After continuing to take the pills left by Yang Xianmao for this day, Luo Laohan's condition improved further. By evening, he was even able to get out of bed and walk slowly on crutches. The family was very happy, especially Luo Laohan, who couldn't stop praising Yang Xianmao's medical skills.

The Jin army arrived faster than Yang Xianmao expected, and a few days later, it surrounded the city of Longzhou overnight. Yang Xianmao once climbed the city tower to observe the enemy's situation, and found that the enemy army could not see the end at a glance. The banner was unfurled, the military discipline was strict, and a large number of siege equipment was carried. As Yang Xianmao had expected, they were indeed prepared.

Although Yang Xianmao found that all the equipment for defending the city on the city tower was very well prepared, but in the face of such a powerful army, Yang Xianmao did not know how long this city could be defended.

The battle soon began, and the shouts of killing shook the sky every day, from day to night, and from night to the next day, without stopping in between.

The Jin army has been attacking the city fiercely, and since this time the Jin army has the Liao army as the vanguard, they have enough troops to launch an attack in turn. The Song army defending the city was just the box army with the worst combat effectiveness in the Song army, and the number was only more than 10,000 people, although both the governor and the garrison had made desperate determination. A large number of people were also recruited from the city, including the officials of the yamen, who went to the city to guard. However, strictly speaking, these are all temporarily gathered together, although after several months of war preparations, it is still far from enough compared to the brave and warlike Liao army and the Jin army, so the city is full of panic during this time.

However, when the war began, the Xiang army, which was still very afraid of the Jin army, as well as the miscellaneous army such as the government servants and the recruited Minzhuang, who had only been trained for a few months for combat readiness, quickly adapted to the battle. Because they knew that once the city was breached, their fate would be so miserable that they would not even have any hope of living on their knees. In this case, almost everyone is desperate, and they are all competing for the lead. And they took advantage of the innate advantage of defending the city, and after a long period of special preparations for defending the city, they actually firmly held the city and withstood the fierce attacks of the Jin army and the Liao army that were incorporated wave after wave.

The battle was fought extremely brutally, and Yang Xianmao also joined the fight. Because he knew that if the city could not be defended, then Luo Laohan was afraid that his life would not be guaranteed, and his goal would be frustrated.

He made a hard bow in the blacksmith's shop, and he was afraid that only he could pull it. He went directly up to the city gate tower, sat on the roof and fired arrows at the Jin army attacking the city tower, and also shot the arrow at the Jin army generals who rode a war horse to command the battle under the city tower and entered the shooting range very closely.

Yang Xianmao played the role of a long-range sniper in this battle, and his arrow feathers never missed, one arrow at a time. Even the generals of the Jin Army who were fighting below couldn't dodge, and they were pierced through their hearts by the sharp arrows that suddenly flew in.

After several soldiers urging the siege of the city were shot to death by Yang Xianmao, the generals of the Jin army did not dare to go too far, and they found that the arrows shot from the city tower were accurate, ruthless, and very far away. Even outside the range that a bow and arrow could not reach under normal circumstances, it would be pierced by the arrows flying from the towers of this city.

As a result, these Jin armies often had to maintain a distance of more than three times the distance beyond the city walls to ensure safety, and the effect of such a siege was obviously not as good as that of a command. But there is no way to do this, because even with a shield, it is impossible to defend against the sharp arrows that suddenly fly from the castle tower.

This man is mainly on the top of the tower, but if necessary, he will appear anywhere the city walls are guarded. And once they found that the sharp arrows were flying, these front-line Jin army generals could not dodge.

Yang Xianmao shot more than a dozen generals of the Jin army who commanded in front of him in a row, which greatly boosted the morale of the Song army, and those Jin troops who attacked the city tower were often killed by Yang Xianmao's accurate bow and arrow. This made the Zhizhou and the garrison extremely excited.

But they tried to find this mysterious sniper archer, but they couldn't find it. Because Yang Xianmao Shenlong saw the head but did not see the end, he did not give them a chance to find himself at all. Now he doesn't want to deal with these officials, he just wants to do his best to defend the city.

The war lasted for more than a month, although Yang Xianmao played an important role as a sniper in defending the city, but Yang Xianmao only had one pair of hands, and he couldn't take care of all the places, and Longzhou was too big.

After suffering losses in the siege of the city in the first month, the Jin army quickly adjusted its combat methods. The Jin soldiers were no longer concentrated in one place, but took advantage of the rapid movement of the Jin cavalry, quickly deployed their forces to the four directions of the city, and constantly changed the direction of the main attack.

The main attack and the auxiliary attack are often carried out intersecting, and sometimes the siege of the huge Jin army is often only a feint, but the real main attack is on the other side. This made the Song army defending the city exhausted, and they could not concentrate their limited forces and manpower on the main direction of the Jin army's attack.

And Yang Xianmao had no way to play his role in the direction of the main attack, because he also had no insight into which direction the Jin army launched the main attack from.

