Nanyang County has always been in the same way as the family members of the Zhutiandu Department, killing them!

The yamen runners looked at each other involuntarily, putting the things in their hands on the ground, and looking at Liu Xiu one by one.

Liu Xiu looked around everyone present and said loudly: "We cannot escape in this battle, nor can we escape. Whether for public or private, we must resist the invading Mang army outside Xinye City!"

Seeing that everyone was being moved by Liu Xiu, Liu Tong was so anxious that he rubbed his hands and escaped, at least one more person could survive. He would probably not be able to survive alone.

He was about to speak, and Liu Xiuzhen shouted: "In this battle, in the big way, we are fighting for the Zhutiandu tribe, and in the small way, we are fighting to protect our family! If all our family members are dead, what's the point of living alone? Today, I, Liu Xiu, will fight side by side with all my brothers, either living together or dying together!"

"Either live together or die together!" The yamen runners pulled out the swords under their ribs, and the crowd was excited and shouted in unison.

"Everyone comes with me!" As he spoke, Liu Xiu walked out of the county yamen, and a group of yamen runners followed him.

Liu Tong ran forward and blocked Liu Xiu's way. He was so anxious that he was sweating all over his head. He whispered: "A Xiu, are you crazy? How can you fight with Mang Jun with just a few people?"

Liu Xiu took a step forward, walked towards Liu Tong, and said, "Brother Tong, I only know that when there is still a glimmer of hope for war, you will die without fighting, you can only choose to fight to the death!"

Liu Tong took a deep breath when he heard this. Liu Xiu said, "If Brother Tong wants to leave, then leave quickly and go to my elder brother for rescue."

"I……"

"If Brother Tong doesn't want to leave, then organize manpower in the city as soon as possible, carry all the rolling wood and stones to the city wall to consolidate the city defense!" After saying that, Liu Xiu patted Liu Tong's shoulder and walked over to him.

More than a hundred yamen runners behind him followed Liu Xiu, and left the county yamen, heading straight to the northern city where the Mang Army appeared.

Liu Tong's face changed, and finally he stomped his feet hard, turned around and ran towards the lobby, writing a mobilization document.

If Liu Xiu refused to leave, how could he escape alone? If he really did this, no one in the Zhutiandu tribe would let him go, including Liu Yun.

Let’s talk about Liu Xiu and his group, with more than a hundred yamen runners, and met with Zhu You and others. At present, all of them have less than two hundred, including one hundred elite soldiers and more than eighty yamen runners.

Looking outside the city, there were indeed more than a thousand enemy troops coming.

Looking at the flags that the Mang Army fought, there was a big flag with a big word "王". Seeing the big flag clearly, Liu Xiu frowned and blurted out: "Is the enemy coming from the army of Jingyang County?"

Zhu You widened his eyes in disbelief and said, "No, lord, my brother asked Deng Feng to lead two thousand troops to attack Jingyang!" The county soldiers of Jingyang should now defend Jingyang City. How could they suddenly run to Xinye?

Liu Xiu's eyes rolled, and he knew it in his heart. He said: "The people leading this army in Jingyang County are not simple. He saw that our army was coming in a fierce manner and it was difficult for Jingyang to stick to it, so he took another approach and took the soldiers of Jingyang County to give up defending the city, and directly bypassed the left front army and sneaked into Xinye behind our army!"

This move avoids the enemy's edge, takes a detour, and attacks the enemy's weaknesses with a sharp move, is very powerful, at least it is far beyond our expectations.

Liu Xiu's speculation is correct. This Mang army that suddenly appeared in Xinye was the soldiers of the Qingyang County, headed by the magistrate of the Qingyang County.

During the Battle of the East Coast of Qingyang, not only did the county army suffer heavy losses, but the soldiers of Qingyang County also killed as many as one or two thousand people, including the county magistrate of Qingyang County.

At present, most of the more than 1,000 county soldiers in Jingyang City are temporarily recruited, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. If you want to rely on these thousand people to resist the fierce Deng Feng family, you will undoubtedly hit the stone with an egg.

The magistrate of Jingyang County was named Fei Jun, whose courtesy name was Deyi. Although he was a civil servant, he was quite strategic. Knowing that there was no war, he decisively chose to abandon Jingyang and personally led all the soldiers of Jingyang to circumnavigate on the west bank of the Jingshui River to avoid the sharpness of Deng Feng and his family. He suddenly appeared in Xinye without knowing it.

Fei Jun made a clear plan. Now that Zhu Tiandu's troops are moving in full swing, Xinye must be empty. His side is surprised and takes advantage of the situation and is extremely likely to capture Xinye.

In this way, although he lost Jingyang, he took back Xinye, and his merits and demerits were worthy. In addition, if you took Xinye, you could also cause a fatal blow to the main force of the Zhutiandu division, and even had the opportunity to annihilate the Zhutian anti-army in one fell swoop.

Fei Jun made a good calculation, but he missed a person and Liu Xiu was recovering from the injury in Xinye.

After climbing to the top of the city and seeing the Mang army's strength, Liu Xiu called Zhu You and said, "When the Mang army attacked the city later, A You, you will lead 100 personal soldiers to resist at the top of the city, and I will lead the yamen runners to go out of the city to fight!"

Zhu You took a deep breath and said anxiously: "Lord, are you going to go out of the city to fight?"

Liu Xiu nodded and said, "The enemy is large and we are few. With the current people, we cannot disperse the city to defend the city. However, the enemy's troops can be dispersed and siege the city. We must find a way to concentrate the enemy in one place so that they cannot disperse the city to attack!"

