It is now the tenth day of the defense of the city.

The food collected by Zhen Mingku's people has run out, and the besieged soldiers have gradually changed from the excitement of repeatedly repelling the attacks of the rogues to frustration and despair.

In the past few days, the number of soldiers has increased instead of decreasing, and the shouts of killing and resistance in other parts of the city have gradually decreased.

Zhen Mingku stood on the tower in the east of the city, looking at the street in the distance with his glasses, more than a dozen siege ladders and catapults slowly drove in the direction of the resistance army in the east of the city, his brows were extremely solemn.

Once the siege equipment arrived, it would be difficult for this small tower in the east of the city to hold on.

He turned around and looked at the road in the distance outside the city, but did not find the Qinghe City and Xingyang coalition forces that he expected.

In his original plan, as long as Ping'en City could last for a month, according to his estimate, if Ling Shuang led the army to the expedition, one month would be enough for her and Yang Shanhui to capture Wei County, and then join forces to support Ping'en City.

It's just that he didn't expect Feng Xiaoci to lose so quickly.

A few days ago, he had already used his mobile phone to contact Zhang, and learned that Yang Shanhui had led his army out of the city to attack Wei County.

If nothing else, in a few days, Yang Shanhui will be able to lead the army north.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed Zhang's mobile phone again, but it was still busy, which made him feel an ominous premonition.

When he left, he expected that Zhang's entry into the Yang Shanhui military camp would definitely arouse Zhang Jincheng's suspicions, and he would also make a plan to let Zhang stay in the barracks and stay with Empress Xiao, first, so that Yang Shanhui could send heavy troops to ensure Zhang's safety, and secondly, to keep Zhang Jincheng in Qinghe City.

However, the plan is in the sky, the plan can't catch up with the changes, there are too many unexpected events that he doesn't know, he can't think of it and can't watch out for it, he can only come up with a plan in general, step by step, as for whether it will succeed or not, it is not something he can control.

What he is most worried about now is not how long he and these soldiers and civilians of Ping'en City in the city tower can support, but what happened to the Zhang family, he used to have all-eating by her side, he was not very worried, he couldn't fight and could always escape, but now he is sick in bed, she has no one to protect her, and it is difficult to predict what will happen.

While he was speculating, a person next to him whispered: "General, look! ”

Zhen Mingku turned his head and looked in the direction that this person was pointing, only to see that in the team of siege equipment in the distance, there was a four-wheeled gimbal, and a bulging thing was tied to it.

When I looked at it, it was a bloody human head, with a cloak and round eyes.

Behind the Yuntai, hundreds of people in Ping'en City who were bound with their hands and feet staggered forward, wailing and shaking the sky, and the soldiers behind them held swords and slashed at them from time to time for fun, and the blood flowed all over the ground, dragging into a long blood mark.

……

The distance is very far, others can't see clearly, Zhen Mingkui hopes for glasses, but he can see it really.

The one hanging on the cloud platform was none other than the head of Feng Xiaoci, the guard of Ping'en City.

His limbs were cut off and hung in the four corners of the gimbal.

When Yuntai approached, the soldiers and people of Ping'en City under the city tower saw the head clearly, and they were all shocked and inexplicable.

Although Feng Xiaoci is not good to Ping'en City, he can be regarded as the lord of a city, the backbone of the people's hearts, and now even he is inevitably in two places, and the fate of the people is only afraid of being even more bleak.

The cries of the city's citizens who were slashed and killed by swords for fun under the cloud platform made the resistance on the other side of the river even more disheartened, and many people dropped their weapons and squatted down to cover their faces and wept bitterly.

A general on the opposite bank came out in line, standing majestically on the river bank, dozens of gold-armored shield-wielding warriors closely guarding him, obviously the main general of the army this time.

Zhen Mingku stood in the city tower, saw him say a few words to the guards beside him, the guard took a step forward, stood on the riverbank, opened his throat, and shouted: "This king Sun Xuanya, led an army of 100,000 to attack Ping'en City, and now all the recalcitrant people in the city are ambushed, Ping'en County Shou Feng Xiaoci has been divided into five horses by this king, exposed to the sun for three days, persuade you and others to immediately abandon their weapons, go out of the city and surrender, this king can spare you a death!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhen Ming secretly screamed that it was not good, most of the guards in this city tower were a rabble composed of some city people, unorganized and undisciplined, plus these days to resist the attack, they were already exhausted, and the food was about to run out, which was the weakest time.

Sure enough, as soon as the words on the other side fell, there was a commotion on the side of the city tower.

Many people turned their heads and looked at Zhen Ming on the city tower, with confusion and uneasiness in their eyes.

Zhen Mingku shouted loudly: "Don't believe them to provoke, Zhang Jin said that the Liukou army has always been cruel and vicious, and if you fall into their hands, you will be punished, if you fall into their hands, there will be no way out, you must not be fooled!" ”

The crowd was a little calmer.

Seeing this, Sun Xuanya, who was on the other side, knew that Zhen Mingku was the core of this group of recalcitrant city people, sneered, and ordered: "I will give you a stick of incense time, if you don't kill the one on the city tower who took the lead in resisting, go out of the city and surrender, this king will kill all these people." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand at one of the generals beside him, and at the same time, dozens of soldiers escorted dozens of captured citizens to the bank of the river, lined up, and fell to their knees in unison, holding broadswords in their hands, and raised them high.

The knife fell, the blood spilled on the riverbank, and the head fell into the river.

The cries and screams on both sides of the strait were loud, and Sun Xuanya laughed.

"Remember! A stick of incense time! ”

……

In the blink of an eye, the time of a stick of incense passed.

The guards on the side of the city tower all laid down their weapons, and Zhen Mingku explained to them the news that the rescue was coming soon, trying to calm them down, but when someone asked when the rescue would come, Zhen Mingku couldn't give them a positive answer.

Gradually, many people began to fight the idea of killing Zhen Ming and going out of the city to surrender.

"What now? We are besieged here, and we can't escape, and I've heard that the food here will soon run out, and that we will not be able to defend ourselves against their attacks, and this time we will die. ”

"If he hadn't taken us to stay in this hellish place, we would have escaped from the city!"

"I've been under General Feng's account, and I've never seen this person, could it be that some ill-intentioned person pretended to be General Feng's subordinates and falsely passed on General Feng's military orders?"

"Can't be wrong, it must be fake, he shouted on the street that day that General Feng is not dead, Ping'en City is not broken, lie to us to resist here, if he knows that the city was broken ten days ago, why did he still take us to do this futile resistance, what kind of heart is he!"

At this moment, I don't know who shouted downstairs in the city: "Kill this leader, go out of the city and surrender!" ”

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