A group of unkempt men made their way through the besieging troops and slowly walked towards the Hope River suspension pile, each holding a plank and without any armor.

"Lord Qiyu, the enemy really sent civilians to pave the pontoon bridge. Lei Feixiang rushed to the top floor to report to Ding Kui, "What should we do?

Ding Kui said angrily: "You know! You go down first, listen to my explicit order to hang the flag." Ding Cai, let the prisoners of their own country be brought to the city wall!"

He had already expected this situation, and when the national war began, his own people would not be so polite to civilians, and it was inevitable to use it as cannon fodder to attack the city, so how could he not be prepared.

On the first day of his invasion, he captured more than 5,000 prisoners, and then more than 2,000 prisoners one after another, and there were seven or eight thousand of his own people in Hengfu City.

Lang Chun raised his head suddenly, the longbow in his hand was drawn into a full moon, and the arrow qi wrapped the armor-piercing heavy arrow, and the arrow was aimed at a person flying out of the city tower.

"Someone who can talk!" Ding Kui held the barrel of the gun under his armpit, raised his forearm up, and shot a spear at random, aiming at the group of magicians of his own country who retreated in a hurry.

Oh, Lang Chun let go of his fingers, and the heavy arrow was like black lightning, stopping the gun in mid-air, "Stop!" he ordered the siege troops to stop attacking. The big boss on the opposite side came out and asked for a conversation, and the minimum respect must be given.

"Hao Dong!" Ding Kui raised his gun and pointed at the war envoy of his own country on the platform.

"Hahaha, Ding Concubine, have you changed your mind? Hao Dong laughed and flew over.

Ding Kui pointed to the civilians below and said, "I am disappointed that you have done this! But don't forget that I have nearly 10,000 prisoners in my hands, and if I continue to let the civilians attack the city, I will order the prisoners to be dropped off the city and returned to you." ”

"Oh, are you threatening me?"

At present, the troops besieging the city are all local troops, and they are comrades-in-arms with the prisoners in the city, and watching the prisoners being killed will greatly damage their morale.

"Don't talk about these useless things, is it a sign of respect for me to send civilians into battle? I spend so much food on my prisoners, and I am waiting to exchange them for some ransom, and it is no good for me to kill them all. Ding Kui was unhappy, and he was naturally not polite when he spoke.

"Then what do you want? I want to choose the prisoner not to die, then the one who dies is the siege soldier, so of course I choose to die in your hands. Shouldn't this account be counted like this?" Hao Dong did not want to be blackmailed.

"The civilians of Giant Sheep City are all my subjects, if you return them all to me, I will release all those captives. ”

There are about 20,000 civilians who have not escaped from Juyang City, Ding Kui's proposal is equivalent to exchanging a prisoner for three civilians, and Ding Kui has suffered a little loss if he calculates it seriously, there are many old and weak women and children among the civilians, and three plus one piece is not worth a strong man, let alone a soldier.

"Hahaha, you're a lion's mouth. Hao Dong held out two fingers, "Two civilians for a prisoner." ”

At this time, some prisoners were escorted to the wall one after another, and stood in line on the edge of the wall.

"Hmph, those disobedient leaders will die, don't want to use them to bargain with me!" Ding Kui was very resolute and did not give Hao Dong room to bargain.

"You are the lord of a city, one sentence determines the life and death of many people, don't be so hasty to make a decision, I'll give you time to think about it. Hao Dong was dissatisfied with Ding Kui's attitude and didn't save him any face.

"Back then, Zhang Xun City Lord once said that if a besieging civilians die, ten Meng army beasts will be killed to avenge it, and today I will put the same words here, the city defense attack will not stop, and I will let ten Jikou fill in the life of a civilian!"

The Wind Cone swung in a circle in the air, flung it down, and a bolt of gunfire shot at the bridgehead on the north bank of the Hope River, and a ditch broke out of the solid gravel ground.

"Hmph!" Hao Dong brushed his sleeves away, but after turning around, he signaled to Lang Chun not to attack.

Ding Kui saw that his army did not attack, and he was not in a hurry, he stood in the air with a wind splitting cone, and his eyes shot at Gong Jun on the handsome platform.

He knew that the matter of exchanging prisoners was not something that Hao Dong could call the shots, and he needed the approval of the commander of the army, and the Giant Sheep City was fought down by Le Pi and Gong Jun, and now that Le Pi is dead, only Gong Jun can call the shots.

"Will you give it all back to him?" Gong Jun couldn't help but hesitate, this time he didn't bring all the civilians from Giant Sheep City, at best, only half of them.

"Instead of leaving civilians to eat our military rations, it is better to stuff them all into Hengfu City, and it is not a bad thing to increase the food consumption in the city. "Zhan Jie is not afraid of Ding Kui's threat, it is completely considered from a military point of view.

"Then there will be great casualties if we continue to attack the city with our men. "Gong Jun didn't have many of his subordinates who were captured, and most of the captives were Lejia's people.

"If you don't give them back the same casualties, I think that Ding Kui can do it to his own people, at most he can consume some materials to defend the city, and the corpses under the city are piled up too much and it is easy to cause plague. Zhan Jie disagreed with Gong Jun's opinion.

