Under the old city of Gangneung.

After several days of offensive, there were already many abandoned corpses.

Above and below the city, it was like a Shura field that had become a purgatory on earth, and the battle was extremely tragic.

Even though he was outnumbered, Huo Yi still led the crowd to repel round after round of attacks of the Wu army with the strength of the city defense.

Once again, the attack of Wu soldiers was repulsed, and the defenders took the opportunity to rest.

Huo Yi was holding a blood-dripping sword at this time, and he was covered in blood, looking at the Cao soldiers and prisoners of war who were fighting bloodily around him, and his face showed a few points of approval.

This is Mi Zhu's previous plan to cut off the prisoners' rations, and then persuaded Yu Ban to come forward to recruit and help, and sent nearly 2,000 prisoners of war who were willing to contribute.

was able to repel the successive offsets of the Wu soldiers, and it also relied on the strength of the Cao soldiers' prisoners of war.

And at this moment, under the city, a group of troops dressed in Cao Ying's costume rushed in formation, and after going to the city, the first person was Mi Fang, the Taishou of Nanjun who had made meritorious atonements, and bowed to Huo Yi and said:

"General Huo, this is the second group of prisoners of war who are willing to help, we have a total of 1,000 people defending the city, and General Mi specially asked me to bring it to you to command."

"Okay~ Please tell General An Han that Yi has thanked you here, and he will definitely live up to expectations and defend the old city."

Seeing this, Huo Yi wiped the blood on his face and responded in an impassioned tone.

"Words must be brought, farewell~"

After the handover, Mi Fang gave up.

Due to the fact that the fire was almost merged before, although the contradiction was eased with the arrival of Mi Zhu, Mi Fang did not want to have too much intersection with him, so it was just a business.

Huo Yi could naturally feel the other party's opinion of him, but he didn't care at all, whatever he didn't care about, he didn't need to rely on Mi's promotion anyway.

After he left, he moved his gaze to the prisoner of war array that had just been replenished, and swept the cheeks of all the soldiers one after another, vaguely realizing that most of them did not seem to have much fighting intent on their faces, and they were somewhat forced to helpless.

Seeing this, Huo Yi understood the reason after a little thought, it was obvious that these prisoners of war only reluctantly agreed to come to help defend the city because of their hunger after the rations were cut off.

"This enthusiasm for fighting is so poor, this is not good, it can't be compared with the first batch of prisoners, you have to think of a way."

Thinking so, Huo Yi also knew from the conversation that the first batch of Cao soldiers who could come to help was because most of them were alone and had no family to worry about, and he gave a reward that would be treated equally if he made meritorious contributions.

This made the Cao soldiers, who had no expectations, full of fighting spirit.

Anyway, it's not a sale for anyone, it's good to be able to make meritorious contributions and ask for rewards.

The second batch of fighting spirit was not high, and at this time, Huo Yi guessed that it was probably related to the fact that the family members were still detained in Cao Ying.

He groaned for a while, and suddenly said, "Have you ever had a family?" ”

"I... I have a 60-year-old mother and a wife and children. ”

"I also have a wife and two sons in the family~"

Although I don't know why Huo Yi suddenly mentioned this, as someone responded, he gradually drove the rest of Cao Bing to tell each other.

"Hmm~" Huo Yi listened to it for a while, his face relaxed a few points, and he nodded with a smile:

"Most of you have made it clear that you have wives and children, and you are worried that once you help our army to defend the city, the family members who were taken hostage will be killed, so your morale will be low, right?"

"What the general said is extremely true, Prime Minister Cao Cheng implemented the joint sitting method many years ago, and if a soldier surrenders, he will behead his family, let alone help him."

"The reason why we are unwilling to assist your army in defending the city is also very worried, and I hope the general can forgive his sins!"

After a few words, it seemed that Huo Yi's tone was very soft, so that all the prisoners of war thought he was very kind, and they all actively communicated with each other at this time.

"You will be able to understand your feelings~"

Huo Yi pondered for a moment, and said with an empathetic expression: "But what our army recruited you and others to help defend the city this time only faced the Jiangdong thieves who came from downstream, and did not directly face you and other former Cao Ying comrades. ”

"Even if it is Cao Cao, he doesn't want the entire territory of Jingzhou to be captured by Wu Gou."

"If he knows that you and others are assisting our army in resisting Wu, I'm afraid he will take the initiative to release the wind and claim that he will try his best to protect your family and not be slaughtered."

When these words fell, his face immediately became solemn again and said: "And when your family is safe, you can still rely on this contribution to our army to defend the city, wash away the identity of prisoners of war, and re-establish meritorious deeds, why not?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the Cao soldiers in the formation looked at each other, extremely suspicious.

They seem to be guessing or speculating whether what Huo Yi said is true?

Will Prime Minister Cao Cheng, the old owner of his family, take this seriously?

His eyes swept over the cheeks of the prisoners of war, Huo Yi knew it in his heart, and then stared at everyone with a serious expression, and said in a very solemn tone:

"If you soldiers still have concerns, how about you swear in public here?"

After saying that, he raised his long sword and shouted to the sky under the puzzled eyes of everyone, "Today, I, Huo Shaoxian, swear to the heavens that if all the Cao Ying soldiers are killed in the rear because of their assistance in defending the city, I must immediately stop letting them help in the battle." ”

"If the family is safe, we will continue to help fight against the Wu people."

"All those who have made meritorious contributions in this war will be rewarded equally after the war."

"If you violate this word, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!"

An extremely solemn oath was spit out, and all the prisoners of war soldiers who were still puzzled shouted in unison:

"General Huo, we are willing to participate in the war and make meritorious contributions."

"Kill Wu Gou, it is incumbent on my generation!"

Seeing that the fighting spirit on the faces of the captives was gradually rising, Huo Yi's hanging heart was completely relaxed.

This is the killer weapon that he held until the end to conquer Cao Bing.

Swearing to the sky may not be anything at all in the afterlife, and it is mostly a joke between friends.

But this is the Three Kingdoms, the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven has been very popular since the Han Dynasty, and people in this era are also quite superstitious.

All the prisoners of war looked at him and swore such a poisonous oath, so naturally they did not suspect him!

"Distribute dry food with all your comrades, let them eat and drink enough, so that they can pick up sharp blades to resist Wu Dog."

After seeing that all the Cao soldiers saluted one after another, Huo Yi also quickly waved his hand and ordered.

As soon as the order was laid, some fireheads with baskets in their hands distributed the flour cakes and other dry food prepared in advance to the prisoners of war.

I saw that the second group of prisoners of war immediately devoured the dough after receiving the bread.

It was because of the starvation that they were starved because of the lack of rations, so they agreed to help defend the city under the conscription of the ban, and they naturally feasted at this time.

After eating, the prisoners of war unconsciously showed a little trust on their faces when their fighting spirit was high.

In their hearts at this time, Huo Yi is not a person who is untrustworthy, at least as long as he can sincerely defend the city, then there will definitely be food.

Seeing that the morale of the prisoners of war was boosted, Huo Yi immediately quickly sent people to distribute weapons, either with longbows to fill the gaps in the defense of the city wall, or to carry the materials for defending the city.

In short, after this time, the number of defenders of the city has reached more than thousands.

The old city's defenses became more and more impregnable......