Liu He was like a hedgehog, with at least twenty or thirty arrows all over his body.
The arrows pierced deeper into vital areas such as the chest, brow, and abdomen.
As soon as Liu He climbed onto the city wall, he was met with a barrage of arrows from the rebel army below.
Of the ten guards, only three remained.
Despite the guards' desperate efforts to shield him from the arrows, he was incredibly unlucky, taking more than twenty hits. He was truly unlucky.
"Quickly...quickly go and report to Commander Yan!"
Upon hearing that Liu He was beyond saving, the guards panicked!
Before long, when Yan Rou, who had injured one hand, rushed over, Liu He had already passed away.
"How am I supposed to explain this to Governor Liu?!"
Yan Rou stamped her feet and cried out, heartbroken.
Xianyu Yin had already awoke from his pain and, upon learning that Liu He had been shot dead, picked up his longsword, preparing to commit suicide.
"If it weren't for me, how could the young master have been shot to death!"
Everyone quickly tried to stop them.
"Commander Yan, the young master has died in battle. Now, we ask you to lead us in this fight!" The officers all looked at Yan Rou, waiting for him to make a decision.
"The governor wouldn't lie to us, our reinforcements are on their way! We will avenge the young master's great grudge and make him pay in blood!"
"The rebels have announced that once they capture Ji County, they will massacre the entire city for three days!"
"Order the people of the city: if any able-bodied man dies, women shall go; if any woman dies, the elderly shall go; if any elderly person dies, children shall go!"
"Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well die a glorious death!"
"We will live and die with this city!"
Yan Rou wiped away her grief, her face resolute.
"We will live or die with the city!"
The officers, including Xianyu Yin, also roared.
Yan Rou closed Liu He's eyes, picked up her sword, and walked up to the city wall.
Beneath the city walls, a dense swarm of traitors, as numerous as ants, surged forth.
The moat was filled with corpses, and the water was stained blood red.
People were constantly falling from the ladders erected on the city wall, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
Shouts of battle, screams of agony, the whistling of arrows, the clatter of swords piercing flesh—the sounds were incessant.
In the distance, a crescent sun, its rays tinged with blood, mingled with the blood-soaked corpses outside Jixian City.
"Could it be that we really can't hold on anymore?"
An hour later, Yan Rou's passion gradually cooled.
Of the five thousand soldiers from Youzhou, only a little over a thousand remained, along with three thousand able-bodied civilians and four or five hundred others.
The people in the city who were able-bodied had all gone up to the city walls, picked up stone tools, and joined the battle.
"Your Excellency, when will you arrive?!"
"If this continues, the entire city of Jixian will perish."
Just then, someone shouted frantically, "Yan Sima, look to the northwest!"
Yan Rou hurriedly looked in the northwest direction, and her eyes immediately welled up with tears, her chest feeling as if it were stuffed with cotton.
"They are the army of our great Han!"
"My reinforcements have finally arrived!"
Yan Rou roared with all her might, her voice like rolling thunder, echoing over the sky outside Jixian City.
"They're also in the south!"
"There are some in the east too!"
"......"
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