"In fact, when you change people, you can do some tricks and take the opportunity to kill some of the defenders who are fighting effectively. Hao Dong smiled gloomily, as a war overseer, he was no stranger to exchanging prisoners.

"Then exchange with him?" Gong Jun glanced at Ding Kui in the sky, and a chill appeared in his heart, the generals of the Iron Beast Division were completely killed by that guy, and it didn't seem difficult to assassinate him at all.

"Change!" Hao Dong and Zhan Jie nodded together.

Seven or eight thousand captives were of much greater use in exchange for civilians, and they did not suffer a loss in this transaction.

In this way, Lord Lao Hao negotiated with Ding Kui. "Gong Jun is as good as a stream.

Hao Dong's face was gloomy, and it was uncomfortable to think of Ding Kui's arrogant attitude, but he was the only one here who was suitable for negotiation.

Ding Kui saw Hao Dong go and returned, hugged the Wind Cone in his arms, and quietly waited for the other party's reply.

"The palace marshal is kind-hearted, and seeing that Ding Juma cherishes his own people so much, he finally decided to agree to your request and exchange all the civilians of Juyang City for prisoners. ”

Hao Dong was particularly heavy when he said "cherish", and his irony was undoubtedly revealed, mocking Ding Kui's sentence that "disobedient leaders will die if they die"; moreover, he wanted to save face, so he had to say that he had agreed to Ding Kui's "request", not because of Ding Kui's threat, he picked up a bargain and sold it well.

"Okay, when?" Ding Kui didn't bother with Hao Dong that much.

"It will take two days to gather your people, and after three days, how do you want to change?"

In fact, Ding Kui didn't have much choice, "Just exchange between your camp and Hengfu City, you let half of the civilians come over, and I let half of the prisoners go over, until the last thousand prisoners, and both sides release people at the same time." ”

"Okay, no problem, then exchange in three days!" Hao Dong gestured downward.

"Escort the civilians back to the camp!" Lang Chun officially ordered.

The civilians, who had already walked into the archers and were holding the planks with blank faces, were driven back to the camp by their own troops.

"The siege is still going on, is Ding Juma planning to go into battle in person?" Hao Dong did not leave immediately.

"Hmph, there will be a chance!" This time it was Ding Kui who flicked his sleeves and left.

"Take the prisoner back to his cell. He returned to the castle tower and ordered.

"Master, do you want to take special care of those captives?" Ding Cai heard the whole negotiation process.

"Pick a thousand of them out and take care of them, and be careful to cut off contact with other captives, for you won't be able to exchange with us so smoothly. Ding Kui understood what this dog leg meant.

"Okay!" Ding Cai ran down happily. He had been a captive of Ding Kui, and that feeling he didn't want to try again in his life, but it didn't prevent him from letting others try.

The siege continued, but with a little less intensity than at the beginning.

Shaodianluan's green jade fingers were combing Ding Kui's eyebrows, "Didn't you negotiate with the enemy, why do you still look like this?"

Ding Kui simply closed his eyes and let his wife tinker, and leaned out his spiritual power to observe the situation on the battlefield, "There is a reason for the changes on the battlefield, anyway, there are no civilians as cannon fodder, Jikou should strengthen the attack, and if you strive to break through Hengfu City within three days, you don't have to exchange with me, but on the contrary, they weakened the offensive, and there is a name behind this." ”

"Maybe it's because they're tired, and they won't be able to take the city wall for a while. ”

"It's different, it's not like that. Ding Kui is sure that his feelings are not wrong.

"What are you afraid of, according to your words, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. ”

Before Shaodianluan's words could speak, his hand was grabbed by Ding Kui, "What?

"Yes, didn't you say that?" Shao Dianluan thought about it and didn't feel that he was wrong.

"Well, it's not that you're wrong, but you're right! You reminded me that the enemy is most likely coming up from the water. Ding Kui looked down the Hope River.

"Ah!" Shaodian Luan opened his mouth wide, and immediately understood what Ding Kui meant, "They can drive the warship into the Hope River and use the boat to build a pontoon bridge, which can reduce the damage of the city defense." ”

"Dachuan, please come over to Zhong Wei. ”

Although he didn't see an enemy ship downstream, Ding Kui knew that Shaodianluan's guess was not wrong.

One of the characteristics of the Hope River is that it cannot be blocked by shipwrecks, because the shipwrecks will not only sink to the bottom of the river, but will continue to sink until they sink into the mud at the bottom of the river, as is the case with most rivers in the Everglades.

"Our ships are no match for our own ships. Zhong Wei rushed to hear Ding Kui's speculation, and he was also thinking hard about countermeasures.

"When the enemy ships are approaching, they set all the ships on fire and cross the river, and drag them through for three days. ”

As soon as Ding Kui was ruthless enough to give up all the ships that the territory had worked so hard to build, Zhong Wei and Qian Bu, Xue Chong, Fei Ze and others who came to hear the news were all distressed.

"But after three days, when we return to civilians, we will also have to face the enemy's warships. "Zhong Wei is the most reluctant to those new ships.

"The lord thinks there will be variables in three days?" Fei Ze keenly caught the meaning of Ding Kui's words.

"Well, I'm not sure, at a normal speed, the Eighth Legion should be able to reach Kada City in three days, and, yes, it's really hard to say. There is also a possibility that Ding Kui did not say it.