Before Ji Ming became a soldier, he was a horse-drawn carriage driver, because his family was poor and he couldn't afford to marry a daughter-in-law, so he became a soldier in a fit of anger. He participated in several conquest operations to quell the Karasuma rebellion, made military achievements, and was promoted to the rank of tun chief. As an officer, I have more ranks, but I have more money. Ji Ming married a daughter-in-law last year, the daughter of a county official in Xu Wucheng. He felt happy and smiled everywhere he went.

When he saw Li Hong, Li Hong was sleeping on the city wall with his hair loose. Li Hong has always disliked bundling his hair. Probably getting used to Xianbei, he felt that his hair was loose and could make people feel more comfortable. In Luronse, limited to military regulations, he had to tie it with a cloth rope and put on a helmet.

When Ji Ming saw Li Hong for the first time, he felt that this person was worth befriending. Li Hong seems to be the most impressive is honest and honest, followed by his murderous aura, a terrifying murderous aura that rushes to his face. Ji Ming has heard about Li Hong's matter for a few days, and today he finally saw this rumored big man. Li Hong was woken up by Ji Ming, got up with a bone, and was about to salute his boss, but was stopped by Ji Ming.

Looking at Li Hong's smiling face and tall and sturdy body, Ji Ming's first sentence was: "You are so strong." ”

"Can you tell me about the daytime fight? I was under the castle, and I only heard that you were fighting fiercely here, but I didn't see the specific situation. ”

The new boss has an order, and Li Hong naturally wants to answer.

It was already cold at night in early winter. The mountain wind was raging, and the trees swayed and trembled in the wind. There was a faint smell of blood wafting through the air.

Li Hong recounted the afternoon's battle and put forward his own views.

"The main reason for such heavy casualties today is that we are not well prepared, and we did not expect that the enemy would choose to attack here. The result was a hasty response, which led to a disorganized defense and a melee with the enemy. Secondly, the enemy's bows and arrows were fired endlessly, completely suppressing the support of our upper and lower sides, which was one of the reasons for the increase in casualties. ”

Ji Ming was surprised to find that this rough and bold looking man not only spoke very methodically, but also had a cool head and accurate analysis and judgment of things. He must have been very knowledgeable and had read a lot of books, otherwise where else would he be so smart. Ji Ming thought about it as he asked him, "Then what do you propose for tomorrow's defense?" ”

"If the defence continues to be so passive, we will lose a lot. The key is to take the initiative in defense. ”

"The initiative in defense? I don't quite understand what you're saying, can you elaborate a little bit? ”

"Due to the mountainous terrain, the enemy made the most of his strengths, and they took advantage of different highs and lows to suppress our defenses with dense long arrows. If we can't break their bow and arrow troops, no matter how we defend, we will be very passive, and our losses will be bigger and bigger. ”

"Do you have a way to break it?" Ji Ming asked eagerly.

The mountain wind blew Li Hong's long hair fluttering, and the cold air went straight into the flesh along the armor on his body, and Li Hong couldn't help but fight a cold war. Looking at Meishan shrouded in darkness, he didn't make a sound for a long time.

Ji Ming said disappointedly: "You can't help it?" ”

Li Hong thought of Zhou Hao, and he seemed to see Zhou Hao full of arrows again, shouting and running on the city wall. "Burn it, burn the mountain." Li Hong suddenly pointed to the mountains and forests in front of him and said through gritted teeth.

Ji Ming's eyes lit up, and he seemed to see the fire burning in the woods, and the Xianbei soldiers were struggling in the fire and shouting. Ji Ming cheered, didn't care about Li Hong, turned around and ran towards Wangri Tower.

It didn't take long, Wu Fei and Wang Jin hurriedly walked over. Li Hong hurriedly gave the military Sima and the army a salute.

Wang Jin looked at Li Hong with very appreciative eyes, and said with a smile: "You are the sunspot?" Not bad, smart. He was the one who suspected that the enemy was going to fill the platform with dirt bags in the morning, right? He turned his head and asked Wu Fei.

Wu Fei nodded, "That's him." He's a talent. Adults should recommend it to the school captain. ”

Wang Jin patted Li Hong's shoulder vigorously and praised two more words: "Not bad, not bad." You've got a good idea. We can make better use of it. ”

Wu Fei hurriedly asked, "Do you have any other ideas?" ”

"We're going to lure in more enemies, and we're even going to give them the entire plum building. In this way, once the fire is burned, the enemy's losses will be even greater. This time I'll see where they're fleeing. ”

In the middle of the night, Captain Tian Jing personally arrived with a group of soldiers. The soldiers took advantage of the darkness to quietly climb down the city wall along the rope, and after throwing a large amount of flammable materials in the hidden places of the woods, they carried more combustible materials such as fire oil, and disappeared into the dark night like ghosts.

