Zhu Renxia's outstanding performance aroused applause from the officers and soldiers. The defenders' confidence doubled and their morale soared.
The south gate guarded by Sun County Prime Minister was supported by Ding Xiao, and the north city wall guarded by Huang Bantou was supported by Jin Zhu. With 150 men fighting against 500 rebels, they could withstand it.
However, the east wall, which was personally attacked by the rebel leader Wang Heng, was in danger. Soon a large number of rebels climbed up the wall and fell into a bloody hand-to-hand battle.
Wang Heng was from the Miao ethnic group. He was strong and good at climbing. He was the first to climb the city wall with a machete in hand.
Wherever the sword fell, he killed several officials in the blink of an eye.
"Rebels should not be so rampant!"
Lin Dianshi had no choice but to send someone to ask for help from the prefect, and at the same time he personally danced the sword to fight Wang Heng.
The swords went back and forth, the cold light flashed, the battle lasted for seven or eight rounds, and Wang Heng showed his weakness.
Lin Dianshi stabbed the air with his sword, but Wang Heng slashed his neck with his backhand. Blood spurted out and he died on the spot.
"Brothers, open the city gate with me!"
Wang Heng chopped off Lin Dianshi's head with one blow, held it in his hand and menacingly threatened the officers and soldiers, "Your officer is already dead, do you still want to fight like a trapped beast?"
Looking at Lin Dianshi's bloody head and the scattered corpses of his companions, the remaining officers were so frightened that they ran away one by one holding their heads.
Just as the rebels were about to open the city gate, Zhu Changan, who had been watching the battle silently, took action.
I saw him flicking his fingers, and the rebels on the city wall flew out one by one in an instant.
Even Wang Heng was not spared. He was thrown nearly a hundred feet off the city wall by the huge force. He fell to the ground with all his muscles and bones broken, and died on the spot.
In one breath, Zhu Changan ejected all the dozens of rebels who had climbed onto the city wall, and pushed all their ladders apart before stopping his movements.
He first observed the value on the health meter to see if there had been any change?
[Name: Zhu Changan, health value 76, today -15]
"Damn it, I just killed dozens of people, and my health suddenly dropped by 15 points?"
Zhu Changan was so frightened that he did not dare to continue killing people.
Some time ago, while rescuing victims in Guiyang, Zhu Renxia asked his minions Zhuang to secretly publicize the "Chang'an Tianzun"'s rescue efforts and praise himself, which made Zhu Changan's health reach a high of 91.
Unexpectedly, because I helped defend the city today, my health suddenly dropped by 15 points.
"If I help mass murder, I'm afraid my health will plummet by 100 and die on the spot."
Zhu Changan murmured secretly in his heart and hurriedly called to Zhu Renxia: "I have helped you clear out the rebels at the East City Gate. Send people over to garrison them quickly."
"Thank you, Heavenly Lord!"
The rebels on the west wall were subjected to a tenacious sniper attack, and more than two hundred people were killed. The remaining threat to the city wall was exhausted.
Zhu Renxia hurriedly pulled out thirty elites and asked them to rush to the east wall to support them. At the same time, he ordered people to mobilize Jinzhu to guard the east gate.
Without waiting for Zhu Renxia's order, Jin Zhu knew that the east gate was in danger and led thirty Chang'an troops to kill him.
When I arrived at the place, I saw that the rebels who had climbed up the city wall were gone. The enemy's ladders under the city had fallen apart. Several hundred rebels were screaming after their general was dead.
"Cum for me!"
Jinzhu bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot seven or eight rebels to death in succession.
Under her command, the Chang'an army fired a volley of arrows, which knocked the rebels off their feet.
After a short time, thirty reinforcements sent by Zhu Renxia from the West City Wall arrived and joined the battle together.
When he heard that Lin Dianshi had died in the battle, Wang Bin, who was in charge of the Yamen, hurried over on horseback and restrained the officials who had just escaped from the city wall to return to the battle.
"Lin Dianshi is dead, so you should risk your lives even more. You ran off the battlefield, and when the enemy troops enter the city, who will protect your families?"
Under the restraint of Magistrate Wang, these defeated officers and people were ashamed and returned to fight one after another to assist Jinzhu in defending the city.
The sudden death of the rebel leader Wang Heng dealt a huge blow to their military morale.
Deputy General Lin Youwei asked: "How did General Wang die?"
