Female-to-male: I live on farming

"Qian Hu, what do you think of my outfit?"

Li Nanqiao raised his index finger and made a soft "hush" sound, reminding: "Pay attention to the way you address me. Don't call me by my official title in public, or you'll give me away."

"Oh, I remember, I remember. It's just that I'm not used to it." The person who spoke scratched his head in a naive manner.

"Okay, Danniu, just talk less when you're outside." Li Nanqiao patted her shoulder.

Although this man looks silly, he comes from a butcher family and is very good at wielding a knife.

Among their group, Li Nanqiao has spent the longest time in the army, while the others have only served for one year.

Before joining the army, most of them came from poor families, so when they took off their military uniforms and dressed up as ordinary people, there was no difference between them and ordinary people.

Therefore, Li Nanqiao was not worried about their disguises being exposed. They all took out their original tricks and broke into Xiaocheng in small groups.

Xiaocheng had indeed begun martial law. The number of soldiers guarding the city gate was twice as many as usual, and passers-by were strictly checked.

Li Nanqiao noticed that many people were carrying a lot of food to the city. After careful investigation, he found out that the governor of Yizhou had issued a grain collection order to the surrounding villages, requiring each village to hand over grain based on the number of people.

It seems that Xiaocheng's food reserves are not sufficient, and they are afraid that they will not be able to support the soldiers in the battle, so they are forced to collect food from the people. Secondly, it can also be seen that the court's support has not yet arrived in Yizhou.

This is also the reason why Xiaocheng has not been closed yet. If Li Nanqiao and the others arrived one day later, Xiaocheng would have been closed and pedestrians would not be allowed to enter or leave.

The inspection at the city gate is strict, and they cannot bring any weapons into the city. But it doesn’t matter, if they don’t have any weapons in their hands, they can just take them away.

Three days later, Xiao Anyi brought his army to the outside of Xiaocheng and stopped about three miles away from Xiaocheng.

The plain ahead was endless and flat as a mirror, with no obstacles blocking the view. This resulted in their army being noticed by the soldiers guarding the city wall when they were several kilometers away from the city gate.

The guard immediately ran to report the news in a hurry.

When the governor and his men hurried to the city wall, they saw a large army in front of the city gate, as black as a colony of ants.

The army clad in black armor slowly came under the protection of iron shields that were as high as their shoulders. They marched in neat steps and slowly approached under the protection of the iron wall-like shields.

The soldiers behind the shields held sharp black spears. The spears were dark black in color, with long and thin spearheads and long brown-red tassels at the ends.

This huge army came in front of the gate of Xiaocheng and stopped at the gate. The heavy shield soldiers were in the front, and the soldiers with spears followed closely behind the heavy shield soldiers, forming a long iron wall, and the army behind them gathered into a formation.

The leading woman riding a white horse in the center of the front of the army was wearing a crimson cloak.

She nodded slightly to the person beside her. The person beside her received the order and raised the flag and shouted: "Pass on the order of Princess Jinyang. Today, the Princess wants to take Xiaocheng and reorganize Yizhou. If Xiaocheng is willing to surrender, we will not hurt anyone in the city. If they are stubborn, we will trample Xiaocheng and leave no one alive!"

The soldiers on the city wall, holding long swords in their hands, looked at each other in confusion when they heard this, not knowing what to do.

The Governor of Yizhou, however, had a ferocious look on his face and spoke in a high-sounding manner, saying that it was obvious that the eldest princess was planning to rebel.

He is the former crown prince's man. If he falls into the hands of the eldest princess, nothing good will happen to him. Moreover, it is said that the eldest princess is a person who cannot tolerate any sand in her eyes. If the eldest princess knows what he has done, he will definitely not have a good ending.

Thinking of this, the governor raised his voice with a gloomy face: "Don't listen to the words of these traitors. The court has already known about this matter. We only need to hold on for a few days, and the court's reinforcements will arrive. Soldiers, follow me to defend the city gate!"

Xiao Anyi had long expected that the censor would defend to the death, so he sat high on the horse, raised his right hand, and gently waved it forward.

The trumpeter beside her blew a long horn in accordance with her gestures, and the war drums mounted on the chariot behind her also sounded at the same time.

Generally speaking, if you want to capture a city, you usually need to have a greater military advantage than the defending army. This ratio may be several times or even higher.

Because the city itself has strong defensive facilities and walls, the defenders can use these advantages to resist the attacks of the besiegers. The besiegers not only need to face the obstacles of the city walls, but also need to deal with various defensive measures such as guards on the city walls, arrows, catapults, etc.

Fortunately, Xiaocheng was hastily prepared, and the number of defenders in the city was no more than ten thousand at most. Even if a violent attack was launched, it could be captured. It was only a matter of time.

As the horn sounded, the army advanced steadily, and countless arrows were shot from the city walls.

Soldiers rushed to the city gate like a tide, weapons collided, making crisp collisions. The battlefield was suddenly filled with smoke, blood and flesh flew everywhere, a tragic scene.

The governor was sitting on the city wall when suddenly a servant came running towards him.

The governor recognized the man as his servant. Seeing his panicked expression, he was immediately startled. He stood up quickly and asked, "Why are you here? What happened in your house?"

The servant was barely catching his breath, holding his knees with both hands, and panting, "Sir, no... it's bad, the mansion is on fire, there are... there are a group of thieves..."

"What!?" The governor was horrified and ran quickly to the other side of the city wall. Looking around, he saw fire somewhere in the city.

It was exactly the location of his Censorate.

"What is the current situation in the palace?"

"That group of thieves was very powerful and skilled in martial arts. All the guards in the mansion were killed by them. We...we were no match for them."

"How is my family?"

"Anyone who showed any resistance was killed by them, but the elderly, the weak, women and children in the mansion were unarmed and did not move." The servant had never seen such thieves before. They acted differently from ordinary people.

More and more people in the city noticed the fire in the Governor's Mansion. This was not just a matter of breaking through the Governor's Mansion. It meant that the power core of this city had been destroyed, and it also broke the morale of the Xiaocheng army.

Sure enough, when he lowered his eyes, he saw that the soldiers at the city gate were no longer as brave as they had just at the beginning. Fear and uneasiness were revealed in their eyes, and the weapons in their hands were no longer pointed at the enemy as firmly as before, and even their movements were much slower.

Before he could figure out a way to break the impasse, the sound of fighting was heard not far away.

He was so angry that he leaned against the city wall and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a group of men in black attacking the city gate, and they were getting closer and closer to it.

The morale of the soldiers defending the city was already unstable, and suddenly a group of people rushed out of the city. If they opened the city gate, Xiaocheng would be finished!