After Du Fei led his men to support Zhang Yan, Zhang Mo sent scouts to follow him to find out the news. She already knew about it when Qu Yi led his troops into Jingxing six days ago.

Fortunately, Juyi Village is on the west side of Taihang and is quite far away. It is expected that Quyi Sanqianbuqu would not dare to go deep alone.

Just in case, Zhang Mo asked Xu Chu and Guan Hai to take turns to lead people to guard the valley entrance day and night. The old and weak in the village also mobilized to carry stones and other materials for guarding the village. At the same time, he asked carpenters to rush to make three small riprap machines. machine.

Two days later, another news came from the Jingxing Road. Quyi had a strong momentum along the way and had captured four strongholds along the way. Those who surrendered survived, but those who stubbornly resisted. After the stronghold was broken, no chickens or dogs were left.

After a few days, the number of troops in the Quyi tribe increased instead of decreasing. Now there are more than 6,000 young and strong soldiers, and more than 10,000 old and weak soldiers. There are lowered soldiers to lead the way, and the team is heading towards Juyi Village.

Hearing this news, everyone in the village became panicked. There were only two hundred young men left in the valley. Even if a wall was built at the entrance of the village, it would be difficult to stop his attack of thousands of people.

"Boss, no, why don't we surrender too!" A soldier looked at Zhang Mo and spoke cautiously.

Since the little boss took over the village, he has strictly prohibited looting. Since he has a conscience, he might as well take this opportunity to surrender to the officers and soldiers and save his life.

Others also looked at Zhang Mo with hopeful expressions.

Looking at the cowardly soldiers, Zhang Mo's originally panicked mind calmed down. These people were not strong-willed. If she showed any signs of cowardice, the village would really not be able to survive.

After spending so much money and effort to build this den of thieves, how could it be possible for Qu Yi to be cheap?

Moreover, she always felt that there was something fishy about this matter. Although her understanding of Qu Yi was limited to a few lines in history books, it can be seen from his betrayal of Han Fu and Yuan Shao that this person was not very good in character and had great ambitions. If you can be so kind as to recruit more than 10,000 old and weak people, who will feed these people?

At this moment, if you analyze with these people whether Qu Yi sincerely accepts surrender, they will definitely not listen. Of course, Zhang Mo can also force them to defend the stronghold, but if they do not do it willingly, even if they are forced to surrender, it will not be of much use. He can only use force first. Interests are stable.

"If we are demoted to the government, the factories in the village will have to be turned over. Without this income, do you think you can still have enough to eat with the little land allocated by the government?"

Everyone looked at each other, remembering the days before they were thieves. After a year of hard work, most of their income had to be paid in taxes. In good years, they could barely survive. If there was a famine, most of them would starve to death. But since they followed the little boss, , they were never hungry again.

Zhang Mo continued to encourage, "There are walls in the stronghold, so they may not be invincible. If my prediction is correct, the reinforcements sent by Zhang Feiyan must be on the way at this time. This is the boundary of our Black Mountain territory. Qu Yi's army is going deep into it alone and he does not dare to stay for a long time. As long as we hold on for a day or two, he will definitely retreat."

Zhang Yan's purpose this time is to get rid of this Jizhou elite. Regardless of whether his people are already on the way, Zhang Mo must say this so that there is hope for them to persevere.

"What the boss said makes sense. I don't want to live the old days of being hungry and full. Today I have to risk my life to hold on to the village." A man shouted first.

"Hold the village and never surrender!" Another person shouted.

"Hold the village and never surrender!" Most of the people shouted, but some of them had erratic eyes and were hesitant.

Zhang Mo raised his hand to signal for silence, and then said, "I have analyzed the pros and cons. If there are still people who want to surrender, stand up now and I will let you out of the stronghold immediately. There will be no embarrassment. But if you choose to stay, there will be no room for regret.

Give you time to consider..."

She paused, "In a quarter of an hour, anyone who threatens to surrender will be executed without mercy!"