Li Hong was awakened by the roaring sound of the bull's horn. He got up sleepily and looked in the direction of the Hu coalition camp. In the camp, flags were unfurled, and people shouted and neighed. It seems that the enemy is about to launch an all-out attack today. Li Hong subconsciously glanced at the dense woods outside the city. Yesterday's stormy attack of the enemy scared him.

The soldiers standing guard on the castle tower suddenly rang the gong to call the police. Li Hong was very disgusted by this voice, he felt that this voice was fragile and weak, and it was far less beautiful than the sound of Hu Ren's horn. The low and deep voice of the horn makes people feel the majestic momentum of the prairie and the vast desolation of the desert. Of course, his favorite is the drums. The sound of drums is thicker than the sound of horns, and there is an invincible momentum that is majestic in the world.

On Meishan, the enemy appeared. Exactly like yesterday, they began to shoot intensively. The infantry set up ladders, and the assault troops began to climb the city. The Han army learned the lesson of yesterday, and the troops were not stationed in separate points, but scattered on the long city walls. More than 200 people started from one end of the main city wall and extended to the plum tower. This method of defense is especially detrimental to the enemy's focused attacks. But in the absence of other means to avoid the rain of enemy arrows, this is the only way to avoid the danger of yesterday's reinforcements on both flanks being blocked by the enemy.

It wasn't until his own attacking soldier climbed the ladder that the long-range soldier stopped firing. But then more close-range shooting soldiers shot long arrows in their hands, helping their besieging soldiers to continue to suppress the Han army on the city walls.

From the beginning of the enemy's shooting until the enemy climbed the city wall, the Han army was suppressed by the enemy's bows and arrows on the top of the city wall, unable to get out. Li Hong was so angry that he waited for the enemy to stick his head out above him. A frightened face suddenly appeared in front of Li Hong. Li Hong dodged to avoid the stab of the other party, and at the same time rounded the war knife and slashed at the head of the enemy soldier. The enemy let out a heart-rending scream and fell down the ladder. The long arrows that were raining down like rain suddenly stopped. The enemy roared frantically and began the battle to capture the city.

Li Hong stood at the mouth of the battlement of the city wall he was defending, waving his sword whirring, and he was fearless and struggling to block the enemy's attack. Seven or eight dead enemies were already lying around him. A Xianbei man was fighting with Li Hong, and sparks and stars burst out in all directions with the piercing sound of metal impact. The enemy soldiers who climbed up immediately after appeared on the wall and were immediately hit by an arrow. Seeing that he couldn't live, the big man suddenly roared and jumped up, opened his hands and hugged Li Hong, who was waving a knife at the opposite side. Li Hong was caught off guard and was hugged by him. With the tremendous force of the man's jump, the two of them fell heavily to the top of the city wall together. The enemy soldier who fought against Li Hong was very strong, and immediately followed a step, rounded the big knife and slashed at Li Hong's neck. Li Hong was overwhelmed by the enemy's body, and there was no way to resist at all. Li Hong instinctively roared. Death came really too fast, and before he could do anything for his country, he was about to be beheaded.

Ji Ming roared, resisted the enemy's blow from behind, and stabbed his long sword into the enemy's vest before the enemy's big sword fell. The enemy looked at Li Hong on the ground with infinite regret, and suddenly fell down. Li Hong picked up the war knife dropped by the enemy, used all his strength, and threw it into the body of the enemy soldier who was about to chop Ji Ming again.

Li Hong pushed away the corpse pressed on his body, turned over and got up, glanced at Ji Ming gratefully, and once again killed the area he was defending like a madman. There are more enemies crawling in from the ladder.

On the main city wall, Tian Jing stood in the middle, looking at the densely lined enemy troops under the city, patiently waiting for the enemy's attack call.

"My lord, what is Wu Yan grinding about, the attack horn has sounded twice, and I haven't seen him attack yet. Is he playing a trick on us? Chai Ting stood next to Tian Jing, very anxious.

