Chapter 451
The next day, Li Linfei took another large group to fight the bandits. This time He Qi was no longer panicked and was full of anticipation, he had already seen the greatness of the Lord High Sheriff and these mountain Yue people had already become in the bag, so he did not follow and stayed behind to guard the city.
Guo Jia didn't follow him today, he hadn't learnt anything after following Li Linfei yesterday, but he was so tired that he might as well have slept and then gone to deal with his official duties!
The hill tribe he dealt with today was a little further away than yesterday's, but no matter how well they hid, they would have been found by Li Linfei.
He still used the same method of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger to break through two large fortresses, and just as they were heading back, something unfortunate happened.
The system map showed that the Shan Yue people from several tribes had assembled and wanted to attack Shan Yin City.
It wasn't that the Shan Yue people knew about their bandit fighting that made them jump to the wall. In the Shan Yue people's view, even if they couldn't beat the Han, they could still hide in the mountains and the Han couldn't do anything to them.
The gathering of the Shan Yue had something to do with Li Lin Fei, whose actions in Shan Yin had been spread by many people.
Most of those Shan Yue leaders had started out as bandits and had heard the news too! A wealthy nation! This was money right under their noses! How could they let it slip away?
So they rallied and prepared to attack Shan Yin once more, inflated by their last success and the killing of the Governor of Huiji! As soon as they had stormed Shan Yin City, Li Lin Fei's countless treasures would be theirs!
These Shan Yue men were on their way to Shan Yin City, and would probably reach Shan Yin in an hour and a half.
At this time, there were only two thousand defenders in Shan Yin City, one thousand county soldiers and one thousand feathered soldiers, so defence was not a problem for the time being, so Li Lin Fei asked his horse. He dared to go back, but it would take at least two hours from here to Shan Yin at the earliest.
So he sent a letter by pigeon, which was a new way of sending letters after Li Linfei came here.
Flying pigeons were very fast, not to mention the pigeons that were redeemed from the system, and arrived in half an hour.
After sending the flying pigeon, he said to Dian Wei, "Evil come let's go!" After saying that, he flew away on his white dragon pony.
Deng Wei didn't even need Li Linfei to say much to immediately catch up, but the sturdy horse under his crotch was a cut above the White Dragon colt, plus he was just too heavy, and was soon pulled down a cut.
"Evil Lai, why don't I go first?" Li Linfei was preoccupied with the map and soon realised that Deng Wei had pulled himself down by a lot.
Deng Wei turned back and said. "Good, you go first, my lord, I, Old Deng, will be here soon with my men." There was nothing Deng Wei could do, he quickly said no.
Hearing that Deng Wei agreed to come down, Li Linfei let the white dragon pony: mention it again and soon disappeared from Deng Wei's sight.
Deng Wei looked at Li Linfei's departing back and led the mountain people and the remaining county soldiers slowly forward, there was no way these people were mountain people, ah! Wouldn't bringing them there be giving them away to the enemy?
That said, several people in the middle of Shan Yin City were also busy, they had received a flying pigeon message from Li Lin Fei, and Xi Zhi Cai and Guo Jia had not expected Shan Yue to come so soon.
They had made that assumption before, but this was way earlier than they had estimated.
, "Should we keep all those Shan Yue people under guard?" Xi Zhi Cai suggested after a moment's contemplation, Li Lin Fei had instructed before he left that if there was anything military related, he could discuss it with He Qi.
"I'm afraid that won't work, we said before that they would be treated like Han Chinese, if we put them under guard now because the mountain crossings have broken the border, what will they think? It will create a lack of credibility and they will never trust us again in the future." He Qi shook his head no without thinking, it was indeed troublesome now, he really had too few men on hand, only two thousand or so at full strength, and there were internal and external problems.
"I also agree with General He's words." Guo Jia also agreed with He Qi's words, he didn't have the latter's ghostly talents yet, and now Shan Yin City could only rely on He Qi, the only military general.
"But what should we do about those mountain people." Xi Zhicai was also speechless, were He Qi's words right? Yes! It made sense, if Shan Yin City was saved, then those Shan Yue people who were not in turmoil would develop a certain sense of belonging, but what if they were not saved?