When she said the last sentence, Zhang Mo's beautiful eyes were filled with murderous intent.

"I will never regret it!"

"I won't surrender, I won't surrender!" The crowd began to shout again.

Seeing the high morale that was suddenly aroused, Guan Hai couldn't help but admired that if it were him today, he would definitely kill the person who was the first to surrender, to scare the monkeys.

Although this can intimidate everyone, but she is not willing to fight to protect her own interests, and her morale has never been high. Amo talked about the pros and cons, pros and cons, without losing her generosity and power. He even saw in her that even the head of the family was willing to do so.

There is no such thing as the fierce aura of a superior person.

A quarter of an hour later, even if some of them had thoughts of surrender, under the influence of many high-spirited companions, they could only follow the crowd, and no one left the village.

Zhang Mo's words of encouragement were not nonsense. When Zhang Yan learned that Qu Yi had entered Jingxing, he sent 30,000 troops to pursue him.

Among the thirty thousand, twenty-five thousand were moth thieves who had been wiped out from their lair, and there were five thousand Zhang Yan's troops. If Qu Yi dared to enter his territory, how could Zhang Yan let him go? As long as there was a stronghold ahead that could be captured

If he lives in Quyi, he will not be able to escape.

It's just that Zhang Yan overestimated his moth thieves. Of the four villages captured by Qu Yi, only one resisted vigorously and killed more than a dozen of Qu Yi's troops. The other two surrendered after resisting for a while, and the remaining one simply surrendered.

, Qu Yi could almost cross Taihang and reach Bingzhou in a few days.

At present, Li Gui's tribe is the only one left near the Jingxing Road. Qu Yi has already learned clearly from the subordinates that Li Gui's tribe is the weakest village in this area. There are only about a thousand young men in total. This time Zhang Yan sent to help.

After seven or eight hundred years of fighting, now there are almost only the old and the weak left in the valley. They can be broken with a snap of a finger, or they may not even need to fight. As soon as his troops arrive, he will open the door and surrender.

However, Qu Yi also underestimated these moth thieves. When his troops arrived outside Juyi Village, he saw that a wall more than three feet high was built at the entrance of the valley, and rows of bows and arrows were placed on the top of the wall. He knew that this bone was not that good.

Gnawing.

It would be best if he could be summoned to surrender. Qu Yi waved his hand, and the man with a loud voice drove his horse forward and stopped a hundred paces away. "People in the valley, listen, my general has an order. Those who surrender will be exempted from guilt and can be divided...

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Before the man finished speaking, he heard a hiss and a sharp arrow shot through the air and pierced his throat. The man grunted twice and fell off the horse.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The arrow in Xu Chu's hand was just caught. When he was hesitating, he saw that the shouting officers and soldiers had fallen. He looked behind him in surprise and saw that Guan Hai was holding

Holding a bow, the arrow just now was obviously shot by him.

Guan Hai glanced at Xu Chu and said calmly: "After he finishes his clever words, the high morale inspired by A Mo will fall back again. If you don't want to be an enemy of the government, go down."

"I……"

Xu Chu looked at the dark heads outside the valley entrance, and tightened his hand on the bow. Familiar faces appeared in his mind, including the uncle who had watched him grow up; and his playmates who had grown up together with him;

There was the aunt who helped him mend his clothes; there was the kid he bullied. But that year, the moth thieves attacked Xujiazhai, and many people died at the hands of the moth thieves.

If Wang Shijun had not come to help in time, he might not have been able to resist for long, and the whole village would have been killed by the moth thieves. But now he has to help the moth thieves kill the officers and soldiers?

He didn't like these thieves at all. If it weren't for Amo, he wouldn't want to come to this den of thieves.

Amo!

Xu Chu looked towards the village and saw the girl not far away directing the old, weak, women and children to carry stones.

For two years, she has been teaching herself how to read and learn the art of war. When she heard that he wanted to learn archery, she spent a lot of money to ask a merchant to bring a three-stone ox-horn bow from Yuzhou. She also bought a small bottle of wine worth a thousand dollars in a restaurant every few days.

