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    ———————————— The “bang bang” banging sound of the city gate resounded through the night sky. The booming sounds seemed to knock on the hearts of the people in the city, making their heartbeats follow the rush of cars outside the city.  The rhythm beats.  △After the previous impact, their hearts also rose to their throats. They took a deep breath and held their breath. It was not until the moment the city car hit the city gate again that they let out a long sigh and their hearts beat violently.  After a while, when the sound of impact subsided, the heart that had just dropped rose again. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? It is tormenting, and so frightening, that life is worse than death.  But the reason why they were worried was actually that they didn't want to die, for fear that the army outside the city would rush into the city and kill and plunder wantonly, thereby endangering their own lives.  Ants are greedy for life, let alone humans?  Just as they were cautiously paying attention to the knocking sound outside the West City Gate, there was a knocking sound outside the window, both from their own door and from the neighboring houses. The streets and alleys were filled with knocking sounds.  The moment they heard the knock on the door, all the people living in Ping'an Lane in Nancheng were excited. Almost all the heads of households (men in charge of the household) climbed to the lattice windows and peered through the walnut-sized holes to see what was going on outside.  Then they saw the prefect and a group of officials from the county government office, and then the eldest son of the old Zhang family on the street bravely opened the door. The prefect said a few words to him, and Zhang Da turned around and returned home without saying a word.  After a while, he came out with a shovel and followed the prefect.  Seeing this scene, the common people who were peeping at the windows all understood that it turned out that the prefect and his subordinates came here to recruit strong men to defend the city.  This situation has been relatively rare in recent years. This is because Yingchuan County is under the jurisdiction of the Jin State.  Since the third year of Jian'an, there has been no war in Yingchuan and even Yuzhou.  But before that, it was not uncommon to knock on the door in the middle of the night to recruit young men to defend the city.  You can meet them almost once every three days.  Therefore, the people of Yangzhai City are not unfamiliar with this.  “In the past, people were not keen on this kind of thing.  After all, people will die in war. Once the men in the family are handed over to help defend the city, it will be okay if they can defend it. But if the city falls, everyone involved in defending the city will die, and no one will be spared.  In addition, they had nothing at that time. The family was destitute and had no overnight food.  I’ve had one meal but not the next. After today, I don’t know where I will be tomorrow.  Therefore, they did not care whether the city would fall. Anyway, no matter who occupied the city, they would not have a good life, so it did not matter who occupied the city.  But tonight is different from the past, or this time is different from the past.  Now, after four or five years of stable life, they have been allocated land again.  Almost every household has built a new house and is living a good life with no worries about food and clothing. The family also has savings, even if they don't farm for a year.  Nor will he starve to death.  Therefore, whether the city falls or not is closely related to their wealth and lives. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is closely related.     after all.  The good days now are hard-won, and the people cherish them very much.  It can be said that you cherish your life. At this time, someone is attacking the city.  It's like they don't want them to live a stable life and want to take away the food they have worked so hard to save. How can they agree to this?  For these civilians who have come through hard times, they will fight to the death whoever wants to take away everything they have.  Therefore, when the people saw that the prefect came to recruit strong men in person, almost every household took the initiative to open the door and let the strongest man in the family grab a handy iron guy and go out to follow the prefect to defend the city.  Since then, the prefect Chang Lin's task of recruiting young men has been going extremely smoothly. He just knocked on two rows of houses in Ping'an Lane and recruited hundreds of young men.  Then, without him having to come forward in person, these young men can come forward on his behalf and contact the young men in the surrounding areas. Then, like a snowball, the area becomes larger and larger, and there are more and more young men.  In less than half an hour, all the young people in the city were mobilized.  This is an extremely powerful force. Their number far exceeds that of the defenders in the city. Their enthusiasm and fighting spirit are as high as those of the defenders who are currently fighting on the city tower.  "Compared to the enthusiastic civilians, the homes of the gentry, aristocratic families and powerful gentry in the city seemed extremely quiet. They closed their doors one after another, and there was almost no light around the huge courtyard.  Obviously, before the situation becomes clear, they would rather stay out and sit on the sidelines than act rashly.  Although they had no favorable impressions of the Jin Emperor, were dissatisfied with the current situation, and did not fully recognize the rule of the Western Jin Dynasty, they were equally uninterested in the unknown forces attacking the city at the moment and were extremely unfavorable to them.  Because the current situation has shown that the Western Jin Dynasty is the most powerful force among the three vassal states in the world, and its strength is far greater than that of the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty.  Since Yingchuan County was included in the territory of the Western Jin Dynasty, although the major families and powerful gentry have been suppressed to a certain extent, their land, retinues and maids have been ordered to be reduced, causing them to suffer huge losses; butAs the store's income increases and the business gets better and better, their previous losses have been made up in a few years.  