However, Luo Jingshan only said to Guo Shizhang, "Brother-in-law, they are clearly trying to provoke the generals. I think the more filthy they talk, the less we can get excited. Otherwise, we won't fall into these people's trap."
He then just pointed at the group of villagers who were held hostage and said, "I think what we should really worry about is the group of people who were held hostage."
After hearing Luo Jingshan's words, Guo Shizhang just looked down in the direction of his finger.
As soon as he saw the people who were being held hostage, Guo Shizhang couldn't help but feel a splitting headache.
What kind of people are there? They are ordinary people.
Although Leiyang City is entirely under his jurisdiction, and although the villagers outside the city are mostly under the jurisdiction of the village elders, they are still nominally under his jurisdiction. .
The people in Leiyang City can hide inside and not go out. Even if they are trapped for a month or two, it doesn't matter. At most, they are just scrimping on food and clothing.
However, the villagers in these villages have nowhere to hide. When the bandits pass by, they can only be like ears of rice crushed by the strong wind.
There are people on the palms and backs of the hands, and it is obviously impossible for these bandits not to use these people as their trump card.
At this time, not only Guo Shizhang saw this, but Yan Ziqing also saw the situation here.
"Are they planning to use these people to open the city gate?" Yan Ziqing saw through the other side's intentions at a glance.
When Guo Shizhang saw Yan Ziqing coming over, he immediately nodded and said, "That's right, Master Yan, what do you think we should do now?"
Facing Guo Shizhang's inquiry, Yan Ziqing only looked at Luo Jingshan. He wanted to hear Mr. Luo's side of the story, so he only asked Luo Jingshan, "I wonder what Mr. Luo thinks?"
Facing Luo Jingshan's inquiry, Yan Ziqing only said in a low voice, "We can't do this without fighting, but this city gate must not be opened! Even if our entire army is wiped out, we can't open it! We have fulfilled our duties as a court, and inside The people can no longer open the city gate, but at least some people can be saved."
It's hard to have both ends of the world, so we can only do our best and obey fate.
Yan Ziqing obviously agreed with Luo Jingshan's words.
And they had just decided on the countermeasures when the noise started again.
Obviously, the bandit leader in the audience cursed so many words when he saw him, and the group of people in the city did not come out to challenge him. He then knew that this method of provoking generals would not work.
So he immediately changed his strategy.
"Guo Shizhang, you won't open the door, right? Well, since you won't open the door, don't blame me for being cruel. I will ask them to open the door in groups of five! I will do it dozens of times. As long as they don't ask to open the door, I will Five people at a time, until all these people are killed, I don’t think you can open the door!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he pointed his knife at the five people at the front and said, "You guys go up and call the door! As long as the door opens, I will let you go."
However, to the bandit's surprise, one of the five tied people, an old man, had a look of contempt on his face. He only said in a loud voice, "I won't call the door! Who doesn't know that you bandits are the worst?" Ruthless, if I open the city gate, you will definitely harm the people inside, and if we have no use value, you will definitely kill us! You are doing this kind of evil deeds just to survive for a few seconds. This is really the work of a coward!"
This old man is the leader of a nearby village. When the bandits attacked their village, they encountered a lot of resistance, so their village had the least number of people alive. If it weren’t for the fact that I heard that this old man had some interactions with the people from the Leiyang County Government, , maybe a good hostage, this old man may not survive long ago.
Now they gave him a chance to live, but the old man didn't want it.
This undoubtedly angered the bandit. Then the bandit cut off the old man's head with just one move of his knife.
In an instant, blood spurted out from his cavity like a fountain. There was even blood splattered on the clothes and cheeks of the person next to him.
Even though the old man's head was chopped off, he still had an angry look and refused to close his eyes.
However, when others looked at the old man whose head was beheaded, they were only more frightened.
Fear.
Even when the old man's body suddenly collapsed, although people were angry, fear occupied people's hearts more.
After all, this village had resisted, but their resistance was useless. Now the last resister in their village died in the first round of massacre.
This invincible situation only casts a shadow on everyone's hearts.
Since resisting has no chance of winning, then just obey. Maybe because of obedience, the other party will give them a way to survive?
Maybe they won't be the ones who die.
Maybe people in Leiyang City will open the door for them.
With such a mood, they chose to obey. After the bandit leader chopped off the old man, he pointed his knife at the person behind him and said, "You! Make up for it!"
