Da Wei Chun

Chapter 176
In Jingzhou city.

The city walls are densely packed with people.It's not just folks, there are not only old people and women, but even children of seven or eight years old.

Those who carry firewood carry firewood, those who carry water carry water, and those who carry stones and wood carry stones and wood.

Looking into the city, seven of the ten families have been demolished into ruins, and all the dismantled wood and stones have been transported to the top of the city.

It's not that Hu Shichang, the governor of Jingzhou, has strong organizational skills, but that the guards and civilian husbands can see every day what the rioters are eating dozens of steps away from the city...

An eight or nine-year-old boy was walking down the city with great difficulty while holding a stone bigger than his head.Suddenly felt a pain in his head, the boy let out a scream of "Ouch", and there was a horse on the spot.

Fortunately, I didn't hit my foot.

When he saw what fell on the boy's head, an old man behind him screamed, "Arrow?"

When the rebels first attacked the city, the city was full of arrows flying randomly every day, many guards and civilian husbands were hit by arrows, the old man still remembers it vividly.

But I haven't seen it for nearly a month. Why did the thieves suddenly start shooting arrows again?

The old man looked up, and when he saw no more arrows coming, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he lowered his head again, ready to see how the boy was injured.But he found that the half-grown child had got up and was tearing apart something with the arrow shaft in his hand.

On closer inspection, it seemed that there was no injury, only a lump was swollen at the place where the arrow had been shot.

"It counts your life, kid, roll up if you're not hurt... don't tear it apart, send the arrows to the city, you can exchange for a bowl of porridge if you gather three arrows..." The old man smiled and kicked the boy.

"Haha... how can it be just a bowl of porridge?" The boy let out a strange cry, raised the things in his hand, and shouted at the woman behind, "A family (mother), I picked up a piece of silk..."

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, both official and private, silk scarves were used as currency.When encountering a small transaction, it can only be cut and used.As long as it is not smaller than one foot, you can do numbers.

No matter how much this piece can be more than two feet, if it is a normal day, it can be exchanged for two catties of millet...

The old man standing next to the boy is the leader of this team of civilian husbands. The woman dared not run over to see, but exclaimed in surprise: "Is it really silk?"

"Fool!" The old man slapped the boy lightly on the head again, and scolded with a smile, "Even if it's really silk, you can't keep it private, don't you look at the words on it? It must be a letter of persuasion shot by the thieves, and you have to hand it over." went up."

As he spoke, he snatched the silk letter.

The young man was aggrieved and wanted to curl his lips, but when he was about to cry, the old man was taken aback.

There are not only densely packed small characters on the silk scarf, but also a bright red seal.

The imprint is square and square, one inch in size, no accident, it should be an official seal.

Where did the thieves get such a thing?
It's not like I haven't picked up letters of persuasion shot into the city before, but most of them are linen, not silk scarves.There is no seal on it, and the writing is also crooked, how can it be so regular?
The old man guessed, and then shouted to a yamen servant who maintained order not far away: "Xu Licao, just take a look, what is written on it?"

The yamen servant looked up, and asked suspiciously as he walked past, "Where did you come from?"

"The one shot from the city... was picked up by the kid..."

"I'm afraid it's a demon book..."

Just half a sentence, the yamen servant was taken aback.

He has been an official for so long, how could he not even recognize the official seal?
Moreover, he is also literate.

The five characters printed on that chapter are clearly: "Longdong Commandery Wei Seal"!
Looking at the content again, the yamen servant trembled all over, his eyes popped out.

This silk letter was actually written by Hu Baozong, Lieutenant of Longdong County, to Governor Hu.

And the content is just unbelievable...

"Bring...bring..." The yamen servant was so startled that he didn't even seem to be able to speak, he snatched the silk scarf and shouted, "Look for it again, it must be more than this one... ...Whoever finds it will be rewarded..."

Shouting, the yamen servant turned his head and ran towards the top of the city, but he ran too fast and fell down after a somersault.

When he got up, he seemed to have broken his nose, and his face was covered in blood.

The yamen servant didn't even feel any pain at all, so he got up and continued to run, shouting as he ran: "Mr. County, good news..."

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South City.

Li Shixian was all in armor, leaning on the battlements, looking at the rebellious barracks tens of feet away with a face as dark as water, with a gloomy and fierce light flashing in his eyes from time to time.

After a while, he heard footsteps behind him, and he turned around.

It was the eldest son, Li Chenghong, who came, just looking at his appearance, he was [-] to [-]% similar to Li Shixian and Li Chengzhi.

But looking at the temperament again, it seems that the world is far apart?
He has neither the coldness and majesty of his father, nor the handsomeness of his brother, and his face is full of honesty and loyalty.

Li Shixian pinched his chin and asked suspiciously: "The thieves in the south are not filling the city today?"

Li Chenghong went out to get some food, and replied, "It should be resting, or changing strategy...Father, listen, although the south city is quiet, the momentum of the east city and the north city seems to be three points stronger than before?"

It's more than three points, this is five or six miles away, the killing sound is still deafening, the offensive is probably more than twice as strong as before.

If the battle is like this every day, how long can this Jingzhou City hold on?

Thinking of this, Li Shixian suddenly felt a bit of hostility in his chest: This Jingzhou has been besieged for two months, so the imperial court's soldiers should have climbed there, right?

Why doesn't God send down a thunderbolt to kill these sons of bitches?
Just as he was secretly hating, he saw the eldest son handing over a piece of bean cake.

Li Shixian took it and gnawed it. Thanks to his good teeth, a piece of dry biscuit was cracked by his bite, and the crumbs of the cake flew around.

