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At the head of the city, there were less than 800 soldiers left, and the rest were all people's husbands, and there were even many women and children standing behind. The entire Lulong City can move stones has already gone to the city.

The houses in the city, near the walls, have been demolished.

The stone used the head of the city as a weapon. The beams and roofs were also transported to the city.

The oil of every household was also collected, and a large pot was set up at the head of the city, boiling water, boiling oil, and even boiling dung.

With this spirit of the whole city, they have been guarding until now.

It's been a month and a half.

Of the 3,000 defenders who had retreated to Pinglu City, only 800 remained, and almost all of them were wounded. And the people who originally lived in the city and those who later withdrew into the city also suffered countless casualties in order to defend the city.

But no one said a word of Kaesong's surrender.

At the beginning, the defense of the city was in charge of the assassin Shi, but the assassin had been hacked to death by a Goguryeo man who rushed to the city half a month ago when he was personally in the city head.

Changshi and Sima also died in battle.

The commander of Lulong County also fought desperately with the Goguryeo people with a sword and died.

As for many captains in the army, they took the lead and then died in battle.

Now at the head of this city, one of the highest-ranking military generals is a brigade commander, who is only in charge of one brigade and two teams of 100 people in the original military government.

Officers of higher rank than him were either dead or seriously wounded and could not lead the army.

Among the civilian officials, only a few are left to join the military.

"There's not much oil."

A soldier reported it, heated the oil, and poured it on the enemy who were climbing the city, and it worked well.

The brigade commander was in his forties, with a blood-stained white cloth wrapped around his arms, and many dark blood stains on his battle robe. The brigade commander was extremely emaciated, originally just a small military attache in charge of a hundred people, but now he was responsible for the lives of thousands of people in the city.

"If there is no oil, they will bring water to boil it, and dung to boil the golden juice."

"If there are no stones or rolling wood, go and tear down the house."

After another soldier, "there is not much food left in the city." ”

When the brigade commander heard this, he walked to the other side of the city, where there was a group of men, not wearing battle robes, but not ordinary cloth clothes, but silk Lingluo.

This group of people are all big families and merchants in the city, and they are also trapped in the city during the war. These days, these people also have money to contribute money, and some people have contributed people, and even personally carry swords to help defend the city.

"Several, the food will run out." The brigade commander stepped forward and bowed his hand.

A very thin half-old man with a goatee and a gray beard, holding a crossbow machine in his hand, turned his head and said, "Wang Lushuai, we still have some food at home, and we will let people take it out in a while." ”

Wang Lvshuai said gratefully, "Thank you for a few Gao Yi!" ”

The old man shook his hand.

"The old man is old, and he is not afraid of death. But even if I die, I will fight to the end with those Liao dogs and never surrender. ”

Another elegant middle-aged man also said, "As a Han Chinese, even if we die, we are willing to die with Lu Longcheng, and never surrender to that Goguryeo barbarian." ”

If it weren't for the Goguryeo people outside the city, maybe these local wealthy merchants would think about it more. If there is civil strife in the Central Plains and the heroes are fighting, they may not be as decisive as they are now.

But outside the city were the Goguryeo people.

These East captives.

They raided and invaded, besieged Lulong and Yuguan in Pingzhou, and burned and plundered in the countryside, these people were a group of wild beasts.

Moreover, when the Sui Dynasty conquered Liaodong, Pingzhou was extremely close to Liaodong at that time, and how many people were conscripted into soldiers and conscripted as civil husbands, and then went and did not come back.

If these Goguryeo people break through Lulong City, they will definitely slaughter the city, burn and loot it.

The Han people and the Goguryeo people had a deep blood feud, and if they fell into their hands, they would never end well.

Moreover, they believed that the imperial court would send troops to rescue them.

If Lu Chenglong is breached, then their home will be gone. At this time, no big family will be stingy with the little money and food at home.

The old man is the largest family in the city, and he was also an official in the court in his early years, and he returned to Lu Long's hometown when he was old, but there are still children and nephews in the court.

The old man asked Wang Lushuai.

"General Wang, how long do you think we can hold out? How long will it take for the imperial court to come and break the siege? ”

Wang Lvshuai is just a brigade commander, although he has been in the army for many years, the brigade commander is only in charge of 100 people. He didn't really understand the situation on the battlefield.

Even he took over the city defense of Lulong City in a few days.

His predecessor, a lieutenant, died in battle. It was his immediate boss, and before the lieutenant died, he asked him to take over the command, so he became the commander of the whole city with a small brigade commander.

With the current situation in the city, it is already exhausted.

The bows and arrows had long since run out, and the crossbow arrows were gone.

Many swords and guns were destroyed, and the arrows were exhausted, and the food was about to run out.

The soldiers and civilians defending the city suffered heavy casualties, and even the city was damaged in many places.

They are really exhausted.

"Seven days." He said.

The old man shook his head.

"How long do we have to stay?"

"Three days!"

The old man still shook his head.

The brigade commander reluctantly told the truth, "If the reinforcements don't arrive, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it for two days." Without the bow and crossbow, an important weapon for defending the city, it is too difficult to defend it. Under the city, there were 20,000 Goguryeo soldiers. ”

"Will reinforcements come?"

Someone asked.

No one answered, everyone was pessimistic.

It's been a month and a half, and the reinforcements have never arrived, and they have lost hope.

