Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Facing the doubts of the two, Guan Jiujiu had his own arguments to deal with, and he only heard him say: "You think about it, the master, I came up with this plan, so it's the safest thing for me to handle it. After all, the students know everything about it. There won’t be any mistakes, right? Besides, the head of the family should also leave 200 guards around him, right? What if the government officials in the city jump over the wall in a hurry and send someone to sneak out of the city to assassinate you, the head of the house?”

Speaking of this, Guan Jiujiu's voice was obviously loud and shouted: "Zhao Erzhao's swordsmanship is superb, and with one or two hundred brothers guarding you, then you can rest easy. Now the big boss can't afford to lose. In the eyes of the students, the lives of thousands of brothers are not as important as the safety of you alone. If something happens to the head of the family, our Sunset Mountain will definitely be scattered and collapsed in an instant."

hiss……

Listening to Guan Jiujiu's analysis, Meng Laogui couldn't help but look serious. Yes, what Guan Junshi said is reasonable. If something happens to me, will I have to pay for it?

If even my head was stolen secretly, even if Longxi County was captured and all the gold, silver, jewels and beauties in the county were looted, what would I do?

It's really wrinkling a pool of spring water, what's the matter with Guan Qing?

Then he nodded subconsciously, turned his head to Zhao Jiuchou and said, "Second brother, you pick two hundred brothers to guard around the camp, and the safety of the eldest brother will be in your hands."

"Can……"

Zhao Jiuchou just wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything. Meng Laogui had already said that, what else could he say?

He clearly knew that Guan Jiujiu was scaremongering, and he just wanted to take the credit for himself, but he couldn't argue with this big bastard's hat, and Guan Jiujiu won another game for the idiot.

In desperation, Zhao Jiuchou had no choice but to nod resentfully.

Guan Jiujiu lowered his head and glanced secretly at the dejected Zhao Jiuchou. He smiled inwardly and said, "Just because you, a vulgar and reckless man, dare to fight with a well-educated scholar like me?Are you serious?Xiao Mian, just wait for me, Guan Jiujiu, to capture the city of Longxi, with great merit and glory, I will trample you under my feet.

Immediately, Guan Jiujiu raised his head suddenly, bowed to Meng Laogui and said, "Master, the students should go out and arrange manpower first, and start cutting grass and trees. It's not too late for this matter."

Meng Laogui had already longed for the moment when the city of Longxi County was broken, and he waved his hand leisurely to signal him to go out and act.

Zhao Jiuchou sighed in his heart, so he had to live with the situation, and after Guan Jiujiu attacked the city, he could also get a share of the pie.

No way, who let his IQ not keep up with other people's footsteps.

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Two hours later, the city of Longxi returned to its original state after cleaning up the battlefield.

Ma Yuanju organized many well-meaning country gentry and wealthy households to bring food and steamed buns to the city with their family members, and sent food to the young and strong guards of the city. Not only the East Gate, but also the West Gate, North Gate, and South Gate. in this way.

Although it is noisy and noisy, it also has the taste of military and civilian fish and water.

On the top of Dongcheng City, Ma Yuanju brought Guo Ye a big roast chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, handed it over and said, "Come on, I bought this for my own money, and it's a reward for you boy. It was a good fight."

Guo Ye took the lotus leaf bag, tore open the lotus leaf outside, broke off a chicken leg, and began to bite, devouring it, he was obviously very hungry.

Guo Ye won the first battle of defending the city, Ma Yuanju seemed to be in a good mood, and said happily: "It seems that these bandits have this ability, as long as they can last for fifteen days, Guo Ye, we will be done."

"Uh~~ fifteen days?"

Guo Ye choked on eating too fast, then shook his head and sighed: "Master Gongcao is too optimistic, relying on three or two hundred yamen servants and rogues with no combat effectiveness in an isolated city, he wants to stop the army of thousands of bandits, hehe, Easier said than done!"

In Ma Yuanju's eyes, Guo Ye had always been fearless, and it was obvious that the situation was not as optimistic as he had imagined for him to say such pessimistic words.

