(The belated first update, ask for a red ticket!) )

On the 20th of January, it was already early spring weather in the south of the Yangtze River, but the Yanji Plain in the north was still snowy and frozen for thousands of miles. In the past few days, the weather has warmed up slightly, and the fields outside the city have revealed bits and pieces of black and brown, and the Zhulong River winds through the land outside Yangxin City, like a plain white belt, which is more obviously exposed in front of you.

The source of Yangxin City's moat water is drawn from the Zhulong River, and it is naturally frozen tightly at this time, and it can't be broken with a sledgehammer, so it can't provide a little more barrier for Yangxin City.

Walk downstream along the winding Zhulong River, until it is more than 80 miles away, and it is Zhulong Bay.

The news of the loss of Jinan has reached Yangxin, and more and more Dongyu cavalry have appeared outside Yangxin City, and the road to withdraw from Yangxin has been completely blocked.

County Lieutenant Cheng Weiyuan was so worried that he scratched a lot of his hair.

If he hadn't found it early, Zhang Zhijing, the county magistrate, would have committed suicide by hanging a beam in the house, although he was saved, he refused to go to the city again, saying that he would sit in the house and wait for death. Zhixian Zhang Jinxian didn't know where to get an iron armor, saying that he wanted to live and die with Yangxin City, fifty or sixty catties of iron armor was so tired that he sweated like pulp and couldn't breathe when he wore a stick of incense on his body, and he still kept cheering up the defenders in front of the city gate: "Looking at the warmer weather, in another ten days, this Zhulong River will thaw, and at that time, the thieves will have to retreat if they don't retreat, and they will be guarded for three months, not the last ten days......"

Cheng Weiyuan knew that Zhang Jinxian was talking empty words to boost morale, this Zhulong River generally said that it would take another month to thaw, although the weather was slightly warmer, but the wind was still blowing on the face like a knife, not a thawing spring breeze.

When the river thaws, the thieves will retreat, but how can Yangxin survive at that time? The city of Jinan, which was garrisoned by 40,000 elite soldiers, fell in only 12 days, and Yangxin except for more than 100 sword and archers who were barely enough to catch thieves and bandits, the other defenders were all newly recruited from the city and refugees, and the number was less than 2,000.

The small city of Yangxin, which has less than 3,000 people in the city, took in nearly 30,000 refugees who could not flee south in time after the eastern captives entered the city...... If you keep it for another ten days, you will have to eat human flesh.

"Da da da", dozens of captives rode towards the frozen moat, and saw them dismount at the moat, poking the ice with long knives, as if they were testing the thickness of the ice.

Zhang Jinxian, the magistrate of the county, hurriedly shouted: "Archers, archers, ......" Dozens of archers rushed up without any order, and shot at the dozens of captives from the mouth of the battlements of the city wall.

It's just that the arrows are scattered out, there is no accuracy, and there is no way to do it, only two captives can't dodge and shoot them in the thigh. Then he saw the captives retreat a hundred and ten paces, and took their shields from their horses to cover them, and approached the edge of the moat.

"What do they want to do?" Zhang Jinxian asked the county lieutenant Cheng Weiyuan in confusion, and poked his head out of the battlements of the city wall to see what the captives with shields were doing when they came back.

"Be careful!" Cheng Weiyuan saw that the captives divided the shield slightly, revealing the big bow behind him, and the arrow was cold and cold, and he hurriedly pulled Zhang Jinxian, the magistrate, back.

Zhang Jinxian was wearing iron armor, but he didn't wear a heavy helmet that made him breathless, he pulled Cheng Weiyuan back and fell back, hit his head on the brick floor, got a big bag, and was so painful that tears were about to flow out, and he was about to complain that Cheng Weiyuan was unstable, but he saw that the three defenders around him were all shot by arrows and fell, and blood was gushing out from the wounds on his chest and neck, and he couldn't live when he saw it......

When the captives found that the defenders of Yangxin were weak, they took shields to cover the people who were good at archery and approached the moat, and shot the defenders who peeked out of the battlement wall in seven or eight shots.

