"It's Liu Yan and Liu Boxheng!" People who knew Liu Yan shouted in the crowd.
After hearing the words, people rushed towards Liu Yan one after another. When they got close to him, they all said in a hurry: "Master Liu, we are here to defend the city!" "We are here to kill the barbarians!" "We..."
Upon hearing the noise of the people, Liu Yan and Feng Yi understood their purpose.
The two looked at each other and shook their heads in unison, feeling angry and funny.
When the barbarian army launched a large-scale attack and the soldiers and civilians who defended the city suffered heavy casualties, gathering strong men in the city was simply as difficult as climbing to the sky. Now that the barbarian army has withdrawn, the people in the city have gained courage and rushed to participate in the city defense. You What did you do early?
Liu Yan cleared his throat and said loudly: "I can understand everyone's mood, but now that the barbarian army has retreated, so many people are no longer needed to defend the city. Everyone, please go back!"
Are you hungry when you go back? If you participate in the defense of the city, you can have something to eat. What can you eat when you return home?
With the city closed for several days, every household in the city has almost run out of food. Now they volunteer to defend the city. There is no danger and they can eat military rations for free. Why not?
People were unwilling to leave at all, and shouted loudly: "Master Liu, please leave us here!"
"Yes, Mr. Liu, just keep us all!"
The people begged incessantly but refused to leave. Liu Yan and Feng Yi were helpless under this situation.
Standing aside, Ye Qian frowned. The Ye family had already consumed almost all of the food they had stored up, and it was barely enough to sustain more than a thousand people for several days. But now, tens of thousands of people suddenly appeared in the city and wanted to participate in the defense of the city. , even if all the Ye family's wealth is wiped out, it won't be enough to feed so many people.
Furthermore, these tens of thousands of people clearly came here to take advantage. If the barbarian army really fought back, they would run faster than anyone else.
Liu Yan and Feng Yi tried their best to appease the people's emotions and advised them to go back to their homes. Now there is no need for so many people to defend the city, but no matter how they persuaded, no one listened to them. The people at the scene died. They refused to leave and blocked the streets near the city wall, making the scene chaotic.
Feng Yi pulled Liu Yan, retreated a distance, and whispered: "Brother Bo Sheng, this is not the way to go. I think we have to go to Mr. Wang and let Mr. Wang come forward to solve this matter!"
Liu Yan smiled bitterly and asked, "Master Wang, how do you solve this problem?" Can Wang Xun come forward and persuade these people to go home?
Feng Yi sighed softly and said: "With the city closed for so many days, the food in the people's homes has been eaten up. People have no choice but to stay here. As long as Mr. Wang is willing to open the warehouse to release food, the people can If you have something to eat, your problems will be solved naturally!”
Liu Yan almost laughed and said: "Open a granary to release grain? Brother Gongsun, you are overestimating Master Wang. Even if you kill him, he will not dare to release a grain of grain!"
He had long seen through that Wang Xun was a small-minded, timid person who only coveted his own enjoyment and didn't care about the lives of others.
With such a person, you can still expect him to open a warehouse and provide food for the people at the risk of angering Lian Dan? What a joke!
Feng Yi frowned and stopped talking.
The people in the city volunteered to participate in the city's defense, and as many as 10,000 or 20,000 people came out at once. The news naturally spread to the prefect's mansion.
Wang Xun burst out laughing after hearing this.
He didn't think that the people ran to join the defenders just to fill their stomachs. He only thought that the barbarians were scared off by his own side, which boosted the morale of the people in the city, and everyone had the mentality of fighting to the death with the barbarians.
Thinking of this, he felt that Liu Xiu's move to capture Xiesang was too much. Now that so many people had joined the defenders voluntarily, even if the barbarians did not withdraw, they would not be able to break through the county's defenses. On the contrary, they could still take advantage of the opportunity. Kill more barbarian troops and achieve more military exploits.
He rolled his eyes and asked someone to bring Xiesang over.
Not long after, two soldiers escorted Xiesang into the lobby.
Wang Xun, who was sitting in the middle, looked down and saw Xiesang covered in dirt and blood. He frowned in disgust and asked angrily: "Xiesang, are you convinced by the defeat in this battle?"
Xiesang glared at Wang Xun and shouted loudly: "Wang Xun, if you have the guts, kill me!"
He might be convinced by Liu Xiu, who could sneak into the valley camp, capture him alive, and lead him to break into his own army. He might also be convinced by Liu Yan and Feng Yi, who could use the inferior army to defeat him. He had resisted his own army for so many days. But he looked down on Wang Xun from the bottom of his heart. He was just a bullshit civil servant who pretended to be powerful. If he hadn't been in trouble, he wouldn't even be qualified to stand in front of him and speak!
Wang Xun squinted his eyes, stared at Xiesang for a moment, and laughed. He slowly stood up, walked around the table, walked to Xiesang, slowly pulled out the sword under his ribs, and slapped Xiesang with the sword blade. Sang said with a smile on his face: "The defeated general is about to die, how dare you show off your strength?!"
"Death? Haha——" Xiesang suddenly threw his head back and laughed.
He was really not afraid of Wang Xun. In his opinion, even if he lent Wang Xun ten courages, Wang Xun would not dare to kill him.