This kid is definitely not the master of talking nonsense, and he must be worried in his heart to be able to say such words.

So he frowned and asked softly, "Brother, there are at least [-] unarmed people in the city. You can't be sloppy and slack. In your opinion, how long can this city last?"

However, Guo Ye did not answer Ma Yuanju's words, but raised the lotus leaf in his hand with a preoccupied look, and the thin lotus leaf was blown in the air by the wind.

The lotus leaf swayed in the wind for a while, Guo Ye looked around and said to himself:

"Look, there is a strong wind. There have been clouds since ancient times. The wind is urgent and the war is urgent!"

Chapter 126 Battle to defend Longxi County (7)

After a lot of commotion on the east gate tower, the calm gradually returned. In a blink of an eye, the sky was dark, and a new moon climbed over the willow branches, and it was night.

Guo Ye arranged for Pang Feihu and Fatty Zhu to lead nearly a hundred yamen servants and two hundred rogues to supervise the city, and ordered Sun Mingyan to take the remaining [-] rogues down the tower, and block them all behind the city gate, guarding the door to guard against bandits.

Then he found a deserted corner on the tower and started to cat. Since the beginning of the thieves' siege, he hadn't had a good sleep. At this moment, his upper eyelids knocked his lower eyelids, so sleepy that he dozed off.

Even a tiger sometimes dozes off, not to mention a young man like him who is full of vigor.

Then he took off the white cloak as a quilt and wrapped his body tightly, leaned against the corner wall and squinted his eyes, and fell asleep soundly after a while.

Tonight, the city of Longxi is completely silent, even the noisy insects and frogs have stopped, only the rustling of the wind blowing the banner above the city is still roaring, not only there is no sign of stopping, on the contrary, more and more The bigger the blow, the bigger it seemed to overturn the entire city tower.

Many yamen guards on duty were blown to the bone by the fierce westerly wind, their cheeks ached, and they squatted down one after another, leaning against the city wall to resist the wind and cold.

Fatty Zhu was wide and fat, and standing on the gate tower couldn't bear the cold attack of the howling westerly wind, so he said to Pang Feihu: "Old Zhu can't stand it anymore, go find a cotton jacket to keep out the cold."

After finishing speaking, he rushed down the tower.

Pang Feihu hummed, stretched out his hand to feel the invisible strong west wind in the void, and sighed chillingly: "It's really evil, it's the first time I've seen such a strong wind this year. I hope the bandits think it's too strong." It's cold, so you don't want to come to attack the city."

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Time passed by every minute and every second, but in the eyes of Pang Feihu and the yamen guarding the city, the time passed too slowly, and they were suffering like ants climbing a hot pot.

No matter how hard the time is, no matter how the westerly wind roars, there is still a ray of dawn on the edge of the eastern sky, and the sliver of haze before dawn has been lifted.

Pang Feihu counted with his fingers, but it can be regarded as the fourth watch.

"Cough cough..."

Wrapped in a ragged coat and cotton clothes, Fatty Zhu coughed like a tumbler, and staggered to Pang Feihu's side, he laughed and said, "I'm sorry, Boss Pang, Lao Zhu dozed off at home just now, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, cough, cough, cough..."

Just now Pang Feihu complained and criticized Fatty Zhu for being lazy, suddenly his nose choked, his eyes were sore and he couldn't open it, and he coughed again and again.

Immediately afterwards, near, around, and not far away, bursts of choking coughs and shouts sounded:

"Cough cough..."

"Cough cough cough...so choking!"

"Where is the dense fog coming from? Cough cough, why is the fog so thick today?"

"Ahem, I'm so smoked to death, this isn't morning fog, it seems someone's house is on fire!"

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Suddenly, Fatty Zhu covered his nose, looked out of the city hard, and shouted to Pang Feihu: "Pang Boss, look, look!"

Pang Feihu rubbed his sore eyes, looked out of the city, and was dumbfounded!

The sky was full of red light, burning red everything he could see in front of him.