"Looking at the way he looks, he doesn't seem to want to attack in the morning. Is he dragging us in to prevent us from reinforcing Mei Lou? Wang Jin was on the other side of Tian Jing and said with a solemn expression.

"Uyan is clever. He made a gesture and we couldn't move. I can't see that this Khan Lu King is quite good at fighting, so I can't despise him. Tian Jing said with a smile.

"Wait a minute, a fire will burn him down by thousands, and see if he dares to trick us." Chai Ting said with a sad heart.

"It's unlikely that you can burn him a few thousand, but at least you can keep him from fighting Meilou, and you can also hit their arrogance hard. With such a burden, we can deal with the frontal enemy wholeheartedly, and relatively speaking, we have much more certainty of holding on for a longer time. ”

Tian Jing said and glanced at the cloud tower on the mountain on the right, "I'm afraid that they won't be able to make another plan, and if they attack the cloud tower, it will be bad." ”

"My lord, he doesn't have that many troops to deploy. If he really has the courage to attack Yunlou, we will burn him again. Wang Jin also glanced at Yunlou worriedly and said softly.

Tian Jing sighed and said, "This strategy can not be used again, and it can only be used once. Uyan is very cunning, and he is not a fool. ”

Tian Jing paused for a moment, and suddenly said, "The original design of this fortress required three thousand soldiers to guard it. If I had been deploying troops according to this number, why would we be in such a dangerous situation now. ”

"My lord, Liu Taishou will arrive in time, you can rest assured, or as soon as the reinforcements arrive in a few days, our Lu Longsai will be a real impregnable wall."

An hour later, the enemy was killed and retreated. The losses of Ji Ming's troops were very huge, and nearly a hundred people were carried down. There is nothing opportunistic about this kind of hand-to-hand combat, either death or injury. Generally speaking, when a city is defended to this point, it is not far from the time it is breached. It is people who fight on both sides of the enemy. Whoever has more people will be able to reach the end.

Ji Ming stared blankly at the enemy in the distant woods, and for a while it was still difficult to accept the ferocity and tenacity of the Xianbei soldiers. As long as they rushed to the wall, they would not look back until they were killed in battle. This pure way of taking death is really a bit jaw-dropping. This is a group of people who don't want to die.

Li Hong took a piece of pancake and quietly walked behind Ji Ming, "Grow Tun, let's eat a little." ”

Ji Ming turned around and saw Li Hong chewing the food in his mouth vigorously, and said vaguely: "The Xianbei people came too early, and we didn't even eat." ”

Ji Ming took the cake in his hand, tore a small piece and stuffed it into his mouth.

"The barbarians are too fierce, no wonder you lost so much yesterday."

Li Hong smiled bitterly. After so many fights, he has gradually become numb. He has seen too much blood, lost too many friends, and countless lives turned to ashes before his eyes, and he has little interest in life and death in the world. Sometimes he even thinks that it is better to be dead than to live, to know nothing, to do nothing, to be happy.

"Xianbei people advocate martial arts and bravery, and spurn cowardly and incompetent people. They have always been like this. Li Hong sat on the root of the wall with Ji Ming, basking in the warm sun, and said slowly. He thought of the Iron Wolf, Gongsun Hu, and Murong Feng.

"Xianbei people are originally a brave and fearless nation. In the past, under the leadership of the great king Tanshi Huai, they conquered all over the world and had the potential to sweep the world. Fortunately, the sandalwood locust died suddenly. ”

Ji Ming nodded, "The Xianbei people are much more powerful than the Karasuma people. ”

The two of them chatted softly and slowly.

Li Hong saw Ji Ming take out a very beautiful green lotus-shaped sachet, hold it in his hand, and look at it affectionately.

"What is this? It's still very fragrant, isn't it? ”

Ji Ming glanced at Li Hong strangely, "Don't you know the sachets?" ”

Li Hong scratched his head embarrassedly, "I'm from the countryside, I haven't seen it." ”

"Generally, if a girl likes someone, she will make one and give it to each other to express her affection." Ji Ming said softly with a happy smile on his face.

Li Hong nodded, "Oh, that's the case." This was given to you by Madame? ”

Ji Ming carefully stroked the sachet and nodded again and again.

"Do you have someone you like?" Ji Ming asked him suddenly.

Li Hong laughed, "I've grown so big, I haven't even seen many women, let alone girls." Suddenly he remembered the snowstorm in white clothes. Is she okay. He ran away in the middle of the night that day and didn't say goodbye to her. What happens when she wakes up and sees that she is gone?