The cloudy sky became bright at some point, and a few rays of sunshine fell, drawing shining gold edges to the iron-gray city tower and the undulating hills outside the city.

At this moment, the most intense offensive and defensive confrontation had come to an end. After the Hu people left about 3,000 cavalry walking around Jiexiu City to monitor the movements of the defenders, the large army retreated hundreds of steps, began to dig trenches and pile up dirt mountains.

These men seemed to be very numerous for siege, but if they were used for civil engineering, it seemed to be a little less. However, after the Taiyuan Kingdom swept the Huns last time, the people were separated, and they were deserted for dozens of miles, and there was no place to recruit civilians. In this way, in addition to the troops participating in the siege battles that could be properly repaired, many soldiers had to put down their swords and guns to dig the soil.

Li Jingzhi is one of the large army of digging soil.

Li Jingzhi was about thirty years old and was a great man with a sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. He was affiliated with one of the few Han troops organized by the Huns and Han army. The main components of this unit were the private armies of several Han tyrants, as well as some defeated and surrendered Jin soldiers and recruited Mihus.

This army has a very low status, and the Huns usually use them to be responsible for the security of the rear and rarely fight with them. Therefore, they were arranged for a lot of construction work by Hu Yanyan without any suspense, and the weapons in their hands were replaced with crude wooden shovels, jinglin frames, etc.

This is almost an insult to the Hu people who are aggressive by nature; but it seems not difficult to accept the Han army with low morale. Li Jingzhi looked at the soldiers around him. They were all ragged, with dull eyes and dusty faces; when they were walking slowly with the earth, they did not look like an army, but more like a group of lowly slaves.

Li Jingzhi lowered his head and sighed deeply.

The Li family was originally from Longxi. Li Jingzhi's ancestors were officials in Bingzhou, so they signed with Xinxing County. Xinxing County was the northern part of the Xiongnu, so the local large families had frequent exchanges with the Hu people. When the Huns were established, the local famous scholar Chen * Yuandaju family forces defected to the Huns and became the minister of the Huangmen of the Han Dynasty. The Chen family was powerful in the local area, and the Li family was just a vassal under his jurisdiction. Therefore, Li Jingzhi had no choice but to surrender to the Huns as an official.

Because of this relationship, when Liu Yuan was enthroned by the ministers, Li Jingzhi was given the position of "brave general" and was responsible for leading the Han army of more than 1,000 people. However, this was meaningless to Li Jingzhi. Unlike Chen Yuanda, who was keen on ascending the dragon, Li Jingzhi originally wanted to lead his family soldiers to protect his hometown, but who knew that he had inexplicably become a subordinate of the so-called Huns and Han states, making cattle and horses for the Hu people? Thinking of this, Li Jingzhi couldn't help but feel a little resentful towards the Huangmen.

His thoughts failed to continue because a violent scolding suddenly erupted from a distance, attracting his attention.

Li Jingzhi urged his horse to trot and rushed to the place where he cursed, and arrived in a blink of an eye. This place is about five miles away from Jiexiu, and is a naturally prominent small mound, about twenty feet high. The mound is located on the side of the road from Jiexiu to Zhongyang, Pingtao and other places, and the view is very wide. According to Hu Yanyan's instructions, Li Jingzhi's subordinate should build a high platform on the top of the mound as soon as possible to monitor the surrounding movements.

But this project is really not small. Not to mention the complexity of the building, the cutting and transportation of wood alone caused the soldiers who lacked tools to suffer. Therefore, after a whole day of hard work, the platform barely piled up a foundation, and there was no other shadow.

Li Jingzhi rushed over and murmured along the way, "Don't just Hu Yanyan sent someone to ask about the construction schedule." The Huns were very fierce and treated the Han people like grass, and they punched and kicked them at every turn, which was really hard to serve. Unexpectedly, the weather did not go as they wished. He went to the mound and looked closely and couldn't help but scream in pain.

The person who was jumping and scolding was a tall Hun. This man looked ugly and his face was covered with scars. It should be that he had only two small holes that opened and opened. The skin from his left face to his neck seemed like a melting candle. His yellowish brown eyes were full of fierce light, which made people dare not look at him.