It's just that the land has turned into gold and silver, so they have less land in their hands, but their wealth has not decreased at all. They still live a wealthy life with fine clothes and fine food. As long as they don't violate the law and operate according to the law, they will not  You will be suppressed again and you will not suffer losses for no reason.  Therefore, they have gradually accepted the rule of Li Li in the Western Jin Dynasty, become accustomed to the current life, and have personally realized the superiority of the current law, which has both restrictions and protection. It does not blindly suppress the nobles and powerful people as rumored by the outside world.  Because of this, in recent years, many big families and powerful people in the city have received olive branches from the Southern Han and Northern Wei, but they have not accepted the invitation. They have always been specious and prevaricating, and their attitudes are unclear.  Take tonight's sneak attack on the city as an example. Some of their families received a message from the Southern Han Dynasty in advance, promising huge profits and asking them to send their servants to protect the courtyard to cooperate with the Jingzhou army sneaking into the city to capture the city gate.  But now the battle for the city gate has begun, but they are nowhere to be seen.  The banging sound of "bang bang" continued, and the battle outside the city gate intensified, and the fierce battle was in full swing.  City rush vehicles hit the city gate again and again, and hundreds of ladders were set up on the city wall. Thousands of Jingzhou soldiers climbed up the ladders one after another, trying to reach the top of the city and fight hand-to-hand with the defenders.  However, the space under the city wall was limited, and there was a moat not far behind. The more than 20,000 Jingzhou troops could not attack the city at the same time. They had to attack the city in batches. This gave the defenders a chance to breathe and increased the difficulty of siege.  The most important thing is that in order to hide their whereabouts, the troops led by Xu Shu did not carry heavy siege weapons. The most powerful long-range strike weapons were simple ballistas and two temporarily built siege vehicles. In addition, all weapons were ordinary  Weapons, knives, guns, shields, bows and arrows, etc.  Therefore, all their expectations were placed on a sneak attack on the city gate, hoping to seize the city gate in one fell swoop, and then the army would swarm up and seize the entire city.  But now a quarter of an hour has passed, and the city gate is still closed.  There were originally only 500 defenders on the city tower, but when Jiang Qin led 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack the city gate, 2,000 archers suddenly appeared on the top of the city. With two rounds of random arrows, they killed Jiang Qin.  The troops killed more than half of them, which was really a wake-up call and made Jiang Qin dizzy.  As the number of defenders at the city head increased to more than 2,000, the siege pressure of Xu Shu's army increased dramatically. Xu Shu originally thought that he could capture the city gate in one go, but now a quarter of an hour has passed, and the city gate is still as solid as a rock.  Not moving.  Fortunately, the defenders at the top of the city also suffered heavy casualties during this period. Two thousand five hundred defenders have been fighting until now, and only less than a thousand remain.  In contrast, the Jingzhou Army suffered three times as many casualties as the defenders, losing 5,000 men and horses in just a quarter of an hour. The casualties were the highest among all previous siege battles.  Time passed little by little. Xu Shu stopped his horse by the moat and looked up at the fight on the city top. He was very nervous. His left hand clenched the reins and his fists rattled. His right hand clenched the hilt of the sword. The sword was quietly drawn out.  half.  "Where is Wei Yan?" Wei Yan heard the sound and came out of the queue, riding his horse to Xu Shu.  At this time, Dan saw Xu Shu pull out his sword and said in a deep voice: "Looking at this situation, Zhou Tai has already missed, but we have an arrow on the string and have to fire it. At this point, there is no good way, except to attack with all our strength.  The city gate. Please lead the army to attack the city. I will follow up and break open the city gate at all costs." Wei Yan looked at Xu Shu with a surprised look, but unexpectedly met Xu Shu's cold and sharp eyes.  Looking at each other, Wei Yan's eyes flashed, and he was stunned in his heart. He responded: "Promise, I will take the order!" He immediately reined in his horse and turned around, leading his five thousand soldiers and horses straight to the city gate.  After riding the horse for more than ten steps, Wei Yan turned around, glanced at Xu Shu again, and thought to himself: "No wonder the military advisor (Pang Tong) jokingly called him Madman Xu. A scribe has such fierce murderous intent. This time he has grown up."  See! Looking at this posture, it seems that he wants to lead the attack on the city himself. With me, Wei Yan, here, do you need a scholar like you to charge into the battle? " At this thought, Wei Yan jumped on his horse and raised his sword, and rushed towards the city gate.  At the same time, he shouted: "There are only a few hundred defenders left on the city. It is no longer a concern. All the soldiers will follow me to attack the city gate. The first person who enters the city gate will be promoted to the third level."  , I will reward you with a hundred taels of gold, ten jars of fine wine, and a beautiful woman!" "Come into the city! Kill -" Wei Yan's loud offer of reward attracted a positive response from the soldiers, but he saw five thousand soldiers running away.  The running speed was actually comparable to Wei Yan's sprinting speed on horseback.  There must be a brave man under a heavy reward.  Wei Yan always kept his word and won the support of the soldiers. Now that he had promised in public, the soldiers under his tent naturally believed it and rushed to the city gate with all their strength.  ————————————To be continued————————————————(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature,The novel is better and updated faster! ps: [Sincere thanks to: "Pulandian Leisure Time" book friend for your monthly ticket support, thank you very much!  】
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