He tilted his head, looked at Wang Xun out of the corner of his eye, and said proudly: "If you dare to kill me, our Xi clan army will definitely raze Hanzhong City to the ground, leaving no chickens or dogs in the city. As for you, Wang Xun, you are like a rat." !My Xie tribe army will tear you apart piece by piece and eat you alive! Haha——" As he spoke, he laughed again.
After listening to Xiesang's words, everyone present looked uglier, especially Wang Xun, who was so angry that his face was livid and his body was trembling.
Xiesang glanced at everyone present, sneered, and said: "You Han people's meat is good, fragrant and tender, especially Han women, haha——"
The Clay Bodhisattva still has three parts of earth nature, not to mention Wang Xun, the dignified prefect.
He couldn't help it any longer, roared angrily, and thrust the sword forward suddenly. A popping sound was heard in his ears, and Xiesang's wild laughter suddenly stopped. He widened his eyes in disbelief and looked at Wang Xun. .
After a while, Xiesang slowly lowered his head and saw that the sword in Wang Xun's hand had penetrated his chest.
He felt that the strength in his body was being drained quickly. Xiesang looked at Wang Xun again and said word by word: "How dare you kill me..."
Before he finished speaking, the other person could no longer hold on and fell heavily to the ground with a muffled sound.
Wang Xun raised his leg and stepped on Xiesang's shoulder, and pulled out the sword from Xiesang's chest. He turned to the soldiers outside and shouted: "Come here! Cut off the head of this barbarian. Hanging on top of the city!"
"Yes!" Following the response, two soldiers approached from outside, lifted Xiesang's body from the ground, and dragged it outside.
Wang Xun shook off the blood on his sword, took out his handkerchief, wiped the blood clean, put the sword into its sheath, and said to the people around him: "The barbarian thieves don't know whether to live or die, and dare to provoke me in the prefect's mansion. Death is not a pity." !”
"Sir, I believe that it is not appropriate to hang Xiesang's head. If the barbarian army learns of Xiesang's beheading, they may attack again!" a county official warned cautiously.
Wang Xun sneered and said: "I am afraid that the barbarian army will not come back! Didn't you also hear the news that was sent back from Beicheng just now? Another 20,000 strong men joined the city defense, and the barbarians outside the city There are only ten thousand people left in the army, so why should we be afraid?!"
The officials of the county government looked at each other, nodded in unison, and praised: "It turns out that Mr. Wang deliberately killed Xiesang to anger the barbarian army and attract the barbarian army to attack the city again. In this way, we can not only kill and injure the city." With more barbarian troops, there may even be a chance to annihilate the barbarian thieves attacking the city in one fell swoop!"
When Wang Xun heard this, he burst into laughter. This was exactly his wishful thinking.
As the saying goes, the ignorant are fearless.
Liu Xiu, Liu Yan and Feng Yi, who were afraid of Xiesang, could not kill him because they knew very well how serious the consequences of killing Xiesang would be.
Although there are now 20,000 people in the city, vowing to join the city defense and resist the barbarians, they have a clear understanding in their hearts that if the barbarians really come back, the 20,000 strong men will immediately become like birds and beasts. The only people who can follow them and hold on to the city are now a thousand people.
How can more than a thousand people resist the barbarian army of more than 10,000 people?
However, Wang Xun would not have thought of these things. He only saw another 20,000 strong men joining the defense team. In his eyes, the current county and city were already impregnable, so it was no longer a matter of whether or not to stay. It makes sense.
With Wang Xun's mentality, he was not polite to Xiesang at all and stabbed him to death with a sword. He also ordered Xiesang's head to be beheaded and hung on the city wall, as if he was afraid that the barbarian spies would notice. There is no news that Xiesang was killed.
The soldiers of the Prefect's Mansion also specially built a wooden cage for Xiesang's head, and then put Xiesang's round head inside. Under Wang Xun's instruction, the four soldiers carried the wooden cage and walked to the North City in a swaggering manner. .
Along the way, the people of the whole city were in a state of excitement. Regardless of men, women, old or young, people poured into the streets, scrambling to see the head of the barbarian leader.
The streets were overcrowded, and it was difficult for the four soldiers to move forward. When they reached the North City, it was already dark.
Liu Yan, Liu Xiu and others who were on the top of the city heard the commotion in the city and didn't know what was going on.
It wasn't until the four soldiers carried the wooden cage to the top of the city that people could see clearly what was in the cage.
Liu Yanteng suddenly stood up, stared at the severed head in the cage, and subconsciously asked: "Is that Xiesang's head?"
One of the four soldiers walked forward a few steps, came to Liu Yan, bowed his hands and saluted, and said: "Master Liu, Xie Sang has no repentance. When he arrived at the prefecture, he was still domineering and arrogant. Master Wang has executed him. And ordered us to hang this thief’s head on the top of the city!”
After hearing this, the expressions of everyone present changed greatly. Liu Xiu, Feng Yi and others also stood up, walked forward quickly, and took a closer look. What was in the cage was Xiesang's head.
Wang Xun actually killed Xiesang?! Everyone was stunned and couldn't recover for a long time. They had no idea what the hell was going on in Wang Xun's mind.
If Xiesang is in our own hands, the barbarian army will be worried and dare not attack the city. Now that you kill Xiesang, doesn't it mean that you are forcing the barbarian army to come back and fight with your side?