Cui Dalang placed a recliner on the top of the fortress. It was placed on the edge of the strong crossbow on the top of the fortress. This was a kind of strong crossbow eliminated by the army, which could fire three strong crossbows at a time. There are two such strong crossbows on the top of the fortress, which is the most threatening offensive weapon in the fortress.

The tension on the border has been going on for some time. All the people in this area have withdrawn, and the remaining people who have voluntarily stayed and experienced military experience have also retreated to the fort.

There are many people willing to stay, but this fort can only accommodate 150 people at most. The rest must leave. Cui Dalang was a sentry officer when he was a soldier, so he naturally became the commander of this fort.

Everyone here knows the danger of staying. The probability of death is far greater than the probability of survival, because they will truly become an isolated island in the sea. No one knows how long they can hold on. But these people still choose to stay.

People who stay in the fort have two characteristics.

The first one is the people who immigrated from the mainland. These people basically belong to a big family. In the mainland, they have other brothers and nephews. In order to expand their family business, they separated from the big family and developed on the border. For such people, the court promised that everything they now would be inherited by their families after the war, and if they died in battle. Of course, if they died in battle, their families would also receive a generous compensation. This compensation far exceeded the court's pension for the soldiers who died in battle.

The second type of people are the barbarians who just attached to the imperial court. Not long after these people obtained the Tang Dynasty's family, their entire family was still in a state of extreme poverty. These people voluntarily stayed, and their families would immediately receive a generous sum of money and a hundred acres of fertile land compensated for their families after the war.

To be honest, one life is to exchange for these wealth.

For many wealthy families, they are naturally unwilling to do so, but for these people, it is a way to quickly change the fate of the family.

Unlike most people here, although Cui Dalang also likes these compensations, what prompted him to stay was more because he felt that he had the responsibility to defend the current Tang Dynasty.

He was from Yizhou. In the past, his family was in a state of extreme poverty. He and his brother Erlang, including their parents, were both tenants of landlords. They fought hard for a year and lived worse than cattle and horses. At the end of the year, they still found that they had nothing, and even filling their stomachs was a luxury.

Families like them are most afraid of getting sick. Because getting sick means they have no hope of living like this.

But I was really afraid of anything. Cui Da's father fell down due to overwork. When the family was in despair, a savior fell from the sky. An organization called Yixingshe came to Cui Dalang. At that time, Cui Dalang thought it was a gang organization, but in order to save his father, he still joined in without hesitation.

Then, his life took a fundamental reversal.

In the following days, Cui Dalang followed Yixing Society to start secret activities in Yizhou until he completely overthrew the rule of the Jiedushi Wang Feng and placed Yizhou under the rule of the Jiedushi Wuwei, the current prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ze.

At that time, Cui Dalang, who was in his early thirties, joined the army again.

It was that year that he finally found his wife.

After several years of war, many people who had the same experience as Cui Dalang fell on the battlefield, but he was lucky enough to survive and became a sentry officer.

However, when he joined the army, he was eventually older. When the new military service system came out, Cui Dalang had to withdraw from the army because of his age.

And in recent years, his family has also undergone great changes.

Finally, my parents no longer have to work hard. They just need to raise chickens and ducks at home and grow vegetable gardens. They have more than 100 acres of good land in their family. Erlang also married, and the entire Cui family was full of branches and leaves, and there were four third generations.

It was at this time that the court issued the border tent again.

Cui Dalang gave all the family business in Yizhou to Erlang, and then took his wife and children to Pingzhou. In just a few years here, he had a larger family business than when he was in Yizhou.

However, Zhang Zhongwu is coming again.

This made Cui Dalang very angry.

As a person who has lived in the border for a long time, and is a member of Yixing and a former soldier, he is very concerned about the people opposite him. Compared with the people under the rule of the Liao King, Cui Dalang felt that he was simply too happy.

He didn't want to go back to the past days of dying.

Similarly, he didn't want his compatriots to live in that kind of day.

