In Donghengzhou in September, the scorching sun, coupled with the hot and humid air here in Lingnan, makes people particularly depressed and uncomfortable, thousands of corpses are piled up under the city, and many corpses have begun to decompose in the past few days, and swarms of mosquitoes and flies are flying here, spreading the smell and germs everywhere.

Many soldiers in the city have been infected with the epidemic, Li Feng listened to the words of the doctor in the city, and urgently ordered the soldiers in the city to cover their mouths and noses with cloths, and set up several pharmacies under the city every day, and fried several large pots of poisonous and epidemic prevention medicine soup, so that the budding epidemic could be controlled.

And the barbarians outside the city are not idle, these days keep seeing those barbarians into the mountains to cut wood, and then send a huge log into the camp, Wuling Mountain is high and dense, there are many towering giant trees, Li Feng saw yesterday that there was a big wood hugged by two people was transported into the camp, and his heart sank, and the enemy army did not even attack the city in the past two days, obviously waiting for the preparation of this batch of siege equipment, the next one, it is bound to be unprecedented ferocity and difficult to prevent.

Li Feng seemed to be able to hear the sound of knives and axes in the enemy camp, he turned his head to look at the officers beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Governor Liu, has the city gate been blocked?" "This Liu Dudu's name is Liu Zicai, he is the highest military attache in the city, he once served in Lu Zhongsu's army, he fought, when Lu Zhongsu was defeated, he was not captured, but escaped, so he also became the governor of the city, and he was also the highest military attache in the city.

Liu Dudu replied in a deep voice: "If you go back to the marshal, you have made 2,000 soil bags in the past two days, and the four city gates have been tightly blocked, and the enemy army has just smashed open the city gates. Don't want to come in. That's it. It's not easy for us to get out of town. ”

Li Feng nodded with satisfaction: "Now you don't need to think about going out of the city, you just need to think about how to hold this Donghengzhou, by the way, the messenger sent out to ask for help before the rebel siege a few days ago, is there any news now?" ”

Liu Dudu shook his head: "The little Ma Xiaoer who passed the message, the little one is to see clearly that he fled into Wuling on horseback before the enemy army encircled, this kid is very clever, and he will definitely spread the news." I just don't know when the imperial court will send troops to save us, alas, now this Great Sui Imperial Court is not as good as the previous Nanchen, at least when Nanchen is in the past, if there is a rebellion in Lingnan, troops will be sent directly from Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou to rescue. ”

Li Feng suddenly interrupted Liu Dudu's words: "Liu Dudu, Hugh is nonsense, when Nan Chen was in Xiangzhou and Jiangzhou, in order to resist the Sui army, so there were heavy troops stationed in these places, and now Nan Chen has been destroyed. The world is unified, and it is impossible for the imperial court to have a large army in Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou. Who would have thought that the 20,000 troops in Lingnan could not suppress these barbarians, and the Jingzhou army under the control of General Wang would not be able to adapt to the soil and water after arriving in Lingbei? ”

Liu Dudu was still a little unconvinced, and muttered: "But it has been several months since Mr. Wang returned to the division, and the imperial court still hasn't sent troops over, and we, the people of the Southern Dynasties, are raised by the stepmother, and the emperor doesn't care about our life or death at all." ”

Li Feng said sharply: "Liu Dudu, as a minister, you can't talk about the monarch in vain, even if the emperor doesn't save us, the thousands of Sui troops in Guangzhou City are all from the north, can't even they be saved?" In my opinion, the imperial court's crusading army should already be on the way, as long as we can resolutely hold this place, we will definitely be able to hold out until the help arrives!"

Liu Dudu's eyes lit up: "Thorn History, really?" Will the court really come to our rescue? ”

Li Feng himself is actually not sure in his heart, but he can see from Liu Zicai's eyes that the ordinary officers and soldiers are confused and afraid of the future, the morale at the beginning of the defense of the city is mainly based on the hatred that everyone has just witnessed the atrocities of the rebels, in addition to the sense of accomplishment brought by the successive victories in defending the city, but in the past 20 days, the morale decline caused by fatigue and casualties is inevitable, and the rebels have not attacked the city in the past two days, anyway, the soldiers and civilians defending the city are a little at a loss, once a tight string is loosened, It's easy to be more cranky.

