Eight Hills in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

At night, three more, Hudu City Head.

Wei Shunzhi is still wearing the daylight body mail, standing on the forehead of the city, on the side of the battlements, more than twenty braziers are hung down, hanging from about half of the city wall, within a ten feet of the city, like the day, even It was the beating of a toad in the grass, and it could be seen clearly, and three miles away, in the camp of Tianshidao, the screams of women and the wild laughter of men after drinking had replaced a few The chanting of religious ceremonies before the hour is very annoying in the night sky.

Chen Yi, sitting on the side of the wall near the city wall, stuffed the pot in his mouth, chewed and said: "Brother Wei, you should rest for a while. I have been standing here for five hours. I looked tired. Tonight, I should be able to spend a safe time, and two more changes, that is, the dawn, there will be fierce fighting. "

Wei Shunzhi shook his head: "Just fight for the past few days, keep Hudu and want to sleep for as long as possible, or if we break the city, we can sleep for a lifetime, so now we can stay open for a while. , I believe that it will not be so safe tonight. "

Suddenly, Wei Shunzhi's face changed: "Not good, there is movement."

Chen Yi suddenly jumped from the ground, picked up the bow and arrow, and beside him, hundreds of sergeants also jumped in front of the city wall, Zhang bowed the arrow, pointing straight out of the city.

Wei Shun had already picked up the bow and arrow, and at the end of the fire outside the city, it was shot with an arrow. This arrow was unbiased and fell on the edge of the light, vaguely, and you could see the darkness outside. There are dozens of shadows flashing, Chen Yuli said: "The demon, dare to come to the night attack, discipline you to come and go!"

There was a crying cry in the dark night, and a woman ’s voice shouted, "Sir, do n’t kill me, wait, wait, we are all poor women who escaped from the thief camp. Please help the army! "

Chen Yi's face changed, and the bow and arrow were dropped, but Wei Shunzhi still held the bow and arrow and said in a deep voice: "Don't be fooled, the deceit is tricky. Before Wu Di, the practice of using female believers to earn the city gates was absolutely impossible. Great idea! Give me the bow and arrow. "

Both Chen Yi and the surrounding sergeants raised their bows and arrows, and Wei Shun shouted sharply: "Hudu City is now under siege by the demon. No one here can save you, so leave quickly and escape."

In the time he spoke, more than twenty women with disheveled clothes and disheveled hair curled up into the light. Their arms and legs exposed outside were all scarred, and almost all of them were whip marks or even burns. , People can't bear to look directly.

Next to Chen Yi, a sergeant suddenly shouted: "So, isn't that Aqing's wife who sells fish outside Liutaodu?"

A woman in her thirties, quickly stood up, opened her hair, and exposed a cheekboned face, crying: "But the brother of Afu in Dongcheng? I am A Qingsao Ah, please say good things to the military lord, and save our poor sisters quickly, my man was killed by the thief, and I, I also bullied the thief, if they were not drunk after venting, I am afraid , I'm afraid we won't be able to escape. "

Another woman also rushed out, opened her hair and shouted, "Someone must know me. I am a sister selling tofu in Shilipu outside the city. I also escaped with Aqing's sister, demon. The thief said that the demon explained that the sky would kill us, throwing our heads into the city like our men's heads, begging you to help me, I don't want to die. "

The group of women all burst into tears, and began to report their names one by one, calling on people they knew in the city. A trace of intolerance flashed on Chen Yi's face and said to Wei Shunzhi: "Brother Wei, indeed Many of us are folks in the Hudu stronghold. We used to come to the city every day to sell things. It is not a spy. "

Wei Shunzhi gritted his teeth: "At a very moment, it is better to kill the wrong than let it go. At this time, don't be softhearted. The thief is best at confusing people. Some women, even their own babies, can be thrown away. I will never take the lives of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of people in the city. "

Yuan Song's voice sounded from behind: "If I as a county guard, even the lives of the people can't be protected, then what's the use of keeping this city?"

Wei Shunzhi's face changed, and he turned to look at the rear. Yuan Song was dressed in a nightgown. Following more than ten guards, he walked to the city. Wei Shunzhi said, "Yuan Gong, why are you here?"

Yuan Song sighed: "How can I fall asleep at this time, thinking of the soldiers working hard in the city head, just want to come and see, I did not expect to encounter this situation."

As soon as his figure appeared at the head of the city, all the women under the city knelt down and cried, "Yuan Taishou, Master Yuan, beg you to save us, you are a good official, a clean official, you said you want to protect the people Yes, we do n’t want to die, help! "

Yuan Song gritted his teeth and looked at Chen Yi: "Can you be sure that these people are all folks outside Hudu City?"

Chen Yi nodded: "Yes, all the women who came out just reported their names, and some of them were identified by the sergeants in the city. They should all be people who could not escape from the city and were taken by the demon."

Yuan Song sighed a long way: "I Yuan Song asked himself as a world-famous celebrity, can save the world and save the people, and make a life for the people. , What other face is wearing this mantle ?! Come, come down, put down the suspension bridge, open the city gate, and let them in. "

Wei Shunzhi's face changed quickly, and he quickly said: "Yuan Gong, don't do anything, the thieves are cunning. Even if these women are really people, there may be ambushes behind them. If they open the gate, they will flood in, If you ca n’t rest assured of these women, please let me take someone down and hang them down the wall. "

Yuan Song nodded: "Then we have to work hard for Master Wei."

One of Wei Shun waved his hands, and more than a dozen sergeants stepped forward, followed Wei Shunzhi, tied a rope around his waist, and went down to the city. Wei Shunzhi walked in front of these women. They stared at Wei Shun one by one, with hope and fear in their eyes. As for the color, Wei Shunzhi looked left and right, and held a torch in the back of these women for a while, and determined that within a mile, there was no enemy army, and a stone fell to the ground.

Wei Shunzhi beckoned to the city head, tied the women's waists with ropes one by one, and pulled them up to the city. When hanging in mid-air, some of the women's broken clothes fell and the spring light flashed, triggering them to burst. Screaming, and as soon as he hung up the city, Yuan Song ’s guards, holding some cloaks and even flags, wrapped them around them, and excited these women, they bowed their heads and thanked them, and called Yuan Gong to be a fairy, to save suffering.