Facing the bandit leader's instructions, the people behind him felt very uneasy, but he did not dare to disobey him. He just walked forward bravely, and soon he made up for the old man's shortcomings. Z.br>
Then the bandit leader just said, "I'll give you ten seconds! You hurry up and ask the people in the city to open the door for you! Otherwise, that old man will be your fate."
Hearing the threat from the bandit leader, the group of people were just scared and helpless.
Therefore, under the threat of the bandit leader, they just walked towards the city gate with a heavy heart. Then when they arrived at the city gate, this group of people only looked at me and I looked at you.
Obviously they can't open this mouth.
The bandit then threatened, "Hurry up and call the door! Otherwise I won't count!"
As soon as they heard the threat from the bandits, they could only reluctantly take a few shots at the city gate.
"Open the door! Open the door! Can someone open the door and let us in?"
However, there was no response from inside, and the door didn't move at all.
Someone cried out in despair to the bandits, "Hero, please show mercy and let us go! They won't open the door."
However, when he heard that this man had the nerve to plead with him without asking him to open the door, the bandit became inexplicably angry.
"I asked you to call the door! I didn't ask you to plead with me. Since the door is not open inside! I will kill you!"
After the words fell, before the person who begged for mercy could change his words, another head fell to the ground soon. The remaining four people were frightened to death when they saw this situation.
When they saw the ferocious bandit looking at them again, they immediately shouted in fright, "We are shouting... we are shouting! The door must be opened! The door must be opened!"
Then they immediately turned around and shouted inside, "Master Guo, Master Guo, we are the people under your rule. Please save us and show kindness! Open the door! I have an old man and a young man! I can't die." !」
"Master Guo! Open your eyes and look at us! Please save us!"
"I kowtow to you, please save us!"
How could Guo Shizhang, who was on the city wall, not see all this? Seeing all this, how could he not feel sour in his heart?
He originally thought it was a great achievement to suppress the bandits, but he didn't expect these bandits to be so tough. Now they just attack them with backhands.
How can they win with so few manpower now?
But now he couldn't ignore these people. He looked at Yan Ziqing and said, "Master Yan, should we go down and fight now?"
Yan Ziqing said nonchalantly, "There's no rush. Just wait here."
"Still waiting? How long should I wait? If everyone is killed by them, everything will be meaningless."
"If you are afraid that they will kill everyone, go to the front and talk to them, and delay the time until the fireworks signal lights up above your head. You can bring about a hundred soldiers to fight."
"A hundred or so soldiers are joining the battle? What about the others?" Guo Shizhang felt that Yan Ziqing was just rashly asking for help. After all, there were only one or two thousand people on the other side. Even if they put all the soldiers on, they wouldn't be able to compete with them. I also want to remove two-thirds of his troops.
Then he doesn't have to fight against these people. He was just waiting to be killed.
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With Guo Shizhang looking depressed, Yan Ziqing only said, "Don't worry, Mr. Guo, I will let our secret guards protect you. If anything goes wrong, they will take you out, and I will also support you on the side battlefield. If something happens to you, I won't be able to survive. As for the others, we will also let them appear on the side battlefield. The reason why I let you face the enemy frontally is because they only recognize you and not others."
Although he didn't know what kind of medicine Yan Ziqing was selling, he obviously had no better choice at the moment, so he could only say, "Since you said so, I will cooperate with you for a while."
Yan Ziqing nodded, then he turned to look at Luo Jingshan and said, "Mr. Jingshan, are you interested in joining the journey?"
When Luo Jingshan saw Yan Ziqing inviting him, he immediately nodded, "Of course I do!"
Then Yan Ziqing only said with satisfaction, "Okay! Mr. Luo is really happy."
Then Yan Ziqing not only arranged two secret guards to protect Guo Shizhang, but also arranged one secret guard to protect Luo Jingshan. He only returned him and led Luo Jingshan down the city.
And Guo Shizhang, under the protection of the secret guards, naturally hurried towards the top of the outer city wall.
But when he arrived at the outer city wall, the first round of people who called at the outer city wall had already been massacred by the bandit leader.
So when he looked down, all he could see was an unknown number of people pleading.
The guards on the top of the city wall could best see what was happening outside.
When they saw the bandits killing people so arrogantly, they wanted to rush down and fight them to the death.
Therefore, when Guo Shizhang came to the top of the city wall, the soldiers immediately begged Guo Shizhang, "Sir, please let us go out and fight those bastards!"
"Yes! Sir! I saw my mother! I can't let them continue to kill people like this!"
Hearing what they said, Guo Shizhang also felt some sympathy with the enemy. Without Yan Ziqing's instructions, in this atmosphere where he was ready to die. He might have complied with their request.
