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Chapter 488: The Battle of Xuchang(1/2)

PS: I won’t make up for it tonight, I have to sort out the process again.

————The following text——

"Report! The traces of Zhou Gong's army were found outside the eastern suburbs of the city, with more than ten thousand soldiers!"

"Report! The traces of Zhong Fei's army were found in the southern suburbs outside the city, with more than ten thousand soldiers!"

"Report! Xiang Xuan was found in the western suburbs outside the city, Yan Xiu's two armies, with more than ten thousand soldiers!"

At the 15th of June, three commanders appeared at the county magistrate's office almost at the same time, informing the county magistrate Li Min of the arrival of the three rebels outside Xuchang City.

Even a person like Junjun Governor Li also looked panicked and said to his left and right: "Where is Zhou Hu? Where is Zhou Hu?!"

A moment later, an insider reported to the county magistrate Li: "The Duwei of Zhou has gone to the west gate to inspect the enemy situation... Do you want to call him to come?"

“…No need.”

Although Jung Li was uneasy, he still didn't dare to disturb him. He just sent someone to the west gate to ask Zhou Hu if he was sure to defend the city.

At the same time, Zhao Yu was standing in the open space in front of the Xicheng Gate Tower, looking at Xiang Xuanjun and Yan Xiujun outside the city.

To be fair, the number of Xiang Xuan Army and Yan Xiu Army outside the city today is not much higher than the previous few days. The difference is that today's two rebels are carrying ladder trucks, siege vehicles and other siege equipment. You can tell at a glance that they are going to be real.

Just as Zhao Yu was secretly observing the rebels outside the city, there were Wei Shi Han and Liu Jian from the side to report to him about the situation at the south gate and the east gate.

It is similar to the west gate. Zhong Fei's army on the south side of the city and Zhou Gong's army on the east side are all carrying ladder trucks, rushers and other siege equipment.

These three rebels appeared at the same time, and the accompanying troops were carrying siege equipment. It was so consistent that it was obviously agreed in advance, so as to give Xuchang City the greatest impact and deterrence.

"Wang Tao." Zhao Yu shouted in a deep voice.

"Please give orders to the commander." Gongcao Shi Wangtao immediately walked out of the crowd behind Zhao Yu and bowed to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu looked at the rebels outside the city and said in a deep voice: "Immediately send someone to divide the one million coins of the Chief Command into three parts, and carry them to the three city gate towers in the west, south and east!"

"Affect the order."

Wang Gongcao Shi took the order and left.

"Han He!"

"At." Wei Shihanhe hurriedly stepped out of the line and bowed to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu ordered in a deep voice: "I am sending my order, and the whole city is strictly prohibited. People in the city are not allowed to stay on the main street. Those who violate the order shall be severely punished!... You will lead another thousand soldiers to be on duty on the main street. Those who violate my order may create chaos and spread rumors and arrest them immediately!"

"Abide by the order!"

Wei Shihanhe left in a hurry.

"Liu Jian!"

"I am in a humble position." Wei Shi Liu Jian also hurriedly left the line.

"You lead two thousand soldiers to be responsible for logistics, and you are responsible for the turbulence required to defend the city and the water and rice required to soldiers."

"yes!"

Liu Jian also hurried away.

Soon, many soldiers suddenly surged on the city wall. It turned out to be Tian Qin and Liao Guang, two soldiers, had already transferred reinforcements from the barracks in the city.

There were probably two or three thousand soldiers who came to help, and they kept rushing up from the steps inside the city wall, but even so, there was still a lot of space on the city wall.

It's so big, Xuchang...

Zhao Yu frowned and looked around the city walls on both sides.

According to his visual observation, Xuchang's western city wall is almost twice that of Kunyang's western city wall. For the weak Xuchang, such a long line of defense undoubtedly hides more accidents and accidents.

What's worse is that the morale of these county soldiers was generally not high, and most of them looked pale, as if they were losing their parents, as if they were facing despair.

Even Zhao Yu muttered a little when leading these county soldiers to defend the city: Can these people really be defended?

At this moment, Zhao Yu could only hope for the one million yuan to see if he could mobilize the morale of these county soldiers and turn them into "brave men".

After a full moment, the rebels far outside the city were about to set up their troops. At this time, a famous soldier carried the box full of money to the city gate tower.

Too slow!

Zhao Yu frowned secretly.

However, when he saw that several Gongcao led by Wang Tao were all sweating, he finally held back and did not get angry.

In fact, he also understood that Wang Tao and others were already very fast.

"Pop out all the copper coins in the box and pile them in one place." Zhao Yu ordered in a deep voice.

Gongcao Shi Wangtao looked at Zhao Yu in shock, and quickly ordered the soldiers to say, "Hurry! As Zhou Duwei said, pour out the money from the box and plums..."

Crazy-

Under Zhao Yu's order, the famous soldier dumped all the money in the wooden box in front of the city gate tower, and then piled up a small hill.

One million coins are divided into three portions, each portion is approximately 330,000. From an intuitive perspective, this amount is quite impactful and immediately attracted the attention of the nearby county soldiers.

Taking this opportunity, Zhao Yu looked around the soldiers on the surrounding city walls and shouted loudly: "Did you see this money? This is the money Zhou asked County Governor Li to reward you and wait for the soldiers."