"We could make use of the city's lineage." Guo Jia suggested after a moment's reflection.
He Qi didn't react for a moment, but then it dawned on him that there was another force in the city! They would be unlucky if Shan Yue fought their way in, no worries about them not contributing, and the mountain people in the city could be put under their supervision, it would be in their interest to have the surrendered mountain people at odds with the Shi family.
"So General He will go in charge of the city's defences first? I'll operate on the side of the deceased family with Feng Xiao?" Xi Zhicai said.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of the city defences." He Qi said.
Chapter 452
He Qi arrived at the city walls, where several of his men and officers of all ranks of the Featherwood Army were present.
After two days of repairs, the walls of Shan Yin were much better than they had first seen.
"I didn't expect them to take this opportunity to come!" He Qi said with a frown.
He Qi turned back to one of his personal generals and said, "He Jun, go back and gather all your clan members to command in the Imperial Guard's residence and take care of the Lord Imperial Guard's family, after all, the city is not peaceful either."
"Yes, General." This personal guard general said.
In fact, He Qi was also afraid that Shangyin would not be able to hold, after all, there were only two thousand men, and he had left He's army at the Imperial Guard's residence, in case the city broke down, he could retreat with Xi Zhicai Guo Jia and Miao Cicada.
At this moment, the Shan Yue rebels had already appeared in their sight and it would not be long before the troops would be under the city.
He Qi hastily ordered the city gates to be closed_up. Looking at these rebels, He Qi frowned and wondered what he was thinking.
"Those who can speak within the city come out and speak." One of the temporary leaders elected by the mountain crossings said.
He Qi stepped forward and said, "I am He Qi, the captain of Huiji, who is there under the city?"
He was promoted to this position after Li Linfei took office, usually the captain was appointed by the court, but Liu Hong gave Li Linfei the power to appoint all the officials in the county at his own discretion.
"Hahahaha, the Huijie captain, wasn't he the Shanyin county captain before? A defeated general under his command." This chief laughed loudly.
This He Qi was not angry, after all, was what he said the truth? Just because he had failed to defend Shan Yin last time did not mean that he could not do so this time.
So with a wave of his hand, one of his personal guards brought over a bow, which was the Hundred Treasure Bow that Li Linfei had redeemed for him, with a maximum range of nearly a thousand.
The Shan Yue leader sniggered when he saw it - - sounded, there were many marksmen in this world, many of them were capable of shooting at food from hundreds of metres away, but it was difficult to find a good bow, he did not believe that the bow in that boy's hand would be a treasure bow, a picture of being in danger, quietly waiting for the arrow to miss him, but he soon could not laugh anymore.
The arrow didn't slow down as he estimated, but came straight at his face, and with a sense of crisis in his heart, he dodged, but unfortunately it was too late.
The system's product must be the best.
"Good!" I don't know who led the applause, but He Qi's arrow had indeed boosted morale.
The county soldiers on the top of the city also had confidence in He Qi, their captain was not a straw man! They all cheered and their morale rose. Morale rose.
The leader of the Shan Yue was so blue that he pulled the arrow out directly, at this moment he had the heart to eat He Qi, this kid was so hateful that he had let himself be hit in the face, he had just said that the other side was useless, so he used himself to prove that you can be a general!
He didn't know what the other side's arrows were made of, but they were so much more painful than any other arrows! He vowed to make the other man look good after he broke the city, so that he could not die easily.
"Chief Ma, how are you?" Several chiefs behind him asked with concern, this was the one who had led this siege of Shan Yin, if something happened to him, they would lose their unified leadership and this Shan Yin city might not be entered.
The leader, who was called the horse leader, waved his hand to show that he was fine. Naturally, he would not say that his wound hurt like hell, which would be humiliating, make people look down on him and lower his morale.
He attributed the reason he had been hit by an arrow to the fact that the other side had attacked him by surprise, trying to regain some of his momentum.
The mountain people heard the horse leader's words and thought to themselves, "If it wasn't for the surprise attack, how could the horse leader have been hit by an arrow!
The other side was really despicable! At once, the morale went up.
"You can't even dodge this arrow, how dare you say that?" In fact, He Qi himself knew that his opponent's martial arts skills were not particularly bad, otherwise he would not have been elected to be the leader, and the arrow he had just fired did have a reason for his opponent to despise him.
