Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

The reason why Li Wangyou went back to sleep without worrying about the night attack by Liao person is also related to the way of war in this era.

Many people mistakenly believed that night battles rarely occurred in ancient times because the lack of Vitamin intake led to night blindness. This is actually not quite correct.

Night blindness occurred naturally in ancient times, and it was called blind blindness or pelvic blindness.

But during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, doctors had long known about night blindness, and the treatment of pleural blindness with animal liver was effective.

So night blindness is not the main reason for not fighting at night.

In ancient times, night battles were rarely launched, mainly because of the lack of lighting facilities.

The brightness of the torch’s lighting is limited, making it difficult to identify friend or foe during combat, and even more difficult to command.

Fighting by its cold weapons, the enemy and us often fight in one place, and it is easy to accidentally be injured in night operations.

Semaphores and banners are the main methods of command in the cold weapon era. At night, soldiers on both sides of the battle have difficulty seeing the semaphores, and command efficiency and combat coordination are greatly affected.

So, unless a sneak attack occurs at night, large-scale battles rarely occur.

While Jiulong County has a tall city wall to protect it, even those Liao persons who want to sneak attack will not succeed, so Li Wangyou is not worried about this at all.

The facts were also exactly similar to what he expected. Until the next day, the sky first glimmers of light, the Liao persons outside the city did not launch any attacks on Jiulong County.

When the sky got brighter, the bronze drum beaten by the Liao person sounded outside the city, making a huge noise.

Li Wangyou was awakened by the sound of a bronze drum, and he listened carefully, but he was a little worried.

Su Changqing was also awakened by the sound of bronze drums. Seeing that Li Wangyou’s face was not very good, he couldn’t help but curiously asked: “Wangyou, what’s wrong, is there anything wrong with the drum sound?”

“Nothing. Today, you, Venus and Pei Lan are not going out in the hostel. I have told the lonely Magicstrate, he will arrange for two yamen to stand in front of the hostel to ensure your safety. I took Niu Wu and Zhang Brothers, go to the city wall to see the situation.”

Su Changqing knew that he had something to hide, but did not continue to ask, but nodded said that he was clear.

“Be careful, you must not try hard.”

“Well, I see.” Li Wangyou got up and changed into a capable Hu suit with the help of Su Changqing. Then he kissed the beautiful boss’s cheek gently, then opened the door and walked out.

In the hostel courtyard, Niu Wu and Zhang Brothers have already been waiting here.

“Master, listen to the drum…” Before Niu Wu finished speaking, Li Wangyou waved his hand, indicating that he knew it.

The reason that the drum sound made Li Wangyou’s complexion a bit ugly is because he and Niu Wu and the others could clearly hear that the bronze drums that sounded outside the city had at least five sides.

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

It is recorded in “The Biography of Wei Shu_Li”, “Often one elder is the king, and he cannot be controlled from a distance. If the father dies, the son will succeed, if the Chinese nobles also. Each king has a pair of drums and horns. , So that his children boasted about it.”

The drum among them is the bronze drum.

The bronze drum of Liao person is both an instrument and a war drum.

Every Liao person tribe has a bronze drum as the inheritance of the tribe leader. If the father dies, the son will continue.

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

“Sui Shu_Geography Chronicles” said, “If you want to attack each other, then sound this drum, and those who arrive are like clouds.” The sound of bronze drums means that at least five Liao person tribes participated in this rebellion.

And these Liao person tribes usually have thousands of Liao person households.

In this way, even if only one Liao person is dispatched from each household to assist in the battle, there are at least 5,000 Liao persons outside Jiulong County who are armed with weapons and begin to stir.

Li Wangyou thought that there were only two hundred soldiers in the city at the moment, as well as hundreds of government officers and people, and suddenly felt a chill.

With such a huge disparity in military strength, even if those Liao persons have backward weapons and equipment, they lack siege equipment, but if they desperately want to attack Jiulong County, they may not be able to resist it.

Now I can only pray that the reinforcements of the Yizhou Metropolitan Government’s Mansion will arrive earlier.

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

Looking up, under the city wall of Jiulong County, many Liao person silhouettes have appeared.

As for the direction south of the city, which had been silent last night, at this time, from the jungle on both sides of the official road, nearly a thousand Liao persons with weapons in hand emerged.

Needless to say, these Liao persons are the ambush soldiers in the south of the city last night.

Wang Yichun didn’t really believe what Niu Wu said at first, but when these Liao persons appeared, his face turned pale.

He absolutely didn’t expect, 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 flee, and then sneak attack out of the city. people.

Even Li Wangyou and Niu Wu felt a bit scared at this time.

If they hadn’t been stuck in the city by the fleeing crowd, they rushed out of Jiulong County on horseback yesterday, and fell into the trap of Liao person if they could not say so.

Only Niu Wu and Zhang Brothers, I am afraid it will be difficult to protect the three daughters of Li Wangyou and Su Changqing from breaking through.

Dugu Feng’s face is also quite ugly. As a County Magistrate in Jiulong County, he has been in Deputy County for four years before. He knows the Liao person quite well, and naturally knows that the five-sided bronze drum is beating outside the city. What does it mean?

Li Wangyou lightly patted his shoulders, and said with relief: “Do not panic with Dugu Magicate. Although the Liao person is very powerful, but for a while, he can’t help this Jiulong County. Wait for the army. Come, these Liao persons are not to be feared.”

“Yes, Sir Duke said that This Official also thinks so.”

When the two were talking, they Seeing a middle-aged man wearing a pail skirt walked out of the woods outside the city, dozens of strong Liao persons armed with weapons guarded him.

The middle-aged man stood 100 meters away, carefully guarding against the arrows shot on the city wall, and screamed loudly at the city.

Li Wangyou naturally didn’t understand what the Liao person was saying, so he could only look at Dugu Feng who was aside.

Dugu Feng has been an official in Shudi for a long time, but he understands what he said. After listening to the man’s call, he couldn’t help showing an angry expression.

“Dugu Magicstrate, what did the Liao person say?” Li Wangyou asked curiously.

“Sir Duke, that person was the father of the Liao person who had previously robbed Liang’s young lady, the leader of the tribe. This time the rebellion and siege of Jiulong County was also initiated by this person in the middle of the city. He was just under the city. Shout, let This Official offer a thousand coins of copper, a hundred women, plus a hundred cattle and a hundred horses, they will not attack the county and retreat by themselves.”

Li Wangyou hearing this, couldn’t help but sneer. Aloud: “These Liao persons have such a big appetite, they are not afraid to kill themselves. Don’t pay attention to these Liao persons. If they want to fight, just let them come and wait until the reinforcements from the Yizhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion arrive. After the autumn, settle accounts.”

Wang Yichun on the side opened his mouth, seeming to want to say something, but resisted shutting it down.

In his opinion, he can have a good discussion with Liao person. Except for sending out women, it’s not easy to talk about. You can talk about other coins for farming cattle and horses.

It’s just that he knows that Li Wangyou is not pleasing to his eyes, so he can only bear it and not touch the mold.

Dugu Feng nodded, when he was about to speak down, something happened in the city…