She wanted to satisfy her craving for a bottle, but she never let him drink more. She said that a small drink would make her happy, but getting drunk would harm her body.

She has always treated her as an elder brother and has never treated her badly, but when she needed help, she was hesitant to hold her bow.

Go to hell officers, soldiers, thieves!

Xu Chu looked away from Zhang Mo. From now on, he only knew that the little girl whose smile was prettier than the crescent moon was his code of conduct. I would kill anyone who tried to touch her.

Outside the valley entrance, Qu Yi looked at the messenger who fell on the ground and was slightly surprised, "There is actually a magic archer hidden in this small village?!"

Qu Heng clicked his tongue and said, "Not only the magic archer, this is also a quite wealthy village. Of the several villages we captured along the way, which one can build a city wall at the entrance of the valley like him? Look at those people at the top of the city.

Her face is much rounder than the ones below, so she should be able to eat enough."

"Rich!"

Qu Yi laughed and asked, "Where are Zhang Yan's reinforcements?"

Qu Heng said, "We have already entered Jingxingkou. If we walk fast, we can catch up in about two days."

"He arrived too soon..." Qu Yi ordered, "Send people quickly to cut down trees and build ladders. Let the soldiers take the lead tomorrow, so we can use this small village to use up some."

"If we don't drive out the old and the weak, we can fill the city with corpses."

"No……"

Qu Yi shook his head, "My general's target is Zhang Yan's reinforcements. I have my own uses for these old and weak men. The small village only has more than 200 people, so it will be easy to capture him."

Quyi had enough manpower and there were many trees in the Taihang Mountains, so he built several ladders that evening.

Early the next morning, more than three thousand surrendered soldiers were fed, and Qu Yi ordered to attack the stronghold.

Although these moth thieves outside the valley had surrendered to the government, they did not want to fight with their original neighbors immediately. However, their families were controlled, and there were Quyi archers behind them. If they retreated, they would die, so they had no choice but to rush forward.

Zhang Mo had been guarding the city head last night, and today he was personally giving the command. Everyone saw that she was not afraid of a little lady, and their morale was even higher.

The archers bent their bows and set arrows one after another, without taking aim, and just kept shooting down. Although there were only a few dozen archers, they also caused bursts of screams under the city.

Although there were few guards at the top of the city, the entrance to the valley was so narrow that the moth thieves who were attacking the city could not swarm up at all. Three thousand people crowded the passage at the entrance of the valley, so densely packed that every arrow fired from the top of the city could almost take away a life.

"The morale of Xiaozhai is high!"

Qu Yi was watching the battle from afar. Seeing that hundreds of soldiers had been killed or injured, he said to Qu Heng, "That's almost it. Now let our archers follow behind and use their swords and shields to cover them, and help him wait to break the city."

Qu Heng nodded, and with the three hundred archers and sword and shield soldiers who had been waiting at the side, he slowly stepped forward, entered the shooting range, and began to shoot at the city head.

"ah--"

On the top of the city, a young man who was setting up his bow was shot in the arm by an arrow. He couldn't help but howl. Zhang Mo was startled, and another scream rang in his ears.

"ah--"

This time, the young man was shot directly in the left eye by an arrow. The arrow penetrated two or three inches long. He was rolling on the ground in pain. It looked like he would not survive.

There were screams one after another, and Zhang Mo's hand holding the handle of the knife trembled slightly. Although he had fought with Wang Yun in the Yellow Turban before, he had never been to the battlefield in person. This was the first time for him to fight at such a close range. If he said he was not afraid, he would be lying.

Looking at the injured and dead lying on the ground, she suppressed the fear in her heart and said sternly: "Everyone, hide behind the wall first!"

There were archers to help, and the moth thief carrying the ladder in front relaxed his pace and rushed to the bottom of the city in a short while.
Chapter completed!