The gap was in front of him, and as soon as he raised his head, Zhao Feng seemed to be able to smell the fishy smell of the earth.

The first step is at hand!

Flashing and moving, on the narrow cloud ladder, Zhao Feng was like a nimble ape, constantly dodging the rolling stones and sassal trees thrown down from the city wall. didn't have time to care about the wailing of his brother behind him, Zhao Feng climbed to the top with all his might, and in a leap, the steel knife danced, and several rebels who leaned out of the gap fell straight down.

Zhao Feng then fell into the gap left by the rebels on the city wall.

The soldiers who ascended first were called dead soldiers, and there was no need to mention the danger. Although the credit is great, the risk is not small.

Before Zhao Feng could take two breaths when he stepped on the city wall, he let the rebels smash two holes with spears, and they were drenched in blood.

"Ahh Rushing left and right with his shield against his shield, he managed to squeeze the swarming rebels back a few steps.

Finally, another hand on the ladder put up the city wall, and Zhao Feng's personal guards caught up......

More and more officers and soldiers rushed to the city wall, and this gap in the outer wall once again became the focus of the wrestling between the two sides.

On the inner city wall of Yangzhou not far away, the leaders of the rebels hastily ended their dinner, their expressions as solemn as ever.

"Strategist, the outer wall is about to be lost, let me go up and kill again!"

Qin Gang, who was lying on the stretcher, was covered with strips of white cloth all over his body, the wounds cracked again and again, blood overflowed, the strips of cloth were dyed brown, and the two bowl-sized blood holes on his thighs made him completely incapacitated, and his original rough body was now thinner.

"No need. Li Yi shook his head slightly, and said indifferently: "If you can't hold it, just retreat to the inner city!"

"This ...... Is this going to be returned? I'm not reconciled!" Qin Gang's only movable left hand slapped angrily on the stretcher, and the thick bamboo of his arm cracked in response.

Li Yi glanced back at him and said with a smile: "There's nothing unwilling, we've been delaying it long enough!"

These days, the siege battle between the two sides is very fierce, the official army launches an attack day and night, relying on a large number of people, Wang Zhongji can do whatever he wants, using the strategy of exhausting the army.

However, in each battle, the number of officers and troops sent was only a few thousand. In the afternoon, when the outer city wall was smashed out of the gap, 20,000 horses were mobilized for the first time to try to take the outer city wall in one fell swoop.

Not only the rebels were confused, but also within the officers and soldiers. Obviously, in addition to the more than 20,000 people and horses scattered to the other three gates, there were more than 50,000 officers and troops, but the main general Wang Zhongsi only sent a few thousand soldiers and horses to attack the city each time. It is said that it is a wheel war, so that every army has a chance to play, and after the city is broken, the merits of the war are also evenly interested.

However, there is always no shortage of smart people, and Han Zhi's suggestion or Wang Zhongsi's tacit purpose was gradually seen by others.

was inexplicably sent to quell the rebellion, and in Chang'an City, the restless Li Heng was doing restless things again. Chang'an City is now a big fire pit, the identity is embarrassing enough, but it is a famous general in a hundred battles, how dare you jump into it!

Wang Zhonghe, who got the Tang newspaper for a while, actually began to be a little grateful to Li Linfu. What a good person! Gave himself such a good opportunity to stay out of the matter! Although there must be some ulterior conspiracy, this could not erase Wang Zhonghe's gratitude to him at this moment.

Such a good opportunity, if you don't seize it well, Wang Zhongsi will not be a famous general.

As for the generals, they will not be in a hurry! Without war, would the generals live by people? The old poor and sour people who can only dance and write and write and lose a few thin men dare to point at their noses and scold. The saliva sprayed all over his face, and he could only greet him with a smile, and he couldn't say a word heavy. Once it is said, what kind of people with the same subject and the same door can attract a large area, and the men who are beaten by the iron can't stand it!

It's better to be on the battlefield, and if you encounter a disobedient civilian official again, you will be greeted with a whip. If you want to sue, you can wait until the battle is over! Hehe, the battle is over, if Lao Tzu doesn't die, then he must be promoted, a meritorious man, I'm afraid of you!

Slow down, soldiers, how can you not be cautious in the matter of survival and death? Thousands of people are just a few thousand! How good it is that you come in turns, rest, and recuperate!

As for the daily urging of the political affairs hall, who cares about him? It is estimated that the three prime ministers are now too busy to take care of themselves, so how can they take care of the affairs of the south! The urging is just to show that the imperial court is still paying attention to this place.

It is said that now that Xu Xiang has solved the food problem, there will be no problem if it drags on for a few more months.

It's just that the officers and soldiers are fine, but the rebels are in big trouble here.

"Strategist, the food in the city is only enough to eat for five days!"

Kong Ke walked over, he was in charge of the army's food and grass, and he was undoubtedly the most tired these days. Fortunately, the kung fu is deep enough to get through.

"And that's just the soldiers, the people in the city have been without food for two days!"

Li Yi silently looked at the outer city wall in the fierce battle and didn't say a word.