At that moment, Guo Jia and Xi Zhi Cai led the head of the Yu family to the city gate, and Xi gave He Qi a look of success in his plan.
"Huh Yu family head, you're here!" He Qi nodded imperceptibly after seeing the look from Xi Zhicai, although he didn't know why the other few family members didn't come, so I guess there must be a reason for what happened.
"Captain He." House Master Yu bowed to He Qi and then said, "The people from the major lineages in the city have already assembled and are ready to help."
His words were cryptic, He Qi didn't know how Xi Zhicai had told them, but the attitude of these lineages was still good, unlike the image of those vampires he remembered.
Chapter 453
There was no way they could refuse, and besides, it couldn't be helped, Li Linfei had bought a lot of land with real money as soon as he took office, and all that money was still in their homes!
If they waited until the mountain people killed in the city, they would be the ones who would be unlucky! For the sake of their own lives and their own money, they had to help Li Linfei defend the city even if they had to fight for their lives, which is why they agreed without saying a word when Xi Zhicai asked for their help.
In his eyes, although there were tens of thousands of mountain people outside the city, it was no big deal, she was perfectly capable of defending the city until Li Linfei returned, but there were still too many potential hidden dangers inside the city, no one knew if those mountain Yue people would rebel, and his ability was limited after all.
"Little ones, attack the city for me, I will give the position of second leader to whoever attacks the city gates for the first time."
He did this to boost motivation, as for the right to belong to the second leader of the mountain fortress, jokingly, would such an important position be given just by saying so?
According to past practice, the first one to kill in the city died the earliest, and even if he survived, wouldn't it be common to die of old age?
When they heard that the leader had made such a big promise, they were filled with greed and could not wait to rush to the city.
So they began to incite the Shan Yue men to join forces with others to break Shan Yin, then steal some money and go back to being king of the mountain.
They succeeded, but they also failed, as the great clansmen were on to them early on and besieged them just as they were moving.
But there were also many mountain people who knew better and felt that they were treated well over here and wanted to stay as ordinary folk, and of course there were many who felt that Li Linfei was too scary and that if they rebelled again they would be finished when he returned.
These Shan Yue people, who were in the majority, were surprisingly proactive in helping the Seiya to suppress those rioting Shan Yue people.
This made the clans happy and made their task much less difficult.
After standing at the top of the city and looking into the city for a long time, Guo Jia and the others also found this situation and sighed: "Fortunately, they have lived up to our expectations! After this Shan Yue should be able to integrate more easily into the Han race."
Lord Yu raised an eyebrow, he had little interest in what Xi Zhicai had to say, what was the point of having more than a few who could not become his slaves? But if the mountain Yue people were all cleared out, then Huiji County would be much safer and their lives and property could be safeguarded, it was just that the harvest would not be as great as desired.
"There are more and more of these mountain people!" He Qi frowned after killing several people, when would this end?
Bodies were already piling up under the walls, and there were quite a few casualties on his side, this would end up being a lose-lose situation, and Li Linfei wanted healthy subservient Shan Yue, if they were all killed, where would their population come from!
"It's not that the other side is getting bigger, it's that our side is getting smaller and smaller, the other towns haven't been breached yet, but they should be close, they should want to capture you and be afraid you'll run away the moment they break the city, that's why they're pounding this side." Xi Zhicai analysed.
He Qi led his men to fight on the city's top, while the master of the Yu family, Xi Zhi Cai Guo Jia, had already descended the walls under the escort of his soldiers, they didn't have much martial arts skills and stayed behind still needing someone to protect them, so they wouldn't add to the chaos.
It was not that Li Linfei had come late to the party, but the mountain paths were really bad and he had rushed back as fast as he could! Of course, he could have left his White Dragon pony behind and exchanged it for a mobility tool from the system.
So immediately he exchanged the tokens and a quarter of an hour later, he arrived.
He would naturally show no mercy to such people. With a curved moon spear raised in his right hand and a long sword wielded in his left hand, he went towards the formation to kill anyone who was in his path of advance and would die next to him.
At the moment he is riding a white horse, and if he were wearing white armour he would resemble the God of War, Zhao Zilong.