Chapter 885

The reason why Li forgets worry and boldly goes back to bed without worrying about the night attack by the staff is also related to the way of war in this era.

Many people mistakenly believe that night warfare rarely occurred in ancient times because of lack of vitamin intake, leading to night blindness, which is not very correct.

Night blindness naturally existed in ancient times. It is called bird blindfold or bird blindness.

However, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, doctors had long known about night blindness, and the effect of treating bird blindness with animal liver was remarkable.

Therefore, night blindness is not the main reason for not fighting at night.

Night warfare was rarely launched in ancient times, mainly because of the lack of lighting facilities.

The lighting brightness of the torch is limited, so it is difficult to identify the enemy and us in combat, and it is even more difficult to command.

When fighting with cold weapons, the enemy and ourselves often fight in one place, and it is very easy to be injured by mistake in night combat.

Flags and flags are the main means of command in the era of cold weapons. At night, it is difficult for soldiers on both sides to see the flags, which greatly affects the command efficiency and combat coordination.

Therefore, unless there is a sneak attack at night, large-scale combat rarely occurs.

Jiulong County is protected by a tall city wall. Even if those bureaucrats want to sneak attacks, they can't succeed. Therefore, Li forgets worry about it.

The fact was the same as he expected. Until dawn the next day, the bureaucrats outside the city did not launch any attack on Jiulong County.

When it was getting brighter, a huge sound of bronze drums struck by Liao people sounded outside the city.

Li forgot to worry. He was awakened by the sound of a bronze drum. He listened attentively, but his face was worried.

Su Changqing was also awakened by the sound of the bronze drum. Seeing that Li forgetful's face was not very good-looking, he asked curiously, "forgetful, what's the matter? Is there anything wrong with the sound of the drum?"

"Nothing. You, Aphra and Peilan are staying in the hostel today. I have told Dugu Ming mansion that he will arrange two yamen guards in front of the hostel to ensure your safety. I will take Niu Wu and brother Zhang to check the situation on the wall."

Su Changqing knew he was hiding something, but he didn't continue to ask, just nodded to show that he knew it.

"You should be more careful and never be brave."

"Well, I see." Li forgot to worry, got up, changed into a capable beard with the help of Su Changqing, kissed her boss on the face, pushed the door and went out.

In the hotel yard, Niu Wu and the Zhang brothers have already waited here.

"Lang Jun, listen to the drum..." before Niu Wu finished, Li forgot to worry and waved his hand to show that he knew.

The reason why the drum sound made Li forget his worry look a little ugly was that he and Niu Wu clearly heard that there were at least five bronze drums outside the city.

For the Liao people, the bronze drum is a symbol of the tribe.

It is recorded in the biography of Liao in the book of Wei that "an elder is often promoted as the king, but he can't dominate from a distance. If the father dies, the son will succeed, if the Chinese nobles do. The king of Liao has a pair of drums and horns, so that his children can blow themselves."

The drum is a bronze drum.

The bronze drums of the Liao people are both musical instruments and war drums.

Every Liao tribe has a bronze drum as the inheritance of the tribal leader. When the father dies, the son will succeed.

These bronze drums are tall and have fine patterns. When the bronze drum is sounded, it often means war.

"Sui Shu · geography annals" said, "if you want to attack each other, ring this drum, and those who arrive are like clouds."

At the moment, outside Jiulong County, there were five bronze drums, which showed that at least five Liao tribes had participated in the rebellion.

These Liao tribes usually have thousands of Liao people.

In this way, even if each household sends only one staff member to help the war, there are at least 5000 staff members armed and ready to move outside Jiulong County.

Li forgets to worry again. When he thinks that there are only 200 government soldiers in the city, as well as more than 100 yamen servants and people Zhuang, he suddenly feels a chill.

Such a disparity of troops, even if those staff are backward in weapons and equipment and lack the equipment to attack the city, they may not be able to resist if they fight hard to attack Jiulong County.

Now we can only pray that the reinforcements from the Yizhou metropolitan government can arrive earlier.

Li Lianyou led Niu Wu and hurried to the city wall, but Dugu Feng and Wang Yichun had already arrived.

Looking up, many Liao people have appeared under the wall of Jiulong County.

In the south of the city, which had been silent last night, nearly a thousand officers with weapons were also drilled out of the jungle on both sides of the official road.

Needless to say, these colleagues were the ambush in the south of the city last night.

Wang Yichun didn't believe what Niu Wu said at first. At this time, when he saw these colleagues appear, his face couldn't help turning white.

He never thought that these barbarians were so cunning. They really set up an ambush in the south of the city, waiting for someone in Jiulong County to be fooled and open the south gate to escape, and then sneak attack the people out of the city.

Even Li forgets worry and Niu Wu feel a burst of fear at this time.

If they had not been blocked in the city by the fleeing crowd, Mao rushed out of Jiulong County on horseback yesterday and fell into the trap of the Liao people.

Niu Wu and the Zhang brothers alone may not be able to protect Li forgetful and Su Changqing's three daughters from the siege.

Dugu Feng's face was also very ugly. As a county magistrate of Jiulong County, he had been a county magistrate for four years before. He knew quite well about the Liao people. Naturally, he knew what it meant when the five bronze drums sounded outside the city.

Li Qieyou patted him on the shoulder and said, "don't panic in Dugu Mingfu. Although the Liao people are powerful, they can't help Jiulong County for a while and a half. These Liao people are not afraid when the army comes."

"Yes, what the LORD said is very true, and the lower official thinks so."

While they were talking, they saw a middle-aged man in a Liao cloth bucket skirt out of the woods outside the city, surrounded by dozens of strong Liao people with weapons.

The middle-aged man stood a hundred meters away, carefully guarding against the arrows shot from the wall, and yelled at the head of the city.

Li forgot to worry. Naturally, he couldn't understand what the staff were talking about. He could only turn his eyes to Dugu Feng.

Dugu Feng had been an official in Shu for a long time, but he understood the words of the staff. After hearing the man's words, he couldn't help but look angry.

"Dugu Mingfu, what did the staff say?" Li forgetful asked curiously.

"My Lord, that man is the father and tribal leader of the man who robbed the young lady of a good family. This rebel siege of Jiulong County was initiated by this man. Just now he shouted at the foot of the city and asked the lower officials to offer a thousand copper coins, a hundred women, a hundred cattle and a hundred horses. They would not attack the county and retreat on their own."

Hearing the speech, Li forgot to worry and couldn't help sneering: "these bureaucrats have a great appetite and are not afraid to support themselves to death. Ignore these bureaucrats. If they want to fight, just come and settle accounts with them in the autumn when the reinforcements from the Yizhou metropolitan governor's office arrive."

On one side, Wang Yichun opened his mouth, seemed to want to say something, but held back and shut his mouth.

In his opinion, he can have a good discussion with his colleagues. Except that it's hard to talk about sending out women, you can talk about other copper money, cattle and horses.

But he knew that Li forgot to worry and didn't like him, so he had to bear it and didn't touch the bad luck.

Dugu Feng nodded and was about to shout down, but something happened under the city