As a member of Yixing Society, under the education of Yixing Society for many years, Cui Dalang has unknowingly developed an ambition to support the world. He is worried about the world before the worries of the world, and then the world is happy to live for the people, and the concept of peace has been deeply rooted in his heart.

Although he retired and became an ordinary citizen, his identity as a member of Yixing Society has always been with him. Even in such a border area, Yixing Society is still one of the most powerful weapons for the imperial court to rule the border area. Every month, all Yixing Society members hold a gathering and the people sent from above organize them to study.

So this time, Cui Dalang stayed without hesitation.

Among this fort, there are nine people who also have the status of Yixing membership.

As the Tang Dynasty became stronger and stronger, it became increasingly difficult to join Yixing Society and become one of them. It was impossible to join without strict assessment and a two-year inspection period.

This time, the great retreat was to launch a more effective counterattack in the future and to completely solve Zhang Zhongwu, a traitor with a rebellious bone on the back of his head. Cui Dalang believed in the statement of the upper class.

In order to achieve this goal, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his life. He firmly believed that his sacrifice would bring about a better life for his compatriots and his family in the future.

The wind was very cool in the morning, and Cui Dalang, with his bare arms, enjoyed the faint sweet air in the morning. In the past, it was the time when he was either holding a plowing ox or carrying a hoe handle and strolling in his own fields. But now, he had to stand on the top of the fort, no longer a tool like a hoe, but a horizontal knife to defend his home.

What a pity. The wheat was still a while before it could mature, but he had to harvest them all in advance. Thinking that the wheat ears that were still green and yellow were cut down by his own hands, his heart twitched.

There were waves of sobs at his feet. Cui Dalang reached out to touch the big black dog standing beside him. This was the watchdog at home. After the whole family left, only this big black dog was left by his side.

As a soldier with rich combat experience, Cui Dalang knew that the fort he was in is extremely strong now, although he only had 150 people to defend. The specially designed fortress can be covered in every defense without even 150 people.

If you want to win such a dock, you have to exchange your life for it. And he doesn't count the ratio himself, maybe ten, maybe more.

From the border to Jianchang, there are about a hundred such forts, and the stars are spread over the vast plains. If the Liao people are willing to exchange ten times their lives for each such fort, it would be worth it even if everyone who defends these forts dies.

Because if the Liao people continue to fight like this, how many people can fight the Tang army's main force when they arrive in Jianchang!

There was plenty of food in the fort, and even meat was prepared. This time, a large number of other animals were slaughtered and marinated. After being stored in the cellar, there were wells in the fort. Now the only gate to enter and exit had been blocked by Cui Dalang. One hundred and fifty people would live and die with the fort.

Dahei suddenly roared lowly and jumped up. His front legs reached the top of the disc, towards Jinzhou, and his teeth were roaring.

Cui Dalang was stunned, but suddenly reacted. He immediately took out a whistle from his waist, put it beside his mouth, and blew it hard.

Accompanied by the sharp whistle, people after another surged out of the fort, some of them were still wearing iron armor on their bodies.

This time, the people in these forts were strongly supplemented, and each of them was given a helmet and a half-body armor. These armor and other equipment were originally equipped by only regular troops.

After a moment, everyone took their place above the fort. Not long after, everyone felt the ground trembling, and the fort seemed to be trembling slightly.

Cavalry, a large number of cavalry.

Cui Dalang, who had rich combat experience, immediately understood, but he stopped thinking that the enemy's cavalry could not use it to attack a fort like himself.

When the first ray of sun jumped out of the horizon to illuminate the fort, dark cavalry and flying Liao army flags finally appeared on the horizon.

I'm afraid there are thousands of riders.

Even though he had expected it in his heart, Cui Dalang still took a breath.

The big black dog beside him barked wildly.

Endless cavalry rushed over.

They ignored the fort standing on the earth, but just divided dozens of horses to rush to the place not far from the fort to watch out. The main force rushed past the fort like a tide.

When the last cavalry left, the fort returned to peace.

At this time, the sun had risen high, completely bathing the fort in the sun.
Chapter completed!