early morning.
On the city wall, the trumpet sound was blown again, and the generals such as the head master, Nie Chen, and Lin Guang all boarded the northern city wall.
"Did the enemy attack the city?"
Before Nie Chen arrived, he asked Wang Hao on the city wall.
Wang Hao said,
"They are coming, but there are not many of them. It's like a feint attack."
Everyone looked down and saw about two to three thousand people in the distance, running towards the city wall carrying ladders.
These people are scattered far apart, with only one person every few meters apart. They are a large and sparse area, occupying a lot of space, but in fact there are not many people.
"What does this mean? There are no follow-up troops behind. Do they think they can capture our county with just these people?"
Nie Chen sneered and looked at the enemy soldiers below, secretly thinking about their intentions.
"I don't know. Let's take a look first. The enemy may want to consume our arrows."
Wang Hao shouted,
"Archers are ready, aim and shoot freely. As long as the enemy enters the shooting range, aim and shoot to death. There is no need to attack with arrows, save arrows!"
"As you command!"
After receiving the order, the officers and soldiers immediately came to the edge of the city wall, aiming their crossbows and bows downwards.
"Kill!"
The enemy soldiers below were shouting loudly and charging towards the wall of the village with great momentum.
After they entered the shooting range, the archers above immediately fired arrows downwards. For a while, many barbarians were unable to dodge and were shot to the ground, but there were more barbarians, staring at the arrows in the sky. , relying on dexterous movement to avoid arrows.
But in this way, everyone only focuses on avoiding the arrows, and no one runs forward to attack the city.
These people shouted for killing for a long time. After leaving corpses on the ground, they hurriedly retreated and returned to their camp.
This operation made the city defenders very confused and had no idea what the other party was trying to do.
After watching for a while, Nie Chen turned around and left without waiting for the enemy to attack the city again.
"Let's go, let's go. It's really boring. How hard can this person fight? The enemy must be feigning an attack and trying to consume our weapons. We don't want to be fooled."
The head master and others also followed him and left, leaving only Wang Hao in charge.
The headmaster frowned and said,
"The enemy didn't fight with all their might. Obviously they knew they couldn't defeat us, but they didn't retreat either. Why?"
Nie Chen smiled and said,
"Why, wait for the reinforcements to arrive. There is a grassland to the north of our house, and the Qiyan tribe is not far from here. They can mobilize troops quickly.
Now we are paralyzed by a feint attack, and when the reinforcements arrive, they can sneak up on us and attack us hard. We have to be careful of their sudden night attacks. Recently, we have to pay more attention to patrols at night. "
"Don't worry, I will arrange it..."
The headmaster suddenly glared, slapped Nie Chen on the back of the head, and said,
"I am your subordinate again?"
"Hahaha, Mr. Master, you go and do your work. I will also go to the city for a walk. By the way, where is Qi Huan?"
Nie Chen looked around and found no sign of Qi Huan.
Lin Guang said,
"Qi Huan said that we are currently fighting the barbarians, but we must be careful to guard against backstabbing by the county guard's army. He took his people to personally explore the movements of Liu Hu's army."
"Well, Qi Huan is so thoughtful that he doesn't need to be reminded. Our Qingfeng Village is really full of talents, hahahaha."
Nie Chen was in a good mood and took Weng Qiuchan for a walk around the city.
Although there are still enemy troops besieging the city outside the city, prosperity has been restored inside the county.
Ordinary people also need to live. They have a strong ability to heal themselves. As long as the knife does not hit their necks, they can still live the life they deserve.
In addition, they believed that Qingfeng Village would be able to defend the city and protect their safety, so they opened their doors for business one by one, and there were more vendors on the road.
Nie Chen took Weng Qiuchan and walked around, buying delicious food when he saw it, rouge, gouache and jewelry when he saw it, making Weng Qiuchan extremely happy.
Weng Qiuchan also applied her first makeup with the help of the proprietress who sold rouge. Looking at her beautiful face in the bronze mirror, Weng Qiuchan was so happy that she bought a lot of cosmetics with a wave of her hand.
He threatened to confuse Nie Chen.
She was extremely beautiful in her own right. She used to have the heroic appearance of a heroine without any makeup. Now she has changed into women's clothes and put on makeup, and she is also quite feminine. The sight of her made Master Nie almost turn into a dandy on the street and rob the girl.
At noon, Nie Chen found another restaurant and went in to eat with Weng Qiuchan.
"Hey, isn't this Master Nie? Please come in and please come in."
The waiter in the shop greeted me warmly.
The county town had just been destroyed, and not many people were willing to go out to eat. Although it was meal time, there were still few people around.
"Yo, you know me?"
Nie Chen asked in surprise.
"Look what you said, who in Qingshui County doesn't know you, Master Nie?"
The waiter warmly greeted Nie Chen to sit down.
Nie Chen continued to ask out of consideration for the people's sentiments,
"So, is there peace in the county recently? Are there officials exploiting us? Are there any playboys making trouble?"
"Look what you said, you are the biggest playboy in Qingshui County."
Nie Chen:......
Weng Qiuchan laughed so hard that she couldn't stand upright.
The waiter put the towel on his shoulders and said with a smile,
"Master Nie, to tell you the truth, weren't you and Liu Chong both...well...
Later you went up the mountain and Liu Chong died. Later you killed the county magistrate and the Liu family, and our life became much peaceful.
As soon as the new county magistrate arrived, he was driven away by the barbarians before he could even search. You beat the barbarians away again. Now we ordinary people can see that you are different from before.
The common people today hope in their hearts that you will become the county magistrate, so that they can live a better and peaceful life in the future. "
"Okay, stop talking nonsense and hurry up and serve the food. If it's too late, I won't pay you. Don't forget that I'm a dandy."
"Look at what you said, can we still ask for your money? It's as if you have given us money for meals before."
"What the hell..."
After finishing the meal, Nie Chen still dropped a tael of silver to settle the bill.
Then he took Weng Qiuchan back to Nie's house. Today's little wife was particularly touching, and Nie Chen couldn't help but want to pamper her.
There were enemy troops watching him outside, but he was holding his little wife at home and playing songs every night. It was really too debauched and comatose.
This is how Nie Chen thinks about himself.
In the next two or three days, the barbarians outside the city feigned attacks several times. Seeing that the defenders were not fooled and did not consume a large number of arrows, they withdrew again and stopped harassing them.
In the past few days, the food and grass brought by the Qingfeng Village army had almost been consumed, so a large amount of food, grass and baggage were transferred from Qingfeng Village, and Xiao He and other maids also followed.
Nie Chen has also built some trebuchets in the past few days, which can attack the enemy troops outside from a distance from inside the city.