After shooting dozens of people in this way, no one in the defenders dared to approach the entrance of the battlement wall again.

County Lieutenant Cheng Weiyuan and County Governor Zhang Jinxian sat on the city gate tower regardless of their manners, looked at each other, could see the despair in each other's eyes, and listened to the rush of horses' hooves under the city, and they didn't have the heart to stand up and watch.

Instead, some of the brave defenders looked out at the battlements and shouted, "The thieves kill each other!" Lord Zhang, Lord Cheng, the captives are killing each other! ”

Cheng Weiyuan got up and wanted to kick the sergeant, secretly saying that he still dared to entertain Lao Tzu at this juncture? When I got up, I saw a cavalry like a brown dragon from the northern field like a sharp knife straight in, killing the slack captives outside the city, the outpost was full of urine, and hurriedly fled to the periphery, a high flag was unfurled in the wind, and the big embroidered brocade characters made people see clearly:

"Jiangdong Qinwang Division, Left Army, Jiangdong Inspector Sidu Supervisor Lin!"

The most powerful dozens of horsemen are surrounded by a blue-armored and red-helmet general, who is it if it is not Lin Tie?

The sergeant was illiterate and did not recognize the banner of the Jiangdong Left Army, so he thought that the cavalry who came over were all Eastern captive soldiers, so he shouted that the captives were killing each other.

"Lord Zhang, Lord Zhang, our savior is here, Lord Jiangdong Junlin is here to save us!" Cheng Weiyuan was so excited that he burst into tears, his voice was deformed, and he wanted to pick Zhang Jinxian up from the ground, but Zhang Jinxian even had 200 catties of armor, he didn't pull it, and almost rolled down the city road.

Zhang Jinxian hurriedly got up from the ground, almost flashed the waist of the iron armor, and hurriedly ordered left and right: "Help me up, where are the rescuers?" From the battlements of the city wall, I saw that the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army was quickly dispersed and killed the outposts of the captives outside the city......

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Lin Jian entered the city physically and mentally exhausted, and when he saw Cheng Weiyuan, the lieutenant of Yangxin County, he only lifted his spirits a little when he got off the horse, and arched his hand towards Cheng Weiyuan and said, "Lord Cheng, it's been a long time!" ”

Lin Lian's physical and mental exhaustion is not tired of long-distance horseback riding, he received another bad news on the way: just five days ago, when the offensive and defensive battle in Jinan was at its most intense, Chen Hansan, the commander of the anti-theft battalion stationed in Huai'an, rebelled because the matter of selling smuggled salt to Hong Ze thieves was exposed, and he took refuge in Liu An'er, and joined forces with Liu An'er to encircle and annihilate the Huai army of Haozhou......

The house leak coincided with the overnight rain, and it is appropriate to describe the stormy Da Yue Dynasty at this time, which is like a broken house, and the loopholes are getting bigger and bigger, and it looks difficult to repair.

For the affairs of Jiangdong, Lin Jian is also out of reach, Jiangning and Li Zhuo are in charge, and Dongyang Xiangyong also has the strength to fight, he can only look at the present, according to the original plan, continue to lead the light cavalry to aid Yangxin, it only took two days and one night, running more than 300 miles in the ice and snow, and entering Yangxin City before the main force of the captives arrived.

Cheng Weiyuan was like a drowning man who washed the water onto a desert island, there was a feeling of escaping death, he clung to Lin Bin's armarmor, and was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

Lin Jian looked at Zhang Jinxian, who was thin and weak, but was wearing iron armor, his hair was in a messy bun, and his forehead was returned to Zhang Jinxian of Yangxin Zhi County, who had hit a big blood bag, and he had seen the courtesy, and there was no extra nonsense: "Lord Zhang, can the defense of Yangxin County allow me to take over the Jiangdong Left Army?" ”

"And reinforcements in the back?" Zhang Jinxian asked.

