Although Xu Xin was exiled to Lanzhou and had no information and never had the opportunity to communicate with his family, the soldiers from Tongbai Mountain who were exiled also knew that after the death of Xu Wufu and his son, Xu Wuqi changed his name to Chen Qi and followed the governor of the state.
When Cheng was appointed as an official in the state government, he made it clear that he was not colluding with Xu Wujiang, Xu Huai and others who were born in the lower house.
Xu Xin just paid attention to the people around Xu Huai. He saw that this middle-aged man was thin, but he had an indescribable courage and fierce aura. He also secretly speculated who this person was, but he never thought that he could be
Xu Wuqi.
"Fifth uncle! Why are you here too?" Xu Xin stared at Xu Wuqi with his tongue tied, completely confused as to what was going on.
"There are too many things that I don't have time to tell you in detail at the moment - the Khitan cavalry has just raided Shengdemen, and the 40,000 generals of the Tianxiong Army have been blocked in the city. Life and death are on the line, and Ge Huaicong and other generals are greedy and incompetent.
We must not pin our hope of breaking out of the siege on them," Xu Wuqi said in a deep voice, "Can you fully help Xu Huai control the two hundred generals on the north city wall without any accidents, so as to help everyone get out of trouble?
vitality?"
Xu Wukun, Zhou Jing, Xu Sheng and others taught at Huolu Hall. They had different personalities and gave different impressions to the Xu family's children.
Xu Wukun was a affable man, and privately he tended to take care of his lower-fang Xu children, who treated him cordially. However, Xu Xin, Xu Chen and other arrogant upper-fang Xu children looked down upon him to some extent.
But what really makes all the disciples respect and fear him is Xu Wuqi who never shows mercy when dealing with stubborn disciples and is impressive in terms of his knowledge, ability, and skills.
This kind of awe that has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow for a long time naturally brings about subconscious obedience.
"Okay!" Xu Xin was shocked, but he agreed without hesitation.
They are all soldiers of Tongbai Mountain, and Xu Huai is currently holding the "Shang Fang Sword", which is the easiest to control with the help of Pan Chenghu and others.
The cohesion inherent in the local concept will basically not cause any dissatisfaction to Tongbaishanzhu, who is at the bottom, has a relatively simple temperament, and has very simple communication.
Even if you directly pull them to rebel, as long as someone follows, the vast majority of people will follow blindly out of a herd mentality; this is the same as those people who turned into bandits when they got hot-headed.
However, of the two hundred soldiers on the northern city wall, Tongbaishan soldiers only accounted for 30%, so the situation was a bit complicated.
The situation suddenly changed so drastically. Soldiers who were not from Tongbai Mountain had an urgent desire in their hearts to return to the original camp to feel at ease.
Even if Xu Xin cooperates wholeheartedly, it is difficult to ensure that he keeps an eye on everyone.
And once someone deserts and runs away, or comes into contact with former fellow villagers or colleagues, things here will be leaked out casually.
Even if Ge Huaicong won't intervene here for the time being, he probably won't come over to forcefully beg someone at this juncture, but the secret of the way to the city will be leaked in advance.
And when it was finally time to escape from the city, it was most difficult for this group of people to ensure that they could stay together and not scatter in all directions.
Seeing that Xu Xin was willing to cooperate fully, Xu Huai immediately walked to the war tent on the north city wall, held up his arrows, and lectured the soldiers: "Tian Zhichang and others escaped before the battle, and the Supervisory Army Envoy was ordered to capture them and investigate them strictly. You and others.
A new team will be formed, with Han Qi as the commander-in-chief and Xu Xin as the deputy commander-in-chief, and they will go down to the city to work on construction. Anyone who disobeys will be severely punished without mercy!"
In addition to Han Qi and Xu Xin as the chief and deputy generals, Xu Huai also mixed five Zhufengtang guards and ten courtyard soldiers into this work and transportation team, and then took them down the city wall to be responsible for breaking through the inner siege.
Demolishing the houses and building a road to the city will also ensure that they have no chance to contact the outside world for the time being.
Time was too tight. After the matter was decided here, Xu Huai asked Han Qi and Xu Xin to directly lead the people to grab the rope and slide down the city wall. He also considered transferring two hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers into the work camp.
In addition to ensuring that there are enough manpower to build the road to the city, this will also significantly increase the proportion of Tongbai Mountain soldiers, so that when they are dispersed by enemy cavalry, most of them can gather at the designated place instead of fleeing for their lives.
The construction of the road to the city is the most convenient way to demolish the house to collect materials, and it is also convenient to clear an open space under the northwest corner building.
In this way, at the most critical moment, the narrow streets on the outside can be used to delay the enemy's pursuit, and at the same time, more people can be accommodated to evacuate from the road to the city.
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Xu Huai and Xu Wuqi got off the city wall, and Fan Chenghu came back with his men.
Pan Chenghu did not climb up the city wall just now to observe the situation. Many prisoners and generals hurried back to their bases when they saw the enemy attack alarm bell ringing. He wanted to capture more Tongbai Mountain soldiers and bring them back.
Of course, Xu Huai had anticipated all this before, and Pan Chenghu could also guess what was going on outside the city after seeing the Shengde Gate engulfed in fire.
"How many Khitan reinforcements are coming?" Pan Chenghu asked eagerly when he saw Xu Huai.
"Contrary to what we expected, Xiao Linshi was demoted to the rank of herdsman and only led 3,000 cavalry from Yingzhou to come back for reinforcements..." Xu Huai didn't have time to explain too much to Pan Chenghu in detail. He stood in the front yard and dispatched people non-stop.