"Reinforcements will definitely come." The old man still opened his mouth, "The imperial court must not have forgotten us, in the old man's opinion, the Goguryeo people have 50,000 people to attack Pingzhou, but they have always only besieged Lulong City with 20,000 people, it is obvious that they are intercepting the arrival of the imperial court's soldiers and horses." Those Goguryeo people have not returned, which means that the soldiers of the imperial court are still trying to find a way to rescue. ”

"But when will it arrive?"

The old man stroked his beard and said, "When enough soldiers and horses are mobilized, it should be soon." ”

"But we'll only have two more days at most." A big road.

"Then find a way to hold on for a few more days and hold out until reinforcements arrive."

"What's the solution?"

The old man sighed, "I donate a thousand pieces to reward those who have made meritorious contributions to defending the city." Kill a Goguryeo thief, reward ten times, and injure a thief, reward two times. The rest of the people who go to the city to help the defenders will be rewarded with the same amount of money every day. ”

The old man took out a thousand pieces of wealth at once, which surprised the others.

"I'll take out 800 too." The head of the royal family in the city spoke.

"I'll take out five hundred!"

"I'll also give five hundred."

"I'll go out three hundred!"

This group of big and wealthy businessmen have paid money one after another. Soon, they actually scraped together more than 10,000 yuan.

That's a lot of money.

"Take out the food of each family, it's all at this time, it's useless to keep it, if the city is broken, we all have to be ghosts under the knife of Liaogou, it's better to take it out, so that everyone can eat enough to defend the city." One more day, and we will have one more chance of reinforcements. ”

"Okay."

A group of powerful people also went out at this time.

"Lao Tzu is dead, but also for Hanxiong, and never for the slave of Goguryeo."

"Killing one is enough, killing two to earn one, fighting."

After making up their minds, these heroes took out money, gold, silver, and copper coins, and boxes were carried to the city.

Then the reward for defending the city was announced.

The last bit of food was also taken out.

"Everyone let go of eating, and they are full of thieves!"

All who could go to the city did so, soldiers, young people, even old men, women, big girls, and half-grown children.

There were no bows, arrows, knives and guns, so they took sharpened sticks and stones from demolishing houses, and anyway, everyone lived and died with this city.

If Liaogou captures the city, they will definitely be worse than dead, this is the consensus of everyone.

Die with the city, and swear not to surrender.

The Goguryeo people were still preparing for a new round of attacks, and the city took advantage of this opportunity to give everyone a reward. Everyone has a share, and if they can stand on the head of the city, even if they are seventy or eighty, they will be rewarded first.

Every day, if you can kill and injure the enemy, there is another heavy reward.

After taking the reward, he divided the meal again.

Everyone is fed and eaten. These grains can be eaten for seven or eight days, but they may not be able to keep that time, in this case, even if they die, let everyone be a full ghost.

A whining horn sounded.

The soldiers, who had already become familiar with them, immediately took up their swords and guns.

"Liaogou is here!"

"the guys, get ready to them!"

Even those big and powerful people, all of them were carrying bows and crossbows at this time, and some were carrying spears and swords, and they were all ready to fight to the death.

In the whirring wind, not far outside the city, the Goguryeo people were in a whole formation.

As the state city of Pingzhou, Lulong is relatively strong and tall, and as a northern border state, Lulong's city is much stronger and taller than the city of the Central Plains.

The local folk customs should also be martial and strong, and they all say that Yan Zhao is a hero, which is exactly the case.

With these, and the Goguryeo people didn't know much about attacking cities, they were able to hold until now.

But now, maybe it's the last defensive battle.

Wang Lushuai pulled out his horizontal sword, looked at the whole team of Goguryeo people under the city, and roared angrily.

"Come on, Goguryeo people on the day of the dog, come and kill grandpa!"

After shouting, he said to another officer beside him, "Old Zhao, if I die in battle today, then Lu Longcheng will be handed over to you to command." ”

Lao Zhao is also a brigade marshal, nodding unceremoniously. Then he turned to another officer and said, "Old Liu, if I die, I will be handed over to you here." ”

Several brigade commanders explained to each other there, and they were all ready to die in battle.

The young and strong women and children of Pingzhou City also stood in front of the battlements, some of them holding wooden sticks, some holding stones, and their faces were determined to die.

"Woooooo

Another trumpet sounded.

This trumpet is different from the one before.

"This seems like a clarion call for retreat?" Wang Lvshuai suspected that he had heard it wrong, and looked at Zhao Lvshuai, who was also surprised.

"Lao Wang, Lao Zhao, look, look at the west." Liu Lvshuai suddenly shouted loudly, with great excitement in his voice, which startled everyone.

"What's in the west?"

"The red flag, it's the red flag, the military flag of our Datang, look, fluttering there!"

"Where!"

Lao Wang, Lao Zhao and the others all led their necks to look west.

Sure enough, on the bleak plain, there was a gray and black world, and suddenly there was a touch of red.

"It's my Tang Dynasty official army, reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived!" Lao Wang shouted loudly, and while shouting, tears of excitement and joy could not stop flowing on his face.

The red flag became more and more visible, and there was more than one, and a second, third, and more red flags began to appear.

"The Goguryeo people have withdrawn, they are fleeing!"

"me, I'm really running!"

Lao Wang looked into the distance outside the city in surprise, and the Goguryeo people, who were already about to attack as a whole team, had already turned around. But instead of turning west to face the battle, they turned to the east.

They fled!