Cheng Kai was worried.

He stood on the city wall, looking at the dense coalition forces outside the city, and knew that he had miscalculated this time.

He didn't expect the Xia army to come so quickly, and its combat power was extraordinary, and in the blink of an eye, he went down to five cities in a row and wiped out one-third of his own men.

He hurriedly retreated to Jiawang City, and before he could even order the materials stored here to be transported, the Xia army caught up.

Immediately, the combined forces of Sushan and Suli also rushed over and surrounded Jiawang City in one fell swoop.

The only thing that made him a little fortunate was that the men and horses he had originally placed in the north of Jiawang City had not withdrawn to the city or been transferred to other places, so the north was still unblocked.

The Xia army's offensive was extremely sharp, causing great damage to the Qin army guarding the southern city, and Cheng Kai had to come here to supervise the battle in person.

The long-range attack lasted for more than an hour, and I don't know where the Xia army got these arrows and stones, the city wall was smashed and collapsed by boulders in many places, and even a strong crossbow arrow of the Xia army directly collapsed the city wall battlement, such a powerful crossbow really shocked Cheng Kai into a cold sweat.

In fact, this is a siege version of the god-killing crossbow, with an arrow shaft the thickness of a child's arm, an iron palm-wide arrow, and a distance of three hundred paces without diminishing its power.

The maximum range is four hundred steps, but at that distance, it will hurt the soldiers, and the end of the strong bow has such power, which is really unacceptable to Qin, a big country known as the strongest bow and crossbow.

Crashing the battlements of the city wall with one arrow, how powerful is this, how can Cheng Kai not be frightened, if this crossbow arrow runs at him, he suspects that he will be difficult to deal with, even if he can stop it, he is afraid that it will be injured.

This kind of siege crossbow is fast and powerful, but it is not so easy to make, and it is also very cumbersome to use, and each legion of the Xia Army is not equipped with a lot, otherwise it will not let people live.

But even if it is not much, it is mixed with other ordinary siege crossbows, which plays a surprise role, and has great lethality to the generals who defend the city, which is what Cheng Kai is most worried about at the moment.

In fact, the arrow just now was aimed at him, but the operator made some mistakes and missed the shot.

Cheng Kai didn't care too much about the two Soviet armies in Dongcheng, but the two Soviet armies were not angry, although it was a feint, and they also showed a little momentum to seize the city, but they were stunned and shouted outside the land of an arrow, but they didn't dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

Under the long-range fire suppression of the Xia army, the Qin army could not raise its head, and the counterattack was not strong, and it did not cause much resistance to the Xia army, but the Xia army did not think that the Qin army really had no ability to resist, as long as they crossed the moat, they would definitely be hit by the Qin army's rolling wood and stones, so they slowed down when they arrived at this place, just giving the Qin army a sense of oppression.

Sure enough, at this point, Cheng Kai was in a hurry, and the team drove out the people hiding behind the city wall, and suddenly the arrows rained down on the Xia army.

The Xia army suffered casualties, and it was just the opportunity to retreat.

acted realistically, and Cheng Kai didn't pay much attention to it in a hurry.

In this way, the first wave of the Xia army's attack was repulsed.

And Xicheng, Zhang Yu and Liao Jinkui also staged a fierce siege battle, but the two of them did not have the advanced and powerful siege equipment of the two corps in the south, but the soldiers here are not ordinary soldiers, the elite of the naval army plus the Black Flag Army, the individual strength is very strong, if they really want to capture the city, it is possible that they are the first to attack the city.

Even if it was a feint, it almost killed the head of the city several times.

There were casualties, but they were very small.

After two days like this, Cheng Kai couldn't stand it anymore.

"Catch all the people in the city to the city to help defend the city, Li Hui, I will give you 50,000 people, escort the packed materials out of the city overnight, don't care about other things, use the fastest speed to transport these materials to the Niubi Mountain, there is no loss, you understand. ”

Cheng Kai first instructed the deputy general to drive the people in the city to the city, and then asked his henchman Ai to take Li Hui with his 50,000 elite escort materials to go first, and he was ready to abandon the city.

"It's going to live up to expectations. ”

"I'll wait for you to buy you a night, and then I'll chase you, and take the road to the east, it's safer there, and don't go into the city on the way, and don't tell the defenders of your purpose, be careful, go." ”

There are two roads to the Niubi Mountains, one is close to Yicheng, that is, the road to Yicheng, but there is a fork in the road more than fifty miles away from Yicheng to the northeast, because there have been black-clothed and black-armored armies on this side, which has caused heavy losses to the Qin army, although there are several towns along the road guarded by the Qin army, but Cheng Kai still feels unsafe.

Although the road to the east is close to the Quliu River, and there are two Soviet troops stationed in the east of the river, Cheng Kai disdains those miscellaneous soldiers, and besides, there are several big cities in his hands on this side, and there are many garrisons in the city, so it is safer to take this road.

Of course, there are many roads on this plain, but these two roads are the only ones that can walk the army and vehicles smoothly, and the others are country roads, many fields and small rivers, which are not so easy to walk.

And on this country road, more than 200 miles away from Jiawang City, two armies quietly and quickly advanced northward under the cover of night.

The two armies marched hand in hand, but they were far apart, they did not see each other, the northern army was in the east, they lurked and rested during the day, and marched quickly at night, fortunately, the guide was very familiar with the terrain here, and did not expose his whereabouts for two days, but only met a small number of civilians, when the guide told them that this was to help them fight the invaders' Xia army, these people not only provided them with a secret place, but also provided some food, which made the northern army soldiers very touched.

Civilians are very simple, they hate war, and they only have a plain life in their hearts, and this life was shattered by the Qin army, their homes were destroyed, their relatives were killed, and the food they relied on was robbed, so they hated the invaders, but they were powerless to resist, and when they saw the people who came to help them take revenge against the invaders, although they were not their own army, they were also so affectionate, and they were reluctant to eat the food they had hidden.

The Northern Army brought dry rations, and politely refused the food provided by these simple-hearted civilians, and only accepted them to provide some help and lead the way as much as they could.

The treatment of the Black Flag Army was poor, and the temperament of these people made people stay away, but fortunately, the guide repeatedly explained that this was a friendly army that helped them fight the invaders, so that it did not arouse the disgust or even rejection of the people of Sushan.

"How far are we from the goal?"

After crossing a small river, Liao Jinkui asked the guide beside him.

"I can't tell you how far you will go when you go back to the general, but I feel that at this speed, I can reach Dongliao City before dawn. ”

Thinking that he was not a soldier and did not understand military common sense, but with his perennial experience of walking here, he gave Liao Jinkui a clearer answer.

"Okay, give the order to go down and eat while marching,、、、"