As Heiwotu was killed on the spot, the situation in the town changed again.

The morale of the soldiers of the Vietnamese army suddenly increased, and the Guirong people who broke into the town declined, rising and falling, no longer had the decisiveness and fierceness they had before, and the impact from outside was discouraged, so they could only suspend the offensive and retreat.

The Guirong people who had already entered the town were either killed in battle or captured alive, and were quickly wiped out. It was also when the war came to an end, when the sky was dawn, but the night finally passed.

It was not until this time that Li Ling was distracted and looked around the town, feeling shocking.

Originally, a good town was like a Shura Hell with this attack and defense. Many houses collapsed, and hundreds of corpses of the enemy and us fell across the town, and blood flowed everywhere. The soldiers and generals were all stained with blood and ferocious faces, and they had not recovered from the fighting spirit for a while.

Although the enemy failed to attack Desheng Town, this battle had almost destroyed the town. This is the problem with this town that Li Ling had seen early in the morning. It does not have its own defense system. Once it encounters a strong attack, it will be completely exposed to the enemy's iron hooves and swords.

After exhaling a long breath of turbid air, Li Ling calmed down, walked down the building, rushed to Chen Daoshou not far away and said, "General Chen, what are the casualties?"

"There are quite a few casualties, especially my Fengzhou spearmen, which were even more than a hundred of them." Chen Daoshou said with a gloomy expression. The casualties this time did exceed his expectations. But there was nothing we could do about it. The spearmen were the front line of this defense, and the fortifications they rely on were so weak, which was naturally dangerous and extremely expensive.

"If there are not enough people, why not let the imperial guards take over?" Li Ling proposed a countermeasure. It was obvious that the enemy would just retreat temporarily and would soon make a comeback.

"In this way, the position of the spearman is fixed by my Fengzhou brothers themselves, but the sword and shield hand behind can be led by the imperial guards." Chen Daoshou had his own idea. He did not believe in the imperial guards. In fact, such defense requires absolute cooperation. Even if the imperial guards are elite enough, they still cannot meet the opponent's requirements.

Li Ling naturally had to listen to the experts in this matter, so he nodded and said, "Then according to you, your Fengzhou soldiers should rest quickly, and we will come to the follow-up matters."

In fact, it is not necessary for him to say that the soldiers of the imperial army after this cruel battle had decisively taken over the task of cleaning the battlefield. They had a little superiority when they faced the Fengzhou army before, feeling that they were from the capital, the emperor's personal guard, and the superior ones. As a result, the Fengzhou army was the Fengzhou army who was really on the front line, and the Fengzhou army who killed more enemies, and the Fengzhou army who suffered more casualties made the Fengzhou army feel ashamed and wanted to make up for it.

So, after a busy work, the town was cleaned up, and the bodies of both sides were placed separately. The soldiers of their families naturally had to be kept properly. The Guirong people, under the instructions of Chen Daoshou, piled up directly to the periphery and filled them with new walls. More than 100 corpses were piled up, which was quite large.

Seeing this, Li Ling noticed that the car wall that had been made of urgently had already fallen, so he quickly asked someone to think of repairing it. This time he was no longer polite, and directly demolished many houses in the town, pulled the building materials forward, and repaired them everywhere.

As for the two hundred people in the town, they had been concentrated and detained in the only inn, guarded by several soldiers, trembling.

It was not until this time that Li Ling thought about asking them, so he wiped his body and came to the inn. When he saw him, the people were kneeling all over the ground and shouted in a verbal voice: "Sir, please spare your life... Little one, little one really doesn't know anything..."

"We are all the people of Dayue, and we really have nothing to do with those guys... We were all forced to stay here!"...

"Stop it!" Li Ling shouted with a humble face, and finally calmed everyone down. Then he swept the people all over the room and said in a cold voice, "Now there is Gui Rong invasion outside, and war will start again at any time. I don't have the intention to listen to you tell lies again. Now I ask, you answer, but someone dares to lie, and I don't have to kill him. As long as I push people out of the town, Gui Rong people will take their lives."

One sentence immediately made everyone even more panic. Just as they were about to beg for mercy, they quickly held it back and looked at him pitifully, waiting for the problem.

Seeing this, Li Ling calmed down a little and said, "I ask you, are you really the people in this victorious battle, or are you from other places?"

