"Master, Master, there is an urgent report", just when the battle was about to break out, a dirty-clothed disciple separated everyone and shouted all the way to rush into the field, and he didn't bother to salute the two helmsmen, so he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lin Hu. Lin Hu took the letter and glanced at it, only to see five blood marks on the envelope, knowing that this was the most important secret mark in the beggar gang, all of which were used for extremely urgent matters, he didn't care about fighting with Cheng Bin at this time, and hurriedly opened the envelope and looked at it carefully.

After reading it, Lin Hu immediately handed out his credit hand with a gloomy face, and motioned for Cheng Bin to come over to read the letter, Cheng Bin was slightly surprised, but he knew that Lin Hu was an upright man, and he was not afraid that he would take advantage of his reading of the letter to carry out a sneak attack, so he calmly stepped forward to take the letter and watch. Cheng Bin's face was also heavy after reading the letter, and he didn't say anything for a while. I only heard Lin Hu speak: "Inform Lord Lu of this matter as soon as possible, and how to act in the future will be discussed by you and me before making plans." Cheng Bin nodded and replied: "That's it, let's go."

The disciples of the two factions gathered here were all inexplicable, why didn't the two masters who were originally tense not fight like this. Zhang Jingting saw that Lin and Cheng seemed to be planning to leave, he thought to himself that he had the advantage today, just to suppress and suppress the arrogance of the dirty clothes faction, how could he stop here, he stepped forward and cautiously probed: "How to deal with this matter, please ask the master to show me." Cheng Bin was about to move, and when he heard his question, he turned around and said angrily: "Everyone dispersed quickly, if anyone dares to cause trouble again, they will not be spared when I come back." Zhang Jingting knew that the master had always been kind to people, and if his tone was not good at this time, something big must have happened, he was a person who knew how to read words and feelings, so he hurriedly retreated, and dispersed in an instant when he greeted all the junior brothers and sisters. Here, Lin Hu also repelled the dirty-clothed disciples gathered on the spot, and walked away with Cheng Bin all the way.

Wei Qing returned to his residence with Cao Lu, he had suffered some flesh and skin injuries, and it was not a big deal to simply smear some blood and muscle building medicine, but he knew that today's disputes were all caused by himself, and he couldn't help but wonder how to punish Lin Hu after he came back. After dinner, another two hours passed, and Lin Hu returned to the rudder when it was completely dark, and then blasted all the disciples out of the bed and called everyone to discuss the matter. Wei Qing stood in the crowd and saw that Lin Hu's face was so gloomy that he was about to drip water, and made up his mind that no matter how the master punished him, he must accept it calmly, and never make the master angry again, who knew that Lin Hu waited until everyone gathered, sighed, and then said: "I received the news that your second senior brother came back from the north, and the Jurchen Tartars were about to go south, and your second senior brother disguised himself into the Tartar camp in order to find out the truth, and was later discovered by Fangou, he desperately fled back to the Song Realm, and after sending the letter out, he choked his breath."

Everyone heard that the same door died in battle, they were all silently sad, and several disciples who were particularly good friends with the second senior brother cried even more, although Wei Qing had a short time at the beginning, and he didn't know this senior brother who had been sneaking into the north, but now he was moved by the atmosphere, and he couldn't help but be full of grief and indignation when he thought of what happened to his parents and the whole village. Lin Hu said with red eyes and a loud voice: "From tomorrow, everyone will begin to assist the garrison in Benzhou to repair the garrison and maintain law and order, the Jurchen Tartars are used to planting spies into the city, the officers and soldiers are all in the open, it is difficult to guard against spies with makeup, but the disciples of this gang are all over the city, the big guys have opened their eyes for me, pay more attention to the faces that have recently entered the city, don't let the Tartars slip under your nose", he paused and said quickly: " When the Tartar army crushes the city, the gang will also be put into the defense of the city as a reserve army, and if anyone is greedy for life and afraid of death and retreats from the battle, and ruins the name of the beggar gang, Lao Tzu will not spare him." All the disciples in the hall agreed loudly, and Wei Qing also secretly said in his heart: The Tartar is finally coming, and now that he has learned martial arts, this time he has to slaughter a few dogs to avenge his parents.

Lin Hu nodded and began to assign people, who would help carry the guards, who would help dredge the moat, who would monitor a certain street, and when all the divisions were completed, it was already early in the morning, and then everyone was ordered to rest. Wei Qing and Cao Lu were sent to collect feces from various households in the city, he was puzzled by this arrangement, and felt a little dissatisfied in his heart, could he still use dung to stink Jin Bing to death, but it was inconvenient to question when there were many people, and he didn't ask Cao Lu until he returned to the room. Cao Lu liked to boast in front of Wei Qing, and immediately said proudly: "Brother Qing, you are the first time to help defend the city, but it is no wonder that you don't understand the mystery, fortunately you know me, otherwise you would have moved the stinky dung for a long time, but you still don't know its use." He stopped when he said this, and he didn't wait for Wei Qing to ask again and again before explaining: "This dung has another nickname called gold juice, which is very useful when defending the city, and you think about it, the Tartars who are injured in the siege of the city may not necessarily die, and they can go into battle after a few days of healing, but if they are boiled with water mixed with water, and they are poured on his head, even if they are not scalded to death on the spot, but the wound is stained with dirt, where can they still live."