Task.
Xu Wukun still had to go to the camp and stay in front of Zhu Hang, so that he could know at any time what decisions Ge Huaicong and others would make, as well as the situation of the Tianxiong Army in all directions.
The two hundred soldiers of the courtyard have already been divided into soldiers and horses of the four capitals.
At this time, Xu Xin'an and Tang Pan would lead the first and second capital troops to control the streets and alleys entering the camp from the south and west sides, strictly control their perimeter, and recruit Han people from nearby areas as much as possible to build simple buildings.
fortifications.
Except for the third capital led by Tang Qing, who was stationed at the northwest corner tower and the northern city wall, the remaining fourth capital, led by Yin Peng, stayed behind Xu Huai, Xu Wuqi, and Zheng Tu to maneuver.
Zhou Jing then led a small number of people to be responsible for situation reconnaissance and communication, and also maintained contact with the Zhufengtang caravan, which was coming from Shuozhou under the leadership of Su Laochang and would sneak into Wuzhou Mountain to meet them.
After all these matters were assigned, Xu Huai asked Pan Chenghu, Xu Wuqi, and Zheng Tu how many soldiers from Tongbai Mountain they had captured and returned.
"This military discipline is probably extremely bad. At this hour, almost a third of the soldiers are still looting property in the West City without restraint. We have captured a total of nearly 600 Tongbai Shan
Kill!" Zheng Tu, along with Meng Laodao, Du Zhong and others, were stationed at the camp to receive the captured soldiers from Tongbai Mountain. He knew the number of people best.
It only took more than an hour, and the area they searched was still very limited. If it weren't for the enemy reinforcements, Zheng Tu suspected that they would be able to capture almost 1,400 to 500 Tongbai Mountain soldiers by the time daylight came out.
"That's enough! We can't take care of it no matter how much!"
At this time, 600 soldiers from Tongbai Mountain can be gathered together. In addition to the 200 people who were forcibly detained by the north city wall, there are already 1,000 people directly under the supervision of the Military Envoy in Datong.
What's more important is that except for the two hundred soldiers, other than waving flags and shouting to build up their momentum, they can't expect to exert much combat effectiveness in the short term.
Xu Huai himself was worried that he had gathered too many people. When he climbed over the city wall to evacuate to Wuzhou Mountain, if Xiao Linshi saw the truth, he only had 200 elite men at his disposal, and it was very likely that he would not be able to take care of too many people at the same time.
Xu Huai walked inside while listening to Zheng Tu talk about some of the conditions of these Tongbai Mountain soldiers.
Xu Huai and the others had already demolished the partition wall in the middle of the three-span courtyard as well as the ear rooms and back rooms in advance to connect the sites and make them more open. However, even so, they borrowed wooden ladders to climb up to the roof of the living room in the middle and looked left and right.
They are all densely packed with people.
In addition to the relatively open school grounds and barracks in the inner city of Datong, there are also two standing military barracks in the East City. Ge Huaicong not only captured the East City immediately, but also ordered the Tianxiong Army's 40,000 forbidden troops to be stationed directly in order to save trouble.
Xicheng.
This is an extremely fatal mistake.
In addition to the necessity of expelling Han households to free up large areas of houses, and even intensifying conflicts with the local Han people, 40,000 soldiers and horses used small teams as the basic unit and were dispersed into houses with a narrow layout.
It was cut into pieces, and the speed of conveying military orders and gathering troops was horribly slowed down.
It has been more than half an hour since the enemy attacked Seungdeok Gate and the Seungdeok Gate was caught in a huge fire. However, not to mention the soldiers who tried to put out the fire at Seungdeok Gate and climbed up the west wall through ropes and wooden ladders to strengthen their guard.
, no more than a thousand people.
Even at this moment, there are still a large number of soldiers running around in the streets and alleys because they cannot find their headquarters.
Xu Huai no longer had time to take care of the Tianxiong army. He turned his attention back to the many Tongbai soldiers standing around the living room. Hearing the chaos below, he raised his foot and kicked him in pieces. With a "crash", he smashed into pieces at the base of the west mountain wall.
Suddenly the shouting became silent.
At this time, Xu Huai took off the sword from his waist and held it in front of him. He glared at both sides and cursed loudly:
"Who's mother gave birth to a son without a buttocks? After all this quarrel, do you really think that I care about the friendship with fellow villagers and won't deal with you scoundrels today? Or are you people who have mothers and not fathers and don't know who I am?
Were you not beaten to pieces by me in Tongbai Mountain? Why, you are so arrogant now that you think you can burn, kill and loot right under my nose and eyes by wearing a military uniform. I don't dare to cut off your heads and use them as urinals? Now
I have some very unfortunate news for you. From this moment on, you will be directly under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Army Envoy. You may have to look at my face for a long time to come. I now limit you to three poles in the sun.
Before I complete the formation, when I stand on the ridge of the house again, whoever is still in a mess and can't find his seat, don't blame me for lending you a few heads to establish my authority..."
Even in the past year, Xu Huai's invincible figure still appeared in the nightmares of many Tongbai Mountain bandits from time to time.
Even those soldiers who had not witnessed Xu Huai's bloody killings on the battlefield had already heard his reputation mentioned countless times.
During the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain, only more than 6,000 people were killed by the allied forces from various villages. Xu Huai captured more than 200 heads one after another. Many people were even cut in half directly on the battlefield, especially the latter. At this time
Thinking about it still makes those who come in person feel frightened...