Li Feng knew that he must not show any negative feelings at this time, if he didn't have confidence as the boss, then the people below would only collapse faster, he laughed and said: "The imperial court has already sent the new governor Pei to recruit troops in the area of Xiangzhou.

At that time, before the city was besieged, the official received an official document, saying that Governor Pei had raised 20,000 elite soldiers, all of whom were veterans of the Southern Dynasty and were being trained, and would soon join with the 100,000 troops of the second batch of the imperial court's southern expedition and enter Lingnan.

Liu Dudu, when the Great Sui destroyed Chen, you also fought with the crusading army of the imperial court, and you know the power of my Great Sui Heavenly Army, you said that if there are 100,000 troops here, can these barbarians who do not have armor be able to block the thunderous blow of our army? ”

Liu Dudu's face was happy, but he immediately sighed again: "Alas, the combat effectiveness of the Great Sui Army does not need to be said, it is not a problem to deal with these barbarians, but our Lingnan miasma is rampant, not to mention the northerners, it turns out that the Xiangzhou army and Jiangzhou army of Nanchen have come here and have many times when they are not adapted, plus the matter of the general manager of Jingzhou last time, I am afraid that the soldiers of the imperial court will not be prepared and will not come to Lingnan." ”

The corners of Li Feng's mouth twitched, in fact, this is exactly what he was worried about, although he didn't know how many people Pei Shiju had recruited in Xiangzhou, but judging from his delay in holding the troops, it was likely that he could not send troops for this reason, Li Feng's face sank, and said: "Okay, okay, Liu Dudu, let's go and arrange the city defense, we can only do it if we hold it firmly."

This Donghengzhou is the gateway to Lingnan, the location is not trivial, if lost, the rebels can isolate the passage from Xiangzhou into Lingnan, now the Shixing passage from Jiangzhou has been occupied by the rebels, only our passage is left, then Governor Pei is specially to recruit troops to suppress the Lingnan rebellion, if he receives the official's call for help, he will definitely lead the army south in advance, counting the days, that is, these days. ”

Liu Dudu glanced at the enemy camp outside the city, and whispered: "Li Tingshi, look at those rebels who don't attack the city these days, but keep cutting wood from the nearby mountains to see if this frame is going to make siege equipment. ”

Li Feng sneered: "The rebels only know one thing, they don't know the other, on this hot day, they use siege equipment made of wood to go into battle, our army can first pour boiling oil, and then attack it with fire, most of these barbarians in the mountains will not build siege towers or something, otherwise they would have come out a long time ago, I think they will at best get a few rushing cars to hit the city gate, so they will ask you to put the gate on top with soil bags in advance, so that even if the city gate is burned out of fire, those soil bags can also extinguish the fire, and the rebels still can't attack it." ”

Liu Dudu laughed really comfortably at this moment: "Li Tingshi is really high, with you, this Donghengzhou is really solid, no matter how many barbarians come, I am not afraid!"

Li Feng smiled slightly, then suddenly thought of something, and said to Liu Zicai: "By the way, let the people in the city dig more silt from the wells and smear it on the battlements of the West City and the North City, especially the gatehouse to paint a few layers, quickly!"

A trace of doubt flashed on Liu Dudu's face: "Li Tingshi, why is this?" ”

Li Feng hurriedly said: "Think about it, if the enemy army uses wooden instruments to attack the city, if our army attacks with fire, it will burn to the city, in case there is a fire here, people can't stay, then can this city still be defended?" A while ago, the enemy army didn't have rockets, and they wouldn't attack by fire, so don't worry about this, this time we will break the wood with fire, then we can't let our city catch fire first, let's go!"

Liu Dudu suddenly understood, and hugged his fist towards Li Feng: "Get the order!" He turned around and ran down the castle tower.

A tall and thin staff member in his fifties next to Li Feng walked up, his name is Zhang Daolin, he has always been Li Feng's think tank, this time when defending the city, many ideas were made by him, Zhang Daolin said in a low voice: "Ming Gong, do you think we can withstand this round?" ”

Li Feng looked up at the sky and muttered, "Do your best, listen to the destiny of heaven!" (To be continued......)

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