The rebels chirped and whined, their words unknown.
"We didn't see what happened. It was fine. General Wang killed a dog officer and led forty or fifty brothers to climb the city wall.
Just as he was about to open the city gate, a gust of evil wind suddenly blew, and General Wang suddenly flew hundreds of feet from the city wall, fell to the ground and died.
Except for General Wang, the other brothers who climbed onto the city wall were not spared. They all fell down and killed more than a dozen brothers below the city wall! "
"Witchcraft, it must be witchcraft!"
After looking at Wang Heng's body, they saw that he was almost smashed into a ball of flesh. It felt like all the bones in his body were almost broken, which made Lieutenant General Lin change his color in horror.
After a half-day storm, the rebels had more than 600 casualties. Their strength was getting smaller and smaller, and they had lost the ability to capture the city gate. Lieutenant General Lin had no choice but to collect Wang Heng's body and order a retreat.
There were still more than a thousand rebels, and the Chang'an army only had more than ninety people. Zhu Renxia stopped Jin Zhu who was planning to leave the city to pursue the attack, and ordered Wang Bin to organize the people in the city to clean the battlefield and clean up the corpses outside the city.
It is the dog days of summer and the weather is hot. If the corpse is not buried in time, the plague will easily occur.
More than thirty officers guarding the city were killed and more than fifty were injured.
Zhu Renxia ordered the county government to spend money to buy coffins to bury these martyrs, and to provide public support to the deceased.
"Thank you, Lord Magistrate, for helping us defend the city, otherwise our Sinan County would have been harmed by the rebels!"
The common people were grateful to Zhu Renxia. The men went out of the city to help bury the bodies, and the women helped cook and make soup to comfort the soldiers who fought hard.
While the people were busy, Zhu Renxia selected a capable Chang'an soldier to ride a fast horse to Feilian Fort, looking for Jiang Guanjun along the way and asking for help from him.
At noon the next day, seeing the corpses outside the city being buried, the scouts who were following the rebels flew back to report.
"Master Magistrate, County Prince, something bad has happened. The rebels are coming again."
"here we go again?"
Zhu Renxia couldn't help but frowned, "How many people came this time?"
"More than four thousand, it seems overwhelming and vast." The scout reported with lingering fear.
"Damn it!"
Zhu Renxia spat, looked up at the sky, and asked in his heart: "Tianzun, the rebels are coming again. This time there are more than 4,000 people. Maybe we really need you to help us defend the city this time? "
"this……"
Zhu Changan couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He wanted to refuse, but he couldn't bear it. After thinking for a while, he immediately came up with an idea.
"You evacuate all the people into the city, and I will help you find a way."
"Disciple, obey."
Zhu Renxia agreed in his heart and immediately issued an order: "Everyone, all withdraw into the city."
Zhu Changan turned around and walked to the yard, brought in many green square bricks leftover from the construction of the safe some time ago, put them into boxes one by one, and surrounded Sinan County.
The area of the county seat was not intended to be too large. Zhu Changan only used dozens of square bricks to block the county seat. In an instant, a wall nearly thirty meters high appeared around this small city.
The people in the city couldn't help but be surprised when they looked at the city wall rising from the ground. Every one of them was so frightened that their expressions changed. This towering city wall seems to turn over at any time and bury the thatched houses in the city, which is full of oppression.
Zhu Renxia comforted him and said, "People don't need to panic. This must be the help of gods."
After hearing this, the people felt relieved and celebrated: "Great, it seems that even the gods can't stand the behavior of the rebels, so they helped us defend against the enemy."
The team that came was none other than Lieutenant General Lin, who took Wang Heng's body back to report to Liu Yuanhu, telling the story of the battle in an exaggerated manner.
Liu Yuanhu was furious and personally led all his troops, a total of more than 4,300 people, to cover up and kill him. He vowed to break through this small county, capture Zhu Renxia alive, and massacre all the people in the city.
But after walking to the city, they suddenly discovered that a city wall as high as twenty-five or six meters had been erected around this small city, which made everyone feel horrified.
"Wori, is this a ghost?"
Lieutenant General Lin's scalp was numb and he reported to Liu Yuanhu: "When we came to attack the city yesterday, the height of the city wall was only more than two feet. Why did it suddenly become more than ten feet today? There are definitely monsters living in this city.
