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The cold winter is gone, and the weather in early spring is still a little cold.

Before the land was fully recovered, more than 10,000 of Li Tian's subjects were already doing farm work in the newly cultivated fields.

During this time, people from the surrounding areas fled one after another, and they were all homeless people.

After three months of arduous construction, a huge blue brick castle full of medieval European style was finally built on the foundation of Zhao Village.

Li Tian stood on the top floor of the tall City Lord's Mansion and looked out, with his own sturdy buildings at his feet.

The Lord's Palace, which was also an inner city, was a tall and fortified fortress with countless archery holes in the outer walls, in addition to the necessary windows.

However, the interior of the City Lord's Mansion is a strange Ming Dynasty decoration, and he can only smile bitterly at Zhao Zhijin, who has read the book, so designed.

Outside the city lord's mansion, there are dense groups of civilian houses, but fortunately, Artiman has planned and built several wide main roads, which look very orderly.

On the periphery of this miniature city is a thirteen-metre-high wall made entirely of stones collected from the surrounding area.

The wall is covered with arrow stacks, and next to the inner side of the wall, there are more than 50 separate circular arrow towers, and sentinels with bows and crossbows patrol 24 hours a day.

This is a thousand militiamen recruited by Li Tian from among the subjects at the request of Resarit, and after the urgent training of Resarit, they became the castle guards.

There is only one gate in the entire wall, and there is a large suspension bridge at the gate of the city, which is placed horizontally on the outer moat ten meters wide, and is managed by the control platform at the top of the gate.

Originally, the moat was just a small ditch, but under the whimsical idea of Artiman, all the labor was mobilized to dig a ditch nearly ten meters wide and dig nearly fifty meters deep into the ground.

With this design, the security of the castle can be greatly enhanced.

Li Tianzheng was looking at the castle that was still under construction, when suddenly a soldier ran up to the observation deck, knelt down on one knee and reported, "My lord." The sentry spotted a Tartar coming. ”

His heart pounded, and he sighed, "It's still here, I should have taken my subjects to retreat to Guannai." ”

At the same time, alarm bells were sounding throughout the castle at the same time, both inside and outside.

In the wilderness of early spring, a large group of Qing troops galloped on horseback, led by Jialazhen Arla.

Ezhen means 'lord' in Manchu, and he had five Niu Lu under his command, each of which led 300 soldiers, which means that he led an army of 1,500 men.

Among them are 300 elite white-armored soldiers, and it seems that the Qing army has vowed to kill Li Tian and others this time.

Arla came here with his troops. It was ordered by Huang Taiji to destroy Li Tian's village fort.

According to the sentry horseman, there were more than 10,000 people in this village fort, and it was strange that there were so many people in a small village.

But in his heart, he also looked down on it, thinking that it was just a larger sheepfold, and Arla thought complacently.

After running for a while, I saw a tall castle with a strange style in the distance, but it didn't occupy too much space. It's not as good as a small county town in Guannei.

But the gate turned out to be made of iron plates, and outside the gate was a chain suspension bridge, which was placed horizontally on a moat ten meters wide.

On the land outside the castle, countless peasants fled to the castle in a hurry. Seeing the farming tools they had discarded in the newly cultivated fields, Arla was relieved.

No matter how tall the wall was built by the Han Chinese, it was just a flock of sheep, even though the sheepfold was a bit high. What's the use of not closing the door.

The drawbridge at the castle gate is still placed on the moat, if that is also called the moat.

Measuring how far away he was from the city gate, he felt like he was leading the charge with all his might. It was possible to rush to the drawbridge and enter the city gates before the peasants had completely fled into the castle.

Arla's heroic subordinates shouted: "Warriors of the white flag, the opportunity to stand up for the banner lord has come, and now rush into the city with me and take the fort." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed towards the drawbridge.

The 1,500 Qing soldiers suddenly agreed, drew their large blades, urgently increased the speed of their horses, and followed Jiala'e Zhen to charge towards the fort.

They shouted in unison at the same time: "Kill ......"

Suddenly I felt that the momentum was like a rainbow, and the heavens and the earth were shaken.

On the bizarre city walls and high platforms (arrow stacks), dense arrows pointed directly at the Qing soldiers.

This made Arla's eyebrows, which had been observing the castle, furrow, but after seeing the various homemade hunting bows on the city's head, shooting many scattered arrows, he knew that he had won.

Easily brushing away the arrows with her whip, Arla was about to say a few words of encouragement, but was surprised that the wind of the arrows became dense and urgent, and at the same time there was a sharp pain in her right arm.

He looked down and saw an arrow inserted deep into his right arm.

"General,"

The surrounding soldiers screamed, and military law stipulated that if the general was killed in battle, the soldiers would be punished.

So the soldiers quickly protected Arla in the middle, forcing him to slow down.

Seeing the moat less than ten meters wide, Arla gritted her teeth and shouted, "Rush into the city, and kill them all when you take it." ”

After speaking, under the cover of his own soldiers, he retreated beyond the range of bows and arrows.

Looking at the drawbridge getting closer and closer, all the Qing soldiers became more and more excited, wishing that the horses would have two more legs.

It's just that the farmers have completely crossed the bridge, so the drawbridge is slowly being retracted.

"Barbarians, don't close the door, let the gentlemen cut off a few heads as balls to play ......!"

The Qing soldiers shouted frantically with a roar, and even pierced the tail of the horse with the tip of the knife, frantically urging the potential of the war horse.

