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Four days later.

There are rubble and ruins everywhere in Taixi County.

Almost all the houses near the edge of the city wall in the city have been demolished, leaving several large open spaces.

At the beginning, the people in the city were able to hold on for the time being with their enthusiasm to help defend the city. Later, the offensive of Chen Wenlong's army became more and more fierce, using day and night exhaustion tactics.

The city gradually began to panic, and some people began to want to escape. Although they were all captured by the guards, everyone had no much resistance.

At this time, Chang Yuan's 2000 soldiers were even more than [-] left.

Coupled with the passive resistance of the people, the difficulty of defending the city has greatly increased.

"Brother, we have caught another group of people who want to escape. Our brothers are already tired enough to defend the city, and we have to prevent them from secretly dragging them down from behind, or push them directly to the city wall!"

A grumpy general suggested.

Wang Hanting frowned, "You can't do it, general. If you look at it like this, the people in the city will fear us." I'm afraid those people who still help them guard the city will try their best to escape.

"Send someone to pass it on, and say that the imperial army will slaughter the city after the city is broken. If you don't help, everyone will not be able to run after the city is broken. Let them hold on for another three days, and there will be reinforcements after three days."

Chang Yuan was shot in the arm by an arrow, and after a simple bandage to stop the bleeding, he didn't even dare to have time to rest, and immediately came to the barracks to sit in command.

Naturally, Chen Wenlong wouldn't preach about massacring the city. Chang Yuan's resistance had already made him feel bored. If he was preaching about massacring the city, wouldn't it force the people in the city to stand with Chang Yuan and the others?

What Chang Yuan did was to deliberately bind the common people with them.

Although some people in the city went to the city wall to help defend the city, most of them were below the city wall.

Although Chang Yuan didn't let the common people go to the city wall to guard the city for the time being, but was only responsible for carrying things and wounded people, but I'm afraid it won't last long.

There were fewer and fewer soldiers on the city wall. If there were no civilians to make up for it, Chen Wenlong might not be able to stop him.

For the time being, the people in the city didn't know whether the imperial army said they wanted to massacre the city. When Chang Yuan said that the imperial court wanted to massacre the city, the people panicked even more, but it was a desperate panic.

They couldn't run away, let alone allow the imperial army to attack.

With no way out, the people in the city twisted into a single rope instead, no longer thinking about escaping. After all, even if they could escape from the city, wouldn't they be dead if they were surrounded by the imperial army outside?Originally thinking that they were just ordinary people, the fluke mentality that those soldiers might let them go completely disappeared.

Outside the gate of Taixi County.

"This Chang Yuan is really a tiger father without dogs." Chen Wenlong said with emotion.

Such a force has been brought down in just over two years, and it is one of the few big bandit leaders in the north.

It's a pity that such textbooks are actually enemies of the imperial court.

"General Chen, I'm afraid the city won't last for a few more days. Zhu Zhanping and the others helped to contain Changyuan's subordinates in the north. They won't be able to get through in a short time, but Taizhou Prefecture also belongs to Changyuan, and the two places are so close. If we don't take the time to take Taixi County, I'm afraid that when Taizhou Prefecture reacts, it will attack us back and forth with Taixi County."

"If His Majesty knows that we have returned without success, I'm afraid he will be furious."

Winter is not suitable for fighting at all, not to mention the colder in the north, Chen Wenlong did not want to march in winter at all, the damage to soldiers in winter battles is very great, but the emperor's orders are hard to do, so he can only obey orders.

"General Hao, don't worry, we'll take Taixi County tomorrow, so the rolling log must be ready, right?"

Behind the city gate of Taixi County, all kinds of sundries have been piled up to block the city gate and have been pushed open from the outside.

Chen Wenlong's army did not bring many siege equipment, because it was inconvenient to bring too many to cross the river.

In the past few days, he sent his soldiers into the mountain, found a huge log, made it overnight, and it can be put into use tomorrow.

It was late at night, but the city walls of Taixing County were still brightly lit, and there were patrolling soldiers everywhere.

I thought there would be a sneak attack tonight, but I didn't expect the imperial army to let them spend the night so peacefully.

Chang Yuan only slept for two hours last night, and now he was on the city wall, looking at the quiet Chen Wenlong camp in the distance.

There was a faint unease in his heart, and he called Wang Hanting, "I have an ominous premonition in my heart. I have sent people to keep an eye on the gates of the cities and told my brothers to be more vigilant. I am afraid that we will have a tough battle today."

Chang Yuan's military talent is undoubtedly admirable, otherwise there would not be so many veteran veterans willing to follow him, and even many veterans who were drafted by the court would join his account and become rebels.

This allowed him to pull up a force in the north in such a short period of time.

After Chang Yuan finished speaking, Wang Hanting's face was serious and serious.

In the past few days, his armor has become stained with blood, and his face has long been stubbled.

To be honest, if the opponent brought siege equipment, they might not be able to defend until today. The soldiers under Chen Wenlong are different from those under other court officers. Although the soldiers under him are also given empty pay, and there is not much military pay, but there is one thing, all the soldiers under him are full of food!
Also more daring to fight!

Chen Wenlong didn't drink the blood of soldiers like other officers. He supported the troops as much as possible within his ability. It can be said that his soldiers served Chen Wenlong rather than the court.

"Don't worry, general, the last general has sent people to patrol around."

Chang Yuan looked at the imperial barracks in the distance where the fire was being made and the smoke was rising, and the uneasiness in his heart gradually increased.

"General, go down and have something to eat first." Wang Hanting said.He walked to Chang Yuan and said.

Chang Yuan took another look into the distance before going down the city wall.

The meals during the battle were more abundant than usual, not only full of food, but also some meat.

After eating, Chang Yuan went to patrol a wounded barracks, and people kept coming out of the wounded barracks, carrying dead soldiers from the army.

His complexion was a little ugly. Many times, soldiers didn't die on the battlefield on the spot, but died in the barracks after coming down from the battlefield.

He looked at these wounded soldiers, but they were eating worse than them, not to mention the smell of meat, and they were still hungry, so he called the barracks cook who was in charge.

Chang Yuan asked sharply, "Why are you all soldiers in the army? Is this how you treat the injured Robe?!"

The guy smiled wryly, "General, it's not that I don't want to feed them well, it's just that we have to give priority to our soldiers guarding the city. Besides, they, I'm afraid..." They won't survive.