Shu Blossoms

Chapter 70: All People Prepare for War
At sunset, more and more people flocked to the north gate.

At this time, the battle was over at the beginning of the day, the north gate was in a mess, and the walls were full of traces left by the siege.

Many wounded soldiers were moved under the city wall and simply bandaged, and their cries of pain could be heard everywhere.

Liao Wennan followed the doctor around the city gate to treat the wounds of the soldiers.

She looked at the densely packed people on the main street and nodded secretly. Song Zaiyan was really quick to do things. Next, let's see how Zhao Yi, the provincial governor, can persuade these people to guard their homes together, instead of hurriedly fleeing and becoming a burden to defend the city.

It smells of blood, smoke, and even death.

Many people were a little panicked when they saw this scene. Mothers hugged their young children tightly, and fathers held their elderly parents tightly. They were afraid and uneasy inside.

They don't know or dare not think about what awaits them?
I just hope that someone can expel foreign enemies like the gods and save them from water and fire.

Therefore, when Zhao Yiyu was on the tower, the eyes of the people flashed with hope.

Even under the city, you can see a lot of blood stains and dust on Zhao Yi's face, but his body is like a straight spear standing fearlessly on the city gate. Frightened people.

His incomparably powerful aura gave the people of Qingzhou City a sense of security.

"People of Qingzhou City, I'm Zhao Yi, the governor of Qingzhou. I have something to say to the people in the city today." Zhao Yi waved his hand outside the city, "This morning, the Great Wei army passed through Yanzhou. After besieging Qingzhou City, we are now stationed twenty miles outside the city!"

The brave young man followed Zhao Yi's words and climbed up the city tower to look out. When they saw the scene outside the city, the panic on their faces turned into stunned, and then panicked.

The last tinge of blood-red afterglow fell on the horizon, and Wuyangyang's tens of thousands of iron cavalrymen, like a huge monster, swooped up at any time to devour them with their bloody mouths open.

Not far away, you can still see the curling smoke of the Wei army camping and cooking.

There are many Da Zhou soldiers who died tragically under the city wall outside the city. The blood on their bodies seeped into the ground, and they stared at the direction of the city tower with wide eyes, as if hoping that someone would bring them home!

In the end, they became dumbfounded, and they could even see the trembling of each other's bodies!
Gradually more and more people came up,
"Today, the Great Wei army is attacking our city gate madly. They want to come in and occupy our homeland, slaughter our relatives, and abduct our people as slaves and maids! Our soldiers resisted their attack and ushered in a short-lived time for us. Safety! But the cavalry of the Great Wei will make a comeback at any time! Do you want to become their slaves? Do you want to lose your family and children? Do you want to leave your hometown?!"

Zhao Yi excitedly asked loudly.

"I don't want to!" "I don't want to!" "We don't want to!"

Gradually someone in the crowd shouted, and then more and more people began to shout.

"Then what can we do?" "Is there no one to save us?"

"We don't want to die" "My child is still young!"

Questions and boundless panic ensued.

"Don't worry, we are not alone! Qingzhou is the gateway to the imperial court, and the imperial court will not give up on us!"

Suddenly, a sharp and high-pitched voice resounded through the tower, suppressing the restlessness of the crowd. They looked up at the tall man on the tower again, and he told everyone in a hoarse but firm voice, "I have already rushed for eight hundred miles a few days ago. Asking for help from the capital, the imperial court's [-] cavalry rush to Qingzhou at any time, our general Han Daoyuan has already led his [-] elite division to come to us! As long as all our soldiers and people work together to defend our army before the reinforcements arrive Home, keep the Great Wei army out of the city, victory must belong to us! You will also be heroes in Qingzhou's century-old history!"

"what can we do?"

"We are all ordinary people, we don't know how to fight!"

There was a sudden rough voice in the quiet crowd. As soon as these words came out, it seemed to express the concerns and worries in the hearts of the people. Countless people shouted, "We won't fight!"

"What can we women do?"

"Are we going to die?"

At this time, one person stood up from the tower, followed by two, three, ten, dozens of them. They were all soldiers of Qingzhou defending the city. Now they took off their helmets and looked at the people under the city with dust and vicissitudes on their faces.

Zhao Yi also took off his helmet and pointed at these soldiers and shouted: "Look, they are my soldiers, they all live with their hands and feet, and they eat the same food as you. Some of them are your sons and some are your children. Father! They are standing here to protect their relatives and villagers behind them! As long as you put on armor, hold weapons, and show your courage, you are all warriors just like them!"

"Yes, we may die in battle, but our father, wife and children will survive. If we are cowardly and run away, what is waiting for us! This spring, the Great Wei Army secretly instigated Dayan to raid my village outside Qingzhou. , kidnapped thousands of our people. These people should have your relatives and friends. Do you know how they were treated? There are many nobles in Dawei who like to keep slaves in captivity, especially our Han people. They were taken as slaves. Women were chained up and abused by them and gave birth to children for them, but the children were born slaves and were sold and whipped into slavery! And the men would be sold and sold for all kinds of hard labor, and finally Exhausted and beaten to death! Their lives are not as valuable as a beast in the Northern Wei Dynasty!"

"Do you want to be enslaved like cattle and horses, and finally tortured to death!"

"No! We want to live!"

"We're going to live!"

"We're going to fight!"

Under the excitement of the crowd, the blood in everyone's heart was ignited!
The night gradually deepened, and countless torches were lit on the city gates, lighting up the entire Qingzhou city!

The men, women and children in the city were all busy. The women brought food from their homes and built simple stoves to cook. The men were even more busy. They brought all kinds of stones from all over the city and threw them from the towers. The head of the big Weijun who is enough to go down is blooming!
The old people brought bowls of kerosene from their homes and poured them into the wooden barrels at the city gate, and used the kerosene to burn the demons who wanted to occupy their homes!

The oil shop, iron shop and grain shop in the city were forcibly requisitioned by Zhao Yi's troops, and he promised to write to the court after the war to double compensation!
The young and middle-aged men took off the armor from the dead soldiers and put them on their bodies, and replaced some of the soldiers to guard the city, allowing them to rest. By the way, they asked the veterans how to use long knives to chop down enemies who climbed the city wall, and how to throw stones to hit them. Heads of those people!

They are going to protect their homes and loved ones with their own hands!

(End of this chapter)