on the city wall will also be injured, sometimes because the first dead soldiers climbed the city wall to fight with them, sometimes because of the arrows and stones under the city, the earth mountain is increasing day by day, and the rest of the various siege equipment is also in full swing assembly, I am afraid that in a day or two more there will be more boulders smashed over, so these wounded soldiers need to be carried down immediately for treatment, and the gap must be immediately mobilized to the rest of the soldiers and even the people to fill the gap.

There were moans all around, but almost every wounded who was still alive was treated.

There was boiling water to clean their wounds, and a clean muslin cloth to bandage them, but before bandaging, the doctor would also roast the dagger in his hand, and then quietly take it, and suddenly press it on the wound—and then the man would let out a scream like a pig—this would stop the bleeding, but it would be too painful, and of course the pain of the wounded would be compensated, and after the bandage, they would be given a small bowl of turbid wine.

Wine is made of grain, and civilians rarely touch its edge all year round, and even small Hun leaders like Hulugu rarely have the opportunity to drink heartily, so it is particularly precious. But Lu Lian gave the order, saying that drinking a little turbid wine would help them calm their nerves and relieve their pain, so that these wounded could slowly savor this hard-won reward in the envy of their comrades—if there was anyone more generous than their reward, it was probably those who could no longer taste the wine.

Fox Lugu followed behind You Heng, carrying a bag of corn on her shoulder, silently watching the back of the young civil official.

The robe was unclean, but it was something he had just put on.

During the days when Yuan Tan was besieging the city, this Youzhi often ran around the city with his upper body half-naked and a bag of soil on his shoulder, and followed them to run around the city and down the city, repairing the broken city walls.

This is also very unusual, Fox Deer Gu thought.

The first time he saw a scholar like Youheng, the elegant demeanor of the first time he saw it was gone, his eyes were red, and his sockets were deeply sunken.

If Lu Lian was the most powerful person in the city, then You Heng was undoubtedly in second place, but he didn't even have time to eat, and when the people were cooking, he also came over and picked up a piece of bread, stuffed it in his mouth, and vaguely ate it while walking around, directing the people to continue to carry things up the city wall, and then carry the wounded down from above—so when he collided with Lu Lian, his appearance also frightened Lu Lian.

“…… Sir? You...... You're not hurt, are you? ”

This gentleman had his turban removed and simply bandaged the thigh of a wounded soldier, so that he now had no turban, and his unkempt bun was exposed. His upper body was also exposed, covered with mud and dried blood, and the whole person looked extremely dirty and embarrassed.

"Nothing, nothing." You Heng rubbed his chest in embarrassment.

…… Blood clots and mud clumps crackled and fell to the ground.

"Look, general, it's all other people's blood."

Lu Lian glanced at him and turned his eyes away.

…… In this scene, even the fox deer girl next to her felt a little embarrassed.

…… Isn't this general a woman?! Is there something missing in your mind?

However, Lu Lian obviously didn't want to talk about these trivial matters, she looked at You Heng again, and her tone was very serious, "It's dangerous on the city wall, you are still-"

"Bang ——!"

A large stone three feet long and wide roared towards it! smashed the entire city wall as if it were shaking!

But what's even more troublesome is that the stone happened to fall into a pot of oil, so the screams were repeated!

"Come on! Come on! ”

"Here we go! Wu Si! Hurry up! Hurry up! ”