As he said that, he ordered again: "In my name, I will inform the entire army that today, all those who are defending the city wall will be rewarded with one hundred coins. In addition, kill a rebel and give another ten coins, and the upper limit will not be capped!"

After saying that, he turned to look at the Junhou Wang Kang and signaled, "What are you doing while standing there?"

"yes!"

Wang Kang then realized, ran around the city wall in person, shouting: "The Zhou Duwei has an order. Today, the soldiers who go up to the city wall to participate in the defense will be able to hold on to their posts and fight to kill the enemy. Each person will be rewarded with a hundred coins. If one rebel is killed, another ten coins will be rewarded without a cap. The Zhou Duwei has an order..."

When Wang Kang ran around and told him, Gongcao Shuzuo Feng Wei, who was standing behind Zhao Yu, immediately recorded Zhao Yu's order.

In just a moment, the cheers of the soldiers rang out on the west city wall.

Some people even shouted: "Long live the county magistrate! Long live the Zhou Duwei!"

These cheers gradually gathered into a tide of sound.

Under this cheering wave, the county magistrate Chen Lang and Gongcao Army Xun Yi looked at each other.

The two of them made up their minds.

At this moment, there were about two thousand guards on the West City Wall. Of course, this amount of troops was not enough to resist the rebels. Chen Lang and Xun Yi estimated that at least five or six thousand people would have to be used on the West City Wall today, after all, they would have to rotate.

According to the six thousand people, the three city walls in the west, south and east are 18,000 soldiers, and each soldier is rewarded with 100 coins, which is 1.8 million coins...

Good guy, just a few days ago, County Magistrate Li distributed one million yuan to his lieutenant office to reward military soldiers. As a result, today, when the lieutenant Zhou spoke, he not only immediately spent the one million yuan, but even owed 800,000 yuan...

What’s so bad is that this does not include the additional reward of “killing one person and rewarding ten coins”.

Although there must be brave men under heavy rewards, this heavy reward is too heavy, right?

Before the war was fought, millions of dollars were spent. If this war lasted for several days, ten days, dozens of days, what would it be?

However, listening to the cheers of the soldiers of the county on the west wall, Chen Lang and Xun Yi both tactfully did not say anything.

After all, they also understood that the most important thing at the moment was to block the offensive of the rebels outside the city. Compared to spending some money and being attacked by the rebels into the city, that was the most unacceptable situation.

A moment later, Wang Kang, the Junhou of the Men, returned to the city gate tower panting and overturned Zhao Yu in a hoarse voice.

At this time, two sages, Tian Qin and Liao Guang, had also arrived at the city gate to meet with Zhao Yu.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu ordered Tian Qin, Liao Guang, and Wang Kang: "The rebels attacked Xuchang together, and Xiang Xuan must be the main one. There is no doubt that the west wall will be the direction of the rebels' fierce attack. Liao Guang, you are quite brave. I will order you to assist Wang Kang again, do you have any objections?"

Liao Guang, who was praised by Zhao Yu, showed a little surprise on his face. After reacting, he immediately clasped his fists and said, "As for the order!... If you have a humble position here, you will never let the rebels attack!"

"good."

Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction and reminded: "I promise you to act cheaply. During this period, you can discuss with Wang Kang. If you have any questions, send someone to tell me."

"yes!"

Liao Guang clasped his fists and ordered.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu and his group immediately followed the city wall to the south city gate tower, and the soldier Tian Qin also followed.

When Zhao Yu and his group arrived at the Nancheng Gate Tower, 330,000 yuan had already been piled up in front of the Nancheng Gate Tower.

Zhao Yu used his old trick again and ordered people to pour the 330,000 yuan on the ground, and at the same time issued a reward order.

The soldiers on the south city wall were initially surprised at the boxes full of money, and even more surprised at why the soldiers on the west city wall suddenly cheered, until they heard Zhao Yu's reward order, and they couldn't help but cheer.

By the way, Yan Sheng, the Marquis of the Former South City Gate, had been dismissed by Zhao Yu before, and the new Marquis of the Jungle Tsui Hark was promoted by Tian Qin after Zhao Yu's consent. Perhaps this is the reason, so Tsui Hark was also respectful to Zhao Yu.

After reminding Tsui Hark to guard the south city wall, Zhao Yu and his group immediately went to the east city wall.

In front of the Dongcheng Gate Tower, Zhao Yu re-used the same trick again, successfully inspiring the morale of the guards on the Dongcheng Wall.

The Marquis of the East City Gate is called Song Yu. Zhao Yu saw him while inspecting various city gates a few days ago. It was probably because Zhao Yu was killing a chicken to warn the monkey on the southern city wall. Song Yu was also quite respectful to Zhao Yu and did not dare to offend him at all.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Yu ordered Tian Qin to say, "As far as I know, Zhou Gong outside the city is also a powerful general, and I will order you to defend again... Like Liao Guang, I will grant you the power to act cheaply. Unless there is a clear abnormality in the rebels, or you cannot judge, you can send someone to notify me, and you can decide on other matters by yourself."

"yes!"

Tian Qin held his fists and took the order.

The two fairly good generals Liao Guang and Tian Qin were placed at the West City Gate and the East City Gate respectively, which was naturally out of vigilance against Xiang Xuan and Zhou Gong.

Although Xiang Xuan was in the limelight during this period, Zhao Yu also knew that Zhou Gong captured Yanling in silence.
To be continued...
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