"If you run out of food, you will run out of food, anyway, these people in Yangzhou have been cut off for more than a month, and they haven't seen many people starve to death. ”

Since they knew that there was no need to run Yangzhou, the rebel strategists no longer cared about the lives of the people of Yangzhou. If you die, you will die, and you will save some food for the army.

The rebels' food is not easy to come by, the Yang family's hundred years of accumulation, once an incident broke out, encountered a food shortage, it can be regarded as a godsend, but it also disrupted Yang Tinghe's step-by-step plan, and the previous hoarding of food was not much.

When Yangzhou City was taken, in order to calm the people, some grain was released, and there was a food shortage in the south, and the rebels attacked the city but never grabbed much grain. Now, after so many days of fierce fighting, the rebels' food is almost exhausted.

"It's time to get ready to retreat!"

This is Li Yi's real thoughts now, the slackness of the official army has unexpectedly delayed Li Yi for many more days, if according to Li Yi's original assumption, at this time, the official army is only afraid that they have already climbed the inner city wall of Yangzhou, where will not even the outer city wall have been taken. Since there are still five days of food and grass, it is always a good thing to delay it for another day or two to leave more time for the sect leader.

"Rush!"

With the sound of whining horns, the officers and soldiers poured out of the camp like a tide.

On the outer city wall of Yangzhou, thousands of officers and soldiers had gathered near the gap.

The outer walls have fallen!

Li Yi waved his hand, and his own soldiers understood, ran a few steps forward, and waved the pre-agreed flag, which was a signal for the defenders on the outer city wall to retreat.

As the rebels retreated in an orderly manner, Zhao Feng did not spend much effort to occupy the outer city wall of Yangzhou.

Looking at the rebels who were gradually retreating, Zhao Feng's originally happy mood became a little heavy. No matter how you look at it, the rebels are retreating with a purpose, but what is their purpose?

Zhao Feng couldn't figure it out, naturally, it wasn't his turn to think about these things in the future.

When the military flag of the Tang Dynasty was planted on the outer city wall of Yangzhou, Wang Zhonghei in the camp in the distance was thoughtful.

"Dashuai, it seems that there are still some things we don't know!" Han Zhi on the side was straightforward, and the tacit understanding between the two of them for many years did not need to beat around the bush.

Wang Zhongsi thought for a while and said, "Don't worry about it, order the three armies to dig up the soil overnight and fill the ravines in the urn city." ”

"Okay!" Han Zhi nodded, turned around and went down to give the order.

There is still a distance of more than one mile between the outer city wall and the inner city wall of Yangzhou, except for a narrow road that connects the two city gates and is not more than three feet wide, the two sides of the urn city are large pits that are several zhang deep, and the pit is covered with sharpened bamboo.

If the army wants to get through, it must fill in the big holes on both sides, but fortunately, the last thing the officers and soldiers lack is time. At least, at this moment, that's what Wang Zhongsi thought.

On the night when the outer city wall of Yangzhou fell, a group of tens of thousands of elite cavalry suddenly poured out of the distant Lingnan Road.

It is said to be elite, but it is a bit exaggerated, in addition to the hundreds of tall horses in the front, most of the knights behind him are short Dian horses, Goryeo horses, and even mules to fill the number.

The equipment is not neat, there are not many intact armors, and the better ones are tied with two iron plates one after the other, and the ones that are ordered casually can only be wrapped in a layer of cowhide. The weapons are even more varied, the weapons made of stainless steel are all concentrated in the hands of the hundreds of people in the front, and the rest of the most will be the snatched hoe melted with fire to make a similar spear head, which can be used as a spear with a bamboo pole.

Fortunately, there is always no shortage of bamboo in the mountains and forests in the south, and everyone can carry a bamboo shield on their backs and a long bamboo spear.

Don't look at the team's poor equipment, the morale is unusually high.

It is no wonder that Yang Ting and these people spent decades raising them were instilled with radical and rebellious ideas in their minds since they were young, and since they came out of the mountain, the unfavorable war situation, how could this army have no morale?

It's funny to say, the dignified Tang Dynasty, known as the strongest in the world, has thousands of miles of soldiers, and the four Yi who fight tremble. Who would have thought that it had only been peaceful for a few years, and the so-called government army in the south had already rotted to such a level.

They all ran to the base of the city wall, and they didn't see the guards above shooting arrows to meet the enemy, and they hid under the female wall with their heads in their hands, and some of the bolder ones only looked up tremblingly and looked out, and when they found that the overwhelming soldiers were coming, they all screamed and collapsed.

It wasn't until the besiegers ran to the walls and picked up the bows and arrows that the soldiers had discarded, that it dawned on them!

His mother's was all bamboo and a wooden plank, and a thin rope was tied to it, and it looked like it, and before he could use it, the "bow" shattered!

This made most of the soldiers who tried to capture some official and military equipment feel cold.

Sure enough, all those armors and weapons were all fucking painted on hardwood boards, and silver spears were waxed, and that's what they were talking about.

In desperation, the soldiers had no choice but to knock on the doors of the people and rob the iron pots and kitchen knives at home, in exchange for some iron tools.