Zhu You said seriously: "I understand! The lord can stay at the top of the city to guard the city. I will go out of the city to attract the enemy!"

Liu Xiu shook his head and said, "A hundred personal soldiers are equipped with crossbows. They can only exert their maximum combat power when they stay at the top of the city. Then the only one who goes out of the city is the yamen runners. If they want the yamen runners to have the courage to go out of the city, I can only take them with me!"

The yamen runners are not military soldiers. They do not have such strong fighting spirit and sense of responsibility. The reason why they are willing to stay and defend the city is just to protect their families in the city.

If there is no one with a high prestige leading them and gathering them together, let alone they do not have the courage to go out of the city to fight, even if they have this courage, they will be defeated in one blow and will not be able to perform any effect.

Zhu You said with a worried look on his face: "But this is too dangerous! Besides, the lord's injury has not yet been healed!"

Liu Xiu smiled at him and said lightly: "I know my body in my heart. Ah You can rest assured!"

They were talking, and the sound of horns had sounded from the camp of the Mang army outside the city.

Immediately afterwards, more than a thousand soldiers from the Qingyang County began to advance together and headed straight for the northern gate of Xinye.

Seeing this, the personal soldiers standing on the top of the city raised crossbows, and the sharpness of the crossbow arrows was aimed at the enemy outside the city.

Liu Xiu ordered: "Wait until the enemy is thirty steps away from the city!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the messengers present conveyed Liu Xiu's orders.

The lethality of crossbow arrows is greater than that of bows and arrows, but it has a fatal disadvantage. The arrows are unstable when flying in the air. The further distance, the greater the deviation. Therefore, crossbow arrows are mostly used as close-range lethal weapons, and long-range killing, so bows and arrows are still used.

There are no archers among the personal soldiers, and the yamen runners will not use bows and arrows. Now the only thing they can shoot and kill the enemy is crossbow arrows.

After the Mang army entered Xinye within a hundred steps, its speed slowed down significantly. The soldiers held their shields one by one, as if waiting for the arrow formation on the top of the city to shoot down.

However, they advanced twenty or thirty steps, and they were not waiting for the defenders to shoot arrows. People were completely relieved. It seemed that the county magistrate said that there was no garrison in Xinye City.

The officers and soldiers put down their high shields one after another, and the speed of advancing forward was significantly faster. Not long after, the soldiers of the Qingyang County had advanced to a place less than thirty steps away from the city gate.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a muffled sound coming from the top of the city. Before people could figure out what was going on, a hundred crossbow arrows had already shot down from the top of the city and fell into the crowd of county soldiers. The sound of crossbow arrows penetrated the leather armor was endless.

"ah--"

Amid a series of screams, the county soldiers fell down at least 2 or 30 people in an instant. Fei Jun, the county magistrate in the crowd, drew out his sword, waved forward, and shouted loudly: "Push the shield forward! The whole army holds the shield, accelerate forward!"

Under Fei Jun's command, the county soldiers raised the shield in their hands, shook their legs apart, and ran forward.

Most of the shields of county soldiers are made of wooden ones. If you have good luck, you may be able to block crossbow arrows. If you are not lucky, you will be shot through by crossbow arrows. Of course, the crossbow arrows that shoot through the shield cannot cause too fatal lethality to county soldiers.

Soon, the county soldiers attacked Xinye City with crossbow arrows. Some soldiers set up ladders and climbed upwards, while some soldiers pushed the chariots over and collided to hit the city gate.

Liu Xiu, who was standing on the top of the city, saw that the Mang army was scattered more and more, and even the guards of his city could only be forced to disperse. He understood that he could not wait any longer.

He summoned all the yamen runners to him and said, "Now the enemy is attacking the city with all his might. It is a good opportunity for us to fight back. Please follow me out of the city to kill the enemy!"

If this was not from Liu Xiu's mouth, the yamen runners would be so angry that they cursed. At present, there were Mang soldiers outside the city. Only these people were out of the city and they even left the city to fight. I was afraid that as soon as they left the city, they would be dismembered by Mang soldiers.

But this was said by Liu Xiu, and he had to go out of the city to fight in person. From this point of view, there is indeed a chance to win when he goes out of the city, otherwise Liu Xiu would not have taken the risk personally!

Liu Xiu is Liu Yan's younger brother, the veritable second-in-command of the Zhutiandu Division. Moreover, Liu Xiu has always been able to win the battle and defeat the battle. Within the Zhutiandu Division, his prestige is naturally extremely high, and people will also develop an instinctive sense of trust in what people say to him.

Hearing his words, the yamen runners shouted in unison: "We are willing to follow the general and fight to the death with the enemy!"

Liu Xiu didn't say much anymore, and led a group of yamen runners to run down the city wall quickly.

Just as Liu Xiu and the yamen runners gathered in the city gate and were about to open the city gate, they suddenly heard a scream from behind: "Three Brothers--"

There will be no other person who can call him the third brother except Liu Boji. He left behind all the yamen runners, squeezed out from the city gate, and went outside to take a look. Sure enough, Liu Boji and Xu Xiling were running towards him quickly.

When the two of them arrived near, Liu Xiu asked, "Why are you here? Go back home quickly!"

"Third brother, what are you going to do?" Liu Boji looked at Liu Xiu with concern.

Liu Xiu didn't want to say anything more, and he knew in his heart that the more he said, the more worried the younger sister would be. He deliberately had a gloomy face, turned to look at Xu Xiling, and said, "Xiling, take Bo Ji back home immediately, this is an order!"
Chapter completed!