At midnight, after the hard battle during the day, the soldiers in the camp were already exhausted and lie on the bedside. Since Li Bao was standing beside Zhou Ping to guard during the day, he did not fight, so it was his turn to stay at night. He was carrying a long-handled bone flower in his hand, as a cane, wearing iron armor, sitting next to the fire next to the village gate. Every once in a while, he stood up to patrol the soldiers on the night to see if they were lazy and dozing off.

"Why is this clapper sound wrong?" A person with a look of confusion appeared on his face.

"How is it wrong?" Li Bao asked.

"Report to the head of the capital, at that time, it was Tian Qi, a fellow villager at the villain. The three fingers on his right hand were cut off when he was hitting the pirate, so he could only knock it for a long time when he was hitting the bulge, otherwise it would fall. But now the bulge sounds exactly the same as usual!"

"Take it serious?" Li Bao stood up, his face full of murderous aura.

"Take it seriously, but if someone is replaced temporarily, it might be possible!" The inconsistency showed a look on his face.

"Pick up the guy and go over there to take a look!" Li Bao stood up, lifted his bones and walked towards the direction where the sound of the clapper sound came.

"Someone is climbing over the wall!" After walking for about 40 or 50 steps, a sharp-eyed follower had seen a figure climbing over the fence, which seemed particularly clear under the moonlight. A person next to him took out a bow from his back and was about to shoot, but Li Bao reached out and pressed it down and whispered: "Don't worry, go and inform me, you two go to occupy the heights, and the rest follow me!"

The seven or eight people under Li Bao were all healthy people in the personal army and took the order. Only then did Li Bao pull out the sword at his waist, carry the long-handled bone flower in one hand, and half bent down to walk there.

After walking for more than ten steps, Li Bao saw more than ten figures in the corner not far away, busying something beside the fence of the earthen building. He pounced on him without saying a word, raised his knife and chopped off the head of the person who was closest. A shrill scream broke the silence. The attacked party shouted and resisted desperately. Listening to the Wu language coming from his ears, Li Bao shouted loudly: "Li Bao, a certain family, Kaifeng, dares to go against a certain family!"

When the Maniches attacked at night saw him being fierce, Li Bao surrounded him, but he was not afraid. He had bones on one hand and the sword on the other hand. Those who dared to face him fell like reeds. He was also hit by a few strokes, but he relied on his thick armor and rushed over. Seeing this, the Maniches fled one by one, but were driven up by Li Bao's personal followers and stabbed them one by one. Several of them climbed up the earthen brigade with brigade and wanted to escape across the gate, but were shot down by the archers who had already occupied the high ground. There were not only one ten left to escape.

"Report to the head of the capital, Tian Qi, who was on duty, was killed. He seemed to be asleep and was killed? These were here to set fire. They all carried torches and clean oil!" A soldier reported to Li Bao after searching for the dead and the prisoners.

"Well, search carefully to see if there are any people who missed the net. Take care of the living good-looking people and come to ask when the prison guard wakes up. Tian Qi's team is being arrested and beaten twenty whips. Tian Qi's body is hanging in front of the door and showing it to everyone!"

"Li Bao!" Zhou Ping rushed over with only a robe and asked, "How is the situation?"

"It's okay, a few Mani thieves came to steal the camp and I have already killed them back!" Li Bao said with a smile.

"Huh!" Zhou Ping suddenly pointed at the other party's right rib and asked, "What's wrong with you here?"

"Oh!" Li Bao felt a stinging pain in his right rib. He touched his hand and even wet the burqa outside. It turned out that he was just now killing him, but he didn't even notice an arrow. The tip of the arrow penetrated the iron ring. Fortunately, the flesh was not deep and did not hurt the internal organs. He gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow. His subordinates on the side hurriedly helped him sit down. Zhou Ping carefully untied the iron armor for him, sucked the blood from the wound with his mouth, and took the clean cloth to wrap it up. He sighed: "Fortunately, the opponent's bow was soft and he didn't shoot through it, otherwise it would be troublesome if this arrow hurts the internal organs. Next time he goes to the battlefield, he must be careful not to enter the formation too deep."

"The prison guard laughed!" Li Bao smiled and said, "I am a rude man. When I see the situation is critical, I don't care about so much!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Ping's face became gloomy and he asked in a low voice: "Brother Li Bao, do you think we should withdraw all our brothers back to the city?"

"Retreat to the city?" Li Bao was stunned and asked, "Aren't reinforcements coming?"

"Yeah!" Zhou Ping nodded. Under the flashing firelight, his face was gloomy and looked a little scary: "But who knows when to come? If the Mani thief had sex for a few days day and night, the brothers would be exhausted without fighting. Besides——" Speaking of this, Zhou Ping's voice lowered a little.

"I'm afraid the reinforcements won't come for the moment."

"Can't come?" Li Bao asked in surprise: "How is that possible? Didn't it mean that the army has crossed the river, and it's only a few days from Jingkou to Xiuzhou?"

