"Fourth brother, someone from them has been injured." Li Mou reminded.

Li Yan sat on the ground to rest and whispered: "Let them get it back, the wounded can also cause a lot of trouble for them. As long as they are not here to attack, don't worry about them."

Li Mou ordered the crossbowman to observe, and then sat down and said, "That depends on who is injured. If it is more important, it can be cured. If it is a minion, it will be handed over to his family directly, and there is no need to say much trouble."

After the thief brought the wounded back, he did not appear again and hid far away from the range of the crossbow.

The carpenters in the "Shiqian" team are working hard to build a long ladder, but time is tight, so they have to use logs to splice them directly, which makes the weight of the long ladder very heavy, and more than twenty people can lift it together to barely lift it.

However, they only created such rough utensils at the time of Shenshi. They cut down trees, cut off branches and branches, choose the more straight ones to use, and then nail the horizontal wood and connect several ladders to a length of more than three meters. These all take time.

County town, on the wall of the south gate of the urn city.

"Why are there so many thieves here?" Su Jing asked nervously as he looked at the chaotic thieves outside the city.

He had also received a report that the thief had come to Qi County. But after hearing this morning that the thief had really come, he was still a little worried. Although he had already issued a city lockdown order and the defenders were all on the city wall, there was still sufficient preparation. However, the thief had really come, and there was still a big gap between the thief who might come.

Su Jing finally plucked up the courage, called Yang Chengshou, and went up to the city wall to take a look. However, when he saw the crowded crowds outside the city, he was still very nervous.

Yang Chengshou was a soldier. Although he had never seen many big battles, he was skilled in bows and horses, and he was also a martial artist. So he calmly replied: "Report to the county master, they came from the west, and they should have come from Tongxu."

"How many people can do this?" Su Jing asked, pointing to the crowd outside the city.

Yang Chengshou immediately replied: "There should be three or four thousand people coming in total."

"Have you asked for help from Kaifeng?" Su Jing asked hurriedly. This was what he cared about. Although the city walls of the county town were rebuilt, he didn't know if he could block the attack of the thieves.

"County Master, there are thieves in all gates, so you can't leave the city." Yang Chengshou replied with his fists.

Su Jing was anxious and immediately asked: "How many soldiers in the city can be defended? Do you need to gather the soldiers in the city to help defend?"

Yang Chengshou replied: "County Master, there are more than 400 soldiers now. Our walls are high and the pool is deep, so there should be no problem in defending them."

"But what?" Su Jing asked hurriedly: "But there are insufficient equipment? There are still some arrows in the county arsenal. I will send someone to send you up. General Yang must defend the city. The people of Hecheng rely on the Yang family and their warriors."

Yang Chengshou waited for a while before finally saying, "County Master, the brothers still owe food and pay for two months. Do you think you will pay the food and pay for the brothers first so that the brothers can kill the thieves to defend the city with peace of mind?"

Su Jing turned his eyes, nodded, and held his beard and said, "Okay. First, I will give the soldiers and generals a month of food and salary. After defeating the thieves, I will give the other month of food and salary and reward the silver."

"This, this." Yang Chengshou said in embarrassment: "This enemy is in front of you. If there is no food or salary, the morale of the army will be unstable."

Su Jing approached Yangcheng Shou and explained in a low voice: "General Yang, it's not that the county does not pay food and salary to the soldiers, but the county has no remaining funds. There are four or five hundred refugees in the county town. They have given them porridge every day, and they have already consumed the county treasury. After defeating the thief, I wrote a letter to Governor Li (Li Xianfeng) to ask for me for the soldiers, and then there will be rewards and money and food."

"You must try your best to defend the city defense and prevent the thieves from succeeding." Yang Chengzhang did not have much strength to guarantee.

Su Jing seemed to have known Yang Chengshou's trick, so he suddenly became tough and warned: "General Yang, it is not to do his best, but to defend the county town! Now that the enemy cavalry has withdrawn, the army of kings in various places will return to their original place. If the county town is lost, the county will naturally survive and die together with the county town, but the general also has the crime of losing the county town! The general must fight hard and not affect his family!"

Yang Chengshou glanced at the suddenly smart County Magistrate Su, and had to bow and say, "The county magistrate should be kept in mind."

With a "bang", a feather arrow shot on the pillar of the arrow tower on the urn.

"Oh, the thief is attacking! Fight back! Don't let the thief go up to the city wall!" Su Jing was frightened by this sudden arrow and squatted on the ground. He didn't care if the official hat fell to the ground. He shouted nervously and gave instructions in panic.

"County Master, County Master." Yang Chengshou quickly reminded: "It's okay, the thief has not started to attack the city yet. It was the thief who shot a letter to you, and it was for the thief."

"For this county?" Su Jing recovered and listened to it. It was not like he was sieging the city. The thieves outside the city were just clamoring loudly. What about "opening the city", "one hour", "no chickens and dogs left".

Yang Chengshou handed the letter from the bandits shot up to County Magistrate Su with both hands. He said, "The bandits want us to open the door within an hour, otherwise, there will be no family or dog left after the city is broken."

Su Jing took it and saw that the words were indeed the case, but the words were unsightly. It can only be said that they can still be recognized by people without any beauty.

"The rebels are here!"

"The city is about to be broken!"

"No chicken or dog is left!"

...

Suddenly, panic screams came from the city. Almost at the same time, there seemed to be a fire in the city and black smoke rose.

"County Master, you must quickly control the hungry people in the city. Otherwise, people will be in chaos and the county will not be able to defend it!" Yang Chengshou immediately reminded.

After looking back and forth in the inner and outer city of Sujing, the yamen runners around him ordered: "Go! Let all the three yamen runners who can pull away from the county yamen, and the archers help them go out to the streets with their weapons. If there are any riots, they will be arrested! If you take advantage of the chaos and evil, you will also be arrested! Place all the hungry people in the city at the City God Temple, and you will not be allowed to enter and exit! After the thieves are pushed, you will be given additional reward silver!"

"I will do it now, and I will do it now." The yamen runner was also a little nervous and repeated unconsciously. Then he ran down the city in a panic.

County Magistrate Su said to Yang Chengshou: "I will mobilize the people and soldiers to go to the city to defend the food. The soldiers don't have to worry about it. All of them are responsible. Please be sure to defend the city, build unparalleled merits, and keep the legends of the ages."

"It's just some thieves. Can you make such a great contribution?" Yang Chengshou thought to himself. However, he still clasped his fists at the Magistrate Su and promised: "Please rest assured that as long as I, Yang, is here, this Qi County Town will be as solid as a soup!"
Chapter completed!