Zhen Ming was secretly worried, but he was silent on the surface, and proposed to take a look at the army, and when he arrived in Feng Xiaoci's army, he found that gambling was prevalent in the army, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling were complete, the army was not in order, and the military discipline was not open, although there were more than 40,000 defenders, but there was no combat power.

He kept an eye on it, carefully observed it for several days, and found that although Feng Xiaoci's words were still effective in his loyalty to the old Sui, he was too conceited, and in the past two years, he had defended Ping'en City, and had repelled several small-scale attacks called by Zhang Jin, and became a little contemptuous of these rogues, and slowly neglected the training in the army, and indulged in pleasure, like all those who were slack, Feng Xiaoci had become a self-righteous mediocre general.

In just ten days, Zhang Jincheng's deputy Sun Xuanya led 30,000 Liukou to attack the south gate of Ping'en City, Zhen Mingku thought that with the number of defenders in the city, it should not be a problem to defend for a month, and when Yang Shanhui and Lingshuang defeated Yu Wenhua and came to support, Ping'en City could be safe, so he didn't interfere in the military affairs of the city, so as not to attract Feng Xiaoci's suspicion, after all, this Ping'en City has been operating in the hands of Feng Xiaoci for many years, if he oversteps his position, maybe it will make Feng Xiaoci suspicious.

But he didn't expect that Feng Xiaoci would make such a mistake, he gave up the advantage of fortifying the city, and personally led 30,000 defenders out of the city to meet the attack, arrogantly threatening to let Zhang Jin's army go and never return.

When Zhen Mingku learned the news, the army had already gone out of the city to meet the attack, and rode to the west of the city in a frightened manner, just to witness Feng Xiaoci's 30,000 prostitution and gambling army had been defeated and defeated, and the corpses of the fleeing routs almost filled the moat, and the city defense of Ping'en City was captured by Sun Xuanya's army without even supporting it for two days.

The army of rogues poured into the city, like wolves into a flock of sheep, plundering and burning everywhere.

Zhen Ming relied the benefits of weapons and armor, only to fight his way out of the encirclement, the armor on his body was almost cut into defective products, if it were not for the improvement of the technology of smelting alloys over the years, the armor of ordinary bronze products, not only bulky, but also not enough resistance strength, he would have died in the crushing of these rogue locusts crossing the border.

He fought his way out of the siege and witnessed the tragic situation of Ping'en City after being ordered by Sun Xuanya to set fire to the city, the flames were everywhere, burning for three days and three nights, women and children, old and young, wailing all over the place, being killed by those rogues and traitors.

This scene is like a hellish scene, as a general of the dark guard, fighting in the north and south, he has seen too much, and the manpower is sometimes exhausted, the only thing he can do is to save his life, in order to plan for the future, this is the rule of survival that he has realized after getting up in the pile of corpses on the battlefield many times.

The fate of these city citizens was already doomed when Feng Xiaoci insisted on leading his army out of the city and did not listen to the advice of any generals around him.

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On the day the city was broken, Feng Xiaoci died in battle, and the news that the people of Ping'en City were in danger spread throughout Ping'en City in a blink of an eye.

Zhen Mingku knew that the opportunity was fleeting, and after breaking out of the siege, when Zhang Jincheng's army of rogues was looting in the streets west of the city, he rode a scarred war horse and galloped on the streets in the east of the city that were not yet threatened, shouting at the fleeing people carrying large bags and small bags and driving donkey carts:

"I am a partial general under General Feng Xiaoci, all men between the ages of twenty and those under the age of forty, take all the weapons that can be used, follow me, and go to the enemy camp together to fight against the rogues, and win time for the people in the city to retreat! Let no people be alarmed, and no one shall occupy the road! Don't push! General Feng is not dead, Ping'en City is not broken, don't believe the rumors! ”

It's a pity that the people in the city at this time have already panicked, the six gods have no owner, and they just want to escape from the city, and they don't listen to his orders, people push and crowd, and they rush to the east and south of the city like a tide, and the cry is shocking.

Zhen Mingku stood on the street on horseback, looking weakly at these people who had no combat strength, no fighting spirit, and no hope, with deep sadness in his eyes, such a result, he had already expected, the side that collapsed in the war was like a flood that collapsed the dam, and even the power of God may not be able to restore their rout.

He watched a stampede in front of him, watching a frail old man and child drowning in the crowd, the fragility of life, which was particularly thrilling in such a scene, and no matter how prosperous the scene was, it would be destroyed in an instant.

This is the law of survival in this era, the strong survive the fittest, and mercy is useless.

In this great rout, he finally gathered some men who had the courage to resist hard, not many, only more than two hundred, and all of them were armed with sickles, kitchen knives, and woodcutters.

He divided them into ten squads, and with one of them, he infiltrated the houses in the west of the city that Zhang Jin said were robbed by thieves, specifically looking for those who were left alone and looting and raping in the houses. The gangsters of the adulteresses rushed up to kill the rogues and put on their clothes.

In this way, little by little, a squad was disguised as a rogue called by Zhang Jin, and then this squad was used to blend into other brigades, and when the other party was resting, he drugged them in their eating and drinking wells, killed them one by one, took away their blades and clothing, and brought them back to equip the remaining nine squads.

With experience, the other twenty people were appointed by him as squad leaders, and with the other squads, they drew gourds in the same way, blended into the ranks of other thieves, and recruited those who dared to resist along the way.

Gradually, the team grew from 200 to 1,000.

By the time he summoned them again at the agreed place, the number of people who had come to the rendezvous had reached more than 3,000, and they were all dressed in the clothes of the Rogue Army.

Many of them were soldiers in Feng Xiaoci's army.

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With this improvised patchwork of rabble, untrained, Zhen Mingku adopted defensive tactics.

He ordered these militiamen to scavenge all the food that could be scavenged from the houses in the east of the city, hoarded it in the city towers, selected 500 relatively strong elites, guarded the granaries, and then drove the people in the city to the east of the city and let them flee to the east, and he led the rest of the soldiers to tear down the bridge through the river in the east of the city.

When Sun Xuanya's army found that there was still resistance in the city and led the army to arrive, the pursuit road had been cut off, and they could only look at each other and scold each other.

At first, he tried to build a simple wooden bridge and led the army to attack it, but he was commanded by Zhen Mingku to push the bridge into the river, and the rogue soldiers who fell into the river were stoned to death in the water by the Ping'en City militia on the riverbank.

Later, the crossbowmen brought in by the other party fired crossbows at the opposite bank.

Zhen Mingku had been prepared for a long time, set up wooden planks and fishing nets, blocked bows and arrows, and used these arrows to organize a decent counterattack, shooting and killing many rogues on the other side.

In this way, after two days of stalemate without anyone being able to help anyone, Sun Xuanya finally gave up the frontal assault, sent another heavy armor of 2,000 people out of the south of the city, went around a big circle, and went to the gate of the city tower in the east of the city, and attacked the gate of the east city with all his might.

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