"Speak quietly, don't let people hear it!" Zhou Ping whispered, looked at the left and right, and whispered: "Li Bao, there are outsiders in the daytime, so I can't say something. I thought about it carefully these two days. If I were the king of the capital, it would be better if the army came later!"

"Good later?" When Li Bao heard this, the brave man who had just faced the enemy without knowing his fear suddenly felt a chill climbing up along his spine, and he couldn't help but shivered.

"How is this possible? Xiuzhou City can only fight 800 people, and there are tens of thousands of Mani thieves outside. After a long time, this Xiuzhou City will definitely not be able to defend it. The emperor will definitely-"

"Abao! The emperor appointed Tong Guan as the pacifier of Jianghuai Jingzhe. There were many cities lost in Jiangnan, and even Hangzhou was lost. What is the more Xiuzhou? As long as Tong Guan finally settled Fang La, these things were nothing." Zhou Ping said this, his face became more gloomy: "We have also seen it these days. In fact, the Mani thieves are some mobs.

It’s just that I have been used to the peace of peace in Jiangnan over the years and people are not accustomed to fighting, which will lead to this situation. If only the local tyrants in Anyang could make these Mani thieves drink a pot. The elite troops of the Emirate Army wanted to defeat the Mani thieves only. However, although these Mani thieves have average combat power, if they are allowed to roam all over the world or flee back to their nests and the war is delayed, it will be troublesome."

When Li Bao heard this, his face turned pale like a dead person, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Can we be here--" When he said this, his voice suddenly became stuck.

"Yes, we are bait!" Zhou Ping whispered: "Think about it, when Wang Dutong was in Guangling, he obviously had tens of thousands of troops on hand, so why did he send us hundreds of people here? He gave us three hundred divine arm archers and told us that it could only be used in an emergency. This is clearly to prevent Xiuzhou City from being knocked down immediately, and the Mani thieves should not be allowed to find that the army has arrived and escape back to the nest." Speaking of this, Zhou Ping stretched out his finger and drew a few strokes on the ground, pointing to it and said: "This is Xiuzhou, this is Jingkou, this is Hangzhou. If I were that Wang Bing, I would show my weakness while sending the side troops across the river from the upstream to cut off the road to the Mani thieves' nest, and then attacked forward and back to capture the thieves' army in one net!"

Hearing this, Li Bao was already limp to the ground. After about a while, he asked in a low voice: "When do you think reinforcements will arrive?"

"I don't know, but when the partial division cut off the path of the Mani thieves retreating to their nests, and when reinforcements should arrive." At this point, Zhou Ping smiled bitterly for the first time: "As for us and this Xiuzhou City, it's good to be able to defend it, but it doesn't matter if we can't. Anyway, if we can beat the Mani thieves, who will care about our five hundred soldiers?"

"Hey!" Li Bao sighed: "Are you telling others about this? Does Chang Zongtian know?"

"No!" Zhou Ping shook his head: "I just thought it through. You are the first to know. How dare Chang Zongtian tell him that he was from the Western Army. He is not the same as us. Who knows if he will be punished for me to disrupt the morale of the army?" At this point, Zhou Ping sighed: "We warriors are like Hu Luli's arrows, just shot by others!"

"Then let the brothers retreat immediately?" Li Bao was already chilling when he heard this, and he wanted to retreat to Xiuzhou City immediately. Zhou Ping shook his head and said, "Wait until the daytime, just a few little thieves come to attack the camp and enter the city. It's impossible to say anything. When you can't defend it tomorrow, you will retreat. Once the torch camp is burned, the Mani thieves can't force it up!"

"It's right!" Li Bao felt that everything Zhou Ping said was right at this time. Zhou Ping looked up at the stars in the sky and smiled and said, "Look, it's almost four o'clock, and I can't sleep anyway. Let's go to my tent to eat something!"

"Thank you for the custody!"

Time flies, and it is already the next morning. Zhou Ping was thinking about some excuses to bring some of the supplies from the village back to the city, but when he saw Chang Zongtian running towards him with a smile on his face, he shouted loudly: "Juncheng, Juncheng! A great joy, Tong Shuai sent reinforcements!"

"Reinforcement?" Zhou Ping was stunned, turned his head and happened to see Li Bao's puzzled gaze. He quickly squeezed out a smile and responded: "That's great. What's going on in the end. Chang Yuhou said to me!"

"Tong Shuai sent 500 people, all of whom were first-class veterans. The military order said, let us hold on to Xiuzhou City, the army will arrive just in time, and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!" At this point, Chang Zongtian showed an envious smile on his face and said, "Zhou Jianguan, Wang Dutong really values ​​you very much. The Yidu soldiers sent were all commanders, and there were only soldiers but no generals. He was obviously afraid of fighting for power with you. It is rare to be polite to the husband below!"
Chapter completed!