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He Jingzhen immediately rushed to the inner city to ask to see the emperor.A small hundred households, is the emperor something you can see whenever you want?However, the emperor became a fortune teller at this time, as if he had already calculated when he would come, and left a message to the inner city guard—this person came and went as he wanted.Once you enter the Imperial Study Room, you will see the emperor and pay the royal ceremony. The emperor briefly explained the current situation and asked him if he had any countermeasures. He also briefly stated his preliminary judgment.When he came out of the imperial study, he became the general of the guard, and he was ordered to control the imperial army when he was in danger. He acted cheaply and defended the capital.

Liuyang is a big city with a population of no less than [-]. It is so prosperous in peacetime, and the property and family that the people have saved for three or four generations will be destroyed by war, and they will be displaced.Start all over again?How can I stand up to such repeated tossing!

Butchers for officials are different. They don’t have any worries about escaping. They have a lot of money, and they can buy it again if they don’t have it.

Fundamentally speaking, the common people are more reliable than hundreds of officials, the imperial army, and even these miscellaneous reinforcements. They have the desire to defend their homes and the country, and they have the determination to fight to the death and coexist with the city. What they lack is organization and experience.

Therefore, after the General Guard took office, he issued three orders in a row: the first order to collect grain—to mobilize the people in the city to transport all the grain and fodder from several large warehouses outside Liuyang City; Go to the nine cities to defend the city, and those who have military exploits will surpass them on the spot; those who know the soldiers of the three orders go to the east of the city to register their names and wait for call.

This is preparation for a big battle and a tough one. The 20 enemy troops have attacked the confidant's place, and they are about to stab them in with a knife to kill them. How can the country survive if the country is destroyed?Hundreds of thousands of people stayed up all night, guarding the city and preparing for war, preparing to live and die with the city.

That night, He Jingzhen summoned the nine city defense governors, and he saved all the big talk and empty talk, and said that all the wives, children, old and young are in the city. Once the city is broken, it is very likely that the whole city will be slaughtered with Liu Jianzhong's murderous spirit when he entered Shu. , even if it is not for the survival of the country, but also for the prosperity of the family, please spare no effort to defend the city!

He knows all the people he said.Knowing that he also said that the meaning is beyond words, the intention is to pour a spoonful of cold water to extinguish some "lucky" thoughts.For example, let go of the city defense at the last moment, surrender the stronger side, and don't ask for anything else, just ask the enemy to show mercy and spare a few lives of the family.For another example, if you slapped and slapped to see if you couldn't do it, you quickly turned around and "hugged your thick legs".It's best not to think about these thoughts, and think more about what kind of guy Liu Jianzhong is, so as not to get dizzy, hold his farts and buttocks, and end up with "both ends are stinking, and both ends are not pleasing".

The nine city defense governors unanimously thought of Liu Jianzhong's countless "killing and surrendering" cases, and shivered unanimously.Those who were not right in their minds, at this time, answered in a dazed manner: "Then... According to the general, this battle... What are our chances of winning?"

He Jingzhen glanced at him, and said slowly: "Not even [-]%.

He was so straightforward that the person who asked the question immediately choked, thinking: Surrendering is death, defending is death, why not...before the Shu and Qiang army besieged the city, just leave this mess and run away...

The minds of these people are simply too easy to understand.On the eve of the country's fall and the city's destruction, there is always a lot of small calculations of "giving up everyone and caring for the little family".He smiled slightly, and added: "Don't be discouraged, there is still a glimmer of life here."

"Oh? Where is the lifeline? The general might as well tell it!" His eyes, which were cold just now, became hot again, chasing his face to look for clues of "a glimmer of lifeline".

"If the top and bottom are of the same mind and form a group, civil officials don't love money, and military generals don't hesitate to die, maybe it will be possible."

"..."

All right.Civil officials don't care about money, and generals don't hesitate to die.Is it practical?

Half of the civil servants in the Zhou Dynasty loved money, and the remaining half either did not dare to love or could not love.As for the military generals, at least one-third of the chaos in the family background was reversed, and the remaining two-thirds, half of them were "following the wind", and they were not afraid of death? !

Therefore, it is still a deadlock that cannot be broken.

The few eyes looking for "a glimmer of life" on his face slowly cooled down again at this time.

No matter how many bright and dark thoughts are hidden in this dangerous city, what should come will always come.In the early morning of the next day, 20 troops from Shu and Qiang came to the city, together with those rebels who opened the city to make it easier for the enemy. It's like an iron bucket.The ground trembled slightly as the human legs and horse legs ran. 30 people camped outside the city, and the offensive and defensive sides faced each other across a moat and a city wall.The siege party wants to fight quickly, and it is not a joke for a lone army to go deep into the enemy's territory. Once a group of troops from the Zhou Dynasty comes over and cuts off their back route, burns their food and grass, and then comes to attack ruthlessly—fortify the walls and clear the fields along the way, half If no food is left for them, these tens of thousands of people will be left hanging.So when they came up, they attacked fiercely, and the heavy artillery (catapult) used for the siege was set up, and huge boulders were smashed on the city wall one by one.The city wall of Liuyang City is built with blue gold bricks and stones, it is three feet thick, and the city is more than ten miles away, it is as solid as gold, with few flaws.Except for a crenel in the east of the city.Due to repeated mistakes in the construction of this crenel, no matter how it was built, it was not perfect. No matter how many skilled craftsmen could think of a way to make up the imperfection, so they had to build a high platform on it, and put a huge crossbow and cannon on it. , Try to use utensils to make up for this incompleteness.

