At dawn, just as Liu He was about to call the old man to go to bed, he suddenly heard a "bang". An old man wearing bamboo slabs broke open the door, kicked the door and fell, gasping and coughing.

Guan Yu hurriedly stepped forward and helped the old man up.

"Xianbei...and...horse...horse thief is here!"

After hearing this, Liu He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and said quickly: "Chang Yun, immediately ring the gong and gather all the people and notify Han Sheng, and all the troops will enter the position as scheduled. Be wary!"

Guan Yu's face suddenly became solemn, and he clasped his fists and said, "I'm sure!"

Liu He then turned around and asked, "How many people are there?"

"I only saw a few cavalrymen, all of which were not Han people in armor and weapons..." the old soldier said with a glaring eyes, "I didn't dare to stay for too long, so I quickly ran back on the small road."

Liu He took out a half-foot dagger from the head of the bed and hid it in his arms, then took the sword on the wooden stand and hung it on it, and finally took the bow and quiver, and walked out of the door. The sound of "bang bang" gongs outside kept ringing, and the dog barked and the chickens flew around, which became lively for a moment.

He walked straight up to the city wall, and several soldiers followed the city. Looking into the distance, he saw a cavalry holding a torch at the end of his sight slowly coming over.

At this time, a heavy and neat footsteps sounded behind him, and Huang Zhong led twenty or thirty fully armed infantry to gather at the gate of the city. On the other road, three sergeants were deployed to the center of the city, which were dozens of old and weak. These people were old, but they all worked in the army, and they chose people who had the strength to farm. In addition to poor physical strength, they were better than pure civil servants. In this era, civil servants were not easy to use because they could not use weapons at all and had no sense of battle formations.

Soon there were a burst of riots in the city, and most of the sounds were "de-order". The village soldiers were divided into two groups, one was arranged in place, and a small group was scattered to the city walls on all sides. Some old and weak civilians around them also took bamboo poles and followed them up from all sides to the walls on all sides.

After a while, Guan Yu and several township soldiers also climbed up the city one after another, and continued to look around with Liu He.

After waiting for a long time, the small cavalry outside slowly approached, with eight people riding horses. Gradually, it was possible to tell from the clothes and armor that they were indeed Xianbei people.

Since the Xianbei entered the Hebei region, it has learned a lot from the Han people in all aspects, including armor. At first glance, it looks roughly similar, but it is still easy to find the difference. First of all, the hats are different. Han soldiers mostly wear integrated slings, while the Xianbei has iron helmets and ear protection, which is like both sides of the dog-skin hat, which may be the reason why the grassland is colder. In addition, the breastplate and the sword on the waist are also not the same.

The seven or eight horses did not move forward one or two hundred steps away, turned around the city wall and circled the city wall, but still did not get close. After walking like this for a long time, they simply turned around and ran away.

Seeing this, the people on the city wall sighed for a while. Guan Yu laughed loudly and said, "I was scared away when I saw our formation!"

Liu He said: "It may also be just a scout team. Seeing that there were defenses around the city, the few people were unwilling to enter rashly. He went back to report the message! He ordered everyone to rest on the spot and not leave. If there was nothing to do when it was the Rising Sun and Dongsheng, he would send people to the streets and alleys to call for food to be delivered by each family."

It was a long wait, but everyone seemed to be very calm. Anyone who had experienced military conquests also understood that most of the time they were either walking or working or waiting in the war, and there was not much time to fight. So this situation is normal now.

But the wait this time was not long, and soon a large group of people appeared in sight. When they got closer, they could see clearly the size of the opponent, including twenty or thirty cavalrymen, and large groups of infantrymen, about one hundred and two or maybe one hundred and five. The infantrymen were holding spears, moving like a dark wood; the cavalry had different weapons, some were spears, some were a hammer, something like a mace, and in addition, it seemed that many people were also equipped with bows and arrows and iron swords.

What is strange is that there is a group of people in front of the enemy soldiers who seem to have no weapons. At first glance, it looks messy. When we get closer, we will confirm that those people are ordinary people. The people are driven to walk sadly, and from time to time there are whips "crackling" on them, screaming and crying. There are women inside... Obviously, the wars of this era do not care about women, children and civilians; we have to wait until humans endure more brutality and everyone has tasted it before they are willing to sit down and set rules.

This Xianbei has no siege equipment, but it seems that there is no need for any equipment to attack a wall like Baitan Town.

"Beast!" Guan Yu cursed.

Liu He ignored the scolding. He felt that it was not a good thing now: what came was not a scattered army, but a built-up army, more than 200 people armed to the teeth. Looking back at his side, there were only fifty cavalry as a force, and the others were a group of old and weak, with incomplete weapons... Liu He felt that this battle was a bit in danger. But there was no other way, so he could only deal with it. At this point, can it be fine if he beat a white flag and said he would surrender?

The Xianbei and the horse thief gradually approached and still stopped one or two hundred steps away. Some of the people in front were lying on the ground and crying sadly, desperate as if they saw the coffin prepared for themselves and the pit dug in front of them. Three more horsemen rode out from the opposite side, not coming up to shout, but just circled around the city again.

Liu He thought to himself: Stop looking, I have chosen the best offensive route for you.

There are walls and deep ditches on both sides, and there are traps in deep ditches. Even if no one defends it, it is very difficult to climb in from the wall. Only the city gate on the south side is easier, there are no pits, there are big roads, and the city gate is just a wooden nailed door, which is full of light-transmitting holes. If you don’t directly break open the city gate, the cavalry will rush in first, so why bother?

As expected, the Xianbei people did not move in the direction and directly whipped and drove the people to rush towards the city gate.

After the driven people approached, Liu He and others saw clearly the clothes they were wearing. They were almost worn out, with patched cotton and linen clothes of varying depths, some even ragged clothes, all of which were poor farmers. They were really beasts! They drove away the Han people and sent slaves as their forefathers.

"The whole army is in place!" Liu He shouted.

After Guan Yu, Huang Zhong and others responded, they got off the earth wall and then shouted the troops arranged in the city gate to retreat to the streets and alleys on both sides.

At this time, the sound of bowstrings sounded outside the city. The Xianbei cavalry fired arrows randomly and shot the driven people from behind. The people were frightened and screamed and rushed straight to the city gate. Perhaps there were Xianbei soldiers disguised as they were mixed inside. Baitan Town lacked bows and arrows, so naturally they could not stop the rioters from the wall. Liu He finally looked back and turned around and jumped off the earth wall.

The crying and messy footsteps outside the city disturbed the desolate but quiet dawn.

"Bang!" "Bang!" The sound of the city gate being hit by wood was like an invisible sledgehammer hitting people's hearts, and everyone was energetic.

On the main road opposite the city gate, multiple obstacles had been built due to tactical preparations. A total of four people-high earth walls were built in the middle of the main road. After Liu He entered the city, he rushed to the back of the first wall, then put a wooden bench on his way to watching the situation on the other side of the city gate.

At this moment, an old woman stood on a dead wooden stick and slowly walked to the empty space in front of her tremblingly. Isn’t she the blind old woman next door? How did she come here?
Chapter completed!