"It's just us," Lin Jian said, "Nine hundred and eighty-seven people, plus me, nine hundred and eighty-eight people, are in a hurry, and dozens of people have fallen behind, all of whom have returned to Jinhai, and dozens of people have been sent to report to Bohai, Bincheng and other counties, I am afraid that they will not be able to enter the city......"

"Less than a thousand?" Zhang Jinxian showed a disappointed look, the 40,000 defenders failed to hold Jinan, what is the use of Yangxin with 1,000 more people.

"A thousand people are enough," Lin Lian laughed, "I didn't send the Jiangdong Left Army over to send them to death, please believe me once, I will take over the city defense now, and the main force of Dongyu will come at the latest, leaving us not much time to prepare......" Of course, Zhou Pu will also lead the main force of foot soldiers to come by sea, but Lin Lian will not transfer them to the outside of Yangxin City, and staying on the outside line to contain and attack the enemy cavalry can reduce the pressure on Yangxin to defend the city.

Although Zhulong Bay, the mouth of the Zhulong River, is 80 miles away, and the weather warms up a little, the sea ships can break the ice and advance to Jinshuikou, the main tributary of the lower reaches of the Zhulong River, which is less than 40 miles away from Yangxin and Bincheng.

Forty miles is the distance for the foot soldiers to march at night and still have the strength to fight, and this distance is just right to contain the enemy's cavalry......

Besides, the small city of Yangxin is different from Jinan, and the total number of steps around the Yangxin city wall is more than 1,300 steps, even if there are millions of heroes in the east, they can't be opened in front of Yangxin City.

As long as the city wall is not smashed by heavy equipment, there are more than 1,000 elites in the forest, and the original defenders and the people in the city are brave enough to cooperate in the battle, and it will not be a problem to defend until the spring is warm.

Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to create the miracle of Cangnan victory and Xiaobotouzhai victory, which was originally the confidence and morale guarantee of Yangxincheng to this day.

Lin Lian said this, but gave Zhang Jinxian some confidence, he didn't blame Lin Lian for taking over the city defense as soon as he came over, after all, Lin Lian and Jiangdong Left Army were Yangxin's last reliance, he instructed Cheng Weiyuan and said: "Master Cheng, you fully cooperate with Lord Lin to defend the city." In addition, if Lord Lin wants to have any orders, Zhang Jinxian will obey his orders! ”

"Lord Zhang is polite," Lin Jian breathed a sigh of relief, Zhang Jinxian didn't let go, he was going to come hard, he would not let the Jiangdong Left Army take the risk of Jinan, the host and guest armies could live in harmony, he was very confident in defending the city, he asked Zhang Jinxian, "How much surplus grain is there in the city now?" How many people are there in the city? How many days can it last? He knew that Yangxin had been trapped for nearly two months, and that there were a lot of refugees pouring into the city, and when he came into the city, he saw that the defenders had hunger on their faces, so he was worried that there was not enough food in the city.

"Barely enough to last three or four days!" Zhang Jinxian said.

"Okay, that's enough," Lin Jian said, and said to Cheng Weiyuan, "All the big households in the city may have grain stockpiles, please ask Lord Cheng to draw up a list, and I will transfer a hundred elite soldiers to Lord Cheng to collect grain." Grain is the most important thing to defend the city, and all the stored grain needs to be concentrated and strictly guarded, and the army, the people, and the strong labor are supplied...... We all came here in light armor, and each of us carried twenty catties of dry food, and now there are quite a few left. In addition, the scrapped horses are slaughtered and stored first, and the horses are not fed, and when they see the horses that have lost fat, they are slaughtered......"

"These thousand horses are outside the mouth!" Zhou Tongxin, the deputy lieutenant of the Jinzhong Admiral's Mansion Zhenwei, who came to the aid of Yangxin with Lin Tie, said bitterly, he was born as a riding general, and how could he be willing to kill the horse until the last moment?

"Keeping Yangxin is more important than anything else!" Lin Jian said, there is no extra food to feed the horses, and the horses will be wasted after a few days of hunger, it is better to slaughter and store more horse meat when the horses have not lost fat, who knows how long Yangxin City will be guarded?