"We..." A few people hesitated for a moment, looked at each other a few more times before they said boldly: "Sir, I'm sorry, we... we were actually forcibly brought here by them. We are from Lijiagou, Yunzhou Prefecture..."

"We are from Zhangjiaao and from Yunzhou Prefecture..."

"We are villagers outside Bazhou Prefecture. Because Gui Rong came to flee here, we were forced to join the town by a group of strong men with swords."

This remark made Li Ling more convinced of his previous judgment. These people were indeed not the real residents of Desheng Town. Everything here was set up by the Luotian Sect, and they were so meticulous that they did not use their own people to mix these real people, thus covering themselves up.

As for the real town residents, we can only know from the damage in the town residences I discovered before that they had been attacked and died. In this environment where foreign enemies invade and internal troubles, the lives of ordinary people are really not worth mentioning.

"Do you know what their specific arrangements are? It's not that you can fully grasp them, but that you infer some conspiracy by hearing some conversations occasionally." Li Ling asked again.

This time they were silent for a longer time. Finally, after a while, someone bravely said, "I heard from them a few words that they would mobilize the mountain this time and come to besiege the town with many people from the north. They also said that even if there are five or six thousand people, they should not be able to defend..."

"Did they mention what they mean by the mountain, the north...?"

The man shook his head blankly, obviously after listening to a few words occasionally, it was unknown more. Then Li Ling asked about some things, but they were just tools used. They really didn't know much, and they asked seriously. They begged for mercy again, and in the end he had to give up.

However, Li Ling was not completely relieved of these people. Maybe there was a secret son of Luo Tian Sect hidden among them, so he continued to let someone keep the entire inn and prevent them from going out at will.

Then there was the larger group of grain transporters. Although they seemed much more reliable than these fake townsmen, Li Ling still didn't dare to feel too relieved. He just placed them in more than ten yards and divided some of them into guards.

After finishing these trivial matters, it was almost noon, and people felt their stomachs growl, so they went to the front to ask for food.

At this time, the defense around the town was even more reliable. Not only were there wooden car walls, but also newly built low wooden and stone walls, layer by layer, and the gullies that still existed outside and were expanding to prevent horses from impacting, which finally made people feel more at ease.

However, when many soldiers still felt nervous when they saw the army formation of Guirong people in the distance and the strange screams and horse neighing from time to time. Especially the imperial guards, they didn't feel much when they fought with the enemy just now. Now, looking at the enemy lineup that was far beyond their own and feeling the pain of the wounds on their bodies, they were really a little timid.

"Mr. Li, everything is settled?" Seeing Li Ling turn back, Chen Daoshou stepped forward and asked.

"Well, the residents of the town came from other places, and I asked people to watch over it, and the people who came with us, I don't think it's easy to believe it all."

"How do you say it?" Chen Daoshou said in a little puzzled manner.

"Don't you find it strange? The enemy can predict that I will make arrangements ahead of time. If there is an explanation for Ma'angang and Hule Leaping Gorge at the beginning, then the arrangements here would be too deliberate. Without half a month, they could not do it at all. Therefore, they knew our actions well. This is something that even General Di and Lord Wen of Fengzhou could not do."

After Li Ling said this, Chen Daoshou's expression changed and he became more vigilant: "You mean, there are still enemies among us?"

"That's right, I just don't know what his identity is, but the possibility of civilians is far higher than that of Fengzhou soldiers. After all, they fought to the death last night." Li Ling said. As for the imperial guards, he didn't think the other party had such skills, so he reached into the imperial guards.

Chen Daoshou smiled bitterly. It seems that this time, not only should we be careful of the outside but also the inside.

Then, he listened to Li Ling: "And as they said, we may face more enemies this time than this one. They said that the Luotian Sect not only has reinforcements from the north, but also on the mountain. I think the mountain refers to the Green Forest Road, and the north refers to the Guirong people. In other words, soon, we will face more enemies. Once they join forces, we will definitely defend more hard."

These words made Chen Daoshou's expression even more severe, but soon, he cheered up again: "Even if we have to face strong enemies on both sides, we will not be able to stand by! Lord Li, I think that defending this is not a solution after all, and that you must take the initiative to attack is the way to save yourself!"

Li Ling looked at the other party with some appreciation. He is worthy of being the best among the frontier generals. Even when facing a strong enemy, he can think of counterattacking. He also said: "I think so too. It will only be detrimental to us all the time. It would be better to send elite troops to kill him. It would be better if he could break through and ask for help."
Chapter completed!