It is this crenel that He Jingzhen wants to guard.The rebels had exposed the weakness of Liuyang City's defense early in the morning, and the heavy artillery continued to greet this unsatisfactory place.After a burst of heavy artillery, the siege crowd rolled up.The city wall was too high, so the Shu and Qiang army specially built a "goose cart" to transport people.This thing stands upright like a goose, gradually narrowing from bottom to top, with a four-wheel block underneath, and the whole body is stretched with cowhide, and the outside is painted with a layer of black paint, so that water and fire cannot enter.A group of several goose carts cover each other and respond to each other. Once they touch the city wall, the people inside will climb up along the long goose necks, and when they climb out, they will directly fight hand-to-hand with the defenders.He Jingzhen arranged for young and middle-aged men recruited from the common people to guard the wall and poke the goose cart with a long pole. The neck of the thing was so long that it was out of balance.If you find the right position, if one falls down, it can also bring down the others next to it, one after another.The method is good, but don't forget that this is a disparate battle of 30 against 30 (to be more precise, it is more than 1000 men, women, old and young against [-] elite soldiers). Surrounded up layer by layer, it is not bad to have a few people who kill the city wall in one trip, and a few more trips, the number of attackers and defenders is basically the same.When encountering each other on a narrow road on a high platform, the bow/crossbow/can't be used at close range, and it's just a fight.Half a day later, one-third of the more than [-] people He Jingzhen brought from Ding County were lost, and the rest became people of blood, unable to tell whether it was the enemy's blood or his own blood.At this time, the gates of all the cities were tense, and there was nowhere to spare manpower to reinforce the crenel that was riddled with heavy artillery.

As the guard general, He Jingzhen had already made up his big idea - if he couldn't hold it, all the others would withdraw, and he alone would hold the fire and ignite the fuze, blowing up the crenel and the rocks beside the crenel.In this way, the collapsed rocks and piles of corpses can also serve as a barrier for a while, delaying the moment when the city is broken.When he took such a big idea, he would not discuss it with anyone, and the witch god who had just been sent back to the southwest by his "white note" did not need to discuss it.If you can't pay back what you owe in this life, then you have to let the "white bill" hit you in the next life.He couldn't even think of negotiating with such a big creditor, and there was no need for others to negotiate.Senior brother Zhou took his family fortune out, and the big waves he attracted were in the final analysis because of this incomprehensible senior brother. In the end, it might just be nothing.Empty is empty in a confession that has never been spoken, a deep heart that has not been sent.The younger brother has a heart filled with "the world is peaceful, and all things are peaceful".If it is so small, how can it get over it?

Another round of heavy artillery bombarded, and one corner of the high platform was collapsed, and the whole fell to the southwest.When he was looking for ropes to stabilize, he found that all the ropes were used to defend against the enemy.There was a dying muffled sound from the high platform with missing corners.He Jingzhen killed a group of enemy soldiers, and began to unarmor after withdrawing. The surviving soldiers all did the same thing as him - unarmor.There are two living eyes on the top of the armor, which can be interlocked.In an instant, hundreds of armors were buckled together with one pair of hands, and passed on with another pair of hands, tied to the half-broken southwestern support pillar, and forcibly pulled up the high platform that was about to fall.Without the armor, the enemy pawns attack with chaotic knives, and what they cut is the flesh. The sharp blades, not to mention the middle, can immediately pull out scary bloody gashs even with a small scratch.A bigger wave of attack is coming, focusing on the southwestern corner that will not be tilted.The team deployed in the northeast corner could have stood by and helped each other with the southwest corner, but Xu Ao, who was in command of the northeast corner, suddenly led his troops back, revealing a big hole for the enemy to exploit, and He Jingzhen was caught off guard. Defense, almost let the enemy tear the line of defense.

There are all kinds of people guarding this crenel, including the imperial army and reinforcements, as well as the people in the city, and maybe there are spies from all walks of life. They have many and mixed thoughts. When they see someone leading the way, they immediately start to move, and some take the opportunity to retreat. Some took advantage of the chaos to fish, and some stood still. Seeing that the formation was about to become chaotic, He Jingzhen drew an arrow from his quiver and shot it vigorously.With an arrow piercing his heart, Xu Ao fell from the high platform and fell to pieces.Seeing this all of a sudden, my frivolous mind was frightened, and I restrained myself a little.He Jingzhen knocked down an enemy soldier who rushed forward, and shouted: "When the country is in danger and the city is in danger, who dares to retreat!" Then he drew a bloody long knife to draw the ground as a boundary, "Use this as a boundary, quit Outsiders, behead!!".Defending the family and defending the country is what the people of the people want, and most of the soldiers and civilians echoed his order, and the sound shook the field.The twitching thoughts jumped a few times, and gradually became smaller, most of them were destroyed, and the immortal ones had to be reckoned with each other.