The reason why they did not catch up with the peasants into the city was because there were too many places for archery on the strange city walls, and when they rushed to the entrance and exit of the drawbridge, they were attacked by an overwhelming rain of arrows.

Even the white-armored soldiers in double heavy armor, although they were not afraid of long-range bows and arrows, were still stopped by the force of the rain of arrows.

The closer you get to the drawbridge, the more rapid the rain of arrows becomes, and finally a white-armored soldier is shot by a bow and arrow, and the drawbridge has been lifted into the air.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Arla hurriedly ordered the troops to withdraw to their own position.

Seeing the murderous Tartar being driven away, the entire Zhaojiabao people let out a shocking cheer.

Zhao Zhijin insisted that this fort was built in Zhaojia Village, so it was named.

Many people lost their loved ones because of the looting in the Tartars, so they cried and scolded the retreating Tartars.

Arla's eyes seemed to be about to erupt fire, in the land of Liaodong, when would the Han people laugh at the Eight Banners.

So he ordered: "The whole army is ready to shoot on horseback." ”

Arla, who was giving orders, suddenly realized that the atmosphere was not right, and the strange castle opposite was somehow silent, and the battlefield seemed to fall into a brief dead silence.

It was the soldiers who reported to Arla: "General. You see. ”

Looking in the direction of the soldier's finger, it turned out that in the wilderness in the distance, there was a little girl in yellow clothes of seven or eight years old, standing in the field in a daze

She had a handful of wildflowers in her hand, and she looked frightened, but her eyes were wide open.

Feeling a tingling pain in her arm, Arla looked at the city head hatefully, and sneered at his subordinates: "Grab that little thing, take it slowly, don't hurt it." ”

Immediately, one of his own soldiers rode towards the little girl, and when he saw her turn and wanted to escape, the cavalry did not hurry to take out the rope on the horse's back. Then make a circle.

He threw the noose onto the little girl's head, and with a slight pull of his hand, the little girl was pulled to the ground by the rope.

The people of Zhaojiabao all scolded, and the Qing army laughed, such a scene is commonplace.

The Qing soldiers pulled the rope and forced the little girl to get up, and according to Jia La's instructions, he pulled the little girl and slowly walked towards the Qing army.

At the head of the Zhaojiabao wall, a young woman cried out loudly and angrily: "Zhao Xiaoya." Zhao Xiaoya ......"

She even wanted to jump off the wall and get as close as possible to the little girl.

The women of Zhaojiabao stopped her, and the men scolded the Qing soldiers one after another.

"Thief Tartar, it's a man who lets go of the child. Compared with grandpa, there is a kind of siege. ”

Zhao Xiaoya looked up at the city timidly, looking at the grief-stricken young woman stupidly, and her mouth just kept muttering.

"Sister. Ya'er knew that she was wrong, and she would never be greedy for fun in the future. ”

Feeling the rope around her neck getting tighter, she suddenly became more scared. The one who asked for help looked at the new Zhaojiabao, but he didn't see the people who wanted to see the castle owner.

Those seventeen mighty heroes like door gods will definitely be able to save themselves.

Li Tian looked at the soldier who came to report, he was still a very young boy, and he seemed to have some impressions.

In fact, this little soldier is Zhao Haoran, and now he has become the herald of Zhaojiabao, and he is not a big official.

He was also dressed in peasant clothes, with a rudimentary homemade hunting bow in his hand and a pig-killing knife tied to his waist with a straw rope.

He carried a sack of burlap quivers, which contained thirty arrows in it.

Li Tian didn't think of who this young man was, but thought that in the past three months, everyone had joined in building the castle with all their might.

The blacksmiths were busy building large chains and gates for drawbridges, but they forgot to make some swords and armor.

Imagine those peasant soldiers who don't have strong bows and crossbows, and don't even have weapons, can they fight with the wolf-like Eight Banner soldiers?

Zhao Haoran saw that Li Tian didn't react, and was busy reminding: "My lord, the Tartar is here." ”

Li Tian came back to his senses and knew that the battle of life and death was about to begin, so he hurriedly turned around and got off the observation deck and walked towards the bedroom where the weapons were placed.

Although wearing a full set of plate armor in the game, they still acted like the wind, and the minions hurriedly followed.

Li Tian has never been able to wear the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, but he feels that wearing this suit of armor fits very well, and he is in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which is full of dangers, it is safer to keep his armor alone.

It's just that I don't wear a helmet for convenience.

Walked down the spiral staircase to the hall of the City Lord's Mansion, the hall is divided into two floors, the upper floor is facing the huge room of the gate, which is Li Tian's bedroom.

The rooms on either side were the dwellings of the sixteen warriors.

Coming out of the door of Wang Dan's bedroom, there is a long staircase that leads to the hall on the first floor.

The hall is lined with a number of rooms that allow guests to live.

Wang Dan returned to the bedroom, retrieved the King's Sword from the wall and hung it on his body, took the Elven War Bow on his back, and pinned the Infinite Arrow Treasure Bag.

Finally, I put on a giant helmet and felt a lot more relieved.

When he walked out of the door, he saw that the soldier who had come to report was still there, and asked him, "What is your name?" ”

Xiao Bing replied without being arrogant or humble: "The little one's name is Zhao Haoran, and he is from the original Zhaojia Village. ”

Li Tian nodded and instructed him: "You go and give an order now, let all the blacksmiths in Zhaojiabao gather together, and make every effort to quickly build weapons, especially more arrows." “

Zhao Haoran immediately responded: "Obey." ”

He saluted with his fists and hurried out of the castle gates. (To be continued......)