While Li Ru and Xu Rong were arguing, the antlers, barricades, and other fortifications under the city gate tower had all been uprooted by the soldiers below the city wall and burned here and there to keep warm.
Xu Rong ordered people to bring over dozens of baskets and began to throw them down.
The people at the foot of the city wall swarmed over and squeezed at the foot of the city wall.
More than ten people were fighting over a basket that had been hung down.
Some of them even pulled down the people who were pulling baskets from the city.
However, they soon realized that no one could go up.
Xu Rong shot arrows at the people below and asked them to line up. Otherwise, he would pull them up and kill them.
Immediately, a queue was formed below the city wall.
People were all blind followers. When they saw people queuing up, they stopped arguing.
"Stop!"
"Don't throw it!"
Li Ru had no other choice but to be furious.
Xu Rong did not care and personally pulled up the hanging basket.
The person in the basket was the person Xu Rong was sucking his sore for.
Li Ru suddenly pulled out his sword and placed it across Xu Rong's neck.
"Tell your men to stop!"
Xu Rong sneered and continued to pull the basket up.
Li Ru dared to kill him now?
If he killed him, who would the Mushui Pass listen to?
Seeing that this move was useless, Li Ru became furious again."I'll definitely report you to the lord. You're betraying the lord!”
Xu Rong ignored Li Ru's words.
If it was a battle between two armies, he would never allow the people below the city to go up the city!
However, this was not a battle, and the Cao army had not appeared!
Under such circumstances, if he still allowed the people below the city to freeze to death outside the city, what would the comrades on the city think?!
Who would dare to trust him in the future?
Would they be afraid of being abandoned by him in the future?!
How were they going to fight in the future?
As for being instigated to defect or spy, he had his own ways.
Suddenly, a sword light flashed in front of his eyes.
Xu Rong fell back stiffly, his armor clanging, making him dizzy.
Li Ru, what are you doing?" Xu Rong suddenly shouted at Li Ru with red eyes.
He scrambled to his feet and looked down at the battlements.
He saw that the person he was sucking on, the Decurion, his nephew, was already motionless.
Xu Rong's expression was gloomy, as if he wanted to squeeze out water.
"Fork it out." Xu Rong's voice was dull as he called over two personal guards to carry Li Ru out.
"What are you doing, Xu Rong?
" How dare you treat me like this?!"
Xu Rong didn't turn his head to look at Li Ru again. He continued to pick him up with a basket.
"Where are you from?"
"Broken Qiang."
"Who is Sima?"
"Dong Ping."
"Who is General Qu?"
"Duan Yong."
The accent wasn't a lie. It was from Liangzhou's Jincheng County.
Xu Rong nodded and ordered the soldiers behind him to search them. Those who were found to be armed were first detained.
"Where are you from?"
"Gusang."
"Who is Sima?"
"Deng Chang."
"General Qu."
"Open your eyes wide."
On the city wall, such questions and answers kept happening.
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Four hours passed, and the sky was already bright.
Xu Rong faintly felt that everything seemed to be going too smoothly.
Other than the dozens of frozen corpses, he had fished up all the people below the city.
All of them were his own people, not even one of Cao Cao's men of sacrifice had infiltrated.
None of them had any weapons on them.
Cao Cao's army did not attack during these four hours.
"What is Cao Cao trying to do?" Li Ru walked back to Xu Rong's side.
After all, he was Dong Zhuo's son-in-law. Xu Rong didn't dare to do anything to him.
Under Li Ru's repeated requests, Xu Rong arranged for all the soldiers returning to the city to be stationed under the city walls.
At the same time, he ordered thousands of armed guards to guard them and not allow them to leave even one step to prevent anyone from defecting.
"Nothing happened."
Xu Rong looked at the empty horizon in the distance and said in a daze.
"I thought there would at least be some Cao Cao loyalists mixed in the crowd.
"It seems that your judgment is wrong."
Li Ru was so angry that he laughed." Could it be that Cao Cao is a Duke Xiang of Song? Does he want to have a fair fight with us?"”
Xu Rong ignored Li Ru's mockery and said,"
"If I had listened to you, those six thousand comrades would have frozen to death down there.
"By the way, the rope you cut just now, the one hanging below is my nephew.”
Li Ru was stunned.
He raised his head. It was already late in the morning.
He hadn't slept for the entire night, and his mind had been operating at a high speed. His mind was also highly tense. At this moment, he finally couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Call me if the Cao army comes." Li Ru said and walked down the city wall.
He suddenly began to worry.
The Cao army had arrived overnight and should have rested well last night. As for the soldiers on his side, they had not slept for the entire night because they were afraid of the Cao army's attack. They were already exhausted.
He had already heard a lot of complaints.
"Arrange for people to rest in batches." Li Ru added.
……
In the Xiliang Army's tent at Mishui Pass.
Over six thousand people were currently gathered in the drill ground to warm themselves up by the fire. They were being watched over by over a thousand armed soldiers and were not allowed to take a single step out.
However, the sun was already setting in the west.
This group of people had eaten a solid meal last night and had almost digested it in the morning.
By now, there were already people who could not hold it in any longer and settled it on the spot.
However, most of them still wanted to preserve the last bit of dignity they had as humans.
They formed groups and demanded to go to the latrine, saying that if they were not allowed to go, they would drag the guards into their mouths.
"Pull it here!"
The armored soldier looked at the group of people causing trouble and shouted sternly.
"Everyone else is pulling on the spot, but you guys are doing something special?!”
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