Under the repeated attacks of the powerful forces of the Jin army, the city of Longzhou was finally breached.

When the Jin army was like a tide, it came into the city. Yang Xianmao knew that the general trend was gone, and he quickly rushed back to the Luo family.

Before that, he had already estimated that the city might not be able to hold it, so he had already told Luo Xiaomei and Luo Dakuang, brothers and sisters, to prepare the gold, silver, soft and dry food at home, and be ready to leave at any time.

After Yang Xianmao rushed back to Luo's house, Luo Dakuang and his sister didn't know that the city had been breached, and they were sitting in the living room with their father nervously discussing the war. Luo Dakuang once helped his father to go up to the city tower to check, and when Luo Laohan saw the powerful offensive of the Jin army, his face also changed greatly. I began to regret a little in my heart, will I hurt the lives of my son, daughter and future son-in-law because of my stubbornness. But now they have no way to repent, they can only hope that God can help them and defend the city.

And at this moment, Yang Xianmao rushed in and told them that the city had been breached, and he hurriedly ran.

Luo Dakuang had repeatedly simulated how to deal with this situation in his mind before this, and he immediately stood up and said to his sister, "Hurry up and get something, let's go." ”

Yang Xianmao also quickly ran back to his house, carrying a package he had prepared on his back. Except for a small amount of silver, the package was basically dry food and water, which were the most important things to him.

He didn't bring the same bow that shot countless golden troops, after all, that bow was too eye-catching and too big. It is convenient to defend the city, but it is not convenient to walk. Moreover, that bow has been deeply remembered by the Jin army, and it will become the main target of the Jin army's search, which will bring them destruction. Yang Xianmao only prepared two single knives, which he brought down from the city tower, and one of them was ready to be taken to Luo Dakuang.

When he ran back to the front hall with two knives in his hand and a package on his back, he was dumbfounded. He found that there were more than a dozen packages piled up on the floor in the front hall. There's even a trolley with a big bag strapped to it. Luo Laohan was laboriously putting a very heavy package on his back, and Luo Xiaomei was helping him. Yang Xianmao shouted angrily: "Are you running for your life or moving?"

Luo Laohan said with a bitter face: "This is my life savings, how can I leave them all behind." ”

"How can you take these things away from the thousands of troops? If you can't take them away, you will send them to the Jin army. It's better to save your life first, the Jin army has already come in. ”

After that, he grabbed a bag of the lightest gold and silver and threw it to Luo Dakuang, and said, "Just carry this bag, don't want anything else, follow me." It's easy to say anything about the people who are left behind, and their lives are gone, so what do you want money for? ”

After saying that, he threw a single knife in his hand to him, and then grabbed Luo Laohan's wrist with one hand and rushed out.

Luo Xiaomei thought that Yang Xianmao would pull her, but she didn't expect that it was her old father who was pulling, of course she didn't know that Yang Xianmao was mainly protecting the old man. But Luo Xiaomei is still very grateful in her heart, because he can put the old man's life first, which is enough to show that this person is very filial. A person with filial piety is a kind person and a person who can be relied on.

Yang Xianmao pulled the old man and took Luo Dakuang's brothers and sisters and rushed out of the Luo family's compound, but when they got outside, they were dumbfounded, and the city was full of panicked people running around. But these people did not know which direction to run, and in the distance was the Jin army that had attacked the city, advancing in this direction.

Because the Jin army is basically cavalry, those who rush in are all running on iron horses, and the speed will of course be much faster than their feet. The direction of the broken city was actually to the west, which was the weakest point of the Song army's defense, and they focused their defense on the direction from which the Jin army came, that is, to the southeast. And after breaking through the city from the west, the Jin army immediately poured in like a tide.

But the people of the city were extremely backward in communication, and they did not know from what direction they had broken the city. Although Yang Xianmao was not in the west city tower at that time, he was in the south near the west city tower. knew the direction of the Jin army's breakthrough of the city, so he took Luo Laohan and them to the east city.

However, when they ran to Dongcheng in a pang, they found a very serious problem, that is, the defenders of Dongcheng did not know that the city had been broken, and they were still desperately resisting the Jin army besieging the city. Of course, there was no way to open the city gate, because it was already supported by huge horizontal logs, and there were high sandbags piled up behind it, and it was impossible to open it if you wanted to.

If it was Yang Xianmao himself or only Luo Laohan, he could directly carry Luo Laohan across the city from the city tower and climb down from the city. But that would be quite dangerous, because the two armies are engaged in a fierce battle. What's more, there are still Luo Xiaomei and Luo Dakuang beside him, so Yang Xianmao pointed to the top of the city tower and said, "Go up quickly, let's hide in the city tower, and let Jin Jun come in first." ”

Luo Dakuang cried with a sad face, and said with a crying voice: "It's fighting so badly from above, let's go up, isn't that going to death?"