Li Jingzhi recognized that this person was one of the five lieutenants of the General of the Conquest. It is said that these terrifying scars on his face were caused by the rescue of Hu Yanyan in a dangerous battle, so he was extremely trusted by Hu Yanyan. It would be fine if it was just that, but this Yu Yanyan was a complete sadist, and he enjoyed harming the soldiers. When he came here to urge the construction period, he didn't know how many people would be unlucky. Seeing that several soldiers were rolling around him, it was obvious that they had already taken the blame.

Li Jingzhi muttered in his heart that he was not slow. He dismounted from afar, bowed his head and bowed deeply and said, "I have met the lieutenant!" Although his official position is actually higher than that of the Diaoqu, he can't take care of this much at this moment.

Heavy footsteps sounded, and it was Diaoqu Nan who was approaching Li Jingzhi. With his hoarse voice, a foul smell came to his nose: "You guy, don't come here, the general asked me to ask you, when will this watchtower be completed?"

"The lieutenant is clear..." Li Jingzhi whispered for a while and said in a low voice: "Brothers are all working hard. Although we lack skilled craftsmen and do not have enough tools, everyone will work overnight and will definitely be able to do it within three days..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound in his ear, and a torn pain came from his cheeks. Li Jingzhi felt a buzzing sound in his head, as if dozens of wild bison were rushing around. He staggered a few steps and fell to the ground involuntarily.

"Three days? Three days, your mother! Three days?" Diao Qunan shouted loudly: "The general said that it must be completed tomorrow at noon. Otherwise, you Li Jingzhi's dog head will be cut off first!"

Li Jingzhi shook his head and planned to answer, but was kicked over by Diaoqu. A rough sole of the boots stepped his face firmly on the ground, and a voice that Diaoqu could not be irritated in his ears: "Tomorrow noon! Tomorrow noon! Do you know? Say it!"

Li Jingzhi felt that his entire jaw was being trampled to dislocate, so how could he say anything? He made a whimpering sound, his hands and feet slashing the ground frantically, but he could not withstand the strange power of the Diaoqu and could not struggle.

Diaoqu was hard to look at everyone, and dozens of Han soldiers everywhere they looked, all of them looked decisive. Even if they were commanding thousands of people, the general who was officially appointed by King Liu Yuan of Han, was still inferior to pigs and dogs in front of the Huns. What else could these little soldiers do?

"Stop!" Suddenly someone shouted, "If you have this spirit, go to the battlefield to kill you. Why bother to vent your anger on the little monk?"

"Grandma, who is so bold to stop your master?" Diaoqu turned his head to look at it, but his voice suddenly dropped. He took a few steps and knelt on one knee, instantly completing the change from a hideous evil dog to a docile domestic cat.

Li Jingzhi endured the pain of his cheeks like fire and barely looked up. He saw more than ten knights with bright armor on the road lined up and stared at this side with fierce eyes. A man dressed in a Hun nobleman jumped off his horse and walked over. This man was about twenty years old, with his eyes shining brightly, and was extremely heroic. He wore a red gold crown and was wearing an extremely gorgeous pure white fox fur cloak, tied tightly with a five-fingered belt; and the belt was inlaid with gold and jade, and the treasure light was shining, which was obviously a priceless treasure. Such a style and clothing were definitely a high-ranking official in the army, and it was beyond ordinary people.

As a Hun, Diaoqunan knew better than the Han Dynasty Li Jingzhi what this outfit represented. Just look at the golden crown, the crown is like a flying eagle spreading its wings, and the crown is decorated with exquisite animal patterns. This is a famous king and hero in the Hun tribe, and it is only used by a great nobleman over twenty-four years old! Among the five tribes of the Southern Xiongnu, there are no more than twenty people qualified to serve this kind of golden crown.

It should be noted that the Huns are a military-national unity. In addition to the Great Shanyu and the royal kings of the royal family, the kings and princes of each tribe have the strength, their status is extremely respectable, and they have the power to kill and seize the ordinary Xiongnu people. Diaoqu is very clear. Even though he is Hu Yanyan's confidant, he has a low official position after all. He may be powerful and blessed in front of Han officers like Li Jingzhi, but in the eyes of the famous kings of the Huns, he is really inferior to ants. His mind changes rapidly. Although he can't remember the origin of this noble man, he is quite dissatisfied with himself when he hears his words. If he is a little rebellious, he is afraid that the end will be a big problem.

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