Jingyang, Yi Qingfeng, and Zhong Jialei led the troops to rest in place for a while, and soon the team behind them caught up. Seeing that Tong Shun's old thief surrounded Wangxi City like an iron bucket, Xia Yucheng and Ye Min were also surprised. The two discussed: "How is this good, if the enemy can't shrink back, we won't be able to break through this iron bucket formation with our soldiers and horses." ”

Jing Yang beside him said: "Master, it's better to let the apprentices come forward to call for battle first, maybe they will come out to fight." ”

Xia Yucheng thought for a moment and said: "It's okay, then you, Qingfeng, and Jia Lei will lead five hundred soldiers and horses to call for battle, if they don't fight alive or dead, just remember not to be brutal." ”

Jingyang said: "Master rest assured, the apprentice understands." Saying that, he and Yi Qingfeng and Zhong Jialei picked up five hundred soldiers and horses and walked forward.

The three led the army to the bottom of the tower, Jingyang raised his neck and scolded the guards above, and the guards above returned with a rain of arrows, their move was already expected by Jingyang and others, the rebels picked up their shields to resist, and all the sharp arrows that flew were blocked by the shields, and they did not hurt the rebels at all.

Jing Yang laughed and said: "A group of pig-like fools, do you think that a few broken arrows can hurt the master, don't daydream." Those who have the ability to come out and fight with the master for 300 rounds, what kind of man is hiding in it as a shrinking turtle. ”

As soon as the words fell, arrows rained down on the tower, but in vain, and the rebels raised their shields again to block the flying arrows. Then Yi Qingfeng and Zhong Jialei took turns to scold, but the enemy just didn't take half a step out of the tower, and everyone couldn't finally lead the troops back.

Seeing that the enemy had no intention of fighting, Xia Yucheng said: "Okay, let's find a place to camp at this end today." ”

Ye Min said: "That's it, the enemy army is heavily guarded, if we want to attack, we must prepare some offensive equipment." ”

Xia Yucheng said: "What Senior Sister said is extremely true, when we settle down, we will immediately send someone back to the base camp to transfer some siege equipment." As he spoke, he led the army back and set up camp thousands of miles away.

In the next few days, Xia Yucheng arranged for people to mobilize siege equipment from the rear while ordering people to go to the enemy city to call for battle, and several siege equipment was quickly equipped in place, but the result of calling for battle was no progress, and the enemy army ignored it at all, making it clear that it was only defending and not attacking.

Seeing that the enemy army refused to fight, Xia Yucheng had to prepare for a strong attack, and on this day, nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses lined up and prepared to attack, and several trebuchets were also ready to go. With an order, the trebuchet took the lead in attacking, only to see large pieces of stone roaring towards the enemy's outpost and arrow tower, although the outpost and arrow tower were built very firmly, but they could not withstand hundreds of pounds of boulders smashed down in turn, bursts of roaring sound came, and several outposts and arrow towers outside the city wall were bombarded beyond recognition.

Seeing that the opponent launched a strong attack, Tong Shun was unwilling to hide in the city and wait for death, so he led his elite soldiers out of the city to fight. Xia Yucheng wanted this result, so the soldiers and horses on both sides fought to the death outside the city, the tragic battle from dawn to dark, the two sides spared no effort, the final outcome was a defeat for both sides, both sides lost nearly half of the soldiers and horses.

Faced with an evenly matched situation, both sides could not defeat their opponents, and Xia Yucheng had no choice but to retreat. Everyone led the army back to the camp, and the battle situation to the south gate Liang, the south gate Liang said: "That's good, in the future, the enemy and us are clearly distinguished, Tong Shun old thief guards his Wangxi City, we occupy these villages outside the city, and we don't need to fight each other in a short time." ”

Xia Yucheng said: "At the moment, it is only like this, after these few major battles, both the enemy and us have consumed a lot, and I am afraid that no one will be able to do the sword war in a short period of time." ”

Nanmen Liang said: "That's right, but we can't take it lightly, after all, the enemy is at the doorstep, if you don't take precautions, you will definitely lose, in my opinion, our base camp has to strengthen the defense, I don't know what you think?"

Ye Min said: "The defense is naturally as stable as possible, but it is just to build a few more city walls, build more arrow towers and outposts, and now we have the backing of the majority of villagers and people, and it is not difficult to do these things." ”

Nanmen Liang said: "What Hall Master Ye said is extremely true, in the future, we will have to mobilize the local people to fight the enemy together." ”

The people discussed for a while, and then they departed.

Time flies, more than half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, during this period Tong Shun did not lead the troops to attack, Nanmen Liang, Xia Yucheng and others led the local people to vigorously strengthen the defense, not only the garrison camp is impregnable, but even several villages have built fortifications, and Yi Qingfeng, Jingyang, Zhong Jialei and the three of them naturally also helped to make suggestions.

The two armies strengthened their defenses and put aside the matter of swords and soldiers for the time being, so Wangxi City ushered in a period of peace. Seeing that the defense of Daying and the neighboring villages was stable and there was no room for further strengthening, Nanmen Liang, Xia Yucheng and others began to plan the next action plan.

On this day, everyone gathered in the main hall to discuss, and Nanmen Liang said: "Although our defense is stable now, and the villagers in several villages are living and working in peace and contentment, there are still tens of thousands of people in Wangxi City who are enslaved, and we have to find a way to get them out of the sea of suffering, I don't know what your plan is?"

Xia Yucheng said: "Now the strength of the enemy and me is between the two sides, and whichever side takes the lead in the war will inevitably suffer, so the best way is to stay put, and wait until the strength can be strengthened enough to eat the opponent in one bite." ”

Ye Min said: "If you want to continue to enhance your strength, I'm afraid it's not so easy, at the moment we only have so many soldiers and horses, even if we pull all the villagers who can fight in a few villages, the number of people will not increase much, and it is not clear how much combat power they can exert, in my opinion, it will not be good for us to consume it like this." ”

Nanmen Liang said: "The two of you are reasonable, judging from the current situation, it seems that fighting or not fighting is a problem, and there is a high possibility of defeat in battle, and if you don't fight, it is tantamount to waiting for death, is there no way to break the enemy?"

Hong Sheng, who was silent for a long time, said: "The big boss, the small one thinks that he can ask for help from the neighboring Ming City, and the old thief Tongshun is lawless and ignores the life and death of the people, which will inevitably arouse the anger of the righteous people." Mingcheng is a big city, how can there be no benevolent and righteous people, if we send people to ask for help, as long as we attract strong reinforcements to help, we will be able to break the old thief. ”

Nanmen Liangxi said: "Mr. Hong has a very good plan, but who should he send?"

As soon as the words fell, Jingyang, Yi Qingfeng, and Zhong Jialei volunteered: "The big boss, the three of us are willing to go." ”

Nanmen Liang pondered for a moment and said: "Then the three of you will go, this trip is of great significance, it is related to the future of Wangxicheng, can the three of you be sure?"

Jingyang, Yi Qingfeng, and Zhong Jialei said with confidence: "Don't worry, we will live up to our mission." ”

Nanmen Liangxi said: "Okay, then you go down quickly to prepare, this matter should be sooner rather than later, and you can go on the road after lunch." ”

The three said: "Yes." He said and retreated.

After lunch, the three of them dressed up in disguise and prepared to rush to Mingcheng, Nanmen Liang and others came to see each other, naturally they inevitably gave some advice, and the three of them remembered them one by one, and then got on the horse and left.