Wei Qing suddenly realized, nodded again and again, although he was reluctant to pick up stinky dung, but he thought that if he could help defend the city and kill a few more Tartars, he would not say anything more. Cao Lu talked about it very quickly, and continued to talk to Wei Qing about other ways to defend the city, such as putting lime into clay pots to make so-called silver bottles, finding blind people to use large vats half-buried in the ground to listen to sounds to discern whether the other party was digging tunnels, and hanging bells on the city wall at night to prevent the enemy from stealing the city, and so on. Wei Qing had never heard of these methods of defending the city, and chatted with Cao Lu until his eyelids were almost unable to open before falling asleep.

In the following days, both the military and the people of the entire city of Lu'an fell into a hurry, a large number of stones and logs were transported to the city wall or piled up on the side of the city wall, and even the door panels of many people's houses were dismantled and transported to the city wall to be erected as anti-arrow stacks. The houses outside the city were also demolished cleanly, a large number of people rushed into the city to take refuge, and were selected by the government to settle in a few places in the city, and most of the people who took refuge because of the urgency of time, most of them only carried a little food and bedding, and at night they could only gather together in the autumn wind to keep warm, and the whole night was full of the crying of calling for children and daughters, and the tragic situation was very pitiful. In order to prevent the people who fled into the city from starving to death and causing civil strife, Jiedu asked Lu Deng to set up several porridge factories in the city to help the refugees, but considering that the siege of the Jin soldiers was imminent, the first thing to ensure was the rations of the soldiers defending the city, and the only ones that were distributed were porridge that could count the grains of rice.

Half a month later, the official army Tanma finally reported back the news that the Jin soldiers had camped five miles outside the city, led by Wanyan Zonghan, the second prince of the Jin State, and the deputy marshal of the left of the official residence, with more than 50,000 people. There were less than 10,000 defenders in Lu'an City, and Lu Deng saw that Jin's troops were strong, so he did not dare to send troops out of the city to meet the battle, and the whole division retreated into the city with the intention of waiting for reinforcements. On that day, the Jin soldiers did not immediately attack the city after camping, and after resting for one night, they marched to the city on the second day.

Wei Qing and Cao Lu were assigned to the north city wall to help defend the city, Wei Qing looked at it from afar, only to see a large area of black pressed golden soldiers, infantry in front and cavalry behind, divided into several phalanxes neatly lined up hundreds of steps away from the city, where can you count how many people. After a while, only the whining horn sound was heard from the golden soldiers, and hundreds of soldiers without armor rushed out, each carrying a large bag, running to the edge of the city and throwing it into the moat, and then turned around and ran without looking. Cao Lu whispered to Wei Qing: "These are auxiliary soldiers whose lives are worthless, and after they fill in a road from the moat, they will really attack the city."

The Song generals at the head of the city shouted the order to release the arrows, and the crossbowmen began to shoot at the city, and Wei Qing and Cao Lu squatted under the battlements to help load the crossbow arrows. Wei Qing was puzzled: "Why don't officers and soldiers use bows and arrows, although this crossbow is powerful, but it is very troublesome to load, how can there be a bow and arrow to shoot fast", Cao Lu replied while working: "How can ordinary people learn to shoot arrows without two or three years, this crossbow, you can make it with a little learning", Wei Qing scratched his head and said: "Is it difficult to learn archery, my father is a hunter, I have been able to shoot arrows since I was a child, and I don't think it is so difficult."

Cao Lu shook his head in disbelief, and was about to ridicule each other, only to hear the sound of horns outside the city again, Wei Qing hurriedly probed to take a look, only to see that a section of the moat had been filled with cloth bags, and there were more than a dozen corpses left between the two armies. Cao Lu pulled Wei Qing back from behind and said, "You don't want to die, after filling the trench, the ants should be attached, and the archers of the golden dog should come up to shoot and cover immediately, and the Tartar archery is accurate and ruthless."

Before Cao Lu's words fell, he only heard a bang, and a feathered arrow was shooting at the door panel temporarily arranged behind Wei Qing to prevent arrows, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling. The commander of the Song generals shouted and ordered the crossbowmen to stand up and shoot, and from time to time someone at the head of the city was hit by a stray arrow from the city, and the lightly wounded were hastily bandaged and then continued to fight, and the seriously injured or killed were carried down the city by the people to deal with it.

Wei Qing and Cao Lu also followed the Song soldiers defending the city to throw down the pre-prepared wooden rolling stones, and several Jin soldiers who climbed in front were immediately hit and rolled down. After a long battle between the two sides, the battle became more and more tense, and finally a golden soldier jumped on the top of the city, wielding a knife to cut down a Song soldier guarding the battlements to the ground, and several other Song soldiers next to him rushed up and immediately hacked the golden soldier to death. But in this slightly chaotic time, a few more golden soldiers took the opportunity to jump onto the city wall, and they were not in a hurry to advance along the city wall, but raised their shields to form a circle to cover more companions behind to climb up the city.

The Song army immediately gathered to besiege the Jin soldiers who climbed to the top of the city, but these Jin soldiers who climbed first were extremely brave, covering each other to defend their positions, although the Song soldiers at the head of the city were numerous, but it was difficult to give full play to the advantage of numbers in this square inch, and these Jin soldiers who climbed first were wearing double-layer iron armor, even if they were stabbed a few times, as long as they were not injured to the point, it was no big deal, and several anxious Song soldiers got too close to the cover of their companions, but were cut to the ground.

Wei Qing saw that more Jin soldiers were climbing up from here along the ladder, he was in a hurry to pick up a big knife that fell to the ground, regardless of whether he would use it or not, he yelled and was about to rush up desperately, suddenly a big hand grabbed his arm strongly, he looked back and saw that it was Master Lin Hu who arrived, he grabbed Wei Qing with one hand, and held a thick iron rod with a thick bowl in the other, and roared majestically: "Get out of the way in front, follow me in the back."