Not to mention cake scum, Li Chenghong would never be surprised even if sparks were gnawed out.

Knowing that his father was starting to sulk again, Li Chenghong didn't dare to make a sound, but silently handed over the water bag.

"Huide... Huaide?" A shout came from a distance, but Li Shixian just gnawed on his own cake without even raising his head.

Li Shixian dared to behave like this, but Li Chenghong didn't dare to be rude, he quickly got up, and raised his fist at the person coming: "Junjun!"

Hu Duo couldn't help laughing: Li Shixian obviously only held a piece of cake, but he looked at his posture as if he was holding the head of an enemy, so he gnawed on it and gritted his teeth?
"Annoyed your father again?"

He pretended to reprimand, and threw two things to Li Chenghong, "Take it and cut everything..."

As he spoke, he took two steps forward, Da Ma sat down beside Li Shixian, reached out his hand into his arms, took out a porcelain altar, and handed it forward: "Good stuff..."

You can tell just by the smell that the jar is filled with wine, and seeing Li Chenghong unwrapping the paper bag, it turns out to be a piece of dried meat and an air-dried chicken.

The two had been defending the southern city together for two months, and Hu Duo could find such good things from time to time, without exception, they were all obtained from Governor Hu.

Li Shixian snatched it, and poured down half the altar in one breath, and then let out a long breath: "It's all people's fat!"

I know that he has such a character: if you want to take advantage, you will never stop talking strangely!

Hu Duo was not angry either, but came to snatch the wine jar dumbfounded: "Then don't drink it!"

Li Shixian hid for a while, and took the opportunity to take another two sips: "One sip is one sip, God knows if the next drink will be poured on the grave by the children and grandchildren?"

Hu Duo's expression darkened, and the hand outstretched in the air seemed to be frozen.

After a long time, I heard him sigh: "I went to Beicheng, and the attack of the rebels is more than twice as strong? There are rebels all over the sky, rushing down the city like crazy?
According to Shi Jun, the same is true in the East City. In just half a day, there are three or four thousand dead bodies piled up under the city. The pile is actually higher than the soil carried by the rioters?If the attack continues like this, within ten days, the city will be destroyed..."

"How much did you say? Three or four thousand people died in just half a day?" Li Shixian raised his eyebrows, "There are only so many rioting soldiers and people in this city. If they die like this, how can they persist for ten days..."

Halfway through speaking, Li Shixian gave a sharp pause and asked in a surprised voice: "It's just the rioters, what about the soldiers?"

"Soldiers?" Hu Duo frowned and thought for a while, "there are only soldiers in charge of guarding civilians under the city, and there is no increase. On the contrary, there is a lot of smoke and dust in the military camp in the distance, and it seems that a large number of soldiers are moving out..."

Move out?
Li Shixian stood up suddenly, and asked in surprise: "Is it going west?"

"How do you know?" Now it was Hu Duo's turn to be surprised.

There is a full distance of five or six miles between the north and south city walls, can Li Shixian still be clairvoyant?
Li Shixian pulled Hu Duo to the edge of the battlements, pointed to the southern camp of the rebels and said: "Since the afternoon, a large group of soldiers have been dispatched from the bandit camp in Nancheng. Judging by the smoke and dust, there are at least tens of thousands of them, and they are all facing west." and go.

I just thought that the bandit soldiers must have bypassed the west city and transferred to the north city and east city, so the momentum of the east city and the north city was so strong, but the bandit soldiers under the south city had died down.

But you said, under the North City and the East City, the soldiers are still the same soldiers, and the people are still the same people. What about the transferred soldiers? "

"That's right, where are the soldiers?" Hu Duo was a little confused, and his face changed drastically, "They all headed west. Could it be that they went to fight the West City?"

Hit your feathers?
Li Sixian almost scolded.

"It's so close, if we really hit, even if we can't see clearly, you and I can't hear the movement? Listen, is it as silent as my Nancheng?"

Hu Duo was puzzled: "Where can it go?"

"The bandit chief dispatched troops to the west in such a hurry and so many? But the rioters are rushing to attack the east city and the north city?"

Li Shixian's eyes became brighter and brighter, "Isn't this a plan to knock the mountain and shake the tiger?"

Hu Duo was shocked, his eyeballs protruded from the shock, and even his tongue seemed to be unable to straighten it: "You mean, reinforcements are coming from the west?"

"How is that possible?" He yelled strangely again, "The frontier army in Gaoping Town must guard against Rouran, and they will not move lightly. Liangzhou soldiers must not only defend against Rouran in the north, but also defend Gaochang in the west and Tugu in the south. Hun and Dang Xiang are too busy to take care of themselves, how can they come to rescue me in Jingzhou? Even if there are reinforcements, they will only come from the east..."

Li Sixian stared with tiger eyes: "How could I know?"

When he said this, he was also a little shaken in his heart: what Hu Duo said was very reasonable, and he probably guessed wrong...

The two were wondering when they heard commotion in the inner city. When they looked up, they saw a fast horse galloping towards them.The soldiers and civilian husbands under the city are quickly avoiding.

Taking a closer look, there was actually a fiery red triangular flag on the knight's back?
The military is on fire...

Before Ma Du arrived at the city, he heard the commanding soldiers on the horse yelling anxiously: "Mr. Shi urgently ordered, please go to Beicheng to discuss matters with Junjun Hu and General Li..."

Deliberation?

Why not go to the state government office or the county government office, but on the city wall?

Eighty percent of the mobilized bandits gathered under the North City... Are the bandits going to attack at night?

The faces of the two changed drastically...

(End of this chapter)